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EVENING LEDGER-fHlLADELPHIU MONDAY. SEPTEMBER Id, 1914.
EVENING Ma LEDGER
PUBLIC LEDChll COMPANY
crnusn tc iiriiTts, pmiioxst.
. Jehn Orlbbel. Vie President; Geo VC.Cchj, Secretary:
sohn C. Martin, Trf'irer 'hrl II. l.uJtnftten.
riiUlp S. Collins, John nwilliam. Ulreiteri.
EDrrontALBOAnD:
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By carrier. Putt OM.v, n eent. tlr malt, posipsU
rmtalde of PhllRiltlpliH. ejeept where ferefRn fostflsa
It required, Duu PMT, one mentti, twenty-live ont!
Dun Oni.y. one year, tliKro dollar. All mall subseflp
lions payable In advance.
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Iitdprr, Imteprnilrnrr Squnre. I'MlntttliiMti.
the help tendered by so Infamous a con
federacy. It Is madness to yoke a great economic
program to any man's ambition, and It Is
Bulcldal to burden such a program with the
onus of a shameless political crew, tt Is a
fact that protection hns becomo a byword
through Just such tactics. Mon believe, and
PASSED BY THE CENSOR
II rD In some newspaper offices that Is,
ofllclal life la about as certain as the
weather a week hence, and no ono knows
this better than tho theatrical manager. Not
so long ago tho dramatic editor of a Phila
delphia paper called upon a manager and
they haio a right to believe, that leaders s " to find him glUiig a pass for
, , . ....... I "vo soats to I ho paper's ofllee boy.
who bartered and traded and trafficked In I nrn -,,.... ...... ..... ... ni,- fr.
that boy, do you?" asked the dramatics
editor, nffer tho boy had departed.
"You bet t do," responded tho manager, "I
don't know how soon ho'll bo your boss and
I'm not taking chances."
irMtotnoN jttnn jit tho run A6r.t.rtm rniTortfici ion
rsmt a !ecONP-rt.m maii Maitkr.
PHIUVDLI.PIIIA, MOMMA, SU'tUMlIM! II, 191 1
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"Virtue, Liberty and Independence"
T1IK Evening Ledger stands for Brutn
baugh and rainier.
The translation of HepuUlcan principles
Into the established economic policy of the
Oovcrnmcnt is essential to the well-being of
tho United Slates. The catastrophe lu Eu
rope has accentuated, not caused, the failure
of the revenue. A wise protective system,
devised to equalize the costof production here
and abroad, and to assure to American labor
a living- wage, satisfies fiscal requisites and
stabilizes prosperity. During the period of
Itepublican control, beginning with Lincoln
mid terminating with Taft. the wealth of the
nation increased from .516,000,000,000 to J13C
dOO.000,000. Tho two Intervening Democratic '
Administrations were periods of hesitancy
and doubt.
Men, therefore, who are sulded by prac
tice Instead of theory can reach but one con- ,
elusion. Republicanism must bo revived, re
habilitated, vitalised, and its principles once
more made dominant in national aifairs.
Against the accomplishments of so essen
tial a purpose, under a friendly masquerade,
.Tj?iears the dissolute conspiracy known as
Penroselsm. It has its fingers fastened in
the throat of Pennsylvania Republicanism.
It has ambushed the party, seized it, sub-
orted It to Its own ungenerous designs.
"Wanton in its disregard of fundamental moral
i principles and livid with the stain of Its past
&
5$k betrayals, it comes before the peoplo of this
x Commonwealth with a profession of goodly '
put pose on its lips, and impudently asks
tliem by their votes to sanction and
acquiesce in the lie that tills mongrel "Inn"
is Lincolnism. It pleads that a great b'tate ,
cannot nave itself from economic disaster
unless it is willing to traffic with tho men
who have betrayed it. unless it Is ready to
- n.laJHUl!teir manifold delinquencies and en
trust them w.th the accomplishment of a
holy program. Hood revor came and never
an come throush smii instrumentalities. A
political alliance that is notoriously dishonest
in some things may be depended on to be
dishonest in all things.
Whatever the standing of 1nioaelsni In
Pennsylvania, in every other State of the
t'nlon tt Is hated and detested. Nowhere
else is there any attempt to defend it. Ohio
nswered I-'orakerlsm with an emphatic re
pudiation. In NVw York, Mr. Barnes has
- TxHxd to the overwhelralne antagonism of
the rank and file in his own party and has ,
surrendered his leadership. Tammany, too, i
tiiat feebly criminal emulator or the Phila
delphia Organization, disciplined in its own
bailiwick, has ben shorn of its fal colors '
nd the black flag nailed to its tepee by an
indignant public. The spirit ot the time is .
against the reival or perpetuation of me
dievalism: it is against tho combinations,
the conspiracies, the trades, the loot, which,
by common consent, in the vernacular of
.. -,'the street, are embraced in the word Pen
roseism. This baneful fraternity of ptuuii .-, an !
old man of the sea on the bark of ti-c Knul" J
" Hcan party. In ever' hamlet it ,, ihe free
rader's slogan. It Is the chief Democratic
issot, for men prefer IJloslcalnest, even
loneat Incompetency, to oert prostitution
of" their Government for sinister purpose, .
The election of Mr. Penrose, who does not
and cannot disavow his leadership f the
hungry and thirsty elements which compose
Ms machine, would hamstring Republican i
efforts In every doubtful cognty in the Union,
The first task of evcrv Jtepubiican tftiididate
would be to repudiate him. None would have
s. chance for success unless ho tirsr pledged
abstinence from participation In any program
rhlch Mr. Penrose led. '
Which Is better, a. Republican majority in
the Senate without Mr. Penrose, or a Re
publican minority with him? Mantifaeturera
may as well make up their minds that It la i
one or the other. Mr. Penrose has n tnore
chance of ever being chairman of the Sen
ate Committee on Finance than he hag ,f
being Piesident uf the t'nitcq rftati s.
Consider the motley clemenu now lined p
behind lilm. H13 bipartisan mat-lnne lua
wrought a coalition of tho liquor interests .
which with Incredible stupidity ar actually
endeavoring to buy the State Senate In order '
t prevent conscientious consideration of th I
drink problem. In Philadelphia arid Pitts, '
burgh, where the great bulk of Mr. Penrose's '
strength was shown in tha primary, depend- '
ence was largely placed on illlterau or irre
sponsible citizens, nifii a illing to l,.,i (. r their
ballots for Orjuuutin 1 ruiiii, The 1. .
pec table loitsiuueii : iu.it cmbi,nes him is
composed of manufactuieia and their allied
interests. To them tha enactment of a, sen
sible) tariff measur la essential. They ha.ve
fegga EoSel fcz atrtvats fcata ccajtinca ot I
votes battered and traded and trafficked In
farlff schedules also. The country will never
ngnln trtlst men who, It Is convinced, be
trayed an essential economic policy by mak
ing it the medium of their lnimotnl transactions.
Once before ihe tnlstako was made of
Identifying an economic principle with a
political career, and so complete was the ruin
that to this day u central Cnlted States
Uatih cannot he established.
Wc stand for Doctor Brumbaugh. He is
a cotossus among the pigmies who imagine
they can tiso htm. Ho Is not ihctr nominee.
Public opinion forced him on tho ticket. He
is the greatest menaco tho venal machine
has ever encountered, ilo will sweep aside
corrupticn, drive out the grafters, purify the
political atmosphere, give a now tone to
affairs, and, better still, lie will substitute
(or moko-bellcvp Republicanism real Repub
licanism. Ills candidacy is nti inspiration to
nil good citizens. They enn prove (heir party
fealty through sending him to Harrlsburg
by an overwhelming majority, and, at the
same lime, stamping with their condemna
tion Penroseism and all that it poi tends.
There Is nothing thnt could so hearten Re
publicans the nation over and Invigorate the
party as the emphatic Indorsement of Brum
baugh and the equally emphatic rejection of
Penrose. ISy this means only can the nation
he convinced that Republicanism is on
thing and Penro.eim another.
Wc stand for Mr. Palmer imt bc-oue of,
hut In spite of. his economic principles. We
stand for him because ho towers above Ills
chief opponent in the morality of his per
spective. We stand for him because ho is
tho one instrument thinuph which Penn
sylvania may set Itself light betoic the na
tion, because the ono hope of national Re
publicanism lies in the election of this Demo
crat, Wo are for him because b! success '
would deprive the Republican pnity of only i
one vote in the Senate, and the defeat of Mr. ,
Penrose would probably give it ten.
Tt is a memorable campaign winch the '
Htato enters, a campaign vital to its indu--
polsons are known only to the Indians, who
have kept their secret fer hundreds of years.
The municipality compels mourners to dece
ralo tho Paris crematory with flowers and
charges from 98 cents lo t0.03, according to
tho class of sen-Ices desired. Before crema
tion can take place, hnlf a dozen certificates,
signed and countersigned and vised, aro re
quired under the red tape which prevails In
tho Pinncli capital.
White li tho badge of mourning of the Chi
nese. The Andaman Islander, who still cschew.1
dothes, paints his entire body whlto. The
Kgyptlnns med yellow us their visible sign of
grief. In Kilt-ope, whlto was used by the Cas
tlllunt as lute ns 140S In connection with the
obsequies of Prince John.
ItlTltfcJU BUURAMC has a ilvnl in constructive-
ougonlcs, If It may bo so called.
Ills namo Is Oeorgo Whlto and he lives In
Hilton, O., which will now becomo famous
as tho home of the scratchlcss chicken, for
that Is tho typo being evolved by Whlto
through a process of elimination and eugenics
as applied to poultry. Whlto bred and cross- ,
bred chickens until he produced a big wlillo
fowl, with logs fit only for tho tiniest of
bantams. Ho asserts that his new breed
cannot dig up a neighbor's garden and Is not
so apt to stray from Its own fireside, becauso
"Its legs only reach tho ground." In addition,
tho now hrcod, being more sedate. Is of a
lesser temperamental nientnllty and prac
tically devoid of all neurasthenic symptoms.
He says nothing of Its capacity for laying
eggs, however.
RUrLHCTED In tho light ot his grcnt
uncle. Ilelmuth Von Mnltkc. Chief of
Staff of the German armies, lias stood tho
acid test of publicity very well. Though
littlo is known about this sls-font-fotir gliuiL,
1 his fathor-ln-law, the Danish Count von
I Moltkc, Is responsible for tho story of his
I daughter's 'wedding to the present military
I leader, ilelmuth fell In love with bis distant
' cousin and namesake. Kliza von Moltlte, but
' her father declared that he would withhold
his consent until the great von Moltkc, tho
1 uncle, had given his consent. A few days
I later citinc a telegram to Copenhagen an
i nounclng the coming of Germany's silent
man. The Danish Count waited nt the 1 ail
road station to wclcomo the victor of Sedan.
A man dressed in a snuft-colorcd, worn suit
emerged from a second-class carriage, carry
ing a dingy little bag. It was the General.
Inquiry elicited the fact that ids worldly be
longings were In the bag and tluit he did
not possess u alet. Tho consent was given
and Ilelmuth and Hllsa von Moltko havo
lived an ideal family life ever since. Inci
dentally, it may be mentioned that llclnuith
von Moltke won the Iron Cross for peisonal
bravery during tho war of 1ST0.
w,
I1KUU theie's a will, thoit's .1 way.
a way to fulfil tho alleged last will of Peter
the Great. This will, the object of 100 years
of controeisy. is. said to rest in the utchlves
trial interests. It behooves an independent i oi vroern(. but so far as Is known, 110
Republican newspaper solemnly to warn the
great body or citizens .if the crisis which
thev face. Tt is the dutj of an honest news
paper 10 expose the pretension that an or
ganization notably devoid of principle is
lighting fur a principle. An unfortunate
conjunction of circumstances has made It
modern eye lias ever been laid 011 tho oil;
1 inal copy of this mystic document. Accurd-
, lug to Frederic Galllardet, a ft lend of. the
1 elder Dumas tin will contained 15 clauses.
, Peter asserted that in order to become great
Russia must always bo al .ar with Kurope;
inturmairinges with Germany are to be fos-
teied: Poland is to be divided; Sweden and
, Denmark Incited to discord: encroachment
VKUBAL HANDSHAKES
"Wo extend to you our heartiest consratula
lions for the success ot ttie Evening Ledger."
New York Commercial.
"We wish the new Evening Ledger sua
cess." Chester, Pa., Times.
"We wish you every success in your new
undertaking," Allcntown, Pa., Cliroiilclo and
News.
"Ilest wishes," Congressman ,T. Hampton
Moore,
"You can test assured that It will be a real
pleasure to do ans thing t can to help you turn
out a great ami useful newspaper." Morris I
Cooke, Dhector of Public Works,
"Wish you all success." rirnest Ij, Ttlstln,
Reeotder of Deeds.
"t hasten to rxtend my congratulations and
sinccro best wishes." W. Treeland Kcndrlek,
Receiver of Taxes.
"You may rest assured that it will give me
great Plcasuto to co-operato with you In any
way T can in order that we may have nn eve
ning paper which will correspond in 11 measuro
to the morning edition of tho Public LEDOfin."
Dr. Richard II. Itnrte, Director Department
of Health and Charities.
"Having been a leader of the morning Lbdocr
for many years, I naturally welcome Its appear
ance In the evening Held." Clayton W. Pike,
Chief of Dtccttlcal Bureau.
"Best wishes for your success." Frank J.
Gorman, County Commissioner.
"You have my host wishes for the success ot
your venture." James J.ohlnson, Superintendent
Bureau of Police.
"Best wishes for the success ot the Kvenltig
Lkdokii." Savannah, On.. Morning News.
"We shall look for the initial issue or the
livening T,unaF.n with keen Interest." Gettys
burg, Pa.. Star and hciitlnel.
"Wo welcome this new nrilval In the news,
paper field." Charleston, S. C, livening Post.
"We will watch villi inteicst for the first
and subsequent issues of the. livening Lnnonn.
If :ou como up to the standard of the Funr.ic
tiuuann you will bo setting a new standard."
Allcntown, Pa.. Call.
"Wc wish the new paper a healthy and pios
perous birth." I'etioit Free Press
"Best wishes for your success." Albany,
N. Y., Journal.
"I have been a leader ot tho daily Ledogi:
ever since T have been able to read, and I
shall bo glad, inihud, to lead the Bvunlng
Ledoeh. I wish you all the success
ImnBinaoIe." William McConch, City Treasurer.
"Huie is good luck to the Bvenlns Ledger.
The Pt:ntic Lnwimt U now the host
newspaper published, not only In Philadelphia
but in a fcicat many other cities In the cuiin
tiy us well; and we not only get it on our
exchange list, but have it sent home and pay
for it with sincere nppteclatlon ot its woith.
DONE IN PHILADELPHIA
ONE COULD scarcely allow the birth fcf
Philadelphia's newest evening paper jo
pass without a word or two about evenhls
nowspapers, and especially about Philadelphia;
first evening Journal, which, by the way, was
the first evening paper to be published in this
country, and, It I am not mistaken, the first
evening paper to be published In tho world.
Some of my Boston friends, wno have prided
themselves upon what the Hub has dono for
Journalism as well as for all other branches of
polite literature, probably will tako exception
to tills statement, and hasten to remind mo
that thoro was a Boston Uvonlng Post as far
back ns 1735.
In reply, assuming my Boston friends would
mnko this assault, I must remind them that
the Boston Evening Post can scarcely bi
classed as an evening newspaper.
The Boston Evening Post originally was
known as The Rehearsal, and undor that nam'
was published about 1731. It was a weekly, and
mora or less a literary paper, after tho stylo
of so many of tho little sheets In the eighteenth
century. No reader of the Evening Ledger
would think of it ns a newspaper In the
modern sense. However, about two years after
it wnn In existence, It became the property of
Thomas Fleet, who for a long time was
believed to bo connected with the authorship
of "Mother Goose." That question has not been
definitely settled yet, but wo may let that pass.
Fleet maintained his paper as Tho Rehearsal
for some time, and then, without notice,
changed lis name to the Boston Evening Post.
The only other change was the time of publi
cation. It now came out en Monday ovcnlng,
whereas tho paper fornicily had come out on
Monday morning.
But we must be entirely fair. There was still
another evening paper published In this
country before the Pennsylvania Evening Post,
Let us take a look at it.
Tliis also was a weekly, and was pilnted In
New York by Henry de Forrest. This was
begun In 174U, but did not llvo more than a
year. It Is now known only by name, and
only by students of American Journalism. It
m.ido no impress upon history.
But tho Pennsylvania Evening Post did make
an indelible impression on American Jour-'
nalUm.
It Is lather curious to find that this paper
was connected In Its history with a Public
Ledger, not the present one, ot course, but an
earlier and forgotten one.
Benjamin Towne, the publisher of tho Penn
sylvania Evening Post, was an Encllshiuaii,
bout In Lincolnshire, according to Isaiah
Thomas. Ho seems to have como first to
Philadelphia, as did almost every entei prising
English emlgiaiit in the eighteenth century,
and was engaged by Goddard as a Journeyman
piintfr. Goddard, who was In partnership
with th" Toiics, Joseph Galloway and Thomas
Wharton, published tho Pennsylvania Chronicle
in l'fiT, and was so fair in ids ticatment of
American topics that he and his pnrtncis had
a falling out. It Is a most inteiesting tale
by Itself, and ono of these afternoons wc may
tell mote of il.
in the meantime, however, we iuiia speak ot
Txwne's connection with Goddurd's paper.
tween the successful and tho unsuccessful m
Is that the man of success begins working 6m
his Idea and sticks to It to a finish. Whlk
your man who Is a failure gets a glorious gii,
mer of riches far beyond, starls working out n!
Idea, smashes Into tho first fence, and qUi4
cold. My hoy, begin nnd stick. And don't stc,
ns a matter of duly or meroly to make goJ
your self-promise. Stick as If you wanted 1.
sllckt" '
Wo are all doers ot good menially, uul
either through fear of moktng a bungle of tw '
efforts or becauso we lack the courage to put'
Into operation good Instincts and Insplratlont 1
and to 'keep them going," wo do not becomJ
actual doers of good.
The next time you get an Idea that hag
honest, worthy ambition In front of It, whUuf ;
you consider it old, worn out, Insignificant of '
what not, Just romembor the teal estato man. j
Begin to work It out.
But, most Important of all, work It out to
finish.
Conceiving, operating and sticking th(s,
three. But tho greatest of these la Sticking!
THOU NAMELESS COLUMN
OMU Harold.
A Reminder
Our own prlvato war in Montana Is also
Butte.-Boston Transcript.
A Kind of Slick-to-St-ivencts
Two business men, eo it is told, were lunch
ing together when an old graybeard stumpeJ
by. "That's Brown. Ho works for me," etaU
the first business man.
"Ho's an honest-looking chap. Hai he gat
htalng powcrs7" asked tho second buslneu
man.
"He has that," said the first. "Ho began at
tho bottom of the ladder In '78, and he's stayed
there ever since."
Another Kind of the Same
What do you think ot this ns an example of
constancy? It Is cited by the Alta Vista (Kan.)
Journal;
"Jacob Elscnhut was In town Monday wear
ing a work shirt he bought yearn ago when
ho lived in beautiful old Switzerland. It coit
$1.C0."
A SjiriiiR Poem Without Flowers
Culinary to general opinion there aro seeral
varieties of spring poems, somo of which bloom
In the fall, Mr. W. P. Eaton deserves credit for
this:
"It Is spiing today: T know the slght-
Tlic smell of afcphalt Mils the air,
Tho gas-pipe men aro mending lines.
And digging ditches In tho square.
A Long Shot
In a text-book on arithmetic the Sacred
Heart Review has discovered the following In
genious problem: "A cannon ball travels 5(1
feet In one second. How far will it bo from tin
muzzle of the gun after the lapse of thlrty-fl
minutes?"
Nine Points of the Law
H.11 pci's Magazine dcsciibes an excellent sit
uation suitable for very young ladies:
Tho lovely girl, having lingeied a minute In
l'ie Inttcr's partncis, who were lenders ot j her 100111 to make sure that her skirt fitted t
what might be called tiie Tory patty here,
woie so much angered tu the publication of
necessary to apply an hetolc remedy, to de- ! ,s t0 be maae h1oiij the Bluck and Baltic 1 the grandfather of them all, the Prnu:
Here arc tho best wishes for the success ot 1 Dickinson's Fanners' Lctteis, which gave the
feat the ostensible protagonist of the State's
economic ideals in order to as.suie the suc
cess of those ideals In the nation and in the
Interest of ordinary morality, it is neces
sary for the Republican vtf-rs tu tieat Pcn
loseism as a Republican President. Mr. Taft.
treated the Cos machine, which had v,ased
fat 011 the' misdeeds It' had perpetrated in
Cincinnati. Tho time has come for Penn
sylvania to act on Senator Root's charac
terization of tho Philadelphia Oiganizatlon
as a criminal conspiracy. Common hense,
public necessity, fundamental morality make
such a course requisite. The duty of every
....v.c,lt. uun IH pioin. Pennsylvania will
the light of day for the first time tnmoiiow.
tin get em'" Reading. (Pa ) Tclegiam and
Tunes.
Seas; Austria is to be used as an ally against I lucm. and for the lusty Infant who v!U nee
T urkey and then defrauded of its sain and
plunged into defensive wars against other
European States, and Russia mndo dominant
by a policy of playing one State against
another.
The authenticity ot tin will is very much
in doubt, but it gains Interest, nevertheless,
in view of Russia's piesent stand In Euro
pean politics.
A New foriiiug Cpulcniporaiy
"6i" extras during the past few weeks
have eied to accustom tho community to
the afternoon nppoarauco of the Puiruu
Luiv.un. which, accoirting to announcement. Is nail.
s
PEAKING of the elder Dumas localls a
literary document of another nature.
which was not uuthentic, but here is tho
story:
In the middle -JO's Dumas had engaged a
largo corps of translators, among them being
tho father of the writer, then an impecunious
newspaper man. To him fell the task of
vindicate her prestige and her honor by a ' translating "Das llua Kontnluor." a German
stoaarast l. glance to the dictate- of conscience.
novel of stupendous length, written by Spln
dler and published In Hamburg in 179T.
to bo published hi regular evening edition,
beginning next Monday afternoon, and have
made the first step In the dual lole of morning
and .ifteinoen newspaper inoro simple. The
evening newspaper In the United States has
had a distinct ad vantage in tho receipt 11 nd
handling of the news service in the European
war, nlthowjh hardly inoro than that which It
pos'H.vscs in "rdlnary times, in its opportunity
to get the nftornoon nnd evening attention ot
the r'eder, as compared with the busy morn-in-4
hours. But the evening edition of the
American view of the dispute with the mother
country, that they induced Towne to act as
a spy for them in Goddaid's olllce. Finally,
when Goddaid left the city, Towne, piobably
wltli the assistance of bin former employcis,
stsrted a pi luting house of his own.
James Humphreys, who was 11 Pluladelphlan
bom, and who hud locelved his ducntion In
the College of Philadelphia, had finally, after
sveiul attempts to llnd himself, taken up the
f printing. In the autumn of 1TT1 ho
her entile satisfaction, descended to tho parlor
to find the family pet ensconced upon the lcne
of tho joung man caller, her curly head nestled
comfoitnbly against his shoulder.
"Why, Mabel," tho young lady exclaimed.
"aicn't you ashamed of yourself? Get right
down."
"Sha'n't do It," retorted the child. "I got hen
fiicl."
'r the Service of l'hila(lelhi.i
rpHE sympathies of the Evenins Ledge,
A will b instant in favor of programs which
promise to make this city a better ..ity in
which to live. It will not accomplish its
purpose unless it senses the social and civic
longings of the thousands of homeowners
and homemakers who have made Phlladcl
phia the splendid metropolis that it is it
will battle with tl.em for better facilities of
eiery sort to which they are icanunably en
titled and of which they are unreasonably
deprived, it j, the duty of a sreat pewa.
paper to mirror the aspirations of tho com
munity it serves, to vlsualwe conditions ot
Hfo as they aro and pieturo them as they
can be and will be, It must be the spokes,
man of tho man in the street, the woman in
the haute, tins eirl who meen the onrush
of necessity by j,er wWn rul Vi-Uh w,oJ(,w
hearted enthu.-usm and with no interests
to serve save the interest of the community.
the State and the nation, tho Evenins Ledger
dedicate Itself tu this policy of sen-Ice and
takes ita place among tho Institutions of
Philadelphia.
Duma- took the translation, transposed the j I't'Ri.i" Lr.nonn will require no Introduction in
scene from nemiany to France and rcciiris
tcned tho book "The Count of Monto Cristo."
Dumas' "Katliermo Blum" is nlso a trans
lation, almoht verbatim, from "The Fores
ters," a Gorman play.
Philadelphia, tor the jiaper long ago estab
lished Its entree and welcome at any time of
nay. Evening Bulletin.
SL'PKP.STITIO.V plays a latge part in the
lives of the Ilohonzollerns. Tlio anponr
ttiico of the mysterious Whlto Lady in the
palaco in Potsdam or is it Berlin? Is said
to presage a deuh in the family. And now
conies woid that the Kaiser is wearing his
lucky ting. Whence came the token no one
knows. Frederick tho Great, on ascending
tho throne, found among bin father's posses
sions a hmall bos containing a ring fcot witli
n strango black stone and a noto by Fred
erick I, stutitig that the ilng had been given
to him by his father on his deathbed, with
the injunction that so long as It lemalned
In the family the fortunes of tho Hohonzol-
i lerns would endure. The ring was stolen
from Frederick William II by his mistress,
Countess Lichtenau. and with its disappear-
auco came the disabtprs of the Napoleonic
( wars. It was restored In 18ja, the year of
, tho Prussian liberation, and Schneider, tho
' biographer of William I. declares that ho
saw u on me Hand of tlmt monarch during
the war of isto.
Is William II wearing It?
M;r. Plnehot may be without a party, but
what does hg caro? He haw the nomination.
wii"m"""i
Wr. Uryan U not for pe&cs at any price.
In fact, the price depends ontlroiy on tha
stzi- of he audience.
Tiie lKay art,iler.v s also dome comethiuy
10 hrins ahum the md of the war. Napoleon
114 an idt-a that it generally wftujji m ay
ai.
Tijs only thing th.Q peoplss understand
about raj44 transit u that tliey are not get
ting It. It Will not take tham long to find
eat; why,
W-BL'UW'lBlli iimuJMlL.I'H
Gutting down the river and harbor hill by
cutting ever, thing out of It except the
"pork" may bo good polities, but it is not
good business Theie is trade tn the fhesq..
l'-d. and Del.iwaie I'ttiil. bui lew otes.
I'l.iiU.i ...iilu seuerdHy itat- .1 , ojiuji.jh-j-iijio
...iic'umoii without wtikiuig wurdfc
Tips wiufuua of his vu much used in the
Revolutionary pen0d: "They that can give
up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
cftr
Bt
BUFFALO RILL, who Is still active in the
show business, once took Sitting Hull to
! the- colonel commanding the nearest frontier
1 post Ot those days probably an Inland
I metropolis by tills time. Tho Colonel, seeking
, tn impress tho doughty Indian with the ad
vantages of civilisation, invited him tu a for
mal dlnnei. A florid, round-laced butler,
hired for the W'ttsion, bunded u vpr.Uess
ohite napkin to the Indian warrior. Tit lat,
ter looked the sen lette over, jjruim d wive ur
twice and thenspread it, un his chair and
st on It! HUAOFQnD.
' ' imi y nn
CURIOSITY SHOP
William Murdock, un EnaiUh millwright,
went to a factory In search of work one morn
JnB In JW). The proprietor, who hud turned
liirn away, noticed that he was wearing an
oval hat, whereas the stjle had been round
until then. Pnder iiucsttoi lug. Mipduck said
that I.e. bad tuim-d th .tt on -i luthr. h,-jvm
s;tared tut! inaiiilii to suit 1limj-.1i Tho '.
nd I'lK'i if, indi(ti v . niiio.-d. fo: lu
li.id vwti 'f.x 1..1IUI1 s It '.i-ufil tin- iiumIii'i
i'tud;trf' ''oitraiv tu t 'i.ul iuium, o"
events, he nude his (oiiniie out of 1,1s
disco, ery.
Talavatchi, the drug used b Meiican Indians
to destroy the reason, but not the physical wel
fare of thlr Victims. Il a linHtaira if fha
I Aztcid. The ingredients of t.113 moit subtls of
' The VorUiu' Son", of Old John I'uul
1 ISy HOLM. V F. WAY
I Poiui by the church lived old John Paul,
He tanked with his hummer and he Jabbed with
his itwl.
lie lapped and he lapped on ids worn lapslutie,
And ever he trolled, with a lusty tone;
"Oh. high, diddy-dl. for Hul' sb r.v Sail
Pltinip wa ulie. an' a right smart gal.
Swii's to the ceniie an' caper down the hull.
, llifili. didils-dl," ang old John Paul.
1 In tho nearby church preaebed Pastor Junes,
I A grim old saint of shin and bones.
j At the week-iilght meetings ills flock would hear
Old John Paul's sons ring loud and clear,
"Oh, high, diddy-dl, como ros.mii your bow.
"An". Sal' i''ry Snl, now shake your toe.
A ladies' chain an' balance all,
High, diddy.dl," tiolled old John Paul.
The pastor stepped to tho cobbler's sliop,
Said he. "These ribald funs must atop!
They laugh and they midge on tfatau'i) Row
To hear you bellow ond bluster so,
j "With 'High, diddy-dl.' and your vulgar strain
1 Anent dorna female, coarse rwI vain,
I Sing some good hymn, if jqu sing at all."
j "I don't know a hymn," said old John Paul.
j Tho pastor forthwith taught him one,
I In adagio measure did it run;
( The beat moved slnw as a good hymn should,-
And John Paul sang It as best lie could.
But 'l was -iuhi," and "turn," and the pegs
! wn.t slow,
, fof lie tiui4 In smh l Iiik song. in know.
; 'T Jw w iie hamnw, and slaw far
tha mu'i,
1 And customers lulled at old John Paul.
1 To the pastor John Paul ipQUe, est day,
' "I'll grant that souls are sayed your way;
! But mondJn' soles is another thins,
And I can't git a hustle unless I sing
Ob. hieh, diddy-dl, there, tiptoe spry!
An' Sal' sb' ry Sat goes prancln' by.'
Work when ou woik with snap an' sprawl.
High. didd-di said old John laul.
Tin 11 li' i lu ih nun who. all dtv long,
iil. with uilj tu a iislil .'mail .-tins'
i mi li.wtiu io.nuiiiea iiu be bettet s-ung
i;. willing bauds than a ItiiA-nd Uuigue
Ugd has set o- out tatks tu do,
Wushlp ilngs uuist when work is through
Then it's bey for our labor, and a quick-step all
to the "hifiu, diddy-dl" of old John PauL
announced that he would soon publish an lm
pauial newspaper. Theie was a. hUplclon
among the people that the Ledger would bo a
Tory paper, and Towne thought he snw an op
portunity to stait an opposition sheet. Sa he
hastened to publish the Pennsylvania Evening
Post before Humplneys could issuo his Ledger.
Both papeis made their appearance about th'.
amo time in 13. Towne had the best of it
fiom the start, so ho bct-amo friendly with the
Whigs, and ids sheet was legarded as a Whig
11 Kan. Congress let him have their proceedings
to print, nnd he was prospering. But h" was a
poison to whom self interest was uppermost.
He was a Whig so long ns the Americans held
the city, but whpn the Hrltlsh came to town
Towne remained a, id continued to pi hit the l.lnd
of news Lord Howe dealt od. At that timo
Humplneys, who had been obliged to leave the
city because of his Tory pi inclines, lcturued
and again issued hi" Ledger, but Towne was so
suceoisful in carrying water on both shoulders
that he icmaiiiird master ,f the field.
Roth men, a well as Towno's former em
p.oyois. Galloway and What ton. had b.e.,
Placed on the list of persons charged Wjtj, ueiB
Loyalists, uallowoy fled with tho Billlsb wnd
went to England. Wharton and Towne i.
malned.
By soma musise l ,nncc Towne was not mo
lested when the Patriot) leturned to the eit'
but was permitted 0 continue his business un
challenged. He continued to print ills Evenins
Post until tli close ot the war.
Towno was a high liver, but was 0 sldlliiii
printer, and his work was exctUniy done.
Ills Kveuims Post was printed three times .
week, on Tuesday. Thmsday and Saturday, am
the prim.. oriUually "two .uppers," was ialw
to "three coppers." say about S cents and it
ients at thu present rule.
Th Pennsyl.'niiia livening p..fct uas lllp ,in
paper to print the ltoclmailoo of Itidepend.nee
Thia appeared on its from pass fw amy , n;C'
and In one of Its numbers in 1178 appeared the
first aceount of Washington's hUtoila crowing
of tho Delaware. Either of these pleeea or pews
T.-Qiild bo displayed In very lartto typo by .,
inodBru newspaper, but they were very modest
tr IHUH..-14 in nuj i, toning I'ost.
War and the Dictionary
A cable dispatch from Paris icad Ten
meiiiucrs attended the French Academy's leg.
ular meeting this week and discussed the word
'exodc' for tho dictionary. 'Exodo mean exo
dup." Evidently the French are suffering from
lat-k of sullleicnt words to express theii de
light over the retreat ot tho Germans.
A Double Fumble
"Who was that tough-looking chap I sir. jou
with today. Hicks?"
"Ro careful, Parker! That was my twin
hi other,"
"Uy Jove, old chap, forgive me' I ought to
liixe known." Boston Tranhcript.
This Ts a True Story
it happened In a small city about a week
after tho time lor paying dog licenses had ei
pired. The dog catcher was out on tho trait
of unlicensed dogs. In a house on the outsklrti
of that city lived two women who may he de-M-ribid
as middle-aged and unmarried. Ther
had a dog named Bingo.
One day one of these women went out to d
.' washing. AVlien she returned homo that nls'nt
she saw something on tho front door that
1 lightened her. Sho lan back down the strett
and hysterically accosted tho first person h
men. "Como quick! Como quick!" she cried
to tho astonished man, and lie came. Thert
was crapo on the door. Ho knocked. No M
spouse. He knocked again. Then ho notlcel
a movement of a window curtain, and prei
entiy the door opened a bit,
"What's the matter'.' Oh, what's the matter!"
frantically demanded the woman behind him.
"Who's dead''"
C'aino tlio calm reply from the doorwa
There oln t uubody dead. I hung up uap
to beep the dog catcher out. Ulnso's in liei
with me."
National Point of View
"En Argentina long ago learned to g...crn
her internal improvements without waste of
graft; and It is nnt for want of feasible plan
that we have not dono the same." New Yorlf
Evening Post.
"The Ottoman Government must have ttronj
icasmw to believe It can maintain Its new pre
Philadelphia seems to have the best claim to ' lcn9lona nu,!'biltPly, otherwise It would scarcely
9Ii!!j pul.ly.lud the Orst evenins iieu .,..-.. ' ,wve mwle u "Hno whoso failuro will bii"S
ha
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Humiliation heaped upon humiliation.' -lMruii
Frve Press.
"Increasing Ihe ues on liquors aid We"
w welcomed m the pre, favoiabk u. 1 .1
truOU-. The lumoi- dtaleis of Hit tounu
glad uf an opportunity tu pa; .1 target .iu
of thu war ta,es and thus umUe tiu govern
ment mors dependent an this Interest ' Uui
tanoosa News.
"The American President teems tu be a soil
of universal umpire. As far as the railroads ar
cpncerntd wo think that theie probably never
was a lime whun tlu peoplo were more ni.imtf
to treat them fairly uud jtMl."-Indi-napul"
Hew.
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in. -.tunwii tttUutuM, 11 wu tjumi, ,;(0.gM 1
l i0t U . 11 U14-UKS um .j ,, v, , ...
i'o. bui u-iter ia,beili; . , ,, , ird
pu.u.ls. - .s'aNa.uiah Morions Ntn.-
"Altorfethci. th situ.,t,on ,, j.ti., 1 '.""
" n,U"h "WOIIUIMH 1. . ,., ...liKll
th, woild. Thars bosh! The difteronwV,! '" '" elections. -Nv W
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Tin: idiuust
M tm had carried out to nw u s
BWUI.V Vr tiling wl,Uh t,u ha-i plaimed 1.,
cany out. yon would now be one f ibB jcnL..
Kot svsry ens can lead, There mt pa rank
we j-ou not B eaptaIn? And that ,8U m
tottta matter of CBrr-l0f? mmJ f,
'fe ?" vUW "' and v.ry wealthy
-al s.Uto w.uu ,0s rld,e o a jSj
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