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rniLADELPIUA. MONDAY, SEPIXMnEH 14, 1914
"Virtue, Liberty and Independence"
THE Evening Ledger stands for Brum
baugh and Palmer.
The translation of Republican principles
uto tho established economic policy of tho
ilovernmont Is essential to tho well-being of
he United States. The catastrophe In Eu
rope has accentuated, not caused, the failure
1 f tho revenue. A wise protective system,
evlsed to equalize tho cost of production hore
r nd abroad, and to assure to American labor
ti living wage, satisfies fiscal requisites and
labillzes prosperity. During tho period of
J epubltcan control, beginning with Lincoln
t id terminating with Taft, tho wealth of tho
itlon Increased from $16,000,000,000 to $130,
(''O.OOO.OOO. The two Intervening Democratic
Imlnlstrations were periods of hesitancy
t d doubt.
Men, therefore, who are guided by prac
t o instead of theory can reach but one con
t islon. Republicanism must be revived, re
5 bllltated, vitalised, and its principles once
l ire made dominant In national affairs.
'.gainst tho accomplishments of so ossen
t . I a purpose, under a friendly masquerade,
. pears tho dissolute conspiracy known ns
IVnrosoIsm. It has its fingers fastened In
tl, i throat of Pcnnsj Ivania Republicanism.
It ha3 ambushed the party, seized it, su I'
ve 'ted It to its own ungenerous designs.
Wanton in Its disregard of fundamental moral
pr.nclples and livid with the stain of its past
be'rayals. It comes before tho people of this
Commonwealth with a profession of goodly i
purpose on its lips, and Impudently asks
tlv m by their votes to sanction and
acquiesce in the lie that this mongrel "ism '
is Llncolnlsm. It pleads that a great State
cannot sae Itself from economic disaster
unless It is willing to traffic with the men
who have betrayed it, unless It Is ready to
i .ydTThelr manifold delinquencies and en
trust them with tho accomplishment of a
holy program. Good never came and never
can come through such 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 Penroselsm In
Pennsylvania, In every other State of tho
Union It Is hated and detested. Nowhere
else is there any attempt to defend it. Ohio
answered Forakerism with an emphatic re
pudiation. In New York, Mr Barnes has
yielded to the overwhelming antagonism of
the rank and file In his own party and has
surrendered his leadership. Tammany, too,
that feebly criminal emulator of the Phila
delphia Organization, disciplined in its own
bailiwick, has been Bhorn of its false colors
and the black flag nailed to its tepee by an
Indignant public. The spirit of the times Is
against tho revival or perpetuation of me
dievalism; It is against the combinations.
the conspiracies, the trades, the loot, which,
by common consent. In the vernacular of
the street, are embraced In the word Pen
roselsm. This baneful fraternity of plunder Is an
old man of the sea on the back of the Repub
lican party. In every hamlet It Is the free
trader's slogan. It Is the chief Democratic
asset, for men prefer llloglcalness. even
honest Incompetency, to overt prostitution
of their Government for sinister purposes.
The election of Mr. Penrose, who does not
and cannot disavow his leadership of the
hungry and thirsty elements which compose
his machine, would hamstring Republican
efforts In every doubtful county In the Union,
The first task of every Republican candidate
would be to repudiate him. None would have
a chance for success unless he first pledged
abstinence from participation In any program
which Mr. Penrose Jed.
Which is better, a Republican majority In
the Senate without Mr. Penrose, or a Re
publican minority with him? Manufacturers
may as well make Up their minds that it Is
one or the other. Mr. Penrose has no more,
chance of ever being chairman of the Sen
ate Committee on Tlnance than he has pf
being President of the United States.
Consider the motley elements now lined up
behind him. Ills bipartisan machine has
wrought a coalition of the liquor Interests,
which with Incredible stupidity are actually
'endeavoring to buy the State Senate in order
to prevent conscientious consideration of the
drink problem. In Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh, where the great bulk of Mr. Penrose's
strength was shown in the primary, depend
ence was largely placed on illiterate or irre
sponsible citizens, men willing to barter their
ballots for Organization crumbs. The re
spectable constituency that embraces him is
composed of manufacturers and their allied
Interests. To them the enactment of a sen
sible tariff measure is essential. They have
btan blinded by necessity Into acceptance of
tho 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
suicidal to burden such a program with tho
onus of a shameless political crew. It la a
fact that protection has bocomo a byword
through Just such tactics. Men bellove, and
they have a right to believe, that leaders
who bartered and traded and trafficked in
otes bartered and traded and trafficked In
tariff schedules also. The country will never
again trust men who, it 1b convinced, be
trayed an essential economic policy by malt
ing It tho medium of their Immoral transac
tions. Once before the mistake was made of
identifying an economic princlplo with a
political career, and so complete was tho ruin
that to this day a central United States
Bank cannot be established.
Wo stand for Doctor Brumbaugh. Ho Is
a colossus among the pigmies who Imaglno
they can use him. He Is not their nominee.
Public opinion forced him on the ticket. Ho
Is tho greatest menace the venal machine
has ever encountered. Ho will sweep aside
corruption, drivo out the grafters, purify the
political atmosphere, give a new tone to
affairs, nnd, bottor still, ho will subatltuto
for make-believe Republicanism real Repub
licanism. His candidacy Is an Inspiration to
all good citizens. They can provo their party
fealty through sending him to Hnrrlsburg
by an overwhelming majority, and, at the
samo time, stamping with their condemna
tion Penroselsm and all that It portends.
There is nothing that could so hearten Re
publicans tho nation over and Invigorate the
party as tho emphatic Indorsement of Brum
baugh and tho equally emphatic rejection of
Penrose. By this means only can the nation
ha convinced that Republicanism Is one
thing and Penroselsm another.
Wo stand for Mr. Palmer not because of,
but In splto of, his economic principles. We
stand for him because he towers above his
chief opponent in the morality of his per
spective. We stand for him because ho Is
tho one instrument through which Penn
sylvania may set itself right before tho na
tion, because tho one hope of national Re
publicanism lies in tho election of this Demo
crat. We are for him berause his success
would deprive the Republican party of only
one vote In the Senate, and the defeat of Mr.
Penrose would probably give It ten.
It is a memorable campaign which the
State enters, a campaign vital to its Indus
trial Interests. It behooves an Independent
Republican newspaper solemnly to warn the
great body of citizens of the crisis which
they face. It Is the duty of an honest news
paper to expose the pretension that an or
ganization notably devoid of principle Is
fighting for a principle. An unfortunate
conjunction of circumstances has made it
necessary to apply an heroic remedy, to de
feat the ostensible protagonist of the State's
economic Ideals in order to assure the suc
cess of those ideals In the nation and In the
Interest of ordinary morality. It Is neces
sary for the Republican voters to treat Pen
roselsm as a Republican President, Mr. Taft,
treated the Cox machine, which had waxed
fat on the misdeeds It had perpetrated in
Cincinnati. Tho time has como for Penn
svHania to act on Senator Root's charac
terization of the Philadelphia Organization
as a criminal conspiracy. Common sense,
public necessity, fundamental morality make
such a course requisite. The duty of every
honorable citizen Is plain. Pennsylvania will
vindicate her prestige and her honor by a
steadfast allegiance to the dictates of conscience.
PASSED BY THE CENSOR
1IFE in some nowspaper offices that is,
official life is about as certain as tho
weather a week hence, nnd no one knows
this bettor than tho theatrical manager. Not
so long ago the dramatic editor of a Phila
delphia paper called upon a manager and
was amazed to find him giving a pass for
two seats to the paper's ofTlce boy,
"Great Caesar, you don't give tickets to
that boy, do you?" asked the dramatio
editor, after tho boy had departed.
"You bet I do," responded tho manager, "I
don't know how soon ho'U bo your boss and
I'm not taking chances."
IUTHER BUKBANK has a rival In con
Jsttuctlvo eugenics, if It may be so called.
His name Is Oeorgo Whlto and he lives In
Eaton, O., which will now become famous
as tho homo of tho scratchlcss chicken, for
that Is the typo being evolved by Whlto
through a process of elimination nnd eugenics
ns applied to poultry. Whlto bred and cross
bred chickens until ho produced a big whlto
fowl, with legs 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, because
"its legs only reach tho ground." In addition,
tho new breed, being moro sedate, Is of a
lesser temperamental montnllty and prac
tically devoid of all neurasthenic symptoms.
He says nothing of Its capacity for laying
eggs, however.
REFLECTED In the light of his great
uncle, Hclmuth von Moltke, Chief of
Staff of tho German armies, has stood tho
acid test of publicity very well. Though
little Is known about this six-foot-four giant,
his fathor-In-lnw, tho Danish Count von
Moltke, Is rcsponslblo for the story of his
daughter's wedding to tho present military
leader. Hclmuth fell In love with his distant
cousin and namesake, Eliza von Moltke, but
her father declared that he would withhold
his consent until tho great von Moltke, tho
uncle, had given his consent. A few days
later came a telegram to Copenhagen an
nouncing tho coming of Germany's silent
man. The Danish Count waited nt tho rail
road station to welcome the victor of Sedan.
A man dressed In a snuff-colored, worn suit
emerged from a Becond-class carriage, carry
ing a dingy little bag. It was the General.
Inquiry elicited tho fact that his worldly bo
longlngs were In tho bag and that lie did
not possess a valet. Tho consent was given
and Hclmuth and Eliza von Moltke have
lived nn Ideal family life ever since. Inci
dentally, it may bo mentioned that Hclmuth
von Moltke won the Iron Cross for personal
bravery during the war of 1S70.
WHERE there's a will, there's a way,
says the old adage, and there appears
a way to fulfil tho alleged last will of Poter
tho Great. This will, tho object of 100 years
of controversy, Is said to rest in tho archives
of Petrograd, but ho far as is known, no
modern eye has ever been laid on tho orig
inal copy of this mystic document. Accord
ing to Frederic Gaillardet, a friend of tho
elder Dumas, the will contained 15 clauses.
Peter assorted that In order to become great
Russia must always bo at war with Europe;
Intermarriages with Germany are to be fos
tered, Poland is to be divided, Sweden and
Denmark Incited to discord; encroachment
Is to be made along the Black and Baltic
Seas; Austria is to be used as an ally against
Turkey and then defrauded of Its gain and
plunged Into defensive wars against other
European States, and Russia made dominant
by a policy of playing one State against
another.
The authenticity of the will Is very much
in doubt, hut it gains Interest, nevertheless,
in view of Russia's present stand In Euro
pean politics.
For the Service of Philadelphia
mHE sympathies of the Evening Ledger
-1- will be instant in favor of programs which
promise to make this city a bettor city in
which to live. It will not accomplish Its
purpose unless It Benses the social and civic
longings of the thousands of homeowners
and homemakers who have made Philadel
phia the splendid metropolis that It is, It !
will battle with tl.em for better facilities of
every sort to which they are reasonably en
titled and of which they are unreaaonably
deprived It Is the duty of a great news
paper to mirror tho aspirations of the com
munity it serves, to visualize conditions of
life as they are and picture them as they
can be and will be. It must be the spokes
man of the man in the street, the woman in I
the house, the girl who meets the onrush '
of necessity by her own toll With whole,
hearted enthusiasm and with no Interests
to serve save the Interests of the community,
the State and the nation, the Evening Ledger
dedicates itself to this policy of service and
takes Us place among the institutions of
Philadelphia.
SPEAKING of tho elder Dumas recalls a
literary document of another nature,
which was not authentic, but hero is the
story:
In the middle -iO's Dumas had engaged a
large corps of translators, among them being
the father of tho writer, then an impecunious
newspaper man. To him fell tho task of
translating "Das Boa Konstrlktor," a German
novel of stupendous length, written by Spin
dler and published In Hamburg in 1797.
Dumas took the translation, transposed tho
scene from Germany to France nnd rechrls
tened the book "Tho Count of Monte Crlsto."
Dumas' "Katherine Blum" Is also a trans
lation, almost verbatim, from "Tho Fores
ters," a German play.
SUPERSTITION plays a large part in the
lives of the Hohenzollerns. Tho appear
ance of tho mjsterious White Lady In the
palace In Potsdam or is it Berlin? Is said
to presage a death In tho family. And now
comes word that the Kaiser is wearing his
lucky ring. Whence came the token no one
knows. Frederick the Great, on ascending
the throne, found among nib father's posses
sions a small box containing a ring set with
a strange black stone and a note by Fred
erick I, stating that the ring had been given
to him by his father on bin deathbed, with
the Injunction that so long as It remained
in the family tho fortunes of the Hohenzol
lerns would endure. The ring was stolen
from Frederick William II by his mistress,
Countess Lichtenau. and with -Its disappear
ance came the disasters of tho Napoleonic
wars. It was restored In 1813, the jear of
tho Prubslan liberation, and Schneider, the
biographer of William I, declares that ho
bnw it on the hand of that monarch during
the war of 1S70.
Is William H wearing It?
Mr Pinchot may be without a party, but
what does he care? He has the nomination.
Mr. Bryan is not for peace at any price.
In fact, tho price depends entirely o tho
size. o the audience.
The. heavy artillery Is also doing something
to bring about the end of the war. Napoleon
had an idea that it generally would In any
war.
The only thing the people understand
about rapid transit Is that they are not get
ting it It will not take th.m long to find
out why
Cutting down the river and harbor bill by
cutting everything out of it except the
"pork" may ba good politics, but it Is not
good business There is trade In the Chesa.
peake and Delaware Canal, but few votes.
Franklin could generally state a common
sense conclusion without wasting words.
This sentence of his was much used in the
Revolutionary period. "They that can give
up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary "fty deserve neither liberty nor
safety,"
BUFFALO BILL, who Is still active In tho
show business, once took Sitting Bull to
the colonel commanding the titaiest frontier
post of those daj s probably an inland
metropolis by this time. The Colonel, seeking
to Impress the doughty Indian with tho ad
vantages of civilization. Invited him to a for
mal dinner. A lloild, lound-faeed butler,
hired for the occasion, handed a spotless
white napkin to the Indian warrior, The lat
ter looked tho serviette over, grunted onto or
twice and then spread it on his chair and
gat on It! URADFOUD.
GUKIOSITY SHOP
William Murdoch, an English millwright,
vent to a factory in search of work one morn
ing in 16S0. The proprietor, who had turned
him awa, uotl'ed that he was wearing an
oval hat, whereas the style h3d been round
until then Under questioning, Murduck salu
that he had turned the hat on a lathe, having
geared the machine to suit himeelf. The pen
niless man was immediately emplocd, for he
had, without realizing It. invented the modern
headgear. Contrary to the usual course of
events, he made his fortune out of his
discovery.
Tslavatchl. the drug used by Mexican Indians
to destroy the reason, but not the physical wel
fare of their victims, is a heritage of the
Aztec. The ingredients of this most subtle of
poisons are known only to the Indians, who
have kept their secret for hundreds of years.
The municipality compels mourners to deco
rate the Paris crematory with flowers and
charges from Si cents to $10 03, according to
the class of services desired. Before crema
tion can take place, half a dozen certificates,
signed and countersigned and vised, are re
quired under the red tape which prevails In
the French capital.
White Is tho badge of mourning of the Chi
nese. Tho Andaman Islander, who still eschews
clothes, paints his entire body whlto. The
Egyptians used yellow as their visible sign of
grief. In Europe, whlto was used by the Cos
tillans as lato as HM in connection with tho
obsequies of Trlncc John.
VERBAL HANDSHAKES
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tions for tho success of the Evening Ledger."
New Tork Commercial.
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cess." Chester, Pa., Times.
"Wo wish you every success In your new
undertaking." Allcntown, Pa., Chronicle and
News.
"Best wishes." Congressman J. Hampton
Moore.
"You can rest assured that It will be a real
pleasure to do anything I can to help you turn
out a great nnd useful nowspaper." Morris L.
Cooke, Director of Public Works.
"Wish ou nil success." Ernest L. Tuatln,
Recorder of Deeds.
"I hasten to extend my congratulations and
nlncero best wishes." W. Freeland Kendrlck,
Receiver of Taxes.
"You may rest assured that It will give me
great Plcasuro to co-operate with you In any
way I can In order that we may have an eve
ning paper which will correspond In a measure
to the morning edition of the Punuc LnDOBn."
Dr. Richard II, Harte, Director Department
of Health and Charities.
"Having been a reader of the morning LBDonn
for many years, I naturally welcome Its appear
ance In the evening field." Clayton W. Pike,
Chief of Electrical Bureau.
"Best wishes for your success." Frank I.
Gorman, County Commissioner.
"You have my best wishes for the success of
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Bureau of Police.
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burg, Pa., Star and Sentinel.
"We welcome this new arrival In the news,
paper field." Charleston, S. C, Evening Post.
"Wo will watch with Interest for the first
and subsequent Issues of the Evening LEnasn.
If you come up to the standard of the Punuo
LEDOEn you will be setting a new standard."
Allcntown, Pa., Call.
"We w Ish tho new paper a 1 calthy and pros
perous birth." Detroit Free Press.
"Best wishes for your success." Albany,
N. Y., Journal.
"I have been a reader of the dally Lkdoer
ever since I have been able to read, and I
shall bo glad, Indeed, to read the Evening
LEnnsn. I wish you all the success
imaslnable." William McCoach. City Treasurer.
"Here la good luck to the Evening Ledger.
The Pudlic Ledger is now the best
newspaper published, not only In Philadelphia
but In a great many other cities In the coun
try as well; and wo not only get It on our
exchange list, but have It sent home and pay
for It with sincere appreciation of Its worth.
Here are the best wishes for the success of
the grandfather of them nil, tho Pontic
Ledger, and for the lusty lnfnnt who will see
the light of day for the first time tomorrow.
Go get emi" Reading, (Pa.) Telegram and
Times.
A New Evening Contemporary
"War" extras during tho past few weeks
have served to accustom the community to
tho afternoon appearance of the Public
Ledger, which, according to announcement, is
to be published in regular evening edition,
beginning next Monday afternoon, nnd have
made the first step in the dual role of mornlns
and afternoon newspnper moro simple The
evtnlng newspaper In the United States has
had a distinct advantage In the receipt and
handling of the news service In tho European
war, although hardly more than that which it
possrss in ordinary times, In Its opportunity
to get the nfternoon and evening attention of
the reader, as rompored with tho btwy morn
ing hours But the evening edition of the
Punuc Ledger will require no introduction In
Philadelphia, for the paper long ago estab
lished Its entree and welcome at any time of
day Evening Bulletin.
The "vTorkin' Son of Old John Paul
Hv IIOLMAN T. DAY
Down by the church lived old John Paul,
He tanked with his hammer nnd lie Jabbed with
his awl.
Ho rapped and he tapped on his worn lapstone.
And ever ho trolled, with a lusty tone.
"Oh, high, dlddi-rtl, for Hal' sb' ry Hal!
Plump was she, an' a light smart gal.
Swing to tho centro an' caper down the hall.
High, dlddy-dl," 3ang old John Paul.
In the nearby church preached Pastor Jones,
A grim old paint of fikln and bones
At the week-nleht meetings his (lock would hear
Old John Paul's song ring loud and clear.
"Oh, high, dlddy-dl, como rosum your how,
"An', Sal" sb'ry Sal, now shako your toe.
A ladies' chain an' balance all.
High, dlddy-dl," trolled old John Paul.
The pastor stepped to the cobbler's shop;
Said he, "These ribald songs must stop!
They laugh and they nudge on tjutan's Row
To hear you bellow and bluster so,
"With 'High, dlddy-dl,' and jour vulgar strain
Anent some female, coarso and vain.
Sing soma good hymn, If jou sing at all."
"I don't know a hymn," said old John Paul.
The pastor forthwith taught him one,
In adagio measure did it run;
Tho beat moved slow as a good hymn should
And John Paul sang It as best he could.
But 't was "turn," and ''turn," and the pegs
went slow;
For he timed his work by his songs, you know,
T was slow for the hammer, and slow for
the aw),
And customers railed at old John Paul.
To tho pastor John Paul spoke, net iiiy,
"I'll grant that souls arc saved jour way;
Hut inundln' solca Is another thing.
And I can't git a hustlo unless I sing
'Oh, hlsh, dlddy-dl, there, tiptoe spry!
An' bal' sb' ry Sal goes piancin' by.'
Work when ou work with snap an' sprawl,
'High, dlddy-dl," " said old John Paul.
Then here's to the man who, all day long,
Works with a will to a right tmart song!
For a hymn sometimes may be better sung
By willing hands than a laggard tongue.
God has set us our tasks to do,
Worship rings truest when work la through.
Then It's hey for our labor, and a quick-step all
to the "high, dlddy-dl" of old John Paul,
DONE IN PHILADELPHI
vt- tsT t -i.r aMntr the birth
Philadelphia s newest evening paper 5
pass without a word or two about evening
newspapers, and especially about Philadelphia s
first evening Journal, which, by the way, was
the first evening paper to be published In this
country, and. If I am not mistaken, the first
evening paper to be published In the world.
Some of my Boston friends, wno have prided
themselves upon what the Hub has done for
Journalism as well as for all other branches of
pollto llternture, probably will take exception
to this statement, and hasten to remlna me
lint there was a Boston Evening Post as far
back as 1735.
In reply, assuming my Boston friends would
moke this assault, I must remind them that
the Boston Evening Post can scarcely b
classed ns on evening newspaper.
The Boston Evening Post orlsinally was
known as Tho Rehearsal, and under that nam
was published about 1731. It was a weekly, and
more or less a literary paper, after tho stylo
of so many of the little sheets In tho eighteenth
century. No reader of the Evening Ledger
would think of It ns a nowspaper in the
modern sense. However, about two years after
it wan In oxlatence, it became the property of
Thomas Fleet, who for a long tlmo was
believed to be connected with the authorship
of "Mother Goose." That question has not been
definitely settled yet, but wo may let that pass,
rieet maintained his paper as Tho Rehearsal
for some tlmo, and then, without notice,
changed its name to tho Boston Evening Post.
Tho only other change was tho time of publi
cation. It now camo out on Monday evening,
whereas tho paper formerly had come out on
Monday morning.
But we must bo entirely fair. Thoro was still
another evening paper published In this
country before the Fcnnsylvnnla Evening Post.
Let us take a look at It.
This also was a weekly, and was printed In
New York by Honry de Forrest. This was
becun In 1746, but did j not live more than a
year. It Is now known only by name, nnd
only by students of American Journalism. It
made no Impress upon history.
But tho Pennsylvania Evening Post did make
an indelible impression on American Jour
nalism. It Is rather curious to find that this paper
was connected In Its history with a Public
Ledger, not tho present one, of course, but an
earlier and forgotten one.
Benjamin Tow no, tho publisher of the Penn
sylvania Evening Post, was an Englishman,
born in Lincolnshire, according to Isaiah
Thomas. Ho seems to havo como first to
Philadelphia, as did almost every enterprising
English cmlgrnnt In the eighteenth century,
nnd was engaged by Goddard as a Journeyman
printer. Goddard. who was In partnership
with tho Tories. Joseph Galloway and Thomas
Wharton, published the Pennsylvania Chronicle
In 1767, and was so fair In his treatment of
American topics thnt he and his partners had
a falling out. It is a most Interesting talo
by Itself, and one of these afternoons we may
tell more of it.
In the meantime, however, we must speak of
Tow no's connection with Goddard'a paper.
The latter's partners, who wero leaders of
what might be called the Tory party here,
were so much angered at the publication of
Dickinson's Farmers' Letters, which gave the
American view of the dispute with the mother
country, that they Induced Towne to act as
a spy for them In Goddard's office. Finally,
when Goddard left the city, Towne, probably
with the assistance of his former employers,
started a printing house of his own.
James Humphreys, who was a rhliodelphlan
born, and who had received his education In
the College of Philadelphia, had finally, after
several attempts to find himself, taken up the
trado of printing. In the autumn of 1774 he
announced thnt he would soon publish nn Im
pnrtlnl newspaper. There was a suspicion
nmong tho people that the Ledger would be n
Tory paper, and Towne thought he saw an op
pot tunlty to start nn opposition sheet So he
hastened to publish the Pennsylvania Evening
Post before Humphreys could Issue his Ledger.
Both papers made their appearance about th?
same time in 1775. Towne had the best of It
from the start, so he became friendly with the
Whigs, and his sheet was regarded as a Whig
organ. Congress let him have their proceedings
to print, and he was prospering. But be was ii
person to whom self interest was uppermost.
He was a Whig so long as the Americans held
tho city, but when the British came to town
Towne remained and continued to print the kind
of news Lord Howe desired. At thnt tlmo
Humphreys, who had ben obliged to leave tho
city because of his Tory principle", returned
nnd again Issued his Ledger, but Towne was so
suecefsful In carrying wnter on both shoulder
that he remained master of the field.
Both men, as well as Towno's former em
plojers, Galloway and Wharton, had been
placed on the IIbI of persons charged with being
Loyalists. Galloway fled with the British und
went to Enslaml, What ton and Towne re
malned. By some strange chance Towne was not mo
lested when the Patriots returned to the cltj,
but was permitted to continue his business un
challenged He continued to print his Evening
Post until the close of the war.
Towne was a high liver, but was n skillful
printer, and his work was excellently qone
His Evening Post was printed tluee times
vtek, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdiy, and
tho price, originally "two coppers." was raised
to "three coppers," say about S cents and i:
cents at tho present rate
The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first
paper to print the Declaration of Independence
This appeared on Its rant page for July C, 1776,
and in one of Its numbers in 177S appeared the
first account of Washington's historic crossing
Of the Delaware. Either of these pieces or news
would be dlsplajed In very largo tjpe by a
modern newspaper, but they were very modest
ly printed In the Evening Post
I'hlladglphla seems to have the best claim to
having published the first evening newspaper
In this count! y, at least.
QUA N Vi LLE,
TIIR IDEALIST
If jou had carried out to. tho host of jour
ability everjthing which jmj imd planned to
carry out, jou would now be one of the leaders
of men.
Not every one can lend. There must be ranks
as. well ps a captain. The question Is; Why
are jou not a captain? And that takes us back
t this matter of carrjlng things out to a
finish.
One dy a widely known and very wealthy
real estate operator was riding on a Broadway
car in eompany with an admiring 0UI1,
acquaintance, and thus he gave his friend the
reason for his success:
"Young man," said he. "even body gets Ideas
Everjbodj' Some misguided folks really be
lleve there are a few men of admitted mental
superiority who corner every last Idea of worth
In the world. That's bo.hl ih difference be-
fjfcwi'n niHiWum
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Sfc-apann.
MHMtwa
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r "irn riff -" ""iiiian
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tween ths successful and the unsuccessful rsa
Is that tit man of success begins working out
his idea and sticks to it to a finish, Whll
your man who Is a failure gets a glorious gltm.
mer of riches far beyond, starts working out hli
Idea, smashes into the first fence, and quit,
cold. My boy, begin and stick. And don't stick
as a matter of duty or merely to make good
your self-promise. Stick as if you wanted i ,
stick I" w '
We are all doers of good mentally. uu
cither through fear of making a bungle of out
efforts or because we lack the courage to pm
Into operation good Instincts and Inspiration,
nnd to -keep them going," we do not becom
actual doers of good.
Tho next time you get an idea that has an
honest, worthy ambition In front of It, whether
you consider it old, worn out, insignificant or
what not, Just remember the real estate man.
Begin to work it out.
But, most important of all, work It out to &
finish.
Conceiving, operating and sticking the.,
three. But tho greatest of these Is Stlcklngl
THOU NAMELESS COLUMN
CMlf ITaroM.
A Reminder
Our own private war in Montana Is alto
Butto. Boston Transcript '
A Kind of Stick-to-lt-iveness
Two business men, so It la told, were lunch
ing together when an old graybeard stumpsd
by. "That's Brown. Ho works for mo," said
the first business man.
"He's an honest-looking chop. Has he got
stajlng powers?" asked tho second buslncu
man.
"He has that," said the first. "Ho began at i
the bottom of the ladder In '76, and he's stayed '
there ever since."
Another Kind of the Samo
What do you think of this as an example of
constancy? It Is cited by tho Alta Vista (Kan.)
Journal:
"Jacob Elsenhut was in town Monday wear
ing a work shirt he bought il years ago when
ho lived in beautiful old Switzerland. It cost
$1.50."
A Spring Poem 'Without Flowers
Contrnry to general opinion there ore several
varieties of spring poems, somo of which bloom
In tho fall. Mr. W. P. Eaton deserves credit for
this:
"It Is spring today; I know the sight
The smell of aephalt fills tho air,
Tho gas-pipe men are mending lines,
And digging ditches in tho square."
. A Long Shot
In n text-book on arithmetic tho Sacred
Heart Review has discovered the following In
genious problem: "A cannon ball travels 5M
feet In one second. How far will it be from ths
muzrle of the gun after tho lapee of thirty-live
minutes?"
Nine Points of tho Law
Harper's Mngazlne describes an excellent sit
uation suitable for very young ladles:
Tho lovely girl, having lingered a minute In
her room to make sure that her skirt fitted to
her entire satisfaction, descended to the parlor
to find tho family pet ensconced upon the knee
of tho young man caller, her curly head nestled
comfortably against his shoulder.
"Why, Mabel." tho young lady exclaimed,
"aren't you ashamed of yourself? Get right
down "
"Sha'n't do It," retorted the child. "I got hers
first."
"War and the Dictionary
A cable dispatch from Paris read: "Tea
members attended the French Academy's reg
ular meeting this week and discussed the word
'exodo' for the dictionary. 'Exodo' mean exo
dus." Evidently the French are suffering from
lack of sufllclent words to express their de
light over the retreat of the Germans.
A Double Fumble
"Who was that tough-looking chap I saw yoa
with today, Hicks?"
"Be careful, Parker! That was my twin
brother."
"By Jove, old chap, forgive me! I ought te
have known." Boston Transcript.
This Is a True Story
It happened In a small city about a week
after the tlmo for paying dog licenses had ex
pired. The dog catcher was out on the trail
of unlicensed dogs. In a house on the outsklrtJ
of that city lived two women who may be de
scribed as middle-aged and unmarried. They
had a dog named Bingo.
One da- one of these women went out to de
a washing. When she returned home that night
tho saw something on the front door that
frightened her. She ran back down the street
and histerlcallj' atrostcd the first person sh
men. "Como quick! Come quick!" she cried
to tho astonished man, nnd ho came. There
was crape on the door. He knocked. No re
sponse. Ho knocked again. Then he noticed
a movement of a window curtain, and pres
ently tho dtor opened a bit.
"Whnt's the matter? Oh, what's the matter?"
frantically demanded tho woman behind him.
"Who's dead?"
Came the calm reply from tho doorway;
'"ihero ain't nobody dead. I hung up crap
to keep the dog catcher out. Bingo's In her
with me."
National Point of View
"Even Argentina long ago learned to govern
her Internal Improvements without waste or
graft, und It Is not for wont of feasible plam
that wo havo not done the same." New YorH
Evening Post.
"The Ottoman Government must have rtronl
reasons to bellove It can maintain Its pew pre
tensions indefinitely, otherwise It would scarcely
have made a move whose failure will bring
humiliation heaped upon humiliation." Detroit
Freo Press.
"Increasing the taxes on liquors and been
Is welcomed in the press favorable to this
tralllc. Tho liquor dealeis of the country are
glad of an opportunity to pay a larger sh3r
of the war taxes and thus make tho govern
ment more dependent on this interest " Chat
tanooga News
"Tho American president seems to he a sort
of universal umplro. As far as tho railroads are
concerned wu think that there probablj never
was a tlmo when the peuplu wore more wHlmS
to treat them fairly and Justlj." Indianapolis
New s,
"That farm tlub work Is gaining constant!
increasing attention from South Georgia furmeri
is good now, it ineaiu not only crop diversifica
tion, but better marketing of diversified
products" Savuimuh Morning News.
"Altogether, the situation (In Maine) afford
as much opportunity for a fair test of strength
as la usual in September elections." New YorU
Times,
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