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miLADF-LI'llIA, SATfltDAY, OCTOItm 31, 191.
Guilty
FTUIE Indictment against Boles Penrose has
boon drawn, nnd he has Med no answer to
It. Instead, he hna aeon fit, as usual, to defy
the people of this Commonwealth Rnd roly, na
he has dono before, on tho cohesive power
of public plunder and the Immensity of his
"slush" fund to override and nullify tho
wishes and verdict of Pennsylvania.
With the stains of former scandals yet vivid
on him, ho has the bold effrontery wantonly
nnd deliberately to summon the hovel and the
dive, tho rum shop and the groggory to his
support. Ho makes an open alliance with all
disreputable elements, veneering It with the
meagre Indorsement of such respectable gen
tlemen as he has been able to whcedlo by the
protection plea Into his camp. Ho does not
apologize: he does not come before his con
stituency begging for mercy for past delin
quencies; but with his hands deep down in
the treasuries of the underworld ho rallies
nnew all the phalanxes of selfishness In a last
desperate effort to subvert and prostitute
government to his ends. Had hla hands been
clean as a woman's beforo this campaign,
his trading of his party for bipartisan sup
port, his open conscription of rum, would for
ever precludo the possibility of his again
'bearing In his knapsack tho commission of
Pennsylvania.
The evidence is piled up about him. He
Invites the State to send him to "Washington,
that there the linen he has dirtied may be
washed before the nation. He plad3 for
votes, this man who has been authorita
tively charged with having personally con
tributed 165.000 wherewith to corrupt a mu
nicipal administration, although he ha3 not
dared to try that charge before the courts
or let it be put to the proof. He Knows that
no man can sit In the United States Senate
who has raped the till of every groggery In
the State to secure his election, yet he per
sists that he must be sent to Washington,
where the Senate is already prepared to hear
evidence of this deplorable alliance.
Maliciously and deliberately he has shouted
calamity to the detriment of the people ho
protends to servo. The processes of trade
have caught him In a trap. Everywhere the
revival of prosperity gives the lie to this
claim for favor. The United States Is left
the sole great productive market in the
world. The news dispatches are loaded with
the recital of voluminous buying. "As the
result of many orders received In the United
States from the warring nations of Europe,
a wave of prosperity Is sweeping over the
country.' The meat packers of Chicago have
already enough business to keep them run
ning on full time for a year. Into the discard
goes the extravagant claim of Mr. Penrose
that ho is the arbiter of prosperity. There Is
no necessity for the people to barter their re
spectability. Mr. Penrose has offered them a
price for it, but the feel of the coin is not
good.
Repudiated by his associates In Washing
ton, deprived of the support of even one na
tions! Republican statesman, desolate of
Indorsement among the great Republican
and Independent newspapers of-the nation,
adhered to only by those whom he Is able to
promise something definite, supported even
by the Vares only because they have been
tricked Into subservience, Penroi. the sole
remaining advocate of midnight government,
enemy of Republicanism and democracy, an
tagonist of the general Interests and protag
onlst of selfish interests, stands forsaken in
a. great loneliness.
The conscience and the logic of the voters
are against htm. Ho Is In the twilight of his
activity, and the shadows of approaching da.
feat have settled all around him. Pennsyl
vania Is about to break loose, to throw him
off, to recover her Independence, to strike a
decisive blow for good government. There la
nothing left of his campaign but the money
that Is In It.
Subway for South Philadelphia
THE transformation of South Philadelphia
depends on the achievement of rapid
transit. No section of Philadelphia would
more quickly respond In Increased property
valuations to high-speed service. The popu.
latton of 3SO.0OO overtaxes the capacity of
the surface lines. In fact, the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company Itself favors the
Improvement, for it i a party to the plana
made by Director Taylor.
The whole traiult program waits now pri
marily on fatoruble action by the Union
Trout ion Company, which la asked to con
tribute merely half of its annual dividends, at
t per i-ent interest, ta the project as an In
vestment. It secures. In addition, protection
Sot all time against competition. Thereafter,
Councils will be called on to approve the
plana, and so decisive is public opinion in
tho matter that Councils will scarcely openly
erect a barrier,
Tho one thing to avoid now Is delay. All
citizens should vote for tho loan bill, which
carries an appropriation for preliminary
work. Thereafter, It will bo proper to urge
tho Union Traction Company to decide defi
nitely whether or not It will participate In
tho agreement to give metropolitan Philadel
phia metropolitan transportation service.
Bninihnupli: Cnpnble nnd Courageous
AVY candidate for a high offlco should bo
.able to unfold the cntlro scroll of his
Ufa to the closest scrutiny. Doctor Brum
baugh has stood In the tierce, searching light
of publicity for three decades nnd not ono of
his opponents can challenge his capability,
hla courage or his character.
Doctor Brumbnugh Is a lighter for prin
ciples a clean, straight fighter who has
acquired the habit of winning battles. Ho
hns been the champion of the children of
Philadelphia for years, and ho succeeded In
tearing the hnnd of the gang politician off
tho public schools of this city. As one of
the framers of the education codo of 1911,
ho was the prime factor In freeing our pub
lic school system from the old vicious ward
control Whether in Louhtana or Porto Rico
or Philadelphia, Brumbaugh hns always been
victorious In hla struggle for better things.
Fortunately. Doctor Brumbaugh had tho
courage to make his own platform and does
net labor under the dlsadvnntngo of ndvo
catlng a lot of blanket pledges mndo by tho
pnrty for campnlgn purpoes. Take, for In
stance, local option. Brumbaugh put It In
the very forefront of hla primary light and
has kept It before the people In every speech
he hns given. What did It matter to him
that the Republican party had not pro
nounced on the subject? Ho knew that Penn
sylvania needed local option, that It was the
surest way of solving the liquor problem nnd
that the people hnd the right to local option.
Logic and consclenco compelled him to glvo
It first place, and ho has pledged himself to
Its advocacy with all tho force of his power
ful personality. In harmony with this, ho
has refused to accept any of the whlsky-rlng
money to finance his campaign. If by any
hint or Innuendo or subterfuge hla opponents
accuse him of having nny kind of under
standing with tho liquor Interesta, they Rre
giving currency to a most reprehensible lie.
But that Is not tho whole of Brumbaugh's
plntform by nny means. Sinister Influences
nt Harrlsburg have been successful In killing
humane legislation. It has been Impossible
to get satisfactory child labor laws or any
form of a workmen's compensation or em
ployers' liability act. Brumbaugh has prom
ised that he will put every Inch nnd ounce
of his manhood Into an effort to secure such
legislation. And woe to tho man or tho men
or the corporations or the interests that try
to stand in his way when he Is fighting tho
battle of right nnd Justice.
Another thing ta certain. The scandal that
la now hanging over tho State Highway De
partment will be cleared away without much
ado. Brumbaugh haa given his word to ap
point only such men as he knows to be com
petent and honest, and that the people also
know to be competent and honest. The State
departments will no longer bo fodder cribs
for fattening the Organization; they will be
vigorous, honest nnd scientific bureaus for
giving Pennsylvania n dollar's worth of genu
ine service for even' dollar raised In taxes.
If It were an unknown man making such
promises the voter might bo entitled to a
llttlo doubt. But Brumbaugh Is a tried and
trusted man who has never yet failed to re
deem any promise he has given, and who
never yet has failed In his duty. Pennsylva
nia realizes this so thoroughly that Brum
baugh's election Is certain.
Palmer's Qualifications
IF PENNSYLVANIA wants as United States
Senator a man of unimpeachable character,
mental balance and practical legislative ex
perience Mr. A. Mitchell Palmer fills the bill
Such qualltios are necessary to a candidate
for such an Important office. If his character
Is defective by reason of dishonest alliances
and treacheries, he Is unfit to sit In the Sen
ate: If hla raentnl poise Is uncertain by devo
tion to fada and Utopian programs, he la unfit
to sit In tho Senate; if he possesses no experi
ence In constructive statesmanship, he Is unfit
to sit In the Senate.
There Is no doubt that Palmer Is possessed
of high qualifications. President Wilson has
testified to the fact out of intimate knowl
edge; his opponents have never Impeached
him In any of theso directions; his life Is an
open book In which the record is legibly anrt
emphatically recorded. The only offense Re
publicans can charge against Palmer Is that
ho has been one of the pillars of the present
Administration. Unless party politics Is noth
ing but R blind prejudice. Independent Re
publicans will support a man they can honor,
trust and admire.
Unique World Experiment
SCHOOLBOYS of the future will read a
strange chapter In their histories. It will
tell of one of the world's unique experiments,
19th century militarism. Even barbaric his
tory knows nothing like It.
In the face of tho greatest International,
fraternizing Influences the world has ever
known, the nations of Continental Europe
made a soldier of every adult man. What
might have been the Immense creative Power
of the modern State, Dacxert ny invention
and machinery, was turned to destruction.
And the text books of the future will re
cord how this piling avalanche qf malevolent
energy drove Irresistibly and yet how little
foreseen toward a catastrophic end. The
histories will picture the great 300-mlle bat-tie-Hues
of whole peoples locked motionless
In a deadly embrace till
What will be the final chapter to this
strange story?
Now the Black Sea runs red.
Life at Sing Sing seems to be Just one
warden after another.
"TJ-9," 'S'90" what romantic names to
send ringing down the centuries!
So far as Penrose la concerned, the ''pld
fashioned Republican victory" he prays for
will probably be of the vintage of 1912,
Pueklng for apple Is a mild and salu,
prlous exercise compared to what awaits
Bolos Penrose on Tuesday.
Turkey has staked her fate on Mars, A
year hence Russia may be asking for "a first
Joint and a little of the breast."
So far, the English may be pardoned If
they describe the Boer rebellion as only a
beastly bore.
With November In what may safely be
called Imminence, every day brings the
weather a little nearer true Indian summer.
CAPITAL
Reflections on tho Eating Habits of Convicts No Reason Why Ordinary People
Should Not Faro as Well as Prisoners Hogs, Chickens and Com Will Snve
the Cotton Growers ot tho Southern States.
Special Washington Correspondence.
Breakfast Bacon and eggs, bread and
butter and coffee.
Dinner Beefsteak and onion gravy,
mashed potatoes with tomato gravy,
bread and butter, tnlnco pie, coffee.
Supper Poached eggs on toast, hot
sweet biscuits, assorted cakes, cocoa.
THIS is a typical menu, showing on what
meat the favored people at Dressler's
Convict Camp, Fort Ann, New York, feed
white they nro serving their nentencos for
violating tho laws of the Slate. Tho menu
wna brought to Washington recently by a
vlaltor who enjoyed tho hoapltallty of the
camp, which. Is a branch of tho Great
Meadow Prison. The visitor reports that
the Inmates of tho "prison" seemed to be
perfectly content with their lot; almost any
body would be content In these hard times
with, bacon and eggs for breakfast, beef
steak and tnlnco plo for dinner, nnd poached
eggs on toast nnd hot sweet biscuits for
supper. Few persons, even In the beat fam
ilies of this city, do better than that. Tho
reason for It is tho modern Idea that crimi
nals nro t.o bo reformed, not punished. In
view of tho high cost of living outside tho
prison, tho wonder is that the number of
boarders at Camp Dressier la not 2200 in
stead of 22.
THE 22 nt Camp Dressier when this visit
was made had been selected from tho
600 at Great Meadow Prison. Ono of them
had committed forgery, another had killed
his wife and others had been convicted of
like minor offenses. Tho wlfe-klller was
getting along In years and was assigned
to tho lightest work In tho camp, work that
would not require his cxpoauro to the
weather and sudden changea of temporaturo
which might affect hla precious health. All
of tho "prisoners" were treated with fine
consideration. Of course, the enmp Is gov
erned by certain rules, but thero is no sign
of restraint, and the forger and wlfo-slaycr,
If they would only confess, are "having tho
time of their lives." Tho remarknblo thing
about It all la that none of the "prisoners"
who are treated In this way ever cornea
back, whllo 22 per cent, of thoso who are
more severely dealt with In tho larger prison
return to tholr punishment; wherefore It
Is argued that the right way to treat per
sona convicted of crimes Is to treat them
with poached eggs on toast and mlnco plea.
It Is worth noting, perhaps, that tho con
vict cook at Camp Dressier prepares hla
own menus and doea hla own purchasing,
so that tho convicts aro always assured of
"the beat tho market affords."
THERE are a good many thousands in this
country who will not understand this
method of dealing with convicts, and among
them, doubtless, tho poor farmer In Alabama
who wrote to a banker In his market town
about a month ago, saying:
"I have heerd that forreln countries In
Europe are Issuolng merrytoriums, so that
the people can put off paying thare detta a
while. Now I have 18 bales cotton and owe
detta amounting to about $600. I can't sell
my cotton for enuff to pay out and leave
annythlng to pay taxes and live on next year.
If they are selling merrytoriums In N. Y. I
wlsht you would see what It will coat to buy
me one for the amount of my detts good for
6 most."
This was the pathetic letter given out by
the Comptroller of tho Currency to show tho
great distress prevailing among tho hard
working farmers of tho South. It is lgnor
nntly written, but It tells the story of an
CURIOSITY SHOP
Halloween, or All-Hallow-Eve, was kept
by tho Greek Church as early as tho 4th
century, although Its observance did not
become common In tho West until the be
ginning of the 7th century. Originally, the
festival was set for May 14, but subsequently,
on the last night of October. It Is thought
that the celebration really originated with tho
Druids, whoso priests lit beacon fires In
honor of the sun god on the hills of England,
France and northern Europe.
Belief In fniries, as well ns In witches and
goblins, was common In those days. So late
as the 17th century It was common for
English farmers to make the rounds of their
places on Halloween night, torch In hand,
chanting doggerel to ward off the evil spirits
during the coming year.
Ono modern custom may be mentioned.
Hazel nuts are placed in a fire, after each
has been named for a particular youth or
girl. According as they burn quietly side by
side, or cracK or sputter and break apart,
will be the result of the wooing. Says Burns:
''The auld gudewlfe's weel hoarded nlto
Are round and round divided.
And monle lads' and lasses' fates
Are there that night decided.
Some kindle, couthle, side by side.
And burn theglther trimly;
Some start awa' with saucy pride.
And Jump out owre the chlmlle."
The planet Venus Is often called "love's
white star." Tennyson, In "The Gardener's
Daughter," has the phrase:
"Till every daisy slept and love's white star
Beamed thro the thickened cedar In the
dusk."
Sir Robert Peel was known as Orange
Peel because of his strong antl-Cathollc ten
dencies while Chief Secretary for Ireland,
1812-1818.
Poland, or rather that region In which the
Russian and German-Austrian armies are
in a death grapple, was formerly known ns
Sarmatla. It was inhabited by the Sarmatae,
a powerful Slav race.
RORERT LOUIS STEVENSON
He sings for youth, the passionate and sad.
Youth that despairs and triumphs and Is
blind;
And ever through the singing, clean and glad,
Tho keen cool moorland runs and the north
wind.
A starkness and a fierceness and a pride
That stilt defies the night, and with caught
breath
Cries hope tho louder, not to be denied,
The sullen trumpets of the court of death
Peal through the page with strong. Insistent
surgo
And ever la the blackness tenanted:
Somewhere far off, a song rings like a dirge.
And a veiled King stands by the poet's head.
Ethel Talbot Schaeffauer In Book News
Monthly.
"The Height of the Ridiculous"
Prom the New York Bienln Post.
"The empire of Charles V, which was the Im
portant Government or Europe In the 16th cen
tury, bus lone ago disappeared; the enormous
fortunes which were then, as now, gathered
together, hate long ago been dissipated; but
the theses which Martin Luther nailed upon the
Lhurch door at Wittenberg are still swaying the
world."
If New York readers have to be told that this
bit of eloquence is from a statement in favor of
the re-election of Senator Penrose, It is because
this Stale has not reached the lofty heights of
I'ennalvania politics. It Is from the pen of ex
Governor Pennj packer, who won fame by com
paring his cousin. Senator Quay, with Daniel
Webster not altogether to the last-named gen
tleman's, advantage,
GOSSIP
honest man pulling against n. hard fate and
willing to do his part for the support of tho
Government by tho payment of taxes and
asking for a llttlo help so that he might
meet his obligations and hotd up his head
among his honest neighbors. If ho had been
ns handy with his pen as tho forger nt Camp
Dressier he might have worked his way out
of his troubles by hla wits. The difference,
however, Is that tho convicts In Alabama aro
not fed on poached eggs and beefsteak. There
Is a fearful Inequality In moral measure
ments, an awful waste of maudlin sentiment
upon tho criminal classes among tho people,
and a pitiful lack of human sympathy often
times with those who keep tho soul whlto In
fnmtshtng bodies,
THE honest fnrmors of tho country wilt
work thcmaelvea out of tholr prcaent dis
tress, and thoro is really no reason why
they should not have beefsteak and poached
eggs of their vory own and for thomselvcs
If they would plant as they would cat A
farmer of Georgia, where, according to Sen
ator Hoko Smith, tho present condition In
desperate hns learned tho lesson of self
support, which Is worth nil tho crazy legis
lation that could bo drafted. Ho writes to
a secdhouso In Atlanta:
"I mado some corn, about enough to do
mo tll May. Saved some fodder and pea
vine hay. Havo threo hogs to kill, a few
chickens and somo turnips and collards
growing In my garden, and a small potato
patch. Have always planted about nil I
could tond In cotton 'til this year, when a
Government agent got mo to plant somo
corn and pens. My supply merchant says
ho can't lot mo have no moro credit or run
mo next year, and It looks like I havo dono
got aa far as I can go."
THE beauty of thla farmer's situation Is
that with his hogs and chickens and
corn and collards and peas and potatooa,
he will not have very much uso for a sup
ply merchant next year. Ho will bo In a
position rather of selling bacon and cgg3
for the upkeep of the poor convicts of Camp
Dressier and other llko places where Justice
Is tampered with mlnco pie and sweet bis
cuits. What theso deserving men at theso
camps do to make themselves useful whllo
they nro living on tho fat of tho land la not
quite clear from the report of tho visitor
who shared their happy living almost as If
he were one of them. They aro not "driven
to death," because they do tho driving, and
they keep regular hours, as they aro re
quired to stay within bounds after supper
nnd cannot go to tho clubs and movlng
plcturo shows and other places of moral
enlightenment. Their time la taken up,
partly at least. In building good roads, and
to this extent they may bo regarded as
useful members of society.
EXACTLY upon what theory discrimina
tions aro mado between tho convicts In
tho main prison has not been clearly stated,
but discriminations arc mado. Burglars and
pickpockets are never sent to Camp Dressier;
but among the choice company thero Is a
boaa forger, who might bo called aomethlng
of a pickpocket, and a man who committed
the rather light offense of killing hla wife.
In tho henrt of tho latter, possibly, there aro
moments when his mind goes back to the
days when he was a hero of the mushy sort
of human animals who kept his cell filled
with flowers out of sympathy for him In his
distress, but without thought of the un
marked grave out there In village or city
cemotery. RANDALL.
HUai OF HUMAN CITIES
Every visitor to France or to tho Franco
that was when peace reigned remembers
the rows of regularly spaced trees that fol
low the roads for miles 'cross country. Ger
many also has planted trees out of public
funds, making them a "town forest," from
which a considerable revenue springs each
year. And now Massachusetts Is taking
steps in somewhat tho same direction.
There Is to be a renewal of the Induce
ments which were offered last year by the
Massachusetts Forestry Association to
cities and towns of tho Stato to plant
shado trees. It will plant a hundred such
trees In each of tho four cities and towns
of the State which wins the prize for the
most and best planted trees In its respec
tive group, provided at least one-fourth of
the cities and towns In such group shall
have entered the contest.
Tho beauty of this arrangement, com
ments the Boston Transcript, Is that every
city or town which contends for tho prize
will bo a gainer whether It wins that prize
or not, because It will have added to the
beauty and tho value of tho community by
Its efforts, Shado trees bordering the high
ways frequently transform them and invest
the locations where they stand with an at
tractiveness which they did not beforo pos
sess. The farmer whose land Is thus bor
dered can sell hla farm for a better price,
If he wishes to dispose of it, or he and hla
family can derive much moro enjoyment if
he prefers to remain on It The substantial
Inducement that Is thus being made to the
various communities should have a mission
ary effect upon the whole State.
Independently of any special inducements,
the town of Wllllamstown last spring took
a step at the suggestion of President Gar
field to which wo called attention at the
time and which might profitably be copied
by every town In the State. An appropria
tion was made to begin the work of plant
ing trees along tho roadside each year,
thus blocking out a public forest which in
time might be annually cut away, thus fur
nishing revenue for the town a plan which
has been successfully put Into operation.
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
The growth of our exports In recent years
haa be-n In quarters of the globe to stand us
In good stead at tills time, when war Is
raging over Europe. New York Press.
Shouid German troops ever Invade Canada ths
application of the Monroe Doctrine to the spe
cine case will be denned In Washington, not In
Berlin. New York World.
The war greatly disturbs when it does not en
tirely stop education in the warring countries.
Universities abroad are being drained of their
students, and many a professor finds hla Income
cut off. In this blessed neutral country, how
ever much we may be feeling the effects of the
war. the colleges were never more largely at
tended than now May peace always be "the
handmaid of education" in this country.
Springfield Republican.
To the Indiscriminate use of potent drugs
Doctor WilbcTt ascribes the growing ratio of
deaths among persons who should be in the
prime of life from diseases proper to senility.
Washington Timw
CRISIS IN GREAT LIVES
It was at Torgau that Frederick the Great,
seeing the tide of battle turning against him,
while a newly advanced brigade began to tot
ter and fall back, dashed into the battle line,
under the heaviest musket fire, und was shot
on the breast. "On" but not "in" the breast,
for the bullet failed to penetrate further than
the imperial shirt, and although the Incom
parable Emperor was stunned and breathless,
he was not hurt. But he lost the battle.
It had been Frederick's Intention to strike
a flanking movement against the enemy. All
day he played for time, maneuvering for po
sition, dothff everything to hold th enemr
until his flanking column should arrive. But
the column did not come, and at evening
Frederick was driven back, his army almost
routed. His lost chanco of carrying Prussia
triumphant over his enemies was lost.
In that hour of defeat there was but one
thing for Frederick to do to retreat and
save his nrmy. In a dark and cold llttlo
church at Elsnlg he spent tho night fighting
tho battle over ngnln, persuaded Immovably
that he ought to have won. Ho knew that ho
had to retreat.
And ho refused. In that little church camo
Frederick's decisive hour, and ho rose to the
decision by not doing what, ho should have
done. Ho reorganized hla nrmy, began tho
battlo again tho next day, and with tho ar
rival of his flanking column achieved victory.
That victory gave him 23 years of peaco as
King of Prusalo.
THE PRESS ON PENROSEISM
Public Opinion of Nation Specifies Real Issue
in Pennsylvania Campaign.
From the New York 8taata-Zeltun.
In Pennsylvania a heated campaign la draw
ing )o a close. Ita aim has been the complete
nnd final annihilation of tho corrupt political
system which has existed in that Stato under
tho trade name of "Pcnroselsm." In the presi
dential campaign of 1912 the system was so
completely overwhelmed that It was believed
that It was finished forever. But the very next
year tho hydra grew new heads, nnd Boles
Penroso laid wires to regain his former power.
Pcnroso the Issuo
Prom the Ohio State Journal (Hep.).
Thero Is Pennsylvania the political Issue la
Penrose If ho la defeated, all wilt bo well. The
only principle Involved relates to his political
diameter. When he rounds a keynote for a
protective tariff, Penroso bulges out as a far
greater Issuo than tho tariff The only
true party Is one of tendency, aspiration, moral
purpose and unselfish opinion.
Docs It?
From the Chleaeo Journal (Dem.).
Tho Republican party still submits to the
dictation of men llko Reed Smoot. of Utah; Boles
Penroso, of Pennsylvania; Joo Cannon, of Illi
nois, A New Thing in Politics
Ftom the Nebraska State Journal (Rep.).
Under this heading the New York Times refers
to tho action of n group of Senators Norrls,
Owcm Clapp nnd Walsh, two Democrats nnd
two Republicans In Joining to opposo the elec
tion to tho Senate of Sullivan, of nilnols, and
Penroso, of Pennsylvania one a Democrat nnd
tho other a Republican. Says tho Times admir
ingly: "It la not unusual for men from other States
to go Into a candidate's Stato to help him out,
but we recall no caso In which a Senator had
gone Into another Stato to opposo tho candldato
of hla own party. It required a high degreo of
courage. But not one, oven among thoso most
deeply outraged by this violation of tho prece
dents, has assailed tho motives of Senators
Owen nnd Norrls; no one has Intimated that
either haa tho slightest grudge against Ponrose
and Sullivan or nny other motive than tho ono
they give that they regard the candidates as
men dangerous to good government."
Tho part Senator Norrls Is playing In ridding
his own party of dangerous men gives value to
his attitude where the candidates of other
parties nro Involved. After giving hla support
to tho Progressive party candidate for Sonator
in Illinois as a means of beating Sullivan, Sen
ator Norrls Is peculiarly qualified to ask tho
same Independence of members of the Progres
sive party In Nebraska. This ho docs.
Getting Their Deserts
FTom the Ohio State Journal (Rep.).
These are bad days for politicians like Pen
rose nnd Lorlmer. The former Is running for
United States Sonator In Pennsylvania, and
though he has the Republican nomination, ho
is meeting with firm opposition. The conscience
of the people Is rising ngalnst him, nnd he hns
only tho usual political claptrap to opposo It
with. That Is strong In Pennsylvania, nnd ho
may succeed, but tho country generally will bo
much disappointed If ho docs. This nation will
never bo In Its right mind until Pcnroselsm Is
overthrown.
And Lorlmer he Is Indicted for some erratic
banking business. He Is not running for any
thing. Ho has lost out entirely. He Is an ex
ample of that trite saying about chickens com
ing home to roost Penroso was his special
champion In the Senate. He didn't bellevo
Lorlmer did anything wrong. Of course not.
Nothing Is wrong with him In politics that suc
ceeds. What was buying one's way Into ofTIco
to him? Not a straw.
It Is to be hoped that Penrose will follow
Lorlmer Into private life. It will be a sign that
this low-down, selfish politics is getting weaker
in this country. And that Is what we want more
than any party policy that can be named.
norrible Example
PVom the Charleston News-Courier (Dem,).
Senator Penroso has Illustrated faithfully for
years the policies which made Aldrlch nnd
Cannon and all their tribe notorious.
A. Mitchell Palmer, the Pennsylvania Democrat
who Is trying to beat him for re-election, is a
flrst-rato fellow and would make a valuable ad
dition to tho Democratic membership In the
Senate, but it is really doubtful whether his
presonce thero would be of enough Importance
to offset the loss to the Democrats which would
result from Mr. Penrose's removal. We cannot
afford to lose all our horrible examples.
Advanced Republicanism
From the Manchester (N. II.) Union (nep ),
There aro many, and the Union Is among
them, who believe that the lesson taught by
1912 haH been well learned, nnd that the Repub
lican party Is seeking earnestly nnd honestly to
again be the spokesman and ngent of the liberal,
tho progressive spirit of the age; and the honest
men who, first of oil, want to see the principles
of social and industrial Justice actually achieved,
best aid such an end by Joining hands with the
progressive element In the Republican party In
the struggle to restore that party to Its former
leadership in wise and humanitarian legislation.
Ringing Words
From the New York Evening Tost (Ind. Dem.),
Tho fight against Penrose's re-election Is
unique for the way In which It Is enlisting
prominent Republicans of other States. When
berore uiu a man wno nan riela so prominent
a post as that of chairman of the Republican
Committee of New York County raise his voice
In opposition to the return of a Senator of
his party from another State? This is what
Herbert Parsons has Just done. "The Repub
licans of Pennsylvania," he says In a letter
signed by himself and Ogden Mills Reld, editor
of the Tribune, "have an opportunity this year
to do a great service to the Republican party
of the nation" This great service is to help
restore the confidence of Republicans them
selves In the capacity of their party "to rid
Itself of tho corrupting nnd debasing elements
which have fastened upon it" specifically,
"self-seeking bosses like Holes Penrose, who
try to blind good men to work for evil nnd
clean men to work for corruption." These are
ringing words, with a touch of Puritanic lire
In them.
Seine Old Story
From the Springfield Republican.
No phase of the war Is more Instructive than
the firm conviction of all the belligerents that
they are peaceful people.
Secret Cause of the War
From the Boston Transcript.
The firing line has made a great hit with
the Cxar it's so safe and unhomellke.
The Battle of the Rug
From the Bt. Louis Post-Dltpatch.
Ten million Russian soldiers knelt unseen
Behind their whiskers like a bushy screen
A stratagem of Gen. Slvskllug
To trap the Austrians on the River Bug
Ten million Austrian soldiers marching there
Were amazed to find the River Bug grew hair
"My weary BOldlers rest," tho general said
"And each man take enough to make a bed "
"How prodigal," he thought, "Is nature still
Outdoing man in everything, save ill!
I will return in peace when war is o'er
And build a mattress factory on this shore
They stacked their arms and unsuspecting
Bach man to get an armful for his tent
You know the rest those loyal whiskers woke
A blazing furnace-shrapnel shell and smoke
Confused, the Austrians fled to Sav and Liz'
And some good runners hurdled Into Biz '
Thus by the strategy of Slvskllug '
Was won the famous battle of the Bu
SCRAPPLE
What the Critic Said
BUeateihan JleadHnet the Momina Art.
"Twelfth Night" Will Run Longerv-LL'
linn TCvAnlne- WnriA ' JW'
"Wlnter'a Tale" Gets Chilly necepiloB-d
"Hamlet" Exhumed from Gloom by Gm-j
Digger. Pall Mall Tribune. In,
"As You Like If Very well, thank youJ
Alon A. rnt in Ti, rrn..l..i.- """
"Othello" A Disgusting Racial ProM.mJ
Treated with Frank Erotlclsm-The CheiS
"Pericles" A Success for AH Time, Lon '
don Evening Sun.
Klf. . - M J
j.iuuijuiu ior ueasurer .troves Rh,u4t
Weight Windsor Herald. I
"Corlolanus" A Play That Will End k.
"Much Ado About Nothing Lives up M
Tn Tltln T ,.!.. T..l """ UP tO 4
"Tho Tempest" A Whirlwind of Laughter
"Honry vni" Fearless Drama of Dlvore.
fondon H.Tn. " "" " "'" AUa0rs
"MfltYhnnt. of Vr,ln ntx.. i,.
Art MSnoy Tr"st Westminster Commercial
Ragging Around
(Iiovefa Old Bxoeet Bone.)
Ones In the dear, dead davs bevnnrt r..i
When in tho dusk (getting dark. It's gottln
.. w,u .1.101. uuguu ivz Attn, 1
Out of tho dreams (kid, I'm n-drcamlng of'
you) that roso in happy throng,
Lo, to our hearto Lovo sang that old swett!
auiiB. n
un, mat song,
Oh, that Bong,
Old and sweet.
Dances neat
Sing It danco It, danco tt, ulng It,
Oh, that old sweet song!
Just a song, sing It kid; Til sing tt too, nl
llttlo Bonn. i
Comln' when tho twilight comes; Ifo coming'!
quick, I seo It come, a
wna tno ngiits nro low;
Como nnd lovo mo, don't bo slow,
Turn down the light, my honey,
Don't wasto tho gas, for tlmo Is money,
Shadows flickering, quit your snickering,
Days aro weary, ain't you leary,
Sing that old swcot song.
A Gentle Ganio
"And do you not think football la brutair
Inquired tho nurao.
"Certainly not," said tho bandaged hero
of tho gridiron. "In that game yeaterday not
n. stnglo man was crippled for life and there
was oniy ono iracturca bkuii,"
Inside Stuff
deer mr, Lardners,
well, Ring 1 see your gone to rito about
this hero harvard-mlchlgan game for the
evening ledger thats alright ring 1 know
you an i llko your stuff. 1 was gono down
thero myself but yesterday 1 seen where
Charley Brickley ho alnt gono to play for
the harvards so 1 guess you better go your
self, say Ring will you do me a favor, there)
somo guya around hero say that 1 alnt AL
well Ring, you know I ain't proud, but a
feller wants what comln to him what do
you think, they say AI a a guy In brook
lyn but who wants to Hvo In brooklyn, as
tho feller says so next time you rito about
tho mlchlgans or the harvards t dont cars
lm nootral 1 dont caro who licks Columbia
will you glvo tho guya a strait storo that
lm Al alright, you know me, Ring. 1 am
yours respectfully
Al.
What They Missed
7.
Alclblades and Plato
Never ato a stuffed tomato.
8.
Sarey Gamp and Mrs. Harris
Never visited In Paris.
9.
Hclolso and Aphrodite
Never woro a cluny nightie.
Outside Stuff
That "Go-to-church-on-Sunday" movV
mont Is lively, but the go-to-thc-gall-gams
movement la llko a German advancer
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Somo gall!
Fortified
Wo know a man who ain't a-skcered
Of any winter storm. ,
He always grows a heavy beard
To keep his features warm. '
Vice Versa
"ASK HOLIDAY FOR THAW."
News headline.
Roston Products
Prepayment Cars.
Hood's Cultured Buttermilk.
Pierce's Refined Cider.
Assassination Rates on Application
"Don't kill your wife. Lot the Banner
Laundry do tho work." A Michigan laun
dry sign.
I
Mother Rooze
(Kuraery Rhymes or Second Childhood)
Old Father Tottle,
With a big bottle,
And a red nose,
The longer ho drinks
The redder it grows.
Merry, merry Tom and Jerry,
How doea your bnrdom grow?
With miniature hells
And priBon cells.
And gallowses all In a row.
Hot cross '"buns,"
Hot cross "buns,"
Ono a bottle, two a bottle,
Hot cross "buns."
Darwin Vindicated
"Near Warsaw," says a Berlin dispatch,
"the situation Is still In a state of evolution.
From the Cub's Notebook
"It's surprising," said Dr. Martin 0.
Brumbaugh, "how much n. superintendent ;
schools la supposed to know and how lit"
he sometimes really does know.
"I was stopping nt tho homo of the Jieaa
of a New England school system, and we
agreed one incut iu ieu em.ii uwici " ji
thing wo had ever learned. The agreement ,i
A.l a... .l ..... .....nt tn lt.A fit 9 -!
WilS CU1WCU UUb Cllll TlCHk . wv -'
o'clock."
THE RARHLING FOOL
It Is tho hardest thing In the world to get
up enthusiasm over the people who go
about saying, with the air of profouna
thought, that two and two aro four.
some reason they fail to excite the nervous
Benslbllltlea of intelligent men and women.
Sometimes we fancy that tho world has al
ready acknowledged tho seriousness of tnu
great sum in addition.
And one of tho greatest "two and twos,
the one which Is sprung upon the unsus
pecting with tho deepest of "I-am-wlser-than-thou"
airs. Is the little proverb about
experience. "Experience Is a hard ecnooi.
but fools learn in no other." tt runs, and
ought to bo in rhyme. It Is quite '
enough for a rhyme. .
In the first place, experience Is a ns.ru
school only for stupid scholars, and In ta9
second place, fools never learn by experi
ence. Wise men learn by their own e
perlence, fools by tho experience of ottiers.
The only thing that makes life tolerable w
tho fact that men must go through each ex
perlence themselves. Birth, measles, mar
riage and death have all been gone thrown
before. If wo could learn what they j
from tho experience of others there wouia
bo precious little left for us to do.
Walking down Chestnut street may be "
experience In the life of one man. To a
other nothing short of piratical escapaoea
In the Bouthern seaa will savor of aj","
ture. Because to each man, unless no
willing to take his life second-hand and
live In the mirror of the experiences o'
others, life is a perpetual adventure. uoj
the stupid folk know life from books,
take the words of wisdom granted by D"
people as so many grains of gold,
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