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rlllLAUCLTIllA, WEUMESDAY, .OVWinnil 25, 191
BMt Transit Syslcm In the World
"rPHE best system for tho transportation of
JLpnasongcrs enjoyed by any city of tho
world,'' to follow tho description of Director
Taylor, is what tho achievement of his plans
will glvo Philadelphia, toy tho alchemy of
finance It will bo procured for nothing. Im
provement of this sort Is so subtle. In Its
ramified influences that It pays for lUelf.
The city will rccctvo mora than a million a
year In additional taxes; J800.000 will bo
saved by tho abolition of oxchango tickets;
$570,000 annually will como from the ono-mlll
personal tax. This total of $2,370,000 alone
Will be almost truRlclont to meet tho annual
fixed charge of 2,090,000, which provides In
terest and also a sinking fund that will wlpo
out tho debt entirely In 30 years. In addition,
if tlmo Is capitalized at 16 cents tho hour,
$1,039,000 will be saved to passengers yearly,
and to tho asset column also must bo added
whatever profits accrue to tho city out of tho
earning of the property, profits which year
by year will Increaso In valuo.
Tho best transit facilities In tho world is
tho gift Philadelphia is asked to take. Energy
la tho solo price for It, energy and determi
nation. Tho preliminary mass-meetings now
being held offer an opportunity for a display
of both. Later, if necessary, tho wholo of
Philadelphia may speak its mind In a mon
ster gathering.
The building program and the operating
program aro two different things. Tho first
need not wait on tho other. Tho city Is going
to haro the now system. It can afford to
build it oven if no agreements whatever for
operation have been reached. It behooves
Councils therefore promptly to glvo meaning
to the people's purpose by official acceptanco
of tho plans and the ordering of an election
to authorize the necessary loans.
Stand Up for the Mayor
SPEAKERS who addressed tho Women's
League for Good Government referred to
tho Administration of Mayor Blankonburg as
(1ths bost this city has over had. It Is nlto
, gether too early to pass Judgment on its place
In the history of Philadelphia, but It is not
too early to glvo credit to Mayor Blankonburg-
and the members of his Cabinet for tho
accomplishment which has been theirs. Cltl
rens recognize tho heavy handicap under
which theso men have labored and in spite of
which they have succeeded. Tho achieve
ment of the Administration would be ten
times as great as It is but for the obstruc
tionist activities and Inactivities of Coun
cils. Co-ordinating Legislature and Executive
RUMOR ! comes from Washington that
President Wilson may exercise his consti
tutional prerogative of sitting with tho Sen
ati In executive session. Further, he may rec
ommend a change in tho rules' of tho House
to permit members of the Cabinet to Join its
deliberations.
In England, the head of the Govern
ment and all the members of hla official
family are voting members of Parliament
In France, the President stands apart from
legislative strife, rather in the present posi
tion of England's King and our own Chief
Executive, while the Ministry takes an active
part in the work of legislation.
Obviously, America has something to learn
from experience abroad. It Is doubtful if the
President would gain enough from sitting in
the Senate to compensate for loss in dignity.
On the other hand, It is the plainest common
cense that the heada of departments should
come into much closer touch than they now
do with the men who vote tho funds for
'their work.
The appropriations for the National Gov
ernment should be based on a. yearly budget.
The Cabinet officers should take their places
In either house, to present their recommenda
tions, to answer interrogations and to make
uch defense of their work as seems neces
sary. Such co-ordination of executive and
legislative effort should make for economy
and better government.
Inaction While the People Perish
TUDGB PATTERSON declares that very
tlmany of the cases that come dally to the
courts of Philadelphia would never he heard
of but for existing insanitary housing cond
itions.
Filth in the "Hying graves" of the slumb
reeds not only disease but crime. It drives
the women of the airless, healthless, cheer
less tenements Into despair and rebellion; it
turns men Into ill-tempered brutes and Sends
them off to the corner saloon; it gives boys
and girl to the education and life of the
streets.
Where decent homes aro impossible the
pepplo perish. What tho slums ore costinar
Philadelphia, in disease and vice and crime,
as well as in dollars and cents, cannot be
reckoned.
But all Philadelphia knows that this do
tnietlon of ambition and hope and oharaoter
nnd life, this social and economic waste, is
going oa every day. Councils knows It, and
Cuneiis has a duty to perform. For a year
and a half it has refused to make eJteoUYe
fct housing law p&Med by the Legislature.
Tfri delay is an offense against the Stat
.4. agwlast the city, taking tall bf th.e wel
fare and self-repeat of Philadelphia. Publta
MfeUauat will not much laager endure it
Hope ia Human Kindness
WHBX the retfef ship Maseapea.ua reached
BeKeMftJfi with one oi tlw my mrgot
of o4 tiwu America Is efley to frwtfebiag
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work. The spirit which bade tho ship good
by on one side of the Atlantic received It on
tho other.
It Is Just this whole-hearted response to
tho appeal of suffering humanity which casts
tho ono bright gleam of hope across tho bat
tling World. Philadelphia showed it unmis
takably In the splendid way sho leaped to tho
task Set for her. She tilled the Thetrrra In
record time, and then called for more wortf
to do. It Is such evidence of tho deep
springs of human kindness that gives ono
iiopa In the coming seme day of a world of
men nl pence.
Work for Live Men to Do
rnitE nation at last 1ms a fluid currency.
Tho medium of exchango can readily bo
accommodated to the necessities of commerce
and Industry, We havo organized and co
ordinated our reserve, strengthening In this
way enormously oUf financial strength.
Tho skilled labor of Europe has been turned
from tho factories Into the trenches. Tho
capital of tho old world Is flowing Into tho
insatiate maw of war. Tho smoko abovo tho
hillsides Is from guns or factories making
guns. Produetlvo Industry has been con
verted Into carnage. The people arc Unable
to procuro enough for their own wants; they
havo lost all their ability to supply tho rest
of tho world. Tho trade for which they are
fighting thny havo turned looso, and there
Is but ono nation In tho world vast enough
In its resources of men, monoy and machinery
to tako It.
Events have overruled tho Underwood tariff
and clamped tho equivalent of a protective
tariff firmly down on our frontiers. They
havo thrust every competitor out of tho do
mestic fleld. They havo not only given us
back our own markets, but they have oponcd
up tho vnBt nrcas hcretoforo denied us. It
Is an ill wind that bears no poestbto good In
It, and not in tho history of tho world, cer
tainly not since tho Napoleonic wars gavo us
Louisiana and tho basts for extraordinary
prosperity, has such a remarkable and truly
magnificent opportunity been offered any
nation.
American genius has most emphatically
manifested Itself heretoforo In Its quick
analysis of situations and prompt recognition
of tho psychological moment. Tho character
of the citizenship has been opposed to hesi
tation or doubt. There must bo nono now.
It is a time for men and capital to venturo
boldly, to reach out into tho far marts of
tho world, to unlvcrsallzo our trade activities
and throw tho vanguard of our salesmen
across the very frontiers of civilization. Thcro
is no sign of contraction in tho vision of tho
future. Not a boom, but a very real and big
logical field of development Is ahead. Wo
must accept the new responsibility whether
we wish to or not. We have on our shoulders
tho white man's burden, tho wholo trade bur
den of the world. We cannot leave It, wo
must take It. That means go ahead, not
dubiously but mastarfully, confidently. Let
the croakers drop out; there is work for live
men to do.
Villa Military Meteor
MEXICO may bo always In what the mili
tary strategists describe as "a state of
evolution"; but Just for the moment It seems
to present a pretty clear picture of the end.
Villa comes out of the heap of struggling
figures, decidedly on top. How long he can
stay there depends on "the strong man"
streak in him of which America has heard
so much, and on whether he makes a slncero
attempt to carry out the program of land and
military reform to which he committed him
self in opposing Carranza.
Meantlmo, Villa is a picturesque figure. It
is many a decade since anything HUo this
military meteor has flashed across tho busy
world's vision. A year ago he was borrow
ing money in El Paso to buy a horse and a
revolver. Within a few months, his Innate
power, his keen military sense, ills personal
magnetism, something that even Madero and
his millions lacked, was driving a horde of
"pick-up" soldiers to victory over the Huer
tlstas. Now tho "Indian" and "bandit" looms
up as the man who can mans Mexico a
nation if any man can. It is no insignificant
spectacle that America has watched.
Chasing Out the "Daredevil Dicks"
PIFTT years ago children were still outside
the literary world. Perhaps they didn't
read books In those days; or, perhaps, they
waited for their elders to read aloud to them.
Anyway, it Is only of late years that debate
has arisen over what the child should read,
and how to mako him read It.
Philadelphia organizations are now con
fronting the problem. The Public Education
Association, with tho public libraries and
the Y. M. C. A., Is trying to do something to
stem the tide of "Daredevil Dicks'' in sub
limated, 76-cent form that, It thinks, makes
too much of tho bulk of childhood's amuse
ment today. Tho problem la there fast
enough. It does an Immature boy no good
to read of murder and deviltry; it may do
him harm.
The answer, of course, is to lead him up
to the really good things, through libraries,
reading rooms and parental guidance. There
are plenty of splendid stories in the literary
world that are Just as wholesome as they
are entertaining. Stevenson, Mayne Reld, old
Defoe, they still live. And some of the
moderns, like Walter Prlchard Eaton, are
turning out mighty good Juvenile entertain
ment. AH the boy needs Is to find It.
Anybody can talk with the dead after the
election.
Wilson is, of course, the man that put the
cruise in Vera Crus.
Exiling the "Cherokee prophetesses," the
police, seem about, to hit the happy medium.
The woman tax: collector of Dobbs Ferry
ought to test out a few old Jokes about money
and the fair sex.
It's rather mean of the President to tell his
offlalal family to keep down their expenses
this year, particularly as there are only two
years left-
The temperature yesterday was a bit un
der normal, but the promise of the weather
man today, "Fair and warmer," should bring:
tho mercury up a few degrees above freezing.
The State Oasae Wardens rwsrt that there
Is an WBuauaJ scarcity ef bull moose In the
HaAm 3Mds ijcj veax-MMMl the cmt? -fapgfipetty
well U vr he WMtry Vt Vm
JU ettfe say fc ti e JnfltimtiMw
ROMANCE OF PSYCHIC RESEARCH
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Remarkable Case of Mrs. Pepper and Ettsapia Palladtao--Cottjurcr8'
Tricks Often Used by Mediums Lcvitation Freely Practiced.
The Search for the Unknowable.
CONTRIBUTED BY E. M.
THE deslro for immortality, over latent
In tho human breast tho longing to
meet again tho dear ones gono before
tho striving to solve tho puszto of tho after
life all that has received a new lmpotus by
tho declaration of Sir Oliver Lodge, Britain's
great electro-physicist, that he has conversed
with tho spiritual world. Not that Sir
Oliver's announcement is novel, for similar
assertions havo been mado times Innumerable.
But tho very fact that he, a hard-headed
scientist, whoso Imagination has been moro
or less atrophied by serious! study, stated
publicly and with emphasis that there was a
llfo after death, has mado tho world tako
a renewed Interest In this field of research.
Tlmo was when America was literally
overrun with mediums who could Induce
spirits to play banjos, write unlntelllglblo
nothings on slates and do other absurd
things. Tlmo and again these frauds wefo
exposed. Tho Fox sisters produced "spirit"
rapplngs by wriggling their toes; others less
known did tricks worthy of Hermann tho
Great, and perchance, TrlBmcglstus himself.
But ono aftor another these mediums fell by
tho wnysldo, exposed as rank Impostors. Ann
O'Dolla Dls Do Bar worked on the religious
feelings of old Luther Marsh sufilclontly to
lnduco the mllllonalro to buy hundreds and
thousands of dollars of "spirit paintings."
But those days havo gono by. An agnostic
public, tho doubting Thomases among tho
press, the disbelievers a combination of
them, havo mado tho path or tho medium a
rocky ono, Indeed. And yet, indications seem
to point to tho fact that tho psychic Investi
gators aro on tho track of what? They havo
delved deep Into tho lore of the psychic; they
havo striven for knowledge; thoy havo proved
and Investigated.
Two Famous Mediums
So far as is knownk there aro only two In
stances of mcdlumlstlc what shall It bo
called ability? Tho first of those Is that
of Mrs. Pepper, whoso "psychic" powers
wore wholly mental, consisting of receiving
messages while In a trance state and' repro
ducing them on paper. Tho second Is that
of Mrs. Eusapla Palladlno, an Italian of
lowly orldn, whoso manifestations wero all
physical.
Mrs. Pepper's caso was fully Investigated
by Andrew Lang, Professor W. R. Nowbold,
Mrs. Henry Sedgwick, Sir Oliver Lodgo, him
self; Dr. Walter Leaf, Professor William
James, Professor Hyslop, Professor Rlchet
and others. Without reservation, it may bo
stated that so far as IS known these inves
tigators found nothing on which to build tho
hypothesis of fraud as applicable to Mrs.
Popper.
Tho woman was taken to England, literally
placed In confinement In tho homes of the
Investigators and subjected to tests which
wero exhaustive in themselves and exhaust
ing to the medium. Negatively, they proved
that while In tho tranco stato Mrs. Pepper
wrote messages apparently dictated by un
seen existences. For years controversy
raged; arguments waxed warm; every
known and many unknown theories wero ad
vanced to explain tho peculiar gift of tho
medium.
As a matter of fact, Mrs. Pepper succeeded
in puzzling tho investigators. Several of them
admitted frankly that they wero convinced;
others qualified their opinions with "If and
"but." Still others ascribed It to hypnotism.
They recalled tho amazing performances of
the Hindu fakirs In India. Positive evidence
has been at hand theso many years that ono
of these fakirs, completely surrounded by
English soldiers, threw a rope Into tho air,
where it remained suspended, apparently at
tached to nothing. Then tho fakir climbed
upward, dlsappcatcd Into tho azure abovo
and drew tho rope up after him. Then, when
tho company was utterly dumfounded, tho
fakir would appear outside tho circle of
soldiers. Investigators, sorely puzzled, finally
decided that tho fakir had hypnotized his
auditors into the belief that he had actually
done tho Impossible.
Mrs. Pepper's "spirit writing." as It has
been termed, may bo. laid at the door of
mental telepathy, thought reading the
powerful longing of the subject to hear from
the departed transferring Its desire to tho
CRISES IN GREAT LIVES
The greatest man of the Renaissance,
which is often called tho greatest period In
tho history of tho world, was without doubt
Michelangelo Buonarroti. Accustomed as
people aro to think of htm as painter or as
sculptor, they forget that he was one of the
foremost engineers of his time, an expert
in military construction and a great poet.
He was also a great-Bouled man, and it Is
Interesting to note that he made himself
great through facing a. crisis which seemed
interminable.
It was when he was commissioned by Pope
Julius II to make the frescoes on the vaulted
celling of the Slstine Chapel. This colossal
task, which In its nnal accomplishment pic
tures the history of mankind, contains scores
of figures, each of them a masterpiece, nnd
embodies the most remarkable conceptions
of tho human mind, was not. In spite of Its
glgantlo proportions, the sort of, undertaking
which appealed to Michelangelo. He was
primarily a sculptor and preferred that
Raphael should do the work. But tho Papal
command was not to be gainsaid and he
addressed himself to his labor.
High up on a scaffold, lying flat on his
back, wetting the piaster laid down for him,
Michelangelo worked day by day for four
years. Beset by the importunities of Pope
Julius, harassed by personal affairs and de
testing his work, both for itself and because
it kept him from the work In marble which
ho loved, this great man fought a dally bat
tle and won it afresh each day. There Is
perhaps no greater example of fortitude, no
more perfect example of the saying that
great crises come to great lives at every mo
ment of their lives. To Michelangelo they
came for four years. This Ions conquest of
adversity fitted him to conquer the world.
CURIOSITY SHOP
Ootpber 29 was the CCth anniversary of the
introduction of kerosene lamps into Bangaft
Mo. Tho first one was used by Josiah H.
Rlcker, a storekeeper, who received a ship
ment of five lamps.' The lamps sold for $1.80
and the kerosene fer $1,40 a gallon.
There is a postofflce whieh Btands in
two countries and belongs to the postal ser
vices of these two countries. It la on the
boundary line between the United States and
Canada, In the town of Beebe Plain, in Ver
mont, and the province of Quebec, Canada,
it was built about 1830. The cellar con
nects the two countries. The posteffioe was
formerly used s.a a genefeu store 1b
Juration with the postal DualUM. W
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subconscious Intellect of tho medium. In tho
caso of Palladlno nil theso assumptions ot
propositions arc swept rtsldo.
Case of IVilladino
Palladlno was born January 21, 1834, In tho
village of La Poullle, Italy. Her first bus
bond was a conjurer which may account tor
some of the thing she does. But leaving
aside any suspicion, she must be credited
with tho peculiar ability to control the
physical actions of material things. It was
at the ago of 14 that she first realized her
glftrt, A tablo at which sho was sitting first
tipped over, then raised Itself completely
frOm tho floor, performing a feat known as
lovltatlon. Eventually, sho ovolved a spirit
control which sho chose to calt John King.
It was King who helped her perform her
magic; It was King whom sho blamed for all
that happened or failed to happen.
It Is not noccssnry to recount nil of Pnllo
dlno's many and weird adventures with com
moners and roynlty. For years sho was ac
claimed n wonder of wonders, and then her
fame reached America. In tho meantime,
however, Professor Chlala, o Naples, Induced
Professor Lombroso to Investigate, and that
savant was converted. As a result, another
Investigating committee, consisting of Pro
fessors Schlaparclll, tho astronomer; Erma
cora, Aksakof, Charles du Prcl and Charles
Rlchet, tho latter of tho Soruonno, Paris,
held a number of tests and reported favor
ably on Palladlno.
Then followed a number of other tests, ono
ovcry few months, In fact. Sir Oliver Lodge,
among many others, attested the stranga
powers of Palladlno. They acknowledged her
uncanny ability, but failed to assign a cause.
Ono of tho most interesting of tho seances
was held in Rome, In 1S9 1. Among tho In
vestigators wero Professor Schrenck-Notzlng,
of Munich, considered the greatest of alien
ists in Europo; Professor Lombroso, Profes
sor Danllcwskl, of tho University of St.
Petersburg, and Doctor Dobrzyckl, director
of tho Medical aazette, of Warsaw. What
thoy found is related In their report:
Hoping to obtain tho movement of an
object without contact, wo placed a llttlo
piece of paper folded In tho form of tho
letter A under a glass, and upon a disk
of light pasteboard Not being
successful In this, wo did not wish to
fatlguo tho medium, and wo left the ap
paratus upon tho largo table; then wo
took our places around the llttlo tabic,
after having carefully shut all the doors,
tho keys of which I begged my guests to
put in their pockets, In order that wo
might not bo accused of not having taken
necessary precautions.
Tho light was extinguished. Soon we
heard tho glass resound on our table, and,
having obtained a light, wo found It In
the midst of us, In tho same position, up
sldo down nnd covering tho llttlo picco
of paper, only tho cardboard disk wns
wanting. Wo sought for It In vain. Tho
seance ended. I conducted my guests
onco moro to tho antechamber. M.
Rlchet was the flrst to open tho door
well boltod on tho Inside. What was not
his surprlso when ho perceived near to
tho threshold of tho door, on tho other
sldo of It, upon the staircase, the disk
that wo had sought for so long. Ho
picked It up, and It was Identified by all
as tho card placed under tho glass.
Then, having been Investigated and in
dorsed by most of Europe, Palladlno camo
here at the suggestion of Heroward Carrlng
ton, a noted spiritualistic investigator. Mr.
Carrington believed implicitly In tho genuine
ness of his "And." Ho had written a compre
hensive book on tho subject of her occult
"powers." Palladlno came to New York, waB'
seen, hold a scanco or two and camo to
grief. American psychical Investigators and
reporters probed Into her doings, and one fino
day a Now York newspaper printed many
columns showing Just how tables roso Into
the air, how lights appeared and disappeared;
how the "spirit" world aided and abetted
Palladlno. Then she went back to her Italy
and was forgotten.
So now, thero remains tho positive assertion
of Sir Oliver Lodgo, that he has held con
verso with the spirits of tho physically dead,
together with his promise that soon lie will
let an expectant world know all about his
peregrinations Into the land of. the hereafter.
HUM OF HUMAN CITIES
The small bits of progress that cities here
nnd there aro making are apt to slip by the
eyes of tho average newspaper reader; but
thoy bulk largo In the Improvement of com
munal life. A writer in the Independent
has gathered together more than a score
of such items.
The Parle Department of Brooklyn, N. Y..
has offered to plant free and tako care of
street trees for any property owner who
desires them.
Baltimore. Md.. city officials claim that
they are breaking all records In road build
ing. Tho city is improving: streets at the
rate of a mile a day.
The city of Newark, N, J., Is spending $2.
000,000 on reclaiming Its marshes and build
ing a ship chnnnel, docks, piers and a rail
road distributing system.
Salt Lake City, in connection with the
University of Utah and tho United States
Bureau of Mines, is to make a systematic
investigation of the smoke nuisance in that
city.
Wilmington, Del., is considering tho es
tablishment of a municipal coal yard to sell
fuel to the poor at cost during the winter.
Coal has been distributed by the city for
some years past.
San Francisco lias filed plans for Us pro
posed 28 new municipal street railroads,
which are to cost J.000,000. Approximately
8? m".?8 ot 1,nes are t0 ba bu'lt' The mu
nicipally owned roads already in operation
nre proving to be very profitable. '
.... . .w York clty ' hav8 the flrst real ex
hibition of modern street cleaning and
refuse disposal methods Every phase and
method of cleaning, collection and disposal
Will ba demonstrated to tho citizens in order
to explain the possibilities of the recent ap
propriation of J250.000 by the city for mod
ern cleaning of a "model district."
Pittsburgh, with 160.000, and Philadelphia,
w!,t.hJ1'8,,00?.'..ar? araon8: the cities which
will begin public Improvements this winter
In order to give work to the unemployed.
Jowa has now nine commission gov
erned and four general manager oUies. Tho
latter operate under a stretching of the
powers ox the City Councils so that the
city clerks become purchasing agents.
Puehlo, Col., has completed its first levy
under single tax methods. This year vacant
lots, rights of way and franchisee are as
sessed at full value and improvements at
only 60 per cent.
Three loaves of bread for five cents were
offered to attract customers to Chicago's
new municipal market.
Boston is to put the gurbasfe cams which
dUttgure Copley Sftigre in YRlt built wi
der the sldewOlw ifcte witer.
w wyMS.iUl WMiMS tdSMt is
actively qmbj
WrsJtoI
u
...,.c ii.il nrlvalO
tlon to iv six-cent rate, wim -". ,ur.
ton to t six-cent rate, """"". fur
plant has not yet met, it announces a-
ther cut tor five cents. ruis had
The municipal "movies" ot St. "lslx
a season Of unqualified BUMeSS. ' J8
entertainments were given In w oy
nt a cost only of 2000, and It l fjn,ne th0
continue them through the winter
school buildings.
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VIEWS OF READERS
OiN TIMELY TOPICS
Contributions That Reflect Public Onin
ion on Subjects Important to City,
State and Nation.
To the miter of thi Ritnta Uiotrt ,
Slr-H-liat a hullflballoo to make over tr u
. . .-.. f (lift rUnts ot
jaws ana ataiuiory aeciarnuuuo - -- rt
labor! Longer ago than Mnsna Charts Ml wn
one of the great principles of Ans,?;Sa" ,)h
doin, Indeed, It has always been the Inw win
English-speaking peoples, "that not only nas a
mnn tho right to labor and to trade,' to quote
the language of Professor Stlmson, ,0,' ""?"
"but no man or Bet of men can combine ,n
him. and that thero shall be no comntoatlon
In restraint of trade, no agreement to "'"
tho output, to nx a prlco or to Incrensfl i Pc
or to Injure a competitor by unfair Hietnas'
It Is almost certain that not a caso has Mn
decided against a truet which might not "
been decided on common law principles, a no
story of the English common law, which is
our common law, Is In large part tho ory '
tho liberties of labor and trade. In th8a"
of lllelnage and guilds labor was tho way w
freedom, and the rights thus gained have never
been successfully combated since. ANj.By
Philadelphia, November 24,
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S TERIL
To tht Editor ot the Svtntnff ttdgtrl
Slr-Meksrs rilnn and Perkins are planning
to keep the Progressive pnrly alive by the r
financial support. Something elso will keep it
alive If the ltcpubllcnns don't watch out. That
is, the possibility that tho Q. O. P. will slip
back Into its old habits, from sheer confidence
that the prodigals havo returned home anil
that four years of tho Democratic party win
be all thu country will want. Neither expecta
tion Is a certain thing. Tho Progressives who
voted with tho 'J O P. this fall will never ac
cept a Penroso or a Cannon leadership, onu
there are two moro years of tho present Ad
ministration yet It H too bad that tho plat
form pledge of economy was not kept from
the etarl, but news from Washington tells us
that retrenchment and oconomy Is the program
from now on. That will help Bomc.
HENRY T. SABIN.
Philadelphia, Novombcr 21.
PHILADELPHIA'S OLD BUILDINGS
To tht Editor o lie Eienlna Ledatrt
Sir I wonder If renders ot the Evbn1.no
Lkiiock nave ever noticed what really present
ablo old business buildings we havo down
Chestnut street. The marble Is pretty faded
with il?c. Orly occasionally has tho enterprise
of some landlord been great enough to bring
tho stono back to Its old whiteness by a sand
polish. But, whatever tho color, the structure
Is still there to admire. A great deal of It Is,
of course, over-ornamental and rather out of
tho spirit of our age. But somo Is really sur
prising severe, anl one or two examples, whero
tho Gothic effect of long, thin columns from
top to bottom has been used, seem almost of
tho new German type which handles tall build
ings so admirably. Clean up our old lofts nnd
offices and give ua a look at tho glories of 1S60.
K. N. B.
Philadelphia, November 23.
AGAINST THE VARES
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir I feel like lipping out something sarcas
tic on "Citizen's" preposterous letter adulating
tho Vares. But I guess I don't havo to. "Citi
zen" did the buslnees himself for anybody
who reads tho letter with halt an oyo to re
cent events and Just a little bit of a sense of
humor. D. L. SALE.
Philadelphia, November S3.
The President and the Railroads
From tha New York Evenlnc Post.
Apart from general felicitation on what has
been accomplished for the country's welfare,
and on the outlook opened up by tho bettet
spirit pervading the nation, the most note
vorthy fcatuie of tho President's letter Is
what he says about the situation confronting
the railroads. Special point Is given to his
remarks on this subject by the circumstance
that thoy follow immediately upon his reference
to the extraordinary difficulties with which tho
cotton-growers have been confronted on ac
count of the war. "The railroads of tho coun
tiy," says the President, "are almost as much
affected, not so. much because their business Is
curtailed as because their credit Is called In
question by doubt as to their earning capacity.
Thero Is no other interest so central to the
business welfare of the country as this." When
he cxpretscs his confidence that, "In tho light
of the new da," the railroads will "bo met
and dealt with In a spirit of candor and Jus
tice," he goes as near as official propriety per
mits to expressing the conviction that, in tho
determination of tho pending rate qucitlon, the
Interstate Commerce Commission should take
fully Into account the necessity, under existing
circumstances, of furnishing to tho railroads
that dtgree of encouragement which Is neces
sary to the maintenance of their enterprise and
the sustaining of buslnees confidence generally.
This has, according to common report, been all
along the President's view; but his emphatic
though guarded, expression of it In the letter
to Secretary McAdoo will do much to Impress
It upon the country.
Wilson for President
From the Savannah Kewa.
There Is no reason for thinking that because
the Republicans made large gains in the elec
tions tho outlook for another term for President
Wilson Is any less promising than It wns. The
confidence of the people In him Is mora likely
to increase than to decrease. Ills purposes are
right and belief In his ability to guide the
country aright In these rather troublous times
Is llk&y to grow stronger. The Democrats
party still has control of Congress, which
assures the Administration of support for its
policies.
Some Good Effects
From tho Indianapolis tfovra.
It would have been unfortunate had the Ad
ministration party lost control of Congress. But
It Is well that the Democrats must face a Btrone
opposition in the next Congress, not only for
the Democrats, but for all tha people. For th
next two j ears we may expect to see less ex
travagance, less party polltlos. and more con.
sclentlous attention to tha splendid program
which the Administration outlined on entering
office.
LOVE IN TOE CALENDAR
When chinks In April's windy dome
Let through a day or June,
And foot and thought incline to roam
And every sound's a tune; '
When Nature Alls a fuller cup,
And hides with green tho gray.
Then, lover, pluck your courage un
To try your fate In May.
Tho proud she was as sunset clad
In autumn's fruity shades.
Love, too, is proud, and brings (gay hln
Humility to maids. r "ia'
Scorn not from Nature's mood to learn
Take counsel of tho day: "
Since haughty skies to tender turn
Co try your fate In May.
Tho cold she seemed as pearly light
Adown December eves.
And stern as night when Mareh winds ami.
The beech's lingering leaves. lto
Yet Love hath seasons like the year
And grave will turn to gay-
Then, lover, barken not to fear
But try your fate In May.
And you whose art it Is to hide
The constant love you fealt
Beware, lest overmuch ot pride
Your happiness stall steal.
No hmgtr pout, fer May Is here
And, bearts will have thai way
Love's Ib Ute caUadr. my aar '
St yMd to fue-oed Steyi
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3
SCRAPPLE
Onr Foreijrn Trade)
While European nations- are engaged! n"
blowing each other Into distressing remain
the United States is gathering In the com
merce of ths world.
She Is grabbing up English business in
China nnd her drummers aro presenting
obituary notices of German competitors to
Bouth America with n pollto request for the
trade of the deceased In tho same envelopL.
Several millions of Europeans aro killing i
each other, and as thoy fight a thousand
American newspapers aro exclaiming.' "Hurv!
rah, boys, hero's a dead man Lot's take hlsS
This sounds as unpleasant to sane, fastldi
ous Americans ns tho call of tho vulture tSl
hh mato as ho spies a dead horse. But 'It!
must sound far moro villainous and InflarnW
mntory to tho nations who aro doing the
righting and losing the above-mentioned!
Every editorial chucklo on this sldo of the!
ocean over tho hnparnlloled markets left li
this country by tho great war acquires eJ
ghoulish and hyonn-llko tone by tho time It
has crossed tho Atlantic. Ana thoso papers t
which piously tleploro tho snld war In ths
first paragraph and hop nimbly to the pleas'-'
urea of trado-grabblnu in tho rest of tha
editorial probably sound a llttlo more noxs.
lous than tho others to tho frosptng fighters, f
In 20 years Germans will havo forgiven'
Englishmen, and Frenchmen will inflict
kisses' of purest friendship on Austrians. ButS
tho American who walks abroad will noli;
bask In cordiality and esteem. Thore is g0-l
llttlo heroic nbout trado-grabblng and to 1
much less tasty In gloating over tho some In
tlmo of war that tho American will bi,1
adorned with bristles in tho European mind
for a century to coma ,
Tho world needs our goods, but ought
to supply it sueniiy ana wiiu aa muo grab?
. -.. .......ilf.f.. Tf let l.nfrni- tr, IA.. m3
orders for cheese knives from Bouth AmerlcS
nnn.mt mid tn irnt oursolvca jrcncrnllv i..i
. ... t. nnH.nn r9 tfin ...Ik1
tcstcu nniuiiB iiiu ,iu.i.u.,o vt. .. ttHia,
Gcorgo Fitch.
Hermetically Spieled
Tho Drltlsh havo occupied tho Island ot Ilind
formerly leaaeu " '"-0 wt .rc. - nflV,
"We'll take for a term,
Tho Islo of Hcrm,"
Said tho English firm.
"No, you don't, you worm,"
Camo back from tho Germ
An arms, "you'll squirm,
For a Doutsche firm
Owns tho lslo of Herm.'
And there's tho germ
Of tho Joko oa Hcrm.
At Last
Tho studious looking man walked Into tli?
drug storo with tho circulating library.
"Havo you Shakespeare s works?" h
"Sorry, sir," said tho clerk, conscious ot
tho fact that ho was upsetting an oia es
tablished precedent, "and wo havo nothing
4., nh nnl " IH
Inconsiderate
Pud "Great cats! That's a nervol Somfl
body has put up a building right whereJ
buried a boncl" .fuck.
No New Ones
''After all." said tho editor's assistant, "the
old Jokes aro tho best." '9
"Why shouldn't they bo?" demanded thfl
editor; "tnero's no competition."
Thoughts on the War
I never saw a Belgian fort
I never hope to see one;
But get mo right when I report:
I'd rather seo than bo one.
A Subtle Plea
A humorist Is a person who capitalize!
poverty and misfortune, if tho humoral
wero endowed ho would bo robbed ofJbr
material. Hero Is a real opportunity 11
some statesman with tho interests of S
pcoplo at heart.
!
Fixing the Blame
"See here, Milkman, I don't think the
you aro giving mo Is nuro."
"Madam, to tho puro all things aro purJ
Life.
Clerical Snobs
I confess, though, if I had by me thl
names of thoso soven or eight Irish bishops,
the probates of whoso wills wero mcntlonei
in lust year's Journals, and who died leavi
Intr behind them some 200.000 apiece. 1
would like to put them up as patrons of
rav Clerical Snobs and ocernto unon them
as successfully ns I see from tho nowsp&ll
pors, Mr. Elsenberg, Chiropodist, has latelyil
done upon "His Grace thq Right ReverendlS
Lord Bishop of Tapioca." Mi
And I confess that when the Right Reyjl
von,1 Tirnlntlu pnwn 1 tr Mir. c-ntn Ml "PnrftipH
dlse with their probates of wlllj in thejrJ
hands, I think their chance Is . Buy
tno gntcs or 1'araaiso is a far way to rouow
their Lordships; so let us trip down again?
lest awkward questions bo asked thero nboufl
our own favorite vices, too. William Make
peace Thackeray, in "The Boole of Snobs.'
Why tho Hurry?
Prepartnc for Snow Removal Headline In a Nj
iotK papr.
Manhattan grows progressive and, ere snovr.
1
4
begins to fall.
Of snow removal plans It starts to sin!
In former years Manhattan never made
plan at nil .:
Till the bijow gavo way before the sun
of spring. i
Just a Ilint f'
It Is only by being perfectly square tbit
you can prevent people from getting onj
your curves,
1 A Bit Tired
A somewhat weatherbeaten tramp, bejris
asked what was the matter with his coa
replied, "Insomnia: It hasn't had a nap
it) years." christian Register.
DeGned at Last
"Mulligan, phwat'B a Nihilist?"
"O'Brien, it's a Russian Fenian."
Sad. Isn't It?
With tha outbreak of tha war tha conaumptlon't'
hAP In fh- TTntrAr) fl.ci,-. r.11 ab. in nf cntJS
July, Auxuit and September, aa compared with (Hfj
cvrreepvouing' penoq tan year, rwa uem,
Now wo know what the einerta mean
When they talk of the horrors of wari
uarKeeps growing wan and lean, l
"Under new management" over the dow
Why comes this catastrophe ?
Echo obligingly answers, "It's clear.
You can't eat cake and have It see?
You can't talk war and drink your beerf
Mr. Grabb Freshmen at the University?
Pennsylvania are forbidden to smoke cls
ettes.
Fond Mother Ob. dear me! Now Osvr
won't get a bit of exercise. Buffalo EP'
From the Cub's Notebook
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of a Chestnut street store and puffed at sjl
uniigniea cigar end. was growing "
Those who pushed their way past the
nar witn heads bent against the com
stenned faster as thev ea.vr the atrs
eye them. At last ho walked out front
wall and swung into & halting step
a thin man.
He started to snsak.
"No!- said the man. hastening Ms m
and tha straeatar lrmnc-erl back into V
shelter ot the wall.
Three times he hindered hurrying
ersbv and threa tlmo- thoir eruff X3
drove aim beck to the shelter of the
He tried a fourth time.
"Ho!" shouted the youth he p
before a ward wo nukH
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