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rillLADELTlllA. FIIIIUV, MAHCII 3. 1915.
The ladder of fame can be mounted onlu one
round at a Ume.
The Fight Has Just Begun
rjIHE fight has Just begun.
- A Councils that scarcely n month ago
voted half a million dollars to relocate Bewera
preparatory to the building of the subway
loop yesterday voted to throw that money
Into the gutter by refusing to sanction the
loop Itself.
Councils yesterday repudiated and Ignored
a superb transit plan, prepared at a cost of
thousands of dollars to tho taxpayers, In favor
of a half-baked, delusive schemo that is backed
by no expert approval and represents noth
ing more than the overnight opinion of two
or three wily politicians who, with their
backers, caro an much about tho Interests of
Philadelphia as they do about canals In tho
desert of Sahara.
Councils voted for tho development of sub
urban real estate, under a pretenso of pro
riding tho city with rapid transit.
It Voted to hand tho city over shackled to
the P. R. T the shares of which company,
curiously enough, became strangely active In
tho market, an activity which developed when
It became definitely known that tho Organi
zation had determined to trade the assets and
tho future of the city to the company.
Councils voted to perpetuate tho abortive
nnd scandalous exchango ticket abuse,
whereby almost a million dollars Is taken
from the pockets of tho citizens of Philadel
phia annually enough wherewith to pay tho
sinking fund payment necessary on the en
tire cost of the Taylor project.
Mr. Connelly, driven into a corner by cu
mulative evidence of the obvtou3 Illegality of
his. original ordinance, struck from It Us
most apparent brand of trickery and left In
It tho words on which the Organization
clearly rests Us hope that tho entire under
taking will fall. The supporters of this ordi
nance stand convicted In the public mind of
voting to spend $100,000 of the people's monoy
for an election which they are confident will
bo abortive, null and void bo far as results
are concerned.
Instead of the Taylor plan, the plan of
"Rhawn Street Pete"! Instead of the Taylor
plan, the plan of "Slippery Jack"! Instead
of the Taylor plan, the plan of "Persimmon
Charlie"! A black flag nailed to tho mast
nnd on It written so that all may see, "The
Public Be Damned." And In an assembly,
about to participate and aid In the betrayal
of tho people's hopes, tho leader of tho band
has tho temerity to rise and state that ha
suspects the Pennsylvania Railroad of being
behind the Broad street subway, saying, "The
ugly hand of the Pennsylvania Railroad may
be In It. I beg of you not to allow any rail
road to fasten Its fangs upon you"; and
proceeds forthwith to vote for tho identical
part of the program which he thus denounces
us a railroad cheat, while at the same time
uui6 mo jjuiijiei uuuuri-S 10 join In ja"
scneme, ino oniy result or which could be
to deliver the city for decades to the P. R. T.
without price.
Why should tho city build a Frankford
elevated and hand It over to the P. R. T.
without guarantees? Why, that's the lucra
tive lino tha transit company's mouth has
been watering for these many moons. It
would have been glad to build It with Us
own funds.
Is there any people under the sun that can
bo fooled by the kind of sophistry and argu
ment these obstructionists have presented?
Is there any people who can fall to Bee the
Hands of Esau, the slelght-of-hand, the
trk-Us so openly played?
Rapid transit Is bigger than Connelly, big
ger than Seger, bigger than Costello, bigger
than tho Organization. It is the throbbing
hope of hundreds of thousands of strap
hangars and exchange-tlcket buyers, all of
whom- are aroused and eager to brush aside
those who have betrayed them.
And the crowning Insult Is that "Slippery
Jack" tells the people of Philadelphia that
he Is fighting for economy when he votes to
waste the JW0.000 to be spent for sewer re
location, the thousands spent to secure the
Taylor plan, the JIW.OOO to be spent for
holding a perfectly absurd election; and
while shouting that rapid transit would in
crease the Utx rate, vote for and supports a
Hind of rapid transit that would put the
pagers of the P. R. T. Into the pocket of
vry parson in Philadelphia who rids or
would rids on the old or tbs proposed line.
For Councils has voted that tbsr shall be
bo universal 5-cettt Cars, a proposition to
which the P. It. T. had agrosd; and it has
voted also to parAUMU aiserimlnatiftns in
lEtHmlttrj
rets tgsw that this eity has already too i
Ion etidured
fdu tftese oten get vmy with it? Can
they put this one over on tho city Can
they persuade & million nnd a half people
that black is white, wrong right, a fftko the
real thlng7 Con they get the voters to agreo
with them that profit for Organization men
who own land In tho country Is more Im
portant than rapid transit for citizens? Can
they foist this mnkc-bclleve transit on
Philadelphia?
Tho disgraceful action of Councils yester
day was but nn Incident In n campaign.
Tho fight hns Just begun.
Keep This Pnnntna Trade
NOW Is the time for tho commercial organ
l7atlons to prove that they are nllvo by
setting out to learn why the American
Hawaiian nnd Luckenbneh StentnBlilp Com
panies nro withdrawing from this port their
ships engaged In tho Pacific trade. Tho ves
sels that have been coming hero by way of
tho Panama Cnnal have carried pnylng
cargoes. Profitable cargoes can bo londcd nt
this port for the return voyage. Enough
business originates hero, nnd In the field
tapped by tho railroads with terminals on
tho Delaware, to Justify frequent sailings to
tho Pacific. If tho port Is to bo developed the
shlpi must stop hero for Philadelphia goods.
This city must not bo compelled to send Its
freight for tho Pacific through New York
or Norfolk.
It matters not whether tho companies hnvo
abandoned us at the request of tho railroads
to avoid a rate war. Wo must have ships to
accommodate our trade. If tho Luckenbneh
and Amcrlcon-IIawnllan Companies will not
glvo us what we need thcro must bo capital
and energy and Initiative enough hero to get
what bottoms nro necessary In some wny.
It Is easy to talk about booming the port. It
Is Just ns easy for real men to net. Now Is
the tlmo to do something, when the Pannma
Canal Is getting ready to carry tho merchant
ships between tho oceans and when every
other considerable port in the world Is pro
paring to accommodate business developed
by tho new trade routes.
Gocthals Earned His Promotion
THE promotion of Colonel Goethals to the
rank of major general meets with uni
versal approval. If It were posslblo for Con
gress to reward him In a more distinguished
way tho public sentiment of tho country
would sustain It.
This army engineer hns accomplished the
most stupendous physical feat of all time
Nothing like the separation of the continents
has over been attempted before. The build-
lng of tho Suez Canal was llko digging a
cellar In comparison. The French had made
tho nttempt at Pannma and fnlled. Some of
tho greatest engineers in private life wcro
put In charge of tho work, after tho United
States took It over, hut they gave It up,
either willingly or at tho request of the Gov
ernment. But when Goethals took hold tho
canal progressed.
The promotion of Brigadier General Gorgas,
of the sanitary force, to equal rank with
Goethals Is also fitting. The conquering of
tropical diseases by Gorgas Is, In Its way, as
great a triumph as the severing of tho con
tinents by Goethals. Tho canal could not
havo been built without tho active co-operation
of the sanitary force. Both Gorgas and
Goethals deserve well of their country.
A Suspicious Law
THE rehabilitation of the merchant marine
proceeds merrily. Tho President has
signed tho seamen's bill, which Is ostensibly
for tho promotion of safety at sea and In
reality for tho purposo of Increasing tho cost
of operation of American ships. Incidentally,
it Involves disagreement with a score or
more of other nations.
There can be too much of a good thing.
Softer jobs for sailors can readily become no
Jobs for sailors. Kentucky and Missouri
tried a scheme of legislating tho ftro Insur
ance companies Into bankruptcy, nnd both
States were quickly In a panic of npprehon
slon because tho Insurance companies do
cldetl to get out of tho field rather than
acqulcsco In such wanton regulation.
This seamen's bill Is such an Inexcusable
thing that It Invites suspicion. Perhaps the
Administration feels that If tho operation of
privately owned ships Is made impossible tho
next Congress will ngreo to the ship-purchase
scheme.
Dreadnoughts Batter the Wheat Market
WH,AT
IT of wa
HAT Congress would not do tho course
ar has done. Hod tho President
during tho last few months had tho authority
to declare an embargo on wheat he would
nover hnvo hod to exercise that authority.
But it would havo been a club to keep tho
speculative market down, and down It would
havo kept.
Tho operations of tho combined English
and French fleets, designed to open the
southern sea route to Russian grain supplies,
hnvo saved the dny and prevented six-cent
bread.
It Is another Illustration of the world-wide
effect of events anywhere on earth that tho
prices of necessary food In all parts of the
United States should depend on a few ships
which batter at the ancient causeway where
the East and tho West meet.
Where McNIchol'a land Is thero must the
elevated go.
Councils Is In favor of any route that does
not get there.
As they say In Pittsburgh, even a bank
cannot got along unless there Is more money
than politics In It,
The Congressmen sang when the session
ended and they started for home, but the
country shouted for Joy,
Bravery is a noble thing, but what does It
advantage a man, to get In tho way of a
dreadnought that Is firing 16-Inch shells?
There is some doubt as to who is entitled
to a man's wages, but It is well known that
the woman In a man's Job does not get them.
How quiet it must be In the White House
day, now that there Is no Congress for the
today,
President to shake about by the scruff of the
neck! j
The brilliant epistolary repartee of Mrs.
Emily Sargent Lswls has disclosed tp the
public at large the gifts which her friends
have long known she possessed.
There are a few thousand cynics and
"knockers" in this State who are amazed to
discover that the Governor meant it when he
said that he was for local option
Mr. Connelly's idea seems to be that the
transit plan is Just a sehsm of a million or
mora nuink in rat better ftiftHrins for them-
VM ol eounth H Pttbtto jeant
he l uot going W sewsMBsja
of thut king.
TODAY IN THE
TURKISH EMPIRE
Safety of Foreigners Depends on
Ambassador Morgcnthau Tho
Jews and Other Subjected Races
See Liberty Ahead.
By VANCE THOMPSON
IT IS extremely hard to find out what. Is
going on In Turkey, So far nn the for
eigners are concerned, things seem to bo very
bad Indeed. Jewish refugees tell tragic stories
of loot nnd murder.
There would seem to bo no exaggeration In
tho statement that in Constantinople tho
safety of tho foreigners depends upon one
man Amhnssador Morgcnthau. He has been
nblo to protect tho two great American col
leges, Robert nnd Constantinople. The other
foreign Institutions, except those of Germany
nnd Austria, have been looted and wrecked.
FnctorlcH, banks, schools, hotels and rail
ways havo been seized. The Turk's Idea of
war Is plunder and there Is plundering.
Morgenthnu Saves Mnny Lives
Mr. Morgenthnu Is also acting for France,
England, Belgium, Scrvla. Switzerland, Den
mark and some of tho South American re
publics. Ho has saved many lives, but the
property of the Allies has been confiscated
or destroyed.
Of course, It Is clear or tolerably clear
that a day of reckoning will come for tho
Young Turks, but they can face It with bank
rupt serenity. They have nothing to lose,
not even honor. Tho Younp Turks notably
that Infamous "Commtttco of Union nnd
Progress" are made up of ruthless adven
turers, outlaws of tho Levant and a few vis
ionary old fanatics. By way of "union" they
started two civil wars; by way of "prog
ress" they began four foreign wars and
have lost already one-fourth of tho empire.
It should be said they never drenmed of win
ning. Tho Young Turks were not fighting for
victory. What they fought for was plunder;
plunder, and abovo all tho graft that goes
with Oriental war-making.
There arc not mnny real Turks In tho
United States, but It Is a curious fact that
they fall apart Into two classes tho victims
of old Abdul Hnmld and tho victims of tho
Young Turks. If you talk to them you will
Mud their opinions of tho war depend largely
upon whoso victims they were. Tho victims
of the Sultan, If they havo no lovo for Tur
key, are still faithful to Islam. No matter
what they say they still bollcvo In the dawn
of the "holy war." You might fancy that the
recent events In tho East would bo answer
i sufficient to these expectations; but events
make no impression on tho Oriental mind.
I within sound almost of the printing presses.
there are Turks who really believe that tho
Turkish flag Is up in India nnd Turkestan
and Persia, Indo-Chlna and Araby.
In Bitter Subjection
It may be a question still whether tho Aus
trian territory will be divided among tho nn
tlons and races that Inhabit It, but thcro Is
no doubt that such will be tho fate of Tur
key, both European and Asiatic, Like tho
Austrlans in Austria-Hungary, tho Turks
form but a small minority of the population
of the degraded Turkish Empire. Tho popu
lation is estimated at 20,000,000; tho Turks
number possibly G.000,000. It Is only by a
very little that they outnumber tho Jews
nnd Armenians of tho cmplro.
And here, I think, you como to tho real
problem of tho division of tho Turkish Em
pire. Tho other races once held in subjec
tion by the Turk havo pretty well succeeded
In finding a way to liberty. As one by ono
Turkey lost hrr great and beautiful provinces
In Europe Montenegro, Servla, Rumania,
Bulgaria, Crete and tho others tho long
tyrannized races found liberty nnd homo rule.
Greeks nnd Rumanlnns, Bulgarians nnd Ser
vians nro all free of tho Turk. Thero re
main, still In bitter subjection, tho Jows and
tho Armenians.
That modern Turkey exists nt all Is due to
these two races. I do not mean that they
furnish the fighting forces. Tho Turks them
selves fight well enough. They nro good
fighters wherever you find a Mussulman
you get cour.igo of a sort. And oven badly
armed, overdrlllcd and uninspired by a na
tional cause, the Turks havo not mado a bad
showing In this scattered war. But the Turk
cannot do much of anything else. Ho can
fight; and ho Is good nt Oriental diplomacy,
since ho can lie gravely, superbly, lmperturb
ably. He hns a scmbre genius for deception. But
In commerce or manufacture or trade or
business of any kind he Is practically use
lessoven when In fez and dirty stamboullno
ho peddles rugs or sticky Bweets In Vienna
or Paris.
Establishment of a Jewish State
Tho huslness of Turkey Is done two-thirds
of it nt least by tho Armenian and by tho
Jow. They are the bankers, tho manufactur
ers and tho traders. And they have suffered
alike. If tho Turk has amused himself by
murdering tho Armenians 30,000 men, women
and children in the last ofllcial massacre In
Slllcla ho has taken quite as constant a
pleasure In plllnglng and degrading tho Jew.
The movement for the creation of a Jewish
Stato In Palestine Is so well known that I
need hardly refer to It.
Tho destruction of tho Turkish Eraplro
and the readjustment of Its territories Is
perhaps the greatest opportunity aver af
forded for the creation of an Independent
Judcn. Not only tho Zionist, but the states
men of Europe are already busy with this
matter, and In due tlmo the great lords of
finance will have their word to say. So for
as I can learn there Bcems to bo no objection
on the part of any of tho great Powers to
the establishment of a Jewish State. Indeed
there is an Immense and romantic appeal In
the more Idea. An anonymous writer, who
seems to wrlto with authority, has even
mapped out the territory of tho new State.
It Includes Beirut, south of Lebanon, Syria,
south of Damascus, and Jerusalem, except
the city proper and the environs. Of course,
this exception Is tho crux of the problem.
Naturally, one would think, the Jews wpuld
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sajtm was cut out. Their Stato wquld lack
the very crown of its national significance.
Jerusalem Is not only the political heart of
Judea, it is as well the symbollo heart qf the
race.
A Jewish nation without Jerusalem?
As well Italy without Rome.
Tho New Armenia
Fqr the Armenians the matter is simpler.
So far as J know there Is no objection which
is not Turkish to an independent Armenia,
The State already exists on paper. At the
"Pro-Armenia" in Paris I have seen a fair
sketch of this new, free country. It is to take
in nearly 140,000 square miles of territory, in
cluding North Aleppo. East Angora, Adana,
the Konk-ii. Hivas and Harput. I think a
population veiy nearly as meat as that oj
"WELL DONE,
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Belgium (before tho wnr) would gather there.
Thero Is, of course, a portion of Armenia
proper which Is under Russian rule. And
hero you would havo a now subject of dispute
In tho post-bellum discussions of tho divi
sion of Turkey at which I am glancing. Tho
Ideal solution would be that Russia should
release this territory and permit It to form a
part of the new Armenia. I see that It Is
already proposed that Russia should ex
chango Russian Armenia for Turkish lands
more vitally Important to Its control of tho
Dardanelles. All of which means" a mighty
powwow among tho nations who gather for
the flnnl settling of peace terms.
One thing seems evident as n rock.
Tho dismemberment of Turkey Is certain.
That old hag of tho Orient Is to bo stripped
and tho rags of her raiment, her bangles and
copper anklets are to be divided among tho
nations. One need bo no prophet to sco that
Franco will extend her protectorate, that
Greece will gain a slice of Smyrna, that tho
Tigris and tho Euphrates will bo Russian
rivers nnd that Mesopotamia, whero tho Ger
man Emperor hoped to find another Egypt,
will welcome English trade and English civ
ilization. Ho would bo indeed a prophet who
could tell you what flag Is to fly over Con
stantinople or what flag will be raised over
tho twice-sacred city of Jerusalem. Only of
this you may be sure: neither flng will show
tho waning crescent.
NATION'S LETTER WRITER
Robert Lansing Likes to Fish, But Tells
No Fisherman's Yarns.
From the New York Evening; Post.
The people of tho United States are well
acquainted with tho Attorney General of tho
United States. After a year or two In the
office, even a "book lawyer," If he had Indicted
anybody or prosecuted anybody, would get his
name In the headlines of a newspaper. It !
easy enough for a great civil or a criminal
lawyer to be known to his countrymen, espe
cially If he Is doing big things. On the othel
hand, an International lawyer may do a good
many big things In the course of a career
without being generally known by his country
men. For that reason, there are not very
many people in these United States, outside of
his own profession, who know much about
Robert Lansing, counsellor for the State De
partment, who Is, In fnct, tho Attorney Gen
eral of the United States In International mat
ters. It was not until the present war In Europe
broke out, and more particularly when the
United States found It necessary to write out
in black and white Its views as to the rights
of neutrals, that Mr. Lansing came Into his
own. No American has yet been found who
Is willing to say that tho notes addressed to
Great Britain and Germany did not measure
up to the best traditions of American state
craft and diplomacy.
Mr. Lansing la one of the quietest, most mod
est men In public life In Washington. Tempera
mentally, ho Is splendidly equipped for his
work. Ha Is thoroughly human in thought and
action. He Is kindly and sympathetic. Ilia
gray eyes twinkle, and his face lights Into a
warm smile on the slightest provocation. He
likes to be of service, and Is of service, and
goes about the Job so simply and earnestly
as to win confidence without seeming to try
to do so. He. Ib Immensely popular among the
newspaper men. Unlike Mr. Bryan, who Is
Inclined to withhold diplomatic Information,
In the first instance, and to refuse to discuss
It If It gets Into the newspapers without his
sanction, Mr. Lansing Is one of those publlo
officials who will at least say enough to give
the newspaper men a "straight steer" and pre
vent them from making mistakes unwittingly.
With all the human attributes, Mr, Lansing
Is not noted as a "story-teller" or as an
"anecdote-maker." He Is, however, a fisher
man, but even this attribute does not Include,
so far as can be learned, tha telling of fisher
man's yams. Armed w(h a good, stout pipe
and fishing-rod, Sir. Lansing Is prone to take
his annual leavo near Watertown, N. Y., or
at a fishing club on Lake Erie, to which he
belongs. Not Infrequently he wllll be seen at
his desk In the State Department when the
hour for diplomatic callers has passed, work
ing steadily and quietly, with a fiat-bowled
briar pipe In hand. If he Is Interrupted by
a aeries of academic or hypothetical questions,
such as some of his callers ask him, he will
answer them all clearly and- fairly, while at
the same time sketching on a pad of paper
a picture, usually a human head, which may
or may not contain some of the characteris
tics of the questioner.
THE BREAD OF LIFE
We live by Adaption. Ifoiw and Love;
And even as 0 are well and wisely axed.
In diifnity of bates we as-end
Wordsworth.
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THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT!"
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BEST THOUGHT IN AMERICA
DIGEST OF
(1) Outing, "Taming Shank's Marc."
(2) Scrlbner's, "Tho Freelnnds."
(3) American, "Four L'ons at Once."
(4) Cosmopolitan, "My Finest Day's
Sport."
(5) American, "'Braves' is Right."
SPORTS
WHAT constitutes a sport?
Why, for Instance, Is golf a sport?
It's nil in tho head.
Lugging a heavy bng of ennes up and down
hills for several miles for the purposo of
dropping a small white ball Into n small holo
In the ground by the most dlfllcult nnd un
natural method concelvnble Is considered
sport entirely by grace of tho curious mental
nttitudo of the golfer.
It would bo vastly ensier to pick tho ball
up In tho hands Nature gave you, and drop
it quickly and neatly Into the holo. If a
man'B living depended on tho number of
times per dny ho could contrive to accomplish
something ns precarious and hazardous as
putting n golf ball Into its holo he would
call It pretty hard work.
Thero Is a whimsical echo of this question
as to tho difference between work nnd play
In n description of an arduous walking trip
taken for pleasure by R, C. Whitehouse, in
Outing (1).
My dear friend Dutch, who Is addicted to
pcdestrlnnlsm, declares the noblo nrt never
had half a show In song and story. Why, he
demands Indignantly, should they havo wholo
page departments on golf and tennis and tld
dledewlnks and totally Ignore tho honorable
sport of walking? "Darned if I know," I
used to tell him. I don't havo to any longer.
I know.
Dutch has Initiated me into tho sublime
Joys of pedestcrlng I am convalescent
now. But at this writing I feel a
trlflo reconciled, and no fooling, thero Is no
moro nncient and honorable sport.
It originated with Adam, who reeled off a
fow miles dally along tho rural byways of
Eden. All Adam had to do was walk a fow
steps farther each day than tho day before,
and go back home complucent In the knowl
edge that ho had broken all worldis records.
Robert Louis Stevenson said that to enjoy
wnlklng to tho utmost, one should walk
alone. I second tho motion. Thero Is always
a harmonious unanimity when walking alone.
"Shall wo rest half an hour an this mossy
bank just ahead?" wo ask ourselves. "You
bet," comes tho unanimous response.
But when there are three of us, nnd wo
ask the same question, tho other two Invaria
bly reply that threo miles tho other side of
yonder high hill Is a much more de;.rable
spot. Wo had better push on. Men like
Dutch speak of going three miles over yon
der high hill Just exactly as If thoy were
speaking of moving three benches farther
along in the park to get out of the sun.
Thero Is another description of a climb in
the current magazines. It occurs In John
Galsworthy's story, "Tho Frcelands," run
ning In Scrlbner's (2). Ho Is concerned not
so much with tho climber as with giving a
splendidly aloof, unfettered senso of dawn
coming up over the Malvern Hills,
Climbing at a great pace, ho reached Mal
vern Beacon Just as It camo dawn, and stood
therb on the top watching. He .had not much
ncsthetlo sense, but he had enough to bo Im
pressed by the slow paling of tho stars over
tha space that seemed inflnlto, so little were
Its dreamy confines vlslblo in tho May morn
ing haze, whero tho quivering crimson flags
and spears of sunrise forged up In a march
upon the sky. The first lark soared up and
began its bright praise. Save for that song
silence possessed all tho driven dark right
out to the Severn and the sea, and tho fast
nesses of the Welsh Hills nnd the Wrekln
away in the north, a black point In the gray.
For a moment dark and light hovered and
clung together. Would victory wing back
Into night or on Into day? Then, as a town
Is taken, all was over in one overmastering
rush.
Blood nnd Thunder Thrillers
Two famous sportsmen recount the most
thrilling experiences that they have ever had,
with vivid photographs to back up their as
sertions. Stewart Edward White, who has
been writing a series of hunting stories for
the American Magazine, describes "Four
Lions at Once" (3). He was firing at two
lions in the oftlng when two more suddenly
bounded nut of the bushes, and he alone,
with a native attendant crouching behind
hlrn to load his guns for him, vanquished the
four single-handed.
When I got back to camp an hour Jater I
tried to put down in my notebook exactly
the sequence of events. I put down some
thin?: but subsequent recollections that float
across my mind make me doubt whether I
can reproduce an accurate sequence There
fore. I will not try to tell you in what order
I shot at those lions or where each several
shot hit I do know that I shot at each of
them in turn, as it seemed necessary to keep
them checked. It was a good deal like push-
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nig eager puppies back Into a kennel yaffl
.urn yuv. men ni'ouipr. men anotlicr, tbti
mo first oiip back at you again. A late!
count of i-ar'ildgc showed that from tM
two rifles I fired 18 shots Five of th(3
were expended on thr first lionets and font
on the big male nttor the main battle wif
over. So I mtiHl havo used nine cartridge
iu muj uiu iiHir-.jp uc moso i missed ow
I used the two tillos alternately, for I lis;
some sort of a notion of keeping both magff
aiiic-j iuii. .iiemDn roisn went on croonln'
nis war bong and loading like a machlt'
Tho smaller lion crllanscd earlv In the. crsn?
and about 100 yards away. The lioness eatm
close In, but was crlpj.lcd for keeps at abouj
1 Ft .r...rlo rnVir. I.I.. It.... 1 1 ... 1 An !
- j.,...;,. auu inn nun iiuu siupiicu ou jaroj
msmm, nnu was sitting on his haUncf
staring about him. Suddenly he launch?
himself nt us.
This Is In my opinion the supremo momenl
ii u nunirr-s mo the moment when all pri
llmlnaries at nn end, the lion makes hl
"' ami ueauiy uttntk. The littlo unessel
..two UIU llIUHHUll I1H1I e. - A omm.
erlng emotion fills all his being, It Is no"
tuu-jiiy anger, nut somotlilng wso it. Hathei
u iveung or antagonism, a pitting of fors1
nnd skills. Beneath all is a great wary alert,
ness that sits like a captain in a conning,
tower, spying cnnnlly over all the situaUoS
ns it develops, posed ready to plan compel
tontly for the unexpected. II
Paul J. Rnlney, well known everywhere tw
his Hunting Movies, describes "My FineS
Day's Sport" (4) In tho Cosmopolitan. Hfl
was hunting In British East Africa. t
Wnen wo reached tho ton of tho hill V
saw the Hon galloping below us In Wl
long, graceful stride, through quite one's
country, while nt least half a mllo behind
him was the pack, fighting dogs and all, taSt
nlng In full cry. I had nover seen a lion ruffl
bh iar in ine open i started to cut him caj
...... iimii iuii uii iuii nt. mm, croucneu unuw
a nusn. Han pointed him out, and I canv
on my norse with my big gun In my ham
In nn Instant. He looked as if ho were golfi
to ennrge. but hearing tho hounds com m
however, ho turned and dashed into cover.?
did not want to kill him. as I was anxloui
to secure some cinematograph pictures, bofl
as mo uusn was very thick we were unable to.
uo so, ana l concluded it was best to snooi
mm.
I fired through tho bush at 50 yards, to:
gun snapped, and ns I lowered it. went 01
right in nmong tho hounds, luckily withouj
ooing any uamagc. Tlie lion dfd not see w
However, and bounded off throuch tho bu
My companion cot u shot a littlo later, am
broke his back, which ended tho finest darj.
sport I over had.
Inside Dope
Thero is some very sophisticated Inside Ii
formation, intelligible in proportion to yP1
fanning propensities, In tho first of a ser)4
of articles by Ring Lardner, In tho Ame:
can (6). Ho is still talking about that l"j
world "serious" and tho Boston Braves,
xiic- tiuy umi iiuiucu I'ju lliu .uiiivva "-.
prob'ly sarcastlcal, or else ho meant tnffl
wero brave to stay In tho league and lay,
what they was gettln'. You know the nafflj,
was hung on 'em a couple of years ago, wnQ,
they looked like they should ought to w
called the Garbage, and when tho fella callMj
'cm Braves he prob'ly shook hands with h"S
mi.A .... .v.. nnu.A , it.. ,in.n....M vll
self nn says: "1 certainly pulled a runny ,
tnat time." - - -
TliBv'n n lnt nt famnrt miua Wlnnln' arOUlu
now that says they picked tho Braves, Plc,kJ
era m win me pcunum un men jm-w i,
in win the hicr serlntis. Tint T het vou COtlUn.
hnw n Hotter from Term Ilnntn In EvanSVUlS
with tho money that any smart baseball mi
won on em. uocauso smart uaseoaii
Hnnf nlnlf nt1n tVtAii nwn lltflpmant The
prob'ly have a better plckln' average If tfe
did. But thov don't. It ain't natural. "4
Ev'rybody I seen before tho serious awes
that the Athaletlcs couldn't lose. And ev fS
body I seen nfter the serious asrd tnai
AlVinlaMfto l.n Inol n ri rl mnal n them klOU
ttint.frVif nit ntnni thnt ItM rnmA flUt &bQ&
the way It did. It's certainly wonderful hSgl!
lew people is ever su'prisea.
It don't tret vnu nothlnir to be too B?i
I've picked one or two winners, but I ""A
was gave no craait ror it. Ana we vt-
.,lt.la lnt r lnAr nnd hnd the OVerlA
1I l.lA .,. n ra Tt'a tha hejlt dOPI
think twlct before you speak, and then in
say nothln'.
MUTABILITY
Wo are as clouds that veil the midnight roo
How restlessly they speed, aim b''"'
nulver.
Streaking the darkness radiantly' Tfci see
Night closes rouna ana mey are iit wa
Or, like forgotten
strings
lyres.
whose dl4
niv vnrlnna ruruuiu to each varying
To whose frail frame no second motion brl
One mood or mpduiatton line tne is-i
Va mt-a dream lias power to poison H
We rise one wandtsrlng thought poiiut)
Hav:
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or v4P' 1
It is .the same, for. be It Joy at sorrow,
The path of its departure still t free,
Mitui talerdxy may ne'e be l"1 h" '
Mafiirht mav endure but M"ljbl' t
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