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TRIPLE BLOW TO TRADE
1n,iN.A.xuxi win.is. is connaont mat mo
O Democracy will discover thot It mado
I. (rrievoua mlstako when It enacted the sea
Bern's law and that it will amend It this
Winter. The act haa not yet Bono Into effect,
fcut it has already lost to a slnslo Seattlo
firm a contract for $1,200,000 worth of lumber
becauso more favorable conditions prevail In
British Columbia than will prevail at Seattlo
for the noxt year.
The Domocrats are human and havo somo
intelligence. They cannot porslst In a policy
f evident folly. But tho seamen's law Is
root the bnly blow delivered to American
trade. Senator Weeks Includes the tariff law
and the abandonment of tho open-door pol
icy In China In his trlplo Indictment of tho
Democratic Congress. Even thouch theso
acts, should bo repealed at once It will tako
ryaars for tho country to get Its trado whero
n wouia navo neon Dut ror tneso blunders.
GAS IS HOLDING ITS OWN
'.ffJpiITHEN Thomas A. Edison announced In
TYS(
September, 1878, that ho could produce
Miectrlclty for a largo number of lights by
Using a dynamo there was a panic among
holders of chares of gas companies In Lon
don. They thought that gas was to bo
mperseded by the new light. But they
ttTuessed wrong, as the owners of an old do-
f.,Ylce usually guess wrong when a new lnven
, Hon In their lino Is made. Moro gas will
,k1 V used In tho year 1915 than In any other
mc since Its general adoption as an lllu-MWiJn-
the first half of tho last century.
rtclty. Instead of displacing irns. has
ftatrurred the gas producers to cheapening
(their product and to Inventing moro eco
ittomtca!, artistic and convenient methods of
fusing It for lighting, and has led them to
prfect apparatus for tho use of gas for
! producing heat and power. Thero ore prob
jably moro houses in Philadelphia with fa
iirititlea for both gas and electric light than
Were lighted by gas alone In 1878. And no
(up-to-date kitchen Is without a gas range
iBr cooking and a gas heater for hot water.
Gas has been generally used In the United
States for less than 100 years. The first
patent on Its manufacture was taken out In
1113, and tho' Inventors lighted some New
England cotton mills by the new Illumlnant.
7t was not until 1817 that the practicability
erf gas for general lighting was recognized,
when Baltimore began to use It. Its uso
for street lighting dates from 1834. when
j Hew Tork set up some gas lamps. Philadel
phia followed the example of New Tork In
Chicago, which was then a small com-
r;Munlty, had gas lamps In 1840, and Clncln-
j.'emt, lighted Its public places with gas In
1M1, Electricity has not been any more suc-
sajBsful In crowding gas from tho streets
rh from the houses. The two forms of
fhtlng are still competing for popular
-vor. Tho observance of Gas Week, which
begins today by the gas companies of tho
nlted States, Is a movi) In the campaign
i, noia ail tno territory now occuplod and
"win mere.
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RE IS THE NEXT ROCKEFELLER?
1IXTT years ago yesterday John D. Rocke
feller aeoepted a Job as bookkeerjer. TTI
ages amounted to 50 for the few days
i than three months that ended on Jan.
I.
Where Is the J3.B0 a week bookkeener to.
lay who fa planning to be the John D,
teekefeHer of 1975 T Bookkeeper do not
orlc for so little nowadays. Office boys get
,or than Rockefeller received. Where, then,
tm omce boy who has decided that he will
woom a great commercial giant and will
rota all his time and all his energies to
,.ftat andT The opportunities are as great
ww M they were 80 years ago. Mr. Rocke.
Bar aay that they are more numerous and
; to promising. The youth who perceives
v i apaertunlty and embraces It will get
., Aaa he may aa well be the one who
. '.aatsaflT these lines as any one else.
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v SpiCER "ILLEGAL" STEEL TRUST
Nj) rarmation or a new steel company
1m eomblnatlon of a trroun of tmi..
y-lj aarriranlw would be a natural out-
tlM activity In the steel trad
Jar the war. The demand for the
the steel mills Is so great that
almost any price they chooi
Mm nations In need. Profit at-
there fa a large amount
king Investment. The new
MM to he forming will be
flh ordinary laws of eco
in operation. Man m on
ta'make Moy and they eta-
all tlrere la to It
qf ConTraa .to repeal the oco-
l noi aucoeeftM. The eoa
imblned arf competltppa, We
by tho wfa man who have
0tl-trut laws that it fa aa
km tynnmt toraUtr and oa(rary to
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Steel Corporation becaiiso It Is made up of
a lot of corporations that wcro onco bidding
against ontt another for business. Their no
tion Is justified on tho ground that tho cor
poration has destroyed competition and that
the country Is at Its mercy, notwithstanding
tho ovldonce that Independent steel corpora
tions are doing a successful business.
The formation of a big rival steel trust
makes the Government's complaint In Us
suit" look ridiculous. But It Is too much to
hopo that tho Attorney General will ask
that tho suit be dismissed. lie Is moro likely
to nttempt to prevent tho Independent steel
companies from combining and to continue
that policy of meddling with big business
which tho llttlo politicians havo for years
thought would win votes from tho unthink
ing for their party.
AT LAST.
TN THE West tho Allies havo begun at Inst
to fling forward their offensive.
It Is time. Tlio pressure in tho East has
becomo great, but tho resiliency of Russia Is
beginning to nsscrt Itself. Formldablo move
ments In tho West give a new power to tho
Czar. Already, In tho Balkans, Bulgaria, Just
ready to Join tho Central Powers, has hesi
tated, and thero will bo no forco of half n
million men thrown ngulnst thoso ancient
mountains in an effort to navo Constanti
nople so long as thero is real danger of tho
allied troops bursting through tho German
linos in Flanders. So, too, the Italian cam
paign takes on a now fury.
Tho cost of tho offcnslvo in tho West will
bo terrible has been tcrrlblo In two days
but every success won underwrites tho loan
sought In America, and Is an additional guar
antee of Its success.
Slowly, but surely now, tho war Is moving
to a crisis and tho enormous resources of tho
Allies nro being brought to bear. Every
where else tho forco of the German arms
must bo lessened when real danger looms In
the West, for there Is the flower of tho Allies'
power, which can bo stopped by no second
rato defense and will require of Germany nor
ultimate strength.
PENNSYLVANIANS LEAD THE VAN
THE secret of the. prosperity of tho rest
of tho country Is out nt last. Tho Burenu
of tho Consus has discovered that 1,125,454
natives of Pennsylvania aro living In tho
other States. There nro 54,900 of them In
Now York, 12,000 of them In Washington,
11,000 In Los Angeles, 10,000 In Youngstown,
13,000 In Baltimore, 20,000 In Camden, and
moro thousands In other cities. They havo
taken Pennsylvania grit and Pennsylvania
enterprise nnd distributed It throughout tho
continent and havo made things hum abroad,
while thoso who havo remained at homo
havo kept this great Commonwealth at tho
head of the procession of the sons of Penn
who are Justifying the confidence of tho
great Friend in tho future of tho Common
wealth which ho founded.
WAR WIDENS THE HORIZON
THE war is widening the outlook of hun
dreds of thousands. Evidence of this Is
found In tho largo number of persons who
aro seeking instruction In tho languages of
Europe. English Is no longer enough, if they
are to havo any Intercourse with tho out
side world, oven though It has been suffi
cient for tho ordinary European tourist. But
tho United States must soon como Into
much mora Intimate relations with all parts
of the world than It has sustained In tho
past. Europo is stricken, and wo must act
as its physician In a thousand ways, both
now and when the war ends. It needs what
wo produce, and If American business men
can speak the language of Franco and Ger
many, Italy and Spain, as well as of Russia
and Holland, they will be much better quali
fied to play the part for which destiny has
cast them in the great commercial drama of
tho future.
Tho alert business man will not confine
his attention to Europe. Tho South Amer
ican continent Is looking to us to take the
placo of the Old World for tho next genera
tion as tho source of capital for Its develop
ment. A working knowledge of Spanish
must be acquired by whoever expects to got
Into Intimate relations with Argentina, Chill
and Peru, and tho man who would do busi
ness with Brazjl will find the way smoothed
for him If ho enn speak and write Portuguese.
It may be possible to court a maiden
through an Interpreter, but this Is becauso
thero Is a universal language understood of
all maidens that finds 'its expression without
words. Trade, however, cannot bo won by
looks and sighs and hand pressure. The
man who gets It must be able to talk busi
ness in the vernacular and to talk It better
than any competitor.
Greeco doeB not regard a treaty as a mere
scrap of paper.
The Allies have decided that the Oermans
aro not to have things all their own way,
but they have been a long time letting the
world know it.
Captain von Papen explains that by
"idiotic Yankees" ho meant the owners of
a New York newspaper whose father was a
Hungarian Jew,
Not even royalty Is Immune from motor
car accidents. The Kaiser and the Queen
of tho Netherlands were thrown from their
cars on the same day.
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Perhaps It may bo good politics to call an
extra session of the Senate to revise Its rules
so that the ship purchase bill can be Jammed
through, but tho men who think so will dis
cover that they guessed wrong If they do It.
The dolls' head Industry of Germany has a
rival in a new plant established In this city,
and before long the little girls of America
are likely to find "Made in Philadelphia" in
placo of "Made In Germany" on the back
of (Ue necks of their doll babies.
Colonel House has called on the President
again, and while he was In Washington be
went to the State Department also. And
yet they want us to believe that his visit
to all the warring countries of Europe In
the summer was purely for his own pleasure.
By all means ask the electors to vote on a
cit,y loan of 2z,P90,000 at tho same time they
choose the mea who will spend It. No better
arjcttwaal far ejecting a Mayor who mi
MmaMaaMl a Councils that fa not hes4
oeHild fc frmd than puttkog In Juxtajpoal
tofMt tjtf poW y aaa ft "put w
OUR ENJOYMENT
OP DRESSING UP
Wo'ro Frankest About It in Child
hood, But tho Fondness Lasts
Longer It 6nly Proves That
tho World's a Stage
By WARREN BARTON BLAKE
WHO doesn't enjoy "dressing up"? Of
course, we aro frankest about It In
childhood. Tho smnll boy Joyfully sketches
n black mustacho with burnt cork when ho
plays soldier, and what little girl doesn't
revel In putting on a long skirt, "doing" her
hair and giving a tea party to all her lady
frlonds, each In her mother's second-best
short skirt?
"Dressing up" Is not, however, cnslly out
grown. Jean Jacques Rousseau woro an
American costumo with fur trimmings that
seems to havo been highly becoming (wo
Judgo by tho old prints); Tolstoi, Rousseau's
heir, used tho smock of tho Russian peasant.
Balzac wroto his best novels In tho garb of
a monk. Chateaubriand novcr wearied of
clothes for clothes sako nor of exotic touches.
Robert Louis Stevenson, who loathed
Chateaubriand, doted on dinky llttlo caps and
tight trousers and enjoyed making up for
amateur theatricals.
Making Faces in tho Mirror
Plcrro LotI, Chateaubriand's literary grand
son and Stovenson's rival travel writer, Is
rumored to know something about powder
and rougo pot; yot who would dony him these
accessories, or tho Persian costume ho wears
In his country houso at Rochefort If, in
deed, ho likes Persia and paint? Latins aro
born actors; let that bo tho excuso of every
Lotl. Latins aro not so much nfrald as
Anglo-Saxons nro of being a bit "different"
or even a bit ludicrous. Lotl Is said to sleep
In n bedroom modeled on tho chamber of a
Breton peasant, with a checked cotton cov
erlet nnd a pair of wooden shoes under the
bed; nor do theso eccentricities impair tho
flavor of his exqulslto proso. In Morocco.
Lotl has delighted In Arab habiliments and
a burnooso; In his book about that country
ho avows his weakness for "tho fantasy of
disguises." It Is a harmless Indulgence. If
Mario Antolnctto and Louis XVI lost their
heads, It was not becauso they played at
milkmaid and watchmaker.
This lovo of dressing up, which Is one of
tho bits of child-play which theso so dif
ferent men of genius havo carried, with them
far beyond the ago of childhood (but not be
yond Its sense of romantic wonder), is only
one of many bits of ovldenco that all the
world's a stage and all tho men and women
fond of acting. Most of tho acting Is harm
less. Somo of It Is vanity somo merely a
kind of playful youthfulness of spirit. One
of my dearest friends loves to make faces In
tho mirror. He writes clover short stories
(and sometimes gets them published!); ho
has written wise editorials for a very
academic newspaper onco edited by tho
author of "Thanatopsls"; ho has a right to
string qulto a sizable portion of tho alphabet
after his name by way of Indicating all tho
degrees awarded to him by an ancient uni
versity; yet ho enjoys looking at himself in
tho glass, arranging his features a llttlo
othorwlso than nature ever Intended and
bidding you guess who It Is ho Is Interpreting,
Napoleon, or Theodore, or William Randolph
Hearst. Probably ho could earn a living pos
ing for the movies, my academic friend; cer
tainly ho "gets" tho grimace of thoso heroes
of romance, and no mistake. Ho enjoys It;
who, for that matter, doosn't naturally en
Joy the drama? For that Is what this mak
ing faces Is tho art of drama at Its very
simplest.
So Is "dressing up." So is Mnrdl Gras.
After all, acted drama Is a mere matter of
dlaloguo plus disguises, Just as Action is
descriptions plus (or minus) disguise.
"Charlotte Bronte," Mr. Chesterton writes,
"electrified the world by showing that an
Infinitely older and moro elemental truth
(than that convoyed In the novel of man
ners) could bo convoyed by a novel In which
no person, good or bad, had any manners at
all. Her work represents the first great as
sertion that the humdrum life of modern
civilization Is a disguise as tawdry and de
ceptive as tho costumo of a bal masque.
She showed that abysses may exist Inside a
governess and eternities Inside a manufac
turer." A Dramatist, Not the Devil
We aro told that thero aro only seven plots
In literature or Is It eleven? It doesn't mat
tor. Any one who reads the new fiction, any
one who goes to the theatre, knows there are
very few. But think how few plots there
would be without dressing and undressing!
Think how the absence of clothing, purify
ing but at the same time- woefully simplify
ing character, would reduce its literary varia
tions to next to nothing at all! Instead of
eleven plots, there would be only three or
four. The book of Genesis makes the Ser
pent Indirectly guilty of Imposing clothes
upon our naturally virtuously naked an
cestorsthat first family of Eden from whom
the faithful trace their ultimate ascent.
Ironic Anatole France, In his history of mod
ern civilization that ho calls "Penguin
Island," makes the devil directly responsible
for giving women clothes to wear,
I don't think It was tho devil. I think it
was some dramatist somo one who guessed
what fun it would bo to children of all ages
to be perpetually dressing up in front of a
long glass.
TO THE POLITICIANS
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir The following letter Is addressed to the
politicians of Pennsylvania:
Gentlemen Wo address you at a time when
we are conscious that you are especially busy
In the discharge of your political duties.
As women who would serve with you In the
consideration and shaping of affairs controlled
by the ballot, we publicly express our appre
ciation of the political work our men have
accomplished single-handed.
We repudiate the statement being circulated
by "anti-suffragists," who would excuse them
selves In their wish to shirk their civic duties
by advertising that "as women we do not
want the strife, bitterness, falsification and
publicity which accompany political campaigns.
Whatever the outcome of the election of
November 2 on the Issue of accepting or re
jecting the largor field of service for women
of Pennsylvania, we put ourselves on record
as honoring the men who conduct these cam
paigns for doing It according to their best
conscience In the service of the public.
MARaARET KOHL KELLT.
Philadelphia, September Z5.
This letter Is marked "Indorsed by the Equal
FrunchUe Boclety of Philadelphia." Editor or
the EvSMixa Ledger.
EGYPTIAN SERENADE
Stpg again the song you sung
When we were together young
When there were but you and I
Unaerneath the summer sky.
Mn tfce sent, and o'er aaa o'er,
MMsaTli I kaaw taat aawenaofe
W1U it the soag you uug
was W9 w eaaatnar yauag.
TV""" wiaa uwV
"HEY, YOU GOTTER HANG ON A BIT LONGER; I MAY
NEED THIS MYSELF!"
CATCHING UP WITH THE MOVIES
An Industry That Strikes the Mind With Wonder Even More by
Its Progressiveness Than by Its Magnitude and Is Thus Like
the Auto Business Shall the Church Lag Behind?
By REV. DAVID
THROUGHOUT my trip across tho con
tinent, but especially In California, and
notably In Los Angeles and San FranclBCO,
two things most of all claimed my attention.
This they did moro than tho fair at San
Diego or the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
They wcro the nutomobllo and tho movlng
plcturo Industries. In theso two places, in
peculiar ways, does one havo this thought
fixed on both. It is small wonder, since tho
moving picture business Is capitalized as
highly today In America as tho steel trust,
and the auto sales, In the past year alone,
exceed the national debt of tho -United States.
This has set mo thinking. Has tho Church
anything Hko tho progressiveness of -these
two Institutions? If not, why not? Is it
because it has not tho same capital? Or Is
It becauso It lacks the same faith In its own
utility and tho samo confidence In Its own
future? Would that, from either or both
of these, the Church might learn a lesson
and take courage 1 Transportation Is a
mania of this age; tho nutomobllo is its
modern agency. Is religion a less perma
nent, a less abiding need? Education Is a
fetish of tho age, while recreation Is another.
Tho cinematograph is educational and
recreational both. Is tho Church contont to
be and to do loss? Why should it be so
much less popular than aro tho moving pic
ture places, which aro omnipresent and
which every whero are crowded to the doors?
From Cowpath to Auto Road
I visited one day the busy offices of tho
National Automobile Tourists' Association at
San Francisco. There I learned that, over
tho main three transcontinental routes, the
National Parks Highway, tho Lincoln High
way and the Santa Fo Trail, there has been
an average of one party arriving every five
minutes in, the day this summer at tho coast.
Of these three modern roadways many por
tions aro beginning to rival In skillful en
gineering the French highways nnd in scento
grandeur tho mountain passes of Switzer
land. Added to those is the Pacific High
way, which is a completo system of road
ways north and south, connecting British
Columbia with tho southern limit of Califor
nia, a total distance of 2000 miles. Along
this Camlno Real, the motorist guides his
car over a road as perfect in its way as is the
gently tempered climate, which makes tho
trip a posslblo one at any time of the twelve
month. Who haa built theso roads, and why?
Many a Western city's Chamber of Com
merce has Joined In memorializing tho na
tional Government for tho building of better
roads from ocean to ocean, and from Canada
to Mexico, fairly gridlronlng the country.
Their reasoning Is something like this: Cows
make cowpaths from the pasture to tho yard,
and ducks, and geese from the pond to their
shelter at night. A savage is simply one
who dwells in tho woods; no roads are
known to savage barbarism. Even early
civilization was content with a sufficient
trail along which the horsemen rode. But
with tho invention of the first crude-wheeled
vehicle came tho necessity for something
more. It was observed in ancient times that
all roads led to Rome. That city was the
centre of the civilization of its day; hence
roads were the concomitant and the insig
nia of the civilization of the Eternal City la
its pristine glory. With tho further develop,
ment of civilization came the railroad, with
its steel tracks for freight and passenger
cars, so that, to write a history of roads,
from the cowpath and the trail to the trunk
lino railroad, would be to write a history of
civilization; tho two would go hand in hand,
with equal steps, on every page of tho his
tory of the race.
Now something else has come. Tho auto
mobile has brought into existence tho need
for systems of smooth, hard highways. Nor
Is this reasoning only national; it has inter
national illustrations.
Cities Shifted Over Night
In southern California also is the centre of
tho world's moving-picture Industry. Here
aro nearly 60 studios, housing from two to
20 companies apiece. Millions of dollars
are Invested In these film-producing plants,
the annual payroll and the annual output
totaling a hundred millions more, Southern
California Is especially adapted tq this new
est big business on account of its climate,
sunny days and picturesque scenery. Among
all these, in a class by Itself, fa Universal
City, Just out of Los Angeles. It fa In. the
fopthlUa of the Ban Fernando Valley, It fa
the only city in 'the world built solely for
jewtloa. picture production This maglfi piao
earn be c!iogd la a tow day to oaasorm to
aay aationaHtr taajaixad aa a at attUn In
M. STEELE, D. D.
succession, it can faithfully represent Athons,
Rome, Paris, London and New York, or
Hindu streets and Afghan villages, with all
tho local color of tho land desired.
Tho amazing advance. In all tho arts and
sciences, In tho whole field, mechanical as
well as sociological, since the last previous
International exposition. Is shown at San
Francisco chiefly nnd most effectively
through tho medium of the cinematograph
This is a mlraclo which previous expositions
lacked; but It Is the most tolling device em
ployed here to narrate and display tho
growth nnd spread of civilization. It is the
voice and the picture of tho modern speed
ing world. Every building In the grounds
holding any exhibits has a movlng-plcturo
show of Its own, with thousands of feet of
film. It is In this way that tho industries,
manufactures, sciences and arts of the vari
ous countries aro most strikingly presented.
With tho assistance of these it is possible to
give an almost exact portrayal of any coun
try Involved; so that If one could dovote
enough tlmo to thorough sightseeing in the
whole exposition, one would become almost
as well acquainted with far countries as if
one had seen them.
In view of these two things, I ask again:
What of tho Church? Is it less confident of
its own future, less willing to make com
mitments of men and of money than tho au
tomobile men aro? And Is it less alert, less
ablo to feel the pulse of the present and
less operative in producing tho new stand
ards that aro yet to bo than managers of
nickelodeons? One could wish tho Church
had as much, faith in religion as manufac
turers havo in transportation, and that it
were as efrtcient and Industrious as are the
players for innumerable Princess, Empress,
Lyrlo and Gem, "movio" palaces In every
hamlet In the land.
LET "NATURE" DO IT
Animals, Insects and Fish Work for an
Illinois Fnrrrfer
That "the world owes us a living" has often
been heard, but it has remained for a Ver
milion County farmer to take steps to colloct
it John Graham Is the man who Is making
Nature produce for him. Wild bees, wild ducks
muskrats, foxes, skunks and black bass are
aborlng for this "Naturo farmer," as he Is
tiwn..,il th ne'Khborhood where he lives.
TKeN,alUrel.farm'" a w,,d P,u apd wild
crab npple orchard of 11 acres, lies 20 miles
?0.r., ot '. and u ls a part ot lie old Mann
estate. It Is on the banks of the Northfor
and Is an excellent place for the raising or
i U1 foxes' ducks mu-at and bees. The
black bass are native to the stream
?,! ih0 "rm." are 300 "Hunks, B0 stands ot
wild bees, 100 foxes, 100 wild ducks, hundreds
of muskrats and thousands of bas,. And what
is strangest or all to the casual visitor, there Is
no odor. The "Nature farmer" contends that
aS'.1,1" beUef,to th0 "ntrary. skunks are
among the most cleanly of animals and give off
no offensive odor unless they are In danger
They become domesticated on the "farms" and
ore as docile as kittens.
tntZ2at, ot th9 iarm ,s a winter house
.for tnLskunks. and nearby are burrows for
them. They feed on wild plums, crab apples and
scraps of meat. Fish are eometlmes caSght for
them. Adjoining the skunk pens are pens for
th.8mfXV AriPl(" and v owls arePfed to
them. Nature has provided bees for the "farm."
Trees In which the bees were found wtre
AMUSEMENTS
B. F. KEITH'S THEATRE
CHESTNUT & TWELFTH STREETS "
EXCLUSIVE VAUDEVILLE
ENGAGEMENT!
DAVID BISPHAM
BUUtWT AUBRtOJUt OPXRA.TW lUniTONn
iiiuiuuiAii X suiuiuUMDING SHOW!
'Rtrrnfi tiiiih dado . MnH
?."WAN nOSB, MOWATTEBB ft TrsON.'Tlr.n
men a jlle
"""ffS 5lV,iWCAN dancerb;
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HENRY MILLER
AND
RUTH CHATTERTON
"SS?"' DaddvLong Legs
METROPOLITAN gggS
OFBNS BATURDAT MAMMOTH NOVELTT
PHOTOPLAY, OPMKX mj UPXaTAtTt
NIXON'S W
GRAND iftoH&S'
, matinkb too A. Ui i a : aorc n-
Trocadero T$fuJbj
People Pafc White cgt?r'
moved to the farm and the bees go right ahead
providing for the farmer.
Corn bread, roasting ears, black bass and
many other articles from th.e "farm" recently
appeared on tho table at a dinner given to a
number of Danville men. "That ls proof posi
tive," said Sir. Graham, "that Nature will pro
vide, for us. If wo only take tho trouble to
collect what has been offered." Indianapolis
News.
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
The tariff affects every man, woman and
child In the country Just as seriously and as
definitely as do railroad rates, Nation's Busi
ness. There aro times when a sdft answer may
serve a useful purpose, but to rely on It at all
times nnd In all circumstances for protection
would be tho rankest sort of idiocy. Springfield
Union.
We cannot havo a cltlzon-soldlery without
tno patriotism that allows workers time t
rerve any more than we can have such n
soldiery without the patriotism to serve. Buf
falo Enquirer.
From his visit to the Colorado mine fields
John. D. Rockefeller, Jr., ls deriving at least
a partial knowledge of labor conditions there.
No reports of managers or special agents could
over servo the same purpose. New York
World.
If Bulgarian entrance on tho Teutonic side
brings both Rumania and Greece In on the
allied side, tho great profit will be with the
lea rowers, and Bulgaria will be confronted
with as grave peril as In 1913, when she guessed
wrong and paid tho cost. New York Tribune.
Whether Professor Munstorbcrg likes our
American culture or not, he must admit that
it exists and must yield to us tbfc right to
maintain It as our very own. Has he not
found tho tub standing pretty firmly on Its
own bottom during the past year,? Boston
Transcript ,
Throughout the land there are millions of
people whose stomachs would be better filled,
whose wages would be higher, whose clothes
would be newer and whose food would be
moro nourishing If the politicians who for th
Jaat decade have been ruling this country
almost unto Its ruin could bo banished to some
desert Island and left there to make their own
living Instead of living, as they have been do
ing, on the country. Manufacturers' Record.
AMUSEMENTS
metropolitan opera house
GRAND OPERASiiSS
Opening Performance TUESDAY EVO., NOV. 23
METROPOLITAN op!Smpany
NEW YORK
GIULIO OATTI-CASAZZA. General Manacer.
Aleo nrt appearance In America (as an adjunct
01 the eeneon) the
IMPERIAL BALLET RUSSE
Direction of SERGE DE DIAGIULUW
Subscriptions Now Received
Seaaan aubacrlptlon comprises fifteen performancea
(fourteen (rand opera and one ballet).
Subscription 1 1QQ HVipcf Cf Open Dally
Depar,m..,ttllUneSLbt.nA. M.
FORREST No W Mat3 S'll
TWICE DAILY -L U W Evgs. 8:15
D. W. GRIFFITH'S
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18,000 People
.3000 Horsed
GARRICK OTE TONIGHT
HBASON
A. II. WOODS Presents
The Laughing Comedr (Sensation
POTASH & PERLMUTTER
Nlshts and Saturday Mat., BOo, 7Bo. 11.00, 11.60.
Popular Price Wedneaday Mat. Beat Heata St.
GLOBE ftm
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x$fi "The Devil's Mate"
NOTEPnrci!BE.?f.l?f?.,.10. .a, -
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Edith Taliaferro
and BAIILB BROWNE
In Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
PRICES ,. . -.
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