EVENING LBDGEB PHILADELPHIA, SATTJKDAY, OOTOBEB 9. 1915. 8 Utitrjcr 2sSrWj5fcfifcJ NJBLIC LEDGER COMPANY t tin s ii k n ivris, piisidmt. rtiartaa It f.urilnvtAn. Vl I'r-ttltVm . John O Martin. krittrr hd Trasurn l'hlltp s. Celllna, John Ii. WUllama, Directors EPITOntAt. noAnD: CtaraH K I'tatia, Chairman J1- It. W1IALHY . . Btecutlve Editor OHN C HAUTIN Otntral nualneta Manager fublltned daily at Pcsi le karxiia Building, lnltpoditie Square, Philadelphia. I.ttton CliTUt ..Broad and Chut nut RtreMa Atlantic i itt ..jTMt-iHion mmainr vsw oaK iiu-a. Metropolitan nwr BIO 111M uuiminc 409 U'ot Demorrat Ilulldlnu , .103 Trlbuna ItulldltiK ... .8 Waterloo 1'laca, l'all Mall, S V, NEWB nUtlBAVS ! Wishikctov nritriu.. Kttr VoaK lllatitJ ... ntMH )tilmtc . . . . Loxho nckciG . .. rial Dcaxis . . . The roll nulldlnc The rimi-l Itulldlnc . ... no PrledrlchatraMa ..2 Pall Mall Maat. 8 W. .33 Hue Ixmla le Qrand sruscnirTioN thumb JSy rarrlar Din T Omi.t. alt pnta Ttv mall Ttrtatd utM of 1'hllaclelphta, Mjt where foreign noatare required Daiit Osit. one month twenty-flv rental DilLT Onit one year, three dollar All mall aub- eeripuona navaTO in advance NOTICB- Suherrlhera tvlRhln addreaa rhanred muit felra old an well new hddren fcfLt. JOM WUMT KrVTONT. MAIN 1000 C3" Aitlrrn ofl eommlHllv1HOlM fo BvmiIso Lngtr IniitptndtHet Sijware, VhUaMrha. IKTtltD AT TUB MltLACELrlllt roTorrics AB SECOND CLASS MAIL UATTH THE AS liltAnn NUT PAID DAILY CtrtCUI.A- TION OK THU EVHNINC1 I.HDC1HH Fon 8EPTHMUKH WAS 100,008. Eliciting PRtOIT BT I1U1S ClllClOft I PIULADH-rillA. SATMUiAY, OCTOIttn , 1915. Gamblers usually ille poor, whether thou hazard their earnings In the stock market or at other games of chance. ONE! THERE was n slight rumbling under Bcneon Hill yesterday nftornoon. Hy 4 b'clock the Doston Common wns devastat ed, as by n groat wind, nnd Fanuull Hall rocked In agony. Late last night It was rumored that Beacon street had glvon up the ghost. For the consolntlon of good Bostonlans they are reminded that ono gamo doos not give tho Phillies tho championship Four games arc necessary. It Is strange, but after watching tho snapping attack, tho dash and, verve of tho Phillies yesterday, a largo num ber of Bostonlans refuse to be consoled. After nil, tho Phillies need only three out of the next six. GREECE- LOOKS ON r I ifTTJT mmtntnlna lrtnl rn TnPntliAn nnrl X Marathon looks on tho sen," wrote By ron Today the now Greek Cablnot, gathered In the face of tho most terrlblo conflict of tho ages, does nothing but look on, too Tho ministry, headed by M. Zalmls. Is con fessedly a compromise. It is pro-Ally In sentiment, nnd so long as It does not placo obstacles In the way of Allied landings nt Salonica It is pro-Ally in action. But It finds no Just cause In tho war, no great Incentive to mako war Itself. "Tlno" King Constantino said whon war broke out that it wns tho mission of Greece to carry civilization to the world. Apparent ly, neither Germany nor Franco Is fighting for civilization as Greece conceives It. Ap parently, In a neutrality which would ad vantage Germany at every point If rigorous ly observed, will Greece find Its salvation. Between refusing to nltnrk Rnrrannv1! nllv allowing tho landing of French troops on Its soil tho Greek Cabinet Is making a record for the higher neutrality. "GOOD FELLOWS" IN PERIL Be honest, but hate no one; overturn a man's wrongdoing, but do not overturn him Ffc unless it must be done In overturning S wrong. Stand with anybody that stands right. It Stand with him while he Is right nnd part .., a,,., niivu uu bvca wiuiiK. jturuimm Lincoln. IF ANY ONE had been asked to set forth tho principles which are guiding the lead ers of tho reform movemont hero this year, ho could not have stated it better than In these words of Lincoln. No one Is fighting McNIchol and the Varcs as men. They have many admirable quali ties. They mako friends and keep them. , They aro successful In business. No one begrudges them either their business pros perity or their friends. But they aro dan gerous citizens because they stand for a pernicious political system. The more ad mirable their personal qualities, the more ' likable they are, tho more dangerous they become because thoy make the unthinking say, for example, that "Jim McNIchol Is a good fellow and what he does must be all right- By being "good fellows" McNIchol and his like have hoodwinked tho electorato for years and succeeded In exploiting tho city for their personal profit. If they get hit in the campaign now beginning it will bo only iftcause, in Lincoln's phrase, It may be nec essary In overturning tho wrongdoing to overturn the wrongdoer also. JOFFRE TO HIS MEN GENEItAL JOFFRE, besides being a strat egist, Is something of a knower of men, 'In tho general order Issued to commanders yt army corps he said: The French soldier fights all the mora bravely In proportion a he understands the Importance of the action In which he Is taking part Recognizing this, the Generalissimo gave detailed information of the work which had been dope in preparation of tho great of fensive "to chaso the Germans out of France"' He followed that with the plan of battle which was to be carried out. He added the warning that "it is Indispensable .that communication of these facts be mado the soldiers with Intelligence and con- KlonV The machine of war may be an excellent r. But at the flnal, supremo moment. rfu-n the highest effort Is to "bo made, the al must turn again to poor human nn- lo the faltering and falling human 4, and bid it he of courage. rt that crisis humanity has not yet proved worthy ol the tryst. , A WASONAm-K WAGE ;pft5w the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities Oie 'rntolniiim family budget" or "rea- iUli living watfe," These figures Jndl- i that a family of man, w)fp and three j(dro under tW age of IS can live on t m. tfe or I78.H o tfear. The wrtge if th e h Vwt one, tut need bring , wt HiDii link anytfciay can Jm proved by UiW estimate. If live can live on so llttlo nnd nro willing to keep on Milng in thnt way then, of course, there Is no reason for giving them more. But the fact that n thing can bo dono has never been concluslvo cvldonco thrft It should be done. An elementary economist could explain that tho maximum family budget might bo an extravagantly dangerous thing. It Beldom occurs to ono school of economists thnt the minimum budget Is equally extravagant. It wastes not money, which Is Infinitely pre cious, but llfo whleh Is Inflnltoly cheap. Somo flno day, none tho less, It will bo discovered that tho country cannot afford tho loss. It Is pleasant to lenrn thnt a family can exist on J15 a week. It Is. even more heart ening to renllze thnt somo families drag along on less. Htlt It would bo pleasnntcst of nil if It could bo said thnt tho minimum actual wago wns really n reasonable living wngo. OUST THE TARIFF BUNGLERS QJO LONG ns tho Democrats aro In con- trol In Wnshlngton there Is no possibility of tho crontlon of such n tariff commission ns Alba H. Johnson hits described, a com mission that would ilovoto ltuclf to an intel ligent study of trado conditions nnd to recommendations of tariff changes Intended 4o protect American Industries, while nt tho snmo time expanding our foreign trado In tho manner suggehtod by MoKinloy In his Buffalo speech. The dofendors of tho Administration would lmvo us believe thnt tho last Congress crc ntcd a commission with nil tho powers neces sary. They refer to the Federal Trado Com mission. That body, however, will have moro than It can do If It attempts to exercise one tenth of tho powers of supervision oer do mestic business that havo been conferred on It, without paying any heed to foreign trade. It Is a trust-busting body. Intended primar ily to prevent big business from getting too big rather than to nsslst nnd encourage American business men to -ncrensc their trndo nt homo and nbrond. Before this commission can be of nny use In suggesting n revision of tho tariff. It must nppioach the subject from nn entirely differ ent direction from thnt In which Congress headed It In tho act defining Its powers and duties. The moving purpose of Congress In Its tariff nnd anti-trust legislation wns to hobble every large enterprise by restrictions nt home and to let down the bars nt tho ocean ports, so that what tho resttlctlve laws nt home could not do might bo accom plished by selling low-cost foreign-manufactured goods in tho markets here. Congress, which wns committed to tariff rt-ductlon, had nn opportunity to force tariff concessions from foreign countries In re turn for every reduction that It made. It could havo created a market abroad for largo quantities of American goous now kept out by high tariffs abroad, but it deliberate ly refused to embrace it. Tho war has counteracted the effect of some of Its blun ders, but tho lighting Is not to last forever. Tho commercial crisis which will bo created by tho return of thi soldiers to the factories of Europe cannot be met hero by theorists and visionaries. Practical business men and law makers In sympathy with tho protection of American Industiy must bo put In power If wo nro to be saved from disaster. A tariff commission in charge of such men could do somothlng worth while. THE AUTUMN OF THE BIBLE THERE Is something In tho fall of tho year which Is kin to tho blood of all of us. It Is a zest nnd a clean spirit that aro world-old and eternally new. Spring may bo tho renewal of llfo; autumn Is Its re freshing. Turn to tho Old Testament and read thero of all tho manifestations of autumn and early winter of tho east wind, tho breath of the Lord coining up from tho wilderness, the clouds and tho storm and the rain. Tho com parisons of tho Blblo aro all with simple things, but nono are moro effective, nono more beautiful, than those which link the humility of man or tho glory of God with tho powers of Nature In the imngery of autumn thero Is some thing sombre. Calamity comcth on as a whirlwind, we read, and, "I havo blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions and, aa a coud, thy sins." The rain of fall Is not tho early rain of spring which covereth tho valley of weeping with blessings, but the lattor rain which watereth tho earth. Tho dancing of brown leaves In fantastic procession and tho whirling dust boforo tho storm bring to nostrils, sick with the city's odors, a breath of that sharp, tingling air which makes life glorious and love a lovely thing. Tho city In autumn takes on new features and drapes herself In fresh garments. Over her embattled skyscrapers tho setting sun throws strange colors and the pavilions of tho clouds bank In grandeur. Tho snap, tho keenness of vitality, are about all. After a year of tragedy and disaster, ono looks upon autumn as an omen of better and braver things. Here's hoping the best nine will win again today! , Connie Mack wanted Boston to win,' but Alexander didn't. There Is no doubt now that somebody has offered to pay Noarlng's salary for a year. Literature Is looking up. James Whltcomb Blley Is almost as popular as the latest "movie" star. I i ' . Wliou It comes to telling how a laboratory should he bult and equipped, Edison Is Johnny on tho spot. This U Fire Prevention Pay In Chicago and several oher cities. Every day Is Are pre vention day. In Philadelphia. Colonel BooseVelt may bo willing to awear to an alibi for someione else, but he never took refuge In denying that he was there himself. What doss King Oeorge exptct to accom plish by a throut to aUdlcatq? The Govern ment would go on pretty $nuch the same without Mm. A STEEL MAN OF "THE BIG THREE" A. C. Dinkey Wns n "Writer Boy" Beforo His Uisc to Power Ac quired the Study Habit Early nnd Kept It Up B E. BIGELOW THOMPSON GOLF Is the recreation, domostlolty the Pleasure, asldo from the Interest that nttachr-s to tho ups nnd downs of tho steel market today, In tho llfo of Alva Clymcr Dinkey, of Pittsburgh, who resigned from tho presidency of tho Carneglo Steel Com pany, after 13 years' service, to 'jeeomo tho head of tho Mldvalo Steel Company, suc ceeding William E. Corey. Followed soon tho announce ment of a giant mer ger tinder tho title of tho Mldvnlo Steel and Ordnnnco Company In which Mr. Dinkey is mo of tho directors. Tho various "deals" imong sto" nnd mu nitions plants havo been watched bv tho DINKEY public- with grent Interest It Is enough to say hero that Mr Dinkey has risen to new promlnenco ns a forco In big financial and Industrial nffalrs. Aside from tho recreation on tho links of tho Pittsburgh Country Club, which golfers lntlmnto brings tho steel magnnto to a chnrgo of 8i, Mr. Dinkey Is known to most of his associates as tho student and the man of tho home. His nssocinto In the steel Industry. William E. Corey, hns to his record the "finding" of "Rube" Waddell, who first started on his climb to tho ped estal of fandom on tho bnseball tenm of tho Homestend Steel Works Mr. Dlnkoy has no such record yet. "As I know Mr. Dinkey years ago." said a Pittsburgh steel mnn today, "he wns tho student. Ills rlso Is lndlcntlve of tho man. Always entering new fields, eager to learn overj thing thnt was even remotely connect ed with his business. Industry wns the key noto of his life when I knew him ns nn apprenticed clectrlcnl engineer." Mr. Dinkey says he Is a steel man, and disclaims nny honors nt golf. The "Big Three" Go Tho depnrture of Mr. Dinkey from tho city which has been his lifelong homo adds nnothcr chnpter to tho unique romanco of steel In Pittsburgh, marking the passing of the last of tho "big three," who wero the reliance of Andrew Carneglo in tho days of tho business activity of the Ironmaster Dinkey, Schwab nnd Corey. Alva C. Dinkey is one of tho glnnts of tho stool industry In Its technlcnl and operating end Ills rise In tho 49 years of his life Is n remarkable entry on tho records of steel making In western Pennsylvania. Tho man who resigned from tho presi dency of tho Carneglo Steel Compnny, nfter filling tho office for 13 yenrs, to head tho Mldvale Steel Companv. succeeding Mr. Corey, began work as n water boy In tho Edgar Thomson Steel Works, In Braddock, Pa. From tho tlmo when ho was n poor boy, Mr. Dinkey hns risen by his own ef forts, following his own Inclinations in tho mechanical sciences, educating himself along theso lines In particular, and specializing In clectro-mcchantcs and Inventions His mechanical Inventions number very Important appliances thnt havo to do with Increasing tho use of electric power In mill machinery. He wns born In Weatherly, Pa., February 20, 18GC, the son of Reuben nnd Mary Elizabeth Dinkey, whoso nnccstors came to America In 1743. He nttended tho public schools there and In Braddock, when his parents moved to tho latter place. Tho first employment of tho new master In tho steel Industry was In the Edgar Thomson Works, where, as a water boy, 13 years old, ho put In his spare fme In tho study of telegraphy Ho became a telegraph er In tho company In 1883', and continued in that work until 1S85. Then he gavo up tho work at the key and bocamo a machinist In the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works, In old Allegheny, whore ho remained until 188S. Near tho end of 1888 he was nn expert machinist In tho MoTlgho Electric Company, In Pittsburgh, and 'n tho mxt year left this work to become tho secretary to the general superintendent of the Homestead works of the Carneglo Steel Compnny. In 1893 tho cnll of the workshop camo to him again and ho left his clerical position to become electrician in the Homestead plant. His perseverance and industry won for him, In 1898, the superlntendency of tho plant, where ho remained until 1899. When Mr. Dinkey entered tho plant, old steel rr.en say, there were only four arc Hght3 run by elec tricity. When he left, five years later, the shop was recognized ns one of tho best equipped, electrically, In tho country. His next position up the ladder was the rung of assistant general superintendent of the Homestead Steel Works, holding the position two years, when ho was made gen eral superintendent of tho plant, April 1, 1901. In 1903 he was appointed president of the Carneglo Steel Company. A Man of Many Interests Varied Interests occupy the steel magnate. He Is a director In tho Carnegie Steel Com pany. II. C. Frlck Coke Company, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, Mellon National Bank, the Monongahela Trust Company, of Homestead, and the Hays National Bank, of Hays. In professional associations and technical societies and clubs, Mr. Dinkey Is a mem ber of the American Society of Electrical Engineers, the American Society of Me chanical Engineers, the American Society of Mining Engineers, the American Society for the Advancement of Science, the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Acad emy of Science and Art, a trustee of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, a trustee of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, the Engineers' Club of Now York, the Pilgrims, the Duquesne Cuib of Pittsburgh and the .Pittsburgh Country Club. Mr. Dinkey married Margaret Stewart, of Braddock, and has three children, Robert E. Dinkey, Alva C. Dinkey, Jr and Miss Leo nora Stewart Dinkey. He la a brother-in-law of Charles M. Schwab, of the Bethlehem Eteel Company, JITNEYS AND TRANSFERS The Jitney bus service of Pasadena, California, has duveloped to such an exceptional extant that a tiansfer syatem has been established. It being tte Intention to tseue transfer for travel m at many as 10, different feuH within the tr. 1 t yV k A C HOW I PAINTED A WICKER CHAIR A Three Hours' Experience in the Cellar With a Can of "Ivory White" in an Effort to Deal Extravagance a Knockout Blow Ended in Victory By B. K, MERE writer though I tim, I take prldo In being nn intensely practical person. Thero's no reason why tho man who drives a pen should not also drive u nail. That's why I was flattered when Ethel naked mo. In nil Innocence, to do It. Paint that wicker chair an ivory white? Of course I'd paint that chair any color In the rainbow if she willed. You see, Ethel hnd been downtown and had bought a wicker rhnlr for our guest chamber. Thero was n dlrfercnco of threo whole dollars nnd a half between the painted nnd tho unpalnted wicker chairs. And knowing my lovo of pottering about tho house, nailing this down tight and planing thnt down smooth, Ethel hnd put It squnrcly up to mo to practlco n llttlo thrift and save us the threo dollars and n half by painting thnt chair. She wanted It an Ivory white. As I look back on It now, I can under stand tho difference In tho price of a ready painted nnd nn unpalnted wicker chair. Taking the Lid Off Tho news of tho purchase of tho chair camo to mo over the telephone In Ethel's silvery voice. So I left tho office an hour earlier, in order to buy tho paint and allow myhelf plenty of tlmo to get tho painting dono beforo dinner. A brush cost mo fifty cents, and a pint of paint cost me thirty moro a slight reduction on Ethel's economy. But then I figured that the brush would do for saving many moro dollars, and so would tho pnlnt that would be left over. Tho stutt came In a tin with a replaceable lid, purpose ly calculated for future reference. And so I went homo nnd set to work Ordinarily, pnlntlng Is dolightful work to me. Tho professional pnlnter, of course, wndes right In. Ho charges nil tho paint up to you, and he's Inclined to bo careless whero ho puts It, whether on his overalls or on the surrounding scenery. My own meth od Is much bettor. I prldo myself on put ting the paint whero tho paint Is really de sired that Is, naturally, on the object to be painted. I sco my mlstako now. But at that time It seemed to mo such a slmplo and trilling Job to paint a wicker chair that I never both ered to chango my clothes. Thero was a full hour, to bo sure, beforo dinner, but I dislike hurry. When painting I'd rather tako a llttlo more time and waste a little less paint. Ap proaching tho chair with entire respect, I knew it would take me an hour, leaving no time over for a chango of clothing. There would bo Just time to do tho chair In a leisurely manner, call down tho wife to ad 'mlre my work, removo the smelly turpentine from my hands and sit down to dinner with tho satisfaction of having dealt a heavy blow to extravagance. Warming Up the Cellar So I took tho chair at once down cellar un der a good electric light. And instantly my life seemed flooded with excitement. In tho llrst place, tho man who designed the lid of that can is In for a large measure of disap probation. It was better calculated to con serve forever the contents of the can than to permit of their free and easy use. Tho lid Btuck. But after 10 minutes' severe and tax ing labor with a, screw-driver it came off. It came off with unexpected suddenness, and a large splotch of paint got wasted wasted on the right knee of my now trousers. DRAMATIC COLOR IN NEWS The Discovery That News Is Life With All tho Interest of Fiction To the tidltor of Evening Ledger: Sir I see that a writer In the Editor nnd Publisher takes me to taak for dating as I did In my article In your Anniversary Number the Introduction of dramatlo color in our news papers so recently as 15 years ago, He retorts that the Boston Herald, for Instance, went In for colorful news writing easily 80 years ngo, In the heyday of John L. Sullivan, to be exact. I have no doubt that the Boston Herald did that very thing, I never met a man associated with "the old davs on the Herald" who could not Instantly, and sometimes of no one's par ticular desire, run down the long catalogue of Its matchless and countless perfections. It was not my fortune to read the Boston Herald to years ago, but a paper with a staff like that, so crammed with enthualrsm for their wbrk, must have been a wonder. The Editor and Pub. Usher reminds me, too, that the New York Bun also shorn) In those days. I admit It,' cheerfully. But when a mighty book can be written about American newspapers and still not exhaust, or even nnd, the subject, how little can be nald In a single article of a thousand words! A tew pioneer papers may have discovered, longer ago than 15 years, the strange fact tliat news is life, and that real life may be given alt the Interest of fiction, with all the force of truth besides. What or itt All feonor to the penetrating pioneer. But I west, jB4tly, I faofM, passlHg a few aewgKtl SOMEBODY'S NOSE IS OUT OF LITTLE Our cellar Is n cool place, yet when Ethel came down to tell me that dinner was getting cold, tho first thing she felt called upon to do was to wipe a profuso perspiration from my brow. Sho also dabbed n cloth in tho tur pentine nnd removed whnt she said was tho major portion of the paint I hnd got on my face, quite without my knowledge. I noticed that while she did this Ethel kept her hanfl over her i.,outh nnd nostrils. Ethel dislikes the odor of turpentine. So do I. Later I suspected It was not nlono tho turpentine that obliged her to guard her fnce. For something .inppcned. In fact many things happened. This was but the first of them By then my back was broken squarely In two, what with con tinued bending over the furthermost reaches, rungs, legs and lattices of tho chair. So I had learned that by tilting tho thing up onto a slnglo hind leg a few of tho moro remote extremities were brought within hu man reach. But, unfortunately, wet paint Is slippery, and somehow tho chair passed from my control. It swung around and, for Jall my energetic efforts to escapo tho nngry thing. It dealt mo n cowardly blow from tho rear with nil the force of Its disturbed equi librium. Then It settled down again on its four legs with a rattling llko hollow laugh ter. Of course, tho wet side of tho chair had como Into contact with my person. I could sco that by looking over my shou'der, down ward, nt a very sharp angle. There could bo seen, Imprinted on tho rearward spaces of mv trousers, n design that looked like a blueprint plan of a wlro entanglement. At that point Ethel removed her hand from her face nnd laughed outright. Sho was still laughing long after sho hnd fled up stairs out of reach. Wanted: A Second Coat Well, to cut It all short, nt tho end of tho third pint of pnlnt I finally got every quar ter Inch of the wicker chair firmly painted. No, that Is n rash statement. It Is not so rash to say that I got paint over nearly every quarter Inch of my own being. No beauty of Broadway was ever painted as I was then a rich Ivory whlto. As for tho chair, I brushed over the unbollovably in tricate convolutions and sinuosities of the wicker as if I wero covering up every mi croscopic ovldcnce of a hideous crime. And, nt length, the chair was painted. So was I painted. So was the cellar painted. At least I am sure of tho cellar and of myself. Tho chair, I know, when It Is placed In the broad daylight of our guest chamber, on a sunny afternoon, will expose to public view on Its surface most likely on tho seat, the most salient spot of nil a largo area naked of paint, after all my threo hours of ter rible toll. Nevertheless, I can say It, In the main thnt wicker chair Is painted. I may Bmell of turpentine for a month to como. I have sacrificed my new trousers. Still, when I sat down to a cold supper at 9 o'clock that ovenlng, I had won my battle For all Its desperate struggles I painted tho chair. Still, It's not an Ivory white, but rather the Bhado of curdled cream. I finished painting with a fervent prayer that a merciful Prov Idonce would never send me another wicker chair to paint. Mine needs a second coat! on the Improvement of our newspapers In gen eral. And I still think that catching up of the crowd with the leaders, so far ns they have caught up, Is as recent as I said It was. After all, the Important thing is not the date of the Improvement, but that we have the Improvement Bt 0,,,.i M. '""'' ,B rew blB Papers, either, that make the Journalism of a country. ny tho way, I wonder If the writer nt tt,. John L. Sullivan "story," mentioned bv hl Editor nnd Publisher as a partlnuTarW flna specimen of the far from "bald" "BWs wriiinS In the Boston Herald 30 years ago Ian-1 J hf same reporter who wrote the last' word. Ji Ilalph Waldo Emerson. Will the EdTnr i Publisher please enlighten m.T EmVr.oS 'dlSf I believe In a state of coma Bt the last words of famous men were much in faahiii Ti that time, and I have heen credibly inform1 that the reporter mentioned gracefully sinnh thl thoughtless lack In Mr. EmS.'ir' I. la an. T n ,lth tho TMI, it ." 'IIS asTO snared nn sfrYnt -- . K v ri all the interest o flcUTSn. yr", Try Boston, Mass., October , Wff THE GUSniNO HABIT The gushing habit Is another form n .. hysterical frenzy. The subJV Is ? bl i point now because In too many quarters thert Is a tendency, not to reform or discipline hf.? V gushs to swell with emotion over thV fallen angels who are sent to prisons. Thi kii 1 gush we are thinking of IsX wlnJlnesL thSf JOINT JBlrTSv 9 of punishment; thnt tells us In platform efforts mui tuiiuii;ii tiiiu i-iuiiiMuiB nuuuiu noi De pun tshed; It Is the form of babble which we asta elate with pompous sermonizing and hands lalj on hearts the emptiness and wlndlncss that lnclto tho public to pose before the mirror and admire Itself prodigiously. It Is not only an absurd nnd dangerous habit, but a morbid one. Hysterical gush and wlndlncss servo no good ends, except to butt thick heads against hard facts. They help to deceive the People for a time, to deceive them ns to their brnlns and nerves; to prevent them from regarding In creasing Idiocy nnd hysteria clear enough la the light of symptoms of national disease Tha way most assuredly to fight the malady U not to "go up In the air" on political or piratical airships, armed by crazy mobs, for on such a craft It Is Impossible to steer clear of vertigo or provide rules of law nnd common senae. New York Medical Journal. A PROPHECY FOR CHICAGO The announcement that the Sunday closing 'aw for saloons Is to bo enforced In Chicago is going to agitate that city. Then these events will follow In regular order: First. Tho wets will say It can't bo dona? Snloons In n city can't possibly bo closed on Sunday. tj second. Also if It could bo dono It would be most unjust to the people because the saloon Is the poor man's club. Third. Also, It should not be done, for It will drivo trnelcrs away and hurt business. Fourth. But when it is done and works successfully, nnd crime falls off. nnd rami. lies nre more comfortable nnd happier, and business 13 better, cvcibody will say "We never would think of going back to Sunday, saloons; whv didn't we think of Sunday closing beforo? V That's the way It has worked In Kansas City. That's the way It works everywhere It Is tried. Kansas City Star. A WORD TO TICKET SELLERS Does a railway ticket seller ever think of the value of n friendly attitude toward his clients, tho traveling public? Apparently one of them docs, for ho is reported ns saying. In an address to his fellow ticket-sellers: "You need the help and friendship of every one posslblo. A man may not trael more than once n year, and Is absolutely In the dark nnd cannot alwas grasp your Ideas nnd terms readily. The best asset jou can have Is a pleased nnd satisfied cus tomer When you shake a man by the hand, put your henrt In It so thnt ho can feel the beats are for him, not that you want to 'beat' him," Outlook. WATTnWAT. tOT-NTTl fl-ni ITIVXIT The retention of tho sugar duty is nol only the ' " "i me way mai win evoKe i" am.i,ii-ni uukiuu vi censure, considering uic i large sum of revenue It will produce. Houston flM Mr. Wilson has wisely withheld his aid In giving woman suffrage further momentum as a natlonnl issue. But woman suffrage as a State Issue Is an entirely different matter. St. ivouis A-osi-jJispatch. If nt the end of this war, Christian Armenia Is not taken from the clutches of Mohammedan Turkey, whatever Christian Power Is responsl ble for tho failure will have a great burden of guilt to bear. St, Louis Star. When the matter comes up In Congress, Re- m punucan Henators and Representatives who ue llevo In preparedness will not vote against ' liberal program simply because a Democraue President has recommended It. Washington Star. No man Is "prepared" to uphold his country's; . cnuse or nchleve a personal success worth hav Ing who has not bean taught to care for Jiltj health and to render ntertienrn whrre It Is due, knowing that only he who has learned to obr an ne really fitted to command In his turn.- unicago Herald. GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN J Give me the splendid silent sun with all hu ' beams full dazzllntr. Give me Juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red Jj irom me orchard. Give me a field where the unmowed grass growa, Give me nn arbor, clva m thn trelllaed eraoe. Give me fresh corn and wheat, glvo mo serene moving animals tcanhlnr content. Give me nights perfectly quiet aa on high pl yJ tenus west of the Mississippi, and I looking , J "I aw me Biura, Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beauti ful flowers where I can walk undisturbed, Give me for marriage a sweet breathed woman Of Whom I should never tire. Give me a perfect child, give me, away ald,2 irom ine noise or the world, a rural ""j mesne nre, , Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only ( Give mo solitude, give me Nature, give m, again, u Nature, your primal sanities i These demandlnj to have them (tired with aM (filaod AvnlUmKni -a . !... V..a irttt 1l war etrife), Thcao to procure Incensantly akln.r, ris-n l While yet incessantly itBktnff atill I adhere ttl tnv pliv a Day upon day and year upon year, O city.l Where you hold me enchained a certain time refusing to give me up. i et giving to make mo glutted, enriched efi in , "oul, you give me forever faces) J to I see what I sought to escape, confronting, " C own 80ul trampling down what It KeeD youi anlnr1M all.. -.. ICeeD vnti WU-.. r v.. ..- ... -..!- ! '.-- ."."" v oiurv, ana jne nu,- places by the woods, J Keep your fields of clover and timothy, anj v .iT .'-"""':u na orenaras, d pn?,b,2".m,P buckwheat fields where th 1 niniluitlnnMi tin.- I... i Give me faces ana streets-give me theae phn trcdtol ,ewant ftnd enJ'e '' U r-WaJt WWtaaaej. ffl I
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