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SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
ftr rattler. ! cents per week. Tr malt,
MMMld outside of Philadelphia, except lrt
roreMra postage it requinu, one roonin, xweniy
fir oantst on rear, three dollars. All mall
subscriptions payable In adrarrce.
Nonce Subscribers wishing address chanced
Mutt lira old aa well aa naw addreae.
mnmnt an & naw tame. Svery
toiM4nM nrSGM to rvt Important a tao
tor la the forward march of the city ns
the enterprises uhtlortakcn by the mu
nicipality luelf for tho Improvement of
conditions, nnd It Is a matter of real pub
lic Importance when success croppies
with failure and irets a strnnRle hold.
A NARCOTIC DRUG LAW
WITH "TEETH" NEEDED
BEtL. MOO WALNtT
KEV5TOME. MAIX JOCO
B3" A&intt alf roinmcoloii to JTmtna
Irttotr, Indrptndenc Bqytar; rhUaitlphia.
xinrD it Tns rnnannrDU rotTorrici i
atcoxo-cuta uail uinca.
THE AVERAGE NET PAID DAILT CUl-
CULAT10N ar TUB HVKNINO LEDOEil
FOR JULT WAS ltl.000.
PhOtJ.fpliU. TaM4r. Splatr 12, MU.
Whoto findtth a wilt findith a
good thing. Solomon.
Tho Plnchot Indorsement of Hughes
Was certain as soon as the Colonel took
the stump.
The Sultan of Turkey has shown
,bls admiration for the Kaiser by writing a
poem to show that ho also Is versatile.
The Democratic campaign textbook
Is out, but what the Democracy needs
tnost Is a primer on the art of governing.
Doctor Anders is not tho only man
who is a victim of tho "dirty streets. The
rest of us carry the filth home In our
throats and lungs as well as on our cloth
ing. I
Tho people voted tho city adminis
tration the money, but the city adminis
tration docs not award the contracts. If
making haste slowly is a virtue, the
Mayor's got it.
Those new hltchlng-posts in front
of Independence Hall would bo out of
place around tho City Hall. Tho men
Inside the larger building will stand
Without hitching.
When so good n Democrat as
Walter George Smith cannot stomach
Wilson it is about time that other Demo
cratic lawyers began to consider their
luty to their country.
Shackleton's marooned men, who
moked the stuffing of their boots when
.they ran out of tobacco, are in a condition
to sympathize with Mr. Dooley, whose
wlfo gives him cigars and neckties for
Christmas, "And I don't care a damn
whtch I smoke, either,"
. When people who go to the country
for the summer fortify themselves in ad
i Vance by inoculation against typhoid
I fever, tho usual increase In tho preva
lence of that disease In town in the fill
will cease to be so marked.
It is amusing that the Serbian Par
llament should meet in the little and dls
tant island of Corfu, and that the Bel
.sjlan Government should hold forth in
then, again, the United
its national election in
Maine
France. But
'States holds
Another "Philadelphia Idea" is the
Ifeiaklng of articles which for integrity and
excellence of manufacture cannot be sur
passed anywhere. There are about 20,000
tnen employed at the "Baldwin Locomotive
Works alone, and the character of their
product is known wherever steam rail
roads have penetrated. The prosperity of
I community depends on tho service
I Which it renders to tho rest of the world.
Requiring that fruit and other
'ktands be covered to protect edibles from
dust is a good thing, but what about the
habit of sweeping the sidewalks when
ithey are dry? Sensible persons do not
carry water in slaves. Literally to sweep
I dust at the stands and then to cover the
I stands to keep the dust off is a wasteful
procesa at its best. What's the use filter
lng water at great expense if dust and
TUB narcotic drug evil is a greater
menace today than It has ever beon,
In spite of nay, In certain respects, be
cause of the passage of the Harrison
net. That Federal law, when It went
Into effect moro than a year ago, was
horalded as the decisive blow at habit
forming drugs. With one stroke of the
legislative scalpel It was to cut tho can
cer of the most secret and subtle of the
vices from our national life. It was ac
tually within slsht of success when the
statute Itso'f was In turn suddenly rent
by a less skillful surgery that of the
law. Of Its twelve sections one was de
clared unconstitutional by tho Supreme
Court. But that one excision was of the
flosh nearest tho heart, and today the
whole body of this giant law, onco
deemed Invincible, lies scorned and life
less. However negligent was tho public con
science before the Harrison act In per
mitting the salo of opium and Its deriva
tives without physicians' prescriptions,
there was at least this vlrtuo in. the
open trade, that through its very open
ness It did not encourage the machina
tions and greed of criminal bands, nor
did it wreathe with tho fascination of
forbidden fruit tho lair of tho "dope"
ogre. Shorn of Its vital Section 8, the
Harrison act became ns stultified as a
liquor prohibition law that does not pro
hibit. This section mado It a crime for
an unauthorized person to have nnrcotlc
drugs In , his possession. When the
courts said this was not a crime, It be
came necessary for the authorities to cs
tabllsh proof of Illicit sales of drugs In
order to convict tho venders and thereby
stop thclt traffic. Arrests and raids
would have cleaned out tho "dope" supply
of tho underworld In a short time If mere
possession of ,that supply remained a
crime. Arrests and raids are of no avail
now that that possession Is not deemed a
crime, and the actual effect of tho now
crlpplel law Is to stimulate a criminal
syndicate to a widening clutch on the ab
normal profits of smuggling1 and clan,
destlno barter, on the lives of thousands
of men and women, boys and girls.
State legislation to remedy the defects
of the Harrison act will" bo urged by a
citizens' committee before tho next As
sembly, and It has been with the pur
poso of impressing upon the electorate
tho hitherto unadvertlscd 'effort of the
committee that tho Evenino Ledoek
has explained at length tho many phases
of the drug evil. There can be no argu
ment against a law with "teeth" to end
an intolerable condition, and its enforce
ment should not be difficult.
But the law cannot be limited to the
coercive power to prevent tho distribution
of the drugs. It would bo barbarous to
cut off suddenly from thousands of vic
tims their unholy bread of life. In
veterate smokers who have tried to stop
smoking will have a faint (but a very
faint) idea of 'he suffering Involved In
that. The Commonwealth must provide
humane treatment for tho sufferers.
Two distinct demands ore thus pre.
sented to the Legislature, one for the
prevention of the Illicit drug vending that
makes new victims, and one for the
reclamation of present victims. And the
chief provisions of the law thus frame
themselves:
1. For a measure to make the unau
thorized possession of narcotic drugs a
crime, whether proof of illicit sales Is
obtained or not.
2. For a State institution In which
sufferers will be treated through a grad
ual reduction of their enslaving narcotic,
or the other methods applied by physicians.
4
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mjy '.
f?wi
! terms are to take tho place of air in the
lungs7
It would be easy to say that the
(New Tork street railway strike Is the
jellrect result of the surrender of the Na
Jtlonal Government to the steam railroad
'trainmen, and it could ba argued that the
street railway men who had seen the
team railway men bluff the whole nation
iwere persuaded that they could succeed
jln bluffing- a whole city. Yet the connec
tion between the two is probably slight.
tThe fight in New York la over th attempt
'to force the railway managers to unionize
Ithelr lines. There is an incidental fight
(between a local union and a national
jvnlon. It is this ht for unionism that
imakee the decision of the unions in other
'trad- to give their moral and financial
iiwyport to the street car men a serious
(threat.
"To have kept alive this great en
tterpriae, furnishing employ roan t to thou-
Tom Daly's Column
XIBTIDT'S OALAUITT
Hear ut curiln'f-
JluUu ocel
Thlt U tcorte'n
W. T.
Sherman's dictum
;U fo tear
Giants licked 'em
9 to 4.
OIL very welt then, speaking of Stato
elections, why not "Remember tho Maine"
as a slogan for both parties 7
BEWARE THE BUNKIIOUND!
Serving the City Beautiful Ho Bitos
All Unlovely Things
W'n are presenting to Philadelphia a
watchdog nnd then some. This fel
low doesn't merely watch and wait; ho
goes after his prey and It will be too lato
for tho prey to pray after he goes. We
give the Bunk-
hound to tho city,
but we shall board
and lodge him.
Wo wish his ken
nel to bo always
within reach, so
that we may In
stantly slip hh leash when our attention
is called to anything unlovely which, for
tho good of the City Beautiful, needs to
be eliminated.
For Instance, first of nil, we are going
to send him up to Ogontz and Chcltcn
avenuei to attack the two or more Iron
dogs Infesting a yard there; and after that
ho will go after the Iron deer which sev
eral peoplo declare they have seen upon
the lawn of tho Jewish Foster Home on
Church lane and Chew street; nnd then
maybe It's the same deer there's quarry
for him on Germantown road near Wlster.
Perhaps you've seen other pests about.
Phono or send postal.
The Philadelphia Rhyme
That fellow Dlgnam, in Chicago, with
out any excuse at all for his delay, has
the Impudenco to write us under date of
September 8:
SO. I will not pay J5 td1 any of your
readers who can furnish a better rhyme
for Philadelphia than the one you printed
In a recent issue of the Hvenino I.r.Dacn,
but I will pay $5 for a real rhyme. As
for making publ'c the one which I al
ready have that Is out of the question.
Having this rhyme for "Philadelphia"
puts me In a class by myself.
Come on In, the water's fine!
With kind regards, I remain,
Yours very truly,
J. B DICJN'AM.
Nevertheless, the offer holds. The prize
Is (5, and It will be paid, even If we sue
this t-w and lose. But, oh, children! you'll
havo to come stronger than this:
When I waa young- and had no eenae,
I started In to making- rhymes;
And all they brought In recompense
Were smllea and prilse of friends sometimes.
I'm wiser now at flfty-slx.
And alen my till a pelt eelat.
For I am busy laving bricks,
In dear old Philadelphia.
T. U.
Or this:
A young Miss was called 8Uly 'Dell Feeab.
Because of her beaux In Philadelphia,
She used them so bad
That one got quite mad.
And attempted to kill Adele Feeah.
A. M. J.
Passing through Palmerton, I observed
on the doorpost of a country store a home;
made placard.
SAJDEIt
KWARTE 4e
Tho Slavish woman who kept the store
was rather pleased at my Ignorance when
I asked what It meant. Cider, she ex
plained, was plentiful In the neighborhood
and sold for four cents a quart.
NOT to be too personal, thero is a
cartoonist on our favorite evening paper
who should swap names with an adver
tiser In Elmlra, N. Y., whose monicker is
MHo Shanks.
INLAND WATERWAYS
HeLASsJXjA
poirenati
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i.
tv
in ur city, would have been Jm-
wHkeut the lAspteatleR et your.
ipotrftfc0 and support," says the an-
pewaeemsnt of the i, new Marie etere,
tteraasrty Berg- Bfplbere. Something mere
iWH required to reeeue this -great bue-i
jatM fram the dWtcwMiea into wfefoh H
jfcMs faHe1 ehwiae Um period of bard
ill pies under ,wbich tb etmntry )eered
itw y-sam'age-nawiasy, atrtt aad renmroe
t 1. ....J.. -.V-u.,
jWfelrb. xnwst be Sound b any business
outmnunlty hat te gofasT abend. PWia
dadphio. doubUens has the beet depart
ment stores in tbe world, and It waxetd
ttave been a tosAjuurfty flan star if oa
of the sreatnat wt tbjs bad VMM evit ef
biiaiAaas Instead, tt nam mm
ad lveU tfiaa (wrar.
TUB part of tho Inland waterways
project in which this city is most
deeply Interested is tho proposed pur
chase by the Gpvernment of the Chesa
peake and Delaware Canal. It Is in
dorsed by the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways Association, now In session here,
by the army engineers and by every one
else at all interested in national defense
and the commercial development of the
cities along the coast.
The canal, which was built In 1829, cost
about $2,(00,000, Bonds to that amount
are now outstanding. The National Gov
ernment took $4S,v00 worth of the bonds
and Pennsylvania, Delaware and Mary-
laud a total of about 1225,000 more. The
company now operating it has a capital
stock of $1,903,000. It earns JlOO.OtA) a
year, or about enough to pay the interest
on the bonds. No dividends on the stock
liave been paid since'1 1876. Tho latest
plan for Its purchase by the Govern
ment provided for an appropriation of
$8,509,040 aa the price. If it could not
be bought for that sum it was proposed
that it be taken by the exercise of the
right of eminent domain, The men who
oontrol tho operating company are not
willing to sell for $2,500,000. The pur
chase drags beeauee of failure to agree
an a priee.
, The oanal can be bought and deepened
far less than the eeet of a flrst-claae
battleship. Jt would provide a safe in
land route between the navy yards at
Xerfelk and Philadelphia, and in time of
Mttooal peril -would be worth Beany
ttasfs tbe sum required to stake it a
and open posssgiwy for aetlppia-
tbe rfver and m bay.
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We don't know what "leso majeate"
means, but our friend A, J, D. says that's
what the young prince Is guilty of in that
picture In the P. L. Intaglio last Sunday
showing young Prince Albert saluting his
father on the occasion of King George's
visit to the prince's ship.
AMONG THOSE PRESENT
&lffll8paBHHBh island SRS&jw.
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NEW YORKERS RALU
AROUND HUGHES
UP-STATE LAP
nnnnrlncn Pniii- n .i !il
lican Candidate in Two
pearances Talks
American Itighu
MOOSE PLEDGE SUl
STOACtraE, N. T Sept 11.
Hughes, nepubllcan nemlnes f
opening his campaign In New Tot
'""' lerinory oi unondaga
made one address to 5000 person,
other tn a lars-A ttn1 .,i
- ...w, euierinf. j
Perhans tha rnasnn en .. -
feeling on the part of the nomine.
can and Progressive leaders that r
County would give htm Its nomitl
Of from 10.000 to 15.000. He was
that the general situation In thi
section of New York was to hli
inai no secmea to nave a strons-
Francis iiondncKs. th
leader of Onondaga County, who
lard mil, the countv chalrm...'
Itoosevelt at the nemibllmn ..
June, assured Mr. Hughes of their
Ana vuuuiuuio ui30 was tola ihit
cAycui mo supiiori oi ueorge w
of Itochester, and William u"
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r. eA&nnM t. , ,L. .. 'J
aiio 4CC1IHK nvro ia tnni tlutsea.
u.oD.c. oilmen ina cainpuiKn, will
up-State plurality over Wilson -.
best efforts of a reunited Democrats
...III J1...1 I. !... .- ll
win iniu ii. uuiiuuii o oercorae.
William It, Wlllcox. natlonsi
and manager of the Huchea ,,
the nominee here and was with hsa
iiuiii i no iiiuinent 01 nis Bppcani
ne icu mie lam. nignt. ,
The nomlneo left for Plati
night. He delivered an addu
Onondaga Hotel during the eenlt
icuci-ini uiJtiiuiBiii 111 ino r, i ant
tlons of the American peop.e.
"I have no sympathy," he uli.
muno n iii iuuh Ksnunco upon cart
American name and American lm
to foreign lands. We should take
in every extension 01 our commeret
enterprise or our citizens which t
to other lands. So long as they
conduce meir nonest business it
duty of the United States to prot
lives and property and Amercaa
unaer international law.
"There Is no other way for
progress It Is perfectly Idle to su:
we can have an enduring peace ai
perity ir we no not have an Inti
trlotlc sentiment dominant throur
land, demanding that the rights
citizens shall be respected."
Mr. Hughes lelterated his declaratl
he had done his part toward on
abuses In the past "And I shoual
again,- no aeciarea, '-as zealously
llely as I know how, If confront
any abuse that needs correcting."
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Relation of Meters to Water Rates Railroad Wage Increase Law
Characterized as a Surrender to England Jamaica
Ginger for Prohibitionists
Thla Department t free to all readers who
wish to express tnrlr opinions on subjects of
rtirrrnt interest. It is cm open forum, and the
Dear Sir Talk about your Gargantuan
feast, the Merlon Cafe at Capo May, N. J.,
calls the attention of the hungry public,
through the medium of the local telephone
directory, to its dinners a la crate.
Dut then, even our own Arcadia Cafe'
sends me a personal Invitation to hear tha
lloyal Marimba Band of "Ouatamala," play
ers of "faclnattng" dance music a beau
tifully engraed and Illustrated Invitation,
too, H. N. T.
Young women who are said to be too
smart had better give Flfty-eecond and
Walnut streets a wide berth, There is a
sign there which reads:
FIUSSII CHICKENS KILlUnp.
Our niackrasll Department
What would it
be worth to a
prominent lawyer
but poor bicyclist
of this town to
suppress the story
of how he fell so
far behind sched
ule on a recent trip
to Eagles Mere as
to lead his frantic
wife to telegraph
to the chiefs ef po
lice of Ilarrieburg,
Sunbury- and
points north!
Dear Tom: I don't know hew1 It will
affect you, but K made me jttnd a sjeeey
to read en North Fertletfc street the sim
of "Delmer J, CeMesb, Undertaker,'
And, interject J, R, , baa any ene
lAtroduetd you to Dr, Piatt, ut West
Vblsadsvtjssdat
! saasssassssiatsaaaTw-j t
nirrmi inrrrrsi. ji is tin opvn jorum, ant mo
Evmino Lrdarr pstumra no responsibility for
the views of its' correspondents, Letters must
be stoned by the name and address of the
writer, not necessarily for publication t but as a
guarantee of uood faith.
METERS AND WATER RATES
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger!
Sir I was much Interested In an edito
rial In the Evening Ledoch dealing with
the Water meter question under the caption
"Bamboozling tho Public." I have read
with Interest quite a number of articles on
the same subject at various times, but In
none havo I ever seen that the tenant's sldo
was given a fair hearing.
After dealing at length with tho fairness
of tho water meter system, toward the end
of tho article ou say, "It Is an Imposition,
positively a mean Imposition, on the masses
of tho people to wheedle them Into believing
that the water meter system would be In
jurious to their Interests. That fallacy has
been given wide circulation. We do not
know why, although there Is about It the
smell of politics."
I take exception to that portion of your
article. livery article that I ever read, In
cluding yours, deals only with the Installa
tion of the meters, but takes no account of
tho water taxes already being paid 1y tho
renter of a home. A meter Installed simply
means that much water rent In addition
and no ncoountlng for the taxes being paid
In the rent That, In my estimation. Is the
rotten part that, to me, "smells of politics."
I don't think to point out this Injustice to
the masses Is a "mean Imposition."
When a man has built a house to rent he
takes account of the entire cost. He then
considers the depreciation In value, the In
surance, -the taxos, Including water tax or
rent He then calculates what he considers
a fair rate of Interest on his Investment and
fixes the rate of rent according to his cal
culation. Now this Is only fair and as It
should b$. If he,wero to be charged for
the gas consumed by the tenant ho would
have to, Include this In the rental also.
Now, then. Suppose the city Installs the
water meters. Who pays for the water con
sumed, according to the reading of the
meter? Why, the tenant, of course.
Then what becomes of the millions of dol
lars the tenants have already paid via tho
rent while consuming that water and for
which neither they nor the city gets any
value? Do you supposo that tho owner will
of his own accord put his hand In his
pocket and return to the tenant the amount
he collected In the rent to pay for the
water tax? Oh, yea he will. I.Ike Kelly
will. He'll simply sit tight and grin, the
while murmuring gently to himself, "What
fools ye mortals be." Sure, the owner la In
favor of water meters; they all are; it's
peaches and cream to them, and yet which
of the two can best afford the additional
tax, the owner or the tenant?
Please understand that I am not opposed
to water meters; no indeed, I qutte agree
with you that It Is the only fair way. If a
man uses ten gallons of water let him pay
for It If another uses 1000 gallons lejt him
pay for It But why should the poor, espe
cially the worthy poor, who are compelled
to dwell in congested districts commonly
called "guts." and who through their pov
erty In many Instances haven't even a bath
tub, be compelled to pay for the water that
the moro fortunately fixed wastefully
sprinkles on his lawn all night or throws
into the street with a hose and then In addi
tion to that be taxed with a meter?
Yes, by all means Install good water
meters. Put the city has ready at hand the
Information as to exactly what each prop
erty In the city Is being taxed for water
Iyet the city install the meters and compel
each owner to reduce the rental by thej
exact amount tnai is Doing collected In the
rept to defray water taxes. It this Is done
I am sure there will be no kicks from any.
except, perhaps, from the fellow who wasted
ten tunes his share of water. Well, let him
kick, He'tl soon waste less w,ter. But if
the city is to install water meters and make
no provision to protect the tenant against
paying double for his water, once to the
landlord and once to the city, ye gode, the
stench of euch an act will rise to the very
heavens themselves. It wll stink' worse
than any rotten politics I htue yet heardof.
And you 'call K a "mean Imposition" on
the masses to ean tbelr attention to such
n eondttlon, Oh, .
H. V, FJ6NOLK8.
Philadelphia, gseUemser J,
multitude to any of the dire calamities so
freely promised. But few workers enjoy
Jhe powers held by the trainmen. Tho shoe
makers, the policemen or the letter-carriers
could strike and stay on strike till Tib's
Eto and nobody would be much Inconveni
enced, gr would care a "thranecn," for the
good reason that these workers cannot
paralyze commerce or cause dead losses and
can be easily replaced by strike-breakers.
Capital, however, cannot replace drivers of
fast loeomothes, because a faulty man on
such a Job might cause more loss tn five
minutes than ten men would earn In a life
time. But tho trainmen had moro behind
them In their demand for an eight-hour day
than their potential powers for destruction.
England had to have her munitions de
livered on time. They could not be held up,
though the sky fell. That would never do.
It would never do to allow Britain to be
waljoped because her American cousins held
up her supply of poison gaB or shooting
material. Perish tho thought! Accordingly
tho torchbearer of our civilization lent her
aid In enforcing the eight-hour demand
Against such a combination Is It any won
der that the managers saw the advisability
of running up the white flag? The Admin
istration saw It also, and lent Its aid, and
not for nothing either. Britain might come
over with her fleet and make a sorry mess
of our coast towns, or perhaps leave the
canal In such shape that a hundred millions
wouldn't open it again.
Besides, If England was beaten (because
of an American strike) what would happen
to the poor small nationalities? What would
happen to Ireland and home rule? Ireland
might then actually get Independence and
endanger England's mastery of the sea. Or
Oermany mlglit really get hold of Ireland,
and what would Germany know about gov
erning the Isle of Saints? She wouldn't
even know how to Bhoot prisoners of war I
birixo leaders In future need to arrange
their plans after ,tho manner of tho train
men If they would expect any degree of
success. It was' Indeed wonderfully staged
England's eight-hour American railroad
washout. JAMES SMITH.
Philadelphia, September 11,
What Do You Know?
Queries of central interest toil! be answered
in this column. Ten Questions, the answers to
tchlch every well informed person should know,
are asked daily.
Quiz
1, Serersl Srnntor liaTe borne the nltkname
".bellwether of the Wennte." What Is the
alr.iifleanee of the term?
2. Has flnlttrrland n narr?
S. Who was Cetrwaro?
4. Who Is Carl fc. Mllllsen?
" Mh. ,.?.",e nature of diseases endlnc In
"Ills"?
' W&tl lht eqnlraJent of "Mr." In French.
Italian, German, Hpanlsh?
7. TTtiat Is the literal mranlnc of "el tetera"?
B. Name the Three Fates.
' "Vi'jin iisTr00'' u,fd ,,Mer '" b ",Dh"bt
10. Who wrote "The Hearlet Letter"?
AMUSEMENTS
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
of Fenns) iranlal J,
1. Chief Justice
iirown.
liar
0.
10.
sll!jl"'i,Pl Preparing to eelebrate the
100th annltersarr of Its admittance to the
Latin la a dead lanroace In that It Is not
the speech of nnr nntlon. Modern Greek,
however. Is anlTlrlrntlr like) the etasslral
lancnare to substantiate to some extent
the claim of the Greeks that the orlslnal
tonzue Is still a llrlnz one.
0e5.'M M usher classification than species.
This Is the order, from lowest to hliheutt
Indlrldual. race, species, senns, famllr,
order, class, '
Instrument for plncklns mandolin's strlntsi
Plectrum,
rr"d.?m"'.?2 " hypothetical rare of men
exlstlnc "berore Adam."
' CVS5.Vi". fjrmal notice ton indicia or
administrative officer warning- htm not to
take certain proccedlnts.
"Prussia must bo destrored"! thla Is n para
phrase of the ancient soilna, "Csrthsrr
must be destrored." upon which a Roman
statesman Insisted till he had hi. ..
"Inralnable" does not mean "not valuable."
leVs. T ,Bl,,anl' "7ond prl'e. prlce-
Tantalna, In the lerend. waa punished In
Hades Lr belnr forever just out of reach
f,f-wp.'',r .nd. "noble to quench his thirst.
"Tantallie" la derived from his name?
A PROHIBITIONIST'S TIPPLE
To the Edttor of the Evening Ledger;
Sir Jamaica ginger would seem to be a
"hot" favorite with Kansans, -according to
Chief of Police Harvey Parsons, of Topeka.
Explaining, In an interview in the Topeka
Capital, why he refuses to answer queries
about drunkenness arrests In that city, ha
Btated that there were twp reasons. First,
he feared that his replies might be garbled
Then he added:
The other reason Is that the number
of arrests made means nothing at all
either to one side or the other Espe
cially Is this true so long as Jamaica
ginger Is held by our courts not to be
intoxicating and Is shipped into tha
State In barrel lots.
Kansas has no limitation upon the
amount of liquor that one may legally re
ceive from other States for personal use.
But If one falls to order, or his supply runs
short, his sole reliance must be the bootr
legger or the blind tiger owner, who oper
ates Illegally. Possibly the preference for
Jamaica ginger is due to the fact that it
may be legaljy sold by the corner druggut,
wi vviivr ucaier j
It Is -possible also that Kansans. even
after more, than 15 years of prohibition
want something with more "kick" In It
than the drinks of license States contain
If so, Jamaica ginger would seem to mi
the bill, for by the Kansas State Board of
Health's formula, It "should contain about
91 per cent of alcohol." This is about
twice the amount of alcohol in whisky, for
Instance. Tv M. QILMOIIE.
i-resiaem canons! Model License tearua.
Louisville, Ky September 7. "uo-
The Shipping; Bill
T. P. I. The Administration shipping
bill passed the Senate on August 18 by a
voto of 38 to 21. In tbe preceding Con
gress thev measure .precipitated a Demo
cratic revolt and a nilbuster which forced
postponement of .many Important bills, in
the recent session It was revised so as to
minimize the Government operation feature
and received unanimous Democratlo support
and solid Republican opposition. The bill
provides for creation of a Government ship
ping board to acquire and operate ships for
rehabilitation of the American merchant
marine and appropriates 150,000,000 for that
purpose, to be raised by the sale of Panama
Canal bopds. At the last minute vain ef
forts were made by Senator Borah to at
tach the Immigration bill to the shipping
measure. He first offered an amendment
Incorporating the literacy, test section in a
provision to'prevent transportation of aliens
to American shores. The amendment was
voted down, 20 to S9. He then offered the
entire Immigration bill as a rider, and it
was rejected 22 to 37.
FORREST M
A VERITABLE FUR0RJ
TWO WEEK8 ONLY
Klghta at 8:15. Matinees Wed. asll
KIiAW FRT,AJfittP'c
NEW MUSICAL COMEDT Jll
LITTLE
ivi 1 1 a 'i
SPRINGTIME
Bjr the Composer of "SJUU"
CAST AND CHORUS 0F7l
Best Scats II. SQ at Matlnea TomorroJ
T VRTP M,t- I"0"""- Bt Seats ltd
-- ----v Tonucnt. s:io. Frlceit
THE a. WEST UV81CA.L SUOW IS 1
"Robinson Crusoe, Ji
Aua w if tvimrr unruen .evxir&rmfami
geSin ALJOLSON
CIRL.S. LAUGHS, TUNES AND (
BROAD
SEI
MONDAY
EVENING
THE HESERVE PRODUCING CO.
THE TWO JA1
A MUSICAL FARCE BUCCE
Just Laughs Pretty Olrls Jolly 1
scats Jnurs., sept. if. t'opuiar tl .
n.-:l. THIS AND NEXT"!
VJraXX lUn. evenings. i
POP, 1 MATINEE TO
WALTER N. LAWRENCE Prei
SPORT OF L
A Dramatic Thundsrbolt by Btusrtl
Globe
Theater SJ
VAUDEVILLE
loe inc za
11 A. M. to 11 T.l
ANMVEJISAnT WEEK BtupenHW
THE STAR OF "TOWN TOPK3
BERT LESLIE SUl
In "IIOOAN IN LONDON.' OT
THE
H'-.l,.. Cf tlj
Korrcmr u a. m t y i
xivgViiu world Fm rn
CLARA KIMBALL Y01
2E, "THE DARK SILEl
Thurs., Frl. Sat.. "Usht of l
ADELPHI m&V$i,&
"An object lesson In morals delr
tea inesllmaoie frooa "iiei
Rector Messiah P. K. Church.
duco
inestimable
Messiah P.
The Most Wonderful Play In '
ENGLAND'S EIGHT HOUK8
To ta jraWer tat? JhM L4:
MrX aetsna-UuU tea " eUaW
toy. to etrttu. alter eJL er to Hskieet&e ' rigkt, eWa.-Jhsrttacte:ri 7,
SCOTT AS A REFORMER
To the HHtor of the Svtnlng Ledger:
Sir I note with pleasure that John H.
IC Scott has joined hands with the Com
mittee of Seventy, He le a valuableTald
to It In clearing assessors' lists of phan
tom voters. I am satisfied that Mr. SooU's
ambition to became the next Mayor will be
pleasing to the retermar.
PMleaelpMa. Btptwnssr , vv""1'
SUPPRBtWION OF JUDGMBNT
Norrawi Angell keys the Mppreaelon at
w;yU judgment en great public n-astimT.
Mae that of paeos saeaaa U upw$aariJ
rrrr " " """. r xraea
The Mayor's Veto
B. It. If each branch of Councils passes
a blU which the Mayor has vetoed by a
vote of three-fifths of all tha m.k...
i elected It becomes effective withnut hi.
signature,
The Bombardier Beetle
8. A. The bombarr'.er bee'tle is a little
British beetlo that has been employing nol.
son gas to defend Itself for untold aa-as.
One of the strongholds of the bombardier
beetle (Brachlnus .crepitans) Is along the
shores of the Thames In the dravesend dia
trict Here it f.uds a home under tha
flat stones that are scattered by the rlvar.
bank. The beetle is very liable to b. at!
tasked by some of the fierce ground beetlu
or earabldae as they afe properly cullla
These ground beetles are extremely active'
hunting about all over the place and a i
once giving chase when they see thV timid
braeblnus appear from beneath a stem.
Offhand on would think that there could'
oaly be one ending to the chase, but i.
soon as the pursuer draws close the hem!
hardier beetle ejeets a peculiar liquid which
when it semes into oontact with the atmoV
phere. "burets lu a sort of a pale w2I
green f4awe, feUewea by a kind of epke!
This1 is seen to have an aetoniefelag iiht
uaen the pureuimr beeU InetowhTu
Meme te.be overwhelmed Sm quT, JL
Bed by the , f the attack. 2.
wears to have a blinding and auito.
teevaeoey. and tha mttTiTt TT?0-
aatatsU er eo. Duruwr thla tlmatk. V?
karsUar kuu i. ..1.1. .1 "V """ "ws
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