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to Mint outside of Philadelphia. In
BHsUo, Canada or pnttoa Slates poe-
tin Irn, flftr (SOFconte per month.
tan per roar, parable In adrance.
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WE ARE GOING TO
,l BRAND IT
ININQ from tho conferenco nt
st-Lltovk, M. Favlovltch. a non-
rlk delegate, declares that ' uor-
'fundamental aim In tho ncgotla-
Lj o CSU1D11SI1 nil VWHuuiH- ...-..
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si.Hamburf; to tho Persian Oulf. In
for tho evacuation of Belgium and
i, Germany will demand tho freeing
(aaopotamia, Arabia and Palestine."
tt Is the German dream, tho one
purpose she had In mind when
this war, the one thing she Is
lined to get out of It, the concession
to extort from tho Allies In rc
rtir"oalled compensatory concessions
Lihmh HAtktnn tn T1 tl S tt IY1 (I rt t And
rmcau ivt(ttit v ..... ..j .
Knot In the slightest degree Imperil
,l'eeonomlo and thereforo her political
rico of tho world. Militarists want
a 1 . .. a.a . . . . S.mm TTn sWiitfV
any mai suxicncn iruui iiukiuu,.
ad. That is what they havo always
nd their conjurers and 1clght-of-
I; opera tors are working their brains
lime In a Btrcnuous effort to perfect
Utricle that will fool the AlHci Into
nee of the program.
the mills of tho gods, however
'.they grind, grind exceeding small,
ay General Allenby reported the
of four points of great tactical
ance north of Jerusalem ana me
Wi the Turks, re-enforced by four
ns of Teutons which were In train-
summer In Silesia. If Germany
lied the rest of the world she-
t' beguiled England, whoso armies
en flung against tho grand pur-
tipf Berlin and in tho far corners of the
', have beeh doing their part to render
' the whole campaign of plunder and
fw. . .. .. .
A no rorces ai oaiomca ure a.
nt threat against tho German lino
aunlcatlon to the east, n threat
eventually to bo translated Into a
'.'when tho declining man power of
rtitons renders impossible bolstering
Bulgarian line. One end of
burg-to-Bagdad rainbow fades Into
, standards In the ancient capital
Jalits. That is democracy's answer
htemplated world empire by tho
day, too, British troops Joined In
p AHted offensive against the Teutonic
ftlfj Italy, attacking advanced posts
-fttppiemcnting the splendid achieve-
tof the French troops in the Monte
. 'region, marking a change from de-
it 'to offensive tactic. A new Teu-
' strive In Italy is foreshadowed and
rv
at any time, and the Italian men-
net by any means removed, but
,.-
n It la being demonstrated that
".well drilled and disciplined troops
adrale is unshaken tho Germans
headway.-
y also released a digest of the
il!T-
Isiaade by Colonel House, indicating
Ms mission abroad had been of enor-
lifepportance in co-ordinating the power
iurces of the Allied nations and
ng a future unity of effort cat-
to bring about such concentrations
likely to produce certain, even quick,
riThe most important nprntlattnnM
'j
toward the pooling of Allied ro-
f for the common advantage of all
tries engaged in tho- strugglo
Oermany. Tho American contrlbu-
determined and tho pooling ar-
t guarantees mat run equipment
kind will be available to all Amer.
Maajpi sent to Europe during the
;!,-. Unity of action In diplomatic,
VsltWUry, financial, war-trade and
Otlviuee was thoroughly- gone
a.' comprehensive surrey of the
of, Munitions and the or.
I. hadusiries was' made, fore-
'taailar ministry In this
Kwa brought also reassuring
jtuaeui, wnere the eyes of
Wear to be opening at
besrtin to spy "under tho
tka'Mw of the lion and
Xsjasta, to oho, and the
4 b trnetal fattta
4fM sMC.lt JMO their
Nfrtiw4 te
ivrv
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.
Veejciy iiUtefnent from London, dselare
that "Oermany is a. long way. from au
periorty on the west front."
The Allies and ourselves have had our
fill of discouragement, and there Is more
to come. There are tremendous sacrifices
to be made, mifch suffering to be endured
and many barriers to be passed, but tho
shadows that events cast before them may
always be interpreted. We are well on
the road to victory, Lloyd George an
nounces, and he knows what ho is talking
about 8o do the Germans who talk so
much about a "drawn battle." It U not a
"drawn battle," for It has been a check
mate ever since Oermany failed to break
through that first summer. She has lined
ut against her now nations whose morale
Is at least as good ns her own. nattons
that are her masters at last In military
preparation, nations, that are outmanu
facturlng her, outmannlng her, outshlpplne
her and outreasonlng her. They did not
liavo to outlaw her, for she did that herself,
We've' got that beast of militarism cor
ralled, and it is not going to get out of
the pen without being branded.
LOOK THIS HORSE IN THE MOUTH
CONOIIESB is about to hear from tho
President on the railroad situation nnd
much will be said about Government own
crshlp. Thero will naturally bo a great
deal of opposition to the idea, for Congress
lias not yet assented even to the Idea of
Government ownership of the conduct of
tho war. If wo could bring up the question
of congressional ownership of railroads
it would bo another story. An assorted
delegation of 435 trainmen, telegraphers,
freight solicitors, firemen and railroad law
yers might' llko to run tho Pennsylvania
Railroad. Put tho first thing they would
do would bo to get a president.
Gove'rnmcnt ownership Is tho popular
name for Government administration. Con
gress does not run the Postofflce Depart
ment. It orders 50,000 postofflco buildings
for towni not on the map and thus In
creases the difficulty of raising the long
suffering postal employes' wages. No ono
branch of the Government can own any
thing, unless, Indeed, It may bo said that
until last Friday the Interstate Commerce
Commission owned tho railroads. Tho only
body that can really be said to "own" such
business enterprises ns tho postotTlce Ik the
.whole body politic If "we, the people," are
to be asked to take the railroads as a gift
wo nliu.ll want to look Into tho mouth of
the beast. We shall want to experiment
with the loaned horso and watch his gait.
As in tho case of the hypothetical rail
road mtn's congress, the first thing wo
should do would be to elect a. president a
President of tho United States and Rail
roads. Thero must bo a mandato from the
Dcoplo for the handling of (20,000,000,000
of property. That Is usual even In the
case of tho acceptance by a small commu
nity of a statuo for Center Square. Tho
problem Is complicated by being tried out
under abnormal circumstances. But there
will be a period of comparative normality
following tho war, when World reconstruc
tion will require unified railway control for
somo months. That period seems likely to
lncludo the summer of 19;o, when we elect
a new President. The fates are conspiring
to mako Government ownership a cam
latgn Issue.
ZERO PHILOSOPHY
APPARENTLY tho Kaiser has made an
.offensive alliance with the weather on
the United SUtes front. That's one way
of looking at the present distressing sltua.
tlon, a typical American way of extracting
a smllo to lighten grave concern, the while
teeth are gritted In a determination to
topple tho War Lord and his minions, who
have caused tho distress, off their Prussian
pins. Another way is to be as philosophi
cal as wo can, recognizing from experience
that we cannot Jar or adjust tho fluctuating
but Inevitable laws of meteorology; to real
ize that through the medium of this ab
normally early and severe winter we are
having our first tasto of the hardships
which we assumed when we entered the
world war. ,
Thero . aro two gains frorii this view
point. One Is that very soon In the strife
tho American people are, by actual ex
perience, becoming Inured to the new and
difficult conditions Imposed upon them by
active belligerency. The other Is that the
sudden crisis of suffering and deprivation
of fuel will speed up, as no other means
could have quickened It, tho relief possl-
dio now through Government control. Cen
traliied administration of fuel and railroads
means a. quick progress of coal to the bins.
Weather-wise sages aver that an early
and hard winter is a sure Indication of
an early and agreeable spring. Under
ground, the crocuses and tulips havo made
an unusually strong growth for this time
of year, and the leaf buds on tho trees
have waxed as large as Is their wont for
February,
London suspects. German Influence
tn Indian plots Headline.
Why "suspects"?
We shall be more content with fewer
passenger trains when wo see more coal
trains.
Send troops and then more troops
Colonel House, .
Aye, aye, sir. We're ahead of tho
program now, but it's in the blood to break
records,
Many school closed, pipes in many
houses froxen, halt the Inhabitant in the
same fix and coal stilt as hard to get as
water In the Sahara! You'll have to hustle,
Uncle Sam, or paddle the Weather Bureau,
The theory that modern war de
velops into a permanent deadlock on every
front does not'appl to Turkey, where the
British seem able tc- gain at will, if every
ether gate la locked we can alwaya count
on the back door.
It 1 hot going to make any differ
ape wfeetMr a stacker U a son of a brewer
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PENNYPACKER ATTACKS .INFLUENCE
OF PRESIDENT OVER CONGRESS
The Famous "Bear Message" of Governor Penny
packer Sparkles With the Incisiveness of His
Distinct Brand of Humor
I'KNXVPACKEB AfTOBIOURArnY NO. 40
Copyrlsht, ISIS, by Tubllo ledger Co.
WITH the growth of the work of the
State thero Is a steadily Increasing need
for additional employes to attend to It. Each
head of u department is loath to ask for
sucli Increase, for the reason that ho is at
onco assailed In tho newspapers for caus
ing further outlay. I found a lone list of
such persons whose salaries were paid from
tho contingent funds, a timid way of meet
ing a difficulty, nnd I put an end to the
practice by sending a message to the Leg
islature naming these employes and recom
mending that they be regularly employed.
This treatment of the matter led to no
criticisms, although it openly increased
tho force.
Considering Bills
As the legislative session progressed,
and the bills, ns they had been passed,
began to come to mo, they were all ana.
lyzed and those which were faulty either
In thought or construction wero vetoed.
Slnco this method of treatment had
no reference to the sponsors of tho
bill or the Interests which favored tho en
actment, It not infrequently happoncd that
bills which had beon rejected had been
favored by tho Republican party and Its
leaders. Such happenings had Just that
flavor of excitement which pleased the
newspapers, and by the closo of tho session
1 had received very general encomiums. It
was my endeavor alwajs In expressing
disapproval of a measure to do It good
naturedly. Often a State Senator, who
heard that some pet measure, which ho
thought safe, had gone overboard, would
como to the office In wrath, and after read
lng tho veto message laugh and say that
"tho old man was right after all." A
Quaker wrote to mo March 21:
Dear Governor:
Right now I want to tell thee Hint on
account of thy connection with the Quay
forces I opposed thy election, but now I
extend my hearty support, Tho stand
thou hast taken against vicious and mer
cenary legislation Is to bo commended
and encouraged.
To which I replied:
Dear Friend:
' I very much appreciate jour letter and
still moro uppreclato tho spirit which
induced you to writo it. My only pur
pose Is to do as well as I know how. I
feel quite euro If you wero to observo
clorcly tho course of Senator Quay and
could become better acquainted with him
you would find much in him also to com
mend. Thero was nothing, however, (spectacular
about this kind of service and nothing
likely to attract wide or prolonged atten
tion. vIt was only doing the work of the
Stato as it ought to bo done. Tho volume
of laws was reduced In size from tho twelve
hundred pages of that of my predecessor to
beven hundred pages. My two volumes
stand among tho printed Acts of Assembly
llko oases, since, with tho advent of my
successor, tho volume Immediately run up
to tho old dimensions.
In tho State of Missouri a law was passed
relating to baking powders. It led to great
scandal and was followed by many prosecu
tions, so that Governor Joseph W. Folk,
who urged them, was praised all over tho
country for his vigilance, became a national
character and almost reached the Presi
dency. A like act of Assembly was passed
In Pennsylvania and I threw it into the
waste basket, saying
This bill makes It a misdemeanor, sub-
Ject to a fine of $100, for any person to
manufacture or sell baking powder which
contains alum In any form or shape,
unless thero be printed, on a label, on
the outside of the package. In black Ink
in legible type, not smaller than small
pica, the full name and addrejs of the
manufacturer and tho words This Bak
ing Powder contains alum.' It is evident
that the passage of this bill was secured
by the manufacturer or vender of some
rival baking powder with intent to obtain
an unfair advantage. It Is evident from
the fact that the conspicuous printing
of these words would be likely to deter
purchasers. It would be entirely proper
to require that all baking powders should
havo upon the outside of the package a
label describing the Ingredients and their
quantities, but It would be manifestly
unjust to require one Ingredient to be
displayed without any reference to quan
tity." Shooting Bears
Thore was no commotion, no scandal,
and tho event entirely escaped attention.
HOOVERISM IN 1780
Post-Revolutionary Price-fixing and High
, Cost of Living
HOOVKRISM Is not new In American his
tory. Under another name its essential
principle of pries fixing appeared In our
first war for democracy.
The high cost of living was not a novelty,
either. In fact, In 1710, as a direct result of
the Revolutionary War, beef, corn, leather
and wool cost thirty-two and a half times
what they had cost three years previous.
In America's second war for democracy,
now being, waged, however, tho people, afflict
ed thouch they be by extraordinary Incrtasea
In living costs, hae the advantage of a syste
matic, and what Is hoped will be a scienti
fically equitable, adjustment of prices. This
was not th'o case In the last years of the
Revolution and the first years of peace en
Joyed by the new nation. i
Some Indication of the fluctuations, or,
rather, soaring trend, of commodity values
Is shown In the following illuminating note,
Issued by the State of Massachusetts Bay:
No. 2TU.
U06..10..10
State of Massachusetts Bay
Tho First Day of January, A. D. 17KU.
In behalf of the State of MaasachuseUi
Bay, I the Subscriber do hereby promise
and oblige Myself and Successors In the
Office ot Treasurer of said State, to pay
unto John Hitchcock alias Ich; Hloock
or to hla Order, the Sum of Two hundred,
six pounds 10110 on or before the First
Day of March In the Tsar of our Lord
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty
One with interest at Sis per Cant per An
num: Both Principal and Interest to be
paid In the then current money of said
State, In a greater or las Sunt, according
M.-.FivavBvMiist of coRNatxty-alaHt;'
' " aV WT1 V M ' SJ
The Incident well Illustrates two different
methods of meeting the same problem and
the temptations that beset men In public
Ufa to do the sensational in preference to
the useful.
A message which was very widely cir
culated was one vetoing a bill for the pro.
tectlon of bears and cubs. The message
ran:,
A well-cousldercd bill to prevent a
ruthless and wanton destruction of bears
nnd cubs would, no doubt, answer a pub
llo need, but the present bill Is entirely
too sweeping and too stringent In Its pio
visions. "It is directed that It shall not be
lawful for nny person or persons, after
the passage of this act, to catch, take or
kill In this State, or, except as herein
after provided, have in his or her pos
session or under his or her control, after
the snmo shall havo been cnught, taken
or killed, nny bear or cub save during tho
month of November." The bear Is an
animal not always of a gentle disposition
nnd especially If It be a female bear with
cubs. If a wanderer in the woods Is at
tacked by such u bear In some other
month than November, what is he or sho
to do?
For the twentieth of March I had an
engagement to go with Dr. John H. Fagcr,
a gentleman of Harrlsburg, Interested In
the study of natural history, on an explor
ing tour through Wetzel Swamp. The
newspapers announced that Senntor Pen
rose and State Senator James P. McNIchol
wero coming that afternoon to consult with
mo shout homo affairs of stato; but tllere
wan no engagement with me and no mes
sago sent to me. I went with Fager to the
swamp. Tho gentlemen came, did not find
me, McNIchol returned to Philadelphia and
Penrose and I had a consultation when I
returned In tho evening. Thero was much
talk about tho Incident, many editorials
written nnd glaring headlines printed stat
ing that "Penrose Walts and Frets While
Governor in Hoots Hunts for Bugs In tho
Bogs."
Tho Constitution provides that tho In
coming Governor shall tako his seat during
a session In tho Legislature. It is tho
provision of dilettantes, who constructed
an Impracticable and In some ways un
workable Constitution. There is no reason
why ho'c-ould not hnn begun In tho jears
between sessions and so havo had tlmo to
prcparo for his work. Governor Stone, Just
at tho cIoto of his term, sent in to the
Senate tho names of many omclals ap
pointed by h,lm. I had no time to Inter
fere and they wero confirmed. I Issued
commissions to all of them, but later tools
tho bull by the horns nnd rerroved some of
them whero I had other views.- This, of
courso, led to somo trouble
Addressing tho Assembly
It Is ono of the unwritten laws, never
Infringed upon, that tho Governor shall
not appear before tho Legislature and It Is
founded upon tho correct theory that the
legislative bodies shall bo kept frco from
undue Influence. On the tw-nty-fourth of
March I was officially Invited to be present
at a scMlon of tho Legislature. No other.
Governor ever received such an Invitation.
Member:, of the Leglslaturo welcomed me
very graciously and I made an address in
the course of which I said:
It would bn a breach of courtesy and
It would 111 become me to make reference
to nny legislation before you or which
mav come before you. Tho Constitution
provides a method by which the Governor
may make his recommendations. It Is
wi.se that that method should be pursued
I may, however, say a word about our
mutual relations. We are both, In so far
ns wo may, endeavoring together to work
out results for the good of the peoplo and
tho Commonwealth. I may say that If
tho Governor should uso his power for
the purpose of enforcing legislation It
would bo an Interference with our prln
clp es of government. On the other hand,
if the Leglslaturo in its legislation at
tempts to carry It out by other methods
than those of tho executive, to that ox
tent It Interferes with these principles.
Here Is broached a theory of government
very different from, arid much n.ore nearly
correct nnd safo than that acted upon by
Roosevelt and Wilson In our national
affairs. In tho days of Thaddeus Stevens
tho Congress endeavored to Impose upon
tho President. In more recent days the
President is making rapid strides In tho
way of encroaching upon Congress. Both
ventures aro based upon Impulse, rather
than upon reason, and they aro equally
dangerous to our Institution. ;
(CONTINUED TOMORROW)
dred and Thirty Pounds current Money, at
the then current Trices of said Articles
7j.e T. !ulnfr Thlr,V-t Times and an
i.f.i hat thf"am Quantities of the same
Articles would cost at the Prices affixed
to them In a Law of this State made Inthe
i5 ' .UrcLor'1 0na Th""nl Seven Hun
dred ar.d Seventy-aeven. Intrtled "AnT,
to prevent Monopoly an,i Oppress on " The
current Prices of said Articles ami .h.
sequent Value of every Pound
herein proml-ed. to be determined arrw.hu
to a LAW ot thl. State In "tied An aI,
to provide for the Security ai t.JL.AcJ
of the Balances that may "LeSr ,?ffl
by Virtue of a lioSuon'TC.1" "!
Assembly of ,h, Blxth of
Thousand Seven Hundred and Beveni7?ne
i .' Quota of the CONTIVEv"
Jti&xrtx for3 SsSrSa:
Treasury wlth a V?
Witness my Hand
R. CRANCH. " GARDNE". Treasurer.
M. DAWES, '
Committee.
The ray of the eoldler who was r.M. .
of th, obligation at" It, face v.m, was mor
than thirty me, th. State-nmarket
quotations of the year 1777. market
The critical situation led to ,.., .
tempt to stabilise price, on a t.naWe L.ls.
Committees met both In Rhode M.d .
New Hampshire, Including represent,,"
of other New England State, to formula!"
means for erad catlnr the snlnt . """u',
and competition" then p??.ai,nt "SBft
the people were the victims. ' of whlch
In 177 attention of the Continental eon
gress was called to the situation nJ ??'
mature d.llb.ratlon. the legls aUva hier
dared Jt could "find no wtli rJS
pravanUva. It La question with soma m.
bar whether uch a measure (of iStsfftii
against monopoly) wpuld be polltlct" "
The United. State is In better case now
with rmliraAm tnnA ,.-.1 -- -.1 T "v
jtlaa already under Federal control and th
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A DESERTED HOME
OF MELODRAMA
Tho National Theatre, Its Plays
and Players, Including
John L., the Great
THH bills on the boards outsldo the
Orpheum Theatre, In Gcrmantown, this,
week announce "The White Slac"; nnd on
the old National Theatre, where those samo
bills were first shown a quarter of a century
ago. there Is a tattered "For Sale" sign.
These two facts operating upon the mem
ory of many past Jovs beget reminiscences.
The title. "The White Slave," In the light
of Intervening happenings, takes In th mind
of the younger public a meaning entirely for
eign to the proper one. The white slave of
Bartley Campbell's piny was no slum prob
lem, but a lovely lady whose melodramatic
lines were cast In "Uncle Tom's Cabin" land
up and down the Mississippi River, and whose
harrowing adventures ended happily. In tho
beneficent shadow of the final curtain. It
was but one of the, many high lights that
made Thomas Francis Kelly's National Thea
tre for many years the loeal habitation of
melodrama
Tho Wide-Open Days.
When the elder Kelly opened his plahouse
at the Junction of Ridge road and Tenth and
Callowhlll streets, about tha time of tho Cen
tennial, that neighborhood was Just getting
ready to be called the Tenderloin. The people
who lived thereabout antj. those who were
drawn thither by the rather free gayetles that
had rein there weie no fanciers of problem
plays. Elemental stuff was what they
wanted, and Mr. Kelly saw that they got It.
For perhaps a dozen years, until tho pas
sage of the Brooks high license law, the
National Theatre was a bird that laid golden
eggs for It owner and eggs aplenty of ancient
vintage .for the villains who ranted upon
Ita stage. For It was the habit of the
audiences to take their pleasures scrlou'ly
and emphatically, and one came. to be aet
down aa a mighty poor villain who closed a
wetk'a engagement at the National without
a fsw marks of popular disapproval upon
one's costume. It 1 recorded that one Wil
liam Ferguson, the bad man of "Tho Dance
of Death," wept copiously because ha could
not win for himself such distinguished con
tumely. Villains, In the palmy day of the
National, never drew more than $35 a week;
they were Mippoied to tako most of their
wags In excitement. The heroes sometimes
drew as much a ISO per week, but many
were content with a paltry fifteen; and some
of them weren't worth that.
Tom Kelly, from the start, was In close
toueh with Harry Miner, who ran the Bowery
Theatre 'In New York, and all the high
nntrered and low.brawsd nlavs Miner nut
across came shortly thereafter Vo the NaJ
but occasionally on ot stellar caliber paused
upon that stage momentarily. It Is said
Lawranee D'Orsay, down on his luck, once
took a Job there as vlllajn; but he alwaya
protested he did it for fun and got It. And
Airs. nsKe onco juayra mere, quite seriously,
but these are exceptional cases. Among such,
ps r haps, we should Include th appearances
ot Willis Collier's father, Themaa W, Kesne,
Frederick Warde, Oliver Doud Byron and
some others of the heavy type who took them
selves a bit more seriously than any audience,
there or elsewhere, could ever be Induced .to
do. But at the National "the play was the
thing" Invariably and neldom tho player.
There was a time. In the early nineties, when
Theodore Kremer glutted the place w 1th melo
dramas, mad over night, and mostly built
upon somo startling 'story of the day.
Tnose were ine tnings mat stirred to Its
depths the top gallery, and it was the deepest
and tho widest gallery In any local theatre.
Also it seems to have been the most elastic,
for it la upon record, at least among the
traditions, that 2200 spectator were onto
crowded Into It, If that was In the days
when smoking waa permitted to the gods, It
must have been a fragrant heaven. And how
the. saloon next door must have reeked
between tha acta)
The Great John L. Astor,
But of all the Joy'experencd under that
roof there wasn't another comparable to tha
succession of thrill and chuckle that shook
ua whev we ware privileged to look upon John
L. tha night ha made hla awkward bow there
a leading man In "Honest Hearts and Will
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ho was. If such a thing could be, more popular
than ever. Tho house was pscked.
Whether the shovJ had been upon the road
for somo time or whether this was Its virgin
performance, there Is no elunco now at
hand, but wo recall that many of "the fancy"
from New York were In the boxes, nnd of
those mostly prominent nnd bedlamonded was
John L.'s faithful worshiper, Stcc Brodle.
Not lo,ng bcfoie, on that 'fateful night In
September. 1892, when the young Pompadour
woro down tho old gladiator in tuonty-ono
exasperating rounds, Steve llrodlo was the
most surprised nnd the most henrtsore ninn
In all New York. Anticipating a sure victory
for his idol, Htee had lnlted scores of friends
to a free blowout nt his Bowery saloon. Ann
the word was passed around that there was
golrt to be something extra iloln A"? "
Indeed, there was. A special wire had been
Installed to bring from New Orleans the news
of the fight by rounds and on one sldo or the
barroom a curtain roverrrt whnt InoW '" "
a picture which was later to bo iiiivfllfJ
Never did a patty Mart nut mnic auspi
ciously, but tlin i-ndlng thereof was miiieUiIng
else again. When the blow fell that knocked
John L.'s crown galley-west. It also robbed
Steve Brodle of all sense of his duties as a
host He was flabbergasted utterly and one
after another his nerfect-n guesti Hunlt
nuay. But that unveiling hadn't HmklllM
only postponed. 'The crowd was In lied lo
be on hand the following Saturday night
"for some big doln's blgger'n eer! There
as the name curtain and there was Steve
smiling and ihlpper ngiiln. nd there at the
proper moment the umelllng took ?", dt"
closing a large crayon portrait of John I..
Below It. In Steve's own hand, was written.
"The Big Fellow. He lose tho fight but ho
ain't lose bis friends."
So you may be sure Steve Brodlo was
among the most prominent present that nlglu
at the National. And thero was many
another In boxes and stalls more Interesting
to look at and listen to than were the poor
actora upon the stage. Indeed, the rompanfr
had Its own troubles to put over the footlights
the thin and scarcely necessary thread of a
plot which waa to drag upon the stage the
car of the Big Fellow. The house had come
to see something and this time the play was
not the thing. All of tho etory that comes to
us now centers around "a mortgago on the
dear old home," and the home folks ("Honest
Hearts") who were, through the medium of a
in- K-t.i- Mut nnf nt tha. reach of want by
John L.'s maulers ("Willing Hands'). Pit
nnd galleries were dlsregardful of the actors
while the hero was off (he stage; all eyes
and ears and wldo mouths when he wns on.
It was great to tee John L. come on (R.
U. E.) and swagger through the plot and
the scenery and the Impedimental fellow
players. With these last he wo forever shak
lng hands, lifting them up on their toes with
the pain of his grip and playfully clouting
them In the ribs when they were slow In get
ting away. Then came the fight scene, and
that was what the crowd had come to see.
This was the first of auch howa and it wa
followed by a number of othera, nttably,
Pster Jackson as Uncle Tom In a curious
adaptation of tho old play, with fistic inter
pellations. t
But now young Mr. Kelly has sold ills
father's playhouse, some say for 186,000, ana
It's .likely shortly to pass utterly Inm-the
face of the earth. , T. A. D.
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QUIK
Who Is rondueUir of the Chlcaio Symphony
OrtheitraT
Where Is Camp 'MeadsT
Who la Captain Andre Tardleuf
Nam th author at "Welden."
What la nUaT
What Is the plural f Mussulman?
Which Is tha Gltn Gate CltrT
Who sal4 "Veal, tMI, lci," and what does
It meant . '
What Is sabestost
Where Is tho UkralnsT
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
Tha Now Year's ''"hosiery" arj band of
mnmmrrs who, prd In riilladelphia on
th fltst dsr of each rsar.
Jclin f-kelton Williams Is Comptroller of tho
I'nltod Motes Cunrncr.
The Haturnalls waa a Raman halldar In
which nvrh lleonia waa prrmllUd tho
slavoo sad neat (rutins took nloro.
Halo lloldon lo preeldont of tho Durllnsten
Rallwar . ono of th railroad oiotu
tlte roUtnrd hx rtlroetor General MrAdoo
to adaslalsttr ibo Voders! operation of tho
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Tom Daly's Column
TO JOSKVH PKXXl'.l.t; M1TIST.
Wfio Denounced the Mummers' J'aiade at
ll'ajfe:
Dear Josoph P.:
Pray pardon mo
This too familiar salutation
Such often is the Pcnncll-tce
(Aha, another jeu d'esprit!)
I Ono pays for public protestation
But when you wrote
Your caustic note,
If you had been, say, more reflective,
You might havo not
.So clean forcot
Your artist's pulsion for perspective.
I liked those chaps,
And yet, perhaps,
The vulpnr inuinnu'rs' sclf-utni.sancnt
The cultured few
Inspected through
Tho cozy Art Club's plnle-glass case--ment
Took on n twist
We others niiscl
Who viewed the pageant from tho
pavement;
For eyes like ours
May lack the powers
For judgment sound, sedate and grave
meant.
Yet, Joseph P.,
It seems to me,
You may recall when you wero etching
In London town
And bombs dropped down
They didn't make you quit your sketch
ing. And when the rage
Had struck the stage
For comic nlavs. thn frnthlpot iii,M-
You understood
That they word good
To mako tho town forget its troubles.
Whut? You a scold?
Oh, you who hold
One Whistler's joyance in your keeping
To still the toot
Of any flut
That wakes a world put off its weeping!
BERLIN CITY OF DARK
The editor of a Dutch newsraner lat.i.
returned to Holland from an extended
Journ- In Berlin, ha been wrltlnr L!S"
tlons In that city, according to Amitf J? '"
WeduVng nsS
ar y: ,r Ber: eKS
emulating -Pari, as a city of Ugh". ShS'rUr.
In coal supply and other cause duo to th!
war have forced such reductions In the m
sumption of electric light and gas Ih!?!
citizen, of the gay metropolis AT0 now to!
some time been on less than half ration. 5
Illumination. They haveTmoon yet ani
are evidently taking such rellefwV&oS A
Germany is now at war, and Ua neonio '
not only willing to hitch up their bff,J ?h.
last notch, tint in n, tn 1...1 .;!. .! V the
If need be-., a mn, of wlnnlnJ Mbl ?T
Pally Globe-Democrat. w,nmn Iula
OUR NEW PETITION
God gave our -nUnriiri M&n . .
bend them safe home again
God ave our men.
JJ them victorious. ;
Faithful and chlvalroua ; '
They are so dear to u
God save our men.
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