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telly at Prlto I.jmii Building,
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' . SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
Tk'XIxia PcsLia Lrtxlia ta served to sub
IMHM In FMladMplita and surrounding towns
, lUM raUof tweivo (12) cents per week, paabio
Mr mat) to 'points outsldo of Philadelphia. In
UBnn oiam. auau ui uuiin ,.. v-
poaiago iree. miy low1 ccnn pr mwiiai
OF titulars pr year. jjjuiw i u,i..-.
all foreign countries ona HI) dollar per
TK fiabscrltwrii wlihlnc Mrti chsnged
Ctr old .ai trell as new addresi.
: wit. W VAtXUT KEYSTONE. MAIN 1000
M4frM alt communications to Evntno PubUo
t i fwrr JUdtrpfnaeact .square, j'iuaagipnio.
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THINKING AHEAD
"rnVlDENCKS are everywhere to Indicate
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tion of nerves. Straight thinking' is at
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a times a tit difficult, senator uwen s sub
. ' gestlon in the Senate jesterday of a forma)
4 commercial hovcott to be enforced against
rA uerxnany uner urn war ujr ii ov obi-
S .ment among the Allies shows that unwls
-' d'om can be conspicuous now and then
Jis even In Washington. I
i If Is Senator Owen's belief that the
' "thrsmtUf such a boycott would bring the
Kaiser almost instantly to nis manea
IrnMa VrrhA 4mm.rtlfitA rpftilH nf Rllch nn
- agresment ould be a stiffening of public
I 'i t loplnlon In Germany and strength In the
' T wavering policies which hao been weak
it enlntr steadily In opposition to tho frank,
honest and decent processes of the Presi
dent's diplomacy. The wiser statesmen of
the Allies denounced a similar suggestion
When It was n chanced in the Paris confer
ence at the Inspiration of the British Board
of Trade.
The future of the world will not be de
cided by the war It will be decided by
the nature of the peace that follows war.
A boycott agalnstvany one, nation would
rlre to all the people discriminated against
the unfailing Inspiration of martyrdom
Moreover the Isolation of Germany would
be adequate to Justify in the minds o! the
population most of the lies that they hae
been hearing from the throne and the For
eign Office. Another argument against the
proposed ts'olatlon of Germany Is in the
fact that such a boycott would be undemo
cratic. And It Is to be hoped that this
war will be waged een in the peace par
lays as a war for democracy.
Probably those Russian babies Christ
, tned Leon and Nlcholal will be renamed.
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MANY JOF THEM, LANCASTER ,
WILL. COUNTY, Ulltois, has jielded the
1 , blue ribbon In the national county
fair, an unspectacular but convincing sta
tistical table In the census reports, to"-,the
smiling anj) bounteous acres of our own
Lancaster County as the richest, most pro
ductive agricultural section In the United
States.
'Lancaster city, to which Philadelphia Is
proud, to be linked, even with a tollgate
pike, is currently celebrating Its 200th
birthday. Npw the capital of the county,
as well as its metropolis, this sturdy,
thriving burg once had tho distinguished
honor of being the temporary capital of
the United States, when the Continental
Congress had to abandon Independence
Hall for a time. Lancaster was the birth
place of Pennsyh ania's only Incumbent of
the White House, James, Buchanan, fif
teenth President, und Robert Fulton,
Inventor of the steamboat. General John
F, Reynolds, hero "and maityr of Gettys
burg, and Thaddeus Steens, were born
','her. So was the Conestoga wagon, which
V -9 rumbled, along unblazed trails and helped
v4 to, make America America.
i,i'.'' .Distinctions many are Lancaster'. and
1 m.n. ',-u. f.' ,. .....::
z ruuiiiui4. winuca us Eisier cjiy many
. M hinnv rtllrn nf thm h1cntntil&1
Lv1" -
,
r The realism of the gibbet is taking a
J. .lot of the romance out of spying
' J IWAR WORK AND SUNDAY
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robust manner in which the Rev.
.A? Dr. John Watchorn threw Methodist
tradUipns tp the winds and the celerity
-jwMhv which the Methodist Conference of
(i-iPhllade!phla swung after him in the dec
ila.ratlonj'that Sunday must not be regarded
i"(as a. day of rest so long as there Is war
y work to be dono was adequate to show
fhaa, grasped the main Issue in its full
dimensions.
;V", Thej earlier rules under which Sunday
; observed as a rest day for reasons of
iiWyi were founded on experience more
preteSnid than any that can be crowded
UM.tJie,-Ufe of one advanced thinker. The
wtttlp.has learned the true value of thlf
fc ajad JBny other restrictions which for-
wea tneir existence only to the
, laiuis and beliefs Inherited from
"HfBea than ours. ,
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eftisn''widers' bread ration has been
fleiilisl Jtti wwrH yet to come.
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vnt(fi .wb kcai'zd (i
.wnerinaa n usea to db s
ye r, ago or can It be that we
sjt 1rit9syearn, for some of th
t'Sjamw sm asttrWMl caggage with
' w re'.eeowobering the eventful
' be declared; few ywra ago
(hat clvlUillo was des-
W dWn't gojn ai once,
(WHerella FWtoherlwn
lancing -was the rh'sJ-'ef
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THE MUTINY IN WISCONSIN
fPHE large pro-German xotc cast In
tho WUconsin primaries is n disgrace
not only to the Stato but to all America.
It is not mitigated by the nomination
of Lcnroot by the Republicans and of
Dnvies by the Democrats, both support
ers of the war. Lenroot's lead over
Thompson, the La Follette candidate, is
so small that the genuino Americans in
the Stato must get together before the
election. Tho forces of Americanism
must not be divided.
Germanism has thriven in Wisconsin
because politicians, seeking their own
political advantage, have pandered to it.
They have been unwilling to denounce a
divided loyalty for fear that they would
lose votes. They have nursed the citi
zens of German ancestry, have coddled
them and have said nice things about
their lovo of the fatherland. Their con
duct has been that of traitor3 to their
own country.
There is no room in America today for
any German sympathizers. A man is for
us or he is against us. Ho cannot be on
the fence. Thero has been too much
pussy-footing heretofore when dealing
with the admirers of the Kaiser. That
must come to an end and at once. Wheie
a division between Republicans und Dem
ocrats is likely to produce such a di
vision between Americana and Germans
that tho Germans can win, pally lines
must be broken down so that the sheep
may bo sepatatcd from the goats.
There is no question of respecting the
rights of the minority involved, nor does
the issue of free speech have any stand
ing. Tho great mass of Americans are
behind the President in tho conduct of the
war. The comparatively small number
of German sympathizers, whether of na
tive stock or of German descent, have no
more right to be heard in the great crisis
than have mutineers in an army. The
nation is committed to a policy. Its
son ate laying down their lives that that
policy may be carried out. Every Amer
ican worthy the name will support the
men at the fiont, will hearten them by
backing up the efforts of the Govern
ment to re-enforce them and will talk
and act Americanism at every opportu
nity. The others will be wise if they keep
silent. We are called upon to make great
sacrifices and theie will be no patience
wit i any one who attempts to make those
sacrifices greater by starting a fire in
the lear. ,
The time has come when every loyal
American with a German name should
cease to think of himself as German in
any way. There is no place for hjphen
ism. Compounding citizenship is worse
than compounding a felony.
The opportunity has presented itself
for Wisconsin to set an example to the
rest' of the countiy now that the results
of La Follette pro-German propaganda
are made manifest. The condemnation of
the Senator by the State Legislature was
not enough. It must go fuithei. Social
ism, seiving as a cover for pio-Ger-nicnism,
has no more rights than La
Folletteism. This, too, must be demon
strated in Wisconsin if we are to be
saved from complications which eeiy
friend of orderly government must look
forward to with apprehension.
The test of Americanicm just now is
loyalty to the President of the United
States and not loyalty to the Kaiser.
Moslem troops are translating the T"u-ton-Bolshelk
formula "self-determination
of nations Into Turl.-extermlnatlon ' nf
Armenians.
THANKS TOR THE COMPLIMENT
I
T IS not definitely certain tint Berlin
has sent General Gallwltz to the west
ern front to act as a special shock absorber
on tho American sector, but If so we are
deeply sensible of the compliment. It looks
as though there might be some American
troops there after all.
General Gallwltz Ins had several pleas
ant Junkets during the present war. par
ticularly Into Serbh. It is to bo hoped
that he will not find anything on the
Ameiican sector to mar his peace of mind.
If Berlin has paid us the compliment of
detailing its leading field artillery expert
to learn the smell of American powder, we
ought to hope that ho mayflnd the expe
rience congenial. ,.
And by the way, there are plenty of Ger
man "Vons" In circulation without adding
another. As far as we can learn from
"Wer Ist's" (the Hun Who's Who). Gall
wltz has no claim to the Junker prefix. He
Is plain Max C. W. Gallwltz, born in Bres
lau in 1852. His homo address Is, appro
priately to our cars, Kalserda"mm 116,
Charlottenburg, In case any one should
want to write and congratulate him on the
new honors that have come his way.
General, shake hands with our friend
Pershing
Judging from the continued German In
vasion of Russia the Soviet will learn that
It takes two to withdraw from a wir.
The Germans, according to report, are
now doing their best to starve the weak neu
trals. The Huns -jot the habit In Belgium.
Liquor men have pledged themselves to a
war on bootleggers. That Is a fair way to
eliminate the necessity of a larger war on
liquor men.
With the naval reserve on guard at
South street wharf there's small chance of
the Holland ship Themtcto turning Into the
Flying Dutchmen.
Better teamwork down there In Wash
ington!. One department calls on all pa
triots to plant, a garden and another urges
all patriots to keep chickens
Local politicians are calling each other
Huns in the preliminary skirmishing of the
campaign. What will they do for a super
lative when the real battle opensT
The German Invitation to the Journalists
asked to witness the long-heralded western
offensive must bare an odd ring In the ears
of the 300,000 men 'whom the Kaiser has
designated for sacrifice. .
j.n advertiser In the Bryan (Tex ) Dally
Eagle offers Jo trade "one home-size phono
graph for pigs, hogs- or heifer yearlings'1
"Turning Heifetz Into heifers Is the best the
paragrapher.' can make of that, ,'
VWir cats
Her von' Kertling says
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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
PENNYPACKER AUTOBIOGRAPHY
I.NSTALT.MK.NT NO. 104
(CorvrtoM, tut, &i Putilli httotr Companw)
"IF
AFB you begun to do jour seetlng?"
nsked John on tho Sth of September,
when the ground and tho weather were
both favorable for the wheat.
"No? Oh, veil dcre Is dlmo enough yet.
My fader used nlvass to say to mo If It Is
September den it Is not too early, and so
long as It Is September et den it lsnot
too late."
All of John's habits are steady and all
of his Instlncts'aro consci vatlv e. Tho wind
bloweth whero it llsteth, but John stajs
along the Perklomcn. He lives upon land
which belonged to his paternal greit great
grandfather, and the family in two hundred
and six jears have not moved a mile. Ho
buys manure in Philadelphia at a dollar
a ton pavs the railroad a dollar a ton more
for freight and then hauls it to his farms,
but bone and fertilizer are tabooed. With
a touch of malice, I slid to him:
"John, how do vou think I would do
to put up a sHo" '
"Somo people say dey gets more milk
from the cows dJt viy and some people
say dit dey Is no Boot But I don't put
up no silo My son, Iaac, ho Ufa on my
varm In Pcrklomen elownship Vun day
he comes to me and ho W. 'Pop, "Ink
a silo right dere py de creek And den I
say to Isaac. Tou don't putld no silo dere
by do creek nor anyveies else If you pulld
a silo jou gets off dit vaim pi etty quick
Women and Spiders
Thren j nunc ladles, John my brother
James and mjself had reached the middle
of the Perklomen In a fiat bottomed boat
and were watching the hhidows of the
shellbuU and sassafras limbs ns they
leaned over tho beautiful stream, when we
were ntirtled. In one corner lurked, un
observ ed, a huge black spldei of abnormal
propottlons and hldeousness Suddenly
darting from Its hiding plice it tan for
shelter under the clothing of the tallest
of the ladles With a scieam she roe to
her full height and stiuggled to get on
the seat upon tho far side As the boat
lurched the situation became dangerous
"Sit down," shouted my brother and I.
Reaching over among the timorous feet
John, with tho utmost dellberaKyiess.
cau?ht the horrible creature in his naked
hand and calmly tossed it into the water.
"Vomen and spiders has no puslness to
gediler In the same post, and so I puts
de spider In de Brick," he explained ns wo
regained our poise.
Llko somo otherv people whom I havo
known. John has no great opinion of my
horsemanship To drlv e my carriage with
mo in It would bo contrary to all his ideas
of propriety, but ho watches over me with
tender care His suggestions begin re
motely and are hidden with delicate clevei
ncss. "De supervisors dey don't know nodding
apout de vay to ment roads. Dey chust
dig out do gutters and diow do mud In de
middle of de toat, an den ven It rains de
mud all v ashes back again and de ruts
Is deeper dan dey vas pefore and If a feller
don't go feny slow of er dem tuts ho preaks
his vagon. Dele Is ono of dem tuts now.
chust look once and see vat goot dese su
pervisors pe " And again, "Dat Is a ferry
nlco blace to hitch jour hoise, but de vlles
Is awful pid and vtn de sun gets around
dero dey all comes out Dat dreo has
more shade and Is not so goot for de v lies "
Tho wagon went slowly over the rut, and
the horse was hitched to the tree.
On tl.e 20th of March, 1909, In that
marvel of rural energy and enterprise,
Pennepacker and Bromer's stoio In
Schwenksvllle, Prlzer, the postmaster,
leaned over the counter and gave John a
special delivery letter.
"John," said I, Intel ruptlng, 'I have Just
bought a faim and majbe I tan borrow
some money of ou to help pay for It."
His ejes had an uncertain look, but he
said "Come ofer to de hou&e vonce
When I was seated In his old-fashioned
hickory chair with tpllt seat, he continued:
'Did jou vant some money? I hafe
a little money vot I cot from a man ofer
in North Waltti. Or vas you only chokln? '
Touched by the readiness of the offer and
Its trustfulness, I hastened to explain:
"Oh, no, John, the farm Is paid for and
I already havo the deed."
"Veil. I thought majbe jou vas only
chokln. I heard j'ou pought de Gebert
place Dat lilace pelonged to my grand
fader, Chon Pannebecker. He cot It from
his fader, olt Sam Pannebecker, and olt
Sam he cot it from his fader, Peter. My
grandfader he sold it to olt Pete Schnelter
Schnelter cut off de voods and sold some
of da land, tho Perklomen Inn is pullt on
dat land. My grandfader pullt de house
and de barn wlss oak timber vat dey cut
on de place In dem days dera vas no
prldge ofer de Berklomen, and It vas a fery
bad ford. But dese olt people dey nefer
mindet de high vater. Dey vas no dum
mies. Dey chust pushed dru wlss de hay
vagons and on horepack. My grandmut
ter say she often rode dru de Berklomen
wlss de vater up to de horse's pelly. She
pull her feet up out of de vater and trust
to do horse. Tou poucht dat place cheap.
You vlll nefer lose nodding."
Never Owned a Gun
"I nefer owned a gun in my life." said
John to me one day when we talked of
Roosevelt, "and I nefer shot a raoplt or a
plrd wlss ,a gun, and ven my poys began
to get big and vanted to puy a gun den
I dells 'em, If dey prlng a gun home I vlll
preak It to bicces.'and dat stopped 'em.
Vonce I caught a rapplt In a. drap behtnt
de parn and den I vas sorry. And I nefer
goes aflBhin." he added. "Ven ve first
moved to Schwenksvllle I said to my vlfe,
now I vlll catch a mess of fish In de
Berklomen. Den I pujs a net and sets' it
in de cyeelt and next morning sure enough
it vas chust vull of fish. Den I sets it
again and deie came a high vater and avay
vent de net down tp Phlladelphy and dat
ended my falling I believe it is better to
let de rapplts and de plrda and de vlsh go
dere own vay and I lets -'em alone."
"My fader,' said John, "he vas. a, strong
- PHHyADELPHlA', THURSDAY, MAOH 21,
he vas forty years olt. He say efery young
man ought to be able to do dat much, but
I nefer could. I could stand on a little
hill and chump on to de horse's pack, but
not from de cfen cround."
He pulled his long beard further down
toward his suspender buttons and a sly
twinkle came Into his blue eyes, which
wero fastened Intently upon me. Finally
he said: ,
"You cot that Gebert place awful cheap.
You could not pulld tie houso for twenty
five hundred tollars, and jou cot a parn
and twenty-threo acres of lant peslde. Olt
Chonny Markley vas in too much of a
hurry. But he vas tired of de whole pusl
ness and chust so he cot rid of tt, dai
vas all.
"De Pennsylfany Railroat"
"I must dell jou a little story about dat
hlace. It vas majbe fifteen jears ago ven
de Pennsjlfany Ralhoat sent a lot of en
chlneers up do Berklomen Talley to lay out
aliodder lallroat. Dese enchjneers dey
stopped at old Dafy Bean's davcrn. Olt
Dafy he feeds 'em cfery morning wlss
molasses pies and bugar pies and apple
pies and Mum pies, and cfery ding vat
vas goot So pefoie dey coes nway vun
of dlese enchlneers vlnks at old Dafj- and
taj to him, jou co ofer dere and puy
dat farm fioni Hlestand Hlestand vas de
fellow vat owned it and ho blanted dem
apple diees. Dat vas enough, Chust ven
do sun vas up old Dafy valked ofer de
prldgo and he say to Hlestand: 'You vant
to sell dlese vnrm dlese long time, now jou
has a chance. I vlll glfo jou seven
dousand tollars vor dlese varm'" John
made n long pause In silence and then
continued "Deio vas somedlng vat hap
pened De fcrj day vat de enchlneers
cocs avay do chjpslfs comes along de
Berklomen wlss dere vagons and dcre
horses and dey gamps In da meadows and
steals chickens Wlss dese chjpsles vas
an ugl,v olt toman vat dells foitunes. Dat
night Hlestand cocs to de gamp and he
pavs dlese old vonnn to dell his fortune
and how lie tin mako money She dells
him.
" Dfie lr a man coming ofer to puy jour
farm Don't sell It to him, and jou vlll
mako lots of monpy ' Sure enough, along
comes old Difj Hlestand sajs to him:
0 '"You needn't enmo ofer hero trjln' to
pus nil v.irms I likes dlese varm all
right. I vlll chust keep it.'
"And den" said John, concluding with a
touch of philosophy, "de Pennsjlfany Rail,
loat didn't lay out nny new roat and
Hlestand ho lost money on his varm, and
do vlnk vat dat cnchlneer glfe and de
fortuno vat dat old voman dell dey vas
both allko and was no goot."
Thr rontlnuatlon'of this lirtrh will bm printed
(nmnrrou.
U. S. WAR DECORATIONS
Four Honors Authorized by President for
Bravery, Service and Wounds
THn United States will nward distinguish
ing Insignia to Its heroes. The President
has authorized four decorations bh a supple
ment to the congressional medal of honor,
already existent These new honors will bo
awarded for braverj-, service and wounds
A War Department order designated them
as 'the distinguished servko crro," "dls
tlngulshed scrvke medal," "war service chev
rons" and 'wounds chcrons
"llie ' dip tlngulshed service cross" will be
an appropriate design In bronze and a rib
bon to be worn In lieu theieof to be awarded
for 'extraordinary heroism' under circum
stances wlih.li do not justify awarding the
congressional medal
The 'distinguished sen Ice medal' will be
of bronze oi a ribbon to be worn in lieu
theieof, for "exceptionally meritorious seiv
ice In a duty of great lesponflblllty In time
ot war or In connection with military opera
tions "
The ' war i-ervlce chevrons ' will bo of gold,
to be worn on the lower left sleeve, and will
be awarded to odlcers and enlisted men for
each six months' service In the war zone
Tho "wounds chevron" will be the tame as
the 'war service chevron" except that It will
bo worn on the right sleeve and will be
awarded to men gassed or wounded so badly
as to need a medical olllcer's attention
Vesper Song for Commuters
tlnsteal of "Slarathon ' th commuter may
aabstltute- the nam vt his faorlte auburb )
The stars are .kind to Marathon,
How low, how close, they lean'
They Jostle one another
And do their best to please
Indeed, they are so neighborly
That In the twilight green
One reaches out to pick them
Behind the poplar trees.
The stars are kind to Marathon.''
And one particular
Bright planet (which Is ."esper)
Most lucid and serene,
Is valtlng by the railway bridge.
The Good Commuter's rtar,
Tho Star of Wise Men coming home
On time, at 6:151
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY.
That Htndenburg - Lu-
ALLIES HOLD dendorft spring olten-
THB AERO ACES slve before the United
States got In the game
seems to have been predicated on a bluff.
Uncle Sam Is now sitting on the other side
of the'table, and he's to the poker manner
born.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What Is alfalfa?
1, Which Is the Ttutnieic Statef
5. What Is the capital of Sasonr?
I. Identify "Coeor-de-Llon "
S. What Is a tratwiild?
6. How many Americans wero killed In the
Spanish-American War?
7. Who was OrpheusT . ,
g, Name tho author of "The Heir of Bedclyff,"
S. Who is John Dillon?
. Whero Is DkralnU?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1, nernard M. Uracil la chairman of the war
tnduatrlea board.
Tho. letters "IV. 8. S," mean Wt Sarlma
Biampa.
ArtUts without exception characterize tho pro.
fuse sculpture decorations In Uerlln sa pon
derous and Inartistic.
The ,snjsllest ntllltsrr unit Is
i corjwral's
Good drsr
Wait Whltmsn was called
"hf
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a. Modern ships or war bum crude oil.
7, 1' olt we stamps wero llrlf nsed in EnSIsnd. '
I, The Urltltb soldier. Is nauallr referred to sa
tommy Plains urrauso inai
mama in. Invnt.l hv Ih, I
hrnothetteal
British War
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BROWN EYES AND EQUINOXES
By CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
"W";
HAT Ivan equinox?' said Tltanla
prajed fervently that the ltunilry viould pass
from her mind Sometimes her questions, If
Ignored, aro effaced b some other thought
that possesses her actlvo brain Ijrattlcd my
paper briskly and kept well behind It
"Yes," I murmured husbandly, ' delicious,
delicious' My deal, jou certainly plan the
most delightful meals" Meanwhile I was
glancing feverishly at the dally Quiz column
to see If that noble cascade of popular Infor
mation might give any help It did not.
Clear brown eves looked across the table
gravely I could feel them through the
spring overcoat ads
"What Is an equinox"'
'I think I must have left m matches up
stairs," I said, and went up to look for them
I btajed aloft ten minutes and hoped that
by that time she would have passed on to
some other topic. I did not wasto my time,
however; I looked uverj where for the "Chil
dren's Book of a Million Reasons," until I
remembered It was under llie dining-room
table taking the placo of a missing caster.
W'x"
HE& I blunk Into tho living room again
hastily buggested a ganja pt double
Canfleld, but Tltanla's brow was still per
plexed Looking acioss at lne with that
direct brown gaze that would compel even a
milliner to relent, she asked.
"What Is an equinox?''
I tried to pass It oft flippantly.
"A kind of alaim clock." I said. ' that lets
the bulbs and bush's know It's time to
get up"
"No: but honestlv. "Bob," she said, 'I want
to' know. It's something about an equal day
and an equal night, Isn'tUtV
"At the equinox," I said sternly, hoping to
overawe her, "the day and the night are of
equal duration But only for one night. On
the following day the sun, declining In peri
helion, produces tho customary inequality
Tho usual working day Is much longer than
the night of relaxation that follows It, as
every toller knows"
"Yes " she said thoughtfulli , ' but how
does It work? It sajs something In this ar
ticle about the days getting longer In the
Northern Hemisphere, while they are get
ting shorter In the Southern "
' Of course,1' I agreed, "conditions are to
tally different south of Mason and Dixon's
line. But as fartaa we are concerned here,
the sun, revolving round the earth, casts a
beneflpent shadow, which Is generally re
garded as the time to quit viork. This
shadow"
'I thought the earth revolved round the
sun," she raid. "Wasn't that what Galileo
proved?"
"He was afterward discovered to be nils
taken," I said 'That vvas what caused all
the trouble,"
'What trouble?" she asked, much Inter
ested "Why, he and Socrates had to take hem
lock or they were drowned In a butt of
malmsey, I really forget which,"
W'ell, how about the equinoctial gales?
Why should there be galas just then?"
((-TTELL, after the equinox," said Tltanla,
W "do the days get longerr
"They do," I said: "In order to permit
the double headers. And now that daylight
saving Is to go Into effect, equinoxes won't
be ntcetsary any more Very likely the pan
Russian Soviets, or President Wilson, or
somebody, will abolish them."
"June 21 is the longest day In the year,
isn't It?"
"The day before pay-day Is always the,
longest day." "
"And the night the cook goes out is always
(he longest night." she retorted, catching tho
spirit oft ha game,
"Somo. day," I threate ned lier( "the earth
will stop rotating on-lls orbit, or Its axis, or
whatever It Is. and then we will be llko the
moon, divided Into two hostile hemltpherrsi
one vcrpciuui uay urn inn uuicr eiernai
night "
She did not seem alarmed, ''Yes, and I
bat I know which one you'll emigrate to,"
sHa said "But how about the equinoctial
galas? Why" should .there be gales 'Just
-1918
IN WISCONSIN
latitude and longitude made them unncceb
sarv. Thej- have fallen Into disrepute Dead
reckoning killed them "
"And the precision of the equinoxes?' 6he
asked, turning back to her magazine
This was a porer, but 1 rallied stoutly.
Well." I said, 'jou bee, there are two equi
noxes n. j ear, the vernal and the autumnal
Thej are well known by coal dealers The
first one Is when he delivers the coal and
the second Is when be gcU paid Two of
them a car, jou bee. In the course of a mil
lion j ears nr so, makes quite a majestic
series That is why tliej call It a pioces
slon "
Tltanla loot ed at me and graduallj- her
face bioke up Into a cliainilng aurorv bore
alls ot laughter
"I don t believe jou know any more about
the old things than I do," she said
And the worst of It Is, I think sho was
right.
fireenerj' in 'be Streets
William Pcmi w anted Philadelphia, city
of his heart, "a grcene countrle towne for
ever ' It Is still the city of the hearts of
all those who love Its traditions and aro
aiixlouj and willing to perpetuate them vbat
Is the pruning of trees between lovers of
Philadelphia
AV are suie both the Park Commission,
which has charge of in ban trees, on the
one hand, and the Society of Little Gardens
and the Civic Club, which a couple of jears
ago combined lu a laudable movement to
make the cltj" streets more umbrageous by
s stomatlo tree planting, on the othei, are
equally losal to the Idenln of the Founder
The two women's organization v havo
stopped their good work because, lu their
opinion, the saplings have been too closely
pruned by the commission's gardeners We
know pruning is an abstruse rubject about
which the mo3t enlment authorities dls.
agree But there must be some happy me
dium of using tho shears between butchering
and snipping eft an, odd twig or so Why
can't the pruners and the antl-pruners bring
down an expert from Harrisburg to say
whether the cut shall be made above the sec.
ond bud or tho third?
Philadelphia needs more trees
The Unstained Shield
At the beginning of the year the Get man
Crown Prince I'tued his New Year's greetings
to h(s army.
"With unstained shield and sharp sword,"
he hohenzollerned, "we stand at the threshold
of a new war jear. ready to strike and to.
win. God with us " ,
To which Will H. Ogllvie, a Scottish poet.
made the following retort: ,
Through Crimson mists of war and hot.
With Belgium's bleeding wounds unhealed
This devil-spawned degenerate '
Holds to the world his "unstained shield."
Unstained) By 6od. If his be clean,
The Austrian shield is burnished bright.
The Turk's can show a spotless sheen
The Bulgar's mirror back the light. '
Unstained Save for the purple blot
That marks the blood of unarmed men,
Women and babes. O damned spot,
Ij'o jears can make jou clean again!
Unstained! Save for the clinging rust
That makes Its kllver radiance dim:
The looting, and the ordered lust
That fouls Its face from boss to rim:
The breath of hate and cowardice
That lies upon It Ilka a cloud.
And makes that tarnished shield of his
A shameful thing that cries aloud.
What skies shall waleht tin. , .i' ....
-.,.yh.)vt'.'y!, he w'"1 3oora Bh wield,
o,v hen this ' Crown Prince" gives back to Oc
Qod
in uias?nfmy nis "unstained shield 1
TwYrFWVi Hampton Moore
1 OR FRANKLIN brings forward Benja.
... . , mln Franklin as the
OIi?ln.aor ot lh duM'eht saving plan,
which the country Is about to adopt as a
wartime efficiency measure', We shouldn't
be, a bit, surprised, as JPranklln originated
ao many things aboutfhere, Including the
icio, including tpe
aula, the American
w,..vi,,p4iy vfc, t vuilByitfUIll
THE RISING SUN
OF HOME RULE ;f 1
),
Juoci ji ui v j.ji.n may ue fo.auiiusiiaau'i
as the rising buii of home rule as alinrjs
able consequent to the characterization Vjn3
JOSEPH DEVLIN may be eplgramntlsj
acuity iiiuuo u. uuiiii jiuuii ns uctuua.ua
historically to Its midday nnd evening $
Dillon, bejond three score jears and , fa-
.... ... m t i viti .. k.L.J..r'
tlgued by his share In bearing the heat aaoji
burden of the parliamentary movement
begun by Charles Stewart Parnell and cr-n
rlcd on to the present pobtponed hour ofS
consummation by John Redmond, wasjhs,
natural choice of the Nationalists to succeeifjf
to the titular honors and practical leaaerH!
ship of Erin s lamented chief In and out ei
tiff House, nf f'nmmnHS llftxltn. lcoroUJBl
and militant In the prime of the m!aliji
CA.t.. ,- ( ...I- - ......... "ijlt
IUIUVBi 11 IWB lie,, aiiuuiciii. r t '
The Irish convention, with the new toler-i
ances between Celt and Sassenach and ptjj
tween Orange and Green outcomlng from tjj
great war, in which the Nationalists hv
stood by the Empire, autonomy In it their
aim and Ideal, means not the nightfall ol I
home rule, but the dawn of Its new dair.T
And Delln Is the cun of the dawning JlfM,
and glory. .V.
Tie! 111. lit,, inrtiln l.la w nv lU. but SUU
lias jeoman work to perform In conducting J
policies to a successful Issue and in liwx
glorious bu laborious icconstructlon aM
adjustment which home rule w III make feces''
sarj. Without a Bhtidow of a d,oubt he IU
succeed to the leadership for which hJiM
equipped himself over a decadr and a "until
of constructive, clever parliamentary W'
tice and a longer period of activity In beaM
of home rule as a collector of funds throus-
out the world of Irish sjmpathles, wider far .
than the area of the Ould Sod. and a, V"A
slonate pleader In many u hall and on mstiyy
a hustings In the four quarters of thoglet
for Jubtlce to the denied cause of DaQM
Rosalecn " J&il
This able man. who Is an astute polltlclst...
but whose qualities of statesmanship atVl
mltted by opponents, Is a legacy to tho WW
party, from Redmond IxioHng for "a brothj
of a bhoy" to do the blarneyln' and uj
speechmaklng, Redmond picked his favorttf'
"Joe," attracted by executive capacity boJ
In formulating policy and. handling otj
displayed by the joung M P. for Kltyejiny,
attracted especially by the fervent '"JJJm
jouth's undeniable "gift o' the gab" T&i
was In 1002, when 'obstruction" waa'paifj
Ing before more effective methods of att,Utt
Ing autonomy. His work from the early.. W(
utonomy. His work from the esriy.w
he was considered a Redmond Pf0!
ow, when he is tho pgical can.dld4b( TOft
sston to the leadership that must tt t
when 1
till now.
Rlli-,-flftlnn
nnn nf Hmk uiftn VtA rellnaulshsd it
Dillon, won for him confidence of pis parliS
mentarv colleeues and party following 'si
YT. la Intana, 1, la hnneut. hO IS fOrU
riht n.,nii. a lmiii and harsh, vol&i
nniuh.dn nf th sllter nersuaslve eloquts.
of O'Connell and other leaders of J-ofl
despite the absence of the refined techiiw
of the virtuoso of public Bpeaking, h '
orator of the most Impressive tpe. ""J
that compels attention by force o i'
ll,,. inlAnl, flrA GnA flirtf Of Utters
inanlf... ,lnn,rllv nf emrCSSed btW
Minus the graces of oratory he to'ty
tk. ri ln,D nf ln,.1lllnilArV art. TtlO W
he'has acquired, but Ids: undying .'"Jla
his causa, ana from mis Epnus " r
Is inborn. He Is sble to reacn n
all sorts of audiences He can be Pf
ut he never nesitatea to plsrca Hfki
opponeots 'With keen-edged epitneia. t
inan once no o ovniw1 " - ,Iw fi
Kst.r tvhn Irl.rl allr on him Wltn '
blistering sarcasm of Irish irony. H A
scorched hecklers a"t meetings wltn
flash of words. DeVllft surmounts i"
ness and stoutaesa with the physiogi"
u trmmanv nftll fllnn. TiUt llO SCtS S
Ina- n la.ula nnknnurn to FOUtteCtlth fl
He U a "good mixer'' and. his ''""'
l..ri .t.an-ttiAn.4 1,1 liartVj HlSl
function was "speechlf ing" now it 13
ganlzing, lor wmen ne jnaa iw "--"
ability, organization is wi i ".
needed to rean the harvest of me,ru
the. Nationalist sowers. ' I
Born In Belfast in J872, he WB,!
by the Christ an Brothers, in
elected to Comftiona) since 19 W
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