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Attorney of Phlladolnhin 1ms nn- $K)Unced that lie will enforco that Inter fCpretallon of the law. Kvcry voter, there- lMSfore, has behind him the support of the 'TrlGZHtX Officers nnrl tile m-nniluo ,f h,nrai.llnn sfaJCtn. the exercise of his undoubted riRhtx. v(V. " J iiitti uip jtepuoiicuns who voicu ftt'o" the Town .MeetiiiK candidates, ".hem- pelves Republicans, forfeited their party deny to citizens that Inde- rjKifendence of net etion in local elections vith- BF!t.OUt Whlnfc tllovn ..., u Wi' Jtn - . fc....v w.,,, in- in, ,l lm L'MN. SSjESP1 D01ters l!,Nt f"" nri! not "'0 Ulnil f(0,, mc" t0 h? bluffed out of their rights KM'py factionalists. They will stand on their ggpr,vlleffes ns free citizens today. it half that the politicians haw nd of i dls- eOCh Other Is Iriin Uin rl..,..p.n.. 5'S aster. FASTER MAIL 'Cft'KED records made in airnlane mail .ff-M delivery, thouch thev an. sure 1., i.,. fj'n,a2lnfr' "'"' ""' r("ltl'"t the public for (giJJong, The means are already at hand to rSH,in'rrove upon them. SP-- ma lcIlvpl"y is as Important iVst.trom the viewpoint nf wiuhinMnn ,,u n "appears to the men who run the mailtriicka pn the streets of Philadelphia. Mr. ISiirle- eon might easily show the world Miim-tltlng 'new. iSf.Tlte first essential would be a fric.it num- i?r- ot babies, timid old ladles and (roups lot acrobats trained to assume thn iittitiwinq i.pf,' disheartened folk awaiting P. It. T. aFy,""?8, lnpy snouitl be distributed. alonK Stria, highways between New Vorlv and gfeVVashlngton. Turned louse upon roads .mi ppp"ulated uny mailtrm'k drhci- would in psMstantly gather the Inspiration necessary for Wvtho annihilation of space, speed records and 3&TnTt nhatiir.lnu tl.it I ., .......,. ..1 1 .. 1. i Iv"i" ,v,u" vt.Mw niiii irtii-u in ins iaui. SSjIpenqugh people were put in his way to be RKZlf ofC1' he would be sure to beat any 'airplane record. SvV- - Captain .Mills s.ns Hie puiice must K.-eti hands off the ji, unary eleciino. is RfrW to Mfkup to him to tee that thev do it. E' : SINKING pAS SOME one said rei ently nf the .Major Ktiof. New York the Hun has a peculiar HJ ' maKins everytiunc; lie touched Wn the submarine, as it was secrellv de- 4ce3 before the war. (iernuny seemed to ive a hovel weapon of limitless potency. fife: Dew1 device had all tin, ..uiv!iniru ieC?the 'situation It appeared to involve j .,wt.,.. m,i,cii- n, ii n- uiuw men .who ay.e had to tight it. And yet, like the eppelln, the submarine has lived throuRh 'Short hour ot successful terrorism inul Siftsflo longer a serious factor, even In ,i SfefUrtivo and skulking system of warfare. iWfAndlBs It disappears from the active arena ffRM" nghtlng it is appearing clsewher. ssksfiSh?. 'evel of the general German effort. &,-.' The undersea boat of the Herman Sliavy Is a new carrier of fanatical sedl jjlonists, a vehicle of cheap and futile In- Sjtrlgue. A higli use, surely, for a ship of War! SSJust before the latest outbreak In Ire- ia,na it was a submarine that landed some Mj.fartunate 'eader of the trouble in a col y?RBlole oai, lanoeil him as another es- of the same sort landed Roger Case. ijenf. Into thn hands of the law. Sub marines are reported in the Gulf of .Mexico perore cacn new .Mexican paroxysm. ftp at these despised chores of war the ae of the German navy is a failure. recy Is the first essential of successful Btrigue. And the German U-boats ulwava anage to be discover i, sunk or hounded m place to place at their fantastic Job. FIs Mr, Uorglum merely resting or has lie aiiaieu jus ocaouiary. .- CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER FARES HB ruling of the Public Service Com- suasion mat a rate of fare, fixed in one fi'-pt, circumstances, may be changed Wi circumstances change, means that :4lwrgetl of public service corporations ifio. be fixed in accordance with the pies of equity, . ; man who assumes that this decision p that the demand of the Rapid ti Company for a six-cent fare will pwved jtfmps jto a conclusion un wted. by anything in th ,-, j:rst place, the Public Service Com- B4liaa consistently refused to con- fciyiy fare Increases to raise money w, jjurcnoses wnich should be made .proceeds of an Issue of new shares Hat, stock or bonds.' In the second k:$W Rapid Transit Company, must u tne satisfaction of the eommu. Os It is unable to pay an Increase put or funds- already in its una, ft until the proposed lease -with the 'aroyldes for adjustment of income pIPwtnff; chargea and other expenses. meal fare question will be decided. : ntcis. in me local transit situation. IjMyet been demonstrated that uim auMwcieui w warrant an in- Ifa. ',Wi'lj; ' HOW AtOUT THE EAST? Germany Must Be Defeated There by n Victory of tlic Entente Allies oh the West jHWERY expert who has given scriotu thoURht to the matter has reached the conclusion that a peace which took into consideration the conditions on the west ern front alone would he a German vic tory. Tho .President, in his Red Cross speech, characterizes the German and Austrian peace proposals as insincere bc cnuse they leave' the German .conquests in the cast undisturbed. There is no profit to bo obtained from icnorinp; 'the strength of the German position. Germany has created, a great Central European empire on the war map. Austria-Hungary, nulparin, Rumania and Turkey are her vassals. Her power has been extended over Poland and the Ukraine, and is beinp; pushed further every week into Russia. Serbia has been destroyed, and thp effort is making to destroy as much of independent Russia as possible. When Germany is defeated on the west ern front by the rc-enforeements which wo are sending to the relief of the French and the Riitish. the problem of the cast will remain. How can it bo solved ? Some students of the question have confessed that they sec no solution of it. They think that Get many will bo ahlo to retain the great empire which she has conquered and they look to a league of Atlantic Powers to .-hut Germany from the sea and force hor from tho world markets and inflict upon her a de feat by peaceful methods which could not be accomplished by force of arms. There are othcis who think that the Central European empire will fall apart because of its inherent weakness and because of the inability of the German race to govern other races. Internal revolution, according to these ohscrvors, would accomplish what the Entente Allies had failed .to do. But the world is paying .too great a price in this contest to lie content to have it end with even a 'temporary Gorman victory. Tho German mad from Rcrlin to Bagdad must be blocked by the restoration of Serbia to the Ser bians, Rumania must be freed from its vassalage to Berlin, and an indepen dent Poland in control of the Poles must be set up between Germany and a ic-.-uscitated Russia, governed by the best elements of the Russian people. When Germany is defeated on the western front and her representatives meet the representatives of the Entente Allies, what will they say to the demand that the Rumanian and Russian peace treaties, for example, be ignored as hough they were not? We are demand ing that the big. and tho little nations have the right to determine for them selves what their future shall be. On the face of the documents, Russia and Rumania have decided. Shall the victo rious Entente say that these treaties are not conclusive becnu.-e they were obtained under dutess, or shall it accede to the demand which Germany will un doubtedly make, that they be regarded as binding and outside of the jurisdiction of any peace conference? Theoretically there is only one answer to these questions. TJie peace conference should consider tho whole state of Europe, and, to be fair, the whole slate of Africa and Asia, so far as it shall have been affected by the war. If Ger man military pov,er is destroyed, then the peace terms can be dictated by the victors. Wo can call about tho council table representatives of Russia, Rumania and Serbia, once independent States, and can also invite representatives of the Polcr, and tho non-German races of Austria-Hung-iry. and attempt to do justice. This is the ideal way. The fourteen peace conditions which the President outlined several months ago can be enforced by no other plan, and they can be enforced only upon a Ger many which has been brought to its ljnces. The President's announcement that America will send 5.000,000 men to Europe, or as many as may bo required, is the necessary preliminary to the negotiation of any such just peace. Formalized stud.v nf grammar may he eliminated h Ihe Ilnaul nf IaIuchIioii. If Ihe present systfni is 1 ossns'ble for the die Ton of some of our exalted poiun-os it haa endured ton long alre.idA-. WHOLESOME CONFESSION mHK decision of Mr. McAdou. Director General of Railroads, lo permit ithe rail road companies to have about a billion dollars this year for improvements is a confession ,of past governmental mistakes which conditions should make unnecessary In the future. The railroads have l.en starved for sev eral yeais. They have sought permission to increase their rates in order that they .might have Income enough to justify capi talists in lending them the money needed to buy new rolling stock, relay their rails and bring their lines into condition to meet the demands of increasing business. But they have been treated most cavalierly. And now tho Government, when it at tempts to run them, finds itself handi capped by conditions produced by Its own blind demagogic policy. Tho billion dollars to bo spent this year will do no more than put the roads in the condition they should have reached several years ago. They will need' another billion next year if they are to keep up with the times. The Overman bill Is now a, law and Woodrow Wilson automatically becomes the whole executive department of the Govern, ment GENERAL MARCH HIKE nomination of Major General Peyton Q. Marchr of Pennsylvania, to the rank of general is probably to be followed by tho prom,otlpn. of other officers to that high yank. General 'Pershing was promoted soma time ago. Ha has already recom. ,iWL 'yra'nk at Heutenant gen cral bo revived In .o'rdcr to have officers of proper grade to command army corps. No one should be surprised If a demand is soon made for tho creation of tho rank of field marshal, hitherto unknown In American armies, with from 2,000,000 to '5,000.000 tinder arms it is desirable that the commanding ofllcer should bo ot sufll dent rank to meet on equal terms tho highest commanding olllccrs In tho armies of tho Allies. We may have as many gen erals before we are through with tho war as we had nf major generals n year ago. This will bo merely one of the incidents of making war on a large scale. "pillj" Sunday has Just cnmrrleil 17.500 In ( hieiigo. U some nf the Chlcagn writers L?7" ',r,rP . r,,'""""' "n I lift trail .Mr. Sunday III n.K ,ac lived In iiln. NEW THINGS UNDER THE SUN gtVlf Republicans as have Imagination or lorg experience tn guide ihem are "'it llkelv to waste any applause upon t'hulrman lla.vs. nf the Republican Nntlonal Committee, because of hl.s plan to establish a party organ of national scope. This odd newspaper Is to have .1 circulation of i.noo nno: it i to i. ,.llMriI ,n, ,,elnir sliys Mr. llavs, because nf Hie "steady dcciease in the number or paity organs In recent .wars." Them are ominous Intimations here. When a movement or, an institution cchhcm In have thp essential vitality which com mands inleiest and attention through the medium of fnmiliar methods of communion, linn It is on the way to the grave A piuly organ is the Join nallstlc appioximate of a pulmntor. If ihe strlctlv party press is losing life and courage It W following a course of evolution. When a thing Is great or constructive all newspapers lire its cheer ful and enthusiastic organs. Kcmifilicnim do not need an oftli ial organ. They need an alarm clock and a new baptism of the spirit, as the lOvlvalists sav. And lliero aie few who will agice with .Mr. Hays In his seeming conviction thui the party Is so badly off as to need a .subsidized news paper nf its own. The Democratic party has vanished, of course It 1ms been absoibeil b.v Mr. Wil son. Mr. Roosevelt tried to absorb the Republican p.n t.v and failed. Repub licanism Is still potentially great as a prin ciple of domestic polities. Those who at tend at Its altars will he wiser so to deport themselves as to challenge the general at tention which, thev seem to believe, is being denied their labois. We'shnuld advise all politicians who still believe In party organs to lead the war news and to ti-.ns. late for themselves, even .it the cost of gloat labor. Us inner meanings and all Its great Implications. The expei inient might serve to explain to them the increasing delnlitv of the old fashioned partisan press. It was ahmil time thai ue lt.nl annl'irr general in Hie artn When we h.ie r,.nfin, nnn men in unlfium "e shall need gem rals enough In command them. The neiesslty of aru'sting Mine Smn l-'elners inav hae hi en the reason l-'ipld M.nshnl Klein h vvas made lud Lieutenant of Ireland Tl West fond Ihe li-lllens hMilMll conservation dele PRUNES AND PRISMS I In Ca-e You Should tk The pituitary gland, at the base of the brain. Is supposed lo be tho seat of the soul. "Around this tun organ piny the sweet fancies and the masteifnl passions upon which lunges the perpetuation of Ihe race." Dr. .1. .w. I.ankford. Tell me where is fancj bred. In the heart or In the head? We reply in accents bland. In the pituitnri, gland. fine who has watched the raging se.i of Philadelphia life for some time lolls us thai when Mavor Smith was elected lo be what he now Is. all enterprising restaurant named a five-cent clear the Thomas R. Smith and advertised il as Ine unique feature of Its menu Within a few months the restau rant failed. The cigar was evidently an impcrfei In. Why is a that over.v tune we go In the postoflice tn bu .t slump we have to stand in a line thirty anls long, while some one at the head of the queue pulls some excep tional stuff like Kill seven-cent stamps and sixteen imi one-half dozen stamped envelope.-'.' Albert Almdell tells us this one: T'heio was a ilirifl.v old lew who had been saving for many .vears to be nine to have enough money lo pay his funrVJ.ii expenses'. During the third l.ibcrtj Loan campaign, how ever, his eagerness in contribute overcame his solicitude concerning a linul resting pl.ire. He went into a bank and said: "Here's 11 ft ifnllaix. I've been saving it up for ui.v burial expenses. Hctrili tlcn Kausrr in slall.' liuiy the Kaiser instead!" Reported in Germany Herr Sinn I'eiu. the well-known Irish re publican, arrested and Jailed by brutal government of King Lloyd George V. i President Wilson, terrified b White House sheep, files to New York to consult Colonel Ilaus. French Rlue Devils, routed by our bravo troops, flee all the way to Philadelphia. The terrific cannonade of our new Krupp superguns lias caused such vibration of the air that the Philadelphia Liberty Bell was by the concussion cracked. Panic-stricken Americans, fearing U boats, aro their possessions In a gigantic War Chest for safety hiding. The question now is, Have large nations any rights? Itussla has chosen not to have any rights. Have we a right to force her rights, upon her? The British navy has long made a prac tice of naming Its ships after' the warrior virtues: Indefatlglble, Audacious, Vindic tive, Intrepid, etc. Now Mr. Daniels goes that one better by naming our new de stroyers after the American seamen who have exhibited those virtues. Lives of KaUers all remind us . How their schreckllchkelt sublimes: We, like they, can leave" behind us Battered monuments like Rheims. Pronounce It any way you like. SOCilATSsB. PRESIDENTS AT PLAY HEN tho audience at a New York the- ' ntn o demanded a speech of President Wilson, bo arose in his box and remarked: Ladles nnrt gentlemen, you are Inhering under a delusion. You think you seo the President of the United Slates. You are mistaken. Really you sco a tired man having a good time. Mr. Wilson Is to be congratulated on his ability to forget that he Is President and on Ills determination In enjoy himself when tho opportunity o.Ters. Theatre going is nno of his favorite lolaxatlons. In spite of the inherited prejudices of a long lino of Presbyterian haters of play-acting. Golf Is another of his relaxations. Talking with Colonel House ls a third. He muy have many more. Including reading light novels and abstruse philosophies, each equally distracting to a brain exhausted with the cares of state. The superstitious may f'nil comfort In Ihe thought that our only Presidents who riled a violent death were the men who did not know how to play. Lincoln never played, even ns a boy. Life was loo serious for him from the beginning. He enjoyed n good storv. bill there is Intellect ial and not physical relaxation in humor. Gar field was a worker and not n player, and MeKlnlev', amiable and gracious gentleman thai he was. nei;iilivd Ihe frock-coat habit earlv in his political caieer. Nothing so dehumanizes a man as Ihe sable cerements of the official uniform. The picture of Glover Cleveland ill old clothes and a slouch hat. with a gun or a fishing mil, is familiar. Cleveland and Joe Jeffeison ii-ed to st for hours in a boat in Iluzzards Ilav, letting thn, cool winds blow Hie cobwebs from their brain while llie.v dangled a bailed hook in the water. And they would crouch In blinds on the Mar.vlanii'inuishes with a shotgun waiting for the ducks to come within range. Benjamin Harrison was a duck hunter also. If u had not been for his fondness for this sport he might have been mis taken for an icicle three hundred and sixi.v live days of the ear Instead of for only thice hundred and sixty. . After Washington, the teal sport among Piesidents was Colonel Roosevelt. Hiy giime hunting. boing, tennis, golf, ctoquet, named in i lunatic mder. all attract him and he pursues Ihem with zest. Life llself is to him the gleatest game nf all. Ho lives it with the zeal of a jnuth who is eager tn become the champion meer schaum pipe-coloier of seventeen counties. ' mi- only other living ex-President has two amusements- -one is golf and the other is i educing his weight. He gets ! much fun out nf eai li Hint whenever ho loses a luindic'l pounds or so his laughter a' bis success puis it back again. Thus do his efforts nullify themselves The social philosopher may discover in Ihe cout se of time that the leason Mr. ISO an Inst the presidenc.v was Hint ho never le.iined hmv In pl.t. lUOUL-MFIWRY Till: dispatches oneei mug the brilliant nir exploits of R.iniil Liifbery. whose dc.ilh in tniiib.it with a German "flying tank" is described by Kilwin I., .lames in today's Kvr.Msn Prni.ic l.r.nur.n. always named bun as from Wnllingfnld. Conn., but li would be ungracious for Ibis coiinlrv in claim full honor for his notable cinccr. lie was credited with bringing down eighteen enemy planes, a higher scon- than mi) other flier in American uiu foim. but as Major Luflicr.v was himself nt least half French In blood it would be onl.v Just to assign nine of those victories lo Ihe gloi v nf Ihe Tricolor. Liifbery was one of those wandei ing sol diers of hazaid who are hard tn pin down to any doorstep and street number. His father was American, his mother Flench: lie himself was bm n In Franco thirty-four vcars ago. lie hud led a roving and mls-i-ellaui mis life, rich in adventure and high spirit!'. He had lived in ICgj pi and Alge ria, worked in a German hiewet.v.' taught g.vmiiastlcs In Geimanv. worked ln a bakery in New Orleans, as a waiter in a Wan riunoison lintel, as a custiuns officer in China and in (he American ami) In the Philippines. He enlisted in the I"renel iii my vei.v e.ul.v in Ihe war. Iist Christmastime his i datives in Wall Ingford wrote and asked if lie was ever coming back to visit them, lie applied that he would love to. but "1 should hke In or ganize some sort of a little living circus for the Germans before T leave." There is a melancholy sameness in the words commonly used to say farewell to these brave men of the uir. Whether they are aces with a long line of scilped planes or whether the cadets of the training llelds. the gallantly is the same. They have given their lives for the greatest of human efforts and have done it pioudly and to Hie enemy's gieat cost That is all that can be said more. They themselves would ask no Khaki Invented bv the Soldier. Khaki (pronounced with the accent on the eccond syllable) Is an Rast Indian word meaning dust color, or earth color. In ihe dry season m India the llelds and vegetation turn brown and the roads are heavy with dust which, carried by the winds, soon covers the foliage of trees and sluubliery. ' "In the earlier days of the British occu pation of India the British troopH wore white cotton or duck uniforms In the hot weather of the dry season," writes Colonel I). Wil liams in Army and Navy Uniforms, "hut these stood out so plainly against the pre vailing dust color of the roads and surround ing country as to make their wearers distinct targets for the bushwhacking snipers of tho enemy tribesmen. Learning from bitter ex perience the necessity for making themselves lers conspicuous, the soldlerH dipped their uniforms In muddy pools' and streams to give them the same color as the background against which they must appear. This showed good results in reducing the casualty lists, and dust-colored or khaki uniforms gradually replaced the white uniforms with colored trimmings for summer service, und later for the same reason a similar color was also adopted for the winter field or 'fighting' uniforms of the British army." It was pleasant to How Wllhrlm Will hear that paper cloth- Wrtte Noiv! Ing has been a dismal failure In Germany. Now the world can quit worrying about the things that might happen In the event of a more serious paper shortage in the fatherland. The bread ration has And StIU been cut again In They're Hunjrj- Germany, but the Gov ernment, always con glderate of the people, has doubled the dally allowance of lies upon which the nation has been fed since the beginning. Now that the bathing And Then tlo season has opened at Atlantic City at a time of cloth conservation a great many ner- Bons will think twice before going to the I shore, for a week-eriU. WATCH your COAT ,AMfl f V Ul AT I I l &9fKB$$fflw n III ..- ....--y . jrti3 i '" "-i"."-'"""' . '"" - ' '"-.'" SECRET PROPAGANDA EXPOSED IS NATURE PRO-GERMAN? By Our Special Marathon, Pa., May 21. IU'RITK In haste and cnnsujeialile enin tinn to infnrni Ihe world of a serious ainl suhlle propaganda that ' have un masked. It ls a piopaganda so widespread and so insidious that II has taken in al most ,-il I the world. I dare sav I shounl have been taken in ni.vself if it hud not been fur the Urchin. ONCi; a week or so I lake the 1'rchin nut for a toll in Ins go-cut. and when in his company I endeavor in see the world anew through his philosophic ojes. His mind has not .vol been stultified and debilitated b.v Ihe base Innciion of talking, lie does not talk yet, wise infant. If we lueei some one. il Is I whn tn Hie lab holing, nnt he. He sits contemplative, sizing up the vacuil of human beings, lie can detei I lhc nole of insincerity in tho praises of the gushing mothers of rival hahes. Bf.ini; ei- of a serious and meditative tem- in Ihese eclusive dispatches, I like lo ob serve Ihe life thai goes on about me. in the hope of finding for mvself ginve and valuable lessons of conduct and deport ment. And when I was-told tn take the I'rchin round and show him the glories nf Nature, that- he iniahr learn her sweet lessons. I began to wonder whether all this talk about Nature is .instilled by the facts. I began to look Nature In Ihe face. Instead of talking about her I ically s.u down and watched hor Then u wan that I discovered Ihe hollowricss of her propa ganda. She puts up a brave front, but she is black at heart. mHB I'n bin and 1 had been told by -- those who write and read great books and essays and poems about Nature Wordsworth, for instance that wo might H arn beautiful lessons from her. And now we are putting Nature to the acid test. When you see us prowling with tho go-cart you think jou see the customary suburban husband, docile and broken to harness, pushing his innocent offspring. But, like those persons who saw President Wilson at the theatre, you are mistaken. What you really sco Is two Indignant philosophers bringing Nature to nn ac count for her maHlfold errors and breaches of taste. It ls tlmo tills Nature propaganda vvere exposed. Most of the outdoor senti mentalizing is written by persons in steam heated apartments in the city, who extol the Joys of the country merely to depre ciate urban rents. THIO t'rchln has a mind and judgment that 1 feel I ran tryst. I show him a dandelion or a stalk of feathery grass or a grove of trees and he Is only moderately Interested. He surveys these trinkets with a calm and unklndled eye. But call his attention to a train on the Cinder and Bloodshot or a motorcar or a macadamized road apd straightway he beams. He rec ognizes the marvelous handiwork of man and approves it. After all, Nature Is only a hasty and amateurish piece of work, done In seven days, a bit of Jerrybulldlng, Man has been working for many thousands of years to pWfect his Imaginings. It Is reasonable to suppose- that he could do better than that hurried one-week job. It Is painfully evident that Nature fell down on her contract She couldn't "deliver." QJBNTJMBNTAL writers talk, of Nature's sJ sweet silences, The Urchin and I deny If. Nature babbles ua mut.li as human TEA OR, COFFEE! HOW'tL YOU HAVE 4 .ssSgWJ "S&t&nHffiH i .i3lsssr"- - jR NT.WsKVJHMiliH1i!)'!? j j .j!riJESk vp-:?.?. . Jrr-VXAJUn S vO 'MSHWMtTHKrJS -.: ih. -. -tji.i rr... i i !--...- .r i . rjii-, ssikjii Km.- , -.- -Wtt&ii35 i-' VG5M Correspondent beings. Tin flees are rmever rustling, dngs keep up an incessant hullabaloo of barking especially on Sunday eveningsi. birds ami squirt els and sheep are ceaselcssl.v cheep ing and squa'vvking and bleating. There is it poplar tiee Just outside my bedroom win dow, a tree thai I can forgive much Ije- aiise it tns.ses lis graceful plumes so nobl.v against the translucent evening air; that tree is never quiet, fin the silliest day ns leaves aro voluble, , licking and twitching and sighing among themselves. It pi-aim, it gossips, il never holds its peace. XJATl'RI-: is shirtless and uukempl. She needs constant pruning, everlasting oversight and attention. (iir the hnne -suckles anil "the lapis lazuli and the Italia iiredenta a chance, and thev will he climb ing all over the plate, shutting mil the air and sun, altincting the nphlses and upases and cooties and' centipedes and all manner of vlllainv. Nature is deceitful and ambiguous. inP tlcp t,(1is ,0o mu,,, like another. Why should it he so hard to tell an elm from a beech'.' Why should they all be green'.' If the elm is gieen. why shouldn't the beech be 'crimson or mini. .Miciire lacks viinet.v. XTATl'RF, is depressing. There is loo much nf her. One or two dandelions or liutlcrcups would be jolly, but thousands and thousands, of Ihem are monotonous. Natuie is badly stage managed. And Nature is careless. When ihe I'rchin and 1 go out strolling with the go art il is all ivf can do to ke"p from run ning over innumerable ants ihat are toddling about all over tho pavements. Why can't they have sense enough ;o walk somewheie else? And they hu.ld their nests In the most ridlculojrj place, Just where one wants ir, :,u down. Who was it said "CSo to ihe ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways und he wise"? Speak ing of sluggards. If any ant works harder than 1 do, I'd like tn see his tlmccard.' Nature is not thrifty. In theso days of 'thrift stamps she goes right on, waslefu! and Improvident. There is so muc.i more of her than any one needs. Think how she wastes time and energy on things like goldenrod and chlckweed and Great Salt Lakes, when she might be busy about wheat or corn or fried chicken. "VTA TURK is unwieldy. She is nois. ' She is inefficient. Consider all the fresh, cool air up In the sky which ought to be more liberally circulated down along city streets. Nature is bad-tempered and capricious. Thunderstorms, for ex ample. What respect can one have for a scheme of things that brandishes lightning about like an irresponsible child at play? And Nature is monotonous, untidy and vain. Day after day the birds sing the same songs, the grass sprawls over the pavement, the trees admire their reflec tions In the water. A man who would be have In that fashion would soon be In tolerable. The conclusion that the Urchin and I have' ome to is this: If wo were as tcdiouBly habitual as tho 'sun and moon, as Impertinent us the sparrow, as had tempered as the thunderstorm, wo would soon bo locked up by tho indlsnant com munity. Why should Nature bo exempt from all tho laws of good manners? Why doesn't the Department or Justice, put some ono on her trail? Is it possible that Nature, is pro-OermauT YC-UR EGGS?' I THREE STEPS J Three slops theie are our human lite must climb. The first Is Force. The savage struggled to it from the slime And still it Is our last ashamed recourse. Above that jagged Stretch of l ed-velned stone Is marble Law, ' Carven with long endeavor, mminlnno Of patient hammers, not yet free from Haw. Three slops there aro our human life must climb, The last is Love, Wrought fiom such slairy element sub lime As touches the White Rose and Mystic Dove. Poor world, that stumbles up with many u trip, . A child that clings Tn the great Hand, whose lifting guardian ship Quickens in wayward feet the dicam of wings. Kathcrine Lee Rates, in "The Retinue." VCnincn Ma) End the War Manila Fonte Crow, noted American au thor and educator, has written to Gertrude Atjiertnn, giving an account of a lecent con versation with a prominent German social rieiuocial. whose words furnish striking cor inhnratlnn of .Mrs. Alherton's predictions In regai d lo Cormanv. The German, Mrs. Crow f-.plaius, had served fourteen years In the Kaiser's nrin.v as a surgeon, and had been near lo the Imperial family. JIo had only been away from the front five weeks. "When will the war cud"'" was the ques tion put tb him. "When the women of Germany decide to have It end I" was the rcpl. "The Allies will undoubtedly w hi the war. The trouble is tho German people have become slaves of a fixed lib a, that unless jCaibcrisni prevails Ger many will become once innre a system of dependencies. The .car will end when Ger man women realize It is ihey who arc bear ing the burdens, making the sacrifices sacrifice- which bervc no end Then they will demand a change and the change will oomo." What Do You Know? QUIZ ii hit I mftfint b.v die nil rat i. "stntus ntlo ante helium," nr(l In (onnrrtlun Willi ."pinp difi'tii.iHi'i7 2, Whn mi- thp HrU tilcf J'ihtlfB or (he L'nhnl Mute.? 3, U hut (Mi rrfxfilrnU of thr I'nlOiJ t.iten illrd mi the amc ln- and v.lutt tiny wa It? t. Name the author of '"foV. iJn.,, ft. Whit h I thn H.iiJcrr MM'.1 0, HliJt It meant by "M.izlns tb trull"? ?. What Mnr wih Known uft "tlm Stars And ll.irs"? 8. tlut In tlif capital of MAacliutlts? 0. Wit.it Is infant by the Initials "V. M. C. A."T 10. Who U (iruree NWlioI! Uarncs? Answers to Yeplenby'A Quiz 1. Alfxantler Hamilton rtiM tlm flrt Secret a rr nt the Treasury of the I'nltrd Hales. 2. lien Unit: n, onre lifubly popular Minr', -writ ten by Dr. Thomu Dunn KnctUlt, a Thlltv ihrii.hia poet. 3. 'Ihe name of t'alifornl Is a tirri ration frvm ralit.ii, riueen of a beautiful unknown Urd In the ew World, lit u rorainrr publUfHeti Kliorlly after ('nlt-mliii illtroierfil Amlu und written b .MontaUo, u SnamMi ootlnr. I, "lljbrid nerpettiiil" row ure not. n U name nil nit t Indicate, mm. taut Mourner, hut are the t.n-rallel June rentes. The TrJ Mnenetual" refers to longevity of the hashes, 5. The hage of Montlrrllo, a name nn piled to TliomaH Jefferfeon, In allusion to his citato. 0. Metronolltan xone: n terra applied to (be dis trict Including u metropolis and Its suburbs and en t Irons, outhlde municipal limits, liked us a toi.tal or poll cine unit In some rltles, 7. Oeonhonei nn American Intention itlilch then datu for 'nseertalulnr the emplacement of enemy icuns und re.eaU the presence of nan per und miners. 8, Ordnance: military simplles. IneJudtmr 'can non, hinall Hmu. ni-irlilnnrv. f nit Ik t.ntt ..it More rtrept (hohe of the ouartermaMcr's wi1rnurtment. 0. 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