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INTERESTING BIT UNIMPORTANT
ILOTD (JKOKCK sins (hat the Entente
II Allies are fighting for the principle
tltr which Ireland has been snuggling.
He) has also sa.it! that hi (iovernment
Would stand or fall on his plan for home
Imle and Irish omisciiption.
Bat consrrlptlon has been abandoned
Ad home rule is not so near as when the
wr began
The British Premier's statement!) on the
Irish question are alums interesting, but
Unfortunately they haw i as.- 1 i.. n. mi
porunt.
The "Watch on the Rhine" will he Hik
ing leas regularly when that American sector
te Alsace is pushed forward.
END THE FARCE
THE nonpartisan Judiciary primary law
has not produced the results which its
ivocates anticipated. Tin- KepYolirans
ttOVe voted to put lOpuhlii'an :.iw. "il
the bench and the Democrats haw vole.!
tor Democratic lawyers. And litis tar.
When two Supreme Court .Indies are to be
elected, no yoter may .-as! Ills hall..! for
inare than one under tite provisions of the
Constitution. This means in all proba.
Mlity a Republican and a Democrat will
fee elected. And they would haw been
elected Just the same if we hud no mm
Mitlsan primary law
yi'The State Bar Association has referred
DD Its committee on law reform a resoltt-
demanding the repeal of the law, and
Instructed Hampton I,, Carson, its chuii
tBttn, to prepare a bill dealing witji the
abject for presentation to the next Gen
'oral Assembly.
It is not known whether Mr Carson
Will attempt to remedy the palpable de
lete In the law as it stands or will draft
, general repeal bill. But none but the
ItorUts will be grieved if his bill is one
repeal the exist inn ait. 1 lie fane has
sued long enough for every practical
r-fe realize that it is a farce.
The River Chlantl la probably doing
overflowing on its own account in Italy
flow.
VON HERTLING FIXES THE BEAMS!
Chancellor vox hkkti.im; toils
V the Reichstag that "the responsibility
jfer the continuation and immeasurable
fJCOlongation of the terrible war" reits en
deUlrely on the enemy Powers, "for it goes
Without saying that there , an be no que
lost of lessening our energetic defense or
star will or of shaking "ur confidence in
fctory"
Just so. If the Entente Allies wile sur-
laader to the Hermans there can be peace
sjatorrow. If tiicy would only stop ttght-
"faaar Rarnunv would be delighted. But
ri, does not she stop gluing and end the
Bar if he is so anxious for peace'.' She
. Ma have It whenever she is willing to
alt that she is licked.
ultra your old shoes" runs a new
afl of the leather men. Excellent advice
ufer those Uernians who conteinplat arch-
' tV to Paris.
CAKES AND KINGS
THE amiable intent of the cablegram
announcing King (leorge and Queen
ary's consumption of one order each of
lean buckwheat cakes is entirely evl-
1 It was pleasant to record that Brit
monarchs visited the Eagle Hut In
T IjHaVin and there did eat of the food pro
"fllad for our soldiers.
- Unquestionably the English censor was
flighted to pass the dispatch and it's ten
to one he never bad a qualm about its au
thenticity. With the least training In the
' (toties of American gastronomy, however,
f suspicions would have'been aroused.
A row of Americans, asserted this
report, "were devouring sand
and pancakes." Here is loose lan-
lndeed, arid sufficiently insulting to
any self-respecting griddled disk of
beat batter flop back into the tire
tJAajaruet! Pancakes ate aliens and have
been branded as such. The real
breakfast table, where, if the
t cake does not daily reign su
it at least ever remains a glorious
Itnows not these foreign "pasties."
apted with eggs, ruthlessly folded
d efTeminlzed with Jelly, the French
ut a dessert, nut a staple. The
I but pitifully thin Herman variety,
with lemon juice, is a monstrosity,
i empire of its origin.
incakes whst King George was
taste, far better had he imitated
tor Alfred and let his breakfast
llbtleas politeness restrained him.
state of the case and of his
ta is revealed by the damaging
he declined a second portion.
masquerading products of Eagle
ry must have been pancakes.
Indigenous bupkwheat master-
ily soft, softly crisp, born of
nucleus, with proper
aet a wintertime, be-
. sajensr.
, shining with syrup, is
en misinformed
! nwn notwrtously
A SCHWAB OF COAL MINING
NEEDED
Unless He Is Found There Is Grave Danger
of a l oa! 1 amine Next Winter
st Bsrl si Lsst Year's
AITHAT is imperatively needed to tin
" tangle the anthracite muddle is a
man big- enough for the job.
There is coal enough in the ground.
All that is necessary to get it out is
expert skill to mine it and sufficient
crude labor to load it in the trucks in
the min and run it through the breakers.
Then an intelligent method of distribu
tion will send it where it is needed when
it is needed.
The work of building ships was lag
ging a few months ago in spite of the
fact that we had the steel and the ship
yards and a generou,s supply of skilled
and unskilled labor. Nobody seemed to
know what to do. But Mr. Schwab was
called in and he soon arranged for a
system of producinp the kind of steel
needed for the ships in sufficient amounts
and for the distribution of the different
kinds and shapes to the shipyards in the
order in which it was needed. The solu
tion of the problem was so simple that
only a man of Mr. Schwab's directness
of mind could think of it.
Mr. Garfield, president of Williams
College, who has been in charge of the
fuel administration for more than a
year, may be a very good academic
administrator, but he has balled up the
whole coal business from the beginning.
He told us last year thnt he would re
duce the price on anthracite to the con
sumers and provide sufficient coal, but
he neither provided the coal nor reduced
the price. His method of price fixing,
intended to stimulate production, put a
damper on it.
He is doing nothing now, so far as is
known, to prevent the draining of the
mining region of its supply of crude
labor and skilled miners. A thousand
mine workers left the region yesterday,
drafted into the army. The workers,
many of them, were glad to go. They
were anxious to fight for the cause of
liberty. This is to their credit. It is to
the everlasting discredit of whoever is
responsible for the drafting of these men
that they have not been convinced that
they arc fighting the Germans just as
effectively working in the mines as they
will be carrying a gun in France.
Every breaker boy, every man who
loads a truck in the mines, every engi
neer at the power stations, every miner
is helping to win the war, for he is doing
necessary work to keep the munition
factories running and to provide heat
for cooking the food for the workers in
all the various industries of the country,
almost every one of which is essential to
the equipment and maintenance of the
fighting army on the other side.
If the mine workers had had the situa
tion explained to them as it has been
explained to the workers in the shipyards
they would insist that they be allowed to
remain at their work and they would
handle coal in the same spirit as the
trench digger in one of the shipyards,
who said to himself every time he lifted
a shovelful of earth that the grave for
the Kaiser was so much' nearer dug.
But the essential character of their
work has not been pointed out to the
men in the mines. The provost marshal
general has not even had them exempted
from the draft as essential war workers.
This could be done with a stroke of the
pen, if any one had the nerve to do it.
The district draft boards in this State
have put some of the miners in a de
ferred classification when they have
asked for it. But the initiative has had
to be. taken by those miners themselves,
who realized the importance of their
work.
This is the season when the coal must
be got out of the earth, but virtually
every mine is short-handed. The Lacka
wanna Coal Company, for example, re
ports that it needs more than 600 miners
and more than 2000 laborers. But it
cannot get them. The men it needs have
been sent to France, are in the training
camps or on the way there. And a large
number of the coal yards in this city
are empty, with not a ton to supply their
customers. More than 130,000 tons less
than the normal demand has been shipped
to this city in the last three months.
And much of the coal mined is being
sent to New England and the Middle
West. Coal is needed in those regions,
but their shortage last winter did not
approach the shortage of this city at the
door of the coal region. Mr. Lewis, the
local coal administrator, is exerting him
self to get coal. But he can accomplish
little sj long as the Federal Govern
ment is depleting the labor supply in the
mining region and so long as Mr. Gar
field complacently reports that the situa
tion is well in hand.
There is no need of a fuel shortage
next winter. There are men in the coun
try big enough to find a way to prevent
it, but they are not in authority in the
fuel administration. If the President
will make inquiries among the coal
operators he can discover the man capa
ble of doing for the fuel production and
distribution what Mr. Schwab has done
and is doing for ships. Will he do it?
The t pidendc of cold whhh is said to
have held up the Cerman drive seems to
have settled In the feet
WHEN YOU WRITE
WIS HAVE said it before, and we shall
continue to aay it, the kind of letters
to write to our men in France are letters
full of cheery, encouraging and hopeful
gossip about home affairs.
When the good news of the Tuckahoe
launching at Camden was cabled to France
the Stars and Stripes, the A. E. F. weekly
newspaper, said editorially, "TBat is the
kind of news we like to hear from tbe
States cheery njtra, heartening news.
news of the big things being done with
pep and hustle." t
When you sit down tonight to write to
your husband, brother, son or friend over
there tell him how many war-savings
stamps you have. Tel him there's another
Liberty Eoan coming along In the fall.
Tell him that nearly one hundred ships
will be launched on the Fourth Tell him
President Wilson Is preparing an answer
to Von Hertllng and Von Kuehlmann that
will add one more stone to. the absolute
solidarity that unites the Allies until Prus
sian militarism Is crushed. Tell him of
the new draft of twenty-one yearlings.
Tell him the P-boat raid over here was
a flivver. Tell him every citizen of Phila
delphia eats more food In a week than a
German sees In a month. Tell him you
have ordered your coal and you are going
to keep after Garfield to see that you
get It
Most of the thlrers you are worrying
about probably won't happen anyway.
There will be plenty of food and plenty
of hard knocks for the Huns. And then,
when you have told him all that, go out
and buy a package of 1Mb favorite tobacco
and send It to him.
Then you can look your service flag in
the face without a blush.
If one regards Ike Deutsch as a pawn,
his request for a "lone trial" seems only
natural
SENSIBLE MR. BENSON
ALLAN L. BENSON, who ran for the
presidency on the Socialist ticket In
1916, has formally withdrawn from the
party on the ground that It Is now con
trolled by leaders devoid of Americanism
and by "ait anarchistic syndicalist mi
nority." There was no other course open to a
thoroughgoing American who Is loyally
supporting the Government In Its prosecu
tion of the war.
"It's easy to under
A f lire stand. Mr. T a m b o.
or Kill ( IMS why our doctors have
been so eager to go to
the front "What makes you say that,
Mr. Middleman?" "Why. because I've Just
seen ail Oermany described as 'patience per
sonified.' "
The Plave now takes
It Roue to Ilia Its place among the
Orrsalon other gallant rivers to
which we all owe
gratitude the Marne, the ise. the Aisne.
And the Plave seems to have a shrewd idea
of tactics , it has done some excellent "Infil
tration" on its own account
The news that American troops have
taken "the last strip of Belleau wood" sug
gests that by this time they should have
enough timber to build a mighty fine struc
ture of defense.
I SINCEYOUMSIST
The Tryst
ACCORDING to tradition
The place where sweethearts meet
Is meadowland and hillside.
And not the city street.
Love lingers when you say ii
By lake and moonlight glow:
The poets all O. K. it
It may be better so!
AND yet I keep my trystlng
In the department stores:
I always wait for Emma
At the revolving doors
It might dismay tbe poets.
And yet It's wholly true
My heart leaps when I know It's
My Emma, pushing through:
IT MAY be more romantic
By brook or waterfall,
Yet better meet on pavements
Than never meet at all:
I want no moon beguiling.
No dark and bouldered shore,
When I see Emma smiling
And twirling through the door!
THE HUSBAND'S DAY
( As Imagined by His Wifel
Gets to office at 9 a. m. Kinds his desk
dusted and mall opened by beautiful
fair-haired stenographer, and a vase of
flowers on It.
9:30 u. m. The Boss calls him in to con
gratulate him on the fine work he has
been doing.
10 a. m. Dictates letters to beautiful fair
haired stenographer; active, ambitious
office hoy goes errands for him.
11 a. m. Conference with heads of de
partments; his opinion! are listened to
with respect.
12:30 An out-of-town customer calls him
up and they go to lunch at a roof gar
den. They match for the check and
husband pays it, $3.50.
2:30 Returns to the office; signs letters
that have been typed in his absence.
3:30 Receives telegram from rival firm
offering him position at twice his present
salary; shows it to beautiful fair-haired
stenographer; she says how much she
will miss him.
4 Decides to stay if Boss will give both
him and stenographer a raise and post
pone putting in dictating machines.
4:30 Boss raises his salary and fires beau
tiful stenographer.
5 Home with box of chocolates for
beautiful dark-haired wife.
We suppose that the anthem of the
sugar administration will be "The Watch
on the Saccharine."
General Crowder did well to appoint a
young woman to pick out the capsules in
the draft lottery for men of twenty-one.
Young women have always been experts In
conscription.
"People in Paris don't worry as much
about German names as we do in Phila
delphia. We notice that the telephone
number of the Stara and Stripes, the A.
E. F. newspaper in France, la "Gutenberg
1295."
An American battery in France has
named two of its guns "Betsy Ross" and
"Elsie Jams," which shows a genial choice
in heroines. When they are looking over
the list of American ladles who might be
so honored we hope, they will remember
Julia Ward Howe.
if they do name a gun after Julia Ward
Howe it ought to be a big one. Might we,
with apologies, call it Julia Ward How
itxer? AHOCRATE8.
READERS' VIEWPORT J
The Man Who Can! Go
To ihr F.thtav of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Your editorial pag- Is oftentimes a
heart Ilft-Mener The linen addreftaed to
"Twenty-one" ought to be an inspiration to
eejry youth of that age, although It in too
MM to hope they will be. If every young
man to whom they are addreneed would pre
serve them until hip return to civil life he
would have a more sensitive appreciation and
a corresponding gratitude to their writer.
The story about the V. M. C A. hut the
other evening makes the man who cannot
go realise what he Is missing In the line of
service.
The man who cannot go' How many of
them there are, pulsing with desire but de
nied, for one reason or other, the privilege
of serving. For myself, being beyond the
draft age and having failed to make th
navy and a hospital corps, there was left a
branch of service where a too thorough
physical examination was not required and
In which service I Anally secured an ap
pointment. But a long and wearisome Illness
had depicted me financially and there were
left a few (terns which honor demanded
should be satisfied before going to Franco.
Heing somewhat Idealistic and believing that
men ns a general proposition were likewise.
I felt thnt I should have no difficulty In set
tling my affairs satisfactorily. So In my too
young trustfulness I sought out mn who
live In the civic glare as being broad gauge
and public spirited and to them I stated my
trouble. Alas! Although I offered a very
generous allotment from tbe expense money
allowed me desiring nothing for my
self but a place to sleep and enough to eat -and
to turn over life insurance In case I
passed out before the very small, amount re
quired to settle my obligations should be
repaid. I very quickly learned that the aver
age man has but one ideal, money and
power.
The press carried the story a few weeks
Hgo of a youth who was exposed as a faker
nfter a short but thrilling career as a Per
shing veteran. He had been received with
open arms, showered with attention and kind
ness, openly referred to in public before
thousands as a credit and an inspiration to
our youth aU because he claimed to have
done something And the man with a dean
record and decent aspirations who wants to
do something, and whose record presupposes
that be will do It if given the chance, la
treated with contemptuous Indifference.
How v-lstfully, nay, with what unspeak
able anguish a man sees a fine and dear
desire go glimmering Into oblivion, conscious
that it cannot be realized and that for him
there is nothing but the long years ahead and
the stigma of inactivity during the greatest
period of human history.
And so there nm times when your edi
torial page always interesting Is a heart
lightener, and cheers a man with the knowl
edge that even an editor can sometimes be
ni idealist (he Is generall too academic or
too cynical), for ideals are the most fascinat
ing things in the world, perhaps because,
while so strong and soul stirring, they are
often so elusive and must be pursued and
fought for and sometimes died for.
DISILLUSIONED.
Philadelphia, June 25.
1 rphtiiip. Printers
To fie Editor of the gfV0fllfl0 Public hedger ;
Sir On .June 15, lfl 8. 4081 journeymen
members of the International Typographical
I'nion and 056 apprentices were in the army
and navy forces of the I'nited States and
Canada, Peventy-flve of our members have
fallen in buttle in France or have died in
military camps in America.
To' the widows, orphans, fathers, mothers
or other relatives of these men this International-
union has paid mortuary benefits
amounting to Itl.fBO.
During the last twelve months this Interna
tional union has pnld $354. 0DO to 1500 old
age pensioners.
In the same period this union has paid
mortuary benefits amounting to $312,400.
The total expense for the maintenance and
for improvements at the Union Printers
Home at Colorado Springs last year was
$167,000. 4
This union has invested $.,0.000 in each
of the three Liberty Loans $90,000 in all.
Our subordinate organizations and individual
members have invested more than $3,000,000
in these securities.
Our strike expenses for the last twelve
months were but I1XIT.
The gross earnings of our members
amounted to more than $71,000,000 for the
year for 02,000 members, and the Insignifi
cant amount expended for strike purposes
reflects our determination to give full pa
triotic support to the (governments under
which we live In the terrific responsibilities
which now confront us all.
The officers of this International union
are volunteers in the army for the preserva
tion of Industrial pence for the duration of
the war at least, and we will do our level
best to give full effect to tl)e earnest recom
mendations made by President Wilson in
his proclamation creating the national war
labor board There should be no Btrikes or
lockouts during the war.
This International union neither solicits
nor accepts contributions to its benefit funda.
Kvery dollar expended for these purposes Is
paid by members of this .organization In the
form of regular dues and assessments.
M. tt. SCOTT,
President International Typographical Union.
Indianapolis, June 20.
At Last!
One day some American military auto
trucks were disembarked at a certain port
In France. As they stood on the quay a
group of British Tommies contemplated them.
"A-t-1-a-s." spelled one, regarding the
cryptic letters in large capitals on the aide
of the huge vehicle. "Atlas. That's Ha
bloomln name, I suppose," said he.
"L S," said another warrior, fixing hla
eye on a second inscription. "So they've
come !" Then, picking up a niece of chalk
which lay hard by. he added the letter T to
the firHt legend, and behold the proclamation
read, "At last"!
We who were told the story should have
laughed. But we could not. We well knew
how, for more than two years of heroic
stress, the inanSvho wielded the bit of chalk,
with legions of his grim, gay brothers, had
watched and waited for the people of our
land to wake and rise and stand beside him
In the break-up of the woild. No doubt there
had been good reason for delay. But we felt
conscious that these men we had come among
had waited long, not quite understanding, but
still strong in their faith that in the end we
would see clearly and take our place "At
laat !" In one stroke of the piece of chalk
was written a pean, swift, triumphant
America and Britain, America and France
had clasped hands and sworn to suffer and
endure until the end. E. H. Sothem, In
Scribner's Magazine.
One of Kerensky's aides has arrived in
Washington and another in ParlB presum
ably to discover whether they can rind any
aids for Hussla.
The Belgian minister says that his coun
try is bled to death ; but the world will see
to it that Germany does not get the corpse.
Representative Kitehln wants the new
rone poatal rates to go Into effect before
the sentiment of the country has had time
to express Itself.
The Clermans are using convicts in their
Iront-lme attacking force. This is one way
to get rid of them.
If the dealers have no place to empty
the coal and release the cars, as ordered by
the fuel administration, our cellar Is at their
aervlce.
The French for a bill ia "addition"
Somehow the word seems fully Americanized
nowadays
'Wirtsohaftekrleg," Uermany's name for
economic warfare, sounds very dreadful, but
Its meaning will be still more dire should
civilisation ever conduct It agalnat the out
law nation.
Is It possible that Providence sent us
the recant spell of cool weather Juat to
remind us te be sure to get nest winter's
. coeJ Is before Ha too late?
'YOU
The Ghost at Chateau Du Mont
By Lieutenant Leon Archibald
British Royal Engineers
IN AN area of the British front honored
by the presence of our division in the
earlier stages of the war. on the one promi
nent feature of the landscape and In close
proximity to the firing line, was situated a
handsome old French chateau; which for
the sake nC convenience may be called
"Chateau du Mont." The censor, In this
instance, deems it advisable to withhold the
name by which It was known on French
ordnance maps, Just to be on the safe side.
FOR months and months the Chateau
du Mont had been weathering the rane of
battle, when one day, for tactical reasons.
It was considered necessary to erase It from
the landscape. The removal of this flna
old pile was by no means decided upon
rashly, nor In haste. Kvery conceivable
plan had been considered whereby It might
he left to grace its beautiful Rrounds, but
to no avail. The only action which could
correct a very grave evil was to level the
structure to the ground, thereby removing
from the German artillerymen a highly
valuable "aiming mark"; as. on account of
its nearness to the front line and prominent
situation, the German gunners could get
"direct sights" on it, and, by carefully
observing their "bursts." then switch on
to adjacent targets with unerring precision
In "timing" and "range." . Chateau du
Mont must be razed, and our instructions
with regard to the matjer were designed to
accomplish this desirable result, and in due
time the ihlng was done.
THE demolition was to take place at 2
a. m. on a certain night, and about dusk
if the same night I proceeded to the
chateau In company with my section ser
geant and about a dozen sappers. The
"blowing up" was to be done with gun
cotton, and the several hundred pounds of
this commodity with accessories were
moved to the scene In a "G. S." (general
service) wagon, drawn by two mules of
highly uncertain temperament.
AFTER a careful examination of the
rather spacious and elegant structure
we decided where best to place the
"charges" to achieve the greatest results.
Ry midnight each of the twenty odd pack
ages of destruction had been prepared, laid
and connected, so that all that remained
to add one more gaping wound to an
already horribly mutilated countryside was
to push down the handle of an "exploder."
Two hours still remained before our
night's work could be completed, and this
time, to a large extent, was made use of
by the men In tours of exploration. In
the building things stood pretty much as
they had been left on the hurried departure
of the owners. The wing nearest the
enemy had suffered considerably from the
ravages of shell Are great gaping holes
and shrapnel-pocked paneling, together
with maimed and broken furnishings stand
ing out In strong contrast to the elegance
in other and more fortunate regions of the
structure. These Journeys of exploration
and Investigation were, to a certain extent,
being combined with not altogether illegiti
mate acts of pillage, as it did seem a pity
to see the "G. 8." wagon return empty
when all this stuff was to be blown up,
anyway. Little knlck-knacka, such aa the
rand piano, the dining room table and the
kitchen range, were being gathered up,
when, all of a audden, the riot started.
ONE of my sappers, Higgins by name,
and a gentleman who on more than one
occasion had stimulated other proceedings
with no mean portion of zest, had In his
wanderings located the linen closet. Select
ing a nice, large, white sheet, he then
donned his gas helmet; and, with the sheet
loosely draped about his generous frame, he
sortled forth. As he entered the upper hall,
Haynes, one of his mates who was slightly
nervously Inclined, was Just emerging from
mademoiselle's boudoir accompanied by a
generous portion of that young Intfy's be-
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a yard from him, and with a wild yell
Haynes Jumped. It Is difficult to say whether
Haynes or some of hlH Impedimenta
reached the bottom of the stairs first, but
they all arrived In time to lnterfei e seriously
with a heavily laden procession emanating
from the drawing room, headed by my ser
geant, bearing a largo plate-glass mirror In
a beautiful golden frame. Stopping only
long enough to collect his own legs from
the heap of oontuslon and get slightly
singed by the sulphurous1 atmosphere sur
rounding the pile. Haynes kept right on
with his endeavors to get away from the
vicinity of that region of prowling phan
toms. For the sake of his honor and his
country he was willing to face Germans,
and thousands of them, together with every
Item of frightfulness they could devise, but
a weird looking ghost in a deserted French
chateau was a different matter a very
different matter, in fact.
IKTTING himself out on the balcony,
J Higgins next proceeded, and still in his
ghostly raiment, to crawl down over the
vines of the front porch to the main
entrance, where a grand effect might be ex
pected to follow his spectacular entrance
Into the front hall. Tied to a tree on the
lawn were the two mules, and by the light
of a distant star shell they were afforded
a sight of the porch-climbing phantom. One
look at the horriUle apparition they took,
and then they weighed anchor and went
anywhere, as long us they were putting
space between them and that specter.
They made four complete circuits of the
chateau In their endeavors to find an exit,
ami each time they selected a new route
through the green house, and otherwise
materially assisted with the alterations
to the shrubbery and grounds which the
Hun shelling had so nicely commenced
months before. The Instigator of this mad
marathon, after the fourth circuit had
been effected, became aware that perhaps
he was in some way connected with the
riotous merry-go-round, for at each sight
of him the mules seemed feverishly anxious
to clip a few seconds from the time of
the previous lap, and Just when the ser
geant arrived on the scene, followed by a
determined-looking handful of sappers
with fixed bayonets, and Intent on selling
their lives as dearly as possible to what
was undoubtedly a horde of looters headed
by the Crown Prince himself, the ghost
of Chateau du Mont was tucking the last
traces of a white sheet Into the slimy
depths of a shell hole.
On the Taxing of Cats
Sympathy naturally goes out to the person
who prooses a tax on cats. There sneaks
seal without knowledge. A tax on cats would
be a great loss to the Government. Only
dear old ladles with kind hearts and stall
fed, unnatural cats would pay such a tax.
and there are not enough such dear old
ladles to count. There are cats, of course,
millions of cats, but cats do not pay taxes.
And most cats have no owners to pay taxes
for them. An owned cat Is a rarity, and
would be still more rare if cats were taxed.
If the (iovernment desires to get rid of
cats, the way to do it Is to offer a bounty on
eat aKIns. but It seems scarcely worth while.
A cat, left to Itself, la self-supporting. Leave
the canary bird cage open and the cat will
do (he rest
Ab a matter of fact, the cat is a problem
that has never been solved. It is one of the
eternal mysteries like woman, and which
came first, the bird or the egg. The Egyp
tians had tbe good sense not to meddle with
eats, and our Government ought to be as wise
aa ancient Egypt. Chicago News.
Mistakes of Science
Prussian diplomacy proceeds on the theory
that a new victim Is born every minute.
Washington Star.
Like "Nut" Steak
Can't Mr. Burbank give ua a vegetable
chop? Chicago News.
See Mr. Hoever
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THE WEEKLY CHEER
Once n week the Berlin populace Is per
mitted to gsther in front of the imperial pal
ace and cheer Home member of the royal
family. News Item.
VOHAT do you cheer for, German
" friends ?
Why the applauding? Odd and odder
That Prussian hynotism lends
Such joy to being cannon fodder.
WHAT do you cheer for? For the hell
:" That fouls and bloodies earth's green
acres ?
For oozing brain and charnel smell,
For shattered homes and village break-
tlTHY do you cheer? For those great
VV chiefs
Who have consistently deceived you ?
Who are the cause of all your griefs,
Who starved and bullied and bereaved
you?
THY do you
cheer? For stunted
T youth ?
For bitter gas
that rends and
smirches?
For earth that has forgotten Truth,
For blackened orchards, broken
churches ?
fXTHY do you chser? To see earth
" strain
And stumble in her happy spinning?
Against such vast arrears of pain
Can mercy even make beginning?
1I7HY do you cheer? For women's
" tears,
For torture, bitterness and famine?
These hardly seem a cause for cheers
When one takes leisure to examine.
AND if there be, in some far place,
An all -attentive ear for hearing
The tragic voices of our race,
Saddest must sound your loyal cheer
ing. , CHRISTOPHER MORLEY.
How It Seems to Margaret Delant!
Margaret Deland. who went to Paris to
engage In war work after the death of her
husband, writes homo; "Over In America
we thought vv-e knew Bomethlng about the
war and the conditions In France, but when
you get here the difference is as the differ
ence between studying the laws of electricity
and being struck by lightning. I have been
struck by lightning. The only way In which
I can keep sane and steady Is to look very,
vary closely at my own immediate little
trivial foolish Job writing or working In
the canteen, for If I dare to lift my eyes to
the black horizons, I lose my balance."
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who are In rammaml sf the Austrteas ea
the Italian front?
t. What la the ranltul of Delaware?
t. Who wea "Chinese" (lerden?
4. Wha aula. "n a men advanres In life he
seta uliat la lietter than admiration-
Junamar., to eatlmut tliluaa at their true
valuva"?
t. Wha la Karon Ehendea
C. Naaae the author of "Ode to a Mshtlnsale."
1. What Is a hesraaonyT
5. What It the mnat Important nmnufarturlne
and aeeead larseat eltr la Huasarrf
a. When and what nu, the Pealaauler Wart
10. Who were the haddiireea?
Anawera to Yesterday's Quiz
I. (emnlesiie: An Important rallnra, and annpb'
city of the .tlllra In the realon v he re the
IMrard end rhsmnasne fr- Join and
uhout fnrlr-nva Bailee front Tnrla.
3. Dr. W. W. Comfort l new orealdeat ef
llaverford College.
S. Narrow -saute rallrnitd: line In which the
dlatanrr between the ralla 1- leaa than the
ataadard same ef 4 feel ' laehee.
4. oloiiel V., VI. Hente la uauall, anaMerril
1're.ltleiit Wlleaa'a rloaest , oiinMratlol ad-
Sir Walter Heell urate
The Tallaman
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ruaadea and Kirhnrd '.
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a. Joan ef Art-; The national heroine ef Frenee.
1. "I.a lirahaneonee" ("," nremtuaeed aefl) le
the natlenal air ef llrlclum.
1. Jamea Mmllt-an w.ia the fourth I'reeldcnt ef
the I niud state.
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