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BELL. 000 tt'ALNUT KEYSTONE, MAIN 3000 VT Address all commintfcntfont to Evtnino Public Lt>t, Indtptndfnce .?qi(arf. Philadelphia, 7i"iL3 Rfember of the Assorialed Tress TB ARSnrtATDl) niKRN It crrlu. t!SiS,"?t iivclu entitled to the ?c for ic;(liiiraMoi ,v&jTi' nil iieici dispatches credited to it or not (fii&Jw'f tftenolac credited In Mil? pn;icr, mid nlio if! tf "..T-U tint IAiviI ! mihl()i.rf IhKtrln yiw All rtaht.1 of rriiifbllrnftoii o snrcfaJ dls- ,aa(chcs herein are also reserved. rhllidflphli, Saturday. Jul. 6. I'll A WISH THAT IS RECIPROCATED TJKESIDENT CAItRANZA of Mexico In sra$; jXt h8 fourth of July messntje to President '. ' Wilson expressed the wish that "pence and (i '4 Justice will reign foreer on both nintl- ' ,.. .... ... ,i.., iiA, wnen we xninK oi conuiuons in .uhku rJ .,.. . , . .i ..i.i. WI are inclined to re.'iiui-uie iiij "in frith especial cmpha-sls on Its lelntlon to North America. "Forth" wsems to hae been the fmorite pelllng of Independence Day by our ad vancing troops In France. ARENT WE PROUD OF OURSELVES? PRESIDENT SWAIN, of Swarthmore College, told the National Education Association, In session at Pittsbuish, that the nation is threatened with the colUpse of a necessary profession. Unless something is done to make teach -Ins more attractlvo to capable women and men, and especially unless the standard of pay is raised, the time will come when the children must suffer from lack of 'proper instruction. Is President Swain pessimistic? r'SK lt us see. Philadelphia pays the hcrub- women In the City Hall $600 a year. It pay3 the school teachers in the lower grades during their first years of service the same sum. The teachers have to bo high school graduates, with subsequent Ijt rot.4" professional training. f Vj-rSI''' It pays common laborers $850 a year and I rf . L. ..4..A..I linHl ...... .. nfr .n.r 1... en who sweep the pavement at the mint- mum rate of $1000. : rt-it s " -T...A ...1-- ..!- .l. . i 14 v' TsSj xmi, wiiu tirea imi uie ircicueiM Kei; SBSWThey are not part pf a political machine. : a . - . aln's remarks. , "Were old Kit Sfarlowe llvlne today to dramatize the Kaiser Instead of Mephls tophelcs he might revise his most famous line to read: "Is this the face that launched a hundred ships and fired the topmost towers of odium?" WHAT A LAWYER MUST KNOW rx GOES without saying that a lawyer must know a little somethlnc about law. , yK&but many persons will be interested to W-f?- oiscover inai jne young men who nave ! 'i'SSi taken the preliminary examinations for K alKhiamlS81on l0 lne Dar mu3t Know some- ' 'VW They were required to write an essay on I i5!t'VThe Growth of Democracy" a very good Sfl&king for them to understand. To test 4??? their knowledge of literature they were asked to give the name of the author and ,the work In which any three of seven & famous characters appear, including John 'J!; Alden, Mrs. Caudle. Wllkins Micawber. &S81r John Falstaff and Faithful. They were $ asked to tell what the Balkan Peninsula ;-' is and the countries included in It, and to ,S3name the nve principal countries in Africa jKind to bound several American States. ... . .. ,.-J - .,. 1 L .. - Ana tney were uskcu io icii uuoul me ?7inYinciDlG irilltiuu. mm inc uiiHiu oi ine British revolution of 1688. as well as tton their knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, Lv...M.'.t... T otl.1 anrl AmaHfifln tllolnp,. .. na tested. .Those who passed the examinations may aro on with the study of the law. And it f.Ut supposed that their general knowledge Will expand to keep pace with their grow ing knowledge of the principles and piac- tico of the law. "Unwept, unhonored and unhung" E Mohammed V, late Sultan of Turkey OUR BIGGEST MONEY MAKER 4A PURELY money-making institution one of the greatest in the world reports the record year of Its history. The production of lucre is its self-confessed Uoie object, and not even the most mls fanthropic of philosophers can call it ' ffllthy." For the Philadelphia Mint, which Viurnea oui in me iweive montns enaea June 30 a total number of 714,139,119 coins, prides itself on Us neat numismatics. Moreover, the bright new disks of metal B-J originating in the Spring Garden street .. nnlr-nnrla. are never hoarded tiv thuii- Rma.kers. Subsequent possessors may T..lnUI. fl.a Inola nn h a dI ftn i.ki v a.. 1.... C LjKllLQl ,v.vra . .w nuuitguuACg, UUl J the actual creator oi 1111.1 treasure is more i'sfenerous. To the Government which FiaUes it, money is (ndeed precisely as de- pined by the economist, "power in ex change." And that accurate description rinay help to explain why the Mint has "ever been bo busy as now. :" Uncle Sam has never been so powerful. "rf!e Is making the most stupendous ex- l-H change of alt his life for that liberty which f realth cannot measure, but which re i'1 .-.eburces can aid vitally to secure, The poorest of us has no right to be Jealous ' W the Mint's prolific performance. It is - aisBB-ly another way of expressing the MrWNUMfth that is being raised against . "M TTTf miri titr iwrmronATrPOC ,. ,, Ji ti.Ji.VA . fcn) nraan- ' . . r. j. I INnuCT'l TDETt ' A ." r J' t TSflMB ' brfrt.iw: Epitaph for Mohammad V . , . v vnvivvnu , . -- 'AH An Editorial on tlic Aims of the Press Writ ten Especially for a Clerpman TN THESE doubtful days there is one medium of communication in which the Government mid the people have of necessity reposed their full faith. It is the newspaper press of the country. On the newspapers the President and his officers depend for spiritual and intel lectual contacts with the people. In the newspapers the people read the purposes of the Government nrf the tigns of their destiny. The Government has been frank. It hns withheld no important news, so far as any journalist in America is nware. A community that believed Hi newspapers were false to the obligations of the hour would stone them out of cxistcner if it tverc not a community'nf scoundrels. Now and nRnin you will hear a man say that "the papers aie unreliable." This is the most antique platitude in popular criticism. Now an Oak Lane clergymnn hns dramatized it oddly. lThe Rev. E. J. Humcstnn, dressed in a uniform resembling that of an army officer he served for three months ns a cantonment chaplain and is privileged to wear the garb of a chinch military auxiliary said in a 1'ouith of July ad dress that the press has not told the truth about the war. They give the people "weak pnbulum,'' we are told. They say nothing of a possible "ten years' war," of an army of 10,000,000 men. IIYA- pabulum! The saddest and noblest epic of man's upward adieu turcs icvcrbcrutrs from the fnut cor ners of the earth in ri-Tj hour of the day and night. The flaming nan alive of a world being remade it spread, with all its stupendous meanings, upon every printed page. Nations perish in a holy quer.t. They cheer and rfi". lji jus tify the prophecy. They become as gods. Weak pabulum.' Mr. Humcston is arresting because he suggests the failings of a familiar class and the bitter need of a new sort of criti cism that shall lie adequate to curb all men who, in times like this, cannot learn to talk in honpr, in knowledge and in sincerity of heart. All of the news that pains and trouble and limitless lesourcefulness can obtain about the war is printer, every day upon the front page of every representative American newspaper. Such minor details as are withheld are eliminated at the suggestion of the military strategists of the army and the navy for purely tech nical reasons. In its critical relation toward the war the press of the coun .try is moved by impulses of which Mr. Humeston and others of his trend of mind properly might be informed. It is the fate of the journalist to be thrust into close contact with the per sonal life of his community with strife and struggle, pain and endeavor, sorrow and triumph. He sees beneath the surface of affairs and pretensions. He sees life raw. He becomes aware in the course of such experience that the conventional virtues can often be ignoble and that transgressions often can have a splendid, a piteous or even a noble origin. His faith takes new turns. He is apt to develop a new religion of charity. And this new sense is likely to animate him in times like these. The very enor mity of the things presented to his mind and flung for answer to his intelligence tends to make him humble in heart and reverent toward the heroic times in which he lives and consecrated to purity of thought and honorable judgments. Such a man will inevitably realize that if ever there was a time for informed criticism that time is now. To separate the right from the wrong will be his aim. The trutli will be his religion. Its presen tation upon his printed page, in (this understandable to everybody, in terms that consider no one class or individual above another, will be the gicat ambition of his days. But the truth, the unchanging truth, which Mr. Humeston, of Oak Lane, did not or could not consider, is at times elusive. It has a way of shifting ground in a world of tumult. It can become involved with things that are but half truths. Its puisuit is not the easiest of pastimes. Newspapers are not perfect. Not all of them are wise. But they and the men who make them are sincere even when they aie misguided. Because the responsibilities that fall to all men who write or talk nowadays for audiences are heavy beyond words. The mere sense of an audience, the knowledge that considerable numbers of men and women and even chiidien will believe the things said or written must of necessity inspire a love of justice in an honorable man. This is especially true now. Decisions made in America now may yet direct the destiny of the world. The Government and the President have put their faith in the press of the country. We believe they have had no icason to regret doing so. AH that can be learned in every war theatre, at every seat of government aside from the mat ters touching military strategy is printed. And it could not be otherwise. Because newspapers are not easily deluded. They remain silent about many harmless shams merely from impulses of charity. In the future they may not be so tolerant. We shall have to wait and see. The day will come iicrhaps when any man or any influence that tends to divido communities, to set up hatreds and sus picions, to inspire prejudice, may have to be treated by the press in the man ner reserved for enemies of order. Mean while, the newspapers must tell the truth as fully aa, honest minds and endless ef fort permit in the belief that no one class or interest may properly monop lire the benefits of civilization. For the present the function of u newspaper is that of. interpretation amortg the vari- We have taken Mr. Humeston na a text upon which to speak of larger things. Now we dismiss him to his delusions. 'The Knlser has lost many aces," ac cording to a news headline Wo knew he was plmlng a "phoney" gtitno with 11 stacked dock. vsiiim;ton must keep its hands off the schools rpiU' suggestion that Governor Hrum- liiuigh be emplojed by the National IMiicntlon Association for three years, at an annual salary of $10,000.' to Induce Con giess to make a j early appropriation of $100,000,000 to Increase the salaries of 750 noo teachers will not he taken serl otislj hv any one outside of the associa tion 'p should like to believe that the nisoriatlon itclf does not tnke It scrl oiish A I'ederal appropriation of $100,000,000 for schools would be succeeded, as. surely ns the camel that gets Its nose In the tent follows It with Its whole body, by some form of Federal supervision, and the beginning of the end of local home rule In matters of education would bo in sight. The great fortress of democracy Is the school district, whether that district be ns large as the city ot Philadelphia or so small that one little red schoolhoiise Is stilllcient to nccommodato the children Your theorist will tell ou that according to the best pedagogic principles he will surely say "pedagogic" the present sys tem Is all wrong: that there are hundreds of school districts in which popular edu cation Is a faice and that experts should lie allowed to refonn the whole system from the bottom up. They will sn that it Is a disgrace that girls with no tech nical training, who never heard of "Pestn lnzrl or Froehel or Herbart, should be al lowed to teach. There Is loom enough for the improve ment of the schools In tho cities as well n In the country districts, heaven knows, but no imptovement that will be worth while or permanent can he made until the parents demand it. And when they de mand it Improvement will come They aie concentrating altogether too much power in Washington now, without jidding the control of the public schools to the functions of the national Govern ment The National Education Associa tion. .Instead of urging any Washington meddling with the schools, should be the first to oppose it, and Its members should be so thoroughly gi minded in the funda mental principles of the American sstem that It would be impossible to seduce them, b the prospect of an Inci ease-in their pay us teachers, to favor any plan that would undermine the foundations of that system. FREE ENERGY OUR OWN NURSERY RHYMES Huntingdon Valley "TJOWN the shining vallev - Comes the 8:13, Over windy bridges, I'ast the golfing green. LUTGHING with the morning, How the driver smiles! AV'cll he knows the valley, All its pleasant miles. U ANGHOItNE and Neshaminy, How the whistle blows! Fields of black-eved Susan As he nears Trevose. VALLEV full of sunlight And of cool blue airs See the brooks and meadows Round about Bethayres. fEADOW BROOK and Rjdal, "J- Nr s'oble, Jenkintovvn, Round the curve he rumbles On the line to town. BUT of all the stations, Best Is Marathon, For the simple reason That's where I get op' Our Military Correspondence To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing now-adas, except In so far as writ ing Is tho expression of something beau tiful. And I see dally and nightly the ex pression of beauty In action Instead of words, and I find It more satisfactory. I am a sergeant In the regimental Intelli gence section the most fascinating work possible more thrUis in It than in any other branch exwrw possibly aviation. And It's more varlerHthan aviation. Won derful life. But I don't know what I'll be able to do in civilian life unless I become a fireman. JOYCE KILMER. Headquarters Co., 165th Infantry, A. E. F. Laclede, Mo , celebrates Pershing Day News Item. It is the absolutely accurate boast of Laclede, Mo., the birthplace of John Per shing, that one of every 740 inhabitants Is a general In command of the A. E. F. Crcetings! Here's jour health, town of Laclede; We like the kind of men you breed. Since the Government took over the railways, some of the ticket agents seem to think it's a kind of espionage for the humble passenger to Inquire too closely about the times of trains. The Humor Shortage Evidently the humor shortage Isn't as serious as we feared, for the American Press Humorists have Just written to "congratulate" -us .on the' fact that they have elected Socrates a member. If they feel they can afford to do that, evidently they must know of some terrific Jokes that haven't yet been released for publication. Has George Creel been up to anything? . It would serve them right If we stopped writing our serious stuff altogether and gave free rein to our comic instinct. The object of the Amorlcan Press Hu morists is to dole out the national reserves of humor as sparingly as possible. If Socrates has been called to the colors, evi dently they are mobilizing the Landsturm. Well, all we can say is we will go on much as usual, trying not to squander our resources, and pledging ourself not to profiteer by taking unfair advantage of the surplus of comic things that happen In Philadelphia. Just think of the ad vantage the Fifth Ward gives us. SOCRATES, , Apologies to IV. 7). HcnlcV OUT of tho light the Kaiser's act Imposed upon my far from whole Dominion I could ne'er extract A f i figment of my Turkish soul. In tho fell clutch of circumstance I winced, but 1 was not allowed Release ftom that infernal dance My head was bloody and was bowed, It matteied not that Stamboul Gate Was once a name on history's roll. Berlin was captain of my fato And commandeered my shackled soul. 11. T. CRAVEN. READERS' VIEWPOINT C. E. Dtirvca Sa He Is Father of the Auto Industry To the Editor nf the Vvcntng Public Ledgrr: Sir There aie some statements In the ar ticle on "fiasollne's Silver Anniversary" In our paper that are Incorrect, but I would 'not assume .vou acted under any psychic effect of the auto Having selected the gaso line engine ignited by electricity as the proper auto power In 1S8S and begun build ing In 18!l. 1 can inform ou that the "silver nnnlvetnr ' was last year. Further, I had completed two or more successful autos be fore the fall of 18H3 and decided that the autn of the future would have more cylinders, so was nctuall at work on" advanced forms before lln.vnes, Wlnton, Ford and other.i iMgan In the tlrl American contest, held In the fall of 18!5. my car carried off the first prlje of Jjoon. having defeated u field of more than elghtj entiles, containing the best American and foreign vehicles. Haynes had a car In Chicago, but not on the course. The other entiles did not Include names which af tern aid produced cais enough to be le niemhered Jn the electric line the cars of Morris & Salom. of Philadelphia, easily led In the s-teond American contest, held In the spring of 1 Sfifi from New York up tho Hud son, no Ameiican cars except mine dared trv to take the hills So all prizes $3000 were awarded to my vehicles, and the only for elKii i.ir that 1 cached the turning point had to he lowed out by team ncNt da.v. Even In the State fair race at Piovldence In September. 1 806. the Purjea cars had no rompetltois except electrics. And at the Lib erty Uav run from London, England, to Hrlghton, to relehratn the opening of Hrltlsh loads to the new vehicle, no American cars wile pteoent except Duryeas, and one of them beat the best French race winners of that jeai by over an hour In the fifty-two miles, and this In spite of the fact that those celebrated cars had been brought from France with the drivers who had piloted them to victoiy In France to show the Iirltish how the new- vehicles could perform. Some ears later Wlnton tried two years in suc ce'sinn to duplicate this American success, but was not able to do so. Most of tho above facts have been used In court and so are matters of sworn and un disputed record Contrary claims had better be taken with salt. Of course, we all know that there were many sporadic attempts at auto building In the past Homer, writing 1100 B. C, or earlier, describes Vulcan's output for one day as twenty, and Philadelphia's car built by Oliver Evans In the early part of the last century Is not to be forgotten ; but people claiming to be pioneers should not only begin, but should continue, and so blaze the way that others not onl can but do follow. My tars were advertised In 1895, made In Eome quantity that winter and sales made and agents appointed In 189G No other Ameri can can approach these reCords closer than about two ears. Five Ouryea patents to myself and broth er. In my employ, Issued prior to July 7, 1897, published to the world how successful autos should be made. The first of these antedated by some months tho Selden Im practical device not built till 1906 and soon after overthrown by the courts while all of them were more than a ear ahead of tho first Haynes or Wlnton patents and moie than four months ahead of Olds and Maxim. Finally my cais, built before the products of others mentioned, contained many fea tures In use today, but which were not found In the first crude efforts of the others. Facts liko these prove beond dispute that I am entitled, If any one Is, to the title of Father of tho Auto Industry, CHARLES E. DURYEA. Philadelphia. July 5. Relation of Surplus Jobs to Taxes To the Lditor of the I'.tcning Public Ledgci: Sir In his zeal to salvage Hog Island and other tenants from the unconscionable rent gougers Congressman Panow neglected to try to save property owners from tax goug ing. The raising of the tax rate will virtu ally amount to the sequestration of property unless a prompt hnlt is called. In the rent gouge It Is a case of supply and demand of tenants, many qf the Incoming ones offering owners interesting terms. In the tax gouge, according to the Evening Purft-ic Ledger articles on the subject, it Is a case of an ovcr supply'of jobholders anil a demand that they be billeted on the public. A landlord is an Interesting character to an eager tenant, but our Jobholders are of no use, In thousands of cases, except to draw salaries from overtaxed property owners. It may come about, through these troubles, that tenants will discover that they hav-3 a! vital interest In city affairs. If taxes In this city go up solely for jobholdlng purposes rents must mount with them or else the sheriff will be swamped with business. The 75-cent raise f taxes in this city made rent raiting Inevitable. The tax rate raise was dtclded on before the Hog Island in vasion. Wo welcome them, but we look askance at the tax gougers who made tho rent gouge a necessity. It will be sonio time before there are houses enough to supply the demand for them, but the tax gougers will keep ahead of both supply and demand ot homes. TAX-GOUGED Philadelphia, July 5 The Coal Situation Muddle To the Editor o) the Evening Public Ledger: Sir Your editorial "A Schwab of Coal Mining Needed" In today's Issue is a solid block of common sense. Some one "hitched the wagon before the norse to oraw mo vital load of coal prob lems and the thing hasn't "flne" since the blunder was made. Nor will It go until the methods are radically changed. I urge you to pry Into this subject and treat It editorially until, perhaps, steps are taken to find a practical coal man for the Job. Permit me to make one suggestion, however. You concern yourselves with the anthracite situation alone; the bituminous field is in equally bad condition and "A Schwab of Coal Mining" is indeed "needed" to prevent further confusion and to stimu late production. Virtually nothing has been done to get out moro coal ; some few things hive been done to prevent It, however. I have In mind 'at this moment a man who is ready to ship from a new mine , he Is tightly bound up In red tape and absolutely nothing has been done by the fuel administration to help him get started. No ! I haven't an In terest, direct or Indirect, In this property. But I am vitally Interested in seeing sane steps taken to produce more coal at this' critical time. H. j, UUINN. Wlndber, Pa July 6, The question asked of lletter Ask About the new bar candl the DeTlllsli M'roinr dates by the State of Kalaerit Board of I .aw Ex- amluers, "What Is the theory of the divine right of kings?" seems rather superfluous In view of tlui way our new armies are dally riddling It with Holes. Mrs. l'ankhurst might conceivably as sert that Panama could get thw"falr voting." now passionately demanded In the little tropi cal republic by enfranchising Its "fair voters." t " m t jr ith ALONG THE GREEN NESHAMINY 9 By Christopher Morlcy THERE aro scenes so rich In color, so flooded with sunlight, that the hand hardly knows how to set them down. They seem to yearn for expression In what Is called poetry, yit one fears to submit them to the bending and twisting of thyme. For when one embarks on tho ecstatic search for words In tune with one another he may find blight and jovial cadtnecs, but rately does ho say Just what was In his heart. How, then, may one order the mys terious mechanism that gears brain with forefinger so that tho least, possible color and contour be lost In transmission? THE other day I rowed up Neshaminy Creek. Every one, I suppose, knows It: a bright little river seventeen miles or so 'from Philadelphia, a stripling of tho gieat hearted Delaware. Its wooded and meaded banks are a favored pleasuring ground for pavement-keeping souls, who set up a tent there In the summertime and cruise those Innocent waters in canoes. It is a happy stream, beloved of picnic parties. Millions of hard boiled eggs and Ico cieam cones have peilshcd In the grove above tho dam, and, a long avenue of stately poplar trees has grown up to commemo rate them. Tho picnicking point Is known as Neshaminy Falls, though the. falling is done tnostly by high-spirited flappers on the cntertnlnlng toboggan chute, down which they launch themselves in a cheer ing line. The river falls tamely enough over a small dam; Niagara's prestige Is nowhere menaced. THERE Is a kind of emergency fleet cor poration doing a bustling" trufllc at tho little plank landing stage. The chief navi gating officer was toting a l oil of bills larger than I can face with comfort. Fiom him one hires a vessel of sorts, ptopelled by bright red oars, and then one sets forth up the stream. Most of the voyagers are content after passing tho Island, for the current, though sluggish, is peislstent. But It is well to keep on. Neshaminy shows her rarest charms to those who woo her stoutly. ABOVE the Island there Is a long strip -of thick woodland on both banks. The treetops, rjslng steeply into the bright air, keep tossing and tiembllng in the wind, but the stream itself Js entirely still. Along the bank, where the great bleached trunks climb out of the water, thete hangs the peculiar moist, earthy, pungent smell of a river that runs umong woods. Every fresh-water bather must know that smell. It has in it a dim taint as of decay, a sense of rotting vegetation. Yet it is a clean odor and a cool one. It Is a smell pattlcu luriy dear to me, for it recalls to my eager .nostril the exact scent of the old bathing place on the Cherwell at Oxford, quaintly known as Parson's Pleasure. How vividly I remember that moist, cool corner of turf, the afternoon sunlight' stabbing It with slanting arrows of gold, the enigmatic old Walt Whitman (called Cox) handing out damp towels from his dingy hutch and the clean white bodies poised against green willows! Would it hurt Neshamlny's feel. Ings if I were to confess that the polgn ance of Its appeal to me was partly due to its kinship with the Oxford Cher? A LITTLE farther up, the creek has the good sense to throw off Its mautlo of woods. Wide meadows come to the water's edge; hills of a friendly sort are folded down about it, showing a bare "line, of upland against the sky, A clean line of hill against the emptiness of blue is n v'i & sight that never tlies. A countty road ciosscs the sticam on a flimsy bridge that leans on stout old stone plots. Tho load bends away uphill, among a. wilderness of blackberry bushes, winding among pas tures where tho cows are grazing. That Is a good kind of mad; the soit o"t load one associates with bare feet and hot dust sifting between boyish toes. ABOVE this bridge the creek shallows. - Through the clear water one sees the bottom humped with brown stones. Many of tho larger boulders bear a little white paint stain on their upwaid lldge.s, show ing where a ventuiesomo excuisionist has humped one of the transports of the emer gency fleet coiporatlon. Dragnnfllcs gleam llko winged scaifpins. lnder the boat flashes the bright shape of a small perch or sunflsh. On the willow trunks that lean along the hank nn occasional fisher man Is watching his float. Tho cut rent moves faster here, dimpling and twisting, in little swiils. The water shines and glows: It seems to have caught whole acres of living sunlight. Far above a great hawk is lazily slanting mid sliding, watching curiously .Jo see the mall plane from Bus tleton that passes up tho valley every afternoon. Theie is no peaco llko that of a little liver, and hero It is at its best. AT LAST one leaches tho point' wheie, " lf the boat Is to go further, ft must be propelled by hand, tho pilot walking bare foot In the sticam. Easing her -round blimp icefs, pushing through swift little passages where the curient spurts deeply between larger stones, she may be pushed up to a huge tree trunk lying along tho shore, surrounded by the delicious l.v soft and fluid mud loved by country urchins, the mud that schloops when one withdraws the sunken foot. Heie, "the wot Id l educed to "a gieen thought In a greensshade," one may watch the water birds tiptoeing and teetering over the shallows, catch tho tune of the little lapids scuffling tound tho bend and eat whatever sandwiches are vouchsafed by the Lady ot the White Hand. High above tieetops and framing the view stands the enormous viaduct of the Tren ton cut-off. A heavy ft eight train thun dering over It now and then keeps ono in touch with the attaining world. AMONG the .swift water that bickers round the bend ono may get a dip and a sprawl in the fashion that is in favor with those who love the scour of lightly running water over the fcaked flesh. That corner of the stream Js i emote and scieened. There is a little gap between two shouldery stones where the creek pours Itself chuckling and vehement. The bot tom is grown with soft, spongy grabses that ate very pleasant to 3quat upon. I piesume that every man in tho wot Id takes miy opportunity he can to wallow In a running brook. It' is an old tradition, and there cannot be too much of It. milE little rivers are excellent friends of -- man, They are brls'k. cheerful and full of quiet corners of sun. They aro clear and clean, the tenor of dark unknown watets Is not In them. I luivo known and loved many such, mid I hope to make Mends with mote. When I look buck and reckon up tho matters that are cause for regret there will not stand among them my private and pagan sluice in the bright water of Nnshamlny. .' THE FAT LITTLE PURSE By Andrew McGill QN SATURDAYS, after the baby Is bathed, fed, and sleeping serene, His moUacr, as quickly as may be, Arranges the household routine. She rapidly makes herself pretty A And leaves the young limb with his nurse, Then gaily she starts for the city, And with her the fat little purse. OHE trips through the crowd to the station, To the rendezvous spot where wo meet, And keeping her eyes from temptation, She avoids the most windowy street! She is off for the Weekly Adventure; To her comrade for better and worse She says, "Never mind, when you've J&i spent your ifti Last bit. hole's tho fat. little nnrsp." w A PART, in her thrifty exchequer, She .has hidden what must not be '.-& spent: g Enough for the butcher and baker, 3S Katie's wages, and milkman, and rent; 'm TJ..4. !. i. - 1 1 11.1. a .-$! ijui, mc irai, ui ner urave iitiic treasure "ya She is gleeful and prompt to disburse Jjfi wnat a rienness oi innocent pleasure Can come from her fat little purse!. "DUT, either by giving or buying, The little purse does not stay fat Perhaps it's a ragged child crying, Perhaps it's a "pert little hat." And the bonny brown eyes that were . brightened By pleasures so quaint and diverse, Look up at me, wistful and frightened. To see such a thi-i little purse. ! rpHE wisest of all financiering Is thai which is done by our wives: jglj T unvn 1!1 r.-,A...H ! : fl They add twos and twos and make ! fives; And. h'lshnnds. if VOll WmilH hn inuvninn, The secret of thrift, it is terse: 11 Invest the great part of your earning In that shrewd little, fat little purse. $ What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Wlm uk the eUhth President of the United States? 2. What Is the mittonnl flower of KnulandT 3. Who Is the Klnic or Itab? 4. Where is hniltli College? . Vthut Is the orleln of the name of Illinois? fl, mint i meant ny entlludlni? -fTa 7, What Is ii honillj? "fi 8. Who Is Will II. llujh? I). What Is a unit etulm? 10. Where is Nleuport? A inlaws, o Kj iceicniHyn lUIZ I. Ilarnanl 'olleaj. Is the woman's division at "H luiumuii, liimrraill. r,B S' "'fii'the NUht"''" Wri"e "Ml1" T,,at r" II 3. "Die W'aihi am Ktieln" ("The Watch on th Khlne") Is the nutlonal nlr of Uernwnj-. 5 4. 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