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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-
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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.
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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
.
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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?
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8. Who Is Will II. llujh?
I). What Is a unit etulm?
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