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It .. ., 'llXf 7ltM,3 UiaJtlltflLff LILIlUl'll 111 it l" "'"I WifHcrtoc cre-tili'crf In this paper, ami alo r H'Mb t. ....... .... I.tl.l..,, 4I....I.. WWLAtl rights of republication of special tHt- jg&fttches fterfln ore nteo rr.r-frff. PhlliJflphla. Wedneidiy. July 17. l"l vti tlntTcnvr 4r rtrnvv er"i mu.iiiu n iah.vhil V.fttflfTHE discovery that the Mc manufac- WP W-X! i tirprn In llm Tnronv illatrfrt nrp rtrn- l''S?,lLi..l .1.. 1 '.l..l .!. . 1... MlstlriR thfm in 1ju Iiik lliem. ami that -r.fijfIBVmUS10II HAS lOUlll'll UfLUUS'- HI ium'f tlon, should surprise no one. jFi&ilt la the sort of thins that should be tt.irBBWMAntArl t fnllnu. 1i a nllrlHIInn. nf 1 11 0 fC;artraBlng problem here. Yet on the snme RP i.-g,'-ass inaL wie iat'oii uiiaiiuu ui iii-?-S&',B(.'Sii!ied the war Industries board asked Ii5" drv KAitVAifaivor Smith in nrirr t.nllilprs tn nraptice Kit ?& tM ntmnut pi.iinnniv In thn use nf Ktonp. sWilirick, cement nnd lumber, and : meetinj: t'jraif, men ensased in the bulldlnt; trades ,y!Mii'b9gn in Atlantic City, nherr they hail l&ysj1' assembled to discuss the uiiEatifacturj B.?leondltlons. 1 So long as the Ro eminent holds up " vi&kulldinfr .materials and forces the cement FiM wknufacturers to reduce production by .-? .'uttlne in half their sutinlv of coal, what E j-X happening in Tacony will continue and The Mayor Fcem. to think it more im- BjMevportant that t.udehus should be supervisor '-"&' plaj'Btounds than tliat men and vomen . .'vfewhd have sered the city faithfully on the l.-W37te .. .A,. c,t,nlltri inlH . .Pfl...rt..' hf V'r UIKIU BIIUUI'I LUIItllllir IU CAEIU4C UVtlieir functions. es - iVV-Ji SUWUA. ISALIj SAJttTHEN a man enters the service and Tr? ,1V Blves his strength and his sears and aya-JarfJIlA' . ... . .- .. . . .. H" rraai'an nis lira itcioit tn thu rhriciinn mi K&S"" - "- -' ' -" -. " - ,wrsi oi inia war, 11 isn I HKCiy inai lie , Will be shut out of heaven fcf'tw,9ba11 on Sunday. The gati for plainK Kate isn't likely Ift-jto b closed, either. In the faces of the yjrple who helped him to forset hl3 ar- iryvvliuovn work. raiThe, crusade against the Sunday base- v5jfjjktll stames orcanlzed at the nockledfie rr fStrvlee Club for , soldier and sailors Is P- $ href"re superfluous. The general restric- 'Ww.'tlons about Sunday amusements are ail 'SVlBlrable enoucli if for no other reason EVjlhan that a day of rest is assur K'-'S&Wrkers. But the best way to gt ared to all get u good yfule hated is to overenforce it. And that K twill "what tli TIei. Dr Mnlplilpr nn.l lila ijL Mociates are doing in tills instance. s3t . . . "7 ' 6pi Isadore Stern teetlftes that Lieutenant gjBennett got mad because he called him S-&&K.-laf'fnant" Whnt. unnlrl Rennett hive nM , -a&lSiT'Stern had demanded tho "Bhedules" of -Wr ...!. 11-. irk. yl. t, c I-- ., , sliiv luiiiii iiai . a hi: i,nil cktiv tummia' L :Wv" ought t0 malcft a no,e of this and put gJPipmi questions about pronunciation in the WZgSlitxt examination for eligible rtJ&A UNCONOUEHF.D AMIFNS f'SK'.TIlBTTT.r.P T1' .t-.-. ..1.1 .! . i'. 4 m'w- u ,- a4i a. nnn triruraip ll i geitw 1 r Am(ftn In anitn if eh enM u i .... Pgrnfler German fire at the time. Ki?Pf. ' T"8 Prefect of the Somme, the Mayor jW-'ys."1 ne cuy ana me senator ana Deputy ftS who represent it in the national parliament ??3$&wre 8ue8t at a banquet eaten under- tfcS&T0und. The Mayor ordered tho flay to bo r-miwn on the ruins of .the public buildings S5itt tia they floated over a city deserted by its ""4k" inhabitants save those who cun find refuse in3s 'n ne cellBrs Antl at the banquet the un- AVSuencnaDle mory or Amiens and of Trance tJ, was toasted with spirit and enthusiasm St?.", 'm n anlhllDlaam nu ll.tllr. fllKU. .n...,. lu c7c.. tiuiiuDioDiHi cct & iniii union itrfin if in rhU dispatch'ei to this newspaper, shared V;v-'ty U18 British, American and Australian fcA$k 'QtoctTB who were among the honored T.f,jr It is this unconquerable spirit which iSsW. makes the German effort to rule the world itiitUe and doomed to failure. asv . - BV .. That hundred North Phllarielnhla hum. t&--&jsrna .men who have voiunteered to need a iKS-jyot nursery wnose proprietor cannot get help yafe,-ae set a goou example. In the early days 5,.ci me country xne rarniers uses to make BBeta to neip one another Conditions are Ksnich now that the custom could be revived 9wlth profit and extended to co-operation lie- LyA"ii mc iun hi ins uuj' aim men in me ountry, !&MLOW OLD TIMES FOR PESSIMISTS i.'TP f M nnw rrfnln fhnt IS 1 lhA.i.. ..i. Srt " -- !- " --..... ... ..... ..iuc.ij 1IIUIUI ?.;'' will drive the first transatlantic ai.' 'V.-' "w " cyianes. The machine has been acclaimed 'itti Europe. America, In producing an ex- 'irordinarliy powerful and efficient avla- Sfilon engine in gteat numbers with stand- rdtzed specifications. Is achieving what aid by experts to be impossible. v Since the appointment of Mr. Hughes to K into ine aircrait matter an almost !glc silence has enveloped the prophets Heralds of doom and disaster in the te and in Congress, In the arts and aces, on land und sea and wherever else strange tribes have an abiding place. fhe shipbuilding schedule Is, so to speak, of Itself. The Americans on the have handed It to the Germans. la no scandal, no serious trouble, flMrr) in the general war plan. ebody will nave to move lor the ap- t of 'a commission for the relief itsts. There will be untold woe ,lt!of people In the United States LffUiiten't;aoon go .seriously fcit!irrVAi'Uir, e. si. . j'iVEX- LJt ."t .i- " Ti .. t?- J.i A TARIFF FOR WAR REVENUE Conditions Are Rapidly Forcing Considera tion of the Obvious snd Easiest Way to Raise Funds pONDITIONS seem to be forcing tho Democrats to abandon their tariff theories. Word cornea from Washington that the Ways and Means Committee is planning, under the guidance of Profes sor Taussig, of the Tariff Commission, to increase the duties on a long list of at tides in order to increase the national revenues. But it will not be n purely revenue tariff that is to come from the Ways and Means Committee, however it may be described when it is introduced in the House. There will he a large measure of protection in it. Take the case of sugar. The Demo cratic Congress made cane sugar free by the Underwood-Simmons act, the duty to disappear on May 1, 191(5. The sugar duty in the previous tariffs had been protective and the cane growers of the South and tho beet sugar planters of the West had benefited by it. Indeed, without the, protective tariff wo should have had no licet sugar industry, and as soon as the Underwood-Simmons law was passed the western farmers began to cut down their beet acreage. The war, however, came to their recue. It cut down imports and de creased revenues to such an alarming extent that Congress in April, 1016, re pealed the f're sugar provisions of the tariff law. Tho cutting off of the Ger man and Russian sugar from the rest of the world has made heavy demands on the sources of supply from which we have been drawing. Tho price has gone up and beet sugar raising is still profit able, not because of the Democratic tariff, but because of conditions for which the Democratic tariff makers would not like to bo held responsible. It is now proposed to increase the sugar taiiff, nominally to raise moie levonue. The effect of an increase will be to fo3ter both beet and cane sugar raising. It will be a protective, tariff regardless of any other name by which the Democrats may choose to call it. It is also intimated that the duties on tobacco nnd spirits are to be increased and that -tea and coffee arc to be taken from the free list. The Republicans have consistently kept tea and coffee free, as a tariff on them could not be called pro tective by any stretching of the meaning of the word. They have taxed the im portation of tobacco and spirits both for revenue and for protection. The Demo crats allowed the tariff to remain on spirits and tobacco with little change and the custom houses have been col lecting about $25,000,000 in duties on about $26,000,000 worth of imported to bacco and 9,500,000 dutie3 on about $6,700,000 worth of imported spirits. The prohibition amendment to the Constitution forbids the importation of fpiiits. Tho Democrats say that that amendment will be adopted. The situa tion is so uncertain that it is unwise to count on increasing revenue from im ported spirits. And if the nation be comes "bone dry" some source of reve nue will have to be found to make up for the sums collected from the brewers and distillers. The tignifieant fact to be noted in the discussion going on in the. li'ajs nnd Means Committee in that the Democratic leaders are beginning to regard the tariff as a source of revenue to be tapped to the utmost. Professor Taussig, of their Tariff Commission, hns even gone so far in tho interest of instant revenue as to urge that a resolution be adopted by Congress forbidding the importation of any of the articles on which tho duty is to be increased from the moment the bill is made public until its final passage. He seeks to prevent importers from rush ing goods into the country under the lower duties. ine purpose ot sucn a resolution is commendable, but its wisdom is doubt ful. Wo have no oversupply of anything at the present time. The effect of an embargo on importations would be to in crease at once the market price of the stock of -oods already in the country and the domestic consumers would have to pay in the inci eased prices a sum greater than would be lost by the Gov ernment in revenues on goods rushed in ahead of the higher tariffs. This is a kind of indirect taxation for which there is no defense in morals or in economics. If the Democratic majority in the Ways and Means .Committee will follow the advice of the Republican members and ask their co-oporation in drafting a war tariff bill whoso primary purpose is to raise revenue and decrease the burden of direct taxation they can write a meas ure which will commend itself to the judgment of Congress so completely that it, can be passed with little debate and he new duties can bo put into effect before the importers will have time to stock up with goods under the present tariff rates. c The resolution empowering the President to take over the wire lines does not refer to the grapevine telegraph oer which the country newspapers used to receive many "dispatches." GOD BLESS THEM! NOBODY knows what they are thinking at Berlin of the dazzling work done by the Americans at the Marne, Nn ac tion more brilliant than that in which our men stopped and routed picked German forces has been recorded so far In the war. It is fair to assume that the Minister for the Revision of Opinion In Germany is working overtime today. The heart of thq nation goes out to our men on the Marne. The eyea of the na tions were upon them. They have lifted tkwUit.of-thworla,, , ..,vjJL;iaT- . ii JBi-yjJNJU- ifVOULU LiUJLnjtniiXrrrfaLLiA half as faithful and hatf an steadfast as they, this nation may be said tn be ao proaching the era of Its true greatness. There's a Woodrow Soon! Sfnon! Wilson bridge across Ire, rthone. Now how soon will the Rhine follow suit? , The fuel ndmlnlstra- AUtsnre, Firing- tlon threatens to ReUe Squad t all hoarded coal. Out, by way of compensa tion. It will try to keep things sufficiently warm for the hoarders. .lust suppose the Horrors Averted Treasury Department hail proposed a war tax on humor, misspelling, politics, "spool ing" ami spooning! Foreign Secretary Bu Of Course i Ian says he faxors Mr. Wilson's pence terms as expressed nn July 4, "apart from certain exaggerations." Dots he mean thai the President's demand for the reign of law Is an exaggeration? Apparently the Ger Tnctlcs mans are not too haughty to learn tac tics from their vassal allies, the Austrlans. They appear to be conducting their new of fensive on the Marne nfter the manner of the recent Austrian "offensive" on the I'iae. ( L'ncle Sam has or dered that the soldiers at Camp Dlx shall not They're Rabbit Hunt ing tn r'ranre perfect their aim by practicing shooting at harmless rabbits on the pretense that they are Huns. The camp reservation Is to be a game preserve for tht enjoyment of the soldiers when they hae become tenlly good shots after much prac. tlce In the trenches in France. Terhaps the Germans will now stop Entering at the American army The chemists In Germany aren't staying up nights to discover a trouble substitute The Bolshevik! arc losing their hold on Russia Now, perhaps, Russia can get it hold upon the Bol.ihevikl. In Munich titty hne formed the German. Mexican Society The soul of the German American Alliance necdR a home Baltimore's postomce must receive the palm for deliberation. Two postal cards mailed in this city ten years ago hae just been found there and delivered The way of the political henchman may not ! all playground, as I". R. Oudehun, A are protege, is apparently learning. Nur ef lccteatiun boards all negation. Bismarck, North Dakota, is dissatisfied with Its name. And tho Kaiser was dissatis fied with Bismarck. The dissatisfaction thus coeis both hemispheres after a lapse of a geneiation. THE ELECTRIC FAN The lie Wagon T'D LIKE to split the sky that roofs us dow n, Break tluough the crystal lid of upper air, And tap the still cool reservoirs of heaven. I'd empty all those unseen lakes of fresh ness Down some vast funnel, through our stifled streets. I'd like to pump avva.v the grit, the dust. Raw dazzle of the sun on garbage piles. The droning troops of files, sharp hitter smell, And isujh that bright sweet flood of ' un used alt Down every alley where tho children gasp. And then I'd take a fleet of ice wagons Big cllow creaking carts, drawn by wet horses, And drive them rumbling through the blazing slums. In every wagon would be blocks of cold ness. Pale, gleaming cubes of ice, all green and silver. With inner veins and patteens, white and frosty; Great lumps of chill would drip and steam and shimmer. And spark like rainbows in their little fractures. And where my wagons stood there would be puddlps, A wetness and a spqrkle and a coolness. M friends and I would chop and splinter open The blocks of Ice. Bare feet would soon come patterlnlgeb And some would wrijrji It up in Sunday papers, And some would stagger home with It In baskets, And snme would be too gay for aught but sucking, Licking, crunching those fast melting peb bles, f Gulping as they slipped down unexpected Laughing to perceive that secret numbness Amid their small hot persons! At every stop would be at least one urchin Would take a piece to cool the sweating horses And hold It uii against their silky noses And they would start, and then decide they liked It. Down all the sun-cursed byways of the town Our wagons would be trailed by grimy tots, Their ragged shlrt3 half off them with ex citement! Dabbling toea and fingers In our leakage, A lucky few up sitting with the driver, All clambering and btretchlng gray-pink palms. Uy the time the wagons were all empty Our anru and shoulders would be lame with chopping, Our backs und thighs pain-shot, our fingers frozen. But how we would recall those eager faces, Red thlruty tongues with Ice-chips sliding on them, The pinched white cheeks, and their pa thetic gladness. , , Then we woulckknow that arms were made for aching I wish to God that I could go tomorrow! SOCRATES. The Crip That'll Cet the KaUer , To the Kdilor of the Kvtnlno Public Ledger: Sir The Kaiser's got the "Spanish grip." But we know on more certain. Walt till he gets that Yankee grip, It'a time then for the curtain. .j- .i. u. :.. .... . . naiuuia ssr asaaaa.i.iamai.f '-' i.i'. .. S"-i ."JJK-.' ' asV..S "Ji HI " ,fW ' ...-. . THE GOWNSMAN THKItK was once a thief who, among other pllfeitngs, made away with a Bible. If the better the booty tho less the offense, perhaps the thief might have done worse. As It happened, he w-sa surprised' In the act And. slinging his spoils In a sack on his shoulders, he made a break for liberty, but was shot after as he ran. Most of the shots went wide, but on hlt'(his pack. 'Yet the thief ran on, his pack only the heavier by a bullet! for the Bible, being n book of un common thickness, stopped the bullet before It reached Revelations nnd the thief and his booty wert. saved. There are some persons who cannot conceive of any salvation' by means ofhe Bible except one such as this. ROBF.RT W. SKRVICi:. In his vivid and vital "Rh.vmes of a Red Cross Man." tells a diverting variant of this story, tt con cerns one Soulful Sani, who, "when It came down to Scriptures, say, wasn't he Just a bird!" Sam "alwavs 'ad tracts In his pocket," wherefore -hen "one of them bits of lead comes sllngln' nlong In a 'urry" "It plugged 'Im 'ard on the chest just where 'e'd tracts for an army corps stowed away In his vest," with a consequent salvation the like of that which pursued and caught our thief. Now, the pal of Soulful Sam was not of his religious temper, but a profane and unregenerate man, so that when nnother bul let came, "zipped through a crack in the sandbngs" nnd "whalloped 'Im bang on the breast," he fell nil of a heap, while visions ot his wicked life passed before him. But he, too, was unhurt, although he carried neither tract nor Bible. "I'd only a deck of cards, bo.vs, but It seemed to do Just the same" Eni'CATORR, "practical persons," object ors and Philistines it Is difficult at times to tell which Is which are'at the moments' glib with what they tell us Is to be the edu cation or the future, the education which is to be ours after the war. We have been tried, they tell us, and been found wanting T. Tt always Is able to tell us In what. We have sent a larger expeditionary force to a greater distance In a given time than has ever been done hitherto. We have put our thousands Into the fighting line, able not only to hold their own against the seasoned vet crars of the enemy, but to prove themselves again and again better, man to man. Better even thin this, we hive raised the spirit of th's quarrel from a struggle, in which to doi-n a thief nnd rescue stolen goods out of his marauding hands, to a fischt for human liberty and an equalltj of rights among na tions. And yet -we have been "tried and found wanting." Only the ingenuity, of a professions! President out of a Job can pos sibly tell us In what. TflE cdurstor promises us that he will see to l, now, that we shall never be found wanting again. We have wallowed In the arts or soaied Idly In them vary the figuie as vou w II when we should have labored unsweivingly In the crafts. We have wasted time on principles when we should have equipped nurse'.ves with application drip ping to the finger tips. There rhall be no more of this. Whit we are now to learn, we and our children. Is all to be useful, prac tical, applicable- to dally living, measurable In terms of utility to the State, appralsahle r.n scales and by jnrdstlcks, so that wo shall never be cauqht again napping the educa tors, "practical persons," objectors nnd Phil istines are alvnjs catching the public nap ping so that never ngain shall an enter prising, calrulatltiT eitemv prepare himself before our very cjes. while we pursue the harmjess was of peace. We, too, nre now to be enterprising and, calculating and to prepare before h's eyes lo lob him b'fore he robs us ; In short although the educators, the "practical persons," the objectors, even the Philistines do not Exactly like to put It that way wo are to emulate the "efficiency," the ntnterlatllsm, the brute disregard .of all that Is Ideal and worth while, the imperial ism even, of the boche. LOOT is the product of war, of Imperial I Ism and of some sorts of commerce ; but tht-re Is a rift even In the loot of war. Tho highest products of peace are of another kind and material prosperity only clears the land on which to build them It la to Franco that we have gone for art unless obsessed by the eorporosltles of the old MQnlch school or by th" horrors nf the new. It Is to France that we go' for architecture, sculpture, letters and the drama and to find appreciation and honor for achievement In each. And to France, too, we may go for music as one of the artistic amenities of life, not as the popu larly accepted background for gourmandlz mg, beer and tobacco. This cultivation of the arts, clear and trenchant French scholarship tn antiquity, history and abstract thought, the distinguished role of Frenchmen in science these thtngs, beloved educator and Philistine, are not of your cult of utility, practicality and preparedness. They belong to the world of ideau. not to the world of commerclallzitlon, of advertisement, of im perial grab, the world which exploited the laboratory for effective polron gas and de vised the Zeppelin and underfea craft In times of peace. THE world of impractical Ideas It Is that has given to us the exumptn of a re public, the motto- of which Is "Liberty, equality, fraternity," thst has strengthened the heart of a nation to staird as one man against the greatest barbarian Invasion of all times, generated by experts whose life work Is soldiering, and to say, in proud emi nence over a craven foe, ".You shall not pass'" To a nation nourished on Ideal things, however Impractical may seem their Immediate applications, to nation which loves liberty, honors God and iepects the rights of man, all things are possible. To such p rfopie as the Germans have shown themselves In this war, on the other hand, a cargo of Bibles could serve no better pur pose than did cotton bales in our battle of New Orleans with the British. THE cducatlofr-lhat has made our boys In France ready, adaptable, cheerful, kindly. tractable, resourceful, courageous Is not a falluie nor a thing to whine about and de plore. Let us tinker with It at our peril. We can Improve It, of course; but we can improve It best ii what It is, rather than. In seeking the methods, the "thoroughness," the petty applications and utilities which belong to a nation of peasant spirit incessantly drilled by martinets. Betwreen nn education for war and an education for peace, your Gownsman vastly prefers tho latter, for he Is still sufficiently anti-Prussian to maintain that war Is not tho normal condition of civil ised man, but an abnormal hysteria, most likely to Infect that part of the human race which Is laboring under an arrested develop ment, so far as actual civilization Is con cerned; a hysteria which, however, Is con tagious and to which the more civilized must Inevitably expose themselves when high Ideals are at stake, as now. Are Corsets Eiiential? The war industries board is much per turbed over the problem of whether corae maklng )s or Is not an essential Industry. In striving to discover ways and means of reducing the domestic consumption of neel some person advanced the Idea that a decl.U-d saving might be accomplished If the steel which now goes Into corsets to make ribs for the support of the female form were turned to military uses. The corsetmakers, so soon asthey heard of what the war in dustries gentlemen were considering, raced to Washington and put In arguments that made the members of the board pause. It is peri'ous for mere servants of the Govern ment to attempt to dictate to women In the matter of the furnishing of the female form divine. Only the fashion makers have that rlghf. Commerce and Finance, BY A HAIR NO. WE really are not Russian, Yet we worry not a bit, N That In warring on the Prussian, The train barber has been hit. That, he must, f.nii more, useful, task .1 . .' - . . jAlUs.e aaa.s.a '?n . , ,i -i 1 . i. , AND HE v -1-. v-,. ,i. .;-'..'" b. .. - - '.',.!" ,i'-.' ' -t" .';,' i- s -. 1 " ' - ...' V J V""'.V. j ' ' ."..- 'l"i '7 ".-' i "'- .J.i -T'i. i'i!'.'"' ,'YV" irV "!-iij -' '. f ,- r"-' . ifi..."i . .' V Is :f .-. .' .1-1 5.1 ). vl . , , , 1 W. 4 TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA . 1 By Christopher Morley THE ENCHANTED VILLAGE IT WAS a w.-i It was goln arm morning llveiyhody knew going to be hot later on ntul was bustling to get work well under way befiue th? blaze of noon The broad vista ot Market street was dlmnud h the summer haze that Is pait atmospheric and p.irl gaso line vapor. And as I strolled up Sixth street I kept to the eastern side, which was still In plearant rhadow. ( SIX! Its XTH street has a charming versatility. Its main concern In the block north of Market street seems to be inschlnery and hardware cutlery and die stamping and tools. But It amuses ltelt with other mat ters printing and bookbinding, oyHers and an occisional smack of beer. Like imst of our downtown streets, It Is well Irrigated, It Is a Jolly street for a hot day, calling out many an ejaculation of the eye. For lnstanc?, I cannot resist the office window of a German newspaper. The samples of Job printing dis played lire so delightful a medley of IV relaxations -which make the world safe for democracy. Dance Program of the Beer Drivers' Union, Annual Ball of the Bellboyfof Philadelphia, Russian Tea Partv, Flrut An nual Picnic of the Voting People's Soqlallst Lenguc, Banquet of the-Journeymen Barbers' Union wno would not have found honest mirth (nnd plenty of malt and hot dogs) nt these entertainments! .lut bo. we can Imagine Messrs, Letilne and Trotsky girding their seldrls for a long midsummer day's Junket with the Moscow Soviet. There also are the faded announcement cards for Fome address by Mme. Hoslka Schwlmmer" tof Budapest), secrctarv of tho International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Dear me, what has happened to the Indefatlgablo Roslka since she and Henry Ford nnd others went bounding and bickering on a famous voage to Stockholm? As some Htiamshlp company used to ndvettlse, "In all the world, no trip like this." AT RACE street I turned eabt to St. John's J. Lutheran Church. The church stands between Fifth nnd Sixth, hn front of It, In n little se-mli-lrcle of sun-bleached grass, stands the family vault of Boh! Bohlen. In this vault He Brigadier Genet al W. Henry C. Bohlen, k'lled In action at Freeman's Ford on the Rappahannock River, August 25, ISfi:, and his wife. Sophie. If Is Interesting to jemembcr that trey were the grandparents of the present Herr Krupp. THE little burying ground behind St. John's Is one of the most fascinating spots In Philadelphia. I found George Hahh. the good-natured sexton, cutting the grass, and he took me round to look at many of the old tombstones, niw mostly unreadable. Several Revolutionary veterans came to their resting In that little acre, among them Philip Sum mer, who died In 1814, and who la memor able to me because his wife was called Solemn. Solemn .Summer her name Is carved on the stone. If I were nn nrtlst I should love to picture the quaint huddle of tawny red brick overlooking St. John's churchyard, the vistas of narrow little streets, the cor ners and angles of old houses. The bunny walls of the burying ground aro a favorite basking placo for cats of all hues yellow, black und gray, I envy Ueorgo Halm his quiet hours of work In that silent Inclosurc, but he assured me that thi grass Is rank and glows with dreadful speed. The -somewhat desolate and forgotten air of the grave yard, with Its broken atones and splintered trees, adds greatly to the wtstfulness of Its charm. BK enchanted village, Summer street bounds the cemetery, and from this branch off pic turesque little lanes Randolph stteet.-for In stance, with Its row of trim little re'd houses, the white and green shutters, the 'narrow cobbled footway. It was Ironing day and, taking a furtive peep through basement doors, I could 'see the regular sweep of busy sad irons on white boards. Children ubound, and , I felt greatly complimented when one Infant called out Da-Da, as I passed. Parallel with Randolph btroet run Falrhlll and Reese tiny little byways, but a kind of miniature picture of (lie oder Philadelphia. Snowy cloth's were, .nutterincjrrom tne ,iinw anaupuwuis t t '1 "wrr-TT iwrw -TPillii ... '"' .1. , 'i "ONLY GOT A TAiSTE tinted water. Everywhere chlldieiuwere plaj lug mirlly In tl.e overflow. And there were window -hoses vvith blight Mow-en.. AT THE corner of Reese and Runnier rtreets Is a little tatuar.v woikshop a cool film plan, full or while llgunj n;itl an cldri-Ij man 'doing somcthlin; mvstcrluu" w ith molds. I would have liked to hear al! about his work, but as lis was not very quer.tlon:ilile I felt too bahful to insist. TF I were a skctcher Iiould pl-int my easel a- at the coiner of Summer and Randolph streets and spun) a long day pulling tobieco and trying to pencil the quaint domestic charm of that vista The children would crowd round to w-atth and comment and little by little I would lenin what the draw ing would he onl a pretest for Jeamlng something nf their daily inhth and tears I would hear of their adventurous forays Into the broad grceq space of Franklin Squire, only a few jards away. Of -cramblrs over the wall Into St. John's churchyard when Geprge Hahn Isn't looking. Ot the meets that may be bought for a pcnii'- at the little store on the corner. I should say that store sells more soap than nnth'n? else. Randolph street simply glistens with cleanliness all except the upper end. wh"re the city Is too lazy to nee that the garbage is carried away. But th"n a big city is so much more.concernod with parades on Broad street than removing garbage from the hid den corners where little urchins play. ROUND the corner on Fifth street Is the quaint cut de sac of Central place, which backs up against Reese street, hut does not run through. tt Is a quint little brick' yard, with three green pumps (nlso Plopping Into washtubs) and damp garments fluttering out on squeaky pulloy lines from the upper windows. The wall nt the back of the court Is topped with flowers and morning-glory vines. On one of the marble sioops a woman was peeling potatoes and across the yard a girl with a blue dress was wash ing clothes. It teemed to me like a scene out of olre of Barrle's stories. m HO Is the poet or the artist of this little Mage' of luddy brick behind St. John's graveyard? Who will tell me how the rain lathes down those nairow passage. during a summer storm, when the children come scampering home from Franklin Square? Who w'll tell 1110 of the hot noons when the hokey-pokey man tolls his blight bell at tho end of the street and mothers searcl their purses for spare pennies? Or when tho dripping Ico vva'gon rumbles up the cobbles with Its vast store of great crjstal and green blocks of chill and perhaps 11 few gen erous splinters for small mouths to suck? I suppose poets may have sung -the songs of those back streets. If they haven't they are very foolish. The songs, aro there. COUNT YOUR WAR BLESSINGS The girl next door has given up her vocal lessons for Red Cross work. The political situation Is no longer n prime cause of conversational convulsions The "Dutch coi.icdlan" has departed from the vaudeville stage, with his budget of sepulchral Jokes from the tombs of ancient Egypt.. The man who wears a wrist patch Isn't necessarily legarded as a freak of nature any longer. "Kultur" nnd "cHlclencj" have made It pos. bible for the Ford joke to get at least n partial vacation, Wo do not have to go lo school again to learn the geography of Km ope. Indigestion has applied for admission to the old folks' home. American girls have learned how utti ac tive khaki really Is when worn by sturdy masculine forms. It Isn't wanton profanity to say '"Pots dammit" when the Kaiser's name la men tioned In polite circles today. When Kings Are Kin Kaiser Wilheltn has the Spanish influenza. It would be an act In the return courtesy of royalty, for,lKlngAlf9.to'araMj : - --. . t'.t-.. .-1 ji'i'-'s'i ,'. ". h V l - . . C.-'. -T a . 1 I.. 1 a'V a ,' i i i OF It ' (,'5TI miti HERE soared an eagle In the west imlrl mi raigniy sunusnt on riis urease finl And music In his wings. Far-off, within the ravished east, t He saw the vultures at their feast, Spread by the war of kings. The very world was black and red I 'M - 1 With furrows of the mangled dead. On whom the red dut lay, , From all the lands a walling came, A million homesteads' passed In flame; The v ultures tore their prey. He gazed and, hesitant awhile. Beheld the carrion horde defile The wounded and the slain. The feast grew fouler with the years; The very heavens were gray with teara Above that realm of pain. 94 "itt-rs 1 ml I THE MESSENGER .,s -vsJ aM n i M V l -IX- e-1 Now, doubt and hesitation past. The tletlned war-road rings at last With onset of his young, Lo! the swift eaglets, follow him To where all Europe's skies are dlm With cannon breath upflung. t Freeborn, oh, soar in boundless light Above tho world's despotic night Till the new dawn advance! Cry to the foul and feasting horde Our thunders follow and our sword ., In love's deliverance! i1 i jZj? s-tnat vti . -JP via Hi ."rgl Eternal spirit of our land, l.nt"- By whom the guarded Eeas are sTpannedt Grant to the coming years The liberty our fathers sought - The llbertv hv man unbottuht V1. l:.-..t V... htnnil lwl t AfirC? George Sterling, In the San Franclicon; Chronicle. Helps That Much And It can't bo denied that the war lls eliminated the corpulent German comedian- with the dinky, derby who used to set thSa house In uproars by his inimitable way pf iff coming back at his partner with some cholcV repartee brought over In the Mayflower. Or,,' At a, V- Sjta . Tel niriiB nt Irrm. mavlie it was inn rK.-.ivu iu.,i..i..i 1 4r JJS What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 What are the rolora of rrfnrrton l'nlvei1til'te t. Niiina tl" nnthor of "The t'aunt of Meats) a s u-hut Ik Hie ranltnl if hnaln? J4 4 llMI r'lv Is rulled "The Queen Cltv- or thel'j AdrlHtlr"? . '?3 5. WI1. modern oeern uses tanlrnl bars r "TBeTJ ' u,,... Knsnaleil Hanntr" In Its score. nn , n. VVI111 1 Is n, rostei? ' ,VJ3 7. ! I PerretSry of Htale of the VMMK.J fsinte. . S. Who wrre the IiosrsT ' ,jn,3 n ivhiil Is iHr dlflerenre betnetn a balluaiaisfr j a ballade? - ?p$ 10 WMrh I the largest tltr In tne i'niei niairsT x. Answers to YeMenlay's Quiz '?J 1. "Tom Brown' feliool IliifV'i r. rlassle ators- hf life ct U'lih nf ittiout a renturr asen.jd hv iinmns imanrs. -,' . t.. I.. It... cnutfiil nf flresnn. tfiiySi 3'. Tli nittlon-l nlr ef Italy la the ".Maretae ; ,. .n....t l,n..kl ,W 4. The ruble, normullr wurlh shout SO eentt. V, j Is me einnuuru ruin m iiuum. 7'Js a, 1-intol n river of Austria. -King , l..tM1V Junction of the. Julian and ramie AllftHI flow Ins tortuously soiithMHrdti the Gulf, of Trieste. n urm of the Adriatic .--i. m ...... -Ml ft,hrt K. I.ee. ffeneralUa'mn aff its!f - C'onfrilrnitr nrniir."vB In romroard rf tH, rioittheri-eri a the brittle of (,ettstnr, -1. eautuln Nathan Hale U35-!11I. an Aasttift ' run patriot, who rnterrd tilt enern. llMai 1 In sesrrli vt Information nnd was esraoM 4 aa u jiiv. Beforo hi Ueath liesalill "1 r tret 1 have b-'t one life l ahe forssf J louiiiri-,--g. The .rrd and while. irlP J"1 t ,) pole are u Minimi or in oar wncn ueri rrs wrre also sunreons, and whoa ) lh.li. r.illlns una to kl-d" ualti il ronn or rurr unco rxirnsnviir-iiri for certain ailments. ? . .----- .....--., .- --- --. ,---i ... -- -i 9. Von Tirol warn rma uerortir J Bl, zxr. f il 3 It i 1 MV.'l 9aW PP ' BHl H9 ! vasteftiateS
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