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V.fttflfTHE discovery that the Mc manufac-
WP W-X! i tirprn In llm Tnronv illatrfrt nrp rtrn-
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MlstlriR thfm in 1ju Iiik lliem. ami that
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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,
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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-
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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
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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. (
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Eternal spirit of our land,
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By whom the guarded Eeas are sTpannedt
Grant to the coming years
The liberty our fathers sought -
The llbertv hv man unbottuht V1.
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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
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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$
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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. -,'
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3'. Tli nittlon-l nlr ef Italy la the ".Maretae ;
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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
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