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Julr ::. 19IS Rftgllwn ' PfiS- MW WHAT WILL TIIE LULUiNbL IHI l&v''IOWNEL ROOSEVKLT la expected to Kf ' 'r announce today whether he will accept Sfrr tna Republican nomination for the sov KJOrthlp of Xew York If It Is offcreil to IiMKThe) opponents of the rcnomlnatlon of tVMytrnor Whitman are nttemptliiK to use Sf.?i,,wm ror their purpoies. The Colonel Is , Wavre of what they are dolnc. Those of jhto friends who wish to ice him runnlnK Xfl'tvr the presidency In 1920 are hopine that rAfjtlw will refuse to become a candidate for ififi ,th governorship nomination. They think Bl ' it H11 (nlnre IiIb rtiEimni Th 'nlnnl ShtaSielf is said to prefer to remain In nri- Sfr 'vilte life, where ho can havp his sa about feM&the conduct of the war without embarrass- t'1' Inr anv one but hlmsplf. Thp N'rv York SA Tribune would like to see him In Congress Sfr" It is unfortunate that the Colonel and Friv4 tUsi H'af'f Pb tnt linlU In lh. Cnnntn Tn S'M'V. - v 'll-'V I'VIIII III IIIU .-i.iin.i-. VIII Igfsntter Presidents could very well he made Ktr-'Mie members of that body, so that the na- PwSUen could profit by the broad knowledge HTOC Public affairs which they acquired durlnR plllr service In the White House. But (&! " absence of any constitutional provl- ian wnicn permits mem to sn in me Rate they are forced to choose the way WsrUWllch they best can serve the country. rwColonel Roosevelt has been doing his best, F i"- AJIAAVIlnv in tita rttfri 1liHta In usnxi 1 In IPt fi'wrt'i""iB w ",0 mi, ii imiii-i i" i-i-i ik in LM, way for the last nine years, and Jlr. Kh'Safee hBK Vionn Anrnnoil r I li b uavnn LrlnH ISKiit tjatriotlc work for the last five years. !sAm Mr. Wilson when he retires will doubt- ifijim Continue to Rive us the benefit of tho 5Vprience gained In administering the Sjcj9v4rnment In Its most trylnc period. "to'the meantime, as the Colonel Is a ttetVB8Ucian of considerable skill, we may iV3-i ' ....... . . . ... . ;ajajiumi mat tnc aecision union ne may ' ,! IIILi, J . t-ll Kfc&jf aawounuB iwun) nju hc uascu iiui uiiuuy &;ii.fjaj ins personal preferences. Ss$ Germany Is flndlna; her place In the sun i riant a. bit too warm for comfort. -y WHY RUSSIA FELL APART ifstHK breaklnc un of rtussla Into n lot nf py;, j-w , Mparate States, which has followed the tUkMVolutlon of last year, has surprised most RS-'5 ervrs In Europe and America. In fefajofne quarters It has been credited to the f&f-. AaMBak a! a ! ah n nt Ka j n w. n . n St, .!. tin nanuiio ui mc vjctiiiaiin. fe,'!'Dr. E. J. Dillon, who is probably the best- 'A'awwraieu r.iiKii"-pi.iunK auinoruy on Sfytla, sees nothinc strance in it. Indeed. ttrjt would have been stranpc, in his opinion, Pwx Russia had held together. In his latest KMnHt on the Slav empire he says that the f'feitahrent and hostile races living in Russia taww held together by the Czardom alone. &$ - tT uureau-rallc sovernmeni in at. l'e- ,wruurBi uuuiiu iiie rHt-es loseiner ana neia tfe'tk'am tocether bv force. As soon i fh WorrBment of the Czar was destroyed '?&IlHMla fell aDart. as the staves nf a harrsl ftS?Btiarte when the hoops ar removed. IMAA-iS.i..... ..... . n' tnis view ne correct, and there Is no ,F;rmaon lor aouDiing me judgment of an !Jwprt who has lived In the country for fen can aim uiauv Ik I1H uiisiness to rOitudjr its people, the problem of the re- VMBiuiauon ot itussia is not simple. Doc Mr Dillon believes that a fatal mlttake Ms made when the central covernment' 7-tXk -- . . ... iHiAWmm aestroyea by the revolutionists, fnp a p;fecienceless and Irresponsible proletariat kVJWttl on the country is worse than an foirrfjiponslble bureaucracy living In the ne way. It has InvoUed the substitution ,a hungry horde of raenlng wolves for . Mt whose appetites were aheadv Batnti. m? . - .s The German thamDaBne drive ha inat Ha--- .WHAT IT TAKES TO EQUIP AN ARMY HAVE a million two hundred thou- f (and men In Eurone ami annth. mil. ',Mm or so In training on this side of the 'Koaaaa. It has kent the Oiiaricrmn.,..!. W "jtyairtment busy supplying them with .twiianicnt. Announcement has Just been "-'a- In Wiiahln?tnn that hnm w.. v. i h'j aiTof the war. to the middle of June the rv. . , 'i r ra - ...v .w... iiiC ucKiii- aMaairtment has provided: ' l jJ4l,000 pairs of shoes, MM.OOO pairs of wool Btockings, B,00 pairs of rubber hip boots. 19,000 pairs of arctic overshoes, 12,000 undershirts, and 1,000 yards of denim cloth. i la at the rate of about ten pairs of a pair of rubber boots, two pairs hoes, twenty undershirts and fifty lt stockings for each man. ' '!1V if sW.Ohwyd has a woman milkman. Now get E Mail lor an ice lady out on the Main l.in.i E. 7" -i"" . -e ' ue ii &J35ERNIN MUST GUESS AGAIN CZERNIN, former Foreign JHn of Austria-Hungary, says that la at bottom a duel between Great and Germany and that when these a can come to an understanding will end. Count entertains the views cred- awUl.have to make another EiK kaJOUUw. truth. , OVERCONPIDENCE NEW PERIL Hope for a Short War, but Preptre for a ' Long One "llfE IN America arc an impressionable people. Already you vill find in numerable persons reading exaggerated meanings into the reports of the Allied offensive in France. In the speed and plittcr of the Amcricnn leactions nt their first big battle and in the blinding sword piny of the Foch strategy they see omens of the war's early end. Otherwise Intelligent men and women are visioning the Knisor doddering at St. Helena as a result of the Marne drive and the Crown Trincc going for a walk at sunrise with the fool killer, and Ger manic Europe, recovered from its nlght marc, humbled, reformed and back again peacefully at the delicatessen and the grand opera of its early innocence. Delusions like these nre as full of trouble as dynamite if too freely fondled. The war is likely to be for us as it hns boon for France and England and Italy. It may bring shocks, suspense, sorrow and minor disasters. If it does not wo are the luckiest nation on the earth and an exception to all the rules of human experience. To become sclf'Stiliificd, complacent, dmiut created or careless now is to make the burden heavier for the Government, the army and the navy. We have just begun to fight. The Allies will continue to advance, in all likelihood. Rut it will be a slow advance unless a miracle occurs somewhere n slow and tortuous advance and a costly one. So if ever there was a time for America to be resolute and patient nnd rcstinined in its feelings and its judg ment that time is now. The actual par ticipation of our own men in a major action should inspire us not to com placency, but to determination and re newed energy, because no one can tell when the war will end and too much opti mism nt this time will be as useful to Germany as nrmed divisions in America. Self-satisfaction marks the end of useful achievement. It is natural enough for all of us to cheer for the men in France. We can do more for them by bending harder to whatever war jobs wo have to do, so that their part of the business may not be made harder, and by ncting favorably upon whatever suggestions are made by the Government and its administrative agencies and by taking nothing for granted. Our men in France and the officers, high and low, who direct them are not demigods. They cannot always rise su premely above the fortunes of war. The time to cheer them loudest is when they suffer misfortune. The navy isn't superhuman though it has seemed to be. We may lose ships sooner or later, because few wars were ever fought upon the sea without the loss of ships. To take the bad news with the good and be unmoved to excess of feeling in either event is to be equal to these exacting times. There are simple grounds for this sort of reasoning. Germany is far from beaten. German aspirations arc like a cat. They have nine lives and each may have to be put out in turn. Ger many lost an empire when her colonies were taken away. She lost another em pire in her overseas trade. She lost an other when the respect of the whole civilized world was denied her. She has as good as lost Alsace and Lorraine. Alio! yet Germany is far richer in prospects ut the present moment than she was at the outset of the tvar. The Allies may have to crush Germany not upon the western front alone. To save the world from ruin they may have to begin all over again after a victory in the west and crush Germanism in the stronghold that she is building in Russia. And that second war may have to be fought in a welter of unfavorable com plications sprung from the growing con fusion of national aspirations in that part of the world. There is a dim possibility, on the other hand, of a collapse in Germany that would make the task simpler. But it is still remote. It will be better for all America to work at the war as hard and as brilliantly and as patiently as the soldiers in France are fighting at it. Representative Julius Kahn. of Cali fornia, ranking Republican member of the House Military Affairs Committee, who has had much to do with the legislation of the war, already has expressed the conviction, gaihed through knowledge and experience, that American energy should be redoubled at this point rather than diminished. Men and more men should be sent to France, said Mr. Kahn. American force should be felt in Germany as a cumula tive factor without end. This view, it is to be hoped, will be shared by Washing ton. And as the army grows the more of enthusiasm, work, energy and achieve ment will be required at home. There Is at least one man who nowadays is disposed to look upon war with a favor, afcle eye. He is the war gardener reveling in freBh vegetables THE AUDACITY oFlINTHICUM CONGRESSMAN J. CHAS. LINTHICUM this is the way he prefers to write it; J stands for John, but he likes to part his name In the middle has assumed the role of press agent for Baltimore and Is filling valuable space in the Congressional Record with praise of that city. He has complied a list of thirty Baltimore "firsts including the first in the oyster industry iand the flist In the manufacture of fer tilizers and the first in the marketing ot bananas. Of course, he boasts of Balti more's twenty-one notable monuments in spite of his knowledge that there are more monuments in statuary Hall in the na- (lona! .Capitol than In all Maryland. pr- aAKrt Vm Jw.'awM fiiVSySiafirimJlaWV" evening- vui"m&m that the figures In Statuary Halt are not notable. But If J. Chas. would like to read a really notable list of "flrst he should get hold ot "Poor Richard's Dictionary of Philadel phia," published by the Poor Richard Club In honor of the visit to this city of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World In 1916. It contains more than 160 In stances of tho priority of this city over every other American community, begin ning with the first almanac printed in America nnd ending with tho first auto matic restntlrant, with the first law school, tlio first medical school, the first fire Insur ance company In this country and the first Methodist Episcopal church in the world In between Baltimore Is a very attractive suburb and J. Clias. Llnthlcum Is one of Its con spicuous ornaments, but It Is so poorly supplied with other things to boast about that we aro surprised at the audacity of J. Chas. In challenging comparison 'with the city where more great things started than In any other American community. Mr. Hoover has gone over to England lo discuss food problems Dim, Sweet Memories with the British food inlnlstrv. Perhaps he will And time to stop off In the American Y. M. O. A. hut where King Oenrge got tho stack of wheats. We over here have almost forgotten what they taste like. ' Speaking of drafting the tobacco supply, those cigars that wives loxe to give their husbands should not be commandeered. They should be cou-t-martlaled I Baseball has censed to be the national gnme. Most of us believe that the natlongl game at tie present time Is war. A cw still Insist that It must be politics. We arc tempted to say of the Kaiser and his Bolshevik friends that they aro all In bad company. A German newspaper says that triumph will be with the nation that can maintain nt home a clear consciousness of vlctoiy But Berlin sadly feels that thnt Is hard to do on a diet of turnips and a wardrobo of paper. The country's richest dog Is dead at Brattlehoro. Vt. He left JlO.nnn which had been bequeathed for his keep by a former mhtress1 He was probably glad to die and escape from a foolish world. Champagne Is tho traditional accom paniment for launchlngs. It was only to be expected that the first American offensive would be launched In the Champagne region. The Quartermaster's Department has supplied 2,567,000 hammers tA the army, but we notice that all the knocking is done b Chilians. ELBOW ROOM Wrestling With the Poppy SOMETIMES We try to do some writing at home, at night. The'n we realize the extraordinary fertility and Inventive ness of the human brain. . . . Not on account of the work we get done; but on account of the excuses we can blarney ourselves with lo avoid doing it. A man who could think up as many rea sons for working as we can for not work ing would hae Henry Ford backed against the old original apple tree. a At 8:30 o'clock we go up to our work 100m and look at the desk. Wo think, well, a little leading will help to alleviate our mind and make it supple, if we read until 9 o'clock we will be able to work twice as hard after that. At 9 o'clock it occurs to us that '.! we rend lying down on the couch the recrea tive function will proceed all the more rapidly. At 9:15 the bright idea comes to us that if we turn out the reading lamp nnd He in the darkness n while, thinking, we will be able to concentrate much more clearly on that work we are planning. . . . a At 11 o'clock we wake with a start. Curiously enough, our concent! atlon doesn't seem a bit more Intense than It was . . . less, If possible. With, a violent effort, which racks the very seat of will-power, we sit down at the desk. We dip the pen . . . then It occurs to us that we might just as well get Into our pyjamas, because we will have to do so some time, and the gym nastics will help to arouse our faculties. a a At 11:15 we are back at our desk. We work for ten minutes. Our mind doesn't seem at all productive, except of reasons for going to bed. At 11:30 we begin to feel hungty. Wo remember that Intense cerebration needs bodily nourishment, and wo go down to the icebox and wreck three cold boiled pota toes, half a dish of spaghetti, two bananas nnd nibble a dog biscuit, having heard that Fldo food Is rich In bone and phosphorus. a a Then we go out on the porch and give the stars the once-over, thinking It is well to keep In touch with the beauties of na ture. Perhaps the stars will suggest some thing. We brood over this and wonder how to get the Immense mysteries of space Into what we are writing ... It Is very disappointing, the stars only suggest bedtime. a At five minutes to 12 we go back to our desk and write for fle minutes. Looking at It, It seems thin, pale and poorly nour ished. Of course, we meditate, food has to be digested before it has any appreciable Influence on our writing. The food we have Just eaten won't show until tomorrow. Therefore, why not , . . a a Twelve o'clock strikes. If we don't go to bed we shall be sickly and grim In the morning and miss the 8:13 train. a a We go to bed. solacing oursclf with the thought that perhaps we may dream about what we are writing and solve all our difficulties that way Complaints about the tobacco shortage have ceased in the German army. Foch has kept the Germans so busy lately they have had no time for smoking, i'esterday was the Belgian Independence Day. We are still waiting to hear whether the Germans celebrated it by any more' raids on Red Cross. hospitals. It seems too bad that baseball should co out of fashion whan Kin George had Just ' . . ' . , i aocau.tmM Trrr ifi inmraisBaiii a "'ii'iiiah t r irnr,iwirirrraffninaTnir,awrsnMa WHO INVENTED DANCING?, By Wallet Prichard Eaton THE one-step nnd waltz havo one ot the mostnnclcnt ancestries of any action performed by man. Men and women (lanced long before the earliest days of re corded history, nnd the animals danced before man. The dance Is a biological sur vival, and when you como upon a group of young people dancing you see but a relic of the mating Instinct, molded, adapted, supcrlnid with a thousand over tones by centuries of civilization. Thn fact la even vaguely recognized at times; girls have been known to go to a dance to catch a man! The waits has been pro vocative1 of courtship at least, tho good, old-fashioned, dreamy waltz of a bygone age, when Johann Strauss was considered a musician and Irving Berlin was un known. I have been Inspired to these profound remarks by reading a paper on "Tho Heath Hen of Mnrtha's Vineyard," by Edward H. Forbiish, Massachusetts Stnto Ornithologist, In the Amcricnn Museum Journal, rpilll heath hen Is a gamo bird which was once common In northeastern America, extending south to Pennsylvania nnd pos sibly west through Ohio nnd Kentucky. It Is r species of tho prnlrle chicken, but a little smaller and ruddier In color. But It was not In thei early days: distinguished from the prnlrle chicken, nnd consequently nothing definite Is known a'jotlt the west ern limits ot Its range, because by 1885, thanks to tho lack of protection laws nnd the general game hocglshness of American hunters. It hnd been, entirely wiped out of existence except on Mnrtha's Vineyard Island, off tho southern coast of Massa chusetts. It was preserved there In small numbcis, thanks to local pildo, and In 1907 the State set aside a reservation for tho existing blids, on which all hunting has been ever since rigidly prohibited and con stant effoits made to eliminate cats, hawks nnd other enemies, ns well as man. Even so, the fight hns been a hard one. Doctor Forhush says that after tho forest firo of lOOfi only twenty-one birds remained. In 19K theie were probably 2000. But then came a forest fire and tho next winter a flight of goshawks, and the following sea son, In Api 11, he could find only 120 birds, mostly males. A few- birds had meanwhile been sent to Long Island and to Essex County. Mass., but all the Long Island birds died. An evil fato seems lo follow the poor erenturos. Even as far back as 1 S3 1, when the Massachusetts Legislature1 enacted a law for their protection, the pi Inter conspired against them and the astonished solons found on their desks at the Stnte House a paper with the follow ing title: "A BUI to Protect tho Heathen of Martha's Vineyard." fTlHE most Interesting characteristic of th'e heath hen, which, of course. It shares with the pinlrle chicken and to a les extent with other species of grouse, is the male's dancing and tooting nt mating time. Doctor Fnrbush lay In a blind of coin shocks nnd observed at close tange the antics of never less than twent-flva male birds, while, a few females walked about picking up coin and seemingly not nt all Impressed. Tho dance can be best described In Ills own words. ""ITfTHILE the male Is dancing the body ' Is Inclined fotwanl," he writes, "the neck stretched out horizontally with the bill pointed downward; the plumage Is fluffed, the tall erected and more or less spread, the wings drooping or partly spread downward, but the lowest of the Bepaiated piimary quills iniely reaches the ground. Tho plunates, or neck tufts;, are erected like rabbits' ears or thrown away forward ill fiont of the loweied head, with the points together like an lnveited V. In this position tho blid Inflates the orange air sacks on the sides of the neck, which aie about the size of a tennis ball. With all his beauties thus displayed the heath cock Is a handsome fellow, but seems bizarre and unblrdllke to human eyes. "The booming or tooting sound Is pro duced not when the air Is expelled from the sacks, but while they are swelling. It may be likened to the soughing of the wind or the noise produced by blowing gently into a smull bottle, . but is more musical. MrpHE males danced much of the time while producing these sounds. The dance reminds ono of similar perform ances by Indians. The bird bows or leans forward, with muscles tense n,nd ligld, lift ing the feet stiffly but quickly and striking them down hard and very fast upon the ground, so that the sound may be heard for rods. Sometimes he stands In his place while dancing or merely wheels a llttlo to right or left. Again he rushes for ward five or ten feet or makes short rushes around the female In tegmenta equaling about one-thlid of a clicle, sometimes cir cling her In three or four runs, but never seeming to approach very near her. Sometimes a male seems to challenge all creation by flying up a few feet, cackling meanwhile and turning to different points of the compass, so that In alighting he faces a new direction." THE likeness of this performance ot th heath hen to the mating dances of primitive peoples, as described In tho works of anthropology, is nppaicnt. It shows that the dance was one of the things that Man brought with him up from the lower orders whence ho evolved. At about the time Doctor Forbush's paper appeared Dr. William Beebe was writing In another magazine about his attempts to see the dance of the great ocellatcd argus pheasant on the Malay Peninsula, an at tempt attended with considerably more danger and less success than that of Doc tor Forbush. This magnificent 'bird "has secret dancing grounds In the heart of the tropic Jungle and a complex courtship display, which so far has never been com pletely observed by a competent watcher. Even In my own region of the country Within the last twelvemonth I have seen three Jack rabbits dancing by moonlight on Jhe snow, up on tpclr hind legs, for all the world like humans. There was probably no mating instinct at work here, but Just a freak of sprlghtliness thus manifesting itself. No, Man did not Invent the, dance, even If he is responsible for Irving- Berlin. Unpalatable hwi-m:.j vsm mmz .-il 111 ---.. ..--...A,c.-,J.r - i . , i , . . . : TRA VELS IN PHILADELPHIA By Christopher Morley Wildey Street I SET out for u stroll with the mountaineer, who knows more about liillailelphla than any one 1 ever heard of, He Is long and lean and has a flashing eye; his swinging easy sttlde betrays the blood of southern highlands. He tracks down distant streets and leafy glimpses with all the grim passion of a Kentucky scout on the trail of a lynx or some other varmint. No old house, no plctureso.110 comer or elbow alley escapes Ills penetrant gaze. He has secret trails and caches scattered through the great forests of Philadelphia, known to none but himself. With such a woodsman for guide good hunt ing was a matter of course. THE first game we bagged was a tattooing studio at 811 Slimmer street. Let no one say that war means a decline of the line ait", for to Judge by the photographs in the window tin re are many who'plne to hjne the Stars and Slilpes, the American eagle and the shield of the food administration fi-es-coeS on their broad chests. Professor Al K. Walters, the ciaftsman, proclaims himself ar tistic and reliable in this form of embroldeiy. and the sitter has "1500 up-to-date designs to choose from." The mountaineer and 1 peered through the window and were Inter ested to see the piofessor's array of tools laid out on his operating table. PASSING by an imposing bust of Homer, which wo found in front of a junk shop nt 528 Noble street, the mountaineer led me to see the old Ilobpe's Union head quarters at Fifth and Burtonwood streets. Tho war may have given tattooing a fillip, but It seems that it has beeh the decline and fHil of philosophic hobflsin, forfthe vagrants' clubhouse Is dusty and void, now used as some sort of a warehouse. Work gr fight and high wages hae done for romantic loafing. The mountaineer pointed out tii me the kitchen In which the boes held their evening symposia over B kettle of hot stew. The house was donated through the munificence of J. Kads Howe, the famous millionaire hobo, and tbe mountaineer ad mitted -that he had spent many an entertain ing evening there discussing matters of In tellectual Importance. "How did you get tho entree to sich an exclusive circle?" 1 asked enviously. "I was a member of the union," he satd. with Just the least touch of vain glory. THE mountaineer led me north on Fourth street to wWe Wildey street beglnB Its zigzag career. We found that the strip between Oermantown aenue and Front street was buzzing with preparations for a "block party" in honor and benefit of Its boys In service. All down the gay little vista flags were hanging out, Chinese lanterns had been strung on wires across the street, shop windows were criss-crossed with red, white and blue streamers and booths were going up on the pavement swathed In tricol ored tissue paper. At one end of the block the curbstones had been whitewashed. We stopped to ask an elderly lady when the fun would begin. iirpONIQUT and tomorrow night," she J. said. (It was then Friday afternoon.) "Our boys are fighting for us and we want to do everything we can to help. I was at my summer residence w'hen I heard about this party, and I came back at once. We've got to help an best we can." The sky was clouding over and the moun taineer and I expressed the hope that raln( wouldn't spoil tho festivity. "Oh, I hope not," she said. "It doesn't seem as though the Lord would send rain when we're working1 for a good cause; We've hired a string band for the two nights that's 160 and we're going to have dancing In the street. You'd better come around. It's going to be a great time." , Everybody In the Btreet was busy with preparations for the Jollification, ami I was deeply touched by this little community's ex pression of gratitude and confidence in Its boys who are fighting. That Is the real "stuff of triumph of which tho President spoke. And ono has only to pass along Wildey street to see that it Is fine old na tive stock. It is an all-American street, of pure native bread, holding out stiffly and cleanly against the Invasion of foreign, popu lation. The narrow aide alleys look back Into patches of vvld ajreen ; there are flower boxes, .and vines, and-the.pavawenu ,aa4 -arWe mmm -"-f ..-.-. . . ...t j - B A D A I v f H .iam BK 1 we found a tavern dispensing Wildey street'B favorite drink pop and porter and we halt ed to drink health to tho block party. BEVOND Shackamaxon street we struck Into the unique silence and quiet cleanli ness of "Flshtown." The quietness of those streets of quaint little houses is re markable: In the golden flood of a warm afternoon they lay with hardly nn echo to break the stillness. The prevailing color scheme Is green and red: many of the houses arc neat cottages ballt of wood ; others are the old partl-colored brick that comes down from ancient days. Almost every house has Its little garden, often outlined with whitened S..OII?. It seems like a Xew England fishing village in the heait of the city. An occasional huckster's wagon lumbles smoothly along the asphalt palng; an occasional tinkle of a pfnno in borne cool, darkened parlor. That is all. I can imagine no haunt of anvient peace more drowsy with stillness and the treble elilip of blids than the tangled and oergiowii cemetery at Thompson street and Columbia aeuue, In the hush of a hot sum mer siesta. niHEHtt is a note of grace nnd comeliness J. in Wildey street life thnt one attributes to the good natUe 'stock ot the Inhabitants. The chlldi en aro clean and rounded and goodly. The little girls have plump calves and crltp gingham dresses and blue eyes; they sit in their little gardens playing with paper dolls. Their brothers, with the mis chief and errant humor that ono expects ot small boys, garnish walls and hoardings with whimsical legends scrawled In chalk. The old famllv toothbrush that lay on the floor was one such that amused me. Another was a regrettable allegation that a (presumably absent) playmate was afflicted with "malnes." The mountaineer nnd I, after studying -the context, came to the conclusion that the scourge hinted at was "mange!" MOST thrilling of all, Wildey street be comes more and more maritime. Over tile loots of the houses one sees the masts ot shins always a sight to mako tho eager heart leap up. Cramps' Shlpyaid Is at hand, and many of the front windows display the rtaried service cards of tho United States Shipping Hoard. On Richmond Btreet, parallel to Wildey, are sbipchandlers' stores, with windows full ot brass pulleys and chocks and cleats, colls of rope nnd port and starboard lanterns. We hurried down toward the water- fiont and peeped through the high "board fence to see a steamer in drydock for a coaf of camouflage. Great stripes of black and blue dud white were being laid along her hull. PENN TREATY BARK, at the foot of Columbia avenue, would deserve an essay of its own. Here, under a pavilion, the mountaineer and 1 sat surrounded by the intoxicating presence ot water and boats, watched the police patrol launches being overhauled, watched a llttlo schooner loading lumber (I couldn't read her' name, but she came from Hampton, Va.). watched the pro file of Camden shining dimly through the rain. For a very smart rainstorm had come up and we sat and felt a pang of sympathy for the good people of Wildey street, whose Chrnese lanterns and tricolored tissue paper would be ruined by the wet. We watched the crew of the tug Baltic getting ready for supper and dinghies nosing the piers and bobbllng with the rise and fall of the water, and we saw how the gleam of rain and mist on the roofs of Camden looked exactly like a fall of enow. Flshtown uses Penn Treaty Park as a place for lounging and smoking under tho peeling sycamores and watching the panorama of the rher. "P S. I thought a great deal about the 0 j , diock party on wildey street that night and hoped that the rain would not have spoilt It. So the next morning I got off the 8:13 at Columbia avenue and walked down past that deep violin note of the Columbia avenue sawmills to see how things were going. I found the same old lady on the sidewalk, hopefully renewing her red, white and blue tissue, and I noticed that all the children were wearing fantastic patriotic caps made of shirred and (luted paper. "Well," I said, "how did things got" "Oh," she replied, "the rain hurt hinW Mt h,,i tonight's going to be the big night ' aota, :tNM.,a great time: vwi'4 .tacMaNtaiS' . ...J. ..v 1- .- -. -.,..; . : A LETTER HOME Franco in June By Grantland Rice Lieutenant, 115th FielS Artillery, A. E, F. DEAR HEART, some day, when I come back Across the night that blurs our view. When I 'have found the long lost track That leads again to home and you When I have stalked across this stench Of filth, and mud and clotted gore, To see beyond the last lone trench Old dreams rise through the mist once more We'll know, beyond these blood-shot scenes That leave their wake of blight and pain Just what an old-time twilight mean When dusk steals out some friendly lane, And, hand In hand, home-bound we drift, Beyond the mangled and the dead, To watch once more the old moon lift Its silver etchings on ahead To meet the darkness without fear Of what tomorrow's fate may bring; To reach and find the other near Through spring's eternal wandering. And know, at last, our ways are one, v Are one forever and a day, Until we meet the last dim sun; That leads us on the outbound way, ' We'll know Just what It means to A far light glowing through the gray, Dim dusk of April's witchery, AVhen I come back again some day A light from home and not the flow Of battle flame' from darkness hurled, i A light from home that sends it glow To two lost lovers down the world. Dear Heart, I've found Out Here, at latt, We've never underitgod before; The happiness that we thought past la but a breath of what's in store Far from the cannon, wheel to wheel, That tear apart the midnight hue, The dawn of life that we will, feel, Dear Heart, when I come back to you. Coturltht, 1HS, by Tho Trlbn A$tociatlo. Wonders of War In days of peace bloomers were commonly voted unbecoming and unladylike, besides. In days ot war overalls are everywhere de clared to be "too cute for anything." Louis ville Herald. What Do You Know? 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