IS MtyttfQ PUBLIC LEDGEPHliADELPHIA: TUESDAY 'ATJGtJT , -1918 ' ' f "a Ji L.K." ,- -" ..", j ' J. ' t,,.s V"m.. -V " ' v' v: v .i' ' Mv fit Ik 15K5." & w C K T?S"' ting JJublic Hefcgec EVENING TELEGRAPH FUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY 'CTRtJS H. IC'cunTIS, Pbkmm.nt net "j L,uaington. vice miWHit! John u. oecreiary una Treasurer: rniiipK, uoiuns. . Williams, John J. Spurgeon, Directors. .i lEDtTOniAti noAnD: H ClUilI. It Ccbtis, Chairman i E. SAtlt.ET ndltor ' C. MARTIN.. ..General Business Manager btlahed dally at Ft sua Lfwiki: Ilulldlnc. inaepcnflence pnuare, rniiatteipnia. CnTniL....llrcj'a and Chestnut Streets Mtio Cur , I-, -it-Union nultillng loaK.... :oo Metropolitan 'inner BIT. . ... . . . . .- 40:1 Vnni ltullrflnc- Loots.. , inns Pullrrlon HulUUnc iciao. ..... 1202 Tribune Building , news nunnAuss alBiNQTON nunr-VD. ?y Fj. u. tor. Pennsylvania Ave. ana 14th St. r'lOKK llCHEsC The Suit llulimtlg po.N liuotiu.. .. . 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S flf, Member of the Associated Press t&lTBB ASSOCIATED PIICS is rrclu- Pit5teeV entitled to the use for icouhllcatlon R3vl ill news dispatches ct edited to it or not jisxnertctse credited m tuts paper, ana also Rh.ftAn rights of republication of special dts- t,jarenej herein arc also leserrca. rhlltdrlptiU, TumJij, Aufu.l 13. 1918 iR0-GERMAN ANARCHY WON'T WORK ffi fpHB reported flight of Lenlne and W Trotsky from Moscow to Kronstndt If, may bo denied; but the -worst that can $.'t9 said of It Is that It Is premature. f Theso men have demonstrated that they 'Ajttand for principles and practices which, ls"ll' ll-iOfA.4 titll Anitvntr in nrrlnrltf Bi'e. , aiJiivu, ttiii uuoii vj ujij it uv t ij ?j - ten of society. t The Russian people may be gullible, but I L they xannot bo fooled for long. They seem gt to have found Lenlne and Trotsky out and have decided that they have had S'rrouh of them. Jr. Jit is simply a question or how best to BSP'awi rid of them. If thev hae taken pf,v themselves away they have done the most ff,'Worthy act of their lives. xtio tgur wnii wiuuii i umjii Epeuiii?s tfjf, yardaman and his kind rceals the Presl- Kjr dent as the man who put the "tag" In an tagonist. HOLD-UPS, HOME AND FOREICN jkBANCHO VILLA holds up another train rJf near Chihuahua and makes a rich haul. ? Mexico Is an awful place. All of us Srknow that. It presents scenes of frenucnt tjawlessness. Thieves break In. Helpless S.vlctlms are plundered. The police seem LJwholly Inadenuate to cone with freebooters BrSand desperadoes. But what can you ex- V. M.i.t nf Vali,n9 Sir "Within seventy-flve j-ards of City Hall jnGpflve safes are looted of sums aggregating ( $25,000. In spite of a police force, in t-splte of the outward forms of official re- t Stralnt, enthusiastic cracksmen "carry on." K'fU u me last ragged remnants 01 civic K.aurtA tliot fnrVilft !! mm crvlm, "Wlinl k m -..o Etfcan you expect of Philadelphia?" Or, un- JaVrstandlng the futility of mere words irml'jt H-.1lt-.r Yn, t. I . . a r,Af UU I CUllifatile. llltAb 111C UI1IJ ICUICUJ 1U1 pss inefficiency in the administration fAot a great city lies ever at the election EfLpblls, are we prepared to take It? Ewj, Jf not, we have no right to be virtu- r-eusly horrlfled at the privileges which im : .t Couldn't the inventor of the dayllght- "raaTlni; law work out a scheme for savins V .temperature ? Any such economy would be tf distinctly refreshing. WARUUKG'S RETIREMENT EfMLJ 1,1 ...! 1)a..1 T tT-.l...- -- .... 'tlixtl. iciubui ui am -ti. tt-iiuiii lu iii:- :' CCLIL t cuiJiJuijiuiieiii. IU itio rcucidi lie- sft Mrve Board does him credit. Mr. War- sVars 's a German by birth, but an Ameri- WI2 . .. . . Sa'Can Dy choice. He was Dorn in lses and j&naA liveu uere buiuu ii;u.. uui 1115 Kinisiuen ? .1 .-. 1-1 1 tt 4srv poweriut uenimn uunhera in iium- KorK. He felt that if he were renominated -i .... ... ... ttiare might be criticism or him which would cause needless irritation at a time frbn all cause for friction should bo avoided. 1 VfJUinougn hit. warourgs loyalty 10 tno .liri - a 1 i u 1 . VM VI tXllll ll.il 111 L11U tut nan 11UI uucn biMriously questioned, he is probably wise to Eiprlthdraw in order that those petty1 and sus- tyicious souls who see evil In everything ,"reay jiot have the opportunity for which giiTtiey have been waiting. v-,'S m jmici 11111C0 iiiu uui ci 11111C111 iiiuy Ll?.! VA nV.t -n m.-ll t,nn1 ,U- 1 r-BgKlll Ira uuic lu utuii iiavii 111 iiic act viucs Jof,hls financial expert. They already have I ln rt prttnt vnliiR In pitlillnir th rMflrnl KCBeervo Bank through the trying period fcsC?ita organization. p r-v& jsfe. -''k.tpnsslrjlv Trotskv and Lenlne fanev thpv FSV- "... hear Berlin calling, "Come early and the Russ I" Ra'KEEP UP THE MOSOUITO WAR mi'. fwy?NCE whetted, the taste for victory Is bifttw Insatiable. The news that a vigorous Jhyglenlc offensive has routed all mos- rMjuHoes in the neighborhood of Hog Island -Milt AiihtlAoa tnanlrn nnl nnlv ralnlrdnrr Si 7jr -r""""- "-" -. ., "... ?. tv PBt'also envy, In the hearts of tnousands l?l int.ll.JAl1.rHnn T- .111 Vin fat- .tint B.i-. XiltlClUClilliatlD. 11 vm w a.i i.tav tier righteous war should not be ped just because a notable Initial vie- has been won. sldents of the southern section of the !fe , are justly Jubilant. Never before have y.J been so free from baleful buzzing. ijlOt'the pocket of reclaimed terrain should tnlarged. Mosquitoes In a great modern rrA an archaism and an intolerable ngerous nuisance. Xnt Island bnttll. won with ftlpl lSfcl nvpp ditches and streams. Is Save cost about $200,000. If it five times that sum to make all ttelphla moaquUoless, the expenditure I'Ve entirely warranted. ".tteping under nets ought to be made t MUCH an anacnroniain us iiviug in is- i. .Havana oua even umiumcu for they aro. no longer needed in t'aanltary tropical town, which so of- Iy profited by the instructions or an army health experts. Klo and 'humid Guayaquil are exterminating td pests. Philadelphia should bo to Uk .behind them. Wide exten- lm mwt&,mw?E s X .'.- X"i--J, fT' iJ EXEMPT THE MINE WORKERS And Protect Them by Goernmcnt Orders From the Charge of Being Slackers TjiUEL ADMINISTRATOR GAR r FIELD'S appeal to the coal miners to stay in the mines is followed by a procla mation by tho President calling upon all mine workers to do a full day's work in order that the effectiveness of our soldiers in Prance may not be lessened and in order also that there may be no suffering in tho homes of the people this winter. The President, however, announces that tho number of mine workers will be still further reduced by the draft, but that those who are drafted but arc es sential in the mines will bo given de ferred classification. He says that it is their patriotic duty to accept such defer ment and the patriotic duty of their friends and neighbors to hold them in high regard for doing so. It is gratifying to this newspaper to discover that tho men in Washington aie at last awake to the gravity of the coal situation. But they still are not going far enough. The mine workers arc loyal and patriotic. They arc anxious to do their part toward winning the war. Be cause it has not been impressed on them that they are fighting as really as though they carried a gun in the trenches many of them are leaving the mines and refus ing to accept deferred classification and donning tho uniform when they arc called. Mr. Garfield's statement was meant well, but it was too placid to stir the enthusiasm of a single miner. The President's proclamation is more vigorous and direct. It begins with the declaration that the scarcity of coal is creating a grave danger, in fact tho most serious danger that confronts us. this be true, and there is no reason to doubt it, placing the miners in a de fa red classification is not enough to remove the danger. Nothing short of absolute exemption of the mine woikers from military serv ice on the ground that they can servo their country better digging coal than digging tienches will meet the necessi ties of the situation. We have pointed this out time after time in these columns. The current issue of the Mine Workers' Journal, of Scranton, demands it in order that the miners may ictain their self icspcct and escape the charge of being slackers. We know that they are not slackers, but they need the guarantee from Washington in express terms that they are doing their full duty when they remain in their present occupations. The circular of the Miners' Bank of Wilkcs-Barre agrees in principle with the Mine Workers' Journal, for it de mands that some badge or insignia bo issued to the miners put into the de ferred classes in order that the men may have tangible justification in the eyes of their neighbors for remaining at their posts. Both of these demands come from men familiar with the psychology of the mine workers and with the mental atti tude of the residents of the mining re gions. It is no time for paltering. The sea son when the coal can be taken from the mines with the greatest case is growing shorter with every day. The coal is there in abundance. Transportation for it can be piovided when it is got out of the ground. The pressing task is to mine it. This cannot be done without the men, and the men cannot be kept in the mines in proper numbers unless the Government wholly exempts them from military serv ice. The sooner the truth of this filters into the minds of the men in Washington the sooner will the danger of a fuel famine disappear. It should be made clear to the whole population in every mining region in the country that the mine workers are drafted for mine work and are serving the cause of civilization by keeping at their tasks. Then the finger of scorn can no longer be pointed at able-bodied men coming from the shafts, and when their children ask them in the futuro what they did in the great war they can reply that they kept the munition factories running and supplied the fuel that car ried the soldiers to France and kept them supplied with provisions, and that they did so under Government orders. How much longer must we wait for the Government to issue such orders? Vhoeer put the "gust" in August Is richly entitled to the thanks of city swelter ers. Heat waves justly fear It. SOLDIERS ALL GUY EMPEY. who proved to be by far the most talkative hero oi;the greatest of wars, has lost a captain's commission In the United States army because he demonstrated that his emotion was quicker acting than tho processes of his reason. Accounts from Washington beem to ex plain the sudden cancellation of the order which would have made Empey a captain. The President didn't like the manner In which Empey, In a public address, re served all his praise for volunteer soldiers and, by Inference, criticized those who Joined the colors as selected men. Such a view is essentially romantic and not reasonable. The Government did not Institute the selective service because it doubted the willingness of the nation to fight. Men In the mass think slowly. There is no doubt whatever that the United States, once It got Into the war, could have raised under the volunteer sys tem armies as great as any oven now contemplated under the draft. This process would have required time. And It would not have made for the efficient organiza tion that we havo today. Wo would have beeircompelled to wait until the full mean ing of the war reached the national con sclonsness by slow degrees. A soldier in the American army of today Is a soldier, nothing more,' nothing less. The Government acted wisely In remov ing, with one blanket order, all distinctions between regulars, guardsmen and National Army men. There can be no separated classei, no grpupa of specially honored, h n.mi y;,minj erpan. m nature of their splendid service has put all our men upba ono high level. In tho case of Enlpey, therefore, the President acted with a Just discrimination. A captain of tho service wh happened to bo temperamentally unfitted to achieve such a point of view would be Intolerable and dangerous. Several crowns are said to havo been paid for the liberty pamphlets which Airman D'AnnunzIo dropped into Vienna. Kaiser Karl is vportcd still loath to cough up, but the delay is only temporary. WHILE THE KING COOLS HIS HEELS AT THE DOOR IT IS not quite so easy as Germany thought It was going to be to put n king on a Finnish throne. The Finnish Diet has i ejected the resolution providing that It proceed to tho election of a king. It was asserted that a republic was pro claimed in September of last year nrd that there was no room for a king In a republic. Kow the pro-German"! are trying to find some other way to foist a king upon the country nnd tho candidate of tho Kaiser Is cooling his heels on the doorstep. If a drive of tho Entente Allies continues at Its present rate for many weeks longer he will doubtless discover that the climate of Finland Is pretty cold In winter. The comersatlon nut (reneral nntl trlvlai. a It Is at all such social dinners Mltlam Randolph Hearst We do not often find ourselves In agree ment with Mr. Hearst, but v,o applaud the aboe sentiment with loud acclaim. THEORY AND PRACTICE SK KXATOIt VAIIDAMAN is not compelled to exclaim with Job, "Behold my desire is that mine adversary had writ ten a hook," for the adveisary in 190S wrote a volume on the "Constitutional Govern ment of the United States." Tho Senator doubtless finds pleasure in putting side by side the following extract from the book and an extract of about tho snmo length from a letter to a Mississippi gentleman by tho book's author : There are illealtlmate mnns b whh It th President miv Infiuenro the (ictlon of Congress He mav barciln with members not onlv with resnrd to nppoint nunts bu also with r' irtrd tt lrlslatie mn.isurr He may uso his Jot a I patronasro to ossint members to act or r tain their seatn. lie mav Interposo hli powerful Influence, In on toirrt wii" or nu mber In ton tests for places In tho Senate Such. thlncs are not onlv deeplv Immoral the are le structho of the fundi mental understandings of constitutional gov ernment anil, therefore, of t onxtltutionnl iro. ernmpnt Itself Thev ar" sure moreoer. In a countrv of free public opinion to bring their own punishment, to de stro both tho fam and tho power of the man who dares to practice them From Constitutional Oo ernment." by Profes sor Woodrow Y llson. of Trlnceton. You call my atten tion to crrtaln state ments made on behtilf r senator Vnnlamin In whkh nn effort' i mail'- to create an ini pn "ton that I would not rejnrd tho return of Senator Vardjman to the henate rji a r rilct anatnHt the pres ent Administration Such BtiitementH aro tabulated to put a wry falfcQ face upon Semtor Vardaimn 9 en ndldaev Senator V.ird imnn nan been conspicuous anions tho democrats In tho en ate for hlH opposition to th Administration If th voter of .Mis slssipi.i nhnuW ajcatn ehnosn him to represent them. I not onlv hae no right to object I would linxe no rlcht In any wav to rrlli cl7e them but I ahouUl bo oblljred to accept their a tlon as a con demnntlon of mv Ad ministration, and It Is onlv riitht that thev phould Know this be fore thev art. From a letter to Mvron Mc Neil of Mississippi bv M'nnrlrnW Wllann TV. Ident of the Vnlted States Far be It from us to defend Senator Vardaman, for he deserves all that is com ing to him; but it is curious and it will interest historians of this epoch that the President seems to be unable.to distinguish between loyalty to "his Administration" and loyalty to the national Government. It would bo interesting to learn .lust what Von Kluck thinks of it all, but just now he and Tlrpltz and Herr Tauscher and Karl Muck and some others seem to have Joined the choir inaudible. THE INEVITABLE CIRCLE I N RUSSIA, now that the confusion Is at Its climax, the rich, the educated and the well-to-do are blaming the Ignorance of the masses for the sorrow and shame and bitterness that are over the whole country. The Intelligent Itussians have no words adequate to express their bitter ness In the face of unmerited suffering and Injustice which Bolshevik rulo in flicted upon every ono who owned any thing of value. Most of what the better-Informed Rus sians are saying nnd writing is true. Their resentment is Justified. But they seem to forget that the Ignor ance which brought misfortune and pov erty and death to them is the same Ignor ance which they always either tolerated or encouraged in eight-tenths of the unhappy population. The law of compensation operates un failingly for nations as well as for men. The grand dukes and Expiating dowagers of the Rus- Thelr Crimen Man imperial family are spending the time very happily under German surveillance on the ducal estates In the Crimea. Their amusements are said to be drinking tea (without sugar, we hope), watching the young people play tennis and sitting on a balcony In the evening "musing." Doubtless they have plenty to muse about. "Thj valeys were Did Ludy TurnTaloT green and smiling, but the heights and ridges had been so pitted and torn that from a dis tance they appeared almost white against the blue horizon." Thus a correspondent de scribes the present Somme battleground. But perhaps that white horizon was the pallor of the Great General Staff of Huns peeking timorously out of Ham. "No, I'm not feeling Call the Ambulance 1 very well today, Mr. Tambo." "Sorry, In deed, Mr. Bones ; what's the trouble?" "Why, It's about thpse German embassy chaps that are reported to have moved from Moscow. I was fearing that those who came to Pskov remained to prey." "Don't dwell upon It, Mr. Bones, and you'll feel much better." The Huns at home are A Source of Supply? murmuring thunder ously for the head of Ludendorff. Simultaneously It Is reported that the shortage of fat In Germany has reached a new and terrifying crisis. It may be possible .that the German, after all. Is here beginning to demonstrate his ability to think his way out of a pinch. At some of the new Motor Gossip shipyards the man agement Is finding it difficult to provldo parking space for the mechanics' automobiles. Some one rises to ask whether a chauffeur for a shipyard worker Is to be regarded as one engaged in J jut MMBtisU employment.; THE CHAFFING DISH Our Own Goosebone THE Kaiser Is said to bo a great be liever in omens. Ho might pay 'atten tion to tho following: When Ludcndorff begins to measure the width of tho Rhine, look out for squalls. When three lumps of sugar don't sweeten the Imperial coffee, It is a sure sign that Brazil Is pro-Ally. If the Crown I'rlnco looks bluo In tho face, either his uniform Is too tight qr l'ershlng Is round tho corner. When Rosner's pen runs dry dissolve tho Reichstag. When Lenlne and Trotsky make a get away with the collection plate tho popula tion of Berlin Is likely to be Increased by two. When black specks appear in tho west ern sky look out for explosions along the Rhine. The fact that the famous picture of Washington crossing tho Delawaro was painted on tho banks of the Rhine, and really shows Washington crossing the Rhine at Dusseldorf, begins to have a more cheerful significance. Ambassadors In Iiussla these days have a hard time flndlngi which pew they are intended to occupy. Ludcndorff Is Just beginning to learn how much pleasanter It Is to fight with tho sun at jour back. A Bolshevik f? a political scientist who believes the only cure for dandruff is be heading. Contradicting Sherman WHEN" somo ono gets a box from home In our squad room, Maglnnls drops the mopplngstlck and Johnson drops the broom, MacPherson's off In a Highland fling and Terence begins to caper, While Sandy yanks at tho cotton string and scatters tho' wrapping paper. OH, HERE'S a pound of chocolato fudge that'll turn your whiskers green, And a chicken fried In Its Juicy hide as brown as a navy bean. There's angel food so goldarned good that you reach for another cut, A box of sinkers sweet with lard and rich as a hazel nut. HERE'S a thick divinity brick, so whet your bowle knife. And a cocoanut cake that 'ud almost mako a bridegroom leave his wife. Llko hungry crows wo perch in rows on the foot of O'Reilly's bunk. Full to the brim, but waltin' for Slim to care us another hunk. OH, IT'S you'll hurry up, you lazy pup, or never get a smell; Tho Kaiser's strong, but Sherman's wrong when ho says that war Is Well, Maglnnls, drop your mopplngstlck and, Johnson, drop your broom. For somo one's got a box from home In our squad room. PRIVATE WILLARD WATTLES. First Infirmary, 164th Depot Brigade, Camp Funston, Kansas. Wives should remember that there Is nothing said in the marriage contract about hanging up pajamas and putting aicay slippers. The Third Friday in October A gentlemarj has written to us to know If we will mako a speech on the third Friday night In October. Wo always knew that some day we would havo to mako a speech, and now It seems that we are up against It. Some men are said to enjoy that sort of thing. Let us analyze this matter, and get down to the bottom of it. If we can evolve some settled philosophy of speech-making, per haps the third Friday night in October will not be such a tragedy for all con cerned. If we were to practice a few speeches In this column between now and then we might put up a better showing. Whenever In tho past we have been called on for a speech we havo made elaborate attempts to think things out be forehand, we have Jotted down little notes and devised some very stirring phrases, but in the dreadful chill and pang of the event we have forgotten everything, and had to rely on the desperation of tho moment. That must not happen again. Can it be that the only good speech makers are thoso who have firm convic tions on serious matters? Is It necessary to have somo earnest message for man kind, some burning zeal to impart in formation? Because If so we aro done for. Wo don't believe anything passion ately enough to want to ram It down any one's neck. We never listen to people who argue. If they aro right It doesn't mat ter, and If they are not right still It doesn't matter. Our only rule for a quiet life Is to pretend to listen, but really we aro thinking about something else. The sad truth seems to be that there are no really worthy causes that we are competent to discuss. Our Information Is so fragmentary. For instance, if some one asked us right at thl3 moment to get up and talk about the French Revolution, about all we could say would be that It began on a tennis court, where most quar rels do begin, anyway. Generally when we havo had to make a speech we have been far away from home, and it didn't much matter what we 'said; but this thlrd-Frlday-ln-October business Is right here In town, and whatever the remarks we utter will be used against us. Probably the safest thing for us to do will be to talk about Lenlne and Trotsky, because it looks as though they won't be able to answer bac,k. In the meantime, if any one has any suggestions for that speech send them along. What kind of a noise annoys an Olset Mrs. Lenlne and Mrs. Trotsky will be glad to hear that we have some Bolshe vlxens of our own: The women who think they can help the cauBe of suffrage by going to Washington and getting arrested. The elevator men in Mr, Hearst's apart ment in Kew York nicknamed Bernstorff "the Duke de la Brew," Trust an elevator man to size up tht boobs, iipCRATJCst ' . asii . i - i " "WE HAVE INAUGURATED A WAR OF 9 .-' --fc??- J? U'.4Ci . G!&1 9 Where Literature Was Once Made By WALTER PRICIIARD EATON THE tide of battle rolling over Prance has left ruined houses and desolate fields In Its wake. Such ruins fill you rather with rage than sorrow, and there is nothing lovely about them. But here in parts of eastern America we have ruined houses, deserted fields gone to waste, even roads and almost wholo villages which give you a sense of gentle sadness and are often lovely In their desolation. They mark, almost al ways, a high tldo of pioneer advance in the eighteenth century, which has cither bbed again or swept on still fiuthcr, leaving these dealings In a kind of forgotten back-water. Most often. In my pan of the country, the Berkshire Hills, they are houses, fields, roads and even villages, which were built high up from tho valleys and their abandonment has been due to the railroads. YESTERDAY wo chanced upon and fol lowed afoot a road which is still marked on the county map, but which has for years been abandoned and Is only used occasionally by the lumbermen. It leaves the macadamized Stato road, the through motor highway from New York Into the Berkshlrcs and the Green Mountains, at a right angle and begins al most at once to climb the bldo of a moun tain. As you look at this wall ahead of jou, so steep that tho ledges show through the henvy forest, you wonder how a toad ever gets up to the top, or why It should ever try. Of couise, this road Is now grass cov ered, when It is not tho stony bed of a brook and eroded down threo or four feet below tho forest floor. The forest undergrowth Is pushing out to clobe It up and tho banks are lined with ferns, wild flowers and masses of raspberry vines. WE CLIMBED for perhaps half a mile till we were almost under the steep wall of the mountain, and there we came suddenly into a clearing of two or three acres, meaning by a clearing a place whero there wero no forest trees, only mastes of berry vines, shrubs nnd young saplings. At first glance you would have said that the lumbermen had been In hero and made this clearing. But u second glance showed that was not the ex planation. Almost hidden under tho tangle of briars by the roadside peeped up the blooms of old-fashioned day lilies, the Inevi table Inhabitants of our grandfathers' door yards. Beating apart the bushes wo could see that these lilies had Bpread In huge clumps. A little back of them was a clus ter of splrea, twenty ftet across, doubtless spread ftom a single bush some woman had planted years and years ago. Still further back from the road were three or four apple trees, nothing but a Jungle of Buckers now, nnd further Investigation disclosed Are weed, the telltale sign of past habitation or of forest fires. As there was no other fire weed on the mountain we concluded that a barn, at least, had been burned here. THE Jungle of briars and bushes was so thick and rank that wo could not find any trace of whero the house had stood, not even the pile of chimney stones. But wo were certain that In that clearing there had once been a house, and later we learned that this was bo. It was built more than 100 years ago, and was abandoned "when the old folks died," not long after the Civil War. Even then the railroad In the valley was making Itself felt and the farmers were drifting down from their pioneer hilltops. THIS road we were on now 'oegan to ascend the steep wall of tho mountain by long switchbacks, like a road In tho Rockies, and ultimately reached a V-shaped ravine In the summit ridge, passed through that beside a wild, roaring brook, under huge hemlocks, and came after a couple of miles more Into an upland plateau nearly 2000 feet above sea level. This plateau is a township and still boasts a church (where no services are held), a postofllce (which Is Just a row of twelve boxes In the front room of a farmhouse) and a school. It Is reached, on the map, by four roads. Vat one of them Is the one we came up, and another Is quite as impassable to any but pedestrians. The other two are maintained in fair condition, but each Is a six-mile pull averaging at least 200 feet to tho mile, and In winter they are piled ten feet deep with drifts. You are hardly sur prised to find the fields up here gorgeous acres of devil's paint brush, white and yel low daisies, trange-yellow meadow lilies and the like Instead of green expanses of well tended grain. I believe there are fourteen voters In the town now, of whom twelve are Republicans and all hold some town offlct. ThTe Is no store, no village green. AT THE northern end of he platfriu. .where one of, the two traveled road IfrhmU W tu-49ww4 )iwii'T;thU wm IMt'k- ftet'fo, &", -5i V ARE VMNJUG- GRACE . ' Maesachusntts, the other leading Into New .York there are several fine old sugar ma ples by the wayside, very evidently set out In ordered row. Beneath them Is a mass of the tell-tale lilies. Nearby, too, are tho rem nants of an applo orchard, fast being ab sorbed by the forest, which Is closing down upon the clearing. Just behind tho maples wo found the cellar hole of a house, with the chimney stones in a heap ut the bottom and a butternut tree growing out of the cen ter. Virtually all trace of vood had disap peared Into compost, but close by stood the canopy top of a summer house or bain cu pola, no doubt preserved by Its tin covering. There wero also the remnants of a well curb and tho dark gleam of water at tho bottom of the hole. AND In . looking g down tho road through the gorge of the brook to the far green plains of the valley, and the yet farther and blue range ot hills on the other side, American literature was onco made. At least our fathers and mothers considered It literature, and pur chased the volumes In which It was pub lished in gteat quantities. It has been a long time, since I read any of It myself, but my recollection is that It lacked sharpness of outline and individuality; that It was lea'.ly but a poetic echo. I tefer to the poems of the Goodale sisters, those two remarkable children who lived hero with their father and mother on this upland farm like gentle, twelve-year-old femalo Wordsvvorths nnd produced the lyrics which at one time were so well known. This was the sky farm that nurtured them this abandoned clearing, fast being lntaded by the forest, this mournful cellar hole amid the weeds and raspberry vines. Thoso lilies In the dooryard perhaps they themselves had planted to outlive their verses. Somo day at tho proper season for transplanting I am going back there and get a root of those lilies. In memory ot tho Goodale sisters and their forgotten poems. It seems quaint to climb 1000 feet Into the wild hills to get a dooryard Illy with literary associations to bring back Into the valley. Thoso were tho dajs of a hardier stock than ours. The hills had no terrors for them whatever. They pushed up higher than we have been willing to hold the line, and abandoned clearlng3 are now their only monument. Singing Water I HEARD 'twas on a morning, but when It was and where, Except that well I heard It, I neither know nor care I heard, and, oh, the sunlight was shining in the blue, A little water singing as little waters do. At Lechlade and at Huscot, where summer days are long, Tho tiny rills and ripples they tremble Into song; And where the silver Wlndrush brings down her liquid gems, There's music In the wavelets' she tosses to the Thames. The eddies have an air, too, and bravo It Is and blithe; I think I may have heard It that day at Bablockhythe; And where the ,Eynsham weir-fall breaks out In rainbow spray The Evenlode comes singing to Join the riretty play. But whero I heard that music I cannot rightly tell; I only know I heard It, and that I know full well: I heard a little water, and, oh, the sky was blue, A little water tinging as little waters do. R. C. Lehmann In "The Vagabond and Other Poems." As we look at it Foe, Wpa seems to have replaced . wt .- - 11 tmm . . r w - v CJ v"l . sr.i' il MOVEMENT" German High Command in May j.tf 7bW"'.!,,i At.- rfi r -",..-'V-"'-cH Sl .-.rfiS-rtC.. '''. -- -' .v ?"L-'i-'?A FJrooklyn Dally Eagle FUN AND THE "LARGER OUTLOOK" AN ACTOR named Harry Gllfoll died In lx. New York the other day. and few of his obituaries extended beyond seven or eight lines. A generation ago there would have been a moro generous largess . of space, not so much because of the player's merit for he was in no sense highly gifted but because of his affiliation with an extensive, droll, extravagant and yet essentially truthful footllght survey of the land In which we then- lived. Gllfoll was a "Hoyt comedian," and Charles II. Hoyt, who employed him and wrote the farcical vehicles In which he I appeared, had a keen perceptive sense of satirical color. Hastily, yet mirthfully, he dramatized Ameiican provincialism, the foibles of tho small town with Its amateur military company, the western county seat with Its fiery newspaper editor, "rubes" In the city maelstrom, and the then gen erally ridiculed suffragist, with her verbiage about "woman's sphere." We laughed at tho expose, for despite a certain superficiality it was essentially true. Moreover, we wero deeply interested In ourselves, generally speaking, provin cial and glad of It. To comprehend the change In these states, Imagine what our soldiers returned from Europe would think of tho works of Mr. Hoyt or the antics of his character comedian, Mr. Gllfoll. It Isn't only the American army which is being formed "over there," but a legion of cosmopolites. Europe vill hereafter never figure In their minds as a mere conglomeration ot a "lot of foreigners." The "Yanks" will return to the New "World as citizens of a still newer and vaster one. Stago cartoons of narrowly circum scribed localisms will be zestless and without meaning to Internationalized Americans. Their vision will be clear and all-embracing. That there will be as much fun In their outlook some older sentimen talists, however, may question. Provincial America untouched by outward Influences was an amusing place, and very livable withal. The scant attention given to quaint Mr. Gllfoil's passing makes one realize how far wo have already left that easy-going, self-sufficient nation behind. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What celebrated religious reformer was born nt No)on. a town (.1111 within tbn (irrmsn lines, but now Imperiled br the latest Allied advance? S. What American statesman was particular! Identified with the foreicn trudo poller of "the open door"? 3. Where It the Ulark Forest? 4. Mho wns the nuthor of "Mm. Candle's Cur tain Lectures"? 5. What was the nationality of Ole Bull, the famous violinist? 6. What Is tho ineanlnr of Vera Crui? 1, What Is a xrlophone? 8, Who was tho Kaiser's Immediate predecessor on the Imperial throne? 0. Where and what Is the Ylldlz Kiosk? 10. What President of the United State was elected by the House of itcprestutatlves? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. A rnmn Is l slope of Inclined plane. Joining two levels of Eround. i. Two Kliwa of France made prisoner In battle w ere John I. who was rapturel br the . Kngllsh at roltlcrs. In 135(1. and Frarwts 1, taken br the t-osnUli, at rarla. In 1M3. S, The first name of Marshal Forh Is Ferdinand. ltarotn Is the capital of Colombia. 5."Nothlne in his life became him like the lear Inc It." was written of the traitorous Thane of Cawdor, who raced bis executioners bravely. The lines are spoken br Malcolm, In Hbakeapeure's "Macbeth." 0. William Alexander, an American major sen rral, who fought under Washlncton. at Monmouth and ether KerMiitlnnarr battles, was known v "I,nrd Ntlrllnr,' He went to Knsland to defend tho Scottish title before the House of I-orun, but his claim was dis allowed. . 11 7, The "Sno" Canal, built to nrolil tho rapids In the M. Mitt's Rller. connecting Lakes 8u- , perior nnd Huron, has the largest rplume of commerce of anr artificial wntcrwar In the world. . B. Armus Ward, wus the rn nnmo of Charles Forcer Hrwne. the ir' n humorist. 0. Some 38,000 Swiss speak tho llomansh tongue, a language dc.srrndc.1 from the Latin. ' ' 10. Tb oril bouhnrrd ropie f-rni the nenusm , j hoHwerk. eWe4 to thy English baJwai. t .T 1 'Sit A & m 1 i J A L'NVi1! 'W r-7 n ?vrf.. 'ffr vi ws- V tt j '',; r air J, fi r'ivv ;
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