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WORSE THAN SLACKING
SCHWAB does not confine his
MR-
ATX 1,
labors to "is-tit hours a day and he
iias little patience with the otner workers
who fall to do their utmost In the Indus
tries engaged In war work. Here 1m w hat
he said to the foremen In a Chester ship
yard: In plain language 1 regard the man whn
will lie down on the Joli at this time of
labor shortage. Just because he ha? a
grudge or a legitimate grievance against
some boss or management, and disrupts
the necessary work of the day without
giving the Government time to Investigate
the situation, as a. traitor, pure and simple.
The President mnde similar statement"!
last winter In n letter (o some c.u pouters
who were threatening to strike Mr Wil
son was not, quite so extreme In what he
said, but his point of view was the same.
The Blacker is the man who won't light.
The man who throws down his tools is
preventing those who are willing to light
from doing their work effectively by de
priving them of the things they need. It
ought not to be necessatv for either Mr.
Wilson or Mr. Schwab to condemn this sort
Of thing. It condemns itself in the mind
of every man who thinks.
Alfonso's heated representations to the
Kaiser about the smklng of Spanish nvr
Chantmen by I'-boats would suggest that
Germany put the pain In Spain.
MR. GERARD'S NEEDLESS WARNING
TN" HIS address here yesterday Jnmos W.
-- Gerard, former ambassador to Ger
many, expressed a fear that we may he
too quick to let up on the Germans. Mr.
Gerard knows his Hun and we can be
lieve him when he Intimates that Ger
ymans will hope and entertain a delusion
of victory until they ure booipd over their
river and drubbed on their own soli
Does Mr. Gerard know the psychology
of America? Does ho realize that it Is
only as the world has time to think that
it is beginning fully to understand the
things the Germans did to it and that the
desire for complete victory, for the ut
most punishment of the Kaiser and his
armies, is .a cumulative force that be
comes more clearly felt as the tide turns'
Mr. Gerard and Mr. Roosevelt and Mr
Lodge and others need not feat that Ihe
determination of the American people is
weakening. The Hun will be beaten and
he will be made to know nu is beaten.
Liberty Bonds and the army which they
help support are going over the top simul
taneously. AN OBSERVATION ON WTERMELONS
VIEWED in one light the watermelon
is a passable svmbol of everyday life
and Its high cost.
Upon Us nntltc heath, down Salem vvty
or up In the Hancocas country, a water
melon of the requisite hue and embonpoint
may be obtained for eight cents One
twentieti of that same melon costs not
less, and often more, than twent-tlve
cents when It is served in any "good"
Philadelphia restaurant. This latter cost
Is not excessive under the ciicumstances.
The watermelon gathers glor as it goes
along. It must have Ice and silver at the
end, and a white linen cloth, and a defei
entlal perbon to fetch and carry It. It
goes upon Its last Jouiney to the sound
'of, music. Tapestried furniture, flowers
and lighted candles make up Its fore
ground. But that is not all.
A watermelon Is but an illusion of food.
despite Its colorful pretensions!
There Is a moral In all this If you arc
Industrious enough to seek it out.
How nice it would be next wmter If
heat could be canned like peaches.
THE KAISER IS NOT QUITE SO COCKY
10 fTlHE change in the Geiman attitude
toward neutrals, lllustruted by Its con-
KcessIons to Spain, is not the least slgnifl.
cant Indication or the erfect of Koch's
successful hammering on the west front.
W Bpain-has been protesting against the
W'.-T' sinking of her ships by the submarines
Nrt"' and Informed Berlin that she Intended to
KJ V:. eelie. the German ships in her harbors to
replace tne epanisn snips mat nave been
.hhV AftM Mima Hottii unit nfl.H UA
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j5, j M UUIIO ku tunc j;'im hj jmiii iiii me
-J Kntent Allies, the Government has agreed
- . 'mat mif j i.c tv uviinnii miiua ill
,1 replace any future losses ftom subma-
h, 'tjrlnes. The Spanish I'remieri however, has
&T,'. U M..HHu4 that l.u ...III -...i.Ulllnn ,.il rt....
I m ". AftlUUIl.U n.Mfc itc l IsnutntHUII fl UC1
'Pan ships. In Spanish ports and that Ger-
KV-e miny has agreed not to torpedo the ves
Px .J' ! tltu? taken.
, jvow tne iemerianas anil rvorwuy are
'' b Jtkely tp demand similar concessions.
ri tTkeVe seems q be no desire In Berlin
I 4sbree the number of nations making
Spergnany, a matter on which
ssafikVA rlittMi-
went when ahe
THE STAGE IS SET
Actors and ' Properties in the Stupendous
War Drama at La;l Determineil
K
OUR years ago this week Zeppelin
airships made their war debut in an
attack on Antwerp. The HUn hoped, and
his foe to some extent feared, that the
huge lip;htcr-thnn-nir machine would sig
nificantly affect the course of the con
flict. Neither the aspiration nor the anx
iety is today justified. The Zeppelin is
obsolete. So are many other ngencics of
warfnrc, both mpchnnical and human.
Rusty also are a profusion of prophecies,
particularly those which sought to as
semble a enst for the greatest of world
dramas.
The scenario has often been rcwiitten.
Kitchener planned it in three nets, each
of a year's duration. A favorite Ameri
can revision apportions it in five after
the high classicnl manner. Something
decidedly stronger than litoiary tindi
tion, however, inspires the feeling that
this is the form the colossal tragic play
will take, for without undue assumptions
it is evident th.it the drama is soaring to
n climax, and that its chief actors as well
as its most potent machinery have been
nt last revealed. Naturally, some new
comeis will enter the cast before the
final cuitain falls, but the stellar loles
seem to have been definitely established.
The situation has its analogies with
1S13 in Europe and 1801 in America. In
both fateful years it was clear what
weapons and what men would bo con
cerned in the final hostilities. The issue
hung then as it does now, not on the
selection of these agencies, but on the
efficacy of their employment.
Prophecy has been discredited in all
wars, and even though the purposes of
Foch grow plainer with each new round
of victories, it is futile specifically to
forecast events more than a few days
ahead. But the material with which all
sides are working has unquestionably
acquired an authoritative status. The
experimental period, productive of many
false hopes, insubstantial joys and even
fcais intensified by speculation, now dis
counted, is past.
It is startling, indeed, to recall the
men and weapons that have been super
seded up to the time when the war
reached its p-esent state of crystalliza
tion. Zeppelins are fast becoming almost
us archaic as Roman battering rams.
The seaplane, the maivolously mobile
heavier-than-air machine, makes its valid
claims for overhead supiemacy. Cavalry
has become a comparatively minor factor
in land fighting. Tanks win distinction
as the most important new mechanical
contrivance of the conflict.
The submarine, on which Germany
based her hopes of sea power, while still
pcstifoious, has been so reduced in ag
gressive vitality that its opeiations are
no longer a determining factor in the
great events. Moreover, it cannot rank
with the "whippets" and their big broth
ers in novelty. Far back in the nine
teenth century Robert Fulton outlined
to Napoleon a scheme of undersea attack
on vessels. The plan was discarded as
being too inhuman.
The gas offensive, however, was some
thing as new as it was dastaidly, but
though it has taken its place in the fight
ing, nobody believns that "gas" will win
the war unless it bo that of the now io
hearsing peace orators of the Reichstag.
The possibilities of heavy and light
artillery have been determined. Virtu
ally all the problems of 1914 concerning
it have been holved. The same thing is
true of the methods of attack and de
fense. It is competence of peiformance
which counts today.
On the personal' side the line-up of
winners and losers is assuming comple
tion. A host of captains and kings have
departed. Kitchener, Franz Josef, Von
Bissing, Von Der Goltz, Mohammed V,
Eail Roberts and Gallicni are dead. Re
tired fiom the selected final cast are
Field Marshal French, Serrail, Pau,
Castclnau, Viviani, Asquith, Cadorna,
Sir William Robertson, Von Kluck, Von
TirpiU, Townshend and many others.
Jolfie has a parquet seat, but the savior
of Franco at the first Marne battle is at
this moment overshadowed by other
figuics.
Four years ago, save only for Wilson,
Lloyd Geo-ge, Clemenceau, King Albert
and the Hohenzollern family, scarcely a
name now piominent in either battle,
statecraft or administration, was known
to the general public. The new list re
vised for the drama whose end, if not the
date of it, can be foreshadowed, includes
Pershing, Foch. Mangin, Haig, Diaz,
Humbert, Petain, Nivelle, Dcbeney,
Byng, Rawlinson, Hertling, Von Behncke,
Von Boehm, Karl of Austria and Luden
dorfT. Hindenburg was just beginning to
be known four yearn ago, but his repu-,
tation reached its zenith at Mazurian
Lakes, not long after the war began.
The new pageant which history has un
folded gives one a feeling that the first
Zeppelin attack on Antwerp belongs
almost to antiquity. The departed cap
tains of the period appear "like wrecks in
a dissolving dream." All the figures in
the co-ordinated awakening of the huge
forces of libe-ty are now sharply out
lined, The leading actors about to taste
victory or defeat now'tread the boards.
Civilization is preparing its palms to
applaud those whom it belioves are the
most talented. The process of selection
had 'been sufficiently rigorous to be
definitive.
General Ilyng Is proving that his name
Is onomatapoetfe. '
SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE DRAFT
THE draft-board ruling which holds that
teachers of dinft age must engage In
''some essential occupation" or fight Is an
error from excess of zeal.
Teaching la an, ese'ntlali occupation, but
j,(rt',UeeB8WWblllat term
used at the present time. An essential
occupation Is one directly connected with
the production of material needed In the
war. If the rule laid down by the draft
boat ds were followed generally It would
take men from every Industry not directly
connected with war work. It Is going too
far to order Into the shipyards or the
munition factories every male teacher of
draft age under the threat of drafting him
Into the army If he persists In teaching.
If teachers are of draft age and not
eligible to deferred classification for any
of the various reasons admitted ns valid,
they should be mustered into the army
Teaching is not a icason for exemption,
but there Is no reason for penalizing those
engaged In It.
The schools must lie kept open for the
sake of the futuie. Qunlifled teachers are
absolutely necessary. A mnn with n wife
and young children dependent on his earn
ings Is entitled to deferred classification
even though he suppoits his family by
teaching. The duty of the draft boards
Is to cooperate with the school authorities
in keeping as many teachers as possible
at their work at this time when the diffi
culties in the way of securing enough
teachers to take charge of the classes are
greater than ever before.
"German tobacco exhausted," says a
headline, and m Lady Nicotine at laBt re
joices In a clear conscience.
RUBBER HEELS
A NEW book of poems by Rudyard Klp--Ilng
Is coming out shortly. And yet,
heaven forgive us. a lot of us rhymesters
ate going to go right on unabashed.
tt'c offen uonrfcr uhclhrr post-mortpma
air acr held on the mind.s ot the unfor
tunate stcnoyiaphcis who hale to take
down the debates In Conyress.
Some Have All the Luck
Senator Knutc Nelson, of Minnesota,
speaking: "I want to say first of all that
I have had no tiouble about this war
from the eiy beginning. As soon as the
gieat war broke out In Europe it was
evident to me," eti. etc.
How the Sendlc Saves Paper
What He Said What He Meant
Mr II O It A II Mr
I'risldent we all have
a er high regard for
the m 1 I I t ary itrtHlrt
comnilttie of ihe Sen
ate Th !ilmbttr nf
that eommlttpo b.tr
had during th time
In which we have bn
engngtd in wnr. a erv
difficult task tn per
form, nt times .a erv
delicate task, and 1
think eiery member of
the Senate hestt.itra tn
dlsnuree with any nart
ef a ptnsrtm outlined
b tli.it c o tn m I ttee
I disagree with
th committee.
Itut after the best
thought which I have
been .Ibte til bring tn
the uhjei t imd a con
fident! Inn which I hne
given to few subjects
since (lie war began I
am umUile to agree
with i portion of this
prog ram I feel that
thit disagreement li
based upon such facts
and inndltlons that I
tunv jullv ask the In.
dulgente of the Senate
for a short time while
I state the grounds of
disagreement ,
Speaking of quaint names of French
v lllqges, L. T. P. Informs us that just
west of Chateau-Thierry Is a hamlet called
"IJcoute s'il pleut." which means "Listen
whether it's, raining."
This seems like a bad knock for the
Tiench weather man, but to cheer him
up we'll admit that Pennsylvania lias Its
Ttnlnshurg; and. wetter still, thcie's
Iluinier In Washington,
There's n show on at one of ihe the
atiei In irliich a number of yaks take
part, ll'c itonder whether then consider
thcmselici ijaktmi
It looks as though the good old Hinden
burg line were going to be taken out of
the camphor balls and worn again this
autumn. But it won't be good for more
than one more season.
Perhaps it uai the tiiir.v nf the Gennan
ijcnerali who benged them not to take
Paris, because then had nothing to wear
except paper gowns.
The Senate has passed an amendment
to the new draft bill lecommendlng that
young men conscripted In the next draft
may finish their college education after
the war at the Government's expense.
And all thes-e blithe voting chaps were
just blessing the Kaiser for getting them
out of their final examinations!
A MiiRiuini) We Cannot Live l'p To
Farmlngton. Mich., has leaped into the
literary limelight by Issuing a magazine
which calls Itself "Love, Courtship and
Marriage, a Periodical of Piopriety for
People of Refinement" Its ciicular which
has reached us insists so desperately on
the refined character of the publication that
we are erv eager to read It.
Among other topics which that periodi
cal of propriety promises to discuss both
pro and con are "Courtship, Sensible and
Flirtatious," and "The Perpetuation of the
Human Race."
We are very anxious to learn what may
be said pro the perpetuation of said race.
The pioprietor of "Love. Courtship and
Marriage" assures us that his contributors
are all "individuals who know from ex
perience what the Intimacies of the human
heart are " And he adds that "Nothing
platitudinous nor plcayunlsh Is tolerated."
All w can say is that it seems veiy un
fair of him to go and spoil the maikct
while there aic so many snuggling tollers
like ourself who have to throw in n plati
tude and a picayune now and then Just to
till out our space.
This enterprising editor's Insistence on
the fact that all topics will be treated
both inn and con lemlnds us of the chap
of whom It was said that he had plenty
of convictions but no provictions.
To tell the truth, after reading the
prospectus we very mucn doubt whether
we ure capable of approaching that maga
zine with the high spirit of devotion and
propriety that the editor demands from
his readers, We shall Just have to go on
With the carnal and unrefined publications
we are accustomed to.
We wonder whether Spanish influenza
or Hindenburg death i-re really any vvor.ie
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Adventures at Eddystone
By ROY HELTON
Ill
Noon .
ALONG toward 1! o'clock there Is a gen
eral movement In the direction of the
washing trough We Oave our hot arms In
a great common basin and dry our hands
on the sides of our pants. Often, In the midst
of these Illicit pleasures, the boss comes
ndmonlshlngly Into our circle and remarks
that It's a" rule of the shop not to wash up
till "quottin' time." As a consequence of the
operation of this rule we are often dirty at
the lunch tables and -usually dirty again
going home.
AT LAST the quitting bell rhigs and we
. bolt. In a body, for the door, where we
disperse to our places of refection. Some go
outside for refreshment of a liquid charac
ter, for pool and social Intercourse. Most of
us stay Inside, sit atound on the lumber or
dare the dally encounter at the restaurant.
Th9 old hands have lunch boxes that look
like baby typewriters that give forth steam
ing drink, boiled eggs, fried flfh and Jelly
roll, but Socrates would look hi vain for a
dlsplaj of the egg-nesting doughnut.
I'pstalrs in the lunchroom thousands o
joung girls appear, as by magic. In the midst
of the collarlcss men. They wear, for the
most part, (he blue or khaki bloomer cos
tumes which are so often becoming and so
often not. To wear bloomers Is for a girl
like driving an airplane for a man. Either
jou can or you can't. There is no debatable
ground. ,
I FIND myself surrounded by bright bevies
of ladles. The air is thick with talk. A
few bits still cling to my ears and I set them
down as they came:
" Oh, I know- she doesn't wear It.
She's all tight though. I seen him and her
together and she was carrying the bundles."
"You betcha, and they's some that Is that
don't wear them, and they's some that wears
them that ain't married at all gets them at
the Ave and ten."
'It ain't like Mr. Rodgers to lose his tem
per. I guess he's worried Ain't looking
happy here latelv "
"She ought to be a handsome woman to
go with a good-looking man like him."
"Good looking I'll say he Is."
"You goln' to remember me, May, 'f I get
that job m town?"
"I'll say I will.
"They's lots a new ti-Is came In here since
' fejVl!
we got here. May.
"I'll say there Is.
" used to turn out 6000 a day here,
but It's fell off since May took the Job."
"I'll say It has."
"Ya golta gel 'em before you're married,
Sue, or jou don't never get 'cm. They don't
give no watches nor like that once they
get a."
" silk stockln's lahvaleer ho gives me
enough, all right."
'Oh. I think he loves ya all right, Ida.
It ain't that. I says when I first saw them
things he brought ya he ain't doing all that
for nothlnk just for amusement "
" 'n gets mo 'n ma four dollar dinner
Ice cream chicken salad "
"Oh, he loves ya, all right I know- that,
Ida."
"Bought It In a suit club, cost me 525.
One guy got his for $3."
"I know a fellow bought a suit on the In
stallment plan saved up for twelve weeks
first night he got it out went dow'n to Phllly
got drunk and had it tore offen him."
AND do on. The constant roar of ma
. chlnery gets us all talking much louder
than needed, and private lives arc laid bare
on every hand During the lunchtlmc loaf
other and more lomplete confidences came to
me from time to time from a variety of
people.
There was a tall professional looking gen
tleman who confessed to me that he was
sick and sore at his job, but that in the
first flush of enthusiasm he had bought a
monthly railway ticket. So he has to stick
on for nineteen days longer, y opinion
that, after the month, he would buy another
ticket vvtts coldly received, and et I'm sure
I was right. It's pretty hard to get the habit
of the ten-hour day.
Another more pathetic figure was that of
a little sandj- retail grocery sort of a chap
who had come down ftom the north with
$18 and had been at work for only three
das. Tomorrow was to be pay day, and
Oh Boy! He was on the verge of being
broke and I had hardly the heart to tell
him that by an Inscrutable provision of the
men up front one's pay comes alwavs seven
da.vs behind.
Ji'crllj these little devices to discourage the
labbr turnover are very puzzling to the
chaps who had their training in the ways
of trade nt a cross-roads department store.
AC'EIITAIN small percentage nf the men
Is amazed at how hard one has to work
to earn $5 a day. "Thought it was easy
monej," they continue to complain.
Another equally small class of physical
titans can be heard talng as I've caught
the Dutchman doing, "This blame soft job.
They Just give ya money here "
THE truth is that in the run of things
today a man can earn good wages, but
only by hard and solid work.
Writers who try to
.Nutshell Htuff explain the . German
psychology sometimes
go too far afield amid contesting theories.
The Germans are easily understood They
were thoroughly oppressed and booted about
by their own military set In the years of
peace. When they. In turn, found the op
portunity to boot and oppress others they
merely reverted td the old habits of every
slave whom accident has made a master
Now- that Judge Bonni-
Too Terrible well has firmly estab-
to Consider llvhed himself upon a
wet platform it is
necessary to observe that the Prohibitionists
ate beginning to boast of President Wilson's
support and to suggest that there will be a
great deal of work for the Red Cross among
Pennsylvania Democrats If the President
should decide to send one of his now famous
telegrams to the antl-Bonniwell leaders.
' News headlines say
Of Course! the Germans are
giving up hopes. That
Isn't stating the matter truthfully. The Ger
mans are having hope taken away from them.
We shall feel that the
Hope Onl efficiency theory is
really getting us
somewhere if a method can be devised to
apply the skip-stop system to messenger
boys. i
The Hun line is certainly having a
"cracking time" Just now.
In suggesting that ptovlslon be made for
educating young soldiers after the war the
Senate doubtless means well, but the truth is
that after their lively trip to Europe these
"mere hovs" will be able to teach not only
Congress but the whole country a thing or
two when they come back
i ne tuii"i""'", ,ii, u mnicD iimi Herman-
cannot hold Somme line" should have
added, "nor any."
The "welB" are advised to refrain from
false hopes on reading the headline, "800
Win Bars at Camp Lee." Uncle Sam Is
simply making a batch of new army oftlcers.
that's all.
While we wait for tilers It Is at least
8ime satisfaction to know that Mangln's right
wing is very much on the job.
It is merely a matter of a few months
to convert a "100 per cent draft" into a
full-sized tornado.
The possibilities of the forthcoming'
oyster eeaon loom Unusually large. Judtrinv
by their recent remarks, even QeraMR .4liar
have their m '. WW
&mz Mtfmp$te;EMmmmmimmw mmmm
THE GOWNSMAN
Botrcl, Singer of War
LIIT mo write the songs of a nation, and'
I earo not who makes th.uj nation's
laws." Thus spoke some old diplomat after
a long career of "lying abroad to serve his
sovereign," convinced of the futility of writ
ten laws: or way It some learned folk
loreate who could only "Idcntlfv" the balladry
of old time and was himself Incapable of
penning a sonnet, even to so artificial a
charm as his lady's eyebrows? And et thero
Is much tiuth In the old adage: There is a
nation which sings of an armed Amazon,
guarding u stolen frontier with hostile eyes
avaricious of further thefts westward, a
natiod which marches to a "hvmn of hate"
and sings In exultant anticipation, "Germany
on the Top of tile Heap'" it Is this nation
which has become the world's outlaw. And
It is France which springs again to life with
the "Marseillaise."
IT HAS often been remarked with surprise
that men of F.ngllsh tongue should be so
Inexpressive lyrically. With a poetical litera
ture second to none, there aic no great
Kngllsh songs of battle. The war poetry
that exists, of the present moment as ot the
past, whether lu England, the colonies or in
America, is singularly inadequate to the
great events In which lCngllsh-speaklng
peoples have played their heroic p.ut. Tommy
Atkins goes Into battle with a music hall
ditty on his lips, the words of which aro
flippant, mawkish or inane. The German,
more or less musically, shouts of uod, "the
good old German sword," of aimor and
empire; the man of Latin race Is stirred to
song, pertinent and adequate to the sacrifice,
the honor, the glory of righteous war: and
Its details, lis humois, its pathos are things
convertible readily Into current song. The
greatest war poetry In England has been
written strictly In accordance with the second
half of Wordsworth's famous dictum about
poetry as "the overflow of powerful emotion,
recollected (Is that the way 'It runs?) In a
subsequent period of calm." Is It what we
like to call the reticence of the Anglo
Saxon nature which makes It easy for the
English poetical Romeo to write sonnets
about "the Inexpressive Rosaline." but holds
him dumb before his Juliet? 'And will this
account for the circumstances that our boys
at the front sing "any old thing" and that
we at home are content with our dignified
"Star Spangled Banner." Imperfectly remem-'
bered, with new motnlizlngs of our "Battle
Hymn" set to a good, old camp-meeting hymn
and with trivialities like "Over There"?
THE GOWNSMAN has been much taken
with a little volume of French boldlers'
poetrv which has recently c'ome his way. It
Is entitled "Chansons de Route" ("Songs of
the March"), by Theodore Bntrel, who Is
described as "Chansonnler aux Armees"
("Accredited Singer to the French Arrnies").
What could be more 'delightful ot- romantic?
The little book Ib prefaced with, a portrait
of the author, a bright-faced, young soldier
In his uniform" of the Forty-first Infantry,
underneath which are his autograph-words:
;-These are not yet Songi of Victory. Pa
tience, .they will come. Listen to the songs
of the path of glory whither tliese will lead
you."
IT SEEMS, from the prefatory matter, fur
nished by M. Tardleu, of the French
Academy, that Uotrel Is the poet, comjroser
and singer of his songs, all In one, and that,
above all. he never loses for a moment that
most Important Identity, the foundation of all
these, that he is thfr brother In arms of Jean
Poilu. M. Tardleu tells of three "audltolres"
of Botrel, one lu the hospital of Dunes, where
he sang to a large room fun or wounued in
their cots; a second before a huge audience
of soldiers recently from the front ; a third
before the sailors of the fleet, mostly Bretons,
like Botrel himself, hardy conquerors of the
Intractable sea. M Tardleu confessed to a
doubt, a fear when he heard that the young
singer was accredited to sing to the wounded
In their hospital. "To speak of honor, coun
try heroism and glory to men still breathing
hard under the sufferings of yesterday, men
whose fate It wbb shortly to return and
struggle to the supreme end? Was not this
a mingling of trivialities with eternal erl
ties, almost amounting to blasphemy?" But
the event disproved these misgivings. And,
in a beautiful passage, the editor tells of
the simple power ' sngV how haggard faces
brightened, how feeble pulses were rhythmi
cally stirred,- how each brave sufferer, in
i..k. manner as he mutht. was cheered.
jrfilled, applauded. Jaufhetjiook. s,Juew hold
OLD HOME WEEK
"What an eriot ras this of mine! The
heart of Botrel was much nearer 'o our
heroes than was mine These bravo French
men loved those songs and their splendid
words. These words expressed
their own feelings, nnd they found them
natural ns ihelr own" In a word, as in
old time, Botrcl was only the attlstlc form
giver of the sentiments and feelings of bis
kind. Our unhappy reversion to the primitive
condition of human warfare had brought
with It n happier teturil at least In France
to the equally primitive condition of a poetry
of the people.
AVD the songs themselves? They are of
considerable range In tone and subject
songs of the march, literally: of the trench
of battle, of patriotic sentiment and devo
tion ; songs In the person of the typ'cal
soldier-peasant, such ns "Avec Mcs Sabots"
("With My Wooden Shoes." which are put
to astonishing uses, from boats In the
trenches to successful weapons applied to
Genpan heads of similar material). A touch
ing poem tells, In dialogue, of mass, cele
brated 'without church, altar, vestment or
bell, by a sergeant-priest and of the spirit
of God In the hearts of the worshipers as
they kneel under the open sky In another,
"La Petlto Maninn," takes devotedly her
second place to the ttue mother of her peas
ant boy, their beloved France. Among the
humorous and satirical poems, which 'are
full of Gallic sail, the barbarian bocho Is
mocked, his gas, his great Bertha, the poll
tits, vain-glory, pomp and ptetenslons of the
Kaiser and those about him. All Is easy,
clear, trenchant and adrnlrably versified1,
and, it we may Judge, as admirably set to
fitting arid catchy tunes.
FULLY awate of the dllfleulty of trans
ferring from one language to any other
the spirit of such poetry. The Gownsman,
none the less, offers this translation of a
patrlotlq bong of Theodore Botrel, "Chanson
nler aux Armees." The measures of the
original are preserved and the rhymes as
nearly as possible. He regrets that this is
ail that he has space for. It may perhaps
be premised thaf Jacques Bonhomme Is not
so much the French John Bull or Uncle
Sam as the Frenchman in the street, In the
market place, at the plow:
The Vlag of Jerques llonliomme
The flag that HoatB for Jacques Bonhomme
Dates not from yesterday; '
That flag through full a hundred wars
Has made a glorious way.
Fotget It not, a people's hope,
A nation's Pflde and cheer;
Float, float, flag of France,
Jacques Bonhomme Is here,
Clothllde, it was, or Genevieve,
Who, with a sword's keen blade.
Clipping her rich queen's mantle, '
A royal standard made.
To some tall chief she gave it.
Who raised it .on his lance:
Float, float, flag of blue.
Fair flag of Gallic France.
A moment came, our country lay
Supine In throes of death,
Nor .church nor State nor chivalry
Co'uld stay her parting breath.
When lo! the Saint-Avenger Jeanne
Atose. a seraph of light:
Float, float, golden lilies
yhree, on a field of White.
Anil one day. In an hour of supreme
Who's fiercer, roused than he?
Jacques tound his task, a fight to death
For his new-found liberty,
The "Marseillaise" upon his lips.
He won through fire and flood:
Float, float, terrible flag,
Red with a brother's blood.
And thus who is there can forget?
Our Hag, there, flying above,
Became through the years tricolor
In saving the things we, love.
And now let us svvear to follow It,
Fearless to suffer; Aye,
Float, float I for then vva live,
For thee our lives we freely give,
For thee we live, and die.
The Japanese themselves seem to have
solved the question as tq whether or no
they shall have a big army-In Btberla. Judg,
lng by the latest defeat of- the ,BoUhevJkl.
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Il-tlme la tin? New York World.
ROUGE BOUQUET
IN A wood thev call the Rouge Bouquet
There is t new-made crave today,
Built by never a spade nor pick
Yet covered with earth ten meters thick.
There He many lighting men,
Dead in their youthful prime,
Never lo lauch nor love again.
Nor taste the summertime '
For Death erne flvlng through the air " '0
And Ktonped his flight at the dueout stair,
Touehfd ,t!s prey and left them there,
flay, to clav
He hid their bodies stealthllv
In the soil of the land they fought to free ?
nd fled away.
Now over the grave abrupt and clear
Thiee vollevs ring:
And perhaps their brave young spirits hear
The bugle sing:
"Go tn sleep ! iv.
"!o to sleep '
Slumber well where the shell screamed and
fell, ) - J
Let ynur rlfUs rest on the muddy floor.
You will not need them any more, -
Danger's past;
Now at la'st,
Go to sleep !"
There Is on earth no worthier grave
To hold the hodles of the brave
Than this place of pain and pride
Where they nobly fought and .nobly died.
Nevr fenr but In the skies
Halms and angels stand
Smiling with their holy eyes
On this new-come hand.
St, Michael's sword darts through the air
And tout.hes the aureole on his hair
As he, seek them stand saluting tnere,
His stalwnrt sons;
And Patrick, Brlgld. Columklir t '
Rejoice that In veins of warriors still
The Gael's blood runs.
And up to Heaven's doorway floats,
From the wood called Rouge Bouquet,
A delicate cloud of bugle notes
That softly say:
'Farewell !
Farewell!
Comrades true, born anew, peace to you!
Your souls shall be where the heroes ars
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ana your memory shine like the mornli
star.
Brave and dear,
Shield us here.
Farewell !" ,
Joyce Kilmer, In Scrlbner's Magazine.
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What Do You Knotv?
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OITIZ M
1. What American Cardlinl Is now rritlcallr lilt.
1. What nre the "kojnuv." to which referent lrf)l
often made In war dispatches? " J I
.1, What Is the oldest theatre In America?
4. What Is paleontologist? f-
5. How Is the expression "bete noire" used sad
unit 's tho literal iiieunliiir nt thm' lrMMi.
wordi? L - J ,,
ft. What Is a renotaph?
7, What Is the stundtrd roln of Hpaln, and what',
la Its IMF value f
8. Mho Is "Rentlemun Jim"? 'V
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- - i iimiuc ui stonewall - v'SCftj
10. Where Is the Taj Mahal? - '
Answers to Yesterday. Quiz
1. (.col-gen (I emenceau. the Prime Minister ( .
France, Is known ns "The Tiger."
'-'. The vlctorr of Saratoga, won br an Ameri
can rmr nnder (leneral nates Tn till Is t,l
rated lir Kdward Creasv. the KngllMi hls-'l
jiiriuii. ns one of h fifteen derisive hat-' I
,....... v n .,....-.. ,, rmini support.
whh given tu the American rause.
3. "Lnixuis calami" Is rt Latin phruse drirrlp-.l
tlve nf n hllll of the nen. It lu n. mmninlni, jl
emrrsslan to "lapsus linguae," a s!lp.f'-H
Alias rnns-iia -" I
I I aitlskoll I si n - tmw-tlmlit mm, mi-a.1
Inc foundntlon under water, anil alto ul I
Miuii,ii.,.v. ..itx u, nnsu..
5. The rolnrs of Ilia flaK of llrutll ure Ttllox
und green.
d. President aihury Talor was known a "Old -
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1,'Yletorlrn Hnrdou was n noted French .ramete'XJ
isi. aniiior oi .a losca" nnq --isastaal
rJans-llene." Ills dates are 1K)I-It0 ''.-'.
The Island ol Madagascar la a French
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