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THE FARCE OF IT
XJtTE HAVE a law whose purpose Is num-
lnally to prohibit political assessment"
upon officeholders. It forbids any member
of a political committee, any nflleer of the
Commonwealth or of any county, the Mayor
of any city or the head of any department
tinder him from maklnp; or permitting; a
demand to bo mado for a contribution ot
money for political purposes upon any sub
ordinates. But the law provides that nnthinir in it
shall prevent any officer or employe from
making a "voluntary contribution."
Sheriff Ransley has been nsklnK the local
Officeholders for "voluntary contributions,"
and the Mayor has been saylnc that the
men need not pay anything unless they
choose. .
But the clerks know what will happen
to them If they do not "voluntarily" con
tribute. And the farcical law remains without
any teeth in It. Just as it was Intended it
" should be when it was passed.
The American soldiers at the front have
the "right Idea about the Austrian peace
move. They say "Let's do the jnb first and
talk afterward."
THRIFT STAMPS IN THE PAWNSHOPS
THE Indignation of Juds;e Davis at the
pawnbrokers who would loan only
B0 per cent of their value on thrift stamps
was natural and proper.
Congress has been passing laws to pre
vent the stock brokers from beating down
the price of Liberty Bonds, but it has
neglected its obvious duty to give atten
tion to the pawnshops. If the loan value
of a thrift stamp is less than the loan
value of a share of corporation htock
something ia- wrong. The banks will lend
80 per cent on a share of stock. The
pawnbrokers ought certainly to lend as
much on securities that are the equivalent
of cash. Won't Mr. Kltchln take the mat
ter up at once?
The boche had imitation tanks in thf
St Mlhiel salient, and they have recently
been telling the people at home of imitation
victories.
IS NOBODY INTERESTED IN THE
ELECTION?
FEW voters registered on the first day
and still fewer had their names put on
the rolls yesterday. Why Is this?
Can it be that the voters are forgetting
that an Important election is to bo held
t?& on November 6? We are to choose a
H 4 Governor and a State Legislature, and an
5?1' entire new national House of Representa
tives Is to be elected. Men fit for the
work before them must be sent to Wash
ington. If the voters do not qual-fy we
are likely to have the wrong kind of a
Congress, whether the majority be Re
publican or Democratic. The men who
are not lighting ought to be willing at
least to vote and thus perform one part
Of their duty as citizens of a free republic.
One cannot help but wonder whether a
few Huns aren't loose among the Mriking
miners In the anthracite regions.
AMONG THE FIRST OF WAR CHARITIES
AMONG tho multiplicity of war charl
.tles there are some which plteously
prompt the heart to loosen the purse
.strings. Of such a character Is the move
ment now being conducted by the Penn
sylvania; Working Home for Blind Men to
raise $150,000 to be used In teaching trades
to American soldiers made sightless by the
war.
Acceptance of the fact that barbarism
L!n- Its dvlnir mnrnpnt lu rt-nl .nm,,,!, ..
Pmake those who see the right pay with
iSl'dS their spiritual vision Is bitter indeed. None
Wh? k Iess ll !s tne nart ot courage to face
IKvct1?- truth, the part of generous patriotism
vio ratuie wnai ih piuxui less intolerable
vp 1 & needless to expatiate on the good
Jbrhlch contributions to this proposed fund
fciwl aAccomnliah. Thnneh th mnet liK-ai
T.fc- w .a. w '""-IUI
BvpE '' MPOnse will fall to right a wrong. It
gjyV wureaiy win neip 10 relieve us poignancy.
&sK 'The sum should be oversubscribed In the
b't " .... ............
4- . .. .
t Austria now Knows me penis of keeping
S vll company.
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Mj'Ullllnll ailHUlt jMArvllVL. OUUl)
T IS gratifying news that Lieutenant
Orant writes from France to the effect
jgO ,'ihat the airplanes equipped with -J50-
fftorsepower motors are me lastesi tnings
4t fly.
1 'T'f.Ttme enough wae spent In developing
(lh motor to warrant the confidence in It
T'Wch' Its designers professed; When an
1 aviate r wno nas ustt one or them
rts that the alrplanej quipped with
are. the most wonderful, yet produced
..MKHCKwrwarawitn connaence w
THERE MUST DE A REPENTANT
GERMANY
Only Willi Such a Nation Can the Entente
Allies anil America Re Magnanimous
"IITORD comes from Washington that
the men nbout President Wilson nro
considering the advisability of treating
Germany when the war is over with tho
same magnanimity which the North
showed to the South at tho close of the
Civil War.
There is peril in attempting to draw
any such parallel nt tho present time,
and perhaps nt any time. It involves,
comparing the southern States with Ger
many, a comparison which is an insult to
those States. The South never sought
world dominion. It never attempted to
force its views upon reluctant peoples.
It never dreamed of conquest. And it
was never guilty of deliberate and organ
ized barbarism in violation of the laws
of war and the dictates of humanity.
Lincoln fought the war on the issue of
the preservation of the Union, and when
the war ended that issue was settled for
all time.
Germany is fighting not for her right
to have- the kind of government and the
kind of social institutions which she de
sires, as the South fought, but to force
her Government and her social institu
tions on the rest of the world. It is a
war of conquest which she has started, a
war disregarding the rights of other na
tions, a war in the prosecution of which
she has broken her sworn word and vio
lated all the principles of honor among
nations, in the belief that tho German
race is destined through the process of
evolution to bo the dominant race and
that other races arc to exist merely as
German vassals.
The ' differences in the purposes and
motives behind this war and our Civil
War are radical, and they must tinge
and color all our thinking on the sub
ject. Whether one agreed with tho
South or not one could lcspect its pur
poses. They were honest and worthy of
civilized men. The German motives arc
those of a savage tribe which, by rapine
and murder, massacre and pillage, seeks to
destroy the tribes which occupy the lands
that it covets.
Only one course is open to the nations
arrayed against Germany and her sub
servient vassals, and that is to fight them
on the field till they are defeated. This
is the task on which we are now en
gaged, and in which we shall continue
until it is accomplished. No attempt
to divert us by peace propaganda in
tended to weaken our arm and divert
our minds from the great task will lie
permitted to succeed.
When Germany is defeated will be time
enough to consider how she is to be
treated. And, if we mistake not, the
treatment which she receives will depend
unon her mental attitude not the mental
attitude of the Hohenzollerns" and the mil
itary party, but on the attitude of the
German race as a whole.
It is conceivable that the Germans may
admit that their purposes were indefen
sible and that the war which they started
had no justification whatsoever, and that
they may admit the right of other na
tions to life and independence free from
the danger of aggression by ambitious
Powers. This would mean that she has
repented and is in a mood to do works
meet for the repentant. In such a case
the world will be magnanimous.
But if a defeated Germany is sullen
and unrepentant, magnanimity would de
feat its own purposes. It would strengthen
the military party in its belief in force,
and that party would immediately begin
to prepare for another war for dominion.
There is not the slightest doubt of this.
Until we know the state of mind of the
German people it is useless to spend time
discussing seriously what we are to do
with Germany after the peace treaties
have been signed. The terms of peace, of
course, will be those which America and
the Entente Allies shall dictate. And
they will be framed for the protection of
the small and the big nations alike
against a German menace. Whether
Germany is to be admitted into a league
of nations will depend upon whether her
purposes agree with those of the league.
At the present moment they do not agree,
and until Germany has repented they
cannot agree. And no negotiation, secret
or public, at this time can make them
agree.
The executions in Petrograd show that
the Bolshevlki do not value Russian life any
more than the Kaiser valued the lives of his
Germans.
THE KAISER'S NEXT MOVE
T)LAINLY one of the purposes of the
- flerman peace noto was a sharp divi
sion of polltjcal and group opinion in the
Allied countries. This, indeed, i-eems to
have been the central motive of the Vi
enna proclamation. Senator Lodge's quick
approval. In tho name of his party, of the
President's brusque and uncompromising
retort is, therefore, the more timely and
appropriate.
If the Germans can think at all It must
be manifest to them by thfp time that the
force opposed to them Is'not founded In
tho theories or Ideals of any individual or
class or group, but rests on the very foun
datlons of civilized opinion. 'Senator
Lodge spoke yesterday for all elements
In the Republican party and made It clearly
evident that the President will have the
fullest support of such political adver
saries as might be expected. In a pinch,
to take advantage of shifting conditions
at Washington for their own benefit.
It is altogether Improbable, too, that
there will he in Kngland any such division
of political opinion as the Austrian Em
peror's note was designed to bring about.
Fortunately for the British, they know
the Hun. Yet the smoke of the Vienna
peace bomb will hang in the air for days
to come. There will be echoes and re'ycr-"
biratlbns-lBa
a new bombardment may be expected
within a short time,
Tho licxt move may he even more daring
than the first. It would surprise no one
if the Germans counter President Wilson's
robuff with n more or less frank proffer
of Alsace-Lorraine to Krnnce. The grow
ing desperation ot Germany's internal con
dition would make such a plan appear
altogether logical. This approach to
Franco and the reiterated suggestions of
"floods of kindness" suggestions which
cannot help but have a powerful appeal
tn nations sick of blood and bitterness
will sooner or later appear as the trump
card of German militarism, slapped on the
table In a wild effort for salvation nt the
end of the appalling game that has led
the German peoples to shnne, ruin and
death In that hour, and not before that,
the war for free government will reach
Its crisis.
Whit will France do? FTow will France
withstand tho temptation? No one who
knows the heart of Franco nny doubt for
a moment. The French will fight on. They
will he told that they may take tho lost
provinces undespollod and that they may
have Alsace-Lorraine as they are now
green and undented nnd not laid waste as
they would be were they to be nkon by
tho slow and cnlly process of military
conquest and occupation.
When that offer Is made as It Is sure to
he before ery long -the spirit of the
I'lonrh people will be put tn a test as
great as any it has met since the war
began. Hut France Ins fought for civ
ilization from tho first. And so she will
light to the end.
Stefansson. of whom
Ifn, Mrfnrnnn. m spnko yesterday,
r'm llrre, QuIrK! touching the matter
f blonrto. Is said tn
have discoverer! In the Arctic an Island as big
as Ireland. Rut what Is ,'l-e in this world?
Will Ktefansson's Island lie as full of fun
and trouble, f Bnry and beauty and con
trariness as Ireland? Are there fairies there?
Are tho people clevei as the Irish In realiz
ing the live great ends of mankind, which are
fighting, making lme. telling stories, singing
songs and bidding defiance? Stefanshnn Is
silent nn these points So It Is useless to
Indulge vain lmpis '
A heavy income tax is
.sU .somellilnR to he levied not only
,:n-' "n the President's
salary, but on the sal
aries of the .lodges in (he t'nlled states
Supreme Court The constitutionality of this
procedure is doubted Vow, what is to hap
pen If a Judge nf the Supreme Court should
really wish to enter a suit and fare the
necessity of making a decision In his own
case? I
The Kaiser 1" said to be nervous and 111.
He showed the premonitory symptoms when
he was talking tn the workers at Krupps' last
week.
A reign nf terrnr N in progress In
Petrograd which makes the famous reign
of the French Revolution seem like a little
show er.
An Item of $17R.noo,noii for air service
Is included In the ne army appropriation
bill Let's hope that we shall get the worth
of our money this time
When a man orders a meal nowadays
without carefully scrutinizing the process nn
the menu card you can set him down for a
millionaire and a reckless one at that.
If Judge Rnnnivvell plans to organize
his new party nut of the Democratic dul
lamftes he will find plenty nf men disgruntled
at thp disposition of patronage here.
As it is unofficially reported that the
fourth Llheitv Lnan (piota for this district
will be half a billion dollars, those who plan
to KUbsciilio would better begin to dig deep
in their hoarding places for the coin.
The saloonkeepers are now saying that
they will not close at midnight unless the
hotel proprietors will also close their bars at
the same hour. Hut the hotel men say t!u
one might as well ask a man to agree not to
take a drink In his own home after mid
night. Who'll umpire the dispute?
NOTES A1SD QUERIES
(Willi Apologies to Lewis Carroll!
44"7"Or were once, I'ncle Samuel," Herr
-- rsurlan said. .,j Sl,
"Inclined more for peace than for light;
Yet now you send troops in an endless
parade
Do you call that consistent or right?"
"In the past." Uncle Samuel replied to the
Hun,
"I tried to appeal to your brain;
But now that I'm perfectly sure you have
none.
My doctrine is physical pain."
"You were once, Uncle Samuel," Herr
Burian moaned,
"Not armed or 'equipped for a fray:
Yet you hash up a salient cleverly honed
Now what is tho reason, I pray?"
"In the past," said tho sage as he bran
dished his gun,
"I kept myself fit as to muscle ..
By training with freedom unknown to
the Hun;
That's how I have taught him to hustle."
"You ere once," quoth Herr Burian,
"ploddingly nice
In digesting erch note and its meaning;
Yet now you dispose of my. screed in a
trice
On what, may I ask, are you leaning?"
"T'other day," thur.dered ' Samuel, "I
. girded each loin
And arraytd all my legions for strife;
And my bellicose strength and unlimited
coin
Will last r j the rest of your life."
"You were once," said the Mouthpiece,
"inclined to contend, ...
That I differed perhaps from a German;
Then why can I no longer call you my
friend,
And why are you wise to all vermin?"
"I'm
weary of
babpje," said Samuel.
"Enough!
Be off with your fogs and your hazes;
My answer "Is that I'iptend.'tQpo rough''
(AiidUkiek'.yau toff VM??'lfe,t'nJ '.-
THE GOWNSMAN
The English nnd Some Other Tongues
ARKCFNT number of Lo Matin, the
popular Paris dally, contains to the
left and the right of the title two panels. In
the first Is a small map of the two hem
ispheres and entitled "Tho English Language
In the World," those parts In which that
language rules being duly designated, with
the legend, "200.000,000 speak English." The
Panel to the right reads "Learn English,"
bracketed with "I must, I can, I will," each
word accompanied with tho corresponding
French and the French Indication of our
English pronunciation. These latter are to
us amusing: "A I meustt, AI cann, Al oOlll";
but they perform their function. The last
page nf the same paper displays the Amer
ican national hymn, "La I3annl?re Etollfe,"
the words and the music, accompanied by a
translation Into French and nn Interlinear
Indication of our pronunciation:
"O, s(. cann lou st, bal ze donnz curie
lAItt?
Ilnuot sft praoudle out hMd att ze
touAHAItts lastt gllmlgn."
THE Gownsman Is not disposed to admit
that the Germans are often- 'lucid : but
occasional Germans are visited by lucid In
tervals. It was In one of these that a certain
eminent professor declared, "English Is
destined to be the universal language of the
world. German, French, Italian, all, must
hold a minor place " But this was long bo
fore the monstrous egg of this war was
hatched and In a moment when Kultur was
nodding at the helm of the Teutonic Zeppelin
of state. Jocularity aside, English Is not
only the birthright of more millions of the
human race than any other language, but It
Is likewise the second language of millions
more, not to the manner born. English has
long since succeeded the lingua franca In
the Near East, and, ns "Pigeon English," fol
lows the guinea nnd the dollar in tho trade
of the Pacific.
E
NGLIRH is possibly not the best Ian-'
guag" In tho world though the Gowns
man devnutlv believes It to he very nearly
such It has not much nn the French, to put
It slangily; for what tongue can compete with
the proud slogan, "What Is not clear is not
French"? Rut English has an adaptability, a
resourcefulness and a power to adjust
Itself to emergencies unrivaled among -the
languages of men And the first reason for
this Is tho delightful Illogicality of English,
Its sweet unreasonableness, German Is logi
cal, severely logical, like the people who
speak It. Professor Tuppcr, In a recent
sensible paper on "The Awful German
Language,'' recalls Mark Twain's bon mot
that he would rather decline, two drinks than
one German veih.
STILL another delightful quality of the
English language is Its lawlessness. Sir
Philip Sidney. Inng ago, called English "the
grammnrless tongue"; and never a Lindley
Murray of Ihem all has ever been able to
make It anything else. The men who know
Latin and Greek grammar have been trying
for generations to construct a grammatical
cabinet In which to pigeonhole the English
language, nut most of the boxes are. empty
and the rest are stuffed to overflowing with
exceptions. Ynu cannot box nnd coffin the
English language as If it were dead. Sir
Walter Raleigh our admirable contemporary
professor at Oxford, not the Elizabethan
benefactor of tho human race who discovered
tobacco our Sir Walter has very recently
commented on the freedom of English as il
lustrating the distinctive quality of a free
lace. U notes that It Is this freedom that
brings to English Its wealth and that while
in most tongues there Is a word for a thing,
nr twn; a way of saying something, or per
haps two ways, in English we commonly have
at least three words and Innumerable ways
nf putting things; and if we do not like old
words and old ways, we make new ones in
stanter, nr less learnedly, off the bat.
TO QUOTE a happy passage of Sir Walter's
in illustration: "We can say most things
In three ways, according as we draw on one
or another of the three main sources of our
speech that is the original English, the old
Norman French, the Latin and Greekl. Thus
you can Begin, or Commence, or Initiate an
undertaking, lth Boldness, o Courage, or
Resolution. If you are a Wonman, or
Laborer, or Operative, you can Ask, or Re
quest, or Solicit your employer to Yield, or
Grant, or Concede an increase In the Earn
ings, or Wages, nr Rmuneration which fall
to the lot nf J-nur Fellow, nr Cnmpanlnn, or
Associate. Your employer Is perhaps Old, or
Veteran, or Superannuated, which may
Hinder, or Delay, or Retard the success of
your application."
THIS Is only an Illustration of our wealth
In common ocabulary. We are ns rich
In the making nf the new meanings and In
the new minting nf slang Almost the oldest
trick of the speech of our remote ancestors
was Its power to make compounds. And we
retain it today. A certain official fell Into
trouble lately hooause of a "food-hoard." It
sounds like Anglo-Saxon, which it' Is. 'We
can still talk of "joy-rdes." and the "fool
killer" Is still with us. Rut we do not say,
"horse-lron-rall-road-vvagon-company," ns
they do In Germany, because we are not
logical. An amlahlo instructor In French
once rushed into the Gownsman's room
excitedly. "I haf one kest-l-on to ask. Can
ve say in lngllsh. 'grow less'?" "And why
not?" "But 'to grow' is to become greater.
Ve. can not become greater by becoming less,
and ve can not become less by becoiplng
greater. It would he impossible in French,"
But not in English, where we have no Acad
emy to declare correct usage, and can
therefore grow and shod .our old shell, like
a crab, every generatlnn nr twn.
IT IS fun to start a precisian appealing to
the authority of good usage In our mother
tongue. Any one can muddle him vvlth his
own analogies In ten minutes. The appeal
to authority, too, in matters of speech is
often a veritahle boomerang. We are law
less speakers by birthright and only school
ma'ams should he circumspect and fastidious
of the proprieties Shakespeare' was a fine
old reprobate in the use of language, vindi
cating once and for all the liberty of the
tongue. He Is as innocent of the dainty
"correct" use of "will" and "shall" as an
Irishman. He delights, like the old anarchist
that he Is, In disagreements between his royal
verbs and their subjects. And when you
correct your son, dear reader, for Baying
"those kind of fellers," he may retort, with
the logic of a gramnrarlan, "Shakespeare
says "those kind."
THE best English Is that spoken by cul
tivated men and women In active con
verse with the world. Not that spoken by
the learned In the laboratory, or by the col
legian in the schools propriety forbid not
by any means by the man in the street, even
less by the girl In the shop, whose .largon A
might as well De singaiese. But an of these
are helping make the language, shoving It
along, so to speak, elbowing It Into queer
places, if you like. But If you are formulat
ing your rules of speech at leisure, they will
fall out ef date before they are ready and
the Idiom under your microscope will sud
denly have taken wings. By the time that
you have fixed on what you ought not to
say your own tongue will refute ynu. When
you have determined precisely what your
neighbor ought to Bay, or what he should be
forbidden to say, you will become a gram
marian or a German.
AS TO slang, It is the one certain evidence
. that a language Is still alive; for slang
Is the language of the people In the process
of making.' Moreover, a picturesque slang
Is a safeguard against profanity, which
peace to the clergy is little more than Inar
ticulate Bpeech seeking utteranco in explosion.
Mechanical ingenuity has timed and regulat
ed explosion Into a powerful motive force.
Let all grammarians, logicians and sufferers.
under foreign teachings know that English
Is not a degenerate offshoot of, the old .Teu
tonic stock, "a base dialect gabbled by plrater
In their depredations on the high sea's," as
one of our enemies politely put it. English
Is the free, masterful, adaptable speech of a
free, masterful and adaptable- people which
Im rfABtlnAil tn rtlln fh urnrM ,a' Ka,u
they ar,nHis9Huror;,but heeauutlwyt
DR. JOHNSON'S BIRTHDAY
By Christopher Morley
IT IS very .annoying to hear Karl' Rosner
referred to- as "the Kaiser's Boswell.','
For to boswelltze ("which is a' verb that has
gone Into our dictionaries) means not merely
to transcribe faithfully the act? and moods
and Import of a man's life ; It Implies also
that the man so delineated be a good man
and a great. Horace Tradbel may perhaps
be a Boswell ; but Rosner, never. ,
TODAY Is Doctor Johnson's birthday (ho
was born September IS, 1709), nnd a mod
est memorandum tn that effect requires no
apology. The Great Cham needs no cham
pion ; his Speech and person have become
part of the Anglo-Saxon heritage. The ex
traordinary book In which Boswell filmed him
for us has attained that curloUB estate of
great literature the characteristic of which
is that every man imagines he has read it,
though ho may never have opened Its pages.
It i3 Ilk Niagara Falls: we may not have
sen it, but we have a very fair mental pic
ture of the phenomena. We all wear hats,
though few of us have visited a hat factory.
We all us Doctor Johnson's pithy and sono
rous phrases, though we may not know where
they were minted.
But we will never cease to pray that every
honest mnn should study Baavvcll. There are
many who have topped, the rise of hiimMi
felicity In that book: when reading It they
feel the tide of Intellect brim the mind with
a unique fullness of 'satisfaction. It Is not
a mere commentary en life: 1t In life It fills
and floods every channel of the brain. It Is
a book that men make a hobby of, as of goir
or gambling. To know it is a liberal educa
tion. I could understand Germany making
war on England in order to annex Bosvvell's
Johnson. There would be some sense In that.
WHAT Is the average man's conception of
D'octor Johnson? We think of a huge,
ungainly' person, slovenly of dress, addicted
to tea; the author of a dictionary nnd the
center of a-tavern coterie. We think of him as
prefacing blu.ff and .vehement remarks with
"Sir" and as having a knack for demolishing
opponents in' argument. All of which Is pass
ably true, just aB Is our picture of the Niag
ara that we havf never visited ; but how It
mlss'es the inner tenderness and tormented
virtue of the man!
I knew no better way of celebrating Doctor
Johnson's birthday than by quoting a few
passages from hk "Prayers and Meditations,"
jotted down during his life in small notebooks-and
given shortly before his death to a
friend No one understands the dear old
doctor unless he. remembers that his spirit
was greatly perplexed t and harassed by sad
and disordered broodlngs. The bodily twltch
Ings and odd gestures vvhl'ch attracted so
much'Bttentlon as he rolled about the streets
were symptoms of painful twltclilngs and
gestures within. A great part of his Intense
delight in convivial gatherings, In conversa
tion nnd 'the dinner table, was due to his
eagerness to be taken out of himself, One
fears that his solitary hours were very often
tragic.
THERE were certain dates which Doctor
Johnsoq almost always commemorated In
his' private notebook his birthday, the date
of his wife's death, the Easter season and
N6w Year's. In these pathetic little entries
one Bees the spirit that was dogmatic and
proud among men abasing itself in humility
and pouring out the generous tenderness of
an affectionate nature. In these moments of
contrition small peccadilloes took orl tragic
Importance In his mind. Rising late in the
morning and the untidy state ef his papers
seemed, unforgivable sins. There is hardly
any more moving picture In the history of
mankind than that of the rugged old'doctor
pouring out his Innocent petitions for greater
strength In ordering his life and bewailing
his. faults of sluggishness, Indulgence , at
table and disorderly thoughts. Let us begin
with his entry on September 18l 1760, his
fifty-second birthday:
RESOLVED, D. J. (God aiding)
To combat notions of obligation.
To apply to study, t
To reclaim1 Imaginations.
To consult the resolves on Tett.y's .(his
wife's) coffin.
To rise eafly.
To Btudy religion.
To .go to. church. j
To drink less strong liquors.. ,
To tteen a'lournal.1 ' ' r.
, :l:Tn nanVlMlnW'bv'i'o'rBV-'toUjLfiu
mjm&iirvifflw
"I SO SOON YET VAS DONE FOR,
t vnivnpn vvr t vac nrriTiw irnut" '
Send for books for history cf war.
Put books In order.
Scheme of life. .
THE very human feature of these little
notes is that the same good resolutions
appear year after year. Thus, four years
after the above, we find him writing:
Sept. 18, 1764.
This Is my 66th birthday, the day on
which I have concluded 55 years.
I have outlived many friends. I have
felt many sorrows. I have made few im
provements. Since my resolution formed
last Easter, I have nrade no advancement
in knowledge or- In goodness; nor do I rec
ollect that I have endeavored it. I am de
jected, hut not hopeless.
I resolve.
To study the Scriptures', I hope, In the
original languages. 640 verses every Sun
day will nearly comprise the Scriptures In
a year.
To read good books : to study theology.
To treasure In my mind passages for rec
ollection. To rise early ; not later than six, if I
cap ;. I hope sooner, hut as seon as I can.
To keep a journal, both of employment
and of expenses.- To keep accounts.
To take care of my health by such
means as I have designed.
To set dortn St hight some plan for the
morrow
Tomorrow I purpose to regulate my
room.
AT EASTER, 1765, he confesses sadly that
il he often lies abed until two In the after
noon ; which, nfter all, was not so deplorable,
for he usually went to bed very late. Bos
well has spoken of "the unseasonable hour,
at which he had habituated himself to expect
the oblivion of repose." On New Year's Day,
1767, he prays: "Enable me, O Lord, to use
all enjoyments with due temperance, pre
serve me- from unseasonable and Immoderate
sleep." Two years later than this he writes:
I am not yet In a state to form many
resolutions ; I purpose and hope to rise
early in the morning, at eight, and by de
grees at six; eight being the latest hour
to which bedtime can be properly ex
tended ; and six the earliest that the pres
ent system of life requires.
One of the most pathetic of his entries Is
the following, on September 18, 1768:
This day It came Into my mind to write
the history Of my melancholy. On this I
purpose to deliberate ; I know not whether
it may not too much disturb me.
FROM time to time there have been stupid
or malicious people who have said that
Johnson's marriage with a homely woman
twenty years older than himself was not a
love match. For Instance, Mr. I-:. W. Howe,
cf Atchison, Kan., In most respects an amia
ble and well-conducted philosopher, uttered
In Howe's Monthly last May the following
words, which (I hope) he will forever regret:
I have heard that when a young man he
(Johnson) married an ugly and vulgar old
woman for her money, and that his taste
was bo bad that he worshiped her.
Against this let us set what Johnson wrote
In his notebook on March 28, 1770:
This Is the day on which, In 1752, I was
deprived of poor dear Tetty. When I rec
ollect the time In which we lived together,
my grief for her departure Is not abated;'
and I have less pleasure In any good that
befalls me, because she does not partake
It.. On many occasions, I think what she
wo'uld have said or done. When I saw the
sea at Brlghthejmstone, I wished for her
to have seen. It with me. But with respect
to her, no rational wish Is now left but
that w.e may meet at last where the mercy
of God shall make us happy, and perhaps
make us Instrumental to the happiness' of
each oth,er. It js now 18 years.
LET us end the memorandum with a less
i solemn note. On Good Friday, 1779, ho
and Boswell went to church together. When
they returned the good old doctor sat down
to radthfl Bible, and he says, "I gnve Bos
well Les I'ensees de Pascal, that 'he might
not Interrupt me." Of this very copy Bos
well says: "I preserve the book with rever
ence.' I wonder' who has It' now?
, ,So let us wish DBctbrPhnaorf many happy
iCSMP - nc paawga.W, as,;iong; asr
a;nin.Mjwa
.- .tax
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
What France Has Done for Morocco
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:.
Sir The marvelous achievements of -France
In Morocco since Its occupation in
1912 are of great Importance, as a uselesal
country has become one of value to the
world. Its great tracts of cultivable land are
admirably adapted to the raising of wheat
and other grains, so that It will probably ,
become one of the great sources of the "
world's food supply. The facts here pre- '
sented are taken from an address to the
Royal Geographical Socnty and published. In.
the Geographical Journal for August, by one
who for thirty years has been British con-f
sul at Fez J. M. MacLeod. He tells us
that tribal warfare prevailed over nearly
the whole country In 1012, but that now
there Is a Just government, administered' In
the interests of all the people. Camel tracks
were then the only ways of communication.
Now there are 500 miles of macadamized
roads, 511 miles of railway and 100 In course
of construction, and 2,138 miles of telegraph
lines! There were virtually no ports six
years ago and Casablanca was a squalid
Mrjrlsh town of 10,0nn Inhabitants. Now
there are a number of rrts furnished with
quays, stores and sanitary services, while
Casablanca has grown Into a well-equipped
European town nf 82,50n inhabitants. Every
disease then had its way unchallenged. In
1916 there had been established sixty-eight
hospitals and dispensaries and about one in
every four of the Inhabitants had medical
treatment, nnd there is every evidence that
In a generation tho population will have.
Increased threefold. Especial attention has,
been paid to educational privileges. The'
thirty-seven schools of six years ago have
Increased to 180, Including a Franco-Arab
college at Fez. Agricultural, horticultural, 4
arborlcultural, veterinary and meteorological
services have been established and annual s
agricultural nnd cattle shows have been
Instituted. All these are already provii
Ing of the greatest value In Improving then
methods whereon the chief wealth of the.
country depends. The municipal nursery
gardens established at all the principal towns
do excellent work in inculcating proper
methods of fruit and vegetable growing, while
the veterinary service gives active assistance
In teaching better methods nf stock raising,
Morocco today, thanks to France, is no more
an African, but a European country, with
the same economic laws and almost the same
method of life. J. M. H.
Bread Loaf, Vt, September 16. , ,,
Hertling calls for no pew German .con
quests, and for once he will be heeded by'
all civilization.'
The registration yesterday was light.
Can it be that two trips to the polling places
In one week represent a task too heavy for 1
the average man? '
What Do You Know?
QUIZ ' J
1. Of what former French prorlnee, ronanerrd 1
bj- Germany in 1870, I4 Ktraasburg the
capital?
z, What la a tomortro ana wnat aoee toe word . '.iijl
mean? "f ,MI
3, What l a aansarM? t y$
a, wnni is an iraoer - 'aI
5. When did William ' the Conqueror Inrada ) -!
Eniland? ' j M
6. What la the capital of Idaho? j . i --
7. What la n fusue? , '&
8. How ili'i (lermany'a lirlrmhlld line get Ita Avi
name? - CI(!j
0. What la a camelonard? .$
10, What daa In the sear are eqnahV divided , ' 'fl
a a to direct aunllglit are! Ita abaence? I ' ,
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz - ' "W
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dullx newarmper published or the American i J
troopa In France, v , .-, V;S
3, Coluiubua I)ajr falla on October 12. '. ,
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nterv or nrin r,flw"ei m muir eoniiaiinr" -wjviji
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5, Waohlnston Irving- aometlmra wrote under t ha -;-v 'I
name of (leoffrey Crayon. , -, , t V? I
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7. A llcli-cate la .a roofed gateway of a church- ,
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