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EXPLANATIONS CANT TAKE THE
PLACE OF COAL
fpHE moderation In the temperature does
not lessen the gravity of the coal situa
tion. No amount of explanation can fill
empty coal yards and empty cellars north
of Market street.
And It will be cold again soon and e.irh
subsequent rise In temperature will lie fol
lowed bj a fall to a still lower degree.
What the people want Is coal, and not
explanations.
Household version:
bin, that Is the question
To bin or not to
DOES HE YET?
MAYOR SMITH, discussing the wKdom
of appointing men to office who had
not had the experience necessary to qual
ify them for their work, cited himself us
an example.
"Here am I, Mayor of Philadelphia." he
aid with a complacent smile, "and before
I got It I never knew anything about the
Job!"
What evidence does he possess leading
him to believe that his status has been
cmtnged by time service In the Job? He
has got to prove It to the taxpayers.
Dispatches indicate that Turkey will be
thoroughly done by Christmas.
POLITICIANS AND WAR EFFICIENCY
"1TTHO was not solemnly thrilled to hear
' that the Democratic candidates in
Pennsylvania will cease spellbinding for
the duration of the Liberty Loan drive In
order not to Impede that great work?
Let us now reverently hope that every
, grasshopper in the autumnal fields will be
equally considerate and refrain from hop
Sing "on the railroad tracks In order that
"'"''the busy current of war shipping may not
be Interrupted and that the locomotives
may have right of way with' the steel and
the concrete and the troops necessary to
the complete annihilation of "the Hun.
There Is every hope that the Allied grip
will spread to the proportions of an epidemic.
NO USE FOR THOSE HE CAN'T "FIX"?
4T HAVE known a lot of newspaper
men," said the Mayor to Rabbi Berko
wltz, "and I have not much use for them.
Two or three of them have been friendly
to me and I have fixed two."
The first sentence Is a high tribute to
the Integrity of the newspaper reporters.
Pity 'tis that the Mayor should have
found even three he felt deserving of re
ward at his hands.
In sound at least the watchword to coal
dealers and doughboys Is Identical: "Chute."
MICAWBER IS STILL WAITING
WHILE there Is little resentment mani
fested at the severe criticisms of Phil
adelphia made by Peter O. Knight, vice
president of the American International
Corporation, the business organizations of
the city are apparently glad to welcome his
assistance In developing the foreign trade
of the port.
The Board of Trade, the Bourse and the
Chamber of Commerce have all expressed
their appreciation of the value of the great
terminal at Hog Island. The president of
the Board of Trade has called upon Mr.
Knight to show his faith by his works.
The American International Corporation
controls the W. R. Grace & Co. steamship
lines, the Mercantile Marine Company's
lines, as well as other steamships owned
by other companies. Let Mr. Knight bring
some of these vessels to Philadelphia, says
Mr. Coates, and then we shall have proof
that he means what he says.
This Is all very well so far as It goes,
but the Philadelphia business men should
recall that the great port of Hamburg) in
'Germany was built up largely through the
efforts of the Hamburg business men and
that half of the stock of the Hamburg
American Line Is owned by Hamburg mer
chants and bankers. We must take the
initiative ourselves If we expect to grow.
'and not wait like MIcawber for something
to turn up not even lor -ir. lvnignt.
Terse but true: bond or bondage.
THOSE VANISHED U-BOATS
TTTST at present It would seem that any
st one with a zeal for self-advertising
.-j might offer a highly substantial reward for
-r"th6 discovery Ol u. uenumi nuuiuuriue oil
byt'the American coast and put up his purse
Li 'With an excellent prospect of Its being un-
Itapairca.
J Having failed to strike us with terror
it fern their arrival, the Bea wolves have
& LvJ1ii uA kiienelstnilv ltttlA r-nmmant from
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,im on their apparent departure.
''jjIb ' retrospect, the- whole U-boat cam-
algn off our shores seems one of futility.
ft tM come ana gone wiinout nnecung
sjjta least the course of the war. Should
W resumed for another spectacular ais-
r. It is. safe to prophesy that its results
fcti MtMHy remote irom me prooiems
awortance.
IS GERMANY GOING MAD?
Von Hertling's Address to the Reichstag Is
Like a Plea to the Mildly Insane
"FFICIAL Germany has spoken again
through the Chancellor, von Hert
ling, for the ears of a world that has
waited vainly during four years for a
sign or a syllable adequate to prove that
the Berlin Government is not utterly
without conscience or decency. And
again, balanced uncertainly above the
tremors of earthquake, it has proved
merely tireless in falsehood and fanat
ically devoted to lies and fraud, pretenso
and misrepresentation, as means of
eleventh-hour salvation.
If the German Reichstag were an
asylum for the mildly insane, the speech
which the Chancellor has just delivered
to its members would have been appro
priate enough. As n culminating appeal
to a doomed and drifting nation the ad
dress is tragic and piteously futile.
The Reichstag is representative of such
free public opinion as is permitted to
exist in Germany. Its main.committee has
just met to consider the red menace that
is closing in on the people. It had reason
to expect some manifestation of logic by
the Government. It was as surly, but
as necessarily docile, as the overalled
workers at Krupps, bcfoie whom the
Kaiser acted the part of a monumental
ass a few weeks ago. The dust of the
approaching whirlwind was in its nos
trils when von Hertling arose to answer
the indictment and the menace of a world
in arms.
And what the Reichstag listened to
were the prolonged, doddering inanities
of a corrupt und tired old man, inter
mingled with malevolent propaganda of
the familiar high-angle sort intended not
for the cars of Germany at all, but for
iio faint-hearted in the Allied countries.
Of the war, of victories, submarines
and the general outlook, von Hertling
lied like an old-fashioned cab driver from
the beginning of his speech to the end,
"Die on!" he said in effect to Germany,
"rather than be crushed tinder the heels
of the tyrant Wilson!"
The Chancellor began with the plain
tive assertion that "his acquiescence in
the four points laid down by President
Wilson as peace essentials had met with
no attention from the American Execu
tive." Here he depended obviously on
the short memory of a hurried and ab
stracted world.
Von Hertling said in January that he
favored the President's terms "in prin
ciple." He ivas explicitly answered by Mr, Wil
son. The President had up to that time not
lost all hope of an adjustment, based
upon the repudiation of Germany by Aus
tria. He appears to have given von
Hertling the most careful sort of consid
eration. On February 11 the President
answered the German Chancellor at
length in an address to Congress. He
said:
Count on Hertling's reply Is. I must
say. -very ague and confuting. It Is full
of pquhocal phrases, and leads It is tiot
clear where. ... It confirms, I am
sorry to say, rather than remoes the un
fortunate Impression made by what we had
learned of the conferences at Brest-Lltovsk.
His discussion and acceptance of our gen
eral principles lead him to no general con
clusions. He refuses to apply them . . .
He would without reserve ho glad to Fe
economic barriers removed between nation
and nation, for that cnuld in no way
Impede the ambitions of tho military party
with whom ho seems constrained to keep
on terms.
In the course of his address the Presi
dent reviewed the conditions necessary to
peace and the details of von Hertling's
pronouncement and showed that they did
not run parallel at any point, and clearly
revealed the Chancellor as a word juggler
with a double purpose.
Detail by detail, von Hertling now
Teverts to his old address and plaintively
asserts that he was not answered. What
hypocrisy! He talked of the "age-old
sorrows of Ireland," but said nothing of
the sorrows of Belgium and France. He
babbled of the freedom of the seas, but
said nothing of the freedom of Russia.
Arbitration is a principle dear to the
heart of the Chancellor now after dis
ease germs and poison gas, flame throwers
and submarines and Zeppelins and
general slaughter have failed.
The voice in the Reichstag wae a voice
from the grave, in which the world has
already buried the old order of corrupt
diplomacy. The processes of arbitration
which he suggested to the Reichstag are
the processes that would have been
seized upon a few years ago by crooks in
frock coats and medals, who composed
the school of secret diplomacy which al
ways has directed the careers of pirate
nations. But they are no longer tolerable
to the civilized world.
Von Hertling and his Kaiser do not
yet know this. They live in the past.
The Chancellor's reference to the "pure
ambitions of 1914" in his latest address
would make it appear that the unfortu
nate old man is actually touched with
madness.
Meanwhile, in England and Ireland, in
France and in Italy, in the United States,
in every quarter of the world where white
men are assembled in communities, the
records of loans, of enlistments, of war
service of every sort make it plain that
the propaganda which officials like von
Hertling keep up night and day is utterly
futile. Even the radical pacifists of Eng
land have risen at last and pledged them
selves to war upon the German horror.
For this the German people who are
asked to "die on" have to thank corrupt
and half-mad leaders, whose mental and
spiritual decadence was nicely illustrated
in the Chancellor's speech.
TUMULTY'S FINGERS BURNED AGAIN
THE effort of Mr. Tumulty, Secretary
to the President, to divert enough votes
from Governor Edge to bring about the
nomination of George L. Record for the
senatorshlp by the rmbllcans and the
consequent election of George W. Lamonte,
tho Democratic candidate, has como to
naught.
Mr. Tumulty wrote on White House sta
tionery that tho President had 'asked him
lo say that Congressman Gray, who Bought
tho senatorshlp, "has always been a loyal
supporter of the Administration," and ho
concluded the letter by remarking that
"we nil have a high opinion of him."
Governor Edge has been nominated by a
vote of about five times as largo as that
polled for the other candidates. This Is a
triumph for tho Governor and Incidentally
a slap direct at Mr. Tumulty, who has am
bitions to bo a. political power In New
Jersey.
As the electors are voting as usual this
year, It Is morally certain that Edge will
go to Washington. When he ran for the
governorship In 1916 ho was elected by a
plurality of 69,000 and Mr. Wilson lost
tho State by 57,000 votes nnd Senator Fre
llnghuyscn was elected by 74,000.
Mr. Lamonte, the hand-picked Demo
cratic candidate, Is no stronger than Pres
ident Wilson, nnd If Wilson could not
carry New Jersey In 1916 Lamonte cannot
carry It in 1918
HUNS WHO KNEW IT ALL
I
T IS conceivable that the present dis
comfiture of Turkey nnd Bulgaria Is
not untlnged with a certain furtive glee.
Delight In tho humiliation of a mnrtlnet
schoolmaster has been a universal humanj
emotion Hlnce cao men nsslgned the first
lessons to unwilling pupils. The world
knows, with Dryden, that "men are but
children of a larger growth," and the
civilized portions of It can hardly refrain
from speculating on the possible feeling of
defeated pupil armies whoso teachers have
been discredited In wholesale fashion.
Von Sanders, Schultz and Steinben com
pose that refuted staff. The first of the
trio alighted at the terminus of tho Berlin
Constantinople "extra-fnre" express some
months ngo nnd proceeded at once to In
struct the Sultan's armies In German
military methods. The fulminating von
dcr Goltz he wl had proclaimed the lm
mlnent Invasion of Egypt had preceded
him.
Von Sanders was to have turned the
trick, first with victory in Palestine and
then with n drive toward Suez. The last
report of this poose-stepplng master, cor
dially hated, it is said, by nil his Ottoman
pupils, depleted him In a cloud of Syrian'
dust, skedaddling out of Nazareth, just six
hours before General Allenby's arrival.
Generals Schultz and Steinben came
down to Sofia and lorded It over the Bul
garian army that same force now crum
bling under Allied pressure. Turks nnd
Bulgars, after their own fashion, nre stal
wart fighters. The Hun decided thnt they
needed bullying leaders. It Is well known
that their mode of Instruction was charac
teristically tyrannical. It has been proved
futile.
Their pupils of the near East would not
be human beings did they repress, even In
their plight, a quiver of sardonic satisfac
tion over tho spoctnele of three "smarty"
teachers who failed eveifmore strikingly
than their classes and ran for dear life.
Upsetting the calendar
Krery Day in order to lick Ger-
for Liberty many is entirely In
order. And that's one
of the reasons why we applaud the efforts
of the loan managers to celebrate the
"Glorious Fourth" In the autumn.
The possibility of tho
riling It On reenue bill making
the suffering patron of
a poor play pay out eighty cents tax for a
pair of seats at the theatre box office clamors
for classification under the head of cruel and
unnatural punishments.
Biding over to Cam
News From Abroad det on the Market
street ferry we noticed
that the steam heat Is on In the boat cabins,
which are unbearably hot. And yet lots of
homes In North Philadelphia have no coal !
Is It proper to wonder
Oh, Surely! whether the fire at
the Willard Hotel in
Washington warmed the feet of some of those
statesmen who were in a mood to "consider"
the Austrian peace offer?
Observers of the newer
Explained trends in music who
are puzzled to know
what has become of ragtime might be told
that tt became all the rage In Germany
when the army seized everybody's good
clothes.
Three persons were
killed in automobile
accidents In New York
Is New York In the
Referred to
Lansdowne?
on gasless Sunday.
United States?
The dealer who tells you that your
winter's coal has been "slated" for delivery
may mean well, but his choice of words
raises uncomfortable doubts on the quality
of that promised fuel.
The best way to substantiate on Hert
ling's contention that Germany Is in a "grave
situation" Is to sustain our deadly artillery
fire.
With the storehouses of Prllep cap
tured and those of Uskub menaced Serbia's
base acts may be Indorsed without a shade
of misgiving.
Maybe the local fuel administration ex
pects that Inhabitants of the coalless north
ern section of the city ar depending on the
fire of their own Indignation to keep them
warm.
Without the slightest 111 feeling toward
Texas, Pennsylvania is preparing ambitious
ly to become the loan star star State.
Suffrage will mean quite the reverse of
"Burt" rage If the Senate votes right today.
The speed of the war makes It nearly
time for Mr. Wells to begin on a Jubilant
sequel, "Mr. Brltlmg Saw It Through."
The somewhat unexciting primary In
New Jersey demonstrates how It Is possible
simultaneously to retain sober Judgment and
take an Edge on.
The prevailing Austrian shortage of but
ter may perhaps be due to her wasteful uie
of It on words which are quite tasteless
when the 'superficial grease has been scraped
off.
S-Z a-
RUBBER HEELS
The Ebb Tide
"The pure enthusiasm which characterized
August, 1914. could not last." Count Bert
lino to the Rcichstao. 0
THE pure enthusiasm
Of sweet 1914
Has lost Its punch and plasm, '
Has grown a trifle lean;
lAnd Gott no more delivers,
And war has lost its Jazz,
And Bill tho Bungler flivvers
And wonders what ho has.
THE turnips are uprooted. . '
The gooso Is out of step,
Tho Kultur Is diluted
And ebbs the erstwhile pep:
Old Hertling's busy packing
A poultice on his spine
O something must be cracking
In the wrlstwatch on the Rhine!
Little Beads
I
N A certain drug store
There Is a telephone booth
Thnt I will nover forget.
When T was engaged
I used to worship
At that booth.
And I chose it because it was
Soundproof nnd airtight.
I used to cnll Her up
Every evening on the way home
From the office.
At the close of the conversation
I used
To mop my brow.
DOVE DULCET.
The Borhc's Viewpoint
I'm sorry we went In
This town of St. Quentln
A poor town to tent In,
To lodge or to rent In,
And now to be pent In
A town with a dent In,
No coin to be spent In,
No armistice meant In,
No smellablo scent In,
But fire nnd death blent In
And battered and bent In
No chance to relent In
No fun to Invent In
No lady or gent In
No Council of Trent In
But Just to be shent In
St. Quentln!
September
With the dawn of September morning
Is born from out of the West
When summer has done with its swelter
And birds huve flown from the nest
The fairest of all of the seasons,
And wafts of sweet-scented breath,
The dawn of the beautiful autumn,
That some people say Is Death.
,
Ah! but when I consider Thy heavens
In the clear, cool dawn of fall,
And the hues of the fields and woodland,
There'R beauty and life In all;
In the sun of September mornings,
The sky with Its azure blue
And the pale-tinted clouds of twilight,
Till the fall of evening dew.
And the moon of September eenlngs.
Tho stars and the crystal nlr,
And the clouds with their sliver borJer
O God! I can see Thee there.
And Just overhead In the shadows
The van of the migrant train
Is moving ngain to the Southland,
In starlight, moonlight or rain.
Why, Autumn Is born in September,
The time to build castles In Spain
If only the end of October
Would bring September again!
RALPH nANKIN.
We wonder whether Hertling fooled him
self In that Reichstag speech? Certainly
he didn't gull any one else.
Hertling says that ho can look forward
calmly to the Judgment of posterity. So
can we all, because when posterity comes
around with the axe we won't be present
at the chopping block.
Admiral von Hlntze says Germany's
enemies are suffering from the intoxlcatlo i
of victory. Well, old lad, pretty soon that
will be the only intoxication permitted us.
Any one who wants to know what the
British navy has been doing In its off
hours might consult the finest free-verse
poem the papers have ever printed, to wit,
that list of kaputed U-boat captains. '
Officers of the German general staff are
worried about their coal supply for this
winter. They don't know where to have it
delivered. Better ship It somewhere east
of Berlin and be on the safe side. They
won't need much coal, any way, because
they'll be kept warm by hiking.
The Turks are feeling the pale In Tales
tine, and the Bulgars are yetting the mace
In Macedonia.
The French call this the Autumn of
Vengeance. And some of our coal dealers
Beem to feel the same way about It.
SOCRATES.
The War Department strongly hints that
autoless Sundays will be continued beyond
the original five weeks' schedule. Whatever
Inconveniences the extended order may lay
upon the pleasure seeker, it Is Bafe to say
that virtually the t-ntlre country will derive
a certain vicarious satisfaction from the
announcement. The pain of foregoing motor
rides has been nothing at all compared with
the pride of displaying the magnitude and
Intensity of a voluntary patriotism.
The Allies' complaints over the prevail
ing bad weather on the western front may
be asguaged with the reflection that the
sun will shine again for them while even
the bright days are dark for Germany.
The Turks still In Damascus are un
likely to get much further than the first
syllable of that expressive and venerable
word.
It Is happily undeniable that the dally
extension of Foch'a web around St. Quentln
Is a matter of net gains.
The continued advance of the Greeks
near Lake Dolran profanely suggests that
Hellas broke loose.
It would be nice of the fuel adminis
trator if he would eay whether he wishes
us to start the fire or risk Spanish Influenza.
The Kaiser, when he appeared on the
Lorraine front the other day, delivered
speeches in three languages and lied la
each i
TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morley
Walt Whitman Shrines
IT IS a weakness of mine not n sinful one,
I hope that whenever I see any one read
ing a book In public I nm agog to find out
what It Is. Crossing over to Camden this
morning a young woman on the ferry was ab
sorbed In a volume, and I couldn't resist
peeping over her shoulder. It was "Hans
Brlnker." On the same boat were several
schoolboys carrying copies of Myers' "His
tory of Greece." Quaint, isn't It, how our
schools keep up tho same old bunk ! What
earthly use will a smattering of Greek his
tory be to those boys? Surely to our citi
zens of the coming generation tho battles
of the Marne will be more Important than
the scuffle at Salamls.
1VT
Y ERRAND in Camden was to visit the
house on Mickle street where Walt
Whitman lived his last years. It ls4now oc
cupied by Mrs. Thomas Skymer, a friendly
Italian woman, and her family. Mrs. Skymer
graciously allowed me to go through tho
downstairs rooms.
I
DON'T suppose any literary Bhrlne on
garded aspect than Mickle street. It Is a
little cobbled byway, grimed with drifting
smoke from the railway jards, littered with
wind-blown papers and lined with small
wooden and brick houses sooted almost to
blackness. It Is curious to think, as one
walks along that bumpy brick pavement,
that many pilgrims from afar have looked
forward to visiting Mickle street as one of
the world's most significant altars. As Ches
terton wrote once, "Wo hae not yet begun
to get to tho beginning of Whitman." But
the wayfarer, of today will find Mickle street
far from Impressive.
The little house, a two-story frame cottage,
painted dark brown, Is numbeied 330. (In
Whitman's day It was 328.) On the pave
ment In front stands a white marble stepping
block with the carved initials W W.
given to the poet. I dare say, by the same
friends who bought him a horse and car
riage. A small sign, In English and Italian,
says Thomas A. Skymer, Automobiles to Hire
on Occasions. It was with something of a
thrill that I entered the little front pat lor
where Walt used to Bit, surrounded by his
litter of papers and holding forth to faithful
listeners. One may safely say that his was
a happy old age, for there were those whd
never jibbed at protracted audience.
A DESCRIPTION of that room as It was In
the last days of Whitman's life may not
be uninteresting. I quote from the 'article
published by the Philadelphia Press of March
- ann .1... .In., nf... tha nnpt'ft ,lenth'
Below the window-sill a four-Inch pine
shelf Is swung, on which rests a bottle nf
Ink, two or three pens and a much-rubbed
spectacle case.
(The shelf, I am sorry to say, Is no longer
there.)
The table between which and the wall
le the poet's rocker covered with a worsted
afghan, presented to him one Christmas by
a bevy of college girls who admired his
workis so thickly piled with hooka and
magazines, letters ana tne rame or a
literary desk that there is scarcely an Inch
of room upon which he may rest his paper
as he writes. A volume of Shakespeare
lies on top of a heaping full wastebasket
that was once used to bring peaches to
market, and an ancient copy of Worces
ter's Dictionary shares places in an adja
cent chair with the poet's old and familiar
soft gray hat, ai newly darned blue woolen
sock and e. shoe-blacking" brush. There Is
a paste bottle and brush on the table and
a pair of scissors, much used by the poet,
who writes, for the most part, on small
bits of paper and parts of old envelopes
and paBtes them together In patchwork
fashion.
In spite of a careful examination I could
find nothing In the parlor at all reminiscent
of Whitman's tenancy, except the hole for
the stovepipe under the mantel. One of Mrs.
Rltvmer'a small boys told me that "He" died
In that room. Evidently small Louis Skymer
didn't In the least know who "He" was, but
CRUMBLING
realized that h'o home was In some vague
way connected with a mysterious person
whose memory occasionally attracts inquirers
to tho house.
BEHIND the parlor is a dark little bedroom,
and then the kitchen. In a corner of
the backyard is a curious thing; a large
stone or terra cotta bust of a bearded man,
very much like Whitman himself, but the face
Is battered and tho noso broken so It would
be hard to asbert this definitely. One. of
the boys told me that It was In tho yard
when they moed In a year or so ago. The
house is a little dark, standing betwgen two
taller brick neighbors. At the head of the
stairs I noticed a window with colored panes,
which lets In spots of red, blue and yellow
light. I Imagine that this patch of vivid
color was a keen satisfaction to Walt's acute
senses. Such Is tho simple cottage that one
associates with America's literary declaration
of Independence.
THE other Whitman shrine In Camden Is
the tomb In Harlelgh Cemetery, reached
by the Haddonfield trolley. Built Into a quiet
hlllsido In that beautiful cemetery, of enor
mous slabs of rough-hewn granite with a vast
stone door standing symbolically ajar, It
seemed to me grotesque, but greatly Impres
sive. It Is a weird pagan cromlech, with a
huge triangular boulder above the door bear
ing only the words WALT WHITMAN. Palms
and rubber plants grow In pots on the little
curved path leading up to tho tomb; above
It is an uncombed hillside and trees flickering
In the air. At this tomb, designed (tt Is
said) by Whitman himself, was held that re
markable funeral ceremony on March 30,
1892, when a circus tent was not large
enough to roof the crowd, and peanut venders
did business on the outskirts of tho gather
ing. Perhaps It Is not amiss to recall what
Boh Ingersoll said on that occasion:
Ue walked among verbal varnlshers and
veneerers, among literary milliners and
tailors, with the unconscious dignity of an
antique god. lie was the poet of that
divine democracy that gives equal rights
to all tho sons and daughters of men. He
uttered the great American voice.
And though one finds in the words of the
naive Ingersoll the squeaking timber of the
soapbox, yet even a soapbox does lift a man
a few Inches above the level of the clay.
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the Whitman battle Is not over
nor eer will be. Though neither
Philadelphia nor Camden has recognized
330 Mickle street as one of the authentic
ehrlnes of our history (Lord, how trimly
dlght It would be If It were In New Eng
land I), Camden has made a certain amend In
putting Walt Into the gay mosaic that adorns
the portico of the new, public library In
Cooper Park. There, absurdly represented In
an -austere black cassock, he stands In the
following frieze of great figures: Dante,
Whitman, Mollere, Gutenberg, Tyndale,
Washington, Penn, Columbus, Moses,
Raphael, Michael Angelo, Shakespeare, Long
fellow and Palestrlna. I believe that there
was some rumpus as to whether Walt should
be Included; but, anyway, there he Is.
YOU will make a great mistake If you
don't ramble over to Camden some day
and fleet the golden hours In an observant
stroll. Himself the prince of loafers, Walt
taught the town to loaf, When they built
the new postoffice over there they put round
It a ledge for phllosophlp lounging, one of the
most delightful architectural features I have
ever seen. And on Third street, just around
the corner from 330 Mickle Btrcet, Is the
oddest plumber's shop In the world. Mr.
George F. Hammond, a Civil War veteran,
who knew Whitman nnd also Lincoln, came
to Camden In '69. In 1888 he determined to
build a shop that would be different from any
thing on earth, and well he succeeded. Per
haps It is symbolic of the shy and harassed
soul of the plumber, fleeing from the unrea
sonable demands of his customers, for It is
a kind of Gothic fortress. Leaded windows,
gargoyles, masculine medusa heads, a sally
port, loopholes and a little spire. I stopped
In to talk to Mr. Hammond and he greeted
me graciously. He Bays that people have
come all the way from California to see his
shop, and I can believe It. It is the work
of a delightful and original spirit who does
not care to live In a demure hutch like all
the rest of us, and has really had some fun
nut of his whimsical little castle. He Bays
he would father live In Camden than in
jt'nusarjinia, ana x arcsy noo iiaiiu
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"OVER HERE1
AMERICA, fall in line, fall in line, fall
A In line,
Working all the time, all the time, all the
time,
Hear them calling you and me,
Ev'ry fighter for liberty.
Hurry off to work, off to work, off to work,
Tell your Uncle Sam that you will not
shirk,
Tell your neighbors not to p!ne,
For we'll soon bo over the Rhine.
CHORUS
Over 'Jiere, over here.
We're at work, all the time, over here;
The men aro toiling, the women are
toiling,
Our people are busy ev'rywhere.
We'll do our share, we'll do our share.
Send the word to our boys over there.
There's no shirking, we're all a-worklng,
And we won't quit work
Till It's over Over There.
Send them lots of guns, lots of guns, lots
of guns,
Keep them on the run, on the run, on
tho run,
OUr boys are calling you and me;
Send supplies for liberty.
Speed 'em up today, right away, no delay.
Get them on their way, on their way, on
their way;
Tell our fighters ev'rywhere
That Uncle Sam will do his share.
T. W. DAVIS.
Carrie Nation's Cow
You might think they were little roadside
shrines, all leafed over on top of their four
supporting poles. There Is one In front of.
almost every barrack building in the S. O. S.
On closer Inspection, though, you see that,
while not exactly shrines of religion, they are
Bhrlnes of temperance. For, suspended under
each one of those leafy canopies, Is the old O..
D. chlorinated water bag, better known as
the Carrie Nation cow.
They are-awfully strict about the use of
chlorinated water down In the flat lands
upon which many of the big camps In the
S. O. S. are perched ; they have to be. And
that is why the cow is tended so carefully,
kept cool In her Bylvan grot and all the rest
Stars and Stripes.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What German seneral ran nwar as Allenbj'a
victorious army plunxed throutii ralesrJne?
2. What la slbbous moonT
3. What Is the difference between emigration
and trnmlsratlanT ,
4. What la an emu?
8. What Is InrorTMt. In. the followlnrt "The,
Hook of Keteitttlona"?
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6. What Is fererfewt
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7. Who was Fliaro. after whom a celebrated
1'arls newspaper Is named?
8. Which is the "Hoosler State"?
9. What la- pulque?
10. What fortress In the war sone was fonnerlr
called "l- fucelle." the maid, because
prior to 1870 it bad neter surrendered?
Answers to Yesterday's Quis
1, Major General Corral Is surgeon general ,of
the United States armr.
2. Qootldlan means deltr. from "qnotlnlanus,"
Latin word with the same significance.
S. The I.oullana Territory wae purchased, from
France br the United Htitea In ISOs during
the administration of Thomas Jefferson.
4. Voltaire -wrote "If there were no. God It
would be neceaaarr to Intent him."
5. A crackle Is a bird allied to the Jackdaw
or blackbird. The. beat known .tarletr.
found In America, Is the so-called purple
crackle, The , rnales are about twelje
InrhM fonc and of n uniform sleasr black,
with rnetalllo reflections. .
. Vulcan wns the Boman sod of fire and metal
w orklng.
7, "Videlicet" Is I-atln and llterallr means "one
may aee .' In Kngllah it Is, used In (he
sense of "that la to asjr," "in other
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