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All rights of republication of special dis patches herein arc also reserved. riillldflpl.il. Friday. Jinuity 10, 1919 IN POLITE LANGUAGE rpnn chango In your policy," observes Secretory Daniels In his latest nam ing to Mayor Smith, "was mailo In viola tlon of jour promise to Colonel llntcli, tho representative of tho Navy Depart ment." The reference Is. of coin .e, to the re instatement of Superintendent Robinson at tho heady of tho police department. Friends of the JInyor and tho Major him self say triumphantly that Secretary Daniels's letter, with his thr.-at of further Federal Interference In the administrative affairs of the city, Is "mild." A sensitive man might net like to bo so flatly charred with breach of faith Meanwhile tho Mayor mut feel heart ened by tho unexpected support of those pseudo-defenders of the city who, with the usual "Hush-hush!" and a C.fllcult smirk, have lined up behind the police adminis tration as the friends and protectors of Vicious criminals whoso business It Is to prey on youthful sorvico men away from home and home Influences, It Is Increasingly bard to lellee that Germany Is In the Temperate Zone. CLEMENCEAU'S OWN COLD DOUCHE FRENCH cynicism Is sometimes m keen aa to bo almost endearing, raise sen timentality Is stifled In Its nlr, and that Is a pain for any nation or its neighbors. Georges Clemenceau sponsoilng an archaic and Iniquitous "balance-of-pnvvcr" doctrine Is not nn Ingratiating figure to many lib erals. But the "Tiger," declaring on No vember 11, "If I should die today franco would Rive me a grand funeral," nnd add ing, "If I wait hit months nobody can tell what sort of a funeral I'll have," must unquestionably appeal to all loers of courageous logic. The bitterness of this philosophy In no wise compromises Its truth It reveals tho Premier as a disillusioned but still hardy veteran. It reveals, too, a keenness of vision that is decidedly heartening. If the statesman can think thus elearl and with so much detachment concerning his role, there Is promise that he will not pursue discredited phantoms when he comes to act. Ills sense of essential facts of human raturo has not deceived him In his hour of sentlmentat glory on Armi stice Day. Conceivably It may Induco him to see tho light at the peace table. Faith In his seasoned wisdom has been appre ciably stimulated by his sophisticated and self-sobering words Just reported. Mad Rutsla doesn't serai to have even enough food for thought THE NEW OBJECTORS THE world was pretty hard on conscien tious objectors to war. Why Is It now that there are no out cries against tho numerous men In Europe and the few lu America who seem at times to be conscientious objectors to peace? And why, coming a little nearer home, doesn't some one make a nulho about thoso ho conscientiously object to cleaning the now off their sidewalks'" Will Holland havo to Iliul a Hue julet castle for Ebert also? WHEN BOLSHEVISTS FALL OUT IT IS tho fate of, arbitrary triumvirates and duumvirates to split up In favor of a single-personal embodiment of authority, which In turn pas tho penalty of abso lutist methods. Caesar triumphed oer the Caesar-I'ompey-Crassus league, and ' then he, too, fell. Marat and Datiton eliminated ltobesplene'H absolutism, had a brief sway and then collapsed. Hid of his associating consuls, Napoleon, with the splendor of genius, staved off his doom for a number of years; but It was In evltable, "While such analogies may unvvanant ably flatter the tatterdomnllon Trotskj, the general warning of history Is at least pertinent. If the latest reports from Itussla bo authentic, tho wildest duumvirate In human annals Is sma.hed, Nlcolal Lenlne, charged with leanings toward tho Menshevlkl, "tainted" with moderate views la the land of chaos, is reported under arrest. The news squares with the ac counts of the ex-Premier's statecraft, in which certain rational elements have been dimly discerned. The present headlong Bolshevist clique, dominated by the Infatuated Trotsky, has no patience with reason. That even the radicalism of Lenlne has been found of fensive testifies to the pace at which halr brained madness travels. That It will ride attlll more swiftly to Its fall Is tho gleam of hope which the talo of this disruption of the coalition provides, for the shaping of events Into some semblance of colier , ency U indispensable to Allied action on 1 ' Ua Sutvlan situation. Doubtless mistakes have been made In handling this huge problem, but tho difficulty of determining on a course helpful both to Itussla and to the principles of orderly government which must bo preserved In the world has been tragically cmbarrnsstng, Patience has not et proved a solvent, but happily tho tlmo limit has not yet expired. Watchful waiting until Hucrta was overthrown was exasperating, but Justification ca now bo found for that policy, Tho new absolutism of Trotsky, Imperiled by many hopeful movements In Itussla, mny result in speeding tho kind of beneficial action by America and the Allies for which all lovers of true freedom long. BEIIGER AS A SYMBOL OF SOCIALISTS' FAILURE Milwaukee's Jailwsnl Congressman anil His Croud Were the Heal Enemies of Liberal Causes in America "T'M SHOCKED!" said Victor Bcrgcr, Milwaukee's Socialist Congressman elect, when a Federal jury in Chicago found him guilty of violating the csplo nnge act. Thus tho Bcrgcr spiiit'main taincd its characteristic Isolation to the last. No one else was shocked. The anti Government propaganda directed by this cx-Gciman was ugly. It was graceless. It had some bmnll elements of danger. And yet it did not reprcscnt.the gravest offense chaigeable against the Wisconsin type of radicalism. Bcrgcr consciously or unconsciously betrayed the humane causes which ho presumed to represent when he did more thnn any one else to force tho shameless platform of non interference through the Socialist con cntion at St. Louis at u time when all civilization was being threatened by tho armies of a demented king. In that moment the Socialist cause in America received the most disastrous blow that has been struck at it in fifty years. If stupidity were a crime punish nble by law Berger would not be facing n nominal term in jail. He would get n hundred years or so and the Socialists themselves would bo his prosecutors. It was nt St. Louis that the last pre tensions of intellectualism were stripped from Socialist lendeiship in Amciica. There the party declared its own class interests to be greater than the causes of humanity. A cult shouted that it was greater than tho world. Collective opin ion in Amciica decided very piopcrly that there is something seriously wrong with minds that could not pciccivo the splen dor of tho American purpose or tcalizc tho nobility of a seivice in which un counted millions wore willing to spend their lives and their money to retrieve the great hopes of othei peoples less for tunate than the5'. Since then the tolerance of mass opin ion toward newer political doctrines has tuined to dislike and liaidcncd in antago nism. Radical Socialism of the Ameri can sort has been derided mo.st bitteily by the few intellectual men who for merly were associated with it. Most of tho more intelligent men and women who voted for the Berger anti-war platform repudiated it later nnd made at least a pietenso of helping the countiy in the war. They weic the last to admit the justice of a cause which was manifestly most just. Had the rest of the people accepted a doctrine that was advanced as an embodiment of all modern economic wi&dom, Germany would now be trimn phant in Europe, bleeding tho little na tions dry, overwhelming civilization. In this country we should be armir.-r to the teeth and waiting for our turn with the beast. And if the pacificism of the Socialists prevailed as a geneia' convic tion, the Bergeis and the Tuckers and their like would not have the freedom of their soap boxes for long. They would be booted about in chain gangs by some thug or other in a Hun army uniform. The Socialists, in other words, who had boasted a better intelligence for years, proved slacker-minded and less humane and loss imaginative in a ciisis than the ordinary man in the sticet who has loafed along from tho beginning in old political parties, many of whoso lesser leaders he knows to bo coirupt or inefficient. That is what is the matter with So cialism and that is why a political doc trine which, intelligently directed, is having a tonic effect upon the older European parties, has been set back half a century in Amciica. Wisconsin or Milwaukee, that part which decided to send Berger to Con gress, is likely to find its motives under closer scrutiny when the war is over and pence is signed and the people have leisure to make an inventory of causes and issues icvcaled during tho last few yeais. Flank disloyalty or treason are obvious offenses easily dealt with. It is with a subtler menace that this country has had recently to deal. There is a possibility that Berger actually thought he was serving the Socialists at St. Louis. But it might not bo improper to wonder whether he, like n great many others elsewheie throughout the coun try, were not reacting to a subconscious hatred of anything that might Interfere with the progress of Germany to world domination. Berger's propaganda, like the propa ganda issued fiom other sources, was extraordinarily bitter. It was out of all proportion to the measure of justice in the propagandist's case. America, by the procedure so violently opposed by the elements calling them selves radical, has been able to do a service to humanity greater than any political system or any nation ever could do. The events of the war and the in fluence of American policies throughout Europe show clearly that Berger and ViIk sort were cither icnorant or trnltnr. jf ous in their insistent propaganda. There would have been no freedom anywhere If Germany had won. There would have been no hope for tho sort of aspirations which the Socialists presume to voice. The United States has come through tho wnr clean. It was engaged upon a serv ice glorified with unselfishness and Idcnl Ism In tho days when nllen-mlndcd groups like Berger's, sunk In n delirium of class prejudice and cowardice, were doing their utmost to retard and con fuse tho work of bravo nnd devoted men. Our civilization Isn't perfect and the economic order under which wo livo Isn't perfect. But a study of the Socialist soul of the wnr period makes it clear that beneath the rather shiftless nnd easy-going methods nnd tho Imperfect system by which wo live there is en gendered n faith and a spirit and a pur poRO incomparably cleaner and nobler nnd more enlightened thnn any that so far has touched tho professing radical. One of thee days wo shall apply n reawakened idealism to our own nffnlrs as wo aic trying to npply it in Europe. But it is plain in the light of the na tion's war experience with the Socialist mind and spirit that wo shall have to get along without tho help of cults that can produce Bcrgcrs. The'Milvvaukoc gioup of convicts may get a new tiial, but it cannot nnd ought not be possible for Victor Bcrgcr ever to get to Congress. He is not American. After tho happy ending in Europe there will bo a tendency to forget and forgive the near-traitors and let them out of jail. That soit of tendency is charitable, but it is not always just. In the case of tho convicted Milwaukee Socialists it might bo well to keep the jail doors light. For it is easy to feel convinced that Bcrgcr was not only disloyal in spirit, but an added danger in a danger ous period. It is not illogical to believe that he masked an enmity for the land that sheltered him under the pretense of chnmpionship for individual rights nnd a sham devotion to tho poor. The leaguo of small rations Is evidently much too largo to permit if orderly gov ernment lu at lonst two European couiitrUs. GOOD ENGLISH WHOHVHIt goes out, llku Dr John 11. Oarber, Supeilntendent of .Schools In Philadelphia, to battle for better Kngllsh, will bo able to find adversaries In plenty. Doctor f Lit her Is most t-crlously concerned about slang and what are called nick names Tho Hngllsh language began to suffer centuiles ago, when the first "committees for revision" got to work mi tho Illble nnd b"g.in tho slow, tireless process by which much of tho iplendor nnd beauty and force of the original Kngliih tests has been les sened In nn effort to make enth parage conform to the frantic modesty of thexe newer times. The tired business man would .laUiially mtico a missionary in Doctor (lather's cause. Business Hngllsh Is clipped and stuttering "Yours of even date icccived nnd beg to saj" is anything but good even as tho language goes Whit of the vvrittis of.magas'lne f-erlals? Will tin y bo Mnt to school again-' And what would Doctor Cither, himself a strict upostlo of formalized grammar, say lu answer to the British scholars who insist that too many lulis and icgulatlons ate restricting and despoiling our mother tongue and that the mil good Kngllsh now spoken In the woiM Is used by the un lettticJ peasants of Ii eland, who havo a golden language ot ii.itui.il cadence suited to Imaginative minds which hold that speech should bo u mirror of life and not a thing to be laid out stalk along gi.im mutical rules? General PINudsM has Ilrnrj, Ilcnrj ! ousted I'.ulueubkl fiom a high pl.ico In tho new Polish Government and, In a gen cril vv.i. It may be said that the dcvllovltch Is to p.ifk In l'oscn Trotsky wants to itm quer the world and tS recce lias ii lulc of starting u new war. At tln hour of going la press It was almost Impossible to avoid tho temptation to send a who to I'inr l'ord with the suggestion that hi abandon hl ntw journalistic enterprise temporarily Ilinry ma et hav to go abiuud In u warship to got the Peace Confciencc out ot tho trenched b Christinas. (let ready," said A. 1 he j 're L'xnl to It Mitt hell Palmer to the leprisentatlves of I'eniislvanl i's Iifmoeiac, 'to receive thoc Ilcpubllcins who won't folluw thn reaction aries of tin Ir part.' If th Penns.vlvanla Democracy absorbs lUpublli .ins In an ut ganlzatlon that later l suio tu bo absorbed bv tho Ilepubllcan I art tho effort sug gested by Mr. Palmer w.U represent meiely a waste of om-rg. 'llieio ai goud Jobs VMuro He l .N reeled ,v awning fur that New York taxic.ihby who louiid J.I80 In bis ehailot and returned It to tbu owiiei. If lift null so honest as he could b mobilized and given the most Im portant illploniatlo posts in llumpo the world mlsht yet find u vvuv to peace. Tin- n polled aglee Aciurdiux t l- inent lu lb plan to lonsUler th forma tion of the- I.taguu ol Nations first and pun ishment of Germany aftttwaid Is In ion fortuity with tho prueeduia of concluding Judicial proceedings with tho t litem ji. Court pi, cedent Is entirely on the- slcln ot this time tchedule It Is Inteicstliig to The l'oel'n eur luar that Herman Scheffaur, Hun-Amor!-can poet, has been Indicted by a Tedenil Cirund July for ticason. Poets, ns a rule, aro too busy trlng to mako a living to get Into berlous trouble. The railroad men might be really grate ful to Columbus If his egg trick had given them a few useful unscrambling pointers. It can hardly be without special signi ficance that one faction In Berlin has driven some of the Bpartacana into the zoo. ELBOW ROOM Railroad Slationj "IirHHNKVnil wo paBs through Broad ' ' Street Stntlon or tho Heading Terminal we nro thankful that Philadelphia still has termlnaln where ono can actually sea trains, nnd particularly locomotives. New York boasts of her Pennsylvania Station nnd her Qrand Central, but theso nro not railroad stntlons that have the savor and tang of old romance. They are mystic temples, nustcro and nmazlng shrines of tho god of Transportation; but the life and glamour seem to havo evaporated somewhere in thoso great vaulted halla of marblo nnd indirect lighting. What Is a railroad station without loco motives? Tho big express engines, so ex traordinary In tho beauty of applied power tho benuty that always emerges when man studies nature's laws are a sight that wo can never forgo. How ruddlly tho fireboxes shine, gushing a golden glow from the floor of tho furnace how stately those tall driving wheels that havo Just come roaring In from New York or Har rlsburg or Washington. And, about sunset time, when the gieat western arch of tho nrnnd street train filled Is nil a scoop of rosy light, some big locomotive clanks out In majesty and her plume of bursting steam catches the sunset on Its snowy pillar then wo think that civilization has gained strange beauties more wonderful than any It has lost! A Justice of the Supreme Court re marked, In tho course of a recent enso, that "In speed tho telegraph and telephone easily outstrip tho rotation cf the earth." We hope that no ono Very High TJ'i will feel dls-gruntled at this nnd nccelernte our lofitlon, for the das aro too short already. The Hunter Home From the Hill AB.ONI3 lead the other day of the fine simplicity, dignity nnd affection of Ostor Hay's farewell to Colonel nooso elt, tho thought must havo occurred to many that perhaps It Is seemly that we have no national pantheon of death such as Wcstmlrster Abbey, It is right and fitting that thoso who have served the public should bo laid to rest in their homo ground, among tho scenes they havo loved and near the loofs that havo sheltered their happiest and most secret hours. Home roofs nro best, home henrths are brightest. Little by little wo shall have to accustom ourselves to the absence of that impetuous, unquenchable spit It. Hut tor himself, tho pang Is slight. Ho has gone, even sooner than he expected, to Join tho gnllnnt oungster ho gave to his country. And never were Stevenson's great words moie truo: Homo Is the sailor, home from sea. And the hunter homo from the hill. To a War Bride on Parle Avenue rpun August sun bade mo walk slowly - here In tho scant shade of sunburnt maple trees; Tho red brick houses closed their green browed cjes Against tho peopled sunlight nnd tho breeze. .Midway along tho block I heard a drone Of brooltsldo stones and lush of tumbling green, And looking upward saw a great armed man Sit sewing In tho sun, at his machine Sit sewing In the sun; his hairy breast Was bare beneath a heavy bearded chin, Tho Uttlo pile of shirtwaists at his side Uevealed the tiade that he was tolling In. Ten paces dow n the street nn open door nave nlr Into n forgo shop noisy, hot, Clanking with lods and ted with breaking sparks A little space tho summer calms forgot. Tor It was dizzy with a heavy wheel That sped and spun in dazzling gleam and whirl, Desldo whoso fur, swaying at her toll, Thcto stood a tall, slim, great-eyed, wistful girl. Her long blue overalls and grease smudged cheek Half hid her from me till her head was turned, Then, lu her ees, ten thousand hidden years P.oao Uko a biting flame that blazed and burned. Theiu all day long, the great wheel by her side Whirls on, and all day long grim drays halt tl ere, While Tune demands strange blrthfrult of ills bride, Who as nil hi Ides should be, was flushed and full. Hut as I see her slim and fine -nd fieo Truo woman on tho heights of power and giace. That man up at his toll I also see, And his great Idle arms and bearded face. ROY HKIrON. What U Truth? l.iilv Constance Stewart lllchnrd son was much ap plauded for h r r graceful dancing visterdiy it tho P a I a e e Theatre, and fullv ileseived the cordial recep tion - .Veic l'oifc f,'iriilittf l'ost. The Pla goer saw La dy Conirtiince, lightly clad In classical dancing costume with bare limbs, do tho threa short dances that now coiiHtltuto her ait. And when he had seen ier pos turlngs, her trip ping around the stage- nnd her oc casional kicks, ha did not arise and shout, "Uruva! blsl encore!" And there were no snouts of approvul from any one else .Yen, Xork Evening Sun. A Columbia University professor sa that II. P. Albert and William Haard Halo explained to him In 1914 "why Germany entered tho war." "Entered" Is certainly the wrong word, (iormany was already In it long beforo it began. SOCRATES. The I W, W, Is falklnr of "sending rep. resentatlves" to study conditions In Itussla, To the I. W. W. and tho Bolshevik!, In thla ...& I. .l1.t l. .tt flint nil am In Ann- illlDlUMIC, (t MllltMh M Di .. -w ,( MU.. 'ger ot bad company. -..-Er a-eP.'f !&7Z... i'' jf i '""Vlr """" " -Jy irf-'jff!1.- mJJLt s AN "INVENTION" Scvcnty-tUne Years Aro Today Britain Adopted the Mail Systerti Giving Rise to That Universal and Indispensable Scrap of Paper, the Postage Stamp PHII.ATnUSTS should be In high fc today nnd very probably they are, fettle for those amiable hobbslsts arc too keenly con scious of chronological values to bo oblUious of n date of prime significance In the fasci nating lore of stamp colliding. Moreover those of us whose tnstes are less lilghlv specialized have nlso In this Instance full wnrrantv to recognize tho nnnlversar, for J.inunrv 10 marks tho opening move from which tho entire modern 6 stem of com munication by letter (inemy countries tem porarily excepted) Is derived. INVENTIONS so pimple ns to appear by the Illuminating rns of hindsight In evltabln have long been Imperfectly honored In n world whose admiration for the msterl ous la ever profound nnd prompt. Thus tho llnotjpe, the airplane and the wireless pio vokc ns of course they should, respect and awe. No one mnrvels at the corkscrew nnd vet Its originator must htve been nn In genious nnd perspicacious chap That ho was a universal benefnetor Is admitted on reflection, though one seldom pauses to ponder upon the scope and elllcacy of his achievement. How seldom was disclosed n few yenrs ngo In Paris that Mecca of monuments on nn astonishing variety of subjects when tho suggestion wns made thai the Inventor of bottle openers be memorialized In bronze. Trobably rival names were submitted for his laurels, for accounts of the grateful construction of that statue have not et crossed the sens, but no such confusion oxlBts ns regardH tho father of the modern postal service nnd the adhesive prepaid postage stomp. Ho was Sir How land Hill and seventy-nine years ngo today his transparently simple, but none tho less original, scheme went Into operation In the Island of Great Britain. FAMILIAR to philatelists, but often truly surprising to folk without the brother hood Is the fact that postage stamps date onlv from 1840. Prom the days of tho epistolary bricks of nabylonlans to the third ear of the reign of Queen Victoria the de livery of correspondence had been crippled by complex and unwieldy machinery I'ntll the sixteenth century a trusty friend, a ship captain or a governmental legate Irregularly pet formed mall carrying functions. The development of modern Continental Europe brought forw-aid a much needed semblineu of KtnndartlUatlon and also a most lucrative monopoly. Tho German Counts of Tlium nnd Taxis were ouiuiiiuy uec-iureu m-reuuw y post masters of the Holy Roman Empire and of Spain It was a-goodly olllce profitable to lis Incumbent, but decidedly less so to patrons of the service. Mall delivery was both hap hazard and haznrdous and nlwas expensive. Postal arrangements were considerably re organized In Brltnln under James I, but their Inconveniences were numerous. The cost of dispatching letters was pioportloncd to tho length of their Journey. Tho recipient paid the charge. With certain Improvements and modifications, fostered by the establishment of regular mail-coach routes, thla a stein ob tained In England with Imitations In Amer icauntil railroads started to revolutionize civilization, It was soon evident then that the awkardnesa of postal services was both unnecessary and pitifully archaic. J statistics and reform was aroused to the situation. Sir Rowland Hill held no otrlce I in the Government and the Poslofflco n. Ipartmtnt, tainted" with circumlocution, re- "WHAT DO I DO NOW?" M.ss). "-Q T? J ""?) f i "SI it L'tJie" W iSMl .LiLiLiLiLiLMlLiLiflLmV 'ru A "tirely iif"! ("' jj ?ti LiH .j-r.- ANNIVERSARY sentri Interference. Hut Hill's admirably reasoned pamphlet "Post Ofllco Reform" wns too obviously pertinent to be Ignored. The author had successfully demonstrated that the difference In tho iarrlng cost of n letter sent from Threadnecdle street, London, lo St. Martin's Lane, nnd ono dispatched from the. capital to Edinburgh was In finitesimal. It was. to be specific, precisely tho ninth of n fnrthlng! The high cost of mall siivlco was largely due to superfluous tangles In administration, such as the time wasted in working out charges on the num ber of sheete of paper contnlnid In nn en velope, on Using prices by n distance schedule and In collecting payment from the tecclver of the missive. "ITTITH convincing lucidity the reformer brushod all these snarls aside In urging a flat rate of one penny for all letters under n certain weight carried to any destlnat'on whatsoever In Great Britain and In advo cating a pnpavment 8 stem Any dllllcultles in that plan "might bo obviated." declared the pamphlet, "by using a bit of paper Just large enough to bear the stamp and covered nt tho back with a glutinous wash, which by nppllng a bit of moisturo might be at tached to the back of tho letter." Tho In icntlon of that indispensable scrap of paper, the modem postage stamp, dates from this modestly iidvancid suggestion. Even the- circumlocution olllca was stirred by this proposed new- Instrument of civiliza tion. Januaiy 10, 1840, saw- the penny post ngo scheme operative In Great nrltaln. Six months later an adhesive, prepaid stamp, a remarkable cieatlon, ten times the size of Its desceudints appeared. Collectors cry for It. King George, nn Indefatigable philatelist, probably owns one. Its principal feature Is an Idealized portrait of his grandmother, Queen Victoria. BErOItE the forties wer finished stamps had come down In size, nnd the first American Governmmt Issues, In 1817, bear, snvo In tho absence of perforation, a normal aspect. Hy the fifties tho lending countrlea of tho world had refotmed their postal sys tems and were using the adhesive paper. Its exlstenco nnd that of the whole postal administration, later admirably organized for Internntlunal purposes in the Universal Postal Union, with headquarters at Berne, weto soon serenely, accepted as matters of course. It Is not easy to regard them an "Inventions." Yet Buch Is their Incontestable due today. The death of Memo, the baby elephant, Is quite a heavy loss to tho Zoological Gar dens. As, the world's biggest show prepares to i also Us curtain the crop of outsldo specula tors becomes proportionately large. Mr. Daniels has naturally a right to ex. pect that a groat city like Philadelphia be an. ministered under something higher than a Ice-Ma oralty. Has It ever occurred to ou to wonder why, though there Is famine and woe In Ger many and Russia and a shortage of all the necessities of life, there seems to be an ena less supply of powder and shot? The Democratic party In Pennslvanla has made a new ear resolution to clean house. So far the Republicans aren't In a ifiood to even sweep the snow off their aide- L walks. - x ""' . 'I I The Juggler A REPUTATION for profundity, for pundit stuff Discrimination nnd suchlike acumen Can be achieved without real gifts ana plausibly enough Merely by making now lamps of old lumen. To clarify my meaning: One has need to be au fait Of manifold details to pots an critic In any genre but who's to quiz one who shall transmute (say) A noun by substituting Its enclitic? In other wordR, why burn tho midnight oil to coruscate? Exactitude betray the crawling stu dent Tho genius hitches one art with the argot of Its mate, And lo! Esthetics registers n new dent Thus he Is called upon, let us Imagine, to appraise Riimn nnrlfint rlpftlc nr enlr-mattn hureAU ! Tnntnri nf fflWInp ehRnren with n Rhot fit I Louis Seize y Ho nicks the bulls eje with "Lack chiaroscuro i" . Let him be cornered, In his secret soul, by highbrows rapt Before n picture, hla pronunclamento Will leave their musty mouthing! pros trate at the post If capped By, "Ah, that motifs so divinely lento I" Again, conceive him floundering In ae wake of symphony Or wedged between the bars of a con certo. With somo such phrase as this he claps chapeau on apogee: "Euterpo'a out of step with her own bare toe!" If poetry he's asked to glue a commentary on No gene beclouds hla forehead nlabaater But straight he offers speech that would deetomach any don: 'The thrust Is ovcrflne; too much pilaster 1" Suppose him face to face with the 'vaat canvas of the west At sunset ; docs he stand muto In mystic Abandon of tho Benses? Hardly! Let It te confessed He'll much more likely spout, "Clad, how stylistic!" OenlUB, Indeed! He pla;s both for high stakes and playsj It safe What contretemps shall ever turn him dltzy? Nay, if Elijah's chariot called round for him he'd chafe Under tho spur to dub tl a sky Ltizlel STANLEY K. "WILSON. What Do You Know? QUIZ Wlrnt fhrnatr hnn leen arrrplrd as head af the new ronfttltntlonnl monarehr romrxiseel of Serbia, Mnntenear and the Juro-Hlae lirotlnren ef AiintrU-lluntarx? , Hon did the rndlral Rpsrtaeaa partr at (rrnianr art Its name? WhatS.an orrx? , What l the meaning of otiose? - Whiit annltrrsan- f n remarkable American tinvrr ;" r,,,n rxiH-aiiienarjr rare orriirrrd thU week? , ntin are I lie WennhrtlM In Rnaxta? u , Who nrete "Mow ilotli the little buir baa Improve earn Khlnlna hour"? , Jlho were the Krlnyesln (ireek mitholoo? , What l the larnet rlier flowlag ukettr within the nemtnlon of Canada? """' , Wht the meanlna of The llarnt ana what la the Iiutrh nam far that eltx? Answers to Yenterdav's Ouir , I.lmWc a the nrovlnr ot Holland which , certain panic. In nel.lam desire to U anneicd to Klnr. Albert's realm. . l'reldnt IVllfcnn la alitr.tv. ..... -u A rinaiw l u deep nature In tha lea of a) jtluflrr, " ' 't-' r,.rn """'"'a ,' e world nera tha "aur-.a.'Sf ''''M-ii' m 'ai.i! .ndr7..-'lh.,C.loMo; o fTlh"d,r'tC. ME i nneciea, ma Tern. at UlVnipia. "' ,nr ,"',, ,,n"1 , The Htralla Scttlcnicnla romprlae u nrlttah I?HVVkT.,v ""'" 5 ' "'tlmea. " " En"n,, w" married an , ! niorlula nil nlal bonuni" meana "Com. cern nx the ilcnil. noinliu un'e.o iod A ' ""'"'.' ' ,h "" llant ef th. a.l.e ' "fiiiJe.'" 'h"" cf w""n MW ak.i ft II V jp i i r . 'J-
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