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MORE COURAGE NEEDED AT
HARRISBURC
A GROUP of bills providing for a com
mission to suggest changes In tlio
State Constitution nnd fixing the conditions
under which a constitutional convention
shall ho held have been Introduced In
Harrlsburg.
This does not mean that the Constitution
will bo revised In the Immediate future,
for nothing Is easier than to get n bill
Introduced in the Legislature. Unfortu
nately, tho State political leaders seem to
be nfratd to undertake the worlt. They
have been using the same old arguments
that hao been offered for years as reason
for postponement. They want to wait
until a "more opportune" time.
But so long as they are unwilling no time
will be opportune. Franklin once said
he was glad that man was n reasoning
animal, for he could find a reason for any
thing that he wanted to do. Likewise, man
can find a reason for not doing anything
which he docs not want to do.
We have waited long enough for consti
tutional revision. There is no better time
than the present. The group of bills Intro
duced in Harrlsburg, if passed, would ar
range for a most satixfactory method of
revising the fundamental law. The men
who control legislation should have the
courage and public spirit to Insist on their
passage this winter.
THE ZEALOUS DEC
fpHtJ presidential beo 'that has been
- bothering Mr. McAiloo for seeral years
has finally been shooed away. Winging
hither and yon, as the poets Fay, In search
of victims, it went from Mr. McAdoo to
General 'Wood and wounded that warrior
In still another place.
There Is no double meaning In the state
ment Just issued by the former Secretary
of the Treasury. He doesn't want the
presidency. Why should he want it, with
corporations of movie queens and kings
begging him to accept $100,000 a year and
u career of ease and plenty in plain tight?
"There are scores of men In my party
who are fitted for tho place," observes Mr,
McAdoo, with the fine gesture of renun
ciation with which the most troublesome
of Insects was ordered from his presence.
, One might be moved to ask the name of
the oculist who- provides this representa
tive Democrat with magic spectacles. But
we will let that pass.
The tone and color of General Wood's
recent addresses would Indicate that the
General looks with greater kindness upon
his winged but perilous lsitant. The moro
acute leaders of the Itepubllcan party can
not observe this culmination with en
thusiasm. The Itepubllcan party could use
another Roosevelt. But It cannot afford
to propose an echo for the presidency.
There is a fatal weakness In General
Wood's case. If he were actually to be
nominated tho Democrats might counter
with General Pershing.
Then, my lords, what a pretty complica
tion there would bo In this our land!
BURIAL SERVICES STILL NECESSARY
THC Presbyterian ministers of this city
were told at their last meeting that the
prohibition amendment Is now part of the
Constitution and that those who attempt
to disregard It are violators of the law- and
hould be summarily dealt with.
The amendment Is without a doubt a
part of the Constitution. In one or two
of the States where It has been ratified It
may be necessary for the people to indorse
the action of the Legislature to satisfy
local laws, but the ratification is valid
tinder the Federal Constitution when the
Legislature has acted.
But the amendment is not self-enforceable.
Congress or the States, or both, must
provide penalties for Its violation or it will
be a mere dead-letter declaration of prin
ciple, like the citizenship amendments In
the South. The amendment Itself Indicate
this, for Its second section provides tin
"Congress and the several States slim
have concurrent power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation." Tho
temperance people will, of course, attempt
to secure the passage of the necessary laws
In every State. A prohibition bill Is now,
under consideration by the legislators In
Harrlsburg and prohibition bills are before
Congress.
When the States pass prohibition laws
they can be enforced within the State
boundaries just as If no prohibition amend-
' went had been adopted, provided Congress
, does not act. What will be the force of a
' "Mate law It Congress shall pass an act
'rTrovldtnir penalties for violating the pro-
' lilblllon amendment and defining lntoxlcat-
(SaMf liquors the courts will hove to decide.
There are able lawyers who hold that the
ejoncurrent power" section Invalidates the
whole, amendment,- because It Is Impossible
two lgUkUlve jurisdictions to pass en-
Iswa aUfeetlaVaT the am trrKry
EVENING
law would bo supremo and displace the
State laws whero they differed: but the
matter will remain In somo uncertainty
until the Supremo Court has made Its de
cision In a suit framed to test tho ques
tion, Tho liquor people appear prepared to
take refuge In all the technicalities they
can find to postpone the day when they
nro finally driven out of business. That
day will come, but It Is a mlstako to as
sume that the adoption of the amendment
automatically puts an end to the manufac
ture and salo of liquor.
"WHAT WOULD LINCOLN DO?"
HIS BIRTHDAY REMINDS US
In the Justice of Ilia. Reconstruction Ideals
May He Found the Oasis of an Inspiring
Program for the World Today
VTOV he belongs to the ages," cried
' Stnnton over the deathbed of Lin
coin. To tho past age, yes. The grief
stricken Secretary of War interpreted tho
Judgment of history with fervent veracity.
But could he have foretold tho immediate
future the pathos of his uttcranco would
have been Intensified.
The great American whose birth the
nation celebrates today did indeed belong
to tho nges, but In the epoch which fol
lowed his passing his Inspiration played
no effective pait. There was the truo Lin
coln tragedy.
There is no bitterer chapter In Amer
ica's nnnals than that of the so-called re
construction period after the civil con
flict. The fame of the "first American"
was secure. The entire world acknowl
edged Its luster. And then the eternal
Ideals for which he stood in wnr under
went that Ignoble repudiation In peace
which prompts uneasy Inquiry as to what
the memory of a great man Is really
worth.
Is It to bo wrapped In the papyruR of
history, grandiosely stowed nway In a
lofty nlcho of fame and then Ignored, un
heeded? Must it be so today when the mightiest
task of reconstruction with which civiliza
tion was ever confronted now calls for
action?
Tho question gives to Lincoln's birthday
this year a depth of Import it has never
had slnco the stormy days of Andrew
Johnson.
Throughout tho land today a "spirit of
Lincoln" will be Invoked In words. That
pat phrase has become a conventional for
mula. In tho generations sinco 1863 ora
tors and writers have made florid use of it.
It was on the lips of political intriguers
who prolonged the agonies of the South
during the era of disgraceful "carpet
bagging." It has been verbal furniture
for politicians pleading causes from which
tho moral nature of Abraham Lincoln
would have shrunk In disgust. It will
recover from misinterpretation nnd de
filement only if It is summoned ns the
unsullied agency of enduring peace. For
peace consonant with the Ideals of liberty
was ever Lincoln's aim. Ho was an archi
tect whom fate denied the supremo privi
lege of completing his structure. In the
larger sense It remains for dwellers In the
world of 1918 to finish tho monumental
enterprise. And that is why tho problem
that was America's in tho decade follow
ing 1865 is so fruitful of warning.
Time, that persistent solvent, has soft
ened the once sinister aspects of those
stressful ten years. Time also has reduced
the temperature of those political passions
and clarified certain outlines of a situation
which Is significantly a kind of microcosm
with respect to the drama which mankind
is now enacting. For the world of today
read the United States at the conclusion of
Its Interneclno strife.
America was shell-shocked then. Wo
had our "bitter enders" eager to capital
ize conquest, our Tories of narrow vision,
our liberals, forward looking, but too often
unheeded.
It was the unfortunate weakness of this
last named class that It had no leader of
sufllcicnt charm triumphantly to execute
the claims of Justice. Lincoln would cer
tainly have done so, perhaps by reason
of the love In which he was held, with the
aid of Congress, perhaps in defiance of its
opposition.
A year before his assassination the
Issues were tightening. Already In 1864
ho had devised a liberal, sane and patri
otic reconstruction plan, which would
have secured the goal for which the war
was fought and at the same time spared
the southern States needless woes. The
scheme Involved tho admission of those
seceded States which should adopt con
stitutions forbidding slavery, providing that
one-tenth of the voters of 1860 should have
taken the oath to the Union and set up a
government.
Congress, Inflamed by the passionate
unreasonableness which war Inspires,
Ignored the plan and countered It with
one of Irritating, dangerous and grasping
complexity. Lincoln disposed of the bill
with a pocket veto. In his last public
speech, delivered on April 11, 1S65, with
characteristically obstinate courage ho re
viewed his high-minded reconstruction
purposes and declared it his duty to
make tome new announcement to the
people of the South. That revelation
never came.
Those opponents of Andrew Johnson
who, despite tactlessness, wildly Impolitic
language and a personality which almost
repelled allegiance, asserted that Lincoln's
plan could not be followed because it was
actually unknown, pursued a course of
shameful sham. Tha details were really
a minor matter.
Tne spirit of a Llncolnlan peace was
perfectly well known to Individuals of
oven tho feeblest powers of tcflectlon.
Justice was Its primary plank, Justice and
the most unswerving loyalty to the car
dinal principles of freedom. They are
the components of a Llncolnlan peace at
this hour. Repudiation 'of them may lead
either to a repetition on an Infinitely
vaster scale of the most critical period In
domestic American history or to some
Ihhig none.
"What would Lincoln do?" is by no
means an ldlo phrase, because It Is per
fectly evident to all men who lovo liberty
and fair play and hate tyranny and In
trigue what tho savior of the Union would
do If face to faj, with .WW 'KwtA worM
PUBLIC LEDGER
course, unablo to draw up specific rules
for each of the manifold contingencies
which arise. But wo can keep In mind
Lincoln's hatred of anything which failed
to rccognlzo the fundamental of govern
ment for the people and by tho people,
the loathing: In which ho held tho false
philosophy of revenge and the greed of
selfish conquest.
If Lincoln "belongs to the ages," as
Stanton said, lie Is liuloed among tho most
previous of all mankind's possessions today-
Somo of his Immediate post-bellum
successors, lauding him with lip service,
defiled his memory with deeds which
failed to wreck tho land, In whoso history
tho nwesomo hand of Providenco can so
often be traced, but they did provoko a
season of mocking ogony. The world Is In
no mood for a recurrence on International
lines.
Chronologically those who love freedom
nro far from Lincoln now. Spiritually
they nro very near. Certainly It Is ad
mlsslblo to sec In a society of nation",
seeking the maintenance of peaco with
rectitude, a concept with which tho heart
of Abraham Lincoln would be in profound
and rhythmic sympathy. Certainly it Is
equally unavoidable to see In dynastic nnd
lustful land ambitions a policy which
would rovolt his great soul. Tho celebra
tion of his birthday without tho persuasive
Kiontli of his Ideals Is nn empty honor.
Emulation of the principles ho Blood for
is I ho world's vital need, as it would be
Lincoln's greatest glovy.
BALKY HORSES IN THE WORLD'S TEAM
TO UXDKItSTAND the hubbub raised at
Paris by the suddenly stiff-necked atti
tudes of France and Jnpan, it Is necessary
to remember first of all that economic con
siderations rather than pride or patriotism
are now actuating most of the delegates at
the l'eace Conference.
Japan and France or rather the short
sighted financiers nnd traders of Japan and
Prance hae much to gain If they aro
.permitted to have their way. It may be
assumed that the tension existing In diplo
matic quarters everywhere has served to
exaggerate the Importance of the Jupanc.se
scare In Russia nnd tho French break from
the peaceful routine of tho conference on
tho German Issue. But It Is apparent that
tho peace negotiations are at a dangerous
crisis.
In Franco and In tho rest of Europe
there Is a continuing fear of Germany. It
Isn't founded on any absurd delusions In
volving fear of Hlndcnburg nnd a new
German army. It is a dread of tho Ger
many of the future.
A new and powerful republic Is likely to
rise out of tho present chaos In tho Ger
man States und In Austria. Europe Isn't
viewing tho economic possibilities of such
a new State with equanimity.
Tho Entente nations have held that the
Germans ought to be crushed by the with
drawal of their coal lands and other re
sources nnd by the Infliction of heavy
Indemnities. But It Is questionable
whether the Germans can be rendered per
manently helpless by this method. The
saner view Is that the final peace should
be so drawn that all Incitements to war
would be removed in Germany as well a3
In the rest of the world.
Tho political complexion of the newer
Germany Is promising. It U dominated by
Social Democrats and Moderate Socialists.
The Trench diplomatists hold that even
they cannot be trusted, and have bitterly
opposed President Wilson because they
desire to keep Germany impoverished,
partly for safety and partly for the ad
vantage of their Industries. The President
has held that this 13 the surest and short
est path to another war.
Tho case of Japan in Russia Is not so
easily analyzed. The Russian confusion
is the dominating factor In this newest
complication. Russia is wide open to any
exploiter, any adventurer in diplomacy or
finance who can muster a vast military
force In support of his enterprises.
Do the Japanese hope to win on a vast
gamble while the rest of civilization Is
tired and occupied with other affairs? Jt
is known that Japaneso financiers hae
been planting great hopes In .Siberia. They
have already established a bank there and
the machinery for commercial expansion.
It U hardly conceivable that the Japanese
statesmen with a powerful peare party at
home would attempt an adventure so peril
ous as that which would bo necessary in
flouting the principles of the league of
nations and InUtlng the suspicion and en
mity of the world.
Japan has the example of Germany to
guide her now. H is inconceivable that
she hasn't learned the lesson of the times.
And therefore It will be better tu wait be
fore forming any Judgments until the Japa
nese have had tlmo to explain the nature
of their course In China and Siberia espe
cially those secret treaties!
While ilia V o u n g
Womlera of Tlmo Women's Christ I a n
Association In Eng
land has actually voted to pcrm't smoking
among Its members, a band of nudcnts at
the University of Pennsjhanla has Ptarted
a vigorous propaganda to discredit t&Lacco.
There aro times when an American doesn't
know whether to feel hopelenly old-fashioned
or ultra-modern. Obviously the mind of
England and the mind of America nro not
moving In the same direction. Aro we going
forward or back?
How widuly tha pur
You Xerer poses of statesmen dlf-
Can Tell fr in various parts
of this mysterious
world! Hera Is Japan, for example, ap
parently intent upon making China unsafe
for the Chinese.
Now und then It It
l'e.almJim Impossible to resist tho
feeling that President
Wilson, after he has helped to make the rest
of the world safe for democracy, will have
to start and do the Job all-over ngaln In the
Senate.
That proportional representation system
for the election of members of a reorganised
City Council may have theoretical advantages
over present system, under which each
faction elects as large a proportion of the
Councttmen'as possible, but it would probably
work out very much In the same old way.
Mr, McAdoo says that he does not want
to be President. He doubtless knows that
lb pretty girl always says that she would
PHILADELPHIA', WEDNESDAY, FEBRTTABY
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Philadclphians at the Waterways
Congress and Native Pennsyl
vania Who Represent Other
States , in Washington.
Washington, Feb. 12.
fTIIin champions of good waterways have
been In evidence for several days on
account of tho convention of tho National
Rivers and Harbors Congress. Some of
them also attended a dinner In honor Of
John If. Small, of North Carolina, retiring
chairman of tho Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee, who will be succeeded by Mr. Ken
nedy, of Iowa, a Republican, Director
Gcorgo S. Webster and Assistant Director
Hasskarl, of the Department of Wharves,
Docks nnd Ferries, and George F. Sproule,
secretary of the Commissioners of Navi
gation, headed the Philadelphia contingent.
They were accompanied by Emll P.
Albrecht, of the Bourse, who presided at
ono of the sessions of tho congress; Wil
liam R. Tucker, secretary of tho Board of
Trade: William E. Bernard, of tho steam
navigation board,, and others. William J.
Conlcn, of the Philadelphia port boosters'
committee, was here along with Mayor
Frederick W. Donnelly, who never falls
when absent from his own burg to do a
little boosting for Trenton. Among the
gleanings derived from the Philadclphians
was tho suggestion of a movement to rc
storo to tho Delaware River a nautical
tichoolshlp. It Is understood that Governor
Sproul, who knows shipbuilding and tho
river front, Is Inclined to favor the project.
Congress Is committed to tho policy of
establishing State marine schools, and co
operates now with New York, Massachu
setts and the Stato of Washington, which
conduct schools. It once mode appropria
tions to Pennsylvania and loaned It a
schoolshlp, but during Governor Tcner's
term the State failed to co-operate and tho
government aid was withdrawn.
TNJ
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N ADDITION to Senators Pcnroso and
Knox, both of whom were born In Penn
sylvania, there aro two other natives of the
Keystone State In the body "at the other
end of the Capitol" Senator Albert J.
Cummins, of Iowa, who was born at Car
mlchacls and who studied at Wnyncsburg
College three years, and Senator S. P.
Spencer, of Missouri, who was born at Erie.
There nre also several native Pennsylva
ulans, apart from the State delegation, In
the House of Representatives. Frank E.
Doremus, Democrat, of Detroit, Is one of
these. He was born In Venango County,
William J. Graham, of Illinois, a Republi
can, was born in Pennsylvania near New
Castle. Frederick N. Zlhlman, a Maryland
Republican, was born at Carnegie, and
Altoona produced William H. Walton, who
Is the lone Representative from New Mex
ico. Another Republican nember, Edward
Cooper, of West Virginia, first saw the
light of day at Treverton. Joseph W. Ford
ney, of Michigan, claims Pennsylvania as
the birthplace of his parents, and Charles
II. Sloan, of Nebraska, attaches himself by
descent. They are both Republicans. The
only member of either house outside of
Pennsylvania who appears to have been
born In Philadelphia Is Isaac Bacharach,
of the Atlantic City district of New Jer
sey. John H. Morln, of Pittsburgh, a mem
ber of tho Committee on Military Affairs,
Is also of Quaker City origin.
m
THERE wero three Pennsylvania eliglbles
at the large reception goven by Henry
W. Watson, of the Bucks-Montgomery dis
trict, to the Republican Senators and Rep
resentatives Senator Penrose, Joseph R.
Grundy, of Bristol, and the host himself.
There was another Interesting eligible, and
the only one of her kind, in the person of
Congressman Jeannetto Rankin, of Mon
tana. .No matter what others may thlnl:
about It, Congressman Rankin has devel
oped Into "a good fellow" among her
House colleagues. It was, therefore, In
order for Congressman Watson to Invite
her to his party and to present her to his
friends. But what Interested the Congress
men and Senators most was tho long and
Interesting conversation .which ensued
after the leader of Bucks County was pre
sented to the fair Representative from
Montana. The Grundles will talk but
Joseph R. Insists that Montana Is a large
wool-producing State, and that there Is
every reason why the manufacturers and
producers of wool should have a better
understanding. Somo of tho guests, in
cluding Congressman Vare, who again hob
nobbed under the Fame roof with Penrose,
contended that Grundy was explaining to
Congressman Rankin the advisability of an
early restoration of the American protec
tive tariff sjstem, in which the Montana
Representative is deeply Interested,
a a
"rpn.V YOUNG, as the intimato friends of
the Philadelphia manager of the Inter
national Merchant Marine lines know him,
believes In according honors to those to
whom they arc due. His long experience with
shipping men has taught him to appreciate
tho services of naal officers and those em
ployed In the mercantile marine. Mr.
Young has called tho attention of hli
Washington friends to the cane of Captain
Harvey, of the White Star liner Persic,
which sailed from Boston for London about
August 25 last with 2100 American troops.
When off the Scllly Islands tho Persic was
torpedoed, but with the aid of British de
stroyers all the troops and their equipment
were safely transferred. The captain of
the Persic then handled his vessel in such
a masterly way that she was finally
brought Into Mary's Roads, and, although,
badly disabled, Is soon again to be put In
commission. Captain Harvey recently put
Into Philadelphia as a passenger on the
Haverford. He brought with him some
evidences of British appreciation of his
services.
JUST to test out the efficiency of the
Burleson postal system, one of Con
gressman Strong's constituents out at
Reynoldsvlllo addressed a letter to the
"Hon, N. L" Washington. D. C. In due
course the letter arrived all right and Is
now In Mr, Strong's possession. All of
which goes to show that "N. L.," aa the
Congressman Is known throughout Arm
strong, Clarion, Indiana and Jefferson
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Visiting Poets
TTTE WERE giving a young English poet
a taste of Philadelphia, trying to show
him one or two of the simple beauties that
make life agreeable to us. Having Just
been photographed, he was In high good
humor.
"What o, pity," he said, "that you In
America have no literature that reflects
tho amazing energy, the humor, the ractf
ness of your life. I woke up last night at
the hotel and heard a mqtor fire-engine
thunder by. There's a symbol of the ex
traordinary vitality of America! My, If
I could only .live over here a couplo of
years, how I'd like to try my hand at it.
It's a pity that no one over hero Is put
ting down the humor of your lite."
"Have you read O. Henry?" we suggested.
"Extraordinary country," he went on.
"Somebody turned me loose on Mr. Mor
gan's library In New York. There was a
librarian there, but I didn't let her bother
me. I wanted to see that manuscript of
'Endymlon' they have there. I supposed
they would take me up to a glass case and
let me gaze nt it. Not nt all. They put
It right In my hands and I spent three
quarters of an hour over It. Wonderful
btuff. You know, the first edition of my
book is selling at a doub'.e picmlum in
London. It's been out only eighteen
months."
"How do you fellows get away with It?"
we asked humbly.
T .HOPE Pond Isn't going to book me
J- up for too many lectures," he said.
"I've got to get back to England In tho
Bprlng. There's a painter over thero wait
ing to do my portrait. . But there are so
many places I've got to lecture everybody
seems to want to hear about the oung
English poets."
"I hear Philip Glbbs is Just arriving In
New York," we said.
"Is that so? Dear me, he'll quite take
the wind out of my sails, won't he? Nice
chap. 0bos He sent me an awfully
cheery note when I went out to the front
as a war correspondent. Said ho liked, my
stuff about the sodgers. He'll make a pot
of money over here, won't l.c?"
a a
WE SKIPPED across City Hall square
abreast of somo trojley cars.
"I say, these trams keep ono moving,
don't they?" he said. "You know, I was
tremendously bucuea oy mai ueparimem
store you took tne to rec. That's the sort
of place one has to go to seo tho real art
of America. Those palntlnrs In there, by
the-elevators, they were uo.io i.y joung
English girl. Friend of mine In farj, she
did the pictures for my first book, pity
you have so few poets over here. You
mustn't make me lose my train, l'vo got
a date with Vachel Lindsay and Edgar I-ce
Masters In New York tonight. Vachel's
an amusing bird. 1 must get him over to
England and got him started. I've written
to Edmund Qosse about him. and I'm
going to write again. What a pity Irvln
Cobb doesn't write poetry. He's a gleat
writer. What vivacity,- what a rich vo
cabulary!" "Have you read Marl; Twain?" wo
quavered ,
"Oh, Mark's grand when lies serious;
but when he tries to be funny, you. know,
It's too obvious. I can always see him
feeling for the Joke. No. It doesn't come
off, You. know an artjst simply doesn't
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tho 'New Arabian Nights' ho really had
something to say; tho rest of the time he
was playing the fool on somo one else's
Instrument. You know stylo Isn't some
thing you can borrow from some one eles;
It's the unconscious revelation of a man's
own personality."
Wo agreed.
a a
T WONDER if there aren't some clubs
around here that would like to hear
mo talk?" he said. "You know, I'd like to
come back to Philadelphia If I could get
some dates of that sort. Just put mo wise
old man, If ou hear of anything. I was
telling some of your poets In New York
about the lectures I've been, giving. Those
chaps are fearfully rough with one. You
know, they'll Just 'ride over one rough
shod If you give them a chance. They
hate to see a fellow a success. Awful
tripe somo of them nre writing. They
don't seem to be expressing the spirit, the
fine exhilaration, of American life at all.
If I had my way I'd make .every one In
America read Rabelais and Madam Bovary.
Then they ought to study some of the old
English poets, like Marvel!, to give them
precision. It's lots of fun telling them
these things. They respond famously,
Now over In my country we poets are nil
so reserved, so shy, so taciturn.
"V7"OU know Pond, the lecture man in
New York, was telling me a quaint
story about Mascfleld. Great friend of
mjno. old Jan Masefield. He turned up In
New York to talk at some show Pond wbb
running. Had on some horrible old trench
boot's, There was only about twenty min
utes before the show began. -Well,' says
Pond, hoping Jon was going to change his
clothes, "aro jou all ready?1 'Oh, es,' says
Jan. Pond was graveled; didn't know Just
what to do. So he Hays, hoping to give Jan
a hint, 'Well, I've Just gqt to get my boots
polished.' Of course, they didn't need It
Americans' boots never do but Pond sits
down on a bool-pohshlng stand and the
boy begins to polish for dear life. Jnn sits
down by him, deep In somo Ilttlo book or
other, paying no attention. Pond whispers
to the boy, 'Quick, polish his boots while
he's leading.' Jan was deep In his book,
never knew what was going on. Then they
went off to the lecture, Jan in his Jolly old
sack suit."
WE WENT up to a private gallery on
Walnut street where some of the most
remarkublo literary treasures In the world
are ttoied, such as the original copy of
Ella given by Charles Lamb to the lady
he wanted to marry, Fanny Kelly. There
wo also saw some remarkable first edi
tions of Shelley.
"You know," he said, "Mrs. L In
New York I had an Introduction to her
from Jan wanted to give me a first edl
tlon of Shelley, but I wouldn't let her."f
"How do you fellows get away with it?"
we said again, humbly.
"Well, old man.'v he said, "I must be
going. Mustn't keep Vachel waiting. Is
this whero I train?" What a' ripping sta
tion. Some day I must write a poem about
all this. What a pity you have so fen
poets ..."
Ann Dante says that, i-a the woman
suffrage umendmont was defeated, the
femae.lstrom will continue as usual.
Js&irro
withdraw our
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N0NE.WITH CHARITY FSR
ALL,WITi1 FIRMNESS IN
TiiE RIGIlf, AS 60D GIVES
US TO SEE THE RIGHT-
LEADERS OF MEN
WHEN they are dead, we heap the laurel
high
Above them, where Indifferent they lie;
We Join their deeds to unaccustomed
praise
And crown with garlands of immortal
bays
Whom, living, 'we but thought to crucify.
As mountains seem less glorious, viewed
too nigh.
So often do the great whom we decry
Gigantic loom to our astonished gaze,
AVhen they nre dead.
For, shamed by largeness, littlenesses dit;
And, partisan and narrow hates put by,
Wo shrine our heroes for the future days,
And to atone our ignorant delays
With fond and emulous devotion try,
When they are dead!
Florence Earle Coates, in "The Book of
Lincoln."
Thieves who urcd to visit the Jewelry
stores seem now to bo Invading the butchsr
shops and carrying oft precious steaks and
chops. They know which commodity Is the
more valuable.
Nat Goodwin was eald at one time to be
a millionaire. Whether his Dress agent
started tho report or not we are uninformed.
'But tho invintory of the rstato of tho bril
liant comedian discloses that It wan worth
only $6000 at his death. This does not dis
prove the report of wealth, for Nat was a
frc spender.
Mr. Edison can stretch his arm at right ''&
M"t,vc (iwn ma iAim wini cimcr iDBb
and can work twenty-four hours without
sleep. He Is celebrating hls seventy-second
birthday by starting on r vacation trip to
Florida, where that other energetic joung
man, John Wanamuker, Is planning what ha
will do when ho Is a hundred.
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What Do You Knotv?
QUIZ
1. The assent of how many States was
necessary for the ratification of th
United State Constitution?
2. Who is Ole Hanson?
2. Whero Is Reunion Island and to what
nation does It belong?
4. What l.lnd of an animal is sometimes
called I'artlet?
6. What Is a buskin?
6. What Is pemmlcan?
7. Thomas A. Edison celebrated his birth
day on Monday. How old una he?
8. What distinguished British statesman
has- gone blind?
9. What is an HCglutlnative language?
10. What pirty has the largest number of
rtprcsi-ntatlvrs In tho Herman Na
tional AEscmbly nt Weimar?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz '
1. Four kings of England were named W1U
Ham. ;
2. "De rlgueur," as used In English, mean- '
required by etiquette.
3. The American commissioners appointed ' .
to meet tne iioiuhevist representa
tives at Prlnklpo aru William Allen
White and George Davis llcrron.
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given DS .U,602.:S8.
6. Qeorsla eclehratea ns legal holidays ths
birthday of Abraham Lincoln and ths -birthday
of Jefferson Davis. ' j
7. Millard Fillmore and Andrew JohaataV
wero tailors In early life.
8. Teheran Is the capital of Persia. v'
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