itVSj'' i - " c 1 ' m l'ili ' ' f UVENINtf PUBLIC LiJmEK PHlLABJbJLPHIA; FJH10AY, iBKl)AJlr 14, Mv j .r IvV i.- J le it l k a K c x ' j Veiling Jfablic Uc&get , THE EVENING TELEGRAPH l PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY OTTlttB H. K. CURTIS, Pihicint ..Qiarlea M. Luaint-tom Vice Preiideinj Jrfcn i Vartln, Cecreterr and "ireaaureri rtilllpS.i.'o)liin. John B. Wllllama, John J. hpurcron, Dlrretore ', , EDITORIAL BOARD! CtlOi II. K. CciTte, Chairman DJlTID X. SlIILEr , Editor JOHN C. MARTIN.... general Uuilneta Manager rubltehed dilly at Pcsuc T.skoii liutldlnr. Independence Square, Philadelphia. AlUNTIC ClTI Prttt-Vn nulldtur 'l Votl soj Metropolitan 'tower DrraoiT 03 J'onl lluli-Ilnic St, Loci . . tool milerton liul'dlnr Vmcico.. . . .tliou mbum Itulldlnr NEW. IlLitEAUS TViasiNOTox Dcautr. N, E. Cor. Penmrlvanla A. and Ulti St M Yon Urartu 'the Huii liulldinr 1.0SD0K neurit:. .. . ...London limit SUOSCniFTION TErtllS Tli Hvi.mmj TtaUc I.tixita ! unrj to tub ocribera tn I'Mladelphta and aurroundinr towni at tht rata of twelve (11') cente pr week. paab)e to tho carrier. Ilv mall to polnta ouulde of Philadelphia, tn tho United Statee. Canada, er United Htatee poa eeaalora, xtae tnt. tlfir tfcOl cents per montn. SIT (ni dnllara per star, paable In adtance. To ail foreign countrlte out Ul dollar par month. Notice Subierlbtre w ihlrc address chanred must the old as well aa new addreaa, sFLI.. 38(0 TALMT Kf.YSTONE. MAIN 5000 O" Arittrrss all rointnuu.'cnffoitt fo Etfnino riib.ie Ltdotr, tuttpcr.&tncc Stuart, PM.'fldr.'pMc, Member of the Aiiociitetl Press THE ASSOCIATED PHHSS it crrJii tlvely entitled to the use for i epubllcatloii of all iinr dispatches credited to it or not othcriclic credited in this paper, and alto tho local netct published therein. All right of republication of special dii patches herein are also reserved. rhil.Jfleai., frMit. I .li-uir- tt, 1011 ENDING JOKE THAT HAD COM', TOO EAR WHEN" this State committed itsc.f to the nonpartisan system of nominating Judges It evidently was in tho mood of the man who said ho was alwajs w.lllng to try anything once. But the nonpartisan Judiciary ac. has not worltccl out as Its advocates expected. There has been no Improvement In tho character of the men nominated and elected, and It happened two or three jears ago that an obscure lawjer with no qua!. flcatlons for the post received a nomination for a high Judical olllce. He would not have received serious consideration by any party under the partisan system of making nominations. Last fall when two 'udaes were elected and when, under tho unstItutIonal pro vision Intended to Necure the representa tion of the minority party on the bench, one of the successful candidates should have been a Democrat, the nonpartisan plan was so worked as to secure the elec tion of two Republicans. N'othlnit could have been more farcical. Word now comes from Harrlsburs that the farce is to be ended and that th? law is to be repealed this winter so that can didates for the bench may once more be "frankly nominated by the different parties, without any pretense that they are not. This is fortunate, for nothing is more pr nlcious than to make a fnrcc-?omedy of a judicial election. ASSETS VS. FEARS IN BUSINESS WORLD ALTOGETHER exempt from the dis-J-quieting taint of "Poryannalsm" Is fc William C. r.edneld's hopeful lew of Hi'Amvlcan business conditions. Speaking .. - u .vb...h wt tttu ..UiluilKI AV. UUUU3 Association In New York the other night, the Secretary of Commerce contrasted demonstrable" facts with the peculiarly prevalent brand of dismay which persists In Ignoring them. "it Is incontestable, as he maintained, that, "our own economic structure has not been shaken so severely as that of the other nations associated with us in tho ar." It Is equally true that "tho condi tion of the country Is sound," "the num ber of failures is small." and that "the bank resources were never larger or more liquid." That the business world remains timid in spite of these circumstances, that merchants, traders and minufacturers are fearful of the Immediate future Is. of course, the rcsuit of war shock and Its ab normal consequences and especially of the magnitude of reconstruction processes not yet completed. In ordinary times it is always possiole for the business man to "view- with alarm" the outlook and to be intimidated by n "grave menace" born of a dark hypothesis. But he seldom pauses to dwell deeply on uch possibilities, since the pale cast of thought may give rise to unhealthy and costly inaction. But Just now the whole earth is engaged In taking a monumental Inventory of Its defects commercial, social and political. The laborious procedure begets Impatience, coupled with a stultifj lng feeling that the times are out of Joint. So they always are in this world of error, but normally mankind accepts the sltua. tlon philosophically and proceeds with the day's work. That policy is assuredly in order now. This country is blessed with sufficient sound foundations of prosperity to give no warranty to a pss chologlcal slump. I'altli in Its firm possibilities Is a prime need of business toda. THE LST HOHENOLI.ERN HILER IN PERIL rpHE present plight of the UunmnUu monarchy virtually completes the repu dlatloa of the decrees of the cynical Con gress of Berlin with respect to the rest less southeastern Europe. The Bulgarian dynasty Is gone. Black Peter ascended the Serbian throne lit 1903 us u result of vio lent revolutionary methods. Nicholas has lost recognition by the Montenegrin Par liament. Turkey as an Ottoman empire Is ') nonexistent. Bosnia and Herzegovina, sev. ireJ trom'Autrla, crave Incorporation Into , t the" new state of Jugoslavia. t BUmarcUIun diplomacy was sustained , longer lit Rumania than unywhere else. Mince through all the upheavals of the i world war the crown of that country was 'in tho possession of u branch of the House of Hohenzollern. Carol, who died In 1914, Ly und the now hap!es Ferdinand, who sue- 2?7teded lilm. had not, Indeed, the slightest f racial claim to rule over tho Klavo-Latln kingdom, composed of the old prtnutpall- ftt of Wallachla and Moldavia. Whether She revolt which has broken out tn Bucha- la inspired by mad Bolshevism, which 'will dangerously complicate the situation, or ti domlnantly the result of a more nor mal popular movement, it has at least the lrtuo of rebuking the Hohenfcoltern r , Jtrst, flashy Invasion of Transyi- jtreeented a pHtous spec- tacle In the universal conflict. Her possi ble redeinptton under a kinsman of the Kaiser has been pnt.lng no small embar rassment to civilization, If she can now put her house In order without fulling . piey to Bolshevist anarchy her recovery may be In sight. OWN OUt HOMli. BUT OWN YOUR CITY V1RST 1 How the Real Estate llrok.cr Can Room Their Dutlneit nd Impror the Local Coternment THERE are more people In Philadelphia than can be accommodated with sult I ublr home. The number has been tn I creasing rapidly dutlng the last two years. and building has ulmost ceased. Yet In spite" of this condition several hundred ,.A-1 AamtA ttfil...,-,, ,Ti ?ii.il nt the 1tpl1e. . , Vd.u.V V1W..I..-, nu..wv.. ue-Stratford Hotel Inst night to make plans for u campaign In April to Induce people to own their own homes. We wild "m splto of this condition." It would be more correct l. say because of this condition Within tho next twelve ! months several thousand new houses ore ' to be built if the builders can get the 1 material and the labor. The must do this n order to supply the demand. They hope to sell the homes Instead of renting them. The Own-Your-Home drive of the real estate brokers Is to be undertaken to assist the builders in finding purchasers. It Is an elTort toward Intelligent co-operu-(Ion lii-t wren the middlemen and the pro ducer and It rleseres (o lie crowned with the success which all uorth endeavor merits. ' i Such a campaign is hkel to be more successful here than In any other large American city, for this is a community of home owners. Tt has more individual homes tn proportion to the population than any other considerable city in the country. Here are the latest available fig ures showing the number of dwellings and tho number of persons occupying each dwelling In ten cities with a population In excess of 400.100: No. of Persons to dwellings a dwelling Philadelphia 103,000 S 2 Baltimore . 101,000 3 5 Detroit .... 83.000 3 Plttsburgli ST.OOO' I. I t'lexcland 00.000 0 .' San Prancisco . 6S.O0O 0 4 hV. Louis . . 133,000 6.5 Chicago . . 24G.000 8 9 Boston 74,000 0.1 New York.. . C03.000 ISC New York and Boston arc cities of apart ment houses where families live in strata , In huge cliffs or arc filed away In small compartments in tho same kind of cabinet's I which efficiency experts have Invented for j the convenience of business men. There are big buildings In these cities which j house the population of a village. To call I the small suite of rooms occupied b:- each family .a home Is to misuse that sacred word. There are few aparti.icnts in Philadel phia, though such structures have begun to rear themselves In the heart of the city within the Mist three or four years. They will continue to go up west of Broad street and south of Market for a long vhllc to come, for the land there Is getting to be too valuable for single residences, and hundreds of families which once lived there are spending six or eight months of the j ear on their country estates and are find ing It more convenient to maintain an apartment than a house In town for the remaining months. Capital will find profitable investment in such structures, as every one thus far erected has been filled with tenants at high rents as soon as It was ready to receive them, and there Is an Increasing demand for accommoda tions within easy wulklng distance of the theatres and the shops nnd the fashion able hotels. But the average citizen Is not Interested in these huge human filing cab inets. He could not afford to live In them if he would, nnd If he has a family of small children he vould not be allowed to enter them if he could pay the price. He wants a house of his own, where his children may play on the piazza and In the back yard and where they may make as much noise as they please without fear of an ogerlsh Janitor frowning them into silence. There Is vacant land within a reasonable distance of the City Hall on which the homeseeker Is hoping that builders will put up modest houses which he can buy or rent at a pnefr vithin hH means. And the real estate brokers arc about to do their bet to &ee that he is accommodated. But their efforts will fail of the success which they deserve unless the city authori ties co-operate with them. Evcrv depart ment of the city government Is demanding more money. The Board of Public Educa tion is asking that it be allowed to levy eight mills Instead of six on every dollar of the assessed aluation of real estate In order to provide the money which It thinks it needs for the support of the schools. It has made out a plausible case for itsoi:, too. The teachers ought to tecehe higher salaries and the dilapidated and insani tary schoolhousespught to be rebuilt. No one will deny either of these propositions. The other city departments want money for Improvements equally Important, and the offer equally plausible arguments tn justification for their demands. Hut in (lie present conditions, with everyone burdened with excessive and inescapable war taxes, it is the duty of the local government here, ,aa well as In every other part of the coun try, to retrench and to economize. It may be necessary to cut out all of the frills and fads In the schools and to con fine them to the essential subjects in order that money may be found for pajlng a living wage to the teaching staff and for building new school houses. But however that may be, It Is Important that every superfluous employe In every clt depart ment be discharged, and that those who remain should do a full day's work every day If the tax rate Is to be kept within reasonable limits. And it is Important, too, that there should be some revision of the alary schedule. It Is Inexcusable to pay a court tlpstave, who la a mere door tender, f2000 a ear while we pay a trained school teacher only 1800, and a policeman, who risks his life, only $1800, We are raising enough money now if properly used to pay all the expenses of the city government and have a handsome surplus left, put there ! no disposition to make a dollar do u dollar' wotffc ? work, fer the city, and thete has rnrelv been such a disposition In this dt If the ie.il estate biokers will make a de rmoid for retrenchment and reform a part of their pwii.Your-Hoiue campaign the w lit do more to Insure its success than they .can accomplish In, any other way. The prospective purchaser would like to be assured that there will l9 no Increase in the tax i ate. If he could be told that the twelve hundred brokers would combine to demand economies In the City Hall now nnd the election of u now city government on a program of business efficiency he would be in a better mood than he Is now I to consider buying a home. Man men ' will bu. and take their chances, hut we could have no better propagandists for good government than tho real estate I brokers If they would pledge rath pur chaser to consider the business capniily of etcry tvmdldato for office nnd vote against, the men who are known to be more interested in the distribution of the plums than In the conservation of the ie sources of the city An Own-Your-Home campaign running along with nn Own-Your-City-Flrst propa ganda can accomplish wonders for this great community If It is conducted with imagination and insight. IT DIDN'T GET THERE, BIT IT'S ON THE WAY rptlE seniority rule, which has hitherto --governed the selection of committee chairmen in tho Senate, has not been re pealed by the caucus of Republican Sena tors, but the caucus made a start In that direction It has voted that no Senator may be a chairman of more than one of the ten Important committees, and may have n seat on only two such committees, and may serve as a member of a conference committee from only one of the two unless tho second committee asks that he be appointed. It has not been the custom to name the same Senator as chairman of two impor tant committees, but the same Senator has served on three or four of the committees which control legislation. The Democrats who now control the Senate followed the example of the Republicans. . When tho Republicans were in control Senator Iodge was chairman of the Com mittee on Immigration and ho. sat on the Committee on rinance. Porcign Relations and Naval Affairs. Senator Penrose was chairman of the Committeo on I'lnance nnd was a member of the Committees on Immigration. Naval Affairs and Railroads. Both Penrose and Lodge served on other committees, but the others were of minor importance. When tho Democrats got control Sena tor Underwood, for example, was made chairman of the Committee on Cuban Re lations nnd sat on the Committees on Ap propriations, on Expenditures for the De partment of .lustlcq. on Interstate Com merce and on Rules. Senator Reed has held the chairmanship of one importnnt committee and has had a place on four 'others of the first class. Smith, of Ccor gia; Hitchcock, Fletcher, Overman nnd others have served on four big committees, of one of which each was chairman. The new rule will prevent a small group of Senators from controlling the impor tant committees. It Is In tho Interest of a wider representation of national senti ment In the action of the Senate. But It does not provide a way for displacing tho senior Republican from the chnlr manship of a committee in order to per mit the appointment of n man qualified by ability and popular support to preside over its deliberations. The time will come when the seniority rule will be disregarded as it is disre garded in promotions in th" army when a great emergency arles. The failure of the Senate Republican caucus to disre gard it now is likely to produce compllca tlons which will make trouble for the party in 1910. But if the caucus had at tempted to disregard the old custom now there would have been trouble right away. We assume that It chose what it regarded as the lesser of two evils. The tale of the l.ule iid .Voir There Indians on tlie wall re hlx! is reversed in Rus sia, where one by une tlio factions bob up with their little ac ceptances for tho Prlnklpo meet Rumania seems to be suffering vividly from Bucharestlessness. A sweeping indemnity is lll.el to gath.tr up altogether too much dirt. The Amcrlcus f'lub. of Pittvljurgn. did not Intend to knock Knox when II boomed him for the presWlrnc. The Senate Ik lucky. It un ,as8 the tux bill, whereas the public Is unable to get around it in any fashion The piivate life of kings seems UU1 to compose the whole of It, not meTtlj a single phase, us in other nnd sliowltr duvs. Pet haps the most hopeful sign tiboui the Peace Confer nee is the wav In which dead locks ure opened with extrtrr.ely live keys. Valf; was by fat tne meet significant syllable in the valentine which William Ho henzollern tecelved from the CJermavi people. The new revenue bll now uwalts the President's signature and the lest of us await the tax bills with undisguised appre hension. The' pilntlple of open covenants openly arrived at accorded strangely ill etTday with the flood of nnonmous valentines In the malls In uKlng for recognition, the new Uer mau Uov eminent should lemember that by all tlie rules of etiquette she Is not exempt from a certa'u amount of bowing on her part . Euiope' declares a footgear purwor. "Is now on a wooden shoe basis." And yet somehow the impression prevails that rub ber soles aro being worn more than ever in Paris. iit-Lieinent"' is what Governor Sprout cries to his new Public Service Commission appointee, tuid that la precisely descriptive of the weather lit political camps whose occupants squirm when they witness the recognition of men of real merit THE MOOD OF METZ UNDER THE TRICOLOR Blue Lniforms Everywhere in Lor raine City.Xo Overt III feci--itig Manifested by Sonic- . iciW Dazed Inhabitants AT Till: dare de lllst in Paris you start being In Qernian. For the train Is n Cerninlu train, In which ou are still warned against "Splonengefnlir." or dat.gef of spies, nnd are requested not to "spuclten" and not to "hlnauslehnen," nnd hot to commit vari ous other crimes which would not otherwise have occurred to jou. The carrlago windows arc several of litem broken no great dis advantage when traveling ten In a carriage made to sent sixand the red plush of the seats Is frequently absent Sometimes the cushions are lacking nllogelhcr. All along the line you see teams of engines and trucks Herman engines and trucks whereon nr written Mainz, Kattovvitr.. Chemnitz, Dus seldorf, and so on. The cngl-.ies look like strings of elephants rjoldlng each' other's tails. At Pont-a-Mousson a ru.n jou see the Inst of the French trenches. At Pagny jou hnvo tho opposing Oerman position, Cicrman notices nt tipsy angles inform you of air raid shelter?. A prominent Institution In Pagny Is a small building labeled "Entlau sungsanstalt." It takes a little time to real iro that, alone among the ruins, the Institute for relieving you of vermin has held Its own A FTER Pagny the country begins to smile again. Frer.chmtn find It hard to bear tho sight of their own dev.-urtaled country in such close contrast with the ai tactness of country that was, or still is, for that matter. Germany, Thero Is a tremen dous sense of age. of' human struggle, about this part of the country. Away to the right are the immense Roman ruins of Jouv-les-Arches, one of the popular expedition points for the people of Mcts. The Cathedral of Metz comes into sight the Cathedral of which one of the local guide books points out as the distinguishing feature the great interest taken in it by the Kalicr. The statue on tho cathedral of the prophet Daniel, by tlie way, which has the features of the Kaiser, is still there, with its hands bound, and the legend "Sic transit gloria mundl," There have been agitations for Its removal altogether, but the historic sense has pre vailed so far, and the happy thought of the "Sic transit" has reconciled people 10 re taining it. npHE station at MetE is a scelhli.g mass of blue. Any greater contrast than the crowded leave trains and the crowded troop trains all blue and blue again with the lmmcne German station. Its Norman-rococo style, known as Rhenish, extraordinarily reminiscent of a Wagner opera, can hardly be Imagined. There is not a German uni form anywhere. German civilians ato only allowed to travel on permits. German minor otriclals man the ticket offices nnd wear their smart blue peaked caps in an unsmart, depre cating manner. German women are In clined to be pettish at tho vnrlous restric tions; otherwise ever; thing is orderly, and you can stow away your luggage at half the cost for which you could deposit it at Charing Cross. There is an excellent train service, of which the jlrlce has onl been raised in the last few weeks. It is crowded, nnd German civilians and ex-soldiers nnd blue "pollus" Jostle each other without In cident. The tram conductors' for the most part wear new French fatigue caps in bright blue or bright scarlet. Tho fatigue cap in Metz Is the outward and visible sign of French sjmpathy. There are very many fatigue caps. The children particularly have adopted them. Other signs are immense ad vertisements that such and such a house is a "malson francalse." Tho streets which used to have both German and French names now have enly French names, though the German may be written In bracketa for the use of those who do not know French. In the trams Is n nottcs an ultra-polite notice that "on est prle au mesurc du possible do ne parler que le francals." All the same, you hear a great deal of German, particu larly frqm the peasant women, and not In a low voice either. To a certain extent Metz protests a lttle too much. It Is not likely that what has been tho most German of German garrison towns, with nn Immense imported German population, Bhould nt a bound become wholly French. There are too many French labels, too many tricolor cockades. In the tram a German - speaking peasant woman with a large basket was offered a seat by a French "poilu." She refused, looking daggers nt him. This is an attitude commanding re spect. For the most part, however, the public attitude approaches the servile. At the hotels the proprietors of clearly German origin fall over each other to serve you. The big hotels are cheap and the food ex cellent. THE shops aie crammed with things calcu lated to appeal to the foreign occu piers. Picture postcards nnd guide books, souvenirs of all kinds, French-German gram mars can all be had In any number at a very low price. There is a general tendency to enter Into conversation As the occupier of a conquered country, one feels a certain re serve In rpeaklng to the Inhabitants, but the further you get Into Germany the more Germans are unxlous to speak to 'jou, to give you information of any kind and even n rtlm-usa the situation. At Saarbrucken, for Instance, where I anlved nt 11 o'clock ut , night, the German waiter at uie uerman hotel informed me within two minutes of my arrival that he had not served: that his grandfather was French; that his mother had been' lu France, and that It was a good thing tlie war was over. In Metz they are less genealogical, but outwardly as unxlous to oblige. They usualb begin a conversation by saying genially that It Is a good thing tho war is over. All the time they are expecting you to bully them and theirs Is a sort of paws-up attitude. And, as a French officer told me, ou have to do it sometimes; otherwise they take it that you have no authority. , The Governor pf Mt- General de Maud'huy. has a house at the back of the Place d'Arines, He has lost no time In making It French, In tho antechamber there are plctuies presented to the town of .vietz In 1J091 They are of the Wlnterhalter kind, If jou can Imagine Wlnterhalter In landrcape. On the tofa Is an Immense I'nlon Jack, given hlin by Sir pouglaB Halg, In the mlddlo of which he Intends to put a portrait of the English commander-in-chief. He haw a fairly tough row to hoe. The close Juxta position of Germans nnd Flench In .Metz makes it more of a problem than a purely Uerman occupied town. THE peop'e have a fairly well-fe-d look. Compaied with those In some of the French battlefields, they look robust. The fat dlltlcult Is. of course, the worst. The bread Is distinctly bad. though It varies In the different towns. On the vvhoe. It bccomet worse all jou get furlher into German. I wonder whether, under the French, tlie population of Metz will lose lta beaten look. It does t.ot look conquered there Is not enough overt 1 l-feellr.g for that -but It does look as though It luvd been kicked and ex- pccieu to oe Kicueu nBaiMv"-"'" rni, in the Manchester GuardJ"-. .. - "'"'";:- .-7. '.'. Z'Am ". ) i ! j i '- i"- Jn-".- ;. i i jSil&j ' '. ", Jf" r i I i ' i' jr ' ' ' . , ! ' i',,,'i?,3$- -'x-h: i- 11' '' ' hH Sp& THE CHAFFING DISH A Wedded Valentine TEAR, may I be your Valentine? "' Not just todaj-, In weather fine. Not Just todaj-, lit lover's mood. But through life's each vlclssltudel Not Just when girlish eyes still shine, Dear, inay 1 bo j'our Valentine, But through all mortal whims and fits Whllo Time our human fibers knits. And though, most sweet, mv peevish earth Is hardly such promotion worth. Dear, may I be j-our Valentine And learn to make your virtue mine-.' Recalling by love's old refrain Our wistful joy, our happy pain. I write this pleading, smiling line Dear, may I ho your Valentine? Discrimination "History is so unfair," lamented the Kaiser, while he was opening his valen tine from Bentlnck. "George Washington cut down a chert y tree and every one praised him for It, My men cut down whole orchards of them in France, ns a delicate compliment to the American", and now you call them Huns." Caught in the Undertow Colin, worshiping some frail. By self-dcprecatlon sways hei . Calls himself unworthy male Hardly even fit to praise her But this tactlo insincere In tho upshot greatly grieves him When he finds the lovely dear Quite implicitly believes him! ANN DANTE. Probabl.v the reason why , open-air oru torv Is going out of fashion is that states men in the open And it so hard to tei.d the handwriting ori'tlie wall. 'My offense is rank," said the uufottu uate Russian grand duke as he was potted by the Bolshevists. We'll Print It, Henrv j hut ou , Swim Against the Current BREATHEH there the man with soul so deud Who never to himself hath said Last night 1 drank the fizz too deep. Last night the flz.4 was fountaiuous! Whose heat t hath ne'er within him burned, Whose brain ne'er waggled, As home his footsteps he hath turned And dunced or straggled Feeling the pavement sway and leap Last night the streets weie mountainous! IF .Sl'Cll thete bteathe, so murk him well! For him no bacohlc raptures swell: High though his titles, proud his name, Aquarian bliss let fishes claim! Despite his titles or position. The wretch, the friend of prohibition, Living, shall forfeit harmless laughter, Dying, shall merit no hereafter, Parched In the dust from whence he slunk, I'nvvept. untoasted, and undrunk! HENRY JL'LEP. Why Is writer's cramp so common and talker's cian.p so rure',' T. R. Publisher Among the many anecdotes of Theodore Roosevelt that have Intel)' been published, we have-not seen any ullusioti to the very Interesting passage In Major George Haven Putnam's "Memories of a Publisher." In which he describe T. R. as an office asso. elate. It seem that (coming back from the "HEY, I'M YOUR VALENTINE!" West lit 1884 then a joung man about twenty-five Roosevelt was struck with the Idea of becoming a publisher, and mado a connection with Major Putnam's firm. Major Putnam says (writing in 1911): I found myself at once Interested In the exuberant vitality and wide suggestivenees of the young man, who even at that date and with a comparatively limited experi ence of the world, was full of opinions strongly held and emphatically uttered. I was glad on more grounds than one to secure his association with our concern. The connection was made In the form of a special or limited partnership, but Theo dore had a desk placed in the office, and as hia home was in the Immediate neigh borhood of the business lie found it con venient to be on hand for a large portion of tho olllce hours. He promptly doveloped a full measure of original theories for the running of U publishing business, theories which wcro nlvvaj-s Interesting but which, in most cases, did not appear to be prac ticable or promising of good results under the existing conditions. However em phatic Theodore might be in presenting a plan or a piece of counsel, he accepted always good-naturedly enough an adverse Judgment, and a day or two later would have In readiness a fresh bunch of schemes and suggestions. I became ,verj fond of the man, although there were times when the prolific suggestions and the exuberance of utterance came to be fatiguing. "Manning" the Pumps A San Francisco paper, quoted by the Bookman, reports tho last adventure of the Casco, the famous yacht chartered thirty years ago by Robert Louis Steven son to cruise the South Seas. Says the Frisco sheet: ."The vessel came Into San Francisco recently with all hands manning the pumps to keep the flush hull from sinking. The adventure ship came from Suva, and for th last, fortv-four dajs of the voyage Captain Troup and his crew of five, in cluding the cook and the' bride of the skipper, hod never left the pumps a mo ment . . . his bride says she has had quite enough of the Stevenson ship." Fair Warning We wish to give notice thut ut the first available opportunity we intend to write an essay In this department on Cynics and Sentimentalists. The basis of this essaj will be the thought that vhen you need help, need It badly and need it tight hw-qj-, the man to go to is the cynic. We mention this only n the hope that perhaps some one else will write this bet ter than we can. We will give one good cigar to the author of the lyst essay sub mitted ou this topic. Our Own Desk Motto Whether, 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous talk ing. Or to take anna against u sea pf syllables And by opposing end them, . . SOCRATES. The Wise Dog One day there passed by a company of cats u wise dog. And as he came near and saw that they wero very Intent and he'eded htm not, he stopped. Then there aiose lu the midst of the com pany a large, grave cat, and looked upon them and said, "Brethren, pray je; and when ye have prayed again and jet again, nothing doubting, verily then It shall rain mice." And when the dog heard this lie laughed In his heart and turned from them, saying, 'O blind and foolish cats, has'lt not been written, and huve I not Unowp and my father before me that that v.'i.c'j ral.ictli for prayer and faith and supplication Is Pot mice, but bones (1Kahll) Qlbran, Is the Madman A MIDDLE-AGED VALENTINE SWEET SIXTEEN is shy and cold, Calls me "sir," and thinks me old; Hears In an embarrassed way All the compliments I pay: " Finds my homage quite a bore, Will not smile on me, and more v To her tasto she finds the noise ' And the chat of callow' boys'. ' Not the lines around mj- ee, Deepening as tho jears go bj . Not white hairs that strew mj heud, Nor my less elastic tread: Cares I find, nor joys 1 miss. Make me feel my years like this ' Sweet sixteen is shy and cold, Calls me, "sir," and thinks me old! -Walter Learned 1l847-l9l5J. If tho Senate would spend less time In tulUng nnd nfore in voting It would do busi ness faster and reduce the bulk of the , Congressional Record. John Galsworthy says that the best nov el of the war Is yet to bo written. If we can believe the publishers' announcements It has already been written several times. The small boy who dreams of fighting bandits no longer has to plan to run away to tlie far West. No, Gwendoljn, the Aqultanla, oil which Lord Reading, tho British ambassador, 'will sail for America in a few- days, is not a sea- co'.nc water wagon, 'I Mr. Wilson, after attending the closing sessjon of Congress, plans to sail for France again on March IS, which will put him on the ocean on St. Patrick's Daj-. rfhatDo You Know? QUIZ Who Is tlie new Chancellor of Germany? Name six Russian factions .which have accepted the Entente's invitation to the Prlnklpo conference1. From what language Is the word ham mock 'derlvedV What State, according to the last Lulled States census, Is the most densely populated? What plant eats insects" What is an amalgam V "Who was Jonathan Trumbull-.' What'SJouth Amerlcun' republic Is some- ttme.s called the Banda Oriental? What son of Columbus accompanied, him on his last voj-age to the New World? I Who wrote th? pl.-y "The Jew of Ja)ta"? 10, Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Frledrlch" Ebert has been , elected , Provisional President of Germany, , 2 Nickel does not tnrnlsh because the I oxydlzatlon resulting from exposure 'j to the air takes me same nue as ine , metal. 3. The aphis, or plant-louse, yields so- called honey dew tor anla 'when stroked by those insects. Ience the name "ants' cow." . ' 4. A qulnlon Is an untique five-stringed, in- , strument, the predecessor of the modern - cello. 5. The first issue o'f Liberty Bonds is tax , free. ' 6. Uuudeloupe and Its small dependent Islands and Martinique are French possessions in the West Indies. 7. The United States paid Spain 5, 000,000 , for Florida In 1819, " t, 8. The first President of the United States . to die In ofllce was William IJenry ' Harrison, in J 841. :) t). U'.e Built the Norwegian violinist, .iv'ds known as "The Paganlnl, of the IorfU,"1 10, "Flat ux" means VL,V-1'1" b V&t" 9 -. C ' LV t ?M. VU)i w a, j , . t) :4, , viA .. - . ,j?Z ,-.-r.., -... ; ii: j -'n. fsr ir laniiMir i . ,aor,..u it j j , . .Vi jSfSLLc . V . .URr.K . I
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers