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..Qiarlea M. Luaint-tom Vice Preiideinj Jrfcn i
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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is to be repealed this winter so that can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
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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.
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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. '
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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"-.
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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"?
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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. :)
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