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Philadelphia, t rjnrld.y. M.rfh 26. 1919
ARE YOU ONE OF THE 38,000?
"POR cver two men or corporations
-- who paid an income tax in 1917 there
were nearly three in the Philadelphia
district who have begun to pay an in
come tax for 1918.
The increase is 38,000 in round num
bers, or about 31 per cent.
And yet we hear men talking about
business depression. Conditions are not
satisfactory, it is true, but when 38,000
men whose income was below the taxable
limit in 1917 have had it raised in one
year high enough to come within the
purview of the collector of internal leve
nue things are not quite so bad as they
might be. These men certainly have
felt the effect of war prosperity and
have nothing to complain of.
THE LEGISLATURE MUST ACT
rpHE reasons set forth by John C.
, Winston in Hanisburg yesteiday for
changing the method of electing Council
men are unanswerable.
Under the present system Councilmen,
elected by the voters among GOO.00O of
the population, are able to control the
Select Council. The city has a popula
tion of 1,800,000 at the lowest estimate.
Wards with 700 voters and wards with
10,000 voters each elect one Select Coun
cilman, so that voters in one part of the
city have fifteen times the power that is
exercised by voters in another pait.
The committee of citizens is asking
for changes in the charter which will do
away with this injustice. It ought not
to be" necessary to do more than state
the facts as they are to convince the
members of the Geneial Assembly of the
necessity for action. The rotten borough
system in England was abolished nearly
a hundred years ago when the parlia
mentary refoim bill was passed. But
we have right here in Philadelphia at
the close of the second decade of the
twentieth century a lot of "rotten bor
oughs," the potfer of which to befuddle
the city government still remains. Popu
lar government is a farce under buch
conditions.
AN OMEN IN THE SKY
TP THE German army .staff had had
possession of a device by which an
airplane without a pilot was steered in
a. hundred-mile citcle about the aviation
field at Fort Woith the Hohenollerns
might have conquered the world.
Plainly, the aerial torpedo which scien
tists in half a dozen countries worked
upon feverishly during the last two
years of the war has arrived. Especially
in Germany they used to dream of a
missile as deadly as the heaviest subma
rine projectile, which would travel
through the air on wings a'nd drop upon
a camp or a city in obedience to wireless
Jmpulses projected from a great dis
tance. It has been said that in almost
every belligeient country the army staffs
were fearful that some such contrivance
would appear at any day from the enemy
side and everybody in the confidence of
governments knew that it was being car
ried swiftly toward complete perfection
in different laboratoiies. With such a
weapon the Germans could hae de
stroyed Paris or London in a night.
Secretary Baker, in his reference to
the automatic aii plane, did not divulge
the details of its operation. But in ex
periments previously made the sensitive
ness of certain rare metals to electrical
action has been utilized successfully in
steering water craft that maneuveied in
)iusy harbors, though no living soul was
aboard,
Tnyentions of this sort, which will
grow more perfect daily, show how futile
war has become. Victory in future wars
, will not go to the bravest men or to the
TVlrtesf' rlnpnwiii'nni l.4- J-- J.1 .
Wb iv , """""st "!- iu me ciueiest and
as the' least scrupulous.
WHEN DID THE WAR END?
JUDGE EVANS, of thc.United States
" Court fbr tlie Western District of
Kentucky, has decided that the "war was
brought to a close when the armistice
was signed."
V. ' Ae n 1 T..1 , .. .. .
?V,j .iM.-jr ucjiuiiu x-aimer noids that
$tp Congresa declared -war and that Con-
4 -gresa alone can decide when the war is
i"rV ended by ratifying a treaty of rjeace
v ftJl C-. -1 Ti 1 .. ...
.nu octruiary DUKcr, 01 tne War De-
artment, says that the signinir of the
ffmistice merely ended hostilities.
, .-.. vuuii, utnajuH nut, Kreaier ioree
, a Jthan an opinion by a cabinet officer.
Li Judge Evans's ruling, if sustained, is
' likely to produce o series of complica
jj'ttoas, the unraveling of which will tax
''tiii'ingenuity of ,'the most skillful.
,. $ft example, a man who enlisted for
B:Hratl6n qi the war may claim his
narga a; once, as a matter of right,
r;ne neow on Europe or in, this
tucky court, the common Impression is
that the war is not vet over. Annies
ore still in the field prepared to move if
conditions demand it. The signing of an
armistice involves merely a suspension of
hostilities which may be renewed at any
time until n formal peace has been
arrived ot. If the representatives of the
Central powers refuse to sign the peace
treaty tho war is not yet ended. And
the pence commissioners in Paris aio
aware that such an outcome of their de
liberations is not beyond tho realms of
possibility. It looks as' if the Kentucky
judge would have to guess again
WHO WILL ENDOW THE
PEACE OF THE WORLD?
Monej for an International Exchange of Stu
dents Would E(Tcctiely Buttress the
League of Nations
rpHE pioblem before the world now is
or.e in which statesmanship and edu
cation are itally intermingled. It is of
acute significance at a time when Ameri
ca's spokesman to the nations is a former
college professor that the man men
tioned as probably the next ambassador
from London to Washington is the
British Minister of Education, a distin
guished scholar and university man, Mr.
Herbert Fisher. In the terribly complex
and embitteied confusion thnt faces us
we shall have to undertake with patient
method the gradual process of interna
tional enlightenment and mutual under
standing that have hitheito only pros
pered by hazard.
The lengue-of-nations plan provides
the skeleton machinery, which must be
clothed with the tissues of friendship
and discernment if it is to be more than
a prismatic dream. The Biitish, with
their pragmatic habit of viewing things
in the large, have already taken impor
tant steps to encourage the intei change
of students and teachers between Great
Britain and this country. Even befoie
the armistice was signed the British
universities' mission was on its way over
here to discuss plans for increasing the
mutual circulation of students.
It is to be hoped that our own coun
try will not be backwaid in developing
plans to extend this valuable idea. Our
period of self-satisfied aloofness is at an
end. It is important that we should
send our students abroad. It is no less
important that we should tak'e every
possible step to encourage foreigners to
come here. Think what it would mean
in the -way of international understand
ing if some great government fund could
bo appropiiated for scholarships to be
awarded to qualified young men of all
lands to visit Ameiica and pursue their
studies in our colleges for one or more
years. Just now the great menace is
said to be Bolshevism. This, if wo un
deistand it at all, is not merely hunger.
It is hunger of the spirit as well as
hunger of the flesh. It thrives on ignor
ance, which is the loot of hatred. Sup
pose we had had, for the last thirty
years or so, a hundred students a year
coming to this country fiom the univer
sities of Russia and central Europe. It
is unlikely that we would have had to
spoak of Russia as a "menace" or that
Russia would have spoken of us in the
same terms. The only leal buffer state
against the ills of the future is education
in one another's problems, habits and
wajs of thinking.
Occasionally gieat individuals hae
taken up this problem and endeavored
toward a solution. Adolph Kahn in
Paris founded the Kahn Traveling Fel
lowships to send English and American
college toachcis traveling round the
voi Id on a liberal stipend. The magnifi
cent scheme of Cecil Rhodes is known to
all. The operations of the Rhodes trust
naturally fell into abeyance during the
war, but aie now to be levived, under a
new and more liberal working1 plan,
which offers generous opportunities for
graduate work to American Rhodes
scholars. Even the Kaiser's exchange
professorships, though in the light of
retrospect they seem like propaganda,
were in great pait an honest and a valu
able contribution to international en
lightenment. What we would like to see
now is some notably generous endow
ment in this country, either govern
mental or private, that will bring to our
seats of learning the fresdi and inspiring
presence of thousands of foreign stu
dents, eager to examine our civilization
for themselves. It is hard to say what
a notable influence for good has been
the presence of thousands of Japanese
undergraduates in our colleges during
the last generation. The earlier mem
bers of that succession of eager young
men have now become leading citizens in
their home land. It is to such men -that
we can safely intrust the interpretation
of American ideals and motives in times
of crisis. Influences of that sort are
quite as powerful as any written
treaties.
The number of Mexican students in
American universities has increased in
significant fashion in the last two years.
We look forwaid to the day when from
all over" Central and South America a
constant stream of the best blood of
their youth will come to study under our
professors., to fraternize With our under
graduates and to carry back to their
home circle a keen understanding of
wliat we have and are.
The air these days is full of many and
strange voices. The world has been
shaken out of its old composure; every
where men are yearning for some assur
ance that all the horrors of the last
years have not been in vain. After so
terrible an ordeal, shaking the pillars of
civilization to their very basis, it is
natural that the rebuilding of peace
should be a long, painful task. Panics,
social revolutioss, infinite confusion and
long disorder must, be the inevitable
aftermath of the cynical act of those
irresponsible maniacs who deliberately
threw the world's machinery out of gear.
But slowly, gropingly, order and sense
will reassert themselves. It' must.be our
task to prop and stabilize order by a
patient, systematic campaign of inter
national education. When we are send
ing students and teachers, in the course
af.awrmal routine, to all the countries
I cally from these same countries, then the
compulsive machinery of the league of
nations will little by little be under
propped and based upon a broad human
interchange of problems and ideals that
will moke humanity safe for the humane.
Cecil Rhodes, the greatest pioneer in
the international exchnnge of ideas, had
a vision which was for deeper than a
mere educational hobby or on ottempt
to impress young foreigners with the
glories of British imperialism. His
dream was cherished and thought out
through many years. It was his anti
dote for weariness, discouragement and
disillusion. He said once, "Whenever I
am in a railway train, whenever I nm
tired or have a few moments for think
ing, whenever I don't know just what to
do with myself, I close my eyes and
think about my great idea." His "great
idea" was the unification of tlie three
great nations, on whom he saw the peace
of the world depended, in the persons of
their student youth. Ho wanted to mako
his own alma mater, Oxford, tho alembic
in which these streams of vigorous in
quisitiveness would mingle and fuse for
better understanding and jointure of
ideals. The three great nations of his
'dteam were Great Britain, the United
States and Germany.
Tho years since 1904, when Rhodes's
beneficiaries first reached Oxford, have
shown how keen his vision was. Ger
many had gone too far in her wanton
course of fanatic dominion to be checked
by sending n few score of young Ger
mans to an English university. But
even with the results in mind, the Ger
man portion of Rhodes's scheme cannot
be said to have been a failure. Young
AmeKcans, Canadians, Australians and
Germans mingled in the enchanting life
of young England at Oxford, "matched
minds" together and went off rejoicing
into their own careers. Oxford wel
comed them just as she does her birth
right sons Not the least touching illus
tration of her affection for her foster
children has been tho fact that at least
one Oxford college, setting a tablet in
her cloisters to commemorate her alumni
who had fallen in the war, included on
the bronze loster the names of her for
mer Geiman pupils who had died fight
ing against England. Oxford is in war
what she and every other true home of
learning has always been in study and
in spoit. She plays tho game. Stand
ing in her matchless bower of immortal
loveliness, where the heart catches fire
from old tiaditions of truth and beauty
enshrined in her pinnacles and vistas of
gray stone, she has little time for mere
hatred. Tho world is too full of a num
ber of things!
In the rebuilding of civilization the
statesman and the scholar will have to
work hand in hand. The architecture of
nations must be built upon some firmer
foundation than meie fiat boundaries or
"conidors" to the sea. In the realm of
the spiiit there is no such thing as paro
chial hatred; only a happy rivalry in the
pursuit of Truth. Those who love
America must hope that her vision will
be great enough to include some scheme
of advancing international understand
ing through the cumulative process of
exchanging the ideals of youth.
Who will be the American Cecil
Rhodes? Here is a chance for Henry
Ford to experiment with the marvelous
expanding power of a vast fortune, con
structively and idealistically applied!
,, The State Senate has
Tho Perfect passed the Governor's
Procrastinator bill proldlns for a
commission to study
the constitution with a view to recom
mending ita reWsion. As there were no
dissenting votes. It is likely that the House
also will appnne it. As a de!ce for de
laying what should be dono at once the
bill could not be Improved.
The woman suffrage
Hutcrs There association is calling
It
Now for volunteers for the
duration of the war.
The leadeis think victory will berch on
their banners in five jears; but if they
make no mistakes it is likely to be on the
perch booner.
The news from Paris,
Permanently where the American
delegates are revising
the league-of-nalions covenant to meet the
demands of a hypercritical Senate, makes
it appear that the various campaigns of
the dissatisfied, as well as the somber de
bates being staged here and there through
out the country, might as well bo post
poned for a while.
The Hungarian reds,
Ecessio Freedom it is said, have trl-
of the "Z's" umphed over tho
towns of Felegyhaza,
Szombathely and Ceregszasz. If these vie.
torles are really pronounced, the admira
tion of even the most rabid anti-Bolshevists
cannot be legitimately withheld.
Wounded veterans of
Ted Up the war at the Penn
sylvania Hospital fa
vor a league of nations In the proportion
of five to two. The unuounded soldiers
also doubtless think the same way about
It. They have had their till of war.
No wonder freedom of the seas appeals
to some folks, for beyond the three-mile
limit the eighteenth amendment will cease
from troubling.
Secretary Daniels is in Paris lookjng
oer the ground to see whether he wants
to Join the good Americana there when
he dies.
One cannot help wondering how much
of the reported activity of the Bolshevik!
outside of Russia is more German propa
ganda and how much lis real activity.
That California girl who wants to
marry a handsome Philadelphia man has
no chance so long as she remains on the
other edge of the continent. There are lots
of pretty girls right here with the same
longing and they ate on the Job.
It Is more than fitting to describe the
suggested movement of the Iron Dlvlsfon
to a Philadelphia disembarkation as a
"diversion." This town can guarantee that
the heroes will be thoroughly diverted with
the reception they would receive.
Mr. "Wlnsto'i told a committee In liar
rlaburg that the Republican City Commit
tee here is controlled by committeemen
representing a minority of the Republican,
voters. But why did he netUeU ua soma.
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S-LETTER
Philadclphians Interested in Rail'
road Legislation Women Once
Had tho Vote in New Jersey
Washington, March 26.
DAVIS WAltPIELD, of Maryland,
s
Is president of an orcanlzatlon called
tho Isntlonnl Association of Owtfcrrj of
Railroad Securities, the object of which
is to protect and stabilize tho securities
of tho common carriers of the country.
Tho association Is very much interested In
having the railroads returned to their own
ers and Mr. Warfleld has evolved a plan
looking to a definite settlement of rallroal
questions during the next session of Con
gress. He thinks that rates should bo
established In each of tho so-called rato
regions to yield a fixed percentage return
on the combined value of tho property de
voted by the railroads to public use, with
a return to the government of a percentage
of tho earnings in excess of the rate por
cent fixed for the region. Tho association
Is fairly representative of security holders
throughout the United States, Including A.
A. Jackson, Geeorge K. Johnson, J. R. Mc
Allister and C. Stuart Patterson, of Phila
delphia. It is the feeling here that rail
road legislation will be one of tho first
problems to be considered at tho extra ses
sion. UNCLE JOB FORDNEY, chairman of
tho new Committee on Ways and
Means unless a group of western Insur
gents upset tho Republican program has
gone to California, but he has left word
that he agrees with other members of tho
committee that a tariff 'bill should e one
of tho early considerations of the notv Con
gress. Since much has been said about
the alleged unfairness In the make-up of
committees and the agricultural section
seems to demand more representatives, an
analysis of the new revenue committee Is
In order. Let us see how it looks when,
brought down to brass tacks. Tho eastern
men, or at least those who come from the
great manufacturing and Industrial dis
trict and it is no slouch on agricultural
products, either east of the Appalachian
chain, where we have more than one third
the entire population and more than 50
per cent of Industrial activity, are Moore,
of Pennsylvania; Tread way, of Massachu
setts: Mott, of New York; Tllson, of Con
necticut; Bowers, of West Virginia, and
Bacharach, of New Jersey, Several of
these voted with the so-called western'
"progress es" In the speakership fight.
Those west of the Appalachian chain, sorti
of whom voted for Maun for Speaker and
some for Glllett, are Fordney, chairman,
of Michigan; Green, of Iowa; Longworth,
of Ohio; Hawley, of Oregon; Copley, of
Illinois; Frear, of Wisconsin; Hadley, of
Washington; Timbcrlalte, of Colorado, and
Young, of North Dakota. It would, there
fore, seem that the West has not been un
fairly treated In the make-up of the com
mittee. FOLLOWING the departure of Jeannette
Rankin, who would probably have been
at the head of tho committee, after the
selection of Mondell for iloor leader, tho
chairmanship of tho Woman Suffrage
Committee of the House weTit begging.
Finally, having declined other honors,
the quondam Republican leader, Mann,
who left his sick bed to vote for woman
suffrage, accepted the place. He will figure
hereafter, therefore, as chairman of tho
Committee on Woman Suffrage. One of
his supporters will be Congressman Ed
monds, of the Brewerytown-Glrard College
district. As George will now be obliged to
brush up on this interesting but much
controverted theme, it might bo well for
him to examine the history of woman suf
frage in New Jersey as Arthur C. Maclay
has developed it. It appears that the !
women oted In New Jersey for about
thirty years prior to 1807, when the Legis
lature found it well to limit the suffrage
"to freo white male citizens." And thereby
hangs a tale but why not let George
tell il?
THERE Is ono Democrat in Congress
who agrees with some Republicans on
the tariff question at least partially so.
He Is Henry T. Ralncy, of Illinois, who
ranks second to Kitchln on the Ways and
Means Committee He was formerly a
thorn In the side of Uncle Joe Cannon and
others, contending that American goods
could bo bought cheaper abroad than In
the United States. Rainey never cared for
explanations, but went right along making
his charges, using American watches for
illustration. But hero is what Rainey, one
of the framers of the Kitchln revenue bill,
says now: "We all of us know that there
must be a revision of the tariff; wo know It
must come In the Immediate future, and
we know that when the readjustment of
nations occurs tariff readjustments here
will, be necessary." Neither Is Rainey
much in loe with the present revenue
law. He opposes a -tax on industries.
"Taxing an Industry," he says, "Is liko
hanging weights on the wheels of some
great, powerful and easily disturbed ma
chine. It is an awful thing to
injure industries with taxes." All of which
may bo read with profit by such deep
thlnk'lng Philadelphia economists as Char
ley Donnelly, Michael J. Ryan, Gordon
Bromley, Michael Donohue and Cornelius
Haggerty.
COLONEL JIM HALL, who publishes
what he Is willing to swear is "the
oldest Republican newspapei In Pennsyl
vania," is developing into . tripod. He
has one foot In Washington, another in
Overbrook and a third In Atlantic City.
Harrlsburg and New York are also within
the range of the Colonel's peregrina'tlons.
His Washington connections are generally
in the Interest of soldier boys seeking re
lease from the army. In addition, the
Colonel is something of a farmer, who tries
to keep up to date on matters of seed and
soil. ' The Colonel observes that top soil
removed from his Overbrook farm will
produce results if added in sufficient quan
tity to his alluvial deposits at the seashore.
THERE are echoes in Washington of
Governor Sprout's surprise party for
Thomas B. Donaldson when he was named
to succeed Charles A. Ambler as, Com
missioner of the Pennsylvania Insurance
Department. Tom Donaldson can always
count on the backing of Provost Smith,
John C. Bell, Doc Kendrlck ahd other
rooters for tho University of Pennsylvania,
but Tom has so long been a rooter himself
that he is almost as well, known among
the University boys in Washington as ho
is In Philadelphia. There is something
about University fellowship that counts,
and whether the Governor in picking Tom
Donaldson has played good politics or not,
he has made a mighty popular appoint
ment. i
The daylight savtne which begins at
2 o'clock lin the morning next Sunday will
not be instantaneously perceptible.
Registration and voting are conveni
ently simultaneous when you Indorse or
oppose the league of nations in the Evening
Public Ledger's poll.
The wealth of stage people, as set
forth by press agents, somehow shrinks
when their wlU come up for probata.
Vernon CMtlWpr iMtance, taft ,out
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THE CHAFFING DISH
EDGAR GUEST tells us that Hank Ford
likes his poetry so much that he has
given him two flivvers by way of testi
monial. It pays to be a poet in Detroit.
If the League of Nalioii3
Were a. Circus
THE SURPRISE OF THE CENTURY!
Centralizing In one mammoth colossal
Institution tho biggest and finest features
of the world's two most famous hemi
spheres, together with a myriad of new
features never before conceived by the
brain of statesman and autocrat.
Positively and obiously earth's
GRANDEST INSTITUTION
See the MAN OF MYSTERY do the fly
ing wireless trapeze act, springing in mid
air from Monroe Doctrine to the arms of
Internationalism.
Seo the Bolshevik side show, a ast forum
of freaks.
See tho Recalcitrant Senators climb a
Treaty, the most subllmo act of contortion,
renunciation and ratification ever ev
hlbited.
This SUPERB SHOW must be been to
be witnessed.
Pepper
Take me
Out West
Or Down East
Or anywhere where
There's plenty of Yeast . . .
"Jim" Beck
And "Jerry" O'Leary
Tried to mako
My Woodro,w weai;
"Jim," said Jerry, "I'll drive him West"
"Jerry," said Jim, "PH drive him East"
"Jim," said Jerry, ''I'll bo his Pest"
"Jerry," said Jim, "I'll be Ifls Yeast" . . .
And the men with pepper gravely smiled,
But the salt of the earth were plainly riled;
Which Is all very w'ell as a rhyme so far
But nobody knows who the gentlemen are
Out West
Or Down East
Or anywhere wliere
There's plenty of Yeast
i Tako me
Down South
Or Up No'th
Or anywhere where
They're tired of froth! ...
Our Hi
And Henny Cabot
Tried to break"
My Wilson-habit;
"Henny," said HI, "I'll put in 'Jokers' "
"Hi," said Henny, "I'll put In commas"
"Henny," said III, "I'll frighten the
brokers"
"HI," said Henny, "I'll frighten the
mammas";
And the men with pepper gravely smiled,
But the salt of the earth bust out and b'lled;
Which la all very well as a rhyme so far
But nobody knows who tho gentlemen are
' Down South
Or Up No'th
Or anywhere where
They're tired of froth . . .
O I have loved the, Wilson,
And. I will Tove thee ever,
For who has wandered In thy books
Can forget thee never.
And thou hast taught me England
And. England has taught me
And thou hast taught the England
Of English liberty.
"And I have loved thee, England."
And I will love thee ever,
For Who has "wandered in thy lanes"
Can forget thee never;
And all my blood, Is German
With love of Germany;
And I will love' thee, England, l
No matter wnat may be.
HERBO,
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Walt WUHUM-MMiisV
"I DON'T BELIEVE IT!"
gest literary enigma since Walt blew out
of that borough on tho winding track that
brought him at length to Camden, N. J.
speaking of these things, we say, Don tells
a story about Walt that we don't vouch
for, but here It Is. It comes from the ad
vance proofs of Don's new book, which his
publishers have sent to us, because, as we
suspect, Don is too Indolent to correct his
proof and wants us to do it for him.
But the" anecdote:
Walt Whitman used to live In Brooklyn,
says Don. He edited the Eagle and used
to go swimming in Buttermilk Channel,
two points oft the starboard bow of Hani:
Beecher's church. Once an old Long
Island skipper sunk a harpoon Into Walt's
haunch when he came up to blow, and tho
poet, snorting ajid bellowing tnd spouting
verse, towed the whaler and his Vessel out
to Montauk before he shook the Iron loose.
Don adds that he doesn't think any of
our degenerate bards nowadajs could do a
stunt like that; not even Jack Reed, who
writes like Byron and swims like Leander,"
Ballade of Confusion
Where Is the war of yesteryear?
It filled us then with gaunt dismay,
But when we recollect how clear
The Issues were, and how the fray
Called for a sob or blithe hooray,
According as we lost or won,
. We trill In lucid roundelay
"We simply had to fight the Hun."
We knew Bapaume, dnd though our fear
For Amiens was grim and gray,
Wo knew what rivers it was near
And in CJuampagno wo kifow the lay
Of cities'' In the news each day;
What drives were stopped and what begun,
What talcs were dismal, whut were gay,
We simply had to fight the Hun!
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But now when Soviets appear
Amid theMagyars (who aio thej?)
Wo'wonder if they aro sincere
And If Karolyl acts a play,
Or had to make that "getaway,"
Or if Lenlne is booked to stun
The universe. Come yesterday!
We simply had to fight the Hun!
Envoy
Reader, reerseoOf boob or jay.
E'en, as a fiiteTJa ""knowing one,"
Larnent.you n6t Jastv Mafch or May
Wo simply, had;t6 flB,ht tho. HuiiJ ' .
"" Th&Enil? of 'the Trail
I have roaihiiin lands'thal were unex
"plored'whero the vistA jvas virgin-J-pUre;
"
I have wrested gold out pf nature's hoard,
wneretne sunset is rej allure
I have traveled far to the Northern Star,
and 'I've roasted in climates dry;
Bj3t my bones are old
And the trail grows bold,"
So I've settled myself to-die. '(
All my partners,-, gay haveslnce passed
away, and rnVdreamlnp of comrades
true; , sJi ,V
How we lived andfoughtwjuftas. leal-tnen
. ought, fronold. China to Tfmbuctoo.
Ah, the good oldldaye, 'and.Uie ,gbod old ,
ways, when' 'Adventure l held open
arms I 'lfy Mp
But my time, it seems, V.. j
, Must crnslqt it dreams "5 r
As I ponder on Haded charms. ' V
How I've often chased ever trackless waste,
, with lft ralnbow-to lure.' me in
'Til at last I'd find, when I'dijppe my grind,
that the4ralnbow Itself was gonej
I'was brave' and bold, 'til the trail grew'"
Tcold, then T, heeded the warning pry.;
For Youth 'roust be served, ;
So to port I've swerved
And I've settled myself to dial'.
TIOBERT U BELLEMy
Alas, 'as Shakespeare might have said.
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THE STRANGER I
JflllS tough to bo a stranger In a busy
J- city street
And watch the tide of people ebb and
flow
And find in all tho faces that your wailing
glances meet v
There's not a single feature that you
know.
The types you seo remind you of Josephus,
Tom or Jim;
You start to speak, then catch yourself
and halt;
But 'twould seem Just liko tho music1 oi
the ancient Seraphim
To have a man step up with "Howdy,
Walt."
The heart of any snowstorm is a place
of perfect peace;
There's uo one to molest and none to
sneer;
Your thoughts come as companions in a
stream that does not cease; '
The solitude is filled with life and cheer;
But tho lonesomest and blankest place a
man can ever bo,
That leads your very soul to cry out
loud,
Is to find a total stranger in each living
face you seo
In any thoughtless, selfish city crowd.
Some time from out the turmoil you will
catch a friend from home;
He'll not escape it It's within your
power;
.You'll mako him tell In detail stuff enough
to fill a tome
Of people whom you knew hi childhood's
hour. "Ir
The people of a oily are all human, X
suppose;
That they don't know you may not be
.. . .i . ......
xneir xauii; swsl
cuk uii aim uu ictiuvv occa uiciii iftiaa v
in hurried droves
And longs for just ono voice to call him
Walt.
J. E. Sanford in "His Ono Tune."
What Do You Know?'
QUIZ
1. Who are the Magyars?
2. How long a time elapsed Detween the
cessation of hostilities In tlie Spanish
war and - tho signing of the peace
treaty? '
3. What Is tho largest city In Scotland? '
t. Who was Carl Schurz?
tj.' In what country wsb the Sanskrit Un
guage spoken In ancient times?
6. What is the correct pronunciation of tho
jvoid lorgnette? ' t
?. What is meant by a duodecimo book 7
8. 'Which Is the "Pretzel City"?
0. Who are the Jains?
10. Who made the first balloon ascension?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
t. Budapest la on the Danube river.
2, A spondee Is a metrical foot consisting
of two long accented syllables.
3. A basilisk is a fabulous reptile, 'hatched
by a serpent from a cock's 'egg, and
blasting by its breath or lbok7 ;
4. Sh Waiur Scott wrote "The Lay of tha
Last MlnstreJ." . .,
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5. The daylight savlny program' becomes
operative' again at twd i'clock'.ln" the
morning of March 30.' V
6. Train oil -is oil got from whale blubben
7. A steenbok la a kind of small African
. antelope. i
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