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Cowev. .tSeal Notary Public. my lilllllllSuluii cJ.9 .."wit) .. f.ui . mm gfatHOW CHILDREN ARE KILLED mSSJtT IS difficult for a small boy to resist ftff " the temptation to steal a ride on the Ktrear of a truck when it is going his way. iSi&fllSp It is difficult for the driver of any sSrvehicle followinc: the truck to stoD in K?,tiine to keep from running over the boy W'flk.when he jumps down, at the end of his fejSrfae. istV A lartre nronortton of the aenous acci- 4 'Jp'B'ents in the streets arise from the boys' ISlfclcustom - sea''nS rides. sSlyrv'Z f"!nnTiiTo iq pnnoiiloMnn. o li.11 in mnla .lV w" ...o ..u.uw...,, .... . ...uni. W unlawful for boys of school age to s climb on the rear of vehicles. A fine of ',$25 is provided for the offenders and a liKTi . . Iw j. e truck driver who ftjgys permits ine Doys to riae. fkS'1' . Tl,to 1.S11 wiav Tint , in tV.a ,... mlQiform. but some legislation is nectfssarv ihst will empower the police to prevent PSJyjthe boys from risking their lives for the KW;eke of a ride. Then the police must en force the law. ffPJlTcbNSIDER THE SCHUYLKILL NKEMPT banks, shabby wharves, dump heaps, stockyards, unsightly ."industrial plants between Lea cue Island fSysSwd Yilley Forge all vanish in the pic l54iire of the beautified Schuylkill as drawn flinty tho Fairmount Park Art Association nfmin Us j-ecommendation for a war memo- ft&mxial parkway. STwWir'The concention is rather hrontVi. taking. The sprightly Joseph Pennell, SpXmp uv s nnmyivniiiji (.lie lliuwil JUIIger S&commemoratlve highway one across the SaTaiontment, in fact calls it "the grossest -ftfodlishness. Nevertheless, it is stimu- fMylttmsr to consider large-scale imnmv. rents. Often they are accomplished in r t'ttjirt htA nrpnqinnnllv a voalUr mni.!.. , 'fftal project gets executed. C 'i,Moreover, anything which directs at ii'M&lention to the artistic possibilities of th i loS Schuylkill is commendable. Nature hnn !&ft,wi lavish with the historic stream, but gtejmM, especially of late years, has failed ' $$&" make the most of its charms. -V.'The Chicago river is no more depress- lHe sight than the bchuylkill south of ffcerFainnount waterworks. The stock- s..id ro only one of its disfigurements. fswin me pfk, neeuea emoanKment jnkf1 notably on the east shore above a Riwird,ayenue tiridge, has hung fire for j;4itaroaas ana a nuge ironworks rJtkvoc with tho scene at the "Falls." ItflMy bo years, if ever, before the ly comprehensive scheme of the (lAKOciation takes completed form, M Irl.w ,.. ........ .. OUvablUlt IB r;than a lack ot interest in a scenic ure. There are stretches where the k1 itself has not treated it tnn . ,.VL.fli..U. TUo.r -ornliU V.. ..- ri ui uu,.. ,,v ,.v..u -iyiuinie jyUea'lnj)rBich to begin the roforra.A . . ; . ' , ''lTTER.BbX LAXITIES amTijr iM Jtlt... ...1.U 4...f&.i- .- i tYVi IX utnwiw nuv iivoiiunj m urop a u. ......4 .. tf. i. ..t . . . .. Hajnrwawwtin ooxssTvnicn iacK trie cams jMNMiiKinz wie noure of r -ftffelI,.wih Buper- uwr tunwtiy conruuiUc Johnson, suporintendent of mails, ex plains that tho letter boxes aro in for their spring renovation and repainting and that the old and soiled cards are to bo replaced in three weeks by new ones. Nevertheless, more mortals can't help wondering why useful and confidence breeding guides, however shabby, had to be removed before the substitutes wore ready. But the Burlesoninn empire moves in a mysterious way its blunders to perform. And perhaps, after all, the inculcation of mistrust in letter boxes accords with the policy which continues to shake public faith in tho mail service -itself. In all that relates to tho wrong way of doing things, the present admin istration of the Postofikc Department is beautifully logical. BREAD UPON THE WATERS IN FROM THE PHILIPPINES A Timely Lesson in Foreign Policy Came With the Delegation Bearing the Fili pinos' Bequest for Independence IF THE representatives of the Philip v.!nn I nntolntiirn lllirl mniln triPir nil- peal for freedom to the Peace Confer ence rather than in Washington yesterday thev would have struck at the place where their future destinies must actually be determined. Unless a decent peace can be -lnde, tho pathways of weaker peoples will lemain always, as the President observes, neiilous. The incident in Washington and the promise implied in Mr. Wilson's letter, read by Secretary Baker, should recall to the conferees at Paris a vivid sense of their responsibilities. It gave the Presi dent an oppoitunity to remind the world of the natuie and extent of the issues waiting decision in Palis. It is character istic of Mr. Wilson that the opportunity was not neglected. The essential purpose of a league nf nations is to insure the peace and safety of a people like the Filipinos. For peo ples do not make war. Governments do not make war if they are left to them selves. It is the invisible forces that exist too often above governments which devise philosophies pf conouest to hnrass and destroy helpless peoples and unex ploited tenitory. The present condition of life and thought in the Philippines pioyes that we have so far been proof aeainst this sort of influence the same influence that gave Europe over to min. The visit o the Filipino delegation to Washington symbolizes a triumph of self-restraint and an achievement in friendship. The purpose of the mandatory clause in the Paris covenant is intended to elim inate the ancient menace to small na tions. It goes to the very heart of war's causes, because, if it is propcily enforced, buccaneers of promotion and thugs of diplomacy can never again tlrair their nations after them in wars that begin with private ambition for supremacy in undeveloped avetis of the eaith. Civilization will be peimitted to ex pand peacefully as it has expanded in the Philippine Tslnnds. The Filipinos deserve their freedom. But it is questionable whether the United States can ever be relieved of the cost and the burden which our lesponsibility to them has always entailed until their future is definitely as sured under the system for which the American delegates have waged an un equal fight at the Paris confeience. Ceitainly nothing could be more dia matic in times like these than the tone of the appeal sent by the Philippine Legislature to the American government ..nd the statement left for th" delegates bv Mr. Wilson. Heie was the levelation of an international policy which has al wav.3 run counter to the accepted rules of national expansion and the old diplomacy. All Ameiica has contributed to the help of the Filioinos. Taft contributed his patience and his gifted mind and the wisdom of a good heart. Roosevelt ad hered to what he loved to call the square deal. But school teachers, engineers, builders and soldiers gave to this people some of the best years of their lives. The government itselfJyas always interpreted in the islands the- individual code of the every-day American. Mr. Wilson, who has exalted the prin ciple of fair play as an international pol icy, is not indulging in rhetorical felici ties when he insists that he tries only to interpret the common thought of his country. This national ideal, internationally ex pressed, has been sneered at often enough. It has been blindly called altru istic and visionary. It has been said that it wouldn't and wouldn't work. Those who called us mystical and impractical were the "practical men" in diplomacy, the rainbow chasers who now stand harassed, impotent and wholly desperate amid the ruin that their own theories have made of the old world. In the light of recent events and for our own guidance in the crises that are to come it may be interesting to see where our "mysticism" ultimately leads. "You have truly treated us as no nation ever before treated another under its sway," said the spokesman for the Philip pine Congress. The wise and sensiiive mind of China has cherished for the United States noth ing but confidence and endless esteem since we refused to participate in the shameful loot of the Boxer indemnities. Cuba said she would fight upejs- our side to tho last man. Ig it nothing to have the confidence and the friendship of the whole world in a time of universal bitterness 'and hate? We have not applied any new (Prin ciple of international relationships. Bather, we have reverted, in all our con tacts with otKer peoples, to a principle that )9 as old aa civilization. 'Wo have merely admitted the validity of reason and, the right of every wan to common justice., , i 'AH wemswryj pi ayjiasiiw ,anri na- past these essential human obligations without disaster. Occasionally it appears that tho reverso of tho rulo may bo workable. So tho older diplomatists used to believe. But they gave their countries at last over to flames and grief. The Philippine Islands' have not been exploited and debased. Tho people have been trained for twenty years or more in the duties of government They have re sponded magnificently to tho American approach. They have cost us a stupen dous lot of money nnd anxiety; yet it be gins to seem that they have been worth the price and the trouble. We ourselves may be able to learn something from them and profit through an understand ing of what their friendship means. Doc3 the result of our past relations with the Philippines and China and Cuba and other helpless or harassed people carry a lesson for tho men who must hereafter direct our international poli cies? Shall we cultivate the friendship of Mexico or the enmity of the Mexican people? Will there be in Europe, in the east or in the west or in the middle any nation that can charge us in the years to come with having helped unjustly in their op piession? If so, then we are manifestly in a bad way. The next Congress will bo abe to give n definite answer to the Filipinos. The islands are "within sight" of their inde pendence. But they cannot safely be set adrift in a world of violence and intrigue. Obviously the President is working in their behalf. But ho must find an answer for them in Paris and not in Washington. DOMESTIC POLITICS AT PARIS fXP ALL 'ie forces which beset and be- devil the delegates in Paris, home politics is perhaps the most potent. Every statesman has been plagued by it, and .whether the attacks have been war ranted or undeserved there can be no question that they have hampered har mony ailcl progress at the peace table. Just now it seems to be Lloyd George's turn to be embariassed. The chicks hatched by his fervid oratory during the British general election last December are grown up and have come home to roost. The premier, speaking for -his Coalition party, which carried the coun try, categorically promised that Germany would be mode to pay the entire cost of the war. The pledge was demagogic and, on analysis, quite incredible. England, by a larga majority, however, was in the mood to fool itself into believing it. The opposition carefully pigeon-holed the ,rash blunder for use at a politically op portune moment. That time has now arisen, for, of couise, the imposition of any such indemnity is impossible. ' Mr. Lloyd George is thereupon exhib ited by one faction in the role of a promise-breaker. His supporters, by in nuendo, and lately by some direct utter ances, are pointing to Mr. Wilson as the obstacle. English enthusiasm for the President is said to be waning. This is inevitable in circles seeking to justify the British premier. Naturally the infusion of domestic pol itics into an international situation sim ply piles on the agony. To a large extent it missed file when American factional ism sought to becloud the league-of-nations issue. But Lloyd Geoige is a more vulnerable target, placed in the unenviable position of pleasing neither those who tried to credit what he prom ised or those who have been fighting him right along. PAGING A LOST IDEAL rpHERE are city-bound men, and even women, so rushed and abstracted and so far removed in knowledge and sym pathy from the land and its blessings that they are never suie that potatoes do not grow already fried or that tho pea doesn't reach maturity until neatly canned. Such as these, whose tables are re moved by two or three days from 'the farms, never know the full glory of corn caught upon its native cob and boiled within five minutes after it has left the field. They are not aware how inevitably all garden vegetableseave the best of their flavor in the past when they are a day or two old. Were this knowledge not strange to a large part of the city's population there would be prolonged applause for the Mayor's suggestion of an elaborated curb-market system for the coming sum mer. A curb market properly managed as it used to be here in the ancient days and as it still may be found in Lancas ter and Bethlehem and Lebanon is the only institution that can actually offer great riches at a i- luced price. It isn't too early to talk about curb markets, Those planned last year were successful. Philadelphia "might wisely borrow a habit from its earlier history and establish markets such as still persist in the smaller cities of the state treasured institutions altogether 'useful and beautiful to see. This city is belted for a depth of thirty miles with trie rich est farm land in the world. All pro gressive farmers have automobiles and most of them like to sell their produce direct. Obviously the need of the city Is an enlarged and central area for a farm market." Some day or other the plan may reach perfection. The Art Jury may take it up. There may be a place of color and marble pillars and happy ladies and gen tlemen carrying baskets in the old man ner. Then we may talk of culture! The government has removed the limi tation on the price of meat. Now we won der whether It will so up or go down, Hufrercrs from chaotic transportation facilities In Russia desire most of all a, few car-wheel revolutions. Many persons vyho have heretofore subscribed to Matthew Arnold'a . belief in the Tightness, ot mnorltlw must ee iiie ;!2SiCir tefifc CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S .LETTER Troublcsof Henry Young 'and Other, Fish Dealers Tho Late Uenry IPS BarMs Gricv- ... aiicc Against a Consul Washington, D. C, April C. PEOPLE hero arotrylng to get a closer line on tho real meaning of Bolshevism. Meyer Loudon, the New York Socialist, who went out of Congress March 4, was given much time to discuss tho subject and I, could sco nothing In It but a movement or tho people to froo themselves from un just 'conditions Colonel Thompson, who headed tho Ilea Cross work In Russia for a whllo and who loaned tho new regime $l,d00,000, told a group of congressmen that the uprising was that of the majority of the people who were striving to rid them selves of landlordism and whose ,jo&! was the right to acquire and occupy land on their own nccount. Raymond Robins, an ardent Progressive, whose work for Roose velt In 1912 entitles him to a hearing and who is credited with having tho confidence of tho so-called Bolshevik), expresses the opinion that the existing government should be recognized, because It represents the sentiment of the Russian people. As to one thing, most of those who Incline to use the soft pedal on Bolshevism agree. They eay that German landlordism has been veiy influential and quite Intolerant In Russia. In some respects they liken the situation to that of the Irish people in their fight for freedom from British rule. Up to date, however, the term "Bolshevism" has been treated In Washington as synony mous with anarchy or nihilism. It Is gen eially linked up' with the I. W. W. and klndied organizations. For a time It was applied by certain statesmen here to the Nonpartisan League ov er w hich Mr. Town ley, of North Dakota, presides. The Town ley organization coquetted with both "Wil son and Roosevelt, however, and today is In control of the s'tate of North Dakota. It Is a cuiious fact that while the Nonparti san League dominates the North Dakota Legislature and maintains that only farm ers shall be put on guard, the largest per centage of Increased Income taxes recently reported by the commissioner of Internal revenue comes from that state. And as to that, the.ro is a l eason. North Dakota Is a great wheat growing state and the Presi dent has guaranteed tho American farmer $2.26 per bushel for his wheat, no matter t the world price Is one-half that sum. Moral : The material Interest of a party or a nation may sometimes overawe their loftiest Ideals. FROM Bolshevism and the ideas ot Wood row Wilson to the everyday topic of fresh fish sea bass, vveakflsh, porgles and the like Is going some, but the President must eat and so(must the Bolshevists, and there you arc. Henry W. Young, of the Reading Terminal: M. P. Howlett, of Dock street; E. V. Vandergrlft, of North Front street, and a respectable group of Phila delphia fish dealers are up against the problem of getting fresh fish to the mar ket. They have been obtaining their supply largely from pond nets on Five-Fathom Banks Shoal and the war department has gradually come to believe that pond nets in nearby waters are dangerous to naviga tion. Seafaring men have also been com plaining of the nets because of bioken poles In tho water when fishing Is not under way. It Is said that the loss of one or two tugs may be charged up to sunken piles In the ocean. The chief of engineers has been conferring with parties In Interest, since the Issue seems to be squarely drawn between the fish men and the navigators. This same problem has been fought out In numerous other instances along the coast, particularly In the Chesapeake bay and the sounds of North Carolinu. THE late Hemy W. Bartol, whose will is being contested In Philadelphia, was a very positive man in some respects not re let red to by the contestants. He did not like the American consul at Nice, where he lived when In Trance, and made certain charges against him. The State Depart ment caused an Inquiry to be made, and when the report came in Mr. Bartol In sisted that it was In effect a whitewash. He treasured up his evidence and sought to open up the whole subject at Washing ton before his death at the Union League. It was this untoward Incident; that relieved the director of the consular service of an unpleasant controversy. Mr. Bartol had traveled much and kept himself Informed upon the consular situation. He believed the American consuls should live up to cer tain standards and sometimes expressed himself freely with regard to them. Arid West Virginia WEST VIRGINIA statesmen have an In genuity, a subtlety and humor that make limited "dryness" almost Bacchic. The Legislature has passed a bill restrict ing to twenty-five gallons the wine that any one person may make for himself In a year. Much, little enough, too much, 'twill serve. The same bill makes it an offense for a nonresident dealer In Intoxi cants to sell any of them that he knows are to be carried Into West Virginia. How West Virginia Is going to punish resi dents, how she is to prove that the non tesldent vender ot sin knows whither It Is to be directed who knows? The romantic charm of the measure, however, is the provision "giving state, county nnd city officers authority to con fiscate all aircraft used for the purpose of transporting liquor into the state or from one place to another within the state." One sees the state liquor constables, ad mirals of the air fleets of the law, pursuing and fighting the argosies of alcohol, the squadrons of bottleshlps. From balloons anchored at conveniently low altitudes demijohns of the forbidden are dangled down to tlje ea&er waiters below. Here an, observation balloon, law or liquor, watches the enemy, There a parachute with sev eral cases 'darts from the winged .beer' wagon. Behind the clouds many a bottle Is keeping cold, i Here an enormous aerial buffet car is crowded with customers. A lively picture, and a crowded sky. Sortie, and not the dullsst part, cf "the future of aviation" is there. New Yovk Times. There has been no commander yet whom Germany has dreaded as much as she does General Treaty. It Is the Filipino notion that no kind of expansion is so admirable as that of liberal Ideas and consistent democracy, That suggested bonfire of the wooden ships seems to have been aa extravagantly fanciful as many another red notloiii nhine whines are bearing both French and German, labels nowadays. Missouri not only wants to be shown, hut Is going to be, now that the woman suffrage bill has become a law there. "-!& William ifohenzollern jaS' tried,, het rrilwto, Carloa Bwtfluo AND THOSE .J!' n. . I, .i Hf-i.c. .. . .-. .'irV.a t ?m .r.J"HHbt4i)h'JS . a MM -""i ..fS-' ' rf'r THE CHAFFING DISH If Statesmen Were Watched Like Baseball Players GOSSIP In the training camps has It that Davie George, Britain's stumpy little portslder, Is holding back some real stuff until the Big Time starts. Ever since Davie came out of the Welsh bush league those on the Inside have buzzed him as a mound artist with unusual dlass. In some of the warming-ups he has put over gilt edged flings that moan through the ether like dangerous business. Big Wood Wil son, the lanky catcher, has to vaseline his mitten to domesticate some of those snaky shoots. Dave has real stuff, and. Is also there with the willow. a Big Wood Is in fine form, and with the careful grooming he has had all spring should be able to swallow up anything that' comes over. Some of Geo. Clemenceau's sallvarles wriggle queerlyj but Wood Just smiles at them and they plunk right In the little old hollow mitt. Eddie House Is pretty noncommittal these days, and seen In train ing quarters he didn't ejaculate anything much but bits of toothpick; but Inside gossip says that he was heard talkl.ig in his sjeep to the effect that .Wood's wing was better than evor, and that any man promenading the base-paths would need to hasten. ' Vic Orlando is still the dark hotse In this outfit. Some of the early dopeslers figure that Vic Is lying down on his game because Manager House wouldn't come, across with the right kind of dotted lines' in the contract, but that doesn't sound likely. Old Geo. Clemenceau Is still In the game and his arm Isn't crystallized by any means. He can still clout them over the.bleachera when they come the way he likes them, and he can rnaKc snoots at players twenty years his Junior. His fast ball Is said to' have considerable whisker. Ig Paderewsky has turned up at training quarters, nnd after he has been to the barber he will undoubtedly make good on the third corner. Ig Is a bit temperamen tal, but the flossy Pole has a genuine brand of goods. Wood was winging some at him across the green and Ig scooped them in Ukp netting herrings. " v Social Chat ' Our friend Dave Yablock, who selU pa pers and magazines and pepsin comfits under the statue of Ben Franklin at Sixth and Chestnut, claims to look like Marshal Foch. He haa a portrait of Foch clipped from this month's Ladles' Home Journal posted up over his stand to prove It; and Indeed, after carefully comparing the pic ture of the generalissimo with Dave's fea tures we are bound to admit that there's something In what he says. But Dave will have to let his mustache grow a little longer. N Speaking of likenesses, John French Wilson Is In town from Cleveland, and we take this opportunity of Informing him that Vachel Lindsay Is trespassing on his face. Both these facial ostates look de lightfully alike. They both happen tb be long to poets, too, John being the most realistic bard that ever came out of West town School. John Wilson's nlcknamo at that pious Quaker .academy was "Beer"; we are wondering whether he will be able ,to retain it after the 1st of July. John Wilson Is a sensible kind of poet; he earns his living by being a lawyer in Cleveland. He speaks with gentle sorrow of an eway he wrote recently "On the Na ture and Requirements ot Poetry," the manuscript o2 which was accidentally de stroyed during the spring housecleanlng In his home. Now If John had been merely a poet that would have blighted his aife; but as it Is he can soon make some plaintiff heal the wound. .Another, caller at.the, sanctum ofytbe ChaJHne JMl m UMnv itaaulrlliiW WHO RUN MAY READ wmmmimmmmm m the Kaiser will never know what a narrow escape he had. Mr. Spaulding, or "Pete," as we are accustomed to call him, applied for a commission In the chemical warfare service last fall. His application was ap proved and he was given tho customaiy ' ten days' grace to wind up his business affairs. He hhed a man to take his Job, gave away his clothes to the poor and needy and was all set to get into khaki. The ninth day of the ten, however, hap pened to be November 11. Tigerizing the Urchin , The Zoo Is a great help to paienls of joung children. The Urchin has taken such a fancy to one. of the tigers out there that he wants to emulate that noble beast In all particulars. This simplifies many problems. If the Urchin Is disinclined to finish his evening glasd of milk, all that Is needful Is to say, "The tiger always finishes , his milk," and presto. It vanishes. If the Urchin doesn't want to be Interned In his crib at nightfall, one need only say, "The tiger has gone to bed." If he shows a de sire to acquaint himself with a safety razor, one remarks casually, "The tiger "doesn't like razors," and he couldn't be hired to touch one. And so on, all 'down the line of taking baths, having nails clipped, wear ing mittens and testing the crushing power ot door-hinges. Truly the Tiger Is a great Institution. People laughed at Doctor Osier when ho suggested that men of sixty might be chloroformed without loss to the world. But maybe he had the right Idea. Suppose they had tried it on Hlndenburg and Lu dendorff, how our troubles would have been simplified. tna As a returned doughboy said to us after watching them piling Into a Walnut street P. R. T. Pullman: "All you need Is to paint Ilommcs ifi, Chevaux 8 on the side of the car, and the passengers ought to have stripes for foreign servioe." Today Is the birthday of Frank R. Stock ton, and lover of quiet humor might1 cele brate by dusting off their copies of "Rud der Grange" and "The Late Mrs. Null" and settling down for a happy evening. Has Philadelphia ever begotten a novelist with a more genial sense of humor than Stock ton's? We doubt It. As Robert Louls Stevenson wrote, In 1884 "My Stockton If I failed to like, It were a sheer depravity, For I went down with the Thomas Hyke And up with the Negative Gravity!" We see) tliat' a' 'Mexican field marshal called 'Blanquet has'Ieft,Brooklyn, the well known home of losfcauses, and'lias started out to act as1 a yrel blanket for Carranza'a happiness1. General Blanquet's secretary says tha$ the general will turn (Mexico , upside down right speedily; but" the trouble Is, 'does anybody In that tormented land know when she's right side up' dnd whoh she'isn't? , General Blanquet's campaign may be very hopeful Indeed, but we notice that his secretary Is staying snugly Jn New York. It May Have Hippened "But can you support her ln'the kind of home to which she has, been accustomed?" asked the girl's fatherKof tho young man, who happened to be the circus press agent. "Not merely that," replied the circus agept readily (and In boldface, "buft 'easily and obviously in the colossus of ail homes, presenting In one domestic menage and for the Jrst tlme.ln all history not merely many but all earth's greatest comforts, revealing magnificent mammoth pleasures such as have never been seen before npr deemed possible of achievement, the most astounding domestic contentments ever .as sembled under one roof, the world's great est assemblage of desirable emotlono.inaw and novel cultaGf'klndnestj!'and"'UDerl) teat t of.iintrloata (forbearance randf genl I'M- i f cv, vi 'i THEREBY V BACK TO THE ROAD "The Romany men. the freedom losing gipslr who for four jeurs ha'c orn the Khaki, ara belnt; demobilised and eo back lo their home which is the holc. ,wlde world" THE long load, the white road, the road without an end . Has called Its children back again from I out ithj bloody fray. The task wo had tq do is dope, ' The wa? we had to win Is won, With faces to the setting sun We're tramping on our waj. The white stars, the blight star?, the velvet sky above! And oh, the endless joy of Jlfe that's In the qarth beneath! The bltd tli-it thillls the dusk at eve With tlnobblng notes of pain that grieve. But gladden ere the echoes leave The hedgerow and the heath! The few loves, the ttue loves, we know are waiting still. We hae a rendezvous with somo whose lips long since we Kissed. . And over hill and moor and plain, -. Through golden sunshine, silver rulH; . We go to find out own ago.n, V Who keep the faithful tryst. The old trail, the bold t-all that ever-lures us on! , Tho days and nights of beauty In the sky, the sea and sod. ' The life of Jove and joy and song.. The sky-roofed homo where we belong, Tho road that winds through light and 'wrong -' , About the feet of God. Harry Varley, in the New; York Times. There ,1s really no lack of self-deler-mlnatlon at the peace table. In factsome of the most obstlnate,dclegates seem to be overdoing It. What B6y You Know? ,, 1 QUIZ , , l.-Who Is the British commander of the troops opposed to the Bqjshevlstsv In the Murmansk region of Russia? 2. What is the largest city In Egypt? 3. What, are the Eddas? 4. What kind of color In called nacarat? 6. What Is the correct' pronunclatlon.of tha American Indian word sachem and what does jf mean? 6. Who Is the head of the German armi stice commission who has Just been In conference with Marshal Foch at 'Spa? i -what la sDlkenard? i. 8 What Is the meaning of the title', "Met-f fj ropolltan of Athens"? W 9. What kind of musical Instrument Is a sackbut? tn tifluf manv AmArirjin President wm of JDutch parental ancestty, and who pn were uivy .j . v '$ Answers to Yesterday s Quiz 1. Gefaeva is Just now In favor as the official , jg seat of the league of natlons,although 5 King Albert Is said -to haye strongly, 3 2, The war between. Japan and China, end- 'Q Ing in a Japanese yiciory, uztan in " 1894 and was ended by the jreaty of Shlmonoseiu in ,ip. j 3. The America' cup cror yacn. racing) .aa daan tn Ampriran nniipaf nn ' nearly sixty-eight years, . SM i, St Petersburg, now Petrorrad, ,?& founded by Peter the areat In 1703. ?J 6. Thomas. Hardy wrote the noyel,- ''Far From the piaaaing v.-rowo."i v 6. The weather bureau official describes, wind Plowing more man eignty jnlleo v an-hour as a hurricane. . 7. Tho United States paid Spain twenty" million dollars for the Philippine Islands. , ' g, Gruyere enseoe geia na name rrom.tat town of Qruyere In Switzerland."" y 'i, !jUbfir" and Wlor".Is thAmtoiuV T . r ,j,t rtis wz 72 " : i r"(ew" Wa? Vp JmHT 'WW Nr ' mm -Wr. W rjf. 9n tl00-0t ft!
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