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April 9. lilt IN THE EXPERIMENTAL STAGE r' TT REMAINS to be proved that a mar- ket where the farmers ivill come in ujrect contact with the consumer will be SMnore satisfactory than the paicel post ffv system of deliverine country produce to j city customers. Br this vear whore fruit anrl vegetables mav K " be sold by the farmers. If they suc ceed, market houses will be arranged in which the produce may be exposed for sale. 5 But the federal government is tiying to build i.p a parcel post business in butter, eggs, chickens and other farm products. It will carry green corn and new onions and the like if this sort of stuff is offered, and it will deliver every-'thing- at the door of the puichaser in the city. The purpose of the two plans is to bring the producer and consumer into closer contact and to urevent the cost of giving from soarine: too hiirh. It is im- " possible to say, except after experiment, i , .'.. ... ... UW3W. A WlllUlia kllC.V ar'can both be worked. Next fall data - annlinh utll lio apnunililntn.I tn .-i.l.ln 41... city authorities in developing the mar- $ Kemouse plan. " & WAQTtr Mrtx vrtiiD uiactc .,w. w. ,vn nMlb i'-vl11" ueiinition ot waste is appreciably ?? narrowed bv the war which the De- pg'partment of Commerce, in conjunction &irith the national "Clenn-TTn anil PAint- UXu -...- SJ.,'tlD" Camrtaio-n Rm-pnii nf tno Rnvino's p,Diyfsion of the United States Treasui-y, '. lias declared on the city dump. That in fer i fltitution is a notorious prodiiral. How extravaeant are its destructive methods jjSji is' demonstrated by the governmenfs plan to exchange! war-savings stamps .7. for, sufficient nunntittes of "tr)ili" frjit)i. It is cred together as a result of the spring 5! nouse cleaning. c Old paper is especially valuable. The practice of burning it on the dump has p -bpen a glaring example of American ex LSTtravagance. England was cured of this !W a WI UVSHUtllWI UUllIlg Hie f.rar. The opportunity of the, American .nousewne is now at nana. She can aug &. ment her collection of war.nvinrr .t8tampsr make the cellar neat and at the $VJ same time aid the government if she MiLdeals with the "Clean-Up" agents who SrK.wlH visit her. it. The individual who will vcntuip tn -nll fany thing "worthless trash" nowadays is be 'way off in his economics. tot- 5 i VS ' - fea.Vl BfertnwUHUUUI inc. UKtAI fcVfcNT RilV 'PHE indications that sixty per cent of IVv S X l T r!..r.i mi 1 .. . . Kv - , ",D u" "ivision win dc aisemuarkecl yuB'"--? "-Hi13 sumuiaung dramatic factor M.-va ww'Biomemous celebration to which SJthe Wholb citv looks fnrurnrr? TVio m jade pf the entire Twenty-eighth will, of ?.5riurK. hn thi snnroma uvsnt U,.t- 1 jjrj- -. r.....w v.viiw uuv a real PVliome-coming directly to the shores of Kfe xthe thrills. The river pageant will be a Pf.'vioretaste. fw' . present plans, however, will to a lii'lM.tno atftTV Ad a nMaf .. Y)l.!l 1 . . ijEhaa a right to demand that this conti- 0iHity be maintained as much as possible. iVr "' a,,w ure pressure the j,cnvVrnmpnf. mav l. efJII .. ft ?; ' OVM "UC accommo- Ba " Tl- a-at.. .!?.. !Jt. 1 .. . - v uiuua mca, wouia be the-landing f"i. , ' . ron ",v,81n and then, m$&ielr a bncf camp siuro, the superb yjparadc. That combination wn,.i,i fP'fliitutc a real home-coming. W,2&,: tss 86.u.M. .?li 'Mtnwinwi vyii o UHKIVIAN A l(rllir 1. t . if U'v" ""ore, uerpiany became our foe ml. l?,the fimirc which cvm)nlN 1 ' ft --- - - "vi.u jicr was fn impertinence and an intrusion in the luamorial to Francis rtunlol n..i..:. P, whm dermantown would lik tn tmnnJ p A4 iiiiiational entity there was no Ger- W laasaiaiv' ivhpn thn Wnrtliv nlnF.AA. j . si Jfrr ,., I v. "-' i'"kbi luunacti 1 Wan Pnilunplnnin RitViiivl. "? ifioo t; ":;...t .:::r w gi f, J-"" uiitvu uraouaqgi nis English aWBfctiiu that Pasjp'rius, decided to cm K -.'' Aftetleavine 'his native lfrrl. ttta:h had become an intimate" of Wil Bam'fjenn, hd joined, the 'Society of fViKMl:and. had for' a while rasided in ter" tamat Brititrn. lit luml nt a,t.i.. ..- p Iq part Gmcn, m part Dutch antj of p. noniie-jijn. ipw Mtue 10.KW memory, which still ,!W,'-"a, a,ay"MH. X-flrK, IS ' vv"yVrti''.,f .J." t'il? uorainat- aHuwcBaitiia,. rfnop only con- mtitl J mtHmmi -J ' -w" ' yi ppi T"f, " - ,Mf JlWVHSwl pro ., iTwnt of the Holy Roman empire 187 years before imperial Germany came into ex istence, did. It is foreshadowed that the question of removing from the memorial the boards which have covered it since Secretary Baker advised, against dedicating it in 1017 will come up before the German iown Site and Relic Society ina few weeks. It is hard to see how any process of sensibto reasoning can , justify the juxtaposition of a discredited and incor rect symbol with the graven image of an illustrious devotee of peace. Either, if it be 'nrtistically practicable, a statuary divorce between Pastorius and Germania should be granted or else Gcrmantown thould elect some entirely new tribute to her first citizen. AN ANGLO-AMERICAN RIFT WOULD END WORLD'S HOPE Civilization Still Depends Upon the Frlendthlp of Britain and the United States TF A serious deadlock has been dcvclop--"- ing at the Peace Conference it repre sents a conflict of wills between Presi dent Wilson and Lloyd George. The continental governments must inevitably follow the lead of Britain in any crisis. Necessity compels such a course. The strains and responsibilities in volved for Mr. Wilson and the British premier in any situation that might threaten a serious division of aims and policies arc unthinkable. Any break be tween England and America now, any disagreement which might conceivably bring about a season of unfriendliness, would be a new disaster to mankind and a cause for despair among light-thinking nun everywhere. It is for this reason and for the reason that catastrophe looms dangerously near upon every side at P.aris to confront old world statesmeh wherever they turn that any appearance of new compromises and sacrifice upon either side must be pa tiently judged in the world outside. As the representatives of the two -dominant powers at the conference, Mr. Wilson and Lloyd Geoige aic not dealing merely with the details of a new peace. They are caught in the morasses of perverted politics left to Europe by centuries of infamous diplomacy. Old world statesmen are weighted with intolerable burdens. If they scram ble and scheme it is because they are answering to the instinct of self-preservation. The peoples of Europe db not yet know how terribly they have lost through the war. They do not know that the major losses arc incparablo, that theie isn't enough wealth lemaining to provide the indemnities and the repara tions promised by reckless governments when the nations had to fight and destroy or perish. And their leaders are still afraid to tell them the tnith. The American representatives haye found it easier than their colleagues frankly to advocate the moral principles which unquestionably must be adhered to if humanity isn't to be subjected to the agonies of another war. We were not deluded and our losses were not ruinous. A conflict of purposes between states men who, in a desperate crisis, aie think ing of their own safety and others who are thinking of a reconstructed political I philosophy fit to give pqace to all the world was inevitable, iiut it is uouuuui whether even in a life and death struggle of political institutions any group of statesmen would permit a rift to develop between the greatest two powers in the world. It is not difficult to imagine the conse quences of such a development. Great Britain and America have come through the war as the living expressions in gov ernment of those ideals which all man kind has sought through loss and- anguish. In the future they niust guard the seas in behalf of that ideal because it is upon the seas that every war' is ultimately decided. That responsibility cannot be divided between rival groups. It must be accepted in fiiendly co operation and witlf an enlightened con ception of the world's present needs and demands. If there were a break in the present relapnship between Eng land and America arlcLa beginning of a. ;iew race in armament and a new trial of strength as it is expressed in navies, then there will Vemain little hope for civilization. Blind forces of conquest end exploitation would be released again. Without the moral lestraints which Britain and America alone arc able to exercise at this time, western civiliza tion would drift inevitably toward Wars of extinction. A clear perception of this appalling prospect doubtless has ac tuated Mr. Wilson ,in previous com promises at Paris. t The Peace Conference has been since the first terribly like a day of judgment for the old diplomacy. Latterly it has revealed a flaming indictment of sys tems of domestic politics that aie not altogether unknown in the United States. In every recent effort of' European politicians to maintain themselves in power the sorry errors of the war period were repeated. Wild promises were made of vast indemnities and vast repa ration from the enemy. , It did not mat ter that these promises could ' not be literally kept Yet it is a matter of feet that if all the indemnities promised to the war-worn peoples of Allied countries by their political leaders weie aver to be realized it would have been necessary to keep Russia and Germany and Austro Hungary in virtual slavery for genera tions or else partitionthese territories in tie old ""d, truly German manner., The central question- at Paris, since popular leaciions and the weight of ra tional opinion in America and elsewhere made huge Indemnities practically impos sible, is not, one of mercy or pity or for bearance for the Germans. It has 'be come a question of European stability, a nnaation of the life of governments. luHia.canript.be. enslaved or pr.ti- Hmr, - W.--W ta.la- t tf bemaniT iC If-WHIt 40 EVENltttt PUBLIC LEDCEK hell they deserve if the world believes that it can contend in the future with a hell in the heart and center of Europe. Even the torics at Paris have begun to perceive that this latter arrangement might bo uncomfortable and highly dan gerous in the near future. So the diplo- matists of the old world ,now face the difficult business of going home without most of the things they have promised their peoples as slight recompense for the horrors of the last four years. The fault is, in the final analysis, with the war. It lasted too long and destroyed too much. America has stood consistently upon the pledge given to the world when we entered the war. The small nations everywhere and all peoples who seek justice and peace have based their hopes upon our promises. Even in some of the Allied nations there are millions who, with a waning faith in their own leaders, still depend upon America to insure them, somehow, ngainst the hideous" prospect of another war. To what extent can the American rep resentatives compromise with official groups whose aims-trre not so great as their own in order to make a peace which may be safe and at least constructive even if it is not ideafI? To what extent shall we abandon our solemn pledges in order to insure the stability of hard pressed governmental institutions and to avoid an inconclusive peace that would leave the world again to fall apart in lawless' units? These are questions that appear to have harassed the American peace dele gates almost since the day of their ar rival in Paris. But a graver question confronts them now. If they should ever decidp to withdraw from the Peace Con ference to maintain, by this desperate alternative, the validity of the principles for which we fought, could they be sure that they would not, by their example, give aid and comfort to the forces that seek to destroy all government in Europe? . The Americans at Paris have to make decisions more momentous, perhaps, than any ever before made in the history of government. A JOB FOR A RHETORICIAN' WE MAKE bold to suggest that the number of state officers be increased by one at lentt, There is pressing need in Harrisburg for a rhetorician. We 'do not mean a man who will sling burning words all about the air of the Capitol. There are enough such now. But a man is needed to apply the elementary rules of rhetoric to the construction of the bills before the General Assembly. For example, his services are seriously needed by the men backing the Salus bill. The title of that measure reads in this way: An act authorizing municipalities, with the consent of the electors duly obtained at an election, to usw money borrowed or authorized to be borrowed for purposes which hae proed Impractical, or impossi ble, or unnecessary, for any lawful pur pose! We suppose that this is intended to mean that when, it has been found impos sible to spend money for the purpose for which it has been set aside the voters may authorize its use for any other law ful purpose, but it docs not say this. There aie children in the grammar schools who could correct this title so that it would say what it means. But if wo had a state rhetorician such slov enly English would not' be allowed to appear in the printed bills. By all means let us have an expert in English in Harrisburg. He would save money to the people by making the meaning of the statutes so clear that the courts would be relieved of some of their present burdens. Perhaps a distinguished former Gov- ernor with pedagogical affiliations might be induced to accept the office. A good areument for The Time for building sidewalks ou Argument Is I'ajt Old York road or three of them ore now in the Abington Memorial Hospital. An old man, a woman and a small bojr were run down by automobiles while walking in the load, the only place there is to walk, snd no seriously injured that they had to be-tnben to the hopitaI.'"'Hut argument is not necessary. Action is what is needed. It looks as if the tcadicrs were to get thcit rise iu pay. The battle of pcaco teems to be the biggest light of all. a The days in .Tune will be delightful to the friends of the members of the Iron Division. The appearance of the bhop windows reminds one that Easter U less than two u cclm off. Those Paris correspondents "apparently thlnk'that Mr. Wilson would make a good poker player. Michlga's latest ban against light beer happens to carry no- hope for those who take theirs dark. Another "George Washingtou" is sug gesting to some commentators a way out of foreign entanglements. , It will take more than aKorean con gres.s In Independence Hall to freo the orientnjicountry from Japan, It is safe to wngcr that nothing so "rare"' ns' the June day briuging back the Irou Division will ever have graced the local calendar- "W wnnt etmplo justice," cry the Koreans. But the trouble with that demand Is that justice isn't at all simple. Indeed, it is proving about the most complicated thing msn ever tackled. 'There does not seem to be much economy in a municipal coal yard if it is possible to save ouly siity cents a ton, which Js oil that the Wenonah experimental coal jardls now saving to the consumers, uneBierfOaueioiBi aio roovea jnw tno ;W GMll; theibuiWliHt 1 not likely 'Ball, jMmMbtt raWfcrfetkw. - PHILADELPHIA. WEDJMEHDAY, APKIL 9, CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER Activities of James B. Bonner Warn ing .Against Luxury Tax Swin dling -Colonel T. E. Mur phy's Benevolences ' Washington, April 0. IP TIIK neit loon drte is to be thPi1nst, as Secretary (jlass announce", -l( 'will mean the (iisbniidmrnt of a large part of the MrAdoo-'Olns organization, which began with the putting over of the first Liberty Loan. This patriotic outfit consists of banks, soldiers, bailors, lecturers, artists, aero, business men's associations, women's clubs, moving-plcturc shows, flags, regalia, songs and u. nundred and one devices for at tracting public attention and producing re Milts. In 1'lillndelphia, ns in other large cities, the FcderaJ Reserve- system, has been tjie chief Instrumentality through which the work has been doue. The next drive in Philadelphia will be in the hands of such men as l'uscy I'uismore and John II. Mat.on. The latter N president of the Commercial Trust Company. lie is n popular speaker and lind mi experience in the newspaper world before becoming a banker that will help bim make the campaign an interesting one. Washington also notes the activity of Joseph rcnuell in promoting these loan drhes. Ills international art reputation is appreciated here as much as it is in his home cityperhaps more. Apart from that, he -is the brother-in-law of Ned Robins, of the University of Pennsylvania. JAMES B. BONNER, who used to wftrk with Jack Ilollon and the other high lights of the Maritime Ilxchnnge, is now almost a fixture at the capital. Mrs. Uou ner joined him -here in the earlier stages of the wur nnd has become quite accustomed to the social life of the capital. In all the war negotiations steel plajed a very im portant, indeed, nit essential, part. Big brains appeared In all the departments and big orders had to be met promptly, Jim Bonner's job was to speak for the Karrells and the (iarys when they were not on the ground and to maintain aiblrtLseyc view of the whole Ntcel situation. Jt is no exag geration to bay that there w,crc times of erit.es in supplies when Bonner was as wel come in the Army and Navy Departments as would be Mime longloit brother. .He is still here, with plenty to' do'. The steel in tercslN have contracts to be completed, sup-" plicj to be furnished, rates to be fixed and labor conditions to he met, nud not the least of fliese is tlic latter, for ull interests arc now eagerly scanning the labor world. COMPLAINTS about "luxury taxes," which take effect May 1, are coming along in such form as to indicate that there is much misunderstanding, if notsomedown light misrepresentation, as to whnt these tuxes mean. One Philadelphia lady writes that the merchant with whom she deals Miys she will be obliged hereafter to pay taxes on n bill of $-. This is h sample of the shame less exruses that some dealers are giving for conscienceless profiteering. There is no tax ou mcu's clothing or women's dresses, and jet home "tailors arc running prices up almost double "ou account of the tuxes." The truth is that certain articles are' to be taxed when the price exceeds n certain amount. In Mich cas.es the purchahcr pays the tax to the merchant at the time of hale and the merchant iq due course pajs the tax over to the government. To illustrate, if n woman buys a hat costing more than $in she pays the merchant 10 per cent on the excess price over .$1C. If a man bujs n hat for more than $3 he pajs 10 per cent ou the execs price. If the woman's hat fostj $" or less or the man's hat costs $o or less neither of them pays any tax, and the racichaut who collects it is liable to puuihli ment for doing fco. To stop this kind of extortion the law (Section 1310) imposes a fine of S1000 or imprisonment for one year upou those who make false statements to customers about the tax on goods Kold." It is. therefore, up to the customer to sec that he, or bIic, is not deceived about this tax business. IT'S a uitc th'ing tn be nble to help other people. And Colonel Thomas E. Murphy is one of that kind. Fortune has been kind to Colonel Tom, but be has not been selfish on that account. Jf he is in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh or New York, and he is fairly well at borne in each place, the colonel is found nt work ou some charitable or public spirited proposition. If he b sojourning at his summer place on lioguc Sound, on the east coast of Florida, he is shipping grape fruit or oranges to the hospitals, and if in Washington, along with his brother-in-law, Oovernor Johnson (when not iu Franco), he is doiug bis turn with becoming modesty in society and statecraft. Colonel T-om's latest lovo is that worthy association, the Kensington Hospital for Women, on Dla moud street near Front, an institution bet up in an unpretentious neighborhood, where there is a real need for its services. And it is agreeable, to note the kind ot men who are co-operating with the colouel iu this splendid work William It. Ellison, Max well Wyeth, William Findlay Brovn, Sam-, uel B. Stinson, Samuel M, Clement, Jr., Haseltlne Carstairs, Charles A. Porter, Jr., Florence J. Heppe and Ur. Harry C. Dcaver. One can almost sec that interest inn group assembled around one lunch table a( the Union League. But bright as they are and as ready to help their fellow men and women, Colonel Tom Murphy is still two points ahead in having the celebrated tempernuco lecturer, Francis Murphy, for a father and the late Lieutenant Governor Robert E. Murphy for a brother. WE RECEIVK occasional reports from the Masonic Home, at L'lizabetbtown, but generally about this time of year, when the landscape and vegetable gardeners get busy, Champ Clark talks about getting back to his garden when his public service comes to an end. He has a place at Bowling Green which is very dear to bim. Jim Mann, of Illinois, whose influeuce Nick Longworth is bent upon destroying, has a garden in Chicago to which he longs to re turn. This is where the veteran Masons of Pennsylvania, under v the lead of Superior Court Justice George- B. Orlady, have the bulge on the statesmen, They are already at work in their gardens. George W, Kendrick, Jr., was as proud of the Masonic Home ou North Broad street as of any other insti tution with which he was conncctd during his long fraternal career. Jdstlcc Orlady is bullding.up the Bame kind of affectionate hobby at Ellzabethtown. Robert Burns was not a pretty poet, it that portrait of bis which John Gribbel abas just bought is a good likeness. Il state of siege bas been declared in Munich, but so far as the export of the city's most famous irrigant is concerned, the city lias been in a state ot siege ever since August, 1014. , ' When Eddie Rickenbacker races in the ilr he will not be afraid that bit machine will run ot the bauked-up track, though the spectators may get in his way, "Piffle, says Dimncr Beeber of be criticisms' of the Board of Public Educa tion. . And the, critics, when, speaking 'of tha .'"Ufaine made by the isejubwi at iUut 1W0W eoa "CREDXT..EH? WHEN I mmmtttp'- . Wmms', JKwi"'S- ( .A0ffHrt ZMf ' .ft"ffiC ii a V . ' THE CHAFFING DISH , Communiques From Paris 0:00 a. in. Peacff is impossible. 0:15 a. in. Peace will bo slgueil Imme diately. 0:30 a.m. Deadlock between Clemen ceau's doctor and Rcir Admiral Grayson. . , OilHn, m. Deadlock between Lloyd Ocorge'aud Orlando. 10:00 a. m. Deadlock between Mr, Wilson aud the grippe. 10:13 a. in. Deadlock between' Colonel House and Pudcrcwski. 10:30 a. m. Situution is grine. 10:40p.m. Situation Is i""iioviug. 10:00 a.m. Rumor that Senator Sherman is ou his way to Paris to explain why the jeaguo of nations is impossible. H :00 a. m. Peace is higncd. The only "deadlock" iu Paris that seems to last lougcr than fifteen minutes is the deadlock on Colouel House's orgau of speech. We have found the following laid on our desk, anil print it without comment: Water is a wondrous blessing, Great for washing necks aud ears; Good for spi inkling dusty pavements, Indispensable for piers. Just the thing for rains and" rhcrs, Swell for makiug tea and ink, Fine for putting under bridges, But it's simjily h toylriuk. The Gcrmantown Site and Relic Society is all a "schism again over the Pastorius statue. Bcnveuuto Cellini wjites us to sug gest that a good solutiou would be to give Mr, Pcnncll a bag of hand grenades aud let bim go and aichie the monument out of existence. That would give Mr. Pcnncll one perfect day, mid in the lotig ruu would hurt nobody. ( What do the editors of the Congressional Record do when Congress is not fu session? You might not think it, but the Chaffing DIsb conceals u good deal of miscellaneous secret information beneath its unassuming breast. For instance, Philip Gibbs told us the kind of typewriter he used on the west ern front, and wild advertising'men couldn't 'drag the secret from us. And yesterday .Eddie Rickenbacker intimated; on tho quiet. just what kind of car it was lip used to drive General Pershing around the front in. It seems to us that so many people werp anxious to have John J. use their particular make ot yehicle that he came mighty near having to walk; but nnjway, that's another story. Eddie Rickenbacker is a droll and. modest ace of aces. He says he'd rather face the whole German air corps than do this lecture stunt he's now engaged upon. When be ave his first lecture at the Metropolitan Opera House in NewYork the other night be wacteu bis manager to introduce him. btit the manager declined. "No, Eddie," be saict, "you need no. intra. Everybody knows who y)u are." A minute or so later Eddie wss standing by the box. office when two doughboys came In to buy tickets. They were in their oycrseas uniforms, with the mud of France still on ther boots, says Eddie, who was watching them, "Say, what is this shqw, anyway?" asked one of the man hehtnd tho window? "Why. it's Cantaln V Rickenbacker," replied the box-officer. "Rickenbacker. rut" said the doughboy. "Wbaf songs does be sing?" While driving General Pershing along the firing lines Eddie came to Rhclras, where tho bishop showed tbem through the ruined cathedral. Some workmen were busy digging out a 480 millimeter,) dud that had pierced i.a mnt. amashcd throueh the ilnn ncl I and burled Itself six feet deep. While Per shing, Eddie and several others were watch ing the uuexploded rjltell being gingerly ex cavated, the bishop, happened to say, "It may intrest,you to know thut the Germans still bombard the catbedral regularly at 5 o'clock every ,fterooyt , , , . ''. ,v r- i via?v"-.ii "-". v "- a w - "fm v-"" "" x jrnm VVMItmaMUWW JW a lot Q iJ)194 ; KNOW HOW YOU VALUEA 'SCRAP OF PAPER'!" " "a! "JKflL,.'i-, r;?5iS;Liv:'. he wanted to show us. Believe me, we did the lest of that sightseeing u high, I was running the car, nnd we were a long way from Rhcims when 5 o'clock came along." "Yes," biiid Eddie, after talking ot some of his experiences in the nir, "(here weie some queer" things happened. You hear n lot about the Hjing men, but-not so much about tho balloon observers, who have a mighty dangerous job. It's not much fuu to bo in oue' of those balloons and get shot up. The balloon catches fire, aud if jou don't step off in your pnrachute quickly enough, the ! burning ouvelopo coincs down ou you and jou re dono for. I saw that happen twice, onco to a Hun and once to one of our ou men. "in the St. Mihlcl drive one of our cable balloons was sent up in a valley to ditect heavy artillery tire on Conlluns, aborrt twen ty miles away. There" were ,two observers in it. In some way the balloon came afoul of n cliff on one side of the valley, tho cable was broken aud one of the parachutes was torn off. As there was only otic parachute left, neither of the bojs would use it. They stuck together and the balloon drifted along with the wind. Finally they came to earth at the very town of Couflnns, where they weie welcomed by .Fritz. When they felt their own stuff eomtng over good and plenty they were sorry they bad been bo accurate in registering those guns:' "J':n Hall, one of thcyfincst lliers in our squaarou, had a damn narrow escape," said -Eddie. "We were out ou an alertcj one morning near Pout-a-Mousson and saw four Huu planes beliw us. We dived, I fired n hundred rounds at my man, nnd saw the bochc go into a tail spin. Just then 'an other bochc came down ou my tail from be hind. 1 was. scared to death aud zoomed up iu a hurry. When I had time to look around again I saw Hall gliding' gently over a wood nnd landing in German territory. He had had wing trouble the Nieuport had a bad habit of shedding the fabric off its upper wings on a long dive and not only that, an Archie shell Uad hit bis motor squarely, dislodging a cylinder. Happily it was a dud ; if it bad exploded ho'd have been blown to bits. He broke bis ankln when he landed, was captured by- the same Huns we'd been fighting with and lunched at their ." We asked Captain Rickenbacker whether two aces qn opposing pides would single each other out for personal combat, tryiug time ., after time to get the better of each other. "The fuuny part of it was," lie said, "that when two really good men pnet in tho fair they rprcly fought long. Yoii know you can tell, iu'' a. minute, by watching a man . maneuver; whether he's any good or .not. ' Sometimes 1,'ve tried for an hour to get a Hun filer in such a position that I could, get oil bis tall, nnd couldn't do it. -iou see, your gun Is rigid ; you can only fire the way the plane is pointed. Two really skillful fliers woud take a twirl around each other and then see that neither of them could draw a bead on the other. So, they would pull off arid try for better luck elsewhere,", In such unassuming fashion, wo suppose, the knights of the iniddlo ages may have discussed jtbelr jousts and tourucys, Frank Woolworjh be&an hls.fllmb to fame by borrowing fifty bones from hisMandlady In Lancoster,'( - Wq have long been looking for . landladyslikc that. Wo 'do'not believe it , 1st necessary to nssumoi'thtttr the hurried voyaijo of the George! Washlngtpnnieauii diplomatic catas-tropbcsln-j'arjrf. Our hunch is that the vessel is Jpadcd With the palm bench suits of the Ainericiiu delegation, wjilch wjll cnablo tbem to carry op all summer Or perhaps she is tarrying. Eaptrr bonocli? for the-Amcricnn stenographers nt the Hotel Crillon?1" . "Or a friwb.supply of nulilino plllsfor Rear AdWNil lirayson s .mcuinua chmi e symbolic fried eyst U, SWWWI a-ASi?1 vmt IS PAGLIACCIO j"1HILD of those lovers, mottal mirth audi J woe. Poor Pngliaccio, fool nnd lover both. How often hae I laughed nnd left" you loath, Not dreaming that your piny was mlugled SO With prayers aud creeping dread, or'lhriY the show , Of gaudy silks cnuld nhle so red ii"hcaff . f A mind so tantalized and torn apart, ," A soul so taunted of the powers below. r And look ! the laugh, the kiss, the sudden blow. The flarjiig lights and frightened faced round ' . A stained and sinking form! Oh. well I know That rising, ringing cry ! The, knife lifts found .''" , A lovely sheath! Aha, ragllacclo! ' ' Your heart was breaking then. I know that sound. '" Douglas Ducr.in "The Vanished World.," What- Do You Knoto? ' J QUIZ ' 1. What word in the English language has two absolutely! opposed meanings? U. What dry state this week voted down? an nmeudment permitting the sale of light wines nud beer? " , 3. Who was Plautus? ' 4. In what German state is Nuremberg? 5. Who wrote "Cranford"? 0. Of what city was it said "It has kept, ' its name nnd its unbroken position ds' n great city from an earlier time than any other city iu Europe?'-' ' , 7. What is kelp?' , ' S. What is the coricct pronunciation of the w-nnl lirliivn? ' "W 9. What was -the last eitv in the Unhurt j!i States to'bc evacuated by the Britisfi 1 ui iiiu ruu ui iuo Ainericau lievoiutlon ,' 10. What is chocolate made 'from? . ( Answers' to Yesterday's Quiz J.Jcan Jnures was n uo"tcd French radical leader, orator and statesman, nssassi-' nnted in Paris just before the out brcak of the war in 1014. 2, Last Sunday, April 0, wna the teutn nn nlversaryof the discovery of the North Polo by Admiral Peary. , - . - . ... X.v 3. Pol Is a common article ,of food UKi n7 Hawaii and other parts of Polynesia;, ;A. It consists of the root of tho taro tfW?I plauttpoundcd into a paste, mixed with 'V . water and fermented. t A. A "thunder-sheet" is the sheet of inelnl ') rattled "off Stage" id theatres to iml- .si! tate storm effects. ("? u. j.no nociciy joiuuun uu iu uic. vucihc ? a Ocean between latitude 10 and WJ - J Houiu, . lougiiuue xto to luv.iiu Welle; I They belong tof France, i A ' t T h II... ........ a (-aw.... n,nu. ..1. w. .... ... 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