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SEEING HARRISBURG
k ANY ONK who koos scekinc sipns of
ij- the new inspiration that tlu war
Was presumed to have liioupht to all men
concerned with government will be wise
In ftghtinfr any cynical train cotfductoi
who tries to drop him off at Hnrrisbuic
It is lensonable to suppose that mem
bers of the Legislature lead the news
papers, and it is equally reasonable to
suppose that they would be determined,
at a time like this, to concentrate atten
tion upon the various practical questions
that press painfully upon all people who
work in business or at jobs to sustain
the commonwealth. But for weeks the
Legislature seems to have been content
to bicker and squabble over two sorts of
prohibition the prohibition of free
speech and the prohibition of stiong
drink.
The debates upon the sedition bill and
the "dry" bills have been doloious and
infinitely wearying. Vast work is to be
done. Bills of actual importance are on
the side tracks. Kepresentatives from
the hinterlands are weary of city life and
shouting for an opportunity to go home.
The animation that stirred the Legisla
ture when Senator Penrose appeared,
cracking his whip, is no moie. And the
general aspect of affairs at the State
Capitol suggests again that it is the lob
byists rather than the elected lepresent
atives who make most of the laws under
which we live.
Surveys and investigations arc becom
tg fashionable again. What a joyous
the scale would have if, by some re
sal of a familiar older, a committee of
,in citizens could be appointed to in
stigate the Legislature!
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THE ROAD TO BANKRUPTCY
CWERY business man knows that he is
- headed straight for the bankruptcy
courts when he mortgages his property to
raise money to pay current operating ex
penses. Yet it is announced that Councils will
meet tomorrow to approve an issue of
.bonds to jaise money, part of which is to
jJS.. " "tu ui t,ay uii; UIJCIUUIIK expCUSCS 01
, the city.
.$ , The total loan to be floated is $14,750,-
000. The greater part of it is to be used
'for permanent,ei,nprovements. such as
ijL constructing sewers, erection of new
.r-wnriages, the completion of the Paikway,
rjine improvement, oi me water supply, the
'purchase of motor apparatus or the firn
Ld?7?..j Mannvmnn nn.l mini. 1.1. 4l!
Ttrall",t,ltulJU auji iiku tilings.
1. ' But it is nronnspft in hnrmw 41 nnn nnn
Wr'tnT flip mninfonnnitn nf a?nl.nU iunni-
W that is, to keep the streets in proper
repair, mere is an item of 51,500,000
for the payment of mandamuses that is.
to meet expenses not covered in annual
appropriations or made on the initiative
of officials who may incur expenses on
their own responsibility without first se
curing approval of Councils. Other sums
are to be borrowed for repairs to fire
boas and for repairs to police and fire
statipns. No argument is needed to prove
that all repairs should be made out of
current revenues.
It is because of such waste of the city's
capital as is contemplated in this bond
issue" that it has been found difficult to
a raise money for needed public improve
L merits. The limit of our debt-incurrinc
KC 'nower is almost reached. Tipnm.cn r i,:t.
condition wo find men urcinir that the
i vast sums earmarked for transit and port
. dejveiopment De released for general use.
II it is released it is likely to bo frittered
away for repairs and mandamuses un-
Msj less ine oiuciais in tne uty Hall have the
courage to raise by taxation all that is
Used for current expenses each year.
WHY DO NAUGHTY PLAYS PAY?
S?: "DABBI WISE, of New York, in . hl.
ikf ins "'""ajenment of what he piquantly
caus -ine lingerie drama," said bluntly
f, .ttrhn r n rrrctrx t m nntr nvnn 1 1
B&V '.fnnrfne to iittpp. Rrnnrl1t Mairn.i ut-
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to criticism is justified
; The rabbi, however, has followed the
Sixample of other crusaders in the stage
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'i wvriu mm uusiiuivu ui;ium ine proDe Ol
s 1.1a infpllprt rpnrlirvl flip rnnf rF fI,o m,i
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" jie. Hau ne taKen a uay on to pore over
'dW ltnnk.a of the various nrnnpttiry mnn-
''toers who. risk bankruptcy at intervals
1 flipit pfTort to tiain tlipir ntililip fn n
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preciaiion ui reai uramaiic itiera
7 trkr- had he taken toll of trip lnssps sua.
f Mined each year by the men who hope
tftpituy to oDtain general support lor stage
iflhWuctions that are at once modern and
I W'inout me essential inns, ne would
'Wong with the stage. He would have
turned ins iruuy una ins inuifjiiniiuii uui.
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Supon the producers, but upon the public.
It Is no uncommon thing in New York
. tut f nimdejpnm 10 see a reany goou
MihJ Mimiini, ai uti nnmfv innirt vtii1n
t( Una:crie dnia' next dopr turns the
r,
eager crowds away. Not long ago at one
of the Broad street theatreJi a group of
college girls clnmorcd at a ticket window
for admission to a modern comedy deli
cately, yet not too delicately, woven
around n scries of misadventures in n
hotel suite. They turned away almost in
tears when they were infoimcd that the
stage that afternoon was given over to
an unusually artistic pioduction of "Ham
let." Theatre managers are astute. They
give the public what it wants. When
they refuse to do that they have to go
out of business.
REPUBLICAN PARTY NEARS
THE DAY OF OPPORTUNITY
It Will Turn to Dusk, However, Unless
Congress Handles Its Problems With
Constructive Statesmanship
AS A liaison officer Ktedciick H. tii.lctt.
" sppakcf-fleot of th Hmi'.p of Heprr
tcntntivc.1, displays convincing cicden
tials. The link, the mnintrnnnrp nf whiph
j he forecasts, is the authentic and tradi
tional bond between national .develop
ment and the Republican part. Petty
spite withers such a union. Factionalism
begotten of short-sighted politiwl ma
neuvering invariably totters towaul de
feat. Mr. Gillctt keenly senses the situation.
The keynote of his address to the Manu
factures' Club was the emphasis laid
upon the magnitude of the task confront
ing the new Congress and the only spirit
m which the vast enterprise can be suc
cessfully carried out. "If partisanship."
declared the new leader of the House,
"can be forgotten and we are willing to
do our share, an era exceeding all others
in prospcrit) is ready for our business."
In this bioad foiecast.of the impend
ing diama one of the most Interesting
and important in the whole history of
American politics it would be mere per
versity to conceive Mr. Gillett as weaken
ing in his party affiliations. What he
means by partisanship in this instance is,
of course, simply that sort of fatuous
blundering which giasps at temporary
political advantages and is befuddled and
obstructionary when it comes to the
larger issues. The American people are
out of patience with such methods and
disaster is waiting for cither the Repub
licans or the Democrats that adopt them.
Healthy party rivalry, on the other
hand, is the veiy backbone of our do
mestic polity. What Republicans
throughout the land would like to see is
a paity their loyalty to which may be in
tensified V the belief that it is doing the
r'ght thing in the right way.
Out of powe-,-the capacity for such an
achievement is not always easy to prove
and criticism remains the somewhat dis
mal function of the opposition. But it is
needless now for the Republican party to
be infatuated with a fault-finding role.
Investigations of the mammoth expendi
tures of the war, inquiry into the whole
opeiation of our colossnl and heroic ven
ture will be perfectly legitimate.
Such procedures are admirable safe
guards in a democracy. They will not,
however, restore the liaison between the
Republicanism in the best party sense
and national development in its widest
implications in which so many millions
of Americans for years rejoiced.
Mr. Gillett is clearly thinking of the
revival of that lihk when he outlines the
momentous issues with which Congress
will have to deal. Not even in Andrew
Johnson's day were the responsibilities
of Republican legislators graver than
they arc now.
Leadership is the first personal essen
tial in the Republican camp, and it is the
irony of politics that this question is
complicated somewhat in the same fash
ion as in the past Democratic Congresses.
The seniority formula which inflicted
upon the country the Kitchins and the
Dents is now preparing the path of prece
dence for Boies Penrose as chairman of
the finance committee and Senator War
ren, of Wyoming, as "head of the equally
important committee on appropriations.
Certain liberal elements in the party,
notably in the West, resent this threat
ened investiture. Their opposition, al
though in these specific instances it may
prove unavailing, is none the less a salu
tary" influence. These "old guard" sena
tors are unquestionably able. Their cyni
cism is susceptible, as is that of all vet
eran politicians of their stripe, of being
turned to gooi uses under pressure which
their knowledge of the "game" teaches
them to be valid.
It is worth recalling that Mr. Penrose
and Theodore Roosevelt represented the
poles of political thought, and yet a canny
appreciation of the inevitable necessi
tated the Pennsylvania senator's support
of a presidential candidate to whom
"gang" principles were anathema.
It is quite conceivable that with pa
triotic policing within the party the ripe
experience and seasoned talents of the
prospective chairmen of two of the lead
ing congressional committees may prove
of significant assistance to the construc
tive program which the Republicans must
execute to justify their oft-proclaimed
creed.
Opportunity to reveal the vitality of
that faith will be presented in an array
of probtems the complexity of which
lends even to our completed job of win
ning the war the color of elemental sim
plicity. What that task most required
was the intensifying of the dynamic na
tional force. To settleVne railroad mud
dle, to solve the shipping riddles and to
restore sanity to th-j,taxation machinery
entail not only the multiplication of
energy, but expert Investigation, con
structive wisdom and the highest powers
of judgment.
It would be criminal to inject partisan
ship for its own narrow sake into this
welter of tremendous enigmas. The sig
nificance of the liaison-officer's warning is
ahere at ,once patent. Equally futile will
be the ascendancy of half-baked panaceas
and fantastic alleged remedies.
Nothing could so completely vindicate
Republican pretensions of-ability to con
trol the machinery which speeds the
movement of the nation as the un
scrambling of the transportation mess
with skill, justice and financial insight,
the pascage of measures insuring the
EVENING' PUBLIC .LEDGERPBlLLBELaiA, WEDKESDArllfelffl
durability of America's present maritime
eminence and the rational handling of
war taxation.
Fortunately, the latter subject is com
ing up in the right way at last. Mr.Pcn
rosc's hard sense of realities inspires him
to friendliness for the long overdue bud
get system. As an antidote to wasteful
expenditure .nd the imperfect under
standing of taxation sources the stabil
izing effect upon the national finances
should be incalculable. It is distinctly the
part of all decent Democrats to support a
measure in the same spirit of fairness as
many Republicans indorsed the admirable
federal reserve banking act.
It is obvious, too, that the co-operation,
of which Mr. Gillett has somewhat cau
tiously expressed his hope should operate
promptly and decisively against the con
tinuance of some of the absurd taxes au
thorized at the last session of Congress.
It is self-evident that the luxury tax.
stifling to business and pestiferously op
pressive to children, should be immc-'
diately repealed. Imposts upon ice-cream
cones and baseball bats are only n .shade
moie nonsensical than tyiannous.
There nic all sorts of effective ways of
liquidating the war debts without resort
ing to such clumsy and inequitably op
pressive methods. Financial acumen
sincerely applied is capable of suggest
ing convenient 'and productive means.
Many idle words have been spilled con
cerning a "shortage" of domestic issues
in these days, when the cables tingle with
international happenings of deep mo
ment. Few mockeries of the truth have
ever been more flagrant. In the session of
Congress which begins on Monday the
Republican party is furnished with a
broadside of tremendous questions which
may renew its political life for genera
tions or shatter Its existence in eighteen
months. The worst possible policy would
be one so overweighted with the unre
vealed mystery of the presidential cam
paign of 1920 as to render amorphous and
obscure the ginsp of present portentous
advantages.
Errors will bo terribly cosily. The
margin of success in the last congres
sional election was insufficiently great to
justify mere obstructionary spleen and
small-spirited political jugglery. The
party which was defeated in 191G and
1012. partly because of its warped vision
westward, has craved for the chance to
piove its mastery of vigorous construc
tiveness and genuine statesmanship.
Vindication time is here. Action alone
can make it the wonderful era which the
right soil of patriotic "partisans" hope
fully insist that they foresee.
BACK HOME!
rpHE city is filled with people who arc
- moving in from the four corners of
the state to meet the men of the Twenty
eighth Division. The Governor did a
logical and gracious thing when he pro
claimed Thursday a general holiday. It
will be a holiday of more than ordinary
significance for all sorts and conditions
of people. But only those who look out
from under the service hats will know
just how much it'meaiis.
"Thin and gray it was," observed one
soldier when he spoke of the skyline
watched from a leturning transport,
"and something turned over in me where
my heart is supposed to be and I cried
for the first time since I was a little
shaver!"
Most of the men who left America for
France had never been far from home.
They return in many ways changed. That
is apparent at any port of debarkation,
for it is not in any formal fashion that
the long awaited reunions occur, but at
remembered corners of little streets in
little towns; in a word whispered to a
girl, or to a woman with hungry arms, or
at old firesides after the bands have
stopped playing. A great American epic
is being lived at the docks where the
transports come in. Walt Whitman
could have written, it.
Men come back filled with an inexplic
able tenderness for their home country.
And why shouldn't they? It is the
strength of their own land that is in
them. Its winds and skies wore their life.
You have to travel abroad to be really
patriotic. It is only those who never have
been away who can think of internation
alism in the sense intended by the newer
theorists.
"You will ucver
It Was reign," said a sccr to
Like Him tlio crown prince of
Germany. The C. P.
of G. seems to have bccii easy with his
money all his life. He doubtless paid a
large'fec for1 information that any oiip might
have freely given to any German prince in
Europe a few years ago.
AVhy is it always said
We Don't Know that this and that city
like Philadelphia
and Camden at the moment honor the re
turning soldiers? Why doesn't some one put
the matter a bit more truthfully by saying
that the returning soldiers honor the cities
to which they return?
Wo observe that the
What Did Fiume controversy is
You Expect? nraring settlement.
And it is observable,
too, that Orlando called Upon the Americans
before the Americans tailed upon Orlando.
One mny be excused
And of for observing that
Warnins to Others when the Germans
sign the peace treaty
theirs will be a sign of peace.
Out with jour flags!
wear a Victory 'Button?
But do you
'flip Democratic candidates for the gov
ernorship in New Jersey have shaken hands.
Misery, bome one said, loves company.
The President's preliminary message to
Cougress will be short. The details of the
proposed peace will be discussed personally
by the President when ho Tfturns. And
thus Congress is again condemned tem
porarily to the silence which it abhors.
Mr. Taft's declaration that "my health
is as good as a man wth my conscience can
expect" is sufficiently sweeping to con
vince truly patriotic Americans that he will
be prcscut to rejoice- us for miny, many
years.
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Governor Sproul and Governor dgs
"Mentioned" for the Presidency.
The Philadelphia George W.
Norrlt Confused With the
George W. Norrls From
Nebraska
Washington, D. C, May 14.
TT IS the dull and uncertain season ap-
proachlng a new session of Congress.
Heuec the prominence given to new members
nnd others who drop In to the clubs here with
"a few fleeting thoughts" about matters o!
state. For vtant of live news matter any
old thing like the It-ague of nations or the
scraps in the Republican and Democratic
parties Is sufficient to fill up. More re
cently although it is very early in the
game ant: there is mighty little to go upon
the bojs have been stirring up some presi
dential stuff. They take it for granted that
the Republicans will make a big fight to uit
horse AVilsnn in 1020 nrj.l are trotting out
candidates. Although there is absolutely
nothing like r-ouccrted Republican action,
several names have been suggested. A boom
has been started for General Leonard Wood
and is being mippoitcd by men who would
have supported Roosevelt. Harding, of
Ohio, and Knox, of Pennsylvania, arc talked
of by the regulars, and Hiram Johnson, of
California, is mentioned by the so-called
rrogressivcs. To be "mentioned," however,
is about all there is to it at the present
writing. Tor that reason the friends of
Governor Sproul. of Pennsylvania, nnd of
Governor Edge, of Xcw Jersey, may be par
doned for seeing that those "favorite sons"
are at least entered in good time. A few
months ago there wns n lively effort to
start General Pershing in the race. The
thought was that it would require a military
hero to beat President Wilson or whomever
he might support. General Charles Dick, of -(lliio.
who was right bower to Mark Hanna
in the Mi-Kinley campaign, was behind the
Pershing boom, but little has been heard of
it during the recent boom period. Mean
while everybody who talks about the matter
seriously winds up with the Inquiries:
"What about Wilson? Will he run for n
third term?" It is conceded that Mr. Wil
son's plnns will have to be considered by any
candidate running on any ticket. It may be
he will accept the presidency of the league of
nations. If he does there is reason to believe
that Mr. McAdoo will be ready to take up
the cudgels for the Democratic party
CONGRESSMAN WATSON'S luncheon
in support of the upper Delaware river
In ought out some excellent speeches on the
prospects of the stream above Philadelphia.
Congress lw. authorized' n survey for a
greater depth than the twelve feet now
assured to Trenton, and Colonel Ladtie. the
new engineer in charge of the Philadelphia
district, has been intrusted with the work.
Mayor Donnelly, of Trenton, wants n
twenty-five-foot depth to his city, and so do
Walter Wood, Thomas Devlin, Joseph R.
Grundy nnd other up-river interests. Con
cerns like the Merchants Shipbuilding Com
pauy. Trnylors, the American Bridge
Works, the Roeblings and the pottery peo
ple would like the deeper channel extended.
Ocean-going vessels have been going up
stream as far as Florence, but the ship
builders at Bristol made it clear thdt unless
they have more water they will not be able
to build ships to the capacity of the ways.
GENERAL WILLIAM H. BIXBT, pre
decessor of General Black as the head
of the United States army engineers,
who was over in Philadelphia recently, is
now one of Uncle Sam's rc-rctircd officers.
The geueral retired before the war, "came
back for service throughout the war and Is
now again on the retired list. While in
Philadelphia General Bixby called upon
Colonel Ladue. whom he proudly refers to as
"one of my boys," and also conferred with
some of the members of the International
Navigation Congress, for which he is presi
dent in the United States. It will be re
membered that the last convention of this
important body was held in Philadelphia in
1!H''. when Mr. Blaukcnburg was mayor.
President Tnft went over from Washington
to speak to the assembled delegates, who
represented about forty foreign nations.
General Bixby says that many of the dele
gates were engaged in war, but that the
principal officers survived and are awaiting
an opportunity to announce the next con
vention, which, of course, the war in
definitely postponed.
rpHEY will get those Norriscs mixed.
i. There are two George W.'s in Wash
ington, oue the farm loan commissioner, who
studied law and became a banker in Phila
delphia, and the other a Nebraska lawyer,
who was elected to Congress and is now. a
senator. No one who knows these two
worthies would say they were "like two
pens in a pod." They are very different
and distinct persons. But down In Porto '
Rico it shows how generally fame spreads
they were appealing to members of Con
gress for an extension of the farm loan act.
The spokesman, an English-speaking native
who bad been to Washington and familiarized
himself with terms, said, "We appeared be
fore the farm loan commissioner,'Mr. Nor
ris," nnd so forth, "but the gentleman from
Nebruska" said and so forth. Whereupon
a member of the congressional party broke
in, "Are you now referring to one and the
same person?" "Yes, Bir." "Then you
will have to separate the farm loan com
missioner who comes from Philadelphia from
the senator from Nebraska. They might not
like to be found together."
44 ANDY" McSWIGAN, of Pittsburgh
XV has been sending out a few Easter
cards from "somewhere In France." Andy
is office manager of the Knights of Columbus
overseas hendquarters in Paris. Ho got into
the work early and his old newspaper ex
perience has been serving him in good stead.
John .J. Curley, Peter Bolger, Arthur Mor
row, Thomas B. Blynn and other Johnstown
survivors will remember Andy McSivIgan as
one of the boys whom they met during their
Interesting noou experiences. ,Tue Washing
ton correspondents recall him as one of Pitts
burgh's hustling theatrical managers.
WHEN preacher and politician meet
then not necessarily "comes the tug-o-war."
The Rev. Dr. Linn Bowman, of the
Park Avenue Church, stands high in Metho
dist councils, but he knows the world has to
be dealt with as it is, and therefore, mixes
with the people. Ferd Zweig succeeded
Magistrate Dave Scott as Republican leader
of the Seventeenth Warfi. The other day the
lcaddr met the clergyman it does not matter
where they were both bent upon the same
errand. The preacher was seeking to allc
viate the distress of a family whose soldier
boy Is in France; the politician wag trying
to help out the dependents of another of the
United States' young heroes. -Moral : If the
politician jetalns his influence by keeping
In touch with the needs of the voters in his
precinct, may it not follow that the -congregation
will be strengthened by similar tac'
tics on the part of the preacher?) Doctor
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Tomorrow Is the day of days. Let's
crave unclouded sky when you
and I will go to praise the
troops parading by. We'll jostle in some
crowded bunch, be trod on by the fat, we'll
have to do without our lunch and spoil
our new straw hat, we'll all be worn
to little bits by shoves and jams and
pushes while watching those who
walloped Fritz and penalized
the Bushes. Our corns will
suffer much, we fear, but
here Is our decision:
We'll sacrifice a shine
. to cheer Our Own
Keystone Division
Our good Scottish friend, John McMaster,
native of the banks and braes of bonny Voon,
has been rejoicing in some hawthorn blos
soms that were sent him and has graciously
shared them with us. R'e tope it is no
breach of confidencefto admit that Mr. Mc
Master is the author of the following lines
modestly signed "Sandy":
On a Gift of Hawthorn Blossomi
While rosy May strews earth with flowers,
And lilies sweet its face adorn,
No fairer, sweeter flower for me
Than leafy, fragrant, flowering thorn.
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The hawthorn blossom brings to me
The sweetest hours that life may ken,
When youth in happy childhood glee
Slipp'd joys untold in hawthorn den.
We pu'd its blossoms, drank its sweets,
And tasted of its joys divine;
And now this kind reminder greets
Old memories that once were mine.
Sweet hawthorn blossom, blooming still,
Far frae the homo that once wasnine,
Its fragrances oiir beings fill ;
May all' its joys be ever thine.
SANDY.
In Praise of Jane
Her checks areplump, her nose is straight,
Her eyes are large and widely blue,
Brown curls adorn her tfny pate ;
She smiles (my babies really do).
In all these graces I delight ;
I love to feel her fingers small
That -clutch my hand so trusting-tight
Yet one charm's subtler thau them all.
A friend of mine once, wrote a list
Of odors rare. In rhymo he told
The sweetest smells it's Strang; he missed
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STEPHEN WARREN MEADER.
"Psychic Insul
ults"
For five months one staggering psychic
Insult from abroad has followed another.
Night alter night tills great people goes
to sleep without any hope for the future.
Professor Abderhalderi, a noted German
scientist.
It is hard to exceed the fantastic absurdity
of a German professor when ho really gets
going. HcrF Abderhalden lives well up to
the standard ot grotesque misthinklng set
by Haeckel and others.
Oue might have thought that the German;
would have observed a good deal of restraint
in the tactics of the Allies and the associated
powers since last November. There was
nothing to prevent Foch from refusing an
armistice, going on wan ills conquering
artqies and crossing the Rhine on. a mission
ol wcll-dcsmcd retribution. Tho. enemy,
might well have been dosed with one-tenth
of the brutality they visited up6n Belgium
and northern France.
But the Allies and associates halted at the
Rhine. They policed German cities, "treated
r-lvlllans with goodrbumored uignitr. and
Mr. Hoover set'obout seeing what .could be
done to feed ue starving in ine central em
pires. And yet, it seems, Professor Abderhalden
thinks we should lie awake o' nights plan
ning Germanya future. We should retrain
from Inflicting such "psychic Insults" ai
keeping the luckless Germans la doubt as to
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Upper Silesia or the Saar valley. We should
wonder in piouB amazement, as the professor
seems to do, whence and how this inscrutable
blow of Fate fell upon a virtuous and happy
nation.
Perhaps the professor would have preferred
that we inflict upon his countrymen some
rather' more tangible insults such as befell
the innocent villages of Flanders and Cham
pagne. Ah, professor, professor! In the language
of a vanished era, we advise you to go way
back and sit down., '
We hope the kaiser is practicing standing
up and perhaps taking a little knee massage.
We shall bo disappointed if he takes his
medicine bedentary, as Brockdorff did.
Literary Notee
One of the favorite novels this summer
ought to be "Dri and I," by Irving Bach
eller. Wc trust it will not cause pain to Pro
fessor T. D. O'BoIgcr to learn that the copy
of "Cottage Pic" which he gave to Miss
Ethel Wallace on April 1, 1010, was bought
by us yesterday, at our favorite bookstore,
for fifteen cents.
Mr.STames Shields, the learned bibilosopb,
protests at our having spoken of his recent
daughter ns a small octavo. He says she
weighed in at nine pounds and two ounces,
and is nothingness than a folio.
In a Pay-As-You-Enter Car
There were six of us jammed on that curved
rear seat,
With not even room to shuffle our feet,
And the'rest of the car was packed as tightly
With tho crowd that it takes to the circus
nightly ;
But I held myself'with as stately a mien
As I could when I felt like a boxed sardine.
Two young marines sat ngnt next to me,
l'.aen one just borne from across the sea,
They spoke with the softest of Irish Pirogues
And seemed two wholesome merry young
' rogues ;
The first was a great big strapping chap
And the smaller one sat inthe other's lap.
The car began to give twists and swerves
As it curled itself around the curves.
No wonder the way it bumped and dipped
I found thatbc Lap-Held-Onc bad slipped,
With imperceptible jar and slide,
Quite over my knee on his starboard side I
I didn't dare even to wink my eyes,
Lest he find out the truth and 'feel forced to
rise;
Firmly my giggles I held in -check
And tried my best not to breathe on his neck,
And hoping the check-rein wouldn't crack
I raptly gazed at bis broad young back,
While my h band grinned at the joyful
scene ,
His staid wife holding a young marine !
At last we arrived at the circus ground.)
And piled off the car with gladsome sounds,
And believe mo Or not, O Socrates
I was creaky and stiff about the knees,
For it isn't exactly just a snap
To hod a merino on half your lap !
Wo went to that circus our youth to regain
And, ot course, got caught in the pouring
rain ; t
My left-hand neighbor, so big and fat,
Overflowed on my seat, but he couldn't help
that; , ,
And of eyes yd needed an extra pair
To -see everything that happened there,
A plunk-and-a-half for each scat we spent
And oh, how'the rain came through tho tentt
,ThoughtI longfor.my vanished youth In vain,
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It seems to us rather a delicate compliment
"that 'right 'in front of the front door of our
office,- we find one jf 'those bigsblue parade
banners inscribed LB BON MAISON.
Probably it ought to be LABONNE MAI.
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WHO'S he that dares, with impious tread,
Invade the eternal solitudes;
That, all unbidden and unsought.
Within the glacial zone intrudes.
That violates the sacred realm
The feathered nomads called their own, '
And claims divided empire where
Erstwhile the Eagle reigned alone?
Who's he, by science schooled in flight,
Would gaze on Andes from above,
O'crtop Mbnt Blanc's majestic dome,
And Himalaya's fastness prove?
As well might he whose tutored sight
Spies out, In space, some lonely star,
Es,say to tread the path that leads
Where uncomputcd ncbulcs are.
And claim the.pctty lords of Earth,
To whom terrestrial sway is given,
Should parcel out, by term and bound,
4The void immensity of Heaven!
No more shall he life's thrall elude
Who climbs the empyrean height;
Though soaring, in his venturous trail
Condor and vulture bhare his flight !
Space is man's home! Creation hides
No refuge for the enfranchised soul;
Asylum lurks not In the clouds,
Nor in the silence of' the Pole !
How shall this ancient orb of ours,
All sccthingfvvith intestine heat
Old Vulcan's lair, the Forge of Hell
For long man's scrutiny defeat!
Not long shall Aetna waste its fumes,
Nor Chimborazo spout its fires,
When sateless 'Science, 'boring deep,
With Earth's volcanic heat conspires!
Robert S. - Rantoul," in the New York
Times.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What day Is fixed by the constitution for
the opening of tho regular session of
Congress?
2. What is a sabbatical year-In the modern
sense?
3. Who said "God tempers the wind to the
shorn lamb"? ,
4. What is a deodan or deodand?
5. What is the largest city In Kansas?
C. Where la" the Manche?
7. Who was called the "Man of Destiny"?
8. What is the meaning of tho Latin phrase
"Nil desperandum"?
0. Wfiat proportion of an iceberg Is below
the surface of the water?
10. Who 1is the "speaker-elect" of the
House .of Representatives?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
l'. Helsingfora is the capital of FinlamJ.
2. A kilometer Is 3280.80 feet.
3. The, route of the American transatlantic
aviators -.will.' take tbem to the towns
. , of Horta andunta Delgada.In the
Azores. , . c
4. The word route should be pronounced as
though spelled,' 'root."
5. SoBriquet; 'nickname; assumed name.
0. Contretemps; unlucky accident; hitch.
7. Zenobla was queen of Palmyra. Her
armies were defeated by those ot the
Ronlan emperor Aurelian In 271 A. D.
and she was takn,captlve,to Rome.
8. John Adams John Quincy Adams and
. Theodore Roosevelt were Presidents of
, the Unltec States who were graduates
of Harvatd. , "" (
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wEen spiders spin onthe grass. ,
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