"? A 10 EVENING PUBLIC." LEDGERPHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MAY 20, I9i9 X . ' - - SN V m w i to. ri & ilS l. ft ? f li lit r 14 FiL ; ? laienmg public Hfc&ger THE EVENING TELEGRAPH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY A' .CTJltfs ir. K. CUriTIS rnrtnrT 4 ,rhr! If. Ludlniion Ice rrpWfnt. .tohn r lrtln. SirrfUry ami Treasurer rhlltp s I'olllni" - John 11. Williams, John J Mpurseon Dlrertnrs EDITOniAI. nOAlll) Cues ir If rntll, Chairman DAVtD E. SMH.Er (Ml tor JOHN ft MATlTtN' Oeneral IIii1iips Manage- rubllnhtd dnllj at l'milc lAium llulldlntr, lnilnndtnia Square Philadelphia Atiantio Citr . . f'rra I mo i nulldlnc fcxir Vok 1'im Meirotolltan 'Joner inritoir Tin 1'onl null llnr ST. Lnt.ii Inns nillertnn nulMIng r Chiciso .. . 13(1-' Jrilwre liullJInc news ninnvt's T'jjntsorov ntmtir V B. Tor PenniiHanln Ae n?n1 tllh M Krw Tonic tlrniui rh sun iiuiiilii a lajsDOS limcAU . I ouilun 7 f 1 ( ra snwcniPTios trhvis . The Kthmvo Pnhi to l.trmrit I served to nh vrribers In Philadelphia ami lurrniintllhK town At the rate of twelve I1JI cut per ueeU payable to the carrier. Hr mall to point outride of Phllndelphii In tha United Slate I'ahnilit or 1'nlted stat po pension potape free nft c-iil) ient per month Bbc ($(! dolHrs per vr pavihle in advance To M forelcn tountrle one (1 dollar pt month Voticr subi rtlmr nMilnp nddre liaised must clia old as well lis new addres DFII, tOOO ffUMT M VSTOXT MMX TOO C3" Atldrfii a I imtmu! at to n fo fie i ip r thl 1 erfcri iiccjirjid- irr Vq tntr l'hUttdr pi it Member of the ssociatcd Press THE iSSOt'IAT El) I'HES ,i crciV adri entitled to Hie imc mi irp thhentton of all nciri dnpati.hr n edited tn it m nut otlteuctvc c edited in this papei and nho the weal nnn puTlnlied Iheirni HI itqhti nf lepiihlnalion of '"' '"' ''' patches heiem aic nlsn tesriied. Ph ladrlplna liird. Ml. JO, I'd" WORK RATHER THAN WORDS TTIHE lirit S.CSMOH of the Mt-Mtli A Congres has begun, and the progivm of oigamzation ai ranged in the confei ences of Repub lean Mmatois and lepie aentativcs has been earned out There is much woik to do btfoie the close of the listal jear; o much, in fait, that if the time shall be lonsumed with much talk it cannot be done. The counti y is, not concerned jut now with the iews of congicssmen on the Btatc of the nation. It is concerned with action which will permit the government to function piopeilj after Jul 1 MORTALITY AND MILLIONS ALL the millions of litt e Vmon Walsh .McLean, all the innumerable safe guards with which he had been sui rounded since bnth, proed nisiimcient So did the jeweled armoi of chille, though Vulcan himself had foiged it. So did all the multitudinous piotcctie in fluences to which the "Grand Dauphin" of France was subjected to pie&eie him Jfor a thione which he neci ascended. Since time began fate has been iiomcallj impatient of either bargain-, oi pel sua sion. Its ternble mood of whim is in scrutable. American babies and American bos daily face penis fiom which the nine-ycar-old heir to two lyindted million dollars was exempt. The destiny which so often saes them, sometimes foi noble deeds and high accomplishments, some times for obscuie careers and failuie, is seemingly without plan. The immanent will, with which theie can be no traffick ing, is all that is revealed. Vinson Walsh McLean seems to Iiae been a fine, manly lad, whose possession of great foi tunes might pel chance hae been the least of valid claims to lecogin tion. His gnef-stiicken parents know what thej have lost. It has litt'e to do today with his huge lnhentance. If all his expensive coddling made him a "good boy" it bitterly intensifies their loss. As a challenge to fate, however, it was as fruitless as was the invulnerability bath which Thetis gave Achilles She neglected the heel, wheieat death struck. There as neither in Tiojan dajs noi is there now an antitoxin for moitalit. Neither is it discoverable wh, vitality is eo stiong with many human beings tossed upon the most dangeious seas of life. "Nature's above ait in that lespe-t." CLEANLINESS BEGINS AT HOME j TJARRY G. GEAR, supeimtendent of j J-the Xioetown Bojs' Cub, has gone to iiicago to tell the confeience of the Hoys' Club Federation that the way foi boys to stait a clean-up campaign is to begin with their hands and faces, not foigetting their necks. The Hunting Paik avenue organization lias won success because its piomoteis have hammered away at the fact that the firststep toward becoming a good Amen can is to be a phjsiially dean American. When a clean face and clean hands were made the price of admission to a movie show the Nicetown Club boys weie given conclusive evidence that cleanli ness was something distinctly woith while. Of the multitude of "messages" being delivered from the platforms of the coun try, that of Mr. Geai is fat from being the least impoitant. WISE COUNSEL PREVAILS rpHE decision of the opponents of Sun x day sports m the parks not to seek the arrest of those who played tennis and baseball in Faiimount on the first day of the week is wise. They ate content with piotestmg ngainst the disregard of their view of the proper use of Sunday, appaiently for the leason that they have discovered that public sentiment supports the action of the Paik commissioners in formally per mitting Sunday spoits. This is better than attempting to secure the punishment of a lot of inno cent young persons for indulging the natural instinct for play in the open on the only day of leisuie which they have. FINGERS AND TONGUES rTR. CHARGES If. LA WALL, dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, '' .declares all objections to women as phar macists disappeaied during the war and ml experience has proved that in many ways women are more desirable than 4. nti, ncir iwgciB uuiug jcas ciumsy, uieir 11"' bU;ts neater and their methods more iMfteUklng, tM p&i.t jtal f ntif ltiifitt, tt. Philadelphia L?.A .s m-vbv.i. v.....v ,,, P iti'4Mfc4MMdeU tb iuperii M-Um- nine fingeis, the eyes of nil inteiestod will turn to St. Louis, wheto those attend itiR the one hundied and thiity-fiist gen cial assembly of the l'rcsbyteiian Chuich will discuss the quality of feminine tongues. William Jennings Biyan wid be among those who will help decide whether or not women shall be petmitlcd to be minis ters and eldeis. It may be that he will deptecnte the foicing of the issue because of his belief that in ease of emergency a million women will be able to spung to the pulpit at the lilst fo'iensic call MAN'S UNCONQUERABLE SPIRIT REVEALED IN OCEAN FLIGHT Civilization Quickened With Renewed Pride In Glorious Contrast to War-Era Emotions V AX has been piett.v thoioughlv ashamed of hini'elf thioughout most of the last five jeurs. Univeisal wai gave idealism a chill douche. The Utopias planned as the outgiowth of the age of honor aio still piospectivc. With the p.ctuio of a blight future upon our lips we have disdained the piescnt, have almost indeed apologized foi humanity. Within foui iluvs. howcvi. mundane self-iepcct has leceived a supeib st mil-hi- 1 he whole earth is thrilled, spiri tuallv exalted as man resumes ome more his eternal battle with the "uncontiuer ablt." as he reduces its once vatt do main. "In his lic.ut is a blind desne," -ang Swinburne, "in his eyes, foieknowl edgp ol death." Illiiulness of fear one tan admit That, -n liuth, is the pioud possession of the mtiepid biidmen soaung high above the seas which -evei two conti nciits Uuining desne for victory, foic know ledge of tiagic"pcnls o complete that iitecislible daung is the only anti dote, nie the chaiactci ingredients of these "Columbuses of the an " vivid phiase, peihaps, but looselj Used Sea navigation was no novcltv when the gnat Genoese ventuied foith into the unknown. Wi bur and Oiville Wnght invented their an plane only six teen yeais ago Glenn II. Cuitiss com plcted his fust successful hydioau plane in 1011. Relatively speaking, the mechanical instrument of the celestial voyaging now in piogiess is as much a novelty as the feat which it is accomplishing. Should it be a subject for wondeiment that man, acutely conscious nowadays of his own evolution and his own failures, tingles with pude at these heioic deeds ' If all wais ate, and evci have been, futile, may not the cynic deciy the poignant agony through which this planet has j'ust passed? Hut his barbs of scorn are dulled against endeavor which spells only the most glorious progress, which gives back to utilization its self-esteem, quickens its ambitions with lcnewed life. When flying was fiist made piacticable, icason in all of us tugged tightly at im agination. Fact and fancy, the myth of "Daedalus," the burlesque anent Darius Green, the leality of failuie bittei'y ex pel icnced by Langley, coloied man's thoughts even at the veiy instant that he was compelled to iccognie the mnade of human flight. One hesitated to diaw the horosiope. It was so easy to fondle the idea of swift coui. sings tluough the air outpacing the hitheito unchallenged frigate bird. It was also so obvious that veritable piodi gies of development h.wl to be manifested befoie the "unbelievable" could become the tiuth. Redefinition of "impossibility" came with the pulse-tmgling performance ot the Frenchman, Blenot, when at dawn on June 3, 1909, he landed in Calais after the fast airplane flight ovei the English Channel fiom Britain to Fiance. Moie than a centuiy befoie a gas balloon had made the ciossing. It was clear that the piogiess of mod em Daedaluses lacked coii'ecutiveness. In the light of history theie was still the sobeiing lefleetion that fuither epochal feats m aviation might come only after a long gap. But the advancement of aerial voyaging was now as winged as the ma chines themselves. Under the gum piessuie of war, and certainly one lesult of the tiagedy that was for good, the practicability of flying assumed an aspect undreamed of even by extiavagant penmen. It is not so many yeais since Wells, who plumes himself on outiunning his age, intioduced into his tale of "Tono-Bungay" an air flight fiom England to southern France. In a lealis tic novel, foi, such the book pui potted to be, the episode carried a distinct shock. As for subsequent fiction, it has scaicely dated to deal with tiansatlantic aviation. The truth is sometimes too stiange for aitistie consideiation. It is stiange and inspiring truth with which the magnificent an men of 1019 aie now playing upon the emotions and firing the hopes of civilization. For daring beauty the effort of Lieutenant Harry G. Hawker bears the supreme palm. His nonstop ventuie between Newfoundland and Ii eland was of sub lime boldness. For elaborate efficiency of preparation and zealous adherence to the finest standards of the navy the American transatlantic aviation warrants brilliant laurels. In a quite arguable sense Lieutenant Commander Albeit C. Read is the vic tonous pioneer. Geogiaphically consid eted, the Azotes are really part of Euiope, They were cettainly not le garded as "American" in the eia of New World discovenes. Ponta Delgada means "Delicate Point." Some may consider that the conten tion that the Atlantic was crossed by aii plane in the "hop" of the NC-4 from Tiepassey to the green-clad aichipelago of the republic of Portugal involves a point of similar fineness. Yet that posi tion Is not without its validity. Unreserved pleasure must be taken by all Americans in the manner in which the navy has thus far eliminated the stain of tragedy from its undertaking The safety of Commander Towers tiNmU col league in the NC-3 is now ass3S? The biidge of boats flung ore" the sur face of tho Atlantic Jn time of. peace has pfovaul m effwftftar that otHcr span of craft which helped to save- Europe, and our own land in the war crisis. The navy has gallantly justified the tradition it has so consistently muintaindd through all our histoiy. If auy thing could have accentuated the unsullied heroic splendor of the whole phenomena it was the clement of vivaliy injected by the Biitish competition.- No recorded race was ever akin to this one. Nolie grappled with miracles with such epic confidence and smli grandeur of daring. What piactical effects will come of it all in the futuie cannot be" forecast. What has taken place within the last decade had been enough to chasten cau tious prophets. What tomes of it today is glonous cleansing of the soul of man. Ome again he dares to be strong, clean and great and he is winning. DON'T GET EXCITED CERTAIN senatois seem be unduly excited over the icpoit fiom Pans that the peace tieaty tontai s a piovi sion that it shall be effective liom the date when it is signed bv tluee of tho gicat powcis of the Entente Alliance. The most volatile of them aie insisting that this is a "tuck" provision insetted foi the puipooc of coeicing them to. pocket their objections and agiee to the tieaty so that other nations may not enjoy the benefits of the resumption of tommcicial lclations with Gcimany be foie we get that oppoitunity. Twenty two nations weie at war with Geiniany. The Peace Commission might have ananged that the tieaty should not go into effect until it had been signed by eveiy one of the twenty -two. Assuming that the i tports of the three-power clause aie conect, the commission has decided, m the uiteicst of the eaily resumption of fuendly lclations, that peace shall be dcclaied when a majotity of the five gieat belligeient nations have signed the docu ment And the. have not set any new pi cre dent. If the senators will turn to the volume containing the tieaties and con ventions between the United States and other counti les, issued fiom the Govern ment Pi niting Office, they will find theie, in an aibitiation tieaty with sixteen Latin-Amencan countucs, the following prov lsioiy '1 Hi's tieatv shall lp binclins on the states latifvinK it from the date on whiih tuo sigimtoiy soernmciits have ratified tho s.uno. V e do not suppose that, even the mad dest of the senators thinks that this eoun tiy can prevent Great Britain, Fiance, Italy and Japan fiom making peace with Germany save on the tcims which the American senate thinks proper. If they will use a little haid thinking as a seda tive they will in time be able to talk of the peace tieaty without a use in their tempeiatuie. As all chestnut tiocs :uc Riibjcct to bhcht I mlei (lie s,pi cJiliiij; Chestnut Wight in this patt of the country. Amciicau pievs liniiioiists will be lonstrained to plant a horse (host nut tree on the first ihy of tlioir lomontion in this utv. John liarloy loin, who is to bo planted nt about the same tune will thereupon doubtless indulge in a liui&o laugh. Sundav's automobile i(tims of accidents in the I'hil- hpeeil Mania ndelphia district, with their toll of four dead and nineteen injured, testify in at eat one instaiu e to the fac t that, though speed regulations for automobile drivers are per haps uhi.uh sufficiently drastic, there is no (lTiilno leinedy for plain foolishness. If the theories of his Has a later life have pioved Wider flange correct, Sir William Croolcs has since Apnl 4 when hi passed awav, made greater discoveries than in all the wonderful j cars of his earth life. And along eomes au Itubbing the Kobln Illinois professor of of Glory zoology who declares that the robin is not a harbinger of spring. Some guy will be kuocknio' the ciocus and the pussywillow next , ITenrv Foid is now 1 livving on Kails considering a tin lAr- iie sheet car, with a gasoline drhe He will have to litiny up with it or it will he taipcitedcd by the tin luie nit plane for shoit hauls. Attacks on govern- Knoikliig the Boost incut war cxpendi- tuies to be effective must be duected with wise appreciation of the fai t that expediency and necessity arc great cost boosters "Serious ptoblcms," Walt and .See wires a correspondent iu Washington, "ion front Congicss ' One of these problems is numed Lodge and the other is named Borah, liut aie tiny really nerious? Mr. Alarconi shares in the houors of the overseas flight. Of course. Fbett would be delighted If the Ainencan Senate should reject the treat v. Peihaps the fact that it does not wholly satisfy anybody proves It to be a good peace. x. ltuiial oioss currents may Tet cause disaster to many ships of btate in Balkan .seas. Paderewski has described bolshovism as a wai against the toothbrush. Jf i,e ,, said "haiibrush" it wight have sounded too peisoual. Maybe the three-nation clause is a paravane that President Wilson attached to the ship of state to deflect mines Jn cou gressional waters. Constant Header So far as we cati learn there is no truth In the assertion that the crest ot the House o Burleson is a Mwll rtWBt op au 'aviation field. , REAL HOME RULE Cities In Michigan and Several Other States Have Power to Make and Amend Their Own Charters HOW modest aie (he t barter revision bills before the Legislature in their piomlscs for giving home nilc to this city will be better appi (Minted by the tesidcnls of titles In stntcs which pprmit municipal home rule than by iltircns of Philadelphia. Theie is no homo rule when the city Is required to go to the state lawmaking body when It wishes to amend its i barter. A'irtn ally the only home rule provision in the bills aiguincnls on which a ""legislative committee nie hearing today is that which gives to the city the right to decide whether work for which definite specifications cannot be piepaied may be done by tontiacl or di tcttly by n city department. rpWFI.Vn states have constitutional or -- statutory piovislons which give the cities control in gi cuter or less degree over their local affairs and over the tiroiesscs by which fhosp affairs shall he managed. Arizona, California, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraskn, Oklahoma. Texas and Washington have gi anted home liile to cities with n population in excess of lived miiiimums. Tn Colorado the minimum population is "000. In Mis souii it is 100,000. Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Oregon pennit cities and villages, tcg.udless of their sire, to decide within ceitain limits linn fhey aie to be governed. rnlll" autonomy of the Michigan eitics is -- pioticted bv niandatniy provisions in the slate constitution 'I hat document directs tho Legislatuie to pass general laws for the mcoi potation of cities and villages. The next section reads m this way: Lnilcr such general laws tti electors of each cltj and vIILikc shall have power and nulhorltv to fiame, adopt and amend lis charter and to amend an existing cliartei of the utv oi village heretofore Bi anted or passed bv tho Legislature foi the gov eminent of the city or village, and thiough Its icgularlv constituted au thority to ptss all laws and ordinances l elating to its municipal concerns, subject to the constitution ind general laws of the state In obedience to the command of the con slitutiou the Legislature has passed a gen einl law for tho uuorpnijtion of cities and for revising and amending their chattels. I ntler this Inw anv city which tlesiics to levise its rliaiter mar do so when its legis htive body bv a thiee-fifths vote, or when n petition signed bv a specified propoition of the voters of the citv ask for it, pro vided the voters indorse the plan when it is submitted to them. If the voters think the charter should he lcwrittcn. then a commission of nine electors sh til be chosen nt an rliction and shall be charged with the duty of making such changes as it thinks netessarv. When the commission has completed its work it must submit the leviseil charter to the voters for their np piovnl. and when they have indorsed it it goes into effect. Detroit last yeai rewrote its thaitcr under this law. the voters approved it anil the citv is now wot king under a body of laws adopted by the people themselves. rpHB Michigan law also piovidcs for amending an existing charter without lioubling the slate Legislatuie in any way. The legislative body by a thicc-fifths vote may propose the amendment or it may be proposed by an initiatoiy petition of the voters. In either event it must be submit ted to the electors at a primary, special or regular elei tiou held not less than twenty days after the pioposal. .Before the amend ment oi the ievied charter is submitted to the voters it must be submitted to the gov einoi. who may veto or indorse It. If he vetoes it the charter commission, or the local Legislature which oiiginated it, may over udc the veto by a two-thirds vote and sub- ymt the changes to the electors. If the changes aie proposed by an initiatory pcti Hon the veto of tho governor has no effect whatsoevei . TF WE had in Pennsylvania a law ot this - kind everv otic of tho changes proposed in the charter bills now before the Legislatuie iu llnrrisburg could have been made right here nt home, if they commended themselves to the judgment of the electorate, and it would have been unnecessary for delegations of citizens to go to the state capital to argue in their support, and the time of the Legisla ture could have been devoted to the con sideration of gcneiul legislation affecting the whole state. rnin: -- c ltic limits within which the Michigan ics aic peimitted to act for themselves ate c learly defined bv gcnctnl statute. Their charters must expressly piovide for ceitain things, and there are certain things which the cities aie not allowed to do and certain other things which they may do or not, as thev decide for themselves. The mandatory provisions icquire the cities to elect a mayor and a legislative body and provide, for a clerk, A treasurer, an assessor or board of .assessors and a board of review. While the mayor and legislative body must be elected, the other officers named may be elected or appointed, as the city thinks best. The city must create such other offices as it deems nccessaiv, and they may be elected or appointed. It must fix the qualifications, duties and compensation of its officets. It must provide for the public peace, health and safety of persons and propel ty. It must fix the time, manner and means of holding elections and for adopting, continuing and icpealing city ordinances and for various other kindred mntters. The prohibitions deal with increasing the tax tate above - per cent of the assessed valuation of the ical and personal prop el ty, with changing the salary of an officer during his term and with incurring a debt without providing n sinking fund and with other necessary restrictions in accordance with good public policy. The permissive section of the law allows cities to piovide for an annual tax not greater than 'J per cent for hot rowing nfoney, for the purchase of public utilities, including street railroads; for the creation of any de partment that may be deemed necessary, for the control of the streets and the spaco above and beneath them, for the issuance of sewer and water bonds to pny the first cost of installation nnd for a score of other mat ters permission to do many of which every Pennsylvania city has to petition the Legis lature. If Uncle Sam needed as many gas bags as he needs aviators Congress might point the way. Germany must submit to the sentence of the couit, but may hope for commutation for sd behavior. Of course the real interest centers be hind the scenes, where the wire-pullers work the congressional marionettes. Itatlfication of the treaty may be a comfort to the Armenians if there oro auy of tlicra left at that time. What Bulgarian revolutionaries hanker after Is rope enough with h which to hang themselves, A lariat for plftI -- vCti1: i.. Tiffr-Zjrirr - , j.- -;- -rr-- -r -oSWaiyrtf'-i.-.lrrS.'v-'' r--"tft SUNNY Short Poems on Great Topics The plane to hop with Is a Sopwith. "'1 lie especially sensitive wiieless plant nl Ballvbunmon, on the noithwcst coast of County Keuy." Associated Press dispatch. One would "naturally expect a Balljbuunioii to be sensitivp. But it ought to be on the toe of Cornwall. Whv be alarmed nt the delay of the Ger man Hunvojs to sign the tienty? 'I he longer they haggle the more of those delicious Ficnch meals they will be able to intern. Yet it's hard to please n real Gciman. One" of the Berlin correspondents nt Ver sailles complains that the German' delegates are cra7cd by the good food they aic get ting. The favoiitc toast of the German beer gardens these days is "The Fourteen Pints." Life will soon be nothing but rootbecr and skittles. We sometimes think, after studying haber dashers' windows, that most of those who wear silk shirts must be color blind. A German may be down, but he's never out of talk. The farewell address to the most en tangling alliance ever known will be enunci ated at midnight on June 30. A Graceful Apology Dear Socrates I'm in deep disticss, as by reading my letter you may guess, for I leain from your columns, Socrates, I've un wittingly satflri a lady's knees, and it comes as a shock to see in n paper that one has been cutting such a caper. So, as this is ceitain to meet her eyes, please give me space to apologize, while, mv impoliteness to lefute, I'm handing the lady my best salute. , I lemember the way her escott smiled, how his chat with us the ride beguiled iu that blamed old car that was packed so tight' when we went to t!ie circus on Slnincrs' night. How the dear little girl between the two gaed solemnly up,neatu her bonnet blue, but the lady effaced herself so well what she looked, like I really couldn't tell. When I think that she held upon her knee n hefty leatherneck like me, you can bet it isn't blessings I call o'n Duncan McDonald of Montreal, who was hailed as having such foresight far when projecting the pay-as-you-enter car. My carelessness fills me so with shame that I haven't the nerve to write my name, so I sicn myself, a repentant chap, B TUB MAUISB WHO SAT OX SUB BOSA'S LAP. Vivacious Critter! Dear Socrates v cry pumoiy I solicit your help" in deciding this most vital ques !: . xvhnR hand did lhc French lieuten ant kiss Friday night at the Academy after the Victory Loan meeting? Her Pome Oh, tobe utterly utter To utter, to sputter, to stutter : Just to flit from flit to flitter And have folks say, "Viracious critter!" (Exit from the right, skipping merrily.) ( TOOTSY HOWL. To pataphrase a well-known advertising slogan, the Wilson label protects the peace table. "Barrier Burned Away" Wo have remarked before that tome of the moit tiirprlttng adventurct in life occur .. ..n,,A.hand oooUtorei, At pioof of thh romcl tf,B folhwfno letter, from ottr friend "TH NERVE OF EM!" H, V AW ji' r" - - wrv, trr- rr-,, u g jsmassss iSSA .s. s re.1'-jTrr-.Jj SIDE UP He came to Quebec about 1872 with a man named Mcrritt Williams. Until yesterday I was of the impression that the name' was Wil liamson. The two later went to Toronto and Almonte (Ontario). At Almonte, Williams picked up a copy of I. P Koe's "Barricis Btitncd Away." He Wioto his name on a flyleaf at the time, nnd when through with the volume turned it over to mv father for reading. My father read it. He left Wil liams some weeks later, having tcturned the volume, and came to PhilaTlelnhia. This was ! in the catly eighties. In the spung ot 1SSS my father went back to Toronto nud Almonte to see some relatives, nnd while in Almonte learned that Williams had died two yeais befoie. Williams had been marned, and while at tho widow's home and about to leave on his return to Philadelphia my father chanced upon that old copy of "Bar tiers Burned Away." He asked if he might have it for his bookcase nud Mrs. Wil liams gladly gnve him the book, over which he and his friend had poicd sixteen years befote. My father ictuiiied to Philadelphia by way of Fiie, Pa., and while on a ttain uiu uing between Due nud Philadelphia rend newspaper repot ts of F. P. Itoe's death. He clipped some accounts of ltoeand placed them inside the book, on the flyleaf of which his deceased fiicnd had written his name. On reaching Philadelphia he pasted one qf the clippings opposite the title page and another on the second page of the Dodd & Mead catalogue bound in at the end. My father had spoken to me several times of Hoc told me that lie had read "The Opening of a Chestnut Burr," "Banieis Burned Away" and several other books. But he never told me the stoiy of his copy of "Barricis Burned Away" until it came out so unexpectedly yesterday. Late in 18S8 or early in 't0 my father permitted the Williams copy of the book to go out of his possession a friend wanted to read it. Be fore time for the lctttrn of the volume came lound my father had changed his position and "Barriers Burned Away" never came back. Some weeks ngo he told nie that lie wanted to read the story again and asked me to watch for a copy of it. Npw for the remarkable happening of yes terday,. I was at Leary's fifteen-ceut stand. 1 saw a copy of Itoe's "Barricis Burned Avay," and while it looked so poor a copy that I had no intention of buying it for my father, I picked it up out of cutiosity. Of course I knew nothing then of the story of my father's copy. I turned to the tide page. Opposite weie two clippings (one au account of Itoe's death) and the signatme, "July, 1888." I recognized the wiiting at once. Making allowance for some change in the lapse of years, It was impossible that this wasn't my father's thirty-one yeais ngo. I examined the flyleaves, and you may guess that my heart thumped when I rend on the first, ,"M. A. Williams, Jan., 1871," When I went home I asked my father when he contracted his habit of cutting clip pings from newspapers, "Many years ago," was his eply. I spoke of "Barricis Burned Away," and he said that his friend's name was Williams and not "Williamson," as I had thought. I then 'show ed him the volume I had picked up. Before I uu wrappcjl the book he said he had an "Jm ' prcsslon" that lie had written something on one ot the leaves. Immediately on looking Into the book I gave him he recognized it as his long-lost copy. So, you see, here's n volume that Has been out of sight thirty-one years and comes back to a man through the Incurable bibliomauia ot one of his sons! J. M. SIIIIILDS. Dove Dulcet says that the suicst path to failure is to divide your pay envelope fifty, fifty with your wife. He says the best way Is o give her ninety-five and keep five (per rent, that is). tW M WUt y.mg;:''1 O- "A, I, ' w i ;' fl..&a:. tAZf.f:t S- ' w ' ..T . J.11'i;if " - nmtl ,.vjw;v' V'77!i v rr-Tj,.r .J rniifP' ,JggjF&0'mm i-'rt ENGLAND IN THE EAST TjTROJI Egypt into China they have builded them a wall; They have held the front of Eden from the Teuton and his thrall; On the snowy stairs of Blburz you may hear their bugles call, "Vc nie safe! Be at case! Tc are safe!" There ate gardens in the southland where the Tattar may not co: There is dewy corn in Babel where the desert -.3jj nseii to oiow ; In the vineymds over Gaza you may see the giapes aglow: Ye aic safe! Be at case! Ye are safe! Xou shall watch the ships adrifting with the "'Tigris under keel: In the crooked stieets of Bagdad you shall see the camels kneel Witli the good things out of Persia that the robber could not steal : YeareAafe! Be at ease! Ye are sate! In the brain of wounded England lay the silence for a span ; Then she lose and vviought a marvel by th steppes of Turkestan ; Oh, ye women-folk of Irak! Oh, ye chil dren of Iran ! Ye arc safe! Be at case! Ye are safe! Ilhys Carpenter, In Scribner's Magazine. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What Ficnch town is the headquarters of the Austrian peace delegation? 2. What is the meaning of Ponta Delgada? 3. Who was Daedalus? 4. AVhat is the nationality of Harry G. Hawker, the aviator? fi. Who Invented the shrapnel shell? ti. What is meant by the "Storm and Stiess" period (Sturm unci Drang) in Gentian litcratute? 7. Who said "I am glad I was not born before tea"? 8. Why is Dublin so called? 0. What is the second largest city in Sweden? 10. AVhat is the numerical title of the Con gress which began Its special session yesterday? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. "Xtfncy" is the current slang name for tha Xavy-Curtiss (NO) ah planes. 2. Important seats of the Skoda Works, the huge munitions plants which made the Austrian big guns used in the war, are Piague and Vienna. 3. Hsu-ghlh-Chang Is president of China. 1. Consottitim Is a law term meaning fel lowship, partnership, union, 5. A pinnace is a .small, usually tvvp- masted, vessel, 6. Anthony Hope Hawkins is the real name of Anthony Hope, tho novelist. 7. Jonathan Swift on "Thoughts on Va-' lious Subjects" wrote "Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent." f S. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was an eminent British mathematician and logician. Under the pen-name of ' Lewis Carroll he is world famous as tho author of "Alice's Adventures lu Wonderland" nnd "Through tho Look ing Glass." 0. The Cornish prefix "tre," emiilorcd In such vyorus as Tielavvney, Tremayne.M Trcvclyan uud Tiepassey, means a town. J - 1Q. A. crenellated tpvver has open spac "Jf iwHitw for booUnf . m 1 ". i$vL i . 'iik..ta&ife. . iftMAirfttiLVu ! -k . . amasmfflim
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