'WJ itft. J 10. '. J&ienmg public Hedger , ; ,THE EVENINGnTELEGRAPH .' PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY nvntta tt r-ffnflci ii.hikw aufctiarl If. Liiillnrloti, Vice Prildnt! John C. rlln, He ertry ni Trenturc-r: i-niup nanin nn ii. Williams, jonn j. BpurKfon, mrrccpra. ' EDlToniAI. BOAIID: , Our It. 1C. Ctnms, Chlrmn BA.TID . BMII.HX Kdllor r V vJOHM a MARTIN . Oftlml BusInfM Murc'ICfT -ctv" FuWithed dlty at Poino I.wgm BiiIMIm. lndrDnUncft Square. Philadelphia. ,. mi 'jAttA.VTio Cut .. FrcM-iiiNm uuiiains fe" M .iDrraoit , . -nt Knrrt Build inn flf'H uwiim ." . ' 1.102 7riiM,lf. Btlildllir W.' NEWS ni'REAt'S! .. . J V. K. Tor. Pannavlvan a, Ave. anj 141 i St. Pi, Nir Tone Bomuc The dun nulldlnr t$, , srnsrRirTioN terms fmr'ij The EriMMi Pi-Mtu Limn l frd to uti lVVlx!rllrs In Philadelphia and atirroundliiK iown BfTirattha rata of twelve H21 .nts Per week. rable . to the carrier. , , , .-'i Tlv mall In nnlnt mOild of Philadelphia, In .' ' the tlnlted State. Canada, or United State to- aeaalona, TKtri free, firr (Sot tent per month. S, e To all forelcn countries one M dollar per NOT1CB Subscribers TYlahlnr addree changed rnuat itlve old well a nw addre. BFI.I.. J000 TUM T KfYSTONF. MAIN .WO V J- ET Addren atl nmiMUinVtH'oiM to Kiriituo Public 9 'ifrfeer fnrfrpenrteiire Sauare. nltnnWp.io Member of the Associated Press T1J? AttSOrrATEl) 1'RKZS err',- ' att'e:i'jl cntitlal to ihr Hie of lepiihhmlhn of nil neirs rfii;ii.cic nnlilrd 1o il nr not ,othenme nrtliteil in thii pnper, nml Uo thr local tiftr' pulliilirii thrrrin. All riVii- nf irpuhliralion iprft'iil i' patches herein nxe nUo teserved. 1 Fliiladlilua, Mulidi. .Mar :t. ll' BELGIUM RECIPROCATES DOM PEDRO, of Brazil, wa, the la-t royal tuler whom Philadelphia saw. He was a goodly monarch, but tU'inoe racy outpaced him in his nathe fond. The kins ho is to visit us net fall is equal to any race with that inesistibb' movement. In fact, it was to af'$iiard it that Albert of Belgium took up uim against brutal tyranny and piedatory injustice. It is haul to tealize that he wears a .crown. The lauiels on his brow ate those of superbly won leadership, of aloi and ' of unalterable devotion to tlip light. Kingl, too, is the companion of Albert and Elizabeth. The power with which Cardinal Mercier sustained the heroic souls.of his countrymen, his epic e-paunl of the truth stirred ail civilization. To Belgium he gave hope in the face of the blackest tragedy. To all the sane wnild he gave an example of incoi uiptible patriotism which inspires new faith in the human race. V The pride which the city will take fiom Ihe coming isit is veiy vital. It rejoices also in the since. e. gratitude expiessed by Cardinal Mercier in his letter to Mrs. Bayard Henry, chahman of the Belgium relief committee of the Emergency Aid. That untiling organization and its leader achieved a noble woik, in line with Phila delphia's finest traditions. As a miraculously foitunate climax to a tragic tale the visitation of a king greater than his office and of this il lustrious prelate will be unique. AN OLD-FASHIONED FOURTH IXjlVERY once in a while it looks as - rjinllrrfi wn vlu crMtfino a littln (n.n and then some blamed thing comes along and proves we aie just as fooli.-h as ever. That is the experience of every indi vidual; it is also tiue of everj commu nity and of every nation. Take the matter of a Fourth of July celebration. Nobody pietends to be lieve that noise has anything to do with patriotism. But year in and year out we spent tens of thousands of dollars on fireworks; and hundreds of small boys hlew off fingers and blew out eyes; and hundreds of thousands of dollars weie lost in fires. Then wisdom came to u and we advocated a safe and sane Fourth; and when we enteted the war we, perforce, put into practice the thing we advocated. We had a compaiatively quiet Fourth last year but we nevei had a more intensely patriotic one in the history of the country. But now that we've won the war we feel that we may be young and foolish again and, despite the appeal of the state fire marshal, dealers are laying in fue- $& crackers and things anticipatory of the ii' noisiest Fourth of July we have ever known, their only fear being that the supply of fireworks will not equal the f. . ui.nitiu, isiauBG vk iiiaiitv IlliluuJctClUierS Ei urora rrnov tl'ltll 1l'll onni.qnK- ,1... I i F&V no chance to lay in stocks. So this year the fire depattments and the hospitals and the morgue wagons Will be as busy as ever and the cele braiors will be even noisier than their Euy wont; It is plum discouragin' to peopl" Ki of quiet tastes! ' '. TURNING OUT PURE GOLD rpHE fact that the foreign-bom of - Philadelphia subscribed moie than eighty-three million dollars to the last p$t. 'fpUr Liberty Loans gives this city a right ki?4 wioiir It-m ,iaAii1!.iH J. ......... .1. . r ?s, , ..in jictuimi ijiLcicai me pro 'riA eceedings of the ninth confeience of thp U-i National Federation of Settlement Work ers, soon to take place here. For the I'iAi-R.""' v' " ",c '"""" tuti seiiiemenis, 1 .hi amrtiil'a nf tlia itminim 1 r.,.., t . lil .... by educating the strangers within our gates and making them at once conscious !rvtKof the privileges that go with good citi liVfaenship and the obligations that it 61 f i .. ..,. 1... ,i:.i . , . . . jiiiiiuocs ujjwii mem, uiu raucn 10 nring V.liAm in n fmmo nf minil"tMf1 ;v.l..... .1 ' with a confidence which promoted them ti-..'! f.ni Ivivnttf tbpir mnnov in a. :. .v tvvji bi.iuiu.i.i.vu t,ircit uiiui aim Kinaied 'ibefr patriotism. -ikThero fare in America today about ''Wtecn million foreign born and about .r'.jw'enty million more of foreign parent : .ce. Here we have thirty-five million people who must be inspired with loyalty ' r'to the land of their adoption. It is a big t ijrder for any melting pott The public school doe$ much. It can- "n Mo all. What the school does for the " jj&ljdren the Settlement House does for tWr parents as well as or the children. , tt, hag tieen estimated that in an uver- weeK loriy inuusunu persons use the lelphia. Neighborhood Houses. Each ,CO-QprBiea wim iu i.eignoor in UK the jiefdg of iU cllenta arid in ! tfcir liWWOHM '- s,i" . . it -J;'; accomplishments is the bi caking down of the racinl barriers of distrust and misun derstanding. It needs tact; it needs care and infinite patience. The people who aio taught refuse to be pationized; and they are particulaily sensitive to anything that savors of ridicule as who, indeed, is not? A piime necessity for their social improvement is contact with the finer types of Ameiicans so that they may be nble to discriminate betwee.i the K"'1 citizen and the blatant demagogue. It is not too much to say that what the settlement workers do tells only half of the story; what they nre is the other half. THE OPEN SEASON FOR PESSIMISTS IS STILL ON And the Man Who Is Discouraged Over the Mayoralty Campaign Prospects Would Better Keep Under Cover 'TWERE aie neaii.v 4011,01)0 men nf vot-- ing ag in this city. About X25.000 of them qualify for voting by regi.-tering. About L'nO.UOO of thorn vote. Last fall Mr. Sproul polled lV2.44li votes and Judge Bonniwell polled i'i!).:!'". making a total of 211,70:1 cast for the Republican and Democintic candidates for the gov ei 1101 ship. In elections foi local cantlidates sub stantially the same 1 elation exists be tween the number of men of voting age and the numhei of men who go to the polN. Local candidate- aie Humiliated at the local primaries. The number of persons I actively inteiested in the selection of the I candidates to be voted foi does not exceed 1 2.",000 that is. the men affiliated with the paity organizations as otliceholdeis and watd and division workoi. This 10 per cent of the voting population tell the other HO pel cent what to do and the other JO per cent do it. If one were disposed to analyze the system a little closer it might be said that half a do7(n men tell the '25,000 what to do. The peitinence of this ipsume of elec tion figuies lies in its application to the effoits of the Chamber of Commerce to secuie an expiession of opinion from its membei.s on the type of man to be elected a- .Ma.v nr next December and on the kind of a government the city needs. A list of questions was sent out many weeks ago to the 7000 member- of the chambei with a leq'uest that they answer them. Answer- have thu- far been leceived from "only lHOO,'' to use the phi use of Mi. Trigg, the piesident. But why 'only'".' This i- a pes-imi-tic woid when used in this connection. As a matter of fact. Mr. Trigg should feel en couraged by the discovery that so lai gp a pioportion of the membership ha- in teiest enough 111 the subject to study the li-t of question- and has already foimu lated opinions which it is leaily to put 111 w 1 lting. Mr. Trigg invited the 1U0 membeis of the council of the chamber to a luncheon to di.-cus- the .situation and l"i0 of them went. This is a laiger pioportion than he could leasonably have Expected. Theie is encouiagement in it for those who aie hoping for better thing-. These men do not belong to the laige gioup of "piofessional" politicians. They are the citizens who. although they do not take any active pai t in the nomi nation of candidates, have definite views on the kind of candidates they would like to have nominated. If theie is throughout the tanks of the voting pop ulation the same proportion of men with an equal inteiest in the subject they can put their views into effect. We have recently seen what a -mall organized and active gioup can do when it sets out to secuie the adoption of an ainenument to thu national constitution against the opposition of large vested in terests. The nation as a whole is no moie anxious for prohibition than the people of Philadelphia ate for an effi cient ami businesslike administiation in the City Hall, and the piofe-sional poli ticians are no more poweiful here than the distilleis, the hi ewers and the con sumer of alcoholic drinks aie in the nation. If 1300 lepresentative business men agree on the type of a man to be nomi nated for the mayoralty and then agiee on two or three men of that type in whose integrity and independence the people at laige have confidence they can nominate one of them and elect him. The task would be as easy as persuading a gill to eat a plate of ice cieam oq a hot day. The people aie hungry for that kind of a Mayor. But they cannot 'be fooled by any stuffed image set up and labeled with beautiful insciiptions. They know too much. They have lived here too long to bp ignorant of the character and affilia tions of all the men of mayoralty size. They cannot be interested in any piogram which involves nothing more than the transfer of the control of the mayoralty from one group of piofessional politi cians to another gioup. That is why in numerable falsely called "reform" move ments have failed in the past. The peo ple have preferred the evils with which they weie well acquainted to in new set of evils to which they would have to glow accustomed. What is needed in the present crisis is constructive, organizing leadership. The voters are ready to follow any one who is headed in the right direction, provided he proves himself qualified to carry them any distance on the way. We do not mean to discourage the at tempt of the piesident of th? Chamber of Commerce to secure a fuller expression of opinion by its members. It would be splendid if every one of the 7000 should nnswer the questions, but that is too much to hope for. We are Jn the habit of delegating power and delegating the duty of selecting the men who are to exer cise that power. This is why not only Philadelphia but every other large Ameri can city is really governed by a small group of men willing to take the trouble to manage our political cf airs fqr us. It is why abuses grow up which period ically exhaustithe patience of the voters and bring about spasmodic efforts at re Then matters Binkhack to their old lftun? trie QJiiKians are4 on the T . - II .i'i ,'! i,l '.hir, EVENING PUBLIC LI3D&ER PHILADELPHIA, the trade. The virtue of the attempt of the Chamber of Commerce to concen tiate the thinking of its membeis on the next mayoralty campaign lies in its free dom from all factional bias, and in its application of the theory of the profes sional politicians that the way to carry nn election is to begin months before any candidates have been selected by organiz ing sentiment in favor of a specific type of man to fill the office. The chamber ran even force the piofessional politicians to "pander to the moral sense of the com munis " by nominating first-class candi dates, as a Tammany leader once con fessed that it was sometimes prudent to do. Theie is no occasion for pessimism yet. GETTING ON TO THEMSELVES ..pHIMMIE" FADDEX, whose re-marks were widely quoted twenty years ago, remaiked of an acquaintance given to subtle sayings that one needed an elevatow to get on to him. No elevator would have served before the war to enable the Geimans to get on to themselves. Their conceit was monumental. But it has begun to shrink. They have discoveied what the world thinks of them and it is sinking into their consciousness. Count von Urock-d01tT-Rant7.au in his protest against the economic terms of the treaty lemaiks that (lei-many must continue. to feed the people at home because emigration is impossible, as the most impoitaht coun-tiie- will oppose the entry of any Ciei-niaii-. This is a wholesome discovery, condu cive to humility and may lead to repent ance. When the count lead the leply of the Allies to his protest against the eco nomic conditions of the treaty he must have made another discovery not exactly Hattering to the (Jeiman intellect. Who ever wrote the leply is a master of state ment. With lelentless logic he has shown that the peace treaty does not lay upon Germany a burden anywheie near so heavy as she deseives, and that the German attempt to escape fiom the con sequences of the war cannot be allowed to succeed. She destroyed twelve nml thiee-quar-ter .million tons of shipping and she is asked to leplace only four million tons. The fact that this will leave her with j little shipping i, a matter which ought 1 to have been considered befoie she began j to violate the laws of nations by sinking I meichant craft with submarines. And so on thiough the Hist of objec tions mised it is made evident that the (ieimans are asking that they be treated to exemption from consequences which the victorious nations themselves must face in their own economic rehabilita tion. Eveiy position taken by the German delegates thus far has been demolished as completely as the aimies of the Allies demolished the Hindenburg line. Their talk of lefusing to sign the tieaty must be legarded as mere words, for they aie as well aware as the rest of u.s that no other course is open to them. SAFE! rpHEY'RE safe! -- This was the univeisal thought when the news became public propel ty this moining. If the gieatest dramatist that ever lived had deliberately plotted the sce nario of the Sopwith plane's adventure, he could not have arranged a more per fect sequence of suspense, tragedy, and joyful, cuitainfall. Humanity is never so rich as when it is united by some common emotion. Hawker and Giieve are great peace maker. They have taken the fiist step toward the new and happier day when the world will again be united in a decent community of enteipri.se. Their Adventuie is one in which all civilized men can lejoice. It points the way to man's true destiny, which is the conquest of Xatuie, not the conquest of his fel lows. We hope the kaiser will caiefully study the world's reception of this magnificent news. It might teach him something concerning the mqtives and ambitions that elicit the affection of men. Ma be the bo.is in (irateful for paiade for us and fjinall .Aleicles mabe they won't, but whether they do or don't, we are glad to hear that two of the transports cart- ing detachment!! of the Sev en! -ninth Division have been diverted to this, port and that we shall be able to say "Howdy!" when our fellows debark. Theie's n touch of Hansen He weakucs even in the Hasn't Sampled 'ttongest. Take Ser geant Alvin A. York, hailed as "the greatest soldier in history." After long experiences in the trenches in 1'iancc, which ought to he enough of its kind, he is pining to visit the New York subway. The chief sanitary in- Cli.irge. Chester, -pec-tor of the I'nited Charge! States Public Health Serviie says that of '.HIT!' premises inspected in Chester, -0.''( showed -.unitary violations. The blaina for much of the tumblers laid on inadequate taxes and lack of civic pride. .General M a r c h has (ilad to lte Home announced that all Just Ihe Same troops except those in the tegular divisions will have left France by June P'. Some of the bojs nie going to arrive here just in time to see the country go dry. Peace-treaty military termslfor Austria are tegular littlo cut-ups. Hotii charters and treaties are born of compromise. One always has the impression thar Villa's name is two letters 'idiy. Even in a bone-dry country the sun Jf hope of the toper will rise in the jenst. The Bibulous One declares that the only, kick In -7i l cent beer Is found in the courts, It must orafort jme of the critics 'of PrMldHt WHQBito realiw (bat no man". ! . I irf 'j..isJ- 'uaJ a '-i--J--L.au. If r. PONTA DELGADA AND i-rr- iiiiimiiinrn MAMC" MO VVUUIVLiuu linmi. The Ocean Flight Emphasizes tho Need to Give the Isolated but Exquisite Azores Their Deserts TF THE pangs iiiviciiiK the heart of Pitts- ImiKliers when hu one,. uncouples tho fiiml "Ii" finin their town nre n faithful Index of civic senstllveness, Pont a DclRntln, In the Axotes, is in for nn ngonl.lui time. No less tlinn twelve different spellings of that name have been current In the cables tie scribinc the transatlantic tllcht. Poulndel (indo, Pontn Oelgrmla nml Pontn Uclngndn rank unions the tlisicspectftil prize-winners. Other errois 'have been subtler. When the next hatch of American newspapers arrives the worst will be known. Perhaps a few of the injured Pontn Del Kntlano will understand linvv It nil hap pened nnd he tolerant. The majority, how ever, will doubtless be nt 11 loss to account for the muddle, unable to appreciate how re mote their well appointed mid attractive little city has been from the thoughts of the ordinary dweller ou this planet. TXllEED, until the othei day the, English -J- speaking world had n chronic habit of forget ting nil nbout the Azores. When it did leniemher them it was to laiigh with Mark Twain or to thrill with Lord Teiinon. One of the most delicious passages In "The liimiients Abroad" loin-ems the bewildering cu'iieiicj tender in Portugal mid her posses sions before the monarch fell. Murk and his fellow "Pilgrim" hud enjo.ved an excel tent but not elaborate meal in a Hottn cafe. The bill amounted to mauy thout-ands of "rcis." Consternation ensued nt the pios licet that the memorable excursion would be baiikiiipt almost at tin outset. However, iinestigntion proved that the coin in which the natives weie accustomed to figuring their pi lies wits worth precisely one American mill and that what was appm cntl a hundred-dollar glass of milk cost in realitv only n dime. Follow ing that vivaciously penned farce is an admirable deciiption of the islands as I he. appeared to the tommeiitator's keen e.ves in the lute sixties. Hut the penalty of humor is a heavy one. Memory of the hilaiious restaurant scene happily nbides : but just the same, there is a chance that Pontn Delgadu wouldn't have been un spoiled so often if man tendets were not a pre to the reprehensible practice of roaming through Mark -olel for the funny places Actiunintiiiiip with the vivid reporting of "The Innocents Aluoad" would have cleared up mull a muddle during the last exciting week ol tiausoccan 11 ing ventures. Tcun.son is a feeble pi op. Of course, we all know that "At l'loics in the Azores Sir Iticliiiul I'renville hi." and we have thrilled over that supcib picture of the "Utile He venge" desperately battling against fifty -three Spauish menof-war. But those pul sating lines told us extremely little about the locale of the epic engagement, inflicted mi unauthorized accent on '"Flores" and made it .difficult to pronounce the word "Azoies" correctly without wrecking the pi-Qsocl. No. "Tho Revenge" is not geo graphical! illuminating. Pontn Uelguda is unmeiitiouccl. It took the air knights to make its "poor wolimleil name" ring around tike globe. ' "POSSIBLY if the war hadn't smitten civili--- zatiou the charming metropolis of the mihipelago might have been better served. Tourist travel to the Mediterranean had come to include a brief call at Poiitu Drlgndu. and there was in stole for the traveler a series of agreeable surprises. lie realized, often enough for the first time, that the Azores bote no relation to his fancied pietuie'. Isolated the are. !)tl(l miles fiom Europe to the ea-t. more than 3200 from Newfound land to the northwest. Hut their seasoning of civilization is just about sufficient to har nioni.e with their supeilutive natural charms and a climate that honestly deserves as burs does" not the name of temperate. Some times the mercury descends to 48 or rises to .St!. I.uvurianf vegetation, without the occa sional lankness of the true tropics, is the result. The tiees bear a banquet of fruits. - The well-tilled and fertile fields supply most of the lice e-sities of life. The'sceuic investiture is well-nigh unsurpassed. The volcanic origin of the gioup is responsible for mountains of fantastic- beaut, for healthjgivinK. hot spring-, for fascinating miniature geysers, (iieen hillsides descend clear to the water's edge There are vistas in the archipelago wheie the -en takes on Ihe aspect of a mighty blue liver contained within majestic bauks. COMING nfter nn ocean voyage, the first view e,f Pontn Delgada is a positive en f'liaiitiiieiit The impression is qlmost Vene tian. The buildings, kaleidoscopic in their lines, seem to rise straight out of the harbor waters, l.nige steamers cannot anchor nt the shore. The landing is usually made in har bor rowboats mid the traveler is carried to a well-worn marble or other stouc stairway which he mounts to the embankment, Hanked on one side by pink, blue or white ware houses and commercial buildings, faced with the decorative tiles that are So common in Portugal. The picture is very much like one's dream of what is "foreign." North America can show nothing like it. Its appeal is a com bination of the Levantine nnd sunny lauds peopled b folk whose ancestors once spoke Latin. - Theie is no ueed to be suspicious of the native costumes. They are not theatrical, like those of the Niagara Falls Indians, but authenticnll worn. Among the quaintest are the huge dark hoods of the women Fortunately, discomfort does not go hand in baud with pictuiesqueness in this in stance. There nre motorcars for a spiu through the lovely island of Sao Migupl not San Migitel, as the common misspelling has it - there arc native hotels for those who enjoy tiled bedroom floors and eggs with tomatoes in the Portuguese fashion; there is an abun dance of sua,ve light wine; and for those fearful of "foreign habitations and harmon izing food" there is Brown s. At least there used to be before the war. Brown's siirvejed the broad Atlantic from the crest of ,a high hill back of this engaging little city of 17,000 souls, nnd no Devon shire could surpass its clotted cream nor the English cleanliness of its cool apartments and great downy beds. A brief trip in the surrounding country disclosed more surprises palatial homes of wealthy springtime visitors from Portugal, formal gardens rivaling those of the Riviera in splendor. IN A sense it is Calypso's isle on which Commander Bead has lauded. Magically lie flew to a magic realm. By virtue of his marvels the world has been brought to know that IV'nta Delgada exists. Do not good manners, therefore, dictate that one should correctly repeat' the name after the intro duction? V When the king and queen of Belgium visit Philadelphia, they may be sure of a welcome both hearty and democratic. Court proceedings have justified the very natural conclusion that Atlantic City Board walk chain Votnpnlw are plwrig&aHJwct In 1 "V " J2 ' ; MONDAY, MAY 2Gl, iolo "HAWKER AND GRIEVE, PASS BY! . dA'T STOP YOU ! IT i- 'V,t'-S jSr-SdBSi ' I I IM 'ill T H TTMlMTTiTn i llalP T -jltKBPSlnaaHSC'&trrSSH ' nr' I I MKu ''4tSsSsSifFIiiB&'-fn'1dKSr: -5 31 -.r--J1 -rrjW'2&' rr. -jr r'iy1tM..Vi iT ii iiii tiiTrTrr i MgTljmWtoffiilSSifegrV) Silaaf''"'"' ' tJ9PfEWBtf-?flTTXUfwSjL i"i'ttf" . bVJijEttAr aiwpggppijsw tss- THE CHAFFING DISH NINETEEN public: -spirited Ineu in New Yoik. of various professions, submitted themsclns to tesfJi in order to ascertain whether -:,i beer is intoxicating. It seems to us interesting that Ihe greatest prowess was exhibited by u steel engraver, who drank fifteen bottles. Hard on his trail weie a pi-inter, a bookbinder and an elec trician, vvitli thirteen .bottles each. A bank cleik mid a cignrmaker dispatched nine. Is there any subtle significance in the fact that those who logged the lenst lager lagged brhind ;vitli the lager, we might say came iu several laps behind were a journalist, a publicist uud an artist. The journalist sank six and a half beakers, the publicist three, the humiliated artist only two. It was the miauiniqus verdict of the doc tors who presided at this interesting func tion that none of the sodality showed any tokens of excess. The broker's clerk who dinnk eight bottles if. three hours left to attend a wedding. The only one who seems to have been nt all deranged by the ordeal was the manufactuier of t.vpewriter sup plies, who drank six bottles and then "ad dressed the company, outlining a project for establishing a social center nt Newark, N. .1." ' Halted at the Altar The uaygisli humor, of our friend Lieu tenant JohnJtansom has jiof 6ce tarnished by his military service. ''From his present nail in the school detachment. Sancu, Fiance. A. I'. O. 013, A. E. F., John sends us the following. And hjl the May, those ncho are inclined toicatd high-tension litcia luie will do icell to have a look at John's book, "1'ocms About God," some portions of telikh fust saw the light in this department. I. Obeisance ROGER THE BEAUTIFUL, that finished blade. Descended fjill of conquest on n city, v,l uhnt a furious racket Boger made! He sacked the town, and ruled it without pity. He jilted the city maids. The city mothers Praved heaven to thunder on that cllov pate, Until at lust, surpassing all the others. Appeared a maid equipped for Roger's mate. And her he royally wooed; for she had beauty. , , , , Estate, and loved him with a lacking vvtt ; A noble alliance being Roger's duty, Behold the nuptials set, the license writ. But wait! The lordly lover has smelted a fault, The biddcu guests may laugh, the wedding must halt. II, Obesity. ROGER contemned -the 'obese of woman ' kind: ' ' Himself he teetered like n poplar tree, His love was like a willow In the wind Albeit her mother ambled heavily. But monstrous" grandara, corning many a league v To bee the bridegroom, weighed upon his joy j, Iud pictifres, .showering on lfrm like the plague, Ancestresses of huge avoirdupois. He knew .his beauteous bride was doubly dooiuejr By two heredities to Increase and thicken ; This bride, he swore, bad better not be groomed ! He took another town. .But she was stricken. And has she waxed amalu, and does stle grow Unto his dread V-Jronically. No! JOHN CROWE RANSOM. Early History of Teetetalltm . jKarW iu'titf is - a v- self under Doctor Tiillilll. who has pie scrlbeil water. I'harles, in consequence, lesolved to accommodate himself to her, and since Ixml-ilayor's clay has abstained from all other liquor, as well as fiom smoking-. We shall all rejoice If this ex periment succeeds. His Change of habit, though It, on the whole, hnpioves his health, jet vhen he is low-spirited leaves him without a-iemedy or lellef. Letter of Henry Orabb I'.oblnson to Miss Wordswoilh, Dtcember 23, 1810. Spent part of the evening with CharleS Lamb (unwell) and his sister. Robinson's Diary, January 8, 1811. - Late In the evening Lamb cajled, to sit with me while be smoked Ills pipe. Robinson's Diary, December -0, 1814. Lamb was In a happy frame, anil I can still lecall to my mind the look arid lone with which he addressed Jlooie: "Jllster Jloore, will you drink n glass of wine with me'.'" suiting the action to the wool, and liohnobblng. Robinson's Diary, April A, 1823. Lightship breaks away from her moor ings, but Is safely bi ought to port. News item. ' What one might call, bringing home the beacon. It is safe to guess that Alvin York, the red-headed sergeant from Tennessee who killed twenty-five Germans with his machine guu, would have been glad to turn the weapon loose on sonic of those who tried to heroize him at a New York hotel, v ' How Old Was the Reporter? Blown (navigator of the Vlckers-Vimy plane at St. John's) was born In Glas gow In 1886, 13iown Is a quiet, dark-haired man, whose bright gray eyes' belle his age. Dispatch to New York Times. Every little bit jelps seems to be the at titude of Germany on reading the text of the pence treat'. Notes From Marathon (By our special suburban correspondent) Now that the war has been vj-on, Bill Stites is. said by competent, observers to be loafing ou his garden. It is alleged that he spends most of his time ou the back porch mending tires. Hank Harris has found a tobacconist in Bethlehem who has a stock of genuine pre war Vulcan safety matches,"' but refuses to divulge the name of the dealer Hank has had three radishes and a currant worm from bis garden already. Loud sneers from Fred Myers. - ' There are excuses for Mlank, however, Both his neighbors keeii chickens, but they don't keep them home. " ' Fred Myers has movvrd his lawn.lmt re fused to cut Hank's, saying that he was not a haymaker. ' ,. The hunting season has opened with, a blare of glory. Hank Harris, muster of the Marathon weasel pack, has conquered three rats. - Bill Stites is rarely seen on the 8 :13 these flue days. It is rumored that he rides on the 8 :, the Bankers' Express. H. T. C. says, that humanity is altruistic at heart, and adduees as evidence the fact that when one's lint blows off one never needs to chase it. Some one else will al wayg run after it and retrieve it. Or, Damn the Kaiser Anywayr The wireless call signal of Hawker' vlaue was D, K. A. We r wondering. In, the i ASLi'KLfeffisa r.iswhe j-' I i t UK'H". THE OPEN BOAT .w1 'HEN this 'ere war is done (sajs Dan) and all the tightiu's through. There's some will pal with Frittf again as they've been used to do But mil me tsa.v's Dan the" sailorman), nott me (sa.vs he). Lord knows it's nippy in an open boat on winter nights nt sea ! When the Inst battle's lost nn' won or won nn' lost the gnme. There's some'll think no 'arm to drink with square'eads just the same But not me (says Dun the snilorman), an if you ask nie why, Lord knows it's 'thirsty iu an open boat when the vVnter beaker's dry! When all the 'bloomiu' mines are swep' an ships are sunk no more, There's some'll set them down to eat with- Germans as before. But not me (says Dan the sailorman), not me for one. Lord knows it's 'ungry in an open boat when the last biscuit's done! When peace is digued, an' treaties made an' trade begins again, There's some'll shake a German's 'and and never see the stain. But not me (says Dan the sailorman), not me, as God's on high. liord knows it's bitter in nn open boat to see your shipmates die ! C. Fox Smith, iu "Small Craft. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who is Hugh Wallace aud what is his , post? i. AVhat is the wettest known region on earth ? .'I. Why is a drink to a lady a toast? ,' 4. Who wrote the novel "The Fnir Staid1 of Perth"? (i. Why is n violoncello so called? u. What were the names of Columbus's ships? A 7. AVhat- is the literal sense of "en thralled"? 8. Hovy did the Bolshevists regulate tips? "J. Who fixed the prize for the transocean flight? 10. Why is a bay or n gulf called a bight? s - Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. Arislides the Just was an Athenian ' statesman and general, born about -lflH B.C. He instituted important civm icforms and paVtielpated iu 'the vic tories of Mtirathon, Salamis and Plataea., 2. Paraffin is fatty substance, derived i by dry distillation from wood, coal, petroleum, etc. 3. "Parthian thrust" ; remark, glance, etc., reserved for the moment of one's de parture, like a missile discharged back ward by a tlying Parthian horseman. i. United States seuators are paid $7500 a year and nioneyfor mileage and cer tain other expenses, 5.. Formosa was annexed to Japan Iu 1805, as a result of tji'e Chlno-JIipaueso war. 0, A "blimp" is a. type of lig'hter-thau-air airship. ' 7, A- catamaran is a raft or float of logs, tied, side by side, lougest Iu the nitddle, used for communication with the shore, or for short voyages, 8. Trepaug is a kind of shellfish or sea- nine, found in tropical vvatef and used extensively by the Chluese in making ' soup, : fa? n. The battle of Waterloo was on.Juit' ,., 18,1810. a ,, ., ,. x '-1 S -.... -.... ii , jr. ; r.i'-i-.ii' - . , -a "WR wSCi" J V i -M y $ ' k , A i -tf 1 WMfcaA" My m ",T . '"-... TrV? : . "rf. s -ii ;i u.ir. 'ia " m ., v '! ;nfncafcT.,. ,l.ri iff-' - -.".. .,,x i l1- IV , I A f ' t
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers