S32La WPT TJVTJTf?,- WlPr 10 ' l'W. 'V n ft. fl'J-J' lllil. 1 K ;T- ,T' ' 1eKK.-MPHBHIL BHKnHHBHHHWIKBniHK n Jftmimg public Hedger 1MB EVENING TELEGRAPH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CfltUS H. K. CURTIS. PiirdtniiNt rtwi M. Ludlnrton. Vlr rrldmjJohn C. -Secretary nnd TTurrrrnlllp a.CPllIn", , Wllllama. John J, spurcron. uircior. EDITOntAL BOARD! j.Li Cnoi IT. K. Ccitii. Chairman ID s. aini.F.r Editor T'C. MARTIN..., Of nrl nulnf lltii(rr UK- iA f ttb!lhfd dallr t rem 10 t.rpori Building;. rKjATMHTIO ClTT ;uc? inatpenarnca square, I'nuaneipnia ... Frew-Union Bulldlnc nt'V IOK.,,, tMVmntt .... 200 M'lroponuin Tfr .701 Ford nulMtnc lonn Fulterton TlnlMInt 1302 Trtbttn Hulldlnic t&W, nt toT SC NEWS HUREAVS: sjwiiBiifflTAv TtfTaa.tT- V ' l. E- Cor. Pennxvlvknl Ave, and 14th St. Yfllf IUHK DIKMU . ... llir nun nuiiuiHK jOSPO.f Dcr London rim f a "'5,. Rtinsi-r.iPTTON terms vrp) mrrain PfieMn I.KnnKll Ifl pervert to Ub- frlbr In Philadelphia nd siirroiindlnir towns I to the carrier. Sinn m.ii tM v SBI in rata Ot VVTeiVB 11. crma 1'fr wrm. yt,i.iiF fj null to' point 8utld of Philadelphia. In v IMm Tlnnerf ntafea- Canada, or t'nlted States PO l.ft" aeBjnn, P0tats free fifty (nnl rents per month. PXiHU li nouara per year, paTmrif m mume , T6 all forum countrits one in noinr r" 11.1 AnMttl- Sn-i"! i Nonre Subcrlhr wlihlnr addrt rhnd root kIt ollj a well a nw addrf". fcV' Wf - BELI., J900 TTAI.MT KETSTONr. MAIN SM9 7 rta- JLiirtft all eommiiHlcntlpns to EK'nfito rtiblK1 J& Ledger, inaepetidenee Square. I'mmaeiyntn Member of the Associated Tress f'37n? ASSOCIATED PRESS t' rjrfi- t;fj entitlrd to the ne for rrpiihliratian all rietrs ahpntents crrditrd In U or nnt htricitf credited in this piper, and imo "Ihe heal neicn published therein. w; lf rignn nj rrpuiniruiivn it '('n.iui uin- Ki, calertM ifrfiu nrr ann rricrrrn. V Philiilrlphla. Tundiy. Mi :7, m' IbPEN HOUSE AT HOG ISLAND TtnE recent supKestion of the Evenino 3,. ' PUBLIC LEIiGEH has neon acted upon mfx iatA Hnr Telanrl will hr thrown onpn to fW the people on Memoiial Day. F.vciy- Kjf Hojly who can do so should grasp the op portunity to see what is home "ne m the shipyards. Admission is free. The kotie' stipulation is that siKhtsreers shall wear a Victory Lonn button. Excellent B5 'arrangements are said to have been "T rrln dp for the crowds, and seven special E trains will opeiato between this city and j&'le yards. ' inere win ue entertainment, n-pieiuy. Five ships are to be launched. Women loan workers, two fiom Pennsylvania, fflcPHf from New Jeisey and one fiom Min ?neota, will christen four of the five IS ships. The fifth will be christened by the Kjr.Wlfe' of an Ofllcer of the shipyards 1 here fcpfs-'appropriatcness in the arrangement whfeby women who achieved notable puceess in helping Hoat the Victory Lonn should also help to set afloat the ships previous loans made possible. V"! Visitors to the yards will also see fifty 'Anther nhinc; in various stniros nf rnnstrur- t& tion. They may also inspect seven oth- KS.iSrs "ow receiving niiings neiore neing tnitUrned over to the government. EjiWo'There is fitness in the day chosen for Vjtho launching. The men whose memories EJ'j'the day celebrates fought to make the fc;' country 'free and united. Their sons l?i 1-fT i i :..-. i.i-.i py iiu, tuiiu&uiiH imvu jusi, cuiiipif leu it Sff" iaplc which, it is hoped, will give the JX8?"6 benefits to the world at large. The presages an era natural supple- thich thpv fnno-ht. SAjHog Island is worth the trip on Me- Ipmoriil Day. Put on your Victory button rt rand let all go' l$&ti Bj inc. onu onuK imuc lrJTHE indications that Delaware shad are KlT3:coyIv imitatincr the wavs nf thp nnw Lmuncning 01 ine snips &6fipeace and plenty, the SBient'of the ideals for v isejnimythical Schuylkill catfish are not fjt5jCenng. Veteran net men -along the former river are gloomily wondering itywneiner nsnmg ana a wet nation tiro to sKvahish almost simultaneously. Shad din- El,'nS at three dollars a plate show which a. v&f the fish are swimming and that it Is, itfjp'ot up toward Gloucester. 3- t. - !. : in. . t. - ,h wages at the shipyards had not red some of the fishermen, thev could m-e b,oastcd of no great hauls this sea- Only about one-tenth of the aver- ' number of finny visitors has ai rived. 'Various reasons for the shoitairp. in. KCcihding the familiar one of river pollu- : 'TlAn. flro orltrannnrl Tt,rt nM.... 1 r...j .w '"v.. ine ll-im-Uy, IHJW- fever, is less debatable. The work beintr p dore. at the Touesdale hatchery is com- niejiaBDie out lnsuincient. What is needed immediately is a treneiniis in. m fo.cking of the stream by the Fish Com- BKV TniRRfftn nnrl noilinnc n dnn ,. U.. e Pt f. . i'. it ...- a inii nil lilt' tIM OT SteT neis for three or four years. The nros- tg pect that what is now a luxury could be s instated as a stap'e would thorntio-hiv hB iustifv the brief sacrifirp. Vpart from economic considerations, .local sentiment prescribes shad mntn. life.t'on' Histor' P'oclaims Philadelphia as -& tn,thome of American independence, the C-fcorfstitution and a lot of other improving 'M Wprks, but the Philadelphia nalate tank 'vfet 6'lad W'tl ECraPI1,e anfl "ysters and pep- rSvT Dernot as snecial distinrtmns Wr . bStALE TO A RIVER NUISAIMfiF STTiyAS good news when the extinction ;- ol the state quarantine nuisance was Iferecast. It is still moie cheerinir to notp .9 imminence of its demise. In arrm-rl. axcewith a proclamation issued bv flnv. ,-rnpr Sproul, the utterly supeifluous 'station at Marcus Hook will rrn mir r fVbusiness on Saturday. Hereafter shiDs s'httt pass the federal government's well 'Jequtpifed new plant at Reedy Island will Wfee judged fit to enter the port of Phila- OjUpnia. in? local station was recently built, ceeaing tne venerable plant that had formed supererogatory duties for ny years. It is a good sien of rlon,. mlnistrative thinking that the nres. 0I the modern trappings did not n.t deterrent to their abandonment. w Marcus Hook holdup was as use- sb a retrial lor a man iH.r v acquitted. All skippers will ro. Sat this simplifying of river regula- ",.THE OLD AND THE NEW A. . FEW years ago it was the fashion to afkeak of the skyscraper as something raniy ugiy. men, oy and uy, it to wn on us that ita stark sim- F 'urtd bald deira to appear noth- . what t really was had an appeal M.JMt .a feaitn hallowing what it really was had an appeal I1"" '. years and it -will appear positively beau tiful. So it is conceivable that a hundred year's from now the rennsylvarla Mu seum "and School of Industrial Art in connection with the Philadelphia Chap ter of the American Institute of Archi tects will be punching n campaign to preserve the city's commercial art even as it is today working to save the city's Colonial art. And there is ample justification in both cases. Each generation is entitled to know something definite about the art of all preceding generations. Something more than respect for art demands the preservation of Independ ence Hall and the restoration of the old City Hall, at Fifth and Chestnut streets; but, entirely apart from historic associa tion, one can sympathize with the desire of the members of the two organizations to save from destruction specimens of old doorways, fireplaces, mantels, balus trades, cornices and other parts of Colo nial structures. They link the past to the present as we may hope that the present will be linked to the future. EVEN THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOOD HAMILTONIANS TODAY Prohibition and Equal Suffrage Are Ap plications of Federalist Doctrine, the Father of the League-of-Nations Idea fPHE spiritualistic "mediums" nie miss - ing an oppoitunity by failing to get into communication with Alexander Hamilton and leporting to us what this gieat federalist thinks of the things that have happened since the bullet of Burr cut short his brilliant career. Thete is hardly an Hem in the iccent programs of ptogiessivc legislation which the Democratic contemporaries of Hamilton would have supported. Hamil ton's opponents argued for the picserva tinn of the autonomy of the states and against the concentration of power in Washington. The opponents of the adoption of the constitution attacked that document because it compelled the states to sunender some of their sover eignty. They attacked Hamilton as the advocate of an aristocratic despotism centered in the national capital. Their doctrine of state's rights was responsible for the Civil War and that war forced its supporteis to abandon it only so far as it related to the right of a state to secede from the Union. There is hardly a vestige of the doc trine left today. Congress has long been inteifcring with commerce among the states, and it is admitted that wheie intrastate commerce has any relation to interstate commerce Congress may Also regulate that. Under the old thcoiy the regulation nf the traffic in intoxicating liquors he longed exclusively to the states, just as it is still admitted that the police regula tion of traffic on the highways belongs to the states. But no one knows how long the states will be permitted to contiol their own highways. Congress may build post roads, and under this grant of power it is appi updating money to be used in the different states for highway building. We may wake up !me morn ing to discover that Congiess has passed an automobile license law under which a permit is gi anted to operate a motorcar on any highway in the nation toward the constiuction of which the national gov ernment has contributed. The police power of the states over the liquor traffic will become a thing of the past next ear, for Congiess has approved and all but three of the states have ratified a constitutional amend ment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicants for use as a bever age. Such an amendment would not have leceived a moment's consideration a hundred years ago, not because the attitude of the nation toward intoxicants was different then, but because it would have been regarded as a tyrannous inter ference with the police power of the states. In like manner the woman suffrage amendment to the constitution, which will be submitted to the states in the near future, would have been laughed out of couit. The right of the states to fix the qualifications of electors was expressly lecognized in the original constitution. No modification of it was made until after tne i ivii war, when it was pro vided by an amendment that the right to vote should not be lestricted on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude The advocates of equal suf fiage, not content with the progress making through the action of the indi vidual states, have succeeded in persuad ing the nation that no state should be allowed to prevent women from voting. The House has already adopted the amendment by a large majority and a poll of the Senate indicates that that body will approve it. And no one be lieves that enough states will refuse to surrender their sovereignty to prevent the final incorpoiation of the amendment in the constitution. But the matter does not end here. There is a bill before Congress fixing an eight-hour day for industries which are at all connected with interstate com meice. This goes even further in the direction of centralization of power than cither the prohibition or the suffrage amendments, for, while taking over the control of industry from the states, it also assumes that it is the function of government to fix the hours of all labor in industry. The working hours of women and childien are subject to statu tory legislation under the police power of government exercised in the interest of public health and public morals. The child labor laws have been passed be cause, according to the theory of the statute, the child is not capable of pro tecting himself by any contract with his employer. The women labor laws rest upon the same theory. But now we have the proposition that the hburs of all labor affected by a relation to interstate trade be fixed by congressional etatute. We do not think that even Alexander Hamil ton himself would have approved such an act. Yet the increasing number of men among the boys arter tneir arrival there will who to-fnorltBmuhawUtmhnWVTtertto&nb.Mb. . act. Yet the increasing number of men t ' ' traveled since tjie early ilay of the re public. Congress passed a child labor law, but the court decided that it was unconstitu tional, not because Congress did not have power to regulate child labor, but because it tried to regulate it in the wrong way. The revenue law passed by the last Conj gress contains n provision taxing the products of factories in which children are employed, but its validity has not been tested. The national child labor committee is backing a bill which will levy a prohibitive tax upon the products of child labor when shipped in interstate commerce. Some good lawyers say that it can be sustained in the courts. Even the realm of education is to be invaded if the educational rcformeis pre vail. They arc urging an appropriation of millions to bo apportioned among the states according as their educational systems reach a standard fixed in Wash ington in the hope that the states can be persuaded by the prospect of a contribu tion from the national treasury to con duct their public schools as Washington authorities suggest. This sort of thing has only begun. One does not need to be a prophet or the son of a prophet to see what, will happen if it keeps on. We are not arguing for or against this tendency in American life. We are merely calling attention to it as a most interesting phenomenon. To indulge in argument against it would be as futile as to nigue against the operation of the law of giavity. The most perfect syl logism the mind of man ever conceived is powerless to pi event an airship from falling when its machinery bleaks down. No logical processes will serve to divert the nation from its present course. The demand for a league of nations is merelj an expression of the desite for the application in international relations of the same theory of the subordination of the political unit to the interests of the group of units as a whole. The ci itics of the league plan are repeating the aiguments against it which were worn thieadbare by the men who disagreed with Alexander Hamilton and which have been abandoned for many years by their intellectual heirs. They cannot pi event the closer union of the nations in the in terest of all, for forces stronger than they are dominating the thought of the woild. AN IMPORTANT DEPARTURE rpHE foimation in Philadelphia of a coal company with world aspirations is an important factor in the wooing of world trade and in the building of a mer chant marine. It may be the first toot of the overture to the stirring maritime melodrama, "Beaiding the Lion in His Own Coal Bin." England has a gieat merchant marine primarily because she was dependent on the rest of the world for most of the things she needed.. So for the things she needed she traded the things she had. The principal thing she had was coal; and coal was the one thing lacking in many of her trading points. This was particularly true of Latin-American countries. So great is the economic ad vantage of taking home a cargo of coal after discharging a cargo of home prod ucts that many Latin-American ships made Liverpool and London and South ampton their distributing points. It wmked beautifully befone the war, but the war brought changes. England needed all the coal she could mine. More over, labor, becoming accustomed to mu nition wages, not only declined to quit the habit, but demanded shorter hours. Higher wages and shorter hours bring about inevitably a more expensive piod uct. Thus it conies about that British soft coal today is selling at prices in ex cess of our best anthracite. What's the answer? The Philadelphia company knows. It is to go after South American trade hot-foot. First thing you know the shovel of coal we're flinging on the fires of com merce will give us enough steam to en able us to get somewhere woith while as n commercial nation -doing business in our own bottoms. GREAT FLIGHT FAILURES TXTARVELOUS failures multiply. Few "' successes have ever thrilled the world as has the daring venture of Hawker and Grieves. Now France claims attention with a frustrated attempt which was none the less distinguished by an unpiecedented feat. The wreck of his machine ends for the time being Lieutenant Roget's effort to fly from Paris to Pernambuco, Brazil, by way of Dakar. Before the smash came, how ever, what seems to be a record for long distance flight was made. Full veiification of the wartime non stop voyage of a German aviator from Mesopotamia to east Africa and return has never been made. If that trip is apocryphal then the Frenchman's peculiar distinction is unshadowed. His unbroken run of 1348 miles from Paris to Kenitia, near the port of Rabat, on the Moroccan coast, was truly a remarkable perform ance, surpassing even the American navy's latest distance record. Modern airmen have this advantage at least. Een though the most ambitious of them may not achieve what they set out to do, they areextremely likely to accomplish something hitherto unper formed. The air in this amazing age is as prodigal of sensations as it is of perils. A Posaaie (N. J.) girl So Thfy Oot lias been awarded a Her Number Distinguish-1! .Service Medal for her work as telephone operator in Franco. She doubtless refrained from saying that the lines were busy even though it were a fact. The world must not bo A Witness the too confident that hoi Parlor Variety shevisin will die with the destruction (which now ecm imminent) of' the Bolshevist govern ment in Petrograd. Bolshevism is a mental disease of which organized violence is merely one manifestation. We venture the opinion that unless ..mi.1a nrnnucilndists" get eiccfditlclv liimv among the boys after rtieir arrival there will '" II I I !! WHITMAN MEMORIES By Harrison S. Morris Editor's TCole i coimerlion tcith iht centennial nf Walt H'Mimii's birth this teeek Mr. Morris permits us In print some crtrncti from his brief hingrnphy of TV hit man, which it to be published in Halt, irilh an introduction by Oabrielc D'Annuntio, the Italian poet. The totiinic it one of a series dealing triri great Amerknn irritcrs to he published in commemoration of Italo'Amtri can friendship during the great trnr. tn other installment tcill lie printed on this page on Friday. rriUK year 1884 was slgnnllwd by a new move of great importance to Walt. He purchased n smnll frnme shack, as lie called it, on Mlcklc street, Camden, not far from Colonel (.corgp Wldtinan's bouse, where lie had been so generously cared for through his years of suffering. Here lie sot up house keeping on Ids own account. He gathered about him all Ids possessions for the first time in bis llfe mid he had a friendly widow, Sirs. Davis, to take enre of liim and the house. This plain little abode in a shabby street becume the resort of old friends and many ueiv ones through nil the years that remained to him. There is a letter of 1SS4 to 'it. rearsall Smith, an acquaintance in flermantown, in which Walt writes: "Give my excuses and oe to Mr, nnd Mrs. Williams and Churchey." The friends mentioned are Francis Howard Williams and his wife nnd their son. Churchill, who, with the l'earsnll Smith family, entertained Walt much in thrs-e years, especially at Christmas, when lie loved to be with the Williams children, lt Was thrmfgh my friend Mr. Williams that I wns taken oer to Mieklc street and pre sented to Vnlt. HK W, on t WAS in liis shirt sIppips and we snt dtmr. I remember be;ng shown the begin nings of a poem, strung on white thread nnd wiitten on all sorts of odd pieces of paper, including the edges of newspapers, each successive draft coming nearer the desired perfection of phrase and sound. By lO Walt had ceased lit travel much further than to Philadelphia by the ferries, which weie still his passion, but he man aged to repent his annual lectin e on Abra ham Lincoln, a pet plan of his for uelc biating the dinma of that gieat martyrdom pneb year on its anniversary. lie now gnve it in a thpntre of Philadelphia, nnd it was repeated in New York in 1S7. In nil he gave it thirteen times. There was no longer any hesitation in recognizing Whitman's greatness, either privately or 'publicly, and the three lectin ex. one in Boston having been given enrlier. brought out the most dis tinguished audiences. These events helped as well to coutiibutc to his support. Ho was by no means provided with nn adequate income and sometimes the purse grew very slender. Friends had given him a horse and two-sentcd wagon, which accorded him great pleasure nnd needed change in the open air. and others- lntpr formed a fund of monthly payments, which kept the household going. T WAS once taken for a ride in this enrriagc or n hired onp, Wnrren I'rit.inger. the man mme, who had been n snilor, driving, with Horace Trnubel on the front sent and Walt and I 'on the back seat. When we were all aboard Walt said, "Where shall we go'.'" I bad no preference. He then snid to me. "You have not been to the tomb." I said "No." And he mllcd out. "Same place. Worry!" as though the tomb weie his common resort. We drove through Camden, out to the green fields nnd finally to Hnr leigh Cemetery, in which Wait had been building the massive grnnite mausoleum where hv nnd his parents were to be iuterred. It wns n surprise to me, as I lmd not heard of it. AVe drew up in n deep dell, where the tomb was built into n hillside, nnd Walt told mr to get out and look inside. The door wns open. It was like a structure of the Druids, and he said he had himself planned it. It united Blake nnd Ossian in its design. I looked nt the triangular pedi ment and 1 was startled to sec carved in rnised letters the words WALT WHITMAN May 31st, 1800 ' It had the appenrance of being already oc cupied. It was explained that the cemetery people had. with chnineteristic nnd grim taste, somehow got the idea thnt the tomb wns presented to AValt by his friends at the lat birthday party and they had introduced the dnte of this birthday in the place where should have stood the date of his deeense. This was, of course, afterward corrected. F, HIS younger years Walt rarely drank any spirits, but ns he grew in linn it no mine uecessaryns a medicinal stimulant. I went one nightwith Trnubel to see Walt iu the upstairs room just befoi'e his bedtime. It was quite dark when we entered nnd I talked to him alone (Trnubel was in a black corner taking notes behind the stove) nbout Tennyson and Wbittier and his poem 'Burning Driftwood." which Walt thought one-third good lie said Whittier estimated a poem's worth according to its length. If be had rend the proof he'd have omitted two-thirds of the poem. We nlso drifted into tnlk on the Quakers iu Philadelphia nnd Long Island, nnd after this as we started to go he got up and closed the shut ters carefully, then lit an nrgand burner, which had no shade and a chimney broken off just above the light. He asked us to have a doughnut and showed me u rose from n bottle of wnter on his table, then cou cocted a toddy in an old shaving mug, say ing he wa. an adept at the business. This was so powerful with whisky that it quite appalled me. It was enough for two and 1 supposed he would share it with ine Trnu bel wns nn abstainer. "Xo," he wickedly said, "thnt's for jou," and with the sport ing spirit that as his guest I must not qunil. I tossed it off to his health with pro longed cousequeuees at the party which we afterward attended. THIS upstairs front room was a perfectly chaotic place, where Walt's hejplessncss pod bis natural disregard of conventional order joined to make a hopeless confusion. In the winter season as he grew worse in health ho was virtually confined to this room, and the hot stove that warmed it lay to his left as you entered the door, but near enough to the mass of old papers and queer belongings that he cher ished to set them afire in case a spark or a coal fell amonc mem. inere was, I be lieve, one slight fire, but I always expected a big blaze. The old newspapers, books, manuscripts, 6hoes, walking stick, with 'the crook of which he managed the stove, and other accumulations lay around his chair in a high-piled semicircle, over which you had to step to greet him. I once took to see him Arthur Stedman. son of his old friend, the poet of the rfaff cellar days, who had not always of late been nceounted friendly. I stepped within the circle and shouted the Introduction into Walt's deaf ear nnd then utepped back to repeat a greeting to -Arthur, who was himself very deaf. kept up this form of communication between them, step, ping over the debris each time, back and forth, until Walt began to ay something not too complimentary of Arthur's father, when 1 ceaseo to nvi uu me interview closed. when I ceased to act auu tue Interview Lr. -v.i -v.'-v."'.1:.-.-.,, t - 'S&.tf:;;;r:.. -"-. I .?.y.-.i ::.. ' -f.'?'' i-v ;; -::-v5-.tVi-'."-..--,-t ,,'--. V - --.. :'" v.i..., jii-'.' ".'-- . .u". ..?. . "" "" - ...' .--. i. ;.. ..... '-ryi-f. '.'". . i. .:, -".'--- -,:.-..l.1"--.-- x xLYStis: Sjaa nrf - .vc.i.v. .-.-,;t,vj; .,v. ... - ... . A-v..,... ;.:! r.C. ;.-,;.?. .. : in ifiah1n'nr'rnTyni Oil iimiBii mTi mil i iialiitfiaaTaaTffaTJlMaarilTirMA, TilrT n i ! iTi Irff'nTKTn'Tin Ti'i'ian'- " i a ''ri.ii , 'fyiPxtfnriiTit7,i i. lajgStMmilKiSiMfiSir i inlTirrjiTaMafeaaaflWaliirinT3 n':"mf:rah:ffVfJ'-- aaHB!nHHB$irVQ3f!5's -iSRSS-r THE TUNING FORK Emlle : ex-Patriot FRKNCH Within IRKNCH-BOBN, he never served a year tin their ranks, egregious mail ! Though in his veins there courses clear The martial ichor of Jehanne. Fnt. indolent and slightly bald. lie, drinks white liquors late and soon, Y'et be is never, never called By friends and kin The Great Poltroon. He dotes on ihocolate nnd brioche: ' He has n round nnd humid head; Oh. with n gurgle more thnu gauche, lie heard the tale of Argonuc rend. No distnnt trumpet shook his blood When he wns told about the Marue ; For all the snered Flanders mud He simply did nnt give a dam. Expatriation whets my claws, But 'gainst tliH man no brief 1 hold, Because (nh. vital fact!) because: Smile's precisely two jears old. Nicholas Biddle's Bathtub We spoke the other day of the curious little jungle of back yards.' brick walls and tall chimneys to be seen along Orange street, just west of Seventh, being the rear of the old houses on the north side of Spruce street. In one of these gardens we noticed ti lurge stone bathtub standing unabashed iu the sunshine. Mr. Frank H. Taylor gives us some further information, ns follows: "The laige house. 715 Spruce strept. is Hip home of the Catholic Historical Society. It wns built In 18'Jl by Whittou Lveus, a merchant. For twenty ycurs. dating fiom 1R"S, it was the residence of Nicholas Bid die" That ponderous marble bathtub in the back vard was, I have been told, jnnde for him, but discarded by Dr.. .Tames Kitchen, reputed to hnve been the oldest practicing phvsiclan in the Fnited States, who lived in the house forty-one yearsf nnd died there (.aged ninety-live) in 1S94." But there will be no little Danish Mary to happen nlong when the kaiser is set adrift. Walt Whitman's Brain We are indebted to the biblioshark, James Shields, for the most interesting piece of information concerning Walt Whitman that has come our way. A monograph by the late Dr. K. A. Spitzkn. professor of anatomy at the Jeffer son Mpdical College, gives n brief review of scientific post-mortem measurement.- made of the brains of 1.10 notable men and four women. In this monograph, reprinted by the American Philosophical Society in 1007, occurs the following paragraph: S7 WHITMAN. WALT. American poet The weight of Wnlt Whitman's brain is variously given ns 4K 2 ounces (182 grains) anil 43 3 ounces (1228 grams). His suture was six feet nnd In health b neighed about 200 pound. The brain had hetn preserved, hut soma caieless attendant In the laboiatory let the jar full to the ground ; It Is not stated whether the hraln was totally uesiroyea uy tne fall, hut It Js - Breat pity that not even the fragments ot the brain were rescued. Teapot inscriptions , Mr. .Inmes D. Law is kind enough to send us n description of the "colossal tea pot" used by the Rev. and Mrs. John Wesley, which he saw In Wesley's old home in I.on don. Mr. Laws says: "It was a White china pot with blue decorations. On one side was marked : " 'Ue present at our table, Lord, Ite here and everywhere ador'd; These creatures bless and grant that we May feast In Taradlse with Thee.' " We cannot help wishing that Wesley hnd been a little more, sprightly and had made the last line: May feast In Paradise with Tea. A cartful reading of the eighteenth amendment leads us to' observe that liquor Is ou'ly banned when manufactured and sold " wwn imtiw"; "? v"i J prevent any high-spirited citizen from vint- for beverage purposes. There is nothing to HOOSEI!" 1 ' .' I ing champagne tit spray his garden with, for instance. And then if he should decide to go out and iuliale the fragrance of the flowers, who lould object' to thnt ? The following letter conies to us from Birmingham, Ala. : Ucur Hoerates Will you please send ine your pictme? I like your poems nud I know you ure cheerful. Please send me one with a smile. Whv don't ,vou ever write about a blue eyed girl V Very respectfully. LUCY LEISHMAN HIDDLU. We seize our lute and tune our fiddle To sing of Lucy Leishmuu Riddle And are her eyes thut lustrous blue? Dear Lucy, here's a health to you. 'The Song of Roland I Once when the drift was deep upon tho fold. And suow was tossed upon the hitter gnle. Roland fared forth. And nil his joiuts weie i old, But with his heart he warmed a wondrous tale. Brave recompense ! They welcomed hiin right well And frieudlivvlsc, as rojnl folk will do. For this wns a palace whereabout I tell, And they were Kings and queens, and a princess, too. With vviuter-spray they decked the sober wall. With goodly thcer belabored the mighty board, In fearful play, on either side the hall, The hearth -tires flashed with many a quick bright sword. And then those royalties sat down and ate: How wns it, Roland, sitting In such stntc? II The music sounded, soft ns sliding brooks. Burdened of love, and summer trees, nnd flow era, Of pale impetuous knights who rode in books, And eke of maids who lay in steep strong tow ers. And nt the glowing nnd oppressive dance Did Roland clasp his princess in her white, And venture hopes too fond for furtherance. Anil whisper much, as any mortal might? The good knight Roland hath his lady's love, 'Twns won betwixt two measures meetly tnken, 'Tvvas barely whispered, not n breath above Or doth Rolando dream, and will nvvukeu? It is no drenm, but verity. O strnuge. She thnt s proud, and bred to loyalty, To love with n squire! But roynllest love can change When priggish tongues make prattle of degiee. 'Tvvere better Roland hnd dreamed, and nothing other: She broke her faith, heeding that hen, her mother. JOHN CROWE RANSOM, A. P. O. 015, A. K. F. "Hunker flew seven hours with clogged pipe," snys a headline. Many a pnrngrupher has been forced to earth by the same calamity. The Quizosoph. who writes the daily "What Do You Know?" just east of us, is still putting bis queries into rhyme. (Try iliein over on your mouthorgan and sec.) But we have wagered the little brother of the lexicon a trough of, spaghetti that he can't put the, answers into yerse. It Is said that Hawker was saved because he discarded his undercarriage. If that Is the secret of success we riae to remark that we do the same every year at i me approacu ot warm wcuiurr. - L. . M fifrS the approach ol warm weather. "TOO 3? -Jpr i r . -v i" KL P i l- , .aflSMPaVaBd 3. JatHMMlrll.v3r 't-Ji-t V n.I.IErf!!jtlJJHT!iiLr I J M.' A Ballad of Redhead's Day rpALK f IALK of the Greeks at Thermopylae! -Jk They fought like mad till the last was fought like mad dead: But Alviu C. York of Tennessee Stttyed cool to the end though his hair was led. Stayed mountain cool jet blazed that gray October the Eighth as Redhead's Day. Willi rifle and pistol nnd redhead nerve He captured one hundred nud thirtytwo, A battalion against him, nud he did not swerve From the Titans' task they were sent t do Fourteen men under Sergeant Early And Y'ork, the blacksmith, big and burly. Sixteen oniyt but fighters all. They dared the brood of a devil's nest. And three qf those that did not fall Were wounded or out of the scrap: thp lest Were guarding a bunch of boi-he tlcw'd caught. When both vvene trapped by a fresh on slaught. i t Excepting York, who smiled "Amen" And. spotting the nests of spitting guns, Potted some twenty birds. .and then Did with his pistol for eight more Huns Who thought they could crush a Y'ankie dive In each red pound of two hutidrcd nnd five. That was enough for kill-babe Fri,z: Ninety in nil thrpvv up .heir hand-. Suddenly tender as lamb at the Ritz. Milder than sheep to n York's commands And back to bis lines be drove Ihe herd, Gathering inoie on the way Absurd! Absurd, but true aye, gospel fact; For here was n mnn with n level bend. Who. scorning to fail for the help be lacked, Helped himself till he won instead ; An elder was he in the Church of Christ, Immortal nt thirty: his faith sufficed. Richard Butler Glacuzer, iu the New York Times. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What President had reddish hair? 2. Who is Lieutenant Itpgct? H. Locate the cape called Finistere? 4. What is the "Sieges Allee"? ti. What state does not sanction divorce? fi. What doeu a plebiscite mean? 7. Have autos diminished the horse? 5. What is n haricot bean? !). What score is fumed for Haendel's "Largo"? 10. Wlint is meant by n supercargo? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Hugh C. Wallace is American ambassa dor to France. 2. The wettest known region on earth is a part of Assam, British Indie,s. 3. Tho word toast, defining n compliment ary drink, is taken from the toast which used at one time to be put in the tankard. The lady named wa. considered -to be the toast or savor of the wine, that which, gave, the draught piquancy nnd merit. 4. Sir Walter Scqyt wrote-thc novel, "The Fair Maid of Perth." 0. A violoncello means a smaller "violone" or ba'se violin. 'Cello is an Italian, diminutive. 0. Columbus's ships were the Santa 'Maria, the Piutn and the Nina. 7. Enthralled literally means enslaved. 8. At the outset of their revolution the Bolshevists abolished tips, but the ban against them is suid to have since 'been weakened. 0. Lord Northcltffe fixed the $50,000 prize for' the transatlantic flight, 10, A bay or a gulf is called ji bight from the old English word "bybt.." nssot I i "" " .""oaiu uuKsa, '49 SS'' '' "' plated with the Anglo-Saxon '"bugsg," ' i J in I M Zil I 1 1 II I i t
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