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All rlahts of tcnuhliration ol special rfit- Opatcliea herein mc also reserved. PhlliJflphi.. ThunJir, May 11. 19I1 HOUSES ON A CLUB PLAN NO THEORETICAL objection enn be raised to the n'an of John Ihldei, secretary of the Philadelphia Housing 'Association, for tlic formation of co -operative stock companies 'for building ouscs. lie proposes that men as no wisn qwn their own homes Minll combine nnd build a lot of houses in a single operation, and that as .soon as a house is finished it shall become the pioperty of the man for whom it is intended. " This plan would save to the purchaser all the profit which the speculative builder makes on each house that he sells. The speculate e builder, in order to preserve his solvency, is compelled to add to the selling price of every house, in addition to his profit, such a Him as will pay the interest on the investment nfor the period between its completion ,and its sale. Such period doubtless averages at least six months. It is a legitimate part of the cost of the house to the builder and, of course, must be borne by the purchaser. The co-operative company under effi cient and honest management would per haps turn over to its members for $3500 a house for which the speculative builder would charge" at least 54000. That is, in theory. The way to prove whether it is possible is to try it. The chances of suc cess are great enough to justify making the experiment. &TJ . ' .. LOOK. OUT FOR THE "FARMERS" TF CONGRESS, which is urged to repeal J J-the daylight-saving law because the "farmers" object to it, would make caic- EJffpl inquiry it might discover that the farmers who are most voluble in its con demnation are laige holders of securities in companies which supply artificial light. Of course, the farmer vote must be con sidered by eveiy prudent politician, but many a politician has got in bad with the t rest of us by trying to do too much for f the wrong kind of "farmers." An attempt is making to rush the , repeal of the daylight-saving law through 'J ssr- under a special rule. This would be a mistake. The men who are not farmers ? and could not be called farmers by any stretch of the imagination benefited by "the law last summer, and they are re joicing this year that they have an extra hour of daylight every night after they leave the shop or the factory. IT IS TO LAUGH rpHE policeman had caught the burglar , ' with the loot on him and after a thor ough beating had overpowered him. "I won't consent to arrest," the bur glar says to the officer seated across his chest, "unless ou will agreu to pay me for the suffering I will endure for weeks flfrom the blows of your night stick and you must consent to be tried on the charge of assault It is a crime to attack a man in the pursuit of his (.ailing." And did the policeman agree? No. He just laughed. K "- .every discriminating citizen who read tt the German demands for imlfmniK, nni Wi-H, ,ji r !,,, u u..., .-.. , w ,u ..km. vi ,..,. mi,, iiu imu uuiuaien Iher had some such incident as that described above suggested to his imagi nation before he finished the dispatch from Pans. PETROLEUM IN ENGLAND it LORD COWDKAY must continue his I borings on the estates of the Duke of tht pevonshiro in Derbyshire and discover if., J somethinc more than "sums tuhil. v, TOost sanguine optimist would look foi" before we can accept without leservc the jreports that petroleum has been found in England. Oil is probably there. The geological conditions indicate its pres ence because they are similar to the geo logical conditions in other parts of the world where oil has been found. Lord Cowcjray is an oil man of wide experience, and ha believes that he can tap the un- Wf derground reservoirs. He is backint? hi "i faith with his money. lp Petroleum has been produced in Great m niitin -inr vpnra hut ryni- 4Vam ...it S'L-Xhere are large deposits of oil-bearing .i('A enaie in ocouana irom wnicn auout half yr a million barrels of kerosene and about tha same amount or naphtha have been J extracted every year. But the process is V jyepensive, 1$ is within the range of pos tvibilities that free-flowing oil can be $. ' -found by sinking wells in the rhrht i sV jrfaces. If this is done then we may ex- pKi' uib cntiisiiiiii-ii tu uetorae actually excited at the prospect of being able to supply their own needs from their own try. fuewnt mo worw is qependent on nitou States for two-thirds of its of petroleum. The best grades th oil flwds'of Vnn)lynw. Nitwit ami jHvdctW m country, yields' only about one-fourth as much as the United Slates. The demand for oil and its products is increasing so rapidly that the discovery of now sources of supply is of world-wide importance. Tho American yield was only 63,000,000 hnrrcls in l'JOO. It has grown to about 350,000,000 barrels in eighteen years nnd the number of automobiles and oil burning engines is increasing every year and creating n new demand which it is almost impossible to meet. The con stantly increasing price of kerosene and gasoline is proof of the inadequacy of the supply. Every automobile ownei is vitally m tciestcd in the success of Lord Cow dray's efforts to develop the British oil fields, just as he is vitally intciested in the paci fication of Mexico and of Russia so that the oil in those countries may be put on the maiket in larger quantities. Unless the supply is laigely incieased the eleven cent gasoline of 1914, for which motor car owners are now paying twenty-seven and twenty-eight cents, will bo sold for forty and fifty cents within n few years. THE NEW CROP OF ALARMISTS IS A SIGN OF GOOD TIMES Stirred to Hope by the Perils of a Year Ago. It Is Their Extremely Human Nature to Cry "Havoc" as World Security Grows "VNE ear ago today the Germans took Soissons nnd all civilization tingled with resolution and unextinguishablc hope. Tiagedy and disaster compose wondiously inflammable kindling for faith in a nghteous cause. The leaction of optimism to Luden dorfT's impetuous drive last May was deeply impiessive. The Chcmin des Dames was lost. The Maine was im periled. The monster cannon thundered daily at P.uis. And yet the spiritual con fidence of the Allied crusadcis for free dom was never more majestic than in that month of woe. The duration of the war was debatable; its outcome, never. Beyond the night which coveied them men were discerning the dawn. Such vision is typical of humanity, clairvoyant in the midst of blackest perils. It is the glory of the early annals of Christianity. It saved the Continental army at Valley Koige, the British at Ypres, the French at Verdun. Relaxation of pressuto dims it. Times toleiable enough in themselves beget no such ecstasy of insight. Porgetfulness and often an utter distortion of values super vene. Maik Taplcys, happiest only when they are miserable, abound in the cunous world. Converselj, when the sun is shin ing their lugubrious gaze is focused only on its black spots. "I would lather," ciied George Wash ington to his cabinet in 1793, "be in my grave than in my present situation." There is no recoid of his ever having voiced similar sentiments at Valley Foigo. His faith in the terrible winter of 1777-78 was sublime. Six or seven years later it cringed weakly before a mere squabble in politics. He was the first and only unanimously elected Presi dent of a vigorous young republic. British oppression was ended. The con stitution, tha,t brilliant and unparalleled agent of a just democracy, was an accom plished fact. The states, once uneasy'' rivals, were fused into a unit of trium phant nationality. Was Jefferson more an obstacle than General Howe? Was it more exhausting to bid for the favoi of his countrymen than for victory on the field of Mon mouth? The "human" side of the Father of His Country has been learnedly investigated. Proof of it, however, necessitates no pro longed search. It is registered through out the series of forebodings to which as the ruler of an emancipated and recon structed nation he gave expression. Since history began alarmibts have flourished most in periods following the release from enormous strain. The capi tal of this nation .was cluttered with them in Andiew Johnson's administra tion, the impossibility of ever patching the country together again being the burden of their favorite tune. Shallowly misprized became the once passionately desired blessing of peace. Similarly mis interpreted is the great gift today, one miraculous year after the ominous fall of Soissons, which then casl us in such confident heroic mold. Male Cassandras in senatorial fiock togas croak characteristically in the legislative halls of Washington. By no means all of them reflect merely the spirit of resentful partisanship and hys terical hatred of Woodrow Wilson. A significant number is unquestionably re sponsive as Congress, for all its iiritat ing faults, so often is to restless cur rents of popular thought. Every conceivable manner in which the league of nations might fail of its pur pose, every conjectural way whereby it might beget, rather than prevent, wais is envisaged. As the pyramid of hypo theses mounts, its basis, which is neceH-' sarily speculative, as all forecasts of the future must be, is accepted as fact. Identical methods are applied to the peace treaty itself. It was, on the whole, accepted as a creditable document when the 'summary of its terms was first dis closed a few weeks ago. But there 'are indications now that Germany is going to sign it. If certain suggested modifi cations are adopted it may even bo a bet ter treaty than it was originally. The greater therefore the incentive to ques tion its justice. Ratificutibn is so near that the document will bo valid. That means that certain specimens of mankind can safely indulge in their popular pastime of picturing the world reeling headlong to tho demnition bow wows. Present security is in a way an essential to the "prophetic" calamity howler. When times aro grimly tragic he plucks up courage. That is humanity's way and it is best understood by recognizing: the psychic waves in relation to the events which Imncl them. Strictly in accord with on anciwit conventional outline have been tfc(tie of emotion, that have surged 15 ii iff . through the globe in course of a single year. Following the desperate and epic reso lution of May, 1918, cumo tho thrill of positive victory in July, then tho prodig ious chain of occurrences leading to tho titanic climax of November 11. Reac tion was inevitable. Dramatic episodes arc lustrously in spiring. The grueling hard work and the inevitably protracted negotiations of the Peace Conference furnished an un satisfactory springboard for eager im aginations. Thought telativc to strictly contcm poraiy existence was dull. Thought leaping, with nvvful warnings toward the future, became exciting. Only in other transition periods, akin upon it smaller scale to this one, has it been so ener getically worked. The fewer the facts nvailablc to start speculation the more ardently was the ambitious horoscope drawn. In this connection it is significant to note how promptly the cuitain was raised on the tragedy, "Man," whenever the budget, of news became slim. When the cables shrieked with the collapse of the whole Paris convention some six weeks ago the conferees were busily engaged in sawing l construction wood. They had extiemely little to .say, for the treaty was actually taking shape and all cfToit was being concentrated on tangible prog ress. The solo ripple in the doldrum area was made by the presidential ship, the George Washington. It was imme diately "interpreted," how foolishly all the world is now aware. At the present juncture the universal theatre is being prepared for the tableau of the German acquiescence in the second treaty of Versailles. The preliminaries aio not dramatically stimulating. Such necessities seldom :uc. And so with pat ternlike rigidity a good many human beings, notably in this country, where the honors of war have been felt less than in any belligcient nation, arc bask ing again in the delights of long-distance dismay. It is absurd, of course, to expect the formal installation of the millennium in Paris. Persons who have tears ready when that scene fnils to materialize might piofitably begin a course in intro spection. The perfect legulation of a world composed of fallible individuals is y a parado barely worth re-emphasizing. But it may not be superfluous to recall how familiar are the tactics of vague lamentation now being manifested. Man in this mood luns true to form. Don't be alarmed nt the alarmists. In the best of times, when perils bravely borne are but a hazy memory, they habitually flourish like the bay tree. WHY KOLCHAK IS FAVORED WHETHER Kolchak would have to " walk over the bodies of millions of resisting Bolshevik Russians before he could reach Petrograd it is impossible for any one not on the ground to decide. But no one can entertain this view who is not convinced that the people of cen tral Russia are ardently supporting the government of Lenine and Trotsky and would willingly lay down their lives to preserve it. What knowledge we have of the chai acter of the Russian peasant does not justify any such view. The peasant wants a little of the land and he wants some degree of security for his person and his property. It is not likely that he care3 very much whether he gets these things through Lenine and Trotsky or thiough Kolchak and Dcnikino. Kolchak has issued a proclamation recognizing the sovereignty of the people and the necessity for calling a constit uent assembly representing them to de cide what kind of a government they shall have and under what conditions the land shall be apportioned. The Entente Allies aio seriously considering the recognition of the Kolchak government and the propriety of giving to it moral and material support, so that it may maintain itself in the interval that must elapse until a constituent assembly can be elected. They aro said to be asking some guarantees that tho constituent assembly will be called in the near future. The Bolshevik government in central Russia came into power just as arrange ments for calling such an assembly had been made. It failed to carry out the arrangements, for it was determined to establish not a representative govern ment but a government of the prole tariat. Whatever the other nations might have done, the United States, which went into the war to assist in making the world safe for democracy, could not have recognized any such gov ernment set up in the interests of a sin gle social class. No one need be surprised if the Kolchak government is recognized, for in spite of tho preceding monarchical affiliation of tho man, the prospects for the establishment of an orderly repre sentative state under him seem more favorable than under even the most mod erate of tho Bolsheviki. The American Press Tlwn Somebody Humorists will be sne Wlll Hoast It tial Kuests of tlio United States ship ping boaid during the week of their conven tion in this city. Out of deference to tlio visitors, the ship launched ought to be known as "The Chestuut." owu One more reason for , I-ist Chance for attending the big cv cut Launching at Hog Maud tomor row is the fact that it will probably be the lust time the big ship, jnrds will be open to the gcuerul public Pin ou our Victory button and get iu at thcdoin'! Congressman Mott in Wants 'Km Km- .seeking to have the balmed in History press bureaus main tained by federal de partments during the war Investigated. He evidently docs not believe ia letting the dead past bury its dead. What Germany asks for is a vote on th jury that is trylug her on a criminal charge. Lctt'Chlnrge-FInnisb Itcds are stirring up trouble in Petrograd. Lett-Chinese-Finnish Itcds I Would that they could! One gets the idea that Germany should Dostnone nleas for commutation uutll after I the'titi lwd to the sentence" Tof the court. JL. :M d .. ' . .a; .jk i Tim GOWNSMAN Why Walt? WALT WHITMAN, "the good gray poet," of Camden and all America, had ho lived in the flesh until Saturday ofi this week would have celebrated his ono hundredth blrthdny. As ho departed from tho little frame house in Jlicklc street and from this life twenty 'seven years ago to enter the stately granite tomb of his own planning in Horlelgh Cemetery, It Is for those in whoso memory tho man nnd his work arc still green to remember nnd to testify. TT IS said that as n young man Walter Whitman truncated his name to Wnlt that he might be distinguished from the other Walter, his father. The Gownsman has nlways had another notion ou tho mib ject. In that completest democracy of pop ular literature the world has ever seen, the playwrights, pamphleteers nnd poets of Elizabeth's London, tho wMl-known men, in the intimacy of their tight little Island, knocked ofT the handles to their names' and their dignified completeness, nnd in the undicss of n delightfully intimate llohe mian brotherhood were known as Kit Mar lowe, Tom Dekker, Hen .Tonson; Prank Beaumont, Jack Fletcher nnd the immortal Will. OUK Whitman was n practical not a political, much less a theoretical demo crat, hence away with the Mr. and the unnecessary suffixes. He would have scorned the fake emphasis on equality which causes our Socialists to affect "Citi.en Jones" or "Comrade Robinson." Ileal democracy does not affect equality or assert it, or quarrel about it; it lives on tho level, looking up to no man and looking down on none. Whit man was Walt to the world, an individual man, n unit, like other units, in the social sjstcm, keenly alive to himself, fervently interested in each other unit and in the great aggregate of which none can be more than one. Independent, dependent, Whit man was tho most egotistic of all the altru ists, the most nltruistie of egotists. EVERYBODY knows about the "barbaric yawp" of AYnlt Whitman or nt least he Ihiuks ho does. Whitman's large, un trammcled utterauee, his obliviousness to conventions rather than his defiance of them, his pertinacity in sticking by an abstract principle, in which he was right, although it cost him an almost rertnin national ac ceptance in his day nil those things all know who care for things in tho large. And yet how the best of us go astray on even so universal a phenomenon as that of egotism. Mark Twain be his memory ever hallowed in smiles onto told of a man who was so wicked that lie used to try to roll away from himself when abed. We can roll away from our friends and some of us succeed in it most expeditiously but no man can roll awny from himself; and, had not an nll-wisc Providence created tho raco for the most part sand-blind, there could be no more nwful thing than this vain, insatiable, complacent, hungry, ineffable creature, the ego within each one of tis. " rnnc ego of Walt Whitman was an active - and substantial spirit. Whitman was a Inrge man physically, and it tnkes a big 'ego to support a big man ; iudced no man, whatever his bulk, can be big without a substantial egotism to sustain him. Whit man tw as ically not conspicuous in this re spect as any man must acknowledge who contemplates the circe of his friends, to say nothing of that more .risque survey, n con templation within. Whitman belongs in an interesting, a delightful group of writers who capitalized themselves, so to speak, and exploiting each himself, realized on bis own ego. Montaigne, Cellini, Rousseau, Byron, dear Charles Lamb, all and each in his way, capitalized himself and drew thereout much interest. When all is said we approve, ad mire, commend other writers; it is the egotists whom we love. For to be an ego tist is to be human. WALT was the most unaffected, the most elemental of tho egotists. As to him Fclf, ns to nil else, he was unaffected and unafraid. There was not n rag of conven tionality about him. Wherefore those of us who hug our rags, whether for warmth, for stale or for prudery, are shocked by his veritable nakedness at times, and we trans fer n defect of our own debilitated nerves to some trait in this fine elemental bar barian to whom drapery is mere frippery. WHITMAN'S, rightly understood, was the egotism of a large nature, not self-centered, but expansive. 'He was alike an in dividual unit and the epitome in himself of manifold characteristics of democracy. And it was the conviction of this which made Whitman the self-appointed spokesman of the great, inarticulate masses, an ambition only possible to the large altruism which is equally his. Whitman's love of his fellow man is written in his books and in his life. It was not an abstract theory, it was not a sense of leadership, it was not the conde scension of a superior, but a sense of liuman companionship, of n brotherhood which enabled him to find in common men, in the ignorant, even in tho wayward and the fallen by the way, that common spark of humanity which marks us all as the chil dren of Adam. WE MAY wish some of us whom ho scorned ns "the literati" that Whit man had not been q'ultc bo complete a lit erary nihilist, although in this he has been in a degree misrepresented. .We may regret that ho could not nave yielded, on a certain famous occasion, to the entreaties of Emer son to mitigate somewhat his primeval nakediess. And wo may regret that there were pages in the book of his life as in whose aro there not? which had better be left uncut ns he left them. But would he have been Walt Whitman without these shadows that bring out the light? It is not Whitmau'B fault that his independence of the conventions, which slowly but surely kill, should have attracted to hlg standard Ishmaclites of every shadow of red, whether artistic or nnarchistic. It .was charac teristic of his free soul that ho founded no beet, not even a cult; and follower ho has none, snvo dear old Horace Traubel, who was swept inevitably into AVbitmun'a orbit by his affections. An individualist Whitman came and an individualist he went from us. Walt was not all the law and the prophets, but his was a large, a precious segment in the eternal circle of truth. A VISION As the Twenty-eighth went oy, Philadelphia ilaif 15, 1010. ACROSS from the-Bell I saw them march, M "With their splendid swing through the Triumph Arch ; Those men of iron whose hearts were gold, "With a thousandth' part of their fame not told. How on row of the thick brown line I thanked my God their land vas mine Their inetal by Hun fire, freed from dross, Their faces bore the sign of the cross. The caisson passed I scarce could see O Christ I those men had died, for me 2 My eyes turned dim, my face went paj? The Bell Had cnangca to me .tioiy until f - )SP;IBBTQNTWJB!iy . y .r , r ' x,v i : ! t , i , JHE CHAFFING DISH If Mr. Wilson Were the Weather Man TTY FELLOW CITIZENS : It is very de ' lightful to bcMicrc, if I may be permitted to say so, and I consider it a distinguished privilege to open the discussion ns to the probable weather tomorrow not only, hut during the days to romc. I can easily con ceive that many of our forecasts will need subsequent reconsideration, for if I may judge by my own study of these inatteis, tho climate is not susceptible of confident judg ments at present. An overwhelming majority of the Ameri can people is in favor of fino weather. This underlying community of purpose warms my benrt. If we do not guarantee them fine weather, cannot you see tho picture of what would como to pass? Your hearts have in structed you where tho rain falls. It falls upon senators nnd congressmen not only and for that we need not feel so much cha grin it falls upon humble homes cveiy wherc, upon plain men, and women, aud children. If I were to disappoint the united expectation of my follow citizens for fine weather tomorrow I would incur their mer ited scorn. 1 suppose no more delicate task is given any man than to interpret tho feelings nnd purposes of n great climate. It is not a task in which any man Can find much ex hilaration, and I confess I have been puzzled by some of the criticisms leveled at my office. But they do not make any impression on me, because I know that tho sentiment of the country at largo will be morogcnerous. I call my fellow countrymen to witness that at no btago o'f tho recent period of low barometric pressure have I judged tho pur poses of the climate Intcmperatcly. I should be ashamed to use tho weak language of vindictivo protest. I have tried once and again, my fellow citizens, to say to you in all frankness what seems to bo tho prospect of fine weather. There is a compulsion upon ono yin my posi tion to exercise every effort to see that as little as possible of the hope of mankind is disappointed. Yet this is a hope which cannot, in the very nature of things, bo lealizcd in its perfection. The utmost tbnt can be. done by way of accommodation and compromise has been performed whout btint or limit. I am sure it will not be neces sary to remind you that you cannot throw off the habits of the climate immediately, any more than you can throw oE the habits of tho individual immediately. But however unpromising the immediate outlook may be, I am the more happy to offer my observations on tho stute of the weather for tomorrow be cause this is not a party issue. What a de lightful thought that is ! Whatever tho con dition of sunshine or precipitation vouch safed to us, may I not hopo that wo shall all meet it with quickened temper and purpose, huppy in tho thought that it is our common fortune? For tomorrow there is every prospect of heavy and continuous rain. Perhaps all this talk about scvcntecn-ycar locusts is just press-agent stuff for Booth Tarklugton's play. You never can tell. A numucr Ol uui w-uum mcuua jiuvu offered to procure us a scat iu tho next piano hopping off for a transatlantic flight. We have declined. . ' The Friedensturm that Hindcuburg count ed so much on was a mcro zephyr compared to the lamentations of Jeremiah Brockdorff Rantzau. Not Only Mr. Wilson's recent address to Congress shows that tho paragraphers have succeeded In making some dent upon the "May I not" habit. Reverent admirer of Mr. Wilson as we are, there is another habit of his which always causes us a little dismay. May wo not be first to point It out? ' " Is his custom of slinging In a "uot pnly" afr the end of a "WHY THE ARGUMENT?" future, wo nppcal to him to correct this dis tressing habit. For instance : Tlio fortunes of mankind aro now In tlio hands oftho plain people. Satisfy them, nnd you have Justified their confi dence not only, but havo established peace. Paris, Jan, 25. Men vv 111 bo thrown back upon tho bitter ness of disappointment not only, but tho bitterness of despair. Boston, Feb, 25. ITpon thoso principles tho peace with Germany has been conceived not only, but formulated. Paris, April 23. A mutual pledge on tho part of nil the self-governlnir nations of tho world that they w 111 bo friends to each other not only, but that they will tako pains to secure each other's safety. rarls, May 2C. Why Humorists Are Unpopular Telegiam just received: ror.T.ow ino vvhkkzm Arpitovi;r ht JJXt'.VU'.OX" CO.MM1TTIJK AMWtlCAN l'nr.SS HUMORISTS NC 4 HAVlNU COMPLETED I 1.K1IIT IN roUK L1X18 THIS MAY JUSTLY HI! MPOKIIN OF AS A THAT nKVAMl' THIS ACC11HDINO 1X1 HUNNIMMTII'M Ol?' YOUR ni5AIM2HM SPI'CIAIj HKltlCS OK- VVIIEHKS ON SUVENTKBN YBAll LOCUSTS ON THK WAY TO YOU CI.IHPEO rjlOVI NEWSPAPER FILES OF 11102 AND 1885 SPECIAL QUIP ON .SENATOR SHERMAN TO HE RELEASED ON FRIDAY JlTNi: IT KEEP HP YOUR MORALE AMERICAN PREHS HUMORISTS AfaSOCIAllON The New York Times has coined n new word "pnrsmagnnfuing." It's n good one, pniticularly ns the Times applies it, to Ludendorff. For tho curious, we may ndd that it's a lift from Virgil. When old Aeneas was spinning his ynrn about Troy to Lady Dido, ho remarked, "Quorum pars magna fui," i, c., "of which events I wns n great part." Implying in his artless way that ho wns the Main Guy. Henceforwaid, when any one tells us he was tho Big Cheese in any scries of events, we aro going to say he's parsmag nafulng. Wo are not above snapping up such a good coinage. Early History of the Cootie At Hardonbere, In Sweden, It (the cootto) held a position of somo Im portance. Whon a Burgomaster had to bo chosen, the eligible candidates sat with their beards upon tho 'table. In tho center of which was placed n louse ; 'and tho ono in whoso beard ho took cover was tlio Magistrate for tho ensuing year. After tho ceremony, tho company supped upon ducks, njid b.iiib like larks. Doctor Doran's "Tablo Traits," I8f5. Germany is very keen to draw a distinc tion between a pence of justice and n "peace of violence." She doesn't seem to realize that in her case they might bo one and the same. We knew perfectly well that Friday the 13th of Juno was going to bo a grievous day, and now on studying our calendar wo are sine of it. The second installment of our incomo tax falls duo on that date. New York is jealous of Brooklyn on ac count of Wnlt Whitman, nnd Philadelphia is jealous ol uamacn ior me same reason. And Manhattan has recently been trying to prove that neither Whitman Jior Poc did their best work In these parts. But there is ono centennial at least that tho Big Town can't take away from us. It falls next mouth, that of Thomas Dunn English. Eng lish wasn't very greqt shakes as a poet, but at any rate he wrotq "Ben Bolt." Wo have heard tell that that poem raged through the public of its time very much as tho picture "September Morn" did a few ycais ago. A horrid thought strikes us even as we write. Perhaps "Ben Bolt" was written during Doctor English's period of journalism in New York, in which enso that rapacious city would claim the poem ns Its own. But It has always seemed to us that the scenes described In the poem ore distinctly rjiila delphlan. The button-ball tree, for in stance, s much commoner hero than in New York. Perhaps Borne of our, learned clients cau tell us where the scenes described in tho famous ditty aro supposed to be. Where, for Maniple, was "Applcton's mill"? Was Jt one of the old mills alone tna. Wlsa- VSftsi VJ'VX''-H"W'" MTUfH . HtMia . WALT WHITMAN (Written seven days before Whitmon'i death, March, 1802) SOUL of the century, going out to the un known Without fear, nor wrapping a cloak about of creeds so strange, Fear not to push open the door of death, for just outside Aic fields of tlowcrs and the summer's breatb thou loved. so well. The green of the grass, tho wood of the trees, tho light thou loved, The roar of the ocean, the hum of bees, thou wilt not miss. m "The body left, tho soul is then set free," the spirit grand Is free, is free, in realms of liberty of thought and speech. The head so tired and on the pillows toit soon calmly sleeps; Only one more trip the ferry across, life is no more. DAVID H. WRIGHT. 1'ar be it from me, says Mrs. Mixing, to drag matrimony into politics; albeit it must be admitted that Petrograd has been tied to trouble since sho changed her name. Tho welcomes glveiy to Hawker and Gricvo in London and Head in. Lisbon prove that the world loves a good eport entirely apart from success. Demosthenes McGinnis says that be bates to admit it, but even the most abste mious aviator is liable to lake a drop too much. What Do You Knovo? Quiz 1. Where does the Tagus river flow? 2. Who was "The Great Unknown"? 3. How long was the reign of Charle magne? 4. What is tho color, roan? 5. What southern state seceded first? 0 Who was tho artist "Phiz"? What peace showed tho'hand of Talley- rand? Explain what charcoal is. ' Name tho beginner in aviation. Who is the head of the smallest nation? Answers to Yesterday Quiz 1. Harry G. Hawker and (Lieutenant Grieve were rescued by the Danish steamship Mary. 2. Louis XIV and Henry II of ITrancs were born at St. Germain-en-Laye. 3. Samuel Tnylor Coleridge was especially noted for his table-talk. . 4. "Fey" Is a Scotch word used of persons fated to die or at the point of death. It also means disordered in mind, with overconfidence, like a person "about to die. D, Thirty-eight men were members of the United States constitutional conven tion. George Washington was its president. 0. White Is regarded as the color Indicative of truth. 7. The Iloslcruclans composed a society de v otcd to occult lore and magic, said to have been founded In J.484 by Chris tian Rosenkrcuz. 5. The azimuth Is the arc of the heavens extending from the zenith to the hori zon, which it cuts at right angles, 0. The present cnlendar is called Gregorian from 'Pope Gregory XIII, who, with the aid of the astronomer Clavlus, do vised it In the sixteenth century in substitution for the Julian system of computation, ( 10. A load volco Is called utcntorlan from Htentor, tho, mythical herald lthe' TroJau war with Greece, ,Ho, ws- MUatM iar Mta nwxf ai -relet. . ' "!U, " r?. l"frl .4 i J i t i ji i M t . $i til , ' i -J"- J"x- . rs kC ,,jm. . ' u;; StfV 'f ', r.,'' .. v, T'. , ,. .1 75S . i l " ' yBfo i iV r'.XA S' , ? f-t ' !-'. i J,'" ii ' f , 3V-
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