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KrLETTING OUR WORTH BE KNOWN
rjlHE purchasing agents who mtet here
,- in convention in September could not
M "beet in a better place. The Philadelphia
pared to prove it. If its efforts ale
crowned with success, as they deserve to
wbe and as they probably will be, there will
Mbe at least 1500 members of the national
body in attendance.
Ws The city that is first in the manufac
fr ture of locomotives, street cars, steel
$L- ships and underwear, and a close second
W in foundry products, molasses lefining,
Kip; textiles and fertilizers (to mention but
ssL- few of many things) has assuredly an
tjpattraction for a large variety of buyers;
c-and wnen to tne lactory aiu tne toundry
.there are added the warehouse and the
store only one thing more is needed.
That one thing, publicity, the local or
ganization has set about to supply.
Artistic booklets describing industrial
H Philadelphia are being sent out. Later
uie city 8 metropolitan acnantages will
,be set forth, together with necessary in
formation for visitors.
j That completes the circle. We know
f tro, are good; we now proceed to let the
jworm Know now good we aie.
THE WHITMAN CENTENNIAL
IS appropriate that the meeting to-
K.niorrow, night in honor of Walt Whit
man s centennial is to be neia in uamden.
,Camden, after all, and not Philadelphia,
Hf'Was Whitman's home, and what little has
PJbeen done to commemorate the Good
Giray Poet in these parts has usuallv been
Kgjdone "in Camden. It is Camden that has
BSfiiTBluded him in the motaic frieze on her
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Mt'icvv jjuuiii: nurary, ana ic is in iamaen
r,tnai me wnuman' ran: Association has
i fl0f) tn Knailflft a trior.. nf Annn.... in
&( affectionate memory of the great voice of
the green untrammeled earth.
The Elks of Camiien Viavo t-indKr
ife'.fCn'ered their hospitality for the celebra-
tion, which will take place in their hall.
n apjjruprjaie jirogram nas Deen ar
franged, with music, readings, lantern
slides and addresses. Among the speak
ers will be John H. Fort, of the Camdmi
'Elks: Francis Howard Williams and Har-
f rison S. Morris, both of whom were warm
friends of the poet, and Professors Felix
. fiinAllinrv 4n.l nnnn C it- mi
. ww.-.....b o.iu uuinaii ojjaetn. ine
i Franklin Inn Club has had a medal struck
&ui honor of the centennial, designed by
W& Dr. Tait McKenzie.
m Perhaps one of the most interesting
4".features of the Whitman centennial is
I' '- that a movement seems at la'st to he
Plunder way to buy the little home in
p jaicKie screen ano preserve it as a perma
nent Whitman shrine. Harrison Mor
es? ris'a translation of Sarrazin't p,
i&.1?h,tman' the manuscript of which was
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a limited edition, with an etehinn- nf
!JchoUse y Joseph Pennell, and George
gSJ. C. Grasberger, the publisher, proposes
& to apply the proceeds of the venture to
& the purchase of the Whitman home and
. W' nresent it tn thp nitv nf cj .-.
Pi Preservation.
IZ " s heartily gratifying to know that
jthfj one hundredth birthday of. the great
est poet this city has ever harbored is
k De so worthily celebrated.
TOO MANY SERVANTS
SOME indication of what might happen
'iri tli TTnitorl ?to(n ;f i :
, ,.. -... UvUkvS ,i mc immigra
ition laws were relaxed is given by re
fports from Mexico of the arrival at wt
Sisoast ports of shiploads of Chinese immi
Fatfants. WK treaty between China and Mexico
provides :or free immigration between
?the two countries, and the authorities in
i the Department of Gobem;, -.i
L themselves hampered in deaiino. ,uu
ffi what they consider an industrial menace.
,;jc is nopeo, nowever, that a rigorous en--forcement
of the health lot,,. -.. j.-
txTf .-.-..-.... .0 may reauce
fyihei number of the immigrants, as many
fcef them are sick.
Kh Nevertheless, the Mexicans are in ,
quandary. They eay the newcomers are
jf no use to the country, as they do not
: eare to work on the land, but prefer work
n, launones ana restaurants and in do
iaetic sen-ice, where they accent lnu,.
l,wages than those prevailing.
Ainere are Householders in the United
tea who are having trouble with do
itic servants who might not loot .
fe last clause as an unmixed evil.
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PJ5CIAL Interest attached to the con-
' lrence yesterday of the national com
ic of the Bureau of Occupatiohs for
Bed Women becauso of the action
by that body for the perpetuation
.federal employment service
local- bureau dunnc the war
mt tle Jo.eal brn.rK Of tlw,
UiW r'UW VMUA-&0ikm
employment service. This last, though
a national organization, is financed by
the Y. W. C. A. of New York, because
the last Congress adjourned without
making the necessary appropriation.
There is possibility that the present
Congress will fail to make an appropria
tion. There is likelihood that Senator
Penrose will oppose the appropriation
for the reason that he fnvors a state
organization instead of a national one.
If the state body comes into existence
the local branch of the national orgnni
zation mav automatically die.
It is. felt by many of the women that
if such a change Is made the picsent or
ganization should be left intact, the name
only being changed. In this way the new
organization will have the benefit of all
of the experience of the old.
But the fact that a icsolution was
unanimously passed by the Bureau of
Occupations indorsing the bill for the
$4,000,000 appropriation necessary to
continue the United States employment
service is proof that that body at least is
convinced that a national employment
service is necessary.
SHALL THE DEAD
HAVE DIED IN VAIN?
While We Put Flowers on Their Graves
Let Us Not Make a Mockery
of Their Sacrifice
WE CAN have some faint icalization
of the feelings of the nation when it
celebrated the first Memorial Day more
than fifty years ago. It cost the Noith
the lives of 350,000 young men to win
the Civil War Theie was scaicely a
family over which the shadow of bereave
ment .ia 1 not spread itself. A son or a
brother, a giandson or a cousin oi u
nephew had given his life. And the
hearts of wives and mothers were aching.
The fathers and mothers of the boy's
who have died in this war most of them
since last Memorial Day are the chil
dren of the men and women of the Civil
War generation. The boys who fought
and died in Fiance and Belgium are our
sons. Some 75,000 of them have given
up their lives, a number small in com
parison with the casualties of the Ci ll
War. But the nation mourns for them
today no less sincerely than it mourned
for th'e gi eater number half a century
ago.
Many of the dead then weie buiied in
the cemetery at home. Their parents
could lay floweis on the green mound
and feel that the body that once held the
heroic oung hpiiit was near them.
The dead of this war aie now lying in
the fields of Europe. Their giaves are
marked with simple wooden crosses on
which their comrades hung wreaths
when they could get them. Those faded
tributes are swaying in the breezes this
morning three thousand miles away.
And the hearts of the mothers here at
home are aching with grief at the appar
ent separation.
The only light that relieved the gloom
fifty years ago was the knowledge that
the boys had died for a worthy cause.
But it was hard for many women, bereft
of s6n or husband, to understand the con
ditions which made it necessaiy for them
to make so great a sacrifice. And the
sympathetic did not try to make them
understand. Instead they were veiy
tender with the stricken and did what
they could to make life seem bearable in
the future.
So today it is forced upon our atten
tion that we are not the first to be called
upon to mourn the soldier dead. It has
been the lot of woman from the begin
ning. Men must fight and women must
weep, so runs the world away.
The light that hhone over the grave
yards on the first Memorial Day is now
bhining over the battlefields of this great
war where the dead of many allied
nations are resting side by side. The
hearts of American and English and
French and Belgian and Italian mothers
are there not only today, but every day,
and especially every night yearning over
their manchild taken off in his youth.
But they aie consoled by the thought
that the cause for which the life was sac
rificed was one for which it is worthy
to die.
Their thoughts and ours, as the Presi
dent has well said in his Memorial Day
message, "are consecrated to the main
tenance of the liberty of the world and of
the union of its people in a siqgle com
radeship." It behooves us, the living, to consider
whether we shall permit it to be said
that the dead have died in vain.
For what did they give up their lives?
We were told that we weie fighting a war
to end war. The horrors of war have
been impressed upon the peoples of the
-world so deeply that they will shudder
for years as they think of them. The
peoples themselves aie weary with war.
They have won a victory for liberty of
which none but designing politicians can
rob them.
Now the question is whether the cause
for which they fought Shall be lost
through the failure of governments unre
sponsive to popular sentiment to estab
lish that peace which has been won with
so much suffering.
Can any statesman stand beside the
graves in the cemeteries and the graves
in the hearts of the mourning women on
both sides of the ocean and pledge him
self to the undoing of what has been
done?
Can' any statesman conspire to bring
about such conditions that the world will
be forced to say tha't the dead gave up
their lives for a lost cause? ,
These are the questions which the peo
ples are asking just now. And the souls
of the dead are awaiting the answer.
They are not the dead in this war only.
There is a'mighty company of them made
up of men who have fought to stay the
march of barbarism or to establish lib
erty threatened by an oppressor. They
come from the fields of Chalons, where
they stopped Attila and saved Europe
for Christendom. They are assembling
from Tours, where the attempt to make
Europe Mohammedan was checked.
They rise from Waterloo, where the am
bition of Napoleon had its fall. From
, Saratoga and Ybrktown they are watch
in j Bourse Of. events. They come
'Jrjrf,Wtyrttr iwl".;jsW' ptlcTtttle-
fields of our great war. And they are
lc-enforcctl by the millions who have
joined them since August, 1014, all won
dering whether the sons of men have
learned anything from the book of the
years.
Must men continue to die that freedom
may lite? Or can men establish free
dom and order by mutual agreement
among the peoples and prevent ambitious
nations Irom turning houses of joy into
houses of mourning for the mere sake of
increasing their power over their fel
lows? We have fought to establish a com
ladeship of liberty, in the President's
line phrase. Wo aie now engaged in
establishing that comradeship on a firm
basis of mutual obligation to bear its
burdens If we do not so establish it then
the beieaed woild will be justified in
demanding that the men who make it
impossible be In ought to a merited
letribution.
But if it is established, then the house
of mourning becomes a hotlsc of rejoic
ing ami the motbeis of the dead can
smile thiough their tears at the great
things their sons have wi ought.
HOG ISLAND TRIUMPHANT .
WITH tnc" "tll'e avouch" of their own
'" eyes, Phi'adelphians are enabled to
appreciate the magnitude of the Hog
Island miracle today. Of all the many
symbols of modem necromancy the ship
yaid has perhaps the most signal vitality.
The doubts and shadows which darkened
its inception now superbly heighten its
proud and vivid element of romance.
Since time began no mother of ships
cnuld ever viirwith it in capacity of fniit
fulncss. Yet time has run but a little
way indeed since drear mosquito-ridden
hwamps filled the aiea now disclosing
the busiest, most productive and by far
the largest of all plants devoted to the
making of sea-going vessels.
Nearer at hand than the day when the
great shipways were merely a matter of
ambitious blueprints is August f, 1018,
when the fiist of the yaid's long line of
fabricated eiaft glided into the Dela
ware's wateis. The war was then a des
reiate and nppaiently a protracted cn
terpnsc. Its speedy and triumphant stride was
lo come. So va Hog Island's, but that
fact was haul to realize then, when,
after many months of colossal prepara
tion's, the Quistconck underwent hci bap
tism. The occasion, graced by the pres
ence of the Piesident, Mrs. Wilson and
distinguished officials, seemed rather a
solemn effort to grapple with impossi
bilities than an augury of a victorious
fntuie.
Radiantly complete is the vindication
of all the promises once so hard to credit.
Hog Island has struck the unprecedented
pace in shipbuilding sought by the
nation which planned it.
The public, admitted to the yard today
with Victory Bond button credentials,
according to the Evening Public
Ledger's suggestion, attend the launch
ing of Ifive sturdy 7800-ton cargo car
riers. The visitors, expected to the num
ber of a quarter of a million, and the
apposite coincidence of Memorial Day
lend especial significance to the occasion.
The quintuplet of new ships involves no
straining of now familiar Hog Island
stendards. Some fifty other vessels aie
upon the ways of this marvel of work
shops. The blight of wai necessitated that the
prodigious performance of Hog Island
should be kept from direct contact with
the public. Hearsay miracles lack con
victions. The mammoth shipyaid
emerges from that class now and Phila
delphians should be responsive to its new
rating. An unexampled opportunity to
indulge in the emotion of justifiable
pride is accorded them today. Hog
Island in the full flush of its virile ma
turity invites them.
LABELING OUR STREETS
rpHE city administration is heartily to
- be congratulated for authorizing
action in the matter of missing stieet
signs. How long a policy of neglect has
shrouded in mystery many street cor
ners, perplexing alike not only strangers
but numerous Philadelphians, is revealed
in the promise that seven thousand new
metal "identification tags" are to be re
stored. In a city as old as this one, moreover,
something more confusing than mere
anonymity afflicts signless thoiough
faies. Often an earlier name has been
carved into the brick or marble, with
the curious result that the extremities of
J,he same block sometimes bear different
designation. Hicks street, for example,
is so proclaimed in blue and white at its
junction with Locust, whereas enduring
stone insists that former thoroughfare
is "Dugan" at the Walnut street inter
section. Philadelphia was proud of its legible
two-colored street signs an idea, by the
way, copied from Paris when, venturing
up Broadway, they so often hunted for
the sparse lamp posts of identification.
It is good news that the delight of
making invidious comparisons is soon to
be restored to them.
Starching was made
The Preservation difficult for the bojs
of Ithj tlim of the Twenty-eighth
when they paraded in
this city. It w'as not only that they had no
bauds. That drawback could easily have
been overcome. But at frequent corners one
or two musicians were pluced, and they
played tungs without regard to the time being
observed, by the marching feet. The result
was confi'Mon worse confounded. It is com
forting to know that when the Seventy. ninth
parades the mistake will not be repeated.
There will be bands iu line and not sections
of bands along the line.
There is poibility
Herman Ships for that Congress may
American Cash eventually be called
upon to pass on a pro
posal to buy German ships now in American
porU. The purchase price will be utilized by
the Germans to meet' reparations due the
Allien. The (ships will form a part of the
new Amerlcm merchant marine. There are
many angles to the proposition, but on its
face it seems worthy of bcrious consideration.
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Congress objects to an entangling alll-
between tin
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anr between the nnval program nnd.-tbt
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WHITMAN MEMORIES
By Harrison S. Morris
rpHIS memorable speech by lugersoll (at
the dinner given to Whitman on his seventy-first
birthday), by sonic one's silgges'
tion became a written lecture which lnger
soil gave for Walt's benefit at Horticultural
Hall in Philadelphia. It wa managed by
Hornee Trnubel and niyplf. lngersoll was
to eoine over from New York and meet in
at a hotel. On the day chosen we received a
telegram from one of Walt' New York
friends saying, pan colonel's fare tcif
tiotl reimburse met The fare was about ?4.
W't thought this odd and decided not to
reply. When the Colonel arrived in the hotel
accompanied by the sender of the telegram,
we went through the greetings and showed
lngersoll his room. His companion then
whispered to Traubel that he need not re
turn him Ingersoll'n fare, as in fact lngersoll
had paid the fare of both.
After the lecture the particular friends of
AVnlt gathered at a table in a cafe nearby,
mid it was found that about $1000 had been
obtained for the feeble old poet's comfort,
for which ho expressed gentle nnd modest
thanks to Colonel lngersoll, and 1 can see
him now cautiously folding up the money
and putting it safely away in his great gray
coat.
AND,
H. ,In
this aUo recalls that day when l snw
him seated in his big rough rocking
chair by the window on the street, opening
letters that asked for autograph1'. Some of
them he complied with; but nil he could not
begin to answer, and he was engaged when
I saw him, hat on and gray coat with many
pins stuck in the sleee for safe-keeping, in
peeling oft" the postage sfnmps that were
sent him for reply nnd placing them fru
gally on tin improvised shelf attached to the
window ledge. The chair was the gift of
Thomas Donaldson, n collector of all that
was odd but often not valuable. He was one
of the gioup that made Walt's last years
comfortable. So was Dr. D. (5. Briuton, an
ethnologist of note nnd a student of letters.
It was at his house that the sender of the
telegram about Ingersoll's railway fare de
livered an address on his association with
Walt, wherein he told feelingly of Walt's
affection for his wife. He described her
death mid how Walt placed a lily in her hand
as she lay on her bed of death ; and he
worked tis up to an extreme pitch of emo
tion. Then, with a change of voice and
inn nner. denoting that that episode was over,
nnd done with, he cried out : "About a jear
from that day. when 1 had married my
present wife " which shocked his audience
into unseemly laughter and left a humorous
impulsion of a solemn occasion.
THE birthday dinner of 1S91 was held in
the lower room of the little boxlike house
on MicUe street, Camden. The two rooms
together were hardly larger than a good
sized parlor, nnd now the folding doors were
flung back and n narrow table ran from the
front wall to the rear. Walt sat in the
center facing the hall, ani' the faithful
friends grouped themselves on either hand.
There was not much light nor much to eat.
but it was a memorable meal, because Walt
was seventy-two and his massive body was
showing the ravages of disease and nge. He
had to bo helped to his chair with strong
arms and he sat down in some exhaustion.
But ever body was familiar to him nnd loved
him much, and as his cje ranged along the
table he lost the dazed look with which he
entered, and when the speeches began he
was full of his old-time fun. fe lifted his
glu.s of champagne in a toast to Bryant,
Dinerson and Longfellow, dena ; and to Ten
njson and Whittier, living poets: and he
talked of old friends. Doctor Bucko asked
questions which AVnlt parried, and Lincoln
Lyre, a young lawyer, made a flowery sort
of speech, incidentally asking Walt why h
hud necr married. To this Walt gave a
tumbling reply with evasive reference to the
cat in the "Xibelungen," "or somebody
else's with an immensely long, long tail to
it." He could not stay until the end, but
grew tired and was helped back to his room
upstairs, waving a blessing for us all as he
disappeared in the little entry.
This was near the limit of his strength.
He lived with ebbing and flowing endurance
for nearly a jear, but he suffered ns any
great nature must suffer who knows the
loveliness of nuturc and the devotion of
friends and realizes deeply the separation
approaching and the unknown regions be
yond. He was not afraid; he was brave
under physical woe. and he had welcomed
death in his chanting ns few or none among
the singers of the world had greeted it:
Come lovely and soothing Death
was his burden in lustier days as in these
hours of darkness and affliction.
THE flickering spirit was almost extin
guished more than once. I remember how
Doctor Bucks came down from Canada and
sketched out to Williams all the details of a
funeral that did not happen for several
months. Walt sent a last message to his
friends in February, 1891, in which pro
phetically he' said:
More and more It oomes to the fore that
the only theory worthy our modern times,
for great literature, politics and sociology,
must combine all the best people of all
lands, the women not forgetting.
On March 2lS, 1S02, Walt Whitman died.
THE
life
funetal was as characteristic as his
and his death. The crowd that en
tered the little old shabby house was enor
mous. They streamed in for three hours;
then the carriages came and the pallbearers
who were to ride got in four by four and
waited for the start. I was in a carriage with
.Judge Garrison, of the New Jersey courts,
and Jim Scoval, as he was briefly called, a
journalist who had written much of Walt
and who once drolly confounded Sir Edwin
Arnold with JIatthew Arnold in reporting
a visit of the former to Mickle street. An
other Camden journalist and ,friend occupied
the fourth seat.
A huge tent bad been erected at Harlelgh
Cemetery not far from Walt's tomb. It wag
a bunny, mild day, but under the tent It
became hot and the speakers perspired.
There were remarks by Doctor Brinton, (ln
gersoll, Harried and others, and between each
Francis Howard Willianis read the words of
some seer or prophet of old. Ther.e was no
lamentation, no sense of loss, no woe; we
all felt that Walt had been transplanted into
the elements, and, mingled spiritually with
them, would be an influence iu the eternal
advance of Nature and of nations.
It is typical of Walt, whose opposing
American traits made up the seer and poet
in him commingled with the canny and frm
gal Quaker, that he should have left by will
to his family $0000 that this prophet, who
was fed by the ravens, should have laid by a
hoard for the accidents of a life that Nature
alone should provide agalAst. Such were the
marks of a mind of deep vision tempered by
cautious common sense.
The letter of, the German Peace Society
to President Wilson' voices some' contrition
for the misdeeds of the German military
command which, if announced earlier, might
have had some effect on the treaty.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
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Fourteen of Them
If Senator Sherman reads Walt Whitman
he might find the following (in "Starting
from I'auniunok") encouraging:
"And I will make a song for the ears of
the President, full of weapons with menacing
points."
May 30
"The Stars and Stripes Forever"
Always was our proudest boast,
But now it has new meaning
When we rise our Flag to toast.
The Stars and Stripes forever,
The glorious Stars and Barsl
Our doughboys wear the service stripes,
Their folk the service stars.
SUB UOSA.
The kind of decoration that most of the
doughboys like to wear on Decoration Day
is the red discharge chevron.
It seems to us that Hawkcritook a tail
spin when he made those remarks about the
American flight.
The melancholy days are come, the hottest
of the year,
The days that make the collar wilt and to
the neck adhere ;
The days that make the asphalt soft and
irritate the man
Who cannot light his pipe because of the
electric fan.
Our friend James Shields, that genial re
pository of quaint and whimsical anecdote,
calls our attention to the following cutting :
Kldora, Ia March 14. Mra, Thomas
G. Copp, of this city, haa in Tier possession
yarn that was spun from the wool of the
original "Mary's Little Lamb." Miss Mary
Sawyer, the little girl whose lamfi gave
the Inspiration for tho famous erees with
which every one Is familiar, was born in
Sterling, Mass., In 1806. Three verses of
the poem were written by John Nnulson,
to which two more verses were added by
a Mrs. Townsend. From the wool of this
sheep Miss Sawyer made two pairs of
stocking's, and In 1880, at the old chutch
fair at Sterling, she consented to unravel
the stockings, and MrB. Copp, who was
present, and an ojd acquaintance of the
family, secured the yarn. Miss Sawyer
died In 1890 St. .Paul Pioneer Press,
March 14, 1898-
It seems only fair, therefore, to restate
the legend according to these historical facts.
Many of us may have wondered how it was
that the lamb could go with Mary everywhere
she went. Now it is as clear as noonshine :
it went with her in the form of nice warm
knitted stockings. Therefore we blurt the
following :
The Truth at Last
Mary had a little Iamb
As white as winter snows,
And from the wool upon its back
She made two pair of hose.
And everywhere that Mary came
She wore the hose she'd knitted ;
And those who saw her would exclaim ,
How perfectly they fitted.
Publicity gave' Mary throes
In welt-bred Massachusetts:
She felt so sheepish in those hose
She yearned to have some new sets.
And weary of the public stare
As round about she traveled,
' To beneflt the old church fair
She had them both unraveled,
Seneca Shamble (we hadn't heard from
Mm for a long time: how are you, Seneca?)
asks us if we can give btm the text of the
old ditty, "The Face on the Barroom Floor."
He addSj iu bis whimsical way( that be wants
to recite that poem in some of his favorite
haunts between now and the Great Divide.
The. text is probably Proverbs xx, t; but
alas we are not familiar with the words bt
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niS lmuiuriui auiucui. Mrmramp mvfae Of our
readers can supply It., If Stum't ,ti-
LIBERTY'S LIGHT
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"Ten Nights in a Barroom" Instead. On
the night of June 21, for instance, that
would be very appropriate.
The Bees' Dirge
(Intoned by two bees over a flower border
ruined by a storm)
First Bee Brother, tune a mournful wing,
Flying slowly let us sing
Dirges round the ruined border
Sacred to our holy order.
Second Bee Poppy acolytes lie slain
By the armies of the rain.
Harebells tinkle mass uo more,
Bells of Canterbury pour
Plaintive chimes from belfries
broken
Whence their laughing tongues
had spoken
Joyous calls at matins, noon.
And vespers, when the pollened
shoon
Of the brothers traced the sign
Of grace at every flowering shrine.
Firjf Bee Brother, tunc a mournful wing,
Flying sadly let us sing
Dirges round the ruined border
Sacred to our holy order.
PHOEBE HOFFMAN.
More About Teapots
Ma bought a new teapot today,
She broke her other one,
She brought it home and set it on
The table in the sun.
All afternoon while Ma baked pies
Our baby never tired
Of looking at the teapot
Which she very much admired.
To see her laugh and talk to it
And pat it with her hand, "
Xou'd think'that Ma's new teapot
Could hear nnd understand.
And then when Ma had left the room
She filled it at the spout
And quiet as a little mouse
She took the teapot out
Into the yard. There grows out there
Our baby's own pink rose,
She watered it, and then fell down
And broke the teapot's nose,
i
Baby was very much ashamed
And hung her pretty head,
And told us in her cunning way,
"Poor teapot all gone dead." "
Ma says, as baby wasn't hurt,
She doesn't care a jot.
And that is how our. baby
Dead-lcates a new teapot.
- SdBROSA.
Out Norwood Way
Out Norwood way the banks are gay
For blue-eyed spring is there at play.
Oa verdant tree and bungalow
The happy roses climb and blow
And win. your heart where'er you stray.
How fair the earth I How sweet the May!
A hint, good sirs: hie you today
And all their winsome beauty know
Out" Norwood way !
Tine yon for peace? The wish obey I
Leave leave behind the fret and fray j
Come feel the joy of youth re-glow,
Come dream the dreams of long ago,
Of home and love that charm for aye
Out Norwood way
SAMUEL MINTDRN PECK.
, Deik Mottoes
I do not nsk the wounded person how he
feels I myself become the wounded person
WALT whitman;
The household fly must have a' Senate of
his own, to, judge by hU shrewdness in ayold-
ASHES OF SOLDIERS
T"EAItEST comrades, all is over and long
-' gone,
But love is not over and what love, O com
rades !
Perfume from "battlefields rising, up from the
fetor arising.
Perfume therefore my chant, O love, im
mortal love,
Give me to bathe the memories of all dead
soldiers.
Shroud them, embalm them, cover them all
over with tender pride.
Perfume all make all wholesome, 0
Make these ashes to nourish nnd blossom,
O love, solve all, fructify all with the last
chemistry.
(live me exhaustless, make me a fountain,
That I exhale love from me wherever I go
like a moist perennial dew.
For the ashes of all dead soldiers South or
North.
WALT WHITMAN.
Not the least of the
No Sign of f e a t s of Sergeant
Swelled Head Alvin C. York is the
ability he has shown
in standing modestly and sanely on the ped
estal on which his admirers have placed him.
Most of the men suggested for Mayor
are dead, as all the qualities demanded have
not yet been found combined in any one man
save in the obituary columns.
Compromise is an easy-going cuss who
finds a cozy corner wherever he enters,
whether It be a peace treaty palace or a city
charter cottage.
What Do You Know?
quiz
1. Who is the president of Brazil?
2. Where wis golf first played?
3. What is 'the nature and use of dill?
4. Who was the general, A. P. Hill? ,
5. Who was "The Nut Brown Maid"?
C. In how many states can women vote?
7. What is the cause of dew?
8. What was the worth of an ancient groat?
0. Vt'Mt is the cut of a "redingote"?
10. What is a feverfew?
Answer to Yesterday's Quiz
1. l'be Tagus river rises In cast central
Spain, flows west Into Portugal and
empties into the Atlantic ocean, near
Lisbon, t,
2. Sir Walter Scott, with reference to his
"anonymous publication of ''Waver
,ley," was characterized as '"The
Great Unknown," ,
3. Charlemagne reigned for forty-six years j
as emperer 'of the revived Western l
Roman Empire for fourteen. He was,
born in 742 A. D. and died In 814. ,
4. Roan color is bay or sorrel, or chestnut
mixed with white or gray.
5. South Carolina was the first southern
state to secede from the Union.
0. "Phil" was the pseudonym of Hablot
K. Browne, illustrator of many of
Dickens's novels..
7, The shrewd hand of the French diplo
matist, ' Talleyrand, strongly influ
enced the complexion of the peace es
tablished by the Congress' of Vienna
in 1814.
8. Charcoal ; black porous residue of partly
burned wood, bonrs, etc. j .form of
carbon. ( t
0. Pilatre de Ttozler and the Marquis
s d'Arlandes werl the first practical
aviators. They ascended in a balloon
from Paris on November 21, 1783.
10, The head of the smallest nation in the ' .$;,
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