V xt - . ?m-im EVENING TELEGRAPH ' WJULtG LEDGER COMPANY fcf hMlfft t. trfidlmton, Vlea President. John C. 0!1"T nci lreaaurer! rnuip h couina, Tlllame, John J. Bpuroti. Director. r "V BDtTOmAI BOAtlD! .Vjf 'Cries H. K. Cram. Chairman IAVTO i 8M1I.ET ......... Editor gaBWC;.MAnTlN,...0ncrl nuMnuM Manage- J'MfWi'td dally at Prsiio imn nnitdinir. .1 1uf ,rfro4p"ndeni! Square, Philadelphia, Majm cm .btiu vT ' I'rrss-untc , . .rrns-uttton nmidinc 200 Metropolitan Tnner vlRK(i. ITWHTi . H ' T ,,,, ... nt Ford RulMln I0O8 Fulterton tlulMlrg 1.112 Iritwne Uulldlnr GA40...1. 4. i;11' , NRirs nunRAtnsi Uth'lliqTnrf JltlMt, ' N. r? for. 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TAAArna AM rmnmuntrntlA In Prrttttln Puhllr Y&jjAiiBtVt ifrfgpenflVare' Stunt r. rMMrf'pMo. fSwMemfccr of the Associated Presn fkWftti AHHOCIATEI) P?W wto tocW iiiiiltcd to the uie for rrntihliealian JoVlH l't' dispatcher credited to it nr tint Qofbenhtic etetlitci in this paper, nmt aho fiihe. weal neiri mMihrl therein. KZfyt&tl fight nf republication of tpeeial -I;A herein are nttn reserved. rililddpM., Monrli.. Jtmr J, 111? TF MciAiccTewiMr." ciidci v Mcrncn -w..w.,,.,. w,, ..w rpiIERE ia an undoubted lack uf conO- -dencc in the impartiality of the RoKi!'- ration Commission. Its duty is to secure ihcj.rcgistration of the voters under such fii1es as will permit every qualified voter itocnsthls ballot. It should be as free na lihff cgu.rt9 from partisan bins. It should Mirers jealous of fraud and favoritism as rltKJ& rxJsslblc for honest men to be. 11$ But, in 19JG the commission permitted Usoir to do used lor lactionni purposes, nu its' conduct hai been condemned both Sfby the Common Pleas Courts and by the Supreme Court of the state. ft' ni-t .11- 1S.-.I !...! Ml 1 wrg una uiscieuucti cuiuiiiifisiun win iiHe t'Cbarjrc of the repcistration of voters for IJih'e annroachinir' mavoraltv election. The Ridovcijriop has announced that "there will K.ff;?i'"va V fn Dtvprlrti f1ir uitnutirm '' IP rl!f certainly needs sweeteninp;. ,In.Mt f jvhat is to he done has not yet been an- tnbiinccd.. Two or three proposals are B.l)cfpro the LeKislaturc. Kach is open to UMJUVtlUIIO. IlUb 1L I.) IllljrUI iltl U lllitb MtoniethiriK be done it we aie to have an "epcn 'and fair registration during which tcui7.cns -viu ue pcimiiieu 10 quality as voters because they are citizens ami not Because thev surnnit cine faction oi nm bopposed to another fattion. ur - , '-ATS OFF TO THE AIRMAN! ?$ Jp ciitliUEiaslic welcome accorded to fTleu tenant Commander Read when he ned in the NC'-l at Plymouth and later bcu T)c reached London, was jukt the Aldjt-of a tribute which the Knclish lt&lwcre oxnecled to trivit 1 ti :i m;in who fcssitouc. what he set out to do. t?Thcrc was nothing grudging or half feaficd about it, nor any attempt to little the achieven'ent by nccling at precautions taken to insure its suc- Thc American Navy Department set nt to demonstrate that it was possible BCan airship to fly acrors the ocean. hdt',only one of the thiee aircraft that lartcd was able to cover the distance En Trcpassey to Ilorta without (!! justifies all the precautions that cpn. And the success of one air- (fying from Itockuway Beach on lij" the ocean to Plymouth on the h justifies the confidence which Department had in the capabili- s flying men and in the qualities irplanes built in America. JUNE is. a month famous for its roses, Iridea and its bugs. Iiimvoses by scattering pollen cause ijeitive persons to rush the hay fever 8on. sjune brides are the old original vic- B8 of rose fever. lAmong the June bugs may be included B.'bejief that if Edwin and Angelina amrt Jn June when the moon is full thev 6iyea better chance of happiness than if BCynmarry in May or .iuiy. Now and phi'sopc of these bugs manages to sur ryfeAhe honeymoon. Fs'jtlifajparticular June is noteworthy for M fact tnat it is the last time that the loon will ie nermitted to fret full in mn. genial company. Next month he'll take fcls.KOuse alone. KiJiJne is a warm baby much addicted to Aojing drinks, which she sucks through ftraws 'without regard for the h. c. of 1. Ki'.the luxury tax. fyrMaybe that is why His Honor the . calendar nan Savc her thirty days. &&e' OPENING AN EMPIRE ftfig... " .. Vuitlnu the war popular conscious ness ov iqc rcmarKauic railway unucr siruction by the government in Ifcttka was naturally feeble. Indeed, it i Mrdly too much to say that in the sr,--ar.,ieasi, me magnituue and impor- bc,o; the enterprise was virtually for '"Nevertheless, in the vast terri- ir' o;'remote from the terrible scenes sed strife the great transportation nae, Nvas well under way. Itfjwaj? i)nly in April, 1915, that the isident announced the selection of the route from Seward, on Resurrection rJj;fo j Fairbanks, far inland on the mwjjver, in nines tusiani. since ; in addition to the rehabilitation of jklmrfta, Northern Railroad, 252 miles IP work has been done on the line Ptgi i mounts of grading, in places Om rails have not yet been laid. a.l the difficulties of the 4a"vi8 a highly creditable record. , dtik'' t still speedier progress is fily .at hand. The present forcd JjMO.Wrkmen is to be doubled in June. rth' appropriation of nearly two ' dtuars is included in the general bill now before the Senate. ininuwum sjkt9e years iorc k. ' - - ' n1,l ..-t .ttyftyHj geM, co) I ptftttc Writer and copper fields, opening up n new agri cultural empire and connecting the navi gable central waterways of the territory with tho southern coast, will be an acc'ompliEhed fact. That the possibilities of Alaska will be realized is Incontesta ble. Americans would do well to refresh their memories concerning what the gov ernment is doing in the huge northwest cm region of almost untouched resources". Tho enterprise is worth a keen tingle of pride. It is of Pannmn Cannl and Hog Island caliber. REPUBLICANS MAY NOW HEAR THE TAP OF OPPORTUNITY Defeat of the Queer Dlrds of Western Insurgency Permits True Spirit of Liberalizing Progress to Be Heeded TplOHT damp rocket arc limply on cx--LJ hibit in Washington as a result of the futile opposition to Senator Penrose's chairmanship of the finance committee. Failure to soar into the lofty altitudes of triumph over the "Old Guard" is de cisively to be recorded of Messrs. Horah, Cummins, Hiram Johnson, Kenyon, Len root, Capper, McCormick and McNnry. Defective fireworks have nUo enabled Finneis K. Warren, of Wyoming, authori tatively to dirett the almost equally im portant appropriations committee. If all the advance blazoning of the political pjiotcchnic display is to be ac cepted at it.s own valuation, the fell genius of stand pattism is once more throttling the Republican paity. It has ictreated into its ancient cave, barred the door and successfully plugged up all the chinks whereby the radiant beams of emancipating "itiMirgency" might enter. Sir. Penrose, Mr. Warren, Mr. Lodge, Mr. Knox and their so-called fellow "re actionaries," If they tue melodramatically inclined, might strike oNultant attitudes in asset tion of the victory. These, how ever, would lie meiely stage gestures, and of that fact nobody is better aware than the actors themselves. The conventional Republican leader ship which has taken the saddle in the Sixty-sixth Coiigies-. involves a very familiar combination of experience, ability and cynicism. There can be little question that its appraisement of the Mtuntiou is wholly tin romantic and con tains no element?, of self-delusion. Too thoroughly schooled in the game are the prcnt winners to imagine that they have crushed progrcssh ism in the party or instituted an effective barrage against sound liberalism and sensible cnuliuc tive lefoim. Willi! the hnc ac(uall done is to hringidnun a flock of elrcmelj queer bilds! Any one v. ho believes that Mi. Pentose and his atsociates are amig.iting to th'-mselves any accomplishment mm pass ing that is decidedly defective in the his toiy of "Old (luarii" politics. Unfoitunatciy, however, nmconi-cption of the pot .sound of the lixzcd-out "tevolt" peisists in some citcles. It excite-, the fancy to picture a ringing challenge of "liberals" to a i dictionary Gibraltar, and, as usual, it is the existence of a partial tiutn which fottilie:- the conception. There is no mysteiy about the piinci plcs which govern Senator Penrose. If his methods are frankly ometimts bru ta ly "practical," it cannot be said that he ever failed to make them tesponsive to autbeutiu political pre.-sure. His adioitness may h" sellii-li from the party' point of view, but for that particular rea son he is tiMiallj keenly cognizant of the tides of popular entiment. A case in point is the recent absence of unqualified utteiance from his lips with reference to the league of nations. His .shicndncss is le-enfoiced with solid legislative ability and an innate aversion to "freak" move ments. Senator PcnioscV col'eagues in con trol of the Republican wing of Congies.s rceal in varying dcgiee points of ic srmbiatx'o. Whether they aim to be so or not, their sensitiveness to the baiome ter of public common sense ih acute. And that explains why, despite the "Old Guard's" record, despite the connction of many Republican patriots that such lead ership cannot justify the high preten sions of a great political parly, the na tion is rather relieved than otherwise at the couise of congressional mastery. Compared with the woolly extrava gances of the present insurgents, the standard Republican machinery assumes an aspect of lirtue. But the hope that some day its wiies will be short-circuited and the current cut off is highly engag ing. The Republican party ii eminently worthy of a far higher and altogether different kind of leadership. It will come eventually, for the public will, however inchoate it may sometimes appear, is seldom denied ultimate and definite regis tration. Hut frr.iu the inwardly fervid, but now squelched, anti-Penrose group in 'Wash ington party redemption is certainly not obtainable. The disposition of the chair manships is far, indeed, from ideal, es pecially in tho method used, but of the alternatives it was infinitely the more to be desired. Courageous constructive leadership is by no means hopelessly handicapped when it authentically appears in the Re publican party. For attestation turn to the career of Theodore Roosevelt. Whilo it i3 truo that his liberalism was the cause of factional breach, it is equally in contestable that when .the gulf was bridged it provided the avenue to his domination of a reunited party. Pro gressive standards sanely conceived arc in no real danger of suppression in Re publican ranks if the right advocates are manifested. But even the sinful Penrose may be happily depended upon to cork up tommynonsense. In the current instance the contents of the vial, temporarily balked of its effer vescence, are suspiciously seasoned with insoluble political sophistries. No wonder tho emeute which William R. Borah led was stifled at its inception! Time was when the present senator from Idaho sought his country's salvation in ibe ludicrous fallacy of free silver, He urged n different remedy in 10J6 in vot ing against tho tabling of tho Gore reso lution forbidding American citizens sea travel on ships armed against submarine slaughter. McCumbcr, Cummins, Gronna, Norris, La Kollctlc, all listed now ns in surgents, similatly went on record. McCumbcr mny bo recalled as the author of a singular resolution, proposed on the day Congress voted for war with Germany. It stipulated that the United States was not to take up arms against the imperial government until still an other American ship had been sunk by the Hun pirates. Ia Kollette and Norris were among the six senatqrs three Republicans and three Democrats who voted against the war resolution in the upper house. l.enroot wns an active supporter of the Mcl.emorc proposed ban against arming American merchantmen. Senator McCormick, when in the House, was ardently in favor of disposing of the Hohenzollern menace, but once the war was started his er enlhedm utterances concerning its conduct and prospects read amusingly in the light of subsequent happenings. Prophecy is a discteditcd art nowadays, but Mr. McCormick in sisted that his junketing amid European scenes warranted the most solemn regard. "I am convinced," he declared, at about tho same time that a public statement from Lloyd George involved the Illinois rongicssmnn in a feat of misquotation, "that a military decision befoic 191 1 is impossible." A ceitain catchy lirillianc. in the "Old, Gnat d" opponents is undeniable. The magnetism of Borah, the vigor of Cum mins, prominently displayed in his Iowa "trust-busting" pcrfotmances; the per sistence of Norris, ns revealed in his an tagonism to Cannon autocracy; the cultutc and cleverness of McCormick, the frankness of Hiram Johnson, the sin cerity of Capper all these arc qualities welcome and stimulating to American statesmanship. In several cases, however, florid ego tism is a companion and a weakening attribute. The icsull is a costly bel ligerency which imparts the impression that tlr brand of statesmanship disclosed is unseasoned. The word is used advisedly and is not to be invalidated by icference to length of legislative careers. Some of the most spectacular figures in American politics have been spiritually unseasoned from their debut in Congiess until their fare well. The gorgeously ihetorical Roscoc C'onkling, able and spirited, but futs trated of his most chcii-hed hopes, was of this type. So, in a .sense, was the fiery and eloquent Douglas. Blaiun, Burr, Sumfier, Seward, Web ster, Clay, Calhoun, all at sonic time were classifiable on certain points as paity in fiiriectionis'ts. They were at times in tensely popular, even adored. Yet vir tually none of them, with the possible exception of Blaine and Seward, is ex' empt fiom the charge of having inspired mcasuies the extreme unwisdom of which i.i now tiansparcntly obvious. And in eer case the public, with its instinctive tioth with .security, denied them fulfill ment of their presidential ambitions. In the broad sense "seasoning" in poli tics may be indefinable, but it is highly potent. It is possible therefore tn regard tho ptCKcnl complexion of leadership in the Republican tanks without the gloom which might under other circumstances accompany a scene wherein a movement against rcnctionaiies was checked. Wild tangents have been avoided. What remains to be done is a task of large proportions, but one so directly in accord with the finest Republican traditions that the pressure to undcitakc it should be vital. The party icsponsiblc for such achieve ments as tlie overthrow of slavery, tho de velopment of American industries, the I dictation of Cuba and fair play in the Orient, has a unique reeoul of largc visioued constiuctivc accomplishment. The opportunities today for new perfor mances of equal caliber arc opulent. The liTc of the party depends upon the au thority and leadership in sane liberalism which brings it to the present 'problems of epochal import. Eccentric nostrums have been rejected in the verdict against the embryonic up rising of the "irtesponsible.s." The way is paved for the adoption of authentic remedies, makiug for the best quality of Iibcialb:ing national progress. The president of hn lleatll W.-n Austrian republic x.i) Ilcr Clinlre Austria is doomod rcononile drath if sho hm not join Germany. But union with Germany has already brought nbout her moral death. The biRKcK drama of tin- wor'd U now holm; stiei'd iu Kansas and Whrat! Wheat! Wheat! 120,000 "supos" are needed nt fifty lents an hour and bonid. A. MiCorinicK Reaper sustains tne lead aiid'it N earnestly hoped (lint the support will be nile(iiate. The German (inreru Slnppllis ibe Watch incut ins issued a mi the Rhine warning to those who are planning to sepa rate the Rhlnelahd from Germany, declaring them guilty of bigb tieasou. But those who plan btieli things are usually not easily in timidated. Admiral Koleliak has Necktie Parlies authorized the expor tation from Russia uf hemp, tbij! nnd other products iu exchange for British nnd American cargoes. ler Impi lie should have retained the hemp. Jic limy need it for the DolshcrlM. German delegates to Muddying the the Peace Conference Waterr arc now busy explain ing certain parts of their counter-proposals which are evidently not clear even to themselves. But is clarity their aim? . Brmkdorff-Itaiitzau's Boom for Conjecture ulleged determination not to slgu the treaty may be either an evidence of courage or of caution. He may either be bucking the line or passing the buck. Women interviewed by the Kvbnino 1'uni.io I.KliqKH ou the "Ideal mayor" ex errbifd praiseworthy restraint. Net pue of them recommended a woman for the position. GETTING ACQUAINTED Story of How One Neighborhood House Is Promoting Social Intercourse and Making Everybody Happy GGN1 In r.Xli: had just had dinner nnd wns still evening clothes when he climbed the fence of the playground of the University House nod surveyed the scene. Below him on hN right a busy matron of seven with n eorw of able nlstnnts was removing the debili from the concrete basin which litter on will he n wading pool. In front of him half a dozen boys nud glrli climbed a ladder ami slilnril a chute with the backs of their little tumnile. To the left of him a tini versify student ployed baseball with a scrub team Hint needed scrubbing. It wns the ball game that Interested Genie. He carefully turned over on his stnmnch, lowered himself until lie hung by his hands, adjusted hH bare legs on the sides 'of a jutting post, eased himself to the ground nnd took up n position on the Meld. Ills pants, which might have been n bhort divided tkirt, flapped in the breeze. His shirt wns cut decollete. He had no hat. But his position was professional. "Shoot on, dis way!" he demanded. "Greatest kid that ever happened!" said Dana How, service secretary, who secures volunteer workers from among the students of the university for the settlement, "but it is pretty hnnl to keep him clean." "It hnppeus once in a while." said Miss Helen 1. Duncan, in charge of the work of the house. "When the bojs are taken to the sn Infilling pool they are scrubbed here under the shower's before they leave the plnie: then they are scrubbed ngaiii before they enter the pool. It has happened to Genie ns it bus happened to other boys." TT WAS nn nfT -- I'nstnirs the ' day at the settlement house. he girls were having an all- girl dance, the music was provided by a jazz band. Downstairs .limmie. Dougherty wsr conducting n fife nnd drum band. In the halt a doren boys nnd girls, attracted by the music, swarmed nnd demauded admis sion . "Pretty quiet tonight." rrmarked Miss Duncan, In perfect good fnith. "You should be here when there's something going on." She was sitting In the hall taking nickels from the girls as they entered. Well dressed girls they were, with the pretliness uf .mi:i Hi and health. - One made a point Of parsing without pay ing her nickel. ".Vlckel inmiiiR," said Miss Duncan. "Oh, well, I'll give you the nickel," snld the giil, "but 1 won't talk to you." But she (united when she .aid it. "I had to discipline them the other night." explained Miss Duncan. "They ran through the haljs and made a noise when I had a speaker here, so I refused to allow them to have their dance. But it's all right now." In mat died a crowd to get a drink at the fountain and then they dallied. "Glad to see jou," s-aid Miss Duncan. "Gnnd-nlglit. Bight turn, tjuick inarch. Left, right, left, right." Willi sheepish grins they filed out. "Haven't room for them all every night, so we di ide lliings up." IXTlt. HOW explained the dividing. One J-'-t case is illustrative. A gang of hnys long ago hung around ihe house nnd made things iinioinfortable. They might have been driven away. Instead they were invited inside and given a loom of their own. It was their fhibrniiin Tliej furnished it themselves. Onee in a while somebody connected with the house or some university student visited them. No .attempt was made to run their meetings but they were subtly directed. That gang is now a pretty tine bunch of bo.vs. There are eier so many such clubs in the settlement house - - girls' clubs nnd boys' clubs. Some of them nre old mi,s. The .lunior Club's membership is composed of men of from twenty -one to Ihiity-the. Their iluhrnnm is beautifully furnished. A large case holds a tine collection of trophies won iu athletic events. These men take pride in the settlement nnd have a right to that feeling. One of Iheir number, .lames Dougherty, gies a lot of his time and a lot of his money to the institution. He is drilling a fife and jlruni (oips nf Itf i. m and has himself equipped them with the instruments. QOMKTHING is doing ever.v minute has J ketbitll games in , ,is gjninasiuin, (oncerts, thentnial performances, dnnces and shoit talks. r,wr body inteiested and evervbody u.vuig sufficient to lemovc the taint of ( harit.v . And, Minic to think of i(, they give as much as thej get. It is a double barreled affair, Sir. How explains. He has ever so many unhcrsit men working niouiiil the settlement, and assuredly the trainiii" thejr aie getting pajs ihem for the work they do. There are dentists at work every evening in a well-appointed office. The dispensnry is excellent iu ever.v particular. There are doctors in plenlj who visit in the neighbor hood. And. best of all. the people in the neigh borhood hnve (oiitidence in the settlement house and the men mid women who ruu it. The house is a place of refuge in all cases of emergency, and the house never fails to heed the cull. milK rniwrtily House has a branch iu -L what some thoughtless people call the Devil's Pocket. The I'ocket is formed by the. walls of the Naval Hospital and consists of half a down populous streets. The I'ocket House (if we may call it so for the sake of convenience) is a six-room dwelling presided over by Mis Bell. Thd strikingly handsome young gentlemen who accompanied .Miss Duncan to the Pocket House cariied their hats in their hands the greater pint of the way. They did this after their elbows giew tired returning greetings to those who knew Miss Duncan. This in cluded every man, woman nud child iu the dozen streets traversed. And especially the children. They hailed' her a block oft. Tho streets resounded with "Ho, there, JIUs Duncan!" "I'd just love to live in the Pocket," con fided the lady, "The. people haven't been spoiled," TIIKKK was excitement in tho Pocket House.. Two pretty little girls were hostetscs to a dozen friends. The hostesses helped MUs Bell tn cut cake and make lem onade' while the guests played a gamo which consisted in cnlllng n number and spinning a tin plate. I don't know the principles of the game, but there wns a lot of shouting and a lot of laughter in it. Aqd all the other children In the neighborhood flocked around tho doors' and windows nnd announced that they, the outsiders, were golug to have a party next Tuesday. There Is a enmp connected with the Sctr tlemeut House Hint I am golug to visit some day. And, I-ord! but I'd like to have the chil dren love me tlicwii) they love Miss Duncau! DEMOSTHKNKS SIcGINNIS. If Bernstorff approved of the peace treaty Americans would be justified ia be llcvlug that there was something wrong with it. THE CHAFFING DISH i ' Now Will He Be Good! Dear Snciates l was particularly inter ested in jour lemarks about the position of "not onlj" iu sentences formed by the Pres ident. In fact, 1 wrote about it to him some weeks ago. ARTHUR A. DI3MB1TJ5. Ainerongen was crowded with excursion IMs who desired to obtain a glimpse of tho famous refugee, but ho. was eom plelely bidden by the heavy foliage. News (!tmtcli. Wilhelm's beard must have grown rnpidly. At any rate, one place here Woodrow won't sny "II is very delightful to be here" will be the Senate chamber on the occasion of his next visit. Literary Noteo Satuidny was not merely the hundredth birthday of Walt Whitman ; it wns also the thirty-second for therenbouts) birthday of Harrison Hires, one of the favorite poets of our youth. Harrison, we understand, still keeps on writing verses, and we have been hoping that lhidepartment would be favored with some of them. If Harrison is going to he selfish aqd keep to hinwelf what belongs to mankind, it seems a gieat pity. Come acioss,' Harrison, with a brisk Hircsinn Ijric. Dr. Albert Wnlson, a Canadian eirnlist, has edited a book called "The Twentieth Plane," which purports to be n series of interviews with tb.e great ones of the earth who have passed on to "the twentieth plane." The messages were received by. a" Toronto business man in a state of trance. The twentieth plane, it appears, Is lit by "an eternal sky of pink." which we think would become rather tedious! and by the testimon of both Carlyle and Ingcrsnll there is no smoking done theie. Doctor Watson's habit was to ask questions of the Great Spir its, who would answer through "the Instru ment, being the lotonto business man nforesaid. Some of the answers must have been disconcerting to the Canadian enthu siast, for instance: AVATSON Is there n future for Cana dian drama? SHAKHSPnARB - You see, I hardly know your plane. Dorothy Wordsworth seems to have been one of the liveliest of the visiting sijlrits,' nud remarked, apropos of Walt Whitman, "Walt is a big explosion yet." We fear that Walt must have prompted her to say this: it sounds more like him than like Dorothy. We intend to make a stern effort this mouth not to quote Lowell's line about a day In .lime, thus shattering all precedents in Journalism. The Face on the Barroom Floor rtrar Sotrates: fan It b (no, aurely It cannot!) that ao fihauatbc an Intfltfrtual lowbrow as ourself baa not at hand the words of "The Fac Upon the Klonr" (not "The Face on the Rarroom v.-innr." na It la generally and fallaciously known). I thought ever bard and bartender from tho pro hibitory ioat of Maine to the rum-waaheO. an amps of. Florida knlw the undjlne ditty. Any how, it beuhia, la Cowperlnn vain: '"Twaa a balmy aummer evenlne. and u comity crowd was there, tootle-too within Joe'a barroom on the or ner of the square." And then It quits Conner cold and seta very theodorckremerlan. winding; up with the tremendoua crescendo molto appaaalonata con almpatlco death of the artlap stew. You mleht care to know that the author of "The Fate" la, or was, a guaal-Phlladelphlan. He wan ?) Hua-o A. IVArcy, author of Inhumerable sob acenartoa for l.ubln plcturea (what's become or you, lluh, lately?) but he waa mainly famoda for 'The Face," Mr. D'Arcy, like joureelf. loved ronsenlal and Informal people and placea. Ha waa In his prime In the da j a when the movie actors used to conejrezate of nlghta at Z-m-'a if.t-L. With a muir of Hlppocrene and fumlnc clay Hush would alt In the rorner and hobnob with hla hlatrlonla and poetical friends (I waa tr!ne to be both thenl. klnda. like an Americanized and washed Verlalne. He waa a tolerant and polite aoul, but lie lost III" Boat once when Charlie Chaplin, then juet beatonlnc to embroider the outer frlntea of his fame', ataied and plajert In an outraieous parody of "Th Fare," The picture waa filled with dipsomania, violence and douth. It waa enor moualy funny, llut 1 alwaja underjtood there after how Toe would have felt If he'd llvod to read "Tho Cannibal Flea," rjl. Our, friend David .Wright tells jist that , i ..'j ' ' A&D NO TIME TO tOSlb when AValt Whitman was seventy-three he wns tvventy.-cven, and they used to joko over the fact Hint together they made up a century. Which gives Mr. Wright a par ticularly good reason for celebrating tho centennial of his old friend. Our Land Whatever cheery sights you've seen in all this great wide world. The best of -nil the sights I ween, when round the globe you've whirled, Is that first glimpse of shore line, of sand or grass or crag, Whatever land that's home land, beneath the starry flag. Oh ! It's Home Land, nnd Hope Land, the Land for you and me, It's Our Land forever, nnd America, the free. There's lodestone in these rocks of ours it draws from nil the earth Eager ones from other lands Lands that gave them birth. Krom Continent and Orient, from polo nnd torrid strnud, Krom crowded streets nnd lone retreats, they come to share Our Lnnd. And it's their land nnd Our Land, we call it Cod's country, ' The West Lnnd, the best land, land of fertility. We're proud nf all our history, our storied hills nnd plains, We've old blood, twice told blood, and blue blood in our veins; Hut we're proudest of the red blood wc didn't know we had Thnt flovvrd for us and died for us, and lives in each brave lad Of your lnnd and my lnnd nnd Our Land the hree, The new land, the true land, the land of liberty. i But of nil the bonny sights J know the best of sights to me Is .to see your faces, lads dear, that come from o'er the sen, ' And some thnt never got so fnrnor had the ,chnncc to dare; We've thought of all of you, my dears, in ninny and mnny n prayer. And you're home again with us again, we're proud to hnve you here, Earth give jou joys! (lod keep you, boys! To Our Land you're dear. It's Our Land for nil of us, United States say we, Then lend a hand to keep Our Land, America, tho Free-! DQItA ADELE SHOEMAKEIt. Desk Mottoes Tho main difference between pcoplo seems to be, thnt one man can como under obliga tions on which jou enn rely, is obllgablc; and another is not. EMERSON. The other day wc visited tho old Poe house on Brandyvvlno street and had a pleasant chat with Mrs. Owens, who lives there. When wo were there a year or so ago Mrs. Owens showed us- n curious placo in tho cellar, where tho floor hnd been covered over by some old planking, and at that time wo advanced the theory that perhaps Poo had done some sinister digging there of tho kind described in "The Black Cat." Wo urged Mrs. Owens to see what might lie under the boards. And now Mrs. Owens tells us thnt last Christmas time she kejit two dogs tied up in tho cellar for some days, und that the dogs were wildly curious about those old boards. They could not be kept away from them and insisted on digging around in that part of the cellar. We still think that per 'haps a black cat is interred there. Did anything happen to Catteriua, Toe's famous Spring uaraen street cat, tnat may nave suggested the story 7 SOCRATES. : M rrom the Grand Forks Herald. IN A HALL BEDROOM TN THE long border on the right -I- I shall plant larkspur -first," she thinks. "Pennies nnd chrysanthemums And then sweet-scented maiden pinks. "The border on the left shall hold Nothing but masses of white phlox, Forget-me-nots shall edge this one. The one across be edged with box. "The sun-dial in the center stands. There morning glories bright shall twine. And in a strip nt either end Shall grow great clumps of columbine. "There is no garden in the world Ho beautiful ns mine," she dreams. Itlsjng, bhe walks tho little spaco To where her narrow window Biennis, She gazes through the dingy pano' To where the street is noisy still, And tends with pitiable care A tulip on the window sill. Aline Kilmer, in "Cnndles That Burn." Tho "lame duck" on its "last leg" was game to the last. All that is required of Austria is to un derstudy Br'cr Itabbit and lay low an say nufUu. Hnlf a dozen women with pins in their mouths could fix up thnt chnrtcr in next to no time. . Englnnd's prospective home supply of oil may take the occasionnl squeak out of her wheels of industry. President Wilson has made mistakes, but his ability to pick out the right moment to speak and the right berics of moments iu "which to remain silent is apparently greater thnn that of his opponents. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1, Who Is Anna Shnvv;? 2. What is verjuice? H. Where is Ferrol, from wfiich place the NO-'l flew to Plymouth? 4, What does the seventeenth amendment to the constitution provide? fi. With how many powers wns the United States at war during the world con flict? 0. What Is a pilgarllc? . 7. Whero was Walt Whitman horn? 8. What famous American financier was called tho "COiimodorc"? 0. What Is tho capitil of Slam? 10. What is patchouli? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. Thomas Nelson Page is American am bassador to Italy. ( 2. The standard railroad gauge Is four feet,- eight and a half inches. 3. "Tho Great Balloon Hoax" was a fictitious account of a transatlantic aerial voyage, written by I'olJ pub lished In the New York-Sun. The nar rotlve wns realistic in detail and it succeeded in deceiving the public for several days. 44. An irado is a written decree of the sultan of Turkey, G. The English billion:', is a million mil' lions. In the United States a billion is a thousand millions, 0. Woodrow WHson WBI lorn in Stoun tou, Virginia, 7. The fablfd uulcojn had n horse's body nnd a single, straight horn. 8, The land uf Uosheu means the land ot light or plen'tj-. ' 0, A xkeupior skeuc Is a Gaelic dagger, used in Ireland ami Scotland. 10. The inctaL cinnabar is also palled ver UU0B . w . mF - ' ' ' - J',. ". -U Sff ,'i .-aft; .. i i 1 31 I " , (i y ,r W v $ &.!i (' -;7 ..( . . .i.rrK . -.. A'ttV.dj. ji i j- U ft. Litr J , v.. '..! u." . 'MMz :,! . 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