Riri r BSSatA W '4 '." iHMcVcffgev tz.r?' w - -, rr" & THE EVENING TELEGRAPH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY "OTBU8 It. K. CURTIS, rEBlnrNf arleo H. Ludlnrton. Vlco Prenldent; John C, ioeereiary annvireasurer; i-niup . u'onina. i vuuams. jwin J. npuraeon, uirfciore. EDITORIAL BOARD: Ciana If. K. Cmms.i Chairman firin K. SMILKT Editor IJrtiW'tl IfAtlTIV rienpl-al llu.lltiel Munftirf, Bi' IrubllJhfd dallr at Public LxnoEa nulldlnc. W "f Independence Square, Philadelphia, LAnTIC UIIiiiit,tilil rrn'uni'" uuiiiiuis YOIK.,.. .. ..-on .Meiroponian Tower ait. . . . ...701 Ford llultrtlnr Lornn...... i. tnns'Fullerton ltulldlnc lioo.ii... i. 1302 Tribune Uulldinc "'. NEWS BUREAUS: IB1N0TOM HC1HC. J WN. E. Cor. Pennsylvania Ave. and Htli St. P IORK MCRMU .. MillUffHn ituuruni DON Bdrkac. . ... London Timrt V aunscntiTioN terms ,4 The EfRJtio Pebmo I,rairi Is serve,! to anlv fer3 In rnuaaeipnia nnu urruuiMniiK iuhhs the rt of twelve (12) cents per l. pasablt tha carrier. 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Mf a The sleuths have a clue. They have EJ? two clues. The plot thickened, but it Ks5 thinned again. An arrest will surely be hj ...i !' WVlnn DaiinrtniKllt. of .UatlCe UlTeiltS Wand secret-service men tiptoe in Alleles ..-1 .,.. &..... .-. .j and talk in this fashion the wicked and fe&ritnoao consecrated to works of devilment take heart, throw away their talsc wnis- rk'era and eo zealously about their busi- gnes in the open. Expenenee proves wi nciective in me air. MR. TAFT'S WARNING NEW solemnity attaches to Mr. fa, xA.Tnft'. latest defense of the league of Sanations. In his address to the Bryn Mawr j,vv graduates yesterday the ex-President l&tipleaded for heartfelt sincerity, void of Kit, v" partlHIlllli 1" Miran"'b "- "" t e Insistence on such appraisement has fit, today a significance very different from s?Tthat of three months ago. When a crisis pjv'jsi cot immediately at hand responsibility g4may oe aoogea wun a comparatively &i-iijrht-heart. But the illusory period of wjili'gtice is now virtually ended. jgjf "Upon "those who insist tnat.suDstan Iptial amendments must be made to the jffiiftreaty will therefore fall," declares Mr. Ba, am ai til t tI1 fa... . u aVl. A itnlntt jSjfiaii', tne responsiDiuty lui uiu umcu- t:ite postponement of peace, rersonai Mnd partisan considerations fe reasons which should have no in- "fluence with us in determining an issue rso (fateful in the world's history, and so likely to affect the future welfare of the flLlUnitcd States and all mankind." y- The weight of making a decision of ''transcendent magnitude rests upon the "Senate of the United States. Against V.ihis obligation mere captiousness is no g&weapon at all. The lighter the treatment C?Mff.-ihe nation's fate the heavier the burden fe of future responsibility will be. Nothing -i Dub aosoiuieiy noncst uauuiuws ui uiu situation can avail now. .j T PL BOOK SUNDAY" NLIKE so many of the charitable en terprises on behalf of the troops 0i " ruou ule """1 ul sujjjjijtiiii; iiiciii vvau ShiieaoA readintr became more, rather than '-(less, necessary with the signing of the rf. . '. n.fr... Rf,.a f tlm ilia tn i.tilH mnn- ISUUMtC. UlaU W-4. btlE Ilia W HHtLlJ C- '(S'kind Is subject are emphasized in such r j Hunting as iook piace in iio. out Dore-.-'"'dji is not one of them. It is. however. Sl'wie of the major afflictions of a home :;fck army of occupation and for that rea feSlfeon' the observance -of "Book Sunday," Siwith which title Governor Sproul will 14 .Wasitmntp June 1H. is nntrinticnllv im. w.."-o ' ,Jlerative. fe.s',The American Library Association pro- Kfevjwses that on that day every Sunday-K-r;-;;i."Xi .v,;u in i., .tofn -v,-,n :.. nqisavv. vi ilk ....v. .-iuk, auu.i 4TV ' bxKik or magazine to be forwarded to the SfMhriee Quarters of a million American it&Hildiers now overseas. The comnarntivp please with which this request may be gffltexecuteu is in inverse ratio to tne re- rMolimnnf if will iTYinn.i'f. UK, Of,. - M' 'POISE AND "THE JOB" fViiCfllE seems to have poise," declined E i WIL Mff William H. Taft of the new acting ?e'sident of Bryn Mawr College, "and I il resident Pk.4lt1r sVia nrill At a tmsiA'inW " ZrhtyfrJ? an illustration of the principle of .cause ana eueut, iius uuservaiion is aa- .'f.lVlV..l - T It oiy convincing. wen-periormeu ts, are rare in this faulty world and so bjfpolse, but the relationship between the burn la irtrtafonalVilv Infimato TTiaA:n S''hd,.8lap-da3h judgment rtay for a time 5,lg1 ghowily appealing, but their efficacy s,)?. .jBvanaDiy nzzies out oeiore tne "good fe fFii" " : .. . - fpir. latt s own methods reveal the "llyppy reverse of this practice. By the r,waca of. poise he has argued the case 4 ifSf, the league of nations upon its merits. Heisner weaxenea oy spleen nor vitiated br?rhapsodic generalities has been hia l,hMM)ionshlp of the pact of international .MtMuK' The virtue of his .anp i.i.Hoinl N!j'4lji?fn1hft3 been incalculable. M',tifs auoKeuier typical, tnerefore, Ltime es-rresiuent snouid exalt poise -anectionaie, modestly diserimi t 'tribute to his accomnlUnoH fWr. And the public, which has to trust Mr. Taft to a degree re- f'for comparatively few statesmen 'day, will be inclined to accent his ate at face value, . ,r ' THE LIGHT ilSPA.TCHES from Berlin under the flifnatnrp' of the Associated Press t,fore of jioreJty, Any one who van UUle of the elaborately or- ' AX ganized' buslnesl of mystification carried, on under the- name of propaganda will welcome the reappearance of the dis patches of this association in the press of the country. Such messages Indicate the piesence tn the German capital of disinterested ob servers, who are able to view the trend of events without passion or prejudice and without any desire hut to leport the truth. Many ndvlces received fiom Gei many since the war began had the color of special pleading when they were not obviously unreliable. When the Asso ciated Press and other telinblc news agencies or correspondents can penetrate again into Russia the woild will be nearer to a decent peace. News is history ns it is being lived in these crowded years. It can have the cleansing effect of truth Itself. Wherever a competent nnd disinter ested journalist goes in Europe nowadays he lets light in. And he lets it out. CONGRESS RECOGNIZES THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION Its Approval of the Suffrage Amendment Is an Admission That the World Has Changed in a Century HMIE attempt to discover why Congtess has approved the equal-sulTragc nmendment to the constitution is the most fascinating occupation open just now to those who have any attention to spare from considering the progress of the peace negotiations in Paris. We do not mean why thirty-six Repub licans voted for it and seventeen Demo crats against it or why eight Republi cans voted against it and twenty Demo crats for it. The explanation for the party alignment on it in the Senate is easy to find nnd is of little moment in comparison with the larger issues in volved. The subject which deserves serious consideration at this time is' connected with the social changes which have pre ceded the agitation for equal suffrage and are at bottom responsible for the im pending change in the political status of women. Then1 have been women of undoubted political genius from the time of the semimythical Semiramis to that of Vic toiia, queen of Great Britain and Ire land and, by grace of the gallant compli ment of Beaconsfield, empicss of India. And there have been women who, through the fuscinations of their sen exerted over kings, have atlcctud the course of events. But the.-c have been exceptions. The task of government has been per formed by men. They have demanded the protection of their lives and then property, including their homes. They have insisted on the passage of laws which would protect their cluldien and their children's children. And when it was necessary they have taken up aims to fight other men unwilling to grant the protection which they demanded. The women were busy with the tasks of the home. In a less complicated and mechanical civilization they practiced many arts. They spun and wove fabrics. They made them into gaiments for their families. They gave their children such religious instruction as they received. They imparted to them knowledge of the secrets of life. They trained them in the household arts. And a social system grew up with the family as the unit and the head of the family as its political representative in the state. The only "respectable" occupation open to a woman outside of her own home was that of teaching or nursing in a quiet way, or domestic service. If a woman was so rash as to appear on a public platform to make a speech she risked her reputation. The proper place for a woman was in the home, according to the accepted opinion of the time it was not more than seventy years ago and if she left the home she did so at her peril. But now there are women dqctors and women lawyers. The factories are filled with women workers. The large retail shops employ women almost exclusively as salespeople. The offices tal business and professional men are filled with women stenographers and women secre taries. We are no longer scandalized when a young woman studies Gieek and Latin, chemistry and the higher mathe matics. Colleges have been established exclusively for the higher education of women and women are admitted on the same terms as men in many great uni versities. The women's colleges at first set out to train women as if they were to enter into the same occupations as men, because they wished to prove that a woman was as good as a man, if not a little better. Wiser counsels are now prevailing and an attempt is making to train women for the purely feminine functions which they must perform if the race is to be preserved. But the right of a woman to as much education as she or her friends or the state is willing and able to pay for is no longer disputed, even by the ex treme anti-feminists. The home of today, however, is not what it was in the days of our grand mothers'. Instruction in sewing and cooking' is left to the public schools. Re ligious instruction is left to the Sunday schools or is neglected altogether. Most if not all of the clothing is made outside of the home and the domestic arts of weaving and spinning have been trans ferred to great factories. Much of the food consumed is prepared in canning factories or in bakeries. The cured meats are bought ready for use. And the wash ing machine and electric iron and vacuum cleaner have reduced the household work until the modern housewife is a woman of leisure in comparison with her imme diate feminine ancestors. So many women are employed outside of the home that it has become almost impossibh to get any one to assist the mother in the care of her family. We are giving our attention almost exclu sively to the needs of the workers outside of the homes. Social reformers are de manding legislation for the protection of women and children. They are also de manding better housing cqnditions, so that the workers may have healthful surroundings where they sleep as well as where they work. There are a large number of questions .10 to be considered by the legislators which never aroso in the old days before gieat masses of women became wage earners. The grunting of the vote to women Is the outcome or the changed social order dating bnck fur two or three generations. It has 'doubtless been hastened because of the splendid co-operation of the women with the men in all the woik of the war save that of cairying a gun. Their patriotism hns been ptoved beyond ques tion. There Is no doubt of their interest in the picservation of the libcitles of the nation. Their resentment against the barbaious treatment of women nnd chil dren by the German nrmies is so acute thnt their insistence on being permitted to paiticipate, in the election of those officcis of government whose duty it will be to make the repetition of such bar bantics impossible is so stronc; that it would be difficult to resist their oppeals if one wuie so disposed. Congiess in approving the amendment has merely taken cognizance of a social revolution already accomplished. How much fuithcr it will go no man can say. But the whole tendency is toward a more fully individualistic state than any we have yet known, in that the political unit will soon cease to be the family, pre sented by the husband and father, and will become the individual adult of both sexes, voting his or her individual views, regardless of whether or not the views of the husband and wife agree. This kind of individualism, however, must be distinguished from that individualism which is opposed to the socialistic state. Whether the women voters will favor ex tension of socialistic doctrines remains to be seen. ONE NAVY IS ENOUGH fTUlE inconvenience urising from two branches of sea service under the gov ernment wns illustrated when the coast guard was absorbed into the Navy De partment at the outbreak of the war. Under the law, ships of the coast guard, with their officers and men, must be transferred from the Treasury Depart ment to the Navy Department in time of war. But the rank of coast guaid officers is lower for corresponding duties than the rank of naval officers. Sometimes a coast guard officer assigned to duty on a transport was forced to instruct a naval officer of higher rank who had been as signed to supercede him. The officers and men of the two branches of the sea service have been working together har moniously under common command ever since we entered the war. The Navy De partment and all but 12 per cent of the officers of the coast guard aic in favor of uniting the two branches. There are more than 225 ollicers in the guard capa ble of serving on the ships of the navy. They are experienced, many of them by years of active service at sea. The navy is short of such officers. Congress is asked to unite the two branches by passing a law which will definitely take the coast guard from the Treasury Department in time of peace. This union is provided for in a budget bill which takes from the Treasury De partment all functions not financial. Another bill is soon to be introduced which will define the conditions under which the officers and men of the coast guard shall enter the Navy Depaitment. It classifies the men and it gives to the officers the rank in the navy to which their experience and qualifications en title them. And it provides that the Navy Department shall destroy derelicts, rescue vessels at sea, patrol the sea lanes and report trie presence of icebergs and other menaces to navigation and do all the other things hitherto left to the coast guard. In spite of the obvious desirability of the union of the two branches of the sea service, admitted by both services', a con gressman has been induced to introduce a joint resolution in the House directing that the coast guard shall be immediately restored to the Treasury Department, irrespective of the date of the signing of the peace treaty. Of course, the pas sage of such a resolution would not pre vent the passage of the budget bill sepa rating from the Treasury Department all functions save those of a financial nature, but it would immediately render liable to court-martial every officer of the coast guard who uttered a word in public in favor of the permanent union of the guard with the Navy Department. It is the kind of a resolution that should be defeated. One navy is enough, and all tho T,:. which are called upon to protect our commerce in time of war should be united in it in time of peace, that they, may be trained in the arts of co-operation. The president of the International Jluilding Trades Federation Mr Cleanliness Kills Germs the nail oil the head when he said that the germ of bolshevism may infect men who work in crowded quarters, but is powerless with men who work in the open nir. Fresh, clean air makes fieMi, clean minds. General Wood says rcturuins soldiers are .Jaundice uitter, bore and dis gruntled nnd desire something more than an empty parade welcome. They have n right to something more jobs, for instance. And they will get them. General Wood, liko many reformers, is unduly pessimistic. Scotland Yard is Or Plain As wrestling with a Rus sian Ucbhevist plot to flood England with counterfeit treasury notes. It is but another instance of the fact that many a Bolshevist who poses as a political economist Is simply a plain criminal. The trial in Swltzer Argument for laud of pro-German a Hard Teace agents is demonstrat ing that Germany still has pleuty of money for the purpose of stir ring up discord in the world. Some of it should be diverted to the paying of her Just debts. A year agothedough- Can't Be Driven boys were driving back the Hun. Today our cake Is dough because he' can't drive back the Sun. We've little cause to make complaint when all is said aud done. There is evidence that the bombs used by anarchists on 'Monday night were inclosed in wooden boxes. The Ideas fhat gave them birth were inclosed in wooden head. Hm'MY'mraiiiiiDiHmRllHiiiHiHHHilimff TOtiTOJBBHBi?Win.f roilf IIOTIWIII . -T . f.iSy! ,.,. ,... :t.tv.t XjL. THE COST OF COAL The Disaster at Wllkes-Barre and the Unwritten Drama of Anthracite THOVflll Improvements are eoustuutl'' ln'jtig Hindi! in all the methods of nutbrl. cite mining, disasters such as that which oc eurrcd at Wllkes-fiarrc arc almost Inevita ble. Life for eonl-inlnrre is hard nnd peril iiiH mid uncertain, like the life of the sea. I.llte the sea, its surprises aro sudden and terrible. Men In the anthracite, fields fought lioison ens before ever the German intro duced it in France. Until some one with eyes to see and the hnbit of expression looks buck over the last fifty years hi Pennsyl vania at the arrlviug unci receding titles of Welsh. English, Irish, Poles und Russians who runtiibuted the strength and eourugfc mid endurance that thu mines demand we shall not know the cost of coal. , Under the older mles of mining, when hours weie long, uuthrurite miners were content tci see daylight once a week on Suu dajs. They descended Into the enrth before duwtf. They returned to the surface only after darkness. The mules used to haul the coal on levels 600 feet below the surface were stubled underground. They were brought to the surface only after an acci dent or in time of danger, and often were made uncontrollable by fright in the un familiar light of day. Thctu nie parts of Pennsylvania In which It Is possible to travel for twenty miles or more from one scries of initio tunnels to another. An explosion in the gangways Is unbelievably destructive. Men, mules, cars and iiiiuiug implements are Hung through the narrow tunnels as they wuiild be lluug through the barrel of a huge lifle. Miners almost Invariably have the Bort of quiet courage that characterizes old sea- ' men. Men rescued in disasters like that at Wilkes-itnrre arc the tirst to go to thn uid of those "still below" to descend wheie there is flnme or flood and darkness and the perpetual mennct of gus that explodes if It Is not huffocatiug. a: OLD-WORLD Mir still liunga over t-ounlrj an old-world frankness, and bim plicity characteristic of the people who have anived in succeeding years from the differ ent parts of Kuropc to succeed the older miners, who drifted westward under the pres sure of competition engineered by mine owners in the old days, when cheap labor was considered th,e most Important thing in In dustrj Mine disasters were most tragic In the smaller tettlemcuts that clung and grew about a cluster of mines und collieries. Twenty yeais ago telephones were not nu iiH'rous in such regions. Each colliery had a great .siren that boomed four times luduj, mice nt (t in the morning, aguiu ut thu hour when wurk began, at noon und at the bum when the work of the day shift ended. It was audible fur miles. When the colliery siren blared at any other time the heart of every woman wltjiin hearing distance uaturall.v skipped n beat, because she knew the MHind as the siguut of a disaster. Her husband mid her sons children clutched to their 'shoulders and others clinging to their skirts, nppeured run ning and stuuibliug through the long miles of dust. They converged in the little streets and streamed to the mine, while- the ambu lances raced past them in clouds of dust. The look of desolation is about nil coal mines. Everything is blaek and gray. No one who ever has been present at nn anthracite mine after a serious accident underground can forget the unchanging scene which the newspaper dispatches refer to when they say, as the dispatches from Wilkes-ltarrc said, that women were the tirst at the colliery to look for their hus bands and sous. Women nre always the first at a mine nftcr a disaster. And they sit and rock themselves nnd hold their children and watch the slow cables overhead that bring up the living and the dead. Now and then they fight bitterly to mnke a way past the guards to the black opening, like the top of an elevator shaft, where the ear descends or appears. They kneel in the black dust and tell their beads or open wild arms to some blackened wraith who staggers from the mine opening at last. TnEY are not merely Poles or Huns or Russians. They are the people of Thomas Hardy or Maxim Gorky or Zola, the men and women who have to fight it out forever with the elemental earth. There is nothing in the whole narrative of American growth and development more profoundly touching than this drama that has been acted over and over again in the anthracite fields and acted oftencr in the old days before mining was as scientifically managed as It is now. Mines catch llre-or they "cave In"; they are flooded ; great masses of earth and coal drop into the gangways and imprison companies of miners. There Is still theMreaded "black damp" a heavy gas that used to creep through the gangways, driven by a "fall" In another part of the operation and smother the men when they knew less about it than they do now. And there are highly explo sive gases that have to be contended with. Electricity has done much to eliminate the perils of mining. A more rigorous super vision by foremen aud mine managers has tended to lessen accidents. But the occupa tion of mining is still one of the most dan gerous in the world. GREATER care, greater precautions, bet ter methods of production and naw in ventions will continue to lessen casualties in the coal industry. But, by the very na ture of things, so long as anthracite is used there must always be times when women 'must sit with wrung faces at the mine en trances to watch the bodies brought up in rolls of blackened ennvas. There will be nights and days when others like them will wait at the mines while, C00 feet down in the earth, engineering miracles are attempted and performed and hordes of men work cheerfully until they fail to bring their hus bnnds or sons back to them alive. Mining is made as safe as human in genuity can make it. But it is like the life of the sea. Mine corporations have spent ,. i - an, HnvA nnd engineers hnve loriuues iu u " ;- - - - y almost moved mountains to save a few merf imprisoned undergrouuu. cawiru-uy was nn innovation that removed some of the familiar perils of the work. The Wilkes Barro disaster proves that new dangers will continue to replace old ones and that it will never be possible to figure the cost of coal In money alone. Every bomb explosion Is preceded by a brain explosion. Tarls Is for the moment more directly interested in its prospective industrial peace treaty. These are piping times of peace, but news from the various fronts seems to indi cate that the pifles need fixing, Apropos of 'the lively little mill In the United States Senate, it maj. be said that Woman's right landed with awful effect, while poor old States' rights ncyer got fa a lick. were underground. Doctors packed their lWWjgJH kits and hitched their horses and started for i ?..-J '-i..liffx fYlf- W-:iM r-Ki ' l"- -u l' ' i'AVW '-J&SjUWT the mine. A hush fell over the town. Women . I W 'T?ife-?3 ' l i f !t" 'if '' "' SJ - " with their heads shawl-bound, with little " ' , " 1 I -a. .....' '...an-. i,. . - - - ..gIa.Sfi. , j....LJjfctLrtr.,.a.A.M.tM,.M.ULjlfl'.Vt. WALL STREET, EH? - :iMSf-n ,.U,'!ia?cvr..:l4:;-V!'MmfiiS4.r" . - i THE CHAFFING DISH NOTHING Is so infuriating to the man who has just spent a night at the sea shore, during a hot spell, as to come back' to town telling every one "I slept under three blunkcts lust night," and to hear them say, "Yes, it was very much cooler in town also." It causes some people almost 'Us much anguish to spend their money as it docs to earn it. Hasn't the blithe ejaculation, "Oh, boy!" nlmost outlived its usefulness? It seems to have tarried with us a long, long time. Four years, we were going to say ; but out polyeru dite friend the Quizcditor suggests sevcp or eight. In that cahc we suggest that it be not re-elected to n third term. "I should. worry" has happily faded Into ignominious desuetude, after flourishing from about 1012 to 101G. "Twenty-three" was interred, without mourners, nbout the time AVoodrow was elected governor of New Jer sey. Two tags of speech that have been struggling for recognition are "I'll say so" and "At that." "Some" is on its last rounds, nnd "iazz" in its various amplica tions is on the chute. Just now we aro all "hopping off" and "dropping our under carriage," but these are only temporary. Thn nation wnit soellbound for a new catch word. The crisis of July will probably bring one to birth. N We Are Sententious Today We offer the following apothegm for the use of our frisky contemporary, the Retail Public Ledger : Goods that just get by don't get bought. Tomorrow leing Mr. Burleson's Mrthday, perhaps it would 6e tcell to tcijfc him many happy deliveries. " Our guess is that the dynamiter who so successfully distributed himself oVer the AVashington landscape had been lured into a false sense of security by the use of Swedish safety matches. We Are More Candid Than the Candy Maker Like all human Institutions, the Chafflne Dish Is imperfect. Of course, wo endeavor to please dur discriminating clients; but, honestly, we take no particular pains to make our assortments immortal. If you find any Irregularities In this package, you may return the Inclosed slip, and we shall pay no attention to It. This Dish packed personally by, ANN DANTE. Our glance happening, by extreme hazard, to glitter upon a corset ad, we learn that they are now made "topless and with elastic all round the top." Another Military Wedding Another item that our orbs havi just blazed upon in our favorite evening sheet, the Evening Public Ledger, deals with a lady who "made an assent in a balloon over the fighting lines." , In the June Century there is a story in which frequent reference is made to a head that had been decapitated, and the author even goes so far as to remark that this is nmethlne that frcouently happens to heads. Begging his pardon, it Is bodies, that are, decapitated, liven tne most rigorous treat ment could not do more to a head than de truncate it. It 1s the more delightful to entertain these thoughts, ns "an eminent thlnke has said, since they give us an opportunity to say that Joe Hcrgeishelmer'a tale, "The Meeker JUtua)," in the June Qeotury, is one of the "f MvJSvFslipflKM MAKES A FELMft THIHK -OF J AWAY!" nhlcst vnrns we over rend In n Rmnklnc car going down to the seashore. It is told wltliN a delicious sense of irony that Joseph Courud himself would applaud. And there is at least one word iu it that will probably send you, us it did us, to the dictionary. Mueid. We lire going to try it on the Little Brother of the Quiz. This latter, by the way, has given tp quizzing iu rhyme. The hot spell did for him. We expect to mnke a vast fortune by en graving nnd selling some cards for the 1st of July, with the message: WISHING YOU A MERRYABSTINENCB AND A HAPPy; NEW FISCAL YEAR Trlumphl The American Press Humorists, when they convene here on June 23, will be the first to congratulate us on so promising an addition to the cradle roll. This is a true copy of what we have just received : SPECIAL NIGHT MESSAGE Permit mo to nssumo full authority for saying the Itev. Dr. Mutchler will gladly accept honorary membership In the Ameri can Press Humorists' Association, provided, however, the other members of said Asso ciation aro clowns equally as humorous as tha Editors of the KvEKiNd public Ledger, WILLIAM B. FORNEY, Pastor Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, Mana yunk, We congratulate so many cows, each one, apparently holding tho world's record. Telegram Just Received coNsmnitAni.T pi:nTimnED by reports OK PRIZK CATTI.B SHOW IN YOUR CITY TRUST THIS WIU, NOT TAKH KDUH OPP RhClilTION TO HE Q1VEN AMERICAN PRESS IIU.MU1UWTH AT TIIK1U COS1INO CONVENTION WE ARK CONSIONINO TO THIS CONVENTION AS SPECIAL EXHII11T DOVE DUIX'ET WHO HOLDS WORLD'S RECORD OF TOEM PRODUC TION HIS VERSE TAKES FORM OK SMALL EVEN GLOBULES EASILY DldESTED AND YIELDS SIXTY PER CENT SACCHARINE REST POS3IULB SUBSTITUTE FOR TUB REAL THING. AMERICAN PRESS HUMORISTS. John Milton on Safety Matches Alas,! What boots it with uncessant care To'tidaholm, the lightlcss safety match, And strictly chafe the thankless brimstone strip? Were it not better done, as others use, To light our weed at some cigar -store jet, Or by the sunshine through a burning glass? For the fair tandstick when wo hope to find "And think to burst out into audden blaze Comes the mere sizzle of a hopeless dud, And label "Made in Sweden." Aud when they strike, their Jean and flashy sticks Will never kindle pipe, poor wretched straw. We Aphorize Many a promising young man has later proved to he a breach of promise. The Urchin Is an unpredictable infant. We took him down to the- -seashore the other day and went through enormous con tortions in a hot nnd crowded car to find a scat In which we could sit together. And then he-insisted on sitting all the way on the little sort ot footstool near the floor of the car, the exact purpose of which we don't know, not being tho director general of rail roads. W believe, however, it has some thing to do with the heating system in the cars. If the Urchin goes traveling next winter be will reach his destination fried to a turn. For a nionth we had been drilling tfie Urchin that ho was going to the seashore to see the ocean, a sight which (vvtf fondly thought) would arouse shouts' of delight. To our dismay he took tho "bigoshun" (as ho calls it) quite soberly, aud would not even look at it while we wero watching him, all I eager to make a note o( his impressions, Sometimes, we have a suspicion that tb pr Urchin is wise to the fact we arc uslnf him for copy. He seized, a shell and began to dig iu the sand us though his life depended upon it, serenely, gravely, and as though he hud ut lust learned the full and precious meaning of life. He kept his back turned upon the surf. But we spotted him ex amining it when he thought we weren't look ing. Wise Urchin! lie doesn't lutend to have his innocent emotions bet In a note book, learned and conned by rote. On our way back from the bigoshun we passed, unexpectedly, through the genial town of Munumuskin, the nume of which has. long fascinated us on the map. Has any one ever celebrated it in rhyme? Manumuskin, Munumuskin, Not a town to be too brusque in, Well-bred hamlet, Manumuskin , (Hamlet that suggests the buskin) Where the Women's Club reads Ruskin. When the twilight comes, it's dusk in That old town of Manumuskin, Hungry Jerscymen.put tusk in Evening meal of Manumuskin; When the corn is ripe for huskiu' Flappers flirt In Manumuskin- Every human joy makes us kin With the town of Manumuskin ! SOCRATES. Recognition of the rights of roinorltlet by the league of nations may prove a burr under the wing of the dove of peace. - The anarchlst'idea that industrial free dom lies -in a bomb has long been exploded ; but 'with anarchists explosions are cpmmon placcs. " ' There will be a strict observance o Ah Jaw In all mines following the Wilkes-Barre disaster until familiarity with danger again breeds contempt. What Do You Know?, 1. What English klog died in the chateau at St. Gcrmain-en-Laye? 2. What is the minimum number of states capable of defeating, the suffrage amendment to thn pnnHtiittnti9 3. What is tho meaning of tha word nihilist? 4. Who was Baron von Steuben? 5. AVhat is a bream? ,C. Who wrote f'Tho'Dunclad"? J. T. After what geographical features are most of the French departments named? -8. AVhat is the meaning of the nautical word abaft? , 0. Who commanded the American troops at the overwhelming victory of New Orleans, in 1816? Q. Who wrote the words of "Hail Colura- Dla"f r Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Edward Albert is the present Prince of AVales. ,2. The accent in the word inhospitable shall fall on the second syllable. 3. The Vlcomto do Beaubarnals was 'the first husband ot Josephine, who be came Empress of France' in 1804. 4. A'ienna, is on the Danube river. , 5. The feminine form of the word executor is executrix. 0. Arcturus is the brightest star (as dis tinguished from planets) in the north ern heavens. i 7. A bear is called Bruin after the name of the animal in the medieval satirical , epic poem "Reynard the Fox." 8 George Borrow wrote "The Bible In Spain," 0. Tho continent ot America extends far ra ther Boutn than any ojner. p 10, John II. Towers' was commander of .t-,', American traBsaiHHKw 'mbphuh i -i; -wr' - r ' ' n -. V 4 .-' , V.V M J? - . .,,.. . '. VB- jLli ?S?
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