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AH nghts of republication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. I'hllidrlphii, FHH.y. June.!:, 11 JUDGE McCULLEN pOVERNOR SPROUL'S appointment of Joseph 1'. McCullcn to the judge ship in Common Pleas Comt No. 1 left vacant by the death of Judge Carr was a wise choice. Mr. McCullen's .standing at the Phila delphia bar is of the highest. He has proved himself an ab'e practitioner with an unimpeachable leputation during his career of nearly four decades. Aside fiom his entire worthiness for the place, the'Sppointment le. a just recog nition of the fact that Mr. McCullen should be restored to a post which he held once before and lgst through no fault of his own. He was among the men elevated to the bench of the Common Pleas some years ago when one judge was added to each of the five courts under a legislative enactment which was after ward pronounced unconstitutional. THE END OF THE SESSION COME of the laws for which Governor Sproul congratulated the Legislature at, the hour of its adjournment were ad vanced nnd constructive. But such laws were passed almost invaiiably under the pressure of popular criticism that had become intolerable at Harrisburg and elsewhere in the councils of party leaders. The session made it plain that the state is still run not altogether by statesmen, but mostly by politicians, who think qf their own interests first and of the peo ple's interests afterward. The Governor's gag bill counteracts much of the good that the Legislature managed to accomplish. The people of the state should feel easier in mind after the adjournment of a body willing to put that atrocity upon the statute books. THE PRESIDENT'S RETURN TT 1 Wi IS reasonable to believe that Mr. Wilson's first public address after his arrival from Paris will be 'one of the most important and weighty of his career. The President will return to a country in which opinion relative to the peace set tlement is divided more oddly than simi lar opinion is divided anywhere else in the world There is a small but amazingly ener getic minority who believe that the terms formulated at Paris are such as to elimi nate hope of permanent peace, not only in Germany, but anywhere in Europe. They are the idealists, the dreamers, who, hoping for perfection, believe that the President was not liberal enough in his views. Opposed to them is the large body of opinion represented by Mr. Wilson's critics in the Senate and founded upon the belief that the President was far too liberal in his attitude toward Euro peans, their troubles and their affairs. Somewhere between these two ex tremes of viewpoint lies the rational course which the American represent atives appear to have followed amid un thinkable difficulties. It is a course which plainly has been appioved by the ma jority of reasonable Americans. There remain some aspects of the peace settlement, however, which will be fully understood in America only after the President is freed from the rule of leti cence and silence imposed upon him dur ing the conference. That Mr. Wilson will put a new and helpful light upon some of the debated details of the Paris settle ment is certain. Until then any attempt at final judgments will be unwise and futile. THE OUTWORN ARMY CODE T IEUTENANT COLONEL ANSELL'S -L' determined criticism of the army court-martial system, made in the face of objections by the secretary of war and his advisers, continues to be inspired by on obvious sense of justice and patriot ism. Colonel Ansell speaks from experience. He was until recently the judge advocate general of the American army. The re sentment ' and impatience which he ex presses at our tolerance of a code devised three hundred years ago for military dis cipline, when every soldier was a serf and the dependent of a feudal baron, can be best understood by any one who knows the state of mind in which many Ameri can soldiers have returned,, from con tacts with young, inexperienced and ego tistical officers. It was as an ardent and intelligent f I servant of the state that the averasre ..t i American went to war. vot ho srvH -- J,, under the provisions of Military laws 't which we inherited from the England of v- 'ihrefr Hundred years ago. The British -. ' kavdUevised'the Ade, which is unchanged MkH7. ;, A ,-(.. " KL 7ijKfcBki;r could do better thsn permit " ttto MMetanlg in 'the War Department to k Itafrai stereotyped diils J-'V.swer to f ,. . jM.no (j knows how soon new national emergen cies may arise, Americans have n right to expect that their military service will bo received In the spirit in which it is tendered. The country owes a debt to Colonel Ansell for his address before the Bar As sociation at Bedford Springs. If the War Department cannot mitigate the superfluous rigors of the army court martial system then it is time for Con gress to take a hand in the matter. NEW GAG LAW TURNS LEGAL PRINCIPLES BOTTOM SIDE UP "Antl-Sedltion" Bill Muzzling Free Men Makes a Crime Where There Is No Criminal Intent TF THE men who drafted the "anti-sedi-- lion" bill, signed today by Governor Sproul, had deliberately sought to frame a law which would result in the perver sion of justice they could not have done n more perfect piece of work. The measure is avowedly directed against terrorists. Wo are told that there is no puipose to interfere with tho freedom of speech either in the news papers or in public assemblies. In order to make the puipose clear the Legislatuie was asked to change the phraseology of the bill so that certain actions entered upon with intent to produce certain re sults should be defined as seditious and punishable by fine or imprisonment. But it peisisted in letaining the phrase "which tends to," a phrase so broad that it will include acts and utterances of patriotic citizens who have no desire to incite to minder or to bomb throwing. No man can foretell the effects which hi woids will have upon an ill-balanced brain. When Senator Conkling fought Presi dent Gai field over the appointment of a collector for tho port of New York he was engaged in a perfectly legitimate political struggle over the distribution of patronage. The President had promised to consult the New York senatois, Roscoe Conkling and Thomas C. Piatt, befoie making any appointment in their state. He biokc his promise and appointed a collector offen sive to them. They protested and re signed their seats to seek vindication through le-election and thus to rebuke the President. Their conduct incited Guiteau to nurse his giiovance, which aiose from his inability to get an ap pointment which he had been seeking, and his crazy brain conceived the idea of as sassinating the President. The conduct of Conkling and Piatt "tended" to bling about the killing of Garfield. And if we had had a federal statute as loosely drawn as the one which has just been foisted upon this common wealth it js morally certain that the political enemies of the two New York senators would have demanded that they be indicted under it and haled into court on the charge of committing acts which "tended" to bring about the murder of the President and faced sentences of twenty years in prison. Governor Sproul erred in signing the bill. The possibility of a miscarriage of jus tice where actual violence is done is so certain that the bill in its present form should have been vetoed without ti mo ment's hesitation. It makes a crime where there is no intent and reverses all legal principles. But wheie no violence is done, or even contemplated, the bill opens the way for the punishment by twenty years in prison of -reputable citizens and the editors and owners of leputable newspapers engaged in their patriotic duty of protesting against grave abuses in government. It defines as sedition any act "which tends to incite or encourage any person or per sons to commit any overt act with a view to bringing the government of this state or of the United States into hatred or contempt." This is something new in America. Who shall say when a man is deliberately seeking to bring the government of this state into contempt or when his course, undertaken with most high-minded mo tives, does actually bring it into con tempt? What is the government of the state ? Is it the Governor and the mem bers of the Legislature or is it the repre sentative republican institutions with their headquarters in Harrisburg? We have had a Governor in recent years who would have used such a law as this anti-sedition monstrosity in order to bring about the punishment of his critics. Whether the courts would have found the men he accused guilty of its violation would have depended on whether they were in sympathy with his theories. But it is certain that scores of men exercising the right of free speech would have been compelled to defend in court the exercise of that right. The bill not only makes it seditious to bring the government into contempt; but to sell, distribute or give away any pub lications which tend to produce such a result or, to organize or become a mem ber of any assembly, society or group the purposes of which are to produce such contempt is also defined as seditious. It is conceivable that such conditions may arise in this state that its most pa triotic and public-spirited citizens would organize for the purpose of forcing from power a corrupt government in Harris burg. The bill is so loosely drawn that this hypothetical corrupt government could accuse every member of such an organization of sedition and demand of subservient judges that the maximum penalty be inflicted. And the judges and not the juries would decide the crucial point on which the guilt or innocence must rest. The judges would interpret the law and instruct the juries that such-and-such conduct "tended t6 bring the government into contempt" and that if the accused were guilty of such conduct then they must be convicted. For the sake of punishing a few Bol shevists it is 'a most grievous blunder to give to those men who wish to silence their critics the opportunity to muzzle and gag every, honest and independent I citizen audmry high-mlnddl newspaper EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHlltELPHIA, by a prospective prison sentence of twenty years and by a fine of $10,000. Even assuming that such a measure were necessary, this bill is so badly drawn that tho Governor ought not to have hes itated to veto it. But it is not necessary, for all the real offenses against which it is directed arc already covered by the ex isting laws, as wo pointed out some weeks ngo nnd as its opponents in the Legis lature have said time after time. But if the bill were perfectly drawn and the offenses against which it is sup posed to be directed were not already covered by statute, it ought not to hnvo become n law, for tho principle on which it is based is fundamentally wrong. It rests on tho accursed Hun theory of the sanctity of the state. It attempts o make it a more heinous offense to attack a pub lic official than to attack a private citi zen. It makes it a ciime to do anything which would bring the state into con tempt, as though tho state were a more sacied thing than its citizens. We have been fighting Prussianism and wo have defeated it on the battle field that Prussianism which has in sisted that tho citizen exists for the state instead of the state for the citizen, and now in this great free commonwealth, founded by free men who have created the state to, serve them, we have em bodied in our laws a medieval theory, the application of which in this era hns plunged the world into the most bloody war since jealous hatred caused the first murder. It may be that lese majeste is to be made a crime, but wo are not yet ready to believe that a commonwealth of free men will tolerate such an anachronism. A DAY FOR EVERY DRINK XTOW that July 1 has been proclaimed ' by the Department of Agriculture as Buttermilk Day, the devotees of other beverages aiejikely to demand that the claims of their favorite potation be simi laily recognized. Take switchel, for example, that bev erage compounded of molasses and ginger and vinegar and water, usually drunk from a jug, deserves a day. It rests in the shade under a tree in the bayfield. The balmy winds of heaven blow over it. In the couise of time cool beads of mois ture gather on the outside, most tempting to the heated farmer. When he can stand the sun no longer the faimer goes to the jug for a swig of switchel. Swig is the word. No other fits the function at which he assists. By all means there should be a Switchel Day. And a Raspberry Vinegar Day would delight tens of thousands of grandmoth ers. An Applejuice Day along about the time of Halloween would please many and a Grape Juice Day might be so popu lar, now that some use must be made of the grapes, that! a single day would not suffice, and the celebration might have to be prolonged for a week. Then there would be Lemonade Day ,and Loganberry Juice Day, and perhaps Cold Water Day on January 16 of every year. There arc so many potables possi ble and popular that before we were through with the job we should be likely to have a day for every drink. WINNIPEG AGAIN ON THE MAP WINNIPEG returns to civilization. vv After six weeks of industrial strife ine general sympametlc striKe in the Manitoba metropolis is unconditionally called Bolshevistic. Of course, it wasn't in other western Canadian cities. The manifestation had been loosely called Bolshevistic. Of course, is wasn't anything of tho sort any more than Canada is Russia. It was a grandiose protest by leaders who sought to capital ize unwarrantably panicky feelings re garding radicalism. But as Petrograd's problems and Petro grad's cast of mind are not Winnipeg's, the uprising could not be acclimated Strikes, whether one likes them or not, are common occurrences on the western continent. Sovietism is an exotic and will invariably wither in such environ ment. Mr. Hurlefnn, in an ln Erenlng Up torview with Federation of Labor oflitfals, "stout ly opposed" the cniplm mmit or telegraphers who recently went on n Ktrike. Tae strikers, it may be said, stoutly resent tin employ ment of Mr. Burleson. Words, it seens, will Eating Them bo a fnsliionnba diet in Washington as well as in Berlin, for a few month at least, iind some of the round -rnbiners, when they -?il down to ruin their digestion, doubtless wjj myhIIow their ord ns the rest of the couu, try took them, with a grain of salt. (Jeorgc Washington, Ben jamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lin They Died In Time coln and all of their great contemporaries were fearless critics of gov ernment and governmental officers, nnd that is why they were able to contribute so greatly to the might and glory of the re public. Under Governor Sprout's gag law each of these patriots would have bcealiable nt one time or another to a twenty-year jail sentence perhaps imposed by a judge whose only qualification for his office was the friendship of adroit politicians. What has become of all the presidential candidates? The peace commissioners will be as happy on Saturday as a boy out of school. The time has come when a great many people are beginning to regret that they didn't start war gardens for ,thc days of peace. . It will be vacation time for three whole months in tho schools. Who will wonder why men and women yearn for the days of their childhood? The independent and Organization councilmcn have fulled to agree on the loan and will continue their negotiations. But both factions know that they must agree gome time. Governor Sproul In appointing Joseph P. McCullen to the Common Pleas Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Carr has appropriately selected a real, not a fake, Democrat. E. J. Cattcll has been made an hon orary member of the American Press Hu morists' Association, perhaps because he makes more use oi tue joKes or. the apttvc (aeabera than any, othtaaa,i4 Ajnjrlca, AFREE-SPEHGAGWHICH PROVIA BOOMERANG The Recoil of Tyrannous Grady Salu8 Libel L Which Penny packer Fath(, Acquires New Slgnlflce Today mllK measure illy fit for Russia and not for free Atcn." The subject nf tliUervntlon was a law passed by the Lecture of Pcnnsyljanln nnd signed by the flrnor in April, 1003. It was a gng law, dangerously super fluous nature of whiovltes significant as sociation with the njky "nntl-seditton" bill now before (invor Sproul. Pennsyl vnnlnns haven't forgn its iinme nor the justifiably indignant m of protest which it rnised. The Grady-Snlus II bill, which Gover nor l'cnnj packer pnsiately fathered "In the hope of esenpingim the inescapable cartoons," nn". whichp Gang railroaded through "In the hope nuzzling the oppo sition to jobs," evokeively memories ex clusively in eonnectioiith its initial leap into notoriety. The' gs of pril in this legislation have become i-cly comic through desuetude. v The law still stands (he statute books. Like the pathetic lady Viola's sad little chronicle, however, its sequent history is "a blank." Free speech 1 the free expres sion of opinion in I'cnivnnla have pre ailod. At this moment, en these institu tions nf enlightened nnd 4ized freedom are jeopardized by the hystnl Klynn "nntl srdttion" bill, the talc nfc now moribund Grady-Salus law hns pepney. Fitlier measure, if scrilously observed, would piny havoc with thrineiples of lib erty fnr which governinf in America is supposed to stand. Thntivcrnor Penny packer's pet bill failed to nk this datrfngc is due to no vhtuc in thtatutc, but to public common sense, whihas rejected it. ATT -ngii T TIIH time of its pass sixteen years go it appeared detesly formidable, and so in truth it would haheeome had Its extravagant provisions heeiprmitted to be operntlve. Recognizing thenger, the press nf Philadelphia was a unit iandemning the muzzier. The furore passed beyontate frontiers. The whole nation was amaznnd aghast at the spectacle of an atavistlovernor delib erately fulling back into nvvnlism. The hitheito excellent rcputntioif Samuel W. l'cnn packer- thnt odd commd of eccen tricity, pedantry, probity, bstinncy and Minity was smirched and ilredited by his perverse sponsorship of au t of egregious t.M'niiny. Ihiropc was nt ftt it frankly puzzled at the news. WhchUealizcd how far along the road of repress! ennsylvania was planning to retreat,' ftei comment went be) olid perplexity and bfneconde- scendiug. I 'J lie quotation which beglnfhis article emanates from no American joyil nor from any in Britain, France or ItaHlt first ap peared in a Berlin newspnpepr May 10, 1!l0". and it refers directly 'the Grndy Salus libel bill passed by a servient state Legislature nnd signed by Cantankerous Governor! The contrast Ifeen junker. Imperialistic, militaristic, Wing Berlin's opinion of the law nnd Snijl W. Pcnuy pneker's estimate is nt thpoment more striking thnu ever. mHE doctrine of the lib of the press," -L declared Governor Pypncker in his Autobiography, "is nn aMironlsm which hns become harmful, and I time has come when it ought to be discnr nRke from con stitutions and lnws." It was with this purpoin view, intensi fied by his egoistic seiisiti'icss to newspaper triticism and cartoons, nt he chimed in with the political Gnnginiquitous scheme to throttle exposure of iWthods. With unique unnniin1 "'cry journal in Philadelphia resented tf high-handed out rage, their opposition Aching n climax in the public hearing on tmensrc held in the Harrisburg House oRepreseutntivcs on Apiil 21, 1003. Quojg George Nox Mc Cain, the' Governor Jfessed thnt he, faced "the most ImposingTay ot Journalistic talent nnd ability tt any governor ever irreetpfl." rimrloo TCmnrv.Rth was the delegated spokesman for this iemblage. In ringing sentences he denouH the pernicious gag, the application of ich was so utterly and insultingly superfiJs, in view of tho ex istence already ofn admirably protective and sound law oibel. The new safe guard" was slWo be either mtllely su pererogatory or h wickedly tyrannous. Time hns hnppilyfoved it to bo the former, since its operatinfunctions have been sub jected to intermit. The self-satisfl autobiographical Gover nor subsequentlVlim"'d himself upon trip ping Mr. Smithpon a childish technicality, and iii the slngir volume of reminiscences ffo,i at tin. Jtorial argument. But the defense of freejpeech was confined neither to official reprefntntives nor to limited cir cles. It wasfvidespread throughout the state. The ttlic ieuger. iucu as "conceived b sin and brought forth in Iniquity," badfnd dangerous in whole and part. , What happ ed when the measure, ofii chlly at leabt, ecame law was an Indulgence in precisely t' sort of fearless frankness whiih the seine had been designed to re buke, Cuttin cartoons, acidulous comment animited in i v profusion the public press. The fimiliar itorial forecast that the net effect ot the li ' would be tlje. stimulation of exactly .he th ;s it was Intended to suppress was drauatlci y verified. ThO'only feature of it whWi e r was operative was.thc one compelling m-spapcrs to jmblish their ownership; ntherwl. tl act became as dead as the politicul caec!of Samuel W. Pcnnyparker. ardent cousn W itrepressible eulogizer of Matthew StiuW Quay. Tn bis personal narrative tin (Wnor admitieA In homely expressive pu-nb tlnt'the newspapers .made "snoots" at ilL With the 'characteristic candor fused lhv Us egoism, which lends a piquant and mimical fasctnatldn to his Autobiography, th; Governor recalls the dulcet days Jul;, prVious to, the passage of the bill when "tie nwspapers began to make suggestions thatl wulu be tue ne iiepuo Mean candidate for be presidency. This situation," he on jses, -inaicu, ..uncrr, fnr n very short tie.'1 Narration of ji,e Salus-Grady bill P idelgntflcantly follows. The recoil wa proiouuuij vui. Legislative boomer gs htve-a way ac- quiring such intent ; rri... t a nx mile aonroprlateness In that plan of the c .of Newport wpww 1UUD " "- -r - . . . . , a lion's cub to in ifinco ui y x. "'n-il.., t,nt the nrlrfre hir.nr a cud oi i "" Hon? "" I Now that tbri of the great railroad brotherhoods 'bavdentered th$. American w,riitlon of Xafr. that or"" h stroBMst laboaody tm'Mtii&Kt''. " J.'? f'f ' i Maffll. ! Mr-TStTSSMBEL ; FRIDAY, JUNE S7, 1919 DONT ..V4.M.IU. -u, j isa35STg3aa? lcMPLfc ,; trn:52Ss J yii m m J?.jjf.. r W5rSSTtA t- i-ir"- '' -ZZzSiSZZ .lis. :.7f--3irt -" 7TK rjfTTS!r ?Tf,s'uv"n: j . .. VJi5HiVawrrnf?iH. .X "K --Stiw- V.r-;-; inWjiJto THE CHAFFING DISH Knights of tHe Round Table "It is not felt that he is a figure around which the reactionaries and monarchists would gather enthusiastically," bays the A. P. of the Crown Prince. But if they gather nt all they will have to gather around, quite literally. For that figure is a cipher. Signnturc to be wrung from Germans, snys a merry headline. Exactly, since Doctor ueu ( is to sign for the enemy. ( - - -- -- -- - -., The only trouble about a Talm Beach suit is that it deteriorates rapidly in this faulty world of soup and snfety matches. The only Palm Bench outfit we ever wore would jnve been a social death-warrant on the shining sands of its name-place after we had lived in it three weeks. We have an idea that maybe Willie Ilohen ollcrn will find Old Home Week not nearly what he expected. Why Men Leave Home Friday Juns 27: One of She stranee lnrtu f, attached to the stars at this time is a '"e in .VeTo": .rSfM: scopes. . Ninth and Chestnut When the storm comes down on Chestnut And pavements hiss with a wet refrain, When n cooling air moves, clean and sweet, Through the stir and rumor of the rain, When horses' backs are dark and sleek, And ankles twinkle nimbly by. When every gutter flows a creek Beneath the downpour, of the sky, "How glorious," I did exclaim: "I'll have to put this in a rhyme A motortruck deep sloshing came And plastered me wu uwui.i. D.v. We Lose Our Temper "Peace Council Waiting on Berlin," says a headline in a New York paper that ought to know better. nu We get very weary of that use of wait on" where "wait for" is meant. The only person who Waits "on" anybody is a waiter. The Peace Council may be waiting for Berlin. It is certainly not-swalting on Berlin, or on anything German whatsoever. One of these days it will have to be de cided which one of the various ladies ex ploited by the magazines really was Itussia's Joan of Arc. The bestthing we have seen anent the ! itnssian heroines and grandmothers of the revolution who have toured about this country was the headline of a Chicago paper which ran something like this: Russian Joan of Arc Swings Around the Circle. Which seems a particulaily natural thing for an arc to do. .The trouble with Joan Barleycorn was that she became a common skoal. The 'visions of .the parlous bolshevik are , RORn-bubbles, complains r. contem- Natural enough, since they spring from the soap-box. Wp nearly spoiled Bill Sykes's vacation for hlra yesterday" when we told him that he bad. been elected a member of tho American Press Humorists. v Biography of a Humorist A NUMBER- of people" haVe been asking us about this John U. Hlginbothara, one of the American Press Humorists, who has been' going around to these Ktwiinls, Rotary and Poor Richard Club luncheons and startling the Inmates with his saber-toothed jests- In answer to the frequent query, What is Oyhumorlst and how does he get that way? we took all the trrfuble..to send one ot tbrf Chaffiag JHfh's smart young men to t 'ln, :,": t, young men to iBtfrvlewnur. ikhwu A SMASH THE BUILDING, tefeiL. '-THhs4ck'3!I. a wise man, does not earn his living by being a humorist. He is Exhibit A in the triumph nf the amateur over the professional. Per haps the fact that ho is the assistant treas urer ot a brass foundry in Detroit has some thing to do with his liaison with tho Press Humorists. In passing, we might remark that he was for some' years assistant treas urer of the National Biscuit Company. Like some other sagacious men, Mr. Iliginbotham ll'UIIIL'U realized that the job of nssistant trensurer ,g j(cnU Jn tmt vosltion one ia ear cnough to tho shrie to have access to the funds, and yet is not responsible for their wan- derings. Brother Higinbotham, who is Detroit's favorite after-dinner speaker, ought to feel at homo in Philadelphia, for his father's name was William Penu Higinbotham. He was born in Manhattan but wait a minute Manhattan, Kansas, in 1S07, and went to Lincoln, Nebraska, to practice law, in 1SSS. On arriving thither he found that William Jennings Bryan had settled there tho year .before, and rapidly removed to Chicago. In 1004 he wrote a book, "Three Weeks in Europe," which established his fame as a droll. Ho was elected to the Chicago Press Club, and thence his descent to the Press Humorists was easy. Mr. Higinbotham is a tall man, compara tively unblemished by the passage of time. As he remarked of Henry Ford, he is as sound as a nut. Lucky the toastmastcr who can call on Brother Higinbotham for "a few remarks." His engaging drolleries are un failingly delightful. He is proud of three things : First, of having the youngest silver wedding wife in America ; second, of having achieved the aim he set for himself on leav ing college never to be uncomfortably rich, but to bubble to quit at fifty-three. Next year he is -going to leave the brass foundry and go vagabonding. The third is that Major General Hnrbord, Pershing's chief of staff, was- a college classmate, and they have writ ten to each other every week for thirty-three years. People wbo don't answer letters might give heed. The only thing John U. Higinbotham Is reticent about is his middle name, which be refuses to confess. He says that not even his wife knows It. Ten years ago today the French class of the Woman's Club held a luncheon at the Mineral SprlngB Hotel. Reading Tele gram. As Don Marquis puts it, French without a struggle. Wonder how they're getting on with the irregular verbs? Desk Mottoes Uneasy lies the head that wears a frown. DOVE "DULCET. People in Boston are the people one likes to write poems for. Not long ngo we wrote, and printed In this Dish, a light-hearted sonnet about a landlady In a lodging house. Tt was suggested to us by a notice we found tacked up over a boarding house bathtub, a notice which read Please Leave the Tub at You IKouW infc to Find It. Upon our honor we did not know that we were doing anything except try to exhibit the humors of the lodging house. But now a reviewer In a Boston paper (bless his heart!) tells us; what wo were up to. In this poem, says tho critic, we were i picturing an approach to something deeper, tho mystery and wonder of life that lie far beyond reach. In spite of the caustic ac tuality, there Is Just this mood of the In explicable behind tho curtain .of fact. If Jt's our last word on earth, wo say bless that critic for indlng the hidden meaning we didn't know was there I . Dove Dulcet, by the way, asked us to lend hlra flVe but wo replied, after carefully thinking tho matter over, .that wo don't be lieve in depositing money In a mountebank. We offered, however, to set up a pannikin of soup, wuen ll qucsuou oi Plowing hJm to a lwe Dove , a ilghf as tt wtl)er of soup. When It's a question of blowing i ..i .f tr -4."'-.T,.. a. ---!. f TOO! ::i.jtTvr..-.-nt :"""iS -"."v' '"'""."'"" " "iiCi. -'j Ptar..'. v-.' cirj.SiJS .zz'. -.-iTiir, WHEN THE WORLD GOES DRY IN EVER-GROWING numbers They totter to their fall The walls nnd forts and sally-ports Of Old King Alcohol. Oh. where in all the nation For comfort shall we tly, And cheer and consolation When the World Goes Dry? What form of drink or victual Shall be its substitute? In what new shape shall bloom the grape, Thnt sweet, forbidden fruit? What draught shall set men singing And sparkle in the eye, And send the soul a-winging When the World Goes Dry? Perhaps the dawnllght's nectar Upon the trees of May Will shine for those wbo used to doze Until the arid day ; Perhaps the dewy gloaming Shall turn the gaze on high Where galaxies arc foaming . When the World Goes Dry ! Perhaps the eye that!s clearer Can see a finer earth ; Perhaps the brain more nearly sane Can understand Its worth. The ear can hear more laughter When fewer children cry 'Twill dry some tears hereafter When the World Goes Dry. We'll find the burled treasure That's just outside the door; And we shall see sublimity We never saw before. And joy shnll wed with duty, And -earth shall touch the sky We'll all get drunk on Beauty When the World Goes Dry. Ted Robinson, in.Cleveland Plain Dealer. What" Do You Know?, QUIZ 1. now often Is t'ne president of Franc elected? '2. What two distinguished Americans have just received degrees from Oxford University? S 3. What is the origin of the word milliner? 4. How did "Tray" come to be a name for a dog? , 5. Where is the German national monu ment? 0. What Is the difference between pathos and bathos? 7. To whom did George Washington ad dress his Farewell Address? 8. Name two books written by Woodrow Wilson prior to the period of his pres idency? 0. Why Is a wit called a wag? 10. How old Is the ex-crown prince of Ger many? . , Answers to Yesterday's Quit 1. Francesco Nittl is the new premier of Italy. 2. Thomas Paine was the author of tho ex pression, "These are tuo limes mai iry , men's souK" t 3. Losantlvllle was the original name of Cincinnati. 4 A bathorse Is a horse that carries bag gage, as of an officer or others, during a campaign. J . C. The Irish name Shawn is the equivalent J of John. 0 The Murray is the longest r(ver in Aus- i tralla.. ' " 7, The ex -Empress Eugenie is a natlvo of Granada, Spain, j 8. The Mediterranean Is the largest tldeles bea In the world. ,i 0. 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