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SMELLY POLITICS
A MONG those acquainted with the
- personalities involved, there will be
amazement at the dropping of James Al
corn from the State Public Service Com
mission by Governor Sproul.
Mr. Alcorn's appointment to the office
brought forth very general approbation
because of his long ithd efficient service
in the city solicitor's office, where he be
came expert in municipal law. So far
as the public has been allowed to observe,
his conduct as a commissioner has war
ranted no such abrupt and brutal termi
nation, except perhaps that he has not
been politically active in the ,iob like
some of his associates.
It has been the custom well observed
in the past, even by the politicians, to
reappoint men of Mr. Alcorn's type
where they held semi-judicial offices and
had given good service. This change
therefore has a deplorable smell of selfish
political bartering.
ONE TREATY WOULD BIND US
TT IS obvious that American ratification
of the peace treaty will entail future
responsibilities. If the terms are vio
lated it is inconceivable that this country
would shirk the taking of any steps nec
essary in association with the other mem
ber nations to secure enforcement.
Unless, therefore, the so-called Franco
American convention is of a scope not
hitherto disclosed, it is, judging from tho
meager reports, a curious essay in diplo
matic tautology,
t "France," it is said, "will have the
right to request American and British
- assistance" in case Germany violates cer
tain specified provisions of the Versailles I
pact.
The singular implication made here is
that one treaty is made more binding if a
second document goes over the same
ground. The process might be continued
.indefinitely with a parade of treaties,
each proclaiming the validity of its imme
diate predecessor.
The exact nature in its entirety of the
proposed American agreement with
France will be revealed soon after the
President returns. Until that time a sus
pension of judgment is in order. Such
an attitude, however, does not bar recog
nition of the fact that the pledged word
of this country is never lightly given.
If we ratify the treaty we will stick by
it Any further verbiage as a spur to
our honor is a repetition of the axiomatic
and entirely superfluous.
A REAL JUBILEE IS POSSIBLE
ANY peace jubilee that would finan-
cially embarrass tho city would be an
ironic celebration. Plans that are too
grandiose to be executed without painful
strain should be discarded. But rejec
tion of the half-million-dollar festivities,
priginally suggested by some member- of
the jubilee committee, by no means neces
sitates abandonment of the whole project.
J. Jarden Guenther, the executive sec
retary of the committee, believes that a
brilliant spectacle at far less, cost to the
.municipality is possible. His view com
mends itself to common sense.
A civic pageant such as was a conspic
uous feature of the Constitutional Cen
tennial could easily be conducted on a
voluntary basis. Industrial and commer
cial Philadelphia would gladly embrace
the opportunity for the sort of exhibit
that is invariably effective and interest
ing. The military display should be regard
ful of artistic proportions. As a factor
of romantic entertainment ten thousand
khaki-clad troops are as potent as fifty
thousand.
What Philadelphians would like would
rie a celebration consonant with the dig
:jMty of the occasion, honorably reflective
nf the. rif.v'fi snlrir. rind eninvnhln nn ifc
?'Si ,6wn merits as a spectacle. It ought not to
rv?8 ' fvtif rtuprncepntint thn rrinip Yirttn rf nm,
,fday.
IMPOVERISHED COLLEGES
$i TJARVARDhas usually been listed as
L-A'fP' one of the richest universities in the
-? ;untry. yet the trustees are now driven
;J . ? . : to nlead for monev.
All colleges are more or less hard up.
' ri'r ?"'le. war served not only to disorganize
.-.. their settled plans. It reduced their re-
if vtf-'keeipts and. wiped out sources from which,
'- ' " ear''e?" years tney received financial
1 16 i assistance.
tfft ,' -Singularly enough, the plight of the
- j, ucaooi syBiem generally uoes, not seem to
'"rWBpire popular-or helpful interest. Yet
r , .iffi.mt universities 01 me. .country, tnougn
b ffiwity have never sought recognition
&ri 1' All.-' - iL. J i.ll 1 lit. .j.! 1
HUHHig uio mnumyritutt; inntiiuuons una
tfeneta, that "won the war," may, justly
- jgytovBt;r iUtle of tlie credit for that
to turn the energies of peace Into ener
gies of war even more swiftly than the
Germans. The ethical standards sus
tained largely by what is known as the
higher education have prevailed to a large
extent in the peace program urged by
the United States.
Tho dust of the war is still in the air.
When it settles, when people are able to
see and think a bit more clearly, when
the futile lows are over in Washington
and the tombstone of the liquor business
has begun to gather ivy, we may be able
to find means for the rehabilitation of a
school system that has been peimittcd to
lapse into a decline.
The bills for the w.ir are not jet paid.
They will be heavy enough to cause a
pinch, even in the United States. Yet
the schools cannot be permitted to MilTer
unless we are willing to abandon the road
that we have been recommending en
thusiastically to others.
THE GERMAN ATTITUDE
TOWARD THE TREATY
It Can Better Be Discovered by Studying
the Remarks of the Moderates
Than of the Extremists
XTO THEORY about what Germany will
' do now that her representatives have
signed the treaty can be formed from the
comments in the radical press. The ex
treme ladicals in Germany, as well as in
France and the United States, are moving
ahout in little eddies on the edge of the
main current of events. The stieam
(lows on heedles of the eddies.
So when a Herlin newspaper speaks
about nursing revenge and preparing for
reprisal it is of no greater significance
than when the radical Socialist news
papers of Paris denounce the treaty for
its ruthlcssncss or when the Bolshevist
weeklies of the United States say that
the terms of the treaty can never be en
forced. The comment of Dr. Bernhard Durn
burg and men like him must be studied
if one wishes to discover how Germany is
facing the future. Doctor Dernburg says
that "therof is no sense in continuing the
controversy; it is better quickly to find
our feet." He says further that the con
cessions made arc not without their value
and open the way to certain alleviations.
One has only to consider this point of
view in connection with the reported
preparations of the German National
Assembly for carrying the financial bur
dens of the future to discover what the
responsible men in the country are think
ing and planning. German efficiency in
material affairs has not been destroyed
by the war. That efficiency will be
directed now to the work of rehabilita
tion. The government is preparing to laise
enormous sums to meet the treaty pay
ments. These sums are put at a maxi
mum of S22..ri00,000,000 to be raised by
the "confiscation" of wealth. But it is
not upon accumulated wealth alone that
the burden is to rest. Not only is it
planned to take virtually all of the war
profits, but heavy taxes are to be levied
upon small incomes, increasing in rate
as the incomes increase in size. No Ger
man is to escape his share of the cost of
the national adventure in world conquest.
The justice of this course is clear. No
German deludes himself with the thought
that the former kaiser and the junker
class were alone responsible for the war.
Every German is aware that he supported
his government by contributing his
money or by carrying a gun or by work
ing in a munition factory or by provid
ing food for tho civilians and the army.
The average German is not denounc
ing the former kaiser, if he denounces
him at all, because the kaiser entered on
the war. He denounces him because he
failed in what he undertook.
If Gei many had been victorious eveiy
mother's son from the Vonges to the
Polish marshes would have sung a song
of triumph in which he would have glori
fied not only the fatherland, but the Ger
man race. Every German knows that
when the kaiser fell Germany fell with
him.
Yet one need not be surprised at any
attempt to protect, the kaiser from pun
ishment. Von Bethmann-Hollweg's as
sertion that he and not the kaiser was the
responsible power in Germany and must
be tried for any offenses is a specious
plea which it is doubtful if Hollweg him
self regards seriously. He knows as well
as any one that under the German sys
tem the chancellor was not a leponsible
minister. He was merely the agent of
the kaiser, appointed and removed at
will. The German parliament could not
make or break him so long as the kaiser
chose to act through him.
Hollweg's plea comes too late anyway,
for the peace treaty accuses the kaiser
by name of "a supreme offense against
international morality and the sanctity
of ti ratios ' and provides for a special
tribunal to try him. This treaty has been
signed and Hollweg waited until the sig
natures were dry before he interposed.
He had made arrangements for it in ad
vance by issuing weeks ago a long state
ment in which he asserted his own inno
cence as well as the innocence of Ger
many, laying the blame for the war else
where. His letter to Premier Clemen
ceau thus becomes farcical, for, taken in
connection with what had preceded, it is
a request that he be tried for an offense
which he has insisted is no offense in
place of the man whom the world ac
cuses, but who, he insists, is innocent
because he had no authority to do any
thing. It is inconceivable that the former
chancellor can think that his request will
be seriously considered. He doubtless
made it for its effect upon the royalist
party at home in the confident hope1 that
it might serve as an anchor to windward
for him in case of- possible monarchical
uprisings.
Speculation about the nature of the
punishment for the kaiser is premature,
and the suggestion that the Allies will
ask the Netherlands Government to keep
careful watch over its unwelcome guest
lest he escape "the moral consequences"
of his acts does not seem to be based on
anything more substantial than msre
irresponsible gossip.
The kaiser has been dellSotkMy
charged not with a political crime, but
witfe if www: agatifwt morality,, in order
Akl tJfll .lil' A.f J..i 1
la ',po!ittl flftntEjf Tfr-MiUiml, m
try him is provided for in the treaty nnd
that tribunal is to be pledged to guide
itself by the highest motives of interna
tional policy "with n view to vindicating
the solemn obligations of international
undertakings nnd international morality."
TMs tiibunnl is to have absolute dis
cretion in fixing the penalty. Whether it
shall be death or banishment to a desert
island, or fcntencc to go about among
his fotnier people as a common citizen,
subject to their revilings, ho one knows,
but that it will be as severe as possible
every believer in justice is confident. The
punishment will not be adequate, because
it is not within the mind of man to con
ceive any penalty which will fit the crime.
As the treaty will go into effect when
it has been ratified by Germany and by
three of the Allied powers, the arrange
ments for punishing the kaiser will not
have to wait upon the deliberations of
the American Senate. Nor will the
reparations have to await the course of
events heie
In the meantime we shall hear from
Germany much about the harshness of
the terms. The revolutionaiy agitators
will do a lot of talking. The extreme
Socialists will declaim in defense of that
Germany which they devoted themselves
to attacking during all the years prior to
1!H4. But the moderates, who have
ruled the country in the past, will go
about their work of making the best of a
bad bat gain.
BY AIR, ROAD, RAIL AND WATER
rpHK league of nations is insurance
against war and provides preven
tive safeguards; but it is no guarantee
that war will not come.
In the event of another war, one that
might bring terror right to our shores,
tremendous strategic value would attend
a system of inland waterways that would
enable our navy to move its ships from
one end of our coast to the other without
putting out to sea.
Nature has done much to provide us
with such a system Long Island sound
and Delawaie and Chesapeake bays.
Man has supplemented the work with
canals which are capable of development
up to modern requirements.
Recognition of this fact is found in the
bill piesented to Congress by Represent
ative Campbell, of this state, calling for
an appropriation of $5(10,000,000 for the
improvement of the inland waterways of
the country during tie next five years.
Of this sum eighteen million dollars a
year would be expended on the purchase
and improvement of the Cape Cod, Dela
ware and Raritan, Chesapeake and Dela
ware. Schuylkill and Lehigh canals and
for the building of one between Norfolk
and Fernandina, Fla.
Apart from its strategic values, such a
system would have all the commercial
advantages of the other waterways
planned.
It is a curious fact that the world, at
a time when airplanes are annihilating
distance, should be awakening to the
value of waterways for the transporta
tion of slow freight. Water transporta
tion, though slow, is cheap.
But with the establishment of any sys
tem of waterway transportation the
necessity for government supervision be
comes paramount.
If the railroad is permitted to become
a predatory competitor of the waterway
the canal becomes slackwater in more
ways than one. The railroad can carry
f i eight at water rates wherever the canal
is in competition and make good its loss
elsewhere. And the moment tho water
freighter is driven out of business the
railroad rates jump up again.
We can confidently look forward to the
time when airplanes will carrv nearly all
the mail of the country; tie railroads
nearly all the produce and manufactured
articles and inland boats nearly all the
raw material. And already the motorcar
is fitted into its niche by doing nearly all
the short hauling.
THE MYSTERY OF TURKEY HASH
"rpHROUGH the Looking Glass" condi-
- tions aie calculated to embarrass
any school, not even excepting the pre
tentious one devoted to diplomacy at
Versailles. The headmasters, unable to
answer the questions of their Turkish
pupils, have dismissed the whole class
and sent it home.
In this scene of topsyturvydom the
wily Ottomans have injected into the
Peace Conference a piquant element of
novelty. When Brockdorff-Rantzau
queried insidiously the whole profes
sorial staff was on tho trigger with its
decisive responses. Austria received her
drastic orders in a jiffy. But the Turk
ish problem is as tough as calculus. For
centuries it was ignominiously flunked
by every civilized nation in Europe.
When any answers were given they were
hopelessly incorrect, as in the case of
Disraeli's bungling.
"Not prepared" is therefore the reply
of the Entente savants to the thorny ques
tions propounded by the Constantinople
delegates. Though the situation is rich
with comedy, it bespeaks a sanity of pur
pose which relieves the humor of sting.
This time or never Europe's Turkish
malady must be cured. The monumental
task cannot be considered lightly. If the
constructionists are not yet ready to
instruct their refractory interrogators
wisely, then study and investigation
should be pursued until the justice to be
administered has the ring of finality.
Just the same, it is droll that the
pundits equal to giving orders to what
was once a mighty empire should be non
plused when helpless, partitioned Turkey
pleads for enlightenment.
Turkey hash was ever a mystery.
"TIip ftiiililns of the
lie L'onfees It ship was true to the
best traditions of the
(iermiiu navy," snys Admiral Scliper, for
mer eominanutT-iii-cmcl in tlip (Jennnu
high fceas nVet. Well, lie ought to know!
Persistent rumors that
Snake to be Killed our boys In France
are belnj; held there
because of mi(-oiii1m-t have brought Indig
nant deninlH from writers who. know the
fart and from the men themselves. It iH
about time that thin nnsty slauder nliould be
killed.
'Cufortunntely the new law does not
guaruutee ober thinking-,
IwW efi w -Jle1,.
NEW LIFE FOR SCHOOLS
Dr. Flnegan Means to Make Them Fit
the Needs of the State Better
Than at Present
OKOItnK NOX McCAIN
ANWKKIMXG rhniiRe In the ediienflonnl
affairs- of the stntn is Impending. Two
hills pushed by the Inst I.ogWlnture nre
aiming the indications. More thnn this the
new chief executive nffircr of the Stnte
Board of Kdncntioti. Dr. Thotnns Kdwnrcl
rinegnii, is perfecting plans with this em!
in view.
I'niler the long regime of the Inte Dr.
N. ('. SchnelTcf. state superintendent nf
public Instruction, n number nf hiinincles
nttachril themselves lo the system. In snme
respects also Doctor SchncflVr's methods
were old -fashioned.
The department nt llnrrMmrg wns lat
terly charged with being an institution for
pensioners. In its personnel were men who
hud outlived their usefulness. Doctor
Sclmed'er was a kindly sc.ul and hnil 11 hesi
tancy iilmut replacing with younger men old
retainers who had devoted the best years of
their life to school work. As n result, and
I do not say it unkindly . for I knew Doctor
SchuefTer personally for a quarter of a een
tuij, there was u "dry-as-ilust" atmosphere
cmclnping the Department of Instruction.
What il needed was rejuvenntiou. Some
were unkind enough to say revolution. No
Covcriinr. however, indicated any disposi
tion to replace Doctor SchuefTer. The death
of the venerable, well -beloved educator
solved the perplexing problem.
ATA1.I. man gener
maturely white I
rnusly built, with pre-
hair, iron gray mus
tache and kindly blne-grny eyes that looked
through rimlesM spectacles, greeted me as 1
entered the oflice of the new superintendent
nf public instruction: nn impressive man
in whose manner there wns nol only enr
diiilllj but sincerity .
A geiitleiiinu whose full, loiinded features,
indicating abounding health, also denoted.
not lis markedly, however, as bis name the
fact that bis ancestry goes back n "the
little green isle." Such a man is Dr.
Thomas Edward I'inegnu, late nssistnnt
(-ommisslniier of education for New York,
now superintendent nf public instruction for
Pennsylvania. lie lias an impressive indi
viduality. He impresses you first with his
ininmnnding presence nnd geniality, and ns
j ou talk with him he impresses you with
the clarity of his views ns to the task he
has undertaken.
It was a daring thing for Governor Sproul
to go outside the state in the selection of n
man to (ill the position nf superintendent of
public instruction. Hut it accomplished one
thing besides securing the services of a great
educator: it leveled nt one blow all petty
jealousy that otherwise would have arisen
oer the appointment of a Peunsvlvanin
man. Doctor Kim-gun is particularly
pleased over bis hearty reception from the
educators of the state. He describes it as
spontaneous, sincere and unreserved.
There will be nn overturning of method
and the introduction of new blood in the
personnel of the department. There will be
nothing drastically or hastily done. Ample
opportunity will be afforded every one di
rectly in touch with the department to
align himself to the changing conditions.
(hie paramount idea of Doctor I'iiicgiin
is. as far as possible, to adjust the public
school system to the demands of the indus
trial conditions that play such a compre-heu-,ic
part in the life of tin- state.
UNDEIS the existing system a child in the
public school is permitted to go through
various grades before any distinct trend is
given to hi.- studies. Kun then the course
pursued in a strictly Agricultural community
is. with a few minor variants, the sSlne as
that followed in a mill district or manufne
tiirins center. It is Doctor il'inegan's idea
to differentiate, as I gather it. in the courses
of study as adapted to the great fields of
human endeavor. There has been too much
if a tendency to generalization. If a boy or
girl resides in an industrial community with
the indications that his future will be spent
in that or similar environments, then his
course of study should be slmped with that
prospect in view.
And this particular trend should not be
delayed until the pupil reaches an interme
diate or higher grade. There is no reason.
Doctor Kinegan believes, why n special
turn should not be imparted in the primary
period of the child's instruction. In other
words, the function of a public school, as
visualized by the new superintendent, is not ,
merely to ghc the pupil u grounding in the
three It's, but to shape a practical education
with the purpose nilcipiately of arming him
to fight his battles along certain lines.
While Doctor Kinegan did not express
any illrecf view on the subject, I infer thnt
the two great fields in which the prospective
changes in our educational system are to be
come effective will be industrial nnd ngriJ
cultural. It is also the purpose of the
doctor to build up an organization that will
place the public school system not only on a
par- with other great states, but in advance
of them.
To accomplish this his assistants will be
men, with n broad outlook on life: n wide
experience of the world and of men. They
must be something more thun schoolmasters;
more than specialists who, through the nar
rowing tendencies of their work, are walking
a mental tightrope. They will be men of
action, men who can go out and talk along
hi nail lines and make the Influence of the
depaitment felt. At the same time they must
be more than talkers. A great system of
education cannot move, according tixJJoctor
Kinegnn's idea, by talk and lectures. There
must be action with definite results.
OMAN is advancing further into the
1 1 a rei
greater nttentipn will be pnid to her educa
tion. Women upon whom the entire educa
tional structure of the teaching profession
virtually depends will be i-eiiresented in the
reorganized department. Thp new superin
tendent paid high meed of praise to woman's
worl; ns he had observed it in bis professional
career. "The great nnny of the faithful"
wns his tribute to ull the women workers in
educational lines in nil the years.
The total lack of co-ordination in com
pulsory education compels the centralization
of probi'tion officers' work throughout the
state The boy who plays "hookey" or tlie
parents who decline to let their children at
tend school will be up nguinst a new propo
sition lifter the department is reorganized.
Doctor Finegan, possibly because com
plete details of his plans have not been per
fected nnel may not be for seune weeks, did
net indicate the character of the work fo
which specialists will be nssigm-il. with one
exception.
A highly trained, blond -minded, experi-enci-d
man, familiar with the work, will be
secured to undertake the industrial phase of
the new educational endeavor. It would be
impossible to take an educator, no matter
how able, but unfamiliar and untrnlneil'nlong
these lines, with the hope of having him
educate himself to the point of proficiency.
The man to be selected must have spent
years In the work. Whether or not Penn
sylvania can produce) the Individual who will
come up to the high standard set by Doctor
Kinegan remnins to be seen. The solution
is absolutely In his hands.
Doctor Flnegan is cot n desk man.
Neither will he be content to work with In
ferfor tools. Above all, he is. coBstrnctlvp
jnftbe hifhwt def?ree, 4A
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N HKliAItD to the peace tre-aty the Sen-
figure, the man who used to boast that he
could either Take It or Let It Alone.
He always euih-el by Taking It.
Why Germans Are Miserable
Toward nightfall, as roon as the can
dles are lit, the mind, like the eye, no
longer sees things so clearly as by elay ;
It Is a time unsulteel to serious meditation,
especially em unpleasant subjects. The
morning is the propi-r time, for that. Do
not shoiten the morning by gettinif up late,
or waste it In unweirthy occupations or in
talk
SUHOPENHAVKR
Once more Aelmiral Grayson is going
through nil the rigmarole of remembering
which is port and which is starboard.
Admiral (irayson is the I'resielent's meel-,ii-nl
adviser, but who is the admiral's naval
adviser':
That Cap
"As tlie transport rpoved out the Presi
dent appealed on the bridge wearing a
cap." News dispatch.
We love to think ubout that cap. Prob
ably Mrs. Wilson muuy times urged hlui to
leave it behind in the bureau drawer nt the
Paris White House, where some charwoman
would final il and wear it proudly about the
boulevnrds. .Ilinise-lf probably retorted that
CleniPiu-eaii lias a Aip just as old that' he
wears when of' ein a holiday. That any
way, lie had no time to go out anel buy a
new erne, and lie positively wouldn't trust
Grayson to choose one for him. Thnt he
e-oul'dn't possibly wear the silk tile on tlie
voyage because the brim was crumbling awny
freim so much doffing, nnd the gray felt line!
a big stain on it where Orlanelo spilt some
snlad dressing one day at a stand-up lunch
when Flume was being settled.
We love fo think about that cap, to wonder
what it looks like and what color the pat
tern is. Our guess is a dim, smoky gray
with a little green criss-cross, something
like Senator Sherman's mind.
We love to think nbout that rap, be-cause
it is u sign that IlimselfV morale hasn't
broken down under the strain.
Mr. anil Mrs. Wilson will both have a
happy voyage. She haB a new hut to wear
nnd he hns an old one.
A strategic place to print those war
savings stamps advertisements would be on
the now vacant backs of menu cards.
There is no necessity for heartburning on
Bethmann's part if he really wants to go
into the box. Try them both.
As a matter of fact the knlser has been
tried alre-udy. All the evidence Is in and
only the precise phraseology of the verdict
is lacking. '
Meditations on Bismarck
In April, 1015. Mr. George Sylvester
Viererk, a German poet of whom one has
l.pnrd very little since the 11th of Novem
ber ultimo, publish! a poem in the New
York Indeprndenl a poem which we recnll
with the greater pleasure because it doubt
less pains Mr. Vierack to think of It.
This popm recounts how the shade of His.
nisrck, hearing the clash of battle, rose from
the tomb to give things the cinimnl-ufJer,
but nnulug the good Gcrmnn cause progress
ing so elicerily, concluded ic might as well
go back to the ostcrnioor: ,
Up to his chin he drew the shroud,
To w&lt Ood's Judgment patiently.
Wlul high above a blood-red cloud
Two eagles screamed of victory.
Mr. Vlereck, who is on such Intimate
terms with the snook of Bismarck, vwill per.
bans inform us whether on Saturday, last
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power these days. Even Mr. Viereek will
admit that n good deal of rotary energy
could be haruesseel if some one would con
nect a belt with Bismarck's resting place.
And the biggest German turnverein these
days is iimpiestionably the number of Ger
man warriors of 1S70 who are turning in
their graves.
Their Shins Are Forgiven
If Europe is really worried nbout the
growing custom of ladies going bare-legged
it should not be hnrel to bre-ak up the habit.
A few e-rates of Long Island moseiuitocs
would do the trick.
It seems that tlie recent seventeen-year
locusts were rather puny and pusillanimous
compnrW to what oue meets in some other
parts of the world.
Mr. Henry I.. Balderston writes us as
follows :
At Haverforil. on Commencement Day.
when tlie seven teen -year locusts were lying
In heaps around the bases of the trees,
Arthur Crowell told me a little story about
a baseball game In which he played In the
Philippines during h's connection with the
Geodetic Survey.
About the second Inning a swarm of
real oriental locusts enveloped the field to
such an extent that when the ball was
pitched the batter could not see It coming,
but could simply hear It 'clip-cllpplng"
Its way through the locusts toward him
anil would take a healthy swing through
the swarm at the direction of the sound.
If he happened to hit the ball, a home run
was the least that was to be expected, be
cause the fielders could not possibly see It
and could tell where It fell only by the
sound, and even if they located the places
had to ellg for it in the layer of locusts
which had already covered the ground.
The fact that the runner In getting nround
the bases had to plow through a similar
layer of insects did not hamper him nearly
as much. Tlie game was called at thn end
of tho third Inning, for obvious reasons,
with a score of 27 to 33.
Recompense
Well here It Is. thst dread July
Which cauHe-B many a tear-dimmed eye.
Hut I view the .date with splrlla high.
To Kate t five no hoxtaice.
I hap about with a whistled tune.
I'm happy morning-, nleht and noon,
Kor lo, they've given back our un
iversal tv,-o-cent poetaee.
Sub Rosa
Jim Shields calls our attention to. the fol
loieing. which he found in an old volume on
a second -hand stall:
Leaving Off Drinking
A neighbor once, a real' friend,
Besought Tom Toddynose his life to mend.
Asserting 'twas by all declared
The aforesaid Tom drunk much too hard.
"Too hard!" cries Tom "That I deny;
None drink more easily than I,"
Miscellanies Selected from the Public
Journals, Boston, 1S22.
Dear Socrates': Some one told me that I
was pigheaded. To which I retorted that
I didn't mind as long as I brought home the
bacon. .HAHDSHEM, CUAlin.
Sl'H KOSA sends us the following letter
received recently by a business firm In answer
to an-ad:
Dear Sir:
' I see in the paper for boys wanted
again and It seems Impossible for you to
keep boys. I would like to conie back on
condition that I were on before unlets you
are paying more money, for you know
I am older than I were when I were there
so I am not so playful now, and know how
to work and hard work at that. It you
consent for me to come hack send card at
once snd I will call.
Thanks In return.
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WHARVES OF SLUMBER
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I wat
fPON the wharves of Slumber
ntcheil the Ships of Dreams
Come suiling in through mist nnd moon,
With glowworm lights and gleams.
Their holds were stuffed with plunder
Of every land nnd time.
With Ophlr gold and gods of Greece,
And scraps of ancient rime.
Pastils of Cretnn henbane.
And bales of Yemen silk.
With e-nssla buds and sandalwood,
Anel Oman pearls like milk.
And slnvea, both men and women,
Most fair to look upon.
Whose chanting made the brppze to blow
That swept the Dream Ships on.
I had tlie pick and taking
Of every cargo there
The spice and gold, the gems and slaves,
And myrrh and pearls and vair.
But while I stood debating
Whnt thing to tnke and choose,
A voice cried, "Lo! the good ship Da ten
Draws in across the dews."
And all the Dream Ships vunishe-d,
Anel left me wide-awake
To think of many, ninny things
It had been mine to take.
Madison Cawein.
The United States Senate has a little
hatchet waiting for the I'. S. S. George
Washington when it arrives,
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What nation among the Allies refused 'to"""
sign the peace treaty?
'J. Who was Kamehameha?
15. Which is the heavier, iron or gold?
4. Which is the "City of Churches'"'
u. In what part of Ireland is the county
of Donegal?
(I. Who was Pico della Mlrandolu?
7. What is a parallelogram?
8. What is n sericulture?
9. Who wrote the music of the opera
"Mignon"?
10. Who wns the e-ommauder-iu-chief of
the Italian armies in the war from
1015 to 10r7?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz ,
1. The peace treaty' was signed on Japs-
nesp parchment,
'2. Doctors Mueller and Bell were the Ger
man signatories.
D. The rebeck was a medieval three
stringed musical instrument, an early
form of fiddle.
4. A "mare elausutn" is a sea under ths-
jurisdiction of a particular country,
5. Nevada hns the smallest population of
, any state in the Union.
fl, A landau Is a four-wheeled carriage wth
a top, the front nnd back halves of
which can be -independently rulsed and
lowered.
7. A lama is a Thibetan or Mongolian
Buddhist priest. A llama is a South
American animal, a ruminant allied
to the camel, smaller, humpless and
woolly haired, iibcd us n beast of
burden.
8, Charles Dickens and Wllkle Collins
wrote the short novel, "No Thorough'
fare."
0. A "rap," used in the expression ''Not
worth a rap," was a base hnlfpwnj'.lf.
Intrinsically worth about half 4
farthing, Issued 'for a short time )?';$
Ireland In 17-1, because;' small cola
was very scarce.
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