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THE EVENT AT TOLEDO
TN THE days when the shahs of Persia
a i
were taken seriously a shah visiting
London in state was foimally invited to
sit in the royal inclosure to witness the
Derby. He wasn't a nice shah, even as
r shahs go. His manners, were a trial to
" sensitive people who met him. And he
i refused flatly to spend any time viewing;
a horse race.
I am aware, " said he. "that if two
1 horses are driven side by side with equal
i energy in a straight line for d eiven d:
f tance one will, in all probability, be able
jj to go a little faster than the other. I
ht beg to assure you that I care nothing
about which horse i5 foremost in such
-' an odd experiment."
Were the Amencan.- who endured the
- dust of travel and slept on hotel floors
V and subsisted on stale sandwiches and
, soda pop in older that they might wit
ness the Willard-Dempsey fight wiser
f thifti this shah of Persia or were they less
J" wise? Was it curiosity or a We of ele-
mental combat or the mob instinct that
drew them to Tolpdo? If they knew
;?s.. s. they would tell and a great mystery
! . would be solved.
women nave ventured to prizefights.
but they didn't like what they saw. So
4 At,A ! : u AHA Ai.i r s :
u. viic iiik '& "' u'it: iiu-iu iii nmuuuiiu
d.-f- sport mat never nas enlisted teminine
interest or support. This may be be-
cause women, unless they happen to be in
, love, never do anything that cannot be
g explained upon grounds more or less logi
cal. t .
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StA tUUALI I Y
'TWERE was a ball game in Ardmore
this week that, On the face of it,
ifnnolroH enntc mif of tlio .illoirn1 nrtiinltf.
T 5 nf the seves.
A team of girls beat a team of men by
3 a score of 43 to 5.
i! But wait!
The men were required to bat and
" catch with their left hands if they were
right-handed and with their right hands
rt( If they were left-handed.
Apart from the result of the game, the
making of the handicap was a frank
yIj acknowledgment that there is no equa'.ity
1 of the sexes, so far as baseball is con-
'" cerned.
'' But, on the other hand, if the game
had been knitting the handicap might
t , have been the other way.
Which leaves us pretty neaily where
4 we started. The game "seemed" to
isij knock spots out of sex equality. But
'T.io cares for "seems"?
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A TEST OF THE CHARTER
rpHE preliminaries of the new mayor-
alty campaign make it clear that the
Of
' passage of a modernized city charter bv
no means relieves the average citizen of
his responsibilities as a voter. The need
" for a general intelligent interest in the
t affairs of the city is, indeed, greater now
than it has been at any previous election.
to" 'The campaign for the mayoralty elec
x tion is being astutely planned by rival
n , groups, who know that any faction which
may gain an overwhelming representa
tion in the smaller Council may feel rela
tively certain of retaining a permanent
grip on the city itself.
If the fine possibilities of the new
charter should serve to stimulate a new
and enlightened interest among voters
who usually drift with factional currents
the city may look forward to an era of
(iivfiivoom. kuci mucin., u uosses are
permitted to use all of their old methods
ijj to elect obedient men and retain control
of a restricted Council they might, natu-
li) ., rally enough, find the means of exploita
tion easier than before and feel reason
a "" j" -i-i"ou m u .voicm unoer
, which the work of control and direction
V Jn Council would be simplified.
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p$ AMERICANISM OF ANNA SHAW
'."TUSTICE has had few champions so
tR" loval as Anna Howard Shaw tin., .i
, "vyotion to its cause led her into more
iivvaried "es i endeavor than those tilled
S-by the majority of suffrage leaders.
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lyiusiJLiun, inuue ueiier, airectea into
jWjanneJs of true progress was her prime
tvoncern.
Naturally, therefore, Doctor Shaw's
fpJKrrapcthles were fervently enlisted on
irf invfltui. v. jiui.nv.ui "tuin iua WUUien. lO
eikhfrr labors in furtherance of this end she
; Vft rought, as she did to her activities in
V ' 'fw(tlc8, in medicine, in' religion, in so-
f v.v1 MtAlnaev H kppn fntpllf'pt. n ypflfnt utr...
Jr' " -. ...---, -V.M4 uui.
ind a Juciu sense ot proportionate
ptJues.
'",Hor 'brilliant and honorable career was
Lpbrtained by the slightest suggestion of
r&ikJM' fanaticim. Beholding the uf-r
ii1-. ' ' t a.. - t..i. . .
i frmit'wwawiff wnwa ner attention to.
J? .Its-rprejlWrMj
important theme that death overtook her.
The winner of the Distinguished Service
Medal for war services was an embodi
ment of the best that is in the fine spirit
of Americanism, and her aloofness from
the follies committed by suffrage work
ers such as Jeanett'e Hankin, nnd even
Jnne Addams during and after the strug
gle, stamps her ns a patriot of the sound
est and most unimpeachable type.
Despite her birth in Ncwcastle-on-Tyne,
her years of consistent service, to
liberalism and sane substantial progress
proclaim hfy, regnrdless of sex, as one
of the notable Americans.
NEEDLESS FRENCH TREATY
STAINS THE LEAGUE PACT
Covenant Is Jeopardized Under Shadow
of a New Triple Alliance With
Dangerous Balance of Power
Possibilities
TF NECROMANCY could endow tieaties
with personalities and were the wand
of enchantment waved today over the
George Washington, en route for our
t-hores, the most sacrosanct section of
Mr. Wilson's luggage would be the scene
of a terrific convulsion. What the French
alliance would have to say of the league
of nations and vice versa n conceivable
as equaling the acrimony of a senatorial
debate.
Diplomatic papers moie contiadictoiy
of each other it would be difficult to im
agine. If one document is good, then the
other is bad. Only by the riiost fantastic
piocesses of argument can approbation
of both of them produce even a semblance
of harmony.
It is asserted that the Piesident will
seek to prove them leconcilable and to
plead for the acceptance of each of these
clashing pacts before the Senate and the
nation. The task is spiritually more for
midable than any which confronted him
at the Peace Conference. For then his
purpose was, in the main, animated by
idea's which the bulk of mankind unques
tionably sought to have recognized.
The present problem suggests an un
wholesome mixture of lofty aims with
either questionable cxpediencj or perni
cious illusion. If both treaties should be
fa voted, then the soul of the other ono
will assuredly go soaring off into oblivion.
Fortunately for the Ameiiean people,
the star chamber secrecy which prevailed
at times at Paris and in spite of pro
tests., ended with the arrival of the mo
ment of fateful decision.' The lid is off.
The Senate within a very few days will
possess the true copy of the Versailles
treaty, already signed by the foe. In
that momentous pact is contained the
most elaborate and pretentious panacea
for the belligerency of nations that ha
ever been devised. But side by side with
the covenant, which commends itself to
minds unwarped by reactionary prejudice
or political spleen as the most tangible in
strument available for preserving peace,
will be presented a plan of internal
alliance which is cither an impotent echo
or e'.se a stain of dark suspicion upon the
whole scheme of international partner
ship. On the surface, the special pledge to
France is merely an affirmation of the
obvious. By its teims the United States
is obligated to furnish prompt armed aid
if the stipulations of the Versailles treaty
conceining the left bank of the Rhine are
violated by Germany.
But as it is unthinkable that America,
having contributid its potent share to
ward winning the war, should be indif
ferent to enforcement of its solemn treaty
erms, in what way can iteration add to
their force?
An agreement which is consideied
binding by the patties involved needs no
appendix for effective emphasis. The
simultaneous employment of two taxi
cabs is useless to the time-pressed trav
eler bent on catching his train.
To French emotionalism, cruelly in
flamed by the war shambles, has been
ascribed the inspiration of the triple
alliance proposal which Georges Cle
meanceau made to Britain and America.
Such sentiments by a gallant nation
which bore the brunt of the five years'
agony command the full measure of
American sympathy and understanding.
France is our friend and we are hers
in an intensity of degree which has few
parallels in history. A second wanton
outrage against her would not be toler
ated for rf moment by this country, and
particularly when America is foimally
enlisted in the league of nations.
Comprehension of French feelings,
however, need not carry with it indorse
ment of French logic. The latter is in
this instance dangerously defective, since
even granting that the pledge devised in
Paris had reassurance for its primary
object, its potentialities are replete with
warnings.
Once before in Vienna, 1814 an in
ternational concert was prepared.
League-of-nations antagonists have
pointed with unctuous irony to the fate
of the flimsy but pretentious partnership
to which Russia, Austria, Prussia, Britain
and later defeated France herself sub
scribed. In a way that again suggests a
parody of the league covenant's aims;
grandiose meetings were held at Aix-la-Chappele,
at Laibach and at Verona,
within a few years after the Napoleonic
collapse.
But that early international society did
not crumble because it was too ambitious.
It fell, among other reasons, because spe
cial internal deals and arrangements
were engineered almost before the
Vienna ink-wells were dry. The game
was unfairly played.
Russia, Austria and Prussia framed up
among themselves the so-called "Holy
Alliance." Castlereagh jeered at its de
sign as "a piece of sublime mysticism
and npnsense." To him it appeared as
the French treaty might seem to those
persons who sympathetically take it at
its face value, as a harmless superfluity.
Such was not its eventual nature. Con
verted into a scheme for the maintenance
of dynastic oppression? its development
alienated liberal France and England and
the European concert ended in discord.
Of course, the Franco-BrltUh-Amerl-
can, (hlliance can never conceivably de-
JfoK bulwk, for autocracy!
tous system of the balance of power
allegiance which Clcmenceau refused to
renounce even during the most exalted
moments of the Paris convocation.
Mr. Wilson, on the other hand, was
equally outspoken. "If the future," he
declared at Manchester, "had nothing for
us but ii new attempt to keep the world
nt the right poise by a balance of power,
the United States would take no interest
in it, because she refutes to join any com
bination of power which is not a combi
nation of all of us."
In other words, America, with her
justifiable antipathy to foreign entan
gling alliances, can consistently enter into
no partnership pave tht- all-embracing
one of the league of nations.
It is passionately to be hoped that the
co-operative obligations imposed upon
I each subscriber to the covenant will in
sure to the world a new era of peace.
1 The plan is pre-eminently worth an hon
! est trial. Its whole essential spirit is
j discredited by any undertaking binding
tnree 01 me participants to special per
formances. If the league is what Mr. Wilson and
other ardent advocates have declared it to
be, the new triple alliance is an absurdity.
If the league is too frail to stand upon
its own mei its it should be rejected.
It takes a chronic alarmist or a spite
ful politician to credit this possibility,
just as it takes the most irrational opti
mist sincerely to justify harmonization
of the two mutually uncongenial docu
ments which the George Washington is
shipping westward.
There is a chance that a feeling for ex
pediency and the desire to speed the
peace piompted the President to be the
bearer and ostensible champion of the
French ticaty. If so the opportunity of
the American people to make a tre
mendous decision is very vital. The
league covenant is an inspiration and a
hopeful augury at least of better times.
The internal agreement besmirches it.
Unless all sense of consistency is sud
denly lost the joint acceptance of these
disparate documents is unimaginable.
CONVICTED UNDER OLD LAW
rpilE Delawaie county jury which has
-L convicted three ladicals, charged
with conducting an unlawful meeting in
Chester on April 27, apparently discov
eied that the old laws against inciting to
violence weie adequate to reach men ac
cused of such crimes.
Evidence was offered to piove that the
accused had planned a May day demon
stration to secure the release of Mooney
and Debs and that if the demonstration
failed they planned to call men to arms
to overthrow the government, and that
they publicly advocated such a course.
The juiy believed the evidence and, on
instructions from the judge that there
was law enough to convict under it, they
found n verdict of guilty. And the law
was necessarily the old law because the
act:! of which the men were accused were
done two months prior to the passage of
the new anti-sedition law intended to
reach just such cases.
THE COST
CURRENT official estimates which
show that the railroads of the country
must have at least $500,000,000 annually
above their present income, if they are to
operate on the old basis of efficiency
under government or private ownership,
may properly be legarded as early inti
mations of the larger costs of war.
Every man, woman and child in the
United States must contribute a little
less than five dollars additional for the
maintenance of the railroads in the
future. Such contributions will be made
directly or indirectly. They cannot be
avoided. It was an incredible waste of
energy and materials in Europe that
drove the costs of materials skyward.
The costs of labor and production fol
lowed the upward trend naturally
enough. Thus for many years to come,
after Liberty Loans are forgotten, in a
thousand unconsidered ways we shall
have to pay vastly, through increased
taxes and higher living costs, for the
aberrations of a few lunatic kings and a
crowd of neurotic diplomatists.
It is littlf wonder
Cause antl Kffoct tlicro is civic disorder in
I'olnml. Kmpty stom
achs and clear brains are seldom compan
ions, anil n miiu win not aiw.ijs wuik mc
strniRht nnd iinriow path when lie lias to
pay a month's wan1' for a pair of shoes.
The expropriation of
Problem the (icnnun landowners
Simplified in Czci-hn.- Slovakia is
not a special demand of
a particular social class, but of the whole
nation. The nation, therefore, has a clean
sheet on which to ipher its "back to the
land" problem;
There is abundant evi-
VlieiP France deuce tbut the wnr is
Is (iuiner koiiik to cost France,
the victor, more than
Germany, the vanquished. Hut, on the other
hand, France. will hae that which Germany
cannot hope to gain for generations to come
the good will of the world, the value of
which is bejoud computation.
West Virginia has paid
The Virginia to Virginia $14,000,000
Debt in cuxh hik1 bonds. It
has long beep conceded
that the state born in war times should pay
some share of the Dominion's indebtedness
contracted when the two states were one,
and that view received official indorsement
in a recent decision of the United States
Supreme Court; the ono point nt issue was
the amount to be paid. The Mountain
State contended, and with some show of
reason, that little of the moneys had been
expended north of the Allcghenlcs and that
an apportionment of the debt should be on
the basis of improvements rather than on
population or area. But, a decision having
been reached, the presumption is that at last
everybody is satisfied.
Many of the fight fans who are Haying
'I told you so" are fifty-Hftv prophets.
The insinuation is that there were as
many films as films in the government
movies.
Death is the penalty for sellius booze In
Sonora, Mexico. "Oh, well," said the
Illbulous One, 'Vhut was it Patrick Heury
said?"
JU7n,,nT
Innoouous' desuetude" describes (he.
. me uefflua uwumarinei lrino-
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Knox's Friendship With Crisp How
Dr. F. D. Patterson Helped In Pre
venting .Congressional Inter
ference With Pennsyl
vania Mines
Washington. July t".
rnllK incoming of Republicans takes nway
- from the House of Representatives sev
crnl ext client presiding officers, one of whom,
Congressman Charles It. Crisp, of (Jeorgln,
was once parliamentary clerk of the House,
Judge Crisp is a son of the late Spenker
Crisp, who used to wrestle oh the floor with
the redoubtable Tom Reed, of Mauie. There
is a trait in the character of the (ieorgin
representative which everjbody in Washing
ton appro intcs and respects bN affectionate
reverence for the memory of his father. In
stlnctlvt'Ii his mind goes bnck to "Father,"
and It is touching to observe how that dis
tinguished statesman's life and character
continue to influence the son. When some
one recently criticized Senator Knox for his
league-of-nations speeches, the Georgia rep
resentative perked up and surprised his
hearers hj Mtjing, "I hate a high regard for
Senator Knox." Then followed this inter
esting stop; :
Speaker Crisp had begun to break down in
health nnd he and "Chnrlej" determined to
take n sea voyage. They were like boys on
the boat until, being placed at the captain's
table, lliej fell in with Philander C. Knox, of
Pittsburgh, who was not then a senator.
Crisp's line conversational abilities soon ap
pealed to Knox and they became fast friends.
Kno invited the spenker and his son to be
his guests for a week while jn England. TJie
imitation wnR accepted and on reaching
London the Knoxes and the Crisps started
out in n tully-ho from London to Oxford.
Thcj came back by launch on the Thames to
Windsor. It was a great week for both of
them and established a good with which con
tinued until the elder Crisp died, nor has It
ceased ns between the junior senator from
Pennsylvania and the brilliant Georgia par
liamentarian. rpHE work which Dr. Martin W. Bnrr nnd
-- his assistants nt the Pennsylvania Train
ing School for Feeble-minded Children are
doing nt Lhvyn, Delaware county, the gov
ernment finds it must do in nnother degree
for ninny unfortunates who have been turned
bat I; from service iu the army and navy.
Vocational training for wounded nnd disabled
soldiers, who came back from France denied
the opportunities which their physique and
fine mentality promised them before the wnr,
is one thing which the government is trying
to do now and which it seems to have started
out to do satisfactorily, but, the care of those
wlio-e minds are not normal Is nnother big
problem which the government must face pa
tientlj. As Doctor ISarr has helped to solve
the problem in Pennsylvania, so the govern
ment is trying to solve it for the thousands
who have been bereft of reason since they
enteied the service. The old Civil Wnr vet
eians. who love the surroundings nt Hampton
Roads and who are anxious to get back to
their southern homes, really gave wny. ac
cording to the War Department, in' order
that a thousand or more of these mentally
disabled veterans might be cared for.
pOLONLL WILLIAM It. SCOTT, of the
- John Wannmaker Commercial Institute,
who is lining up the boys for their nnnual
outing on the old camp grounds at Island
Heights. N. J., does not permit to slip by
many opportunities for boosting his active
organization. The colonel, having made up
iccortls of the boys of the institute who en
listed for the Euiopenn war, is now after a
memorial tablet from the wreck'o' the battle
ship Maine, on which he desires ,to plnce the
names of the Wnnnmaker Spanish -American
War veterans. Many relics of the Maine
have been distributed by the secretary of the
navy in mcordancc with the law. Major
William McKiuley Camp No. 10, United
Spanish War Veterans, has one, and the
adjutant, James L. Meredith, is mighty
proud of it.
APPARENTLY there are no flies on Pitts
bin gh. That city is awake and doing
things. A few duys ago, through Congress
man Campbell, a Democrat who was sup
ported by Republican votes in the last elec
tion, a bill was introduced in Congress ask
ing for if.ri00,000,000 to build a chnin of
watervvajs throughout the United States, the
principal thought being to connect the Pitts
burgh waterways with the Great Lakes and
the Mississippi river and the gulf. Such a
system, backed as it is by the Mississippi
valley interests, would put Pittsburgh on the
map for sure. Meanwhile the Atlantic coastal
waterways, which are to be heatd at the
Charleston convention in November, would
probably come along somewhere in the push,
not too far In the lead. The scheme is so
backed, however, as to require very careful
consideration. Another Pittsburgh, lead,
which has the indorsement of Mayor Dab-
cock and the Council, is the establishment of
an aerial postal service station in or about
the Smoky City. The postmaster general
and Congress have been memorialized to see
this project through,
D' II. FRANCIS D. PATTERSON, of the
Philadelphia Club, who is attached to
the Department of Labor and Industry at
Ilarrisburg, rushed to Washington at the
instance of Governor Sproul the other day
iu an effort to-destroy a rider BWnB addi
tional powers to the federal bureaTl of mines,
which had been sneaked in on the Senate side
without notice to the House. The doctor was
hot under the collar, as were a number of
other state officials, who complainedthey had
been taken by surprise. The purpose of the
rider was to give the bureau of mines fifteen
new inspectors at fat salaries, and the state's
representatives contended that they would
only interfere with efficient state regulations
and harass business men. A quick fight was
made against the rider nnd it went out, the
H6use for once standing unanimous against
the invasion of the Senate.
ELIJAH C. HUTCHINSON, who repre
sents the Trenton district, plods along
in Washington just the same as If he did not
know that Senator James Hammond has de
cided to become a candidate for Congress in
101i0. Elijah has been in Congress now for
two terms, during most of which he has been
on the agricultural committee, where it h'ag
developed that he knows a good deal about
potash and fertilizer, in which the southern
farmer is interested, and about grain, in
which the western farmer placos his reliance,
"i IKE former Congressman J, Davis Brod'
JJ head, J. Washington Logue, Joseph E.
Throppt who lives in Washington, and Illram
It. lluiton, of Delaware, Joseph McLaugh
lin and Daniel E. Lafenn, who were con-gressmen-at-large,
occasionally look in on
the proceedings of the House. Joe McLaugh
Hu was down a few day ago preparatory to
Ids trip West, where he is to preside over
the proceedings of the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians at their San Francisco convention.
Joseph went out with John R. K, Scott, who
figured so extensively in the Pennsylvania
state Legislature. These two "at-large"
mmra were succeeded bv Anderson It.
Walters, of. Johnstown, and William J.
jBuriPfUt XfttaKnHf Waltwa b:maml
THE WAY
COLD
WELL,
they
a number of citizens found that
they could be as badly scorched by Fea-
shore sunburn ns they ever were by fire
works. A magazine editor has written to us to say
that now is the time to send him a Christmas
poem. Curious how hard it is to conjure up
the merry jingle of sleigh-bells at this time
of year.
Please grant that there is one form of
atrocity the Dish has never committed. We
have never attempted any jazz translations
of Horace.
Desk Mottoes
Eleven thousand teachers in Pennsylvania
receive salaries of less than five hundred dol
lars a year. News item.
Mr. Arthur W. Howes, of the Central
High School, gives us a kindly word for
alluding bitterly to a New York paper s
headline, "Peace Council Waits on Ger
many." Unhappily New Tork papers are
not the only ones that say "Wait on" .vhen
thev mean "Wait for."
To all such we remark that their German
is perfect. "Ich wartc auf dich" is excel
lent boche idiom.
t
One by one all the good ,old American in
stitutions are proved to have come from
some foreign source. We are heartbroken to
hear Mr. Howard Brockway, the eminent
composer, say that jazz was invented iu
Sinm. Is it possible that we shall have to
fell back on'chcvving gum as America's only
contribution to Great Art? Of course, there
was Tom and .Jerry ....
Ravings
When the weather gets so torrid that my
straw hut is adhesive
I would like to be a lemon peel upon a nice
icc-tca-sievc.
I would like to be a felon
Iu a cool-celled penltcnch,
Or a seed within a melon,
Or a raisin in a quench.
I would like to be a paper cup
In a well-fanned soda-kcller;
1 would like to be a mermaid
Stealing rides on a propeller.
These roasting'days do pain me
And no commoner or duke'll
Re able to restrain me
From a plunge Into the Skookle.
DOVE DULCET.
It wus sage of Mr. WilBon to have the
George Washington slowed down so as not
to arrive ou the same day as the lt-34. He
bavv the danger of MK Borah pulling some
wheeze about the landing of the Big Blimp.
Our Own Quiz
1. What prominent Philadelphinn thinks
no poetry worth reading has been writ
ten since Pope?
'J. Who is the "Big Fellow" nnd why docs
he wear quotation marks around his
name?
3. Why does the mayor of Tidaholm hesi
tate to visit America?
4. Why is it always advisable to have a
national holiday fall on n Friday?
5. Which is warmer, a theatre ventilated
with "ice-ioolcd breezes" or one ven
tilated with "frigid zephyrs"?
0. If you have an appointment at the
Drcxel Building at noon, at what time
should you begin questing for a car at
the corner of Eighteenth and Pine
streetH?
7, What fate awaits the men who design
the patterns of silk shirts?
8. Which is the more relentless enemy of
the Palm Beach suit, the glowing
crumb of tobacco or the brimming
spoonful of soup?
(I. What do senators do on a holiday?
10. What punishment was meted out to the
man who invented the quarter-in
the-slot gas meter?
Undoubtedly the real reason for the
orown prince's rfsUeswiewi onH, Wand ef
WWaw u Ammsm-im.'
HE CELEBRATED THE
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CREAM
The Whistle of a Train
Softly through the solitude, my reverie awak
ing, Breaking in upon my dreams in shrill yet
tender strain,
Now, verisimilitude of life that I'm for
saking Comes a sound that takes mc back the
whistle of a train.
Far and faint, nnd scarcely heard above the
woodland's sighing ;
Coming from a brazen throat once twice
and yet again;
To my heart is brought a word a wish no
use in trying r
To express my thoughts upon the whistle
of the train.
So I guess I'll puck my things and hike it
for the city
Ueat it 'way back home again, stroll up
that little lane
Where the folks are waiting holy smokes,
but It's n pity
Ev'ry boy tonight can't hear the whistle
of a train !
ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM.
Harriet writes us that she iB "a little girl
twelve years old," and sends the following
poem:
Cape May
Cape May the land of my thought
Where pleasure is found not simply bought
The large blue ocean the pleasant boardwalk
Where old friends meet again and talk
Little girls debutantes demure
And old ladles forlorn and pure.
HARRIET.
& Old Philadelphia
I wish I had thought of It I would
have made more of old Philadelphia.
Should I ever return there I will put alt
my heart into a book on the subject and
write It all In flowers, perfumeB reeds In
the rivers quaint old golden brown eve
nings the scent of buckwheat calces
baking In the early morning magnolia
fragrance mingled with roasting coffee
ghosts of bytrone Cadwal&ders and Wi'.ar
tons and memories of pretty Quaker girls
in the sunset light 'on Arch 'street.
CHAItLES GODFIIEY LELAND, 18S3.
Our observation is that no man is truly
great until some summer resort claims to
find his profile among the crags of a moun
tainside. Secretary of State Ianslng feels that
his presence In "Washington in thu near
future will be necessary because of the
duties of the State Department. Paris
dispatch.
It's perfectly all right, Robert : you needn't
apologize for coming back to Washington.
We notice that a coming movie is adver
tised ns being "brutally frank."
What fun it would be to write a flicker
that would be brutally reticent.
SOCRATES.
The difference between a beer case and
a case of beer is the difference between a
juryman and a bottle.
We doubt If the kaiser will ever get to
London. Not while there's still chloride of
mercury in the Aiaerongen pharmacy.
When w'e feel that we've just got to re
member the dollar of our granddaddles It is
well to call to mind, also, that It was harder
to tarn,
Bancroft, the boudoir bolshevist, says his
Fourth was wholly spoiled because he
coudn't find a soap-box that would fit his
feet.
What with the cutting out of excursion
rates and the cutting out ot booze, Atlantic
City needs all the sand It possesses to stand
up against the breakers.
Prohibition enforcement legislation and
the water-power bill are two subjects to take
up the, attention of the United Btatec Senate,
They might easily be one.
vn-L
re gtve,ernt heed to the plfs
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FOURTH
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Rollln Klrby, in Ntw York World.
ONCE ON A TIME
ONCE on a time, once on a time,
Before the Dawn began.
There was a nymph of Dian's train
Who was beloved of Tan :
Once on a time a peasant lad
Who loved a lass at home;
Once on a time a Saxon king
Who loved a queen of Rome.
The world has but one song to sing,
And it is ever new,
The first and last of all the songs
For it is ever true J
A little song, a tender song,
The only song it hath ;
"There was a youth of Ascalon
Who loved a girl of Gath."
A thousand thousand years have gone,
And eons still shall pass,
Yet shall the world forever sing
Of him who loved a lass
An olden song, a golden song,
And sing it unafraid:
"There was a youth, once on a time,
Who dearly loved a maid."
Kendall Banning.
The announcement
Probably a Lie, that five million Ger
But mans wish to "colo
nize" in Mexico in
order that they may escape the peace terms
and that the suggestion is being frowned
upon by the Mexican Government may be
taken with a grain 'of salt. But if any such
move were ever seriously contemplated the
United States would be justified in taking
drastic action.
Governor Smith, of
Consolation New York, recently
dedicated an old toll
bridge as a free highway across the Hudson
by breaking a bottle of ginger ale. "What
though the prohibition ban assails us?"
cries the modern Sir Toby Belch. "We huve
ale (of a sort) and ginger still is hot i' the
mouth!"
Prohibition has
Draw One! thrown many men in
the liquor trades out
of work. ""Kansas has a great wheat crop
and lacks labor. An agency to take the
bartender to the wheat field might fill a
"long-felt want."
The dial of the Independence Hall
clock lacked pointers on Thursday. Hands
evidently laid off for the holidays.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who is in command of the huge Brit
ish dirigible, R-34?
2. Who is acting secretary of state?
3. What is a gloss?
4. How did Brazil get its .name?
5. Who wrote "Peregrine Pickle"?
0. What state in the Union for many
years had two capitals?
7. What Is the ordinary Erglish name for
the drink which Americans call ale?
8. How many signers had the Declaration
of Independence?
0. What great naval victory was first re
ported to the world on the Fourth of
July?
10. What is a sterlet?
Answer to Thursday's Quiz
1. The region aiound Florence, Italy, has
been Buffering from a severe earth
quake. 2. Sending an ordinary-sized letter to Ha
waii costs two cents.
3. The Pilgrims came to America before the
Puritans, settling in Plymouth in 1020.
4. Tbemlstoclcs was a noted Athenian gen
eral and statesman. His dates art
ol4-44fl B. O.
6. "Yolcks I" Is a fox-bunting baloo or cry.
0. The pounce is the claw or talon of a bird
of prey.
7. Rosemary is the flower emblematic of ret
membrance,
8. Gamboge is gumrresln used as yellow
pigment, une name is it corruption or . y
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