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ALL IN THE CAME
TT'S all in the game!' said Helen
Russell, twelve years old, who broke
her aim while trying to slide to first in
a baseball game on Thursday.
"All in the game!" There spoke pluck
and courage. And that there are many
possessors of these great qualities suc
ceeding days abundantly prove.
"All in the game!" and friends attend
the funeral of Coxswain Herbert L.
Souder, one of the young men killed in
the seaplane which dropped in the Dela
ware on Monday.
"All in the game!" and First Lieuten
ant Arthur Richard Say res, of Haverfoid,
undergoes his seventh operation at the
army hospital at Rahway, N. J.
"All in the game!" and Bernard Holtz
hauser, forty years old, paralyzed from
the waist down, the innocent victim of a
stray bullet, smile- as death slowly but
surely approaches.
"All in the game!" and heroes and
heroines of all sorts and conditions, some
with the halo of romance, some with the
trademark of the commonplace, play their
parts and depart. Good luck or bad luck,
home run or strike out, "it's all in the
game!"
TRIUMPH
T3AYNHAM, the British flier, might
'' have walked out of a book by Kipling
as he stood at the wreck of the tiny air
plane that brqke her back in a last vain
attempt to leap the Atlantic when there
was no prize, no great glory, no hand
shaking kings waiting on the other side.
There would have been only a knowledge
of the achievement to ease the restless
soul of the Mattinsyde's pilot, and that
was denied him.
Raynham seemed, somehow, even a bit
nobler in his failure than the men who
crossed to triumph. He was the fust at
1 St. John's for the grand fl.ght. The winds
of heaven plajed with him. The broken
promise of his friend and his rival almost
cost him his life when he tried to take off
at first and was wrecked by unfavorable
air currents. He saw the British and
American planes cross and the big
British dirigible arrive. And at last, the
loneliest of all airmen, he smashed his
machine beyond lepair in an attempt to
risk his life for the love of doing it.
The best of the Anglo-Saxons was in
Raynham when he lit a cigarette and
paid he would yet make the flight; the
stuff that has taken the white man in
triumph to the ends of the earth, foolish
sometimes, at times unwise, but with a
epirit that, like his heart, cannot break.
MADE IN GERMANY?
TF A press agent of the newer Germany
J- hasn't been having dreams at Essen
German scientists have devised a gasoline-
turbine and perfected a device that
the rest of the world has been awaiting
eagerly for a generation. A new eia for
aviation would begin instantly if an
engine such as that which is said to be
'ready for the newest German airplanes
has actually been invented.
The ordinary gasoline motor works
against itself. A rotary engine of the
internal combustion type has long been
sought. The Gnome engine 1 evolves, but
Jt works by the compression that dissi
pates a considerable percentage of its
own energy. A turbine gasoline enghje,
in comparison with the gasoline engines
of the conventional oscillating type,
sivould represent an advance as great as
that of the first electric motor over the
email steam engines that it supplanted.
THE FIVE-CENT LOAF
fpiIE poor man is going to get a five
- cent loaf oft bread if he wants it and
Oovernor Sproul has his way. That's
why the Governor has vetoed a bill
making it unlawful to sell a loaf weigh
ing less than a pound.
Of course, there is nothing said about
the size of the five-cent loaf. Time was
when you carried it under your arm. This
was followed by the time when you car
ried it between your thumb and finger.
,Theime approaches when you may carry
, jt behind your ear like a, pencil or ciga
Tctte, or in your vest pocket like a match
(vjbox. But it will be a five-cent loaf.
The state has undoubted power to say
V-tthat the loaf is a unit of measure and
to fix its si?e. It fixes the cubic contents
of a quart of milk and the weight of n
pound of butter, and the weight 'of a
bushel of potatoes, onions, corn and
wheat. But it does not fix the size of a
L'a( V r &u,lcl u asparagus, or a bundlo of beets
.l?y cU5Wn anu mq purciiuser ueciuca
'JJwhether th Jfiunch or bundle contains
;f ,lpHftfBh yBYbtth the price asked.
SS&cSS
-lffaL
F..! a:
righl In objecting to any law which will
compel the very poor to invest more In
a loaf of bread than they feel like spend
ing. Five cents Is as convenient a sum to
pay for n loaf as to pay for a street car
ride. And 'the people know that when
wheat is dear the loaf will be small, but
they would rather have the small loaf of
fresh bread for five cents than a more
expensive loaf weighing a pound.
DAYLIGHT IS NEEDED
ON FOOD PROFITEERS
An Angry and Bewildered Public Is Tired
of Having Its Pockets Picked
Three Times Dally
"UfHEN the women of the country first
' ' began to talk seriously of a meat
boycott to bring down prices, the food
speculators at Chicago countered with
their usual skill. It was then that the
packers began to lench out for the sort
of control over substitutes that stung the
Federal Trade Commission to something
like eloquence in the icccnt arraignment
of the Big Five.
The packers may grieve ostentatiously
and declaim their innocence in print. The
public is hard to convince. No one in his
senses would attempt offhand to fix the
whole blame for intolerable food prices
in a country that likes to boast of its
ability to feed the world; yet the influence
of the poweiful Chicago group is regard
ed with suspicion.
The public is bewildered. The very
fact that no one can tell why it must
submit either to exoibitant pi ices or to
hunger is in itself an indictment of our
system of governmental administration.
Commission- hae been appointed in
America to investigate everything imag
inable, fiom the cost of steel mils in
Thibet to the effect of the boll weevil on
Democratic majorities in Louisiana. But
no one at Washington or elsewhere has
yet tried to make any provision for a
commission that might be qualified to
explain why people who aren't wealthy
often have to go undernouiished in a
country like ours.
Food is merely the fundamental neces
sity of life. It is the first concern, in
every family. Naturally, therefore, food
and food prices and distribution are
things that the routineer politician never
thinks about. They are things that do
not enter into his philosophy. They are
realities. A politician hates realities.
They have a way of showing him up.
What is needed in this state and in
every other state is a powerfully organ
ized food commission with authority to
investigate the whole question of food,
production, distribution, manufactuie and
marketing and to protect the public in
terest at every step of the way.
What the people want is information.
Give them that and they will do the rest.
Their dominating impression now is one
of a losing battle with an invisible ciowd
of food gamblers who threaten them with
actual hunger. And somewheic in the
backgiound these gamblers persist and
flourish. They cannot be fought by curb
markets alone.
The usual Dairy and Food Commission
is undermanned and without the authority
whicli it should have in a crisis like the
present one. Its effoits nie usually con-,
fused by political corruntionist. So the
man who feels himself harassed by rising
living posts may be assured that in a way
he i- leaping what he owed at the poll'.
He mav cai ry his lunch to work and
feel that ho has won against the huiiy-up
lp.-tauiants that charge as much for their
ttiiy nothings as Pheny used to charge
for a fair soit of lunch A vast number
of people would be far better off if they
could reconcile themselves to a lunch box
and substitute a bit of honest food from
the home kitchen for tea-and-jazz or
nameless fanta-ies of eat-an 1-get-out
restaurants. The declining arts of house
keeping may be revived if the lunch kings
keep on turning the screw on their
patrons.
It appears that food will cost as much
in America as Americans will pay. There
seems no limit but that of the national
patience. The gouge is being plainly felt
everywhere. But no one knows whom to
blamt' for it or where to strike or how
to make a complaint.
Food gambling on a large scale began
with the introduction of cold storage. It
has grpwn and expanded throughout the
counti y with cold-storage facilities. Ar
tificial lefrigeration, which made it pos
sible to preserve food supplies in large
quantities at central distiibuting points,
has been of vast general benefit. It
prevented waste, equalized market prices
and made the work of producers and dis
tributors easier.
That was in the beginning. It was
when the means of meat distribution and
storage were gradually concentrated
under the control of narrowly organized
groups that the trouble began. Vast
speculation and limitless jugglery with
almost all perishable food staples have
been made possible by the cold-storage
system. And the latest report of the
Fedeial Trade Commission charged that
when rising costs of meat, eggs, poultry
nnd the like turned the people to less
expensive substitutes a movement was
started by interests controlling meat sup
plies for control of these substitutes.
If the packers' group in Chicago con
tinues 'to follow its present habits of
thought there is no reason why it may
not within a few years exercise control
over the food supplies of the country
from the place of production to the con
sumer's table. The retail handling of
food is still left largely in the hands of in
dividuals who have no direct association
with the packers. But there is nothing
to prove that this condition will be per
manent. It is easy to conceive of an
expansion of the food-control system in
which the Chicago group would follow
the example set some years ago by the
brewers, who, after wringing all possible
profit out of the business at the top, went
systematically after the retail profits as
well.
The important thing to remember jn
the present instance is that there is no
visible means to prevent such a tight
ininir of a food monopoly. Anti-trust
laws can be always avoided. The tinly
;: - ;: -
mntimii iifniiwimi 'town iiiiiwi" i
They have a horror of the light of day.
It is for this reason that state or federal
commissions should begin at once a thor
ough survey of the whole question of
food costs and distribution in ordrjr to
relieve a pressure that is already almost
intolerable.
No question now before the coun
try is so Important ns that of food
supplies and prices. It is clear that there
is waste and profiteering everywhere. If
a food administration is needed it ought
to bo re-established. If a licensing, sys
tem is necessary it ought to bo estab
lished. But more important than anything
else would be the sort of information
which a ruthless food commission could
turn up. It could not only eliminate the
food gamblers by exposure. Its more
important duty would be to suggest and
even devise means for the more scientific
marketing and distribution of food
products of all kinds.
REMOVE THE "PEN"
GOVERNOR SPROUL has let it be
known that he will look into the
charges of mismanagement of the East
ern Penitentiary when he has disposed of
other pressing matters.
Warden McKcnty has said that he wel
comes any inquiry by properly authorized
persons, and has asserted that there has
been no bad management.
But we do not think the warden would
insist that ideal conditions prevail. The
prison is nearly a hundred years old. It
was planned and built when the theories
of prison construction and management
were in primitive condition. John
Howard, the first of the prison refoimers,
had been dead only about forty years
when the penitentiary was started in the
first half of the last century.
More than 1500 men are confined in it
now. Many of them are idle because
thcie is nothing for them to do. Instead
of coming out better fitted to live an
honest life, many of them are confirmed
in habits of crime. They are rebellious
against the society which puts them out
of its sight behind stone walls and then
forgets them.
It is impossible to apply modern meth
ods of prison management in this build
ing. The abuses of the old methods pre
vail there, and they cannot be avoided.
The Prison Reform Association has been
for years urging the state to move the
prison to a latge tract of land outside of
the city, where the inmates could be em
ployed in the open, come in contact with
the earth, could care for animals, have
the opportunity to occupy their minds
with wholesome thoughts and decide to
turn their backs on their old ways when
returned to freedom.
If the Governor will make his inquiry
with a view to backing the project to
icmove the penitentiary from the city it
will be more profitable than if he seeks
simply to learn of abuses which, from
the nature of the surroundings, are in
evitable. The prison, besides being out of date,
is a blot upon the section of the city in
which it is located. It should be razed
and its site turned into a park or put to
some other use which would impiove
property values in the neighborhood.
The city is spending millions on the
Parkway, the upper end of which is only
three squares from the penitentiary. The
district bounded by Poplar street, Broad
stieet nnd the Parkway, convenient of
access to Fairmount Park, has possibili
ties which have nevpr been realized be
cause of the handicaps upon it. The city
is doing its share w'.th the Paikway. The
state should co-operate by removing
"Cherry Hill Pen."
TOP RANK FOR THEM!
rpHE President has undoubtedly ex---
pressed the desire of the country in
recommending to Congress that the per
manent rank of general be conferred on
John J. Pershing and Peyton C. March
and that William S. Benson and William
S. Sims be raised to the permanent rank
of admiral.
The responsibility for directing the
operations of the army and navy was
shared by these men. They did their
work well and they deserve official recog
nition. The least the country can do for them
is to allow them to retain for the rest of
their natural lives the rank which they
have held during the period of the war.
It is a small reward for their services,
but it should be given quickly and un
grudgingly. St. Georges, Del., is
Money Talks growing fat attacking
dragons w h o exceed
the speed limit. The lion-hearted constable
of the boiough catdies 'em in n speed trap
nnd puts suit on their tnils, in the shape of
salty fiues. And now the Automobile Club
of Philadelphia is planning to bring him to
trial for alleged malfeasance in office. They
don't like the wny he makes their money talk.
They hope to make him shut his trnp.
The Registration Com
mission rules that
when the lnw says
Personally Means
in Person
that n man must per
sonally apply to hnve his name placed on the
asscst-ors' list it means what it says and that
the presentation of a petition does not con
stitute personal appearance. When it is
understood thnt the purpose of the lnw was
to prevent fraud upon the list it is difficult
to sec how the commission could have made
any other decision.
Well, an) bow, we nre not in any imme
diate dunger of forest fires.
Old Probs, nppureutly, has not yet dis
covered thnt the country has gone dry.
As n witness Henry appears to have
power but no traction.
Political vviscucres are looking forward
to a failure in'tho impeach crop.
Several more or less distinguished peo
ple appear to be among those absent at the
Wilson at home.
Every time a lighted match shows Its
ability to discover escaping gis, one or more
men in a hospital express surprise.
A Brooklyn girl striker is accused of
throw i or eggs at strike-breakers. At present
prices, this seems to oe a case or tcrowlng
im,inmirimiWirmiMiiimiimm
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Ira Jewell Williams Is Interested In
Mexican Problems Merchant
Tailors Opposed to Immigration
Restriction Washing
ton Gossip
Washington, July 10.
TJIHLADKLPHIA newspaper men of
- twenty-five yrnrs ngo hnve born organ
ized Into what is known as "The rvewspaper
Vrternns," Vpwnrd of a hundred of the
men who wrote editorials nnd took assign
ments n quarter of a century nixo have re
sponded to thp call, nnd nearly ns ninny
are to be heard from. The list sent out by
Kdmund Stirling, who is the secretary of
thp organization, contnins some names
familiar to the newspaper galleries in Wash
ington. Harry S. Brown, for instance.
Hnrry wns n populnr rhllndclphliui who
drifted opr to New York like n number
of other ernek reporters, nnd finnlly came
to Washington as one of the New York
HernM stars. .Tames S. Chnmbers is on
the list, and .Tim used to look up bills hero
like any other correspondent. John I).
Cromer, who won n labor reporter on the
Press In the old days, is here permanently
ns one of the offUial reporters of the House.
Charles It. Bacon, who is also listed, is nc
tive at Trenton, X. J. ; Charles W. Camp
bell, who wns succeeded by "Tommy" Lo
gan, of the Inquirer; Bob Hnight, who wns
for a time secretary to Congressman Mor
rell ; William II. liny, who had n Washing
ton career; Colonel .Inines II. Lambert, who
hnrks back to the days of Hlnlnc, with whom
he was on intimate terms; Robert M. Mc
Wnde. who is now attached to the Depart
ment of Labor; Charles It. Mirhncl, who is
on the job here for the Press and the New
York Times ; John J. Spurgeou, who has
Important Washington lonnections. and
former Congressman James Itaukln Young,
who was best known in the old days ns
"S. L," of the Stnr, are on the list.
Philadelphia ellgibles whom Mr. Stirling
has not jet checked up include "Tony"
Diddle, who gets around Washington ns n
marine otlicer ; Colonel Jnmcs Elverson, Jr.,
who U a property owner here; U. Willing
linn;, who is figuring in the wnr food sup
plj question, nnd Gcotgc W. Xorris, who is
the hend of the Farm Loan Bureau. You
have to travel these days to get where the
Philadelphia newspaper inun does not find
j on out.
rpIIH Mexican situation continues to dis-
turb Ira Jewell Williams, n pattner of the
former Attorney Gem nil Francis Shunk
Brown, who comes to Washington occa
sionally to slzo up conditions here. It ap
pears that Carranzn's failuie to check out
rages upon Americans in Mexico is behind
tin agitation which has at Inst found its
t, ay to the floor of Congress. The Stnte
Department is not so responsive to the de
mands for reparation ns many of the sena
tors nnd members of Congress think their
constituents nre entitled to, nnd indications
point to a further discussion of the subject.
VARIOUS bills to restrict immigration
now pending in Congress nre beginning to
stir up opposition, since mnnj employcr.-m-i-t
that thi- ounti y is going dry as to
labor. The lntest protest comes from the
Philadelphia Merchant Tailors' Bxchange,
of which Robert Stewart, Jr., is president.
The PMliunge insists that theie is a down
right shortage of skilled labor, and contends
that such workmen as do not belong to the
objectionable or dangerous element should
be admitted to this country. And among
those backing up this proposition nre Wil
liam II I)ion. Peter Thoni-on. Luigi Ilienzi,
and a host of othcis who "put it oer" the
human form.
COI.OXr.L.TOlIN V. WOOD, who made nn
honorable record in Mexico nnd was of
much -crvi e to the government during the
lite war, appeared before the was and
mi'.nr. committee in opposition to the
lii'i-n-ing fc.ituie of the dyestuffs taiiff bill
and made one of the most effective speeches
lieaid bj the Congtessinon. The colonel tool;
the ground that the neces-ity for obtaining
lieensfs would setious'y interfete with the
ordinary procedure of business, especially
wheie tlm manufactmer desiring d.vcstuffs
for futuie use might be held up by depart
mental routine or by the Intel ferenec of
i ompetitors State Ite.ire-entiitivp Matthew
r.itter-on, from Senator David .Mm tin's
h.iiliwiik, was an interested nuditorat the
heai ing.
II'
IIU'TCNANT THOMAS A. I.OC,rR ar
rived from overseas n few days ago nnd
just naturally his dad, J. Washington Logue,
former congressman fiom the Sixth district,
drifted into Washington to greet the boy
on his discharge from Camp Gordon. The
lieutenant made a good score on the other
side, having been in command of a fine bunch
of pioneers. There was n touch of sadness
iu the greeting of father nnd son, however,
in that Lieutenant Francis C. Logue, a son
and brother, died on the wny over.
A
investigating committees the government
Is well stocked with nutomobile.s and ambu
lances in this country , in France nnd in
Fngland. Some of the hospitals are begin
ning to put in requests for these machines,
some of which have been devoted to the use
of officers of the army. Mrs. John ItaniR
bottom, secretary of the junior auxiliary of
the Roosevelt Hospital, is endeavoring to
have consideration given to thnt institution.
Several of the doctors who help out with
the work at the Roosevelt Hospital, which
is in the congested district, nre residents
of the Eighteenth Ward. If the government
begins to distribute its war machines for
peme purposes it might take another step
aud permit municipalities to obtnin, nt reas
onable prices, food supplies suitable for large
institutions.
OUR. Philadelphia Andrew Wright Craw
ford, of the American Civic Association.
is interesting himself in a bill thnt has been
prepared in the Deportment of I.nbor to
create a bureau of housing and living condi
tions iu that depuitmcut. At this time
Congress is not in a mood to create new
bureaus, but the demand from the various
departments is almost us insistent ns if the
war were still on. Mr. Crawford and those
interested with him have n high civic pur
pose in view, but it is coming to be a ques
tion whether the federal government should
not relegute some of these welfare problems
to the jurisdiction of the various states.
AMONG those who lament the departure of
.. "J. B.," and whose voice has been hpnrd
in Washington, is Julius K. Nnchod, of
(ilenslde, who ued to be associated with
Charles Class, whose brewery iu the Twen
tieth Ward was something of n landmark.
Nnchod is now president of the Glensidc
Nntionol Unnk, upon whose board of di
rectors are William Frnzier Harrison and
Philadelphia's Mayor, Thomas B. Smith.
'Nnchod has some very strong notions about
"2" aud during the fight on the Ramsey
hill made bis views known to Governor
Spfoul.
Those who declare that the Hull Moose
party purposes to put a presidential candi
date in' the field doubtless put the accent on
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Testimonial
( Dedicated to 0. W,
D.)
THE man whom chiefly wc adore,
The man of sweet demeanor-,
Is the man who keeps in his desk drawer
A nest of nice pipe-clenners.
AND to his virtues ndd one more
(Let Fame soar like a rocket),
He leaves his cleaners in his drawer
And doesn't even lock it.
He Had Their Number
I am not such a Stole ns to suppose that
ou will, or to think It right that you
should, nlWAj-H be In Company with sena
tors and philosophers ; but of the young and
juvenile kind lot mo advise you to be
choice It Is easy to make nciualntances.
but ery tllllleult to shake them oft. The
Indiscretions ami scrapes which very often
the lead one Into prove equally distress
ing anil disgraceful. George Washington
to his nephew, 1783.
We are as -orry for poor Tinsides Hayn
ham as any one but why did he tempt the
jinx by inlling his plane the "Chimera?"
One of our clients reports having seen the
NC-4 on exhibit in the Sheep Meadow iu
Central Park. New York, nnd wonders why
the meadow is so called, since there are no
sheep there.
Thnt is the kind of question that mnkes
it almost too easy for us to corn a living.
The meadow has been given that name ever
since one, of the captured ewe-boats was as
sembled there.
When the President invites senators to the
White House, asks Quid Pro Quo, does he
put It. S. V. P. nt the bottom of the note?
1'iobably not, we think. It looks too much
like Ratify Shantung Very Promptly.
He might, however, put S P. Q. R., to
intimate Senate Please Quit Hunting.
An English visitor tells us that he snt in
the Senate gallery on Thmsday afternoon,
during nn important debate, and wns rather
startled to find only nbout twenty-five sena
tors present.
We note this ns n hopeful sign, for Mr.
Hornh bod the floor nt the time.
One crsion has it that Mr. Ford's neigh
bors spend the evening whittling on his back
porch. We had always wondered how those
chassis were made.
Another echo from Mount Clemens avers
that Mr. Ford has the mouth of a saint. Hut
we all have, since July 1st.
Severn! of our enemies Have begged us to
sny that Senator Colt shows horse sense in
approving the league of nations.
Hut we are willing to go ns far ns to state
thnt Shantung is the unruly member.
When it rains hard enough to put out our
pipe we feel we have a legitimate grievance.
Meeting the Weather Man
W!;,
K STOPPED by the Weather Man's
little illuminated booth at Ninth and
Chestnut about 10 o'clock in the evening.
We were scrutinizing his pretty colored pic
tures, wondering bow soon the ruin would
determine, when n slender young man ap
peared out of the gloom, said "I'm sorry to
have to do this," switched off the light and
pulled down the rolling front of the booth.
It wus the Weather Man himself.
Wc were greatly elated to meet this mythi
cal sage aud walked down the Btreet a little
way with him. In order to cheer him up, wo
complimented him on the artistic charm of
Ids little booth, with its glow of golden light
eblulng ou the colored map and the bright
loops and curves of crayon. We told him
bow almost nt any time in the evening
grou?a of people can be seen admiring bis
stall, but bis sensitive heart was gloomy.
"Most of them tloc'v understand it," he
said morosely. "The women f the wont.
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them studying the map eugerly. Hopefully, I
would creep up behind to hear their com
ments. One will say, 'Yes, that's where my
husband came from,' or 'I spent last summer
over there,' pointing to some place on the
map. They seem to think it's put there for
them to study geography."
Wc tried to sympathize with the broken
hearted scientist, but his spirit had been
crushed by n long series of woes.
"The other evening," said he, "I saw a
couple of gills looking nt the map, and they
looked so intelligent I really was charmed.
Apparently they were discussing nn nrca of
low pressure thnt wus moving down from the
Grcnt Lakes, nnd I lent nn ear. Imagine
my chagrin when one of them said : 'You see
the color of that chalk line? I'm going to
make my next knitted ve-tee just like thnt.'
And the other one snid : 'I think the whole
color scheme is adorable. I'm going to use
it ns n pattern for my new camoulluge bath
ing suit.'
"Thank goodness," cried the miserable
Weather Man, "I have another map like
that down nt the Bourse, nnd the brokers
really give it some intelligent attention."
We went on our way sadly, thinking how
many sorrows there nre in the world. It is
grievous to think of the poor Weuther Mun,
lurking with beating pulses in the neighbor
hood of Ninth nnd Chestnut in the hope of
finding some one who understnnds his pains
taking display. The next time you are
standing in front of his booth do say some
thing "about the Oceanic High in the South
Atlantic or the dangerous Aleutian Low or
the anticyclonic condition prevailing in the
Allcghnnies. He might overhear jou, and it
would do bis mournful heart good.
Frogs' Legs
A frog's front legs are short aud splay ;
His hind legs can't be beaten ;
Yet the front leg3 make their getaway
While the hind are caught aud eaten.
C. L. EDSOX.
Literary Notes
Mr. A. Edward Newton has sold another
essay to The Atlantic.
Speaking of The Atlantic, you may have
noticed n very fine poem in the July issue o'f
that mngnzine by Williutn McFce. We do
not often caress ourself in public, but we
wish to state un act of heroic renunciation.
Mr. McFee sent us thnt poem for The Dish,
but we felt it deserved the dignity of maga
zine uppearance. So we sent it on to the
editor of TbcAtluntic. If any ono doubts the
truth of this, we can shew the original MS.
of the pocra.
Every one has heard of Senator Vest's
tribute to the dog. But why has no dog ever
paid tribute to the Senate?
Mr. James II. W. Althouse Iins a literary
treasure that ho has been kind enough to
show us. Captain Lord Dunsany recently
copied out the mnnuscript of his unpublishdd
one-net piny, "The Compromize of the. King
of the Golden Isles," nnd sent it to Mr. Alt
house iu return for a kindness Mr. Althouse
had done him. The whole piny is written in
a beautiful little notebook about 3 by 2
inches, illuminated with red ink and bound
in a bright-colorcu unentai paper.
Mr. F. J. Wylle, the secretary of the
Cecil Rhodes Trust, the delightful gentleman
who acts as godfather to all the Rhodes
scholars at Oxford, was jn town yesterday,
and remained good humored in spite of the
remark made by every one he saw, "Well,
it's a regular Oxford day, isn't it?"
Mr. Wylie tells us that ho spent a night
in the already famous O. Henry Hotel In
Greensboro, N. C, and that it is a very
pleasant caravanserai. He was particularly
Interested In it, ns ho was one of the first
readers of O. Henry in England. The late
Harry St,eger, who was O. Henry's chief
booster and literary executor, was one of
Mr, Wylle's wards at Oxford and iutrpduaed
htm to the American writer.
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RAIN ON THE ROOF
rHEX the humid shadows hover
W Ove
ver nil the starry spheres,
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears.
What a bliss to press the pillow
Of a cottage chamber bed,
And to listen to the patter
Of the soft rain overhead !
EVERY tinkler on the shingles
Has an echo in the heart;
And a thousand dreamy fancies
Into busy being start,
And n thousand recollections
Wenve their air-threads into woof,
As I listen to the patter
Of the rain upon the roof.
ART hath nnnght of tone or cadenc
Thnt can work with such a spell
In the soul's mysterious fountains.
Whence the tears of rapture well,
As thnt melody of nature,
That subdued, subduing strain,
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter of the rain.
Contcs Kinney (1820-1004).
The motor driver careless enough to run
into a traffic policeman has need of a
strong alibi.
Now it costs no more to send a letter by
airplane than by an old-fashioned one-horse
stnge coach.
Kaiser Wilhelm is said to be suffering
from "deep melancholy." But did anybody
expect him to be feeling chipper? That the
grief he has caused the world causes him
concern nobody believes, but that he failed
in his enterprise very naturally grieves him.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What and where is Tien-tsin? 3 J I
2. In federal impeachment proceedings i
where do they originate and by whom !
is the accused tried.' )
S. What Is a charivari?
4. What is a mestizo?
5. What is China's foreign population?
C. What battle of the Civil War is known
as the Battle Above the Clouds?
7. Where is Slelton-Mowbray and what
is it noted for?
8. Who Wire it said that "the purification
of politics is an iridescent dream"?
0. Who wrote "Presents, I often say,
endear absents"?
10. When nnd where was President Wilson
born?
Answers to Yesterday's Qulr
1. The estimated native population of that
portion ot the Shantung peninsuja
formerly, held by Germany and now
occupied by Japan Is 108,000.
2. Eight hundreO men for each congress
man or representative are to be re
cruited for the national guard in each
state when the act providing for that
organization fully operative.
3. Lima is the capital of Peru.
4. Erancis nopkinson wrote "The Battle
( of the Kegs," a satirical poem refer
ring to nn incident of the Revolution
ary War. l'ho author died la 1701.
C, Tort is a law term describing a private
or civil wrong,
0. John Huss wns a celebrated Bohemian
religious preformer and martyr. His
dates are 1875-141B.
7. The sixteenth amendment to tho con
stitution authorizes the imposition of
the federal income tax.
8. The highest waterfall In the world is
the Grand Falls, of Labrador. Its
height is about 2000 feet.
0. The Bistlne Chapel, containing tho
famous frescoes of Michael Angclo, is
' part of the Vatican iu Home.
10. John Qulncy Adams was the eU&"i
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