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POLITICAL MACERS AT WORK
WE HAVE been waiting for some ex
planation of that demand by the sec
retary of the Democratic state committee
on federal officeholders for 2 per cent of
their salaries, but none has been forth
coming. The only comment from official sources
is that made by the federal district attor
ney, Francis Fisher Kane, who said that
he was in the habit of paying his politi
cal assessments and that it was cus
tomary to assess officeholders, and that
it was all right. And he cited the prac
tice of assessing firemen and policemen.
But it is not all right. The now char
ter absolutely forbids the assessment of
policemen and firemen, putting teeth in
the old law that was supposed to forbid
it. And it is contrary to law for any
political committee to levy an assessment
upon a federal officeholder. Mr. Kane,
who used to be a reformer, once appealed
for the votes of decent people as a candi
date for Mayor of this city. It is puz
zling to account for the change in view
point. But, regardless of Mr. Kane's attitude,
the Civil Service Reform Association
ought to call the attention of President
Wilson to the macing letter of the sec
rotary of the Democratic state commit
tee. GEESE AND GANDERS
"ITALY and Rumania are reported to
have entered into a treaty against the
Jugo-Slavs. Such a treaty will be imme
diately regarded as a menace to the
league of nations. It is 'indeed a menace,
and it will be denounced as the begin
.nfng of a sort of intrigue that yet may
wreck the whole structure of the Paris
peace.
Yet we cannot complain. We ourselves
are seriously considering a separate de
fensive treaty with France and Great
Britain. What is good for the geese is
good for the ganders.
"MISS BROWN, GO TO THE DOOR"
tfTISS STEARNS, of the Y. W. C. A.,
" thinks she has solved the domestic
service problem by abandoning the com
mon practice of calling a maid Mary or
Jane or Anna and substituting for it the
practice of the employer of young women
in offices where they are called Miss
Brown or Miss Harrison or Miss De Poys
ter. She also calls the maids "home as
sistants." In proof that her plan woiks she says
that she advertised for a home assistant
who was to work eight hours a day for
six days a week and get a salary of $15.
She had eighty applications and gave the
Job to a college graduate.
But has it occurred to Miss Stearns
that it would be much easier for the aver
age housewife to say "Miss Brown, go to
the door," than to get the $15 a week to
pay to a maid for six eight-hour days ?
And has it also occurred to her that the
wages offered may have had something
to do with the number of applicants?
WHEN BOLSHEVISTS LAUGH
"DEHIND every ugly riot that has oc--'
curred in this country since exag
gerated war sentiment first began to
color or distort public opinion in New
York city, in Bisboe, Ariz., and latterly
in Washington there has been in the
background an officious "citizens' com
mittee" with jumpy nerves, a self
appointed and self-directed band of
aggressive persons obsessed with a be
lief in their right to supersede the police
and afflicted with the delusion that they
are good Americans.
The city of Washington, like every
other community near the Atlantic sea
board, drew in many undisciplined ne
groes from the southern states when war
industries and war wages were upset
ting the industrial balances of the coun
try. Like other cities, it is experiencing
the logical aftermath. Negroes oat of
work or drunk and without the habitual
restraints of their familiar environ
ment have run amuck. And in conse
quence a "citizens' committee," with the
aid of soldiers and sailors irked by long
inaction, proceeded to make war upon
tfee negro population of the city.
'Race riots seething in the very shadow
ef. the Capitol and gunplay within ear
shot of the White House will cause
sardonic laughter in Moscow and crief
jr-w among all Americans who have pride in
yy l""1"' HBUIUWID. If llUk Will jat-
? 4nirzb say of this when next we order him
h" vffi' put down lawlessness in his moun
tains!
.ir'fht, record of the Washington riots
birr ii whites and negroes injured or
IftttdBut not one of the negroes who
frBS orinaiij at fault has been caughl
wawwttwf, vritH wenmiea.
uuu Mtw'tntre bei Jfwriousi
"race question" in Washington. A "citi
zens' committee," organized in secret
after the manner of the Bolshevists them
selves, has managed to create one that
will last painfully for many years.
The District committee of Congress has
permitted a condition that involves dis
grace for itself and for the people of
Washington. The city has nn elaborate
police and detective force. The brutal
crimes of irresponsible nnd homeless
negroes against white women have gone
unpunished. It was a lawless mob that
sought to visit vengeance indiscn'mi
nately upon nogro families in their
homes.
Soldiers who engaged in that sorry pas
time disgraced their uniforms. Had they
done similar violence in France they
would have been court-martialed. And
now the world is treated to the spectacle
of a Congiess which, while it is telling
the woild how to behave, is unable to
keep peace at its own doors.
An investigation of the whole police
administration in the District is impera
tive, and if impartial justice is not done
to whites and blacks alike we might as
well stop talking of our superior civiliza
tion. NOW IS THE TIME TO
"CATCH THE ELEPHANTS"
For No One Believes the North Penn
Bank Was Looted by Mice
VTO ONE believes that when Ralph T.
' Moyer, the cashier, was arrested the
sole offender in the wrecking of the North
Penn Bank was secured.
Moyer is said to hae confessed guilty
knowledge of what was going on. He is
charged with malicious perjury, with re
ceiving money from depositors when he
knew the bank was insolvent, with appro
priating to the use of other persons funds
b"longing to the bank and property left
with the bank as special deposits; with
rehypothecating without the consent of
their owners securities left with the
bank and with intent to defraud by muti
lating and falsifying the books of the
bank.
These charges describe the processes
by which the bank was looted of $900,000.
Moyer's friends deny that he profited by
anything that he did. This denial
amounts to a confession that he consented
to be the tool of others and actively as
sisted in covering up their misconduct.
But the law holds the tool responsible
along with the principal and Moyer, if the
chaiges against him aie proved, will have
to pay the penalty for his acts.
What the public wants to know is who
is the head offender. Some one in the
bank besides Moyer must have known
what was going on. His identity ought
to be disclosed through the further in
vestigations of the leceiver and the ex
aminers. The men responsible to the depositors
and in whoso integiity they trusted are
the picsident, the vice presidents, the
cashier and the directors.
These men are not in an enviable posi
tion, whatever the facts may be, for
nearly a million dollars intrusted to their
caie has disappeaied. There is only
$300,000 with which to make it good
that is, the capital of the bank, amount
ing to $150,000 (if that be unimpaired),
and the liability of the shaieholdeis,
amounting to a similai sum.
When the cure of abuses in the govern
ment of this city was under consideration
last winter Governor Sproul remarked
that he did not think all the evils could be
remedied, "but," said he, "we'll catch the
elephants and let the mice escape."
The job before him and his banking de
partment just now is to catch the ele
phants. He discovered early in his administra
tion that something was wrong with the
method of handling the funds of the state.
This North Penn Bank with a capital of
only $1E0,000 had $100,000 of Insurance
Department money placed there by
Charles A. Ambler, Governor Brum
baugh's insuiance commissioner. Gov
ernor Sproul removed Mr. Ambler from
office foithwith and he has frankly said
that the reason was because Ambler
risked so large nn amount of the state
funds with so small a bank.
Men are now asking why this bank was
favored. They want to know whether
any politicians were using its funds as
they used the funds of the defunct Peo
ple's Bank years ago. In the light of the
facts, they want to know whether the re
moval of William Smith, a capable and
efficient banking commissioner, by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh several years ago and
his replacement by a politician has new
significance.
Who are the looters ? This is the ques
tion that is crying aloud for an answer,
and this is the question which Governor
Sproul is likely to insist, with all the em
phasis at his command, shall be answered.
Our courts in the past have not hesi
tated to pursue the guilty even in the
highest quarters. The politically power
ful have been compelled to stand before
the bar of justice and have escaped only
through the grace of the statute of limi
tations. If any little politicians are back of this
looting their chances ofescape are slight.
Fortunately, the statute of limitations
will not run in their favor, as the loot
ing apparently did not begin more than
two years ago.
But whether the elephants are politi
cians or just everyday crooks, the public
will not be satisfied till they are brought
out into the open and haled into court.
If they have the money they must dis
gorge. And whether they have it or not,
they should stand before the bar along
with the arrested cashier.
The disclosures have just begun. The
whole truth must out for the sake of the
good name of the banking institutions of
this commonwealth.
THE BATTLE OF THE WHEAT
TrOTHER NATURE is wise, but any
"1 student will tell you she is reaction
ary. Every step civilization has taken
has been against her protest. She seeks
an injunction to restrain everyieffort to
harness her forces. She woulp let,the
weak die; and would have humanity feel
the .full effect of flood and draught, of
heat and cold. But everywhere man's
brnin has been winning the battle for
civilization.
In the circumstances it is strange that
in the oldest battleground of nil, the
wheatfield, man is least successful.
Wheat has been grown for countless cen
turies nnd it still ripens in the sun and,
when cut, is left to the mercy of the
rains.
This week's rain has cost the farmers
of Ducks and Montgomery counties not
less than a million dollars.
Natuie has won the battle so far
but, sooner or later, man will rob her of
her victory, and no food grown will be
allowed to go to waste.
WHAT ARE JAPAN'S PLEDGES?
"JNTIMATIONS" are still tmnspiring
fiom the White House instead of
straightfoiward, frank statements. The
President is not doing much to help the
cause of the peace treaty and the league
of nations covenant by his confidential
confabbing. On the contiury, he is weak
ening it by raising doubts and suspicions
where probably none should exist.
If it is true that Mr. Wilson himself
dictated the clause handing over the
Shantung concessions to Japan in con
formity with the Allied secret treaties
which is the latest explanation via the
subterianean route from the executive
offices there is a thousand times more
reason than ever for immediate and un
equivocal explanation from him, not to
the Senate alone, but to the public gen
erally, why he should have taken such
an appaient about-face on a matter
where he had irrevocably committed him
self and this nation to the side of the
weaker people.
If it is true that Mr. Wilson took this
action only after obtaining some sort of
pledge from Japan for the return of the
concessions to China, he has lost much
time and gravely imperiled the treaty
upon which the hope of the world, as he
says, depends, by not making the facts
clear at once.
The quick and emphatic refusal of the
Senate foreign relations committee to
sanction the appointment of an American
member on the reparations committee,
the restive attitude of the senators under
the President's rather discourteous fail
ure even to acknowledge receipt of for
mal requests foi papers and documents
corollary to the tieaty and the evident
hardening day by day of the determina
tion of the radical opponents to fight to
the bitter end ought to indicate to Mr.
Wilson how the wind is blowing.
The situation both at the Capitol and
the White House at present is distinctly
disquieting to those who believe that the
tieaty ought to be ratified in the best
form possible at the earliest possible
moment. There is too much feinting and
sparring for position at both places.
LOOKING OUT BELOW
AMONG Europeans, whom we like to
consider backward, the legulation of
air tiaffic was being seiiously considered
jears ago. In the United States the mat
ter is one that has been left until now to
dilettantes and jokemakers. The tragedy
at Chicago may biing Congress and the
state Legislatures out of their trance.
An airplane when it crashes in the
open will kill only the occupants. If it
crashes in the city it may kill a hundred
people. What a falling airship can do
was shown in the Chicago disaster.
The general public is protected by mili
tary regulations from danger by army
and navy dirigibles and planes. Pilots
are compelled to operate their machines
with plenty of leeway.
But what of the thousands of amateurs
who are now taking to the air in various
types of flying machines? A manufac
turer's report shows that within the last
year five hundred airplanes have been de
livered to civilian fliers in 'this country.
Five hundred additional orders are being
filled. The civilian fliers will be a serious
problem, and since Legislatures never
think rapidly they ought to begin to
think about air traffic regulation now.
If all officers of the
Perhaps law v,cre pnid salaries
and all fees nccruins
to their offices ere turned into the treasury,
fewer traps would be laid for unwitting mo
torists. President Wilson is
Revision inclined to revise the
old saw to read, "A
man convinced against his will mny be of the
same opinion still, but what difference does
it make so lone ns he votes the way desired?"
Our soldier boys
He Is IJacli proved in France that
Home Again they were the best dis
ciplined men in the
world; but woe betide the man who Imposes
on them' The position of "Ilnrd-lloiled"
Smith, the American officer convicted by a
court mnrtiul in France of brutality to boI-dicr-prisoners,
is not one to be envied.
Once upon a time joy
Ijonff, Long Ago ous fans hied them
selves to a ball park
and had their fuces tanned by the sun. They
ate peanuts and ice, rrenm cones nnd drank
lemonade through long strnws. They watched
sturdy plajers disport themselves on the dia
mond and had fun with the pitcher and with
the umpire. Itut that was befrre rain be
came a habit.
Austria will find claws in every clause.
Starvation is calling the rolls in Vienna.
War's aftermath is sometimes as deadly
cb war itself.
There is difference of opinion as to
whether Henry needs cranking or is a self
starter. There U still observably in many quarters
a strong incllnstlon to glre Article X the
double CTOssi
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
' LETTER
Some Novel Physicians' Prescriptions
for Whisky The Dyestuff Situa
tion Washington Gossip
Washington, July 23.
"pjl'MOCItATS imagine they have had the
Republicans on the run during the lnt
ten dajs nnd In the House It has been
suggested facetiously that nn S. O. S. call
should be sent out for the former Republican
lender, James It. Mnnn, who Is now brows
ing on his C'hirngo city farm. Itut the
jubilation of former Speaker Clark nnd his
associates Is not deep-seated. They nrc mak
ing a great show of supporting the Presi
dent, but they arc getting no closer to him
personally than they have been at any time
during the Inst six jenrs. The President
bns his hands full trjlng to explain his
treaty negotiations to the senators, and the
two crnoks he has taken at Congress since
his ictiirii from Europe, viz, the daylight
saing and the soldiers rehabilitation ctocs,
hae been fairly well neutralized, The Re
publicans, who are trjing to prevent n dupli
cation of appropriations for soldier rehabili
tation, which gave President Wilson the
opening for n eto, finnlly got together nnd
appropriated for the purpose more than the
department chiefs had naked for in their
estimates. In vetoing the daylight-saving
bill the President incurred the bitter oppo
sition of the farmers' representatives in
Congress, who were so Indignant that they
insisted upon sending the dnj light repealer
back to the President ns a positive political
challenge. They were powerful enough in
conference to he able, both Democrats and
Republicans, to secure n rule making this
proposition in order. When, however, under
the rule, the irpenler ngain came up on its
merits, the inevitable question of environ
ment arose nnd lines were drawn between
city nnd country, the Democrats being com
pelled to go back on their country districts
which demanded the repeal of daylight sav
ing in order to stand with the President.
The motion tn strike out the repealer, which
saved daylight saving, was made by n Pcnn
sjlvania Republican from a city district, so
that the Republicans in the country dis
tricts are in a position to hold the President
responsible for their defent, nnd the Repub
licans In the city districts, where the working
men desired daylight saving, are in touch
with their constituents.
A LTIIOUOII the Senate is still holding up
" the confirmation as attorney genernl of
A. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania, nnd
nn investigation of the alien pinpertv cus
todian's office, under Mr. Palmer, is threat
ened, the House committee on ways and
menus in its inquiry on the Longnnrth dve
stuffs bill bns (nought out some interesting
facts which have not found their way into
the newspapers. For three dajs straight
running Francis P. Gnrvan, who succeeded
Mr. Palmer ns alien property custodian,
and who had been sPrTing under Mr. Palmer
ns a dollnr-a-jcar-mnn since the office was
orgnni7od, was on the stand. He proved to
be one of the keenest witnesses jet appearing
before nnj (ongirssionnl committee. His
testimony showed that there had been nn
almost complete lining up of Philadelphia
destuffs and textile men for and against the
licensing system which the Chemical Foun
dation, Inc.. of which Mr. Onrvnn is presi
dent, desires to have installed in the United
States. Mr. Garvan saw no impioprietv in
his serving the government for nothing while
nccepting the presidency of the Chemical
Foundation, Inc., which took over from the
a' (l)r"'",rt-v ""todian at private sale for
S-iOOOO (.ermin patents of gre.nt value,
nor did he regard it ns unethical to hold the
..me.- m mien property custodian nnd presi
dent of the Chemical Foundation, Inc at
one and the same time, nor to continue to
hold the latter position after he becomes as
sistant attorney genernl, to which .Mr Pal
mer has announced he will appoint aim.
ljie iljestufTs hearings constitute a libcrnl
education with icgnrd to lawyers, account
? rlntl,f"ls ""ploypd in taking over
from ino.OOO.OOO to $800,000,000 worth of
?Snstat!i propprtr and ,Dtcrc,,s in the
J. R. who still thinks there is a
proper v right in stock on hand, has for"
warded some illuminating documentary evi
dence w, h rr.pi.ct t0 the mn , .h,ch
the "patient," may secure the liquid where
withal on the certificate of n pluslclan dur
ing an epidemic Ijltc nto thnt of the
fiu. The material arrived in time to be
considered when the "drys" wore debating
the physicians clause of the new bone-dry
water-tight, hoc-tied rnfM,n.. i ....
which is to put the "demon rum" forever
out of business. About 100 prescriptions in
the bunch, some of them on physician's
blanks and some on blank sheets torn from
pocket notebooks, indicate the method em
ployed by the sick to obtain liquor. The
average certificate ran like this: "Oive Mrs
Jones whisky for sickness, "Allow John
Rrown one quart whisky, illness in family."
"' '" "uiiivuu, one quart, Joun Itobin-
son, account of sickness." Among them
also were several running like this: "Mrs
Vnnderlichten, ono quart champagne for
phjsical use only." The physician pre
scription license is likely to be continued in
the enforcement law, although some addi
tional safeguards to prevent deception have
been provided.
TN A roundabout way Thad Varney has
-1- been heard from. Colonel Vnrney was
n stalwart friend of General Sewell when
the latter was United States senator for
New Jersey and frequented the Union
League about lunch time. Thad became
county clerk in Camden nnd was an ac
tive figure in political life there, but sud
denly dropped out and is now locnted on the
hill tops in the vicinity of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Washington connection! Here it is:
Stephens of Ohio is a new member of
Congress. He has been receiving letters of
rongmtulation nnd among others is one
from Colonel Thad, who at the same time
desired to be remembered to the representa
tive or me rirsi .ew Jersey district. Unclo
Rill nrownlng, nnd to others of his old
time friends In Washington.
piIAIRMAN K. C. STOKES, of the New
J Jersey Republican state committee, is the
first state chairman on the ground in Wash
ington with n declaration of Republican
principles. Through State Secretary Wil
liam H. Albright, who by the way is a son
of the editor of the Woodbury Constitution,
Republican senntors and congressman are
asked to "get the New Jersey idea" under
their cranlums with the view of nationalis
ing the best there Is in it. It is observed
that Governor Stokes puts in a strong lick
for waterway development in the United
States nnd particularly for the improvement
of the Delaware river and the cross-state
canal. Senators Edgf and Frelinghuynen
are pledged to the canal project, but down
here in Washington that which Is big In
the public ,ind at home is sometime ,for-
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THE CHAFFING DISH
ONE of tr
tions wc
the most disappointed organlza-
e know of is the St. Helena
Rotary Club. Those alert business men con
fidently expected that Mr. Hohcnzollern
would hnve been on the island loug before
this, and we are informed thnt they have
spent over hnlf a million on hot dog stands
for the expected tourist trade.
Henry Ford is leally n public benefactor
for having permitted his mind to be over
hauled and tinkered with in public. Henry's
vagueness as to what is an anarchist or an
idealist is no worse than the vagueness of
nlmost all of us on many matters. And at
any rnte Henry is not vague in his Bincere
desire to make humanity hnppler, which is
a thing that most cross-examining lawyers
never even think about.
What is rcnlly the matter with Henry'a
mind is hcadlincitis, which afflicts those who
merely read the headlines and nothing else.
We hate to think what would happen to us
if we were cross-examined in the Chicago
fashion on nlmost any subject. Take Ratik,
for instance, which we see mentioned in the
Women's pages every day or so. Our ideas
on Ratik nre so vague that it would really
be very amusing to be questioned about them.
One of the first territories that will have
to be pneified by the League of Nations is
the District of Columbia.
Still thinking about Henry's mind, it oc
curs to uh that it is one of the few that
might really and dangerously j,rt out of its
depth in n newspaper paragraph.
We advise our clients to keep an eye open
for "The Young Visiters," n novel by Miss
Daisy Ashford, which is soon to be pub
lished. Miss Daisy wrote this entertaining
talc when she was nine yenrs old. Un
happily she has since grown to years of ma
turity, which is a pity. .This is how Daisy
wrote when she was nine:
Next morning while lmblblnfr his morn
ing tea beneath his pink silken quilt Ber
nard decided ho must marry Ethel with no
more delay. I love the girl he said to him
self and she must be mine hut I somehow
feel I cannot propose In London It would
not bo seemly In the city of London. We
must go for a day In the country and when
surrounded by the gay twittering of the
birds and tho smell of the cows I will lay
my suit at hor feet and ho waved his arm
wildly at tho pay thought. Then he sprang
from bed and gave a rat tat at Ethel's
door.
Are you up my dear he called.
Well not quite said Ethel hastily Jump
ing from her downy nest.
Be quick crlett Bernard I have a plan
to spend a day near Windsor Castle and
we will take our lunch and spend a happy
day.
Oh Hurrah shouted Ethel I shall soon be
ready as I had my bath last night bo
wont wash very much now.
No dont said Bernard and added In a
rather fervent tone through the chink of
the door you are fresher than the rose
my dear no soap could make you fairer.
Then he dashed off very embarrased to
dress.
The Politest Man
The politest man we have ever heard of
was the Philadelphlan who was riding on a
crowded car on Market street. After consid
erable buffeting he turned to a lady and said,
"I'm sorry, madam, you'll have to pardon
inc there's some blood from my eye on your
hatpin."
The Knock-Out
Dar Mr. Bocratea:
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ton ropectful. I told It to Hal flrat and ha aald
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the old chafing- dlaha been on tha elda llnea
beoauie aoraa body elate been nlllmr your apace.
Ha alnt ao orlclnal aa you tho mm call, hla
atulf "Uum 8hoee" "Falae Teeth" and other
rubblah what dont mean nothlns. ChaAnx DUb.
meana Iota and. sot pep and Jars to It. I catch
you on It aa you mean auttla Ilka lie aoroethlnjr
ieed by hlsh-hrowa and santeei tolka.
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BIG GAME?
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One of the reasons why we hate to spend
actual money for n olume of free verse
poetry is that it is so much easier to carve
out one's own vers libre from the established
prose masterpieces. For instance, what free
veiser hns bettered this:
She struggled to a certain hilltop
And saio before her
The silent inflooding of the day.
Out of the cast
It icclled and whitened;
The darkness trembled into light;
And the stars were extinguished
Like the street lamps of a human city.
The whiteness brightened into silver.
The silver iiarmcd to gold,
The gold kindled into pure and living fire;
And the face of the cast
Was barred xcith elemental scarlet.
We shred this up from one of Steven
son's novels ; we shall not tell you which one,
as a search for it may set you to reading
R. L. S. all oer again, which is always a
seemly occupation.
We have seen sunsets striped with apple
green and peacock-blue; with bands of amber
and rose nnd yellow; with cloudy shelves
and ridges of lilac and gold and flushed
ivory; but we have never seen any sunset
that could compete with a Market street silk
shirt.
Harriet, aged twelve, sends us the fol
lowing :
Summer
'TIs summer, the berries are ripe
And we can go a-fishlng for pickerel and
tripe,
We can feed the hungry chicken, we can
climb upon the trees
We can eat the growing berries and steal
honey from the bees.
When tho shades of night are falling
And owls they start a-calllng
We'll return to our little house
So quiet, Yes I as quiet as a mouse.
HARRIET.
Wc are always amused to see just what
books are put in department store window
displays. A big store on Market street is
showing a bedroom suite in jellow, nnd wo
were surprised to find a copy of lellowplush
Papers laid careless-like on the bureau.
Now we are wondering whether the window
dresser did that on purpose, or was it just
luck?
The Wanderers
TnE world will be as fair when you and I
Have wandered from the shores of this
dear land ;
The same bright stars will grace the eve
ning sky,
And lovers still will linger hand in hand.
Our feet may tread the soil of lands unknown,
For destiny is calling day by day,
To us to leave the land we cail our own,
And go to meet what lies across the way.
Though fate may mark a path that turns and
winds
And lcatla us far from those we hold most
dear, '
Time cannot break fond memory's chain that
finds
And keeps our spirits ever hovering near.
Deep in our hearts, wherever we may roam,
Deathless, unchanged, the years may come
and go,
There dwells the love for native land and
home,
And all the simple joys we used to know.
EMILY L. BOOTH.
A disturbing consideration for nny one
who is tolling over a work of art is that a
succeeding generation will come along and
call it an atrocity. For Instance, the strange
bas-reliefs of the cities along the southern'
flank of Broad Street Station. Some one
must have toiled right smartly over those
gloomy carvings.
Posterity is notoriously heartless, and we
don't like to give it a chance to mock at our
expense. We toko care to blend out stuff
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LOVE'S IMMORTALITY
WHEN our gay hearts have laid their
glories down;
When our young bodies mingle with the
dust
From which God made them tender and
august ;
When I my singing robe nnd you your crown
Have yielded up to wasting moth and rust ;
When even in our own fomiliar town
Men mind not our mortality, I trust
Our lives to live in more than their renown.
For In our children's children love shall be
Nobler for all the mighty love wc knew ;
Holier for pity that has stirred In you,
Stronger for patience that has grown in me ;
In unborn lovers shall our love renew
Its mystery and magnnnimity.
Theodore Maynard, in tho New Witness.
Some people live in amity; and some in
the Balkans.
Rain continues to fall alike on the just
and the just so-so.
What the Ford trial seems to need Is
the cloture.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Can the British House of ' Commons
make laws without the consent of the
House of Lords?
2. What Is meant by "dining with Duke
Humphrey"?
S. Who was it said, "Amuse-ient to an
observing mind is study"?
4. What Is the circumference of the earth?
5. What is a "gerrymander," and how did
tho name originate?
C. What are "Bacchanalian songs"?
7. Who was the King of Roads?
8. Who was Croesus?
0. Which was the first state to ratify the
federal prohibition amendment?
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What was the Parliament of Bats?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. When a stream breaks through an es
tablished stream boundary and invades
the boundaries of an adjacent stream
it is geologically called a pirate and
the stream seized is said to be be
headed. 2. Under the peace treaty Austria's army
Is reduced to 30,000.
3. Ember and rogation dajs are certain
periods of the year devoted to prayer
and fasting: Ember days, the Wednes
day, Friday and Saturday after the
first Sunday in Lent, after the feast
of Pentecost, after the festival of the
Holy Cross and after the festival of
St. Lucia ; Rogation days, on tho feast
of St. Mark and the three days pre
ceding Ascension clay.
4. The French Academy was founded in
Paris by a few men of letters in 1620 ;
formally established by Cardinal Riche
lieu in 1035; suppressed by the con
vention In 1703; reconstructed in 1705
under a new name; and its original
organization restored by Louis XVIII
in 1810.
5. Richard-Doddrldgc Blackmore, who was
born in 1825 nnd died in 1000, was
the nuthor of "Lorna Doonc."
0. Hans Raldung, German painter (1476
1545) was known ns The Green so
called from his green draperies.
T. George William Curtis said, "Age is a
matter of feeling, not of years."
8. An anemograph is an instrument for
recording on paper the direction aud
force of the wind.
0. Lord Byron wrote the song, "Maid of
Athens, ere we part." He is said to
have addressed it to the daughter of
Theodore Macri, a consul at Athens,
10. The Church of Scotland (established In
11100 anil confirmed in 1CS81 is Frast
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