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All righ's of republication of special dis patches erein me aho reserved. rhiUdrlphK. Tliur.d.v. Juli U. 11 WHY BE THE COAT? CASHIER MOVER, of the Noith IVnn Bank, tays "I'm the tfoat in thi affair." But why be the poat? The blame for what has happened cannot be unloaded wholly on bim unless he is willing to shoulder it. He is threatening to tell what he knows unless some one speaks pretty soon. This is a sort of demand that unless some one comes forward to protect him he will tell what he knows. It is not the kind of talk that those interested in the disclosure of the whole truth like to hear. Moyer is likely to get more protection from the courts if he assists in the ex posure of the men behind him than if he looks to them for protection. He needn't be the Roal unless he wants to be. TRUTH FROM A STRANGE SOURCE QENATOR PENROSE posing as a re- former is an entertaining spectacle. The pamphlet on "Municipal Reform in Philadelphia," with an introduction writ-, ten by him, that is being circulated among his colleagues in Congress will be reatj by them with mingled emotions. Those who have known him for years will be astonished at his versatility. No man who had devoted his life to purifying politics could have written more beauti fully than this leader, who has been more interested in securing results than in the .methods employed. Yet what the senator says is true. We have a charter under which the old abuses can be removed with ease if the people desire it. The question which lias not yet brJun answered is whether the peo ple care enough about the removal of the abuses to take the trouble to qualify for voting and then to vote. The senator reminds us that there are 416,000 names of voters on the assessors' lists, but that last spring only 241,000 of them registered. More than 175,000 citi zens had so little interest in the govern ment of the city that they did not qualify to vote that is, four out of every ten men neglected their public duty. These are the men who decline to take any interest in politics because they think it is useless. But they hold the balance of power between the forces of good gov ernment and the forces of corruption. If one-half of them should register this year in preparation for the mayoralty election and should vote for better things the right kind of a Mayor and Council would be elected by so overwhelming a majority that we should all wonder why the thing had not happened before. TEN-CENT FARES AND REVENUE THE street railway system of Boston cents on Monday, July 7. Then its fare was raised to ten cents. On Monday, July 21, it carried "lti.OOO passengers. Its revenue at eight cents was S74,22.". Its revenue at ten cents was S71.000." TIGER TRIUMPHANT fpHE overturn of the French ministry did not come off according to schedule. Clemenceau was sustained by a handsome majority, but he knows that the fight against him has only just begun. The Chamber of Deputies is excited o ti the high cost of living and the members are demanding that the government do something to relievp the situation. The government itself is doubtless excited over the same thing, but it does not know what to do. It is banking on the fact that the opposition does not know either. Until a man appears who has a program which promises relief the opposition will doubtless pursue a policy of pin pricks without the expectation that it will do more than goad the ministry into des perate action of some kind. Clemenceau is safe for the immediate future and he will continue to do his best to bring about the rehabilitation of in dustry and the increased production of foodstuffs in the hope that some relief may come from employment for all work ers and better wages based on the new echedule of prices which inflation has brought about. MARRIAGE A LA GASOLINE QINCE the first tremulous days in Eden there have been marriages in ships, in Btorms at sea, jn speeding motorcars, on galloping horses and on seven dollars a week. The love-struck of all ages have stopped at nothing in the desire to tfe dramatise the triumph of the Great Wish. The wirplane wedding had to come. fc "i-ViAnd there is no lady in the land who, in ?i i f secret, ueuri, wm not envy jmiss JUUly k ..Hf, Schaefer, of Seagate (which is in a &". 'flM Willed New Jersey), because she is tion of about ten thousand feet over the flying field at Shcepshead Bay. Milly will have trailing clouds for her wedding veil. Nino bands trumpeting Mendelssohn will try to make themselves heard above the storming motors of twenty-one planes that will form tho wedding procession. The parson will read the service through a radio tele phone from another air machine timed at sixty an hour. Let us hope that his voice may not tremble! All that we will need after this is di vorce by wireless. Then life will be com plete. WILL BRITISH POLITICIANS EMPTY AMERICAN COAL BINS? The Relation Between Cabinet Crises In Europe and Twenty-Cent Pie in the U. S. TN ONE day some disgruntled soldiers -- in Australia threw an inkwell, with ex cellent aim. at Premier Hughes; M'sieu Clemenceau almost lost his job as tiger of France; strikers almost paralyzed the straw-hat business m England and wiped out molt' than a million dollars' worth of property, and coal production in Britain ,.nr! almost completely because of the biggest walkout in the history of the in dustry. It may seem difficult to trace a rela tion between such incidents and the soar ing costs of coal and clothing and food staples in the United Stales to find the connection between successive cabinet crises m Km ope and the twenty-cent pit of the moment in America or the ten cent coffee that is the seventh wonder of the light-lunch world. But the relation exists definitely enough and it must be clearly understood to acquire a fighting knowledge of the profiteer and his ways. Mr. Hughes, with ink in his eye; Lloyd George breathlessly riding a tempest that refused to be snubbed into quietude; Clemenceau and his ministers as they blip from crisis to crisis and the leaders m finance and industiy who advise thest statesmen are not unlike our own Henry Ford. They have to answer to the world for the promises of too enthusiastic press agents. Liberty and light, peace and prosperity were promised to Europe as the fruits of victory. These blessings have not been delivered. Sensible men knew all along that they could not be delivered immediately that you cannot order great gifts such as these, f. o. b. Paradise, for dispensation on a given day. Mr. Hughes had what you might call an inkling of the truth when the soldiers wrecked his office. But it was Clemen ceau who clearly suggested the plight ol all statesmen when he said piteously that it is easier to make war than to make peace. There is no peace as yet in the minds of men. The greater part of the world is still idle and nonproductive. It is wait ing for the blessings that its leaders promised. The economic system ot Europe was wrecked or dislocated. It is rusty or broken. The machine grinds and strains with every effort to set it in motion again. And so, though peace was signed over eight months ago, we are only now drifting into one of the most trying periods of the wan The British mine strike is a natural and inevitable consequence of the great struggle. It is moved by a sentiment grown out of four years of strife and sacrifice. The miners have rebelled against poor housing and poor food. They want the mmes nationalized. Na tionalization of utilities has never been a success in any country and the miners know it. But they believe that anything is preferable to a system under which they must endure low wages, insufficient food and life in slums to pay immense dividends to men who do not work at all. The British Government is unwilling or unready to act upon recommendations made recently by its own coal commis sion. And meanwhile England is hur riedly preparing to take half a million tons of American coal. England, too, is actually preparing to import American textiles. Like the rest of Europe, the British require food and other commodities. The United States will contribute heavily to thse arious needs of the old world. Formerly the British produced cotton and woolen fab rics more cheaply than they could be pro duced in the United States. Now they are producing little or nothing in the textile industry. Before we worry about ,the petty profiteers it is necessary to look at the larger aspect of the question. How much do we owe the people of Europe? How much arc we willing to sacrifice in their behalf? What shall we allow in general exports, in foreign shipments of food, coal and clothing before we demand a congressional investigation and a limited embargo? With half the world clamoring for the necessities of life, it was strange to see Germany and Austria -and Russia endur ing enforced idleness because of a com mercial blockade that 'lasted for eight months after the armistice was signed. The inkwell that hit Mr. Hughes, the hardening antagonism which liberal groups in England manifest toward Lloyd George, the drift of popular opin ion which threatened the prestige of Clemenceau, the strikes in England nnd on the Continent are more or less definite expressions of a blind resentment in peo ples who were not prepared to endure further want and desolation after their four years of torment. No one told them that further trials would indeed be necessary, that further strain and sacrifice would be unavoidable after a period jn which the whole world gave itself up to waste and destruction. They were left to learn by experience. They suspect that Germany and Austria were walled off and kept in a state of in dustrial paralysis after the armistice for other than military reasons. They often are without the material to work with. The war consumed it all. Millions are in no mood for work of any kind. Europe is recovering from a shock which is much like the reaction of a major surgical operation. And that is the chief reason. for high prices Jn the. United States, Me i?he suggestiM 'recently made in ttiese .V,5Af!0 . ' . columns for a congressional investiga tion of the whole price question is still valid. The necessity for some such sur vey as an impartial committee might make will become increasingly apparent with the approarh of cold weather. It is imperative that a check of some sort be put upon the activities of large-scale gamblers, who, in a time of general unrest and discomfort, are still juggling with the means of existence. Otherwise, when winter and a coal shortage and prohibi tive prices on food and clothing arrive simultaneously we may experience in this country something of the sort of unrest that now is creating anxiety and suffer ing over a large part of Europe. . In many respects American' arc for lunnte. They have a wide margin in which to practice everyday economies and defeat the petty profiteers', who certainly will continue to make existence a trial, during the period in which the world is finding a new balance. Twenty-cent pie isn't a necessary of life nor is ten-cent coffee. Any man with a fair memory knows that he gives away in tips nowa days half as much as he spent for food a few years ago. It is seldom that the profiteers in America get a grip on tho essentials of life. When they do they proceed with one frightened eye on Con gress and a nervous finger on the public pulse. It is highly probable that a com mission sitting in Washington and pre pared for a ruthless probe into the whole involved question of foreign exports could bring many prices tumbling down ward within a week without calling a single witness. BOLSHEVIZED RAILROADS? "TvISTRIBUTION of the property of -- those who have among those who have not is seldom advocated by respon sible business men. Yet we arc now treated to the novel experience of seeing a group of such men recommend it to Congiess. These men assembled in a transporta tion conference to consider what should be done with the railroads. They have been getting the views of railroad work ers and officials, shipping men and bank ers for six months and now they pro pose to Congress that the railroads of tho country be merged into twenty or thirty competing systems under the su pervisiori of a federal transportation board with a rule assuring a net return of (5 per cent upon the investment. Some roads will earn more than C per cent and others will earn less. It is pro posed that the roads earning more should put one-half of the excess into a con tingent fund to be drawn upon for the benefit of those roads that earned less. This plan has been informally sug gested several times during the last few months. It has remained for Robert S. Lovett, president of the Union Pacific system, to analyze it and to explain just what it means. He says that, however disguised by legal phraseology, the sub stantial object sought is to take from the stockholders of the prosperous roads the net earnings of their property and give it to the security holders of the weaker roads. Those who would suffer, of course, would be the stockholders of the prosperous roads. These sharehold ers are largely persons who have in vested their money in the hope of divi dends. They are not speculative in vestors, but men and women who need the dividends for their support. Mr. Lovett reminds us that the share holders in the unprofitable roads are largely syndicates that have accumulated the shales for speculation or have secured them in some reorganization and are holding them with the hope that some thing will turn up that will let the specu lators out without loss or with a specu lative profit. Now, if the profits of the successful roads are to be diverted, in part, to pay aiviaenus on ine securities ot the un profitable roads these speculators will profit at the expense of legitimate in vestors. Their securities, obtained at a low price because of little value, will bo raised to a par with the securities of the other roads and fortunes will be made by men who will get something for nothing. If this is not a kind of Bolshevik com munism we do not know what it is. "ScilOc inoner on bar with Deceptive a enrgo of nuts." I'nis is not a pre prohibition saloon miij. It is a New York dispatch concerning a 1'orto Rico boat aien with iwrainuK, nnd the bar was a sandbar off Far Itockatwiy. A great many people Know Wli.it want lo know whnt We Tint Is the. directors of the North Pen n IJanlt were doing nhile ilic wreckers of the institution were winking overtime behind the scenes. One might venture to suggest thnt in this in terval the dirci-tnis of the North I'eun Hank were doing just what the average Philadel phia voter does on election day. Atlantic City mny Some Dry Facts have to advance its tux rate -0 per cent in consequent e of prohibition, which reduces its revenues SlTiO.OOO, and an advance in wages for policemen and firemen totaling SoVi.OUO. Altogether, it is a proposition to be faced with courage. And it never has been denied that the city hns lots of sand. . No fault can be found A lliinavvuy Match with the couple who plan to be married in an airplane by a clergyman in another, the ceremony being performed by radio telephony. They have a right to make the most impor tant event of their lives as impressive as possible. Hut if the bridegroom happens to drop the ring The North Pcnn Hank is paying dolor for dollar. . If a stable peace is to be secured jingoes must hold their horses. It must be pretty nearly as easy to buy a gun in Washington as to buy a booze sub stitute. We don't make quite as much fuss over returning troops us wc did, but we are just as appreciative. Austrian money Is shrinking reports I doubtlA. VJtv?1' sayt ivecpiuu jmce wihi iiiriai4 priue. i. i r: THE GOJVNSMAN The Private College and That of the State A HE the rollcRc and the university . privately endowed ultlmntcly to ro with the ninny tliliiRS that we have loved and revered which tlie new era is questioning nnd threatening tn discard? And the coIIcko, as formerly eonrr-lved, n class school, proprie tary, often denominational, governed by patrons of learning rather than by experts in learning Is this college actually perform ing the functions demanded of it by the people nt large? These are questions not to lie answered offhand. The fourteen mil lions which Princeton is out to raise for permanent endowment, the ten which Har vard is seeking, with many loss ambitious efforts elsewhere to adjust academic finances to new conditions, are not mere attempts to meet the demands made upon us by our ever shrinking dollar, hut efforts to maintain a noble and valued institution of the past In its pristine glory ngaiust the Inroads of the new college of the people, the logical crown of our American system of popular educa tion. THIS distinction between the college of the lmisM'i and the college of the classes is no new American departure. Oxford and Cambridge, however popularized they may claim to be and the nature of the recent compromise ns to t!reek as n required study shows the character of that conflict and however they nre the foster children of the government, both were founded, in their many colleges, by the gifts 6f patrons, and both remain In tone, government nnd curric ulum essentially aristocratic. Such is not true of the newer universities of London, Manchester. Leeds and the rest, which con iform in type more to our American state col leges or municipal universities, sum ns Hint of Cincinnati. It is in tlie newer Itritish Institutions that the most cordial welcome Is given to science, technology, polities nnd the art of education, nnd it is, in them, ns in our stnte colleges, thnt educational ex periment most nourishes. The antithesis tuny be exaggerated, but in general terms Oxford nnd Cambridge nre the great con servators of the past; the newer education has its face forward. Either wnyfurer. the conservator or the radical, may stumble in the present, but the former has the con solations of a great tradition; the latter, zeal of the spirit and hope In the untried. IT HAS often been noted ns an nnomnly that In our country of democratic politi cal conditions the rule of our colleges is nlmoft wholly nutocrntie. This could hardly have been otherwise as we developed ; for higher ediicntion, by its very conditions, is the education of the selected few. Our onrliest colleges were conceived of ns schools in which to lny the foundations for training for tlie pulpit. This soon brondened into training for those destined for the profes sions in general and the small number be sides who might have the means nnd the lei sure to partake of that kind of nn educa tion, whether to be employed professionally nr not. This was essentially education for n clnss, the upper class. The public school began at the other end ; its idea was the bnre essentials of the education of the many, provided for by the stnte. As to this educa tion, nil were to share alike; there was to be at least equality of opportunity. Nat urally, in early times, such a school could not go far, and the gap between the educa tion of the few and thnt of the ninny wns wide, nnd, for the most part, unbridged. As -tt-ki knowledge have ndvnnced among us, the system of public schools has steadily grown outward to the inclusion of more and more subjects, upward to nn ever nearer approach to the stnndards set by the colleges. Tn n word, the gap between the education of the few and thnt of the many has long since been bridged nnd populnr education has grown bejond the stnndards set by the old colleges. The more spirited among the lat ter have long since recognized this, nnd n continual attempt at adjustment between the older idtjals, to which many, nre still devoted, and the newer necessities has occupied the greater part of the time of the organizerR of education in this generation, with results nn the whole good, if sometimes hybrid. In ediicntion, ns in politics, it is often the com promiso which points the true way. Only the Rolshe'vist in education can believe that only on the ruins of the past can nay new edifice be erected. Even in rums much valuable mnterinl with which to build may be found. TnE logic of the situntiou demands that our higher education shnll become asso ciated closely with the public system for which the state is financially responsible. The education of its citizens is the most vnlunble nsset of n commonwealth ; for most other assets nre the more vnlunble by reason of its power. Nor can the money of all be snid to be applied unfairly to the -advantage of the few. where equality of opportunity prevails. In the flourishing of universities founded bv the states and in their useful ness in the application of knowledge and research (o practical needs Is found an answer ns In the nlleged sufficiency of our institutions of the older type. The dupli cation of the work of these in the humani ties nnd other subjects of the older curric ulum in state institutions is proof thnt we nre still disposed to hold fnst to approved good. As to the college, as to the railway nnd other public utilities, much is to be said pro nnd con about state control and prlj-nte enterprise ; nnd there are dangers which none can deny in bringing the college, however remotely, into the orbit of poli tics. Happily it is recognized that a col lege vvhich is making money is educationally moribund The standard of investment In education is not that of the bourse; and whatever changes mny come, the new col lege must long look up to the high idenls, the disinterestedness, the noble nnd abiding work which the great institutions of private founding have done and nre still doing. Per hnps, after all, the college of the classes will abide to set us a standard above mere utility nnd to conserve the best that 'was, with ninny of the better things thnt its in fluence will keep with us. By tlie numbers involved, one would think they were multiplication instead of division registrars. The fact that a P.olshcvik delegation hns nrrived nt Klshineff with n flag of truce might indicate that the Hods have been bled white. When Burlington sets out to welcome her soldier boys it tnkes more than St. Swithin to dampen enthusiasm. Of course, it may be that the scarcity of fresh milk iu New York is dun to the in creased demand for buttermilk as a beer substitute. We think of the lady of Niger who went for n ride on n tiger; With the deputies' snide having no place to hide, there's a smile on the face of the Tiger. The aet approved by Governor Sproul requiring that records mut be kept of all cars stored or repaired in every garage in the state will be welcomed by automobile owners. Thieves will be chary of going on record: for with such n record available tn V the ppllce, .capture should be easy. ' , ,' , t .'. - iiiy&A "WHAT mirffaVWWITl? TTlTLrriMTtT-iWWWaMrTT"slJ7f1'Ma- . JVi..'!!?-t J3J.TeJcJWftt-W "7T'"'",iTi liT"rT1 "TiTf i ifir'--'J "- THE CHAFFING DISH THERE are always compensations. We may have to do without the Kaiser's trial, but we've all enjoyed Henry Ford's. And as far as the newspaper paragrapher is con cerned, even Wilhelm's could hardly have been more fruitful than Henry's. Sir. Stevenson, in cross-exnmining Henry, has kept carefully away from questioning him about nny of the matters in which Henry is really accomplished. Wc have been told by those who have called on Mr. Ford that his chief subject of pride is that hecau kick higher than most men many years his junior. Our private conviction is that dear, simple minded Henry will get his revenge after the trial is over. He will call Mr. Sterenson nside nnd nsk bim if ho can swing his foot up to the nearest chandelier. Mr. Stevenson will flivver, of course, nnd Henry will-go off on the nnnunl Edison-Burroughs camping trip with the feeling that he has more than squared the account. The New York Sun reports Henry as having snid, "I am not n fast reader, and I have hay fever." The New York Times re ports it ns "I have the hay fever." We would lay a comely wager that the Times lias it right. Hut ve always strive to be fair, "and we would like to put Mr. Stevenson on the grill for a moment. In questioning Mr. Ford lie let loose the following : You and Mr. Burroushs and this Dr. von Tilling were In conversation, visiting, I suppose, about something? -'"Mr. Stevenson had no right to suppose nny such thing. He makes the common error of using "visitiug" to mean "tnlkiug." This is a quaintness of infelicity thnt always achieves our goat. To visit means to ro to see. It doesn't mean to tnlk or to converse, and it never will. We would let almost any one else get by with this, but n'ot the Steven son bird, who has been so keen to hold up unsophisticated Henry to scorn. Disloyalty II. It. n. very rightly objects to the fol lowing headlines In n local sheet : Officer Who Wed Phila. filtl Decorated for Valor The hendliner in n certain New York vaudeville house just now is a lady who calls herself "Hesistn." She defies nny one in the audience to lift her from the floor. We think the lady Is wasting her talents. She ought to be in the Senate. SPECIAL. ATTRACTION !. OBTAIN YOUR CHAFFING DISH EARLY TOMORROW BEFORE SL'PPIiT IS EXHAUSTED First Instalment of a Jlemarkable Serial , Pi )MW Xetjcnfero'ne We sometimes wonder, not at all passion ately or indignantly, but in a mild and luke warm way, why it is that when so much stress is laid upon a proper respect toithe colors, hauling it down at sunset and so on, the flag on Independence Hall is allowed to remain at top staff nil night? The Power of Flattery No man, however firmly balanced his in tellect, is immune to flattery from a barber. Yesterday wc happened to drop in at an unfamiliar scraping parlor for a' shave. Lying back in the sweet languor of being lathered, devoting our considerations and scrutinies to the thought that there are few woes thnt cannot be softened by a hot towel, we heard the operator say : "You have a fine head ot hair. '- We felt considerably pleased by this, "Do you live in the city?" he w.ent on, "Ob, yes,"vwe,1saia, ARE YOU LAUGHING 1 K. . itor from out of town," be snid. "That's a line head of hair. If it were cut in the right way, with a nice trim at the back, it'll look all right. It ain't everybody that has it grow Jike that."' He ran his hand affectionately through the property in question, and we began to won der whether we had ever really appreciated our blessings. l!ut in a way we felt that it vvasu't quite nice to be told these things by one who was not our regular barber at all, whom we had visited just by chance. "Yes, sir," he snid, "it looks healthy. I guess jou don't ever hnve nny trouble with it. That's what I call hair." We felt that something was expected of us, so we mumbled desperately, "We'll sny so." We knew that if this went on much longer we would let him cut it, which had not been our intention nt all, nnd which would be n kind of disloyalty to the man who usually officiates. "What'll you have on your hair?" he nsked presently. "A dry brush," we snid. He seemed sur prised. "Oh, well," he said. "It's good hair, at that." We were in a state of inward tumult. This was the first time we had ever been subjected to flattery of this sort. Wns it sincere, we wondered? Wns it possible that we had been richly endowed by nature, and thnt only the insensibility of our daily asso ciates to true beauty had prevented this from being commented on before? If this genial soul r.eally reverenced a tine crop, who were wc to deprive him of the gratification of mowing it three or four times a year? I5ut what would our regular barber say? Moreover, our regular barber works by a window on Chestnut street where he can see us going by, and when we haven't visited him for some time he looks out nt us. very re proachfully ; whereas the new flatterer does his chopping in n bnsement where he will never see us ngnin unless we hunt him out. "Hecn meaning to get it cut for some time," we said, "but been too busy. lie in soon nnd see you ngnin." So now a new problem is added tp our existence. Shall we brazen past those grieved eyes on Chestnut street or shall we forego Ihat delicious flattery down in the bnsement of Black's Hotel? Alfred Jingle Has the Floor Dear Soerates: Profound Indignation at news from Atlantla City epidemic of pink patellas uree you use your moral Influence fih father of family. Hour of need all atand together! American allver quartern Indiscreet display slavishly copied, from French art models. Half dollars great Improvement American eagle In pnnts principle la right bird's legs decently covered. Woman on quarter first appeared without In other words wore xery low neck. Changed anil much improved neck, etc., coered by fish scales piscatory peek-a-boo great victory for higher morality now modest as bosom of drum fish. Hut alas lower right limb still Juts from folde of silver camisole. Immensely Indignant at continuance of this metallic Immodesty. De mand removal of Director of Mint. Appeal to you arouse sentiment Let stamp Ins dlo b changed. Scratch slight abrasions across undraped tibia of woman on quarter suggest drop stitch stockings satisfy all. Also form clubs both men and women of approved character scratch lisle thread on dis play of coins now In circulation School chil dren over sixteen years .form clubs mass-meetings on Broad and Chestnut and Independence Square. National movement cradle of liberty! Committees to scratch in vaults of all national banks. Let motto be: "Let no tnnn a growing daughter See bare knees on our quarter." Yours for the unblushing change purse. E. I'UIHUUS U.NUM. 'it appears that Governor Lovvden, of Illi nois, is tho son of a blacksmith and all the other enrly season presidential enndidntes nre ovcrhnuling their family records for evi dences of callous-palmed ancestry. The best presidential planks arc Btill those hewn from the parental log cabin. It was unlucky for the kaiser that ha had no Mr, Dclavignc.. A hired man of that sort could have turned to the available works of reference and told hira "in five minutes" what happens, to tuose wop,oi out to con 9iH AT?" kwtoEprKffti-.-".-r!.-"-.-. 'JiiUi" .-WW Little Happy W'ayside Tilings LI PR is not made of great events. J Tho splendid heights are in a haze Too fnr for hnppy nights nnd days Hut they nre still the sources whence Sweet streams come dowu to make the plaiu Fertile and fresh and fair again. A life thnt too sedately flings t To little, hnppy wayside things Must he renewed, trom time to time, Willi pulses from the larger rhyme Of things supreme and out of rench Of common thoughts and deeds nnd speech,. So, more nnd more as time goes by, Teach thou thy winged self to fly, Thnt more nnd more the wealth it brings, From broader vistas, gathered high, May sweeten, light and glorify The little, hnppy wnysido things. David Morrow, in the Boston Trans cript. What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ 1. What does "hypothecate' mean? 2. What is the unit of Austrian money? 3. Who was Joanna Baillie? 4. What Pole established a fund for American musicians? o. When wns pence signed between Ru mania nnd the central powers? 0. Whnt is the difference between refract ing nnd reflecting telescopes? ". Who was the father of Mahomet? 5. Who was Harry Gringo? 0. Who wns it said. "A man who has an cestors is like a representative of tho past"? 10. Who discovered Newfoundland? ''-"tvre.ll Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Under the British Parliament act of lilll, public bills if passed by the House of Commons nt three successive sessions nnd rejected ench time by the House of Lords mny become Inw, after certain formnlitics hnve been complied with, without the consent; of the upper house. 2. To "dine with Duke. Humphrey" is to go without dinner nn allusion to those who walked during dinner time in Duke Humphrey's walk, St'. Paul's, Lon don. 3. Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfleld, said, "Amusement to an observing mind is study." 1. Tlie earth's circumference is 2-1,900 miles. 5. To gerrymander is to manipiilntc un fairly the boundaries of a political dis trict so as to secure disproportionate influence at an election for some party or class ; nnd the name is also applied to the district so manipulated. Shortly after Governor Klbridge Gerry, of Mas sachusetts, had signed n new redistrict ing act. the artist Stuart, Beeiug a map of the Kssex district in a newspaper of fice, remarked thnt it looked like snlamnndcr. "Better say a gerry mander," said the editor, and the name Btuck. 0. "Bacchanalian songs" were those sung In worship of Bacchus, hence all driuk Ing songs. 7. John Loudon Macadam, Scotch engineer, inventor of tho system of macadamiz ing roads, was known as the King of Itoads. 8. Croesus (f25 B. C), the last king of Lydia, was proverbial for his riches, 0. Mississippi ratified the federal prohibi tion amendment January 8, 1018. ' 10. A British Parliament under Henry VI, 142(1, was known as the Parliament of Bats, Orders were sent the members that they should not wear swords. 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