HlPw lFSjjJS-K11T' V.' 8 Vjf EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, PKIDAT, JULY 25, 1919 (ir-itirZF,jVk v ,$ 54 " " ;? f i" i I; I p W i if i I iii l-fi E $r ,. I ?-- tr i. fr ft ft 4. uening "public Wc&gei: THE ININGnTELEGIlAPH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY emus ir k ci'nTia rrsimtsT . Charles II I.udlnfrton. Vice nreidfnt John r Jtartln, Secretary- anil Treasurer. Hillip S. Collins John U. Wllilcm John t spun:on nirectora LOITOHIAL rsoAr.n p t-cxs II K CttTis Chairman DAVID E r"L"7 Editor JOItV r J"ri:J Ocnrrnl Eus'-'csi Manager Tubllfhrd (Silly at Prune LrrflBii Building. Independence Sutiare. I'hU.Liletr-hla Atlas-tic titt I'trti e'ttion nullcllnil ;Etr yontt DETROIT fT, I.'tl" CHICAGO . 201 Metropolitan Toner Toi rn-d lliUMinr inns rmirrton p.iimh . 131V rrtbmie Ilulldlnif news nrnnwp TVASnisciTON Tit nr. N T t lVnnselvnnU nnd l't'i St. Nrw Vosk 1i rrui . rho 8i i riulldlmj Lomkin IIieliu London Tlmt3 i smsriurTte-iv tktimi The HtrMti I'cniic LctMirn I served to sub scribers In rhllidelphla nnl surrounding tnn at th rit of twelve 11?) cents rer week paablo to the rnrrler. By r.nll o point nuMd of Philadelphia In the TnKM strit" Camrli or I'nlt d Stnt's pi. sssMen pnM-iiTP free Mty 0 c-r-ts per month 61t 5ft 1 Hirs per venr, pavMe In niHnnce To aM foclim countries one (Ml dollar per tnnnth NoTern -SnMrrlber T!ni"ir nfiir"! rnnni r Mm must give o' i ns l DELL, 3000 TvLMT k: V. -TONE. M UN 5000 C7- A 'Irr., ,. ! O r 1 roMein f Pllfil J" Member of the Associated Press rrfl issnrriTEn '.:...? ; rj. .- livelu entitled tn the use for lepuhheatwn of all nrirs dispatches credited to it or not othcricnc ri edited in ("ii pnprr. ami ntm the iornl nrv 1 puhliihr' therein. All rioht nf tepiihheatiav nf speeinl ilit ftalrhei e'ein are alio 1 evened. II1II1.I Iplita Frill.. Juh .' - 11 WATER SHORTAGE THE prospect of a at''ishoitaKO aftei the monotonous delude of the last ton days i.i incongruous but not in the least funny The bicak at the Torre-dale plant is serious as cvciy one knew it would be when it finally came. Appeals such as Chief Davis has made to people in the affected districts for sys tematic care in the use of water dunnp; the two weeks that will be icquiied fir repairs are seldom heeded. Evei man has a habit of leavinp: the piacticr of abstract virtues to his ne chboi. Mean while a water shoi tajje mv. olves a eiy real danger. It is paiticulaily neceary at this time of the yar to adhere t'ictl to the rules of cleanliness and sanitation that normally msun; health 111 any com munity The Mane in this instance must rest on Councils. The machinery at T01 res dale is old and oveidnven quite like the machinery of our munic.pal ndmimstia tion. Yet an accident worse than that of yesterday probably will be necesaiy to bring appiopriations adequate to make the improvements which Chief Davis has been urging for yeais. NOW WATCH HIM WORK TpVERY one interested in the enforce--' ment of the sanitaiy regulations will be gratified to know that Doctor Krusen. of the Department of Health, has found an efficient man willing to accept the office of chief of the division of housing and sanitation. Geoige H. Shaw, the new chief, is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an experienced civil engineer He has been recently in chaigc of health and sanitation in the shipjaids under the direction of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. He apparently has both experience and technical tiaining. His task is to remove the abuses which certain landlords havo permitted to giow up in the poorer quarters of the city through their indifference to the health of their tenants. He has a corps of inspec tors, but it will take mo'e than the report from an inspector to put a house in proper sanitary condition. LAWS ENOUGH TO PUNISH A PURCHASER of potatoes the other " day, finding his basket four pounds shy, had the dealer arrested. The magis trate not only fined the tradesman and complimented the prosecutor, but he or dered the offender to make good the loss at the purchaser's home. All of which demonstrates that wo have laws enough to protect us if we are courageous enough and painstaking enough to have them enforced. PEACE JUBILEE rpHERE is a movement on foot to do - away with the celebration of a peace jubilee in September and to use the funds to provide financial rewards for the men who fought. The one surprising thing about the movement is that it onginated in the American Legion, composed of the sol diers themselves. It isn't pretended that the hundred dol lars or so received by each soldier, if the plan goes through, will pay him for what he has done. That's the answer. If a man docs a thousand-dollar job he'd rather take nothing than thirty cents. Moreover, the peace jubilee, if it ma terializes, will be not merely a tribute to the soldier, but the symbol of a wished for time; not for the fighters alone, hut tor the whole people. Maybe there are better ways of spend ing money than in the holding of a peace jubilee. Doubtlets the soldiers deseive more money than they have received. But the two things are distinct and should not bo confounded. ' FORD AND THE SCRIPTURES TyrOST people who feel that it 13 a pub--- He duty to dislike Henry Ford find themselves helpless and their rage dissi pated after each unfailing revelation of Henry's naivete. Even these will find it herd to forgivo the Aladdin of the auto mobile business for his intention to have the Bible rewritten in what, at some day or other, might have been known as the Detroit Version. Of all the misguided mn who have felt that they could im grcve the King James translation Mr. ford unquestionably would have been the most disastrous. & The Rev. "Billy" Sunday rewrote the icamuimw o.u.ib. uto .TranKlin ,r tried it in journalese and lo&t his eonr. the Bible in the style of Robert Cham bers. Whenever a literary adventurer comes along with native energy that U greater than his nppieciation of good English he makes nn assault on the Bible. Yet every tine genius of English let ters from Milton to Kipling found inspira tion in the dignity and beauty of the familiar text. The slow cadences, the glory of round and color, the majestic simplicity of the book of books leave sensitive minds awed and humble. And this is what Mr. Tord would reduce to the clipped phraseology of Detroit com mercial English or, perhaps, to the breezy idiom beloved by Marsc Henry Wattci snn. It is easy to imagine what an expert publicity man "hiied for the purpose" would do with the Sermon on the Mount or the Songs of Solomon or the Book of Job. MR. TAFTS "INTERPRETATIONS" POINT WAY FOR REPUBLICANS Former President Has Risen to the Occa sion When There Was Need for Lead ership of Vision and Practical Sense MR. TAI-T'S letteis to Will H. Hays, the ihaiiman of the Republican na tional committee, have -.hown to the Re publican venatois a wa out of the mess ' into which they hae got themselves. I With cicat shiowdiu'ss and tact, he 10 1 franis fium eh.uging them with sole rc- FponsihiMy for the piesent unsatisfactoiy condit.m.N He takes the Mew, which will be accepted by the histonan of this epoch, that the piimar lesponsibility lfstt- upon the President. Mr. Wilson has made gnoious mis takes 111 his dealings with the body which shaies with him the responsibility for negotiating treaties. There was no law which lequired him to take the Senie into his confidence. The constitution does not require him to appoint senators on a tieaty-making commission. In fact, it has not been customary to employ sena tors for this work. But one of the most impoitant tieaties to which this nation has been a party was to bo negotiated. 'Ihe Senate naturally desired to know at fust hand something about the pioces-es by which agicement was leached on its vntious sections. The Picsident has kept it m ignorance. .'..t een the leader.- of his own pa-ty in the Senate were kept informed. The as sociates of the Piesident on the peace commission were not men who lepic sented the s-entiment of any consideiable number of pel sons. Mr. Lansing is an international lawyer of no political stand ing. Colonel House is a personal friend of Mi. Wilson. Henry White is a supei annuattd diplomatist who has lived abioad so many years that his Republi canism is only nominal. And General Bliss is an aimy office of the second or thud lank. The peace commission was Mr. Wilson, with four other men with out foice enough to impress themselves upon the negotiations and without any ability to lepresent national sentiment. If, as Mi. Taft suggests, a man of the standing of Mi. Root and two membeis of the foieign relations committee of the Senate had gone to Pans with the Piesi dent there would nothavo been the dead lock between the White House and the Capitol, which must be broken before the tieaty can be latiiied. Mr. Taft has addiessed himself to the bi caking of the deadlock, which has ansen largely because of the peisonal limitations of the President. He begins b agieeing with the President's personal critics in the Senate Xo one can charge him with fighting Mr. Wilson's battle. He is fighting for the peace of the woild nnd for the participation of this nation in the pieseration of that peace. He is seeking to lift the league-of-nations cove nant from the luck of partisan politics into the puiei air of a national policy in order that the piesidential campaign next year may be fought upon domestic issues. He assumes with good leason that the Ameiican people as a whole favor some league-of-nations plan. And he insists on what he has said from the beginning, that the covenant provides a satisfactory foundation on which to build a perfected structuie. But theie is a conscientious belief in ceitain quarters that it does not protect the rights of the United States sufficiently. He proposes a series of "In tel pi etations." He does not call them "leservations," for leservations would have to be accepted by the other nations. There is much virtue in a woid and he has found the right woid to meet the case. His six interpretations meet substan tially every fair-minded objection that has been raised to the covenant. The first ai tide provides that any nation may withdraw upon two years' notice pro vided its international obligations have been met. Mi. Taft would have the United States understand that this coun try would be the sole judge whether its international obligations had been ful filled. He disposes of the dread that the British empire would dominate the league by suggesting that we understand the covenant to mean that the self-governing colonics and the mother country could not be represented at the same time on the league council. He meets the fear that we might be compelled to go to war against our will to defend a member of the league by rewriting that part of Article X which provides that the council shall advise a course of action when a nation is threatened by external aggres sion and by providing that the decision of the course of this country should rest with Congress. He would have this country interpret the Monroe Doctrine clauses as meaning that the administration of that doctrine is to be leserved to us, and he would make it clear that immigration, the tariff and other domestic questions should not be submitted to the league for settlement. He would have the Senate, taking advan tage of tho provision that any country might withdraw on two years' notice, give notice now that the United States re serves the right to withdraw uncondi tionally at the end of ten years or, if not to withdraw unconditionally, to termi nate her obligations under Article X. The virtue of this program is that it protects all the rights of this country which the timid had feared were to bo .surrendered, nnd also that it docs not wrench from their meaning any of the articles of the covenant. Eery article dealt with in susceptible to the Interpre tation which Mr. Taft has put upon it, and eery article must be so Interpreted if the constitutional powers of the na tional goxernment are not to be stretched bejund all precedent. The two letters exhibit Mr. Taft as one of the most skillfully practical political statesmen in the public eye at the pres ent time. As a strategist he challenges comparison with General Foch, for he has cut the ground from under the feet of the opponents of the league covenant and by his comments on the political tactlessness of the President he has made it impossi ble for any opponent of the Picsident to chaige him with trying to pull Mr. Wil son's chestnuts out of the fire. The effect is already manifest in Wash ington, whcie some of the most bitter opponents of the whole league program are saying that a compromise will be quickly reached. The most heartening feature of the whole affair is that when the occasion was yearning for leadoiship a leader ap peared with the constiuctive vision and the practical sense to point the way out. In all his public career Mr. Taft never did h's country a better son-ice. THE OUTLAWED TRIAL BOARD "PEW of the men in the police drpait- ment will regret the passing of the police tnal board, an institution estab lished in imitation of the military stem of court-martial and promptly debased and lendercd futile by political ihterfei ence. Even the officers who composed the board will doubtless be glad to see it go. To be a member of the tiibunal was to risk the enmity of big and little bosses who had friends to protect. It was sel dom possible for the board to do justice in any case, and towaid the end the board of tnal became mciely the instiument by which unfit membeis of the service could be whitewashed if useful politically. It is not stiange that self-respecting mem beis of the depaitment were pleased when they learned that policemen ac cused of misconduct or petty climes will hereafter hae their cases levicwed undei civil set vice rules. "HARD-BOILED" '"PHE stiange distinction that has come X to Lieutenant "Haid-Boiled" Smith will remain as long as that disgraced soldier lhes. If half that is repoited from French prison camps is true, Smith violated all the traditions of his service, all rules of chivalty and every standard of militaiy ethics by delibeiate cruelty to helpless men in his chaige. But there seem to hae been a few haid-boiled colonels and haid-boiled gen erals in the backgiound of these same prison camps. What of them and what of the method by which, so far, they have dodged punishment for a soit of negli gence or ineptitude that plainly has en gendered gieat bitterness in' an astonish ingly laige number of ictuming soldiers? Representative Bland, of Indiana, de seives the thanks of eveiybody intei estod in the army for his efforts to jog the House investigating committee along to the point wheie it will probe behind the gentlemen's agreements which seem to have piotected a few exalted biutes in the service when they weie 111 the shadow of couits-maitial It is noticeable that eery officer of every rank who has a iccord of distin guished seivice is eagei to see the seiv lce cleansed of such men. Our army abroad was laige. Complaints of unfit ness and inefficiency against officers have been iclatively few. But that does not reliee those charged with tho present investigation of their duty to root out the few men who seem to have been poor Americans and worse soldiers. Mai j land farmers are The Saddest s.iid to hae lost five Words, Etr. million dollars ns the icsult of the 'continu ous rains. Mam ir is said, might have snved themsehes In ptomptly putting the grain under cover. Thm nre pining n heavy price for the lesson learned. A child wns killed by 11 street car nnd police had to be rushed to And He May Have Heen Blameless tho scene of the ncci dent, we aie told, in pieeut the crowd from attacking the motorman Mavbe he would have beeu hurt if the police hadn't arrived. We piefer to point with pride to the fact tint be escaped unhurt pending their arrival. We nre a lnw -abiding people. Old Probs is now lined up with the Diys The Chinese ennnot conceive nf the pipe of penie being mnde of .Tnpnn ware. The French find it easier tc cabinet than to fill n larder. furnish a Theie arc coinmentntois on Mexican af fairs who seem anxious to piove that nny fool can start 11 wnr. Present prices suggest the adi isability of making "war gardens" n permanent in stitution That Foch should speak with so much evident siucerltj of "the next war" indi cates French disbelief in (icrniun repentance. The North Penn Bank probe" at present consists of dollar marks nnd question marks. The caj marks may be diicclospd Inter. Lvorj small boy will bo a willing con seivationist during the threatened water famine It will be a lmrd-henrtecl mother who will look too critically at ueck nnd ears iu the e'ireiiniRtnnces. There are earnest students of the North Penn Bank disclosures who may view with longing interest the establishment of four steamship routes from Philadelphia to points overseas On the fare of the evidence adduced, the police of Woodbury, N. J , iu arresting ('harks Sabor, whose wife was muidcred by buiglars, appear to have been guilty of an act as stupid as it was cruel ; and this view is backed by the opinion of the county coro ner. It is bad enough to see one's wife killed without having to undergo the horror of being accused of n foul crime. DRIFT OF UP-STATERS TO PHILADELPHIA Ex-Governor Stone Han Lived Here Several Years President Howe, of the Hamilton Trust Com pany, Still Has Interests In Wllllamsport Hy C.KOKOK XOX MrCAIN TM1 J- tl! JIHT M-(ioeinnr Willlnm A. Stone on 10 stroot tlie other div. Hut for the tnll. innslvn, sliclitl stooping frame of the innn 1 should not linvr Known him III" f.i"inl iippcniatn'p tins (liniunl The stubby ctiu mustache lie once worr lin ilisappi'iiied , lint the smooth complexion, almost like Hint of 11 miiiiir flirt, nnd the clear ojos betoken (rood health Outside the Ii-kiiI fintetiilty there are not innnj l'hilndelphinns who nre nware Hint the former (Imornur is n resident of Phil adelphia.. Me hns lesided here for several j ears. 01 since he wns nppoiuted prothono tnr, for the eastern district of the Hiipieinc mill Snpei 1 or Courts. William A Stone was the one (!oernnr who pniitiiiilh (ompcllcd the Republican stnte oi;'iiii7iition to ii eept him ns its ran. didnte fur linwrnot I. our liefote the other rniididntes had thought nf it Ivick in IS'lll. the (ioernor, who then resided in PittsliuiRh. hntl Ins innchlner lit work nnd w.ih sending out notices tn his fi lends all ocr the state telling them of Ins auditing lie likewise requested their support. Willi the geogiapln nnd political condi tions at his (nisei's 1 nd. bit Led b his ex tensne nerpinintnnre. be ensih was enabled to set up delegates The other foolish I irgliiR delated fiction When the weie ready it wns too bite. in nianj instances Stone had phifkid the most promising Re publicans ns his delegntes Tin1 iiig.inintion couldn't do nnvthing but aicept him He had stacked the raids against them NOW nnd then n quiet gentlcmpn, usually nttind in n blue suit, running tthite threads through it, nnd wearing a Panama lint, is seen on the streets of West Phil adelphia It is former Senator C. C. Knuffinnn. of Lancaster countv. lie hns resided In Phil adelphia foi some cnrs. His political nitiutios practically censed when be lc tned from the Senate in ISd Senator KaiiiTniaii is one of the most un ronipiomising independents that eer sat in the Senate In a plirasp of later dny. "Chi is" K.iiitTin.iii was "from Missouri." lie I1.11I to be shown I"oij lull with a political tiend was suh lei t tn bis si'iutinj. A clever talker, quid: nt fepaitep, sharp to detect the weak points of an opponent's argument, he wns the dread of snme of the rpgulats like (ieorgp llnndv Smith and Senator Osborne, when he rose to cross. question or to replv lie comes of a widely known family in Iiiwpi Lancaster county, lie is 1111 uncle of Reginald Wiight Kaiifl"inau. the novelist. DAVID i: HOWn, president of the Ham ilton Tiitst Company, K unii.ue among the bunkers of Philadelphia Mi Howe hails 01 iginalh from Williams pnrt. Pa. Thiity odd years nro he got into the lunibeiing business nnd made a fortune. A few enrs since he came down to Phil adelphia and cast around for nn impstmont. Like the late V. II Iliuiimnn, lie is a constiuctie tiniincier. He bought up a lot of stock of the Hamilton Tiust Compnnv and has since de cited his time to making it one of the lending financial institutions in West Philadelphia, lint Mr Howe still 1 etnins bis lop for Wllllamsport. lie is one of the pi !m lpal owneis of the Willlams pmt Sun, and has holdings in a number of llldustiinl enterpnses. His uniqueness lies in the fact that opry S.it 111 ln nfti'iiicion be takes an express for inn thorn IVnnsjhnnia Siindaj . Monday and pint of Tuesd i he spends in Williams poit. arming back 111 Philadelphia on Tues In night It's a piettv long jouinev. and expensive, too Put whnt difference does It make so tbnt Ml Howe gets luck to see the folks at home'' He tells me that the Inst lumber mill in Williainspnit will short!) cense opeiating. The forests have 1 p ecled too far. or have been obliteiated bj the woodsmen's ax. SOMI' time last month n municipal mar kets 1 nmmissinn wns appointed by the Minor Clnienee Sears Kates, farmer, club man and publicist, was appointed on the 1 omiiiission and made its spcrctnrv This action on the pait of the Mayor was due entireh to Mr. Kntes's intelligent work in attempting to secure maiket out lets in Philadelphia for the farmers of neighboring counties. The owner of exten sive farm pinpertics himself, he has a deep inteiesf in the subject. When the commission meets, which it hns not done ns jet. he informs me that the question of municipal markets, both legional and tumiii'il. will be taken up Philadelphia needs markets Pai ticulailv dues she need funnels' markets They should be cential, attractive nnd conducted en that the faimeis can sell eliiectlj to 'the consumer. That wns the secret of the curb nimkets' success It wns a strange spectacle pre sented the other dnv when the police closed 11 ctiih market by force. Thej sent the women nwav and compelled the vegetable wagons to vacate. Commission meicluints are dead set against curb markets. Mr Kates is determined, as fur as pos sible, to investigate thoroughly the subject of markets. He will make a success of it. He is intensely iu earnest He has associated with him on the com mission lr Cljde I, King, the milk ex peil. John A Phillips, who lepresents the trade iiiiiiui bodies; A C Iliglovv , Mrs. A. L Lingbbich and 11 number of other per sons eepialh interested in the subject. H Philadelphia ever needed innikcts it needs them now Till? death of former State Senator .Inmes (! Mitchell, of Jefferson county, which ocelli red last Sunday, will recall to active politicians of the state in the Inst deende of the nineteenth century one 01 rne mosi pic turesque chni. liters ever elected to the Senate He was fnmilinrl known ns ".Ilm." To the politi' inns whom he so fieqiieutl.v bested he wns known ns "Slippcrj .Tim " The pcpudonvm wns used iu admiration rather than contempt He was a veteran nf the Civil Wnr and an inimitable stor.v teller. One of the best he ever told concerned n foimer member of the Senate from a western county, a pom poiiH, overtlignllied, and very egotistical mnil one of the mnck-hcioic kind of states man. As Senator Mitchell told the story it ran thus: "Senator X and his wife started on a steamboat trip from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. The senator attracted consider able attention bv his tendency to pose and strut. ' One afternoon when they were on the upper deck, which was crowded with tourists, the engineer suddenly blew off steam below. It made a horrible noise, and cu-eated some excitement Old Senator X in the midst of it sprang to his feet, threw his nrmH around his wife, nt the same time striking nn attitude, nnd shouted above the din: "Hold roc tight, Betsey, we'll die like men. X gjSsijeJ;! "' .1 THE CHAFFING DISH Song of Little Rivers rnllllOUtill the dusky evening -- Cieeks nie falling home, Spated with the rainfall, Muddj ,' c learned with foam : Pennjpack. Tacouv. Wingohookiug, C'niin, Dancing clow 11 their courses Merrily they come. Wissnhickon. tumbling Down its hoarse cascades, Or the green Neshamiuy By the tulip glades; Mill Creek goes a -brawling Through the (iladwyue glen, Cobb's Creek overflowing All the Millbouinc feu. .lersey too has rivers Loved hy their own clique Rancocns and Pensauken. Wait's old Timber Creek ; Lenient they eddy, Shndj , cool nnd fair Pnst their banks of rushes To the Delaware. Rut of all our streamlets, Vehement or slow. There is one I cherish, Pail est that I know: Thnt is good old Darby, Siher-iippled, still. Down its quiet reaches Toward the cider mill. One result of the Mount Clemens trial will be that whoever writes "Mr. Ford's Own Page" in the Dearborn Independent will linve to be a lot less intellectual. In a recent issue we find on Mr Foul's Own Page the follow ing words nnd syllables, none of which, we feel sure, sounds like native Henry: cixiciiiici crrcrcd'oii sne'ml nniaiioniuni engendeicd crrprji i'oim eluded fietitinuH land tallies enmmonahty 0 interest illicit (harm innnetled abnormality After the now famous cross -examination, none of us will be able to be persuaded that Mr. Ford himself is pulling thnt sort of Webster At any rate. Mr. Hays has now one claim to being mentioned in the history books he once got two letters from Mr. Taft. Maids, Wives and Widows The Unmniire nf an 7,'cnrnicr from the West By Harry Levenkrone Chapter I nPHK SUN whh nnl et beginning to ko down. when I wan rltlncr on mv horn bark to the 1 ind where- mv fHther was killed One of my mo tives whh lo have revenue on the munlerer nh'i killed htm Another motive wan to trv my hand at Pick In flnrtlnir h lrl which my father on hla death led told me he tried tn save from the iMnd't who ahot and mortally wounded him She phould of been mi ate a I M onlv twenty veara old and h Rood thlncr he told mo her name b Mabel Kaver Her parents were dead nnd she uar looked after by her married Bister and brother In-law. Bruce and Jeanette Asprlnln tIim' wern hnth ahnut twentv-eleht and a snnri couple according to his words and were known wherever you came so It was casv for me tn find them All these thlmrs my father informed inn but the thlni,' he refused to tell, me was the name of his assailant before Ills urouth failed him . . , L I was nearlnir the tree under which mv father wns shut and killed when to my ear came the sound of a women'H scream ana pushlnr my spurs ucatnst the flesh of my horse I rode swiftly In the direction of the scream. An I was nearlnr lha scene I saw a masked bandit trylnv to kiss a ulrl who was trvlncr In vain tn resist htm hhe punrhed and kicked and all In vain A flash of revenge on such low-down character was all 1 needed and pulling from my pocket an auto matic of IS calibre nlmed at the bandit and chouted "Hands up you cur' He threw both his hands up over his shoulders and In an undertone muttered to himself "I'ji kill clu for this " I took from my saddle the rope and dropped It on the ground near my horse ana g-etttnir from my horse carefully keeping one ee on the bandit belne afraid that he would make a break for liberty I saw the younr woman lyln nn the round near the bandit and walking" slowly but cautiously nearer took from my head the rldln cap and said. "Clood mornlnr. my young lady She slowly roye to her rt and looking around her said In a feeble tone of voice, "Please tie the bandit against a tr8;" , , ,. , "Ves," aald I and taking- the bsnllt to the -..... . tl.rf him airalnst It very tlrht. Afer.a long silence in vnjcn me young woi came back to her senses she again said. '" ou UU the bandiu, to atria for a "-" "." ':.:-" ,r. ...-!. . --- Aler& long silence 111 wiiis-. v vut womMii "Will OHJ" "BZ-ZZ-ZZM" Another pauie nnd aho continued. "Because he la wanted for the murder of a man five jears ag-o who tried to save tne from him" My blood boiled and walking: quickly over to ft hero he was tied tore from his facu tho mask nnd said, So jour the man who killed m father up yonder five years ago " Looking around to wards the girl I continued, "Well ou better aay lour praters as I am going to 1111 ou full of lead " "Don't Bhoot him I misht be mistaken " she said qulcklv fearing that I was solnjr to kill him "Iady ' said the bunclll. "I am tho man who killed Bill Freeman for luittlu in in my business and I am going to kill hla eon, Wilbur Freeman also." "Look pleasant, please, 'cause I am going to ahuot " (To be continued) A Quintuple Play The number of assists necessary to get over an It. S. V. P. to the Piiucc is amusing. Woodrow invites the Prince. Piince passes it to King George. The King coufeis with Curzon. Curzon accepts to John W. Davis, nnd John W. icplies to Woodrow. No errors. But if the Prince really isn't going to Newport, some one had better rush a special crate of Abyssinian ambassadors or pulmo tois or something up there to revive broken hearted hostesses. A poet of Nesquehoning litters as follows : Oh. Might Man, destined to lead, Whomever thou mnjest be. Prepare thvself to crush the greed Which leads to Anarchy. Come lead the host, set fiee our speech It looks to us as though the Nesquehoning brother has already set our speech fiee from rules ns to tchom and tcho. Gastronomy The dainty one-day moon can scarce be seen A slender yellow like a young string bean ; The four dais' moon behind be-budding trees Hangs like 11 mouldy slue of Roquefort cheese , The twelfth-day moon seems scarcely fairer than The bent back top of a tomato can ; So on the round moon most I cogitate For it suggests n pumpkin and a plate. HOY HKLTON. A City Notebook On a warm eveninB nothing is more pleas ant than a ride on the front platfoim of the Maiket street L, with the front door open. Ah tho train leaves Sixty-ninth street it dips clown the Melbourne bend nnd the cool, clamp smell of the Cobb's Creek meadows gushes through the car. Then the track stiaightens out for the long run toward the City Hall. Hearing over the tree tops, with the lights of movies and shops glowing up from below, a warm typhoon makes one lean ngninst it to keep footing. The airy sta tions are lined by gills in light summer dresses, nttended by their swains. The groan of the wheels underfoot causes a curious tickling in the soles of the feet ns one stands on the steel platform. This groan rises to n hlu ill scream as the train gathers speed be tween stations, gradually diminishing to a reluctant grumble as the rars come to n stop, In the distance, in a peacock-blue sky, the double gleam of the City Hnll tower shines against the night. Down on the left is the hiss and clang of wesi riiiiaueipnia station, with the long, dim, ninber glow of the plat form and belated commuters pacing about. Then the smoky dive across the Schuylkill and the bellow of the subway. About a Stick ' AHOUT a "stick," by heaven's grace, . I still renii'i"8 t0 fil1 r,'y "Pare (That is, two inches and a half To finish up this Dish of Chaff And entertain the populace). Upon the desk I now abase My mournful and despairing face From weary broins how can I strafe About a stick? A man will use a stick to pace A country road, to word the chese OI savage dog or young bull calf, Or on his way but hear mo laugh 1 This ver3e is now, in any case, About a stick ! SOCRATES?. THE DAWN CHILD WIIILD iu a wilderness of woods I lay My counterpane of stnis was drawn away. And there upon the breast or drowsy earth I watched the treses of old Night turn gray. The eastein hills weie rimmed with saffron light, And on their ridge, in burning robes beclight, The Dawn-child with his rounded, rosy cheeks IJIew on the embers in the camp of Night. Down in the valley of the sleeping lake, Helow the mist, I heard n heron wake; The startled challenge of n sambhur stag Iielled from the dripping tangle of the brake, Then all the jungle cocks nwoke and crew, While still the Dawn child nt his camp fire blew, Pntil the monkejs huddled on the boughs Hooted and shook upon me showers of dew. Night moved away before tiiumphant morn Decked in the gold his dying sire had worn: But still the deeper secrets of the wood Were clothed in shadows from her mantle torn. The Pawn-child's footsteps on the sky gave birth To loses where they pressed, and from the earth Sprang dewy scents as blossoms oped their eyes, And steam from camp-fires, and a song of mlttli. - John Still. There is possibility that those who try to sit on Taft's six points may' get up in a hurry. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. When was Ukrniuia declared "free and independent .' c nnml '2. ho was Sunset Cox? 3. What is a bark 01 barque"' 4. Where is the liver TnmcsiV 5. Who wrote "Trilby"? 0, What nre syndicalism and sabotage? 7. Whnt is the area of Paraguay? 8. Who was The Dttrick Shepherd? 0. What is the forest area of Germany? 10. Who said, "An honest man is the noblest work of God"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. "Hypothecate" is to pledge or mortgage. ". Austria's monetary unit is the gold crown, valued before the war at about twenty cents. 3. Joanna Baillie was a Scotch dramatist and poet, born 1702, died 1851. She wrote "Plajs on the Passions." 4. Ignuz Jan PaderewRki, present premier of Poland, proved his gratitude to the American people for the success that attended his tours here as a pianist hy founding the Paderewski fund, May IB, 11)00. From a fund of $10,000 cush nrizes are awarded eviry threa M veais for the best comnositions br "41 American composers, S. Peace was signed between Rumania and . the Central Powers May 7, 1018. ' 0. In a refracting telescope the rays of light aro made to converge to a focus by lenses. In a reflecting telescope they are made to converge by being re flected from the surface of a slightly concaved, highly polished mirror. 7. Abdallab, who died in 570, was tht - father of Mahomet. 8. Harry Gringo was the pseudonya" of Henry Augustus Wise (1810-00), . naval officer and author. 0. The line, "A man who has ancestors Is like a representative of the past," oc- I curs In Bulwer Lytton's "Lady of Lyons." j 10. Newfoundland was discovered by John Cabot in X4Q7. ar-il &: fcji;. Collegp professors have rewritten J ':x i . .1 I u V?. i"ii V 1 , ., tiH' a - v rfcv If k..JU :i Jt-'i .8 'Si ?en ri ,JV"J ' i L ' Vf,V . .A, ,tr- 'J,' .
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