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Monday, J ill J 28. 1019 IMPASSABLE STREETS TDAILROAD congestion, labor shortage ' nnd a scarcity of material for gen eral construction retarded public work everywhere in the country during the last three years. The effects of the war, in other words, weie not felt exclusively in Philadelphia. So it is necessary to look beyond the war in any cffoit to deter mine why the streets in this city are nearer to general ruin than those of any other important community in the United States. The $1,000,000 which the Bureau of Highways will expend in repairs to the paving of Broad street will make possible only the beginning of a woik of recon struction that ought to be pushed at all costs. The recent heavy lains quickened the process of deterioration amazingly. To achieve a good case of seasickness it is only necessary to travel Girard avenue in an automobile. Walnut and Maiket and Broad streets appear as if they had been under shrapnel fire. Bricks laid in the more dangerous cavities melted away so quickly under the heavy motor tiaffic as to cause some one to suggest that the repairs had been made by milliners. Appropriations for general reconstruc tion are in sight There is no text for a hopeless sermon here. But it might be interesting to know why Philadelphia streets seem to wear out more quickly than the streets in other cities. FALL, VILLA & CO. "MiOTHING more astounding than Sen- ator Pall's letters to the friends and associates of the bandit Villa has come to light in Washington in recent years. Senator Fall will be remembered as a rooter for American intervention, one of the go-down-and-clean-up-Mexico group. Over his own signature, found upon let ters discovered on one of Villa's officers, he expressed a willingness to "confer" with Villa at the border. He gave veiled assurances of his support if "it could bo demonstrated" that Villa "could estab lish order and good government in Mexico and protect American lives and irffc-y terests." That was a great deal to expect from an illiterate bandit with 3000 ragged followers. No one in his senses will suppose that Mr. Fall was half so ingenu ous or a quarter so idiotic as his letters indicate. He knows that Villa's spe cialty is disorder not order. It is significant that the intermediary in this instance was a broker, a man who may be presumed to have relations of his own with those in and out of Mexico who desire to see intervention by the United States in Mexico. And it is to be remem bered that in recent years Villa has been used chiefly as a person who could be depended upon always to follow a policy likely to inflame public opinion in the United States and put the established government of the country in a bad light. Villa was assured by Mr. Fall's friend of the interest of a "gentleman of great influence in the United States." The gentleman was Mr. Fall. Here h an in cident which, even though it is investi gated no further, should cause the American people to think soberly of the hidden motives that have always affected our relations with Mexico and the Mex icans. THE OLD STUFF OOONER or later a congressional in vestigation of living costs will have to come. What it will be like is suggested in the maneuvers of the House and Sen ate committees which are preparing to make preliminary surveys of the general question. "Republicans," telegraphs one of the better-informed correspondents at Wash ington, "are preparing to lay the blame on the administration. Democrats are arranging for purely defensive warfare." ' Partisans in Congress continue to have limitless confidence ih the patience and endurance of the American people. COAL yfcl WILL the rumors ot an extraordinary J--sr , Jf I coal shortnire in Ppnnavlvnnin nnn. f-rL- tinue to come down from the mysterious w ylacea higher up, now that the British poal '. strike has been unexpectedly settled ? It was apparent two months aero that , Biinlnc in the British isles would Via so. .&'j riously hindered, and it was then that we began to hear solemn warnings of high ft .. coal prices to come. There were agents ,- M tho American coal producers con- Yciiivubiy " ciiiujiu iu uinu urucrs lor f, luu.uuu ions oi coai a weeK ago. uon- l-i'j ' tracts for the delivery of half a million tprjk of American bituminous and anthra- ,,'ciw "werft in preparation when Moyd C m;fclwrl suddenly in the breach With' nleHtent schwae list .will at I t- i j. once open the mines of England and Wales nnd send a quarter of a million men back to work. These contracts may not now be signed. England is far away. But the continued paralysis of her mines would certainly have had a profound effect on coal prices in the United States. American pro ducers had the advantage of dealing with a country that could easily hnvo sup plied ships to take coal from America in quantities largo enough seriously to affect the general supply. SHALL A BUTCHER SELL GREEN GROCERIES? The Logic of the Kenyon Bill Regulating the Meat Packers Would Prevent Such Business Combination TVERY ONE is dissatisfied with the Lj price of food. This includes both the householder who has to buy provisions for his family and' the men and women who have to buy their meals in the lcs taurants. A glass of milk, a cup of coffee and a piece of pic in the cheaper tcstaurants all cost twice what was asked for them a year or two ago. Meat, potatoes, biead, sugar, rice and other foods have risen in price to such an extent that families are compelled to cut down the amount consumed if they would keep out of debt. Some families are even then unable to pay thou- bill"! promptly. And we aic all seaiching for some one on whom to lay the blame for thee con ditions. When two men discuss the sub ject one or the other is sine to say before the conversation ends that some one is profiteering. The producer usually es capes the blame and the wholesaler or the letailcr is held responsible. And this is true in spite of the fact that the gov ernment has guaranteed $2.2(5 a bushel to the wheat giower at a time when if left to itself wheat would sell for much less. When seeking for specific offenders the man engaged in denunciation neei omits the meat packers. They are so big that they cannot be overlooked. The Kedcial Trade Commission has charged them with making exoibitant profits, and not only with monopolizing the meat market but wit" i setting out to monopolize the market for substitutes for meat. Of course, the packers deny the chaige. The insist that thny do business on the narrow margin of a profit of a f taction of a cent a pound. They insist that they aie not monopolists, but public benefactors, benefactors both of the cattle raisers nnd of the meat consumers. Their piotesta tions, however, aie received not with a grain, but with several barrels of salt. The Serato has d.'lected the Federal Trade Commission to inquire into the methods of pui chase employed by the packers and into the prices paid for cattle and hogs. It is chaiged that they hold the cattle raisers under their thumb and control the industry from the range to the counter of the retailer. The packers aie charged further with keeping up the price of sugar so that the housewives have to pay exorbitant prices for what they need for canning. It has been proposed in Washington that a national mnrket com mission be organized to combat the propaganda of the packers by disclosing the truth about their operations. The Department of Agriculture and the Federal Trade Commission are both com mitted to government legulation of the distribution and manufacture of meat products. They insist that such legula tion would protect the cattle raisers as well as the consumers. Senator Kenyon is sponsor for a bill, drafted in consultation with the Depart ment of Agriculture, which would compel every packer to take out a federal lifense nnd to operate his business under the con trol of the secretary of agricultuie exer cised through a commissioner of food stuffs. The bill is described in its title as a measuie "to stimulate the produc tion, sale and distribution of livestock and livestock products, and for other pur poses." The packers would doubtless say that it is particularly "for other pur poses." The Kenyon bill, so far as it is anything more than a re-enactment of the anti trust laws and the law defining the duties of the Federal Trade Commission, goes further in the regulation of private in dustry than any bill which has received serious consideration in Washington. It permits the secietary of agriculture to make regulations for the conduct of the packing business and to issue orders for their enforcement. But it goes fur ther than this. The packers are engaged in handling vegetables and groceries. The bill permits the secretary of agri cultuie to regulate the relation of the packers to the purchase, manufacture, storage or sale of foodstuffs or commodi ties other than meat and meat products and empowers him to require the pack ers to lefrain from direct or indirect par ticipation in such other business. But it does not stop heie. Section 7 of the bill provides t;hat it shall be unlawful to license any packer who is engaged directly or indirectly in the business of handling foodstuffs other than livestock, products. Still further, he is empowered to legu late the prices charged for meat prod ucts, for the bill forbids licensees to charge "an unreasonable price or rate." This means nothing or it means price fixing by the Department of Agriculture. There may be great merits in the bill. It may be desirable that the packing in dustry, which Controls the distribution of the greater part of the meat consumed, should be under the direct supervision of the government, but if the bill should be passed a dangerous precedent would be set. The great industries of this country have developed along logical lines through expansion. An iron mill which'etarted to turn out steel rails has found it profitable to manufacture steel for all conceivable uses and even to manufacture machinery out of the raw product. Retail dry goods stores have expanded until they sell furniture, hardware, flowers, millinery, ready-made clothing, boats, guns, bicy cles, automobiles, automobile tires, drugs, groceries and meats. The logic of thw Kenyon bill would lead to legislation f ofjjdding a dry goods me-r- chant to deal in anything but dry goods and a drug store from selling anything but drugs and a meat market from sell ing anything but meat. If it is wrong for n meat packer to sell rice why is it not wrong for a butcher to sell green gro ceries ? This kind of an attempt to force com petition by legislation has been made in the tiansportation business, where it is illegal for a railroad company to own and operate steamship lines. But transporta tion lines are operated under a govern ment franchise, and their managers arc in a sense the trustees of the public. Such business is pioperly subject to govern ment regulation. But before the nation commits itself to so radical a proposition as that contained in the Kenyon bill it should consider the matter in all its lamifications. THE NEW COMMITTEE OF 100 CONSIDERATION of the personnel of the new Committee of One Hundred named today for the mayoralty cam paign discloses immediately the fact that a lot of political horse sense entered into the selection of the members. Viitually every phase of Philadelphia's sound and responsible citizenship is rep resented, with, of course, the plain and deliberate exception of men and women definitely affiliated with the regular Re publican organization. There aie representatives of capital and labor, the professions and varied industries, persons of wealth and persons from the humbler walks. A few have had actual experience in politics, many have taken a live interest in civic affaiis, although there aie few outside the men who have been conspicuous in "reform" movements in the recent past who have really mixed in the kind of get-out-and-hustle vote getting that counts most in campaigns. On the whole the list is chiefly impos ing for its cosmopolitan chai actor. It is not a meie jumbli- of what the "boys" would contemptuously call silk-stocking, kid-glove, eminently respectables. The biggest job lemains to be done. It is finding the right candidates for the mayoralty and Council and the other city and county offices to be filled in November. These are exceedingly shy,' for those who aic fit for the places will not accept nomination, and those who have obviously courted the lightning up till now have not been fit through some cause or other. The proposition is not easy and it will take all the collective brains and shrewdness assembled in the committee to solve it. Nevertheless, regardless of the difficul ties, the independents in the selection of the Hundred have shown that the leaders of the regulars cannot afford to dismiss them lightly. They have made a strong bid for success and all signs point to a lively and exciting primary battle. The ilrmvnins of two Lesson in Traced- I'liilndclpliin bojs in I.nlie I'lianiplnin, X. Y., draws attention to a fuet Iohr recoB nizcjl by thoughtful men : Since the state is a loser when a boj 's life is Inst the state should see to it that eeij schoolboy is toiiRlit to swim. I lira narrow is the A Problem Unsolved margin between com- foit nnd penury in the lives of many was evidenced by the stories told by women receiving aRBistancc from the mothers' fund on Saturday. .Fifty of them had been thieatciied with eviction for nonpayment of tent. The sums they loceived, ranging from S24 to $8(5, will nffoid merely temporary lelief. An airship the size of Ma be the K-U4 could carry ennugh deadly explo sive to destroy Philadelphia. Some of theNO daS, if the league of nations docs not come up to specifications nil the ritics of the world will be destrnvul not by explosives, but by the fear of explosives. Houses will not duster together for protection, but will be built as far apait as possible to lessen the damage fiom attack from above. The population of Philadelphia, instead of being confined within n few square miles, may be scattered over half a do.en counties. We only suy peihaps, because some equally powerful defensive machinery may obviate the danger entirelv Wanted .V thick-skinned candidate for Mayor. We sjmpathbe with Mr. Taft's feelings but they weie darned good letters, anyhow. It's a horse on the firemau when the plug is remote Spite of all the pother nobody seriously believes that America will reject the peace treaty. As we understand it, l'loor Leader Mondell wants the House to take a vacation so that the members can get to woilt. No matter what tunes they play the Ultimate Consumer has to pay Old King Coal's Fiddlers Three tha Operator, the Miner and the Dealer. Bank investigations indicate that pyra mid building is best conducted in Ugyptian darkness. Wc have it on competent international authority that the easy-going Italian of Trieste prefers a jug o' wine to a Jugo-Slav. Governor Sproul merely smiled when asked about the local campaign. That man has wonderful control over his features. One never can tell. It may be that the reservations in the peace treaty will be entered in a fine Spenccrian hand. It is noteworthy that although the New ' York marine workers' strike Is over and tho ships are again moving, not a schooner has crossed the bar. Sanguinary conflicts between French soldiers and civilians aresaid to have oc curred in Alsace. MaybOthtf rescued ones are not sufficiently grateful. THE COLONEL'S CHAT When Colonel Beltler "Escaped" Mexico David B. Provan's Epi gram About the Congres sional "Drys" to lly GEOKGI3. NOX McCAIN poLOXKL I.nwiS E. IlEm-nit, gencr- ally speaking, is known to every public man pf any importance in the state. As Mayor's secretary, Oovernor's secretary, deputy secretary of the commonwealth, member of tho old National Guard, organizer o inaugural pnrades, the man who "put over" the great Gettysburg reunion of sur- Ivors of the Civil Wnr, secretary of the committee of public safety nnd Council of National Defense, his acquaintance is state wide and then some. My most vivid memory of the colonel goes back a decade ago to the distant city of Guadalajara, in western central Mexico. I was on in way to visit the then nctivc volcano of C'ollmn. Guadalajara is the larg est city in the district. The American conductor on tho train had recommended Ortega's Hotel as the best in the city. It was kept by a Cnliforninn, of Spanish pnientnge, and was n rendezvous for Yankee travelers. I took a waiting cabriolet nt the station door. I was not aware that the hotel was distant but n block nnd n hnlf. The driver, a sinister individual wenriug a twenty-dollar sombcrcro, n twenty-cent cotton undershirt, duck trousers and nlpargatas, drove mc in n tortuous route for sit least ten blocks, finally winding up nt Ortega's. I had detected the fake and disputed his fare of n dollur. The altercation wns car lied into the hotel office. In the midst of it a familiar and cheery voice broke in: "Well, well, nnd what in heaven's name blings j on dnvvii here?" It was Colonel Heitler. Needless to sny the faking cnb driver made a hasty exit from the hotel. The colonel at that time was largely in terested itusomc Mexican mines nnd was in Guadalajara looking after his interests. A RAIIE story that the colonel tells about " himself happened,during that or a pre vious visit to Mexico. It occurred in the City of Mexico. A certain Philadelphia detective, per sonally known to Colonel Beitlcr during his term as secretary to Mayor Stuart, hap pened in Mexico City at the same time. He wns cnrring extradition papers for n criminal who had taken refuge in our sis ter republic and had been away fiom home for a couple of months. In the corridor of the Iturhide Hotel he encountered the former Mayor's private sec retary. There were the usual hearty greet ings from acquaintances and fellow towns men. Weeks afterward, on returning home, a city police official meeting him said : "That must have been a funny experience of yours in Mexico City." "What experience?" inquired the sur prised colonel. "Wh, jour meeting with Detective B . I thought you knew about it," laughed the official. "The day jou met him in Mexico City wc got a tclegiam from him reading: "Lew lieitler is heie. Is he wanted for anything? Wire quick." DAVID P.. PIIOVAX, of the Uitz-Cnrlton nnd Adelphia, like thousands of other hotel men, has his own opinions regarding in exhibition, pnrticiilnily in lln exclusion of beer and light wine from the liquid menu. The revelations of Congressman Gallivan nnd his demand that the members of the lower house nt Washington come out frankly with a statement as to the amount of liquor each one has stored for use during the arid period or rainy day of prohibition, have been more than a personal satisfaction to him. They are n real delight. In addition, his phrenological bump of nwe and reverence for the solons in Con gicss seems to have diminished lccently if his description of the "drys" in Congress is nu indication. "They are afflicted with water on the binin nnd whii-Lv in the 'cllai," says the manager of the two big hotels. SUM J! remarkable innovations are being planned bv the state Department of High wa.vs, Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler tells me. Some of them arc unique. For In stance, the department is arranging to pur chase and distribute in various sections of Pennsylvania forty machines for weighing motortrucks. These machines nrc of peculiar construc tion. They nre poi table and can be moved fiom place to place. They are not difficult ol operation. Wherever possible, every principal state hiehway they are known ns arterial roads will be constructed of rc-enforced con crete. The greatest enemy1 to these roads is the freight truck. The ponderous mass of tlfcsc great vehicles causes a certain amount of vibration through the body of the cement. To prevent this Commissioner Sadler had the new automo bile law fix their maximum weight, If In tended for use on state highways, nt 20, 000 pounds. There will be no guessing as to the weight of these trucks. There is no guessing In any meihanicnl detail in Mr. Sndler's 'de partment. Hence the necessity for these new portable weighing machines. TWTAN-rFACTrmCRS of bronze memorial "tablets are doing a wonderful business these post-war days. Churches, communi ties. 'societies and lodges nrc giving them a business undreamed of in past years. Mural tablets in brass and bronVc arc being erected to the memory of the glorious dend of the world wnr. I do not believe that there is a college or university in the stnte thnt has not ordered or is just plan ning to order one of these memorials. My attention wns directed to this by Edward M. Campbell, a construction en gineer of this city and New York, nnd Blnlr .Tnekel, who invited me to inspect the de sign for a bronze tablet .prepared by one of the largest concerns in Philadelphia. Both are Buckncll men and members of Phi Gamma Delta., The fraternity plans a lasting memorial In its fraternity house nt Lcwisburg to the members of the chap ter nt the university who lost their lives in France. There are five of them. Heading the list is Lieutenant Colonel W. M. Fctzcr, of the lOnth Infantry, U. S. A. The new state highway from Sunbury to Willlamsport is to be known ns tho Kctzer boulevard In honor of this distinguished soldier. He was n member of the class of '04 of Pucknell University. General Tasker H. Bliss's father was a professor at Bucknell. The week's weather forecaster thinks that "warm with occasional thunder show ers" Is eminently fair. A local woman cut the face of a girl she accused of making eyes at her husband. Tb! I really Inexcusable. Good form de mnnds that one should do no more 'tiianTcut the acqiwuitance of the offender. -MX- TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA By Christopher Morley Madonnas of the Curb A LITTLE girl she can't have been more thnn twelve ears old stood up gravely and said: "The meeting will please come to order. The secretary will read the minutes of the Inst meeting." The gatheiing of smnll females some ragged, some very trim, ranging in age from eight to fourteen sat expectant. A child in a clean pink dress with neatly braided blonde hair advanced seriously and read the minutes of the previous meeting. "Arc there nny corrections?" said the president. There were none nnd the meeting pro ceeded to business. On a long tabic in the schoolroom wns n huge laundry basket, a small quilted mattress, sheets, blankets and other accessories. There wns a baby theic, a life-size doll, amazingly realistic. The business of the meeting was the discussion, under the guidance of Miss Mntilda Needle, the teacher, of the proper way of making a baby's bed, putting him to sleep in the basket hud ventilating the room. It was the Little Mothers' League of the Vare School, on Morrib street, holding its weekly meeting. MISS NEEDLE took the cbnir. "I saw somethiug the other day," she said to the children, "that pleased me very much. I was coming down the street nnd I saw Elsie Pulaski holding a bnby like this. (She illus trated by picking up the doll, letting its head sag, and nil the Little-Mothers looked very grave.) "I was about to speak to her when Ilertha Fitz ran across the street nnd said to her: 'You mustn't hold the bnby like that. You'll hurt him.' And Bertha showed her the light way to hold him. Now can any of you show me the way Ilertha diu it?" Thirty small arms waved frantically in the air. There wns a furious eagerness to shovv hovv the luckless Elsie should have held her baby brother. "Well. Mary," said the teacher, "you show us how the baby should be picked up." Blushing with pride, Mary advanced to the table nnd with infinite care inserted one arm under the'lnrge doll. But in her excite ment she made ,a false start. She used the right arm where the position of the artificial infant demanded the left. This meant thnt h'er other arm had to pass diagonally across the baby in an awkward way. Iinmcdiately beveral of the juvenile audience showed signs of professional disgust. Hands vibrated in nir. Another member of the Little Mothers' League was called upon, und poor Mary took her seat in discomfiture. THEY passed to another topic. One of the members demonstrated the correct way of making the baby's bed. With proud correct ness she disposed the mattress, the rubber sheeting, the sheets nnd blankets, showing how each should be tucked in, how the upper sheet should be turned down over the top of the blanket, so that the wool would not Irri tate the baby's chin. The others watched her with the severity of judges on the bench. The teacher began to ask questions. "Who should the baby sleep with?" she said. One very small girl, copied awny by the form of the question, cried out, "His mother!" The others waved their hnnds. "Well, who should he sleep with?" said Miss Needle. "Himself!" tried several triumphantly. "Why should ho sleep by himself? Rosa, you tell us." Rosa stood up. She was n dark-eyed little creature, with hair cropped .short we will not ask why. Her face worked with the ex citement of putting her thoughts into lan guage, "If he sleeps with his mother she might lay on him and smother him." They all seemed to shudder. It iis as though the unfortunate Infant was perishing before their very eyes. THE Little Mothers' Leagues fire groups of small girls, ranging In ago. from eight to fourteen, who are being (aught the essentials of'cariugi for baMey Hnic, tUs dlrpctio'a-of " "I CAN'T GET 'EM UP' the Child Federation. By the kindness of the Federation, nnd Miss O'Neill, the super visor of public school playgrounds, J was privileged to visit four of these classes tho other nftcrnoon. In three of the schools the children were learning how to put the bnby to bed ; in one they were sitting around a small bathtub studying the technique of the baby's bath. Some of the girls had brought babies with them, for almost all of them nil nt least partly responsible for the care of one or more children. Theic was a moving pathos in the gravity with which these matrons before their time discussed the problems of their craft; nnd yet it wns also the linest kind of a game and they evidently enjojed it heartily. Many of them come from ignorant homes where the parents know next to nothing of hygiene. Their teachers tell of the valiant efforts of these children to convert their mothers to more sanitary wuS effoits which are happily often successful. In one home, where the father wasn tailor, the baby was kept in a room vyhera the pt"ss ing wns done, the nir wns hot nnd heavy with steam. The small daughter, who v us a member of the Little Mothers' League, in sisted on the bnby being removed to niMllicr room. Two children in another bcliool, who had been told of the importance of keeping the baby's milk on ice, tried to make home made ice-boxes, which their fathers, be coming interested, promised to iluisb. for them. ONE wishes that all this might be only an enchanting game for these children, and that it would not.be necessary for them to put " it into practice every day, with tired little arms and, aching backs. He must be stiff-hearted indeed who can watch these gatherings, their tousled little heads and bare legs, their passionate iutentness, their professional enthusinsin, without something of a pang. They know so much of the problems, nnd they are so pathetically small. There is a touching truth in the comment of one teacher in her report: "The girls who had no babies nt home seemed to take greater interest than those that did have." But this is not always so, for nothing could be more enthusiastic than the little essays written by the children themselves, describ ing whnt they have learnt. I cannot resist a few quotations: Xo ono can bo healthy unless she Is extremely clean. Baby will want his bath dally, jvlth soap and warmish water. You should not put to much soap on the baby's faco as It get In the baby's eyes. They ' likes to kick the. water as long as sup port his head. Before starting on this Bwlmmlng expedition, you Bhould have all, her or him clothes, warm, by you, and ho expects a warm 'flannel on your knees to He on. You must carefully dry nil the creases In his fat body for him, with u soft towel, (ltuth Hlgglns, Fifth Grade.) Tho Little Mothers' League has helped mo a good bit in dressing my little baby Bister and I have, en Joyed It ry much and I think It Is a very senclble society. I have l,earnt how to dress the baby In winter and summer. And after It Is done with the bottle It should be boiled. (Helen Potter.) N A baby Is not to be made to walk to soon because he might become bollegged, Some mothers think It Is nice to see the baby walk soon, You should'liever listen to what your neighbor says when your baby Is sick, but Take him to a' doctor. (Anna Mock, S'ixth Grade.) In washing a baby you should have a little .tub to bath It In and when you hear' the doorbell ring you Bhould never let your baby In the tub while you go because many of them get drowned, and you should use castlal soap because that' Is the best, (Marie Donahue, Seventh Grade, age 12.) Hut perhaps most eloquent of all Is what little Mary Itoberts says. Mury Is in the Sixth Grade at the Boker School : "The melancholy days are come The saddtst df the year," la what we all think when the time comes when Tho Little Mothers' League has to break Up for the year. For seven weeks 'we have listened eagerly to what Miss Ford has told us. We all hope TfJas Ford will fome baok to Bkr BchooMiext fall and leawi ihmww ,wn we uuaais, ' ' - f . -vJ ... I I ft THE BATHERS (Withyapolotjics to Wordsworth) T WANDERED, lonely as a cloud That floats on high, o'er sand and lea, C When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of bathers in the sea, Beside the wnves, beneath the foam, Fluttering and dancing, far from home. As numerous ns the stars that shine And glisten in the "Great White Way," They stretch in never-ending line Along the ropes, not far away. Ten thousand saw I nt a glance, Tossing gay heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee. Old Neptune could not but be gay In such a motley company. I gazed and gazed, but little thought What wealth that show to me bad brought. For oft in city's days of rain, In gloomy and in pensive mood, They flashed before my weary brain, Which is the bliss "of solitude, And while St. Swithin fades away I dance amid the bathers gay. Alice W. Mackny, in the New York Herald. What Do You Know? t QUIZ 1. What American judge is known as "The GrancfOld Man of Christian Science"! 2. Who was the father of the daylight- saving movement? 3. What are "nuances"? 4. When was West Virginia admitted into the Union? 5i Whnt American philosopher said, "Next to tho originator of a good sentence 'Is the first quoter of it"? 0. Who wns John Lackland? 7. Which of the states .is known as the Bayou Stute? S. What is the meaning of tho name "Idaho"? 0. What American Invented the sewing " machine? 10. Who is the ambassador to the United States from Peru? Answers to Saturday's Qulr 1. The gypsies, a wandering raco of Hindu origin, call themselves Romany. ' 2. The District of Columbia, the federal district which contains tho national capital of the United States, was formed by cessions made by Maryland in '1788. 3. Joost van der Vondel, dramatist and . poet, the greatest figure In Dutch lit erature, who lived from 1587 to 1070, ' has been called the Dutch Shakespeare. 4. Henry Ward Bcecbcr, in "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit," said: "A repub lican form of government In a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this ono point it is the strongest that ever existed it' has educated a race of men that are men." John Carver was the Puritan leader of the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed in the Mayflower in 1020. Tho president of Franco Is tlected for seven years, by an absolute majority of votes by the Senate nnd Chamber of Deputies united in a National As sembly or Congress. Determinism Is the theory that human action Is not free, but determined by motives regarded ns external force's acting on the will. Germany declared war on Russia Au gust 1, 1014. Musiclanspcak of kettle drums as tim pani. Haggis is a Scotch dish composed of the , heart, lung .aibMiver pfi heV ,Wlld .. 8. 0, 10, S ii At 2 J 1 31 M -SI M xji &", C&VfU " , i "" g-Xl'-tf ;.-? )tff& . . ', rB,r v y n on ,-V u" z - , Z,h 4v- ri ..-v ., ,: - v ." t tx a " l.J yp.VrM. .;-v? 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