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Philadelphia, Urdnr-ilo, July 10. 1410
GET THE STOCKADE READY
TT IS time that the Governor's charter
program to cntch the elephants even
if some of the mice escaped was ap
plied to the North Pcnn bank case.
The mousetrap eems to be in workinp:
order. The little fellows that were used
in looting the bank are being caught.
But it was not the little fellows who
got away with more than $2,000,000.
Their collapse under the public gaze is
sufficient proof, if proof were needed,
that Viey did not have the nerve for big
crimes.
Tho stockade for the elephants the
big fellows ought to be set up without
delay, and the elephant drive should be
gin at the earliest possible moment. And
when they are rounded up they should
get the full limit of the law.
BARKIS MORE WILLIN'
TflREELAND KENDRICK says that if
he should enter the mayoralty race he
would intend to win. He is now looking
over his private business affairs to dis
cover whether he can afford to make the
race. He will know in about a week.
' When Senator Vaie first mentioned him
as the type of man for the place he pro
fessed never to have considered the mat
ter. Apparently he has been considering
it during the intervening weeks and it
looks attractive to him. If he discovers
that his business affairs are in such a
shape that he can run and if he dis
covers that he is still regarded as avail
able we may expect to hear him say
next week that he is an active candidate
and that he will get the nomination hands
down.
In the meantime Senator Vaie is can
nily waiting to learn what the independ
ents are planning to do.
THE DEAD MOOSE
OEARCH for buried treasure in the deep
sea and attempts to disinter the body
of the Bull Moose and breathe the breath
of life into it are enterprises that always
will engage the passionate energies of
the world's greatest optimists.
Treasure is for those who work.
Political leadership is for those who
win it single-handed.
The Bull Moose, roaming the green
places where great hopes go when they
; die, is without doubt glad to be dead and
f free from contact with the hapless wights
in politics who do not know how to lead
or be led.
j The many-toned and hollow incanta-
tions at Harrisburg yesterday and Mr.
Pinchot's hysterical cries to the unan
swering ground show that the Moose is
indeed gone forever.
, Nothing remains to his survivors but
the first word of a composite designation
that once was magic in men's ears.
MUST PROTECT DYESTUFFS
rpHERE is a stiong lobby in Washing
x ton urging that the waitime func
tions of the war trade board be continued
for the indefinite future, so far as thev
affect dyestuffs. The war trade board
has been granting licenses for the impor
tation of dycstuffE that is, the control
over imports is exercised at the discie
fi, tion of an appointed body. This is de-
fensible under the war powers of the gov
ernment. It is an open question, however.
whether Congress has any power in time
of peace to authorize any commission to
regulate imports of dyestuffs or of any
thing else.
The ways and means committee has
been taking testimony for a month in
order to get information for the drafting
of the proper kind of a bill to protect
the dye Industry which has developed
here during the war. Representative
Longworth's measure levying a high
rf tariff on dyes has been the basis of the
M- "l It Is admitted by all the exnerts who
have appeared before the committee that
some forjn of protection for the industry
Is needed. Certain chemists, however,
have testified that the tariff would not
provide adequate protection. Thev rup.
Y ;great the creation of a commission which
jis should have complete control over all dye
Imports, It should decide what dyes
n' Tebuld not be produced here and what
'ehould be admitted, and to what extent
r ' The Chemical Foundation, which has
i t taicen over irom me anen property cus-
i-v -j. odian the German patents for dyes and
' plans to use them in this country, is con-
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".iimeuuB m.nic piuyniiuiLua in oenaii
!4j?jt-tn licensing system. One of its at-
; WMNHeys securea ib signatures 01 a large
W&ter of Philadelphia users of dyes to a
, to Congress. The dye users
a tariff, but in its original form
subsystem wag Mked or. In .the
preference a ijj0ri toflfffIfc
under the impression that It was to ask
for tariff protection rather than for the
licensing system. The advisory board of
the National Association of Hosiery and
Underwear Manufacturers has passed a
resolution condemning the licenses and
asking for a high tariff for the reason
that they wish to be free to buy the dyes
they need wherever they can be obtained
without having to go before a commis
sion to ask for permission to import cer
tain colors.
The license plan should be thoroughly
examined In all its aspects before Con
gress acts. The burden of proof of its
fairness and its constitutionality rests
upon its proponents. But all are agreed
that the dye industry must be taken care
of by the government, so that it can be
developed sufficiently to provide all the
colors that can be made out of coal tar
and its derivatives. This is necessary
not only for the protection of our textile
industry, but for the production of
medicinal drugs.
A NEW MYSTERY OF PARIS
FOR THE SENATE TO SOLVE
The President's Anglo-French Treaty
Should De Rejected First and
Inquired Into Afterward
TT IS the plain duty of the Semite to
reject Mr. Wilson'- Anglo-French
treaty, in letter and in principle, wholly
and without delay. If there is upon tho
majority side in Washington anything of
the patriotism and courage supgestedvjn
earlier dcmonstiations by Mr. Lodge and
his group thi scheme will be dismissed
with little ceremony.
Meanwhile tho President needs to ex
plain not only the exact origin and pur
poses of the1 inci edible document a thing
which he failed utterly to do yesterday.
He has even a greater need to explain
the mental processes that led him to ac
cept a principle .so violently opposed to
all the assurances which united the coun
try in support of his earlier policy.
Unless Mr. Wilson is moving in a
mythical world of his own creation, unless
he continues to disregard the advice of
his associates at Washington, he must
know that the country is being swiftly
disillusioned. It is anxious and it is criti-
cal minded.
There was and is a great idealism in
Arr erica, great hopes, measureless pa
tience and resolution to give stiength to
the Piesident or to any one who will be
a voice speaking the sane and clean de
sires of all mankind. But it must be an
odd experience for those who followed
along trustingly with Mr. Wilson to find
themselves now groping in an atmosphere
of whispers and mystery, evasions and
compromises.
What happened in Paris? Who worked
the magic that brought about a revolution
in Mr. Wilson's spirit? "A new day has
dawned," said the President in hit. letter
to the Senate yesterday. "Old antago
nisms are forgotten!" These phrases
seem thin and almost ironical . . the light
of the document urged, in the same
breath, to the favoring attention of the
Senate.
A new day has dawned indeed! But it
reveals astonishing things at Washing
ton. The old antagonisms are forgotten!
By whom? The very text of the treaty
shows that the old antagonisms are to be
perpetuated and hardened and that new
ones aie to rise with them and keep them
company.
Unless Mr. Wilson is practicing a sort
of strategy too subtle for everyday
minds his convictions the convictions
that nations were willing to give their
lives for didn't survive the Paris confer
ence. The President at first giounded all his
policies upon moral principles. As he
compromised and became expedient he
lost strength. 'And he lost strength not
only among those who believed in him but
among those who didn't. It is this that
may explain the treaty which we arc
asked to make with France and England
in violation of the fundamental principles
of the earlier Wilson doctrine.
There is one way in which the Senate
may instantly reveal the folly and danger
of that proposed agreement. The Senate
should demand that the treaty be rewrit
ten and that new clauses be incorporated
in it to bind France and England to
attack any nation which may be guilty of
unprovoked aggression against the
United States, -say, in the Pacific.
By this simple method the whole form
and puipose of the treaty will be revealed.
The issue will be fieeu from the fogs of
half truths and implications that now
surround it. We shall be in a way to
formal participation in a new three
power alliance. We shall be able to un
derstand the extent of the obligations
which we are asked to assume. It would
not longer be necessary to disguise the
hard and ugly truth in a drapery of sen
timental phrases. f
There is little doubt that France and
England would accept this arrangement
cheerfully enough. A working alliance
with the United States is more than any
ambitious government in Europe ever
dared to hope for in tho past If the
treaty were carried to its logical form we
could delude ourselves no longer with a
belief in the league of nations. We should
have to admit that the league of nations
was an agreeable sham.
As it is, the American people are in
danger of losing both ways. They are
asked to accept all of tho disadvantages
of an armed alliance without any of the
usual guarantees.
Mr. Wilson implies broadly that France
wishes and needs the piotection of a
treaty such as he has proposed. It might
be permissible to inquire of whom the
President is thinking when he speaks of
France. Is he thinking, of the plain peo
ple of France who endured the matchless
agonies of the war,, who made the sacri
fices, who desire only peace? Or does'
he, like so many others, think only of M.
Clemenceau and those who share the
Tiger's theories, when France is men
tioned? ,There is nothing anywhere to indicate
that trie French people wish to see a
revival, of, the old diplomacy on a new
and grands wale. Oar lUave would .not
tiJ'irHi -tlm 'Trrnrli mmnltt' lr Sirn.,.1,1". u
with those In the present French Govern
ment who believe as lif. Clemenceau be
lieves. M. Clemenceau does not share Mr. Wil
son's faith in the league of nations. He
doesn't believe that permanent peace la
attainable. He looks for future wars and
says so with admirable candor, Marshal
Foch expects new wars. He has just
been warning the British to prepare.
And if there is anything upon this earth
that can do more than anything ejse to
encourage such distrust and such hope
lessness it is the sort of document that
the President of the United States has
just presented to the Senate for ratifica
tion. There is no misguided member of n
European government who would not feel
himself newly assured under such an ar
rangement and no clique of mercenaries
bent upon new adventures in commercial
imperialism which would not be newly
heartened by the knowledge that the
three mightiest world powers were armed
for its protection.
Reasoning a little further, it is plain
that France itself that is, the vast, in
articulnte mass of the French people is
consideicd not at all. What Mr, Wilson
proposes to do is to strengthen the pur
poses and the hands of a group of men
who even now are reconciled to the pros
pect of future wars in which tho-o who
know nothing of treaties must inevitably
suffer' and die.
The treaty is one of two things. It is
a sentimental sham that is likely to have
a disastrous effect on opinion among the
restless and dissatisfied peoples, in and
out of tho league of nations, who are not
included in its provisions. Or it is a lint
and frank departuic from the principle
of the league of nations and one that
tends certainly to lead those who make
it into a war against half the world. It
is a new mysteiy of Paris,
As a warning to Germany the treaty is
fantastic and superfluous. Goimany is
done with fighting for a generation at
least. Clemenceau knows this. Mr. Wil
son must have known it. No nation not
composed entirely of madmen, if it were
able to fight, would venture to risk
the organized wiath of the nations in
the proposed league to enjoy a triumph
that could last only during the time re
quired for the coirneil of the league of
nations to meet and take a vote.
On the other hand, the treaty sets a
precedent for alliances within the league
the sort of thing that Mr. Wilson used
to loathe and disdain.
If America, Britain and France can
have separate alliances, why should not
Italy and Japan and, ultimately, Ger
many, have agreements of their own? Is
it to meet the prospect of such alliances
that we are asked to ratify the Anglo
French treaty?
It is a rule of diplomacy that each new
agreement nullifies those that preceded
it Opposing alliances in the league of
nations would put an end to all hopes
that sprang from Mr. Wilson's promises.
And thus the man who has done most to
put life into the league of nations would
have been the first to nudge that grand
scheme on the way to a sorry end.
Once on n time the
Ttefrtin;: to Type Bull Mnop was n big
nnd tPrrifyinB ficure.
IIi "moo'" was loud anil stinnR. Hut Time,
tho ivinipositor. has pied the lino. The
"bull" is now lower rase, and the Moo-e
hns become a mouse.
The two thousand
The Making alien soldiers who have
of American b e n naturalized i n
this eity during the
ln'.t three months will doubtlrxs make good
citi.on. They have learned in n practical
vi linol what Americanism stands for. And
if tlie, have suffered for the country of their
adoption they will loc it the more. Sacri
fice K the mother of patriotism.
The latest report of
I'reparinB for the geological survey
Emergencies -linns incieased pro
duction of coal, but as
jet no indication that there will be enough
to go around next winter. There is short
age of labor. Minrts, moreover, are indis
posed to put in a full week. Also there is
car shortage. On tup of this Canada is buy
ing all the American anthracite she can get.
The careful houschuMer will therefore buy
nn ax and be prepared to break up the fur
nituio for fuel when the cold days come.
As citizens of a great
On the Hot (.. Line nation, the signing of
a petition is the easiest
thing we do: o no surprise need be felt
oer the discowrv that Philadelphia textile
and dyestutf manufacturers have signed a
petition of whiih tliey thoroughlj ilisappro.
They put their .lohn Hiincocks to n document
calling for n licensing commission when what
they A ant is a high protectee tariff. Adopt
ing the motto of "Do or Ilje," they have
permitted thomselios to be "done."
Sergenut D. M. Del
inas. w e a r c r of the
Victoria Cross, is in
jail in Seattle awit
to the TexaR state
(iood Man
Oone Wrong
ing Ids thud trip
penitentiarj to complete a term for having
received funds for a bank knowing it to be
insolvent. Twice he escaped and both times
joined the British army. It is right, of
course, that the law should be enforced but
it would -eem that there ought to be some
better way of dealing with this man than
putting him in jail.
It
'em
may be the "pen" bank for some
of
Local Democrats are now setting up the
pins.
Kvery hat in the mayoralty ring so far
has a string attached to it.
Hight uow we are launching 1000
footers on the installment plan, so to speak.
The penalty for sleeping in a box ear In
this city appears to be ten days In the,
county jail. It is too severe a penalty for
so poor a bod.
I.
Germany is discussing the necessity of a
forced loan of 200,000,000,000 marks. If
Germany had won the war we would be
paying the money.
Germany has been admitted to trade
relations with the rest of the world, but It's
a cinch she won't sell any beer Id this
country,
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The Tulsa, lauuehed at Hog Island Jon
Saturday, wa cbrUtenrd i(h' a. bottlj b
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
"Dud" Eaton Coming Back From
Haiti The Free-Port Plan Not
Favorable to Philadelphia.
Washington Gossip
Washington, July 30.
rpiIII House of Representatives Is preparing
to quit work this week and recess until
about the second week in September. The
members feel that they have gone about as
far as they can to put the government In
running order and to enable the investigation
committer to get down to renl business.
Itollcalls have become an abomination, and In
somo instances nro due to the petulnnce of
some members who do not linve tilings just
ns they want them, Committee work is thus
disturbed nnd no real good is accomplished,
i except to show tip the persistent absentees,
while injustice is done to tnnny faithful
members who get caught in committees or on
departmental work while the rollcalls are
going on. It will be a good thing for every
body to permit the House members to return
lio'nie for a few weeks while the Senate Is
deliberating over the peace treaty. They
can talk to the folks In n way that the news
papers do not. For instance, the eastern
members, if so inclined, can tell their con
stituents whnt the soldier-settlement scheme
means. They enn tell them that this bill,
although'sponsorcd by the Republican lender,
is in substation the scheme of the secretary of
the interior, Mr. Lane, who desires to colo
nize certain western states and bring into
use certain lands that are not attractive to
settlers and which promise to be very ex
pensive to the government. Tliey can tell
their constituents that there is a fierce "pa
triotic demand" for an appropriation of
$.-0O.0n0.nno to begin with, nn appropriation
which will fall upon a few big tax-paying
states, to enable the secretnry of the interior
to buy semi-arid, cut-over and swampy land
so that it may be offered to our gallant soldier
boys on practical terms, including mortgages,
along with the "community settlements,"
and return pajments for stock along, with
"amortization." The secretnry hns spent a
barrel of money booming this project nnd
hns received about 80,000 postcard replies
from the -1,000.000 soldiers to whom the
alluring bait has been held out. lp to date,
so far ns some of the eastern experts who
hnc looked into this soldier-settlement
scheme are nble to divine, about 2 per cent
of the soldiers might be induced to ipiit the
cities nnd the productive fnrms where the
fanners now need their aid to help out with
the project of unloading undesirable land
upon the government nnd the soldiers. But
the proponents of the bill are extremely in
sistent that this is the way to help the
soldier, notwithstanding the soldier himself
has thus far said very little about the matter.
"DTD KATOX is coming back from Haiti,
-- wheie he lived with the marines
"100 miles from nowhere." And Hud's
homecoming is a delight to Mr. nnd Mrs.
Arthur 15. Eaton, of West Philadelphia, who
have been anxiotu about Ids welfare. The
marines who were assigned to Haiti went
lojally, but wore never thoroughly stuck on
the job. The climate nnd the food were
not always desirable and rumor has it that
the s.atlves, with the menacing and ever
ready machete, were not too companionable.
ALT
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'hllnifelphians have been drawn Into the
free -port scheme sponsored by President
Wilson's friend, William Kent, of the Tariff
Commission, considerable opposition is de
veloping to the bill introduced in the House
by former Governor Sanders, of Louisiana.
Kent is from California and has obtained
indorsements for the free-port project from
commercial bodies in San Francisco. Xcw
Orleans is also interested and has joined
hands with the Merchnnts' Association, of
Xew York, which does a great deal of reso
luting to Congress. At a recent meeting
under the auspices of the Merchants' As
sociation a Xcw Orleans man was elected
head of n fiec-port association. Xow comes
Savnnnuh and other southern cities nsking
to be made free ports along with Xew York,
Xew Orleans and San Francisco. The
movement has, become so active that Chair
man Kordney, of the ways and means com
mittee, induced the House to transfer the
Sanders bill from the interstate nnd foreign
Loiiiiiicice committee to the committee on
wajs and menns, which had it when Mr.
Kitchin was chairman, and was afraid, under
Democratic auspices, to bring it out. From
the Washington viewpoint the free-port idea
does not look very favorable for Philadel
phia. Its friends are not friends of the
protective tariff principle, nnd William Bur-
gess, of Trenton, who wns recently before
the ways and menns committee, expressed
the opinion that Republicans do not want to
have an thing to do with It anyhow.
TWITlS. MAUY D. OBDYKE, of Philadel
''' pliin, who "is attached to the Chester
committee on protective work for women
and girls in tho field service' of the United
States interdepartmental social hygiene
board, is a very happy woman. Her son,
Benjamin, lins been admitted to the Xaval
Academy at Annapolis. And there arc sev
eral others who are feeling quite proud of
the boy, including Colonel Ben Obdyke, who
figures at the Manufacturers' Club and who
sometimes looks in at the Master Builders'
Exchange.
A BOND of union between the Pilots' As
socintion for the bny and river Delaware
aud the old United States Coast Guard pre
vails to such an extent that the pilots have
forwarded resolutions suggesting that the
coast guard be taken from tho Treasury
Department and be permanently attached to
the 'Department of the Navy, under which,
according to Captain John P. Virden, presi
dent of the Pilots' Association, it logically
belongs. The pilots think the coast guard
would be happier with the navy and that
a million dollars annually would be saved by
the transfer. The, coast guard has been oper
ating with the navy during tjie war. And
Captain Virden's boys have been co-operating
with both.
HE T'SKD to be colonel, but owing to his
splendid war service is now Brigadier
General Cyrus S, Radford, depot quarter
master of Philadelphia, Like Brigadier
General C. L. McCa'wley, now stationed at
Washington, but who visits along the Main
Line, General Radford has been Interested
in the. development of the Philadelphia sta
tion, and It has certainly grown. If these
officers had their way the marine corps would
occupy a very large part, if not all, of the
new army ciock ana storage piers at Phila
delphia. Both the Army and Navy Depart
ments have been stirred up over this situa
tion. And It develops that tlie future use
of the army port terminals Is being considered
by a committee appointed by the secretary
of war. This committee has not yet reported,
but there is a strong probability that
eventually some provision will be made to
take core of other departments of the gov.
emipent which dpslre storage space on such
extensive army piers as those erected ,at
Philadelphia.
Lieutenant General Liggett, overcome with
emotion at his welcome-home reception, now
knows what Bacon meant 1)y saying,
"Beading maketh a'full men." ' r
There ,l jBcllcatlon that those vho .favoi;
literventlopHja ipi ef ico nave o;i 'ji
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TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morley
The Paradise Special
THE big bus known to thousands of Phila
delphia childten as the Paradise Special
was standing ready at- 1021 Cherry street.
Inside, in one of the large classrooms of the
Friends' Select School, twenty small boys,
each carefully tagged nnd carrying his bundle,
were waiting impatiently. It was half-past
eight in the morning, and the bus was about
to leave for Paradise Farm with the Tuesday
morning consignment of urchins for the sum
mer cnnip run by the Children's Country
Week Association. The doctor was looking
over them and one jpoor youngster wns try
ing to conceal his tears from the rest. The
doctor had found a spot in his throat and he
had a high temperature. He was not to be
allowed to go this week : his turn would have
to come lutcr. They were all a bit Impatient
by this time. Most of them had been up since
half-past five, counting every minute.
I
F YOU 'enjoy a shrill treble uproar, and
find it amusing to watch a busload of
small boys enjoying themselves at the top of
their versatile powers, I recommend a trip on
the Faradise. Special. Throughout the week
the bus is biisj- taking children and mothers
to the various farms and camps run by the
association, but Tuesday morning Is boys'
day. Xot the least amusing feature of the
trip is to watch the expressions of those the
bus passes on the road. It creates n broad
grin wherever it goes. That shouting cara
van of juvenile glee Is Indeed an entertaining
sight.
There were nineteen boys on board when
we left Cherry street nn unusually small
load for the Paradise Special. Others were
going out by train. But nineteen bojs, aged
from seven to thirteen, comprise a consider
able amount of energy. Three or four of
them had been to Paradise Farm before, and
immediately took the lead in commenting on
nil that befell. Mickey Coyle wns erne of
these, lamenting that as he would be thirteen
in September this would probably be his last
visit. "But I'm lucky I ain't dead," he
said philosophically. "I've a brother twenty
j ears old who's dead. He died on my birth
day. He had bronnical pneumonia and ty
phoid and flu."
AVe passed along the Parkway. "This is
a Bollyvard, ain't it?" said one. Entering
the Park, another cried, "Is this the coun
try?" "Sure, them's the Rocky Moun
tains," said Mickey In scorn.
THB first question In the minds of nil the
passengers was to know exactly how
soon, and at what precise point they would
be "in the country." The Park, though
splendid enough, was not "the country."
As we sped along City Line road there was
Intense argument da to whether those on one
side of the bus were In tho country while
those of us on the other side were still in
the city. Another game xthat Beemed to
underlie all their thoughts was that this
expedition was In some way connected with
misfortune for Germany. Every time we
overhauled another car or truck which hap
pened not infrequently, for the Paradise
Special travels at a good clip that car was
set down as German. Every time a Bwift
vehicle passed us we were said to be in
danger of.belug torpedoed. For some period
of time we were conceived to be a load of.
German prisoners who had been captured by
the Yanks. Then agcln one small enthusiast
shouted out that we were "bullsheviks" who
"had been arrested.
vXCE satisfied that we were really In the
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country and they were not quite at
ease on this point until the last of the sub
urban movies had been left belling their at
tention focused Itself on the question, of
apple trees. Even ,so experienced a Country
Weeker as Mickey (this was his fifth visit
to the Farm) was vague on this point. To
a city youngster almost every tree seems to
be an apple tree. And everything that looks
in the least reddish Is a strawberry. Unripe
blackberries along th hedges were hailed
.with tumult and shouting, s strawberrloj,
Fivery cow xUh-tyrM f rtgarded.a )lttl,
lfmuny,i .uv','""l''' inw-
"DEAD RIPE, TOO!!''
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hill was pointed out (from a distance) as a
"statue."
AFTER we passed Daylesford and Green
Tree aud the blue hills along the Schuyl
kill came into view, the cry, "Look at that
scenery!" becninc incessant. Any view con
taining hills is known as "scenery" to the
Country-Wcekers. When the scenery began
eleven-year-old Charley Franklin could con
tain himself no longer. He began to tear off
the clean shirt and new shoes in which his
mother hail sent him from home, and. digging
In his bundle, hauled out a blouse and tattered
pair of sneakers that satisfied his idea of
fitness for the great adventure. He proudly
showed me his small bathing milt, carefully
wrapped up In a Sunday comic supplement.
His paper bag of cookies had long since been
devouied, nnd the question of how soon an
other meal would come his way was beginning
to worry him., Then we turned off the high
road, past n signpost saying Paradise Farm,
nnd they were all -on their toes. The long,
echoing tunnel under the high railway em
b.inkmeut woh greeted with resounding
cheers. More cheers for the swimming hole
just boyoud. We drew up at the foot of a
steep flight of wooden steps leading up the
hill. All piled out with yells. At the top of
the stnirs stood a. rather glum group of forty
similar urchins. These responded without
much acclaim to the applause of the new
comers. They were the batch going home
on the bus. Their week at Paradise was
over
TI7IIEX we left, a few minutes later, the
'arrivals were already tyclng, assigned to
their bunks in the various camp bungalows,
and were looking around exultantly nt the
plentiful "scenery" and evidences of plen
tiful food to come. But the temper of the
returning load was not quite so mirthful.
They ulso had been up since an early hour,
but play had languished as they had put on
their clean clothes dnd had carefully bundled
up their other stores in small newspaper
wrappings. One small cynic told me that he
had learned the necessary connection be
tween greenvapples and castor oil. Another,
with flaming red hair, seemed to hav.c tears
in his eyes. Whether these were due to green
apples or to grief I cpuld not determine. But
the way they all shouted good -by to Mr. and
Mrs. Steel (who have charge of the camp)
showed how they- appreciated their week's
adventure. "Good-by swimming hole!" they
shouted, and then "Good-by snakes!" ex
plaining that they hud killed four small gar
ter snakes In the meadow. They cheered up
greatly when they saw a freight train puffing
along the railway, and It was evident that
we would have a fair race with that train all
the way In to Overbrook. Immediately the
train was set down as a German menace,
and the cheerful chauffeur waslmpored to
do his best for hlscountry. It should 'be
said that we beat the German train to Over
brook by about oae hundred yards.
THE latter part of the ride was nurked by
a Budden panic on the part of the passen
gers concerning sundry nickels and dimes
which seemed to have disappeared. Nathan
Schumpler, aged eight, turned his blouse
pocket InBlde out a dozen times without find
ing the dime be was sure he had had. This,
was a terrible blow, because he told me be
had lost a quarter through a crack In the
porch the day before. This started all the
others exploring. Knotted and far from
clean handkerchiefs were hastily untied to
make sure of the precious coinage for home
ward carfare. At last Nathan found his
dime, In the very pocket he had been turning
upside down for fifteen minutes. When
they got back to Cherry street they were
overjoyed to find a number of toy trains and
tracks waiting on the floor. Sly last sight
of 'the Country-Weekers was whea they were
playing with these while their guardians
checked off their lists and made sure that
each had carfare to take him home aud knew
how'to get there, "res," said the chauffeur,
ftB jim" Kirw; (jum-meu mem uis-
e,r,-ttw K.gfl.lHmcfl.ViiHt, K you
LIFE
WHAT'S life? A story or a song; '
A race on any track ;
A gay adventure, short or long;
A puzzling nut to crack ;
A grinding task ; a pleasant stroll ;
A climb ; a slide down hill ;
A constant striving for a goal;
A cake ; a bitter pill ;
A pit where Fortune flouts or stings;
A playground full of fun;
With many any of these things;
With others all in one.
What's life? To love the things we see :
The hills that touch the skies;
The smiling sea ; the laughing lea ;
The light In womnn'B eyes ;
To work, and love the work we do ;
To play a game that's square ;
To grin a bit when feeling blue ;
With friends our joys to share;
To smile, though games be lost or won ;
To cam our daily bread ;
And when at last the day is done
To tumble into bed.
GRIF ALEXANDER.
If the Mason suitcase was stolen by a
common or garden variety of sneak thief he
probably got the surprise of his life.
And speaking of contractor government
the Town Meeting party has a pretty big con
tract on its hands.
When "Dave" Lane says tho Mayor
should have "gastronomtcal ability" he
probably said a mouthful. And no candidate
should bite off more than he can chew.
What Do You Know?.
QUIZ
1. Whnt Is a hookah?
2. What is a glockenspiel?
3. What and where is Old Faithful?
4. Who Is Sir Roger d Coverley?
5. What packers are known as the Big
Five?
6. Who was It said, "The mystery of his
tory is an Insoluble problem"'?
7. Who was Anne Hathaway?
8. Which of the states Is known as the
Hawkeye State?
0. How did Pall Mall, London, get Its
came?
10. When did the Germans destroy Louvatn?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz '
1. Lagnlappe is an article added gratis' to a
purchaser to encourage custom-j any
complimentary present from, a dealer
to a customer.
2. Huanuco Is a town in Peru, the capital
of a department of the same name,
in the Andes, 170 miles north-northeast
of, Lima.
5. A grig Is a sand eel or a cricket. "Merry
ns a grig" may have meant "Merry
as a cricket." Other authorities have
It that the phrase was originally
'Merry as a Greek."
4. Yale University was named for Eltbu
Yale, born in Boston in 1048. He
became governor of Madras and died
In 1721.
6. "Peter Pindar" was the pseudonym of
John Wolcot, M. D. (1738-1810),
humorist and satiric poet. It was also
assumed by O. F. Lawler, a later
writer.
6. BlrJtobertWalpolesald, "The gratitude"
of place expectants Is a lively sens
of future favors."
7. The Andaman Islands He in the Bay of
Bengal, 120 miles from Cape Nejrsls ,
in Burma, the nearest point on the
I mainland.
8. A canun is a Turkish cither.
0. Rotten Row is a road in HydcPark.i .'
, London, a fashionable reeort fM rldiaf'',,!5
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