E22j25eE2SESE-23 ; if U f tf.- 'vV-F If ' " r 3. kSft. a Fr-iV If" , Tftg- .PSPPTaPT Izuenmg public lEefcger PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY ..c.5frlt ", tudtngton. Vice rreeldentt John C. Martin, Btcretarr ,nj Treasurer! Thlllp S. Collins. John H. Williams John J. Hpurgeort. Directors. i-oiToniAL. DOAnD: , Cues It. 1C. Cmns. Chairman DAVID E. SMILEY . ,...,. .editor JOIIM C, MAnTINt... general Business Manager Published dally at Praila LawiM Building. Independence Square, l'htlatlelphla Atlantic Citi rrr-lito nulldlnc New oik so Metropolitan Toner Ditcoit 701 Ford rtulMlnr St. Lotia... .. inns milertnn nulldlng Chicago 1301T rrttmas Building news inmnAUS: TVasntNGToN' TJeauAO. N. 13. Tor. Fennsjlvanla Ave. and Hth Rt. Nittr TonK It hkau ..The Sun llulldlne London Uoutiu London Times St'BTRIPTlON TEHMS The EYrMNrt rinun Lrnnita Is served to sub scribers In Philadelphia and surrounding- touns at the rate of twelve (12) cents per week, payable to the rarrler. . Ir nail o points outside of Philadelphia. In the United fttatea. Canada, nr ttnltrrt Mates mi. Canada, or United Mates nos ci tni J.ii.k. . . Li- - . .- fHHinns, lyiiinrn irp. niiv 11111 wnn nr ttirti sstnns, postage free, fifty (SW rents p-r month. n i.'n ""'inn ti jvnr. gwrtciio in Binnnrr, To a!1 foreign countries one (II) dollar per month KoTirr Subscribers wishing address chanced rnust clve old as well as new address BELL. 1000 WALNUT KEYSTO'SE. MAIV 3000 1 r C7 AddreaM aU communlcatoa fo Fventntr rubtlc Lcttotri Independence .Square. Philadelphia. Member of the Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED WESS is etclu lively entitled tn the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local noes publishcl therein. All rights of lepubtication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. rhlUJrlphli. Tnur.J.r, Jul, 31. 1914 NOW PUT 'EM IN JAIL Mc ORE quickly than was expected, the Supreme Court has sustained the de cision of the Superior Court that the men convicted in the Fifth Ward Frog Hollow case are not entitled to a new trial. The full bench hearing the case decided unani mously that no errors had been made by the lower court sufficient to justify upset ting the verdict. The convicted policemen should now be hastened to jail to receive the punish ment which is their due. And they should be removed from the police force without further delay. Lieutenant Bennett, one of the con victs, has been allowed to wear his uni form anJ perform his duties ever since the original verdict, to the disgrace of the whole police force of the city. The decision of , the Supreme Court comes at an opportune moment, just when the city Is on the eve of a mayoralty campaign with its registration of voters and primary elections. It means that there is such a thing as law which must be respected even by political gangsters. INSANE? ".Mr. Coles, who is emplo.vcd in the Insane department of the state." Sheriff Hnnsley, in his outcry against the committee of one hundred. CHERIFF RANSLEYought to be more explicit. Does he refer to the Legis lature? Mr. Coles was never employed in the Legislature. There is no. other department of the state government which docs not claim to be normally ra tional. There are unofficial and sometimes obscure groups which function mys teriously in a sort of dim relationship with the government of Pennsylvania after a manner that might justify the suspicion of transient aberrations. Among theso are the marching clubs. Did Mr. Coles ever work for a marching club ? Or did he hold a job of some sort with that other tragic group which moves on the edge of things at Harrisburg waiting through the rolling years for politicians to keep their promises and, by keeping the Capitol personnel cheerful, helps to mitigate the heavy burdens of state? TRESPASSERS OF THE AIR W1 THEN a judge 200 years ago ruled that a land owner held proprietor ship from the center of the earth to the skies aboe he exercised an imagination that embraced all future contingencies. What was then considered largely a figure of speech Is now the solid basis of an ordinance to be drafted in Chicago to prohibit flying over the city. The ordinance, a direct outcome of the loss of life following the destruction of a dirigible balloon, will likely be followed by similar ordinances all over the coun- tfy. STILL ANOTHER ALLIANCE? TTTHATEVER else may be said of the " troubled governments in Europe, it must be admitted that they know how to keep up with the style. Italy has asked for a separate alliance with France. A little while ago there were belligerents in Italy who openly threatened the French with future vio lence because of the Fiume decision. The latest proffer from Rome may be but a sign of returning friendship. But it shows, too, that the rage for separate alliances within the league of nations has spread swiftly since Mr. Wilson gave his support to an independent Anglo-French treaty. In these columns yesterday we sug gested that the old diplomacy is becom ing new again. Corroboration of that theory comes from Prime Minister Nitti even more quickly than we expected. AFTER RENT PROFITEERS rpHE internal revenue collector has been - reading to some purpose the news paper'reports of landlords who have been demanding that their tenants move out or buy the house at a fancy price. Many of the tenants have bought rather than be turned into the street The collector is having the real estate transfer books examined in the City Hall to discover who has made a profit in sell ing houses. He plans to compare the evidence of profit which he finds on rec ord with the income-tax returns of the various persons and so get after them if they have not made an honest report of their winnings subject to tax. This will be gratifying news to every tenant who has been held' up by 'a profiteering landlord. The real estate assessors in a western city are after the rent profiteers in a rmilar ",vay; TJiey are asking every ten wt whose rent has been raised to com- i-i-; ... ; .. ..... munlcato with them, that they may use the Increased rental as the basis for an increase in the assessed taxable value of the property. They apparently think that the man who adds $5 a month to the rent of a house that has been let for $20 ought to turn over part of the money to' the city treasury in taxes. The point raised is a nice ono and worth commending to the attention of the tax authorities. MOBS MISREPRESENT AMERICA; DO THEY BELIE OTHERS, TOO? We May View Other Countries More In telligently Through the Smoke at Chicago and Washington rpO SPEAK of the street fights and tho -- gunplay in Washington and Chicago as race riots is to put a wrong interpreta tion upon the ancient curse of mob psychology. A mob is a mob. It has no mind, no courage, no rational motive based upon race prejudice or any reasoned objective. In action it represents nothing but the primeval brute that still persists beneath a thin veneer in familiar types of sub normal men and women of every race and color always ready for a fling when the odds arc heavily upon its side. It was. a mob that cast helpless men and women, strikers into the deserts at Bisbce, Ariz. It was a mob of strikers in Chicago that defied its leaders yesterday and shouted "To hell with the public!" The mob that wrecked the office of a New York newspaper which happened to be a propagandist of unconventional po litical opinions did not act upon knowN edge, convictions or a sense of patriotism. It was the usual aggregation of cowards made suddenly reckless by a knowledge of the advantage that goes with over whelming numbers. Mobs do not react to racb antipathies alone. They burned women in Massachu petts. They started religious riots in Philadelphia and destroyed churches. They harass Jews in Poland, Americans in Mexico and Socialists in Now York with equal violence. They will riot about anything or nothing. Race hatred was merely incidental to the fights in Chicago and Washington. In the unprovoked aggression by white men and the savage reprisals of the negroes mob psychology, the will to destroy that overleaps civilized restraints wherever mental defectives happen accidentally to gather in force, was clearly apparent. For America the circumstances of the riots in the two cities would be particu larly unfortunate at this time, even if it were not for the manifest injustice in volved for a loyal and warm-hearted peo ple whose great misfortune it is to be misunderstood. The negroes in Washington who at tacked white women and thus gave the mob an fexcuse for action have not been caught. In Chicago none of the white men who stoned a negro child to its death has been arrested. For the moment at least our pretentious ultimatums to the lesser peoples of the earth must seem pitifully futile. Congress is again sol emnly warning- Mexico that the lives of American citizens must be protected at all costs. What of the American citizens, white and black, who have been shot to death within sight of the Capitol on Penn sylvania avenue? The fact is that for some unknown rea son the mob spirit happens now to be pretty active everywhere in the world. The outbreaks in Chicago and Washing ton ought to hae a sobering effect on the hot-blooded Americans who would whip this country into war to put down in Mexico the sort of violence that we seem unable to prevent in the United States. What of our brusque rebukes to the Bolsheviks for their occasional shoot ings? Can we speak with the same au thority from now on ? There is no way of knowing what is said in Russia or India or Germany or Mexico of the recent outbreaks in this country. But it is easy to imagine that similar reports from abroad would set a lot of complacent Americans to talking of "peoples unfit for self-government." We should have jingoes bellowing from the housetops for the fleet and for armies of invasion. There is talk, of course, of investiga tions in Congress. Congress is always ready to oblige with an investigation. But it did nothing when streams of negro laborers, unfitted by training and tem perament for the life of industrial cities, were being directed into northern war factories by employment agents who de populated southern farms for the head tax which they were able to collect for jobs. It was plain that there would be confusion when these men suddenly found themselves in unfamiliar territory, out of work, threatened with hunger and penned in the overcrowded slums of cities whose ways and standards were strange to them. Congress calmly wiped the federal employment service out of existence, thus abolishing an agency that might have been able to deal intelligently and sys tematically with the growing problem of those homeless and migratory negroes who usually are at the root of the trouble in Chicago and elsewhere. There is a race problem in America. It is acute and it is pressing, but no one doubts that it will be solved sooner' or later. Only oversensitive whites and oversensitive blacks make it cause for fear or violence. To hate a negro because of his color alone is to manifest a profound and cruel ignorance of a race that has fine virtues and talents of its own. If we do ribl yet know how to utilize all that is generous, flexible and promising in the negro character, the fault is not alto gether ours. The negro has been set down, largely against his will, in a coun. try that has not yet been able to find a -suitable place for him. It is impossible to believe that the ver satility of the negro.ihis quick sympathy, his willingness to accept direction and leadership will not win him a right to peace and liberty and respect In the United States. No good American can think of the service of colored troops in France or of the number of them who died in the war gy.i"-aiai EVBNINlG POTLIO LEDGER and then view the outbreaks at Washlngx ton and Chicago without a pang of shame. Mobs, white or black, that march shoot ing in the streets are not concerned with the race problem such as it is. They do not represent one race or the other nor is any shade of rational opinion responsi ble for their raids. They act upon an impulse that is as old as the jungle a hatred of order and a thirst for violence that have nothing to do with right or wrong. They reflect a motiVethat all civilization has had to fight ftom the darkness upward, for they move 'Only in ignorance, passion and cruelty. They represent an element in life that isp posed to nil that is best and decent in America or n civilization. " The police in Washington were ineffi cient. The police in Chicago were ineffi cient It is only by force, applied with out mercy at the very beginning of a mob movement, that order and decency can be maintained. The way to deal with a mob is to knock it on the head before It gains momentum. This we have not learned to do in America. We may consolo ourselves with the knowledge that the riots weie manifesta tions of an abnormal mood that is not at all characteristic of America. We may profit if we learn by the ex perience of the last few weeks to view the work of mobs elsewhere in a similar light. It may save us endless trouble. DID THE EXAMINERS EXAMINE? MOYER and Colflesh have revealed enough of what went on in the North Penn Bank to make every bank depositor throughout the state wonder how it was possible for a bankrupt institution to deceive the examiners of the banking de partment and remain in business for many months after its resources were vir tually exhausted. The assets of the bank, according to the statement made early in June, were about $2,500,000. It is now said that it has a shortage of $2,144,000. This short age did not arise between early June and the date when the doors were closed by the banking department. Wfyat sort of examination was made when the state examiners visited the bank periodically? It was either very superficial or the shortages were covered up with .almost incredible skill on the books. The truth must be discovered, no mat ter who is hurt The crime of taking the deposits of tho innocent public and then making way with them differs in no whit from the crime of holding up a man on the street in the dark and rifling his pockets. The banking method of high way robbery is a little more complicated, that is all. Of the $2,000,000 shortage, it is esti mated that about one-half may be recov ered. This leaves $1,000,000 that has dis appeared. It is up to the courts to prove that the men who steal $1,000,000 are not immune to punishment. The quicker the punishment is inflicted the more whole some the lesson will be. But there is an explanation due from examiners who obviously did not exam ine, or they would have had some ink lings of the looting. KING PENNY THE Philadelphia mint is daily turning out the wages of three million John nies. Johnny, the Margery Daw poet tells us, makes only'a penny a day because ho can work no faster. And with an out put three million times as large the mint is in the same fix as Johnny; for, working as fast as it can, it is still 80,000,000 pen nies behind the demand. War-time taxes did it. The trouble began when a certain impecunious cuss tried to borrow seven cents 'to buy a nickel's worth of chocolate. Then the theatres and movie houses did their bit Time waswhen the copper cent was no better than the thirtieth part of nothing at all. But mark the change the war has brought aboutl Today the penny is king! It was dead against "Human Interest" the rules set down by the investigators of the North Penn, but when n woman touched the heart of a big cop he called the receiver and hpoke his mind, and the woman got the Liberty Uond she was after. Yes, Indeed! It never fails. The house of correc Bfflclency in tion is the richer for Panhandling a pair of skilled psy chologists. A police man found one of them holding a hat into which the other at inteivnls dropped a coin, his example being followed bj those who caw nnd admired. A local magistrate pro moted them. The Windy City has become the Shindy City The wise politician builds a protecting wall with the bricks that are thrown at him. Common sense inoculation is the only wy of staying the race-hysteria epidemic. Hy the time he meets all the tenatois, the President may be a pretty good mixer. Hig as $120,000,000 worth of food seems, it loses its importance ns a "market breaker" among a hundred million people. Wonder if there isn't an I. W. W. agi tator concealed somewhere around Chicago? - r- For grace and polso nothing could ex ceed a" "gesture of renunciation" if Japan can only be induced to make it. One may sympathize with France's jumpy nerves without feeling called upon to administer a special-treaty dose. War is a brutal Kme, and the con gressional Investigation shows that it de veloped a lot of brutes. In Bplte ot the declaration of some mfscgamlsts that the marital state strongly resembles things martial, one has to reverse "it" to make it so. The exportation of whisky following prohibition suggests the story of the woman who felt that her jewelry vras dragging her i to perdition, so she gave it to her. sister. 'vvr "PL '" fl"P HlUABEEPKtA, THUR&DkY, JVqtf "Sttflfljto ( THE GOWNSMAN The Rubber Plant WR NTVEIt knew that dear old Cousin Sarah had nn enemy In the world until 'somebody gave her a rubber plant. To our Inquiries, rIio was reticent. No, Counin Thomas, Sarah's himband, hnd not given It to her. Wo confess that we had alnnys thought better of Thomas than that. The person wp bad once owned the plant was now dead, that much she vouchsafed. Rubber plants are like faithful spouses; only death can divorce them from those Into whose lives they have once entered. There It was, the straggling, sickly, yellow, potted Incubus, occupying Aunt Sarah's best, sunny win dow, orrogantly taking up n quarter of the room, blocking ohsenatinn, curtailing the freedom of childhood. And for want of facts, we imagined n romance. The tin Ifnonn sometime possessor of the rubber plant was once a dangerous young beauty whom Couslu Thomas had jilted for good and sufficient reasons in his jouth. She, of course, had never .married, but had taken to herself a rubber plant. And oh, the malignancy of woman! had waited cun ningly until death was upon her to plant her lilng curse, so to speak, upon Cousin Sarah, her successful rhal. A ItUHHKH plant Is not a place where they " manufacture motor tires, or rubber shoes, popularly known ns "gums," or hot water bottles, or even chewing gum. A rub ber plant Is not an affair metaphorical, but only too real an entity of the vegetable kingdom, possessed of a certain dependent nialexolcnce of disposition, when potted and taken Into the familj, which .offers a strong argument in favor of a belief in the powers of ratiocination In plants'. Somebody dis covered the other day thnt plants hae feel ings nnd suffer under emotion. To say noth ing of the sensitive plant, that vegetable touch-me-not, strawberries hntet to be han dled nnd loathe being eaten. Carrots and turnips nre all cut up in their nerves before the knife touches them, and it is a clear case of defensive retaliation which causes onions to bring the cook to tears. Now, the rubber plant has a place, in some impene trable Venezuelan jungle, where lizards, serpents nnd scorpions may sociably crawl over it and monkeys and macaws caper and scar in its branches. We pan conceive of n rubber plant, grown a sturdy tree, its widespread branches leaning over some muddy tributary of the Amazon, dropping Its leaves in the tawny flood, to be swirled nwny among alligators nnd busy, noisy wnter-fowl to the monarch of all rivers. Hut a rubber plnnt in n parlor, boxed In and hooped about, its roots pebbled over! No wonder it straggles and grows to every known point of the compass nnd every degree of the zenith. No wonder it mopes nnd exacts tjittcntion, sulks and degenerates into the family nuisance, about which the sweetest tempered can speak only in terms of asperity. TTAS the reader eer known of nny one A-J- who has purchased a rubber plant? If there were ocr so deluded a mortal, where could such n thing be bought? You may buy a rose bush, or a cherry tree; even shade trees, siznbly progressed toward maturity, are purchasable for such as hove the purses to pay for them. Hut a rubber plant is not to be acquired by purchase. A rubber plant is bestowed, donated, unloaded, left malice prepense by will; nnd unless jou are vigi lant, jou mny wake some morning to find thnt n rubber plnnt has been wished upon jou. When this happens, your obligations arc obvious. You must be grateful to the donor, full of admiration for the plant, about the beaut, development, foliage of which j on must be fully prepared for some polite perjury. Then ou must nrrange to have the thing transported thnt was the chief nnson why it was wished upon you a wheelbarrow, n enrt. a double team, per haps n truck or moving van, mny be neces sary, but in nny case ou must deprecate the idea that it is the slightest trouble, lastly, the thing must be placed in our .favorite southern window rubber plants are as nvariclous of a place in the sun as was ever the Herman emperor spoiling the room, obscuring pictures, necessitating a rear rangement of the furniture nnd a general placotlon of the tempers of your Lares and Pennies which hnvp been fltictnrnrl f .it.. trnction by the arrival of this vegetable dis- lurDcr oi me serenity ot households. TVTOnK domesticate and house-loving folk " than Cousin Sarah nnd Thomas it would be difficult to imagine. So what was our amazement, last fall, to be informed that both had tlitted south. All we had was a brief note of regret nnd the request that we look nfter the rubber plant during their absence. "To make things convenient" for us these were the very words the plant had been left with their next-door neighbor, on the solemn nssurance and who could doubt It? that it was Bhortly to be called for. How we postponed that evil day, until we were really ashamed; how, remember ing Cousin Sarah's injunction that we must intrust the removal to no mere mover man, we selected a dark night and went, the two of us, man nnd wife, with a little wheeled truck, such ns they wheel boxes nnd trunks on ; nnd how we got the thing nnd wheeled it through the silent streets, the wheeler corrected for occasional profnnity by his as sistant all these things nre subject for an epic. And never were the electric lights so brilliant, never did Ihe streets seem so ani mated, nnd seldom have we met and been greeted by so many of our neighbors. SPUING came, and our truant lelatives reluctantly returned nnd. calling, viewed us and the rubber plant. The assistant, not that she loved rubber plants less but that she loved Cousin Sarah more, had faithfully tended the tiling, its sometime yellow leaves were all fallen and new, green, varnished ones had budded out; it had straddled wider and In several new directions, it had out grown its narrow pot. And Cousin Sarah sweetly said: "I think, dear, that you de serve something for nil the trouble which you have taken, Thomas nnd I have deter mined to let you keep our lovely rubber plant; it seems fo thrive so well with you." Whether a mob be black or white, it is usually black-hearted and white-livered. Will the Entente powers be willing to swap a Franco-American treaty for a frank American treaty, one of our own framing? Wireless communication has again been established between America and Germany. But being on speaking terms does not neces sarily mean any warm friendship. It is at once a significant and a heart ening sign of the times that Vanderllp and Gompers play the same tune on the same Pipe. The former German emperor gays he put his whole soul Into the church in Posen. This Is tough on the church in Posen, but explains an evident lack in the kaiser. There are only 02,000 tons of ice now on hand, says the secretary of the ice con servation committee of the Department of Health and Charities Well, what tht householder gets for ten cents these days isn't going to eat into that pile to very, very much. THE CHAFFING DISH The Victorian Poet In His Rondotage T AM too old to be ensnared -- Hy formless verse. For I firs.t aired My boyish lyre in Dobson's rule, And taught myself in that strict school To have my stanzas filed and pared. H OW hopelessly for rh mes J stared ! But chipped and polished till I bared The finer grain. Discard my tool? I am too old. T VOTE for verses crnftsmnn-cared Lnndor'd, Dobson'd, Pc la Mare'd; For rhyme Is still the quiet pool Where Beauty Is reflected. You'll Agree (as many have declared) I am too old. When the millstone Is finally hanged about the neck of the chief culprit in the North Penn Bank affair nnd he is cast into a nice, cool oubliette, it would be appropriate to carve the stone's perimeter with milled edges. Maids, Wives and Widows The Romance of an Easterner From the West By Harry Levenkrone CHAPTER 3 FTER wo left the sheriff and the bandit tn his hands Later flndlne out that he was sen tenced tn he executed Immeadlately and was ex ecuted This save u a ploe of work less and nls blood wiped off our souls "What Is tho matter with you?" I asked from Mahel ...."Yl" " '" thl"- r want our help to unearth this Mark mjstery for me," "Let me hear It. If jou please" I said. "Well to herln with my sister and brother-in-law left for New York two months aim and told me to take care of tho ranch I have done eenthlnsr they have told ma but I have received no answer to mv letters and no word from them. "What shall I her sentence nas broken off by the rapping- on the door and 1 aald "Come In " The door opened and an old grav haired man aald In a very weak voice, "T'ffram for you Miss," "I took It from him and slffned lor It and pave her the telegram. "Its from tho President of the Railroad " she said "I wonder what he wants from me?" She looked It over and read out loud so that I nould hear as follows: New York City, May 10th To Mts Mabel Kaser. Coutney Valley, Madam: Sorry to Inform ou of an accident two months aso of which jour sister and brother:ln-law were killed We Just discovered that you were the nearest relative and so are letting; )uu know that they died In the Limited Wreck and are burled In the Cemeterj'. New York. Yours respectfullj. President of the Railroad. Rhe fulnted as ahe nnlshed the laat part and I i a . .vrl 41m. Vi-lnvtnir her t.acl tn life. After a while Bhe said feebly. "Am I atlll llvinif after that awful train wreck, Its made wreck out of me already?" . Vfaa Dnri r 11 m the one who feela sorry. I said "and if you will permit me I will take jou to jour room and jou can go to sleep for a while until jou rest." "No. no." she said and stamping her foot on tho floor that made tho floor sink an Inch. "Welt then what ts there left for us to do before we get down to serious business? I said. "Nothing only I have an Idea that this Is not true "I hope so myself," e forcettlng that I was Id I but for one minute till a stranger In a B,r"l"'haveU.ome things you ought to-.ee." ahe said nnd went after them She returned shortly with a obacco box. What Is that your carrying?" I " . "It was my sister's treasure box and says. "oninSn my death." Do jou think It is aafe to OP?"'". -. . -.i I er.am." ' 11 IS aS Bait, IWl rnii.il .- All rlgTK open It." she said (To be continued) Literary Notes We have never been able to Bee any one eating baked onions without a shudder, be cause they recall the hr-aches of our youth, which were usually doctored with a baked- onion poultice. Hut there are niwuys com pensations. We first read "Treasure Island" when we were about eight years old, and it was given us to , allay the pangs of a misery In our car. A faint fragrance of roasted onion still adheres to that Btory whenever we read It again. Speaking of "Treasure Island," Steve Header is writing a pirate story nnd is going to sriend his vacation at Stone, Harbor In order to get some oceanic local color in the concluding chapters. But the real pirate story that no one has yet written will have a hotel hat-check bandit as leading heavy. It may be indiscreet, but we can't resist letting Joe Hergeshelmer know bow high his autograph is rated among collectors. Not long ago at a second-hand bookstore we ran across a copy of "The Three Black Pennys," one of Joe'ir novels, which he had genially inscribed to an editorial friend. We think it will Interest Joe to know that the book seller was holding this volume as a literary rarityjat the.price of five bones. Without - .. .. t . . - ' - - - ? - finger. Prints'? ' ' "-'". V the autograph It would have been sold for perhaps sixty cents. Therefore, Joe's fist is worth about $-1.40 per signature at present rates, and we hope he will write to us fre quently. It should be explained that the book had been stolen from the desk of the gentlemnn to whom Mr. Hergeshelmer had given it. We were pleased to be able to pass it back to the rightful owner. And not to seem too prodigal, It must also bo said that we made such n hullabaloo about the price of the nutographed book that the bookseller, In disgust at our parsimony, gave it to us for nothing. This was not because the book was not worth what' he asked for it, but because he was tired of seeing us around. Marathon Notes By Our Suburban Correspondent Bill Stltes Is reported to have had very tragic fortune In his garden this season. A large rabbit of provocative mien said by some to be a Belgian hare was found nlbbllnsr the tender foliage of Bill's fa vorite lettuce plant. Bill took aim with the fa-nous double-barreled fowling piece. After the uproar was over the rabbit had vanished unhurt; but alas, the powerful weapon had blown out the brains of the only head of lettuco in the garden. Pred Myers is alleged to have tho finest crop of tomatoes seen In Marathon for many a year. It is even said that seeds men hae been making offers to, take color photos of these magnificent creatures for reproduction on tho covers of catalogues. Fred has bought a set of awnings, and there Is some doubt whether these are to shade the house,' or to shelter the toma toes from Honk Harris's hen, Hank Harris, the well-known commuter, has recently returned to Marathon from his holiday at BushkllL Mr. Harris, -who was already well known in Bushklll, increased the universal esteem In which his talents were held by succeeding in capturing a posse of small pigs which had escaped from confinement, and which no ono else was fleet enough to catch. These pigs were finally overpowered by H. S. Harris in a country graveyard, after much skip ping and vaulting among the stones. It la said by some of Mr. Harris's asso ciates that his long experience In catching the 8:13 train at Marathon stood him In good stead on this trying occasion. As to Mustaches THE other day we shaved off a mustache that in Its three-year career had Incurred nothing but obloquy. It hnd never been ap preciated by any one but our seven-month-old daughter. It had been a source of dis satisfaction to the one who had the best right to complain, and we determined not to let a little thing like a mustache come be tween us. And, finally, it had been referred to In public prints as a "haywagon." While going through the last sad rites we began to think about mustaches In general, mustaches In song and story and legend. The nicest and untldiest mustache In literature, we trow, was that of Axel Heyst, the mel ancholy Swede in Joseph Conrad's novel "Victory." Of Mr. Heyst Conrad says "his smile lurked behind his mustache like a sby bird In a thicket." We have not time nor courage to go into this matter with full candor, but It seems to us that the Hp-wblsker Is on the toboggan. Charley Chaplin has razed his little nostril pads. Woodrow Wilson gave his drooper the adieu many years ago because It was mocked by Irreverent maidens at Bryn Mawr. Every small boy yearns to raise a mus tache at Borne time or other. In our own case the yearning was intense when we were about twelve. The passionate eagerness of the young male to attain to the glory of shaving is rarely appreciated. He usually begins by surreptitiously borrowing his father's razor and shaving off some of the golden down orl his forearm. If discovered, he Is told not to do so 'and that scraping off the hairs will make them grow again thick and bristly. Enchanted by this prospect, he perseveres. We ourself, long before we reached our teens, industriously shaved a natch on our ana. for a long t'me, thinking that perhaps in that way we would raise a I mustacne in wbi. uuuiuo imitt: sou ucorae the glory of the school. The briefest biography of a mustache is the following: liaised Unpralscd ' Hazed. SOCRATES. THE PEACEMAKER TTPONhis will he binds a radiant chain, ' s- For Freedom's sake he Is no longer free. It is his task, the slave of liberty, With his ow n blood to wipe away a stain. That pain may cease, be yields his flesh to pain. To banish war, he must a warrior be. He dwells it. night, eternal dawn to see, " And gladly dies abundant life to.gain. ', What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags arc fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. - Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled And has for captain Hira whose thorm breathed head Smiles fioiu the Cross upon a conquered world. Joyce Kilmer, in "Poems, Letters and Es says." The machines having been attended to, outo drivers should be equipped with safety devices. Most of the rioting In Chicago"' was started by boys and young men. Youth initiates more problems than it settles. The utility ofv, the inquiry being con ducted by the Gcrmnn National Assembly concerning responsibility lor the war will demonstrated only when punishment is meted out to the offenders. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. How did Kotten Row, in Hyde Park, London, get its name? 2. Who was Plato? 3. Who said "All free governments ar I party governments"? 4. What Is euphony? 0. What Alexandrian grammarian was , known as Grammaticornm PrlnceA? 0. What is fluorine? 7. What city is known as the Gate of the South? 8. What Is the estimated populatio '"Hf Philadelphia? I 0. What English dramatist wrote "I Eyed Susan; or, All in the Down 10. What celebrated group of-rocks is k as the Trofile? I Answers to Yesterday's Quiz I 1. A hookah is a pipe with a long, flexible i tube, smoke being drawn through water In a vase to which the tube andt j a tobacco bowl are attached., L 2. A glockenspiel is an instrument con- J ststing Of bells attuned to the diatonic" S scnle and played by a keyboard attach- 1 ment. It is also an organ stop of two ranks. " 3. Old Faithful Is one ot the individual geysers in Yellowstqne National Parkr with a jet reaching from 125 to 1C0 fccT, 4. Sir Roger tie Covcrley is the chief character in the club professing to write the "Spectator." He was sketched by Steele and developed by, Addison. i 5. The packers known as the Big Fire are r, Swift, Armour, Morris, Cudahy and Wilson. ' 0, Henry Ward Beecher said ''The mys tery of history Is an insoluble prob lem." '7. Anne Hathaway was the wife' of Wil- liam Shakespeare. ", 8, The Btnte of Iowa is known as the - Hawkeye State, in allusion to a famous " Indian chief at one time a terror to -the settlers there.. 0. Pall Mall, London, derives. Its nam ' from a came once nlnred there. ml tM still played In. out of the way corners1 In Italy. The game got Its name frow Palla, a ball, and Mella, a mallet.n 10. The Germans destroyed Louvaln Augwt ' 1 ' n a y'A I y " i-.ifc--. - J . ' . ., ' " i. if'e "... ( . 'Amj&.l zmAl ' I ,1 fc . . ,i ' e '' ?&.,
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers