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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-
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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?
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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.
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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
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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
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