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A npnis oj repvoiiranon or ipe-rmi ma patches herein are also reserved. PMldelDhla. Frldas. Augutt I, 11)10 FINANCIAL NOSE-DIVERS rpHE Investigations at the North Penn - Bank have not yet reached the office boy. But it seems safe to presume that the office boy had a butler and a house in the country. They weren't ordinary' bank vrrcker3 at the vnfortunate institution. They ap pear to have been financial joy-riders who, for one reason or another not yet apparent-, had no fear of the traffic rules which tre sUt department of bankinp is supposed rigidly to enforce. Frenzied financiers usually have an end Of some sort in view if it is only the end of a rainbow. But at the North Penn Bank you dropped your money in the slot and it wont automatically into auto mobile's, diamonds, gifts to successive wives, high-powered motorcars for thirty-fb'e-dollar clerks, tips and high living. Hard-working depositors gave up their earnings to sustain delusions of grandeur in som amateur men-about-town. It is interesting indeed to hear from the accountants that the surface of the affair has only been scratched. When the proc ess ot excavation begins it ought to turn up wonderful exhibits from the banking department at Harrisburg. WELCOME TO "DEVIL DOCS" fPHE Fifth and Sixth Regiments of the - United States marines will parade in Philadelphia this month. The Chestnut Street Business Men s PS'jsociation planned the parade, Secre "tary of the Navy Daniels has indorsed the :& laea ana tne people oi inis city win 1 heartily welcome the men whose prowess I, onnany battlefields won the admiration Let's give them a real, old-fashioned, brotherly love reception! LAWLESSNESS DE LUXE "VHERE is no federal or state law to - nrpvpTif. a man from ctnrmrr linnnr in fli henje. Murray and Cummisky, depu- i3s from the office of Internal Revenue pllector Lederer who searched two pn- s'te. houses in this city yesterday for iiisky which they supposed was stored i the premises, had no more rights than Irglars under the circumstances. Mr, Lederer needs to explain the con- cfr of his subordinates. The prospect government agents raiding private use3 on one pretext or another was too noxious to be supported even by the ost radical "dry" advocates in the pro- bition lobby at Washington. Is M. Iderer determined to paint the lily? has he agents in his office who feel at they are bigger than Congress and le'constitution of the United States ? "ART" AND MOTOR TRAFFIC HERE may and there may not be wis dom in the suggestion of Miers Busch, fof the Philadelphia Board of Trade, that irfthe circle in the Parkway at Logan .Square is dangerous. There are some ' 'motor drivers who couldn't keep out of ffe accidents if all the world were paved JU i AATn etnnntVt ncnlmlt 'k .U. . . fyp ine interesting tning to observe in this r instance is the great fondness for elab- crate obstructions which seems to afflict , those who plan Philadp.lphia streets. , This weakness was first illustrated on a grand scale in City Hall, which impedes affif on tho two largest streets in the city. There are circles in Roosevelt bou levard and one at tho entrance to the League Island boulevard. They not only obstruct traffic, they obstruct the view. The thought of a clear, long vista seems to ba intolerable to the landscape artists Who adyise the Bureau of Highways. A HARD-BOILED COLONEL rC WAS to have been expected that the WTCVb already made out against Lieuten-SvwJt- "Hard-boiled" Smith would exhibit gelever strategy when they were put on Kti'the defensive by a congressional commit- 'Sfi Colonel E. P. Gnnstead, who seems to jW Jiave-been 'something of a terrorist when f' "f hcwaB aratr8 superior, said yesterday f('J(ihaV"figorous measures" were necessary 1 '-vinfrrenca pnouu lamjjs uecause oi uie p"Vr5'' r t j ISiJQBnty Ot MICH WJ UCKIh 'WiTtie colbnel might go a bit further anrT i: SmH. that, brutes in officer's uniform Tnijtt''have bad something to do with the drtionB lie mentioned. rp. THE WHINING OF THE WHIPPED .yO.BETHMANN-HOLLWEG is com " piaining tliat the German signatures wrapt fnweo. 10 we. peace ireaiy oecause L'mv aevvv wfc.w. vw....u,.ww. w &,. '.WA'Wura peace is a peace, oi it' k it was? The Gr. &M12wSlm I. mA'iWiQi ttwl'by T,fr.inMler than they could command. They were brought to their knees where they had in tended to bring the rest of the world to its knees. They planned to write a treaty which, they intended to force the rest of the world to sign at the point of the sword. In comparison with the terms they would have imposed upon the de feated, the Versailles treaty is mercy itself. Of course the Germans were compelled to sign the treaty. They would not hovp signed it if they could have got out of it. And their whining about it now is characteristic of their national temper. They will not get any sympathy from level-headed people anywhere, and the longer they whine and whimper like whipped curs the longer will it be before they recover from the great disaster that has overwhelmed them through their overleaping ambition, PUTTING FOOD PRICES UP TO THE PRESIDENT Action of the Locomotive Engineers Should Result In an Executive Order for a Scientific Study of the Facts WHEN the piesident of the Brother Vionrl nf T.ncnmotive Kncineers, Mr. Stone, called ot the White House and Aked President Wilson to give him and his fellow engineers some definite infor mation about what prospect there is for a reduction in the cost of living, he really spoke' for every wage-earner and every salaried man. Mi. Stone reminded Mr. Wilson that $.t a day will go no further than S'.ln would go before the war. He said the engineers must either have an increase in wages or the prices must come down. They would prefer that the prires should come down. If nothing can he done to reduce the prices they must demand higher pav. Every wage-earner will await with im patience the leply uhich the President makes to the railway engineers. They all want to know whether anything can be done to reduce the high cost of living. The engineers think that the government can do s-omething. They charge that the "situation is brought about mainly by conscienceless profiteering by the great interests who hae secured contiol of all the necessaries of life." It is of vital importance that the truth be discovered, and that it be made known to the whole people. If the President should appoint a com mission of expeits to make an inquiry and publish a report without delay the foundation would be laid for whatever action the facts seem to justify. The commission should contain business ex perts familiar w ith the processes of trade and with the condition of industry, and it should also contain experts in political economy who understand the law? which govern the fluctuation of prices. These men could tell us whether there has been manipulation of the markets, whether there has been interference with the operation of the law of supply and demand and whether the withdrawal from productive industry of millions of men and trie inflation of the currency incident to the war have had any influence. They could also tell us whether the production of foodstuffs in America has kept pace with the growth of the country in wealth and population. Some facts are known. Take the price nt wheat for instance. It is fixed by a government guarantee, made last year before the armistice was signed. There weie then large quantities of wheat in Australia and in Argentina which could not be shipped to the world markets be cause all tne avaiiaDie snipping needed for other purposes. It was necessary to do something to in duce the farmers to plant winter wheat. Th guarantee of $2 26 a bushel worked. The fanners planted the wheat and a large harvest is now being gathered. But wheat is not worth $2.26 in the world markets. So long as it sells for this figure in th American market other grains will also sell for a high price and everything which is dependent on grain will be high. This includes not only bread, but all kinds of meat. If the government would permit the wheat to be sold in open market at the price which it would bring and would re imburse the wheat growers for the dif ference between the guaranteed price and the market price, the cost of bread would bet reduced at once and the price of other grams would come down and beef and pork would follow. It would be better for every one if the government paid the difference between the market price and tho guarantee out of government funds and charged it up to the war debt than to compel the con sumer to pay the present high prices for everything dependent on wheat, always the barometer of food prices. This is one thing that can bo done by the authorities in Washington. But it would not bring the prices of food down to the pre-war level. There has been inflation of the currency both in this country and in Europe. The Federal Reserve Board gave out figures the other day which show that in five of the warring nations the paper cur rency in circulation has been increased from two and a half billions in 1914 to twenty-two and a half billions at the close of 1918. In the Unted States more than two and a half billion dollars in Fed eral Reserve notes have been issued. Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale Univer sity, reminded the conference of mayors am governors in Washington last March that every period of inflation had been followed by an increase in prices, and that prices had never sunk to their former level. This happened in the sixteenth century, when Europe was flooded with gold and silver from the mines of the newly discovered western continent It happened again in 1896, following the discovery of rich gold fields in South Africa, Cripple Creek and Alaska, and the invention of the cyanide process, in mining which made ores profitable which could not be worked before. , Profiteering, while It may be guilty t6 some, extent, is not wholly responsible for present conditions. Still further students of jtatistlea have lane been awar&it&t the production of . V , ft .... j., a . EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEg-PHrtADfeLPHIA!, meat in the United States has not kept pace with the growth of population. We are paying fifty cents a pound for beef steaks which a few years ago could be bought for twenty-five cents and still earlier for fifteen cents. A partial explanation for this increase in price is found in the fact that in 1890, when the country had a population of 63, 000,000, there were 52,000,000 cattle on the farms and ranges, while in 1918, when the population had increased to 105,000, 000, the number of cattle had grown to only 67,000,000. The population has in creased 63 per cent and the number of cattle has increased only 29 per cent. The number of sheep has increased only about 10 per cent in the same period and the number of swine about 37 per cent. The domestic supply has not kept up with the demand. This, however, is hardly true in other countries, imports of meat from which have been made easier and cheaper by menns of improved transpor tation and refrigeration facilities. One of the reasons for the shrinkage in domestic supply is that the gloat ranges have been cut up into farms and cattle raising has languished- But theie are persons who charge the packers with discouraging cattle raising in order tfiat they might increase the price of beef. The packers aie said to hRve the farmers and cattlemen at their mercy, and they are charged with going into the -cattle business in South America in order to hold over the cattlemen here the cluh of a threat to flood the market with South American beef unless they sold their stock nt the price offered. How much tiuth there is in this charge we do not know. But many peisons believe that it is well founded. A nonpartisan scientific investigation should disclose the facts. A LITTLE LESS BURLESON TT WAS a sorrowful rather than an - angry Mr. Burleson who let go of the wire systems of the country at midnight with a neatly worded defi for all those who aren't reconciled to the mailed fist in government service. The postmaster general implies that he didn't do so badly with telegraph and telephone lines. That is true. He was handicapped. He hadn't time. The best that he has been able to show as a result of his administration of the wires is a zone-rate sstem of telephone charges that woiks hardship on the small sub scriber and many new and small but promising hatreds generated among or ganized workers on the various lines. Mr. Buileson got a good start in Bos ton, but the telephone switchboard opera tors fought him to a finish and he re tired temporarily to other lines of de fense. It was then that many airmen who had been fighting in Europe and training in America began to lcae the service. There are evidences to show that a plan to put some of these men on the air mail routes in competition with other mail fliers in order to force down wages fascinated the postmaster general and distracted him for the time from other concerns. The Burleson ideal may not have been realized in the wire systems. But trou ble and discontent among airmen of the postal seivice are developing nicely, thank you. Mr. Praeger has just announced for his chief that $200 a year is to be cut from the maximum wage of these fliers. "The public will judge my work," said the postmaster general last night. Therein he was wrong. The public will not judge Mr. Burleson or give time to a consideration of his works. It wants to forget him utterly as soon as it is given the opportunity. A deputv etato fire Onh a marshal, investigating Spark Needed fire condition in Main Line towns, found a furprisinc number of dangerous rubbish hrapi Even the law-ahidins need to be prodilrrl nou and then A new War Depart- A LlttlB Behind ment order ets forth the Times that a man acquitted bv a court-martial cannot be tried again for the same offense. This belated trailing after the civil law ugge.ts the likelihood that there are other features of the system that need amending. A man was killed on For a Calm Life Wednesday after an altercation over a dog. A hoy wa run over by au automobile yes terday while trying to rescue a dog Thep two incidents illustrate the superiority of goldfish as pets. More thii. 100 people "Ain't It offered their blood, in the Truth?" response to an appeal, to save the life of an unknown patient in the Harrisburg Hos pital. Take it "by and large" this is a pretty good old world with lots of mighty tine folk in it. When a woman has Ono Pauvs for accustomed herself to Divorce light housekeeping in Eddystone she finds no glowing prospect in having to park her matrimonial car in Prospect Park And that's how it comes about that James Mower has been granted a divorce from hr? uifp, Alice, for desertion The rpport of the rnns ter shovis the-only reason the woman left home was that she wanted to live in Eddy stone and didn't want to lie m Prospect Park. When she will, she will , you may depend on't ; and when she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't Clean-up campaign in the Fifth Ward. The books of depositors in the North Penn Bank made a library of pathos. What tbe rioters in Chicago evidently needed was "Force force to the utmost; force without stint or limit." With thousand of American soldiers taking French wives to themselves, what's one Franco-American pact more or lees? Tbe only trouble with Uncle Sam'seash. grocery business is that the customer can take no lagnlappe from the cracker barrel, And we'll all be ready to believe tbe very best of Japan after Bhe has cleared up the Shantung mystery. Having conceded tbe rltht of officers to search their homes, obliging citizens may yet report to the police ejfery ticje they play nve ouuorco ur so k -m movie,, THE COLONEL'S CHAT Qo sip About Samuel Pelt, Thomas R. Elcock, John R. Tallls, Philadel phia Mayors and Lieutenant . Governors of the State " By GEORGE NOX McCAIN QAMTJEL PELTZ. well-known West Phil- adelphian nnd member of the Legislature for two terms during the nineties, was brown as an acorn from the tan of outdoor life on his country place when I met hira the other day. j He was on- of the younger fighting mem bers in the House. In addition he had had n broad and active experience in Philadel phia politics. Itaynrd Henry, massive as ever, went by nt the moment. He once represented West Philadelphia and fiermantown in the Senate. Pam Peltz helped him to win his fight. That was in 1800. The ei -Senator's passing was a text for memories of the time when Chris L. Magec, political leader and senator from Allegheny county, was the biggest nnd best-liked Re publican "boss" in the state. One story that Mr. Peltz told indicated that old methods still have an echo in the politics of today. "1 was sitting in the speaker's room one afternoon," said .Mr. Peltz, "when Chris came in and said : " 'Ram, bill number so-and-so i coming up in a few minutes. Get out on the floor and lick it for me.' "I looked it up and found that the measure had been introduced by due of his own mem bers from Allegheny. It was a 'pinch bill.' I understood why he wanted it defeated "1 ujer asked Magee why he selected me tn do the job. Of course, lie couldn't lune asked any bf his own people. I think it was a liquor bill of some kind. An; him wc beat it " Mr Peltz's reminiscent story reminded me of the fact that Chris Magee neter drank a drop of liquor in his life. mHOMAS R ELCOCK tells me he is leav J. ing Philadelphia to make his permanent residence in New York. lie is widelj known in Philadelphia, where for years he has been connected with the advertising fori e of the I ti. I He will be missed out on the Main Line, too When the food administration was or ganized late in 1017 Tom Elcock was drafted from and "'loaned" by that corporation for active serine He wns made chief of the Division of Food Conservation for Philndel phia When Thomas Shallcross, ,Ir re signed to enter another field of war work nit-ock was made chief of conservation for the state His work took him all over Pennsjlvania and he was one of the admin istration's most effective missionaries. He was also a pacifier, and manj were the serious-appearing troubles that he dissi pated. After the food administration demobilized he went to Washington to assume charge of some ' .'k for the War Industries Hoard. It was in Washington that he decided to ac cept an offer from a large corporation in New York. He is a son of the late Judge Elcock and inherits the genial qualities and keen perccpthc abilities of his father. M) the executive council and deputy scout commissioner for Delaware and Montgomery counties, has handed me the yearbook for 1019 of the Boy Scouts of America. It is the record for our two neighboring coun ties. It is a beautiful work. The story inside, howeer, is more beautiful still. It rcirals the patriotic fervor of the Roy Scouts who answered the call to duty on the other side. It recites details of the helpfulness and devotion to stout principles of the little ihaps on this side during' the war A particular tribute 11 paid to the memory of the late Captain Howard C McCall, of this citv, the ston of whose death in the drhe nt Chateau-Thierry will live always in scout history Then, too, there is the robter of Bov Scout members, or noy Scout officials, who met death on the field of battle. They are . Captain Alan W Lukens, scoutmaster, Troop No 1, Ardmore; Benson Steed, Troop No 1, Ardmore; Garreth Powell, Troop No. 1, Ardmore; Lieutenant Harold Ainf worth. Troop No 1. Swarthmore ; Lieu tenant Thomas D Vandiver, aisistant scout master. No 1, Bala, Corporal Louis Por ter, Troop No 1. Ashbourne; Lieutenant Thomas T Ferguson. Troop No. 1, Ardmore-, Russell Wcntfl. Troop No. 1. Tel ford DOES the great world, outside the circles from which these troops of Boy Scouts come, appreciate the wonderful work that this organization is doing? Does it appre ciate the willing, unselfish and helpful as sistance that some of the biggest men of the community, captains of industry and leaders in professional life, are giving to the work men like W W. Atterbury, Win throp Sargent. Harry A. Berwind, Samuel T. Bodine, Edward W Bok. T. DeWitt Cuyler. Alba Johnson. Samuel Rea, Charlton Vornall, Fayette U. riumb at.fi thirty or forty other leading citizens? They are doing a man's work for the coming man. For the men of tomorrow, who in the future will be the generals and admirals, the engineers and inventors, lead ers of thought and action ; young fellows who will rise from the ranks of industrial workers to places of command These big men hive magnified the big brother idea a hundred fold. Mr. Tallis tells me. and he has1 corns into personal contact with hundreds of Roy Sonts in recent years, that in no instance has he known of a regular Boy Scout going wiong These lad's represent, as a result of training and the principles inculcated, the finest type of American boyhood and young manhood. Thf Boy Scout camp near Sumneytown is really in the wilderness There are rocks and trees and streams. It is Called Del mont The name is derived from the first syllable of each county's name. RECENTLY I noted the fact that with ' one exception every ,Maor of Philadel phia had practically passed out of political life at the close of his term. The office of Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania has, in the same yy, been the graveyard of political hopes to every one of its incumbents. Several of them on occa sions have endeavored to "come back," but without success. In tbe eves of party man agers they had received their reward: It was hall and farewell. There have been eleven Lieutenant Gov ernors. Of this number only four are living today. Louis Arthur Watres Is inter ested in various industries m Lackawanna county and is a successful capitalist. Walter Lyon is a leading member of the bar of Allegheny couuty and a wide'y known cor poration lawyer. John M Reynolds has permanently retired from politics, I under stand. He is tbe oldest of tbe quartet. Frank B. McClaln is the youngest and, as the head of what remains of tbe late council of defense, still keeps bis band on the pulse of the political situation., I believe Mct'lain has aspirations to suc ceed Governor Sproul. At least his many friends insist -that be will be one shining example of a Lieutenant Governor who will not only "coe &" but will "kod.,' FRIDAY, 'AltetrST lt " ifciS- C IT - ' ' hir I in Jf A ,jjB iSii JSIF mwfitii. lQr svr w( '$ 'iW. W ;J$ drifts V W THE CHAFFING DISH Banking Beatitudes "OLESSED are the bank examiners: for they are easily fooled. Blessed are they that are overdrawn: for they had all the luck. Blessed are the large depositors : for their oerdrafts were honored ad lib. Blessed are tlu cashier and paying teller: for they managed to get expensive motor enrs out of the mess. Blessed are the demand loans: for they at least may be collectible. Blessed are the blank checks : any friend of the cashier can make them out. Blessed is the $35 salary: for at lea6t it pays for gasoline. Blessed are the loose-leaf ledgers: for they can always be juggled. Blessed is other people's money: for it feels so nice in the pocket. Blessed is the Sunday school: for it takes the mind off the bookkeeping. Blessed are the meek depositors : for they shall inherit the dearth. Desk Mottoes I forget who it was that recommended men for' their soul's good to do each day two things thy disliked , lt was a wise man. and lt la a. precept that I have fol lowed scrupulously; for every dy I have got up and I have gone to bed W Som erset Maugham. "The Moon and Sixpence. ' One of the sad features in the life of a Fact is that it is insufficiently encouraged by applause. When a Fact happens along many of the very nicest people contrive to be looking the other way. This is what is meant by Not Facing the Facts. This business of bank juggling seems to be a great stimulus to the automobile trade. The next time some of these bank busters, !,, nr also Sunday school tachers, meet their classes, thev might find Exodus xxii, 7 and S, a useful text for the lesson. Henry Ford writes in the Dearborn In dependent that 75 per cent' of all trouble is preventable. Considering Henrv's recent troubles, he may wish that whoever wrote the article for him hadn't been so optimistic. Henry also insists that "death is one of the arrangements that make for progress." Even Pollyanna will throw up her hands at that. Beaten at her own game. Every one knows how agile is the noc turnal cockroach, how hard to overtake with the merely human bootsolet But there is one thing even more fugitive: a five-dollar bill in a restaurant where jazz is played. An ingenious man sold n farm in New Jersey to two women by telling them he had dreamed that Captain Kidd's treasure was buried somewhere on the.place. But he put a needless tax on his. imagination. The la dies will make much more by selling a wagon load of new potatoes than they ever would have by finding the pirate's doubloons. The bones of old Omar must have stirred a little thirstily under the rose-tree at Nalsbapur to bear thst a copy of the first edition of FitzGerald's translation sold la New Vork the other day for $010. Even at present prjecs that sum would have foi soned him with enough jugs, loaves and books of verses to spend a happy afternoon with friend Thou. Omar at the North Penn Speaking of Omar, we greatly fear that tome of our most-prominent bank-robbers must he been reading bis stuff. For In ttsnee: Some for the glories of tbJs,w6r!d do Wall, Some for a roll of other people's kale ; Ah, take the cash and let the credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant jail. And those who husbanded the golden grain, And those' who flung lt to the winds like rain Alike must face tbe good old witness, box bd have their bout with' Joseph ,H. Taulane, 1919 FROG HOLLOW'S FINISH In the case of some of those combination platter luncheons the plates seem to have outgrown the portions. Maids, Wives and Widows The Romance of an Easterner From the West By Harry Levenkrone Chapter 4 ASV ?:' b" " open th box i both ntard tn Found of horp on, hMi.. .i. ?. M(5.'?n'i,r. of th' room malted for vhat "i happen next 'Oh Itfl (ITllV jtiur cainem ranchmen rem ne 7,"". "" ! .Sly you a nelromo home reeen" lonir while r6t tmn" J ,aw 'or .a'r?.'!'hh"'t B,!. " 'un." and I aimed to 5rii..hIk? aSd, Point'" out of the window Th.len.A'!ot"'f ," rilpld " Jlon h.w..?? ?'ct 2"" r'"' ' tne 'r nd the horeemen Jumped on their horses anil were mv.ire J1"1',. ThV, "' mv flm nht with enter co'ure before I went eat to J?.' tMl.T.,,V 'xo "on I heard a thunderlnr noise which to me sounded like the flrlnr of S1.nPH,'i!;i1umpinfu0n mv Prlu "teed was off "n ... . h.i1."Tih'ch.,. fln" observation poet 1 ffbA. b.-.ll.'t flr,n," ? Mse-coach flr)ver and 7-.1U .k d"b" runaway and also myself be- iTf.n AT0 I.'.'. 0n trom th p;na" and the other the coach .SaLT.SuneaJlnI.',h? C0ich J urned my back S??-flM1 "IS hnt ,aklnS off art tn the bandit's Sfft.1? JA?otn' cur ""? tn 'he land where ha belonged 'I aaln eae chase to the. coach This time I uw a. woman with a child look out and scream for help this etvine me more speed I (rot up alonf side of the runaway horses and lumping on the nearest one cautht the rlns and eam to a atanrl still not far awav from an embank ment All was nfe now and the horses were now ready to start for the designation for which they ware supposed to have rone in the first place I was thanked bv everybody and told them all to drive oer to the house and that they would all pet a drink of milk to refresh them then left them a man takln the team In hand I ot my steed and Started for the bandit and driver. A; I was nearm the spot under which I shot and killed th bandit my horse stumbled over something and I a-ot off mv horse and In vestigated I found a box the same size as the one Mabel shower me and not looklnr Into It I dropped into my bosom and was off I picked up the bandit and driver bothering nothing: about the box I rode to the house and there found everyone waiting for me We put the two on the coach and they started off asrain for town but I noticed that the woman and child and a man did not to with the coach and saw that Mabel felt a little better than before "A surprise, Wilbur, this Is my sister, brother-in-law and new niece This is Wilbur Free, man the man who saved me and the son of the man who tried to save me and waa killed " "Gee Its funnv he Just saved us to." said Bruce Arprlnla t am ?lad to see you alive and still greater Interests lie ahead of ur " said I "What do you mean by Interests?" said Mabel "Well ' said I. "wait a moment and I will show you " Taklnc from mv bosom tha box and puttlns It on the tiMe slid, "Is this of any Interest to y of oul ' "Well I'll he hanted If it ain't the tobacco box with my securities In lt," said Mr Bruce "t this vours. Mr. Asprlnla" I said "Yes and I am very arateful to jou and I won't forget It quick. I dropped it on the road when I saw the bandit In pursuit of the "Well I thank you for that but I did not find It. my horse did "Well then I thank you both," sail Mr. As prtnla u me. , (To be continued) "Selibacy" The great Kipling, lighting a cigar and blowing a cloud, slowly gave this reason for his state of selibacy; ''A woman's only a woman, but a good cigar's a smoke " Love. Courtship and Marrlige, Farming ton, Mich. But we might point out that Kipling was msrried in 1802. "We hope Senator Borah has discarded his Shantung suit. v The Most Expensive Delicacy If we were a detective and wanted to track down the guy who is toting some of that bank's million dollars, we would start" bur hunt among those who consume banana splits. A Perfect and Complete Constitution We tbe whole people of the United States at picnic assembled do decree that Each shall be happy In bis own way. Any amendment to this constitution is hereby decreed unconstitutional. BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. TV are told that King Albert of Belgium worked as reporter on a San Francisco news paper in his youth. And- probably the city editor told him (as all young reporters are told) that he would never dig up' any front page news if bt lived to be as old as Noah. In which case now is the time for 'the San Francisco city editor to come across with a peccavu bJuuuAXJfj DINING OALLY as a cook you'll find Sans r?proche beyond all question. In her dinners are combined Sustenance and good digestion. Laughter flavors every dish. 'Tis a spice that makes one greedy. 'Tis exactly wkat I wish! Yes indeedyl r Sally makes the table smile When with clever hands she sets it. Care is banished for a while. Every diner swift forgets it. Conversation knows a spur ; Gayly takes a gait that's speedy. Happy intervals occur Yes Indeedy! Sally dearly loves to give With each bite a hearty greeting. Though e've got to eat to live. We should live while we are eatings Though the appetite may call And the stomach may bo needy Happiness is best of all! Yes indeedv ! , GIUF ALEXANDER. I "Thief" is a harsher term than either "goat" or "boob," but there are times when it is more descriptive. Saloonkeepers who have been notified that rearrest will follow the resumption of sales of 2.75 per cent beer after 'they waived a hearing for court seem convinced that they are victims of barratry with the accent on the first two syllables. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What and where are the Cameropns? 2. What is an oboe? 3. What is a zany? 4. W! 5. Wl What is a Jemmy Jessamy? 'ho was Rosa Bonheur? 0. Who said, "Language is always wise" 7. Who is Joseph Conrad? 8. What is tbe military force of Guate mala? 9. What is the salary of the President? 10. What is tbe diameter of the earth? Answera to Yesterday's Quiz . , 1 1. Many guesses have been made as to bow Rotten Row, Hyde-Pnrk, London, got Ite nmnn One has it from votteran. to muster; hence rot, a file of six sol- d diers. Another the Norman Ratten Bow, a roundabout way. Others are Route du Roi, the king's way; the Ancrlo-Saxon rot. meaning pleasant. ..UAavfnl nnd rotten, referrine to thfl 1 soft material with wuich the road is covered. 2. Plato was a Greek philosopher, 429 to 847 B, C. He was a disciple of Soc rates and teacher of Aristotle. S. General Garfield said, "All free gov eroments are party governments." 4. Euphony Is sweet sound or concor.d of sound, 5. Apollontus Dysolus, Alexandrian gram marian, who flourished in the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Plus, was known as Grammatlcorum Prlnceps, 6. Fluorine is a nonmetalllc element grouped with bromine, chlorine and iodine. 7. Atlanta, Ga., is known as tbe Gate City of tbe South. 8 The estimated population of Philadel ' phia is between 1,800,000 and 2,000,. 000. 0 Douglas William Jerrold. English dram atist, wrote "Black-Eyed Susan? or All In the Downs.." J 10. Tbe Profile is a celebrated group of rocks , resembling a human face on be lda t s r,.,t Oannnn In tViA .Frftntonlsi - range, New Hampshire, , $ J k 4.T- i t " ! 1 I .o A ' ;l NV JI l ej w H & ,!'-f ', ' , i ' i? r . '11 .' i-,' Ms A ma .'"V .. t .... . Jf . .A.. - o' . . . - m'rStVi
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