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ZONE FARES IN JERSEY TP A zone system of street railway fares -were to be established in Philadelphia on a basis similar to that wh'ch has just been npproved by the Public Utilities Commission in New Jeisey most of those "who rely upon the P. R. T. would have to pay nine cents for their usual ride to or from work. A trip in n trolley from Market street to the city line at Oak Lane, cay, would cost seventeen cents if it'ivere paid for at the inte of three cents for the first mile nnd two cents for each additional mile the toll which trolley conductors in New Jersey will collect after September 14 unless the decree of the utilities commission i changed under pressure in the meantime. The fare from the Sixty-ninth street elevated teiminal to City Hall would be eleven cents. It is not strange that the people in New Jersey are organizing for a fight to a finish. Yet it is by some such system of zone fares as that now proposed that a painful process of readjustment must begin to equalize the general buidcn of trolley upkeep. The fare rates announced in New Jersey seem grotesquely excessive, hut the principle involved is declared sound' by those who have been making impartial studies of the whole question of street railway transportation. Un questionably the "short rider," who pays a flat five-cent fare to be transported over a few squares, has been s-naring some of the cost of the eight or ten mile lido which the suburbanite enjoys for the same sum. The P. R. T., like all other street railway corporations operating in fcrge cities, carries a vast number of "short riders." It has not to contend with difficulties of the sort encountered by the suburban lines in New Jersey. Suburban communities will suffer most "By the new zone rate wherever it is applied. In Camden, for example, those who will benefit by the new rate are few. The great majority of trolley riders travel for three or four miles and thus vill have to pay seven or nine cent fares. The rule made by the Public Utili- 'j'tieK Commission represents a general in crease over the seven-cent rate now being charged. That l-ate was regarded as ex cessive. A general outburst of complaint is expected because of the new schedule, uu ii. win oe jusuneu. INTERPRETATIONS HE protocol to the peace treaty which the President sent to the Senate con- ts of interpretations for the benefit of rmany. Germany wished to understand detin- ely what certain provisions meant, and e peace commissioners told it in a sepa rate document. Kf ' ij. mey tuuiu icii uermany ine meaning ol certain sections there does not seem to be any reason why the United States Senate cannot tell the other parties to iV'.the treaty what in it& opinion certain J , other sections mean, so long as it does nor. propose to cnangu tne meaning of the ii BtWUU. t$ - WHAT IS AN ANARCHIST? 1 TJENRY FORD thinks that when the J " Chicago Tribune called him an anar ' ' chjst it injured him to the extent of "i.OOQ.OOO. His own idea of an anarchist is an opponent of government who throws m bombs. His attorneys have put on the uai Btana iiumoer ux experts ro prove mat fe. many worthy men from Plato to modern yg vnxiowan ciurjjymen nave neiu views similar to those which he has expressed. !Each expert has a definition of anarchy of his qwn. The interpretation by the United States courts of the term anarchist in the immi gration laws has not yet been cited in the courtroom, but it might be interesting to the judge and the jury. A few years ago an English anarchist came to this rs-country to lecture on his creed. His right to enter was disputed. He hired a lawyer Li . 9-nA If. war nlpnnen in nlo daftmen ft,n- t. BVY.f ttt...n wtiof (a L'nmtm aa nn .wl ah. f Sr .1.9.4- tl,n V,o ,1M r,t kl;.. : ... , ms, uuoM w.uu ,t. u.v. uv wit.t in violence rl . 1 l.i-j i,... .. i i ,, Eltoi uuy Kiiiu, uul woo tuuvincea mat we Khad too much government. The courts, rtr- 4WPci vu-vm mo ut-iuimuuiL us tne Esf7 jldnce showed that he believed in ET- af w M" wf.w. vw kVUUI ji, HKtK. E''' '"The, word anarchy means merely ab- itS-Mnce of government, as monarchy means tyojernment by a single ruler. There Jars v icnofc iuui umtitiii. upjiiiuaizons 01 'tki snarchlstlc theory to practical afiTairs. 'Opiif 'would have a community in which ' tttare is absolute freedom of the indi- vtMf ,hi thought as well as in social nc- ttfW,' Anotner, elaDorated by Proudhon, A Inch worklngman, provides for a PttAt fyatem in which the individual is t nw. produce what he pleases, gets the foil product of his labor and is under no wBkfuUiqn of law or mutual agreement W, WHft ? "8. relations wnn others. A 1 1110910 nave a communistic organs- f tWi Having perfect free. dom and perfect -equality in production and consumption and offering a combined resistance to all existing forms of social order. And the fourth would havo all social order of whatever kind destroyed by fair means or foul, without regard to what was to take Its place. The bomb throwers hold this theory. Every theorist admits that the ideal government would be a government which did not govern at nil because the people under it lived in perfect order and har mony. Such a government would be anarchistic. Thomas Jefferson said that that government is the best which gov erns the least, which, carried to its logi cal conclusion, means that that govern ment which does not govern at all would be better than a government which gov erns. This would also be anarchistic. It is evident that the jury which must decide whether Henry Ford was libeled when he was called an anarchist has a most perplexing question to answer. A PUSSYFOOTERS REUNION AT THE NORTH PENN BANK Colonel Pusey's Investigation Is Far Too Polite to Be Quite Efficient or Satis factory to Duped Depositors O0L0NEL PUSEY, Mr. Fisher and their associates hnve pussyfooted and whispered and tiptoed enough amid the wreckage of the Notth Penn Bank. Somebody ought to toll them that they aren't at a pink ten. And some body ought to tell the Governor of the State and hi- Attorney Geneial that secrecy and ineptitude in this instance aie giving undue advantages to n de testable lot of criminals nnd bringing dis credit to the State Department of Banking. An nstonished and disgusted public isn't waiting for Colonel Pusey's explana tions and prnmi-es. Nor is it f-atistied with the duel of words between Mr. La fean and Mr. Fisher, who, as State Com missioners, appear to havo slumbered calmly while a bank filled with poor people's money was being 1 aided in broad dai light. It is aware that the investiga tion has proceeded consistently down ward, jnc probe always heMtntcs when it is turned the other way. Even the bank runnel seems to have had access to the safe. We yet may hear of a janitor with a weakness for white lights and automobiles. But the amateur bounders who were in charge of the bank's affairs could not have spent all of the missing money or the laigest part of it. Who, then, did ? The men higher up, of whom Moyer talks, cannot be far away. The bunk examiners seem to have opened com munications of one sort or another with them. It is presumable that they hope, by compromise and patience, to reclaim a laiger part of the assets for the benefit of depositors. But conspiracy to wreck a bank is a serious clime and it is safe to presume that a few patrol wagons would serve in this instance far better than the telephone. The occasion isn't one for polite ques tionings and cautious compromise. It is one for arrests, indictments and the third degree. The doors of the North Penn Bank were closed two weeks ago. There has been one arrest Moyer, who knows moie than any other man of what went on in his bank, who took the money of deposit or when he knew it was to be cast to the four winds, is out, complacently, on bail. Strang, the much-married ex-office boy, who joined the crowd and became a man-about-tovn with the earnings of the poor in his neighborhood, is on a vacation. He is to be "invited" to tell what he knows of the orgy. Presumably he will motor from Atlantic City while the mys tified depositors wait in desolate lines for infoinlation that has been withheld from them for two weeks. Somewhere behind the veil guarded by Colonel Pusey and his associates the raiders who showed Strang and Moyer the ways of frenzied finance are still hidden. It may be presumed that they are busy with the alibi-makers. Corporations or people of the sort who can survive the shocks of a bank failure were not involved in the smash of the North Penn Bank. Viitually all of the money in the bank was wrung out of the sweat of men and women and childien who work and work hard. It is this fact that made the wreck particularly cruel. Those who handed over their savings to Moyer, who depended upon the laws of the state to protect them, do not yet know Whether they have lost every thing or nothing. There is plenty of evidence to show that rumors of the bank's instability were current for almost a year. These rumors seem to have reached everybody but the State Commissioners of Banking. What ailed their ears? If the banking department is under manned or inefficiently organized why was not the resultant danger bluntly stated to the people? If a bank can totter and fall and fail to attract the attention of the state authorities until it is flat in ruins, the public which puts its money in banks ought to know why such a thing can be. If, after a -smash, only the petty thieves are arrested, while the men higher up aie given time to adjust and arrange their affairs, we ought to know what rule 01 logic or jus tice is made to apply in their behalf. Who corrupted Moyer? Who wasted the money or hid it away? What are the names of the raiders-in-chief and what is to be done with them? Mr. Fisher is declared to have known last January that the bank couldn't survive. What was he doing in the interval until the bank was closed on July 18? Was any effort made to protect the depositors before the doors of the institution were closed? The understrappers appear to have gone along spending madly until the very day when the state authorities took the affairs of the bank out of their hands. Were the men higher up, who seem still to have been the most indus trious looters, permitted to do the same thing? It is a bit odd now to find the State Banking Commissioner solemnly refusing to reply to questions like these and taking refuge behind a law made for observ EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER ance by his department in the case of banks accidentally in minor troubles that can best be adjusted In privacy for the protection of stockholders and depositors. The North Penn Bank was not an acci dental wreck. It was criminally plun dered, raided with deliberation, looted by men who knew they were looting it be yond all hope of rehabilitation. Secrecy cannot help the depositors now and it cannot help the bank. Nor can n pro longed investigation, paid for out of the remaining assets 'of the institution, seem other than a futile and perverse and foolish waste of time and money. It would be as logical to investigate a mur der when the victim is in plain sight, with the man who did the killing pocket ing a smoking pistol. There aie few Moyors in the banking business, fewer Strangs. The banks in Pennsylvania have a magnificent record of stability and conservative manage ment. It is for this reason that financial institutions of all sorts should hnve 11 peculiar interest in the. affnir of the North Penn Bank. The sort of hesitant quibbling that has characterized the in vestigation up to now isn't the sort of thing that will increase popular faith in the State Depaitment of Banking. Nor will it encourage those who are poor or the uninformed in the banking habit. It will not be easy to convince a man who was jobbed by the management of the North Penn Bank that a bank is in real ity the safest place in the world for his money. Who will tell Colonel Pusey that he isn't running a pink tea? THE REAL ISSUE rpHERE are signs, omens, portents that -- the authorities in Washington are inclining toward a fnmilinr species of compromise to meet the demands of the railway workers who have gone on strike for more puy to meet the high cost of living. This would take the foim of granting a substantial incren-e in wages. Recollections of President Wilson's ac quiescence in the matter of the Adamson law during the presidential campaign of 1!M6 come vividly to mind. Mojo pay would be very fine for the railway men. It might temporarily dis pose of a politically dangerous situation. These biotherhoods repres-ent much com pact oting strength. But it would not satisfactorily solve the situation for millions of other work ers who cannot so readily bring pressure to bear on the government. On the con trary, it would merely increase the cost of living for them in the well-understood working of the vicibus circle. Neither the President nor Congress nor the Democratic or Republican leaders can dodge the issue so easily. The only lehef must come from a le duction of the prices for food nnd other necessities of life, nnd truly courageous officials in the administration and Con gress will bend their efforts toward find ing n way to this end. OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN TTAMMERSTEIN was a genius. He --- got money, vast quantities of money, by humoring the tired business man of Broadway, through royalties on his in ventions, in real estate speculations and in diveis other grubby ways. And ho used it all to take million- of people with him on magnificent voyages of discovery to new worlds of poetry and music. In every college, in every business in stitution there ought to be one uncon ventional and exploring mind, disdainful of rules and precedents. Hammerstcin was such a man in the realm of opera. He quickened musical appreciation in America, and millions of people had to thank him for a first introduction to the rich literature of the operatic stage. In this city theie are countless men and women who, remembering the glamourous adventure at Broad and Poplar streets, will feel a sense of loss and personal grief at the passing of the little man in the odd silk hat whom nobody was ever able fully to understand. A Sonnto imo-tigation And I.hlns in Cloter committee litis dN- covitpiI that Wash ington meat dealers are making 100 per cent profit on snlos. Pei Imp- it U because "all lle-h is gra-s" that the butchers nro making hu. llj the time people ln A Toor Thing, fiimden lme grown but His Zone a customed to the new stieet-car fares the conductors may have become expert account ants. In the meantime the mini tfho gets oft' with three cento comes into his zone, so to speak. During 11 game in Unrecorded Repartee Hnrrisburg on Thurs day a foul tip struck the catcher on the chin anil droe a wad of chewing gum into his windpipe. "Nearly flew the coop with thnt foul." is what he neglected to say when first aid enabled liim to talk. There are times when I111-I1 money talks. There is now a lull in the race riots. Meanwhile anj fool may buy a gun. Advices from Amerongen bhow that the devil U still (piotiug scripture. The milk of human kindness shows no chunge iu price. John Bull is spending S-'S.MO.OOO a day. Aren't these paying tillers the gay dogs' Trance is thinking of suspending duties on sugur. Simply n desire to sweeten the political pot, doubtless. To compare Henry Ford with Emma Goldman is to use a double-edged sword. It cuts both of 'em. There is fear in borne quarters that the Japanese "gesture" in the Shantung matter may be a jujutsu stunt. In the present scheme of things, according to Director Kruseu, the restaurant cuts too much ice. Senator Gore Intends to introduce a world wide prohibition amendment into the peace treaty. Isn't Senator Gore an obstructionist rather than a prohibitionist? pklLADEjDPHlA, SATURDAY AUGUST CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER How A. Mitchell Palmer Corralled the Republicans Clyde Kelly as an Expert With the Monkey Wrench Washington Gossip Washington, Aug. 2. TF RDNATOIt PENROSE doesn't look out the Honornble A. Mitchell Palmer, nt, torney general of the United States, will corral most of the manufacturers and big linniiciorH who hnve hitherto been regarded ns pretty strony Republicans. The same suggestion might apply with equal force to Senator Cnlder, of New York, and Senator I'rellnghuyHen, of New Jersey, both -of whom are strong factors In Republican councils. The secret of Mr. Palmer's popularity with the big financiers and business men, who had very little interest In him when he was boosting Wilson for President, Is due to the manner in which the nlien property custodian office has been managed. This office ns well as the attorney gen eral himself arc now under fire in the Senate nnd House, but the manner In which the lug fellows nrc not coming forward to oppose Palmer is one of the real curiosities of the political situation. The truth seems to be that in the collection, operation and dis tribution of German property in the United Slates, aggregating In value u total of approximately St. 000.000.000, the clever nlien property custodian appointed so mnny Republican dollar-n-jenr men, nlong with business directors, superintendents, iitlnrnejs and accountants, thnt ninny of tho-e -o appointed do not care to figure in nnj attack on Palmer. .uiln 11 number of Philadelphia names nrc (li-cbi-ed in the hearings on the I.ongworth dp-twffs bill, nnd they were gleefully put in the record by Francis P. Garvan, Palmer's appointee nnd successor ns alien property cti-tfidiiin, to show thnt the Intter has recog nbed Republicans ns well as Democrats. William II. Folwell, an experienced woolen' nnd worsteds mini, was one of these. lie was picked to take charge of rertnin large woolen mills in New .ler-e.v. nnd i'ideutl) did n good job. Tie hiih writ ten thill he does not approve1 "the dirty wnik" with respect to the Palmer iinpsti Billion. Robert P. Hooper, (otton-diiclc manufacturer, of the Union I.pngue. is an other Pliiladelpbinn who iiunes to Hip tp-cup nt the Pulincr-Giirvnn outfit' in a Idler to Mr. Gnmm, in which the ri-dnubtnhle Robert suggests that "the great antagonism up rend of in the paper ngninst Mr. Pal mer mines dnngerouHly near the alien line." Mr. Hooper, who was tiensurer of sev eral of the Xew Jersey concern- taken over bj Palmer, takes thi- fling at those who hme been making inquiries about the operation of the custodian's office: "My position ns trensiirer." he sa.is, "paid the magnifWeiit mm of S2."i00 n year per mill, which i- but little more than I pay to my chauffeur." TO UPUBUCANS in Congress need all the -' help nnd sympathy they enn get from members of the party who desire harmony. During the last week the leadership has received several severe jolts, and it hns been 1111 to the Democrats to laugh. Part of this is due to absenteeism nnd part to utrying opinions in the rnnks. Tin" question nf ndioiirnment for n the week-' respilp was opposed by some because they did not want to go home, nnd by others for lea-ons that would not have done credit to a cnuucilnianie body. One member, for instance, felt that Congress ought to stay in session nil summer if need be, beciiusc some of his constituents were compluining about n tn on the fur that was sewed to the Miliar of a man's coat. He thought Congi ess should not adjourn until that wus remedied. One of the worst freaks wns the vote of tlie Republicans on the carefully prepnred resolution of the wnr investigating om mittee to compel Secretary of Wnr Raker to release the food supplies which the nriny cannot ue, so that the people may have a chance to purchase them at reasonable prices. Uerything went nlong splendidly until the close of the debate, when Cljde Kellj, of Pittsbtiigh. n Democrat Inst jenr, who now sits on the Republican side, threw a monkey wremh into the machinery by insi-ting upon an amendment to put Mr. Burleson's parcel post in line for the dis tribution. Enough Republicans fell for this nmendment and for Kelly's eloquence to enable the Demoriat- to win on the propo sition and muddy the Republican waters. Kellj had the support of General Hillings, the old Bull Moose chieftain, which wos to be expected, but must have been surprised to find so mnny Pennsylvania regulars fol lowing his lead. The latter included Burke, of Pittsburgh ; Costello nnd Edmonds, of Philadelphia; Ciago, of Wnynesburg; Kicss, of Willinin-port ; Porter, of Pitts burgh, chnirinun of the committee on for eign affairs, and Walters, of Johnstown. When the vote was announced the Demo crats cheered and Republican Lender Mon dell looked ns if be hnd gone through a sweat -box. It wns the first setback for the Republican investigating committee. DAVID II. LANE'S eightieth anniversary review of things political was laid bp fore that other interesting octogenarian, the Honorable Uncle Joe Cannon, of Illinois. The fumous ex -Speaker of the House of Representatives drank in every word of Uncle Dave's philosophy and chuckled nt his kindly references to leformcrs. Uncle Joe knew thnt Uncle Dave's ndmonitions had a broader significance than anything that might pertain to Philadelphia politics. He saw the gentle cynicism of the Phil adelphia philosopher reaching out into other fields, into religion, into matters educa tional, into business affairs, into the motives of men generally, the world over. But when his eye lit on the tribute paid to Uncle Joe a- an exemplar of rrgtilnrit if not of stal wartism, to sny nothing of those other vir tues eloquently depicted by Mr. Lane, the Illinois statesman chuckled iignin unci, wink ing the other eye, exc luimed : "That's fine ! I've certuinly got him fooled." COUGH DROPS! Who would' accuse Richard A. Foley, who gladdens the advertising world with bright nnd profitable suggestions, of kuowing anything about cough drops? And jet Richard is prepared to do battle with the wnjs and means com mittee on this very topic. He thinks it in nu outrage to put a tax of one cent on the package, which is what he asserts is done on packages selling for five eentih. There is a great deal that is unjust in the existing revenue law, and in due course Congress will doubtless get round to a sensible revision, but Mr. Foley, like hundreds of others who are bringing up these evidences of unfairness, may be persuaded to bide their time. The treasury receipts are not adequate to the expenditures we arc making, and the war boards are holding on like grim death. It is unfortunate thnt the plebeian cough drop must bear a part of the expense, but even the cough drop mny not be thoroughly aware of what was put over the consumer during the war, The President is now wrestling with the food problem. The Clemenceau and Lloyd George of the II. O. of L. will probably force him to some compromises. "WHO INVENTED THIS DARNED GAME, ANYH OW?" M l!r' r 'WWiWvfhir v ' ) fit s ' tv, f : x-'imm-mW I1C -t m-Ji i- v.r -n . . ir .- .1 1 p .r r . jr THE CHAFFING DISH THE other day we lunched with a most agreeable gentleman, and sitting at nn open window high up iu the Boutse Building we gazed out over the housetops. While stliring our iced tea and contemplating the menu card u genteel melnncholy fell upon us both, nnd we begun di-cii-sing nnd discoursing upon very serious topics, matters and sub jects. Our host but perhaps he said it merely to comfort us, for our mind is usually a little hpggard about pamgrnphing time re marked iu the course of the dialogue that not even the biggest of big business men has to cerebrate so hard In conducting his affairs as the humblest of newspaper pura graphcrs. After n little modest deprecation, we ngreed. We deprecated only long enough to seem engagingly humble, and not nearly forcibly enough to cause our friend to change his mind. There is 11 good deal of. art in deprecating, and it is not often prac ticed. But we hac been meditating nbout this business of paragraphing, and it secins to us n goodly thing that our host (who is a shrewd .man aud a just) should have said n kind word for pnragrauhers. Aud though it may ill beseem us to spink iu favor of our own profession, yet if we do not none else is likely to. And did not the first and greatest of all paragraphed friend Eccle slastcs, whom Dr. Justrow calls "the gen tle cynic" remark There Is nothing bettor than that a man should rejoice ln his own works ; tor thnt Is his portion. THE business of whittling off maxims and minims from a pensie mind, nnd seeking grimly to carve and sandpaper them into shapely trinkets, is perhaps little es teemed by the public. And jet we have heurd that there nre active-minded humans who will read the little "cooties" (ns they are called In the office) when they will hardly gird themselves to ponder 11 leading editorial. There are few American newspa pers where a number of these agile little remarks do not creep modestly about un derneath or between the serious editorials. It is a peculiarly Amciftnu habit of jour nnlism; few foreign pnperJr unbend in that fashion. But the American reader likes to find n few little shock-absorbers scattered about among more serious comments. The paragraph has a technique of its own. A doctor once told us that all patent medicines nre built on the same formula; a sedative, a purge und u bitter. The puragrapher relics on the same recipe. He knows by this time, just as well ns did Ecclesinstes, that the world will pay little heed to his burbs, but having flung them he mny go home nnd eat supper In peace. He has shown the great, gross, incorrigible plauet what it may do to be saved. If it does not want to be saved, that Is not his afTuir. YOU may know the paragrapher by a sunken, brooding eye; clothing marred by much tobacco, und a chufed and tetchy humor toward the hour of travail. Having bitterly schooled himself to see men as para graphs walking, he finds that his most august musings have a habit of stewing themselves down to some ferocious or jocular three-line comment. He may yearn desperately to compose a really thrilling poem that will speak his. hungry, passionate soul ; to churn up from the typewriter some lyric thnt will rock with blue seas and fruntic hearts; ho finds himself allaying the frenzy with some jovial sneer at Mr. Ford, or a jell about the High Cost of Living. Poor soul, ho is like one condemned to. harangue the vast Idiotic world through a keyhole, whence his anguish issues thin nnd faint. Yet who will say that his labor is wholly vaiu? Perhaps nme. day the government will crown a Pura- 'grnphcr Laureate, some majestic sage with ancient pauenc uiuu ejea uuu u enowy nearu nobly stained with nicotine, whose utter ances will be heeded with shuddering re spect. All minor paragraphed will wear robes and sandals; they will be an order 2." 1919 - v . "" -s .'."' -"flip ." of scoffing friars; people will run to them on crowded streets to lay before them the sor rows and absuiditics of men. And in that day , Tho meanest paragraph that blows will give. Thoughts that do often llo too deep for sneeis. Let no one belittle the restless para grapher, belaboring his bean iu behalf of Nirtuc. For 0, wc nil come to him iu the end. Some day the cemetery stone-cutter will chip your last paragraph. And having discoursed thus at length upon the puragraph, we may ns well write one. New Form of Profiteering We have been studjing the pictures of the joung ladies nnd even jounger costumes engaged in outdoor "rhythmic dancing." And wp can hardly blame the landlords who raise the rent when n posse 0f these flimsies moes into the neighborhood. Maids, Wives and Widows The Romance of Easterner From Mo West By Harry Levenkrone CIIAI'TEH 5 a wreck to . -.. .. mcy sent ua Well wp nre prepared for them." Said I "How much tli. v.. .m.,1, ...".' ...ai? . nush I naif on him eer Blncn m w..? .?."? the tnbrt'. tiox business - t..ln.aB ' . VWlli "liuncirfi Dnllarn?" nald t 'Fifty Hundred." said Mr. Aaprinla, slth a Blllll "Kill me fiulrlc ffii" Tint tn-,1 ... It." I Mid Uushlnsly. "way m "Tell Mabel. u- your siory or sour capture." nalit an Intoreatlne listener from h i..I etnnlnfr. "Tell them, bnnil Bruce," aald Jeanette to her hus- "I'VM here poe." Raid Ttrure "Well you see It waa thli way." becan Itruee. 'Jennet i. and I after lenvlns the Imnk took a tnxl anil directed the rhnulTeur to take ua to a drat claaa hotel, truatlns him Wo Jumped In and he wna off and then after two and a half minute ride the taxi driver afopped In front of a aaloon and told ua lo wait a minute that ha wanted to lenvo an order there After ne mln utea of walling- he came marching" out with a sanir of roush men and women." "do on. so on," wild Mabel and I at tho aame lime getting lntereated. "Well aa I heard him eay to one of them he said. "I got the card Rend that telegram before troublo begln8," and I think that he meant ui becauae I wan missing a card with the home addreaa which la this one Well anhow he dmv ua up to a fashionable looking hotel and directed us to follow him doing In after him we aaw tho doors close behind ua and the drler pulling a gun from hia pocket ordered uh to gle thot box or take it bv force. Of course I refuaetl and I aaw Jeanette faint and later finding out for a ten dollar gold piece that ahe had given birth to a baby girl. We were separated for a few day and then put Into a cell together with Jean ette and the baby. "They Jumped Into the cab," continued riruce, "but one of them getting off at the next corner and aald he would meet the driver whom he called Hill, at the hotel. He must of been the man who sent tho telegram and I don't see how he tould of got away with It but probably tell ing the operator he waa playing a Joke on ua or Romethlnf." ... Meanwhile we were anxious listeners to the wonderful death tale. (To be continued) Our friend Blasco, the ehoeshiner, says that If the high cost of Btooping continues he will soon give up whisking out the Inside of trouser cuffs except for customers that give more than two jitneys for a shine. Ve have often wondered how many other harassed humans nre afflicted as we nre. Every time we wear a new pair of trousers for the first time we catch our heel In the cuff and rip out the little ligament that fastens the seam. Still, as it only happens twice a year, It doesn't bother us much. If Professor Sluybridge, the inventor of the movies, were to revisit the glimpses of the film we think ho would agree that the most notable technical advance since his day is the coiffure of the dame or damsel In the little glass greenhouse. It doesn't really matter whether Henry Ford can read or not. It seems fairly well established that he doesn't. SOCRATES. W"- '' ''.. .,.1, i. . &v&tssiSss; i ," s r ? 1 A SONNET "rySEASD, disaster, and the death of friends Want, and the sudden shipwreck of great aims; The Love that falls upon a spear and ends ; The Grief like hissing water cast on' flames ; These blows, these sharp defeats, these on sets fierce, May leave U3 neither bitter, nor subdued May dint indeed aud, dinting, fail to pierce Man's common faith, his natural fortitude. It is the dear changed thing that lingers on It is Love's first, half-warm, perfunctory kiss ; It is the Hope that, with all summer gone, Hreoks into late and futile bud 'tis this, 'Tis this that gives the sting! that sends the dart To wriggle through the harness to tho heart 1 Geoffrey Hownrd, in the New 'Witness. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. "What is the meaning and origin of "cabal"? 2. What is the meaning and origin of "canard"? 3. What is a protocol? 4. When wns Washington's Farewell Ad dress delivered? B. When did the republic of Colombia gain -its independence? 0. Who were the first Europeans to visit India and acquire territory there? 7. Who was Julian the Apostate? 8. Who snid, "Liternture is the thought of thinking souls"? 0. What is meant by ex cathedra? 10. Who was the subject of Tennyson's "In Memoriam"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Tho Cnmcroons or (German) Kamerun, was one of Germany s colonial pos sessions in Western Africa on the Knmerun river, near the Bight of Jiiufrn. With the exception of a small strip which goes to Great Britain It Is now iu the possession of France. 2. The oboe is nn orchestral instrument of wood witji conical bore, played by means of a double reed and having from nine to, fourteen keys. The name is also given to a reed pipe organ stop. 3. In the early days of the stage a zany was an attendant clown awkwardly mimicking the chief clown. In mod ern times the name is given to foolish jester, half-witted person, or one given to buffoonery. 4. Jemmy Jessamy was a name given to a lady's man; "a tame cat"; mod ern, Miss Nancy, C. Marie Rosalie llonheur, known as Ross Bonheur, was a celebrated French painter of animal life and landscapes. 0. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Language is always wise," 7. Joseph Conrad is the pen name of Jo seph Conrad Korzenlowski, master in the merchant service and famous as a writer of sea stories, 8. The military for,-, of Guatemala num bers 85,035 officers and men when mobilized. All mile citizens nre liable to conscription from 18 to 50. 0. In the second session of the Sixtieth Congress the President's salary was fixed at $75,000 a year. 10. The equatorial diameter of the earth Is 7020 miles; the polar dlamet"-, 7800 miles, and the mean dlamcXb. 7012.5 wiles. 'rWW ft r? rf''? ,' ml ,.i' J' 3 s. 4 ,V M rJ m ,; 'V,, ( ?. i ;:,-&. A:. 0 ,j M
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