'. " 3. ' .,- I to V Oft EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, . AUGUST .6, 101D R I. ning public Blcbgec J tRT tr1 rrnrrn rntmiiNV Mi e5i i""1"" """wiai uuiuimu trrtitrs it. k. cutitib. ran-totsT r-Vjzatei' i ii. uiainnon. vice rryiof nt: Jonn u. .SKSTa, s.Beereiarr and Treasurer; rniup s cmimi, B. Williams John J flpurgeon. Directors. 'St.- MVtV sit ,'iV i i.OITOniAL, tlOAnS: , cries ii. k. crini, cniirman Vnl E. 'SUH.HT .Editor ' O. -.lATlTIN. . General ITujIness Manaicr tIlshed d.lltr at PritfA f.lriflCa ltutMlnr. Inderwndcnrn Raulrp. I'hllailelnhla. IKTIO CiTt ... rrrjj.tnlnn Dulldlne ok nog Metropolitan Town ntTi Tnt rntA Ti.ttMin LoCIS.. 100 Fullerton lttilldlnf 10100..... 130? lrlbum liutldlng M livJasniriOToN BnnrAu. Vl'U'B WTtflTAttB. II '. L f "f" Touk Iicniuc iv . k: . I'.nn.fivin awa ...... ...h b. The Kim riullctlnr ' .WOXPOH uomo. .L.onjon rime Rl'nSCRIPTION TERMS -Tin Efaatsv) Tim in J.mnrn l served tn su'j- HBfltxrt'ln Philadelphia and surrounding towns . ,,tn,n rats or twelve iizl cents jr umh, paiaDie 15 tW'tl.e' carrier. w tf w. iriau o pomes ouisiae or rniianeipnia, in i united mates, i. annul. C" unura Males po.. iloni, postare free, fifty (M) rents p-r montk. fSal dollari per rear, nsvthte In ndvanre a- to a;: foreign countries one ti doner pr month. K . NonC Subscriber-; wlhlng dire-:s changed 'must, give old as well ie nee i d lr' CIX, JJ 'WALNUT KEVSTONF. MAIN 1000 ,' ' 12! Addrtit till eomnuttlcattoni in firtifnu pubtto Ledger iirfepfntlfiictf Square, rhuailr'pHla. Member of the Associated Press PRE ASBOCtATED MESS is erclu ""ttpely entitled tn the use fo' republication vf all rietcj dispatches ereiit'd In It nr not iihtrvcise credited in (iij pnprr. and nlto iht local newt pitblishe-l therein. All rightt of republication nf ipecinl Alt patches herein ire also reserved. Philadelphia. Wedneulu'. .ViiruM 0. Itlll GET ON THEIR TRAIL NINE out of ten hank clerks who have gone wrong have been spending money on wine, women and jazz. Their employers were apparently ipnorant or Indifferent about the manner of life of the young men outside of banking hours, and they professed surprise when the dis closure came, along with the news thnt the clerks had made way with the money in their cf re. If the men responsible for the manaRe ment of the banks in the whole state have not' been moved to learn all about the private life of their clerks although we suspect most of them have it is about time they got on their trail. If a $2,") clerk is running an automobile he ought to be called upon to tell how he does it. He may have some secret wh.ch the rest 'of us would like to learn, if he does it hon estly. , RAISE THIS PAY FIRST j-VLTHEU compared with the demand-i of ', ' the members of the railroad brother- ; hoods, the increase in pay asked by the members of the local fne department is ' modest indeed. The locomotive firemen are akinp for a minimum wage of $1800 a year. The . members of the fire department certainly deserve as good pay as the men who fehbvei cool into a locomotive firebox. But jvthey are asking for a minimum of only $iouu anu a muxiinum ui ?iuuu. 11 tniN tl4 ihmimIajI trt Ihnwi tlMiir it. ill rnnniKA Inc. a. 13 lAuvcu hi bwi;iti vitcj villi ibni; ius If than is paid In the small city of Low. Mass. They ought to get what they ask. J WHAT NEXT? M!uHE first anniversary of the first i;j launching at Hog Island was observed I' vftstrrlflv hv Iftlinrhlncr trip fnrtv.pvpnth I vessel built in the yard. The tonnage produced in twelve months IL is 367,775, a greater amount than wa.s etc.: uciuic jiiniui:cu in a anisic ailifiuiu in the same time. Bui what Philadelphia wants to know is what is to become of this great ship- jbuildinp; plant and railroad terminal and Iv congeries of piers. I-xIt can be used for the development of "H the water-born trade of this port or it can De anowea to tall into disuse, while the business goes to other cities. There I'Vhas been more talk than action about the ,& future of Hog Island. How long will it fee before the words are changed into deedst I "BLACK DIAMONDS" IS RIGHT ONE hundred and three mining plants in the Fairmont and Claiksburg mining districts in West Virginia were ekut down temporarily recentlv for lack L it cars. r " labor and car shortages have made it impossible to catch up with Navy De- partment orders for smokeless coal in i the) Charleston, W. Va., district, i ,'Two interesting little industrial items I A.aill Yiaitlif' ft llion. ii n.1...... ...111. ' mi. iivimiwi vi fct.ciii in uvvum wiLn fe rn 'cent declarations that if householders did t not order coal there would be a shortage y nejtt winter the presumption being that failure to order was the onlv leason fnr vihe failure to mine. Tint nllaai. nrl frml linn i ..., v..... ... iwi uao ijune up ten -eHtll a Atl A 14 ellAVAlII V.n n.n..1 - 1 li'S-ltied if the price goes high enough. .(. "" i-niu Miiicn uc ciiuuirn coai JUST CLOTHES K flLOTHING may not make a soldier, but j, r Mitj army oiucers nave discovered that if goes a long way in that direction. At Currm Dlv nnrl nilipr rlpmnViiliofln. l r -v. ....... n., ucu- xers tailors are measuring the men as they are discharged to discover the m-o- ii portions of a group of typical fiirures for tl'the measurements of the uniforms to be ' made in the future. I During the war it was noted that the JKTjnOrale of the men depended in a largo pdefree upon tne cut and fit of their ftOthea. A man with a good fitting suit ('carrjea nimseu wen and had a proper re J 'ict for himself. The men comrjelled to F ytkt ll-fijtting uniforms became slouchy aih Bearing unu inaiuercni. THilf triAfa la nnrlilna- niu- I. iUtn r. f Hi'tiraSip A clejm shave and a hair cut and : . dfeM him In a well-fitting new suit of iWMiiana ne Decomes a different man i iatt4uy. Send a man out on a business t dressed well and he will take the W Garcia nine times out of ten. it a sloven and he will come back i report that he could not nut the iexoi's. The psychological value nf k-W immeasurable. fcjtodmen have been joked about it jy.rs.. They ray that a woman wear- f fashionable gown can go through MM,fl0oi witnout Dianching. If her .ink well Is the back the average tan Mtwi in uren ona engage In I wtij a reverent mifs-J nnda a aeA ., . mt "t. , rx- e j. mm I ry""K l-WJUCIHJ not be able to conccntrate'her mind on anything but what the women behind her are thinking of her dressmaker. Men arc Just as susceptible ns women to the influence of their clothes. Canny employers consider the way an applicant Is dressed as one of the indications of the character as the man because they know that if a man does not appreciate the value to his own morale of good clothes he will not appreciate their value to hi employer's business. When Carlylo wrote his philosophy of clothes he got hold of a truth which Is not even y,ct fully urldcrstood. WHAT IS WORK? WHAT ISN'T? A NICE NEW WORLD PROBLEM Who Will 8ay a Word to the Brother hoods for the Vast Majority That Tolls Otherwise Than With Its Hands? QOMK time or other in the happy futuie the pie will disappear Utterly as n weapon of offense in the movies. There will be no more Shermans in the Senate. Poeti will .succumb to the pressure of public opinion and cut their hair And in that great day there will be no strikes. The odd spectacle of the lailroad broth erhoods established firmly in Washington to usurp the rights and functions of Con gress by formulating revolutionary legis lation, not only as Mr. Wilson would sa but by a candid intention to force it upon an astounded public shows that we aie piocceding wiftly toward the in tellectual confusion which always pre cedes ordered, and even inspired, leason- ing. It i nut the method of the brotherhoods that is most interesting in this instance. It is the degree of their uliance upon the stiike as a solution in times of difficulty. One might .suppose, after a reading of the Washington news, that strikea expressed the wisdom of the ages. Yet strikes and the reprisals with which they nre met in the weary argument be tween capital and labor are alik" futile and illogical. They settle nothing. They arc trials of brute strength. The strong man wins and imposes his will for n time upon the loser. Which side in a strike deserves to win and why does it deserve to win? How useful to civilization is one or an other contender for a place of supciior advantage in the economic scheme? What has he given to the woild and what can he give? Xo one in political authority asks these questions when a strike is afoot. But until disputes in industry are settled ac cording to some such considerations as these there will be no peace no settled prosperity in civilized states. No victory will be peimanent. Ruthless denunciation of organized labor for its menacing egotism is not en tirely just. Labor when it threatens and gestures as the railway brotherhoods have been doing may be chaiged with foil'- or selfishness. Yet It is only prac ticing a method learned long ago and often in great bitterness at the knee of capital. Men of the sort who lead the brothci hoods have apparently inherited the state of mind of their old opponents on the other side. They nre clearly re vealing symptoms of an imperialistic mood which 'always leads its victim to a smash of some sort. That sort of reaction was inevitable. What we need befoie we can find a middle course, sober settlements and fixed peace is a new and rational philosophy of eco nomic values. We shall have to have some standard by which to determine the rights or wrongs of industrial disputes and theories. Theie is only one means of determining the rights of an individual in such eases and that is a clear conception of the value and extent of his service to civilization and his community. It is the habit of labor men to believe that all the rights are with the "work ers" and the "producers," but they ex hibit a painfully restricted understanding of the familiar terms. The man who gets a ton of ore out of the ground is taught to believe that he is the sole producer of the world's riches. Yet his ton of ore would be of little value if there were not other men specially gifted or unusually industrious or talented in some peculiar way to find uses for his iron, to make it into fine implements, to inciease its value a thousand fold by the force of trained or scientific minds. A pound of iron is worth a few cents. A pound of watch springs is worth hun dreds of dollars. Is the patience and knowledge that make such a transforma tion possible worth anything? What do men who practice these qualities con tribute to the sum of created values? The brotherhoods make no secret of their conviction that they are the rail roads. But they never would have built and organized the railronds. The risk, the daring, the imagination necessary at the beginning and still necessary must be possible always only to the lonely and unorganized individual whose instincts are invariably opposed to all that we have come to talk about as group action. Other men made the rails and the build ings. But the Pennsylvania Railroad is Scott and Cassatt. The Great Northern and a good deal of the prosperity of the great Northwest is Hill. Inventors, pioneers, visionaries, scientists, investors who were willing to take long chances all individualists to the bone made the railroad systems of the country possible. They contributed much. They produced much. They could not have gone alone. They had to have the help of the men who worked out their schemes. But the man who gets the iron out is not the only producer. There are millions of producers of whom you never hear. Teachers con tribute knowledge. They produce ideal ism and ideas. Ministers of Christianity contribute spiritual discipllneor the greatefgift of spiritual peace. They are not at Washington with ultimatums, though wo could get along without rail roads better than we could get along without schools. It is the modern conten tion of some radicals that theCassatts "end tho Hiljs are unnecessary and super fluous. Jt h fashionable to believe that .committees can do better than they did ett .least tu welUfyJut if k not eaav to 'Northwest or. like Cassatt, lunging for ward In enterprises of a magnitude that frightened stockholders out of their shoes year after year. You might as well ex pect a committee of conservative citizens to write an ode. The vast majority of those producers whose work is even more important than that of the railway brotherhoods are un organized and obscure. They are think ers, teachers, writers, pieachers, men whose creative minds arc forever at work to make human eneigy or the earth Itself productive of good. There are otheis whose genius serves to give a better order to civilization or to make life happier or at least more tolerable. They are busy In countless ways. What of these workers in the woild ? Who cim measure the good they do? We have no code by which the rights of eich may he understood or even discerned. But wo shall have one later along. In the future when ward bosses work honestly for a living, when there are no more kings, we shall be able to consider each man according to his work not ac couling tojiis claims or the sine of his fortune or the stiength of his union. OUR OVERDISCIPLINED ARMY NE of the most surprising charac- te soldier is his fiank detestation of the military legime as he cncountcicd it In the persons of young officers in France. Objection to tho hard and impassable line that divides commissioned and noncom missioned men is finding expression eveiywhero in print, at congressional inquiiies, in geneial conversation. It was to have bqcn expected that pri vates who in civil life were professional men. college graduates or types of the independent and well-trained citizen who is the stabilizing factor in American life, would be iiked and affronted by months of subjection to rules of conduct based upon lines of division established between sold ers centuries ago, when every offi cer was per se a gentleman and every private a yokel or a serf. But the nature of current criticism indicates that there was too much discipline in the aimy moie, indeed, thart the Flench themselves required among their own men and moie than the Australian forces felt called upon to maintain. The behavior o:" a good many officers new fiom the training camps toward en listed men, if the testimony of the le turned soldier is to be accepted at its face value, was often harsher than that of the West Pointers themselves. There was a camaraderie between the French officer and his poilu which seems not to have existed between the American junior officer and the men of his command. As the inquiiy at Washington proceeds it is apparent that our system of army disci pline is not calculated to the needs or the spiiit of a democratic army. It needs to be revised not only in tho matter of courts-martial, hut in various other ways, with a view to giving every enlisted man full opportunity to maintain his self respect. "Take from the officers the right to sit back, cigar in mouth, and rag a man forced to stand at attention," writes one ex-private who has just leturned to his law practice in New York after partici pating in some of the heaviest fighting that Americans knew. That sentence im plies much. If we are to maintain in this country a general enthusiasm for the military service, Congress and Mr. Baker and the President ought now to bring the system of discipline up to date. , INGRATITUDE OF REPUBLICS "DLANS are making to give $500,000 - each to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, and to raise each of them to an earldom. This is the way they reward their heroes in England, from John Churchill, who was made the Duke of Mailborough, through Alfied Wellesley, who received a money award and the title of the Duke of Wel lington, down to General Roberts, raised to the peerage with an earldom and a giant of money. Yet Congress is delaying action on the suggestion of the President that Pershing and March b made full generals and Sims and Benson be made full admirals, to hold that rank in active service for life. If a grant of money were proposed the whole country would be scandalized. In tin fuilurp of a The Inevitable saving lmnl the blg- Paradox gpst 1hm.p, are soine- tiines in tlie smiallekt ucootintH. The nioue Mined riptp.i.tH so milch in work done nml biiiffit. Imped for. It is smull woncW the li)iiii, of the North l'uin has euiisrd dcuth aud orj many sore lieurts. A I'iiueh toy and a Glory Protects KcIkIiiu Im. iitow- Old Them nunjs on a troopship arming In Philadel phia, are to be permitted to remain in this louiitry, urn fiiends liming put up bonds for them. Htli "re orphan, their father having lieeji killed In liattlr and their niiithers b biunbs. .Vmcrieu welcomes the jouugsteiK and hopes aud bdiecs they will become good citizens. CupltnllMs who are talking of taking over the Milliards nre salinlieil that Hog Island will come home with the bacou. What is the essential difference be tween the suggested plan nf iiulroad own ership and soviet gnvernment'' Tne railroad men's miggestinn was valuable, uiihow, as a spur to L'ougress to get bus on the food pioblem Nutlnus need more human cplrit, suys (icuicral Smuts. The world Iuik very evi dently been run on a l!.7." Imla. Lord I.ytton su.vs there is nothing in the rumor that he is to b British ambassador tn the I'nlted States. The I,ttous limply can't get uwuy from fiction. The fc.ur uiihcs tliut Arthur Hender son's (leBcription of Industrial unrest as "a terrible spnuni of rage and despair" is accurate as well ns picturesque. The one wheat policy needed is the one the people were led to believe would be fol lowed when the government ntreed to pay a Kuaranteed nrlce: Thnt the vtlirat be thrown on the market and sold af.30ru.al market ia market out of the ' .r . , price,, toe difference to bsf .d. Wtyi, fund's. f r, CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER Aptness of the Rhyme About Mr Mears and His Clock George W. Colei and Cornelias Haggarty, Jr., Visit the Capital. Washington Gossip Washington, A.UB. 0. A'llIT of dogicrrpl nhlch some of tttf old boys will remember, rspeelally those vi ho frequented "The nuuRalovv'nt Harvey Cedars, runs like this: There was n nfnn, he had a clock, Ills lift mo was .Mr. Menrs, And every day lie wound It up For more tlinu thirty jears; But when at last it was found out An elKht-day clock to be, A madder mini than Mr. Mritr You'd never want to sec. If Prothonotnry Henrv F. Wnlton or .fuilce John M. I'atterMVti will look up the remrds they will find thnt this verse was erj popular about the time IMvvIti F. Iiei. the Philadelphia pinnerr In mln tiels, after a vain effort to drive a picture iiuil straight iu the wall, struck his -thiipib with ii hammer. Hut lis Judge Iieebcr. in one of those ointorirnl flights fnr which lie i- fiumuis. would ny "be t Tint as if nnj ," the bungalow versification if recited in the House of Representatives when the Presi dent ent in his notice requesting Congress tn May In session to reduce the high cost of living mid rulse the wages nf rnilronil men. would have fitted the situation "111.0 the paper on the wall." To nh) thnt the House was innd but inildlj expree It. Until IiiinoiTHts and Republic nps were dls giisted. while ni.iiij Republican, remember ing that the WiUon campaign crj in P. HI! mi n riihiftion of the cost of living, and that the administration has had six years to pinduec results, saw nothing but poll ti( in the whole procedure. Most of the memtieis. however, have bin Med down to the inevitable. They will lemnln line whether or not they hare anything to do, but if wise counsels prevail in the Repub lic an ranks the Investigating committees ns to li.ing cost and war expenditures will continue their work just ns it was arranged the should before the Pirsident exploded his bombshell. The onlj difference is that the committees, instead nf being unham pered, mil he subjected to Ilunse rollcnlls and thus clehicd in the woik they hud mi ller wnj before the White House lutcifvrvd. Gl.OIM.l. W. C the Town Mei COLES, the mainspring of etlng party, and Cornelius II:igguit .Ii . who is one of the lie wires of the Demo ratio organization in Philadel pliin, weie both in Washington one dn Inst week nt about the same time. Ostensibly Mr. Cole ilicl not come to talk to Senator Penrose about the muyoraltj situation, and Mr. Haggarty seems 'to have been inter ested piincipally in the happiness and wel fnre of William Timlin Brown, who is not necessaril.v a candidate for Major, but who might make a good one. Neither of these gentlemen appeared to have avoided the mavuialtj issue, ntid with true Democratic instinct Mr. Hnggnity pointed out one or two candidates that the Republicans might take tip. He left the intimation that the Democrats would probably have a straight ticket, lenving the Republican factions to tight out their battle without fusion. Till j Boston proceedings of the Atlantic Deeper Wnter Va.s Association arc being circulated about the capita). They are always welcome here and help to keep alive the Philadelphia interest In national Improvements. The prcs"nt volume, which was piinted in Boston, and which will hold Boston on the Atlantic const map, touches up n number of Philailelphians who made the i wind trip through New 1'uglaiul and met the "tlu" on its introduction to "The Hub." They include William E. Bernard, Wilfred II. Hehoff, Howard II. French, Director George S. Webster. William II. Wethcrill, Franklin M. Harm and u strong list of waterwajs enthusiasts. Ma or Charles H. Kilts, of Ci.mden, and Major Fred W. Dou nell, of Tientou, also figured in the pro ceedings. The next convention is to be held at Clinileston. South Carolina, after the November elections, unci we nre Informed thut many Plilladelphtnns arc preparing to go. 11 thnt time it is expected the last hitch in the taking over of the Chesapeake and Delaware cannl will have been removed nnd government work on that project will be under waj. Gi:ORni: P. HARROW, the most amiable member of the Philadelphia delegation in Congress, is a Mason of high degree. There are only two or three others in the House who are entitled to wear the decora tions which the (iermantown representative nmj assume on state." occasions. But last week George had his hands full. He had been oonimii-sioucd by the Knights Templar to get to the President with an Invitation to speak at Independence Hall at the forth coming conclave. It was n handsomely em bellished Invitation, pietty enough to be preserved along with other White House trophies, and it wan -.Igned up by John Wnnnmaker, Boies Penrose, William C. Sprout and Thomas H Smith. And the Presideut shook hand with George Harrow as he received the Invitation. But the day was u bus dii The President had been writing letters to congressional lead ers on the Republican side to hold Congress in session. That made the day both busy and hot. But George P got his Invitation in and he still preserves the hand that shook the bund of the President There is a chance that the President mil accept the invita tion. He may avail himself of the oppor tunity to explain the league of natloub at the slnlnc of American liberty. W0N ' ' Wfl 'ONDKR if Thomns W. Barlow, who as in the district attorney's office .vrars ago, has been consulted about the Hhnnttmg affair? Petitions on- behalf of Chinamen nre coming in so rapidly as to suggest that able law .vers are studying up the peace treat and preparing briefs In opposition. By the same token It might be iislied if Francis H. Thole had an) thing to do with stirring up the ngitatbin ubout Flume. When it wus hard for Chinamen to get a fair deal in the old days many of them Uhed to hunt up Harlow. At the same time Thole was always strong with the Italians. Philadelphia has such a mixed population thnt it pa.vs to spceiallzo at law, ns In other things. Think of Dave Phil lips minus Jewish clients nnd Franz Krhltch with the German element dissipated. GKCIU.TARY WILSON, of the Labor De -i O partment, wnnts an international labor conference at Washington. Ah a former Pennsylvania member he has been stirring' up his old aenunlntnuces in tho House. Cljdc Kelly, of Pittsburgh aud Iowa's sen ator, Kcn)on, the new labor champion, have bills on the subject. There are sonic Philndelplilaiis, like Fs.vette It. Plumb, who thluk there has been enough legislation for conferences und talkfests, and that libor, and capital should he allowed to settle tieltv own problems. Washington. hnwcVvor. . U beglnnlns to tjew the future IndutfitaOlt'K nation with concern, especially "&$' fciVtH uiw-lu it ft Vffv;, "HO, HUM! '', - zir-e i. &&. 3sfesSys mhw&&j&hj& '"-'f Ii a'""'' M43lrs:- if .!' . V lM.1 '.r:vlMa Al S3mmmmMZ-: Z&&&S&ry-- &rW&- .CagSSawsSSS? SJ&f6 TfflStefciMSKSSaSStl T-.-1-S J .lull Isl'qUiWart.TSaVAViii T I 11 i ""- THE CHAFFING DISH Song, In Deprecation of Pulchritude "DKAUTY (so the poets say) x-' Thou art joy and solac'c great: Long ago and far away Thou urt safe; to contemplate. Beauty. But when noW and here, Visible and close to touch, All too perilously near, Thou tormcutest us too much ! In a picture. In a song, 'In a novel's conjured scenes,. Ueauty, that's where jou belong, Where perspective intervenes. But, my dear, in rosy fuct Your appeal I have to shirk You disturb me, and distract My attention from my work ! Speaking of the ice shortage, why is it that every restaurant thinks it necessary to put half a pound of it in every glass of iced tea? We observe by a study of the stationers' windows that this seems to hp the season for hortatory mottoes and Illuminated cards. And, It occurs to us that If humanity really were as swect-nntiired and dulcet as it innkes Itself out to be in those cards there would be little left for the police depart ment to do. These bank scandals have really worked a considerable hardship on many honest own ers of fine limousines. We know the owner of a very noble nnd glittering car who has been stopped on the" street a number of times and asked if lie was a paying teller in a certain bank. It occurs to us that the directors of the North Penn were probably the kind of people who call a bank a "benk." Maids, Wives and Widows 7 he Itomaiivc nf nn Easterner from the West By Harry Levenkrone chapti:r" 7. -WEI,!., lr " said I addrraalnir h.r brnthr-tn. ' l;v. rtruoc. "nivi axli when th nrcanse mpnin for a nuivk ucd.llnjr run be mdi?" "Tn.lnv. rlirht now If you pint,." ha an jwerert mc. ""nd I am very glad to have ou fur a brolher-ln.law." "'"l -h te weridlnir take nlare after ; while t;aue I am afraid the.e aniter from New York will be here en the nett train and then" wan all Mm A.prlnla could eaj A knock on the door made her mnnrt still for a eennnd end romlnpr lo he Bald. "Who In lf" "The mall man. Mrs" ,s " -l.ee ve i un wie uoor-Blep and ffo t leeee away. "Tesum." raid the rnall man and left mull on the door eten the "Pleae net It, Mr Freeman," he aaid "I will," and I cpened the door and look In a larse nlze envelope. "Open It." vtaa th next thlim rhe aald I did and then she asked me to read' It tn everjbody and Ihe trio seated themselves around the taMi1 I at Ihe head. I rpened the letter and read hi follows New York CItv To .Mister Bruce Asprlnla. v"y Pear fir. Clover Steel Company robbed N'ote left Insr that tho men who kept ou prltcner were t ha thelves. Toura truly. James 11 VIcKavep I'. S Other dues such as card, and cloth were also found In't roim out here Your life Is In danmr They threat they will kill jou Detectives on the Job. '" """ There were .stocks which were left In the en velope and when I looked up from the letter I saw llruce In lurs and .Vrs A.prlnla also In tears and Mabel was nowhere to be seen "As aoon a Ihe weddlnu l over I am a-oln to New York to round up those thtlvea," ia 5 Uruce. "Xo not you, I'll bo," I said. "You a youne rrcn ico die for me, NO." he answered me ,.,.,. "He shall so," said Mabel entering the room but at her side waa a minister and with him cam lh sheriff "I am wild to be of a.ny service to you. youni man." said the sheriff with a smile. '"""a "Well then attend the weddlnr ceremony," I "Then the minister opening his book clone his duty and In lss than Ave minutes I found mysiir u married man. All uver new I said with a sigh and slipping the minister a five dollar gold piece we all went into the dining room to eat Presently we all heard lh I"11"' crrln and Mrs. Asprlnla had tn leave the room for five or ten minutes and then a returned to dine. "Well," ald tbe sheriff, Vh"v about moving Into your fathers, estate on the next farm. Us tinUr and utrtng old being empty" !.zlii.i at PMMnt," Sfabsl and I taji .t ik. "'.T- '.l- WHAT'S BECOME OF M MW X- tSf world to the newly wed couple and to all," said the sheriff letting a large size glass of ale go down his canal. (The Und) ' The other day, in a gathering of intelli gent men, we advanced the opinion that no man is really linppy in a new suit of clothes. To which one of our friends re torted that we arc abnormal in this lespcct. Our theory is that there nre two kinds of happiness in icgnid to clothes. First there Is the happiness that man feels when he knows himself to be well dressed, nnd fancies that his fellow-citizens nre admiring him. This is n very low torm of bliss, for It depends entirely upon the presence of observers. A man with a new suit on a desert island could not possibly experience this happiness. Still, as it undoubtedly ex ists nnd plns a certain part in the affairs of the world, it must be admitted as a form of pleasure. But In this first form of happiness, the weaier is always conscious of his garments. His glee depends entirely upon his being avvure of his clothes, and also being aware thut others are aware of them. The true happiness can only be attained when one reaches unconsciousness of one's clothes and can devote one's mind entirely to whatever nieirinient is current at the moment. And ns no man Is ever quite un conscious of bniud new clothes, he can not attain this higher and intrinsic happiness until the garments have deteriorated Into satisfying disrepair. 4 We beg to assert that the only renlly happy men we have ever known weie always wearers of comparatively shabby clothes. Run over the list of your acquaintances and see if you ugrcc with us. With women, of course, the case is en tirely different. The ultimate test of General Pershing's valor will be whether he has fortitude enough to discard the famous Sum Browne belt when he gets back to American soil. We learn ttyit returning officers arc burying this forbidden clucturp at sea. Will Black Jack do the same? The Dandelion rpHE dandelion on the lawn 'Antagonism doesn't mind. It ridicules my brain nnd brawn Aud still perpctuutcs its kind. Its lifevvork it performs with zest: With feather.-headed scorn of pelf, That weed when at its seediest Incontinently blows ,itsclf. , O. A. It is now possible to buy your evening Dish from a slot machine. Alus, no one lias et invented an automatic device for writing poetrv. SOCRATBS. We confidently predict that with pie going up les'i of it will go down. The brotherhood Is big and strong, but it isn't as big and strong us Uncle Sam. Gravedfggcrs iu Albany have gone on strike. On the dead, isn't that the limit? "Nothing in it," says Lytton: When he becomes Americanized he will say "Nothing to It.; In the battle for bread It looks as though General Public were being out inaucuvered by General Cusscdness. With cobblers In Scranton demanding $45.50 a week, the rest, of us will soon bo down nt heel. Moycr says he Is amused at ueispur stories. Yet to most of us tho stories seem pathetic and tragic. John Mitchell says prices will remain high while wheat retatns its present level, I HI Mlwbeil SfteiM to nave retain bis Ivwul ifh w,',rAn &.!fffc1tM-ilU!L.W vM.r ... j. .J; .,:n mxMW-AMxiimi4 ri-Xiw feijs. jmBimmBMmMMWsntAJx &&mMUBBHKbBmZ ;jF1 z&l-SQ (BC-J- .'Snr&V!VMr.-.tar;MXi&l'a'i,-7."Tt'?K1TiL3aM!U DBi ' M ."aBK . iaaHi t wr yifc, --; ; .irtj'ti- .- s-i - tt. i -r nhf--n"Tr.a" . am rr rfrrr 1 Li.W.i ! i .i-i'i-s-ArUL'J,M.- -- .... -.... , -"-' St-. it ttaaiilailfaifla..- apes--i-asr--P'f 1. W4 "tJ 'EM ALL?" : i -.'3r w, .. '&K "irri.t:aaJ7.X.l. ..,.- 4 ar !-- HERMAN MELVILLE A BLUR, blue Bky above a blue, blue ocean, White canvas bellying to a lashing breeze, Yielding the very poetry of motion To those who sail the sun -bathed Southern sens ; Moonlit lagoons behind long sandy reaches Aguinst whose coral barriers breakers toss, While brightly gleam above the shell-strewn benches. Canopus and the Cross ; T OW bluffs where oft tho zephyrs idly i dally, Sheer mountains drowsed at times in sultry calm, The haunting glamour of the storied Valley Frondcd with lithe bamboo and coco palm; The whaler's deck where all Is eager hurry When comes the lookout's call of "There she blows!" The chase, harpoon, "Stern all!" and then the flurry T,liat marks the drama's close T, II1KSIC scenes and hosts of fantasies and fancies , Come, Melville, nt the mention of your nnnie. And conjure up the time when youth's ro mances Were quickened by your vivifying flume. New fads aud vapid cults can ne'er unseat you, Throned with a fame that deepens and abides. Hence, loving well your magic page, we greet you. Across a century's tides. Warren H. Cudworth, in New York Times What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What is a pourbolre? 2. What is hebdomadal? 3. Where is tho Island of Formosa? 4. Where is "Budapest? 0. What English writers were derHItely called the Cockney School? ft. Who was Benjamin Constant? 7. Who was Grant Allen? , 8. Who wrote "Choose a friend as thou dost n wife, till deuth separate yoii"? 0. What Is the area of New Mexico? 10. Who discovered Argentlua? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The volcano Vesuvius is In Italy, on the bay of Naples, nine miles cast southeast of Naples. 2. The rocks composing tho earth's crust are grouped by geologists into three great classes, Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. 3. The Island of Formosa was ceded to Japan on May 8. 18!).", and the formal transfer was effected the following month. 4. The Island of Mnuritius is in the In dian ocenn, 500 miles east of Mad agascar. 5. Baron Munchausen was the hero of an extravagant book of adventure writ ten in English by R. H. Raspe, a German, In 1785. 0. Joseph Chamberlain, British statesman, vns known as Pushful Joe and Brum mttgem Joe. 7. Charles Dickens, In "Dombey and Son" said, "A pod thine can't be cruel." 8. Edward George Earl Lytton Bulwer, the first Baron Iytton, was an Eng lish novelist and dramatist. Amdng his works were "The Last Dsys of rompell" and "The Lady of Lyons." 0. "Owen Meredith" was the pen namS of Edward Robert Bulwer Lyttdo, first Earl of Lytton, sod, of Lytton Bulwer, first Baron Lytton, and, like his father, a novelist. 10. The Urm "jay" to describe a simpleton was first used In 1887. It, wis simply the initial or. juggins, vrna a mat , , ,r.Jrt'MW,a foot l MT1C ' miffM l VI (I If Fk, A fi ' "' .
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