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MOORE FOR MAYOR
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S announce
ment of his candidacy for the Repub
lican nomination for Mayor is a fine ex
ample of courage and manly independ
ence. A regular of regulars all his political
career, he has pioperly exercised his
right and the right of every party man
to aspire to lead his party in the contest
for the most important office in his home
city.
In the matter of close attention to his
duties at Washington Mr. Moore's record
is first class. Always on hand, laboring
faithfully in the best interests of the city
no matter what the season so long as
Congress was in session, he has never
permitted private affairs to interfere with
public ones. For more than a decade
he has been the leading Republican rep
resentative fiom Pennsylvania as well
as Philadelphia. His individual abilities
have raised him to a position of influence
and leadership in the House, and it is
these qualities and his experience in
public life which entitle him to submit his
candidacy to the voters, believing that he
is qualified to administer the difficult
office of Mayor with satisfaction to the
public.
. Mr. Moore's statement is impressive
for its sincerity and lack of eauivocal
yrhetoric. There is one sentence in par
ticular which will stick in the mind that
where he declares he will be a candidate
"as a Republican, singularly free from
those pledges and influences which when
made in advance of an election are usually
the curse of a candidate." It indicates
that if elected he will be nobody's rubber
stamp.
d OMENS IN JERSEY
ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS in New Jersey
are banding together to help Mr.
Nugent in his run for the governorship
because Mr. Nugent loathes the thought
-" of a universal franchise.
Mr. Nugent might as well quit now and
save his time, money and voice.
The antis always lose.
LUDENDORFF'S LOST NERVE
XTTHAT does it matter whether Luden
' dorff did or didn't lose his nerve?
He lost everything else, including his
head.
A calmer state of mind is surely ap
proaching in Germany when the news
papers can give themselves up to
elaborate discussions of a question that
probably has ceased to interest even Lu
dendorff himself.
Most of the world, being wiser than
Germany, will continue to feel that
Ludendorff never had any nerve to lose.
THE RESPONSIBILITY IS JOINT
COMETHINQ more than a question of
railroad rates and wages was involved
in the issue presented to Mr. Wilson by
the brotherhoods and submitted, in turn,
to the interstate commerce committee of
the Senate. In his letter of reply to the
'President, Chairman Cummins ignored
the subtler and more important aspects
of the whole matter.
' Any one on either side at Washington
Vfho believes that the matter of food and
commodity prices may be tinkered with,
evaded or twisted into an election issue is
being tragically misled. The burden
tinder which the country at large is be
ginning to chafe will actually provide a
test of the sincerity of every official whose
concern it may be. It will provide one of
the great tests of Mr. Wilson's character
and ability. It does not belong in the
realm of politics. '
,Such a crisis as has arisen in the mar
kets of the world was to haVe been ex
pected. Four years of headlong destruc
tion has diminished supplies of food and
raw materials. The United States is
obliged still to feed a large part ofj
Europe, mat oongation is undeniable.
But it would be a calamity if powerful
groups intricately organized to buy and
sell were permitted to gamble endlessly
with the means of life at a time like this.
No solemn pretenses can relieve Con
.gress or the President of their share of
joint responsibility in the general search
for a method of dealing with an intoler
able and perilous situation. It is their
duty to co-operate.
IN THE LAST STAGES
TDATIFJCATION of the peace treaty is
- J- approaching its last stages. After
many unomciai pronouncements mat me
Pre-iident was unalterably opposed to any
'jdreeervatlons or interpretatipns to accom-
? -jmy the ratifying resolution there comes
the official statement that he has author-
ik-'iwed the formation of an organization to
. ;j-yrk upon Republican senators to induce
tnpM to rauiy me treaty wun interprets-
'the kind pf railfication which
iWent Taft tM in his letter
to Will H. Hays, chairman of the Repub
lican national committee, and which
Charles E. Hughes recommended in his
letter to Senator Hale. There are doubt
less enough Republican senators who
agree with these distinguished leaders of
their party to make the necessary two
thirds to secure ratification.
The gentlemen whom the President has
called to his assistance arc members of
the League to Enforce Peace, with which
the lcague-of-nations idea originated.
Thoy have consistently supported the plan
from the beginning and have had the
backing of Mr. Taft, who has done more
than any other American to create senti
ment favorable to the international or
ganization. ONLY THE HAGIOLOGIES CONTAIN
M rHKHLLtL I V LMIMOIWU
The Self-Effaeement of the Secretary of
State Is Cause for Wonder
and Admiration
'"pHE human comedy, enacted liofoie our
eyes in the full light of dav. is mildly
entertaining. When we have nothing else
to do we cast a glance in its dneotion,
watch its unfolding with casual interest
and then yawn and think of .something
else. It is too commonplace to absoib at
tention long.
But let some one draw the curtain aside
and give us a momentary glimpse behind
the scenes, we aie all attention at once.
We are eager to discover who pulls the
strings. We will crane our necks and
twist our bodies in an effort to ser until
we are stiff for a week afteiward Like
the little boy in "Helen's Babies," we
want to see the wheels go round.
This is the reason for the amount of
space given in the Washington dispatchrs
to the testimony of Secretary Lansing
before the Senate foreign relations com
mittee. We have seen Mr. Lansing sitting in
the office of secretary of state since June,
1915. We have read dispatches bearing
his signature. We saw him go to Paris
with the President as a member of the
peace commission and we read that he
had been appointed to membership on the
committee to fix the responsibility for the
war. Wo saw a photograph of the last
page of the peace treaty containing his
beautiful signatuie next below that of
the President, the second name on the
historic document. And we have wel
comed him home at the conclusion of
what we were wont to regard as his
arduous ltbors in Paris. He looked well
and stiong and we were glad that he had
stood the strain so well.
But when he took his seat in the wit
ness chair in the Senate committee room
and reached out his arm and lifted the
curtain upon what had been going on be
hind its glimmering folds we discovered
more than we ever knew before about the
art of being secretary of state in the
cabinet of Woodrow Wilson.
We have had secretaries of state who
originated policies and were backedy
the President in carrying them out.
James G. Blaine will occur at once to the
mind as the man responsible for the pan
American policy intended to bind the re
publics of the South with the great repub
lic of the North. It was not a Harri
sonian enterprise, but was a project which
Mr. Blaine Had urged for years before he
entered Benjamin Harrison's cabinet.
Mr. Blaine was more than a meie subor
dinate of the President. He was an
adviser.
John Hay likewise was a man whose
conduct of the negotiations with the wily
old dowager empress of China during the
Boxer uprising marked him as a states
man of the first rank. And the skill with
which he developed the policy of the open
door in China against the interest and
desires of other powers was not origi
nated or guided by William McKinley or
Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Hay was sec
retary of state in fact as well as in name.
Of course, the final authority at all times
rested in the hands of the President, but
we have had Presidents who welcomed
the assistance and advice of big men.
In more recent years there was Elihu
Root, who took up the pan-American idea
where Blaine left it and cultivated it and
watered it and tended it with as much
care as if it were his own. He left upon
our foreign policy the impress of his own
personality.
But Mr. Wilson is not like other Presi
dents. Whether Mr. Lansing under a
man like Roosevelt or McKinley or Harri
son would have been a secretary of state
like Root or Hay or Blaine must forever
remain unknown. As we have had a new
kind of a President, a solitary figure who
keeps his own counsel, makes his own de
cisions and uses the members of his cabi
net to carry them out, it has been neces
sary to develop a new kind of a secretary
of state.
Thc fleeting glimpse behind the scenes
to which we have been treated leveals Mr.
Lansing as a man of great poise, self
control and humility. No man without
these qualities could have sustained for
four years the role which he has been
playing without bursting out in protest or
resigning in disgust. Such self-effacement
is as sublime as it is unusual. One
has to look in the literature of hagiology
to find its parallel.
Here we have the chief diplomatic offi
cial of the government, one of its repre
sentatives on the commission which nego
tiated the most momentous treaty of
peace since the morning stars sang td
gether, professing virtual ignorance
about what went on in the conference.
How was the league-of-nations covenant
negotiated? Ask Mr. Wilson. How was
agreement arrived at on this, that or the
other matter? Perhaps Mr. Wilson may
be able to tell you. Why was the demand
of Japan on the "Shantung matter
acceded to? You will have to ask Mr.
Wilson. He made the decision. And so
on through a long list of questions.
And when he was asked for the general
outline of what had been done in matters
that had passed through his department
he pleaded a poor memory and asked tor
time to consult the records. No-rr, it l
had been anything more than an a-rent- J?
he had assumed responsibility iof r-'-wr-mendations
that were finally acted upon
he could' not have forgotten in so short
a tinie. The only explanation is that he
has heen the clerk of the President, sub
'mlssiyely readying an- obeying orders,
Sl'WAn not'JielitUjng Mr;, La-Wing. He
is an international lawyer of wide ex
perience and tested abilities. Thq spec
tacle which he presents forces wonder and
admiration wonder that a man can be
willing to be a mere cog in a machine
when the post he holds would entitle him
to function as one of the driving wheels,
and admiration at the power of self
repression which has kept him from ex
ploding for, lo! these many months.
He has not effaced himself because of
lack of views of his own. He made this
manifest by his statement that Japan
would have signed thp treaty without the
Shantung agreement and that the con
cession was not necessary. If the public
could be permitted to listen at a dicta
phone connected with Mr. Lansing's desk
while he unburdened himself in confi
dence to a bosom friend it would have
an enteitaining half hour which would
more than repay it for the time stolen
from that usually given to the movies.
IN NEW YORK
PIFTH AVENUE isn't wide enough to
accommodate all the bright new
limousines of all the dull new millionaires
in New Yoik. Many of the elect in Man
hattan therefore lide or used to ride
to what they aie pleased to call work
with hoi polloi. They used the street
cars.
The street-railway strikes that occur
with astonishing regulaiity in and about
Manhattan aie not devoid of advantages
to the Manhattanese. The cloud has a
lining not of silver, perhaps, but of nickel
plate. New Yorkers are almost in
variably either too fat or too thin. They
toil only with the wiist muscles that are
needed to count money or play bridge.
They may learn to walk and they will
benefit by the exercise. A whiff of fiesh
air now and then and a sight of the sky
will do them good.
COATESVILLE: A SYMBOL
A FEW years ago there were parades
and rejoicings and endless speech
making in Coatesville. Coatesville used
to be a modest town with a borough gov
ernment. It succumbed to the itch of
ambition and had itself made a city of
the third class.
In the years that have inteivened this
city of the third class, which has only
eighteen thousand population, found that
the obligations of greatness aie not
always pleasant or even comfortable.
There were expensive municipal forms
to maintain. Offices and salaries were in
creased. Trouble multiplied as it
always does for those in exalted places.
Coatesville has had the courage to
admit its error. It wants to return to the
simple life after its bright adventure.
It wants to be a borough again.
What a fine place this world would be
if some of the nations of Europe were as
wise as Coatesville!
A Muskegon. Midi.,
Waste of Energy mob, to show its oppo
sition to a t.pP!)-cent
fare, burned n oouplo nf trollpy rais. This
is ns foolish a waj nf srrkitiK t dross as
the Chinosp method, according to Charles,
Lamb, of cooking mast pig.
With an nrtivo coal e-
Easlest Tiling port business through -
They Do out the siimnipr. mine
operators maj find it
tlifiieiilt to explain a dnmestir shoitage next
winter if Mich eentuntcs in accordance
with prophecies made.
Discussing the Philn
Or a Game dclphia majoraltj ron-
Old Rooster test, Mr. Moore is
iiiotd as snjing that
Leghorns are wonilpifu! fellows and
I'lj mouth Itneks ran hold their own. Which
might indicate that that's the kind of chick
en Mr. Moore is.
The (oiiutj prosecutor
Hogging Food in Columbus, Ohio, is
Products tring to force a local
packing company to
disgorge l."l,fl."l pounds of pork, which he
alleges has been held in storage, for prof
iteering purposes, beyond the period allowed
by law. lie hopes to sell it publicly at the
figure at which it was acquired. This is
what mny be termed putting virtue into the
pork barrel.
Some members of the
City FI:vs in Luck Philadelphia police
forre have gone to
West Chester, nud some have returned from
France. The city is benefited by the ex
change. The political cjeie has Its daily blowout.
The bank
make n haul.
;ullcrj d uly expects Fisher to
The ties that
tie up industry.
bind are not those that
Varc, oh, Vaie, are
Town Meeting registrars''
the little doggone
Rumanians cous-iler armistice
merely the thin end of the wedge.
terms
Now if the profiteer could only
the gang at West Chester !
join
Mr. Lansing, too. has
adept nt passing the buck.
shown himself
The aim of cold storage sometimes
seems to be to give the ultimate consumer a
cold deal.
One thing n President has to learn is
that he can't keep his head erect and his ear
to the ground at one and the same time.
Think of a big strong government
making war on a poor weak little thing like
75 beer!
The Frog Hollow police convicts found
breakfast in jail a joke jesterday morning
but the very best joke grows monotonous
after a whlle
Japan wants to import white silica
sand from the Philadelphia district. We
have it, and we ought to have the ships to
carry it.
AVith army food on sale next week a
host of reputable citizens will nee the inside
of a police station for the first time in their
lives.
Mr. Lansing might have saved his repu
tation an a big man by resigning long ago.
Mayhap he proved the other thing by not
resigning.
And, after all, if Congress were anv
more intellectual than it In it wouldn't b.
nu lv1,1w,.,.,v Y, ""iii'uioni meijt aiwvcuevn , toy) acacia ,iiee , ceased to I
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ROMANCE OF GOLD MINING
Success of Spencer Penrose and
Charles McNeill In Colorado Per
ils In the Hunt for the Precious
Metal In the Arctic and
In the Tropics
By OKOnOE NOX MrCAIN
NEXT to love the great adventure in life
Is gold hunting. In nine cases out of
ter, though, the world over and I think the
rntlo runs lilghcr-r-thc reward is either fail
ure or death. ,
The gold hunter's graveyard in southern
Alaska is the most desolate spot I ever saw.
It Is a tiny (?od's acre, not larger than a
city lot, on the shore of Lake Bennett. Lake
Bennett Is the most treacherous sheet of
water north of the Canadian boundary. It
is the head waters of the Yukon river.
The little cemetery Is on a barren rise of
ground, with mountains on three sides.
Within the rough, wooden -railed Inclosurc
nre about thirty graes, the last resting place
of men and there are several women who
embarked in the Klondike rush of 1S0S.
Some died of exposure, others of accident,
but most of drowning in Lake Bennett. It
was near here that the pioneers, having con
quered the White Pass, felled trees, hewed
planks and built barges. They had C00 miles
of n river journey ahead of them before they
reached the gold fields.
rpWO Philad'dphians who have grown very
-- wealtliv in gold nnd copper entprprises are
Chnrles McN'eill and Spencer Penrose, a
brother nf the senator. Spenrer Penrose will
go to the T'nited States Senate one of these
das, I believe. He is er.v popular in
Colorado. lie Is big. heartj, kind nnd
hospitable. His home is in Colorado Springs,
though he has spent considerable time in re
cent years traveling in the Orient.
Clmrlie McNeill and Spenrer Penrose made
their first venture in Cripple Creek twenty
live j ears or more ago. They struck it rich.
Later on they became interested in copper
mining, and McNeill is now one of the copper
magnates, a high official in the I'tah Copper
Company. For years they have deserted the
effete East for the wealth and fascination of
the expansive West.
A little-known mining romance is that of
Sherwood Aldrich, whose nnme figures fre
quently in eastern society columns He was
a New York man and a long-time acquaint
ance of Penrose nnd McNeill. lie had made
and lost money around Cripple Creek. Then
in 10(14 came the Tonopnh-liohlricld rush.
I talked with Aldrich In the El Paso Club
in Colorado Springs, of which we wpre mem
bers, a few nights before he left for the new
discovery. For months before he had been
rather down in his luck. He expressed the
confident belief that he would strike it rich
in the new Nevada field.
And he did. Within five jears he was
wortli half n million.
T DOl'ItT the details of tha. story sent out
- from New York last week about n gold
hunting expedition starting for Dutch Cuiana
with a widely known gentleman and his
wife at the head of it. It said that they
were going to develop a gold field which the
leader located on the Moioni rier eighteen
jcars ago.
As the story runs, they are carrying with
them a company of fifty mining engineers nnd
a million dollars' worth of equipment. The
main story may be true, but the latter state
ment suggests exaggeration.
Evidently it is a dredging proposition in
the alluvial sands of the river. If so, half
a dozen American engineers and assistants
would be ample for the pmposp. Labor is
plentiful and ery cheap in that country, as
I know, nnd a million dollars' worth of ma
chinery would dredge a dozen rivers.
Not all of the party, I venture, will come
back alie. It't, a wretched country for
fever and all sorts of tropic disorders.
rpiIE smaller streams of northern South
America are literally rivers of gold. (Jold
seekers generally nre not aware of this. Ven
ezuela with northern Brazil and a portion
of western (Juiana is a land of undeveloped
riches and romance.
It was up the Orinoco river that Sir Wal
ter Raleigh 'ailed on his quixotic quest for
the fabled El Dorado. It was on the sloping
bank at Soletlad, just across the Orinoco from
Ciudad Bolivar, that he rested for two
months while refitting his ships.
I'ntil fifty j ears ago Ciudad Bolivar was
known as Angostura. It was the original
home of the famous bitters. Raleigh ex
pected to find somewhere in that wilderness
a city rich in gold and gems beyond the
wildest dreams of Spanish avarice. Instead
he returned empty-handed to an execution
er's block in Loudon.
Strolling through the western or poorer
section of the little city of Ciudad Bolivar
one morning some years ago I saw an im
mense negro seated at a table near an open
window in a native but with a handful of
nuggets before him. They were discolored
ancl he was cleansing them in a gourd bowl
half filled with water. He did not resent
my curious gaze.
I told Robert Henderson, one of the two
Americans in that remote region, of what I
had seen.
"Very likely he's n Barbados negro who
has just come down the CaronI river "
"There must be gold along the river," I
said.
"I believe it is richer in gold than any
river in South America," he replied. "But
no white man can live in the climate."
THN ROUTE to Port of Spa'L on my return
J 'from the Orinoco valley, on the Chester,
Pennsylvania -built side-wheel steamboat, I
met a Yankee named Shaw from Snow Hill,
Me. He had lived in the country for twenty
five years, hail married a Spanish woman
and raised a family. He corroborated Hen
derson's story, only his picture of the Caroni
was more vivid :
"I believe the Caroni with its tributaries
like the 1'rape is one of the richest rivers in
the world. I've seen plenty of gold from it,
but always in small lots. It's impossible
for a white man to live in the low climate
along the banks. He'd die of fever inside two
mouths. Nobody but the Barbados and
Trinidad niggers can work there and they
can stand it only a short time. The native
Indians won't work. They rpend their time
hunting and fishing, and care nothing about
gold.. Besides they're treacherous."
This old fish of a Maine Yankee told me
the story, or romance rather, of the New
Providence mine. It is- famous In that part
of our sister continent. It Is, or was, in
the Urupati country about seventy miles back
from the Orinoco. Its nearest city is Gua
cipati, the capital of the territory.
The mine had been worked for more than
250 years. The natives, they say, discov
ered It before the Conquistadores came. It
was estimated that more than $200,000,000
had been taken from It. It was worked by
tunnels, drifts and stopes.
Then one day about thirty years ago tlio
miners tunneling ran against a great rock
wall. The gold vein ended. The wonderful
richness ot yellow stuff suddenly ceased to
exist. They had struck what is, known geo
logically as a "fault." To right and left
they blasted and searched and sunk shafts
fr down the face of the rock. It wag all in
valu. 'lhey never recovered the lead,
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THE CHAFFING DISH
O ProflteersI
ONE word is too often profaned
For us to profane It,
One traffic so justly disdained
We need not disdain it.
AVe're candid ; a word in your ear
A musing to dance to :
Perhaps we would all profiteer
If we had a chance to.
It is amusing to hear that Mr. Wilson
ordered certain matters withheld "to avoid
irritating the French Senate."
Not irritating Senates is something he is
notably good at.
Two very eminent newspapermen, Mr.
Heywood Broun and Mr. Jay House, have
been finding amusement in the remarks of a
former Evr.M.vt. Pi iu.ic Lehoek corre
spondent, Philip ttibbs. Mr. C.lbbs, in his
admirable novel of newspaper life, "The
Street of Adventure," speaks of English
newspaper reporters ns sitting in the city
room with their legs stretched out toward
an open fire. Mr. Broun nnd Mr. House
agree that they have necr seen this phenom
enon in an American news office.
Our contribution to the discussion is that
the object the newspaperman's legs nre'most
likely to be stretched nut toward is the office
boy." And we hne heard that in the rough
old days the cub reporter was sometimes
openly 'fired by the managing editor stretch
ing his leg in the direction of the stairs.
Gone Up In Smoke
Found Dead, Pipe in Mouth, says a head
line. At any rate it was a peaceful demise.
We do not give any credit to the state
ment that Britain is trying out Mr. De
Valera as the new American ambassador.
The question whether the paying teller of
the North Penu Bank has made good his
escape reminds us of the old tale about the
Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. Some one
said that he didn't know whether Bacon
wrote Shakespeare's plaj or not; but if he
didn't, he missed the greatest opportunity
of his life.
Literary Notes
Ed Mumford, the well-known publisher,
recently found surcease from care in a week
at the romantic hamlet of Lovelady's on the
Jersey shore. Jlr. Mumford admits that be
saw the orb of day rise over the ocean one
morning, and from the excitement he dis
plays In describing the experience, we can
not help suspecting it is the first time this
phenomenon has been brought to his per
sonal attention.
Jolly old Roscoe Peacock writes us from
North Cohocton, N. Y., that '"Suck" in
the August Harper's is the greatest story
he's read in years. We are going to send
him Harry Levenkrone's serial.
V. R. C. writes us as follows:
Will you kindly give me a list of grood
books to read which will help one's knowl
edge a bit. Not Action or literature.
We are a little puzzled. 11 V. R. C. will
explain the kind of books he wants, we will
be glad to help.
Among the new books to appear this fall
we confidently expect to see the following:
How to Live Within Other People's In
comes, by a Paying Teller.
Hitting the Hay at Nine P. M or Sim
pie Life at West Chester, by Dave Bennett
and Others.
The Public Be Jammed, by a Rapid Tran
sit Official.
How to Evaporate, by The Committee of
100.
Revisiting the Old Home Town, by Orover
Bcrgdoll.
1001 Ways. of. Agreeing With Mr. Wilson,
a handy manual, by Robert Lansing.
Looking ,'ltor a Candidate, & petectire
Story, by k; ana . vi
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Routes to Elktnn, with an appendix on Ten
Minute Tioiisscaux, by Orange Blossom.
How I (inash .My Teeth, a book ot political
hygiene, by Scnntor Borah.
Loud Applause, a handbook for Democratic
senators, with a supplement on the Com
mand of Language and the Language of
Command, by Professor W. Wilson.
A History of Gallantry, by a Floorwalker.
Tarrying for a moment at a certain second-hand
bookshop we asked a young man
if there was anything by (I. K. Chesterton
in stock. "Sure," said he, and led the way
to a copy of "Get Rich Quick Walling
ford." "Jlr. Wilson has an unusually long face,"
says a visitor to our kcnuci. "When he
addresses the Senate it measures about four
teen inches from npex to suffix."
To which we urge that a stern face is al
ways a long one.
, In a Nutshell
"His personal friends can conceive ot no
greater rnlstake on his part than to enter
the? mayoralty race under present condi
tions. He Is today In political life Phil
adelphia's most distinguished citizen "
Said of a suggested candidate.
And so long ns Philadelphia does not want
distinguished citizens as mayors, she won't
get them.
A City Notebook
Walking up Chestnut street we heard be
hind us two short, sharp sternutations,
sounding rather like the sudden hissing es
cape of steam from an overburdened vnlve.
We turned and saw a piteous individual
with bloodshot eyes rapidly fumbling for a
handkerchief. We gazed at him with the
agonized sympathy of a fellow sufferer whose
time is almost come.
The hayfever season has begun.
On Broad street, at a little after 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, was a long line of people
waiting to sec a certain already famous
movie. A young lady, deeply rouged and
dressed in the garments of a street-arab
with trouscr-fringes a little too obviously
scissored to counterfeit indigence, performed
a languid canter on the navement to enter
tain the customers with visions of something
highly heart-throbbing. All down the street
one could see groups of wemen and girls
hastening desperately tow'nri the box-office,
with that far-away and ouxious gaze of
those fearful that the best seats will be gone
before they get to the window.
We commend the hopelessly old-fashioned
pedal-polishing artist who has the little tem
ple at the northeast corner of Twelfth and
Market. He descends to no such slang as
the word "shine." His sign reads, with
sober restraint, Shoes Blackened.
Eighteenth Amendment Shattered
"Upstate" genially calls our attention to
the .following:
A slight Are occurred at Port Carbon
shortly before noon, when flames were
discovered In one of the forHrn-bom
residents northeast of the town. The dam
age waa slight. An Investigation Is being
made of the caust of the blaze. Potts
vllle Republican.
Desk Mottoes
His humor was sardonic Ills repartee
was rude. He made one laugh some times
by Bpeaklng- the truth, but this Is a form
of humor which calns its force only by Us
umisualness; it would cease to amuse lf It
were commonly practiced. W. Somerset
Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence."
7 111
Dear Soerata: Do you lay bare your soul
in the Chaffing Dish? Sometimes I suspect
you of being merely facetious.
MINIMUS MAXIM.
Mr. Shelley it was who spoke, of Sleep as
fthe fllmy-eycd"; buttbe kind of filmy eves
A I '
THE FAIRY BOOK
TN SUMMER, when the grass is thick, If
-I- mother has the time.
She shows me with her pencil how a poet
makes n rhyme
And often she is sweet euough to choose a
leafy nook,
Where I cuddle up so closely when she
reads the Fairy-book.
TN WINTER, when the corn's asleep, and
- birds are not in rong,
And crocuses and violets have been away
too long.
Dear mother puts her thimble by in answer
to my look,
And I cuddle up so closely when she reads
the Fairy-book.
A ND mother tells the servants that of
course they must contrive
To manage all the household things from
four till half-past five,
For we really cannot suffer Interruption
from the cook
When we cuddle close together with 'the
happy Fairy-book.
Norman Gale.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Where is Minsk?
2. What is solmlzatlon?
.1. Where is False bay?
4. What English writer is known as the
Founder of the English Domestic
Novel?
5. Who wrote "Happiness is an equivalent
for all troublesome things"?
0. Who was Admiral George Byng?
7 How many Federal Reserve Districts arexHf
mere ana wncre are their beadquar
ters located?
8. What queen was known as the Wh(U t
Queen? y
9. What is the Guidonian ut?
10. What is "kinematic"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. "Though the mills of God grind slowly,
yet they grind exceeding small," was
written by F. Von Logau in the sey-, .
entcenth century. George Herbert had'
previously written "God's mill grinds
slow, but sure."
2. The three hundreds (nominally villages)
of Stoke, Burnham and DesbOrough
in Buckinghamshire, England, are
known as the Cblltern Hundreds. An
English crown officer long ago was
called upon to protect inhabitants
from the robbers that infested the
beech forests. The work has gone, but '
the office remains. It is used as a ,
means of allowing a member of Far- '
liament to resign. He may not re
sign directly, but he may accept the
stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds
and resign from that office.
3. A pogrom is an organized massacre of a
body or class in Russia.
4. Great Britain declared war on Germany
August 4, 1014.
G. Texas is kuown as the Lone Star State.
0. Henry Jones, English writer oo whist, fl
ivmi known as '"Cavendish." -II
7. The commonwealth of Australia was pro
claimed at Sydney, January, 1, 1001.
8. The word "sack," a beg, is pretty muc
reason tradition has it that It wa
the last word uttered nt Babel befow.
the tongues were confounded;
0. Sarah Ann Glover, an Englishwoman. Il
developed the tonic sol-fa system.
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