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ANDREW CARNEGIE
"ARNEGIK was one soit of man when
'-' he was makinp his money, engineer
ing; mergers and maintaining at Homo
'stead a theory of industrial npciatinn
which, from the viewpoint of labor, was
pitiless and destructive and, in the end,
unscientific. He was another sort of
individual later along, when, after his
retirement, he had time to move off from
his completed work and view it whole.
His life, like that of a great many other
captains of industry in America, proves
) that men of his type learn ns thev go
along and that they often learn late
Carnegie was ruthless at the outset
because he was uninformed. He had
nothing of what we have come t speak
of as the social consciousness. This may
have been because he himself was hnid
driven and without the time or the
ability necessary to a complete undei
Etandmg of the responsibilities that fall
naturally to leaders of men in a woild
of new aspirations. Some of the bit
terest strikes eer organized in this state
occurred at Homestead during the Car
negie legimc. Industiial combinations
later declared inimical to American in
terests were inspired by the Carnegie
example. Yet it was Carnegie who later
sincciely tried to do something piactical
'vX in the interest of world peace, and
Carnegie who, in the legal wai.s waged
among his successors, refused to help
ihem in efforts to sustain rules of con
duct which he himself had taught.
When a man acquiies great powci and
almost limitless money before he ac
quires n dtspinlil-nel tnlnrl n r-rnfit mynv
fT things are likely to go awry in hi- life.
Carnegie was not populai. That, piob
ably, was because he became an old man
before he was able to realize the import
or the consequences of many of his acts.
The Rockefeller of today is not the
Rockefeller of yesterday. There aie a
great many other seemingly mthless
men in America who, as they go along,
will become wiser and sadder men.
UP THE WRONG TREE
TF THE radical element in the unions
--and the Bolshevists de luxe of journal
ism wanted proof of the general Ameri
can distaste for class laws of any soit
they have had plenty of it in the last
week. Congress was not stampeded by
the menacing attitudes of Mr. Stone and
Mr. Morrison. The President was not
stampeded. The men in the laihvay shop
unions who broke lanks, defied then
leaders and quit work in true soviet
fashion And themselves now humiliated
and without the suppoit of any element
of opinion in the United States. There
is an obvious anxiety on, the part of the
brotherhood leaders to prove that their
state of mind is far more temperate than
that which Mr. Stone's ultimatum sug
gested. Whoever has been advising the l ail
way men has been a poor judge of the
American temper. With their earlier
aggressive tactics thp brotherhoods won,
hands down. In this instance they have
lost and the apologetic tone of the later
statements from the railway men's lead
ers show that they know it. They lost
not only in Congress and at the White
House, but with the public at large,
which is not eager for muddling experi
ments with a sort of political radicalism
that has left most of Europe prostrate,
hungry and economically helpless.
UNASHAMED PROFITEERS
QN THE same day that the Picsident
was telling Congress that the price
of wheat could be kept down by restrict
ing exportation a delegation of repre
sentatives from farmers' organizations
appeared before the Senate committee on
agriculture demanding that the guar
antee price of ?2.26 a bushel for wheat be
removed.
The farmers are asking thai the guar
anteed price be abandoned, not in older
to benefit the public, but to benefit them
selves. They are saying that if left to
itself wheat would sell for $1 or ?5 a
bushel, and they want that price. Under
present conditions they stand to lose a
billion dollars this year, they say. They
yrant to get the billion. And the senators
and representatives from the wheat
growing states are pledging their sup
port to the demand for ?5 wheat.
Thjs is a profiteering plea which, if
made by the packers or by the canners,
vould be met by fierce denunciation and
f. threats of prosecution. But the farmers
can mnke it with impunity. The Lever
jl food-control law exempts them from the
hoarding prohibitions. The Kcnyon
J packers' license bill exempts them from
iv ,J1 restrictions placed upon the handlers
19 ' rf meat. 'The cnti-trust laws exempt
tJ . tbMrt' . thej prohibitions against com
1 C, "lefniittaift li'tw'nt of trade. The farm-
tf eya W f, Kivileged class, and they will
destroy any politician who seeks to re
strict their privileges.
Hut In these days, when every one is
complaining of the cost of food, wp are
likely to discover what the country
thinks of any group of pioducers which
domnnds $5 wheat.
A BUBBLING POLITICAL POT
IS HEALTHY FOR THE CITY
Split In Organization Over Mayoralty
Presages Benefits From Vigorous
Rlval-ies and "Opposition"
Challenges
TiHE cocksurcncss of self-appointed po-
litical forecasters concerning the out
come of the mayoralty contest has a deli
ciously hollow sound. It falls like an
unintentional hencdiction upon the ears
of such Philadelphlans as pause to con
sider what the 1 asic principle of Ameri
can lepiescntative government really is.
In the chcmenco of the mal claims
nnd the obvious unceitamties on which
they are pietentiously based there is the
prospect of the end of unchecked abso
Ititirim and a rigid and waiv policing
of the new civic administration which the
voters will choose in November. The de
feated opposition, of vvhichcvci faction it
ma be composed, will see to the safe
guarding. It is equally clear that Philadelphia
eitiens are in for better times, as they
assuredlj ate for lively ones. The
iivaliv which has snlit the once well-
oiled political ma"hinc is, if it be sin
cerely maintained, a majoi antidote
against oligarchy. The city has applied
it much le.s frequently than most of her
siiter towns nnd yet oftener than the
pessimist is inclined to admit
Gang Hile is not continuous, even in
Philadelphia. Thete is an illuminating
penodicity in the levolutions. When the
shake up comes it is less rarely a pioduet
of idealistic reforming zeal than of a
season of selfish political mastery too
anogantly complete, too ambitiously
"harmonious" to be enduring. Cloudless
dajs are sometimes chaiaetei ized in this
region as "weathei bleeders."
Even so in the political sense is so
sweeping a municipal victoiy as was the
foieoi darned and carefully preai tanged
election of Thomas H. Smith nearly four
years ago. The storm .signals have been
raised almost ever since.
It is no longer sufficient to desci ibe the
local parties as oveivvhclmingly Repub
lican and insignificantly Democratic
Philadelphlans aic not talking on mu
nicipal subjects in those tcims today
when Congressman Moore, nationally a
"legular of regulais," challenges the
Varc regime to the keenest of campaign
combats. The lines are drawn. A spn
lted contest is begun and the closely bal
anced bi-paity system which has insured
to the nation a succession of excellent
Piesidents may pel haps biing to Phila
delphia a good Mayor.
Without lestiaints, without the Tear of
possible loss of political powci, corrup
tion breeds wtth the most dangerous
celenty. The constitution framers vveie
keenly alive to such penis and they
devised the plan of national government
with a wise regard for the vntue of the
balance pnnciple. If the molality of
mankind is not flattered by such pro
ceduie, at least its matenal well-being is
enhanced, and when nominees to office
win in a close contest oi in the face of a
vigoious minority opposition the mle of
cabals such as, those undei which Phila
delphia has been oppie.ssed is exceedingly
distant.
The histoiy of this city's "combines,"
lings, gangs and machines is notouously
unsavory, but it is also clearly indica
tive of the fact that the life of even the
most poweiful of them is beset with
pitfalls into which with sti iking regu
larity it is in the end certain to fall.
The supiemacy of "Dave" Martin and
his "Hog Combine" in ISOj was followed
by an exciting upheaval in the local or
ganization, which expanded until it
neaily resulted in the defeat of Quay for
the Senate and pitted the Philadelphia
boss and his henchmen against the Penn
sylvania leader in a way that brought at
least some of the benefits of a healthy
revolution. The public invariably
amounts to something when contesting
factions, however conscienceless either of
them may be, are at war.
The Durham oiganization, as cynically
as it was skillfully wi ought, followed the
Mai tin legime, which had dominated the
Warwick administration. The new ol
der cairied contractor rule under Ash
bridgc to a fine art, foitified itself with
alliance with the using McNichoI and
then, in the lemaikable melodrama en
acted when Mayor Weaver thiew over
the tiaces at the time of the gas-lease
renewal crisis, underwent a temporary
convulsion and on recovery paid marked
lecognition to the ambitions of the
Vaics in their expansion northward.
Theie was no mistaking the political au
thority of the South Philadelphia bosses
when John E. Reybuin was elected
Mayor in 1907.
Four years afterward, however, heart
ening proof was given that the progiess
of the cycles in Philadelphia politics is
something to be reckoned with even by
victorious bossism. Duiham was dead
and reatly able leadership capable of pre
serving harmony in machinery large
enough to run Philadelphia for the
benefit of conti actors was at a discount.
The Vares and McNichoI fell out.as defi
nitely and as acrimoniously as the Vare
and the Penrose factions have split at
the present time.
The public's police power in the face
of a disrupted "organization" embraced
the opportunity to be assertive. Corrupt
gang rule was emphatically lebuked in
the election of Rudolph Blankenburg.
The subsequent piecing together of the
machine's broken parts was more os
tensible than leal, even though the case
with which Thomas B. Smith was made
Mayor seemed to Indicate security for re
sumption of business at the old stand.
It is unnecessary to recount the imme
diate fruits of his administration. What
is of prima intorest to the electorate now
arc the coming consequences arising
frnm'tbp collanse bl all-emhr.etno ViirrM,,
J oiidnUed boaalro and the development J,
of local factions as vivid In their mutual
opposition as are the national parties,
which, apart from all questions of ab
stract morals, must from sheer necessity
safeguard in general the national inter
ests. It would be stimulating to conccivo n
Philadelphia, decently governed, cfii
cicntly administered because of the
tiiumph of virtue. It would be agreeable
also to imagine a world so spontaneously
well behaved that no policemen were
needed. But the unsentimental truth is
that good government under the repre
sentative sjstcm is oftenef.t the direct
result of a delicate adjustment of the
party equation nnd the valid pressure
which the voter can exert in such cir
cumstances. The veiy worst thing that could hap
pen to Philadelphia today would be a
reconciliation of the factions contesting
in the mayoralty campaign. If the two
party system, rightly divorced fiom
pioblcms of national concern, cndittes
here the city is on the load to a healthy
political life, no matter what unholy nnd
greedy, ambitions move the Ieodeis,
They will be rival chieftains nnd they
must realize with a new intensitv what
the price of safety is.
It is paiticularly fitting that the ani
mated political shuffle should be evi
denced at a time when the government of
Philadelphia under the new charter
lenders so important the constant pres
ence of an aleit and watchful opposition
to all acts done under that law. With the
Mayor and the smaller Council elevated
in power the anti-administration patty
has the joint opportunity of looking out
both for its own and the public's intci
ests. Philosophers nnd statesmen ate an
nouncing a change of the old order, the
beginning of a new era in world politics.
It is easier to comprehend the extent of
the revolution when Philadelphia feels
the effects. The chartot may be inter
preted as one icaction. The political con
vulsion nnd the prospect of genuine bi
party local tilts should assist in making
the intent of the new law opciativc.
The livelier the struggle for the mnjor
alty is the better city executive will the
winner be.
A WORLD MELODIST
pUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO'S mon
" ument was wi ought in enduring foim
long bcfoie he died. Grand opera is a
pretentious art, and judging fiom its
costliness in this countiy it is still an
exotic Occasionally, however, it falls
to the composer's lot to fashion a melody,
seldom more than one or two, which cap
tuies the globe. Veidi did this with the
Duke's air in "Rigolctto," Gounod with
the "Soldiers' Chorus" in "Faust" and
Leoncavallo with at least two numbers
in the highly colored operatic melodrama
"I Pagliacci."
The Italian musician's name was rel
atively unknown, the name of his vivid
scoie was chronically mispionounccd, but
every one of his countrymen is ac
quainted with the stirring theme of the
Piologue" nnd the ringing measures of
,the "Lament," while to Ameiicans they
aie almost as well known as "My Old
Kentucky Home" or the "Suwance
River." Caruso made the betrayed
clown, central figuie of the little opera,
a stnndaid stage figure and the phono
graphs did the rest with his music.
As an artist Leoncavallo was perhaps
infeiior to many of hi.s contemporaiies.
He never "rcgisteicd" emphatically with
any other work save his Calabnan music
play. His "Zingari," pioduced in the
Campanini regime, was a w retched fail
ure. But in "Pagliucci" he sang with
inspiration and virility, and the whole
world took up the tune. It was a per
formance which no tubutc to his mem
oi y, however s'-'tidiose, can surpass.
Our fmehntlinRs linve
And Butter bun jti-tiliotl. A de-
Alreail) HIk'' in use in the New
.1 i t s e j buckwheat
i roji is nw miitilietl bv the news that the
I.ouisiiinn sugar-rane nip will full more
than 100,000 tous below the average for the
lust ton jents Fate bus Mucked the tnrds
against the man who habitually orders a
stntk of wheats.
'Tis conceded that a
Tr This on mm tin is a bird.
Your Piano 'Tis conceded that
the longest lane must
turn. Hut I stake m, solemn clavj, in a
word, that the politician still has lots to
learn. There are maxims that are curiotislj
tiite. There are aphorisms to the vision
plain. Hut public views, we're told, are
iinh light when the martin is a-singhis;
in the lane
New
ahead
otk ni tors see strike-breakers
The North Pinn investigation is be
ginning to show its teeth.
When Cm le U.ive "ltuh-d" did
have any particular bine k sheep in mind?
he
Mosniiit0-s bred on the nliiny pool of
politics are iiniticulailj ncthe on its bunks.
No "Hili -ban" can pull the wool over
the ei'h of it n nleit politician.
An anarchist is n guy who put a bomb
in abominnble.
Any line the law has on bomb-throwers
should luive n noose at the end of It.
"He who stealetli from the poor lendeth
to the devil" and, to give the devil his
due, he repnjB with inteient.
It is the general opinion of gentlemen
of the profession now lit leisure in New
York that strike-breakers are bad actors.
Louisiana sngnr-enne crop shy; Ar
gentina piohibiU exportation of Hugur
tough times nhend for the niuu with a sweet
tooth.
The (ierman war brides brought home
by Ameilcan doughboys prove thut Cupid
has studied neither geography nor woild
politics.
The President's effort to solve the food
problem Is another illustration of th0 fac!
that the mini who simply does "the best lie
enu" virtually admits failure.
Spite of a few little incidents (ike
being choked with food and run over by a
railroad train the pence treaty with Mime
rervutloBs is ntlll hcllns lit.
McCAIN'S GOSSIP
How a Place Was Made for Daniel J.
Lafean William J. Darry't Change
From Engineering to Hoter
Management
Hy (iKOItOK NOX McCAIN
Tlin name of ex Hanking Commissioner
Dnniel .f. I.nfeun In connection with
the Ninth Penti Hunk smash conjures up a
piece of unwritten politico-liunnclnl histoiy.
Mr. Lnfcnn himself innv perhaps be ignorant
of it, jet he was one ot the importnut fig
ures In the episode
When Governor Hiiimbnngli was trying to
build up n personal machine in the stnte,
nnd was easting about in search of positions
for thoso whom he fancied might aid him, he
chose for one ex-Congrcsmnn I.nfenn, of
York. Jle selected ns his victim the lute
Hanking Cnmmissimier William II. Hnilth,
of Philadelphia.
Smith was one of the nblest men that
ever held thut responsible position. Me
knew the routine, lie hud grown up in the
ofliee ; hud been n bunk examiner for jenrs.
Moreover, he enjnjed the confidence of the
banking interests of the state.
He vvns not a politician like John A.
Herkey, his predecessor, or Daniel V. Ln
fcnn, who was chosen ns his successor. They
were political appointments.
Several months before the end of 1010
Smith received a hint that he was due to
lesign. The commissioner communicated
with his friends, among them the lending
bankets of Philadelphia. Thev ndviseil him
to hold on nnd iu no event to resign mnlei
incline.
In the interim between the nnlifiiation
thut his exit was disned and the duv in
Intituirv when he did n'sign nuclei piessuie,
eeiy banking house iu Philadelphia oper
ating tinder slute laws, with one exception,
wrote letters of piotest to Governor Hrtim
biuigh ngninst Smith's removnl Thev in
sisted that Commissioner Smith be letnlned;
that his removnl not only would be n mis
take but would be disastrous OHieeis of
banks nnd tmst companies in Pittsbuigh
nnd vicinity wrote in similni vuii. Gov
ernor Brumbaugh must have received at
lenst U00 letters of pint est nguinst the re
movnl of Commissioner Smith
Hut he petsisted In drmuuding Mr. Smith's
resignation, nnd in his stead appointed
Dniiiil .1. Lafean, of Ycuk cciuiitv 1 give
Mi Lnfcnn the benefit of the ilnnht thut
he was not nvvure of this episode which so
einplinsircd the cflicicnr.v of William II,
hmitb.
Fi:W of the thousands who know William
.1 Itntrv, of the Longncre. through his
long c nicer ns hotel uiuniigei in this city,
me aware Hint by profession he is n civil
engiiieci He hnsn't woiked lit the job,
though, for rears.
He wns one of n paitv of veiling engineeis
who helped to survev the vvisinn section
of the ill-futed South Pennsv Ivniiia Ilnihoad.
Tts nvignilii cut ruins in the wiiv of tunnels,
tills mid cuts still mini n the landscape in
Somerset and W"stniot eland counties.
Whether the outdoor life was distnsteful
or the indoor life p.ittii uliii Iv nttiaitive,
Hilh Harry dropped engmeei ing and took
up hotel management Hi" dircc toiatc of
the liclguviu loveted a long period of
yeuis.
.1. Fr.i.ier Miller, who before bis resigna
tion a few months ago was the etheient bend
of the Hellevue-Stratford, is another hotel
director who holds n wnini place in the
benits of pi eminent Philiidelpliinns. He was
not origmallv n hotel mini. lie wus n Ken
tuckv l.nl who went to New Yoll: as pnvate
serietaty to the owner of one nf the gieut
bi,? lacing stables of the f. minus blue glass
region llai nig nnd the biieding of iuclms
was then iu its hevclnj.
George ('. Hnlill, ol the Wiildoif Astoi in,
when- Finei Millci stopped, took a fancy
to the blight joung southern i hup, made
hini his secretin! and subsequent! , step
by step, ndviiiuid hnn to a nmnugi't nil po
sition. Subsequently he placed hiiu in abso
lute coiltiol of the big hotel on Itiiind stiect.
lie will t tin u in Septembei, 1 hear, with
his hi ide fieun a six mouths' sojourn iu
southern California, unci n cheery welcome
will await him.
MAJOR DAVID LLWIS. inspeetoi gen
eiul's elepui liuent, A. II. V. who is
back fieun Fiance unil once moil- in mufti,
is looking fitter than he has done feu jenrs.
lie confesses that he feels as tine as he
looks.
Minor Lewis was one of the eompaiativclv
few oflieeis appointed from civil life to this
di pm tment "f the aimj. It wns to be, ex
pected. Aftei years of training on regi
inentnl and brigade stnfTs uudei General
Snow den in the old national giinul he did
not, us most otlicers do when they resign
from the guaid, shelve his aequiieel knowl
edge and forget all about it.
In the nitei veiling years he kept abreast
of the tnitieal changes in the iiiilituij arm
of the 1 nited States service. I've heart!
him for half an hour at a clip difeussiiig
points of dull unil discipline with regular
iiiniy oflieeis And he belli bis own every
time
When the nppm (unity came that his
seiviees were of value to his gov eminent,
Dave Lewis pioinplly selected bis job and
went uf(cr i( He landed it, too, with rank
of inn im Hnsrcl on his technical knowledge
it should have been n colonel's eoiiiinissl.ai.
While inspi'ctoi of the Sixth Division,
regulai armv. Lewis had ample oppoitunity
to study civil as well ns military life in
Fin nee.
"I never saw n diunken Frenchman," ho
dee lured, speaking of the piobibition issue.
"The Finn hut in looks nt the mutter of
di inking in u diffeient light from the Amer
ican. He lias been brought up on wine. H
is a pait of his dully life. Only a few drink
brandy.
"The town iliunkntd in Tinnce is a
curiosity. He attracts attention as much
us the town irlri, who with bis drum draws
a crowd in the niiiiket pluce. While every
body di Inks wine they abhor diunkcnuess.
For that reusoti piobibition will never win
in Frnncc "
CAPTAIN HILL is dead, lie was Lieu
tenunt Ciiiiinuinder Hill, U. S. N., of
the Finlnnd Deuth came us bis ship was
leaving Hrest, Frunie. 'The ifovv will bring
icgret to hundreds of Philadelphia!! who
sailed with him in past years.
He was formerly captain of the old Anieil
can liner Merlon, sailing bctvvwn Philadel
phia nnd Livnpuol. Subsequently lit wus
put in commuiiil of the Finland plying on
the Fauuma-I'nillic mute. Eight yeais or
so ngo his vessel, which vvbb one of the
International Meirnntlle Mariuc, fleet, wus
placed in the New Voik transatlantic servlco
ngaiu.
Captain Hill's family lias resided in Phil
adelphia for nearly twenty years. Ho hud
spent nil his life 'at sea. Horn iu Fuglund,
his apprentice ship was served in a coasting
schooner. Then he got his papers as third
mate of u Milling ship plying from Fngllsh
ports to the Mciliterniuruu. Thence he grew
into the transatlantic trude.
Ho wus ii lure ehnracter. A courteous
gcutlciiuiu, uioilent, elhclertt and with those
he liked one of the moat compatiionublo of
men.
The railroad brotherhoods are anxious
to, have It understood tliBtrtvh,'M ' "eeraeil
tjJjtlm-atpp Fptleain l Wrely snpke fn
"COME ON, JUDGE, YOU'RE DELAYIN'
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TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morlcy
Putting the City to Bed
IT WAS a delicious cool evening when I
strolled nhrond to observe the town com
posing itself for slumbei. The caustic Mis.
Trollope, who visited Philadelphia in 18H0,
icinipluiiied bitterly that there wns no
i arousal or eheer of any Mini pioe'ceeling in
the highways nfter sunset: "The stieets aie
entirelv duik, scarcely a step is heard, and
for a note of music, or the sound of niiith. I
listened in vnin " Hut the huly would find
us much more volatile now
The Weather Man tries to set us u good
example by pulling down the front of his
little booth nt Ninth and Chestnut soon after
10 o'clock, but there are few who take the
bint. It vvns u night almost e hilly 07 ele
grees a black velvety sky to the noithwnrd,
diluted .to a deep ptnple mid blue wbeie the
moon was shilling m the south. At 10. -Jo
letter wilting wns in full scruteh along the
counteis ot the main postoffice. Lveiy desk
was busy, the little stamp windows were
livelv eaves of light Hotel signs the old
signs that used to s.n HOO.MS $1 FP, and
now just say ROOMS weic beaeouiug nlong
the street. Ciowds were piling out of
movies. The coloied man who letters cards
with delicate twirls of penmanship wns set
ting up his little table on Market street. In
spite of the cool ah every soda fountain
was lined with the customary gobs. The
first morning pupeis vveie beginning to be
screumed about the streets, with thut lionise
urgency of yelling that always makes the
simple-minded think that something fearful
bus happened.
A'
CROWD gntheied hastily in front of a
big ofliee building on Chestnut street.
Policemen sprang fioin nowhere. A Jeffer
son ambulance clanged up. Great agitutiou,
and piolonged linging ot the bell nt the huge
iron-crilh'd front dooi. What's up? Fi
nally appeared a man with blood spattered
over his shiit nnd was escorted to the am
bulance. The engiueei had walked too near
uu electric fnn ami got his head cut. Lucky
lie didn't lose It altogether, snitl one watcher.
Fleven o'clock. In a eignr stole served by
u smiling damsel, two attt active ladies were
asking her if it would be safe for them to
visit n Chinese restaurant a little faither up
the stieet. "We're from out of town," they
explained, "nnd nil alone. We want some
chop suey. Is that the kind of place ladies
ran K to?" The eignr saleslady appealed
io mc, nnd I nssnred the visitors they would
be perfectly serene. Peihaps if I had been
moie gallant 1 should have escorted them
thither. Off they went, a little timorous,
E1
the
typical night-hawk motors begin to ap
pear; huge ruiintiouts, wltn very long Bon
nets nud un uir of great power. Ouc of
them, a vivid scarlet with white wheels, spins
briskly loiind the City Hall. Trills and
tlnklings of jazz, e latter from second-story
lestauraiits. Bui Chestnut street is begin
ning to cnlm down. Lights In shop windows
arc going off. The old veteran takes bis seat
on a camp-stool near Juniper aHtreet and be
gips to tingle his little bell merrily. If you
drop joniethluE in his box he will tell you
the sign of the zodiac under which you were
born, prognosticate your lucky days and
pluuetury hours and advise you when to take;
a journey. He explained to me that this
happened to be the night of Venus. I bad
been sure of It ulreudy after some scrutiny
of the pavements. As the lights, are dimmed
along the street, the large goldfish In a
Chestnut street cafe window grow more
placid and begin to think of u little watery
repose.
HAIF-PAST HLKVI3N. Tnc nlrj spnceu
round the City Hull arc full pf a mellow
tissue of light nnd shadow. The tajl lump
standards are like trees of great pale oranges.
The white wagons of the blrchbcer fleet are
on their lounds. The seat where the band
concerts are held are demted saye for one
meditative vagrant, drooping with unkaowH
vlth unlmowa
woes, r-swiiiij- nirviuL- cars in t
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pause ot Noith Hroad street where their
little red stern-lights twinkle beneath the row
of silver arcs stretching away into the dls
tnnce. Broad Stieet Station is couipuia
tively utiiet. though there is the usual person
gazing up nt the window lettered SCRIP
CLFRGV STOPOVF.US COMMUTATION.
He wonders what it menus. I do not know,
any more than he. Standing at the eomei
of the station the lights of the sky are splen
did nnd seiene. Over the Fiuauee Building
n light wispy plume of steam hovers and
detuc-lii's itself, gleaming in the moonshine
like n flouting swan's feather. The light
catches the curves of the tiolley rails like
tiibbous of silver.
lyTIDNIGHT. The population seems to
-'- have soi ted itself into couples. Almost
all the ladies in sight wear silk sports skirts,
and walk with their escorts in n curiously
slow swishing swing. Sonic of them muy
hnve been dancing all evening, and still pace
with some of the rhythm of the waxed floor.
In darkened hanks aie little gleams of
orange light behind trellises ef bars, where
watchmen sit and giind away the long houi".
Down the dark narrow channel of Sansom
street it. is very silent. The reur of a ten
cent store shows u gush of brightness, where
some overhauling of stock is going on. The
bnck door is open, nnd looking in I can see
a riotous mouse darting nbout under the
counters, warily watching the men who are
rearranging some display. The Jefferson
Ilospitul is silent, with occasional oblongs of
light iu windows. 1 seem to e'.etect u whiff of
disinfectants, and wonder how the engineer
is getting on.
Mniltet street is still lively. A "dance
oi chord" emits its patrons down n long stair
to the street. Down they come, gaily laughing.
The male partners aie nil either gobs, who
love dancing even more than ice cream soda;
or youths with tilted straw hnti of coarse
weave, with legs that bend backward most
oddly below the knee, very tightly nud briefly
trousered. Two doughboys with nee of spades
shoulder insignia greet the emerging throife,
showing little booklets for sule. They uigc
the gills to buy. with various arts of eitjolcry
nnd brlght-eeyed persuasion. "Who'll buy a
book?" they sny, "forty short stories, put
out by a wounded solelier," The girls all
wear very extensive hats, and are notably
pretty. "Which way do we go?" is the
lust question on reaching the street. It is
usually the way to the nearest soda fouu
tniu. TWHLVH FORTY. The watering tank
loars down Chestnut street, shedding a
hissing tide from curb to curb. The fleet of
To Hiic night tnxls wheel off one by one as
fares leap in to escape from the deluge,
which enn bo heard approaching far up the
silent street. It is getting quiet, save iu
the all-night lunch rooms, where the fresh
linking of doughnuts and cinnamon buns is
being set out, and the workers of the night
shift are streaming In for their vnrled and
substantial meals. They eat lelsuiely, with
loud talk, or reading the morning papers.
0
NK FIFTHEN. The population consists
mostly of small groups od corners wait-
ing patiently for cars, which nre rure after
one o'clock. Chauffeurs sit in twos, gos
sipping over the fares of the evening, Along
the curb of the Federal Building on Ninth
street linger a few resolute loungers, en
joying the cnlm of tho night. A fruit stall
man is wondering whether to trundle home,
The pile of fresh doughnuts in the lunch
room Is rapidly diminishing. Street cleaning
trucks nre on their nightly rounds. It's time
to go to bed,
German murks hnve dropped to thirty,
three centimes in Switzerland. The normal
pence price was VS centimes. This kind of
Swiss movement baa all the discomfort of
jujutnu for the Hun.
I ,A uqu,, ji is tsfeofabfa- cti.
THE GAME!"
BREAKING THE NEWS
TIIH fir
ove
irst few months when John WM
oversea
It seemed a dream that he had gone from me.
I hailed the postman every time in sight
For just u little news thut all was right.
The next few months while John was "over
there,"
Somehow, I don't know why, I didn't car
So much, because I missed his company,
Nor did I grieve lest he'd forgotten me.
The last fen months, while John was still
in France.
I flirted with the boys, yes, every chance
That came my wny (and they were not
few I)
Of gallant beaux I had a retinue.
But this my shnme when John came back
to stay,
Said, "Marv, when shall be our wedding
day?"
I blushed to answer him who fought for me.
"Oh, thank you, John, but I have promised
tlucc!"
Florence T. Osnnin, in N. Y. Herald.
A few Camden people enjoyed old
fashioned breakfast food yesterday. Gov
ernment hnui wus sold by the municipality
for thirty-one cents a pound on Saturday
and the stock was bought iu an hour and
ten minutes. With ham so cheap ever sa
many people indulged in the extravaganc.il
of eggs.
"Pooh!" says Martin.
"Rnh!" KKTfl
i.ane. xuis jiciun-unu
political comic opera.
business suggests
What Do You Know?
QUIZ ?
1. Who vvns J. Fein are! Addicks?
2. Who declared that the second marriage
of a widower illustrated the triumph
of hope over experience?
3. Who established the Mason and Dixon
line?
4. On which syllable does the accent fall
iu the word gondola?
fi. What are nlevvlvcs?
(t. 'Which is the Diamond State?
T. What is the originnl meaning of ali
mony? 8, What is bravura?
I). Who wrote "The Last of the Barons"?
10. When did Kail Marx, the German So
cialist philosopher, live?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. A sternutation Is a sneeze.
J. Hngiology Is liternture treating of lives
and legends of saints.
:t. Baltimore Is known ns the Monumental
City.
I, Pnracelsus was the name adopted by
Theopbrnstus Bombnstus von Holieu-
belm (140:i-154l), Swiss theoso-
phist, physician and alchemist.
5. Henry Ward Beecher sulci "A
ways needs a truth for i
to it."
0. Voltnlre wus known as "The
He al-
ImmllS
Apostle
of Infidelity."
7. A gigue Is a lively dunce which gave
its name to one movement of the
suite, nnd vvns so called from being
plnyed on the glgtic or violin. Forms
- of tho gigue or giga or jig arc found
among nearly every people.
8. Albert, king of Belgium, vvns born
April 8, 187.1.
0. The urea of Portugul is 30,038 sejilare
miles. )
10, The shepherd's sundial is a name
given to the scarlet phuperne,!, which
opens a little after seven every uwrft-
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