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A MAN'S meditated words, especially
" when they have been arranged neatly
end to end in black and white, often be
come a sort of mirror in which he is able
to see the character of his own mind
clearly revealed for the first time.
"Public sentiment?" said Uncle Dave
Lane a day or two a$ro. "Hah!" Then
he was speaking like our sturdy old rela
tive of an earlier day. What changed
uncle, who has hastened to imply that
he didn't mean it, is that theie may be
something, after all. in this thing that
people call public sentiment. Is Uncle
Lane on the eve of compromises with an
ancient enemy now deemed worthy of
some slight honor?
A good many people are looking over
your uncle's shoulder these days. If they
aren't any more favorably impressed
tfian Uncle Dave himself by what they
see in the glass, then hard days are
' surely ahead for the kind of things he
represents.
JUST POLITICS
pOVERNOR SPROUL says that he
- cannot understand why a man like
Ambler should have been appointed in
surance commissioner, a man with no
knowledge of insurance; and he cannot
see how the North Penn Bank continued
to do business without the banking com-
.-inissioner learning of its insolvency.
But the Governor knows as well as
every one else that Ambler was ap
pointed for purely political teasons and
that Banking Commissioner Smith was
"""removed by Governor Brumbaugh to
make room for Lafean because Smith
would not consent to have the politi
cians play ducks and drakes in his de
partment. It was under Lafean's administration
that the crookedness went on in the
bank and it was Ambler himself who put
$400,000 in insurance deposits in a little
neighborhood bank with which he was
doing personal business.
If Governor Brumbaugh had not
played politics with these great state
offices there might have been a different
story to tell about the North Penn Bank.
THE TOLL OF THE DEATH TRAPS
"DAILWAY crossings at grade are mur---
derous. Investigations of the trage
dies of Saybrook, Pa., and Stratford,
N. J., in which a total of seven lives were
lost on Sunday, may or may not reveal
recklessness on the part of some of the
principals involved. Verdicts of this soit,
..however, are cruelly futile and are no
r" guarantee whatever against a recurrence
M .sjjch tragedies. Everybody knows
"that upon the existence of the grade
crossing itseh" the real blame must be
lodged.
Human life is insecure while such
menaces to it endure. Great Britain in
the early days of her railroading abol
ished the level intersection of highways
and rail lines, and to a large extent they
havft been removed in western conti
nental Europe. American laws have
&een gentle with such nuisancer, although
of recent years the railroads themselves
have done much tunneling and bridging
in the interest of public security.
But even the reduced peril is intoler
able. There should be no more sanction
for a grade crossing than there is for an
unsafe bridge span, a theatre with insuf
ficient exits or a rickety building. This
is the piteously monotonous "lesson" of
Sunday's slaughter and of the long line
of sickening accidents to which it be
longs. Complete abolition of the death
traps is the only means of rightly heed
ing the tragic instruction.
NEAR-PRESIDENTS IN ECLIPSE
"CWENTS of the past week would have
- made likely presidential candidates
Beem rarer man ever- it tnat were pos
sible. The advantage of the Washington
situation at the moment would be all with
any leader who could demonstrate an
ability" to grapple successfully with a
first-class dilemma.
Congress, facing an econon.ic crisis,
has proved that it is without leaders. It
is, in the vivid phrase of Mr. Gilbert,
covering its eyes with its hands in the
"nrnKpnrfi of an unusual cnnrlitinw Hrnnna
im j J..W- -- ... ....... -v...........
I ;$Tj Hi Johnson, Lodge, Knox in the Senate
IJ, ( 'land Mondeu in tne House nave taken to
l$ ?p:o.Yer. iney wm noc 0.0. ina opportunity
i.iame lor a uispiay or latent, couratra
and foresight and they let it pass. There
,3 no obtrusive presidential timber in
ongress.
A man who could nave shared the re-
iponslbiUUes of the hour with Mr. Wilson
dr one who couiu nave actually cnai
Mhaed the President's leadership in this
viniirtonGe and proposed a plan of, his own
to iaeC domestic issues inus nave i oe
mt-'(" nc. might hava found himself
iKtda itmoiiin peniarht , Congressmen
ami senators without exception refused
to shave the burden that is Mr. Wilson's.
And so, while they have left the President
to take the risks alone, so they have also
insured to him the undivided prcstiRc thut
naturally would follow on a successful
solution of the economic tannic which is
making living costs unbearable for the
people.
RICHES OUT OF FAMINE:
A DREAM OF PROFITEERS
The People Must Help the Government to
Meet a Problem That Is as Com
plex as Human Nature
TVTR. WILSON believes it is the hoard
1 - its, operating in powerful and secret
groups. Attorney General Palmer,
groping for the cause of intolerable
living costs, is similarly convinced. So
is Mr. Wanamaker. Mr. Lodge blames
the President. An acquaintance of ours
feels certain that it is merely the Lord
punishing His people. Another, an earn
est man, who is wearing out his life pas
sionately on soap boxes, blames Wall
street.
Ogden Aimour, the animating genius
of the Chicago packers' group, blames
the public in rather violent language.
Mr. Armour's speech has an above-the-world
sound. He talks of labor as if
labor were another country far ic
mnved from his concerns anil sympa
thies. "The United States i on an extrava
gant ditink.'" -ays he. "The labor situa
tion will adjust itself if left alnne."
The packers didn't leave the labor sit
uation to adjust itself and the Chicago
riots resulted. It would lie pleasant to
disimiss Mi. Aimour as one who con
tributes nothing to the general discus
sion. But that is impossible. Like
everybody else who has been discussing
the most familiar question in America
like Mr. Wilson and Mr. Palmer, Mr.
Wanamaker, Mr. Stone, Mr. Lodge and
multitudes of others he is more or less
right and more or less wrong.
A thousand causes help to make liwng
difficult everywhere in the world. It is
too much to ask any one man to put his
finger on the solution for a problem that
is as wide as the world and as complex
as human nature. Four years of waste,
of destruction, hunger, passion and
greed, all that is impeifcct 111 the eco
nomic older and in human chaiacter,
have helped in one way or another to
heighten the present confusion.
There arc, and will be for months to
come, famine conditions in Europe. Un
questionably there are in the United
States powerful cliques organized to
hoard food and hold it until famine prices
may be obtained .for it abroad. That
would be when all blockades are down,
when noimal shipping conditions are re
established, when treaties are signed and
ratified. It is the imperative duty of
Congress and the President and the at
torney general to use whatever old or
new laws may be necessary to make such
an incredible plan futile by forcing every
storage house in the country to disgorge
excess accumulations of food. As ship
ping becomes available prices rise. They
will go on rising unless the government
takes steps that will prevent it until nor
mal production is resumed in Europe.
Government regulation isn't popular
in the United States, but its necessity
was admitted while we weie at war.
What we must realize now is that the
country is still dealing with war condi
tions and that it will have to deal with
conditions arising out of the war for
years to come.
The signing of armistices and treaties
and covenants cannot bring peace con
ditions of themselves. A man cannot
move immediately into a house that has
just been swept by fire. He has to wait
for the builders. No agi cements of
statesmen can make the fields of Europe
bloom nor bring from the thin air crops
ythat weren't raised while a hundred mil
lion people were engaged for four years
in work of destruction, nor raise cattle,
nor recreate forests, buildings, ships and
railways, nor bring metal from the
ground and work it.
To suppose that the world can go "back
to a peace basis" when the Senate ac
cepts the lcague-of-nations covenant is
to cherish a perilous delusion. There is
a vast industrial vacuum where a pros
perous Europe used to be. It will draw
food and clothes, timber and iron,
leather and coal toward it as long as it
lasts. If there is speculation, delibeiv
ately organized speculation, in these es
sentials Wall street is, of course, some
how involved.
The leaguc-of-nations plan can be
hlamed in a sense since it serves to re
tard settlements in Europe. The Senate
might be blamed. Mr. Lodge might be
blamed. All the statesmen in Europe
are somehow involved.
It is an ironic circumstance that years
which burned up incalculable wealth and
left the world impoverished should have
taught people everywhere habits of ex
travagance. But the fact is indisputable.
And that brings us unwillingly to Mr.
Armour. Extravagance is a world dis
ease. Statesmen of all sorts in England
are warning the people that their reck
less expenditures are carrying the coun
try to bankruptcy and chaos.
Americans are spending pretty wildly
these days. The lesson that they will
have to learn before living conditions can
be made normal ,in this country is sim
ple. We shall have to realize that it will
not do to leave the whole weight of the
question of living costs on Congress or
the President or the attorney general.
It cannot be left even to a revised food
administration.
Some sense of joint responsibility will
have to penetrate the mind of the aver
age man and the average woman to tem
per their desires and regulate their ex
penditures. So far it cannot be denied
that there is no sign of this sort of cul
mination. 1 Farmers in America are fairly well
representative of the average American.
They have been the first to cry out
against Wall street and the profiteers.
Yet they are not now content with unex
ampled profits on. wheat They have
representatives at( Washington pledged
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
to have government rcstrictio is rembved
from wheat prices in order that the rate
may soar when the markets of the world
are finally opened. No better illustration
of the abnormal tendencies of the time is
conceivable.
What is needed, therefore, in America,
as well as restrictive legislation and gov
ernment pressure to break up the rings
of food gamblers, is a revival of sanity
and a return to tho simpler virtues of
restraint, modesty, common sense and
thrift that were among our losses in the
war.
Some mcasuio of immediate relief may
be brought about by a re-established
food administration system, with the
licenses and penalties that may be in
stituted without further legislation at
the will of the President. But there still
will remain the whole aching problem of
Europe. Nations that we helped to save
from destruction cannot now be left to
starve or die of cold. Until Europe ic-covers-thc
world supply of commodities
will hav to be spread far and thin. It
is the duty of Congress to sec that gam
blers do not profit by the present emer
gency. That is tho best that Congress
can do. The rest lies with the people,
who must realize that the war is still
on, that it will be on for a year or more
and that they will have to go slow, avoid
waste and live more simply until civili
zation recovers its balance.
DOOMED TO FAILURE
rpHE fallacy in the whole plan of the
"Big Four" brotherhoods lies in the
' assumption that a great railroad system
can be run and expanded without great
constructive genius, and that great con
structive genius will work without ade
quate incentive.
It was the brain of ,T. J. Hill that con
ceived and built the Great Northern sys
tem and developed the Northwest. The
opportunity was there, but Hill saw it
and had the nerve to take risks in order
to prove that his faith in the future of
the district was well founded.
There are just as efficient conductors
and engineers and firemen working on
the road as when he laid the first rails,
but they could not have built up the
system.
There is in every city a score of large
business enterprises which existed first
in the brain of one man. The employes
whom lie has called to his assistance
could not have developed the business,
though some of them think that they
should control it and tell the directing
brain what he should do.
And there is in every city one or more
great enterprises built up by the genius
of a single man which have gone to ruin
when that man died.
Men of ordinary ability arc for sale;
but the constructive genius never sells
himself. He commands the services of
others and builds on the foundations
which are embedded in his own will and
in his own determination to put the thing
across.
The world is full of wrecks of big en
terprises, the inheritors of which,
whether they were the heirs of the
founder or the subordinates who took it
over at his death, were too little to
carry on.
There may be railroad geniuses in the
brnt'iorhood, but they are not in sight,
and the chances are all against the suc
cess of their plan, even if it were advis
able for other reasons.
A Smith Soinillp. X.
A M.iferj- Soiled .1.. woman lias cap
tured and killed a
rliirkrn thief resembling a Krnundhiif:, but
twice the size, with the feet of an opossum,
the tail of a conn, the head of a (uirrcl and
the fur of a mink. Nobmlv knows what it
is. but we venture the opinion lliat it is a
mII.v '-cnvoii cuss escaped from a sjnthetic
I. T. nicuncerie.
"Hemeinlter." wajs Ite-echci-
l.indley 51.
iiirri-.Mii, di-Hissing a
pliae of ihe Brooklyn
1 can lcaie mv job as
Itesifpialinn anil
Resignation
street-ear strike. '
receiver just as I left my job in Washing
ton as secretary of war." There is. a geu
tlemau in Washington toda who might
have profited by 5Ir. Harrison's definition of
resignation.
. ('. I-'rick is no piker when he goes out
with bis little market basket. lie has just
paid a million and a half dollars for the
famous I.imoges enamels formerly owned by
.1. IMorpnnt .Morgan. II. ". I,, lias no ter
rors for II. '. V.
The head of the Atlantic Deeper Wa
terways Association, baling taken a header
into deeper waters, is apparently feeling the
better for his plunge, and. what is more,
is getting along swimmingli .
Shortage of sugar in tho t'auadian
provinces has halted exports of fruit from
British Columbia. Old II. ('. I,, is never
caught without an etrn trick up his sleeve.
The Bibulous One. says the London cor
respondent, who speaks of "zippy cock
tails," ought to he censored by the home
office. It is simply a case, he says, of ma
licious swanking.
Add Heroes lirakeinan Kdward Robin
son, whose bravery and presence of mind
prevented runaway freight cars from crash
ing into a crowd tit Palmer street and
Frankford avenue on Sunilav.
Villa stock is down again. The .Mexi
can embassy sas that Yillista hordes have
been completely dispersed, lint the trouble
is that even when this persistent bandit is
killed hn won't stay dead.
Striking railroad shopim-u must be made
to realize that they can't fight and arbitrate
at one and the same time.
Young Itooseielt in his desire to follow
in his father's footsteps is of necessity
making big strides.
The iuference is, of course, that II. C.
I,, will shrink with alarm at the first in
dication of pitiless publicity.
Secretary Lansing is at his
carefully prepared statements."
best
The man who sneers at public sentiment
has grown either callous or foolish.
Every unguarded railroad crossing Is on
evidence of crimlnul carelessness.
The prohibitionist Is the, guy who took,
toe gin out oi ginger,
PHILADELPHIA, TUESD
DEATH-BED VISIONS
OF THE FUTURE LIFE
None of the 3500 Persons Dr. Andrews
Saw Die Ever Had Any Glimpse
of the Hereafter
i
H.v (IKOIMiK NOX McCAIN
fTMIE late Dr. Thomas llolllngsworth An--
drews, widely known socially and pro
fessionally in Philadelphia, rt surgeon in the
Civil War, and for jeais a polico surgeon
at the central station, once told me that
he had seen tluOO people die.
The conversation Is recalled In connec
tion with n current magazine statement
that the world war has deflected human
thought into new and startling channels,
principally to the question of life after death.
Coupled with the subject N px.ichic inve"
tigatiou or spiritism. Spiritism is not to be
confounded with spiritualism.
Not that psjehie Investigation Is new or
that psychic phenomena were unheard of
before. The war, however, has turned the
deeper drift of human thought pmvcrfully
in this direction. Millions are becoming
interested where only thousands were be
fore. A quarter of a century ago it would have
been considered tlagrnntl.i heterodov to have
doubted a future life. Indeed the individual
would have been considered an atheist had
he sincerely and honestly uiged (lie ques
tion, "Is there a life beyond the grave?"
Every magazine nowaihos is propounding
Ihe query in sonic shape or form.
Till' statement of Doctor Andrews was a
icry unusual one. Indeed I do not
think that he appreciated its uiiusikiI char
acter at the time. The remark was made
in the course of a desultory conversation
j ears ago. We had, as men sometimes do,
drifted into a talk on the mutability of life,
the evanescent character of mundane things,
and the unavoidable ehnnge called death.
"It was the sum of my experience in the.
Union army as a surgeon and afterward ns
police surgeon and private practitioner in
Philadelphia," he added in explanation.
"You saw .'loOO human beings close their
eyes in death?" I asked, to make sure I had
'not misunderstood him.
"Yes."
"You must have been tin' witness of
some unusual !rencs," I suggested.
"Not particularly. The one thing that
did impress me was that death came as a
iclief. A well-earned rest. They seemed
like children tired with play who were ready
to drop off to sleep. 1 never heard a single
word of regret or fear from those who were
thoroughly conscious and knew,, that they
iniisl go."
'There have been instances leported of
lisions of the hereafter just befoie dissolu
tion. Did you ever encounter anything
that just Hied such statements?"
"Xeier."
"No cxprcssiini to suggest such a thing?
Nothing to indicate that the mind wa occu
pied with visions of the beyond';" 1 per
sisted. "I understand Jjbat you mean, but I've
never been fortunate enough to linm had
any such experience," he replied.
"Then how do you account for authenti
cated eases of the kind?"
"Hallucinations. Or perhaps the individ
ual was in momentary delirium." replied
Doctor Andrews in a matter-of-fact way.
Unfortunately, I never renewed the con
versation with him.
RAILROAD men. I think, are less prone
than any other class to talk shop. They
rarely; discuss professional affairs with out
siders. This was forcibly emphasized when
1 met William P.. McCalcb. superintendent
of the Pennsylvania Railroad's water system,
the other day. Ilis headquarters arc in
Philadelphia. In the thirty-five years or
more that Mr. McCalcb has been connected
with the Pennsyhnnia Railroad I do not
once recall hearing him disco's railroad mat
ters. And yet he knows railroading from A to
Izznrd. Whether it was a feeling that with
an outsider it would br a useless waste of
coniersational opportunities, or an actual
disposition to not discuss company affairs as
a rule of professional conduct, 1 have never
discovered.
Either way it was to his credit.
I have a recollection at a distance of years
of Mct'aleb a slender, actiie but forceful
young chap, as roilinan in a Pennsylvania
railroad suriejing party on a western brunch
of the big system. It was in the days when
greater opportunities were presented to
bright young men than exist now' in crowded
professions. Through all the gradations of
transit man. assistant siipcriisor, superiisor.
division engineer and finally as superin
tendent of the middle division I have watched
his rise. Now, still a comparatively young
man. lie is at the head of one of the most
responsible departments of this mighty in
dustrial enterprise.
He coini'a of an old western Pennsy Ivauia
family with a heritage of Presbyterian god
liness in his parentage on both sides.
FU'J'URK ages, 1 am afraid, will have to
struggle along without a history of
the fuel administration in Pennsylvania.
Not that it will be an irreparable loss, but
the archives of the historical commission, of
which Governor Sprout is chairman, will be
incomplete. So far as I know it will be
the only civilian war activity whose records
will be missing and its history incomplete.
Dr. A. V.. McKinley. of the commission,
who has been indefatigable in the work of
colleetinSVniaterial from every source bearing
upon war work in Pennsylvania, informs me
that the commission has been unable to se
cure any data whatever concerning the work
of the fuel administration in this state.
It is just as if the fuel administration had
never existed. At the close of its work nil
records, correspondence, files and depart
mental papers of eiery sort were boxed up
and shipped to Washington.
Attempts to obtain copies of this material
or any facts necessary for a historical
sketch have been unavailing. The authori
ties in Washington decline to afford repre
sentatives of the Pennsylvania historical
commission even so much as a glance at the
papers.
William Potter and his assistants arc evi
dently destined In a brief and unsatisfactory
mention in the annals of the state.
EVERY once in so often there breezes into
Philadelphia a heavily built, gray
haired, broad-shouldered chap, with a ready
smile and hearty manner. His joviality is
infectious. He is popular with college men
of a certain age who greet him with boyish
enthusiasm nnd hearty hand grip.
Ho answers to the name of Albert W.
Cummins. He is one of the traditions of
Lafayette, lie was a star on the old football
eleven of 'S7 and bore the proud cognomen
nuioug bis admirers of "Beef." Ani be was
sonic football player.
In his post graduate days when he started
out. ns they all do, to remake the world lie
drifted into journalism. Kver so ninny years
ago lie held down one of the night editor's
desks on the Press. Later on he slipped
away to Wilmington ami for years has been
the leading newspaperman in that abbre
viated commonwealth.
Even to this day some of the more fragile
brethren swear that Cummins forgets lie's an
editor and imagines Hint lie is making a
tackle el'rry time he shakes hands.
1 don't believe it ft's a survival of sonic,
of the old jealousies of the, gridiron.
Tbcre is conslderablo ecum oa tho top
0t uuuapcsi a uouitg pot,
AT, rAUatTST 12, 1919 v s 1
THE CHAFFING DISH
Teaching the Prince to Take Notes
TMIE Prince of Wales will probably suffer
- severely during his western trip, for he
is a shy youth; but he will also make many
friends, for he is a delightfully simple and
agreeable person. When we used to know
him lie looked a good deal like the tradi
tional prince of the fairy tales, for he was
a slender boy with vellow hair and blue
eyes and .a quick pink blush. And we feel
toward him the friendly sense of superiority
that the college alumnus nlwulu feds toward
the man who was a freshman when he him
self was a seuior: for the prince and ourself
stood in that relation n few years ag( at a
certain haunt of letters.
Theie was a course of lectures on history
that we were to attend. It was n popular
course, and the attendance was large. Ar
riving late at the First lecture the room was
packed, nuil we could see from the loor
that there was only one empty seat. This
happened to be in the very front row. and
Wondering how it was Hint so desirable a
(dace had not been seized we hastened to
it. The lecturer was a suift talki"-. and
we fell to taking notes busily. Not ful
some minutes did we have a chance to scru
tinize our surroundings. We then saw that
iu the adjoiuing chair sat the prince, and
surmised that no one had wunted to take
the chair for fear of being twitted by his
companions for a supposed destre to hobnob
with royalty.
IP WE remember correctly, it was the
prince's first term of college life. The
task of taking notes from a rapid-fire lec
turer was plainly one to which he was not
accustomed, and as he wrestled with his
notebook we could see that he had not
learned the art of condensing the lecturer's
remarks and putting down only the gist of
them, in some abbreviated system of his own
ns every experienced student learns. Grant
Robertson, the well-known historian, was
lecturing on English constitutional docu
ments, und his swift and informal utterance
was perfectly easy to summarize if one know
how to get down the important points and
neglect the rest. But the unhappy prince,
desperately eager to do the right thing ill
this new experience, was trying to write
down every word. If, for instance, Mr.
Robertson said tin u humorous aside),
"Henry VIII was a sinful old man with
a hobbv of becoming a widower," the ex
perienced listener would jot down something
like this: II H, self-made widower. But
we could see that the prince was laboriously
copying out the sentence iu full. And nat
urally, by the end of a few paragraphs he
was hopelessly behind. But he scribbled
away industriously, doing bis best, lie
realized, however, that he tad not quite
got the hang of the thing, a nit at the cjid
of the lecture he turned to ns with most
agreeable bashfulness and asked if we would
lend him our notebook, so that he could
get down the points that he had missed.
We did so, and bficlly explained our own
system of abbreviating. We noticed that in
succeeding sessions our royal neighbor did
Very much better, learning in some measure
to discriminate between what was advisable
to note down and what was mere explan
atory matter or persiflage on the part of
the lecturer. But (if we must be candid)
wo would not recommend him ns a newspaper
reporter. And, indeed, the line of work
to which he has been called does not re
quire quite as intense concentration ns Hint
of a cub on what Philip (iibbs calls "Tho
Street of Adventure."
N"
O ONK could come in coutact with the
nriuce withnutUikiiig him, for his bash
ful, gentle and teachable nuture Is very
winning. Me rcmeuuicr vvltli' u certain
uuiusenient the time that Grant Robertson
got oft one of his uiiniial gags to the effect
that, according to the principle of strict
legitimacy, there were in Kuropo f,everul
hundred (we forget the figure) people with
a greater right to the British throne than
the family at present occupying it. The
roomful of students roared with genial
tnijth, and" the unhappy prince blushed iu a
"BA AA-AH!" , I
h " n ' I
way that young girls used to iu the good
old days of three-piece bathing suits.
We observe that for the nonce there is
no shop on Chestnut street offering a vast
and instantaneous fortune in oil stocks or
kerosene heaters or asbestos mining, and
we are quite disconsolate. Tor while we
never expect to make a fortune in any of
these ways, it is always pleasant to watch
industrious individuals going through the
motions of trying to tempt ns.
It. is quaint that Henry Ford, the pacifist,
has given birth to the most aggressive,
bloodthirsty and reckless race of human
beings ever known the people who dive
flivvers.
We have always yearned to be a. poet.
It has just occurred to us that we have
sadly impeded that ambition by writing
quite a number of poems.
What has happened to Colonel House?
lias he got hay lever? It seems to us
thut he is just the Kind of chap who would
be likely to have it. ,
It begins to look as though George Creel
has an affinity for trouble, lie has gone.
and written a book, and chosen fur his
subject Ihe most embittered controversial
topic the world affords. A nation's relent
less paiagraphera are girding themselves to
smite him, quip and thigh. It seems too
bad. George had just begun to fade so
nicely into the background.
Cary Grayson and Warren Pershing are
nlmost the only others iu great place who
haven't announced that they have a book
under way. And we Minietiines have fears
about Cary.
There is one feat in e about prohibition
that doesn't seem to have been remarked
upon.. There are not ncaily so many geil
tlemen In the cafes who rise to utter, about
midnight, that they are old soldiers.
The real reason for the postponement of
the President's western trip was that it
was positively necessary to have the brim
of his silk lint strengthened witli a little
strip of sheet metal. Nothing wears out
a hat brim like so much dotliug.
We feel certain thut the beautiful Miss
Talluluh Uankhcad will be a success on
the stage. She understands the technique
well enough to have her first professional
portrait taken showing one shoulder strap
slipped down just a little bit from its ivory
nestling place.
Social Chat
Mr. 13. Leonard and Mr. f. ('line renewed
a congenial acquaintance pt fvhibe Pai-U.
Wharton Wlork had a poem In tho New
Republic. Loud clioerB for tho local laureate
Is' our friendly .utterance.
Guy Wheeler dropped In at our cavern, and
discourse was held concerning matters and
things.
DrA. S. W. Uosenbach, the learned biblio
phile, journeyed to Corson a Inlet for a little
fishing. A repoiter for tho Chairing Dish
who bleuthed him on tho train regrets to
report that the best-Kal man In America
was seen devouring a motion-picture maga
zine. Jim Shields tells us that the district at
torney's olllce ia very busy these dayB. Good
work, we opine.
Bill Sylics, tho genial cartoonist, has bought
a Bangkok btravv bat mid Bob Maxwell, the
Ue Qulncoy of the siwrtiug oilier, vvearu a
Shantung null. Things ate booming in the
Orient, und .Shantung factories aio working
overtime tu catch up utter tilling tho very
large order. t
SOritATKS.
'The men with trululug are the uieu
who win," says David Lane. Trite; true;
vatlons, 5Tbo .Hup soldiery were v?H
truiucuj 'uuu bee wuai uappeutu u uitai
THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
TEIV from the mountains o. morn distilled
on the shores of the sunset :
n
Gleams of.the glory of Greece, gilding our
ultimate clime;
Slow, sweet pipings of Pan, quick blasts of
Athenian onset ;
Tears for the mighty dead coursing in
cadence sublime.
Flashes of fiery love, fond glimpses of family
faces ; ,
Cronus of human despair, hymns of celes
tial care ,
Clashes of fate and change, glad flights of tb
Fauns and the Graces;
Glorious, laughter-lit jewels of wisdom
nnd wit.
Alfred Perceval Grilles, in The Bookman.
A New York newspaper ir, running a
series of letters under the Head of "Fe
males and foolishness." If it is nlliteration
they are after why not next run "Males and
Mulishness"?
"You can bet your boots we arc going
after the people mixed up iu the North Penn
Hank scandal," said Governor Sprout. And
with leather at present prices that is some
bet.
Perhaps it was a sheep-like public sen
tlmerit Uncle Dave had in mind when he
said, "P.aa!" Or is it possible that 5Iary'
little lamb is wandering in the Lane?
Melba attributes her cuccess to common
sense, bard work and attention to health.
To which may be added, iu the lady's case,'
an exceptionally fine voice.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who is the new head if the government
iu Huugury?
'2. What was the real name of "Stonewall"
.lackson?
:i. What is a paynim?
1. Over what country did Itritnin win Ger
man recognition for her protectorate in
exchange for the loss of HelgoloudV,
5. Whnt is a patio?
li. What is the name of the present Princ
of Wales?
7. Who was "Light Horse Harry"?
S. What is the largest planet iu the solar
system?
f). What are the colors of the Rumanian '
Hug?
10. Who wrote tlf opera "I Pagliucci"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
I. .1. F.dvvnrd Addieks was a gas magnate
and.piilliomiire politician who vainly
endeavored to win the senatorslilp
from Delaware. Ho died last week.
L. Dr. Samuel Johnson declared that the
second marriage of a widower illus
trated "the triumph of hope over ex
perience." IS. Charles 5Iason and Jeremiah Dixon, ap
pointed by Lord Baltimore and William
Penn, established the 5Inson and Dixon'
line between Pennsylvania and 5Iary
latid. -
4. The accent in the word gondola falls on
the first syllable.
5. Alewlves are small fish of life herring
family used iu the preparation of fer
tilizer. II. Delaware is tho Diumond Stale.
7. In ita original inclining, the word ali
mony means nourishment.
8. Bravura is brilliant or ambitious exe
cution, forced display ; passages of
music requiring exceptional power.
0. Bulvvcr.-Ijytton wrote, the historical
novel "Tho Last of tho Barons,"
10. Carl Mirx, the" German Socialist pel
losopber, was boru in 1S18 nd dli
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