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' MR. LODGE OPENS FIRE
HIKE cential contention m-ule in Mi.
Lodge's speech vc-tonlav was that
the Un'ted States cannot afford to med
dle in the affairs of Kurope.
This conviction has come to the Mas-
, sachufctts senator rathei late.
Mr. Lodge, if memory serves, was one
of the earliest advocates of our war upon
'' Germany.
The league of nations is the one
method that can re-establish older and
a sense of security and hope of stable
peace in Europe If the United States
refuses its co-operation our honor, the
lives we spent, the billions that the wai
cost us and, perhaps, the ten billions
(Ji which Europe still owes us, may go to
gether to the limbo of things hopelessly
lost.
New times demand new methods Mr.
Lodge's mind dwells in the past If it is
wrong for us to meddle in Europe now
why was it right for us to meddle in the
beginning?
TRAVELS OF TWO PRINCES
rpHE visit to America of Albert Ed-
' - ward in 1860 created n furore. The
arrival of Albert Edward in 1919 is
hailed with warm interest, but without
the slightest tensity of excitement. This
..does not mean tndiffeience to Great
t , Britain and her relationship to this coun-
try, but actually the exact opposite.
The prospective Edward VII was first
' of all a curiosity, representative of a
,, country regarded as having long played
a role, of enmity or envy toward our own.
t The prospective Edward VIII symbolizes
s national companion in arms, a friend
'-and enlightened coworkci in behalf of
" peace and the best interests of civihza-
tion.
Possibly George Windsor himself
111, could not arouse on a journey here any
thing like the unwonted emotionalism
4 that accompanied his fathei's visit. The
two allies are no longer misunderstood
" oddities towaid each other. Their har
mony of puipose and comprehension
make Ies3 for sensationalism and more
for sanity and steady woild progiess.
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HIGH COST IN CONGRESS
rpROUBLE was never thicker about the
heads of the British Goernment than
it is at this moment, yet Parliament, sit
ting in the midst of political tuimoil, has
found it possible to start a swift and
effective movement of n sort that is cer
tain to bung down the cost of hung in
England and the neighbonng isles.
i. .The, British have a talent for getting
into trouble. They hae a gieatei talent
for getting out of it. Statesmen of the
i first class in Britain refuse to meddle
with the little piofiteeis. They are after
, 'the big ones and they aien't afiaid to
name names and pass laws that will cut
to the root of the matter.
There aie signs in Washington that
Congress is preparing to adopt another
course. In the House and Senate there
., are omens of a furthei period of argu
ment and oratoiy.
There are a good manj men in Wash
Jngfcon who know how to eat their own
words and thrive on the diet. But the
rest of the country hasn't that knack.
It wants more nourishing food and it
wants it at a fan price, and the sooner
Congress realizes this the bcttei it will
Wfor everybody
- MYSTERY OF THE TROLLEYS
A LTHOUGH the new "pay as-you--
" leave" trolleys, with their facilities
for loading and unloading simulta
neously, display the march of ingenuity,
they none the less indicate the mys
terious and growing penchant of the
transit company for tacitutnity. Just
vhy placarded information concerning
"th$. routes of .is cars should be so jeal
ously withheld is not clear. Perhaps
fashion rules in the transportation world
.as elsewhere, and the present mode is
simplicity so economical that it is con
jfusing. , Back in the frank, old proclamatory
.' flay4 cars were distinguishable both by
'- the colo'ra of the vehicles and by ample
agd" explicit signs concerning their es
tablished courses. Then the hue key van
ished and the explanations became moie
tneager. The number system was excel-
tm lent, but us virtue my paitiy in the fact
'i that an inside caid answered all ques-
ttons.
" Health advice replaced that lucid resi
due. There still remained the terse
'"'JtrRjirius sfgn on the front and a few ad-
dltwnal words or information on the
Wr JIJICOU l 1UU !1UT VUIIISIIUU ill
tiM new'entcr exit cas to make vny for
'SiHfier repetitions of the cryptic route
viniimeraU,
f- VTW nrtMu.nced taciturnity may seem
. imftf BM(tt$r thf native Philadel-
travels of its trolleys arc thickly veiled
in obscurity. Save by pestering the con
ductor or n fellow voyager, there is no
way to learn whither the car is going
except by a journey over the entire route.
Surely, even although signs may im
pinge against aitistic ideals in modern
transportation, important car routes
should not be permitted to become solely
a rayitter of oral tradition.
DEPARTMENT-STORE THEORY
OF CITY GOVERNMENT
It Serves to Explain Save Where the
People Are Really Interested
In Real Issues
TT WOULD be eas for the cjnic to say
that Philadelphia is about to decide
once moie whether it is fitted for self-goernment.
We are told frequently that democracy
has broken down m all great cities. This
is tiue only in the most supeificial sense.
To the casual obseiei. and to some
obserxers who have piofp-sod to make a
thorough htud of the subjret. the aver
age citi7en takes no interest in the gov
ernment of the cit He rtgaids it
meic'v a a place when he can get the
opportuniU to make a liwng His ntti
tuile towaid it is ei much like the atti
tude of the uistome who enteis n de
pal tment stole I here arc displayed for
puirhasi goods of all kinds He asks for
what he wants If he finds it he buvs it.
Otherwise he cops somewhere else If
he find' in a cit the opportunitv for
miking money h stays theic Other
wisp he goes to some other cit. The
population of all large cities is com
posed chit 11 of men born Homewhcre
else. Those whose grandfathers and
gieat-giandfathers were born there are
in the minority
The citj. is a gieat mart of trade. The
tiadeis appaiently assume no more rc
sponsibilit foi its management than
they assume for the management of the
department stole in which they seek
clothing or furniture or books or jewels.
The owners of the stoie must go to all
the trouble of collecting the merchandise
and offering it for sale. The thousands
who throng its aisles every day do not
look beyond the display on the counters.
This department-ttorc attitude toward
city goernment affords the politicians
their opportunity. Some one must run
the city There is money to be made out
of it. So the gang is organized to do
that which would go by default if it
were not foi its interest in the matter.
And out of the gang is dc eloped the
feudal system of the boss and his re
tainers, the use of office fts rewards for
seiMcn and the use of public funds for
pin ate piofit.
But this view of democracy in the cities
docs not go beneath the surface. The
people themsehes periodically take mat
ters into their own hands and dispiove
the department-store theoiy, on the per
manence of which the bosses count. The
people are alwajs conscious of their
mastery. They know that they own the
department store and can put in new
managers whenever they think it worth
while.
Ordinal lly they are willing to allow
those so disposed to attend to the do
tails of management. They aie too busy
with other matteis to trouble themselves.
So long as things go smoothly and with
out too great waste they are content.
They delegate authority, aware all the
time that the leal power rests in their
hands. There is not a city of any size in
the whole country in which the people
hae not driven fiom office unfaithful
sen ants and destroyed the political
power of unscrupulous manipulators of
patronage. City government is far from
perfect, but so long as tbese things hap
pen democracy cannot be called a failure
in the great centers of population.
Andrew Carnegie, who in his later
years acquired considerable wisdom, once
icmarked that he had gieat confidence
in democracy because "when the people
are really interested in anything their
voice will be heaid at the polls."
The man who can devise a way to keep
alive the inteiest of the people in their
local government will solve the problem
of maladministration in American cities.
At piesent their inteiest docs not become
acute until grave abuses create a public
scandal The quickness and certainty
with which the act then vindicates de
mocrac and gives the lie to all the mail
ings of the pessimists.
Now it remains to be seen whether the
people of Philadelphia are sufficiently
displeased with the management of their
great department stoic to demand a
change in the management or whether
thev are content with things as they are.
There are 417,000 men of voting age
eligible to cast their ballots if they
nuahfy oy registering. They are ordi
narily so ve'l content with affairs that
only a little more than 200,000 of them
take the trouble to go to the polls. They
are not interested in a change. The
, . l n tn &nltn&nri ...ill. ..a...! I.
Silent vuwrn ait- -nkisni;u "nil euiiuillUHB
ps they are or they see no prospect of
improving them
There has been a concerted attempt
for mnnthb to interest them in anihange.
A group of public-spinted citizens has
secured a new charter intended to remove
admitted abuses.
We were told that no one was inter
ested in the subject and that it would
be impossible to induce the General As
sembly to pass the charter bills, but
events have proved the falsity of this
prophecy, and today every one is pro
fessing to be pleased with the new char
ter. We have been told that there was no
interest outside of the regular party or
ganizations in the selection of candidates
for the office of Mayor and for member
ship in the new Council. But a commit
tee of one hundred representative citi
zens has asked a distinguished man to
contest for the nomination in the pri
maries and he has consented. And the
regular organization is about to make
formal announcement that another dis
tinguished man has consented to accept
the nomination if the voters decide they
want him to run.
Theie is here eyidencc of unusual In.
.jtejestThere is Indication of a diwlr Jn
certain quarters for a new deal. The
outcome will depend on the extent of the
interest and its genuineness. There is
not the slightest doubt that we can have
here exactly the kind of government we
desire, any more than there is that we
have hid the kind of government in the
past that we have desired and de
served. It is ctcrnall) true that when a real
issue it presented to the people they
make their voice heard in no uncertain
way. But they cannot be fooled into
believing that the issue is real when it is
only cooked up as a pretext to assist one
group of office-hungry men to oust an
other group of the same kind or to keep
in office one set of men which another
set of men is seeking to oust for selfish
reasons.
The mass of the votrs take no crious
interest in such contests. They are
"leally interested," to use Mr. Carnegie's
phrase, only when there is a real issue.
LABOR'S OWN CONGRESS
rpiIE mtei national labor congress,
- which will assemble for the fust time
in Washington on October 29, already is
established as an integral pait of the
league of nations. The invitation issued
yestciday by President Wilson was a
matter of form.
Arrangements for the first session of
labor's world parliament were com
pleted weeks ago. Organized and unor
ganized woikers cveryvvhcie in the world
will be fairly represented at the fust ses
sion of a body of delegates which has as
its first purpose not the piomulgation of
radical doctrine, but the establishment of
a code under which social and economic
readjustments may be effected rationally
and guaidedly and with a view to the
general welfare rather than to the inter
ests of any one class.
If the labor congress were to be de
scribed in a sentence as it appears to its
own members it might bo called a melt
ing pot of economic theories. It will at
tempt to define, year by year, the rela
tive rights of employer nnd employe and
to suggest methods of readjustment
which may be acceptable to civilised
opinion evprywhere. Thus automatically
it ought to piovide in the course of time
a leasonable basis for the consideration
of all economic questions now in dispute.
The need for a new and enlightened
method of approach to the general ques
tion of relationships between capital and
labor was clearly discerned at Pans. It
is because the woild is still without defi
nite conceptions of the economic rights
existing on both sides of the cteinal dis
cussion that unrest and unceitainty are
now general everywhere. Because deci
sions that ought to be based upon reason,
morality and scientific knowledge aro
still arrived at accidentally in a bedlam
of conflicting claims or thiough the
crude trials of enduiance called stukes
and lockouts, such problems as that rep
resented by the claims of the railway
brotherhoods can persist in the United
States.
The program of the labor congress is
essentially moderate. It will aim merely,
through discussions in which govern
ment, labor and capital are equally rep
lesented, to apply reason to the settle
ment of issues that now are decided by
chance or a temporary advantage on one
side or the other. It exerts no direct
authority. But its findings, once they
are formally stated, will have the sanc
tion of the league of nations itself and
the foice of a moial obligation in mem
bei nations.
One of the purposes of the congress,
for example, is to rcstiain the unfair
exploitation of immigrants in any coun
try and thus to find a method by which
fair employcis in one country may not
be in competition with unfair employers
in another. The rights of women and
children in industry will also be con
sidered at length. In a general way, the
labor congress is to be conservative and
constructive and far less radical than
the railway brotheihoods are at the pres
ent moment.
Theie is no earthly leason why the
United States Goveinment should not be
officially lepresented by delegates at the
congress. The willful group in the Sen
ate made this impossible by refusing Mr.
Wilson authority to name represen
tatives. The United States Government
is therefoie foiced into a position of
aloofness from a pioceduro which is in
every way modern and constructive.
This is the puce we must pay for the
Senate's instinctive habit of opposing
every suggestion that happens to ema
nate from the White House.
Mr llcnrv It. Hnrri-
Curvcs ou is dead rlffht.
Insisted Upon 'Ihosp lmirj mutts with
knobby Iprs ought to
wear stoiUncs while m the beach and the
girlH should be luoiunueil to go without.
That Is, of course, some Kills. We are for
the Harrison trcatj with nscrvations.
How beautiful the
world appears! How
u underfill the trees!
1 feel 1113 OSes suffuse
The Hay
Tcverlte
with tearn and sneeze' and sneeze! and
sneeze! To all the hiauties of the fall my
hat I gladl doff Obulient to nature's call
I cough ! and rotuh ' f"l i li '
A Dojlestovvn fannlj mised cucumbers
in a home garden. A child of the family
nold them to a local grocer for a cent apiece.
The grocer put them on hale At five cents
apiece. Profiteering? If you will. Hut
Doylestpwn residents tuny profit by the epi
bodc if they look around for other home gar
dens and buy their truck direct.
When a man is talking through his hat
it is of absolutely no importance whether
the hat be silk or common straw.
The drs arc now paying In hotel rates
what the wets formerlj squandered in
booze.
Humanln, defying the Allies, suggests a
Braall boy making faces at his elders.
Perhaps the Goeben is waiting (o be
sunk by a German crew.
Political doctors are now ready to dis
close just what alls Philadetrhia,
Bela Kvin .bumped Hungary and Arch
duke Joseph caught it on the rebound.
Perhaps If the Allies knew what, they
wanted In nussU they,coJl4 et It.
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
The United States Senatorshlp In
volved In the Mayoralty ConUst.
George Hoffman as Dave Lane's
Rival as a Philosopher
THE Capitol has heard of the mayoralty
fight In Philadelphia nnd is evincing an
interest In the outtomc. The temporary
tilisence of Congressmen Vnre and Moore
during the limine "dog days" has been
noted nnd It Is also observed that Senator
Penrose is doing duty over In Pennsylvania.
The Impression pr'ovnlls In Washington
that the stnkes nre larger than the moyor
nltv Itself: that they involve the ultimate
rontrol of the t'nltrd Htntes senatorshlp.
.If the Vnres should elect their candldnte
for Major there is little dmibt In the minds
of the political wiieneres that they will
reach -out for the stnte leadership control.
A fight is now raging In Pittsburgh which
seems to give encouragement to this Idea,
nnd the state representntites nre all keenly
nlive to the significance of what is going
on in the Quaker Citv. It is not so
thoroughlv understood in Washington as In
Philadelphia thnt the contest is really for
clean government under Hepubllcan direc
tion, nlthough the notnrletv which Phil
adelphia received from the Kifth ward out
rages has 'not been forgotten.
CORItnSPONDHNCK Is piling up with
regard to the high cost of living. Some
complaints received In Wnsliiugton from
Philadelphia, especlnllj from salaried men.
nre most exasperating While rctnilerB
and jobbers nre coining In for n large share
of the blame, certain emplnrers of labor
like N'nthnn T. Polwell nnd Thomas H.
Rrown nre inclined to think that shorter
hours of labor have n great deal to do with
it The question of extrnvngnnce also
enters lnrgely info the discussion. Fortu
nate is he who can be satisfied in these days
of reckless expenditure with Inst sum
mer's suit, or a pair of shoes run down at
the heels. Charles II. HnsKcrt, of the
Bulletin Building, has an Idea that the
packers hnve an understanding which ex
tends to the leather denlcrs, nnd that an
investigation on thnt line might be profit
able nnd this enters into the shoe ques
tion Many Philadelphia business men are
putting in protests ngainst the Kendrick
nnd Kevnon bills, which propose to regu
late the distribution of foodstuffs. These
men nre largely distributors and they con
tend thnt the high cos"t of living is due as
much to the fanner and to restrictive
lesjHntitc menRiires as to nnvthing else.
Hv identlv n strong move is to be made to
put the packers under closer supervision.
E.T. TAN
for tin
ANTWHLIj is sending out notices
be twentv -second nntionnl con
vention of the Nntionnl Association of Let
ter Carriers, which is to take place In
Moose Hall, Philadelphia, the first week
of September. The, letter carriers will be
welcome in the Quaker City. They have
their own troubles with the postmaster
general, but they enn do a real Service if
thev will tell how the Burleson system can
be improved. George S. Cox, the Phil
adelphia manufacturer, writes from the
Palrliill district that the mall delivery is
getting more troublesome every chy. Down
town secniH to talk the same way If Em
manuel Kline, of Fifth and Ellsworth
streets, can be accepted as authority.
RI,.
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P. ItEIFS.VniDER, who used to
do Norristown in a newspaper way.
is now actively connected with the National
Association of Hosiery and Underwear
Manufacturers, which is beginning to loom
up in tariff matters. The hosiery nnd
underwear men have recorded their oppo
sition to n licensing system which some of
the dvestuffs men have been ngltnting with
much enrnestness. Tenr bv jenr the scope
of the hosieiv mill is widened geographl
cnlh The president of the National Asso
ciation this J ear comes from Knoxville,
Tenn Members of the assoeintion are also
spreading rnpidl.v over other southern
states The hendqunrters, however, remains
in Philadelphia, where C. I). Carter is
general secretary. W. Parke Moore, Joseph
Pelden. Robert C. Blood and Edward
Itlood Sr . of Philadelphia, arc live mem
bers of the national board
TTVAVin H. LANE is not the only phi--L'
losophcr in Philadelphia. fieorge F.
Hoffman, the cotton factor, who mixes it
up at the Manufacturers' Club with
Chevnliei C C A. Itnldi. Louis II. Eisen
lohr and some other good fellows, is run
ning the Republican sage a close race. Just
listen to Croige: "There is no use trying
to please iveiv one. It can't be done. That
is glnruifth before us in the journey from
the manger tn Calvarj Hill betrayed bv
one and nl the crucial moment deserted by
all Putting over things Is ns old as time
the hiHt denl on record is in the famous
meeting nt the (Jarden of Eden." (Seorge
thinks the (otton producers should not be
permitted to charge the weight of the cot
ton tiis in with the cotton. He says the
foreigners won't stand for it, but we do.
-1APTAIN AL BROWN, James J. Mc
J Nally. William G. Rernard. Howard
Saeger, and other Philadelphia barge men
who hnve fought long and earnestly for the
widening and deepening of the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal in order to facilitate
communication with the Chesapeake Hay
and points South, will be glad to know that
General Illack. chief of the army engineers,
and General Harrj Taj lor, his chief as
sistant, are ns eager as they arc to begin
work, of Improvement. General Taylor
states that the engineers intend to pro
ceed with the work immediately on being
notified that the proceedings in court where
the government money has been deposited
have reached n stage where possession of
the proprrtj enn be taken. This ought not
to be verj fir nhead. The army engineers
nnnounee that thej intend to proceed with
the removal of the locks at a very early
day. but that the plans contemplate the use
of the canal at the present nine-foot depth
for commercial purposes until the new
twelve-foot depth has been attained.
Chester. Wilmington, and other points
along the Delaware are waking up to the
opportunity which the new free canal will
afford. William E. Headier, of the Chester
Shipping Company, and William Martin, of
the Philadelphia Quart Company, are
ruiuuoiuaiii; uuuul It.
Presumably, Mr. Strang is hoping that
Interest in his whereabouts will die out
Rut If we were a detective and wanted him
we'd look for him In a gttrnge.
The flag of II. C. h. is nailed to the
mast, but "pitiless publicity" may still take
the starch out of the heartless profiteer.
All the world's a stage and melodrama
seems to have been succeeded by the prob
lem play.
Everybody will sympathise with the ef
forts of stockholders of the North IVnn
Bank to bring order out of chaos,
t. 2f,one ha.s yet Jroken the record of
O. L. at champion l.lrh - t .v..
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Darby Revisited, or
Convincing tho Soothsayer
rpHE Soothsayer owns a car, and tools
passionately about the country, revis
iting the vistas and glimpses that he thinks
particular lovely. But he Is a stubborn
partisan of such beauty spot3 as he has him
self discovered, and bitterly reluctant to
concede any glamour to plnces he hasn't
visited. For a long time he hns heard us
raving about Daibv creek, nnd alwajs as
serted furiously that we. had never seen a
eeitriu road up. Nnrriiitovvn wnv thnt was
(he said) a far, far better thing than any
place we would be likely to know about.
But the other evening, somewhat stirred bv
our piteous babble about the old cider mill
we hadn't visited for ten jcars, he got out
his 'bus and we set forth.
WE WENT out along the West Chester
pike, and the manner of the Soothsayer
was subtly supercilious. All the vvaj out
from Sixtj -ninth street the road is in bad
condition, and as he nursed his handsome
vehicles over the bumps we could sec that the
Soothsayer thought (though too polite to say
so) that we were leading him Into a very be
draggled and illlassortcd region. Another
very sinister rebuke was that he had left
up the canopy top over the car, although
it was a serene and lucid evening, flushed
with quiet sunset. This seemed to imply
that any tract of country we would lead hira
to would hardly be worth examining care
fully. As we'passcd by the university as
tronomical observatory he made a Inst at
tempt to divert us from the haven of our
desire. He suggested that we both go in
and have a look at the moon through the big
telescope. Ab it was then broad and sunny
daylight we treated this absurd project with
contempt.
D
OWN a steep winding hill, and we came
upon the historic spot with delightful
suddenness. Our heart was uplifted, 'lucre
It was, unchanged, the old gray building
standing among trees, with the clank and
grind of the water-wheels, the yellow dapple
of level sun upon the western wall.
But what was this? Under the porch
roof was a man bending over Iron plates,
surrounded by a dazzle of pale blue light.
He was using an electric welder, and the
groan of a djnamo sounded from the interior
of tho old mill. "It's probably a garage
now," said the Soothsayer, "most of these
old places are."
But that was the Soothsayer's last flash
of cynicism, for la another moment the spell
of the place had disarmed him. We ap
proached, and it seemed to us there was some
thing familiar in the face of the man oper
ating the welder, as he watched his dazzling
blue flame through a screen. It was Mr.
Flounders, who has run the old mill for
going on thirty years, and who UBcd to
preside at the elder press in days gone by,
when we had many a pull at bin noble juices.
But he hasn't made any elder for several
j ears, he told US'; the sawmill shed is unused,
nnd the old mill Itself Is being fitted up with
Ice-making mnchlnerj. lie says he went
out West fpr a while, but he came back to
Daftiy creek in the end. We don't blame
blm. The spell of that enchanting spot may
well keep its hold on all who have ever loved
....
rrtHE Soothsayer and his passenger got out
X their pipes and brooded a while, watch -tat
the green swift water of the mill race;
the sunny flicker of the creek below as it
darts on its way through the meadows; the
great oak tree steeped In sunlight, and the
old millstones that still lie about by the front
door. Inside the building the old wooden
beams and levers and grooved wheels are
just as they were vhen the place was built
at a flour and feed mill, in 1837. The wood
wo;k still hns that clean, dusty gloss that
Is characteristic of a flour mill. By the,
uwinr shed, lie a Dumber of great Ides, ad-
Arable U for a quirt nk. The.liMtfcf
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FIRING THE COOK
wandered about with us nnd listened kindly
to all our spasms of reminiscence. We botb
agreed that the old mill, dozing in the sun
light, with the pale and tremulous shimmer
of hlue light in the porch where Mr. Floun
ders was working, was a fit subject for some
artist's brush.
...
TT7E DID not fail to admire the remark-
able old house across the road, where
Mr. Flounders lives. It is built in three
portions: n wooden lean-to, a very ancient
section of whitewashed logs (which must bo
some 1200 jenrs old) and then the largest
part, of the dappled stone of various colors
so familiar to Pennsylvania ramblers.
Nothing can be more delightful in the rich
tint of nftcrnoon light than that medley of
brown, graj, yellow and ochre stonework.
We pointed out the little side road that we
were to follow, running up the valley of
the creek, past reddening apple orchards and
along the meadows past the swimming pool.
And then the Soothsayer paid us a genuine
compliment. "Let's take' down the top,"
said he, "Then we can really see some
thing!" Andrew Carnegie's Favorite Poem
Our kindly Scottish correspondent, John
McMaster, has sent us tho following poem,
written to Andrew Carnegie- by a fellow Scot.
Mr. Camegle was greatly elelluhted with tho
verses, and always kept a copy with him
He often used to read It In small gatherings
when he was called on to speak Ho gave
a copy to Joseph Wharton, of Philadelphia,
nnd a few years before Mr. Wharton's death
the latter passed It on to a friend, who gave
it to Mr. McMaster. And here it Is:
Me and Andra
WB'IIE pulr bit craiturs. Andra, joa an' m,
Ye hae a bath In a marble tub, I dook In tho
aca;
Cafe au lalt In a illver Jug- for breakfait tansa
to ou:
1 aupplt hroe wl a hern spoon an' eat till I'm fu
And there's nae sreat dlnTere, Andra. hardly
ony;
My eky I' aa clear as jours, and the clcudi aa
bonnle:
I whuatle a tune thro my teeth, to myael that
costs nas mone.
THE bobolink pipes In th orchard white, In your
x name on the Ither side.
Gray whaups cry on the mulr to me, white sea-
' . maws soom on oor tide,
jAo enan huma In your marble hall, wl' mony a
oush an' swell;
I, list to the roar o' the wind and the sea. In
the hollow o' a shell.
An' there's nae sreat differs. Andra, hardly
ony nva;
For the measure thaL throbs thro' eternal thlnrs
Is Just to me as braw;
An' It wafts me up to the sate o' Qod. to hear
Ills choir an' a'. "'"
WE'RE dralellt bit craltures, Andra, pleuterln'
" In the slaur:
Paldlln' Ilk In his aln bit dub. an" tlowrln' ilk at
a star.
Rakln up the rlert o' the trlnk. till oor Falther
alrts us hame:
Whiles wl' a strap, whiles wl" a kiss or carryln'
us when we'r lame
An there's nae aTeat differs, Andra, we're alb
as peas In a pod:
Ill-fauyd weans at tha best, the drarllt wl'
tho snod:
An' we'll a g-et peyed what we're ocht. Anora.
whan wo set hame til' Ood.
WHAT if I win fame and gear. Andra, an' what
" If I fall:
Be rler aa a fumart whltrock ar Just dull aa a
snail.
It'll a' be ane In a bunder year, whether I sally
or slide:
The nlcht sits as daik en a brawlln' linn as it
broods on a sleeping tide.
An' there's nae great differs, Andra, whether
I e bum, or bliz:
II n-a wheel, ye may be a, clink. It ye canna'
pu' we can bruls; '
We maun tak the worl' as we nnd it, lad be
content wl't as it Is, R. C.
Mr. Carnegie wrote of this poem;
"Please tell It. C. that I have greatly en
joyed his verses. He Is both philosopher and
poet, but he cannot know how trifling are
the advantn&es of wealth; he has to
Imagine one side, I have lived both; and
have learned thit
If hanplneas has not Its seat
And center In the breast;
W may be wise, or rich or gTeat ;
But never can be blessed.
Our friend, the librarian, tells ns that
the pther day some one came In and1 asked
'far apy f J Quincey'a "Confessions of
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TWO WOMEN
PITT her not who at the bright day's close t
Weepj o'er the petals of a long-dead rose,
A rose that in some treasured volume lies
Ended, but precious for its memories.
Gently her tears fall on the petals pale
That in the past such fragrance did exhale.
Her youth is gone, and Love will ne'er
return
To lips where unforgotten kisses burn.
Nay, pity her who In a chamber dim
Sits desolate, and listening to no hymn
Of love from out the long dead bygone yean,
Who hath no token to bedew with tears,
To whom the perfume of a faded flower
Returns not ghostlike in the twilight hour,
Ah ! pity her whose sad lips pale and cold
Warm to no memory of a lovp long told.
Mary McMulIen, In the New York Times.
Wonder what Mr. Burleson, can do to '
muss up those nice woolen blankets that
Uncle Sam is going to sell through the par
cel post?
The President's experience In Franc
has evidently led him to believe that the first
two syllables in "pitiless publicity" are un
necessary and redundnnt.
Now that the secrets of the war are
being disclosed one after another we find that
we are not nearly so keen about them as
formerly.
Statesmen, like other mea, feel justified
In accepting undeserved praise as a kind of
balance against undeserved blame.
The blue Danube grows daily bluer.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What forest in France was renamed la
honor of the valor of the American
marines?
2. When was the Louisiana territory ac
quired by the United States?
3. What is a laird?
4. What is meant by "the circumambient"?
5. What English essayist wrote under the
pseudonym of "A Gentleman Who
Has Left His Lodgings"?
0. Who was the only American President
who filled two terms that were not
consecutive?
7. Who are ttie Romanics? ;
8. What Is the Sorbottne?
0. Who is attorney general of the United
States?
10. What is the date tor which the world
labor conference has been called by
President Wilson, and where is It to
meet?
Answers to (Yesterday' Qui
1. The Archduke Joseph Is the new head
of the government in Hungary.
2. "Stonewall" Jackson's real name was
Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
3. A paynlm is a Pagan, especially a Mo
hammedan. The term is now arcbalo
or poetic.
4. In exchapge for the loss of Helgoland,
Britain acquired German recognition
of her protectorate in Zanzibar.
6. A patio is an inner court open to the
sky in a Spanish house,
C. Edward Albert Is the name of the pres
ent prince of Wales.
7. Henry Lee, called "Light Horse". Htrry,
was a distinguished American general
. during the Revolution and later gov
' ernor of Virginia, He was the father
of Robert E. Lee.
8. Jupiter Js the largest planet in the solar
system. -
0. The olors of the Itutaasitn' ting an
tilu. Yellow and red. ' ' fM
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