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Philadelphia Satm-dii?, Atinnt 10. 1910 NO MUD SLINGING BY PROXY BOTH Judge Patterson and Congress man Moore have announced that they would indulge in no mud slinging during the campaign. Nt ther of them can escape responsibility for it, however, if he sits on the platform in a public hall while one of his supporters tries to smudge the other candidate. When Coroner Knight at a meeting in the Forty-sixth ward, addressed by Judge Patterson, took a fling at Con gressman Moore by saying that one of the congressman's sons was working at good pay in Hog Island all through the war he indirectly indicted the patriotism of the congressman and did his best to create the impression that his American ism was questionable. But the coroner said nothing of the two other sons of the congressman who wore the United States uniform with the encouragement and hearty indorsement of their father. The least that Judge Pattoison can do Js to disjwn responsibility for Coroner Knight's fling at the congiessman and to give notice to all those who speak in his support that they must refrain from 6uch mud slinging in the future. OUT OF GERMANY THOSE persistent harbingers of woe who a year ago forecast a decade of war' and then on armistice day croaked bout the inevitable lengthy occupation of the Rhine by American troops will have to expand a new theme. Within a week the French will have completed their movements for taking over all the areas in Germany formerly held by our soldiers. The First American Division starts entraining for Brest today. The rhird is now on its way home. In reality the American occupation period has been singularly brief. Federal troops were maintained in some south ern states from 1865 until 1870. Our two periods of Cuban intervention were each longer than our stay in Germany. Complete demobilization of the war army is promised for October. With due reservation concerning need less defects of administration and ex asperating red-tape tangles, the expedi tionary force is cleaning up and clearing out with dispatch. The peace footing is J merely an alluring promise in most of the formerly belligerent countries. In the United States it is taking the stamp of performance. STAGE UPLIFT: NEW FASHION IT IS unlikely that the social unrest of Miss Ethel Barrymore or the passion ate sub-bolshevism of Francis Wilson will pvr he revealed at a congressional inquiry in a manner such as would appeal to the dramatic instincts of Mr. Stone, of the brotherhoods. This is sad. If, let us say, the government should be asked to settle the theatre strike by taking over control of musical comedy, the odd and moving drama now being 'enjoyed exclusively by tired business men who seek their rest about Forty-second street and Broadway would be shifted to a plane upon which the whole nation might view it. It is a great show. The maidens of the chorus have not yet rioted. But they may, they may! The downtrodden drive up to strike headquar ters in glimmering limousines for their "tour of picket duty no less resolute than the wistful little heroines who set the fashion long ago in the days of shirt waist strikes, no less earnest than a member of the plumbers' helpers' union! The divine Ethel, we are told, sway down the steps from the headquarters, striker too; locked out because she U on the side of labor. George Cohan goes slamming out of the Friars Club, pever to return, because the Friars are consecrated to the cause of the oppressed eomedian. Oppressed comedians! Who ever knew that the world held such a tragedy? We always supposed that their days were free of troubles. So they led us to be lieve, and that is one of the reasons why human sympathy flows toward them now in, great tides. Some one higher up, it appears, insisted that they work hard for nothing at the business of making other people laugh. That is a hard task, surely. Did the maidens of the choruses strike because of the high cost of bisque tortoni ,' . s,or because brutal profiteers cornered all the peche melba, content to let them starve.7 Had some one cunningly pos sessed all of the lobster supply to hold if: until starving Russia and prostrate Germany proffer the last kopeck, the 'trlilmate pfennig, as the price of life? K, They seek freedom from a system (hat compels them to do a great deal of 'jrark for which they are not paid. Ethel '- ad' Francis and the strikers who ride Jr limousines arc out for the same reason. Uj-nd down Broadway is spread a min JtSuro reproduction of the vast drama thtj- being lived and fought out all up and down the world. The tired business man has come into his own. He can see it all from the curb. No scalper inter venes. "I'll fight this out to the end," cried Mr. Cohan, who is in the role of capital ist, "if I have to run an elevator for the rest of my life!" Spoken like a hero! Yet one might timorously inquire whether George hopes, after such a dec laration, to obtain a card in the elevator operators' union, famed as a unit in the federation. The actors insist that they are fighting for a moral principle. At this distance it appears that they are. They want to uplift the stage. Authors have been promising for years to do this. But it appears that the only realists of the American drama aio the actors. THE MAN IN THE STREET USUALLY HAS HIS WAY His Will Was Expressed In the Fair mount Park Sunday Recreation Deci sion Yesterday and Is Always the Real Power In America LEADERS in the Sabbath association will be wise if they admit defeat and rest their rase peaceably where the court left it by the adverse decision of yester day. Judge Staakc's refusal of an injunc tion to p-cvent Sunday games in t air mount Park leaves rndical Sabbatarians still free to make prosecutions under the blue laws. But the arrest of an occasional tennis player or raids on baseball games would be worse than futile. Such a procedure would do irreparable damage to the larger cause, which is most un fortunately involved with propaganda like Doctor Mutchlcr's. The people want the open air and they have every right to it. They are sick of uplift by force. They arc utterly weary of the restraints imposed upon them by egotistical groups which have been bringing more of energy than wisdom to agitations in Congiess and elsewhere. Dictation and edicts and oiders were well enough during the war. Any one who looks about the country now can see that the people are again in a mood to run their own affairs and direct their own lives. It was not a theory of law that inter ened between the Sabbath association and a closed park. It was the collective will of an intelligent majority which Judge Staake clearly interpreted in his opinion. An educated public opinion is a better defence of any nation than armies with banners. It is the one sure prop of a democracy. For the great menace of any free government does not come from the outside but from within. It recurs at in tervals in cliques or groups which, exist ing without any of the responsibilities of government, .still peisist in the belief that they are supeiior to the state. Militarists have been the peril of other countries. Here at various times big business or a political party assumes ominous aspects. Labor more recently has been manifesting signs of the peril ous delusion which, in a minor way, af flicts the animating genius of the Phila delphia Sabbath Association. The collective mind of the country is tolerant and sober and it has the distin guishing characteristic of patient humor. It will endure anything up to a given point. Then it withers, and destroys whatever opposes it. Occasionally you will hear people talk of a control of public opinion. One might as well talk of controlling the four winds. The average man in America is never misled. His mind cannot be controlled because it is always progressing. His opinions are foimulatcd out of his own living experience. He has been leading the world and he is able to lend men and events. It is because he is patient that the mass opinion which he represents is, in the end, cruel and relentless. It is even guilty of atrocities. But in the end it keep? the country pretty clean. Henry Ford tried to control public opinion. So did the Chicago Tribune when it called him an anarchist. A jury the vehicle of public opinion has just decided that they were both foolish and futile. Policemen have tried to control public opinion by energetic suppression of the rules of free speech. They show only that innocence still persists in the world. The mind of the country absorbs all it hears and fortunately is able to digest it. Mr. Foul, even in his worst moments, adds something to human knowledge. So does the Tribune and so do the Bolshe vists and so does Doctor Mutchler. They provide the pepper and salt of conven tional discussions. The people know when they have too much seasoning in their mental food. In Detroit bolshe vism raged for a time. A wise police administration didn't try to suppress it by force. It let the Bolshevists talk themselves out and toward the end the reddest red couldn't even draw a crowd. Among the astonishing phenomena of the time is the alacrity which a lazy minded Congress displayed when, after a good many months of absolute silence, the voice of the people actually made itself heard with a chill query relative to living costs in the United States. It was the country that spoke then and Congress knew that the affairs of its long-suffering boss had to be attended to. It was the collective mind of the United States that understood Mr. Wilson when the noliticians didn't. It understood the politicians when the Piesulcnt didn't understand them. It is even now formu lating the judgments which will be final in history. It is forcing the President and the Senate alike into reasonable at titudes because the mass judgments of a free people ate always wiser than the judgments of any one man. Even so able a man as Mr. Wilson believed that he could control public opinion. In the end it is public opinion that is controlling him and forcing him to realize that this is a constitutional government. The country at large was the first to sense the President's earliest departures from his declared policy abroad, just au it was the first to sense the greatness of his original aims. Poli ticians never control the national mind, which Is, perhaps, thefrccst n:.d greatest force existing under thi sun today. The railway brotherhoods were the latest to get into conflict with it. Now they are busy with their i egrets. The man in the street usually has his way. He may be fooled and befuddled and cheated in small ways for a long time because he is slow in judgment and able to endure a great deal in good humoi. He knows how to smile at pre tenders and how to be tolerant of fools. In the mass he wants to be decent and rational in his life and he is easy to get along with until his patience is tried too far. Eeiybody knows what happens after that. Wo have seen it in elections, in victoiics, in defeats, in strikes, in wars. A good many people arc irritating the man in the street nowadays. Unless all signs arc false they aic on the way to surprising knowledge. PATTERSON SHOULD RESIGN VXniY has Philadelphia so persistently '" cherished the aloofness of its judges from nctive party campaigning? Why has it supported nonpartisan judiciary tickets and so clearly diiTeientiatcd be tween the role of an arbiter in a law court and that of any other officeholder? It is of course because the political isolation of a judge has insured security and fair play in our courts. The continuance of Judge Patterson to hold his commission as judge during his Campaign violates an admirable, a ne cessary and a time-honored tradition. The holder of a scat upon the bench ought not to bo subjected to the tempta tion to play politics. Occupying a posi tion of keen responsibility, his oppor tunities to favor friends or punish fac tional foes are too profuse not to color his judgments, however sincerely he may seek to be impartial. The subtle influ ence of his active political affiliations is difficult to resist. Judge Patterson in earnest conference with Ward Boss Seger, whose allegiance is in doubt a scene just enacted in At lantic City shows how difficult it is to keep away from political bargaining. The judge has an unquestioned right to run for Mayor, but that act cannot be lecon ciled with his simultaneous tenure of a bench seat. His proposal not to accept mlary while campaigning does not al leviate the offense, but merely accentu ates it, since it shows the judge recognizes the inconsistency. The fact remains that if defeated he expects to return to the bench and it would be more than human not to carry bitter personal dislikes with him. He should resign at once. DAYLIGHT SAVING SAVED PRESIDENT Wilson weighs gains -- against losses in his veto of the new act to end daylight saving and finds the balance in favor of the present summer clock. Few laws are of universal benefit. The greatest good of the community as a whole must be the measuring stand ard. As Mr. Wilson points out, the "press ing need of the country is production." Daylight saving immensely aids it in in dustrial centers. Fortunately, the President's second veto of an anti-daylight saving law is unmixed with other important legisla tion. The repeal had no place as a rider on the agricultural bill. Standing by itself after a persistent Congress had voted once more against "fiat time," the case could be judged on its merits. This is what has been done and the decision should be final. The frequency nf their Chili Con Carne revolutions may indi cate that Mexicans are somewhat hot-headed . that, in other words, there is considerable pepper in their Mexican beans. Mr. Palmer is woiking himself into n state nf righteous indention over the procer who charges more than eleven cents a pound for sugar which costs him tenj but vegetables bought in bulk are still permitted to rot in order to keep up prices, and the J price of meat is still rising. The price of fish, we are told, will remain high because the finny tribe has been driven awny from our shores by recent storms. What about the fish thrown back in the sen by New Jersey fishermen? Since the growth of II. O. L. is due to perfectly nnturul ratines we cannot hope to reduce his stature by beating him. The best we can expect is that we'll be able to re duce his "naete" line. Judge Patterson says, "I cannot talk politics to jou as I should like to." Hut the inhibition evidently does not extend to Charlie Seger. It isn't cerebration that brings about revolution. It is a combination of unem ployed gaHtric juices and clogged gray mat ter. Striking actors declare that all they want is a fair show. And that's all the pluygoers wnnt. Increased production, levised distribu tion and determined optimism will carry us through all threatened storms. Of a (crtnin North Penn debtor it may he safely asserted that he would willingly pay up if he could only borrow the money. It is the opinion of many thoughtful men that It will tnke more than the Lever bill to raise the dollar's purchasing power. The one effective way of swatting the rent piofiteer is to build more houses. What does Henry intend to do with all that money? The North Penn serial grows a little wordy ns it works townrd its denouement. Robins'B committee of a thousand will, of course, be birds of n feather. Platforms, like promissory notes, some times go to protest. The hats in the ring are straws that show how the political wind blows. It Is not surprising to learn that North Penn high fliers were expert at kiting. CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER War Record of Charles W. Neeld'a Sons Frank Feeney a Familiar Figure In Washington. Gossip About Well- Known People TF I'lIIIiADnU'IIIANS could be Induced - to tnke their minds nniiy ftom the mnjor iilty situation for n brief spell they would observe big things going on in the nation's capital. The Lodge speech on the league of nations hns helped to vindicate the Sen ate's attitude iu Its iontioersy with the President and has stiffened the bnckboues of those who have been contending thnt the President was playing a dangerous lone hand. The railroad situation, of course, is another one of the big problems with which the senators and representnties have been con tending, and thnt light Is on for some time to come. Lnbor gets into the controversy through the high cost of living, a problem which Congress liniillj xeems ready to take hold of vignrouslj There is n sentiment in Washington that with the attorney geneinl's department finally aroused to nction and with the Federal Trade Commission given increased financial support the profiteer will ultimately be In ought lo book. CHARLES W. NEHLD, of the Forty second Ward, hns taken n new interest in Philadelphia politics since the mnyornlty contest started. Chnrles wns always nctive In the young men's Republican committees and pnrticulnrly with the old oimg Repub licans. Eike Jim Eckersley, of (icrmnn town : David Lnvis, of the Thirty-eighth Ward, mid William W. Morgan, Charlie retains his joiilhful appearance. His proudest bonst just now, howcter, is the war record made by the younger Neelds. Chnrles W., Jr., wns second licn tennnt of the .'fl4th Infantry. J. ' Noble Neeld was second lieutenant, quartermas ter's corps, and Percy I. Neeld. sergeant in the medical corps, gas defense STATESMEN in Washington longing for a vacation with no bright prospects in sight are yearning for the seashore. Those who are not tied up Iu politicnl campaigns have about all they can do to sleep o'nlgl.tn nfter continuous days In the departments and on the hill. Senntor Penrose is said to rench his jncht nt Atlnntic City occasionally, and Congressman Vare, who is something of n jachtsinnn, is getting on occasional dash of the cold zone. Hut these tv.o worthies have their minds fully occupied with mat ters not wholly pertinent to Washington. Some relief when one henrs thnt Colonel Jumes Elvcrson, Jr., hns just returned from n pleasant cruise along the New England coat and thnt Commodore J-oms ijiscnlniir is making an occasional spurt through the New Jersej brenkers. GOSSIP i us thnt OSSIP reaching Washington admonishes bunch of Philadelphia jeweleis got ns far south recently as the Charlcstown Llul) on one of the crins of the Chesapeake liny. The Philadelphia jewelers generally tic up with the Wnshingtonians making Charlcstown n half-way house for the consideration of "business of great importance." By the same token it may be expected, in due course, that Mnor Frederick W. Donnelly, of Trenton, will have to set up n meeting place for those who fish, in this.net and dry season, nt some convenient point be tween New York and Philadelphia. THEY have n live chnmbcr of commerce over in Camden, with V. Morse Archer nt the head of it and David llalrd, Jr., high on the list of directlrts. This chamber of commerce, like the Philadelphia chara hei. the Iioui.se, the Board of Trade and other bodies, is kejed up over the railroad situation and is petitioning Washington to sie that government ownership of railronds is not put over The trade bodies generally tnke the stnnd that the niilrond men made a mistake in threatening Congress to strike if they did not obtain their demands, and some of them are mildly critical of the President for hning encouraged this unusual situa tion. MA A.IOR A J. DREXEL RIDDLE hns a warm spot in his henrt for Major Gen eral (Jeorge Burnett, head of the ninriue corps, under whom he served during the war. lie hns opened "Cninp Harnett" at Lnnsdowne nnd with the assistance of the Philadelphia military training coips, of which William It Nicholson is president, intends to set up n military training institu tion worth while. When "Tony" Riddle was a reporter with an inclination to put on the boxing gloves, there Aero members of the Riddle and Drexel families who hnd their doubts nbout the future of the jouug man. Rut "Tony" hns been pretty well over the world since then nnd has done some big things, not the least of which is the organization of the Drexel Riddle Rible clnsses, which have become international. TTatANK FEENEY, the Philadelphia la " bor lender, gets over to AVashiugton quite frequently. He keeps in touch with (iompers, Morrison and the other big leaders in the Americnn Federation of Labor. The federation now hns a handsome home iu Wnshington nnd hns established itself so firmly that the farmers' organizations are thinking of doing the same thing. It used to be the custom to send legislative agents to Washington during the sessions of Con gress, but now most of the big organizations have representatives there throughout the year. It is notably the case with the rail road brotherhoods. UPTON S JE1TERYS, sometime cor poral Company H, Sixth Regiment, N. G. N. J., who helped Uncle David Raird out as secretary when the latter wns at the Capitol, is heard from in Washington oc cnsionnlly through his clever work on the Camden Post-Telegram. In Corporal ,Jcf ferys's nbsence, however, we have Quay's old lieutenant, Frank Willing Leech, who is n big ace with Senator Frellnghuysen, of New Jersey. Frank has been working with his tiBiial vigor, but gets an occasional look-In upon his home nt Tuekerton, New Jersey. Frnnk knows as much about New Jersey politics now as he did about those of the Keystone state when big things were being done. "B IG STEVEDORE" D. J. ML'RPHY, do with army transports during the war that he has become a well-known figure in Washington. In this connection we nre re minded of the effoits being made by the quartermaster's depot of the marine corps to obtain storage space in the great army warehouses at the foot of Oregon avenue. An army board has been considering the use to be made of several of these great stations erected with the expectation that the war would last longer than it did. Mnjor Gen eral Radford, who is in charge of Rroad street and Washington avenue, believes the government would be saved a great deal of money if the army would consent to the use of the Oregon avenue pier for marine corps purposes. The navy is now paying heavy rentals for such premises as it is obliged to use. And there is always a possibility that the senators who quiz the President will set more than they bargain for. " 3iii?S?eilf ' TT C ' . K.C .:-. s-.-t..:: . "-. '. .- .v.i..:V---.'.i :'--r,-s,s - - -., A "!rV.;'""J"- ' yZ'-Zzs.""- ' -jri. , . i sa r-V- - -a -" ,. J ii-" --"- "r. - THE CHAFFING DISH Song WtlEN I go out at dawning To climb the lovely hill, My feet keep time to bugles, My heart is all athrill. The white road reaches upwnrd Pointing to the sky, The fields arc full of wonder And wonderful am I. ' When I come home nt evening The way seems still and long The trees spread mighty silence Around one little song. I The grey road wanders downward Through twilight timidly, And I am glad that windows Are shining near to me. WINIFRED WELLES. The Peanut Man I LOVE his ruddy wrinkles Like lines upon a map, His merry eye that twinkles. His old moth-eaten cap. I love to smell his peanuts I love to cut them, too; For munching who could sec nuts A more delightful hue. Oh, Tho Peanut Man, the Peanut Mnn, I always stop to greet; I can't go by when he winks his eye At the corner of the street ! NO MATTER what's the weather I spy that old man there ; My heart grows like a feather Whatever be Its care. If he hath any sorrow, He keeps it for himself, Or lends it to tomorrow The shrewd nnd ancient elf. Oh. The Peanut Man, the Peanut Man, God bless the quaint old wag; To pass him I may sometimes try, But I alway.s buy a bag! SAMUEL MINTl'RN PECK. L'Apres-Mldl d'un Phone SCEXE: Roll-top desk of a scribe en deavoring to get tlirouqh in time to catch an afternoon train for 1'ierceforest. Cur tain rises disclosing the unhappy being sur rounded bi a sea of papers, struggling to tcrite one of those "homely ditties" that are said to be so easy. Telephone rings. SOCRATES : Hullo. VOICE: Is this Socrates? Say, I've got a wheeze for you. The reason why Henry Ford only got six cents (Socrates rings off, fuming. Goes down stair to call on Jay House to see if Jay has any ideas he can snitch. Finds Jay Heeding his brains acay over a three-line paragraph, and in humane pity tiptoes away. Returning to the kennel, finds the telephone chanting loildly). SOCRATES: Well. VOICE: This is Steve Meader. Say, I just got back from Stone Harbor. You ought to have seen that northeaster we had down there. I'm going to write you a piece nbout it. SOC: Good man. Can you dictate It over the phone? STEVE (alioay good natured, begins to improvise): 'Twas midnight on the Jersey shore and frantic was the foam, I wandered, vagabond forlorn, three furlongs from my home, from out the blinding, stinging scud I heard the seamew wail (Operator cuts off the icire. Soorates returns to his miserable task. Bell trills again). VOICE: This is Ned Muscbamp. Well, old prune, how are you? SOC : Wretched. NED ; How about some spaghetti? SOC: NIr; I'm burled, NED: Sorry. Say, why don't you go out to the Falls of Schuylkill some day. There's a good travel in Philadelphia out that way. I wns out there the other afternoon and saw (Socrates ginlly replaces the receiver and yACATIONING eJ. cscl vrw . rt....: - - - - t - C3r7 returns to toork. In two minutes the bell again gets his animal, as Hob Maxwell puts it). VOICE: Is this Socrates? Say, I gotta hunch. Got a brand new wheeze you might pull. You can pnss it off ns your own. See here, jou know all this talk about the high cost of living. Well, last night after the kiddies hnd gone to bed I wns talking to the wife, and it just came into my head, you know the v.ny things do sometimes. SOC : Yes. VOICE : Maybe it wns something one of the kiddles snid thnt suggested it, you know what funny stuff they get off when they're going to bpd by the wny, I sure do like thnt sthff you pull about the Urchin, the wifp says you must have kiddies of your own. She hns a sister up in Pike county who never hnd any kiddies, but SOC: Sure, great stuff (Wanders how to ring off). VOICE : Well, the wife wns saying about this high cost' of living and it just came into my head that it's really the cost of high living and not the high cost of liviug thnt makes nil the trouble. Do you get that, the cost of high living, see? The wife says she thinks some one hns pulled thnt already, but I told her she was wrong. Now, if you want to use that, it's nil right and you don't need to mention my name (Socrates quietly lays down the receiver, and gives his papers a shuffle. Enter lady visitor). CALLER: Is this Mr. Socrates? What a quaint little place you work in, to be sure! Now if I worked in a place like this I'm sure I should never be able to think of anything. Still, I suppose It's a great thing to he in touch with the busy world. (After fifteen minutes of miscellane ous chat and leaving three poems "jusf for you to criticize and tell me where I can sell them," caller departs. Socrates saying au tomatically: "It teas delightful of you to drop in. Do stop in any time.' ) (Phone rings). VOICE. : Is this Socrates? SOC: I'm nfraid so. VOICE: This is Mr. Swaffle. I heard you were in the market for some more In surance. Now, our thirty-j eur endowment policy " (Fire miniifc to tiain time, pwrfai'n. Desk Mottoes I.Ike all owners of real property, she usually adopted toward her possessions an attitude implying that she would ba wlll InK to pay somebody to take them from her Arnold Bennett, the Old Wives' Tale. Advice to Motorists Don't try to beat up a train this Sunday. It rarely pays any one except the heirs. We note that the government offers 10,000 new spurs for sale, saying that since the armistice they have become "surplus prop erty." We know some who have deemed a good many of those spurs surplus prop erty from the beginning. xne poet, wmi wruea verses mat are gloomy nnd savage can easily gala a repu tation as a profound thinker. Rut the author of cheerful stuff is Inevitably deemed narrow-pated and shnllow. We have al ways longed to be a profound thinkert but we seem to be losing ground every day. The assistnnt to the assistant to the sec retary of war writes us textually as fol lows : A problem ot considerable propoitlons still confronts the nation as regards the reabsorption of these men (discharged sol diers and sailors) Into the post-war structure of American society. This otlce la extremely anxious to obtain further suggestions as to the best method of ap proach looking to the solution of the prob lem. Wo would feel more certain of the War Department's ability to approach looking towurd a solution if 'the assistant's assistant had said something like this; Ye loam to gei joos jor uisonnrgca service men. Can you helpt SOCRATES, S. YJiQHr The Ships That Brought Them Over TnESE are the ships that brought them over, And all through life will their names remain; i Sheering west from the cliffs of Dover, Into the waste with the sunset stain. Slipping from Brest in a Channel rain, Tiring swift as a khaki roVer, With pulse a-swing to the engine strain These nre the ships that brought them over. Tho Calamarcs and Hercules, The Santa Ana and Luckenbach ; And lifting fur on the topping seas, Day dreaming they'll see the Ancou's stack. The Baltic under the flying wrack. Swinging west to tho land of clover, No more to travel on war's red track These arc the ships that brought them over. The Pocabontns and Muscatine, The Nanscmond and Leviathan ; And ever westward the spars would lean, And days seemed years on the tossing span. On the Henderson strained eyes would scan The misty west where dreams would hover. And hearts were gay on the Rapidan. These are the ships that brought them over. Thomas J. Murray, in New York Sun. It having been officially and authorita tively decided that Mr. Ford is not an anar chist, we may turn whole-heartedly to the task of swatting the H. O. of L. What Do You Know? QUIZ Who has been appointed British ambas sador to the United .States? How old was Andrew Carnegie when he died? Wher was the Liberty Bell first cast? 3. 4. What was the family name of Lordrial Rvrnn? B. Who was Narcissus in Greek mythol ogy? 0. Who said "Hell is paved with good in tentions"? 7. How many American Indians fought in the war against Germany? 8. Of what kind of milks is Roquefort cheese made? 0. What is enfilading fire? lo! What is the lowest hereditary title in England? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 The harvest moon is full within a fort- ' night of September 22 or 2.1. 2. Tomatoes were formerly called loe apples. " 3 "De facto" ; in fact, whether by right ' or not. "De jure;" rightful, by right 4 According to a recent careful estimate, ' Cleveland and Detroit are tied for fourth place in population anions American cities. C Cognac takes its name from a small town in southern France fumed for its brandies. G The word sybarite Is derived from the ancient Greek colouy of Sybaris iu Italy, noted for Its luxury. 7. A joss is a Chinese Idol. 8 Admiral David G. Farragut and General George H. Thomas were noted com manders of southern birth who fought for the North in the Civil War. Farragut was, born in Tennessee and Thomas In Virginia. 0. Gymkhana Is an Anglo-Indian word describing a public place with facilities tor athletics and also an athletic sports display. 10 The Philippines, Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Tutulla in Samoa, Guam and the Hawaiian Islands are American possessions which lie within the Torrid Zone. A ft 'jftfc
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