r&m?? V io EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-- PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, ATJOTST 18, 1919 FtV i-vv--. V M?fftf '?" w T W vfiH . Jvnw' ? Jfy9- & W.fclit w a htviYI3VTTr v- AawSwI I '- K : r Euemnrj public Hfedget TUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY rrvmtn ti it pt'tiTia Trin-.. . Charles I! kudinirton. Vlco Prt'Mtnt: John C. ftMiln, BMrrtary nnil Trcnaurer; Philip ft Collin". John 1), Wllltnmii John J S'purcron. Directors. t.iITdUIAl, IIOAr.D: r iinva II. K. CrtTis. Chairman SATID C sy.zl.T. ..L Kdltor JbtlN c. ;'"."1N,. .Ocmral liusfnoM Manna. Tubllnhi '1 d'lllv nt frrtt" I.renri niilhlinc. lnili r n.Hiur ''mm, riul.utMrililn, AfLANTtr rin ,v.i-r'itou nullrtlns Kkw Your. 2(i I ll-trorolltan Ton-ar Drtnon "fl hm ni'tM'nr St. Loria inns Kullrrtnii muMing C11IC10.0 1307 Tribune Iluililln. nkws nrnnvrs: Yt'ASIIIXATO- Tl IUMC. N r '-r. IVni,a.iivan!.l A', nnil Mth St. N .T Yc mi T-vi . ui The Stm llulMlnit liONPON )t itLAL- London rimra 1 PfTlsrr.1PTirJ TE11MS Tha S i s .. Pintle T.niitcit Is "crve.1 to u'.i tcrlhrs In l'lill -lrlphla anil nurroiinillnff towns a? th it i r tuilvo (12) cents imx week. pa.iable to th it n r. By t ill m r-elnta ouaUa of PhllaiWrihla. In thVnit l 'in .. rnnadi. c Unltrii Htatea pn ffsalnrn "ii' i ' free, fifty CiO centa per month. Six i$Oi ilnMiri per year, payihlo In advanee. To a-1 fur Ikii countries one ($1) dollar per month Notii iiil rlbers wt.tilnc nrMrea ehnnirea must glue nlil hi wrll ni '1- it'Mn..i. BtLL, 3000 WAI.Nl T :;rYfioE, .main jooo trnfi'oii. to Fri-nlit ltthl c r. .Viunvi. Phl'llfl It il. I. ib jir.iij, Member of the Associated Press 5'rr .xsnrr.iTi:n mess m nw. tirrft; en'iihil In tr use for repihlienliim of il! m ir i pittchcit emitted to it fir vnt oihcrin-e emitted in this paper, ami also the Inrnl lire pnhl'shel thrrrln. Ait riai'v nf irptihlienlim, nf speeial tlis' fta'ehcs ?n ''n ire ttho ievt.rvcil. riill.iilelilil l. Motn!i., Aiicnet IK. 1 0 1 "WHAT DOES Th'tS CARRY?" pvPEN confession is always gootl for -' the puSiic. There fire Senator Vare performed a service to the community when he ex plained how Judge Patterson was first put on the lunch and hiii state of mind when he leeeived the appointment. Governor Truer was asked to name Mr. Patterson to the vacancy caused by the 'death of Judpre Kdward Majjill, according to the Senator. The Governor wart favorablv disposed, hut an attempt was made to p'-event the appointment. The senator .-ays he made three calls at the Governor' office and the last time he de manded that the appointment be made forthwith. "I'll be in the Senate to see that he i confirmed immediately," ho says lie told the Governor. The appointment wa.- made. The Sen , cunhimcd it. Mr. Vare took the tiain lor Philadelphia the next moiniiiK and met -Mr. Patterson at the North Philadel phia stat.on with the commission. And .Mr. Pattc !-on askei!: "Scnatoi, what does this carry with it?" The point in this bit of political his tory, retold at this time, lies in the ap plication thereof and in the inferences which Senator Vare would have his fol lowers in the city committee draw from it The senator neglected to explain what prompted Mr. Patterson to ask such a pointed question. Perhaps the judge will now. i TRAILER RELIEF rpHE transit company adopts a com---mendalile policy in its employment of (trailers during the rush hours on the Twelfth and Thirteenth street lines. Just why this nieans of increasing the trans port facilities without proportionally i.piling up the cost was so long delayed has never been made wholly convincing. The old cable cars on Market street regularly carried trailers. In the early days of trolleying they often took the form of open smoker cars. Their aban donment was ascribed to unexplained dif ficulty of operation and regard for mak ing the narrow streets as roomy as possible. As the matter stands now our crowded, archaic thoroughfares are simply an in convenient fact. The immense and nec essary volume of motor traffic sees to that. The best way to accommodate trolley passengers is to run more cars. j.The trailers provide a partial remedy. They are run in many large American cities. Philadelphia, with its woeful lack of spacious streets, may be unable to de velop the trailer plan to the full, but where conditions are fairly good and the need pressing this simple relief scheme should be utilized. THE RAGING CANAL THE raging canal is not exclusively a 4rA-fi when it ran mishph.ivo nftev the fashion of the Delaware-Chesapeake waterway in last week's storm. What there is of humor in the temporary col lapse of what ought to be a most valuable link in the inland communication system is of the grim variety and uncompli mentary to American enterprise. And here it is pertinent to note how vigorously and unceasingly J. Hampton Moore has labored to give the shallow, archaic channel between Delaware City and Chesapeake City a modern meaning and to make it of real service. Develop ment of the congressman's interior waterways plan involves complete recon struction of the canal, rendering it proof against bad weather and available for im portant traffic by good-sized vessels. In its time early in the nineteenth century the little channel through the heart of agricultural Delaware was re garded as a wonderful achievement. Now it js merely a quaint survival. It Is imperative in these days of ex panding commerce that it should be made secure against the violence of summer rains and the vagaries of floating tow paths. .MEXICO AND A PRECEDENT INTOLERABLE conditions in Mexico were settled once before just after the United States had cleaned up a great var task. The Maximillian bubble burst with ' dramatic suddenness just after the hands 6 this country were freed by the closing 0t the Rebellion. Sheridan at the head it veteran troops took command of the : 'Department of the Gulf. '; During the four years' struggle with ' tjio South all the repeated -warnings fropi the State Department concerning ; Jtexieo had proved unavailing, But an- a'5hf quickly Cleared up, making way tet.Wiaipn? orderly, if arbitrary, rule of Diaz, when the huge extent of our mili tary resources had been revealed in the Civil War and when the hero of Win chester went South. On the surface the latest "polite ulti matum" demanding that murders of Americans in Mexico must ccasjj may seem no more than a stronger verbal declaration of what has been an unsuc cessful policy. Dut tlu vigor of the United States, which, was potential in 101(1, has been proved between that date and 1919. Venustiano Carranza knows precisely what it amounts to just as the ndhorcnts of the doomed Maximillian did in their day. The record of 18()5-(iG suggests itself as a precedent. The present warning comes irom a victor over the greatest military engine ever conceived. It is still possible that pressure ori Mexico may not have to take the foim of inter vention. THE SPEED IDIOT'S SABBATH: A FAIR SYMBOL OF THE TIMES The Man Who Hits It Up Madly for Nowhere in Particular Is Not Unlike the Age He Lives In SUNDAY in the country isn't what it used to be. The fragrant air is filled with golf balls. Where quiet road.- inn on six days of the week there are walls of dust and smoke and a swift and dan gerous procession of machinery on the -eventh, when the city man cuts loose for his good time. People proceeding in wild haste to nowhere in particular get in the way of railway trains returning at seventy an hour with others who have been on similar odd adventures. Little birds who value their little lives with draw to the topmost branches of their estates and look down, with heaven knows what sensations, upon the astonishing panoiama and forget to sing. We are a speedy people everywhere but in Congress; the speediest in the known world. And that is why the total of road accidents and fatalities every where in the country is more appalling every year. It is odd to realize that all the people who tear about in what they lik" to call the great outdoors are in search of rest and peace. They never seem to find it. That is plain after one look at any week-ender on his homeward way whether he is in a Pullman or a motorcar or an excursion day coach. Al most any American in that moment ap pears as if the portals of a rest cure were yawning for him. The roads in New Jersey are building up the worst record for accidents and killings. The superficial thing would be to recommend the abolition of all grade crossings on motor highways. Certainly this is a necessary precaution under mod ern conditions of tourist traffic. But you cannot police the human ego. There is no motor accident that ordinary discre tion could not prevent. If people tried to go up and down their own stairs tis swiftly as they try to get to the seashore and back all the undertakers would be fabulously rich within a few yoars. It would be far better, therefore, to in quire why all sorts of people are in such a desperate hurry when they are away from home on a holiday. The men who build automobiles would give millions to any one who can answer that riddle. Their machines are reduced to junk and achieve bad reputations in the general scramble. No automobile that does sixty-five an hour in a pinch was ever intended to be run at that rate of speed. If it were driven at a maximum of thirty-five or forty it would last indefinitely instead of going to the scrap pile after a few years of service. It may be the democratic instinct ram pant on Sunday that tends to make motor traffic perilous on many roads. It is common to see a Ford geared up to do sixty-five miles an hour as they are sometimes geared by the unregenerate fighting for the road with a brute of a car so powerful that its owner lives in awe and fear of it. While that sort of thing goes on there will be accidents and frictions and dis asters not only on open roads but in the economic and social order. To abolish the grade crossings in Jersey or in the general scheme of civilization will not bring complete safety anywhere. There will always be speed maniacs and mildly insane adventurers to hit abutments or roll over embankments or collide with others no less reasonable than them selves. Older civilizations, more thoughtful than ours, found a particular significance in the seventh day. The word "Sabbath," broadly interpreted, means the peace of God. The speeders aren't finding it in finance, industry, labor or in the coun try on Sunday. And they will not find it. We have a great many devices which we have not yet been able to apply to fundamental human needs. We shall have to slow down and cool off n bit and do a little thinking. Our inventions have run away with us poll mell like wild horse3. Discontent is a dominant malady in America among all sorts of people. It is the thing that everybody tries to flee from. Gasoline is the new hope of mil lions. So was golf. Neither is any more useful, in the general human quest, than money. if in crnnn such conviction as this that is responsible for the extraordinary zeal of the small and tireless and misunder stood groups of people who are intent upon re-establishing something like an old-fashioned standard of Sunday observ ances. They begin at the wrong end of the problem. They approach it from the top when it can only be dealt with at the bottom. A week of grinding routine leaves peo ple with an actual ache for thrills and excitement. Even danger and uncer tainty can look attractive to a man whoso six days have been ordered and regulated by machine processes. The sobering philosophies that comfort and strengthen the human spirit and reveal the useless ness of much that is sought after in a lifetime of hard work have little atten tion in the modern American schools. That is one of the reasons why we arc accustomed to mistake pleasure Tor hap piness. Well, sooner or later wo will settle down, after we have tried all the me chanical and mnterial devices, after we have fallen from airplanes and nfter money has lost the charm of its novelty. We shall learn unquestionably, by ex pel irnce, what many older civilizations knew that happiness and peace are not matters of speed or material posses sions As a nation we shall learn that when we stepped on the accelerator and stiffened for a epeed record we left a good many of our treasures nt the start ing point. Wo shall go back for them with a flat tire, perhaps, or with a dead cylinder or two But we shall go back. .Meantime, unti? the average week ender acquires a touch of fundamental wisdom, he will have to be protected dur ing his escapades. Jersey will have to look after her grade crossings. Police men will have to be sterner on some of the highways to lessen the number of motor smashes. In Jersey particularly the matter of vehicle traffic is serious. No state that claims to be a haven for tourists can afford to kill a number of them every week at railroad crossings that might be made safe by the presence of a watch man. Trains in New Jersey and else where should be made to slow down at every crossing. The passengers would lose only a few minutes. And since they are on a .datively futile adventme, any way, this would not greatly matter. SUGARING THE PUBLIC TT has been notorious for years that su--1- gar is the one commodity which the grocers sell without profit. There were times long before the war, when sugar was selling for five and six cents a pound, that the difference between what the grocers paid for it and the price nt which they sold it was so small that they would not deliver a purchase of sugar unless other groceries were bought with it. They had to carry sugar in stock, but they did it as an accommodation to their customers. The government now recognizes ten cents as a fair wholesale price for sugar delivered at the store. It has fixed eleven cents as a fair retail price. The attoiney general now says with a fine show of indignation that the charg ing of more than eleven cents "is a slimy gouge." Every one who knows anything about the costs of doing business knows that a cent a pound is not enough to pay the grocer for handling it, but public sen timent and custom have for years forced the sale of sugar on this low margin. The price of sugar is not what is trou bling people. It is the price of meat and bread and vegetables and shoes and other articles of wearing apparel. Tt i-s easy to find an Mr. Armour's Shoes air of iitiKiiiiou-iir-iS in .1. OjrtliMi Armour's to-ty reply to the Traders nnil l'.uililcrs' rrlianco of CliicaKo. which votud to buy Mm a pair of -hoes nfter he had made pub lic intimation of npi'miii'liiim poverty. In stead of demntidiii!; n complete wardrobe Mr. Armour should have given earnest thanks. He ouslit to have felt relieved at the knowledge that his associates in Chicago high finance weren't lurking outside his office to take his old shoe from him as he left for dinner. The point of view of the profiteer is to get us much as he can with as little trouble as he can which, when ou come to think of it. is also the attitude of mind of ever so many of us who swell with conscious rectitude. None of which, he it understood, is in restraint of our desire to kick the gouger in the hack of his stomach whenever the occasion pre-ents it-clf. Present industrial, eonmiercial and ng rieulturnl prosperity will do much toward solving the Irish problem though recent happenings in Londonderry seem to dis prove it. Senators Lodge and Harding decline to see any relation between the peace treaty nnil the high co-t of living, which causes one to wonder if the gentlemen are myopic or merely perverse. Kven if. ns Mr. L.ine declares. Pen rose is a negligible iniantity, it doesn't affect Moore's tpmlitj . The sinking of an Italian cruiser in the Suez canal, blocking the channel, would have caused considerable excitement if it hud occurred during the war. Now, it causes barely a ripple. With alien laborers returning to their home countries and southern negroes coming to take their places, employers find life just one darned problem after another. There is no free cracker barrel in Uncle Sam's grocery store. And "small profits and no return- is the motto dis played. This is again the closed season for the exportation of arms to Mexico. The open season may return when the administration sees yet another light. The captnin of our ship of state is satisfied that he not only hns ability to handle the wheel but wind enough to belly, the sails. Here and there the opinion is expressed that the housewife packs her market basket with everything but discrimination. A portion of Ypres is to he left in ruins ns n wnr memorial. We predict t,iat tho spot will never be popular with (ier mau tourists. After the transcontinental airlines have been mapped out the next thing to do will be to install wireless "No-Trespassing" signs. Our hunch is thnt the big dramatic punch in the North 1'cnn production will be a court scene. As a step toward reducing the high cost of living let the peace treaty be signed, with or without reservations. It Is still possible for Sunday players In Fairmouut Park to make three strikes without being put out. Attorney General I'nlmcr, while meat prices rise, declares prices are coming down. Perhaps the gentleman it a vegetarian. CARNEGIE AS AN EGOTIST His Vanity, However, Was Offset by Undoubted Ability and His Wealth Was Sufficient to Turn a Weak ness Into an 'Idiosyncrasy' iy ;i:oiu.i: nox Mcr.MN ANDKKW CAUXKOIK loved the llme- light. lie delighted (o let his right hand know what his left hnnd did. He was a supreme egotist. I shall never forget n conversation thnt took place a few years ngo in the smoking room of n Pullman ear entering Pittsburgh. We were passing the treat IMgar Thom son Steel Works near Ilrnddoek. Turning to ills companion, one' of two men, who from their appearance might have been manufacturers, snid : "Andy Cnrnegie Is the vninest and most egotistical man in the United States." "Well, hasn't he a right to be?" was the rejoinder of the other. AXbHUW CAHXKlili:. on the basis of - his success in life, had a right to be egotistical. It is snid that all men who exert great power nre egotistical. Mr. Carnegie's weakness wns n disposi tion to air this trait on the slightest occa sion. Those who knew him intimately will acknowledge the truth of this observation. TP ANDREW CARXEGIH had been an -I- ordinary man in the ordinary walks of life his personal vanity would have been n serious handicap. In one of the wealthiest men in the world it became an ido-yuerasy. HIS first venture' in the iron and steel business, necording to some of his bio graphers, was the Keystone Bridge Works, Pittsburgh. It wns n very modest concern in the beginning. As n lad I wns through it a number nf times. It was situated out Uie Shnrpsburg rond hejond the Allegheny Cemetery in Lnw renceville. South of it the width of a field wns the Mowry farm. Tor forty yenrs it has heen n thickly settled and populous section of the city. The Mowry fnnn wns famous in the early sccntics. It belonged to an old Pitts burgh family. One of the bins, a genera tion before Cnrnegie and his pnrtners -I. ii ted the Kcj stone Hriilgi- Works, went west. I think he. wns the black sheep of the l'aniil. Am how. he hooked up some sort of connection with the chief of an Indian tribe, went through some marriage form with n squaw and then died. The sipiaw's name was Cub-n-u-quit. Some shrewd western lawyer heard that Mowry had an inheritance in the east. Then followed a long suit in the Pitts burgh courts. Cub-n-u-quit was dragged ea-t to appear in court. There was a hitter legal light that older Pittshurghers still remember. But the Inwyers nnd Cub-a-u-quit lost. Tiie farm was divided into building lots, known as the Mowry tract, and' tens of thousands of dollars were reaped by the renl e-late men. Many of the lots were purchased by Carnegie's workmen. They were handy to tiie works. Some of the lots, I recall, were sold at reul bargains. AT Till! oppo-ite end of I.awreneevillc, -- from near the "forks of the road" where Butler street and the Uast Liberty pike, now l'enn avenue, brauehed off, was a dusty unpaved lane. It is now Thirty fourth street. 1 believe. It led down to the Allegheny railroad tracks and tho banks of the Allegheny river. At the end of the street was a sign that rend CAIJNKCIK. KI.O.MAN & CO. Carnegie's partner, Kloinnn, lived within four squares of tho mill. He wns a pursy, heuvy-jowled. undersized German, who left several sons that in appearance were of the father's tjpe. U was this mill that originally fed the Keystone Bridge Works. IIIAVK mentioned that Mr. Carnegie was hni-que and domineering with his em ployes and often with his partners. He was the head of the concern and he de lighted to make his power felt. There was one individual, however, who met Mr. Carnegie on his own ground; who answered him word for word and tone for tone. Moreover he called him "Andy." Captain William Jones was the greatest steel master Pittsburgh ever knew. He was a Wel-hniaii. All the details of iron and steel making were at his fingers' end-, .lust why he was called Captain I never dis covered. lie was a big man, nearly six feet, I should say. anil powerfully built. He was smooth shaven with rugged features so red that they seemed to reflect the fires of his furnaces. He had, moreover, a deep voice with a Welsh tang in his utterance that was perceptible only in certain words. He was the one man whom Andrew Carnegie fully trusted, I think. Anyhow Carnegie paid him n princely salary, nnd the captain was czar hi his own domain, the big mills along the Monongahela. The Captain had come up through nil the grade.- of mill work. Ho had been Milliliters' helper, puddler, heater, roller. boss roller, superintendent and general manager. He wns the idol of his men. The slory told years ngo around Pitts burgh related how on one of his semi occasional vi-its to the Soho mills, I think, Carnegie sugge-ted some structural change to the seasoned old manager. "It isn't the right thing to do," said tho Captain. "Itut I know it is, and I want it done," retorted Carnegie in his positive high-keyed tone. T don't enre what you want, I know that it isn't right, and I'll be damned if I'm going to do it," thundered Jones. And that ended the discussion. MR. CARNEGIE was always bonstfully proud of "his hojs." us he called them. They were the men whom he made mil lionaires over night. And he had n right to be. Some of the brightest men In Pitts burgh were among the number. At the same time there was Ii little group that disproved the oft repeated ussertion that Andrew Carnegie knew how to select his lieutenants. I could name three or four who were not much credit to his perceptive qualities in the selection of assistants. In several in stances they justified this criticism by their subsequent lack of business qunliflentlous nnd their failure to retain the fortunes that came to them so eusily. On the other hand there were men who were made millionaires that deserved every penny of their good, fortune. They were real men, faithful nnd Indefatigable. Of this number purticulurly was Colonel Lewis T. Brown. He was an iron worker nnd nt one time a prominent member of the old National' Guard. I recall years beforo the great Carnegie Consolidation melon wns cut that Lew Brown ns a result of ti strike wns out of work. He was downcast and well nigh disheartened. He meditated lenving Pitts burgh to seek work in some other Iron center. Filially ho secured a job iu the Union Iron .Mills. There ho had an on. portunlty to show what was in him, aud rue won miuu, THE' DAY TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA By Christopher Morley The Happy Valley rpVO friends, who may he called for pres ent purposes Messrs. Madrigal nnd Dog gerel, dismounted from the West Chester trolley at the crossing of Darby creek. Mad rigal rolled a cigarette. Doggerel filled a pipe. They paid their respects to the old sawmill nnd Mr. Flounders, its presiding deity. Then they set oft for a tramp up the valley. It was a genial afternoon, after a night of thrashing rain and gale. The air wns meek and placid ; the sky a riotous blue. After the tumuUuotis washing of the storm all the heavenly linen wns hung out to dry, bulging and ballooning in snowy clots along tho upper dome. The tents of creekside campers were sodden, and great branches lay scattered on the meadows, wrenched down by the wind. By Mr. Sanderson's farm nt Brookthorpe u scoutmaster was breaking camp, preparing to take his boys home. They had only been there four days and the grieved urchins stooil in miserable silence. The hur ricane of the night before had nearly washed them away, and as everything was so wet their leader fearei to let them sleep on the ground. The boys were heartbroken, but the scoutmaster said sagely: "I'd rather have the boys mad at me than their mothers." IN SPITE of the recent downpour, the walking wns admirable. Bonds were damp, easy underfoot, free from dust. Mad rigal and Doggerel were gay at heart. They scrambled up the embankment of the deserted Delaware County Railroad, which is the most direct pathway toward the headwaters of Darby. It is possible to go along the bank of the creek, but underbrush was still drenched, nnd Mr. Sanderson uttered cryptic warning of a certain bull. On the grass- nr.r nf the nntiiiiip railroad, tread- KIWUll lt.,.. 1 ing gingerly over worm-eaten wooden tres tles, the explorer enjoys perfect sunny tran quillity. It is only five miles from the city limits, but one moves in the heart of bird song and uneient solitude. One freight train a day is the traffic of the forgotten line, and probably the director general of rail roads never heard of it. It would not be surprising to meet Rip Van Winkle pacing '.i i. tr.. is. nlnnn the monlderintr ties. And witius""u". "! ----. -- ns it is raised high nhove the valley, the walker gains a fair prospect over thu green country of Darbyland. The creek, swollen with rain, brawled rapidly nlong its winding shallows. Cattle munched in the meadows. Goldenrod was minting its gold, and a first fnint suggestion of autumn breathed in tho sleepy air,. Madrigal tore oft his linen collar, stuffed it iu his pocket. nnd fell to quoting Kents. Doggerel having uttered some painful words about tho old cider traN fie now evaporated, Madrigal bestirred his memory of the Ode to Autumn. "Or by a cider press, with patient look, Thou watchebt the last oozings, hours by hours." Madrigal is a man of well-stored mind, nnd as the wayfarers tripped nimbly along the ties, where wild tlowers embroider the old cut tings aud deserted farms stand crumbling iiloug knotted apple trees, he beguiled the journey with varied speculation and dis course. AT A long-abandoned station known as Foxcroft which is now only n-quarry, nnd has the air of some mining settlement of the far West the walkers began to under stand something of the secret of this region. It is u fox-hunting country (according to the map, tho next station on this mystic lino was called The Hunt) and from here on they caught glimpses of tho.Jifo of that pictur esque person known as' tho "country gen tleman." There were jumping barriers for horsed erected in the meadows j rows of ken nels, and n red-cheeked squire with a riding crop and gaiters striding along the road. Along that rolling valley, with whispering cornfields and fair whito mansions lingering among trees, is the color nnd contour of rural England, long. settled, opulent and serene. In. one thing only does It lack Eng ii.li rhnrm : there arc no old ale-houses along J the way. No. Bias's Arms or JVKon ana AFTER THE "DAY OF Horses or Jolly 1'luuglibny where one may sit on a bench well-polished by generations 'of corduroyed hindquarters and shut out the smiling horizon with n tankard's rim. "Oh land of freedom!" cried Madrigal, clucking his tongue upon a drouthy palate. FRO.M Foxcroft there is a tempting blue vista up a tributary valley toward New town Square, which would be well worth exploring; but Madrigal and Doggerel turned away through another covered bridge in order to keep along the trend of Darby. A detour along the road brought them back to the creek at a magnificent stone bridge of three arches. The man who designed that bridge was n true artist, and had studied the old English bridges. Add nt this corner stands a curious old house bearing the inscription, Luilwig's Lust (Ludwig's Pleasure) ISuilt 177-1, Remodelled 11)10. As the pedes trians stood admiring, it car drove up to the door, and the hapless Doggerel created some irritation by hopefully asking one of the mo torists if the place were an inn. After Ludwig's I.ust enmu the most en chanting stretch of the journey. The road runs close by the creek, which foams along a stony course under an aisle of trees. Where Wigwam Run joins the creek is a group of furm buildings, nnd a wayside spring of per fect water. It was sorry to r.ee u beautiful old outhouse of dappled stonework being pieknxed into rubble. At this point is the fork of Darby and Little Darby. An old deserted mill is buried iu greenery, tlte stones furred with moss. Just beyond, u little road dips off to the left, crossing both branches of the stream. Here, where Little Darby churns cascading among great bould ers and tiny shelves of sand, one might well be in some mountain elbow of tho Poconos. Madrigal and Doggerel gazed tenderly on this shady cavern of wood and water. If it had been an hour earlier, with the sunlight strong upon these private grottoes, a batho would have been in order. But it was al ready drawing late. THE Berwyu roud, on which the travelers now proceeded, is full of surprises. Great houses crown the hilltops, with rows of slen der poplars silhouetted against the sky. Here and there a field of tawny grain lifts a smooth shoulder ugainst blue heaven. A little drinking fountain on a downward grade drops a tinkling dribble of cold water from n carved lion's mouth. Among old willows and buttouwoods stand comely farmhouses one beside the road is tinted a rich salmon pink. A real estate agent's sign at the entrance to a line tract says, "For Sale, 47 Acres, with Ruuing Water." The walkers thought they discerned a message in that. For a rune menus n mark of magic significance, a whisper, a secret counsel. Aud the chiming water of Darby lias its own whispers of secret counsel ns it runs its merry way, n laughing little river that preaches sermons unawares. In the meadows near Old St. David's Church builfwheii Philadelphia itself was hardly more than n village aro Guernsey culves, Boft as n pluslV cushion, with bright topaz eyes. Madrigal told how he. had writ ten a poem about Old St. David's when he was- sixteen, In which he described the "kine" grazing by the stream, nnd inj which (after the manner of poets in their teens) he besought merciful Death to come and tnke him. Death, one supposes, was sorely tempted, but hnppily refrained from reaping the tender bardling. IN TnE quiet graveyard of Old St. David's the travelers halted a while, to sec the grave of Anthony Wayne and admire the thin trailers of the larchps swinging in the golden flood of late sunlight that slanted down tho valley. It was 0 o'clock, and they were beglunlng to doubt their ability to reach their destination on time. A party of motorists were just leaving the church, nnd both Madrigal and Doggerel loitered pointedly by tho gate in hopes of a lift. Hut no such fortune. So they set valiantly upon tho last leg of the afternoon. In a shady bend of 'the road came a merry motor looming along and Doggerel's friend, Jardcn J , ' REST" (luentlicr, ut the wheel. Mr. Guenther was doubtless amazed to see Doggerel In this re mote spot, but he was going tiie other way, nud pnssed with n cheerful hnlloo. Then, by the old Defense Signal tree on the PaoR road came a flivver, which rescued the two plodders and took them two miles or so on their way. By the Tredyffrin golf course they were set down before n winding byway, which they followed with tingling shanks and henrts full of achievement. A SHADY Inne by the now stripling Darby brought them to n quiet pool under lean ing willows, nnd a silver gush of water over n small dam beneath which a bronze Venus bathes herself thoughtfully. Madrigal wore the face of one entering into joy rarely vouchsafed to battered poets. Doggerel, in his paltry way, was likewise of blithe cheer. Through a gap in the hedge they sealed a knoll and reached their haven. And here they found what virtuous walkers have ever found ut the end of an innocent journey a bath, a beer, and a blessing. Searchlight Drill THE silver beams go up nnd down And flicker to and fro, An endless dizzy piny of light, An aerial heel and toe, Quadrille nnd hornpike, polkn, jig, And reel nnd buck-und-wiiig. The schottische, nnd the minuet, Gavotte and Highland fling. They tango o'er the purple sky And leap the zodiac To shimmy with the Pleiades, And then mazurka back, Or far along the horizon Like summer lightning glance, Behold among the flushing stars The nuvy searchlights dance. Minna Irving, iu the New York Herald. When Mr. Palmer valiantly declaims thnt no guilty profiteer will escnpe, the calm and judicial part of him decides thnt no profiteer is "guilty" until a court so de claVes. So it's a safe bet every way. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What is an acropolis? 2. What Is the largest city in India? 3. How ninny articles compose the original constitution of the United States? 1. What flag was known ns tho "Stars aud Bars"? B. What is the capital of Iceland? 0. Who was Charles Godfrey Lcland? 7. How high is the dome of the Capitol at Washington? 8. Who wrote "The Bivouac of the Dead"? 0. How many scruples make a dram Jn apothecary's weight? 10. What Is the literal meaning of ths Franch phrase "sang-froid"? Answer; to Saturday's Quiz 1. Viscount Grey Is tho new British am bassador to the United States. 2. Andrcrc Carnegie died nt the age of eighty-four. 3. Tho Liberty Bell was first cast In Lon don In 1752. 4. Byron's full name wns George Gordon Noel Byron. The family name was Byron. ' C. Narcissus, In Greek mythology, was a i beautiful youth who tell In love witn his own reflection In the water. He was changed Into a flower. 0. Dr. Samuel Johnson said "Hell is paved with good Intentions." His remark originates in a less vigorous observation by Georgo Herbert. 7. About 10,000 American Indians fought In the war ugainst Germany. f 8. Roquefort cheese Is made of goats' and. ewes' milk. .0 An enfilading fire from artillery sweeps a line of works or men from end to end. i 10. Baronet Is the lowest hereditary .tltla In England. . . - -s-tn "-uJi o- I 'p .I- $ ; -J - i& i n V
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