BSLKsassss KBjl Rfc" ' ft"V - V . '.-, V , to-" J V " , ' 4 ' 10 EVENING .PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1919 , . . r.n-a--r .tti&K&r ,4Wj5iSSroafcM.,, w?S,i latent n$ public He&aec PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY brntfs n. k. curtib. fsidint Chrln ft Ludlnalon. Vlca Prenldents John C Itartlrt.Sfer-tary and Treasurer: Philip S Collins, John B. Williams. John J flpurreon Directors. bOITORIAI. I30AHD. Cues It. K. Cecils. Chairman HXVlD E. SMILET Editor JOTIN C MAnTIM. . General Business Manaee Published dally at Tone T.xmrc nulldlnr, Independent" .'nuarr Philadelphia. ATL1HTIO ClTt . . ...7Vrjj-tn(on Bulldlnc N Ton SOS Metropolitan Tower OmoiT "n Ford Tlulld'nr St. Tioia too." Fullerton llulldlnc Chicago 1307 Tribune Ilulldlna: news nrrtn,us: VASnt.NOTON Bl'ltU, N 1, "or. rennijlunla ,Ve. anil Hlh PI. Mbit Tome l,i rear ... . 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Tuevljv. uut in, 1013 CAN SEGER DELIVER? rpHERE arc several hundred voters in - the Seventh Ward who will be inter ested in the assumption of Dave Lane that Charles Seger, of that ward, can de liver between l!!i00 and .1000 votes to Judge Patterson in the Republican pri mary. Perhaps Mr. Seger can do it. Gov ernor Sproul polled 3700 votes there last year. It may be that there are only from 700 to 1200 men in the ward who own themselves and that the remainder take orders from Seper and wait until he gives his instructions before deciding how to cast their ballots. If this bt t.o then it will he interesting to have it demonstrated at the primary on September 16. And 'f it be not so it, will also be interesting to have it demon strated that the votes of citizens by the thousand are not carried in the vest pocket of any one man and swung one way or another at his behest. THE PRINCE AND THE MAIDEN TAPHNE stepped out of the water on -L the beach at North Arm and said to the dapper young man, "Are you the Prince of Wales V" "I am,'' said he. "Sure?" she asked "Quite," he replied "Then 1 win ten cento," said slir. "Fine!" said he. And when at last they parted he expressed the hope they'd meet again. "Tomorrow," said she. With democracy and royalty on such easy terms, why borrow trouble? Youth ful eyes are sometimes better diplomats than sages wise. If the youngster's task is to cement friendship he did better work on the beach than he can hope to do in crowded assemblies. GOMPERS TO THE RESCUE DAMUEL GOMPERS is hurrying home "-from Europe in response to an urgent message. Ho is needed here just now, when the railroad brotherhoods are telling the pub lic that the Federation of Labor sup ports their plan to have the railroads turned over to the men who run them. Mr. Gompers has a pretty level head .yand he has never committed himself to any wild socialistic schemes. We shall see what he says about the Plumb plan when he jrets home. -s BETTER WAIT A WHILE TVTUCH can be said for and against old--'Aage pensions, but this is not the time to introduce the system into the United States. The bill of Senator McNary, of Oregon, which provide, for the payment of $4 a week by the government to all persons sixty-five years old and over whose in come is not greater than $6 a week, might deserve serious consideration un der other circumstances. But just now the nation is burdened with a heavy war debt and must raise a billion dollars a year to pay the interest on it. The im perative taxes will be so heavy for years to come that the country is in no mood to tax itself for a nationwide system of outdoor relief for the aged. AMBLER AT THE BAR nHARLES A. AMBLER, former msui- ance commissioner, ,.n charged not with wrecking the North Pcnn Bank but with misuse of public funds. The affidavit on which the warrant was jssued charges him with depositing funds of the state in the bank so that they might be lent to him for use in his busi Jiess. The assistant district attorney who appeared in court when he was ar raigned denounced him as a conspirator and said that the commonwealth expected to praye "that his acts of dishonor were numbered by the score, that his defalca tions were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and that as a public official he committed the grossest breaches of trust." These accusations arc more sweeping than were expected while the prosecuting officials were talking of the arrest of for mer state officers. They are so grave that, for the sake of the reputation of the commonwealth, it is hoped that Mr. Ambler may be able to give some ade ' quote explanation of his conduct. His arrest, however, ought to be reas suring to the depositois in the North Penn Bank that Banking Commissioner Fisher Is determined to bring to justice jevery one who has been, in any way con nected with the looting of the bank. They ne4 that assurance, for they have been hept out of their money and, so far as appears at present, they will lose much it It would be a public scandal If the ?Jim responsible were allowed to escape. ; It fa just as important for the protcc M of the good name of the banks of tho state Uiat tho caso bo sifted to tho bottom and that every uuspected person bo haled into court to explain his rela tions to the bank, Wc were told that two former slate officials were likely to be arrested. Ambler apparently is one of llicm. Neither the attorney general nor the district attorney has mentioned tho name of the other. But the people arc await ing formal action to discover whether the man commonly suspected is the one against whom there is sufficient evidence to warrant taking him into custody. FRUITS OF HESITATION REAPED IN LATEST MEXICAN INFAMY Disgraceful Ransom Episode Is Further Bitter Pressure Upon Us to "Make Peace" Conclusively Beyond the Rio Grande rpliE man who was later to direct the greatest military operation ever undei taken by nn American army the Argonnc offensive withdievv his small but capable and seasoned body of regular army troops from Mexico in November, 1!UG, with his mission unfulfilled. Nobody doubted at the time and sub sequent events have richly confirmed the popular belief but that General John J. Pershing could have captured Villa and any other outlaw and have completely restored order to northern Mexico. His recall witn ins task unimisneii was mr direct result of obstinate official faitli in a situation which simply didn't twist. Carran.a had assured the government of the United States that he was equal to enforcing thr elementary laws of civili sation in the nests of Mexican brigandage and that his soldiers would compel their observance. A protocol providing for the return of our expedition was signed. So far as Mexico's promised perform ance was concerned, it proved as worth less as a Bolshevist constitution. The slates of Sonora, Coahuila and Chihua hua, with their brigands and road agent "revolutionists," have outraged the prin riples of justice and security to human life uninterrupledlv since 1910, when the tyrant Diaz fell. The assumption that the ronstilutional tst president could fulfill his pledges was based upon perilous and academic illu sion. Virtually the entire American pub' if, save those persons in control at Washington, realised the futility of our tragically supine dealings with Mexico and foiesaw its inevitable consequences. The sole lOiisistency in a course of con tinued wavering was a persistent and almost inconceivable perversity in dodg ing facts. The Hiibjerf of the suppression of wanton and murderous outlawry cannot be mastered by correspondence school methods. Mr. Wilson seemed to think it could be. Meanwhile the insolence of the banditti has fatally increased. Venustiano Car ranza is clearly mcapablp of governing the northern states of his own country. The United States is without authority there, for its citizens are slain, perse cuted, imprisoned, robbed by the only rulers in evidence the outlaws who play one actually helpless government against another which behaves as though it were equally weak. In the capture and detention for ran som of the two army aviators, Paul II. Davis and Hatold G. Peterson, America's cup of humiliation is filled to overflow ing. In all our history there are few incidents so discreditable to our honor and dignity as a nation. Like all civil ized governments, ours has had its diffi culties with biigandage and piracj. For the latter offense we wholesomely chas tised the Barbary states in 1804 and 181D, and it was because of Germany's black fiaV methods that we challenged her "selfish dominion" and helped to de stroy it. The capture of Ellen Stone by Mace donian bandits is not parallel. Turkey was not at our back door as Mexico is, and the sole means of saving her life was the payment of the huge ransom de manded. But the Pcrdicaris episode offers both striking similarities and in its outcome significant contrasts. The bashaw of Tangier was in 1904 the Carranza of his region, assuming an authority which he did not possess. The notorious Raisuli defied him and, by way of pressure to win concessions from the Moroccan "govern ment," captured Ion Pcrdicaris an American citizen despite his Greek name and held him for $70,000 ransom. The bashaw promptly granted all de mands. But it was not really Raisuli whom he feared. It was the sharp and deter mined policy of the United States Gov ernment, summarized in the vivid phrase "I'erdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." John Hay was reported to have sent that message to Mr. Gummere, the American consul at Tangier. It's au thenticity has been since denied. But whether such words wore actually used or not, the methods employed meant the same thing. An American squadrop jndcr Admiral Chadwick steamed into the harbor of Tangier. There was no mistaking the resolution of the State Department. It disclaimed any indorsement of the bashaw's concessions to Raisuli, some of which weie territorial. John Hay'n con cern was the life of an American citi zen. The policy adopted was completely triumphant. Look upon that picture and on this. The plight of Lieutenants Davis and Peterson is not isolated. It is the culmi nation of a sickening line of criminal offenses committed against Americans in Mexico. It is the shameful inheritance of floundering, vacillation and sickly pa tience by Ihe most powerful and the rich est nation on earth. A "sharp demand" is made on Mexico. Carranza is strongly urged to act to se cure the prisoners release. Meanwhile the United States is to pay the ransom and to charge up the $15,000 to the con btitutionalist government at Mexico City, Considered by itself, this is a bound official move to play. But what guaran teo of future" order in northern Mexico docs it contain? How are Americans safeguarded against a recurrence of in famies ? Bandit Chico Cano "Smart Dog" is the appropriate and exact translation will receive his cash. Brigandage pays. Uncle Sam is easy and affluent. If thai, is not "General" Cano's reasoning he is a mentally torpid outlaw. Of course there is but one answer to the whole disgraceful business. Car ranza must be held absolutely account able for the intolerable conditions. If he cannot control them the United States must. If there is no other cure for chaos in northern Mexico but intervention then intervention will have to come. We did not balk at securing our rights from Germany. It is at once dangerous and absurd that wc should hesitate over enforcing them with regard to Mexico. Brigandage is curable. The medicine is compounded of vigilance and force. Italy applied it against the Comorra in Calabria, the "Guardia Civile" regularly doses Spain with it, the well trained "rurales" of Porfirio Diaz employed it with telling effect through all the years when American lives in Mexico were safe. Pershing was denied his chance. It should be given to American sojdiers if Carran.a's own forces fail us. Naturally no one except factors in the "special interests," who are continually complicating the situation, desires war with Mexico. The taking of the capital, of Guadalajara or Qucrataro would be not only sanguinary but meaningless. But northern Mexico must be brought back to civilization. Wc have reaped the fruits of hesita tion. From every conceivable angle that policy has been directed. It has failed and the adoption of a new one is impcra tiv e. Mexico, whether represented by Vtlla, Cano, Zapata or Carranza, has long made war on us, for all the horrors of war have certainly been inflicted on our citi zens. It is time for us to "make peace" on Mexico. BACK TO EARTH UflTH tho meeting of President Wil ' son and the Senate foreign rela tions committor today the lcague-of-nations issue and all of the innumerable post-war issues related to it in one subtle way or another arc brought nearer to a lational settlement after weeks of delay. The astrologers may know why the President and the senators could not meet before now. No one else will presume to answer one of the great riddles of American history. It has been clear that politics intervened m the Senate to delay such reasonable understandings as the foreign relations committee might have effected with the White House. Mr. Wilson, on the other hand, seems to have forgotten for a long time that there was such a thing as a Senate at Wash ington, just as he forgot that there was a secretary of state with him at Paris. The President may be able to get along without a secretary of state. The coun tiy at large wouldn't wish to try the ex periment for long. Congress may be faulty. But there it is, and it is the only Congress wr have. The President having reluctantly accepted the fact of its ex istence and the Senate having been driven to a realization of its responsibilities to the country we may look now for an early disposal of the treaty. The spectacle at Washington -has not helped toward economic order cither in the United States or elsewhere. Indus trial uncertainty has increased every where in the last six months and this has helped to limit production and send prices skyward. There is such a thing as the high cost of politics, Those vlio like to take short cuts to riches are usuully ablo to amble Suggested by a Recent IMnch along in safety for a while. Hut most of them lmvo to turn at some time pr other to go back over their tracks for a talk with n judgo. Thoj have their exits Shakespeare a la a ml tin entrances. And Itroailnay ii" man in these times phi.vs any part. Duralumiu, the noiv metal of which dirigibles are built, is. wo are told, too hard to punch and too brittle to bond. This would seem to be thrl right material for mayoralty candidates. Great Britain has an r.dverse foreign trade balance nf about S4,tl(l0.l)00,000 am the United States Iihs a favorable foreign trade balance of about the same sum, and both countries are troubled by the high cost of living. Tourists ore not jet permitted to visit Kurope, but (Jenernl Pershing, vho is al ready there, is taking advantage of his op portunities to see (lie romitrj. The Paris Loin re is being refitted, over hauled and cleaned for the hrst time, it is said, in fifty years llereufter all the paint in it will not he exclusively contributed by the Old Masters. The public would like to knovv who is director of supplies for the campaign of Joseph S. MacLaughliu, director of supplies for the city. Old II. C of L. isn't taking the count be cause of the surplus armj food sale. It simply made him gasp a little, but be'll be blowing as lustily as ever in n few days. I'ay the. ransom and then catch the bandits seems to be the poliry of the State Department. The newspaper eorrespoiiilents apear to have arrived at the conclusion that the Prince of Wales is a prettj nice Kid. If all speed maolatH would turn to pro duction they would be nvoidiug instead of courting danger. Disclaiming responsibility for an un savory name, the Archduke Joseph evidently prefers to be known as a "Uappenshurg." If Folk has Ins way, "corn in the land of RgJPt" vvlll be a sore one for Kuglaud. Doctor Kriisen hns issued directions for keeping cool. He must he thinking of last August. When the world takes a joj-ridc there is always dunger of a blowout. "The Oyster" is now being rehearsed for its annual opening. TEN BILLION DOLLAR JOB That, at Least, Was Amount of Busi ness One Man Had to Handle Dur ing the War Some Notes of Notables Ily OICORfiK NOX McCAIN pnORC.ro W. 1l. HICKS, of the Chamber - of Commerce, who wni active In war work In Washington, tells mc of some un usual experiences. s He went to Washington to lake charge of the distribution of rable messages. His duty was to see that nil rabies passing between tlie officers in the field and the quartermas ter's office were deroded and forwarded to their proper departments. He handled orders for supplies and munitions that exceeded in value $10,000,000,000. I think this places .Mr. Hicks at the head of his class in the world. That is, as a handler of big busi ness. His success in this work gained him rec ognition and he was advanced to inspector in charge of shipments. His odd experiences would make a capital book of short stories. One of the first things he discovered In the tremendous rush to get supplies and munitions across was that they were sending big vessels to light draft porta. This was soon remedied Another result of haste was the failure to load vessels to their full capacity. One day in an American port he saw a transport ready to sail with her load line high nhovn the water. He learned that a part of the cargo was empty barrels. After that no more barrels were shipped empty to the other side. They were filled with oats after the beads had been taken out. The heads were inserted after the oats had been disposed of at their foreign destination. It cost the government $11000 a day for i erlain vessels held up or delayed over there. Ordinarily they were unloaded rapidly. Then perhaps they would wait several dajs for ballast Some of these ships carried machinery for future use at base depots near the coast. Mr Hicks's Jepartinent was one day notified that certain ships would be compelled to wait several days for ballast. It was costly wastage ut .$2000 for each twenty-four hours' delay Not all the machinery had been unloaded, so the officers were instructed to return with as much machinery left in the hold as was necessary for ballast. The machinery made the round ocean trip and vvns discharged on the return voyage. TV H 15 WARRKN'. attired in loose--'-' fitting summer suit and I euang hat, ap pears oecasionally on the downtown streets of Philadelphia. He tells me that he runs up to the citv from his home ii. West Chester about once a week. For years the doctor was economic zoolo gist for the state. He is one of the most noted ornithologists In the United States. 1 recall that just prior to the World's Fair in 1S0.T Doctor Warren prepared the ex hibit of Pennsylvania birds and mammals for the exhibition. In a big upper room in the Postoffke Building in Harrisburg he constructed a papier macho mountain. On this in natural poses and amid simulated natural surround ings he arranged the exhibit. The mimic mountain was then taken down, shipped to Chicago and reassembled in the Agricultural Building. It was unique aud attracted general attention. The doctor re ceived medals and diplomas, I believe, for the exhibit, and also for his remarkable skill as a taxidermist. The lasting monument to his scientific work is his famous "Birds of Pennsylvania." Tt was the subject of controversy when it first appeared. Its numerous plates were in color and it was a costly publication. It was a beautiful book. It is to be found today in nil the leading libraries of this country and Kurope and is regarded us a rare and valuable work by booklovers. Copies of it are scarce and quoted at a high figure. STATU LIBRARIAN THOMAS LTNCH MONTGOMDRY, wl&so acquaintance with books is not excelled by his acquaint ance with men, was recalling some facts' about Andrew Carnegie the other day. They had to do principally with the dedi cation of the Carnegie lustitutc in Pitts burgh. There were educators, scientists aud university men present from all parts of the world. Japan, South Africa, Russia and other fur-distant lands sent delegates. No university of any standing, no scientist of any note, was overlooked. "When I arrived in Pittsburgh," snid Mr. Montgomery. "I was met at the station by a very courteous gentleman. He inquired my name and introduced himself as the per sonal representative of Mr. Carnegie. From that time until 1 left Pittsburgh, I was in formed, I was the guest of Mr. Carnegie." It was the most remarkable affair that he had ever attended, Mr. Montgomery said. In a way It imparted a powerful impetus to scientifiivstudy and investigation throughout the world. Delegates carried back the news of the great institution founded by the Pittsburgh Ironmaster and it had the ef fect of stimulating other countries aud cities to emulate his example. The most remarkable feature of the af fair was the banquet at the Schenley Hotel. There were .t00 guests. The menu was per haps the most remarkable ever seen in Pennsylvania. The rarest and most ex pensive dishes were set before the guests of honor. The service was perfect: a personal attendant for every three guests. "That dinner must have cost a fortune," said Montgomery with a bigh at the thought of its departed glory. WHILE the state librarian "&as describing this modem feast of Lucullus, my mem ory for an instant flitted back to another banquet. It was nrranged and disposed of in the space of half an hour. It took place on the eastern shore of Bering sea. With Mail Inspector Krause, of the Alaskan route. I visited an Eskimo settle ment near the mouth of the Tukon river. We walked a mile across the tundra. The Eskimos had pitched their summer encamp ment above high-water mark. There were half a dozen flimsy tents sheltering asmany families. We v ere made vvehome in pantomime and invlU.i to dinner. Wc crawled through a low opening in oue of the tents. The sand floor v.ns covered with robes and skins. A driftwood fire smoldered at one side. The wife stirred up borne white flour in water in a kerosene can and placed a pan on the Arc and poured into it some seal oil. Instantly the tent was filled with a foul blue smoke. Dropping several handfuls of the pasty mess into the oil. she fried them brown and tendered one to each of the visitors on a small piece or board. Tor form's sake I tasted the fritter. Krause, half sick, had to forgo the ordeal Our hostess next ladled out more seal oil and fried three small slabs of steak fish of some kind. Her husband meantime had dis posed of the food we had declined. This time we each managed to take a couple of bites of the fish. It wan torture, for the oil was rancid and the fish was not overly fresh. For dessert we were regaled with some fermented red berries fished out of another kerosene can, whose contents were frothing outside the tent In the sun, "My God," said the wretched Krause as we started back to the river, "I'll tabic that fish to my dying day." No political lemou cau btuud lite linie lljht of publicity. AND HE'LL NEVER LEARN BETTER 'TIL HE'S TAUGHT . 1-1 .u u-ffiM MS . il.f - ..... . - . v c.E,vv..rma:v- j-.;vrji STsT.r.KA?8iattv -, si2?sapu-i - -.-.- j j ..- .1.' rjyr .. i- . ..V-ffn ; :. ir:rV34KSytidafliit:tSXSi';:jr .-..-; , - .".--.--. 1-:--.... .i -v..J:.V-.?- ' ( lZlfai;:'J-?JSttX&LfSs&ffi ',! -",:- ."", !. THE CHAFFING DISH To a Trained Terrier Seen on a Leash, In the Park fTUIREE times a day at two, at seven, at nine O terrier, you play yoirr little part: Absurd in coat and skirt you push a cart, With inner anguish walk a tight-rope line. Up there, before the hot and dazzling shine You must be rigid servant of your art. Nor watch those fluffy cats your doggish heart Might leap and then betray jou with a whine 1 But sometimes, when you've faithfully re hearsed, Tour trainer takes you walking in the park, Straining to sniff the grass, to chase a frog. The leash is slipped, and then your joy will bursP1 Adorable it is to run and bark, To he alas, how seldom just a dog! The "unrest" among theatrical perform ers has spread farther than the public sus pects. , , . . , "I suppose it is professional suicide, but here goes," said the bearded lady as she reached for the Georgia Giant's safety razor. And the trained poodle says he is posi tively going to join the Equity Association unless he is given a separate kennel on tour. He says that he is tired of .bunking with the barking bcal and the mathematical albino pony. In the meantime, the little white fluffy dogs belonging to the chorus ladies arc hav ing the time of their lives. Nothing to do but be petted, twelve hours a day. We Applaud Impartially Hurrah for blithe campaigning days, Rejoinder's saucy sec-saw! The fight is on we've heard the phrase "The hands are the hands of Esau!" Hurrah for Hampy ! Hurrah for Judge! For thin form and for fat form; Let each one cry to the other "Fudge! That's platitude, not platform!" The President and the foreign affairs com mittee are meeting in the blue room of the White House. And Mr. Borah, we suppose, will see red, so the occasion will be patriotically tricolored. Asked for Bread, We Offer a Boulder A lady writes to us that bhe is a stranger to every one but herself. She is to be congratulated, like all the rest of U6. This sounds a little heartless. What we mean is that it is a fortunate thing that every one .doesn't know how damnable wc arc. That paying teller who is said lo ha,yc collected a fortune out of the North Penn Bank is said to be motoring around New York city. Undoubtedly, if he is as shrewd a financier as represented, he's collecting another mint using his car as a jitney for the tractionless citizens of Manhattan. There's nothing like being an orphan asylum for other people's kale. Getting Gotham's Goat No city, it seems, is a hero to its own transit employes. Wonder if Henry Ford has broken into his damages money yet? Those who say that women do not care for Intellectual diversions forget that there is nothing, they enjoy so keenly as entering a movie b'ouse when the "feature" is half way run, and trjiug to dope out how the story bejan. A New York publisher advertises Spend Your Night iti New York Heading 'Ihonias Burke's "Nights In London" It sbenu rather as though the ikluud in the Hudson, were bvilunlug to 'distrust its 1 . own powers of entertainment. But then, when you can't get a driuk, can't go to a show, and can't join the evening massacre on the subway, there really isn't so much doing in N. Y. after all. We se" that Albert L. HhoaUcs. of Mas sachusetts, joined the army ns n private nnd became a colonel. A New York paper thinks it highly entertaining that his men should have nicknamed him "Dusty." Alas for the lack of originality in human beings! Wo have known a number of Rhoades's. and wc have never seen any of them reach the age of shaving without ac quiring that same nickname. Some of the provincial papers having got it wrong. Hog Island is protesting that that ship recently launched was not the "Chic Shimmy" but the "Shickshinny." Nocturne Rurale fTIHE farmer seeks his pillow us the long -1- day's toil is done; The lights within the farmhouse are ex tinguished, one by one; And sleepy birds are chirping in their nests up in the trees. Awakened by the sounds caused by the rustling of the breeze. The gentle winds arc dancing in the forest, on the green : The moonbeams bathe the mill-pond with a snowy, silver sheen ; The crickets sing their tenor, while from out the distant hogs Comes resonant accomp'uiineut, the bnsso of the frogs. The universe is slumbering, the sleepy world is still; The moon is slowly Vising over valley, glen aud hill; The distant stars are twinkling as they shed their silver light The countryside's ut rest upon the placid breast of night. ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM. Come In, Joe, and Rest Your Face! Friend Hoc I'm writing thiu here In the near gloamln' of bc-yu-tlfu! Washington Square, Just to send a word of friendly greetln', though I'vo never met you, so far as I know, anywhere My verse flows as freely as the beer you've, written about, and I'm a great friend of the ladies, Just the sajne like old! Deck McUlout. Thanks for much you havo wrote. Three uheers again for the ladles. That will be about all now from your new but good friend, JON BUSH More later? Roscoc Peacock having written us two letters about that story "Luck" in the Au gust "Harper's," we got inquisitive, and bought a copy of the magazine to read on the train. We would call it a pretty good yarn, except for. the fact that the author (Wilbur I. Steele) thinks it necessary to play up the point of his tale in ituliri so that the reader will be sure to get it. This seems a feeble expedient, so feeble that perhaps the editor and not the author is responsible, Having been an editor oursch, wc know the worst. In the same magazine we noted that even one of the best reporters in the world Chlllp (libbs slips a cog now and then. In is very vivid and brisk description of his ad ventures in New York, Mr. Gibbs describes the Pennsylvania station ns having a celling painted bky-bluc with golden sturs. Now even the most supercilious Philadelphia!! knows that there are only two railroad terminals with n dark blue ceiling. In the Grand Central it Is paint that makes the vault blue; in the Reading Terminal It is soot. But much must be forgiven Mr. Gibbs. In the furious frenzy of Manhattan's bos pitality it was only natural that he should not always have known which station he was in. SOCRATES. Since .$10,000 is it ridiculously low price for two American tilers Mexico ought to be punished for adding insult to Injury. Moonlight miin round, bright moon Is soaring now on high : So swift it moves it almost seems to leap, Into yon star-gemmed, softly glltt'rlng sky, Its tender rays on cities fast asleep Fall gently, gliding loftly spires and tovv'rs. And wrapping all things in thin, golden mists Of slumber. In shady woodland bow'rs Far from the city's crowds th' owlet lists, Half-dreaming, to the whisp'ring of th leaves ; And in broad fields a tiny, drowsy breeze Enchanted by the spell the moonlight weaves Stirs once the sleeping flowers beneath the trees, Then sinks nnd lies upon the grass asleep. Frances E. Baldwin, in the New York Herald. s Perhaps v,hen the packers said they would welcome investigation they had in mind a nice, gentle, polite and conventional inquiry and not the rough-house methods of Governor Cox, of Ohio. While the North Penn is cot exactly an all-star production, interest in the many principals continues unabated. -The price of postage stamps has been increased in Germany. Well, that is one thing they can lick. It is to be hoped that the books the packers arc willing to show the government " are, not loose-leaf affairs. London is said to be overrun with rats. Turn again, Whittiugton! "With Robins and a Martin Uncle Dave becomes a veritable birds'-nestor. Industrially speaking the man trims his sails invites the storm. who What Do You Know? .QUIZ' What is the largest city in Germany after Berlin? What is a begum? Who is called the Father of English Poetry? What is the meaning of "El Dorado"? When was Alaska acquired by the Uni ted States? What are letters of marque? In what city was Edgar Allan Poe bornj When did the St. Mihicl offensive, con ducted by the American array, begin? Who is regarded as the greatest of Spanish painters? What is the jacl"nff 0f a ship? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. An acropolis is a citadel or elevated part of a Greek city. 'J. Calcutta is the largest city in India, 3. Seven articles compose the original un amended Constitution of the United States. 4. The Confederate States' flag was knows as the "Stars and Bars." 5. Reykjavik is the capital of Iceland. 0. Herman Melville was an American writer, particularly known for his South Sea tales, "Typee," "Omoo" nnd "The White AVhale." The ceo tcnary of his birth occurred thl slimmer.' 7 The dome of the Capitol at Washington ' is 28T feet high. 8. Theodore O'Hara wrote the poem "The nivouac of the Dead." 0, Three bcruples make a dram in apothe cary's weight, N 10. "Sang-froid" literally means cojd blood, r I 9aj;, O T, i-fe PJ-ggfW! gSSSizES m -yAiimtt, . wstM" fflll. -tti.
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