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All riahf of republication nf tpecial rfta paichet herein are also rcicrved. rhllndelphln. Thiu-edar. Aiufusl si. 1(110 A DEMOCRAT-REPUBLICAN rpHE next time orators of the Itcpubli- j can city committee extol the iruir of "regularity" ant the necessity of keep ing Republicans in control of the city and county offices somebody is likely to fire uncomfortable questions at them. What must the "boys" think of that doctrine now that the leaders have slated Daniel Wade, until recently an active Democratic partisan, for one of the rich est plums on the ticket, the shrievalty, which carries $16,000 n year? What is the chance which has come over Mr. Wade's standing as a political adherent since four years ago, when he ran as the Democratic candidate against W. Freeland Kendrick for receiver of taxes? Why do the leaders pick him for preferment over the scores of organiza tion handymen who have borne the heat and burden of the battle year in and year out? Perhaps that stalwart of stalwart Re publicans, Uncle Dave Lane, can inter pret the lesson and the moral. The "boys" surely will want to know. A TEST CASE OF HOARDING rpHE seizure of fifty-two calves in Mor-- ris & Co.'s cold-storage warehouse in this city on the charge that they have been hoarded for more than a year in order to keep up the price gives the courts an opportunity to test the anti hoarding provisions of the Lever law. The penalty for the alleged offense is a fine of not to exceed $5000 or imprison ment for not to exceed two years or both fine and imprisonment. The impression is widespread that the five big packers control the meat supply of the country and manipulate prices to suit themselves. They arc charged with keeping meat from the market in order to inflate the prices. We have in the seizure of the calves a I specific case in which the facts seem to be clear. I he meat was kept in Chicago from August 10 of last year till January 22 of this year, when it was brought to this city. The market has not at any time been overstocked with meat. Prices have been consistently high during all that time and they are higher now than they were a year ago, but the meat was not offered for sale. If it is possible to convict Morris & Co. on the evidence at hand there may be a freer movement of meat from the packing houses to the dinner tables, and at fairer prices. THE ROOT OF THE TROUBLE VTEXT to the war, strikes have become the most destructive force that civili zation has had to contend with in this generation. Congress may help to make living costs more tolerable. But so long as pro duction is being hampered everywhere in the world there can be no consistent ap proach to normal conditions. Coal, woolens, food, leather and other essentials will be harder to obtain so long as labor troubles here and in Europe keep the producers in idleness. ' England is producing hardly any tex tiles and little coal. Even street-ear strikes impede production by bringing about extended interruptions, of work in big cities. When will all the factois of industry learn the folly of strikes and turn per manently to sensible ways of adjusting grievances? MOVIES ON BROAD STREET ANCE again, with the report that the old South Broad Street Theatre is to be used as. a movie "palace," conserva tive folk will shake their heads and try helplessly to explain the cumulative triumphs of the film and the filmers. Any one who isn't an artist or a phi losopher or a' critic with a critic's limi tations might explain the phenomenon. yhile the stage was groping with prob lenv plays and losing its way amopg doubtful subtleties in the name of high art the movies stuck to simple themes. They appealed to fundamental emotions. In the movies the villian never escapes. On the stage he often gets, as they ay, by. People like old songs, old stories. They like art. But they like life better. OVERCOMING THE LIGHT NO EOBBY that eveV operated in Washington 'wad an franl-lv niaUoc as the farmers' bund, which succeeded in having the daylight-saving bill repealed Virtually by force. When the Senate bowed under the lash rii put through the repealer over the ' Jrklent's second veto the long summer 'a 4y tht have made life happier for all .libit millions who work jndoors vanished fgW. JThe farmers hod their lobby. ' The piWk.ll,iotie. j atom mmt d ( agrjetmu,rnl 4- areas with a high voting potentiality argued that the daylight-saving rule dis organized the rouilno of the henhouse" and the barnyard. Their representatives swung the whip more openly in Washing ton than any old-fashioned lobby ever did. They browbeat antl they threat ened. So the law, which stands in every other civilized country as one sine means to better health and a better economic order, was wiped from the statute books of the United States after the President had done everything within his power to save it. POLITICIANS PLAY THEIR OLD GAME WITH COUNCILS Little Improvement In the New Single Chamber Is Suggested by the List of Candidates Named TVTANY n bad meal is served in housc- - holds possessing the most admirable and explicit recipe"! for savoiy dishes. The cook, not the cookbook, is to blame. In the now charter under which Phila delphia is now governed n set of hcnsiblc directions for administering the city is provided. In themselves.. hovcer, they no more guarantee sound and decent civic rule than the most skillfully compounded recipe1? insure a good dinner. Able per formance is what count1?. Little or nothing of this indispensable factor tn excellence is visible in the lists of eouncilmnnic candidates submitted for tin coming primary election. The whole exhibit and this applies almost equally to ejich side in the Republican contest is deploiable, profoundly discouraging. The implied promise that the small new body of paid Councils would differ ma terially in character from the old un wieldy bicameral assembly is shamefully unfulfilled. Where are those eminent citizens and honest-gifted business ndministrators who were to rescue the town from mis management and corruption? Where are those zealous and efficient entrepiencurs who were to have revealed how foicefully and sanely the new Coun cils would work? They ate among us, of course, just as thej always weie and just as aloof ns ever from the political arena. The famil iar types of gangsters and ward bosses aie sitting tight on the job precisely ns in the past, charter or no charter. Cynicnl and conspicuously practical, they are under no illusions concerning the city's latest "constitution." The paid Council of twenty-one has been extolled as more manageable than its predecessor. Well, so it is, and either by high-giade members with the interests of Philadel phia sincerely at heart or machine poli ticians out for loot and graft. The most magnificent charter ever framed is without virtue while public apathy pievails. Sordid professional politics is unafraid of new governing machinery so lon.r as the public con science is lax. With few, woefully few, exceptions, the slated candidates for Councils of both the Mooie and the Patterson factions may be divided into two classes. They are either nonentities, in which case sub servience to the bosses may be reason ably premised, or they aie politicians of exactly the stamp that has degraded the city for years. Some of the names aie dishearteningly familiar. Tlieie ure Soger and Finley and McCoach in the Vare camp. Identi fication is less easy on the opposing side, and right there is one of the most griev ous offenses. ' The "big" men who were to have arisen and saved the city are still in retreat. So it would fairly seem is the committee of one hundred, giown indifferent at a time when virility and civic courage were sorely needed. The sole light in the gloom is the pos sibility of Mr. Mooie's success at the pri-' maries. Once in the Mayor's office, this vigorous opponent of conti actor rule would be a real city administrator. Theie would be solid protection against a low-grade Councils. But such a result, despite its advan tages, would be unrepresentative of the full purposes of the charter. Philadel phia needs a capable Mayor alive to every possibility of better municipal govern ment. But it also needs a capable and energetic Councils, conducting itself on the same lines. Co-operation on that basis will prove the worth of the charter. Nothing else will. Invectives against the politicians in the piescnt situation are futile and, in a ceitain sense, even unfair. They play the game callously and keenly as they see it. If the public chooses to be a fool, so much the worse for the public. That is the code of the corruptionist. It is, in a way, the code of hard common sensq. If the victims of misrule don't care, why should anybody else? There is many a citizen of probity, business ability and intellectual vigor in this city, a citizen of the type most needed for the mayoralty or the council- manic office, who chronically cxpiesscs a nice disdain of "dirty politics." Very probably ho is one of the many thousands of high-class men who neglect to register or never vote at the primaries and almost invariably his voice is the loudest against the city plunderers. It was his element in the town which hopedor benefits from the carefully de vised "charter. A panacea for boss rule was heralded. Jt passed the Legislature at Harrisburg. It was a legal remedy, a constitution cure-all. Three chcersand a nap! The awakening is rude and, by reason solely of the way in which Philadelphia as a whole han used its new key to free dom, it was inevitable. It is altogether impossible to rear the structure of good politics upon a rickety foundation. Re form is a futile mockery that does not begin at the elements of the whole sys tem of representative government, i The professional boss or his humbler henchman rings doorbells to take the po litical temperature of his bailiwick. Plans are discussed and campaign moves outlined in subsequent steps, Soon ap pear the petitions filing the names of candidates at the primaries. Of all the acts performed, this Js ps- senttolly the most slgnwcanU Ttsdcfl- nltcly determines the whole icharactcr of the ensuing political battle. The primaries are a weeding-out process. When they arc over the hon orable and well-meaning citizen to whom we have alluded, assuming that ho has registered, has a restricted choice of can didates for ofilrc. Frequently ho cries, "A plague on both your houses," and sulks at home upon election day. Under the delusion that he is from the outset helpless he consigns his city to the bosses and bewails a bit ter fate. Such tears are utterly silly and un worthy of any member of a democrat ically orgnnized community. If the right soit of Philadelphians were properly nnd actively interested in politics, especially in the origins of its movements, any "ma chine" could be nrokon in pieces and swept into the ash heap with soul-satis fying swiftness. A' vital opportunity to begin the operation has been passed amid the public indifference to the coun cilmanic situation nnd naturally the un checked politicians have played their ac customed hand. If the disappointment over the coun cilmanic candidates named is deep enough to banish lethargy, it is possible, nfter the primaries, to put in the field a new slate. An undertaking so belated is, however, beset with difficulties. The most fitting time to select men of the needed caliber for the Council of twenty-one has slipped by. The present dismal event should serve as' a warning. The charter will work beautifully if the right soit of office holders servo under it. It will be no more advantageous to the public than the Bullitt act if the best elements in tho city continue to neglect their duties. "Begin at the bottom" is a profitable maxim in politics,. By observing it all the bosses, whose power could be so readily punctured if the electorate were alert, eventually learned how to go over tho top. MR. PEPPER PERFORMS AGAIN pEORGE WHARTON PEPPER does some excellent shooting at shadows in the League of Nations Primer, which carries his name on its title page. The book is far more modest in appearance than in the subtler pretensions of the text. It is written frankly to let light into unenlightened minds and to bring wisdom to the unwise who, without it, might be led to support the covenant. The self-appointed guardians of Ameri can honor who constitute the League for the Preservation of American Independ ence are the publishers and distributors of the work. "Statesmen and diplomats," says Mr. Pepper sternly, "bring on wars." Do they, indeed? At whose behest? Under what, sort of pressure? The au thor of the primer docs not say. The fact is that statesmen and diplo mats also bring on peace and, as a usual thing, do their utmost to make peace per manent. That is what they ate trying to do now. But there are in every country independ ent groups which have always insisted on the right to exploit weaker nations and undeveloped areas elsewhere. They are the real warmakers. When there is peace they take the profits. When they get into trouble they call their people to war "for the national interest." The first purpose 'of the league of na tions is to .protect weak peoples and rationally to administer undeveloped ter ritory in order that these basic causes of war may disappear. Mr. Pepper knows as well as an one that without the league of nations the fundamental causes of war will always remain unchanged to trouble mankind. Now, why didn't he put that informa tion in his book? The now billionaires in The Usclessness Now York are learning of Money n lot these days about llio limitations of money. A steam jaeht. for example, is a pretty nice thing to hme around. But it won't take jou down Hrondway to work in the mornins, it can't sine or play Ilamlpt like any of the striking actors, and, worst of all, it isn't good to drink. W hen Congressman Warming Vp Mooie's photographs were rudely destroyed by Vnre ndhercnls in South Philadelphia, Joseph C. Trainer, who complained of what he called strong-arm methods, missed a beau tiful opportunity Up said nothing of Huns and forgot utterly to characterize the inei ilent nt an atrocity. ' An old and cherished The New Version maxim obviously has been changed to suit the beliefn of food gamblers, hole-in-the-wall auctioneers and all others whose aim in life is easy money. "livery crowd," they seem to say, "has a Filter lining!" If in his zeal to eject a burglar from, our premiKos a kindly (iood Soil but Peculiar neighbor upsets our dining-room table and smashes a few of our dishes the chances are our gratitude for his help will be so great that we will not dream of sending him a bill for damages. Which is one reason why we will settle our bill with France with some mental reservations. Director of Supplies Completine the Circle MacLaughlin used to be a Penrose follower. Then he switched to Vnie. Now he is run ning for the majoralty nomination profess edly as the iuppoiter of himself. Chicago residents arc cutting down on dogs. Ten thousaud fewer dog licenses have been taken out this year than last. TKe higher cost of living is sending Carlo to the demnitiou bow-wows. ' A bill has been submitted to the Prus hian cabinet which provides that 170,000,000 marks be given to the ex -kaiser. Well, several millions fought for him, Ksy murks. Gloucester is waging war on piggeries. Here we have a realization of the fact that there arc tome objectionable ways of bringing ho'me the bacon. Judge Patterson Is claiming credit be cause he sentenced some of the Fifth Ward thugs. But he had no option after they were convicted on the evidence. The, opinion U being forced upon the more conscrTtttlre members' of the railroad unions tljat the Plumb plan Ji out of plumb, THE GOWNSMAN The Summer School rpiHJ summer school In scores of our uni versities and colleges is now drawing Its sessions to a close. From all ndvlccs uevcr has it been more frequented and in the work which It has undertaken more successful. Hundreds of teachers nnd others have found In it nn opportunity to continue their pur suit of knowledge tinder conditions of com petent guidance and llkewlso that associa tion with those of like pursuits, the environ ment of books nnd laboratories, all of which count so-much on the practical sido of edu cation. It is difficult to think of so es tablished an Institution as that of thev sum mer school as n thing of nuite recent growth. But less than a generation has known it nnd it is still not wholly nccepted by those who find in n precise ndlierenre to what tiiey knew in boyhood the only safe conditions. rpHE summer school is part of the re--1- markablc development of popular edu cation in America, a development logical and in n' line tmwuil the realization of thnt more actual democracy toward which we are politically and socially tending.' A university used to be thought of ns n place in which any subject in its higher reaches nnd larger applications might become ft topic for Investigation and studv by n select body of investigators and students, niensurnbly drawn npart from the practicalities of the world. Now, without losing in the lerfst the Idea of multiplicity of subject, our thought is much on tho , student, nnd a university is n place in which anybody may study any thing or at least we tend at times perilously near to this reJciio ad abiurdum. But the Gownsman Is not in a mood for casting stones nnd he has not even his sling about him; so such Goliaths may stalk on in un regarded grnndcur. The (lilTuslon of knowl edge is ns necessary and as dignified a pro cedure as the garnering of it and its pres ervation in private granaries j nnd diffusion seems always more for the immediate gen eral good and therefore, more immediately democratic. "Let no man, woman or child go untnught" is at least ns reasonable a slogan ns "Let not n triviality escape. th.e sleuth-hounds of research." QOME thirty years ngo the English sent us the idea of -what was called "university extension." This Idea, in its inceptlonpwns the reaching out of universities to a larger usefulness among those who had not en joyed university educational advantages. It had in it the elements of condescension-and of popularization. Our American people re sented the first; the second element defeated the initial purpose, so that latterly such courses are mainly for diversion nnd uni versities have little to do with them. It is said that a nice) distinction can bo drawn between "university extension," ns Amer ica now knows the remnant of it, and n popular lecture bureau. If so, this subtlety is beyond the Gownsman. Hut English university extension found a wcll-cbtaulixhcd rival in the American .Chatauqtia and its like, which beginning iri the camp-meeting, the motives of which were religion nnd sociability, soon added educational features which have de olopcd into surprising proportions nnd use fulness. ' rpHE summer school is really only one of -L several university extensions which the necessities of a wider usefulness and the democratic trend alluded to above have brought about. University opportunities have long since been extended to teachers at hours when they can attend and not dis turb their ow-u teaching; night schools reach those employed all day; -many colleges arc conducting w'hnt they call "extra mural courses," in which a' teacher is sent out to a group of students, unable to coin? to the institution by reason of distance; and in nil serio'us work is done with a view to practi cal ends. The summer school adds to the features of these various extensions n cer tain compiession. That is, in five o.- six weeks is traversed the range of work to which a term is devoted in the usual college curriculum. This is effected by a larger number of hours devoted to some one sub ject nr.d an endeavor to Veep the interest of the student centered in a few subjects instead of diffused in many. "Educators" and teachers nre still in question over the advantages of this kind of concentration, which, it would nppcnr, is dependent on the nature of tho subject in hand rather than on some more general pedagogic principle. WILL it be too hnreh to say of all these ex tensions of education that they arc not unlike the case of the self-made man? As somebody once put it: "A self-made man! iBv all means get made thnt way, if you can not manage any other." And what the effort of self-making has accomplished in tho turning out of successful men nnd women no one acquainted with biography need be informed. Tlic idea of ji university as a cloistered place of refuge from the noisy world, the Idea of a select guild of learning, uloof, authoritative, self-centered, conde scending, to impart to a limited number of ncolytes the mysteries of the learning of the past all this must go: in point of fact, it has long since vanished to exist only in the hallowed recollection of those who nre hon oied in being called reactionaries, for pf netion, even backward, they know nothing. THAT university is best performing its functions which reaches out most widely, which nspit-es to the largest usefulness, which meets the wonts 'of the largest, the most varied number of men and women who nre equipped to benefit by its services, pro vided always that it does not give to these serviees n false value. In a short-cut over the fields there are many compensations be sides shortness ; but it is possible to lose something in deserting the highway, along which, after all, it is most expeditious for the majority of us to travel. So all of these extensions serve a useful purpose and, if the mere acquisition of knowledge is the soul of education, they possess that soul. If time for growth, associations, protracted, not momentary, influences, often uncon-' scious, that sink in, penetrate and have their part in the making of educated men nnd women be not nil of them fancies, then all these extensions must stand for what they are, the best way, if there is no other. "We eat sirloins and porterhouse stenk where once we consumed the entire beef," says Goernor Sprogl, There may be some justification for his assertion that tb6 people have fallen into unthrifty ways, but his particular illubtration Is unfortunate. Any butcher on South street can disprove It. i , Little Mr. FIxit is going to have sweet times after hel has fixed food prices. He will have to fix the prices of labor that jiro duces food ; of the machinery needed iu ts production, and of the" labor that produces the machinery. And that Is only the be ginning. Attorney General Palmer suggests an nntl-proftteering law with a penalty of $50,000. It idght be worth that much to de termine just when profit ends and profiteer ing begins. U. S, cavalry .s scouring the Uexlca'n hills for the banditi. We hope they'll 'make a clean-up. fry tn M,llaoo biislMH met, k JL &- The way to make votes -for Moore hi to "HO-HUML 1 !' i'.Vfi .- f '." i., t ; f?sSOT3Swni6ffiwlfWw;S?SarWi',-:r: K3 ii twWiisSBA I i K f ' i ! WffllHBI :p57r ;r&i " rMim?9mi Riv"1 WfPi 'rf-7 k -Brit Nfflsrae'5' TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA By Christopher Morley Calling on William Penn TT WOULD be a seemly thing, perhaps, i! candidates for political office were to take a private trip.up the tower of Jhc City Hall and spend an hour or so in solitary musing. Looking out over the great expanse of men and buildings they might get a vision of Philadelphia that would be more valuable- to them than the brisk bickering business of "showing each other up." UNDER the kindly guidance of Mr. Kel lett, the superintendent of elevators in the City IJall, 1 was permitted to go up to the little gallery nt the base of the statue. A special elevator runs up inside the tower,, starting from tho seventh floor. Through great echoing spaces, crossed with girders and littered with iron work which the steeplejacks have taken down from the sum mit for painting nnd repairs, the small car rises slowly into the top of the dome, over COO feet ahoe the street. Then' you step out onto the platform. Along the railing arc the big arc lights that illuminate the pinnacle at night. Over your head is the projecting square toe of William Penn, his sturdy stockinged legs, his coat-tails and outstretched right hand ns he stands looking toward the treaty ground. He loved the "fruits of bolitude," nnd he has them here. He is not often disturbed, save by the nimble acrobats who swing in n bosun's chair at i..i. .mnnvled tnsks. A bosun's chair, let one add, is only a plank, not much bigger than a 'shingle, nooseu in miuuir iu iu iuui. of a rope. i THE street -dweller knows curiously little of the atmospheric conditions. The. groundling would have said that yesterday was a day of crystal clearness. Yet from tho top of the tower, even in the frank morning sunlight, the view was strangely restricted. The distances, were veiled in summer haze. Camden, beyond the shore line, was a bluish blur ; even League Jsland was not visible. On the west the view faded away into the greenery of Overbrook, nnd northward the eye did not reach to the suburbs nt all. Enclosed by this softened 'dimness, the city seemed even vaster than it is. At that height the clamor of the, city Is '.dulled to n gentle mumble, pierced by the groan of trolleys and the sharp yelps of motorcars trundling round the Hall. Ou the glittering pathway of the river femes and tugs were sliding, kicking up a riffle of white foam behind them. One curious and ap plaudable feature is the absence of .smoke. All over the roofs of the city float little plumes and wisps' of steam, detaching and drifting away in the warm blue shimmer like dissolving feathers. A cool Tireeze was moving in from over the Park, Where the tnll columns of the Smith Memorial were rising over a sea of green. The Parkway sceu from above stands out as the most notable feature of Philadelphia topography. From there, too, one sees bow the north .eastern corner of Broad Street Station cuts Into the line of the Parkway, and wonders just how this will'bc rectified. IT IS fascinating to lean .over that sunny parapet and watch the city at Us work. Down at the corner of Broad and Chestnut I could see a truck loaded with rolls of paper, drawn by three horses, turning into Chestnut street. On the roof of n huge departments store was a party of sightseers, mostly la dies, going round with a guide. Mr. Kcllett and I got out our kerchiefs 'and gave them n wave. Iu a moment they saw us, nnd all fluttered enthusiastic response. We were umus'ed to notice one lady who detached her self from tho party ud went darting) about the root in a most 'original and random fashion, from our eyrie it looked rather as though she was going to take a canter round MsTftMlU I!". .wtatiie'jtfl the runnlfg tracu on bq jou i we iore. WHENEVER YOU'RE CONVINCED!," over the flat bare roofs of skyscrapers it seems curious that so few of them 'are put to any use. Only on one of the cliffs of offices rould I see any attempt nt benuty. This was on the roof of the Finance Build ing, where there arc three tiny grass plots and n little white bench. I"!1 IS possible to climb up through William Penn's left leg by n narrow ladder, dodg ing among beams and girders and through a trap-door, and so up to the brim of hla beaver. I was keen to essay it, but Mr. Kcllett. discouraged me by saying a suit of overalls was necessary. I am no respecter of garments, but I did not press the point, as I feared that my friendly guide might still think I had a grenade about my per son, and was yearning for immortality by blowing William's head off. So we com promised by going down to see the inside of the huge clock dial;, and the ingenious compressed air devices by which the hands are moved every thirty seconds. A minute space on each clock face is nn nre of about fourteen inches, so the minute hand jumps about seven incites every half minute. In a quiet room at the base of the tower are the two master clocks that control the whole mcchanlsnf. They are very beautiful to watch, and it is interesting to see that they were made in Germany, by Strasser and Itohdc, Glasshutte, Saxony. Exact noou is telegraphed from Washington every day bo that these clocks can be kept strictly on the tick. TF WE wei J- a city qf ere a city of mystics, instead of hustling nnd perturbed business men, we would elect a soothsayer to dwell ou the little gallery below William Penn. The, plcasantest job in the world has always been tlrat of an oracle. This soothsayer would be wholly aloof from the passion of the streets. (Passion, said William Penn, is a sort of fever in the mind, which always leaves us weaker than it found us). He would spend his time reading the "Fruits of Solitude" and would occasionally scrib ble messages on slips of paper, which he would weight with marbles and throw over board. Tiose who found these precious say ings 'would read them reverently, and go on about their folly undismayed. Baskets of victuals and raiment would occasionally be conveyed, to this lofty' dreamer by humble admirers. On his windy perch he would r brood lovingly upon the great city of his choice. When election time came round he would throw down slips telling people whom to vote for. If be thought (not mincing words) that none of the proposed candidates was worth a damn, he would frown down forbiddingly, and the balloting would have to be postponed until 'candidates satisfac tory to his vision had been put forward. When they told him that John Jones bad hosts of friends, scraps of paper would be found in tlo City Hdll courtyard saying "It is the f i lends of mayors who make all the trouble." And the people would marvel greatly. He would be the only completely blissful nronhet In the world, as the onlv way for an oracle to be happy is to put him so far away from the market-place that he can't see that the people pay no attention to his utterances. What William Penn used to xall his "natural candle," 'that' is the light of his spirit, would burn with' a cheery ful and unguttcreil radiance. Just inside the door that leads to the tower gallery there Is a comfortable meditative armchair of the kind usually found in police stations. So perhaps they are planning to have just such nn oracle. I WANDERED for some time In the broad cerrldors of the City Hall, which smell fulnuy of musky disinfectant. I peered into the district attorney indictment depart ment, where a number of people were gath ered. Occasionally a clerk would call out names, aud some would disappear Into inner rooms. Whether they were plaintiffs or de. fendants I eould hot conjecture Iu the J UHfd ,slco w ftfVtSUVfVfui c - l looked uncomprehendlngly at the signs on the doors Court of Common Pleas, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Orphans' Court, Delin quent Tax Bureau, Inspector of Nuisances. All this complex machinery that keeps the city jn order makes the layman marvel at Its efficiency and its apparent kindliness. He wants to do something horrible in order, to see how the wheels go round, He feels a little guilty not to have committed some crime. SPORTSMEN IN PARADISE mHET left the fury.of the fight, And they were very tired. i The gates of Heaven were opened quite. Unguarded and unwired. There was no sound of any gun, The land wss still and green ; Wide hills lay silent in the sun, Blue valleys slept between. rpHEY saw far off a little wood -- Stand up against the sky. Knee-deep in grass a great tree stood. Some lazy cows went by. There were some rooks sailed overhead, And once a church bell peiled. "God! but it's England," some one said, "And there's a cricket field!" CAPT. CAMERON" WILSON, B. B. T. (Killed in action, 1018). It is well the point has been settled for sonic of us had come to believe that Tap' was in the Capitol. Adverse winds of the law are interfer ing with the volplaning of North Penn high fliers whose engines arc dead. The White House conference has In no way disturbed the President's view that it is a pretty good treaty any way you take it. What Do You Know? wuit !, 1. Who owns the famous Kohinoor dia-- mond? 2. What is the Norwegian name of Ne' ' way? ' 3. What is n kobold? 4. Who was Grace Darling? 5. What Is a nimbus? , 0. Who is' the American special commis sioner to Armenia? 7. What is a salvo? S. What is the family name of the English royal house? ' 0. Who Is the President of Cuba? 10. What are gimbals? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. French troops are occupying the Rhine area now being vacated by the Amer- . .rr:- . .,......... ..... . ...m ::. voitaire in - oanaiae wroie mat. in England It was necessary (o execute) an admiral now and then "to encour age the others." He wes referring to the fate of the unfortunate Admiral Byng. 3. Augustin Iturblde, the dictator, was called the "Napoleon of Mexico-." He died in io-i. 4. The word jingo is said to be derived from' the Basque "Jslnko," the Su preme Being. C. Superior Is the deepest of" lhe Great Lakes. ' 6. Alfred Austin succeeded Lord Tenny son as poet laureate of England. 7. Louis XVIII was ruler of France on hundred years ago. 8. There are four standard Hmea in the United States Eastern, Central, Mountain anu l-acinc. sic .of tbJ enots," M. l sited 8tU'I 0, Meyerbeer wrote the music of grand opera, "The Huguenots. 10. Two Presidents of the United StaUs ,'' , ,'. X'uj? "jf . .HV'fi';, 'lied a natural death in office. They;
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