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Charln If. I.udlnaton. Vice Prf l1 nti John C.
Martin. Becrttarr and Treanureri Philip S Colllna.
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Plllladelphlil, I'rldaj. Aliru-t 22. i19
REMEMBER 2 AND 6
MOST memory systems have the du
bious virtue of making an easy thinjr.
hard, but even the citizen with no head
for figuies should be able to accommo
date the two numbers which identify the
registration days. August 20 is the first
date. The others are September 2 and
6. The mnemonics involved are thus ex
tremely simple. A two and a six com
pose the necessary mental furniture.
Philadelphians who fail to have them
selves enrolled as voters this year will
be guilty of that commonest of all civic
jsins indifference. The process is sim
ple, the right gained thereby is implicit
in the whole health and safety of the
community. Citizens who fail of their
duty are likely to require no memory sys
tem when the politicians capitalize the
delinquency. Bitter experience will be
"the teacher if the electorate is lax.
Remember two and six in time and
sidetrack the reflective period of dismay.
LANE ON THE PRESIDENCY
"TTNCLE DAVE" LANE sometimes
-' nods. In that respect, if in no
other, he resembles Homer. He was nod
ding badly when he said that any man
with ultimate designs on the presidency
must go to the Senate as a matter of
course. He was talking of Governor
Sproul and his senatorial prospects.
As a matter of fact, the Senate has not
been a stepping stone to the presidency
foe many years. Neither Wilson nor
Taft nor Roosevelt nor McKinley nor
Cleveland nor Arthur nor Hayes nor
Grant nor Lincoln ever sat in the Senate.
Harrison had been a Senator. Garfield
was elected to the Senate by the Ohio
Legislature, but was promoted to the
presidency before he took his seat, and
.Johnson had sat in the Senate some years
before he became President through the
death of Lincoln.
Three senators out of the last twelve
Presidents hardly establishes a rule.
PITTMAN'S FAUX PAS
OENATOR PITTMAN ought to have
known better than to offer his resolu
tion setting forth the conditions on which
the Senate, would ratify the peace treaty.
He is a Democrat. The Senate is con
trolled by the Republicans. The resolu
tion to be finally adopted will be drafted
by the Republicans. This is in accord
ance with precedent.
If the Democrats wish to gum the
wheels and make trouble they will at
tempt to direct the policy of the Senate
on this matter. If they wish to hasten
the ratification of tho treaty they will
prudently husband their resolutions and
get ready to vote when the time comes.
"PROTECTING," PERSIA
GREAT BRITAIN signs an agreement
and independence of Persia aiid the shah
then departs for Switzerland haven of
deposed potentates.
Ostensibly here arc familiar compo
nents of tho drama of exploitation acted
by virtually all of the major nations of
V, Europe before the war.
45- .v The French press insists that the new
treaty, in pursuance of which a new Per
sian army will be organized and taught
by British officers and Britain will ad
vance a loan to the other signatory, to
be secured by Persian customs receipts,
means nothing less than a protectorate.
In tbe same breath, however, the Paris
papprs frankly employ the same word in
discussing French "influence" over Syria.
Just as vigorously as of old the pot keeps
up its familiar practice of calling the
kettle black.
The companion situations are dismay
ing to the idealist. On the other hand,
Bclf-determination, impartially enforced
would produce some pretty pickles for
yirtually every nation on earth. We
should have our troubles with the Indians,
and a speedy withdrawal from the Do
minican republic and from Haiti would
be in older.
France has unquestionably certain his
torical rights in Syria. If they are
abused "protectorate" will be a sinister
vord. If Syria profits in wardship as
Tunis and Algeria have done and cynical
exploitation is stifled, criticism should be
concerned with facts rather than phrases.
.'From a practical viewpoint the same
.,1a nnnllpfi tn Plrln. AnnrnVitf nmt mta-
i-,nile have reduced a people, in their
IV'l v,v auK"""'" ")i jaiwh m our
aktul a michty record of recurrinir civil).
. f wrtions, to a state of Impotence and ob-
f'llnsrity. The redemption of modern Per
ad has failed to come from within. With
Irtish afd fairly and generously admin
lirterd tho land of Haflz and Omar may
Ye iade worthy of its traditions,
it. ' (Hi. uu RrtH.il. trnatv m.nr ho .l
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tid thing, irq late of Persia
it m tae spirit ia. wWcfc Ute
terms are executed. It is an improve
ment, at least, on the transparently selfish
triple agreement whereby Russia and
Britain each acquired "spheres of in
fluence" and Persia was ignominiously
squeezed in tho midst of their rivalries.
Tho 1907 pact has now been abrogated
by all parties. As regards tho new one,
it is less important that it offends France
than that it should in the futuie justify
civilization.- Britain still has the oppor
tunity to play her part honorably if she
chooses.
WANTED: A NEW USE FOR
WORLD'S EIGHTH WONDER
Hog Island, Which Might Ue Made One
of the Greatest Marine Terminals In
Existence, May Vanish In a Year
"DEOPLE who go only far enough to sea
to bathe used to be the most enthu
siastic critics of Hog Island.
They knew I
You could take it from them that ships
built, so to speak, in a flash could never
be any good.
Yet the other day tUoy tied down all
the big and little whistles at tho vast
shipyard aftei some one high up on tho
ways happened to look outwaid at tho
liver. There were three vessels, almost
liner-size, in a stately procession, deep in
the water with heavy cargoes, making
for the sea. A year ago they were blue
prints at Hog Island.
One was the Salvation Lass, named in
honor of obscure workers in France who
knew how to triumph in humility. An
other was the Nedmuc. That is the name
of Camden, spelled backward. The thiid
was the Cuspcr. All three dipped their
flags to the ctadlcs that they left only a
few months ago and made down the river
as gravely as men-o'-war.
Thirty-eight ships of the forty-nine
launched since last August are now out
upon the seven seas. They didn't exist a
year ago. Yet they have traveled over
250,000 nautical miles. They stood the
mauling of a North sea winter. And
they have already transported approxi
mately 425,000 tons of American prod
ucts to all the important ports of the
world. None of them failed to function
peifectly. The vessels launched mote
recently arc now being fitted out. Each
ship carries the name of Philadelphia, her
home port, on her stern.
Sixteen of the Hog Island vessels now
at .sea ships that existed a year ago only
in the 'minds of American engineers
have already carried more than 100,000
tons of" American cargo to Europe. More
significant were the three vessels that
went down the river in a row. Their
clearance papers showed that they were
taking American goods to various South
American ports to markets which, once
virtually closed to us, now offer immeas
urable opportunities to Americans who
know how to deal ably, intelligently and
without delay with a new situation. v
Aladdin could have done better than
the men who made Hog Island. No one
else could.
About September, 1920, the contracts
existing between the builders and the
government will be terminated. The
future of Hog Island is uncertain, though
now the yards employ about thirty thou
sand workers and have a payroll of a
million dollars a week.
We have the eighth wonder of the
world on our hands. So far no one seems
to know what we are going to do with it.
It ought not to be hard to find a .solu
tion in the odd dilemma. New trade
routes, new markets, a revision of the
whole system of international commerce,
an almost limitless demaijd for manu
factured and raw materials available in
America, new industrial relationships and
a broader understanding in America of
the possibilities of foreign trade are in
certain prospect.
There is, moreover, the vast and unde
veloped market of Latin-America, which
will continue to absorb American manu
factures if our diplomacy in Mexico or
the clamor of reckless and self-interested
jingoes do not revive the distrust that a
few years ago stood in the way of Ameri
can business and caused most of the
southern republics to turn to Germany or
other European countries for sympathy
and trade relationships. There is certain
to bo an extraordinary development of
shipping as an American industry of the
first class within the next ten years. And
Hog Island, as it stands, is a complete
groundwork for one of the greatest
marine terminals in the world.
Storage warehouses, repair and build
ing yards, drydocks and rail terminals
are related facilities in the shipping in
dustry, but they are rarely organized in
one vast unit, as they might be organ
ized at Hog Island.
In New York and elsewhere such facili
ties are scattered haphazard in various
parts of the harbors. In New York at
this moment one hundred and fifty ships,
are waiting turns in the drydocks. Many
of them will have to wait for months.
In the port of Philadelphia there are
only two drydocks aside from those
which the government controls at the
navy yard and at Hog Island. One small
dock is at Mifflin street. A large one is
at Cramps. The great drydocks at Hog
Island would be of immense importance
in an elaborately organized shipping
terminal. They would have the force of
a magnet on shipping generally.
When the government is ready to le
linquish its interest in Hog Island the
nronerty will be sold to the highest bid
der. The .great shipyard and its related
industries nave started a new developing
movement in South Philadelphia and the
nearby regions. The people of this city
'can afford nbw to do a little serious think
ing about the ultimate fatdof the great
yards.
It is conceivable that the property may
yet be controlled by outside capital di
rected not with a view to the larger de
velopment of shipping in Philadelphia;
but to maintain the prestige of other
Atlantic ports. Thus the land and tho
existing terminals might be devoted to
conventional uses.
Meanwhile'it requjres only a little im
agination to perceive how, with modern
loading and unloading facilities, docks,
warehouses, rail lines and the existing
shops, ways nnd drydocks, tho great
yard might Uy h made to xiysl the
port facilities of some- of tho newer Ger
man cities which tho German kaiser built
when he planned to got control of tho
world's trade.
There may not be enough loose money
in this city for the ultimate purchase of
Hog Island. But Philadelphia capital
certainly should dominate in any syndi
cate organized for the future control nnd
development of the property.
THREE SIDES OF THE QUESTION
"NJOW that Thomas De Witt Cuyler,
- ' chairman of the Association of Rail
way Executives, has submitted toCon
gicss the plan of his association for tho
restoration of the railroads to their own
ers, we have the plnns of the thicc groups
directly interested in the operation of
the roads. The employes and tho security
holders announced their plans some time
ago.
The plan of tho employes is the Plumb
plan, which provides for turning the
roads over to tho men who operate them
ns a sort of free gift by the government,
which is to issue bonds to buy the rail
road securities. Any surplus above the
cost of operation would be divided among
the employes.
The plan of the security holders, for
mulated by S. Davis Warfield, of Balti
more, provides for a government guar
antee of not less than G per cent return
on the property investment of the com
panies by fixing rates which would in
sure such carvings. It is admitted that
the rntes would yield more than G per
cent for some roads and less for others.
The surplus above G per cent earned by
any road is to be divided into three parts,
one-third to be retained by the company,
one-thiid to be set apart ns an insurance
fund for the benefit of the employes of all
the railroads and tho other third to be
used for the benefit of the roads which
had not earned G per cent.
Mr. Cuyler's plan differs from both of
those in that it does not take the earn
ings of profitable roads to cover deficits
of unprofitable lines, and in that it allows
the owners of the roads to continue to
own them. As to earnings, Jtfr. Cuyler
would have the Interstate Commerce
Commission empowered to approve rates
"which will enable the railroads to be
self-sustaining." He fixes no rate of in
come to be earned, but is content with
saying that a fair return on the money
invested should be provided for, sufficient
to maintain the credit of the companies
and to attract the capital necessary for
extensions and improvements.
There are thirty other plans before
tho interstate coinmercc committee of
tho Senate, all different. The Warfield
and the Cuyler plans are alike in that
they suggest that the railroads be con
solidated in groups in several districts
and that each district be considered in
the matter of rates separate from every
other district. The Warfield plan has
been criticized on the ground that it
would take the earnings of the profitable
roads and tui n them over to the unprofit
able roads, the securities of yhich are
largely held by speculators who have
secured them for little or nothing. The
Cuyler plan is not open to this objection.
There is no likelihood that the bill
which the Senate committee is drafting
will contain any of the provisions of the
Plumb plan; but it is likely that the com
mittee will give serious consideration to
the suggestions made by Mr. Warfield
and Mr. Cuyler.
(Greeks, Italian? and
Tear ot Imperialism Scibs are encroaching
iu the boundaries of
Albania, according to a cable sent to the
1'niteil States Senate by the Albanian dele
gation to the Peace Conference iu Paris.
The Albanians ask for protection. As if
the Senate hadn't already more than it can
handle without bothering with Balkan
boundaries ! Hut the appeal may bcrvc as
ammunition for the reservntionists.
Mastery of the air hoi
'Die Airplane as a in no instance proved
I-'ire Kxtinguisher more beneficial toimau
than in the prevention
of tires ; and the fact lias been demonstrated
by the aerial forest fire patrol in California
and Oregon, which, since its inauguration
seven weeks ago, has discovered ninety-one
fires and been able to extinguish most of
them before they gained any headway.
His nerves are tuned to
Temperament such a gentle key the
wife he wed wns sorry
eicr after. lie has an ear bo sensitive that
he cannot abide the noise of children's
laughter. His belter-half must keep the
house so still you'd think his bout had gone
to its creator. And here's the sequel
doubt It if you will: He is a jazz band tln
nhop operator.
The war, as Governor
Governor Sproul Sproul sees it, cost us
on War altogether too much.
He in thinking in terms
of money, of rourse. One cannot hut won
der whether the Governor has just found this
out. The war cost us too much. It cost
ever body too much. With the expenditure
of some hundreds of billions of dollars the
world got a victory over Germany. But it
got, too, famine, death, pestilence, poverty
and universal spiritual unrest. War is, as
they say, dear nt any price.
Alfred P. Tboin, counsel for the As
sociation of Railroad Executives, has told
the House interstate commerce committee
that the 1'lumb plan of railroad control is
wholly impracticable. Mr. Thorn gave so
ninny reasons that he may be said to have
destroyed the Plumb tree root and branch.
In fact. Thorn lilujcd Jerry with the fan
tastic scheme.
It will be time enough to bring U. S.
soldiers out of Mexico when they have cap
tured all the bandits they went after.
The new charter,
leave the city a loan.
apparently, won't
There are doubtless hams enough in
storage to break the actors strike. '
ISank investigations prove that many a
higli-iller gets m higher than a kite.
Doctor Batten's views on Sunday recre
ation may again raise the vexed question;
What is an amateur?
Doesn't
questions?
Moore ask the awkwardest
Expediency may Wade in nnd have to
svyira out.
Nobody cuu accuse Uncle Sam of being
j a profiteer,
WHEN T. R. WAS TIRED
Ennls, of Swarthmore, '11, Back From
the Tropics, Tells New Roosevelt
8tory; Lewis Emery, Octoge
narian, Is a Wonder In
the Business World
Ily GKQKGK NOX McCAIN
HE. ENNIH, of Swarthmore, '11, Is a
repatriated Phllndelphtan. For more
than n jenr now he 1ih been In business in
this city, after an absence-of seven years
in the tropics.
During these years he visited every island
iu tho Spanish main. He spent three or four
M-urs lu British Guiana, lived for n time
on the Isle of Trinidad and voyaged up the
Orinoco river to the Ulterior of Venezuela.
He was theii field agent for the West India
Oil Company.
All this I lenrned, and more, too. He
was n friend of Robert Henderson, one of
the two solitnrj- Americans 1 met up the
Orinoco, of whom I wrote recently. More
over, Mr. Ennls tells me that Venezuela,
during nt least the beginning of our war,
wos pro-German to a marked, degree. Al
though he did not say so, I am sun this
was largely due to the preponderance ot
Germans ocr other nationalities 'in Vene
zuela. In Cludad Bolivar he was compelled to
move his company's big gasoline magazine
five times until he finally located it per
manently two miles outside tho little city.
In every instance he detected the German
influence in the nttempt to annoy and harass
him iu his business.
MR. HXNIS tells n new Theodore Roose
velt story. It occurred during the cx
Preslileut'H visit to Georgetown, the capital
of JliitNli Guinua.
Mr. Roosevelt formed a warm attachment
for the attorney general of the colony. The
pair made many trips through the neighbor
hood together. One of the sights of that part
of the world is tho great waterfall, 800 feet
high, the highest for Its volume in the world.
The people nre very proud of this natural
wonder. "How do you like it?" is tho in
variable question, says Mr. Ennls.
The night on which Mr. Roosevelt re
turned from his trip up the river to visit
the cataract he was the guest of honor at
a dinner at Government House. He made a
short address and then begged to be excused
from ftnther orntory.
The guests would have none of it. The
applause nnij cheers continued fo long thut
the ex-President was compelled to respond.
He said :
"I thank you for this evidence of your
esteem. I am very glad to be present and
I am delighted to testify to the beauty of
jour city and the grandeur of jour great
cataract, which I have just, visited. My
position tonight, however, is akin to that of
the American sailor iu Sydney. It was when
the American fleet visited those great island
possessions of jour mother country. The
reception accorded the officers and men of
the fleet bj; the people of Sjdney was sincere
and enthusiastic.
"After two daj-s of feasting and sight
seeing, night fell, and found this particular
sailor stretched out on a park bench sound
asleep. Before ljing down, however, he bad
written upon a piece of paper, which he
pinned to his sleeve, these words:
"Yes, I like Sydney."
"Yes. 1 think jou have a remarkably fine
harbor."
"Yes, I think that jour hospitality is
unbounded."
"But oh, I am so tired. For heavens
sake let me get some sleep!"
For a moment or two after he sat down
the Englishmen failed to catch the- point.
When they did the uproar, said Mr. Ennls,
who was present at the banquet, wns electri
fying. In the midst of it his friend, the
attorney general, and other high oflicinls
gathered round and led the wearied cx-I'resi-dent
off to bis hotel mid the laughter and
applause of tbe entire company.
THE Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce
has done a very unusunl thing, and one
that will be appreciated' by thousands of
Philadelphians.
Robert Ilaight, director ot the legisla
tive bureau of the chamber, has iu a
pamphlet of seventy-four pages codified and
indexed nil of the new laws enacted by the
state Legislature in the session of 1019.
This is the first time such n work has
been attempted. These laws will be pub
lished by the state, as Mr. Ilaight points
out in his letter of transmittal to George
E. Foust, general secretary, but the
pamphlet laws will not nppcar for some
months. In the meantime this compilation,
carefully prepared and neatly bound, will
prove, of greatest value to members of tho
bar and business men whose interests hnve
been touched by some of the many laws en
acted during the past session.
Fur years past Robert Ilaight has been
in charge of legislative ork for the Penn
sylvania Chamber of C-Minerce both in
Harrisburg and at Washington. In tlie
couisc ot his vork lie tells mc he has codi
fied numbers of important laws for the use
ot the thousands of members of the Penn
sylvania organization.
HON. LEWIS EMERY, JR., passed
eightieth birthday iu the quiet of
his
his
home at Bradford on the Uth ot this
month. He will sail for Peru in a few days,
where he expects to remain for a year.
Lewis Emery otcupics a peculiar nicho
in Pennsylvania history. In 1000 he was
a candidate for Governor against Edwin S.
Stunrt. Ex -Mayor Stuart, as was not un
usual, had the indorsement of two parties,
the Regular Republican and Citizens' party.
Lew Emery saw Stuart and went him
three better, for in addition to "tho Demo
cratic indorsement, though Emery was an
Independent? Republican, he also had the
CommonwcaUh, Lincoln, Referendum and
Union Labor party indorsements.
Emery is n born fighter. He is now fight
ing the hand of time, for in spite of his
eighty years he is up to his eyes in busi
ness. He has large mining interests in Peru.
His primal object lu returning from Peru
to this country last June was to give some
information to the authorities in 'Washing
ton on the proposed tariff on chemicals,.
In addition to his interests In Peru he
has a beautiful residence on the island ot
Jamaica. When the altituda of Peru gets
on bis nerves he runs down to tho coast
and tnTvcs steamer for the Spanish Main and
his island home.
Think of n man who for forty years was
active in Pennsylvania politics and now of
the age of eighty Is malting long sea voy
ages and plunging Into great business enter
prises with the vim of a man half his age.
Lew Emery is certainly a wouder.
Minister Tittonl of Italy, viewing with
alarm Viscount Morley's efforts to lighten
Austria's terms, Is indisposed to dwell fa
vorably on the injunction to bear another's
burdens.
Competent authority has It that there
is nuc born every minute and those, who
trail after senatorial reservatlonlsts are
doing nothing to prove a lower birth-rate.
If he bad only managed to spend a trifle
of $50,000,000 Andrew QornegU might have
had bis wish and 'died a pauper.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
trTOXSnH started yet?"
J- "Yes, I always begin on the nine
teenth." "The seventeenth's my date. Hut I. don't
get a really good fit unul nbout tho twenty -fifth."
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"I was three days late this year. I
thought maybe I'd outgrown it."
"I've been fooled that way, too."
"Bother jou nt night?"
"You ought to see me. I sit nt the' win
dow in pants."
Some such dialogue, which can be over
heard on any .street these days, does not
refer to two gentlemen getting ready to order
their fall clothes, but is simply the utter
ance of hay fever sufferers discussing their
symptoms. Be gentle with them: it is the
only pleasure they will have between now
nnd the first of October.
Harold Bell Wright has published a new
novel, and we beg to contradict the rumor
that he has called it "Mush Ado About
Nothing."
The two most conscienceless profiteers arc
thtsa: tho hnberdnsher who raises the price
of handkerchiefs during the liny fever sea
son, and the restaurant keeper who floors
Ids place with those little round white tiles,
just the size of small coins. In the latter,
when you drop n dime or a quarter on the
floor, you can never find it.
The Genial Assassin
The next time you go into the postofBce
at Ninth and Chestnut, have a look at the!
bulletin board in the south loouy. auere,
is a notice there which ha frequently given
us n Binile. The State of Mississippi is
advertising for a certain murderer, one Wil
liam A. Sorsby, who is described thus :
Ago 32. Kyes brown, small and set
close together, rather beady; very high
forehead. If beard Is attempted It will be
thin and sandy. Habitat Always wears a
FOft hat, which he puts on the Bide of his
head In a Jaunty manner. Is a man of
good appearance and pleasing address. In
talking to any one has a trick of looking
at the party addressed and then looking
away. Is very fond of the ladles, with
whom he Is popular and successful. Drinks,
but not excessively. Is fond of gambling-,
poker and dice, and Is successful at It. Is
an Inveterate smoker of cigarettes.
Acid Ejaculation
Every man for himself, and thc-devll take
the foremost
Missing on the Field of Battle
Dc Valcrn.
Garabed.
Tho Camden Bridge.
Tho Philippine sun-hat.
W. J. Bryan.
Itev, Dr. Mutchlcr.
Francis X. Bushman.
The Philadelphia Tagcblatt. '
Swiss yodclcrs.
Moonlight excursions to the shore.
Jeremiah O'Leary.
"Nectar" sodas.
I'lald skirts.
Wo are instructed to deny thr-report that
Henry Ford is using his vacation to have a
new starting and lighting system installed
just above his ejebrows.
Our Silent Friends
While eating halt a dozen doughnuts iu
a Broad street lunchroom at one o'clock in
the morning, we mused happily about our
friends all tucked away in bed, sound asleep.
There Is one in particular on whom we
thought with cereno pleasure. It was charm
ing to think of that delightful, argumenta-
ttve, contradictory, volatile perso'n, bis
active mind stilled in the admirable reti
cence of slumber. He, so endlessly spec-'
ulatory, so full of imaginative enthusiasms
anil riotous intuitions and troubled teals
concerning humanity, lost in a beneficent
swoon of unconsciousness 1 We could pot
lust say why, but we broke into chuckles
J tvitbtok of Mm .lying there, uot denying any
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of our statements, absolutely and positively
snyiug nothing. To hnve one's friends asleep
now and then is very refreshing. In fact,
as we told him the next time we saw him,
it's almost ns good ns having them dead,- s
We knew perfectly well that the senators
who were so polite during the conference
with the President couldn't keep themselves
under control very long. One of them be
trayed his standard of values in his remark
to a reporter nfter the White House
luncheon. He said that at any Washington
hotel he would have had to pay nt least
five dollars for such a meal.
Tho district attorney says he is warming
up some more warrants for North Pcnu em- '
bczzlcrs..' As long ns Strang is at large,
we might. remark that the North Penn still
has a banker out to windward.
' On a Pair of Spats
Laid Away for the Summer
Little spats, ' '
v Down among the summer mothballs
" Do you hanker for the time
When you will once more
Encase her Wight ankles ,
As they glimmer up and down
Chestnut -btreet?
Your gain will be our loss,
But don't bo dogs in the manger,
Little spat!
The Truth
THE hoar philosophers of Greece
With eyes bent seaward as they pace
Beneath the rosc-wreathed colonnades,
Hear far nbovc the breaking seas
The murmurs of the populace
The chaffcrings, the serenades, .
The gossip of tho multitude
Who disputatious, never cease
Their wrangling, vain fanfaronades
That jangle on tho thinker's peace,
And burst into bis solitude.
AND he, communing all alone,
Irradiates his life with truth,
Until a very prophet grown, ,
He guides the feet of Athens' youth.
rpHE alchemist with fearful eye
- Bent o'er his crucible all night,
Watches his mingling compounds burn;
Strange blues and reds and greens flamo high ;
Now sudden blaze his eyes more bright
As breath-arresting tinctures turn.
Then, Jiarsh beyond the. door lie bears
The angry .buzz of thoso who cry,
"Away with him who fain would learn
The devil's secrets. Let him die."
Then crackling straw. The darkness clears.
SO, NIGHT by night, and all alone,
The pioneers of truth defied
Death for the philosophic stone,
And found it not, but light descried.
iA ND still, great lonely prophets seek
To glimpse tlu? i
To glimpse tlif truth in solitude,
Communing with tha universe.
But now the poor, the blind, the meek,
The omnipresent multitude,
Lend ready ears, and intersperse
Words Illumined by the love
Of truth new granted to tbe weak,
Of truth now single, now diverse;
With halting tongue, the people spcak
The language of tho gods above.
J. M. BEATTY.
If there wero some way of hitching a
dynamo to hay fever sufferers, the energy
generated by thsi'r agoniziug explosions
would be more than sufficient to propel the
Pine street trolleys.
Small boys are noting with apprehension,
the first signs of Autumn: the display ot'
"school supplies" in department store win
dows on Market street. x
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Hoarding and profiteering are not always
the sume. For instance, Uentinck is hoard
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rpllERE is n sailor legend
-L Men tell by the waning moon,
(And I heard them laugh as they told it
Tonight in the deck saloon!)
That whenever dies a sailor.
On the deep sea or ashore,
There comes to the birds of ocean
One gray seagull the more.
What eye has found their nesting,
By bench or cliff or bar?
What heart has guessed their questing,
'Twlxt sand and sen nnd star?
And men who know the wonder
Of boundless blue and breeze,
Would they hold with the walls of heaven
Or the shade of earthly trees?
So I know that the sailor legend
Is true, awl there come again
When the gray gulls slant to seaward, ,
The souls of the sailor men! '
Kadra Mays!, in the New Tork Times.
When Secretary of tho Navy Daniels
arrived in Hawaii h'e passsd through col
umns of native soldiers armed with spears.
Oh, well; they were less deadly than uku1'
leles.
The All-ftussian Government has trans
ferred its gold reserves from Omsk to
Irkutsk. This may be simply an effort to
avoid the cold storage laws.
The 50,000 pounds of fish that rotted in
storage in the Philadelphia market district
may bo counted among the fish that got
away.
What Bo You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. How many times has the repeal of th
daylight-saving law been passed btis
the House of Kcpresentatives?
'2. What is a prestidigitator and what does
the word literally mean?
3. Who popularized tho phrase "a square
deal"?
4. What kind of a ship is a polacre? n
C. Why is tbe Shantung peninsula es
pecially sacred to the Chinese?
0. What is tbe chief town iu the Virgin
Islands?
T. What is a cadi in Mohammedan coun
tries? 8. What is dipsomania?
0. What is" the correct pronunciation ot the
' word buoy?
10. Who was tbe classical messenger of the
gods?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The famous kohlnoor diamond belongs
to the British (frown. -,
2. Norgo Is the Norwegian uanie of Nor-
way. ,
3. A kobold. in German mythology is .
familiar spirit or kind of brownie.
4. Grace Darling was an English heroine
who rescued nine persons from 'the
wreck of the steamer Forfarshire,
near Ixngstoue Lighthouse, Fame
Islands, iu 1838.
G. A nimbus is a bright cloud or halo in
vesting a deity, person or thing; a
bright disk .or aureole round or over
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the bead ot a saint. l
G. General Harboard is tbe American spe- ) I
clal commissioner-to Armenia.
7. A salvo is tbei simultaneous discharge
v ot cannon r oiucr urcarins, especially
as n salute.
8. The! family name, of the English royal
house is Windsor.
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0. Mario G. Menoeal is president of Ciibii.
10, Gimbals arc contrivances usually oil ,
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