.- ' i?" ' i " A ' I i'?.im'r-"- ---'- w T-7r-T"-7 "wii-sp-f!7B?-wip'w"T'TTiTninij,i n,4wv,imMw WIV!.! VKVPp ' BVENINtJ PUBLrC ED&ERBmLELPHIA, aioNDA.? M ', 'AUGUST 25; ld!9 ' ' - , " ' I fCtttKtnubltc Wzb$zz PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY j'fimvB m. k. cun-ris. priDNT !trtl "hfrtDi H. kuiHnrton. Vice Pr'Klfli-tit! John C. fln'necrMarv in1 Treasurer! Phllln S Collins. Jnhn B WtUUmii John J Hpurcron. Director!. l fcOITORIAIj HOARD! Cites II. K. Cctns. Chairman !A.Vni' E. SMILEI . . Editor ttMH C. MAIlTtN. general Cuslncaa Mennta. IsWIhfd dally at Fratio t,mn nuiMlnr. fci Independents 'tuiire, Philadelphia. - lUtjtlo Cm. Pietvtnion Bulldlns mVreiiK.. . 20S Metropolitan Tnsti Iwht. .... ... 701 rord nullri'nt- I.ins... inns pmtrrton nulidinc KICAOO ... 130? Irllmnt ItullJliig- ,TVinixTos tlt'BEAt). , M. 1-5. -T. Penri.Uan!a e. and lllli Kt. tNkff Vfias Vit najiii . . . . Ihau,t IlnlMl iff tJuOMxrx Bf tio London Times (i? pin.-'i jii',tw. I r.ujio tftTha 'Strslsn Pi itl ic LnnnEr. Is aervM tit sub- l.rrlhara In "Phll.idelnhla and surrounding; mivni leu thatyof twelve UV) cents per Treek. panhle I.1",. & ...hU. ' r nr (..m i" iniini uuiiuc vi i niiMnn imiti ,,, I, H United States. Canada. L'nlt'd States pns- T. .. .11 ...,...- ...I.M. T1UII- J. I-UI. I ? ealons. potasro rre iiro l "i rems per momn. Ix ($ft aollsrs ner yenr, payiMe In ndtanee " f'.S a! frteelrn rnttitrle nne fS'l inline twr Frtrnnth. J k. . PJir-rthnHhr nlhlnor eH(1re rhnnped Efnust slve old as w ll n rrw adilrea-J. BELL, 3000 tTALNUT ..EYSTONE. MAIN S009 ICy JIAdrrtf nil commi't'lrolfoui to Ktcvlno T'fbic uraoer, inacpcvacncc squuri i-nuac pu n. fts Member of the Associated l'ress THE ARSOrrATEI) MESS m crrtV. flively entitled In the use fur irpuMicnfinn 0 (( (icirs dlipatclici rrrtiilrl in it nr not .Othcrwttc credited in tins iinei. inn also ll the local tieict p'bHshe' therein. All right." o; republication 'if siernl di ipatchei 'iccin ire also teserid. Philadelphia, llnmlj. XiieikI ?. IIIPl THE ROLL OF DISHONOR HE North Penn Bank is likely to occunv an unnnvinhln ninnaclc of dis- honor before the investigation into its management is completed. When a bank lYs looted the guilt usually rests upon one .'Ulan, sometimes two. Heie is a list of the men attached to the bank who arp Atrpadv tinilr'r nrrrst on charires of r greater or less gravity: Louis H. Michel, the pi evident. William T. Gabcll, director and clerk. Ralph T. Moycr. cashier. Evan L. Ambler, assistant caslnc". Klwood H, Strang, paying teller. And the list is not completed. The dis trict attorney i sifting the evidence fagainst others alleged to be involved m me conspiracy which wtcckcu me ukuk. UM1UC4 llll-Oi; !!(. Illl.ll UllVLtl. VUII nccted with the bank, Charles A. Ambler, former state insurance commissioner, j'and Daniel 1'. Lafean, fofmer banking f commissioner, are also under arrest be cause of their relations to the institu tion. h This is a roll of dishonor of which the state cannot be proud, whatever the out- 'vuuie ui uie prosecuiiun t'l ine men on it tnty be, 5 It nnalti- rrr a 01 niFn rt UUIM I DC M OUMUISCn rpHE man who refuses to do his share toward keeping government clean and efficient in time of peace is just as much a slacker as the man who tries to get out f bearinr arms in time of war. ,.The slackers are primarily responsible ,iov wnaiever Daa government mere is, hether they bo the rich and educated (Avho spend election day automobiling in Sr -mountains or playing golf at the country clubs or whether .they be the poor nd ignorant who sit in their shirt sleeves at home with a newspaper and a pipe. ' -We shall know oh the nitrht of Sentem- beV 6 how many slackers there ate in this city, because then the registration rolls will be virtually closed. "Tomorrow is the first Jay of recistia- ,tlon. Citizens will have an opportunity ;to get their names on the rolls between 7 and 1 o'clock in the morning and 4 and pO o'clock in the afternoon. These hours make' it easy for workers to register be fore they go to business in the morning or after they go home at night. But the wise men will register in the morning at ,the first opportunity. t jar. Moore's suggestion to the employ ers , that they give their men the time, off needed to register without anv reduc tion in pay is an appeal to their Dublic i spirit. Many men have to leave home before 7 o'clock in order to get to their lace of employment on time. If they are.' assured before they go home this afternoon that they will not be docked to -morrow if they are late because of a Msit to the place of registration it is ileftltr tlinf l1.ni,Danilc nf fl,nM ...111 1 ... j ..MV uivudfliiud ui U1CUI Will KCl, their' names on the roll who otherwise jpuld take their chances of getting rcc- Jjistered at some other time. And the suggestion that thev register. iihowever they .may intend to vote, coming xrom weir employers ought to be influ ential for good. If the employers are not slackers the employes will be less likely 10 neglect tneir civic duties. THE COSTLIEST SUBWAY HILADELPHIANS are taking the construction of the- subwav under thP f-Cltv Hall as a mnttpr nf m-o t emed .inevitable that iur longitudinal underground transit line should lie im ijmediatcly under Broad street. Back in pthe seventies it appeared eauallv logical hia locate the huge public buildings in Centre Square. All of which notinna jfcAhow the inflexibility of mental proc esses, une cnecnerooard plan of Phila i:dIphia has deeply influenced-our east of thought. Ey' Of eourse. therp was nn ronl onI. . - A...i icaaun, f Mcept me hypothetical obligation to pre- Ji "Biu aKiiii wily uie $i(,UUU,- u wiy nan snouid be placed in the rraphical center of Pcnn's oriirinnl (ttltlcipality. The structure has h n tVnormous handicap on normal traffic de- -velopments and has seriously interfered RTatjtHthe normal growth and cohesion of 'tlf town's business district. K,',And now, on the presumably expert Authority of the Engineering News sKecord, it is revealed that tb,e subway, feippiwucted- Jn strict conformity to the rnltic Philadelphia conventions, is the kmost expensive worn oi its kind on wfc. Vtw naurntinn undpr Hip Pilv tiii : EWdvtsueoat at tHe rate of $20,000,000 a yuMli rortunateiy, a mile of construe- wul not be necessnry here. Thp ?H5ioftat expenditure, however, is y povnutiiciiHi as me engineering leat Is rctr4lry' A 9H0- diversion of the line at this IJMMijwve eliminated the problem ilfElaHy lessened the finar.cfal ;JMll.jVII lflI WOCW nl M, nt odds with Philadelphia's way of think ing. Wo arc getting the kind of subway the public wanted. When it is finished it will be interest ing to note whether we boast of jts colos sal cost and the engineering ingenuity or whether an awakening to the fact that a comparatively simple problem has been made hard and immensely expensive will move us to be contritely mum. HALF A LEAGUE IS PREFERABLE TO NONE AND RENEWED CHAOS The Senate, With All Its Reservations, ' Still Moves With the Forward- Faring Mind of the World i A MONG all the uncertainties at Wash- ington one fact shines, icassuriiig if an open door in a night of thunders. The league-of-nations discussion in the Sen ate is approaching an end and some suit of rational culmination. Politicians on both sides have seen that the various isMies raised by the covenant and the peace treaty cannot cafcly bu made into party issues or used as fuel for emotional bonliies in 1920. A change i has come ocr Mr. Lodge. A change ha3 i come over Mr. Wilson. The While House ! meeting was amnzingly fiiendly and eon : ciliatory. The Republican group, if we I arc to judge by the present altitude of i influential leaders, i.s content to be rea i sonable, to accept what is meritorious I in the Paris agroemenU ami to let Mr. Wilson win what honor he may m the ultimate settlement. And, no matter what may be done in the way of icserva tions. thcie will be a league of nations and the United States will participate as one of its powerful members. That much is suie and, after the dust clears, it will be plain that nothing else greatly matters. The reservations insisted upon by Mi. Lodge and emphasized by the action of the foreign relations committee on Saturday can no longer be regarded as mere obstacles placed b political strong aims in the way of gieat purposes con ceived by an opposition President. The Shantung deal and Aitiole N of Hie league constitution are the great baniers before the lrcat in the Senate. Mr. Wdson might have known that they would laise a storm. P. is hardly to be believed that he hoped to have these de tails of the Paris agreement accepted without question. The award of Shantung to Japan can react upon intelligent opinion in China and elsewhere for that matter about as the award of a vast region including the site of 'ndependence Hall would react on America if the award were made un der pressure of alien peoples lo, let us say, Mexico. In Shantung Confucius was born and the arts of civilization in China had their earliest development. The piovince is the richest in the empire. The railroad privileges accorded to Japan give the Japanese a sort of commercial Gibraltar in China. And it was the Chinese who used to put their entire faith in America and the Americans when it seemed as if they had no other friends in a predatory world! Article X is that clause in the league constitution which, under the com monest interpretation, insures, through the power of all the assembled nations, the present political status of every gov ernment in the league. It isn't a nice article. Whatever reasonable reservation the Scnatp may make in relation to Article X will be welcomed by a good many Americans who know that freedom is something that yet may have to be fought for in a good many parts of the earth. Who knows that the President in his secret heart may not welcome definitions of a sort that were not possible or politic in the feverish sessions at Paris? What we are facing, then, is actually a new beginning in world affairs. It is not piimarily upon statesmen or govern ments that the greatest hopes for the league of nations may rest, but upon an enlightened public opinion everywhere; upon the minds of peoples who have just been acquiring wisdom through unex ampled travail. In the upiroar of criticism and conten tion we are likely to overlook the fact that the league plan, no matter how it may emerge from the Senate, rrust still have its major principles intact and im movable. There never will be again in the world prostrate peoples or undeveloped areas, with half-civilized and helpless millions, to be fought over ruthlessly by warring adventurers backed by rival empires. The mandatory provisions of the league and the undoubted moral obligations im posed upon all nations that profess civil ized standards eliminate these fundamen tal causes of war. , What the world would have been like within a few years had not that way been found to protect the friendless and weak peoples, civilized and uncivilized, it js easy to imagine. Europe is fluid. It is tired out. Coveted territories everywhere are open to be takeji by the first government that happened to be conscienceless and strong. A world court, such as the great council of the league of nations will be, offers the greatest protection of all to nations that wish to live in peace. It represents what promises to be a suc cessful effort to eliminate old-fashioned diplomacy and to drag the claims, hopes, aspirations and affairs of each govern ment out into the clear light of day in any threatening emergency. Thus it is that the sharpened critical faculties of all peoples and their ques tioning intelligence may be directed in an hour at any man or group disposed, for one reason or another, to lead them into war. It is commonly understood that Mr. Wilson sacrificed much to keep these great agencies of future peace in tact and this may well be believed. ' These have been educational years. Is it too much to suppose that the people who lived and suffered through them will not in the future be alert to see that there never may be others as ter rible? If it is true thai all wars have been made in secret and that Interna tional conflicts -would bfeunknovra U u people who have to do the fighting had their wav. then the Icacrue of nations, conceived chiefly as n means to define 1 national aims and make them public, is. even with reservations on the part of the American Senate, a pretty fair guar antee of future peace. it is fashionable to speak of America's sacrifices. They have been great enough. But we might as well remember that other nations, too, have made sacrifices for the "sake of the guarantees which the league of nations will naturally provide. Japan was on the way to what seemed lo her statesmen to be a great career of expansion. But the Japanese, with most of their national life ahead of them, seem now content to have their fate arbitrated in councils of reasonable men. Britain and France have gained enoi mously in territory. Their greatest gains are in Africa, made at the expense of the common enemy, and they have accepted lesponsibilities which .some one had to shoulder. And there isn't enough terri tory in the world to repay them for what they lost. In a general way the outlook ln't so bleak as it sometimes appears after a Senate debate. The Paris conference has actually helped the world to a fixed peace. One of its lesser contributions to civilization is the international -labor congress which will meet for the first lime at Washington in Octobci. Yet this congiess repicsents the first effort ever made lo solve by reasonable methods the immense problems thnt have sprung up to harass mankind since in dustry became the dominant force in civilization. Ordinarily an effort to es tablish a code by which the world could be free of the spreading menace of strike paralysis would be regarded as an achievement. Yet in these days of big issues the labor congress is hardly spoken of at all. SELF-DETERMINATION IN CLOCKS fPHE poweis not delegated to the - United States by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states arc re served to the stales, icspcctivcly, or to the people." Thus in virtue of the tenth amendment to the fedeial constitution any organized community in the land, or indeed any in dividual person, can adopt a daylight sax ing plan. Of course, the solitary time fixer is quite out of it. He is like a man with an erratic watch, but towns and states to which the farmers' objections to the aitificial clock do not appeal can by concerted action continue to live by tho least onerous economy born of the war. A powerful movement in favor of the advanced hour hand is already under way in New Yoik. The Pittsburgh Chambci of Commerce urges the enactment of a daylight-saving ordinance by the City Council. The Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce is to discuss the Pittsburgh idea tomorrow. It is well worth consideung, for in this city the light economy was pioductive of nothing but good. The schedule for an industrial community is admirable. Within the past two years it has resulted in the saving of millions of dollars here in addition to giving the workingman a healthy and enjoyable new recreation hour. It is said that local self-determination in time will occasion great confusion in the railway schedules. Yet, if the fiat clock be respected in a largo enough dis trict, suburban service in summer can adhere to it, while the time tables can briefly and clearly specify on what sys tem the through trains operate. For years many western cities have differ entiated between train time and local time. The obstinate pigs and cows dictated to Congress its repeal Of the daylight saving law. If sufficiently populous metropolitan districts sincerely want it they can still defy the farmyard. The constitution backs them up. Knrnieri nlijr-rtetl to Hip ilnjliglit - saving law bemuse it nitidc them set up nn hour .More Wii of Kitling a I"R. Etc. earlier iu the morning. City people favored it because it enabled them to hne an extra hour of daylight in the ciening. If city people change their hours of labor instead of changing the clock they ran still hnve the extra hour in the evening, and the farmers will be forced to rie an hour earlier for the milk trains. That the Senate committee on foreign rclatiouH is not averse to foreign entangle ments that may obstruct the pence tienty is evidenced by the lienrinns to be given Mo representatives of nntionulities disntiifieil with their political status. Germany has nlremlv returned to France 7,000 tons of material taken during the war, and a similar amount Id ready for shipment, i And no one knows how much the Hun holes tq return the stolen goods. A New York lawyer has left S1S.000. 000 to Yule. That ought to settle the salary question for professors in that institution, at least. There ii as much paragraphic excite ment over the fact thnt it is Indy skeeters thut bite as though the fact were new. Congress has never sufficiently tirken to heart the little rhyme beginning, "One thing at it time, and that done well " The eagle that got awaj from the thasing airplane at Atlantic City wasn't swift enough to escape the preBs ngent. While vtnting indignation on the pup pets let us not forget the iTien who pull the strings. Those who talk of a separate peace fall to take cognizance of the fact that we did not have a separate war. Stern critics Dcmockracy; still call It German Strang hag not yet called himself a goat, but giv him time. Ever so many ""flimsy" cases have the accent on the "Aim." In the race of life prices still lead by a length. , The fUiildiuK Trades Council hadn't a brick to throw at Moore. ' IJon't forget to register tomorrow, SCHWAB AND VANADIUM Steel Man May Be Known to Posterity as Manufacturer of Elixir If Stock holder In the Company Had the Right Dope H.v GKORGI-; XOX MrCAIN rlIARU:s At. KCmVAH and .1. Leon vJ nnl lteploglc with some nssocintes have, 1 notice, taken over the American Vana dium Company's plant nenr Pittsburgh. Vmindliiin is n rnje and curious metallic element,. It Is principally found In the PciiMlnii mid Chilean Andes. The nmin supply of the Pittsburgh concern mine from I'enu It is lixi-tl largely In 'the manufacture of steel, with hich it niunlgainntcs easily. It Increnscs the trnsilc strength of steel ; be sides, it has many undeveloped qualities. 1 have watched the growth of this par ticular company for leiirs. tl wns nricinnllr k organized by the late .1. .1. Flniinery. o'f i msourgii. lie nttcrwnril associated with liiin in the concern my friend and former newspaper associate, Harry A. Nreb. I. J. rinnncry began life in a humble waj lie gradually acquired sufficient money to form n partnership with a Pittsburgh liei'.riiinii named Hums. For years they operated a growing establishment on Grant street. FinaUj discing pai tnerslnp. I'lannery went into the undertaking business, and Itlll'IIU tmtr. ttnof (iff. ..... ..C I . rilltcrcstcl ill Pittsblirell strcel rnilunts. Mill "f which he built n large fortune. After Flniinery. as an undertaker, had buried about half the old residents of Pitts nuigli. he began investing his inoiiej in vuri "lis w nj s outsidctlie coffin and casket blisi "ess OnetJiTtlicm was in wimidium. I be liew the idea came to him through accident ally meeting n chemist and metallurgist who had perfected an original process for cx tincting the element. Fliinncrj and Itiirns were both Irishmen, and consequently shrewd. Flnnncry saw to it that the stock holdings in his inuadlum plnnt were restricted lo comparatively few people. I think its , original par lnlue was sr,n. Schwab, according to the published story, is I'njing $100(1 a share for it. TJAUUY A. NIXIi was a widely known J-J- newspaper man of Pittsburgh thirty-fie jeais iiR(,. He wns n cousin of John . Neeb. then city editor of the I'reihcits IVum, one of the best-paying newspaper properties in Pittsburgh, and the leading German daily in western Pcnnsyhniiin. .lonn in. :seeli wys a whale of a man. lie weighed iibout 'Jr.", pounds, and wns nearly six feet (all. He wns a nntive of Pittsburgh, and served pnrt of a term in the state Senate, -ession of 1NKI lie died in the latter car. His father and the father of Harry A. Verb owned the newspaper. The two 'boys inn il. Harry Neeb once told me some queer things about innndiuiu. He was particularly interested in its undeicloped possibilities A preparation of it he described ns having re markable cmathe properties. Indeed, his enthusiastic description of its action on the human organism fell little short of a inodiHcd form of (he elixir of life. It had. lie asserted, both curatiw mid tonic properties. Perhaps Srhwab will develop the latent qualities in this rare and curious metal. If so. his fame as the manufacturer of n magic elixir will outshine his fame as a great steel maker. T MKT Chief Justice J liny Iliown. of - the Supreme Court, the other d.-n. It was the first time I had seen him for 'venrs. which Js not surprising, seeing that I hnve had no particular business with the high tribunal oer which he so ably presides. The brief meeting recalled the fact that Chief Justice Ilrouu. before his elevation to (he benchwas the law partner of the lntc William I. Hensel. Ilrown & Hensel were not only the lead ers of the Lancaster county bar. hut in n wav it was the unique law firm of the state. Hensel was big. active, forceful nnd emphatic. He delivered bis legal blows with the force of c trip-hammer. He was also n Democrat and n leader of Democrats in a county that was overwhelmingly Re publican. J. Hay Prown wns a republican, a gen tleman of ni'dium height, quiet in voice and manner, suave, persuasive, iu most respects the antithesis of his partner. Hensel. It wns an admirable combination. It,was a partnership adapted to meet all con tingencies, legal or politicnl. As the late Colonel 15. Prank Kshlemnn once remarked to me with the low. gurgling laugh thnt was cbnrncteristic of his ceninl personality : "You can't heat it. Hensel and Brown hnve got 'em both ways, going nnd coming." And he wns right. Virtue ultimately had its own reward. William V. Hensel became attorney general of Pennsylvania. J. liny Ilrown became chief justice of its Supreme Court. HEX8KI. nnd the late Congressman Wil liam H. Sow den were friends for 'years. They were politicnl comrndes-in-nrms. though Sow-den wns the hotter nnd more belligerent Democrat of the two. Tn bis way Congressman "P,ill" Sowden wns the grentest Democratic campaigner iu the state in his day. He was a Pennsylvania Dutchman, who spoke English without nn accent. On the stump he wns perfectly nt home in either tongue Sowden nnd Hensel were delegates to the second nfltiona, Demncrntic convention thnt named Orover Cleveland. Newspaper cor respondents aprt delegntes on the return journey occupied two Pullmnns. The trin wns of rather effervescent chnrneter, ns I recall with incessant conversational inter ludes. Toward morning silence fell on the ear until the trnin renched n certain town in Ohio. Several hundred citizens had gathered to greet returning delegates. The train w'as delayed. an the unroar wns prolonged, gjowdeiigot awake not in the best of hninorTITc raised the window of his berth, -thrufct" a tousled head out nnd demanded to '.:now whnttliehcll the racket was about. Some upterrified pntriot sizing him un for & diffruntled Henublicnn replied in kind. The congressman instantly broke loose in PcnfisvJvanln Dutch that wns not intended for polite ears.' He described the ancestors of the crowd with force and vigor. Some one in the station melee understood his Pennsylvania Dutch. Without a word of warning! and before he could duck back into the afety of his berth, a quid of tobacco in a lump the size of a walnut landed squarely In the center of William n. Row den's polished and expansive forehead. The train began moving nt the same time. It nlms like n fantastic drenm but some dny the whole American continent will be covered with good mails and all of them shaded with trees. And soldiers who have served in France and know what good roads mean in peace as well as war will be largely responsible. We modestly draw attention to1 the fart that we said long ago that if the detectives really desirfel -to capture Strang they had better look for him in a garage. We. arc pleased to note that our advice was fol lowed, and with success, It may he said for the Hoir Tulnrd .campaign fjr ship sponsor thnt it has. ien conaucifsi ui jiwTCuy laaj-jme maBHW, ' yc - i i - - , THE PURSUIT CONTINUES i A ' 'l ' ' v , ''""St? f"?" .' ,'." """.' i"r- ? v " 55.1& 1-':- 'vK . v.. :'-?? -ta, ' - , , mrsr ss '-. - JPT f " -ri --' 'TlW-S'sPhi-.. I ., j . THE CHAFFING DISH Why So Doleful? T HAVE seen streets where strange cn--- ' chnntment broods: Old ruddy houses where the morning shone Tn seemly quiet on their tranquil moods, Across the sills white curtains outward blown, Their marble steps were scoured as wWUas bone Where scrubbing housemaids toil ou wounded knee And yet, among nil streets that I have known These placid byways give least peace to me. In such u house, where green light shining through (From some bark garden) framed her sil houette I saw a gfrl, heard music blithely sung. She stood there laughing in a dicss of blue, And ns I went on, slowly, there I met An old, old woman, who had once becu young. Ho,by De Slott writes to suggest that we do a Travel in Philadelphia in the Automat, which he whimsically calls the Kncket Club. It's a good idea, Hasby, but it would cost us money. We can never resist that little cake called nn orange glnc, and our only safety is to keep away from it. Our waist line is already far from Wing the shortest distance between two points. Another tcason why we always eat too much orange glace in nn Automat is that we ran get it without having to pronounce it. One of the most nmusing sights we know is the sisht-seeiug 'bus that, bumbles down Chestnut street about lunch'' time. As the 'bus-vnenrs Seventh street, the orator lifts his megaphone, and gets ready to tell his victims nil about Independence Hall. The look of yearning receptlveness on Their faces is (as an eminent statesman would say) very delightful. Perhaps, however, it is not due so much to n passion for information ns to a passion for lunch, as they have been boom ing about for some time nnd luivcn't yet had anything to ent. Sometimes they get stalled in a traffic halt atSeventh btreet and we see them sitting there, looking nbout with glit tering eager oyes. Then it is thnt we wish w-c could strut more like n typical Phila delphian, just to give them their money's worth. A legal friend of ours tells of the most cau tious man of his acquaintance, who refused to buy some fresh Norwegian mackerel, be cause, said he, the U-boats had sunk so many ships off the coast of Norway. Shakespeare ,to the Kitchen Maids (OtimMine, Act IV, Scene S) Fear no more the bent o' the range, Nor your angry mistress' rages : If you feel you need a change, Give her notice, take your, wages; Let the housewife scold : she must For herself wash, bake and dust. Clean no more the sooty grate, Fill the house with kitchen smoke : Spill the cream nnd burn the meaf, Leave the carving knife in soak ; Let her fire you in disgust,- She herself can sweep the dusl. Fear no more the dreadful crash When the Dresden teacups fall: Just so many less to wash Drop the tray and break them all ! Let 'the, agate saucepans rust, Let the Msur sweep the dust ! ANN DANTE. Itj is alleged that as a result of Oermrin atrocities and American jazz, the English are getting less shy. .tl I- .. U. V. l ..I. 'xnia i i'"j cjr duuh mere won I 'De a single place od earth except Iceland wherej people rciune io ppeuis uniu xney uave been spoken to. Philip Perlov has written us a nipping hrtter commentinx briskly on, the absurdities nt free verse. We nrree wltli vnu 7i,lu ivhvn we want some reallv ?nu1 froa ,.! we take ft' piece of prose we are fond of aad a?ejjgJ.up ior jwrsejTes. u&swtt tbjf Ift iii instance, from William MeFcc's "Casuals of the Sea": Traded to her summer marks, The Caryatid, In the endless hours of the middle watch, Lay waiting for tho tide. It was that hour when time seems lo stop And' the stars Dragging slowly across tho sky. Fade Imperceptibly Into that first premoni tion of the daw ii. On the coallttered dec's, v Cumbered with wide-straddling booms And the gleaming: sheets of thin Iron oer which the coal slides to Its place, The silence hung heavily. .Vow nnd again a restless sailor Came out of the dim-lighted galley And hung, listening, ocr the outer side, The smoke of his pipe Passing like a spirit nboe his head A Rare Sight It was' the rarest thing I saw Last Sunday on the city strcpt, A thing 1 "thought Dame Fashion had Made absolutely obsolete. At gaze I've stood when airplanes sailed Through clouds that climbed the high blue sky. Time wns when ankles gne me pause Itefore skirts went so very high. These sights nnd other wonders 'now i As common ns the stars 'appear; The rarest thing of nil I've seen: A maiden's quite uncovered ear. HOKACE HOOK. We have a hunch that oysters won't be ns good as usual next month. Their morale' has been shnken by all these .Mack Sennett bathing costumes. The "L" All the war is o'er, they say , And peace does reign once more they say, llt)t you and I .who ride the "L," Have quite a different talc to tell ; For we go over the top ench night, And bent the doughboys, when we fight To jump in first nnd get a seat, ' Or e'en a place to rest our feet. "We're fipally settled and all looks rosy, When some big Hun steps on our toes. This brutal act brings forth rude cries, And we bnyonct him with our eyes. The battle's done, the guns, cense firing. We grnsp that strap with efforts untiring. But our feminine neighbor with, her pine apple straw, Scratches our cheek, and makes us sore. A murmured apology, ''please pardon me," Is said by her, and leaves her free, And we smile our sweetest ns a martyr should do, And stifle tho desire to bawl her out, too. i At last we have reached oirr-stfestination, With fiery temper, and exhausted patience, And we sigh as wc think of tomorrow night. When we must buck up for the same old fight. N. G. K. A Defense of Alarm Clocks To the end that sleep Itself should not so stupidly escape from -roe', I have formerly caused myself to be disturbed In my sleep, that I might the better and more sensibly relish and savour It, MONTAIGNE. We note that the Kaiser has picked out Tteuliuek'H Christmas tree already, and promises to chop it down for him before he leaves Amerongcu, v As one might say, doing his Christmas 'chopping early, .SOCHATES. Henry Ford's paper suggests Woodrow Wllbon as president of tho World Federa tion. Hut up to date Jlenry lias been suc cessful in only one instance in making things' "go" by -"cranking." The price of meat might not, bo quite so high if storage bouse calves had been given a chance to grow up. The deve otpwee is Mill It '& MlUatf. THE HEART OE A ROSE OH, THE h thing- heart of a rose is a beautiful Thc heart of a rose in bloom. 'Tis born of the sun, the earth and air; 'Tis dipped in a dteuin of colors rare, ' Alive with nature's hue. Oh, the heart of a rose in its lender bloom .The heart of a rose so true Its secret you guess ns you tenderly press Its heart lo the heart of jou. Oh, the heart of a rose is a wonderful thing- The heart of a rose in bloom. 'Tis bathed in its sleep by the midnight den ; 'Tis cradled to rest by the earth that drew Its bloom from the depth of it; 'Tis touched by the tip of an angel's wing As it sweeps along unseen. Its fragrance rare will free from all care" And a message of love will bring. Oh, the heart of a rose is a perfect gift The heart of a rose in bloom. 'Tis sweet with the scent of wakened earth , 'Tis a-thrill with the joy that gives it birth While laved in the sun's bright ray; "Tis sweet on the rift of the wind's wide drift Till its petals tremble away. OhT a perfect gift is the rose you lift, Tho' its bloom dolh last but aday. Anna .May Dudley, in New York Herald. If every man who believes in gojd gov ernment turns out to register tomorrow there will be no doubt as to the result of the election. What Do You Know? QUIZ I. Who is the queen of Belgium? L Under the new German constitution, where is the Reichstag to sit? 3. What is the plural "of the word craft when it means a boat? 4. Who was called the "American Charles Lamb"? fl. Where did Stradivarius, the celebrated violin maker, live? G. What is the correct pronunciation of the Svord gaol? 7. When did the Americans 'win the great victory of Saratoga? 5. Who was governor at- Belgium nt th time of the execution of Edith Cavcll? 0. What is a reliquary? " 10. Where is Stonchcnge and what is It? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. Mexico is divided into twenty-eight states', one federal district -and two ' territories. 2. The English call a railroad ticket office a booking office. " . 3. The "Unrighteous Bible" was prjmed in Cambridge, England, in 1G52. By a printer's error this verse "appeared in the sixth chapter of First Corin thians: "Know ye not that the tin rlghteouB shall inherit the Kingdom of God?" 4. The two largest French cities taken by , the Germans during the war were ' Lille and Roubalx. Si. Richard Brlnslcy Sheridan wrote "The School for Scandal." 0. The late Oscar Hammeratein was born in Berlin, Germany, 7. Tho next United States census will be taken ib 1020, 8. The federal constitution was declared v in effect on the first Wednesday in March, 1780. 0, Thepatroons were. possessors of landed estate with manorial privileges origi nally granted by the Dutch gov " ernment; of New -York and Nevy Jersey. v 10, Spikenard: .ancient costly ointmeat mude crjiefly from a perennial hejrb allied to Ylerian; kinds of fragrant t ,. WJ, J A fl ;m -! ft --r (,- w ip r " t. i - ru ii L- v5f ' Vi ' - ,. -t t fts :npz a Rh- if- j j, . " it 'Vj w ;i n Jli a " 1 n -JL , Jn'. rfvi J.'
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