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Tuesday. AiiKiist 20. MID TODAY'S THE DAY IT IS fair to assume that of the 180,000 assessed voters who failed to register last year a great majority were in favor of good government and opposed to con tractor rule. The organization invaria bly turns out in force to qualify for the ballot right. The slackers arc dazed when they leam that they have lost their vote and they whine helplessly about the iniquity of the municipal machine. There is no excuse for such unavailing lamentations this year. The first registration day is today. The others are September 2 and G. The hours are from 7 -a. m. until 1 p. m. and from 4 p. m. until 10 p. m. Wide publicity has bcengiven to those facts. The "what's-the-use" citizen may choose to ignore them. Nobody else can afford to do that. The fate of the November election may Tery easily turn upon the turnout at the registration places today and the subse quent days next week. WORK FOR THEM NO ONE questions the Senate's tight to debate the peace treaty and the league-of -nations covenant, and to levise until it is weary. But the senators ought to come down to earth long enough to deal efficiently and, above all, quickly, with the legisla tion prepared In the House to reduce the price of food and other necessities of life. After that the Senate may take to the sir again and continue its trial for the altitude record. A "PHILADELPHIA DEMOCRAT" WITH astonishing candor Daniel Wade, the "regular" Republican shrievalty candidate, reveals himself as a "Phila delphia Democrat." The public by this time is fully aware of precisely what that term means. Democrats in the national sense are rare here. According to the prevailing sentiment, they are, though self-deceivers, sincere in their delusion. The Wade "variety savors of the Donnelly-Ryan political huckster type. By his own admission the contractor's nominee has been registered both as a Democrat and a Republican. This is thoroughly in keeping with the trading proclivities of the local "Democracy," which has bartered repeatedly with the major machine and whenever profitable 'played cheerfully into its hands. Mr. Wade has simply proved that he 'is neither a regular Republican nor a regular Democrat. In the sphere of dis credit the "Philadelphia Democrats," with their fakery and sham principles, are unchallenged. THE WRONG MAN AS THE Prince of Wales moves from II? United States, Secretary Daniels is wafted from crest to crest of ecstatic tumult on his tour of the Hawaiian Isles. Mr. Daniels has the best of it. As a people the Hawaiians are ardently kind. The secretary of the navy does a banquet an hour. He is whipped from i -fofrji n -fnTJ in whirh fish in nnton nr.- , cienuy out ox me nana, unless ne ue careful he may be a king before Wales is one. They may put a lei on him. after I' 41 a aaa a I tsi ivsrt A S ajF tn nw a liataH mJ Wtvy JUBM iijiii w icn mult; iuuub, UI1U make him monarch of a village out of the aheer greatness of their hearts. I When Mr.. Daniels last was heard from he was on his way to spend a nirrht at f Jhetop of the great volcano, Kilauea, to f witness the spectacle of "lava boiling by fib jHoonngnr.. ine aisunguisnea American isn't afraid of volcanoes, of course. He lias been sitting on them for years in 'i rfect peace. But the trip to Kilauea, SVvfhere the lava boils in the moonlight, &,) 'wttl convince every ono that the President ) jp.jiotit the wrong man to the Pacific islands z!'f (& the. fleet Mr. Burleson should have P V"beh chosen to watch at the top of '-Kilauea. .For all we know he might have fallen in! HOOVER VS. HAPSBURCS TjWEftYBODY knows that the Haps--- burgs are tainted. But the diplo MHtic, whatever their wisdom, aro plainly lmry. On the other hand, Herbert C. vf is apparently just as vigorous as , Ke embarked, upon the monumental ol saving the Belgian nation from atkm. His ringing lecture to the r council upon the folly and danger etlonlng the control of Hungary bj? A acien of the discredited royal line VffcUbri directly precipitated the world Vdi we 01 uie moat aramauc mei- f cIm reconstruction period. tetMfcLthaf, the Allies' ,n4, wh!h lytmwl-jfwffhaut ment of pussyfooting and somnolent diplomacy. If this be true the statesmen aro astonishingly indifferent to public opinion. By delaying their ultimatum until nfter their verbal chastisement, they have permitted the world to believe that Mr. Hoover and not they should be directly thanked for what has happened in Budapest But be the inside facts what they may, it is incontestable that Hungary is, for the moment at least, rid of the two greatest perils which menaced it Bela Kun and his ultra-modern tyranny and the Hnpsburgs and their ancient heart less variety. Unless mental sobriety is entirely at a discount in Budapest some mean between the two iniquitous ex tremes should now speedily bo found. JUDGE PATTERSON'S "KEYNOTE SPEECH" It Means That He It Aware That the Organization and Not the Committee. of 1000 Claims His Allegiance JUDGE PATTERSON'S "keynote speech" before his committee of one thousand yesterday afternoon is one of the most significant declarations thus far made in the mayoralty campaign. It is significant, not for whnt the judge said, but for what he did not say, and for what can clearly be read between tho lines. The audience before which he was talk ing was supposed to be made up of a com pany of enthusiastic citizens who had voluntarily formed themselves into a committee to bring about his nomination at the primal ies and his election at the poll's. The sight of such a group of citi zens committed to his candidacy ought to have moved him to eloquence. It ought to hne stined hiin to a restatement of his platform in new language which would have thrilled every one who read it. That is, if the committee were what it purports to be and if he recognized in it a voluntary uprising of citizens in sup port of his candidacy. One can easily imagine what Colonel Roosevelt, in whose name the committee has been formed, would have said on such an occasion. He would have sent the committeemen away fired with zeal for a righteous cause and determined to fight for it to the last ditch. But both the judge and the committee men were aware of the emptiness of the occasion. Neither he nor they are count ing on success because of their activities. And they both know it. The judge's re marks were amiable platitudes. The con sciousness in the back of his mind mat the committee is just a stage play pre vented him from working up any en thusiasm and made it impossible for him to pay the committee any more signifi cant compliment than to call it "a splendid gathering of representative citi zens." He knew and they knew that he is the candidate of a group of organization politicians who control the party ma chinery in the city. He knew and they knew that the task of getting out the vote will be done by the organization workers. He knew and they knew that any other committee is as useless as tho fifth wheel to a coach. The organization has selected him, the organization will nominate him if possible and the organi zation will do its best to elect him if he is nominated. Therein lies the strength and the weak ness of his candidacy. The strength is there because an existing organization always has an advantage over one which has to be improvised. The weakness is there because in a great crisis an organi zation which has grown indifferent to public sentiment always assumes that it is invincible and cannot be defeated. The attitude of "Uncle Dave" Lane is typical of that of tho other organization leaders. He can see no impropriety in the visit to Director of Supplies Mac Laughlin by Senator Vare in the interest of a bidder for hose for the Fire Depart ment The visit was made. The senator himself admits it. The would-be con tractor asked the senator to make the call with him and the senator could see no impropriety in going. The fact that the senator was one of the influential party leadefs, with power to make and unmake the political for tunes of men, did not lead the would-be contractor to hesitate to seek to use such moral pressure as he could muster upon the director of supplies. Indeed, it was because the senator had that power that he asked him to maKe tne can. Ana iur. Lane thinks the organization's purity is vindicated because the director of sup. plies did not give a contract to the man who tried to influence him. Rut the citizens who are backing Mr. Moore for the mayoralty are doing so be cause they are persuaded that this sort of thing has continued long enough in this city. They know that political pressure has been brought to bear in the award of contracts. They know that the party or ganization which dominates the city is not averse to the use of such political pressure. They know that the enforce ment of the terms of contracts with the city is dependent on the judgment of in spectors whose political life is dependent upon their subserviency to the political organization and to the interests of its leaders. That is the way publie business is dono here. And that is the way Mr. Lane and men like him think it is proper to do public business. If the voters agree with Mr. Lane and the rest of them they will nominate Judge Patterson. They will not vote for him under the impression that he will in troduce a new regime. His remarks the other day that "the politicians have paid no attention to decent public opinion" will be regarded by them as merely the statement of what everybody knows rather than as an intimation that he in tends to force the politicians to respect public opinion. One of the politicians has too recently exclaimed "Public senti mentl Bahl" for them to believe that they vrlll, change between the election in November and tha inauguration of a Mayor in January. There Is not an organization worker from BmUeton to League Inland or from CaUm ereek taJtiteJQtewr;wb wmiM been going on for the past four years and as a charter and license to continue the practices of ignoring decent public opin ion and running the city' primarily for the benefit of the politicnl organization. And the judge himself, when he sits down In tho quiet of his library, surrounded with his Dickens manuscripts and the origi nal sketches by Phiz, must also be unable to disabuse himself of the belief that tho organization will uso him for its pur poses or break him if ho attempts to re sist. A TIP FROM MEXICO rpHIRTEEN bandits was a good haul. - Among the four killed by the Ameri can forces in northern Mexico, one is said to have been Jesus Rcntcria, principal in tho outrage against the two army avia tors. If this is true tho expedition of our cavalry is swiftly justified. It had the addtitional merit of waking up the Carranza administration, whose troops are reported to have disposed of nine of the outlaws. Of the virtue of drastic action in bor der crises there can now be little doubt What is needful now is some machinery wherJby order along the Rio Grande can bo preserved without plunging tho coun try into a panic at the prospect of a war with Mexico, desired by nobody save small cliques of cynical exploiters. From Mexico City itself comes the' suggestion of a practical remedy. This may seem strnnge, but it would have been still stranger had the vacillating American administration thought of it. Mexican statesmen have been delving into the old treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which closed our war with the frontier republic in 1848. A clause in that con vention urges that future differences be tween the two signatories "should be set tled by the arbitration of commissioners." Minister of Finance Cabrera has fore cast the establishment of a mixed com mission to arrange for guarding the frontier. Senor Bonillas, the Mexican ambassador at Washington, is said to have full power to negotiate a treaty definitely and effectively settling the patrol question. Of course, the agree ment should have teeth in it. Should the discussed commission plan work out, vigorous American' participation could sec to that. Further floundering with the Mexican problem is intolerable. It is useless to wonder why the administration through all these anarchic years seemed to have forgotten about the old treaty of 1848. It is useless to be sensitive because the origins of a solution appear' to emanate from the Mexican capital. Any pplicy is better than no policy at all. If the alleged movement in Carranza ciiclcs is sincere, it is worth consider ing. Certainly it would be difficult for any course manifesting a purpose to be more costly than the perilous and unin telligent wabbling with which we are surfeited. WHO WILL EXPLAIN CHINA? TEACEABLY, as she always tried to - live, China went through the war. The Chinese made their declaration re luctantly and folded their hands to wait. The Allies got many German ships and much Chinese labor. China saw her chief plunderer, Ger many, fall. to ruins though she herself hardly lifted a hand in resistance. Now the greatest nations in the world are ranged upon the side of China and the leaguc-of-nations covenant is being de layed in older that she shall receive abso lute justice. Is this because China never tried to harm other peoples or were her states men so experienced in wisdom as to know that to be patient is to win? The Boston Tran script, which ought to know hotter, speaks The Tautological Transcript of the guilty prof iteer." Where can one find nn innocent one? The difference between taking a profit and profiteering is not in the amount gained but in the manner in which it is gained. It is conceivable that a man may make a large profit and be free from the charge of prof iteering, and that lie might "profiteer" and rfain but a small amount The nature of the transaction determines the nomencla ture. In order to combat Walt, for the "the vicioux fnllacy Figures that labor costs rep resent the chief item in the increased iont of living" the National Association of Federal Kmploycs is planning a nution-wide investigation : and to that end Congressman Carss, of Minnesota, has introduced a resolution calling upon the Federal Trade ConiniUslon for data. If it is n fallacy its viciousnesf must be conceded but, in the mcuntime, we'll wait for the figures. Isn't it fair, after A Plant, Certainly jou have observed the method by which cold storage houses are being used to juggle prices and bilk the public, to speak of any one of them as an ice plant? Life for a time was peaches and cream for Strang. Now Fate Gastronomic has given him beans. Members of the American Chemical So ciety have expressed surprise at the pro posal of the War Department to abolish the Chemical War Department. Disap proval, naturally; but why surprise? Hasn't the Wr Department already practically scrapped the aviation branch of the service? If it is difference of opinion that irakes horse rates and no opinion is worth any thing unless you can back It, what chance Is there for the success of the nongambllng horse races at Merrhantville? Tombstone marble has Increased in price. On the dead, doesn't it look as though the high price of dying is destined to be as ncrious as the high cost of living? It is said this wgjc ma7 bring forth some surprises la the North Penn Hank case. Hut readers have about reached the etafce where nothlug will surprise them. There are elections aud elections, but 'for real excitement the one in Hog Island for hh.i sponsor is in a class by itself, Romania is playing bad boy and may ytt have ta be spanked. PHILADELPHIA AS A PORT Tonnage Greater Than That of Liver pool and In Point of Exports Sec ond In the United States OEonoi? nox McCain . GICOIKSK F. Hl'ItOl'LI-;, bccretary of tho Hoard of Commissioners of Navigation, imparted to me the other day a bit of Infor mation that ought to warm the cookloH of the hearts of every true blue I'hlladclphlan. Few Americans who have visited Great Britain and come In contact with Its im porting and exporting life, or with its sea faring men, but have been compelled to listen to some remarkable assertions con cerning the commerce of those Islands. I have hoard the most remarkable declar ations as to the tonnage of London, Liver pool, nnd Belfast; how Liverpool, next to London, dwarfed the tonnage of New York. Once on a transatlantic steamer I wns forced to maintain silence when a British manufacturer of hardware specialties In sisted that the maritime trade of the thrco British cities named above exceeded In ton nage the entire tonnage of all the Atlantic ports of the United Stntes. I had no figures to refute his assertion and so was compelled to keep my mouth shut. But now along comes (Jcorge F. Sproule, who is not only secretary, hut olficlat sta tistician, marine historian, a human com pendium of encyclopedic information to the commissioners of navigation on inntters per taining to the port of Philadelphia, who says that in spite of the war our tonnage was 14,840,370 In 1018, or 1,000,000 tons in excess of Liverpool in 1014. As compared port for port in 1014 Philadelphia's ton nage in nrrivals and clearances wns 10,082, 300 tons ns ogahibt 13,817.243 for Liverpool. Philadelphia in point of exports is second in the United States. ANOTIIKH popular misconception, which - students of commercial geography should note, is that New York nnd London are the largest maritime ports in the world. It is not only untrue,- but is surprisingly untrue. To my astonishment Mr. Sproule conveyed the information that In point of tonnage of vessels arriving and departing, the latest statistics being of 1017, the port of Hong kong, China, led the world. It bent out New York by the odd figures of 0.000,114 tons. It is not an unusual thing. Secretary Sproule informs me, for marine statistical sharps to endeavor to fix the standing of n port by the value of 'its Imports nnd ex ports. It Is mere camouflage; vain at tempt to boost a fourth or fifth rate city to u higher rank. It is a clever nnd misleading stunt pulled off frequently by delegations of "promi nent citizens nnd influential gentlemen" who visit Washington on behalf of appropria tions for hnrhor improvements. There is but one way to judge the Im portance of a port and that Is by the ag gregate tounuge of the vessels that come nnd go. Philadelphia's maritime importance suf fered during the war, which was largely due to a fulling off in the coast line trade. This was because of the great demand for tou nnge to carry supplies to Europe. But it is coming back all right, air right. WHEN death removed J. Edward Addicks it took out of life at once the most pic turesque figure and most unscrupulous poli tician I ever knew. Not even the boorish nnd uncultured Tabor, of Colorado, who, in the vain glory of his wealth nnd vulgnrity, had his $100 nightshirts on exhibition In n haberdasher's window in Washington, could outdo In cer tain respects this rcmnrknblc man. Yet J. Edward Addicks was neither ig norant nor uncultured. He met great finan ciers nnd fought them on their own ground. He erected vast financial structures. He was well educated end inherited a good name; was courteous, entertaining, and pos sessed inherent qualities that, had he betn so disposed, would hove made him justly popular in the society of his equals. He was n strange, rare indeed, combina tion of greed, prodigality, ambition and po litical daring nnd unscrupnlousness. His twin obsessions were a desire to oe come a multimillionaire nnd his Here. minatlon to reach the United States Senate by hook or crook principally crook and they submerged anil obliterated every other instinct, feeling or desire of the better kind. AS I KNOW It now, but unconsciously at the time, I heard from .T. Edward Addickb's lips the sentence that marked the turning point and the downward turning point in his spectacular career In Dela ware. It is unnecessary here to detail his various attempts to climb the height to the United Stntes Senate, only to be beaten back by An thony Higgins, Judge George Gray, Colonel iienry .v. uupum ana later Dy Klchnrd It. Kenney. It wns in 1800 that Addicks managed to secure what he thought was a majority in the Delaware Legislature. When it came to the point, however, he lacked two votes. Two Republicans held out and the deadlock lasted throughout the session until the day of final adjournment. For ten years, ns a newspaper "staff cor respondent. I had followed the Delaware situation through all Its tortuous ways. it was me nnai day ot the legislative ses sion. Senator J. Frank Allec, who had managed the Addicks campaign, had given up hope of electing Addicks, when the morn ing session of the Legislature adjourned Senator Alice had Invited .Mr. Addicks and myself to dinner at his residence, a block or two from the quaint little State House. Mrs. Allec and the senator's young son com pleted the party. In the midst of dinner Mr Addicks. without any preliminary words, turned to me and said : "I want you to shake hands with the. next United States senator from Dela ware," and lie laid a hand on Senator Allee's arm. "What do you mean?" I inquired in as tonishment. V.JuM.hat. T Bay'" ,,e reDlIeJ without a smile. "J-rnnk here will be elected United States senator nt thla gfinMn. ,... That afternoon State Senator J. Frank Allee received the vote of the men who would D,ot.v?,eT,fir :T, K,Iwarl Addicks and was elected United States senator from Dela ware. From that day all hope of J. Edward Addicks ever reaching the Senate vanished. It was the turning point in his wonderful career. The New York- Tribune points out that the legitimate functions of n cold storage plant are those of a good reservoir that breathes out as It breathes in, In whole some respiration. True, but moBt of them nowadays seem to be suffering from hay fever. The fact that price committees, if formed, would be helpless is perhaps not nearly so sad as it sounds. There is an off chauca that price regulation is not tha remedy for blgh prices. We hare had the example of whet. . Wm-I. -M K l-firMtAaMML ,&'; "-OR WRITE 1 . u ''.r.Ji: Vj: iic-Y-i1:- I'rVlIi.'lf.'lr'- S6r.,15'i?.:, . rWL'-WUii.'J- i' .if S.l ..: a sfj? r.' 'SJVi - r4tfIBHiW3a!BetaaaaaaaaWSKlaaaaaaWaaaeB - sWrv.-iir WaSmSSiSi' 7r!l-' '' 4cSizmaaR5,1arP!ffiSallWBa7 r.Wdll''-A mmmmmMAmmmLtm?mi 'msmmmmjsrmm :mmtmm&mMimrM'MrmtM 4 " -Ti-in1 ''ii.-Mninf II I nil i naaaaaii p - iiaiT n aaari-aj-irniTn-irrnn i iirrn rn-it.j- 1 1 .t r -i.i ,i ! n- ,aj ) iai THE CHAFFING DISH On a White Muslin Dress In a Modiste's Window T")EMUHE white frock which I espy, What slender damosel will buy This miracle of dainty dress And grace it with her loveliness, The bliss of every doting eye? u PON a dummy figure lie These tender folds, nnd seem to sigh Some softer bosom to possess, Demure white frock 1 I CAN'T resist. The price is high, But my cigars I will deny: I'll get the tiling for you, dear Bess, And when you wear it, I'll confess How utterly entrancing I Deem your white frock ! In speaking of the Elwood wreck, you might specify whether you mean Elwood, N. J., or Elwood Strang. Political Ditty Dear Socrates: Punch, brothers, punch with care, The candidates of the Messrs. Vare. BEN ZEEN. Ballade of Discharge OH, I'VE shed me blood in Flanders, an' I've got me share o' scars, An' I seen the bloody campaign at Ver dun; Sure, I've give the steel to Dutchics where the shells was thick as stars An' I've froze in trenches underneath the moon ; Yus, I've wore the blinkln uniform for sev'ral ruddy years 'Cause I'd rather be a 'ero than a clerk ; But the" bloomin' war is over, an' the 'eart within me fears That I got to leave the ranks an' go to work! OH, I done me bit at AVypers, where the fight was thick as 'ell, An I 'ad a part in resculn Lorraine ; They shot me iu the thigh an' chest an' kicked me till I fell But In 'arf-a-month I'm fightln' 'cm again ! Sure, I killed me share o Boches, Hn they nicked me two or three; But I didn't mind ; a fight I never shirk ; Now, the blccdin' war is over, an it looks a lot to me Like I'd have to buckle down an' go to work ! L' Envoi OH, THERE'S no life like the army life! Tho blcedin' thing is fun! You fight, an' kill, an' mebbe get your own; But Just about the time you're gettin' warm the war Is done An' the army leaves you flat an' all clone ! Yus, I like to be a sodjer, and a blinkln' 'ero, too, W'en I'm fightln' in the bloomin' battle's murk; But in peace the ranks don't want me, so there's nothln' else to do But to get meself a Job an' go to work ! Blast the luck I I got to get a Job an' go to workl nOBEIlT LESLIE BELUEM. We surmise that Elwood Strang is re gretting he never learned Grover Bergdoll's secret of keeping out ot town so success fully. But Mr. Strang, who hag a nice sense of the importance of being earnest about other people's money, must And some consolation in the fact that the Moyamenslng bread and beans aren't costing him anything. TOiat ar thn aMMr.fialYMl vstnnp nn .!. b4 to run New York boxoffieia doing aowa- i .7 tT ' "IZL.. ,' . C J .f (i ..! YOURSELF DOWN AS .TS.' hJrt2rWi- r,:KE(SITRATl.QN ; ID.A3f' .iaMt,, l M H.1'. " ' uHMMKK3BBKBITia:;K4r rW . TO 4-' rsmi "-' i iiiiranTTitHriiiniai mi - t -a.jf. PI nil "MHl I'l I'lHaaaaaWmum HH laW'M"il X SVrv ' t:f,'St,ttf I l aJ I Bli?K r-fH.:rfS'-H. i,J!". : JjitL.rWi.r'jV.J-WVVJ.n A r been exaggerated. For'we have heard of no assassinations of Russian barbers. Tho hand may be quicker than the eye, but Bergdoll seems quicker than both. Colonel House is said to be coming home on the boat with Viscount Grey. With the world's two sllentest statesmen engaged in mutual secrecy, we don't see how the pub lic is going to benefit by their discretions unless some one like Ike Mnrcosson is going to be along to spill the beans. Every time we go down to the shore we wonder why it is that no one has had the bright idea to namp a Pullman car "Citron ella." - Nothing ever seems to us quite so luxuri ous and hcartWsing as smoking n pipe while undressing. It seems to us a quaint circumstance that there is a kind of watch which costs only a dollar and a half to buy, but two dollars and a quarter to have repaired. Few of us realized how attractive the la dies' old-fashioned bathing suits were, until these new-fangled horrors came along. Even the most agnostic man has been known to tray, nnd right fervently, during those tense moments when the baby wakes up at 3 a, m. and utters a few preliminary squeaks while making up its mind whether to roar or not. firnnt Bice says, on our favorite, sporting page, that' some fellows have "a competitive soul," In the throes of a vital competition, Grant asserts, they rise to heroic achieve ment. t We would admire the guy with a competi tive soul all the more, however, if we did not have a lurking suspicion that the Jersey mosquito can outdo any mere mortal along that Hue. ' We Pout Dear Old Socrates: I have been reading your column for some time now, and believe me I lllto It, too," but I think there Is room for Improvement, ot course, wo all find fault with one another' work, it takes nil kinds of people to make a world, you know, even as you and I, there fore, let me try to give you some pointers, I think I can do it (this Is pay-day, "so I hlnk I can do anytning). First, you are a. editor and I am an, , undertaker, so that purs-us on an even basis, imow, i should think thename JjAVstiku uiaii wouia ne better thart CHAFFING DISH, now really, don't you?) Second (or Is this third?) when you scrlbbje a poem, why, oh why, do you not write something thaf would be Interest ing to all and, something that "would make you famous as a column writer the world over? some sort of a poem that would be most Interesting to read? ALLA MAZA1I When we called at thc-State House cellar lately, Martha Washington, the famous In dependence Siuarc black cat,' was lying placidly on Fred Eckersburg's desk. Martha recently brought in n bird from the top most boughs of n tree behind the Hall. Her natural instinct would hnvc been to assassinate the unfortunate fowl, but the bird screamed loudly that it was a great-great-great-grand-cgg of the bird that lien Franklin missed with his slingshot, arid Martha, In her capacity as one of the Colonial Felines, bad merer on it. Fred Eckcrsburg and George Bloom Cherished the bird tenderly, and gave it to one of tho guards upstairs who is fond of birds; but' as Fred says sadly, "U aw on uis nanus." ' 80CRATES. If ' Philadelphia does' not become the greatest port la the world in the not distant future it will be only because Pldladelphlaus have neglected their opportunities. ' ' i , The question wlh 41ie Senate ferejgn rtUtlaofj eotneiltiM apnr,.t U (wiWlr A SLACKER!" HCmU.ii! rK3JHfcS m ;. tag jHfr IVnliV rV2,tj ,r. .r,,TAMT.l ma?. i . TT-T m&- MID-AUGUST QPIDERS are spinning their webs, I hear pears falling, Birds arc still; yesterday They were singing and calling. Grapes arc swelling now, Globes of silver green, Their leaves lie close, but the sun Slips in between. There's- a blue haze in the air, A butterfly's questing flight Leads where petunias bloom, Crimson and mauve and'white. Gooseneckcd popples are dead They have had their flaming hour, Marigold buds are green ) We wait for the yellow flower. The goldfinch sits like a jewel By dried hollyhock seeds; The wajsidc is adorned With vivid weeds. x The fields are dappled brown, Tho barns are filled And sweet with hay that spills Clover, distilled. August's a quiet time. Do you hear pears fall? Cicada sings all day And at nightfall The katydid's sharp cry, Prophetic, calls the hour Of bins for the fruit And death or tbe.-flowor. Louise Driscoll, in New York Times. What Do You Know? Sfffijffitf QUIZ sr 1. What is the origin of the term "oy Lothario"? 2. Where is Silesia? 3. What is a poncho? 4. How long Is an ell? C. What is the meaning of the word in transigent? C. What state dow Senator Fall represent? 7. Who is said to be the leader of the ' brigands who captured the two Ameri can aviators in Mexico? 8. Who Is the acting national food ad ministrator during the absence of Her bert C. Hoover in Eurooe? o. Secretary Daniels has been entertained at many "luaus" in Hawaii. What is ... t.M a luau f 10. What are the tallest trees in the worldT Answers to Yesterday's Quiz sl. Elizabeth is queen ot Belgium. She was formerly princess of Bavaria. 2. Under the new German constitution the ,, Reichstag Is to sit in Berlin. 3. The word craft, when it means a boat, is unchanged in the plural. 4. George William Curtis, the essayist, - was called the "American .Charles Lamb." C. Stradlvariits, the celebrated violin maker, lived in Cremona, Italy. 0. 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