ll r S & EVENING- PUBLIC 'LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, 'THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1919 , "; v - ,y EX fc's M- I Euehing "public Jle&ger ,-,V PUDLIC LEDGER COMPANY " crnus it. JOcunxis. PutmntNT i -Charles If. I.udlnrton. Vlw Prel1fnt! John C. 3run. oecrsiarr ana lrennvvr: i-nilip M uoillni, An D. Williams John J purrron. Dlrpctom. 'j' . fc.JlTor.IAI., fcOAUDi Cues II. IC. Cmu. Chairman . 6JLVID n. CMIIXT Editor A. JOIIK C. SIAr.TIN.. .Qcneral IJusI.-.mj Manace. ,-9 . ruhllahrd dallr at rcnno l.rwjit TiulMins, .. lndcfcnCtnce nuare, riiUfiileirhut, Atlantio CiTr Prrsa-Unlci It ,-Jmw Yonic 200 Metroxioltifin Tower .t-rrsa-unio:i uuumnc arsrafiir ... ivi i ora itiinn nc iWT. Iici.. .. lnoi milerton PulMlnr tCHICao VM'-J Triliitnt llulMIng J jw.ws nur.rws. WiillllCTO-J TtuniAV. V !T r. PnT...tnni.L A-. ftnil 1JIH R Jw YnnK tirrrjp 'ho Ni i I!tillln he .i i ihiiidin London Ucuuc London Time t,tpirT!iPT'o Trnsm Tha Ctkni 1'iriic I.ri eij I n?rved to sub crlhera In I'hllaJelplila auil surrounding tnwna ?f tha lato of twflvo (12) cxnla iwr wk. paable o th oartlcr. Br t .all o points outride of Philadelphia In the united States, Canada, c" Unlt-d Ptatra pos- mlrms, posts? free, fifty (TO) rents pr month. ,Ut (0) dollara par year, payahle In advanre To all forefim countries one (11) dollar per , jnonth. KoTtrn Stibscrlbers wlhlnir address changed SlUlt fflve old aa welt as iimv n.MrtB. . BELL, 3000 WALMJT ::nvToE, main 3000 . K7 Addrcv all com c.tfenffo ' to 7VrrOr? Public runic .3 Lrcaer. trtlrp urf, nee SQjarf r'H m -pmn. Member of the Associated l'ress TJIEASSOCT.lTIW I'MISZ n rrWii tvtly entitled In the ilso for irpuhliratian of M ncrj Jiipatchrs crcdi'rrt In it or not otherwise credited in mi paper, and also ihe local neies phlisln-l therein, Atl rightr of republication of special dit patches hfein ire alio icscrvcd. rhlLiilelplilH, Thtirtdi). uiit SS. l'JIO COAL MINES NEXT NOT discouiagcd by the cool reception of the Plumb plan for giving the railroads to the railroad opeiatives, the president of the National Coal Associa tion has announced that a bill has been prepared providing for the purchase of the coal mines by the government and turning them over to (he miners. The miners are now suggesting a six hour day and a five-day week under pri vate ownership. If they got hold of the mines and could run them to suit them selves no one knows how short a day they would work. But nationalization of coal mines in this way is not likely to come, for the ,Users of coal wish the fuel to be mined in n more economical mannei than would tic possible under any such plan. They know its purpose is not to reduce the cost of living, but to ipciease the income and reduce the labor of the coal pro ducers. The demand for the application of the Tlumb plan to the coal mines was ex pected, however. It is likely to be pro posed for many other industries before those who want to get something for &(h nothing discover that it can't be done. , COMPERS AND THE RAIL ROW MR. GOMPERS learned much by hard and patient experience in the hurd- 1. j r a 1 :....:. -ST .. r ci uajfs ui kiuuus uiuuuimu. mult; it;- fy cently he has had a front-row seat at m'jt .!. rt ...a V..1...1 ..nmA 4 11 .nnnl. rC n .. 4nn ,. ltfW.1. 1?U IIU)V kUIHC IAJ fKlIt ... 111. -J .drama of EuroDe. No man in America us i lieHer nltnlifipil i.n leivo snimri nrlvirn to the Federation of Labor. So, unlets y Gompei's has buffered from an infection -of radicaliEm, a disease to which he 1ms been all his life immune, he will use his jpowcr to keep the railway shopmen in their senses. yf Bolshevism, says Mr. Gompers, has failed in Europe. That much was ap parent even at this distance mx months ago. Is it to be supposed that it can suc ceed in the United States? The shopmen's unions actually repre sent what might be called the Left Wing of the American labor movement. The unions are new and reckless and a bit dis trait with a knowledge of their new power. They are frankly radical. r In Europe radical labor has a differ ent background. Bolshevism at its source -"Js in reality a protest against cruelty and Sj ignorant class oppression, led by men made half mad bysuffering and the sight pt black injustice. Vet public opinion, even in Russia, is not ready for govern- t "..ment by labor exclusively. j1 That, however, is what the railway men nope m csiaousn over me ran sys 'tcms of the country if their demands arid the manner in which they have been presented reflect the majority irw. IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR BELGIUM 'TTHE United Stales passionately desired - to save Belgium and to render her "position in the world secure. It is clearly htte KalioT fliul iho 1inao Iraaltr ic tha best bulwark for her integrity and that its provisions, including the league cove nant, guarantee a happy future for civili zation, for Belgium's Parliament has ratified the document unanimously. - Belgium's opinion in the matter is worth something. -There was no phase bf the German scourge from which she did not cruelly suffer. And now she be holds her salvation in the very instru ment which the American Senate, so eager during the war that she should not perish, now hesitates to indorse. A GOOD BEGINNING INDEPENDENTS say that the large fegistratfon on Tuebday means that Congressman Moore will be nominated. Organization supporters say that it iita that the voters arc turning out to ft nH.lify to nominate Judge Patterson by va overwhelming majority. ' Conservative observers say trlat it t1 nBHl that there is an unprecedented !J"' v joplr Interest in the mayoralty contest. n . A ffanec at the recislration figures in ?X ' t- ..- -.1 ..AawM vlll QflLLf 41.m nlivlim. in A understanding the situation. In 1911, Sullen, Mr. Blankenburg was elected, the Itrst day's registration was 122,000. In ' ,J9J(5, when Mayor Smith was elected, it 123,000. Last year, when Governor Hjwtwl was elected, it was 94,700. This "ymV('tthe incomplete figures have risen to 'n,r than 185.000, The gain over four !?rs?riw ago is nearly C0.000. The increaso a in papulation is not suincient to explain thk. H i known that- in many divisions ' w,fao had not voted for years and !i "iWfwfc. wn who had never voted since fhaffiem4 01 age tame into tne city 1tam tittix country residences and regis- tcgMl tu1 announceu uieir intention 01 bamMr Ui wwt" ti vote at the primaries .. Aim. A ' - ' t mM avA at 141 mt aa 4 sflal Jht1 (MSaPHpr aft mmnjr Duvn piu wrvpr wore going to voto for Congressman Moore. It is evident that the nonvoters in past years are going to voto this year. In nine times out of ten the nonvoter is a man who usually says, "What's the use? The gang will win anyway niul I will not waste my time voting against it in the primaries." When he thinks there is a chance to win he will voto. But the fight was not won Tuesday. There are two more days of registration Tucfdaj and Saturday of next week when the independent woikcrs must be stir themselves to gei out the voters who did not register on Tuesday. When we I p-ct the total figures for the three days i speculation on what will happen at the primaries will be safer than it is now. TREATY SMASHERS MISPCAY STRONG REPUBLICAN CARDS Clumsy Disregard of Strong Ratification Element In the Party Has Vital Bear ing on 1920 Preliminaries TAST presidential elections cast their I shadows befoie. The trouble is that thefe reflections arc always variously in. terpieted, with the lesult that lending history as a clue to the future becomes a process laigply depondent on the taste and fancy of the liistot ian. It is useless to pretend at the present hour that both the Republican and the Democratic staff" arc not thin! ing very earnestly about what happened in 191G. On the one side there is diligent endeavor to lepair former gaps in the line. On the other there is more a hope than a conviction that the fiont will hold for 1920. In a word, and despite disavowals, shy or fervid, the immemorial game of poli tics is being played in Washington fast and furiously. Convention prescribes that everybody, major participants and fabulously innocent bystanders alike, must be horrified if the truth is so much as whispered. It is one of the most deli- j cious fictions extant that no one in the United States plays party politics save your political opponent. He is the rogue. You and all the fellows on your side of the partisan line are the angels. 1 In that case the veidict at national elections would be received by the de feated only with the kind of rage and I despair which is never manifested, and the American constitution, which lent itself immediately, and on the whole so admirably, to party government in the land, would be a futile and withered in strument. Behind the pose in the whole national scene there is actually the sound belief, born of experience, that the success of party maneuvering is directly dependent on the common-sense judgment of the public, and that though Democrats or Republicans may wreck their own chances for office, they arc extremely unlikely to dash the ship of state to pieces. There would indeed be ground for panic ami consternation in America if all the dire damage with which the Republicans threaten the peace treaty were leally im minent. There would be equal cause for alarm if Mr. Wilson's original obstinacy concerning that document were impene trable. It is inevitable that some agree ment will eventually be reached. Ca lamity howlers, notwithstanding, we can dismiss the thought of the nation going to the bow-wows. But perhaps one of its two great political paities will. That is the possibility which gives pertinence to the thrusts and counter-thrusts in Wash ington. , Granted the leacn of binceie patriot ism which generally governs the actions of our most professional politicians, granted that genuine differences of opin ion exist upon the merits of the treaty and the league covenant, granted that the peace commissioners' disposition of Shantung is offensive to most Americans' sense of fair play,, and still the battle smoke of practical politics rises over the Capitol. It is not really wicked smoke, but it is intensely inteiesting. Its pres ence is proof that both sides are mobil izing for the presidential campaign of 1920. To be shocked at it is hypocritical. The contest is quite of the customary character. ' Republicans with firm confidence in the general principles and traditions of their party would like to see legitimate tactics skillfully operating, valid contentions adroitly advanced, telling blows delivered in a telling manner. What is exhibited is something regrettably different. There is a scramble for temporary and shallow advantage. Attacks on the treaty have been made from so many different and contradictory angles that the force be hind each drive has been quickly dissi pated. Mr. Lodge has fumed like a he-Cassandra and with just about as much effect upon the general public. Lawrence Y. Sherman's shrieking tirades are already forgotten. The Knox resolution is mori bund. The Fall amendments, embodied in the action of the foreign relations committee, which if indorsed would ne cessitate some fifty changes in the treaty, arc palpably absurd. There remains Shantung. The trOaty opponents hae obviously been expecting great things from their exploitation of the weakest feature of the international pact. In theory they are quite right. Even the President admits that. But there is a rational way to express Ameri can sentiment in this matter, and this course they have not taken. The proposed amendment substitut ing the word China for tho word Japan in the treaty clause disposing of the for mer German concession has the appear ance of being a clumsy sop to California opinion. Perhaps the retrospective tend ency in presidential preliminaries is working. The dramatic delay in the California returns in 1916 gave undue prominence to that state as a determi nant of the election. Mr. Wilson could not have won without thoso twelve elec toral votes. He would, however, have been defeated had he not carried Ohio, which gave him twenty-four ballots in tho college. But "the West did it" be came a post-mortem slogan, and the West, productive of George W. Norris, who voted against the war, and William E. Borah, who is going to form a new party if the treaty is not smashed, seems now sjr I to be exertintr n. remarkabjto hypnotic in- fiuenco over the Republican councils. Mr. Lodge's quandary is not enviable. He wants a unified party and so do all Republicans wenry of Democratic errors and convinced that a change in 1920 would be the best thing for the country. Yet is it impossible to co-ordinato the paity by taking count of its thousands of supporters who are zealous believers in the league of nations and earnestly desire the rJiompt ratifying of the ttcaty? What sort of counsel is it which puts a Noiris before a Taft, a Borah before a Wickersham, a Sherman befoie a Root? The .West, for all its lusty and gener ally wholesome spirit, does not determine presidents elections and, until it is more populous, it never will. Hiiam Johnson may please his constituents, whom Mr. Hughes irritated three yeais ago, but will he please the mass of the Republi cans when they learn that their excellent case for Shantung has been lost by misi management? The struggle, in Washington has its subtle side. And here is where the Democratic paity is involved. Its lead ers, playing for political position just as dcteiminedly as their rivals, have an ad vantage in the defensive. It permits them to chalk up Republican blunders and false starts. , The opportunity need never have come to them if their opponents had tcalized how genuine was trie general desire for disposing of the war and its onerous aftei maths by adopting the treaty. The surrender will have to come and when it does the Republican party will have been placed in a position which unquestion ably the majority of its members did not wish. The political battle that is on, 110 mat ter what sentimentalists and idealists may bay, will be a deal more interesting if it is distinctly representative of the 1 constituencies on both sides. When the situation shifts that way, which it must intthe end, the public will be able to take stock of the line-up and the professional prophets will more con fidently bob up to answer that fascinat ing quadrennial riddle, "Who will sit in the White House?" WHERE DOES VARE LIVE? THE registry clerk who challenged the right of Senator Vare to vote in the fifteenth division of the Thirty-ninth ward lias raised a question which ought to be settled beyond the shadow of a uoubt. The senator swoie that he is a duly qualified elector residing at 2009 South Broad street. The law f 01 bids an elector to vole out side of the election district in which he is a qualified voter. It provides that he shall have resided in the election iBstrict where he offers to vote for "at least two months immediately preceding the elec tion." And it declares that "any willful false statement (made by the prospective voter) constitutes perjury and is pun ishable as such." The house from which the senatoi leg Ktered is boarded up and has been so fot months. When the senator labt slept there or had his washing done from theie is not known. He has 11 splendid house in Ambler, wheie his family resides; he is in the habit of going back and forth to Ambler on the train, and when ho has to spend a night in town he stays at the Manufactuiers' Club 111 tho Eighth ward. The courts have decided time after time that a man may have a oting resi dence wherever he chooses, but they have aUo decided that he must occupy the place of his residence enough to make it a bona fide domicile. It is not enough that he owns the property. He must live in it at least part of the time. The committee of one hundred which is challenging the supremacy of Genator Vare will fail in its duty if it drs not make a legal inquiry into the genuine ness of the senator's residence at the South Bioad street house. Theie are scores of men engaged in business here who arc intensely 'interested in the gov ernment of the city, but are disqualified from taking any active part in political movements because, like Senator Vaie, they maintain a residence outside of the city limits where they can have a house to suit them and grounds for their reciea tion. The senator himself has criticized the committee of one hundred because the names of some such men are on it. These men own property in town, but they do not claim any piece of it as a "voting residence." But the senator, with apparently no greater right to vote heie, does his best to dictate tin. policy of the Republican party in the city; and he rep resents one of its senatorial districts in the Legislature. Moie than his right to vote is involved in the question of his residence in South Philadelphia. The state constitution pro vides that the senators must be "inhabi tants of their respective districts," and the state laws provide that if an official removes from the district from which he is elected he thereby vacates the office. The senator can easily qualify in the future for voting in the Thirty-ninth ward, for it docs not require much to es tablish a voting residence. But the ques tion at issue just now is whether the senator has grown so indifferent that he has allowed his right to vote in this city to lapse by failure to occupy his houso even constructively Congressman Ynre In shouting hendlines testetday told why Moore ran for the We'll SfC. We'll See! mayoralty. Seers and prophets iu politics who have been studying the registration figurrs at once suggested that Mr. Vnre mny find it much more difficult later along to tell why Judge Patterson didn't. Indirectly the league Thc Don't Know of-nations debate in Politics the Senate involves 1 another cruel injus tice for the Chinese. They are likely to be swept by the belief that they have pow erful and devoted friends in the seats of the mighty at Washington. If Germans had a sense of humor we might suspect some sardonic quality n the selection for ambnssador to the United States of a man formerly connected with the notorious Von Uernstorff regime. ut from a nntion that, whatever its drawbacks, assuredly takes Itself seriously one can only put It down to obtuseness( "Well, tbo election Is over at Hog Island no ,. 0f the glrk Is f ntlrely satisfied. L THE GOWNSMAN TOIIY pOW. in (ho corner of the twenty-nerc -' lot the other day 1 sorntched In the lichen that makes crnjrr the croy of a Kianltp lioutdrr the four letters of Toby's name. For 1 remembered that it wns near to this spot thn! he lay buried under the sod of wildlloivers. wlhterureen nnd trailing pine. Old nml obese, be hud been tinnhle to endure the departure of the family one, hot dav In AiiRiiat; and on n bed of straw attended bv Harry, the tnnti. he hnd breathed his Inst, wwrslnn bis tail in rreoRnltjon to the laat. Tohv hnd led a Rood life and a happy one, and now rested in n crave, un erowdetl bv other dead, with n monument the henuty nnd petmnnenec of which princes micht envy; and his. too, wns nn epltnph. sufllcient in its hieitv to rernll n world of meaning to those who hnd loved him nnd whiehof us renllj cares to he remembered by any one else? SOMfJ Tears ago a Indv entered n birdhnp, not so much to bur ns drawn bv n liking for pets and ,1 pitv for the poor little mns trrless erentures. the iibieets of bnrter with n future hovering in the tnss-up of chance. A 'he looked up at n pnrrot Mie plneed her gloved hand on n eage on the floor when n little snub -noed puppv enught at her finger nnd hegnn to tousle it. Turning, rhe longed down into the beseeching, brown res of Tohv who innde b! fiit conuuovt then nnd ther.. Now Tohv'i brown eves were precisely the trouble, for they told the torv of mired blood For being ostensibly n fine specimen of an English lull terrier, white, alightlv spotted under the hnlr, his enrs eruellv trimmed nfter the fashion de creed bv doe fancier" for lis kind, he lacked the little slits of shift v eves which belong to his forchcirq on the pedigreed side Tt was a discerning cook of ours, 01 Airicnn blood and exninsive dimensions, who nid I to Tohv us be sat on the hem of her skirt ' and looked up adoringly. "Toby, you nin t rn dnwg: you's jes folks." A"D "ios folks" Ti)br nlwnrs wn. T.otnl " to his family, he loved the whole genus homo nnd was no wntch dog. He would have welcomed n burglnr engagingly. When enught once by the dog catchers, be con trived to rid" io the pound on the seat with the driver, n friend, nnd not In the rnrt with the day's cntch. He hnd that centleman's instinct which makes n good dug n sport or n vagabond, never n worker The only thing which he ivcr resented nmong the ucissitudes which 'ingenious rluldhood henped upon him wns tht nttemnt to make him draw n small wagon, lie liteniuv inv down in the traces or else ran the thing like 11 tire enrine to 11 fire, hnppy in the finnl MiinMi. He was taught (o canv n small ba-ket to iniirW nnd he was willing to tnke home his supper in n paper bag. waiting patiently until permitted Io open it. Tane 01 nmlirelln he would carry rueiuuv uncier protest and simply to oblige, awaiting a fnornbe opportunity to drop the thing suircntitiouslv and nbseut-mindeillv H" was deeply mortified one day to be caught in the net of burying an umbrella in the soft earth of a plowed field as he lagged be hind for the purpose. TOBY'S morality was erv human. He knew what was considered wrong for some inscrutnbl.1 reason nmong those Olym pians, the fnmih. but what he really hated wns being found out. Much of his service, like ours. wn-. ee service, and he con soled himself 111 disappointment by indul gences such ns hing luxuriously on forbidden sofns. The intercourse of gentlemen knows nothing liner IhnirMhc mnnner in which Toby deprecated nn apology for some roughness or hurt to him rccidentally gien: and when omradrship in a long ramble was in cuics tion. nn exnedition, or an eenlng oyer a wood lire. Toby was incomparable. As to beasts he was possessed of a large tolerance. He man pled at the interest which his de liiddl fnniilr took in parrots nnd like vcr min. lint his tolerunce drew a sharp line nt cats. The crv word in his younger days incensed him. een wfieu only 11 sj liable of "cataract" or "catastrophe"; and he re garded the entire feline race ns essentially ( rentures of Ihe chase, to be hunted into trees nt tfie least. And yet he wns (aught nt last to put up with the presence of a couple of kittens, who nrn tool; liberties with him. though one of them enme to nn untimely end in an-accidental sunn of Tob's great jaw', a momentary loss of equilibrium, for which Toby was sincerely penitent. on;: if his own bleed and he wns somewhat dilapidated as a result. A witness of tin fray shook his head but said. "You ought to have seen tli other dog." Whether this eouivocBtinii represented admiration for Tohj's prowess or merely consolation for bis master we t ever knew, and Toln never told. A more teirib'e frnv wns Hint with a -porcupine, one cf mnn. for Toln hated the nriiklj things nnd never left off until he killed them. This light left Toby hew bic kered with quills. cihIi bnrhed and only to lie extracted sinelv with n pair of tweezers. But Toby un.leistooil nnd. though he could not help nn occasional groan, he lay tiuitc still during 'he niinfiil. b'oodj surgical operation. One dog friendship Toby had with fi country collie, nnd mnny were their hunts tneether for field mice, the collie dis placing the stones. Toln seizing the prev and shaking it. nfter which he lost all interest, and it was the-o'lte who ate up the kill. 01 I" THR sagacity and amiabilltv nf Tob his doting remembrancer could go on for hours Hi he would unerringlj find nbRll. hidden in the house or thrown at landnni Jnto n field, with that wonderful nose of his ; bow he reasoned out a process of brineing n long stick in at a narrow irate nnd never made n mistake after: how he decided correcth a dilemma of choice be tween his master. leturned after a year of ubsence. nnd nis kind friend nnd recent enre tsker hut enough. To own another dog after Toby would be much like marrying a second time to some impossible. If it is true that one out of every eight deaths in Philadelphia is due to tuberculosis then the need for a muniripnl hospital is greater, than the need for party regularity. Some of the Hog Island cnmpnlgn man agers ought to be imported by the com mittee nf 11 thousand to put a little pep in their organization. From Alliance. Ohio, comes the story of two people killed bv eaftng cold-storage turkey. Is there any reason why a charge of homicide can't be lodged against the profiteer responsible? "Many of our generals are jokes," says Ansell. Then let the government promptly turn them over to the paragraph -crs. He is a bold man or a stupid one who can see hope In government price regulation with wheat ntaring him in the fare, Government of the packers, by the packers and for the packers finds no favor with the federal trade commission, Patterson campaigners seem io have taken Roosevelt's big stick and dipped it in pitch. The" politician who uses the American flag as a cloak should be made to show his true colors. 1 1 "NO V ' 1 mmp' mwiin hi I'TwTiirrTwiiilT irnnfgTTTt iff w1 fr -T-fVii HTfciiiIniiir J r r Tl'TiT"ff1 ! -. ffti 'TSI!HFrrOTfiff3w ' ' ' wtziurttETftf .11.11 imwmsMmumaiTwtwwwiwMwiaiw '"' '- nini'-sMfaivi.ii-r-ini -.r. sr.i .Ul'ilL. -1..L i '- VT ' "H W-f'CgJTVWg THE CHAFFING DISH That Warm Pink Sauce ON'H never knows just what will arouse the great world'-u lurking passions. Not long ago wc published a hook. Wc hnd toiled ocr it, sat up late at night matching the groan of Pine street tiolleys with groans of our own ns we swinked (to use .limmy Rich nrdson's pet word) to set down thoughts that sieuicd to us freighted with passion and poBsIvrness. riidcrncnth a somewhat flippant Mirnish wc strove valiantly to ad minister ideas and surmises, some of them our own, some of them bugged from unsus--pecting friends. ''X erj well. The book came out. And what wns it that aroused com ment and argummtV Was it our carefully compiled phllosophj. our desperately conned love episodes, our laboriously fashioned "plot V Nay, it was n (cilnin "warm pink sauce," which we hnd caused Ihe hero of the tain Io pour over a di-li wc described ns "lggs Samuel Buticr." 1 T HAT "waim pink snuie, which was a merely cnsuiil dill of the pen, hns aroused speculation nnd brought us letters from epi cures. Sir. He wood Iirouti, of the New- York Tribune, has gone o far ns to ciui u (in his waggisti wn I a "secondary hero of our humble tale. The ISooltiNaii, admirable bluestocking, has been arguing about it. Peggy Shippcn hns discussed it in a churming lightiienrted manner, and h'as publicly called upon us to tell moie nbout it. We are under the impression that the sauce wc had in mind is made of shrimps, but a lady writes to the New York Tribune to deny tins, bhc says it is 11 cream sauce colored with anchovy paste. To tell ou the truth, wc hud for gotten just what it was that wc had snid about that sauce, so we went to a bookshop this morning to buy a cop ot tne dook aim refresh our memory. Hut they told us that they had sold all their copies. Hereafter wc are going to put a bunch of iccipes in every book we write. BUT we may as well make a candid con fession about Uggs Samuel Butler. If they ure going to be u popular dish, as Peggy Shippcn is kind enough to suy, It is only just that honor should go where it is due. The description of the delicacy, as wc de vised it, was as follows: An Egg Samuel Butler may boVsum marized as a pramld, Imaiid upon to0?1 whereof the. chief masoniles are a flake of bacon, nn egg poached to firmness, a wreath of mushrooms, a cap-sheaf of Tea uennere; the whole dribbled with is. warm j, plnk'baucfl of which tbo Inventor retains tho secret Now let us hasten to say that barring the warm pink- sauce whose exact ingredients we never knew, 'but we. often encountered it in-England Uggs Samuel Butler were sug gested to us bj the delicious Eggs Edward served by Mr. Edward Laws, the geninl gas tronome in the lunch-room of the Curtis Publishing Compaii . We used to think Mr. Laws Invented Eggs Edward himself; but older riiiladelphious tell lis the delicacy wns devised by the famous Edouard, once bead waiter at the Bellevuc and then proprietor of the Hotel Edouard nt Thirteenth nnd Walnut, In nny case, it js n blithe and noirishine repast, and the Egg Samuel But ler was Imitated from it, with certain devia tions, Is This Our Subscriber? pear Socrates I would Ilka lo call jour attention, to a picturesque character. I happened to be Htnndlns at the front counter in the Ledger Slllce the other morning, when a neatly dressed elderly lady entered, gravely ut terel .several lines ot what appeared to be ven llbre, ending with "Libertee and Peace bs unto thee," and as gravely departed. A gentleman In the office, whom I asked It this lady could be the subscriber to the Chaffing Dish, said that she calls every morning at all the banks and business offices along Chestnut street nnd delivers a brief harangue, generally based' on Mr, Bykes's cartoon, which she studies In the front window of your office, He said that sl had dQne thl for yeara, but no one known who she Is. She appears a character Dickens would hae dellBjited to portray. UPIC.TETUS. No one would have supposed a jear ago, that the Spanish -American War could ever be revived ns campaign material. Some are not convinced cl. , We understand there is going to be some kind of a world series somewhere, but we are far too good a Philadelphia!! to take the least interest in it. The President's Pacific trip won't be so pacific after all, if the foreign affairs com mittee has anything to say about it. Mr. Gompers says he "knows something of t lie Jot of the actor nnd of the theatrical profession," nnd sets us wondering. Did Sam rise from the 'chorus, loo? We hope that those senators who talk so glibly about war with Japan will be the first to be called to tho colors. War is a word we are sick of, and we'd like to sec it let alone for a while. Tho President said that not ratifying the peace treaty would break the heart of tho world. This remark did not meet with much favor, so he is redlining it on more appeal ing lines. He says now tbnt not ratifying the treaty will break the world's pocket. It would take a good deal to break tho heart ofjjhe world. Tho world has seen so much sobbishncss in tho movies that it can stand many things that would have splintered mid-Victorian bosoms. The case of West Chester as a possible literary colony grows parlous, uMbcrt 5Ior dell has coufessed to us that he has thoughts of moiing out there. What hns become of the old-fashioned mngazinc that didn't offer to bring up your children for you? Hjiw nre men npd1 women e-ver to agree nbout an thing? From the very beginning their instincts 'are opposite. " Every smnll girl yearns to be old enough to pull down her skirts when she sits. Every small boy yearns to be old enough to pull up 'his trousers. The LAST OPPORTUNITY to sec Eurnno as one great battlefield Is offered by our 1010 Kail Tours. Advt. of Tourist Agency. Let's hope bo. "Under our carefully planned arrange ments," continues this tourist agency, "you will have nothing on your mjnd cxecpV to, get in comfort exactly whit jou go for." If peoph really waut to be made hnppy, and comfortable on the tragic fields where millions of men jtied in filth nnd nuguish, it seems ns though the war hnd been fought considerably in vain. Acid Ejaculation Admiral Kolchak in tho heart of Siberia must feepnlmost ns'ill at case as Admiral Grayson docs when surrounded by bluo water. The Office Girls' Uulon hns sent a charm ing delegato to us to say lhat its meinber cttes are going on strike if the new elevators continue to be built with no mirrors in them, Francis X, Bushmun's effects are being sold at nuctipu, and the cheering newn, Is handed round that "Mr.,Buulimn'8 debts arc so numerous as to preclude the. possibility of his deriving any personal benefit from the sale." , The question in our mind Is, wns that stated in order to persuade the buyers to pay more, or to pay less? The only wagesearncr who hasn't threat ened to strike if his envelope isn't 'fattened is the ono who works, hardest of all. We mean, 01 course, vt ooutot i"u. course, Woodrov Wilson. ijjVVjCtevBtKfc acw5EHS6KTl&- f7nii- . . . HOMEWARD BOUND Tbo dreadnought New- York, with Sec retary of the Navy Daniels 011 board, Is making seventeen Knots an hour between Itllo, Hawaii, and Monterey, Calif., where It will join tho main Pacific fleet. The wholo ship is sounding with Hawaiian music, scores ot ukeleles having been brought aboard by tho men. News Hem Jolly dogs, good water spaniels, Persistently and gayly, ror their chief, Josephus Daniels, Xow fivanj; the ukulele iriic tho good ship's on her icoj To the port of Monteicy Cheerily, mylads, yo ho! While the southern breeze plays wantonly nnd gnly . Among tho curls that flick jour massive neck Wo twang the jolly twiinksome ukulele And seienade you while jou walk the deck. Joseph us D. No grog wc see Because you once declared it spoiled a tnr; But this we know: Where'er you go You'll never, never know how dry we are! Your smile, Joscphus, fills our hearts with pleasure. Ypur presidential plans arc known at home; ' But, bless your heart, wc think wc have jour measure ; Though you ma'y rldo, you've never blown the foam. Because wc swear you're fair and square. You'll get the vole of mauy a jolly tar; ' But noto our strains ! the fact remains. You'll never, nevor Know how dry jv are! GRIF ALEXANDER. What Do You Know? t QUI 1, Of, wiint country is Samuel Gompers a native? ''. How many nations have ratified the peace treaty? a. Who wns tl)c god of destruction in N'orse mythology? '1, What is the meaning ot'tbc word "high", Iu the expression "the high seas"? 5. What is a firman? 0. What is luffing in nnvigntiou? 7, Who wrote the fantastic talcs ot "Tar- - tarln of Taiascon"? ' 8. What is a nexus? 0. Who was President of the United States during the Mexican War? 10. What is tho characteristic of the fur of a tabby cat? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Herbert' o! Hoover was formerly a mfn,- inircnglueer. j 2. Toronto is the second largest city in Canada. :i. Appellate; taking cognizance of appeals. An appellate court is one which hears appeals from n lower jurisdiction. 1, The'battle of Bunker Hill was chiefly fought ou Breed's Hill, Charlcstown, Mart. " 5. A'olta was a celebrated Italian scientist, ' famous for his researches-and in-renT tlons in electricity. He was born in Jomo in 1745. 0. A "lei" is a fvreath of affection and respect, with which Hnwailans honor their friends. .Originally it was made of flowers, but the usual modern "lets" are now made of yellow paper. 7. A brill is an- e'dible flat fish ressembling a turbot. 8. WiineaB was the first name of the e'how- man, Barnum, p, Thomas Jefferson was the third Prei dent 01 me unncu piuies. 1 ja cWUobhu Is the feast of puriacUoB I W k -S.m , an '' TMfr". -f : ,i ii . r A " f t- tt n
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