iW, ir if ' ' '' " 11. l&VBlriNG OTBLIO LEDGER PHIDAMLPHIA; FRIDAY, AUGUST?' 9, 911)' V IV mJTL ... , 4 f z ; IK "i I I fcrti B n- W il! r rs K to 'O 4 Tl. . ' tttemng public He&ger PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY 4 .gyrus " K. curms. psmidiht t Cnarlra ji, Lucllnrton. Vice Preside nt : John O. i ,, Martin. BecrMary and Treasurer! l'hlllp ft. Collins. ' " John 11. Wllllama John J. Ppurnccn, Directors &l KjrroniAi. EO.vnn! Croci It. K. Crnm, Chairman ,, PAVIP C. SMILEY .Editor JOHN' C. H.M1TIN. .General Cuslncaa Manase fubllahed dillr at TrBMO l.miix Hulldlnr. Independence r,iuiiro, 1'nUitdelphla. Atlantic Citi rrr.ii(o nulldlnic Nw Your 200 Jlolrorolltnn Tower I3HTBOIT 701 VnrA lltilld'nv ri 8t. Lncu inns Fullmon Itulldln Clllciao 1307 Tribunt llullJInj news bureaus: WAnisoTOM Iiciriu, N. 11. -r. Pennsylvania A", and Hth Rt. Kbit Youk 1-untuu Tin Kim liulldlne London Itotuu. . 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ESS h cxrlu lire? entitlat to the .Mr for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also ihe local news pub1hhel therein, Axt ritjht? of tepuhlicathn of special rfu paickes Serein ire also reserved, rhtladilplila, FrldiO. Aucimt 29. 10 ID "WHO'S LOONY NOW?" THAT fiicnd of Judge Patterson who attacked Congressman Moore's labor record must be regretting his action. It was quickly proved that the congressman had been a consistent friend of the work ingman, and the charge against him set men to examining the judge's labor record. The stone cutters of the city know all about it, for they took before the judge their case under the law which provides that all stone used on municipal work shall be dressed in the city by American citizens. The judge admitted the exist ence of the law, but in the contract under dispute he refused to order its enforce ment. The contractor, who had based his bid on the prices for stone cutting here, wanted to make an extra profit by having the stone dressed at the quarries, where it could be done more cheaply. The judge decided for the contractor. The higher court overruled his deci sion. But the judge was on record as an official more friendly to the contractor than to the stone cutters. The congressman may find it difficult to resist he temptation to paraphrase a famous telegram sent by John Arm strong Chaloner from Virginia to New York and ask the judge "Who's the friend of labor now?" ' WORDS TO THE UNWISE TP THE railway shopmen should strike in the face of the conciliatory letter issued yesterday by their leaders they would act without the support of public opinion. And, what is more important, they would find themselves in a crisis without the sympathy of the American Federation of Labdr. 3Ir. Gompers's influence is clearly ap parent in the tone of the message issued to the railway men by their officers, who advise the acceptance of the President's terms. The dean of trades unionism seems to have been determined to con serve the interests of the federation rather than the interests of an isolated group. And, since the railway shopmen are new in the Federation of Labor and seemingly intent on using the prestige of the general organization for a purely selfish end it is clear that Gompers is till conservative and conservative in more ways than one. THEY CAN'T CONTROL HIM TTNCLE DAVE LANE'S latest tribute U to Congressman Moore is interesting for two reasons. Mr. Lane says that "neither side wanted Hampy at the outset because they knew if he was nominated and elected he would be for Hampy Moore." This, of course, means that they knew he would bo an uncontrolled Mayor. That is what the men who are backing him have been saying and it is why they are backing him. It is interesting to have Mr. Lane admit it. , The admission is significant also be cause of the natural inference regarding Judge Patterson which forces itself upon the mind. The organization wanted a candidate who would be amenable to dis cipline. It could not control the con gressman so it selected the judge. If the unavoidable, inference from Mr. Lane's remark is pleasing U -he judge he is easily p1'" 4 VJ A "POOK MAN'S" WILL "ITTJHEN one considers the wealth An- drew Carnegie had at one time, he wa3 a poor man when he died. Ho once said that it was a disgrace to die rich. As a fortune of $30,000,000 is poverty to a man who had been worth $400,000,000 be had his wish. " The greater part of the estate disposed of by the will goes to the Carnegie Cor poration of New York. This corpora tion, which received $125,000,000 during tho lifetime of Mr. Carnegie, is chartered f to promote the advancement am! diffusion of knowledge among the people of the ' United States by aiding schools and col- leges and by encouraging scientific re search, herofunds, useful publications nd by such other means as. may seem impropriate to the trustees. It is likely that the endowment of the corporation will be raised by the will to $150,000,000. The most interesting bequests are the annuities. Mr. Taft received $10,000 a year, doubtless because of his intsrest in arbitration and universal peace. It is ' ' difficult to understand why an annuity of . j similar amount is left to the, British "" premier. Whether they will accept re- ' 'Mains to be seen. The intention is ob- "Vjously kindly. The annuities of $5000 " weh to the widows of Presidents Cleve- 0 fmA and Roosevelt are a sort of a criti- elsm onthc inadequacy of the pensions ' MUhto these women by the government. Jar,, OftriKffM evidently thought that a 1 Prcsldcnt's widow should rcceivo not less than $10,000 n year. The government pays the widows $6000. This will makes up tho balnnco of the sum. His family will not suffer, for he mado provision for them during his life, .thus accomplishing two ends. Tho first vas to save the estate tho inheritance tax and the second was to keep as a family secret the fortune of his daughter and tho dower of his widow. There will be no disposi tion to criticize him for either reason, as his public bequests have been so great that he should be immune to petty fault finding. SIDETRACKING OF MILLENNIUM GIVES GROUND FOR CHEER The War Didn't Bring It, Admiral Jelllcoe Falls to See It and the World Is to Be Congratulated on Its Escape "UfHIRRING along the cables froth ' far-off New Zealand comes a mes sage of cheer that was evidently intended to be quite the reverse. "A look around the world," moans Admiral Jcllicoe, "shows that the millennium is ns far off as ever." One can almost see the crocodile teais. The fighting man's notion of a good peace is one that is gained by n good war. Trade loyalty is a powerful senti ment. Hudson Maxim, here at home, evinced it the other day in announcing his purpose to pursue the path of discov ery in military engines. He expressed serious doubts that the human race had entered on an era of perfection. General Wood upon the same theme is profoundly skeptical. At tho mere mental picture of n flawless planet the United States Senate is stirred to its depths. But the sensation is not contagious. Is any sane or sensible individual, not talking to hold his job, really worrying about n sidetracked millennium ? Did any one but a chronic sentimentalist though these were plentiful actually believe that the world war was ushering us all into a state of painfully monoto nous Nirvana? Armed strife is intrinsically a detest able argument. The world, save profes sional militarists and those who thrive upon their perfoimances, is heartily sick of debate by biute force. That is why the Ieague-of-nations plan, despite mis placed commas or other inevitable imper fections, appeals to the practical wis dom of mankind. Whether more wuis of major caliber will be fought i a mstery like tomor row's weather. There is, however, a chance of positioning them by a work able co-operative scheme. But no guar antee of the millennium goes with that formula. Subtract from Admiral .Telli coe's pretentious utterance the hint of his instinctive predilection for a good sea scrap and it is a positive stimulant. The interrogation point is a symbol of mankind at its healthiest. In this sense it was an obsolete symbol in China for some two thousand years. China was not wondering whether a Plumb plan would work or would be too radical. China was not pondering the labor-capital query. China was not ask ing if her Wilson, on tour or at home, her Lodge, her Borah, her Taft, her Hay wood, her Walsh, her eastern manufac turers or western "nonpartisan" farm ers were right or wrong. China had art and an .exquisite formalism. She also had degradation and sodden oppression. She had not the interrogative mood. By our philosophy, at least, she had not life. Did she have the millennium? There were complacent mandarins who would virtually have admitted it. The millennium lure is an old-timer. In perhaps the datkest age of recorded history it was extremely potent. The notion that "the smoke and stir of this dim spot which men call earth" would vanish on New Year's day 1000 A. D. prevailed strongly throughout Europe. Intellectual stagnation was the prelude to the new life. Men did not think. They waited. , The wave of disappointment which swept through the Christian continent when the date came and the earth whirled on and nothing happened was akin to that in which deluded dreamers tem porarily sank after November 11, 1918. The fair, specious promises faded. More questions were asked when all should have been answered. The world fumed and stormed intel lectually in peace as it had physically in war. It was alive more alert than it had ever been to query, to investigate, 'to reflect. The mass mental energy of this ball was never so intensely fluid as it is today. Employers are actually thinking about the labor problem. Workmen discuss world politics, debate economic and so cial systems. Women are citizens, and where not yet in law at least in intel lectual quality. ' Public opinion was never so individual istically subdivided. We have had and still have original sin. Now we have original virtue, original truths, original half-truths, original sophistries. Involuntarily or otherwise, the aver age American is a better citizen than he was before the war. He knows more. He questions more keenly. The shake-up is to some extent a thing apart from actual campaign experiences. The average returned soldier is reti cent He is -pondering, whether he real izes it or not, the terrible beauties and uglinesses of modern strife. If it is sim ply a shocking enigma now, that fact need not render it meaningless ns the years roll by. Today it is the immediate aftermath of the struggle in which he and those who stayed at home are chiefly interested. "Where is your millennium now?" croaks bolshevism. If anywhere it is in the cities of Moscow and Petrograd, where arrogant, sentimental idealism rules at its maddest, where the social structure is overturned, but not the na ture of man, That develops, expands, reaches out even in the Russian blind alley. But it does not change in funda mentals. Hence a code which disregards them is anarchic, futile. Danton, Robespierre and Camilla Dea- moulip died in tho belief that tho millen nium was all but here. Their republican Franco created it by flat. The Goddess of Reason ruled. All Paris could see her. She was an actress dressed up for tho part. All Paris later saw tho "perfect" social structuro dashed to bits by Napoleon's whiff of grapeshot, saw in time a new autocrat waging a then unprecedented world war. After Waterloo many liberals despaired, set down the French Revolution and the subsequent strife as a mere bloody epi sode, full of sound, a fury, signifying nothing. Impatience and the temporary domination of the Tallcyrands, Mettcr nichs, holy alliances and most sanctified leagues for preserving monarchical "di vinity" in Europe warped that verdict. Tho emancipation of mental processes resulting from the international agony was incalculable. Europe was never the same from tho day of the tennis-court oath. It was, in a way, Waterloo which was the isolated episode, not the revolu tion. Stormy times and disillusionment even for those who arc not looking for human infallibility are ahead. It is only the Rollos, the Elsie Dinsmores, the Candidos and the Pollyannas who decree sweetness and light where all is lusty vigor and healthy, tempestuous energy. It is sickening coldly to consider whether the results of the war are com pensation for the cruelty, waste and tragedy. But it spared us one thing. It shoved away the millennium farther than over. And l educed to a stimulating de gree the ranks of the lazy-minded. It is possible that even Admiral .lellicoc was not so cosmic in his factitiously gloomy views before 1914. THE RETURN TO REASON TN CAMDEN and its environs the Public Service Corporation has begun what it blithely calls a campaign of education to harden the people to the nine, eleven, thirteen and fifteen cent trolley fares soon to be general under the recent as tonishing decree of the state utilities commission. Pamphlets and painted poles and an elaborate system of new regulations, as well as remodeled equipment, are neces sary provisions for the new zone-faro system. But in view of wnat is happen ing elsewhere to the Interborough in New Yoik, to food gamblers in Chicago, to strikers who have lost their heads and to a lot of other jazzers in the high cost dance one cannot but wonder whether the street-car companies in New Jersey ought not to organize a campaign of education not for the public, but for themselves. Food producers, a good many trolley corporations and some ofthe more radi cal trades unionists are, curiously enough, in the same boat. They come too high. The people are in a mood to regard them as luxuries that may be dis pensed with in a pinch. This was demon strated yesterday when meat prices be gan to tumble in Chicago. Cattle were left unbought in the pens. Speculators lost heavily in a panic. Reports proved that meat purchases in retail markets were being rigorously curtailed. Tho buying public had merely reached the limit of its endurance. Who knows that the rule which is operating simultaneously to defeat un reasonable strikes and throw the food market into a swift decline will not operate to biing confusion to street-car lines operated on the theory favored in New Jersey? If Mr. Mitten's theories of street railroading are sound and they seem to be the increases in trolley rates granted by the Jersey utilities commis sion are not only unnecessary, but un wise. The new zone rates announced for the Camden district will certainly divert a great deal of suburban traffic to the steam lines. They will encourage the jitney systems. And unquestionably they will cause a vast number of people to walk. It has yet to be demonstrated whether a schedule of rates that has brought dis like and disfavor to the street-car cor poration and lessened its usefulness to the community may even be depended upon to return increased revenues. There is nothing to prove that the Public Serv ice Corporation ever tried a thorough re organization of its system and scientific improvements and economies as methods to meet an increasing financial obliga tion. It never tried to develop the Mit ten policy of bigger business and smaller profits. It took the easier course and demanded higher fares. In this course the trolley corporations have been acting upon a theory demonstrated recently in some conspicuous strikes'. Bricklayers in this city, for example, who are holding out for a dollar and a quarter an hour are not unlike the man agement of Camden's trolley service. It does not seem to nave occurred 10 mem that builders" would gtadly pay that wage if they could get the public at large to shoulder the burden. The pub lic will not shoulder that burden nor will it bear the weight of demands made in Chicago by striking carpenters who want a dollar an hour. It will not because it cannot. The people will retrench. They will live in old houses and crowd in re stricted quarters to wait a return of -reason. Similarly they will use less meat. They will buy fewer shoes if they have to pay exorbitant prices. And they will walk "short riders" especially instead of riding in trolley cars. The expected has happened. The crest of the high cost of living has been reached. Any one who tries to go over and beyond it has a long fall coming to him. - Doubtless Scnntep Vare is dissatisfied with the quality of the supplies the director is handing him. i - There are apparently no boundaries in the Balkans that belligerents feel bound to respect. It Is to be hoped that the railway shopmen will be guidtd by "sober second thought." ' The chances are that Robins will vin dicate Patterson's declaration that knockerB never win. The railroad .maladministration scored another mark to its discredit. has JIMMY FRANKLIN'S TRIP Legislator Had Charge of Party, ln eluding Jim McNIchol, Joe Klertv mer and Charlie Sener, Bound for Carson City Wound Up In City of Mexico By OKOHOK NOX RIcCAIN TJON'. JAMBS FRANKLIN, better known - to a whip circle of friends as "Jimmlc," member of the Inst LeeMnturc and for years scrgcant-at-arms of Common Council, wai once a member of a tourist party that Rtarted for San Francisco, never reached there, but instead wound tip in tlie City of Mexico. The ordinal purpose of the party was to attend the Shnrkey-Fitzslmmons fight at Cnrson City, then co on 4o San Francisco. Included In the number were "Jim" Mc XM10I, "Joe" Klemmer. "Charlie" Soger nml half n dozen other kimlred.sRplrits and lending lights in Philadelphia's political world. Frnnkllti wns to linve charge of the party nml nil of the arrangements. He spent nlgliN and dn.vs estimating costs, consult ing rnllrond timetables nml figuring out dolnilx. 1 The hnrder lie figured the higher the ex police nrrnunt rlimlied. At this juncture Chnrlos V. Kindred, then general agent nml rliief lobbyist for the Read ing llnilrond, ambled on the Rcene. He had long intended giving i-onip of the "boys" a trip, lie said. He would furnish the enr nml transportation if the voyagers would furnish the rest. Thev started, but instead of getting to the prize-fight in Snn l'rnncisro they wound up in the City of Mexico. Kindred proposed the Mexirnn trip ns n variation. They hadn't been in the City of Mexico more than n couple of dn.vs. "Jlmmic" declares, until McXicliol wanted to start back. He was homesick for Philadelphia. 0 They put it to n vote. and McXicliol was th only otc in its fnvor. ft wns some trip. The pnrty spent three dnjs in Cincinnnti inspecting the breweries. TOIIX IC. MCCARTHY, looking healthier and happier thnn for years, is today some where between the oceans speeding westward to the island of sunshine nnd old missions, California. Just before he started he told me that he hnd fnllen in love with California. He hns spent the Inst two winters there, nnd the climnte nnd the physical rest have been to him like n fountain of jnutli. And John K. McCarthy is. no youthful personage be it known, though just how far be ond sixty his years stretch is a matter that need not be discussed here. He looks ten Tears )oimger thnn he renlly is. John wns the right-hand man of the late Mayor Charles V. Warwick, acting both as personal legal counsel nnd friend. Of lnlc )onrs he hns led the quiet life of n real estate assessor. When he resigned, he tells me, lie had rounded out just thirty-six continuous years in office in this city. TX A cominitteeof eleven on Masonic homes -- of the Ornnd Lodge of Pennsylvania five arc1 Phlladelpliians or, by virtue of their Masonic oflice, are temporarily located here. They nie James B. Kranse. Orand Master Masonic Temple; former Judge Abraham M. Beitler. II. W. Senior Ornnd Wnrden ; R. W. Past Orand Master J. Henrv Williams; Kdwnrd W. Pntton, R. W. Junior Warden, with Oeorge P. Knight, secretary. I mention this becnne there are some very interesting facts that have just been published in a modest way, by direction of the aboo gentlemen, concerning the Masonic Homes nt I'liznbothtown in Lancaster county. The property embraces in round num bers 1000 ncic. It is the largest property in the world devoted to this purpose. There nrc about 000 acres under cultivation; eight) -three acres of orchards, fifteen acres of a vegetable garden and five acres of vinc yurd and nursery. In the orchards there nre 2200 apple trees, L'lSO pencil trees, 312 cherry trees, 2000 nut bearing trees, in nddition to l.'OO wnlnut trees nnd 1000 grape vines. The rcervoir hns a copneUy of 1.500,000 gallons of wnter. In the dairy there nre sixty-nine cows. There is n flock of seventy nine sheep besides 170 pigs nnd 1G00 chickens nnd thirteen colonies of bees. The instil anco of nil kinds on the build ings nnd contents exceeds SROO.000. It is the most beautiful and unusual in stitution of its kind on the western hemi sphere. Last year these homes cntertnined all told nbout 310 guests, fifty-three of whom were boys nnd girls. piIARLL'S J. HEPBURN, who has figured -' conspicuously in recent conferences with Attorney Oeneral A. Mitchell I'nlmer and Hounrd Heinz on the most effective way to dnm the flood of food profiteering that is sweeping over Pennsylvania, is a representa tive in the fourth generation of a family of law.icrs in this state. He came up from the Cumberland valley to Philadelphia, about twenty-three years ago. He hnd finished up in the law school of Columbian (now Oeorge Washington) University, at Washington, and selected Philadelphia ns the place where he would "dig in." His father was a leader of the bar of Cumberland county. His great uncle was on the bench of the Xinth judicial district for years. His great-grandfather on flic maternal side was a justice of the Supreme Court about ninety jears ago. 'The Hcpburns in the legal line nre about what the Drews are in the theatrical pro fession. They hand down their talents from father to son. Charles J. Hepburn has a Ron, still in knickerbockers, whom lie is educating to follow in the footsteps of his forefathers. TjlVERY afternoon around 1 o'clock a neatly dressed your fellow with Mon golian features walks leisurely doVvn Fif teenth street and enters the Western Union Building. His name is Lee Bow, and lie is the only , Chinese telegraph operator, so far as I have heard, in the United States. There may be one or two on the Pacific coast, but there is none in the East. , Lee Bow has been working as a telegra pher for nearly two years. He learned the business in thU city. He is a modest, low voiced, unassuming young man, who do"esn't weigh more than 110 pounds, if that. Before he was a telegrapher he attended Temple College for nearly four years. His father, Lee Yeung, returned to China last May after a residence in this country of thirty-five years. His uncle, Lee Wong, was known to every newspaperman, artist and gastrono ne in this city a dozen years ago. His sobriquet was "Chnrlie" and, with two partners, lie kept a restaurant on Race street that was famous for thirty Tears. Lee Wong's son, a student in a school , outsiue rmiaueipnia, was Dugier 01 CIS com pany at Camp Dix, but did not succeed in getting to the other side. Lee Bow's ambition, he tells me, Is to become an expert telegrapher j "one of the best," ns he puts it. If the political brlckthrowers would join the striking bricklayers the campaign would take on more dignity. , That was quite a nice little boost TTneli. 1 Pave sate Hampy. THE CHAFFING DISH Home Thoughts From France By MacKnlght Black V. S. Xaval Correspondent of The Chaffing Dish (Mr. Black, now a yeoman in ihc trans port service, tens n Jiarrnrtl undergraduate ichen the war began. He enlisted in tlic ranks.) " V. S. S. Marica, Brest, Aug. 14. TITE'VU ben lying here in the harbor for " two weeks waiting for 11 load of. troops to take borne, nnd it looks as though there might be sonic more of the name before wc head back for the States. I've been lucky enough to get a trip to Paris and the front in the meantime, though ; live of the busiest days I ever spent, full of color and ntmos pherc and activity. And the greatest of these was activity. Partly because I think you might be interested, but mainly, 1 fear, to amuse myself this idle afternoon, I'm going to throw a few impressions. THE healing shell-holes that begin to scar the fields along tho railroad tracks not far out of Pnris on the wny to Chateau Thierry and Rheims arc all one needs to realize how terribly near to the capital the bodies were. The Marnc, mystic word, is in truth a titled canal I'm nfrnid we would cnll it a "crick." All along its windings, the valley and hillsides make a tnn and green patchwork of wheat and clover and low-cut grape arbors, strewn hero and there with shattered gray -brown villages and scarred "everywhere with the sinister marks of old shells. The villages are a dingy tan. with roofs off, crumbling, curiously torn walls, and hnvc the stoical fateful look of all shot-up places. This same ldok, an inheritance from a war ring past, heightened by the last four years, seems to have got into the eyes of all the French men and women one sees. They arc children of fateful and glorious hardship, whom nothing cun shake Itheiins is a collection of the bhot-up towns along the way, but with its great cathedral looming up like n venerable battered dignitary of the past, tan, dusty-looking, .chipped rather than smashed, nnd preserving nil the out raged personality of the coronation-place of kings. The general impression of Rheims is of a thoroughly crushed pottery vase, ij'ing in the dust of Its fall thirteen houses out of 14,000 untouched. . OUTSIDE Rheims, on the front toward Soissons, the trenches along the road nnd across the fields are gray and dry and beginning to fall in. The groups of buildings out in this part are completely knocked down to the first story powdery, gray, grotesque masonry with an occasional sign of "Com merce de Vins"or "Boueherie" to tell of a former existence in a happier world. The typical war landscape stretches oft from the road, brown, btubbly, snnrsc growtlw bris tling with rusty barbed-wire zig-zagglng about on wooden or curieu-iron posts, cur. by pallid healing trench-scars, to a Blight rise in the distance with shattered shafts and stumps of trees against the horizon injplift tered symbolic shapes. Through tlte fields the flame-red blotches of poppies, blue this tles and daisies nod among the shell-holes and peer down into the old grim trenches. MONT CALIFOltNIE, near Craonne, was . in the heart of the Chemin des Dames struggle of the spring of 1017, and the fight ing here between the French and the Kron prinz's troops was so severe that even the shortest "popular" history gives it a line or two. California's broad maimed sumgiit with Its rambling nnd intersecting sand bagged trenches and solid dugouts littered with every sort of explosive and equipment, wUh bits of shrapnel scattered over its surt (ace like nut fragments in an icing, glres one an incredibly superb panorama of shell torn land below, rising away to distant splintered-ridgea. God ! The intoxication in this empty dried-out cask of war To stand Jn a trenth and peer oyer1 a parapet of Band br gs and-fe far below miles of green. brown country, white roads twisting through splin trd woods aa4 torn field, distant emm- A REAL THRILLER bling villages and far slopes crowned with gaunt ghpsts of trees. Just one bitter hill on the long hard front, almost impregnable, yet changing hands half a dozen times what a symbol of indomitable and wasted life! On a smoothed-out stretch of this scarred, agonized hilltop is a little cemetery of French and German graves, neat and soldier-like nnd still as the quiet earth at the dawn of the ages. There they know peace and arc quiet, oberlcutnant and private, comrade and foe, and have an end to their bitterness. Blue helmets laid on a few of the graves give an amazingly intimate and pathetic touch, ns though they hnd been tossed aside before tired men lay down to sleep. 9 Wn CAME back to Pnris by another wuy along the Ourcq through Fi3mes and Meaux, through some of ithc most lovely country in France. A few miles and wc had come from burning to beauty. Here was an afternoon sunlit world of golden wheat, standing, gathered in sheaves, marshaled against a background of flowing fields nnd trees, billowing like low-lying summer clouds of green. The poplars, trimmed high from the ground, stood in sweeping ranks along the smooth sky-reflecting river, giving an unbelievably perfect look to the landscape, as though it were laid out in miniature or in a stage-setting. The late afternoon sun light heightened this effect, for of all the lights of the day that of the low sun gives to the world its most enchanting aspect, that fleeting atmosphere of immoitallty and hope and poetry which hoers for a moment about the old, ever-changing surface of the land. Towns and small cities of an almost super municipal beauty flowed past, serene in the gold sunshine and green shadow of the perfect affivnoon, letting the river wind among their gray, red-roofed houses or standing aloof in sweet content. E VEXING Pnris. Sitting near the darkly glowing Seine aud in sight of 'the lights and movement along the Champs Elysees, I fell to thinking of the world ond the cities" of it and the nations and what they have ever been and yet may be. And I was glad to be an American, to bear America's faults and crudities for the snke of her dear youth in the heart of the New World. In our country the "XeV World" has an anachron istic ring, but from the Old World we see more clearly and feel how vitally new our country is, how gloriously vigorous and whole-hearted and foolish and hopeful and young. And so, as for all the youth of the world, we say a short unanxious prayer for guidance and, in the years to be, a serene maturity. Thence home and to bed, as S. Pepys would conclude the day. TnE admirable fact that Paris is not built to great and uneven heights like our cities and is much more given to open spaces and magnificent public squares lets some thing of the freshness and poignancy of oun tryair blow through the early-morning heart of the city. On Sunday morning I had a ridiculously sublime breakfast in one of those open-air cafes that give on the flood of sun light and moving color in the square outside, spread before one llko the gayest, most lov able and moving tapestry in the world; a breakfast of light and color and eternal morning, and, more materially, of an ome lette and chocolate and bread and confiture, A breakfast, rightly partaken of, is in very truth a feast of the soul just bathed in the cool depths of sleep of all the fears and cares of yesterday, and throbbing for an immense today and the far horizons of in numerable tomorrows. Add to this a dash of morning hunger and the world is yours, or all of It that you will ever require. The latest compromise suggested in the actors' strike is that the producers shall pay for the costumes of the chorus. So cheap a concession as this will surely not 'dismay the managers. ' The government now plays its last trump card in the treaty battle The attorney gen eral says that wartime prohibition will con tlnue until the treaty is signed, ,80083:884 n THE CENTAUR OF THE SKY TN DAYS of old the Centaur bold, J- Half man, half horse, appeared, A concentrated Hercules, With curly hair and beard. We read of hlin in olden tales, Of times when earth was young, And thought him nothing but a myth, By ancient poets sung. But sec! above the silver clouds, In weather foul or fair, At dizzy speed behold n steed, Careering through the air. Half human, half machine, it soars, In spaces far and high The airplane wonder of the world ' And Centaur of the sky: Minna Irving, in New York Herald. It is significant that sixteen allied trndes orgnnizntions have voted disapproval of the 1500 local bricklayers who are striking in violntion of an agreement they nre Bald to have signed. The obligation of a pledged word holds good still whether it affects a labor union 'or an employers' association. And while' the politleianTare fussing it is well to remember that the percentage of destitution is less than it ever was and that the one remedy for oil existing evils is hord work and plenty of it and just a little" more economy than we are practicing. President Wilson could do much to help II. C. of L. victims by firing the postmaster general aud putting in office a man who would extend the parcel post system. The sale of surplus army goods showed how. Fate is working for the Moores thes days. In the Hog Island contest, Moore, Pa., won the sponsor for today's launching. The' Apology Club ought to call a meet ing for lie discussion of the first day's registration. Wliat Do You Know? .,! QUIZ 1. Who served as chairman of the war council of the American Red Cross? 2. What Is the legend of a coin? 3. Who is the present shah of Persia? 4. What side in a European parliament or legislature does the term "left" de- scribe? 5. What is the correct wording of the quo- , ' tatlon generally given as "All the world loves a lover"? fe 0. Who was the god of the lower regions in classical mythology? 7. What is the significance of the word ! "Selah," which appears at the end of ' so many of the Psalms? 8. Where are the Falkland Islands? 0. What rank in the army did WilllamV McKlnley attain before he became President? 10. Who was the "Bard of Twickenham"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Samuel Gompers was born in England. 2. Three countries Germany, Great Britain and Belgium have ratified the peace treaty. 3. Lokl was the god of destruction in Norse mythology. 4. Thetvord "high" in the expression the "high seas" has the sense of "chief,'' ""principal." C. Flraan: an Oriental sovereign's edict grant, license, passport. 0. Luffing la bringing a ship's head nearer the wind. 7, Alphonse Dnudet wrote the fantnitlc tales 01 xartann or xarascon." 8. Nexus : bond, link, connection. 0. James IC. Polk was President of the United States during the Mexican War. 10, A tabby cat has brindled,- mpttled ' tl streatcea lur, especially of a, rtay ft' , , " " "7CTr-,r ' TV,: "I Is, - - C J" -. " -JVi n JJ 1& ' r - ?t. V 4-; Vs av .4)
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