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In t int unuea siaiea, lanacin, o" united Htaies po" .i.s )L aesalnns. nmlnr frc. flflv IFiOl .nh n.r tnnnlh. asU-,($Q) dollars per year, payable In advance To all forelrn corntrles one (SI' dollar ivr month. JfOTic- Subscribers wlslilnff address ihanKPd inuat clve Old as well ns new address. BEIA, 3000 WALMT r.EVSTONE. SI I.N 3000 'VZ? Address all comn u ticattan-i lo F -m 10 Publio ledger, Indipcndenco Sq uurt rhilad lpha . Member of the Associated Press Q'HE ASSOCIATED PRESS is ctcI tifietir entitled In the use for leptiblmilion 6 all news dispatcher credited In it nr tint 'otherwise credited in litis papei, mil also the toctil tieirs p'lblishel therein. AM right.' of repuhllrathn of special dis patches herein nc nlso i nerved. Plidjdrlplila. Thur,i).. .rlrmtr 4. ISI9 OF COURSE fTUIE indorsement of Conyiessman - Moore for the mayoralty by, the pies ident of the Vessel Ovviiets and Captains' Association comes a, a mattcy of course. The members of this association know that no man has done more for them in a generation that the eonpre.ssmnn. lie has fought early and late for the im provement of the channel of the Dela ware, in order that it may be made not only deep enough for laipe craft, but safe for all ships that use it. And every blow that the conEiessman has struck for a better waterway lias been a blow for the expansion of the business of this town. This is why the business of the town is .supporting him. MERCIER'S MIGHT pARDlNAI, MKIICIEU, now en loute for America, will be in a position to Teveal many informing facts about the "war. But his mere presence will symbol ize; the most striking trutli of all the ineffectual! ty of biute foico as con trasted with undaunted spiritual courage. Brand Whitlock in his admirable nar rative of the martyrdom of Belgium fur nishes repeated instances of the patriotic ,. prelate's exemption from the cruel pun ishment inflicted by the German con querors upon the enslaved nation. Phys ically the cardinal was defenseless. Yet Von Bissing, despite threats and at "tempted bullying, never touched him. The primate wielded the sword of truth andvstainless patriotism. Not even the general staff could combat such rapier ihrusts. America will be proud to pay tribute tthis highest typo of coinage. CAMDEN'S FAVORITE SON ""T SHALL have a bully good tune," said Admiral Henry Baird Wilson last April as he set out to visit his home in Camden, N. J., "but I am awfully sorry 'Hampy' Mooie won't bo there. 'Hampy' and I aie old friends. We went to school together in the late seventies and I have a high regard for his friend ship." The admiral's prophecy came true. He had a bully good time. He made the -Sv journey to visit his mother, eighty-seven t ' Shears old, and the whole town turned out to' greet him. But when a town has one of it baie foot boys turned into an admnal of the fleet it can't be expected to be able to do him sufficient honor on one occasion. Camden has another good time coming. On Saturday Camden will have a peace jubilee to welcome home the man uho was commander or the Atlantic fleet (faring the war. Theie will be a paiade, which the admirar will teiew fiom the headquarters of the Ninth Ward Repub lican Club, and veteians of the Twenty ninth and Seventy-eighth Divisions will march, as will men from every industrial , plant in the city. And it mav be that Ms friend, "Hampy" Moore, will tear him self away from the exciting joys of the yoralty campaign long enough for a owdy on the other side of the Delawaie. We hope the admiral will have the hully time herlong ago expected and which he well deserves. He has done honor to the city of his birth. Camden does honor to itself in doing honor to him. WHAT PATTERSON MUST GAIN "nYERY one is wondering just how eJ-J many votes the Organization can poll for the slated candidates at the primary election a week from next Tuesday. The oply way to judge of the futuie is by an examination of what has happened in the "past. Fortunately we have a recent ex hibition of the strength of the Vare or ganization when it exerted itself to its utmost. This was in the May primaries of last year, when John R. K. Scott was a candi- K "date for the nomination for lieutenant governor against Beidleman. Mr. Scott ' trne of the pet leaders of the local Or- fotfi jaiflization. He was sent to the Legis- I :Si(; o hd oj'ijtcouiuii jii Miu UOUSe '&iftk he had been defeated for the lieu "ttnt governorship. Jf he were to be '.WBa-ainaU'd for the lieutenant governor .lihifk it was necessary for the Vares to '' brine their full strength to bear iruhU KgWBfrt at theijiimaries here in order to (art the Beippun vote up the state. fcJfc generally believed that every Vare jfiMwer who could be brought to the x?k, voted. Tho total primary vote for . ihfl two men, Beidleman and Scott, was J.79,383. Scott received 97,374 of these p of 'Vptw and Beidleman received 82,009. I The Scott vote was generally admit- ierj to. represent the maximum strength riljjthp Vare organization. Judge Pat-'iir-tvM? iran count on receiving this fuj vote of 07174. Whether be will "poll any more no one knows, but he is reasonably sure of thatnumber. But on the first two days of registra tion 270,000 Republican voters have already qualified for voting at the pri mary. It is probable that at least that number will vote, and it js c ident that the Organization leadeis cannot nomi nate Judge Patterson unless they have grown 30,000 to 10,000 votes stionger than thev were when they put all their, strength back of Scott. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WHEN THE MOTIVE IS GOOD f. This Is Why the Government Can Con solidate Railroads Wnen the Finan cial Bandits Couldn't VTEVKK was it better illustrated that - the quality of nn net depends on its motive than in the Cummins plan for solving the uiilioad problem. The outstanding feature of the plan is the consolidation of all the rail loads of the country into twenty or twenty-live systems operating in the same nuinbei of districts. When the uiilioad manageis tiicd to bring about such consolidations m the past thej weie attacked in the courts on the charge of violating the anti-trust laws. No one disputed the benefits of the consolidations to the railroad companies. and it was admitted that the public serv ice might be impioved; but the improve ment of the public service was not the motive of the would-be consolidator.-. They legaided nulioads not as transpoi tat ion agencies, but as pirtexts for issu ing shaies cf r-toek to be sold to the pub lic. Then prime business was not carry ing passengeis and fi eight, but speculat ing on the stock exchanges. The railroads today aie suflering in public esteem because of the legacy left by the financial bandits who overcapital ized weak loads and unloaded the stock upon unsuspecting investors or played football with it upon the exchanges. The Cummins plan is de ised pumaiily m the public interest. The lailroads m the aiious districts are to be consolidated with a total capitalization not to ex ceed their value, and this capitalization is to be fixed under the scrutiny of a fed eral boaid. Whatever objection may be raised against it. the primary puipose of the plan is to impioe the railioad set vice for the benefit of the people. Whethei it will woik in that way is an other question. The Cummins bill also prohibits strikes and lockouts. It is assumed that the pub lic has a vital interest in the regular opciation of the roads and that anything which will interfeic with that regular operation is to be prevented. This as sumption is well founded. The gieat cities would be l educed to staivation within a week if the railroads which sup ply them with food weie tied up by a general strike. No gioups of men should have the power to take the country by the throat and hold it until their grievances aie settled. Some other way to ledress wrongs must be found. The plan suggested foi keeping the roads in operation is eompulsoiy arbi tiation ol all disputes. A boaid contain ing an equal numbei of representatives of the employes and of the owners of the roads is to consider disputes about wages and hours of woik. If the board cannot agiee, then a federal boaid is to decide, and its decision is final. ' This is just as much in the interest of the workers as of the public, for it pie vents the waste of a strike and insures to the workers continuous employment under conditions which a fair-minded commission decides to be just. If any man is displeased with the award he may leave his employment, but h mav not conspire with others to leave simul taneously, nor may he prevent otheis from taking the place which he vacates. The workeis are still further protected by a piovision that they shall be repre sented by two members on the boaid of dnectois of each company, and also by a provision that one-half of the earnings above a fair return on the investment shall be used for their betterment. The stockholder of the roads aie pio tected by a piovision that the rates shall be fixed so as to yield a fair leturn upon the money invested. They aie also to be allowed a period of seven years in which to bring about the consolidations of their properties into the separate groups of railioads in the different parts of the country. Theie is no doubt that the plan will be bitterly attacked by those who have ad vocated a different solution of the prob lem. The fact that it embodies features of the plan of the security holders, the plan of the railway executives and the Plumb plan will not exempt it from criti cism. But the average citizen is interested in it only o far as it will affect the inter ests of the public. He knows that the railroad employes and the railroad share holders have rights that must be re spected, but he knows also that those rights aie subordinate to the rights of the public. The primary purpose of a lailroad is to carry passengers and freight. It re ceives a franchise from the government to do this service under general public supervision. Its owners are the trustees of the public in fact as well as in theory. The Pennsylvania, the Reading and the Baltimore and Ohio roads have been allowed to lay their tracks through this city not to increase the profits of the owners of these roads, but to serve public convenience. The people do not forget this, even though the railroad managers and operatives may sometimes act as if they hever knew it. So tho first thing the people want to know about the Cummins plan' is what it does for them. They will be interested to discover that, besides providing for consolidation of existing lines and for compulsory arbitration of wage disputes, it continues the arrangement for common use of terminals when necessary and for the diverting of freight from one line to another by a government board when one line is congested an arrangement which was made by the federaWirector-of rail- KraiOTGP PUBLtC LlipIDEHILiVDELPHIA, "roads soon after the government took over the lines as" a war measure. If its proposers can convince Congress that no better plan can be found, then it is likely to be adopted and put into effect. But it will have to stand up against as severe a barrage as has been directed against the peace treaty, a barrage di rected by doctrinaires on the one hand and by selfish interests on the other. MR. MOORE MUST EXPLAIN JOHN R. K. SCOTT so far forgot 'the " "inteiests" of his city that he ac tually once trudged up Capitol Hill during the third session of tho Sixty fifth Congress and took his scat in the House of Representatives during a roll call. Perhaps his visitation was inadver tent. The light that has been turned on the congressional rollcall figures estab lishes the fact that .1. Hampton Moore answeicd "present" ninety-six times to .Mi. Scott's isolated uttciance in the same session. Philadelphians are well aware how ab soibing Organization politics are to those who profit by them. Citizens who interpret fidelity as unwavering atten tion to the interests of the bosses will forgive Mr. Scott for his single trip to Washington. On the whole he has con centrated upon affairs at home. But what will be said of Mr. Moore and his subservience to duties on the ways and means committee, the war levenue legislation committee and his assiduous leg.nd for matters of vital concern to both the Philadelphia and the gcneial public? His contempt for the kind of subjects which so engrossed Mr. Scott that lie was loath to leave town is strik ingly obvious. Mi. Vare answeied lollcall thirty-seven times during the last session; Mr. Cos tello four times. None of Philadelphia's six congressmen nor her two congress-men-at-large were seen so frequently in the House as Mr. Moore. Plainly it is up to the anti-conti actor candidate for Mayor to explain why he was so active. The exposure which the V'are.s have made must constitute in the minds of all who put private interests and municipal loot befoic the general welfaie a solemn indictment of the legis lative career of J. Hampton Moore. THE COMING CUNARDERS rpHE Cunard Line's piomise of passen--- ger traffic with this poit cariies a double implication. The plan for the new service is proof positive of the commei cial importance of Philadelphia. But the piojcct leflects in the old familiar way upon our prevailing hesitation in mer cantile marine affairs. It is a sign of progress that ships flj ing a foieign flag denote a realization of our commercial possibilities. It would, however, be a far better index of our cn terpiise did we realize some of these golden chances ourselves. It has been many a yeai since Ameii can passenger vessels plied between Philadelphia and Europe. Ships of for eign registry monopolized the . business after the rotiieme.pt of the oiiginal American Line quartet, consisting of tho Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. If the Cunaid invasion, which is heart ily welcomed, spurs us to overcome our chionic laxity it will mail; a notable day in oui shipping log. Business makes business. Trade makes tiade. The poit will not leally be leawakened until for eign and native transatlantic lines are engaged in healthy competition. HAPPY JAILS! THERE will be no mass-meetings and no indignant memorials to the Gov ernor because the pusoners at the East ern Pcnitentiaiy have been complaining shrilly about their food. The leisured guests of Waiden McKenty have been. a long time out of this haiassed world. They cannot know what it is like. They would be the Inst to admit that to be leally caiefree and safe nowadays one has to go to jail. In jail theie is no woiiy about the high cost of living. Nor is there con cern about a winter coal" supply and twenty-five dollar shoes. One is not evqn overworked. From a safe retreat he may sit, warmed, fed and clothed, and watch fevered humanity pass in these days of trial. Mr. McKenty said that his men arc better fed than the soldiers were. This is doubtless tiuc. And a wise citizenry isn't likely to be agitated about the com forts of a class which it supports in a state of peace which formerly was the cherished piivilege of the elect of the earth. Ambrose M Siiennun, Amhiose M. isbcr- n citv fiicinaii, while man, Hero in France drugged a MiUlitr to safety iIiiourIi n galling artillerj barrage anil then gave his blood to save his romriule's life. Here in Philadelphia lie once submitted to having twelve squares of skin taken from his body to grnft on the body of a man seriously burned iu a gasoline explosion. Today Mrs. Catherine White. In the CnivciMty of Penn sjlvani.i Hospital, owes her life lo the fact tiiui he gave n quart and a half of his blood to liei. One of the dictionary definitions of it hero is "a man admired for his achieve ments and noble qualities. ' Ambrose M. Sherman qualifies. The Piesidenl's labor mesN.ige and the letter earners' plen inn'i lie sung to the same tune. The Leviathan is now on her nay with a Black Jack in her hip pocket. Chorus girls and musicians of Madrid, Spain, have formed n labor union. Xovv watch out for the bulls. The Austrian delegation lias doubtless, by this time made the acquaintance of the dotted line. The food and gut cor for which Cardinal Mereier, in behalf of Belgium, thanks us was but a slight return for tho debt we, with the rest of the world, owe a brave country. Somewhere in the 1'nited Stages, out side the WhitP House, perhaps, Burleson has a friend, but his identity has not, yt been disclosed. I When Otto Kahn gets through with "our unscientific excess profits tax" lie doesn't leave any of it for his suggested Federal Bureau of Balrxge, THE GOWNSMAN TIII3 GOWNSMAN'S OWN GHOST STOIt THIS tale ought to be dedicated to the Na tional or Intel national Soeiclv for Psychic Research, for it is of such stun' aa their dreams nic. 1 tell it precisely as I remember it, which is not always in these cases exactly the same thins ns precisely as it happened. However. I can vouch for the verity of each detail. Only the name of the ghost has been altered. The scene is Itelluno. n village on l.ago Miiggiore. ordinarilv charming at this par ticular time, ihnuidi in Angus! coaked In a pniod of ptotraeteil rain. There were four of us. two of them children. Comfortably housed in n little hotel on the lake front, we watched the showers as they cast and withdrew their veils over the fsola Bella out lo the lake in front of ns mid waited pinjcrfully for better weather lo piocecdou our journey by boat, our ptuposc. a vIbU to our Cousin Tobias in Locarno. Early on one of these dripping, mornings the Gowns man was shaving at the open window of his loom when one of the children inn in with the news. "Cousin 'robins' has .Hist gone up the stieet. Look out at the window. He is not out of sight yet ! ' Anil looking out lo the right, some JOO jnids down the stieel. which inn parallel with the lake shore uns a lallish figure under a greenish iiiiibiella, his bnck tinned, moving nvvay with that unmistakable biinvniit stiide which wo have always so admired in a man of Cousin Tobias's age. The familiar long, tan -colored laglnii. which he affected, dangled from side to side ns he walked and I thought I caught a glimpse, under the cquallv characteristic gray sombrero, of bis long white hair, of which the old gentleman was inordinately pioud and which would have done credit to King Loar or Walt Whitman It was as Miitdly Cousin Tobin,s mine to meet us He vn iu one of his wnndoiing moods nnd even the bad weather toiild not deter him 1 hastened into my clothes, hurried down the stieet. which led me very shortly into open country. Hut I could not overtake or It ml Ii mi. and a fisherman, mending bis nets under the eaves of a house which I passed, declaied that he had been there tvyo hours and that no such person as I described had passed that way. an appeal to his neighbors bringing certain acquiescence in that state nient. IT WAS stiange but we sn down to break fast. Soon after, the other child, who was lolling nt the window, cried out, "There goes Cousin Tobids now ,1 know him bv his cloak!'' We rushed to 'the window and all of us saw Jnovv to the left of us. the back turned as before, the same figure, about as far off, striding buovnntl.v away in the op posite direction, the t.tn raglnn dangling under the (hipping gieenish umbrella, a glimpse of the white hair beneath the wide brimmed sombrero. Clearly the wandering til was upon oilr old kinsman. So much indeed did he love to go up and down his be loved Switzerland that we had provided him with a universal ticket excellent provi sion for the "wanderlust" of old age b.v which he could Havel nm where by any boat or train within the bounds of the little re public. It was quite like him to go off whenever the mood too't him. at n moment's notice "This time." snid T. "I'll get him," and I uished down n flight of stairs within the hotel to be greeted, as I emerged at the door, with n chorus of tluee fidm above nt the window "He went into the little wine shop, opposite the pier!" To the wine shop I hurtled, looking about as 1 went. In the shop was a half-grown boy. polishing glasses nnd no one else. Nobody had come in, and two old cronies, already -absorbed in dominoes in the arbor, just outside of the house and barely escaping the dropping enies. had seen "N'essiino. signorc, ncsstiiio." CriilUI S Iiul Cousin Tobias bad a habit of darling in and out of places into which no tourist would go: for he knew and loved these Italian peasant folk Hnd had long spent his winters aiming them, migrating noith over the Alps with the birds to return south again with the seasons. Further search failed to icveal a trace of him, though later in the morning, on looking up nnd out at a bad; window of the hotel. I. myself, enught n glimpse or thought that I caught a glimpse of the rnglnn and the greenish um brella disappearing, this time withiu the pen tills of the church, which stood on higher ground, immediately back of the hotel. T remembered that there was a train going out about noon, hastened up the slope, searched the church and the station, still higher, be yond it. but'not a trace could I find of raglan or timbiclla nor of the man or wraith who bore them. He could scarcely have gone beyond the station, for thence the only path headed for mountain pastures. ALL that dH.v 'we watched the boats and trains and the bedraggled few who came off or went on them. Not one of them re sembled in liny wise Cousin Tobias. So the next morning, bright, cleai and early, w-e onrseljes took bonl foi Locarno, ominous ly haunted with fear and piesage of mis fortune. On landing we hastened to the house of our old cousin, learning, by the way. that be had not been verv well lately. Let in bv the maid, we noted with fore boding the Inn -colored regbin hanging on a peg in the hall, overtoppeif; nlmost as when lie wore it, with the giay sombrero, fn fue corner nenr stood n big greenish umbrella. Now, by all the rules of ghost stories, the maid should hereupon have told us how it was that our Cousin Tobias had died on the previous day, his last words thoe of re gret that he could not have met us in the lain at Itelluno. Kiit facts are stubborn, nnd here our veritable ghost story breaks down. Cousin Tobias welcomed us at his sitting-room door, in the flesh, though h never hnd very much of it. He la, pUr. posed meeting us in Belluno. hut what with the weather and not feeling very well, he had "taken it out," so he said, "in thinking about us." !olf appeurs to be a great senescence and adolescence. same for Old General Apathy has been the re cipient of a number of swift kicks since the campaign opened. .1. Ogden Armour suys meal prices are going to, fall. As Mr. Armour is in n po sition to 'know before he piophesies, his words have weight. . Hnciue, Wis , determines the assessed valuation of real estate by the amount It brings' in rent. Tis but a love tap on the wrist for the rent profiteers. 'J'heKnox-Borah-Johnson-Lodge.-Ilran. degce crowd have been dabbed in Wash ington the "bitter-enders"; hut they might better be called the "bitter-renders." The Federal Board for Vocational .Ed ucation is encouraging disabled soldiers to take up the subject of beekeeping. It 'will be all honey for some of them; others will get stung. Carbondale miners may call a general strike for the removal of mechanical load ers. 'With a coal shortage In sight tho public will hardly sympathize with this un derstudying of Mrs. Partington Jind hee I troom. asa y V v , . "v "v v v v ,i j t l't" " Jrf-'fe &5 ' 1 f THE CHAFFING DISH Escaped From Jersey Wc sun n Utile old man on Chestnut street asking two postmen how lo;et some where. They weie trying lo find out if he knew any landmarks b.v which they could guide him. "Ho1 you know wheie the City Hull is V" they nsked. "No," he lcplied. "Uo you know where Ilioad and Chestnut isV" they inquired patiently. ."No." . "Do you know where the l'ostufficc is?" "No."' he said, helple-sly . "Did you come up from the Market street ferry ?" they asked, thinking they hud dis coveied an emigrant from Camden. "No." We passed on. and didn't le.im how they solved it. Our own theury is that he must have been dropped from some nocturnal air plane. We have been pondering why it is that our left sole always wears through a fort night before the right. As far as wc can observe, wc use our left leg only as a trailer, always doing all our aggressive work with the right. We use our right foot as our principal instrument of propulsive locomo 'tion, merely swinging the left along behind because we don't like to leave it around."" , The conclusion we have reached is this: we carry our keyring in our left tiouser pocket, and our money pi the right pocket. The keyring so far outweighs the kale that the eitra friction causes the left shoe to wear down much faster. Meditating about shoes,, a tine slory might interest you. On April -'J we were in Boston. We needed a new pair of tril bies, nnd nn eloquent brahmin persuaded us that it would be genuine economy to buy something really magnificent, which would (he insisted) outwear two ordinary pairs. AVe fell. We bought a pair that cost .$1 1, although we hate to admit that we were such a jay( Wc favored those shoes ns much as pos sible, walked lightly upon our toes, clung to the straps of trolley cars raising tlur feet alternately from the floor to ease the pres. sure on them, during, the day's toil at the office we nlvvays rested them carefully upon the little rubber mat that stands under n large china cuspidor bequeathed to us by some remote journalistic aneestor,"walked on soft asphalt on the hot days hoping that a kind of granolithic subsole would adhere to them nnd make them wear longer, kept them up on the nearby table for an hour or so after our lunch while wc were reading the out-of-town papers, bad them shined once a week at a cost of ten cents, but all '' vain. In three months they had gone through. We took them to a repairer, begging him by all that he hild sacied to give us a square deal. He charged us three dollars, and said that he had put a "heart-of-oak" sole on that would last usto our dying day. It was not true, for in six weeks our sock was kissing the pavement through ns nice a little aperture as you would like to We are wondering what to do next. f There is only oue ray of light iu the situa tion, and that is that the. sheets of card board the laundries put inside shirts make admirable insoles with which to buttress a pierced shoe-bottom. We don't wantto discard those shoes altogether because they have u uniquely Hostonian outline. Wc don't know just how t6 describe it, but there is something Uni tarian about them. They look very much like what we would imagine ,Halph Waldo Emerson to have worn on a summer outing to the Grand Canyon. II. M. Wi protests that it wasn't Pershing who said "Lafayette, we're here I" He in sists that it was Colonel Charles K. Stan ton, of San Francisco. But wo fear it is too lato to ovcitnke itnai pleasant, imunum. uj '" uu said "I.'carao.. I baw- I conquered," vho- L-U "WHY, CERTAI&tY, WE CAN t!fi!&&6E JTV' teAH ever he was, probably never said it, but be gets all the credit for it. Ernestine's Gift of Expression KinesUliie .Myeis Ih one of Hie few tm p .sichoie.oi artists who dances as well with lier aims us her feet It's a pleasuicj. to w-alcli her wavo lie,- slender, expiesslve limbs about In any old dance. Her costumes, what thoic Is of tlicin, .He delightfully ar tistic: Variety. Homer Itodcheater. we observe, is at Willow Grove, but .when- is Billy Sun day? When they gave General Pershing a fare well dinner in Paris, fresh caviar was on the menu. This wc take lo mean that Rus sia is on the up-grade again. Shakespcure. with his gift of pi cscjcnco, probably had this occasion in mind when be spoke of caviar (o the general. A Ballade of Summer's Passing fTWin shortening days of the fall aie here -- And the cooler nights of the autumn moon. And again we know (as we knew last yenr) That the summer maiden must leave us soon. It is really a little iuoppoi tune ; AVe were half in love with a white duck gown, "" But, now. we must join in that older tune In praise of the maiden who rules in town. pJAN, Polly and Grace! They weie all so -!- di dear ! And that wee chic blonde that we met in June. We forgot that partings nnd tenis were near, But the summer maiden must lcac us soon. 'Tis a loss hut isn't it, too, a boon' A lope thrown to us before wc drown? This leading us back to that older tune In praise of the mnidcu who rulesiu town. I fTIHE winds are getting a bit severe, , -L Ai And sweep too keenly o'er beach aud dune. In the sough of the waves wc seem to hear: "The summer maiden niufrt leave us soon." So again for the city's gift triune: Our rlub, our shop anil (of nil the crown !) The joys that chorus beneath the tune In prnise of the maiden who rules in town. PRINCE, September nights nre too chill to spoon The summer maiden mny leave us soqh. Pink cheeks nreTis bonny to kiss as brown So, hey! for the maiden who rules in town! AVARAVICK JAMES PRICE. Literary Notes All the inueazlno edltois, Including genial John Parlter, the aft curator of the Ladles' Home. Journal, are busy sotting- up their cheerful covers for the Happy New Year issuo of tlio magazines. Hut it's hard to tell, with the Senate acting the way It is, whether it's going to be a Happy New Year or not Newtle Maker, tho jolly little Secietary of War, was not In Washington to wave good-b-to. the President and Admiral Grayson. But duty fceforo pleasure, says Newt. He gave a talk to the Chemical Society, and got by. with It in good shape. Clement Shorter, the London critic of wide reading and quick sympathies, lias been going the customary Atnerlpan tour and writing It up for his paper, tho Sphere, AVo fear that Mr, Shorter has .gathered some strange im pressions. For Instance, he speaks of "Mi. Jack Lalt. a popular American novelist." AVe don't know how he can have sot 'that idea except from Jack himself. How many of our very intelligent clieptB, ever heard of Jack? Georgiana, our pet bookworm, who has been nibbling over some of the con trlbuted stuf.' on our. desk, Bays she never tasted any of his stuff Phil AVarper, the agieeable bookseller, says he Is going to harry an oyster stew shortly, and knock It for a Joop, Phil has been pick lug up a lot of slang lately". SOOItATES, ": - i I A Paper and a Pipe WHEN a man is weary workin' all the day, llandlin' hoe or hammer, toolin' truck or dray, ' Addiu' rows of figures, Berlin' piles of type, Nothing's half so restful as a paper and a pipe. Itcadin' of high doin's, troubles of a throns Makes you more contented with worries of your own, Pullin' like an engine clouds of hazy blu, Puts n sort of smoke screen 'twixt the world and you. Itockiu' nfter supper iu your stockin' feet, Soou you fall to dreamin' of a cottage neat. Pretty little garden, apples gettin' ripe, And a porch nnd hammock, a paper and a pipe. Common clay or meerschaum, cob or blaclc- i ened wood, Eithcr's fiuc and dandy so they're drawin' good. Some like mild tcrbacker, I prefer it strong Gee! without my brier I couldn't get along. Life is not a picnic, take it hs you will, AVhether drivin' autos or a diamond drill; Lois of folks to bury, lots of tears to wipe, But there's solid comfort in a paper and pipe. Minna Irving, ir the New Xork Herald. What J)o You Know? y QUIZ 1. AA'ho is primate of Belgium? 2. What was the only bequest which AV'U-' liam Shakespeare made by will to his wife? ;. Of what European kingdom was Bratll formerly a colony? d. AA'bat is a fosse? fi. Who is the head of the Austrian peace delegation? (!. How much is a farthing worth da American money? 7. Iu what congressional body must all bills for raising revenue originate? S. AA'hat is a lough? ' 0. AVbat flower is called the "Hose of Sharon"? JO. AVhat is the meaning of th Latin phrase "Suaviter in modo"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Mohammed 'I is the present Turkish sultan. 2. The word archipelago comes from th Greek and originally meant the "chief sea." Thus it was at first descriptive of the Aegean. Then be cause the Aegean contained nu merous islands, the word came to mean a "sea with many islands," and finally the modern sense, of a "group of islands" whs accepted. 3. La Rochefoucauld said, "We easily forget crlmea that are known only to' ourselves." 4. California is the second largest state-in the Union. 5. The Pater Noster is the Lord's Prayer. 0, The word describing a certain Welsh village on the island of Anglesea is ' said to bo the longest geographical name in the world. It runs as fol lows : Llanfalrpwllgwyngyllgogery chwyrndrobwlllUndyssIlIog'ogogoch. In the postal directory only "the first twenty letters nre given as sufficient address for practical purposes. 7. Queen. A'ictorla was married io Albert, prince of Baxe-Coburg-Gotha, a small German state, 8. In England the word "clerk" is pro nounced as though it were spelled "V'flurk,"' - 9. Grover Cleveland, lived in Princeton, N, J,, after his last presidential terra, 10. Central 1'crt.hlng is returning t America onUie Leviathan. f -Aj H J y v S It J2 X k: v A lk;JV V ' Tfc. A;1 .1 . s. .i ft J ,.ks L rffOviff ' . ft s- ' . ,..v - r i -ere &. V s:i?H M f'-'ftf, ij v kr. 5bU.. . WL i r V't- aL.i.Ll3 ' ill. . k Jifiki i & o , Wi .i. ' . . jfr.ng - i ii ., - v, . . .niv
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