5T?i' 40 .EVENING PUBLIC Ll3PGEBrPHILAPELPHIAy ftlOflDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1919 .a1" i - I? Jjv'o I? . 7Al Cuentng public Wefcger ( ruuuv, L.CUOE.U uuAU'Anx .CYTIUS It. K. CtmTlB. Psssrocir Cliirlr It. I.uainirton. Vlt Prllent! John C T- 1 , Wrtin V Beeremrsr ami Treatunr: Philip p Colllni. 13. Williams John J. Kpurrton. Directors. JO John t KJiToniAt. no ahd : Ctica II, IC CrtTiD. Chairman pQKVTD C. BUItJT dltor it 30TTH C. JIAItTlN.. General Iloitncij Slanaie. . 1' ' t1lhltafc.4 Alli At tlfhtu T.UM tt..lljl j -S- W InIcpilinc "nuare, I'lillaiiclphla. ;!lA,:tA,,'o Cm.. , Pitis-Unlon Building 4Tfw Took .., . 200 Mctrrtwlltan Townr . BrpmiT mi Ford nulM'nr flr. Louia .. .ions ruii.rton null!ln , f Chioioo , 130? Tritium Uulldlns IK t . msw8 nuitEAUS: N n. or. I'em-ylvan!a A-e. anil 14lh St. New Ynmc lcnuo. ,. 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Al right: of rcpvhVfntion of special dtt paichci fcin e also reserved. , PhilidrlphU, MondiT, Seplrmbrr 8. 1919 ROBINS: STAR GAZER a BERRATIONS of many kinds, colored SXJ. or black or assoited, afflict many men in the heat of political campaigns. 'But Thomas Robins, eminently rospect pble wing of the Vaic clan, has achieved a new record for vortical flights in the tipper ether. The mayoralty election, ululates he, does not concein Philadelphia alone. It ,concerns all America and is related to ;the leaguo of nations. It may save the Siation. It may lebuke tho President for false doctrines. Why? "Because," icries the eminently respectable wini? of the Vare clan, "Judge Patterson is an American!" Are the judge's campaign managers as Imdly off as all that? m Unless something more than fervor ails Mr. Robins everybody concerned on "cither side of the fight is woefully short sighted. Let us be frank and farseeing: ''Vote for Congressman Moore and help the government of Omsk!" "Cast your lallot for Patterson and servo notice on 4he Bolshevik! that the government of the United States will stand no more nonsense!'1 What in the name of all that ,is venerable will the next Mayor of Phila delphia do to free Korea ? Is Judge Pat terson ready to pledge himself at the mo ment of his election to return the birth-place of Confucius to the weeping Chi nese 1 i FOUR STARS FOR PERSHING AS SOON as the Piesidcnt received the t bill raising Pershing to the rank of a full general in the army ho signed it. The commander of our armies in France wjll receive his commission soon after """Joe- arrives home and he will take his ,placo along with Grant and Sherman and Sheridan, and like them will enjoy the honors and emoluments of the rank till he dies. This is about all we can do under our system for pur great soldiers, and it jseeffls to be about all 'that the nation jthinks ought to be done. We take it as a matter of course that a man should de Vote himself to his country and bo content with the ordinary rewards of the service. Even our Presidents, exercising more ower than kings, leave office poor nnd nave to earn their living as best they may. Rochefoucauld must have had repub lics in mind when he said that gratitude '1s a desire of receiving greater benefits, ior when a man has ceased to serve a "republic it has no further use for him. S OURSELVES AND HOME RULE QOME doubt about the Mayor's right to vote was expressed on Saturday 'and tomorrow Senator Vare will have to debate his right to that privilege in a Jegal action instituted by the registrars in his ward. Objection in each instance was made upon the technicality of resi dential qualification. Some of us might put it upon a broader ground. But that 4s aside. Oddly enough, here at home we are confronted by a state of affairs that fehould broaden our understanding of ifSime remote phases of tho international melee. Before the Great Reformation pomes in politics citizens of this harassed town may learn a lot about the origin of n rago that never has ceased to burn in a green isle not far from England. The -Mayor bides with the landed gentry at Glenside. Senator Vare rests his soul in 'ithe peace of the Ambler highlands from year's end to year's end and comes to .lown only to let the light of his coun tenance shine upon on obedient tenantry. Lords of old did their manors the jonor of living on them. Even the Presi lent of the United States is supposed to je ft citizen of the community in which hje exercises power. Philadelphia ac tually has something new to show in the tort of absenteeism that has made of ittle old Ireland a cry for ages in tha ?-f jwrs of civilization. 'f -yf Unionized footlights RECOGNITION of the union label on . tage art is a novelty. It is not, 5 Wwnver, quite so strango a thing as no SlrfiBfla at all in a land" whore the theatrl-i-kal business has been developed beyond ,f'4ll its proportions in Tiistory. The thirty 'ys of "dark" playhouses which have hiit ended acutely tested the public in Urt in theatregolnrr. Statisticians and rynue collectors may rate the stage as ' , k luxury. None the less there are per- Vps today even some necessities the Jrtpiivation of which would seem less irrl- ', iiaCing'than a footlight famine. w ' 1 Unquestionably the public is pleased ' 'that the- actors' strike has ended and '' 'felad also that certain demands which , .WtB Jost have been granted by tha mknagars, To outsiders the questioaof 'Association was of minor Import As a rule, only tho particular belligerents in labor troubles are keenly concerned about union acknowledgment. What is most disagreeable to the innocent and long-suffering bystander is the strike itself. Tho numerous audiences throughout tho country are selfish. Everybody is. The average playgoer lejcices that stage entertainment is once more on sale. His feelings are not seriously com plicated with the ethics of the casr. Tho prevailing sentiment is now simple, cynical perhaps, and surely impatient. It is "Ring up the curtain!" Thousands of hands burn to applaud the unionized Melpomene, Thalia and Terpsichore. THE IDEALS OF THE PAST LIVE AGAIN IN THE PRESENT The Knights Templars Fought for the Holy Places and Modern Men Fought for Holy Things TT IS a far cry from the twentieth cen--- tuiy back to the twelfth, but the imagi nation traverses that vast stretch of time as one scrs tho uniformed Knights Tem plais in the stieets of the city today. This order goes back in tradition to the Crusades, when gallant and devoted men, inspired by a sublime idea, were marching across Europe with banners flying to rescue the Holy Sepulcher from the infidel. It calls to mind Godfrey de Bouillon, Frederick Barbarossa, Richard Coeur de Lion, Baldwin, Frcdeiick Au gustus, St. Louis and a long list of pic turesque and lomantic heroes, the tales of whose lives have embroidered the pages of history with fascinating ro mance which has not, with all the years, lost its power to send the blood tingling through tho veins of youth. It was in 1119 that nine devoted men under the lead of Hugucs de Payens and Geoffrey de Saint-Ademar formed a mili tary band to protect the pilgrims in Pal estine. They took the name of Knights of Chliat. They soon began to be called Knights of the Temple, for the reason that quarters had been assigned to them in the palace at Jciusalem known as Solo mon's temple. The order suivived in its original form for about two centuries. It increased in membership and in strength until it had great power. In order to supply the pilgrims in the Holy Land with what they needed it established a banking system extending across Europe; and for a time the Templars weie the bankers of the. whole continent. Its headquarters for more than seventy-five years was in Jerusalem. Then it was moved successively to Antioch, Acre and Caesarca. When tho Christians were driven from Syria the capital was set up in Cyprus. Tho standard of the order, which we shall see frequently this week, was a boincr half black and half white, bearing the Latin inscription, "Non nobis Domine," the first three words of David's famous psalm beginning, "Not unto us, 0 Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory." The successors of the men who were inspired by these words and did valiant service because of it are now a part of the great Masonic order. Every one of them is a professing Christian, for only such are permitted to wear its uniform. Today it betirs upon its banner the design and inscription which Constantine saw in the sky while fighting for his rights to the throne as emperor of Rome, a flaming cross and "In hoc signo vinces" ("By this sign shalt thou conquer"). The order survives, though for a pur pose entirely different from that for which it was founded. The Holy Sepul cher was rescued from tho infidel by the Crusaders and kept from him for a gen eration or two, but he reconquered Jeru salem and held it until last year, when General Allenby's Christian troops forced the Turks from Jerusalem and took pos session of the city and its sacred places. Europe was moved by a great idea in tho Middle Ages. It raised armies, it led men to endure hardships and suffer ing without murmuring. It inspired preachers with a sense of the importance of their mission, and it kept sweet and holy things- which but for it would have rotted in the general corruption of the period. The idealism of it stirs us nowadays as we think of the romantic past. The lapse of centuries has wrapped those years with a mantle of enchantment and we regret that they are gone forever. We sometimes say that their like will never return. But is this so? If one will consider for n few mo ments what has been happening since 1914 one will thyik better of his own time than to say that it cannot be com pared with the years that are gone. Our young men who went to Europe were called "Pershing's crusaders," and why.' The holy places of civilization weie not in the possession of the infidel, but they were threatened by barbarians. A war was started to reduce the world to the dominion of the most brutal and conscienceless power that had ever at tempted to set up its rule over subject peoples. The freedom of man was at stake. The right pf peoples to govern themselves as they pleased was threat ened. The honor of nations had been violated and an attempt was making to establish the proposition that the plighted word of an empire was to be dis regarded with impunity if that empire thought there was profit in dishonesty. The fire which has burned in the hearts of free men in these pregnant years is as sacred as that which was lighted at the candles of the altar when the Cru saders turned their faces toward Jeru salem six hundred years ago. The burial place of the Great Demo crat who preached the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man was not the prize for whjch men were fighting. It was -desire for "the preservation of the thing, the sacredness of which this Di vine Man taught, that led our millions and. the millions of French and British and Italians to consent to risk their lives. Wo must not allow ourselves to forget this, nor must ve belittle our own generation by saying with a sad coun tMM, "There, ware Wom la thaw days," as if the race of heroes had per ished from tho face of the earth. It was our sons and our brothers who won the great war for democracy. We are so close to them that we do not fully appre ciate what they have done, nor do we value rightly tho quality of the courage and devotion which they displayed. And the men themselves do not rigHtly valiie it. They acted as a matter of course. What else could they have done? It was almost instinctive. But therein is the sublimity of the whole great drama which has been en acted before our eyes in theso recent years. When an ideal has so permeated the thinking of a nation that it reacts to it with mechanical precision, some thing has happened which should make us all bow our heads in reverent awe be fore tho Power that Is guiding the affairs of this round ball as it swirls through illimitable space on a destiny the end of which no man can dream. ' THE GRAND TOUR OENATORS Borah, Johnson, Reed, Poindexter, Wadsworth and McCor mick and the other last-ditchers ap pointed to trail the President through the West nnd refute his arguments on behalf of the league of nations may change their minds. That habit is the rage in Washington these days. But good citi zens everywhere should hope that they will stick to the job. Mr. Wilson's grand tour, if it included a lot of passionate opposition senators in its wake, would be what Mr. Dooley might call a grand thing for the country. One may ngroo or disagree with the President, yet it is necessary to admit that he has a talent for enlightenment. He is telling the country many interest ing things about the political and diplo matic methods of Europe, about the origin of the war, about national tradi tions and national history in the Old World. America will benefit by that sort of knowledge, whether it accepts the leaguo or not. This, as Mr. Wilson has observed, is a solemn crisis. We cannot know too much about the factors in volved in it. Counter-blasts, even from opposition senators who happen to be candidates for the piesidency, have their uses. Any of the bitter-enders may think of things that the President forgot to say. And if they cannot tell the country anything new about trends and conditions in Euiope they will at least present a sig nificant demonstration of the trends and conditions of politics in the United States. It wbr nn puotlst ni well ns a Misanthrope who Rain thnt the more lip saw of man Moreover, It Is Tousli on the Doe kind th( better lip liked dojrt. A man has to posBpss some good qualltlps to win nnd ictnln the reboot of his follows, but a dog will do him reverence whatever kind of an apology for 11 man he may be. All of which prompts us to gie unqualified in dorsement to the action of the Hcranton Canoe Club in forhiddinj; n member to con tinue to have her rlog cat at the table where guests ore dining. A strike of firemen AH Ups and ifopped the clevatdrs No Downs in a New York sky scraper and some of the occupantH were marooned forty-four stories up. We should say, offhand, that if airplanes hnd heei) invented before fall buildings the buildings would necr lmvc been called skj scrapers; that all of the forty-four stories held sustained interest and some of them more profanity than the law allows; that the firemen were indiscreet in firing themselves, anil that n little of the heat generated might have run the elevators ; more power to them, ns it were. A ship from Rotter dam unloaded a cargo Toys of German toys in Philadelphia on Saturday. The cargo had been in storage in Rotterdam since 1914. Germany, it will be remembered, at that time began to play with new and strango tojs Zeppelins, submarines and poison gas shells. They are nil broken now nnd she hns returned to her old love with the hope thnt her former playmates will forget the past. A Pottstown woman Ine Comes First was dragged under the wheels of a locomotive after she had pushed her five-year-old sou from the tracks to safety. "I cheerfully give my life for mv boy," she said. The fnet that Mich self-sacrifice is Instinctive does not weaken its quality ; It rather strengthens it by knocking that hoary old lie that self-preservation is the first law of nature. Just because, he was It-r-revenge! twice pinched for parking, a local club man has paid $10,000 for a downtown stable which lie will turn into a garage for the use of himself and friends. My, but that will peeve the trnfflc cop ! The executive council of the American Federation of Labor urges that the princi ples of the league of nations covenant be applied to the Mexican situation. It is an excellent idea. And it might also be ap plied to the industrial situation. The forthcoming visit of King Albert of Belgium to this country gives added inter est to the report from London that Bel gium's security against German aggression is to be guaranteed by Great Britain and the United States. The Chamber of Commerce has Invited the Trince of Wales to visit Philadelphia the latter end of this week. Our guess is that when he learns that there is a political campaign In full blast he'll elect to stay away. The federated railway shopmen il Chi cago have not yet risen to a realization of the fact that half a loaf Is better than no' bread; but they will. -i After mature eontlderntlon the country has given it as its opinion that the only thing to commend in the Plumb plan is its aillllTUllVC , lUlllll, j. "And the Knights shnll be filled with' gladness." Dry as tho town Is supposed to be, New York today 1ms one full general, Take the "rot" out; of Trotsky and there's rothing left but a sneeze. . , Exit, strife t ttr s4-, fifta HUMOR OF THE CAMPAIGN Smiles Are Occasionally In Evidence Amid the Unpleasantness and Ruthleasnesa of the Warrlno Political Factions Hy GEORGE NOX McOAIN TIIKRR are gleams of humor, If one cares to look for them, amid nil the un pleasantness and ruthlessness of warring factions In the present mayoralty , cam' pnign. Naturally they fire linked up with or have a bearing on some phase of the fight. "You fellows must be particularly fond of spending money for nothing," remarked n prominent member of the Vnre organiza tion to a friend equally prominent and ac tive In the Moore entourage. "Olad you think so," retorted the other sarcastically. "At least we've got the sat isfaction of knowing that we're spen'dlng it ourselves and getting some fun out of It besides." "What d'ye mean?" Inquired the other, falling Into the trap. "Well, even If Moore does lose we've hnd tho pleasure of spending our own money before the Vnrc organization could get its hands on It nnd spend it for us.'1 " paign thus far has been the lack pf ani mosity displayed between precinct workers in the rival organl7atlons. Most of them arc personal friends. Many haye worked side by side In other' campaigns. "Why don't you Jump this Moore game, Joe?" inquired a regular organization man of a Republican Alliance adherent ns they met outside the Patterson headquarters at Lleventh nnd Chestnut streets. "Heat it, man; heat It while the going's good," continued Judge Patterson's friend. "WhntM I do that for? .Moore's a sure winner. He's got Patterson licked to a frazzle at this minute," snappc'dtlif-Independent. M jf' "O'wan ! Moore's a dead one" "Well, if he's a dead onc,".retoted his friend with a sneer, "I doriji1 understand why you fellows went t all the'troublotand expense to appoint a co'mmlttcc of 'a thou sand to kick a corpse." A PARTICULARLY enthusiastic Moore worker was holding a business talk over the telephone with an equally enthusiastic supporter of Patterson. Business con cluded, the Patterson man said: "What d'ye think of thtf political out look?" "Nothing to It but Moore," was the reply. "It's a scream for Moore, Tom." "That's tho way I look nt It," purred tho Patterson man. "Everywhere T go I find the Moore fellows are doing the screaming. You'll yell harder after the primaries. " rpiIE south front of City Hall be'ars a great - electric "device in colors In honor of the Knights Templar's approaching conclave. It Is a huge Maltese cross bearing Constan tino's famous words,, the motto of the order: "In hoc 6igno vinces." The two words "In hbc" form one line near tho top of the figure. Former Magistrate Devlin and the Alli ance leader of the Eighth ward attentively eyed the handsome piece of work, which had been arranged under direction of Chief James F. McLaughlin, of the EJectricnl Bureau. Approaching a little group of politicians nt the corner of Broad and Chestnut he re marked soberly : "I didn't think they'd be forced to do it so soon. That registration's making 'em spend the big money pretty free now, "What d'yo mean, judge?" inquired one of the party. "Look yonder," replied the Eighth ward leader, pointing to the motto. "The Vares have got Jimmy McLaughlin to put up that sign, 'In hoc.' They've hocked City Hall tp raise campaign funds, since they can't get 'cm frbin the police and firemen." tffQAY, If you want to see the sight of J your life go down to Broad nnd Chest nut. You never saw anything like it." He was a Patterson man nnd spoke in seeming seriousness as he buttonholed an acquaintance who belonged to the Moore caravan. "What is it?" inquired the latter with curiosity. "Why, say, there's n guy down there that you kuow who's throwing nway money by the handful." "Who is he?" "The treasurer of the Moore outfit." JT1HE Vare organization will, have Its - bay wagon upset," said Horace Reiily, secretary of the Town Meeting party. "They say that they're satisfied to let the heavy registration go without comment and wait for the primaries to test their strength. They'll find themselves in the plight of an old farmer I heard of es!erday. "He was from up in Montgomery county nnd was driving down Broad street with a load of hay. He was ignorant of the city and city ways. Suddenly he heard people shouting and the noise of bells and whistles on the street. "A cop ran out, grabbed his horses by the head and pulled him and his load of hay hurriedly to the sidewalk. " 'You stay there until the fire engines get past. D'ye hear?' yelled the officer. "The old,fellow with bulging eyes watched the engines go past. Then he pulled back into the middle of the street. "Just at that the hook and ladder truck. with its piles .of long ladders, swept up the thoroughfare. The farmer saw it coming, but never swerved in his course. "You can guess what happened. "After they'd dug the old 'hick' out from under his liny and dragged the remnants of hii farm wagon to one side, tho infuriated cop yelled : " 'Say, you, didn't I tell you to stay over by the sidewalk until the engines got past?' "'Well. I did, didn't I?' replied the farmer, meekly. 'Anyhow, I don't see what them painters was in such a devil of a hurry for.' " FRANCIS FEnRY is one of the boys from "Over there" who is a member of the soldiers' committee at the Moore campaign headquarters. "One of our boys camo in with a funny , Ia.aaIt tfco Athef Hat." nA M- Vumi J "He told me he was going to vote for Moore because, as he put it: " 'For four years we had more Vare than mayor; for the next four years I'm" going to rote fo have vMoore Mayor, and less Vsre.' " The cosmopolitanism of Liverpool's vpopulatlon Is indicated by the fact that two Filipinos, one Egyptian, one Ecuadoran and one Greek were stowaways on a Liverpool vessel which arrived hero Friday. A Langhorne justice of the peace fined a party of Philadelphia picnickers $62 be cause their automobiles lacked tall lights. Visiting machines in Langhoine should all be equipped with legal lights. Actors in Paris have jnow gone on trite. Uh, is. ta, fins strike stuK I becom- tn to, Tatr. 'ought to MUw ot iSatrtpT'iir.-' 5"X W nVv$3--IaiB 1 :: gi.fttfa?y-.j;vhr7aiillW'iMEyp I 9v jftJ SHHE3rw5fll?'Q5fcE3WM.'S'T33a2K6H '"f Eft 1 rWifcKBW' ' --'-"-li-" 1 flWfHFSv ! f PflSKBSfFSSBS WW All i v-Hiai. 1,1 it n riy.,'1 ir -!" -.a -'OvVTiaZ?-, iff J.V l i. 1? - xCii-1' THE CHAFFING DISH TT BEGINS to look like open covet nuti openly not arrived at. , Bunyan Up to Date' LODGE : What are the things you seek, since you turn everything upside down to "find them? WOODROW : I seek a peace Incorrupti ble, undcfiled, that fadeth not away.- Read It ec if you will, in tho Treaty. LODGE: Tiish! Away with your Treaty; will you accept our reservations or no? WOODROW: No, not I, because it would break the heart of the world. LODGE: Then I will turn nnd leave you. If you want me, you know my address. Washington's Fnrcwell Address, I mean. HITCHCOCK: But if what the good man mijs is true, the things he looks after are better than yours. My heart inclines to go with him. LODGE: Who knows whither such a brain-sick fellow will lead you? WOODROW: Nay, Hitchcock, do thou come with me ; there are such things to he had which I spoke of, and many more glories besides. If you believe, not me, read hete in this Treaty. LODGE: I will go back to my place; I wi'l be no companion of such misled fan tastical fellows. Now, I saw In my dream, that, whuu Lodge was gone bock, Woodrow and Hltcii eock went talking over the Middle West; and thus they began their discourse. HITCHCOCK : Come, neighbor Woodrow, tell me now further whither we are going. WOODROW : Since you arc desirous to know, 1 will read from my Treaty. I must frankly admit that in most of the speeches I have heard friend Lodge deliver it would be impossible 'to form a definite conception of what that instrument means. HITCHCOCK: And do you think that ri.0 words of your Treaty are certainly true? WOODROW: Yea verily. Instead of War there Bhall be irresistible pressure of the opinion of mankind. Instead of Wnr there shall be discussion. HITCHCOCK: After hearkening to friend Lodge, it seems that discussion may be almost as terrible as War. WOODROW : There is a crown of glory to be given us, and garments that will shine like the sun. HITCHCOCK: This is very pleasant; and what else? WOODROW: There shall bo no more sending youngsters In khaki across the sea, nil which is recorded in this Treaty. HITCHCOCK! Well, glad am I to hear of these things; come on, let us mend our pace. Now, I saw in my dream that just as they had ended this talk they drew near to a very miry slough that was In the inldnt of the plain; and they, being heedless, dd bcth fall suddenly Into the bog. The name of the slough was Shantung. Here, there fore, they wallowed for a time, being griev ously bedaubed; and Woodrow, because of tbe burdeU which was on his back, began 10 Mnk In the mire. . HITCHCOCK: Ah, neighbor Wood.-ow, where are you now? WOODROW : Truly, I look forward with profound gratification to March 4th, 102l. This is but a bogy when you look at it la fhe last analysis. Undamaged Goods Baron Rodden, of the proof-room, smiles when he thinks of a sign he saw down at Atlantic City. It was over a hot -dog altar, and it ran thus : A New Dill Fickle With Every Saucage A City Notebook Off Walnut street, below Fifth, andJut east of the window where that perfectly lovely damsel sits operating an adding ma chine why is it, by the way, that, the girls who run adding machines are always so mnrvelouBly fair? Is there some secret virtue in the process of adding that makes ono lovely? We. feel sure that a subtracting 'engine would not have that subtly beauti fying effect just Deiow, cma street, ws started o " J Hr SOMEBODY'S GOT TO LEARN HIS 1 Ri eMUZiaZKO Xf . J7 . lttMfd-&$Amuin. ui. a somber little channel between high walls and barred windows, but it is a retreat we recommend highly to hay fever sufferers. For in ono of tho buildings adjoining there seems to be a warehouse of some company that makes .an "aromatic disinfector." Wandering' in there by chance, wo stood de lighted nt the sweet medicinal savor that was wafted on tho air. It had a most cheering effect upon our emunctory woes, and we lingered so long, In a meditattvo and healing ecstasy, that young women immurad in tho basement of the aromatic warehouse began to peer upward from the bnrrcd win dows of their basement and squeak with a shrill and nervous mirth. We blow a loud. salute and moved away. At the rear of De Silver Court there Is a right-angled blind alley that abuts upon tho back garden wall of the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses From Loss by Fire. A friendly gentleman, Mr. Herbert Swire, whom we once met in a second-hand bookshop, prom ised to show us that back garden, but we haven't yet had a chance to get down and admire It. It seems a pity that thcro Isn't any tablet on the old house .at the corner of Moravian odd Dock streets, where Poe worked for a year (1830-40) as editor of The Gentleman's Magazine. . This sturdy four-story building, with Its gracefully curved facade, has a picturesque view out on the old Exchange 'where the stone lions (or are they poodle dogs?) sprawl in such pathetic attitudes. Only a block or so away is the oldest house in Philadelphia, tho tavern on the corner of Ionic nnd South American streets. Presumably Edgar Poe may. have lunched there many times, and we have often wondered what those fan tastic stone lions may have looked like to him as he returned' frpm three beakers of port. It is rather surprising that ho never put them into a story.' The old office of the Gentleman's Magaslnc, on-the ground floor, is now a harness shop, with a cheerful smell of saddle leather and bright tufts of scarlet wool ornaments for bridles. Our Land OH, HAVE you been to Our Land, T(T Our Land built afar? No Arcady were fairer, No night of flow'rlng star Were half so softly dazzling As where our playgrounds are. 'Tis not atop the mountains Enamored of the skies, Nor where, caressing rockbound shore, Tho ocean spindrift. flies, Nor yet where some coquettish brook Has told the willow lies. And seek It not In sapphire sea Beneath the lazylng sun, Nor In the burgeoned raeaCows Where soul-white lambkins ruu, Nor mid the desert's grandeur Where God and man are one. No you will quest It vainly In mountains, valleys, seas; '.Our Land is platted by no bounds For it is all of these, All of them creatured with your dreams And journeyed to' with ease. True, you will quest It vainly . Wherever leaflet stirs Until a fabled godjlng The candid truth avers, And bids you seek the sacred spot Within your heart and hers. TONY. Our idea of a real cynic is the man who never makes any high resolves while taking a cold shower. Scarcity of Dark Horses One hundred black horses have been ordered for tho Knights Templar pqrade tW..wk. This doss not refer, how-eyer, llt---trr TTT'fl" ,r- "-'- j. 1 -(;.- -7,.-.ln 15 LESSON W!&SSto 3NfAy '.-xfn.iy.. frrtLS.'.' 8 &Fi'-" uy Dusk in the Garden DUSK In the garden; overhead a, sky tli Of tendcrest green, bearing a low-hung moon That peers between the apple branches ruddily. There's one lone cricket chirping, then a , stir ' ' As a soft sea -wind ruffles all the leaves, , Awhile the dim-edged flowerbeds fade-and blur. ' e t ' nr . Slowly the darkness thickens. Now. the pallid stocks 1 Blend into one low mass of swaying scent; The huge white lilies and tho rosy phlox. Pouring forth fragrance to the coming, night, Lure from their courses softly whirring wings, , As here nnd there the great gray mot,hs alight. . ' "; There must be ghosts about in this sad duk, Drawn by the far-flung spice of lavender,' The stifling sweetness of the old, old musk Enchantments of midsummer nights, for countless years Reborn to fill the heart of youth with ec stasy, And those whose day is done, with unshed tears. Ethel Wolff, In the New York Times. . 1 Nineteen members of the' Southern Commercial Congress have gone to Europe to study trade conditions. And what'tBty find will be largely contingent on the ac tions of tho United Btates Senate - Ono little bit of information "w squeezed out of the actors' strike: It re quires a longer time to train the 'chorus than tho actors. And sometimes the' mem bers seem to justify the extra time. The vote slacker won't be able to 'sty he wasn't sufficiently posted and prodded. The President's trip ti worth while, because it is making people in all parties think. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who is Judge Elbert H. Gary? 2. Where are the Ozarks? 8. Who was Fanny Kemble? 4. What is a burn? 5. How man" Crusades were there?,.. , 0. What are plantains? 7. What Is the correct pronunciation' "6f the French phrase "esprit de corps''? 8. What are busbies? ' !n 0, Who discovered the South Pole? 10. Who was Lord Charles Beresford?; -V, Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1, A. casuist Is one, especially a theolo gian, who lays down the application of ethical, rules' to special cases, weighs conflicting obligations, classi fies exceptions and draws ,alstiud tions. The word also describes a qulbblcr, a sophist. , 2, Article XXI of the peace jtreaty par ticularly mentions the Monroe Doe-' trine as lying without the scope of interference by the league 6 notions. 8. Tho Welland canal is in Canada,, con necting Lake Erie .with Lake On tario. 4. Will'"18 Tanner, of .Hubbards Wood, 111., voluntarily accepted death..wlth his wife when he was unable tq'(pull her foot out of a railroad frog,' 5. TdTe population of Belgium is larger than that of Holland, ', ,, , 0 The correct American pronunciation ot ', "been" is "bin." In ' England It i proper to say "bean." 7. Goldilocks are a species of buttercup. 8. Neddy Is" the personal name foV a donkey. " 0. Tho Virgin Islands were acquired by, tho United States In 1010, - - , 10. Gwtav - Obaepnfiiltr, a FrewAusr .'- , - - - -- ,-Mi .iiuJ 1 v ,. -$! t.K"p- ,;'f( Aiwufci 1 "V1P! n "" v ' y ."ft. ! . . ' . ?? " A . ft, n '. J a 8 . , ., ,4jt- - "V-, J .. -. --- '- - - T . v IkJUHUEL. . l.V tj T ifiW-- rlf ill, aft. EA g . ' ' -ii "' t J '
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