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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
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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-,
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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-
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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