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CRUELTY TO THE SENATOR
QJENATOR VARE hns opened his South
Broad street house and says that he
'has been sleeping theie for a week. As
a voter has to live in his division only
two months before election day the srnu-
Hor is evidently prepared to qualify.
What he would have done if his right
to register had not been challenged no
one but he knows.
The attention that has been attracted
to his absenteeism is followed rrr his
abandonment for the time of his palace
in the Whitemarsh valley, where he could
rest his eyes on green fields, running
brooks and broad expanses of sky. He
'must sleep in the city, distuibed by the
'honk of automobiles and with the elec
tric lights of a moie show across the
street shining into his bedroom win
dows. .J Cruel, isn't it, that the amiable senator
r'fchould be forced to forgo his ease jut
"because somebody insists that "the law
phould be obeyed ?
LOW OLD TIMES IN JERSEY
SOMETHING of the anguish that swept
New Jersey on July 1 has been foi got
ten in the sharper pain caused by the
public Utilities Commission's grant of
zone-fare privileges to the trolley corpo
ration. - The new high rates of fare will be
come effective on the 15th of this month.
!As that fell date appioaches it is ap
parent that stieet-car faies rather than
prohibition may be the dominant issue
at the next election. Mr. Nugent, the
"wet" candidate, has, oddly enough,
been put into partial eclipse by the zone
fare decision, though he appears to have
had a fighting chance before a new po
litical crisis was created by a public
service corporation which is determined
to follow the lines of least resistance in
Ihe quest for revenue. ,
No candidate for the Jersey governor
ship has yet made the trolley-fare issue
his own. Until some one does we ought
to keep an eye on Mr. Mitten, to be sure
that the people of New Jersey do not
abduct him, keep him captive and run
him for the big job at Trenton.
THE WRONG TIME TO DO IT
TfHEN most of us are wondering what
" can be done to bring down the high
cost of living the United Mine Workers
of America are discussing in their annual
convention in Columbus a reduction m
he hours of labor and an increase in pay.
They want a six-hour day and a five-day
week, and they want their wages raised
from 25 to ISO per cent.
Theoretically a six-hour day and a five
day week may be ideal for workers in
coal mines. It is not pleasant to work
underground, but there are many men
and women working in factories in this
city under worse conditions than those
imposed on the mine workers. A shorter
working day for the miner means dearer
coal for the factory worker; and higher
wages for the miner will raise the price
of coal still higher.
We are not arguing against either the
better wage or the shorter hour, but we
would suggest that the present is not an
opportune time for insisting on anything
which will make the burden heavier on
the shoulders of every head of a house
hold. OLD "VETS" IN 1972
KTO KHAKI-CLAD youngster who
fought in France is thinking of what
he will be doing in the year 1972, but
feome of the rest of us, considering the
annual encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic in Columbus this week,
might well wonder what sort of an or
ganization of veterans of the war with
Germany will be left fifty-four years
after the close of that war. It is fifty
four years since Grant received the sur
render of the Confederates under the
famous apple tree at Appomattox and the
eurvivors of his armies are still active
and interested in keeping alive their or
ganization. The American Legion, which is to in
clude the veterans of the war just ended,
is" now forming. Politicians are consider
ing ways and means of catering to the
soldier vote as they did in the seventies
Ifcnd eighties of the last century. And the
"soldiors are considering what they can
give to the government, lather than
sjhdt they can get out of it But after
,pll they are likely to be the mun who will
e tie leaders in public life in a very few
1 u years, and for n generation they wtyl
i dominate both political parties, not be
" ceuso they were soldiers, but because
" they are the kind of men who aro willing
to serve the nation and because they
have initiative and imagination.
There is piolrably not a man at the
Columbus gathering who has not out
lived his allotted span of threescore nnd
ten. It is a compnny of old men, with
their thoughts on the past. The modern
veteinns are looking to the future, but it'
is not likely that any of thrm is looking
so far ahead as to Msualize himself at
tending a reunion of his comiadcs when
they shall all be past seventy.
WHAT THE NATION'S THANKS
TO ITS FULL GENERAL MEAN
John J. Pershing Is Fortunate Beyond
Other "Heroes" In That No Spurious
Glamour Attends His Reception
A NEW kind of war brought foith a new
" kind of commander. John Joseph
Pershing, leader of the largest American
armed host evei assembled, lelurns with
a recoid of unclouded ictory. C'heenng
thousands acclaim him. Flags wave.
Guns boom. The homage of gratitude
which the nation pays to the mnrshaloi
of its military might is piofoundly sin
cere. But to believe that this present drama
of "The Conqueiing Hero" resembles in
chaiacter those hitheito enacted in the
couise of American histoiy is to miss the
significance and spirit of the world con
flict, to misundei stand the mission which
General I'eishing so magnificently ful
filled and to misconceive the nature and
traits of this valiant and efficient chief
actor.
Individual instances of- romantic ac
tions abounded in the universal stiuggle.
But the war itself was not lomantic. It
was sobering practical, oppiessiveljr
statistical. It was the now fallrn loe
which determined its unpoetic chaiacter.
Administration of lesouices, co-oulina-tion
of ictoiy units in the most substan
tial sense were the prime requisites of
success. Paradoxical as it may appear,
the eiy magnitude of the idealism which
inspiied the soul of the nation in the
fiay necessitated the ttanslation of this
sentiment into the most materialistic
terms.
Amonca embarked upon the colossal
entei prise without illusions. Cleat ly a
clean-up job on the most monumental
scale had to be undertaken. To finish it.,
as swiftly and as complete as possible
was the nation's purpose. Personalities
played their pait merely as cogs in the
great wheel. Limelight gcneials weie at
a discount.
Anything so distiessingh futile as a
Shaftei-Miles or a Sampson-S.hle con
troversy was wholly lacking in populai
appeal. That explains why the case of
Leonard Wood, despite that able officer
stout champions, played so small a pait
in the situation. The public was in no
mood to tout favorites. What it nnpera
tnely demanded was celerity and mili
tary production.
It cannot lie said that the goeinment's
choice of General Per.shmg to lead its
tioops evoked any peculiarly intimate
thulls. He had setved with cicdit in the
Indian wais against Gerommo, at El
Caney, in the Philippines and in the
Mexican expedition of 191(3, which he was
not permitted to cairy to a logical con
clusion. What most interested the peo
ple was his reputation as a hard worker
and a tireless organizei. He had their
best wishes because they passionately de
sired the end of a foul carnage.
The legend makers, of reminiscent
leanings, bestirred themsehes, but to
little purpose. One heard of "Black
Jack" Pershing. Somehow it lacked the
authenticity of "Little Mac, the people's
pride," of "Stonewall" Jackson, of '"Ihe
Rock of Chickamauga."
It was reported that standing by the
tomb of the Marquis de Lafayette the
chief of the American expeditionary
force cued out, "Lafayette, we aro heie'"
Coldly scientific history in a coldly scien
tific war repudiated the episode. Pub
licly at least General Peishing has said
very little concerning it. His reputation
has been based not on striking attitudes,
but on striking Germans.
He did so as the center of a vast or
ganization, contending against teinfic
and novel difficulties in waifaie, against
huge transport embarrassments, against
complexities soluble by a keen adminis
trative brain and by haid, consistent
labor.
That General Pershing was the man
for the place is gloriously revealed by
the results. His conduct of the St.
Mihiel ofTenshe was as decisive as the
functioning of a time-clock. His duec
tion of the Argonno dnve, a prodigious
factor in icndering the German cause
hopeless, was equally clean cut and em
phatic. Europe lealized the vigor of his
nature when, despite all pleas, he le
fused to be turned aside from his resolve
to form an all-Amencan army acting as
a unit. Washington appreciated his au
thoritative thinking when he repeatedly
told the War Depaitmcnt precisely what
he wanted and exactly what he didn't
want.
Everybody knows that John J. Per
shing is firm and that he is a man of ac
tion. And yet the nation does not really
know him. The shouts that gieetcd
George Dewey on his return from Manila
bay are not at all to be compaiod with
those which the bronzed, erect full gen
eral of the United States army heard in
New York yesterday.
General Pershing is fortunate. So is
the American nation. We seem to have
passed the hectic stage of San Juan Hill
hysteria. There is scant probability that
either the people or the man archaically
and loosely termed its "heio" will pre
sent pitiable and foolish spectacles simi
lar to those disclosed twenty-one years
ago.
The Spanish War was an easy enter
prise. The deceptive auaa of fighting
prevailed. Both Dewey and his fulsome
admirers came to grief because their
premises were false. The fleoting demand
that the victor of Manila should run for
the presidency appears today astonish
ingly old-fashioned. It conformed, it is
true, to an unreasoning American tradi
tion, which exalted figures in our war
ring to a position which, as a rule, they
were hopelessly unable to fill with com
petence. The presidency of Grant was an admin
istrative fiasco. The belligerent Jack
son, justly famed for his exploits at New
Orlcnns, established Tiy example tho un
savory political principle '"To the victor
belong the spoils." Wo were spifrcd
George B. McClcllan. Wo were spared
Winfield Scott Hancock in the White
House. Zachary Taylor, chastiser of
Santa Ana at Buena Vista, was an alto
gether inconsequential Piesident.
And still for many years after the Civil
War campaign managers with single
track minds clung to their illusions. It
was considered an asset that Garfield,
Hayes, Harrison and McKinley had
served in the federal armies, nnd Theo
dore Roosevelt with a vaiiety of brilliant
and valid qualifications was weari
somely overadvertised for his ascent of
San Juan.
Hae we giaduated from such falla
cies? It seems highly likely that wc
have. And nothing will more convinc
ingly increase the access of wisdom than
the obvious nnd gratifing relationship
between John J. Pershing and the public.
War is no longer glittering melodrama.
It is sickening leality. From tho bottom
of its heart tho nation thanks its general
that he was so potent an instrument in
ending the most terrible blight which
men themselves ever inflicted on hu
manity. Had tho struggle not been so appall
ingly serious a commander like Pershinaj
might never have arisen. But he did and
in consequence he owes nothing to fiction
and false sentiment, and the admiration
of the public is clean and wholesome.
Occasional wonderment concerning
what would happen to Pershing on his
return has been expressed. There
should be no need for uncertainty. As
he fitted into the aimy in peace, he fitted
into war, to the best of his admirable,
straightforward abilities. His lauiels
aie secuie. And unless we slip back into
antediluvian procedure, so is the con
fidence of the nation secure in a public
sen-ant appraised for pieciscly what he
is woith. If that valuation be kept in its
proper confines it will be undimmed.
So far as Ameiican military personali
ties are concerned Pershing wound up
the war. Gratitude for this act cannot
be excessive, so long as the reasons for
our fighting aie sanely lemembeied, so
long as we repel all spurious glamour
from the tragedy.
A PULLMAN CAR NIGHTMARE?
VIEWS dispatches declare President
Wilson is making his speeches ex
tempoianeouslj, without notes of any
kind. This is dangerous for even such
an txpcit public speaker as he. Several
times on his trip he has oiccd phiases
and sentences which betray tiaces of bad
temper. Some of the expressions result
ing aie foolish in the light of calm lead
ing. One of these is the declaration yester
day that "the only way the Shantung
provision of the treaty could be betteied
would be to go to war with Japan, Eng
land and France."
Irritation or anger or some other agi
tating emotion must hae piovoked this
astonishing statement. It is an indict
ment so sweeping, so cynically condem
natory of three nations to which we have
been led to think the war bound us with
sacnficial blood ties, that no sane person,
least of all an idealist President, could
believe it to be the only alternative to
sanctioning a giave injustice to China.
If what the Piesident says is true, it
would mean that, despite all that
America has suffered and contributed in
the last two years for the sake of Eng
land and Fiance, the peoples of those
countries would prefer war with the
United States befoie ameliorating one
jot of the seciet agreements of 1917 dis
posing of Germany's Shantung posses
sions to Japan. We lefuse to believe it.
What can have happened to the Presi
dent to put such dark and phantasmal
forebodings into his mind? Did sena
torial obstinacy pioduce presidential
nightmares which some tongue-imp by a
slip prompted him to picture? Doctor
Grayson should look to his distinguished
patient's digestion.
A ri'crnt pxpericnoc in
Unforbidden l'ruit I.aini'l, Del., seems to
show thnt jou may
lend a mnu fioni the bar, but jou can't
tnnke lmn rpnt wanting to drink. Some
body put tidei into a (ream separator and
disoeied that the fluid thnt came out of
the spout intended for cream Imtl a kick to
it suthi'ieutl. potent to land seeral men
in the lockup. A piofessor from Delaware
College is now cmiluctiiig experiments to
discoer just what chemical nctiou is re
sponsible It is not on recoid that ho is
hnwnR nnv ditiVultj in procuring nu ade
quate number of assistants
Before they became
Kim for Old Timers prospeicnis and so
phistic utid farmers
took sardonie pleasure in hitching u couple
of horses to a broken down automobile and
toning it into town. It seemed to prove
to them that the old wajs were best after
nil. If there, by chance, had been nn old
time salt on tho Tinted States destrojer
Mncldo on a recent occasion he must have
had some such feeling The Mnddox rnn
nut of its fuel oil supplj 111(10 miles from
the Azores nnd hnd to negotiate the distance
by using its awnings for sails.
Arrests hne fnllen off
Turn 'Em to sue h an extent in
Into Factories Massachusetts thnt the
authorities are consid
ering the ndihiibilit of dosing all the
small jails in the commonwealth. The re
duction in the nuinbei of prisoners is snid
to bo due to national prohibition, the work
ing of the probation sjstem and the unusual
clemund for labor in nil industries. But
whnteer the cause the result h gratifying.
The people, says Con
Wlien School Opens gressman .Moore, must
nt one e tnkc charge of
nfTnirs nnd rule their own city. It is to be
hoped that if all goes well they will b
given n little time in which to learn the
business.
Babies in New Tork,
We Don't Know according to an out
raged police magis
trate, actually play dice. Will Gotham,
which ulwnjH tries to be at the front in
the march of progress, jet produce the gun
child? .
Senator Vnre, back for
a flying visit to the
scenes of his childhood,
Our Distinguished
Visitor
will enjoy what you
might rnll nn old home week in South Philadelphia,
MERCIER THE MAN
An Intimate Picture of the Great Car
dinal, Who Is the Natlona
Hero of the Belglant
Ity .1AMKS M. HHNNETT
yiniAT manner of man Is Cardinal
'" Mereier?
All the world ttnows of him ns the
"eiec that cried out in the wilderness"
.while murder, rape, nrson nnd pillage were
rampnnt In Belgium. Few Americnns know
nnj thing of the personality of the church
man who nrrics In New York todny. I
nm nmong the three or four l'hllndelphlnng
who have seen the cardinal since the Ger
man hordes overran KinR Albert's little
hind.
I spent the greater pnit of nn afternoon
with C'nrdlnnl Merrier nt his pnlncc in
Mnlines, n picturesque: town between
Antwerp nnd HruwK. Benidcd German
soldiers, with bristling lnoncts, trod the
sidewnlks outside the enrclinnl's home ns I
entered. Thej were there to gunrd the
primate nnd see nil who entered nnd left
the big stone building in which he lives.
The rnrilinnl wns lrtunlly a prisoner. Ills
famous pnstornl letters hnd aroused the
linger of the bunders.
There were bullet innrks on the sides of
the palnee, holes in the roof nnd parts of
the cornices hnd been torn nwny. The '
beautiful cathedral, nenrbr, was in ruins,
llungty men, gaunt women, sickly children
idled about ou the street ns I entered the
palace.
I was escorted to the reception room by
n joung priest. Cniclinal Mereier entered
in n few minutes.
The cardinal talked to me more than
two houis. He made a lasting impression.
i:cn when the horror of war wns upon
his belocd Belgium the cardinal hnd a
smile for the stranger.
1 saw n typicnl rhurchmnn, tall nnd
nsoetic-looking, blight of eye, quick of
movement, slightlj bent by the weight of
jenrs in n word, the kind of n man one
feels better for hning seen nnd henrd talk.
The cardinal rnjojed the dilemma In
which he hnd placed the Gcrmnns. His
pastoral letters hnd told his people "Our
future is not in doubt. Wc will win. We
will he free."
I asked the cardinal to tell me some
thing of his detention in his pnlncc. Ho
smiled.
"At 0 o'clock one morning." snid the
cardinal, "two German soldiers nnd an
officer brought me n (onnnunicntion from
their commanding officer asking me to deny
the statement thnt I hnd been deprived of
niv libei ty. The letter ((insisted of four or
fne typewtitten pnges. 'Come bnck in the
v eniug nnd I'll ric jou an answer,' I snid.
Tho officer replied that his orders were to
wait in inj loom until ho received the
leply. '(Jo and telephone for other orders,'
I then snid.
"The officer went out, his orders were
confirmed, so he sat patiently while I
(onsidered mv replj, which wns in effect
thnt while it wns true there were no
manacles on my hands, I wns to have per
formed serice in Antwerp nnd wus not
permitted to do so. nnd thnt for three days
1 wns lcstrninul in the pnlnce. Two dajs
later I was asked to modify this letter,
nnd I wrote another letter. If the Germans
nre cleer," concluded the cardinal with a
smile, "they will publish, my first letter."
Suddenly Cardinal Mereier asked: "Tell
me something, please, of how j"u Amer
icans raised so much money and sent so
many supplies to our suffering people?"
I explained how the states, cities and vil
lages throughout, the United Stntes hnd
taken up the great charity and pushed it for
the 'American Commission for Relief in
Belgium. I told him I wns the fust nnd
only American who hnd crossed in one of
the relief ships. ,
"Wonderful!" exclaimed the caidinal.
".Surely there are rich blessingj in store
for the people who have made saciificcs to
help us. The war is still upon us. Our
people are hungry. I fear their hunger
will continue. Tell jour people, when you
go home, that we thank them, nnd impress
upon them thnt our cr is for more. With
out ii id from the outside we will perish."
I then asked the caidinal to tell me more
of the treatment of the Germans toward
himself nnd the mcmbeis of his household.
"Excuse mc, please," he snid. "I do not
wnnt to tnlk moie about it just now. I
nm keeping n record of it nil, dnj by dny
nnd incident by incident. Some day I mny
make it public. When that time comes
the war will be oer nnd Belgium will be
free.
"Let irs talk some more of your country
nnd the grent men oer theie," the cnrdiunl
continued.
"Do jou know Cardinal Gibbons?" he
asked.
I replied that I had met the American
cardinal on many occasions
"He's n grent man," said Cardinal Mer
eier. "I'll tell jou a little joke nbout him,
Tou can relate it to jour people, for it
demonstrates the real democracy of the
Americans.
"A year or two before the war began, I
think it was, Cardinal Gibbous stopped here
on his way from Homo to the United Stntes.
We enjoyed his isit of n few das. He
has a vast fund of information, n pleasing
nnd uplifting Mrend of comersation. Wc
were sorry when his isit ended uud there's
where the joke comes in.
"I wns not well, nnd I said good -by to
tho cardinal in the palate The carriage hnd
""i onli-ed to take him to tie railway sta
tion. In about five minutes after our
visitor bad left one of the joung brothers
uisiied in, almost out of bieutb, and said,
Cnrdiual Gibbons is walking alone to the
station and carrjing his own satchel.'
"I could not understand that It was
different. I could not imagine hy he should
wnjk alone and carrj his satchel. I was
embarrassed. I dispatched a messenger to
inform the cardinal that the carriage was
waiting for him. Then I waited for the
return of the messenger to learn how it all
bad happened Cardinal Gibbons walking
alone on the streets of Mnlines!
"When the messenger inmc back he reV
lated this conversation with tire cardinal:
" 'Thq carriage is in front of the palace
to tnke jour eminence to the station. Per
haps jou did not see it?'
" 'Oh. je, 1 saw it,' snid the cnrdiual,
'but I did uot want it I like to walk, so I
started out. When 1 am at home I take
long walks eery dn Young man. do
more walking, jou will lite longer.' "
Then I wtf? able to nssure Cardinal Mer
eier that Cardinal Gibbons was indeed n
great walker. I told him of the long and
almost daily walks that the cardinal takes
along Charles street in Baltimore.
As he shook my band in parting the
cardinnl said, "fiood-by; come ngnin, please.
Come when the darkness hns gone; come
when the sun shines upon Helgium."
And such is the man who is coming to
Philadelphia in the next week or two. He
comes to thank our people for whnt Ihey did
for his people when their need was so
great. .
Phlladelphlans will see a plain man, a
man of the people; a man whose smile la
contagious; n man whose words are real
gems to be treasured, a man who, In the
time of Belgium's deepest woe, cried out,
"The conviction, both natural and super
natural, of our final victory is more deeply
thau ever anchored in my soul,"
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Bathing at Sunset
TT IS curious thnt the loutine of human
life often causes men to turn their bncks
on nature just when she is at her loveliest.
Take the seushoic in September, for in
stnnce. After Labor Dnj jou will find few
people along the sand, nnd jet the sea is
then nt its warmest nnd best.
Particularly nt sunset, when every one
is nt supper. To cross those wide fields of
wiry grots thnt stretch down to the sand,
is nn iimnemeiit to the cje. Ahead of jou
the sen gleams puiple ns un Faster iolet.
The fields nre a kind of lich palette on
which oery tint of pink, russet nnd bionze
nre laid in glowing nrintiou. The softly
wnvciiug breeze, moving among the coarse
stulks, gies the icw n ripple nnd shimmer
of color like shot silk. A naturalist could
find hunch eds of species of lloweis nnd
grasses on those sandy meadows There nre
grent clumps of some buslij licib that has
nhendy turned n iid copper color, nnd
catches the (leclgling sunlight like burnished
metal. There aie Hecks of yellow, pink
nnd lnvender. A cool, strong odor lises fioin
the harsh, knife-edged grasses a curiously
dry, brittle scent, familiar to nil who have
poked about sand dunes.
I
THD beach itself, colored in the last Hush
of the level sun, is still faintly warm
to the naked foot, after the long shining
of the clay; but it cools rnpullr. The tide
is coming in, with long, seething ridges of
foam, each flake and clot of crumbled water
tinged with n rose-petal pink by the red
sunset. All this glory of color, of move
ment, of unspeakable exhilaration and
serenity, is utterly lonely. The long curve
of the beach stretches awav uoithwaid,
where a solitary orange-colored dorj is hing
on the uautl. The nir is full of n plnintio
piping of sea-birds. ,V gull Hashes along the
beach, with a pink glow ou its snowy under-
plumage.
AT THAT hour the water is likely to be
warmer than the nir. It mny be only
the curiously nngicnl effect of the horizontal
light, but it seems more foamy, more full
of suds, than earlier in the dnj. Om- the
green top of the waves, lnced nnd mnrhled
with froth, slides n Injer of iridescent bub-blc-wnsh
that seems quite a different bub
stance from the water itself like the
meringue on top of a lemon pie. One can
scoop it up nnd see it winking in points of
sparkling light.
The wnes come marching in. It is n
cnlm sea, one would have said looking down
from the dunes; but to the bwii.imer, el
bowing his way under their leaning hollows,
their stnture seems tremendous. The sun
light strikes into the hills of looting water,
filling them with n bluish spangle nnd tremor
of brightness. It is worth while to duck
underneath npd look up nt the sun from
under the surfnee, to see how the light seems
to spread nnd clot nnd split in the water like
sour crenm poured into n cup of ten. The
sun, which is so ruddy in tho evening air,
is n pale milky white when been from under
water. ,
KIND of madness .of pleasure fills the
leart of tne solitnry sunset swimmer. To
splntdi nnd riot in thnt miraculous color nnd
tumult of breaking wnter stems an effective
answer to all the grievances of earth. To
float, feeling the poise and encircling sup
port of those lapsing pillows of liquid, u
mirth bejond words. To swim just bejnnd
the line of the big breakers, dropping a foot
now und then to feel that bottom is not too
far nwaj- to sprawl Inward with n swashing
comber while the froth boils about his
shoulders to watch the light and color
prismed in the curl and slant of every wave,
and the quick vanishing of brightness and
glory once the sun Is off tho sea all this
Is the matter of poems that no one can write.
THE sun drops dyer tfee flat glitter of the
inland lagoons; the violet and silver and
roEO'flushed foam nre gone from the ocean;
(he sand is gray and damp and chilly. Down
thevline of the shore comes an airplane roai.-
1 Jug through the upper regions of dazzling
HOME AGAIN
sunlighf, with brightness on its xnruished
wings. The lighthouse at the Inlet hns be
gun to twinkle its golden flash, nnd supper
will soon be on the tnble. The solitary
swimmer takes one lust regretful plunge
through n sluicing li ill of green, and hunts
out bis pipe. He hud left it, as the true
smoker does, carefully filled, with n match
box beside it, in a dry hollow on the sand.
Trailing n thread of blue reek, he plods
cheerfully ncioss the fields, taking cnic not
to trend upon the small hoptoads that have
come out to bail the ocuing. Ileliiud him
the swelling moon llonts like n dim white
lantern, penciling the darkening water with
faint scribbles of light.
She Has Canals of Her Own
II. Jones writes to us "to buggest that the
abandoned saloons should be couveitcd into
lethal chambers for the ruthless extinction
of those who eat soup ns if they were trjing
to signal toMars.
The erect dauntless can iagc observable in
our population nowadiijs is probably due to
the large consumption of army food. Hut
we beg to contradict the rumor thnt nny one
who hns eaten three cans of army beaus has
n light to wear bervice chevrons.
France After the War
QJI1H stands erect! Her fine, black locks
blown bnck
She feels ! She feels her crushiug loss of
jouth, .
Yet on her niched lips there is n smile,
And her clear, liquid eyes reflect the truth.
Her hapd is resting ou her noble sword,
She looks with steadfast gaze toward the
llhine,
And in her face so sweet, so calm, so pnle,
There is n look of suffering born, divine.
Though politics grow red ns clotted blood,
And stntesmeu pnuse in drend, ns in a
trance,
Yet those can never soil the quiet face,
The Inward spirit of immoital France!
MAX MHYHU DI3 StTIAUDN'SFD.
All the Comforts of Home
WANTED Man to take out Troupe of
Trained Cooties for Parks and Fairs, p.
S Must possess a Heard. Atlt In
Variety
The beard, we suppose, is to give the
performers shelter in warm weather.
Tony, the curler of ostrich plumes, says
he doesn't wisli the Sir Kuights nny bad
luck, but that u spell of rainy weather would
ccrtninly menn big business for him.
Those who sometimes lend a hnnd In the
upbringing of smull urchins sometimes won
der bow many buttonings it takes to bring
a child to the period of self hnberdushery.
Another question thnt suggests itself to
pnreuts is whether a child getif more pleas
uie out of the prune juice'it spills than from
that it engulfs.
h too insignia vineei. said New York to
General Pershing, cheering tho well-known
Sara Browne belt, and the equnlly famous
pnir of tnn gloves carried in the left hnnd.
If Pershing comes to town this week ho
will probably see more fierce-looking cutlery
In the way of gold-plated swords than lie
witnessed throughout bis visit to th'c wnr.
SOOUATCS.
Because tho bulk of the members of
our police force nre decent citizens there
Jf should be prompt punishment for the thugs
and brutes among them; and prompt elim
iuntlon of the system thnt permits them to
remain on a body formed for the keeping
of the peace.
Far be It from, the Piesident to say
anything against nny United States sen
ators or to cast any reflections upon their
integrity or their Intelligence BUT
One thing tho striking miners and
IBiriKlUB U ISIWUJ C i HUH UW1CL S(tilkCCB IUUJ
linnlr nn! The strikes won't reduce the Iilrh.
cost of living.
-
The Apostle of Unrest
A GLIMPSE of tho godhead; a speck of
infinity ;
Of time n complete representntlve part;
He hns in his mind nil the germs of divinity
And (lie pulse of the universe beats in
his heart.
With a basis of sense nnd a touch of Insan
ity Tho mndncss divine thnt mnkes intellect
grow
lie's no better, no worse, thnn the rest of
humanity,
Snve nn urge from within that compels
him to go
Onwnid, still onward! a cross and a
crown wind 1
Onward! till checks have grown hag-
gaid nnd wnn.
Onward nnd upward! or onward and
downward!
Going! nnd going! and going! and
gone !
GUIF ALEXANDER.
Philadelphia isn't doing its whole duty
to its childien when "3,000 of Jhem nre
obliged to go on n pnit-time schedule be
cnuse of a lack of school buildings and school
teachers.
A New York hotel detective Investi
gating the theft of n set of false teeth says
what he needs is a set of mouthpriuts. He
said n mouthful.
The old snjing that nil tho world loves
n lover is only true of part of the world.
The other part bans spooning in public
pluces.
Fiom the unconcern with which he
tnkes it the President presumnbly thinks
Hays's fever is something to be sneezed at.
?
Vnre found the time hnd come to clean
house. But it mny be thnt the rest of the
city hns bent him to it.
What Bo You Knoto?
QUIZ
I. Where nnd whnt is Helsingfors?
II. AVhero will tho ceremony of signing the
trcnty with Austria take place?
3. How long was General Pershing nbroad?
4. Who was called the "Laughing Philos
opher"?
C. Whnt is the mennlng of the word pro
phylactic? 0. Whnt was Thomas W. Lamont's posi
tion in the American mission at the
Peace Conference?
7. What part of the United States was
called "The Dirk and Bloody
Ground"? -"
8. What is a wraith?
0. In how many plays by Shakespeare
does the character of Falstaff appear?
10. When does the daylight-saving law ex
pire? Answers to Yesterday'a Quiz
1. Judge Elbert II. Gary is chairman of
the United Stntes Steel Corporation.
2. Tho Oznrk Mountains are in southern
Missouri.
3. Fanny Kemblc was a noted Anglo-
American actress. Her dates are
18091803.
4. A burn is a small stream or creek. The
word Is Scotch.
5. There were eight Crusades.
0. A plantain Is a tropical fruit allied to
the banana.
7. "Esprit de corps" should be pronounced
as though it were spelled "cspreed
core."
8. Busbies were tall fur army caps for
merly worn by English hussars, artil
lery and engineers.
0. Amundsen discovered the South Pole.
10, Lord Charles Beresford who cljed on
September 7, was an English admiral,
particularly noted for his "forceful
methods and frank speaking. He w
a life-loag friend of 'America.
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