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A riqht. nf republication nf ipecial dig' patches Herein ire alto icserrid. Philtdrlphla, Thuriflav. "f i!rnibrr II. I'M' THE WRECK REPORT ,TT WAS to have licen expected that the I fcderul investigation of the wreck of .the Pennsylvania Railroad excursion 'train at Elwood, N. J., would .oft-pedal the juijeet of the use of wooden coaches. I To be self-condemnatory is difficult in j this faulty world, and hence it is that members of the train crew and not the government rnanagement is blamed. But whether the case against these subordinates be valid or not, the public has no inclination for tho "security" of wooden coaches. Kar too many of them from jerkwater and one-horse railroads throughout the country have appeared in this section since the federal control be gan. Most of the rolling stock in this region was excellent and modern. Steel cars were the rule on the principal lines, not the exception. The ominous and unwarranted change is not good for the public's nerves. And it is not good for the case for government ownership. UNJUSTIFIABLE MEDDLING riOVEKNOR SPROUL'S quick protest '-" against the new regulations of the federal railroad administration concern ing the shipment of stone ought to be followed by a radical change in those , regulations. The railroad administration has or dered that no stone be shipped over the Baltimore and Ohio road without a per mit. Application for the permit must show the amount of stone required daily by any contractor or by the state, the place from which the stone is to be shipped and its destination. Then the permit will be granted if the official in charge thinks fit. This interference with the freedom of - -transportation is not justified by any emergency. It places the road-building program of the state at the mercy of an official in Washington, who can tic up every contractor and throw 35,000 men out of work. A similar order was issued during the war. This order held up road building in the vicinity of munition plants, and unless it had been rescinded the plants could have neither received material for making munitions nor could they have delivered any munitions they might have made. If business of all kinds is to be con ducted efficiently the railroads must be left free to carry all kinds of freight in response to the demands of the shippers and must not be subjected to arbitrary regulations as to quantity and destina tion made without any regard to the necessities of the case. WHY WE WELCOME MERCIER WE ARE welcoming Cardinal Mercier as one of the heroes of the war. But the emotion we feel when we look upon him is different from that which stirs us at sight of General Pershing. Pershing was hacked by millions of men armed with guns, men whom we could see with our eyes and the force of whose weapons we could appreciate. He was the symbol of physical might. Mercier, however, unarmed with any material weapon, held his- place and defied the whole power of Germany. We sometimes think of him as a lone man fighting his battle against fearful odds. But the cardinal was not a lone man. Back of him was arrayed the moral force of Christendom, and he knew it. He Stood for the rights of the Chribtian Church and for the right of a shepherd to look after his flock. He knew that an attack upon him was an attack upon Christianity itself, and he dared the Ger mans to hazard such a perilous undertak ing. His faith in the power that he rep resented was justified by the event. And so we are welcoming him as n valiant representative of the faith of Christendom who had confidence enough ill that which he believed to stand up like a' man and fight for it against what were apparently fearful odds, but what in ireality was the weakest force which could be arrayed against a righteous cause. We forget tho divisions among Christians when we see him and regard him as a priest. in the great Church uni versal in which Protestant and Catholic alike believe A SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE fe; ,Y THE death of John Mitchell the fittr" .."-' rnnntrv has lost one of its hpst. rili. l T - .-. -. - - -... 'jtens and the labor organizations have J" ' lost one of their wisest counselors. - 1' Mitchell's fence of justice and his in- Ev herent honesty inaue nini respected Dy friend and foe alike. He was a coal ?. Winer who disclosed such abilities that the mine owners themselves attempted i time after time to detach him from the labor organizations and induce mm to "i,.nrvn them. But he refused. He was . . .... HH.m.fv ilia u'lirlrnrs i,..l l.a l,rJMfc Hi' " " l,v'""" """ had devoted his lire to, them, and Was not to be diverted. His career should hearten every boy with ambition, however humble may be his present surroundings. He began working about the mines in Illinois when he was ten years old. He had never at tended school' with any regularity, but he was not content with his lack of knowledge. Ho educated himself and before ho was twenty-one years old he was the president of the school board in tho Illinois mining town where he lived. When he was thirty he was elected presi dent of the United Mine Workers of America and before that time he had mastered the economic writings of Bentham, Mill and Ungehot and was familiar with Spencer, Uiifkin and Cnr lyle, books which any hoy can get from the public library in any considerable town. His study of the fundamental principles of economics qualified him to serve his labor union intelligently and saved him from tho blunders mmlc by lc.--s well-equipped leaders. lie did not win fortune, for h" ct out to serve his generation rather than to gel rich out of it. But 'he did win the respect and confidence of the whole na tion. The example which he leaves to his children mid to the children of all other men is of greater value than any number of millions which he might have accumu lated. " THE CROWDS ARE A JURY THAT NEVER ADJOURNS Wilson. Pershing and Mercier Demon strate the Need for a Better Under standing of the Will Th.it Rules the World QO.MK journalist, -oinrivtieic. has been likening Pershing to the returning Caesar. To call that writer a carpenter would not do. It would be putting an unjustifiable slur on one of the oldest and most honorable of the crafts. Per shing is about as much like Caesar as Lincoln was like the German emperor. Ho was the visible instrument of ifiH purpose that has animated the multi tudes the crowds- for centuries, ever since people began to read and think and light for libci ty. When the crowds applaud a man like Pershing or Wilson or Mercier or Roose velt they are applauding the light that these various men have carried into life. They may not always stop to analyze their emotions, but they are cheering for the evidences of victory won for their hopes, their aspirations and their in herited faith in righteous thing-;. That is hero worship as it exists today. Who was Mercier? An old man, in finitely wise, whose tranquil soul was the one thing in Belgium that the Germans couldn't trample down; a scholar so con vinced of the power of right that even when his people and his land were over whelmed he still could stand alone amid the ruins and placidly count the days that must intervene before deliverance. Disaster is no uncommon experience with those who make up the crowds. They know what defeat and loss and de spair are. They are experienced in pa tience. Even those among them who happen to be faithless are thrilled by demonstrations of great faith. Tho very virtues by which average men live were supreme in Mercier. Why shouldn't the crowds cheer him as a living proof of eternal principles that they themselves cling to, even while they are moved with troubling doubts? A commonplace of criticism has it that' crowds are lethargic. Lethargy? If' crowds are in the habit of withholding their praise or their co-operation it is because they are, for the most part, more critical and far more discerning than those who presume to lead them. They weren't lethargic when Roose velt used to come to town. No man living ever brought the world to its toes as President Wilson did in his early war addresses. What the crowds recognized in the Wilson of those days was the mood of passionate sincerity and tho dominant faith that always have served to cany mankind forward out of darkness. Crowds flung themselves to the Presi dent's support while politicians were hypnotizing themselves with piddling criticism. They knew the truth when they saw it. The crowds were the first to discern and resent Mr. Wilson's seem ing departures from his stated policies. The President is still more astute than his Senate opponents in going back to ap peal to the crowds, without whom nothing is possible. Philadelphia might have been swept and cleaned long ago if it were not that the crowds are wise. They know more than the politicians who lecture them from either side. They know that no man is altogether bad and they know, too, that no man is wholly virtuous and without fault. So they wait for some one to come along who will speak the plain tiuth as Roosevelt used to speak it, as Wilson presumes to speak it, as Cardinal Mercier knew it, as Pershing fought for it. Crowds aren't interested in the sort of truth with a capital T with which Thomas Robins is wasting the breath that he ought to save for prayers for deliver ance from his friends. Nor have they ever seriously regarded the canned imita tions that arc presented in political ora tions. To perceive that common opinion as it is interpreted by crowds is actually and inexorably discerning and relentlessly critical it is only necessary to remember Lincoln, sainted in the mind of the world after generations of contemplative ex perience, and the former German em peror, shamed, outlawed and condemned, not by statesmen or governments, but by the crowds. It is because the crowds are instinc tively devoted to truth that America can be a temporary heaven for almost every demagogue who seems to bring a little light with him into the fogs of conven tional reasoning. But every demagogue is done to political death sooner or later and condemned, like Bryan, to Nebraska or Kansas. Only the amateurs in life talk of crowd psychology as something involved and mysterious. Half a million song3 have been writ ten. To only about a dozen of (hem have tho crowds granted immortality. Of all tho statesmen who have plotted nnd fought and preached, the people pre fer to esteem and remember only the few whose services were noble nnd unselfish. So your crowd Is the most terrible critic of all in a final showdown. It has been condemned by the playwrights and by theatrical managers because it is stub bornly devoted to happy endings. And why tinder heaven shouldn't end ings be happy in life. or on the stage? Crowds love color and pageantry, as nny one can see who happens to be in this city now, and that is because pageantry and color were ancient inheritances that the crowds have lost and still hope to regain. "Send a regiment of cavalry down the street, with chinking harness and rum bling guns and a brass band," some one has said, "and you can drive the crowds wild." You can. But it isn't because the cavalry force or its officers suggest a re turning Caesar nor is it because the croud is naturally bloodthirsty or fond of violence. Horses and guns and uni forms and chinking equipment stir your crowd profoundly enough because these sights and sounds are dim echoes of the stem movement that has carried man kind onward in crusades against all tides to a state nf security and hope and peace. Once, when a battleplane came somer saulting out of tho sky at Belmont in an awesome imitation of disaster, it was a woman who spoke for the crowd and for an instant revealed the impulse that moves crowds to acclaim a military spec tacle. "I cannot look at it without want ing to cry," said she. "I think I can see what peace has cost." The crowd has simple desires which it reveals in tho few songs which it really cherishes. It loves strength and courage and fidelity and faith. It loves love. It is passionately devoted to the soil of its origin and in late and lonely days its mind turns to "the place where I was bom." The crowd- loves the movies be cause the movies are yet in the state of artistic innocence that permits a dra matic treatment of the major virtues. In the movies the crowd can be sure of see ing the villain brought to book in accord ance with rules which it has always ap proved. It goes to the modern theatres in some doubt. When the movies cease to be imaginative and romantic and bo come metaphysical they will be undone. WISDOM IN BAD COMPANY TT IS needless to be dismayed at the spirit pervading the foreign relations committee's report on the peace treaty conveyed to the Senate today. Some of the language employed is so utterly un reflectivc of the mental attitude of the vast majority of Americans that by its very recklessness it must be impotent. The gratuitous slur embraced in the observation that the Peace Conference might be "at least as usefully employed in reconsidering the German treaty as it now is in dividing and sharing south eastern Europe and Asia Minor" is venomous nonsense at its wildest. It is just as obvious that these portions of the earth cannot be abandoned to chaos as it is that the public wants the treaty rati fied, recoils from the thought of a gen eral reopening of the subject and is im patient at purely partisan delays. There are good points in the report. Some of the reservations are commend able and the Senate's indorsement of them will protect the nation without en dangering the whole world. But these praiseworthy features are in sorry company and their validity is se riously shadowed by the broadside of ex travagant spite. Sensible Republicans can be trusted to prevent their excellent case from being compromised much longer by sheer truculence. The treaty will, of course, go through and such provisos as will be made will be wise and constructive, not frantic and farcical. A GREATER CABINET? EXPERTS who have been clamoring for a new member in the President's cabinet with a portfolio labeled secre tary of aviation have merely indicated the nature of our modern needs. Of course there should be a secretary of aviation. There will be one whenever the army and the navy and the marine corps reach an understanding among them selves and decide which shall have prece dence in the new order. Even then the cabinet will be incomplete and unable to bring jiecially trained and consecrated minds to the duties of a new age. Ought we not, for example, to have a secretary of prohibition, since prohibi tion is a new thing which intimately affects the whole country? There should be a secretary of mediation qualified to keep peace between the President and Congress. Some one has said that if there is a secretary of labor there ought to be a secretary of capital. That is a debatable theory. But any one who is watching the drift of affairs in Wash ington will agree that we need a secre tary of orations with unlimited author ity to conserve the people's time, their paper and their ink, and their general self-respect by putting some sort of curb on needless debates in and out of Congress. We hasten to the Klntll and Sensible frnut with bouquets for Mnjor Smith and the members of the Hoard of Education. School children are In bo gien u holiday tomorrow (ind they will be provided with favored places from which to view the parade given in houor of General 1'eri.liing. Aviation Is a lusty Aviation Department youth who has done Needed fiielleutly well under the guidauce of bis godmothers, the nraiy and navy, but for Secretaries llaker mid Daniels to imagine that he should nlwajs be In leading strings is to loe sight of the fact' that the kid is grow in: u'- THE GOWNSMAN The Professor as a Type TN THE pleasant column known with a far-resouudlus echo as "The Rambler," the Boston Monitor recently pictured, according to long-accepted rule, that anom alous creature of the Imagination, the pro fessor. If the Gownsman dors not misin terpret, "The Rambler's" professor is a timorous, iniprnctlcnl little man. busy over trifles, "mnkiiiK (during the hnppy absence of (hisses in vacation! heroic efforts to put his notes in order." Tor them he has bought himself "n fair leather case." but "his scattered thoughts, or rather the thoughts of others." which he has scattered, he has "jotted down on paper of every conceivable size, color nnd shnpe," unaware, we may suppose, of the existence of library cards. He has made "a discovery." marketable at ten dollars, "which will uot equal the hon orarium of the secretary who shall transcribe it." lie is eager to rend "a salient pussagc or two" of "the discincrj" to anybody who will IKteii nnd only a timid sntibbabillty in the presence of real men, such as a bond salesman and "an armorer" (polite nrchaism for muniment maker) prevents him from becoming an intolerable bore. To the credit nf "The Rambler" be it said that the professor becomes, in the end, the mmth plece of a bit of wholesome doctrine In ideality; but that is not the theme today. rpIIK average healthy human mind abhors -- an abstraction cen as t attire abhors a vacuum; and it is only by becoming a phi losopher that we can hope to escape the in herent pragmatism of our kind. I?nee Uncle ' Sam, spare, shrewd, human, nn instant ap peal to any American, nn enigma to the rest of the world: John Bull, an nuto-portrait once, now much embellished with touches nnt of the auto type. Ileure, too, the neees sitj nf classification into types. Years ago in Trance and as elsewhere imitated from the pages of "I.u Vie Itnhemc," the artist, us iu "Trilby" for example, was a mad youth, mustachioed, long-haired, in velveteen trou sers, blouse and Ilyrnnie collar, none too clean. To vary from the typo was to imperil jour place in the guild. The clergyman, also, was ever in black, Intig-froeked, top-hntted, hatchet-faced, sunctimnnious. Who ever heard of a short, stout clergyman in tweeds; nf nn artist whose life was not toppling at least on the dizzy brink of the under world, nr of n professor who was not impossible, abstracted, impractical and absurd? One story tells how Professor Logarithm, medi tating on an abstruse mathematical problem, walked from his house to his classroom, one foot on the pavement, the other in the road, subconsciously wondering nt the roughness of the way. Another takes a Teutonic bias with emphasis on that estimate of self with which the professor is said to be so well endowed. Modest inquirer, visiting the Uni versity of Krcwhon, addresses an important looking stranger. "May I be so bold, sir, as to Inquire the way to the house of 1'ro fesxor Schmidt?" "Professor Schmidt! Do you mean, sir, one of the Littleschinidts, of which there are many, or the eminent, the distinguished Professor Schmidt?" "I mean the great Professor Schmidt." "Ah, sir, in that case you are hnppy: I nm he." And any one of the seven Schmidts of the Uni versity of Ercwlion would have said the same thing. rpYPKS nre helpful, they simplify, aid the -- understanding and relieve us of the necessity of that unwonted occupation, thinking. I tut might it not be f good thing to revise our types, say once in a genera tion? The Gownsman notices that his friend, Mr. Pcnnell, still affects the ample tie that has been banded down in bis guild from the days of Millet and Hurbiznn. That Mr. Peunell should remind himself and occasionally others nf Whistler is another topic. But Mr. Gnrber (the artist, not the superintendent) niiuht bo taker fnr any plain, reputable citizen, or Mr. Gibbs at least for a duke. We must make over our type as to these gentlemen, for who could think of any one of them as dizzily poised on the brink of anything dreadful? And the clergyman. There is such a thing as the clerical cut, and it is not wholly dependent on garb; but our type at least our non conformist type is as antiquated us Stig gins; precisely as our bishops have only been brought down to the time and the level of the bishop in "The Man in the House." TO RETURN to the professor (the com-mon-gnrden variety of today, we will put it) he exhibits almost as many variations from "The Rambler's" type as nre to be found among our friends, the artists. It is uot true that all professors are anemic, or bald, or near-sighted, or undersized, or aged, timid or reactionary. As to shape, the Gowns man will venture that twenty professors and twenty business men, taken nt random, sight unseen, might be mistaken, one group for the other, except that the business men might be somewhat sleeker in these profit eering times and wear immaculately new clothes instead of older ones brushed nnd pressed to look like new. The Gownsman will hazard further that the ordinary pro fessor is ns easily lost in a crowd as any body else and no more easily. THE Gownsman has had a long and varied acquaintance with professors, from the heads of colleges who make the ground to tremble when they do speak down through all the lesser and little pipes which, prop erly handled, like those of a great organ, discourse combinedly the music of n great university. lie has known among them those on whose backs the moss has grown green and velvety, but they are really very few. On the other hand, he has known at least' one unmistakable Bolshevik among them, though at the time we had not flint con venient designation to cover the multitude of his indiscretions. But truly fnr the most part professors may echo ltnttoni's assevera tion, "I ara as other men are." A splenetic observer, on the outlook for "notes" by which to determine the species professor, once remarked that, as a class, professors have a strange taste in wii,.s He was properly rebuked, however, in the reply that the professors' tastes in this regard are no stranger than the tastes manifested by the spouses of professors as to husbands. The Gownsman has sometimes thought that the real difference between a professor and other men lay in the professorial power and per versity to protract discussion on unimportant trifles. Rut the doings of the Senate of the Culled Slates of late have put him straight as to this. In technicality, triviality, te diousness and timidity your ptofessor Is eons behind most of our contemporary ob structionist senators. It's a queer world, lobster Cheap? said the crab-eating raccoon at tho Zoo during the fireworks display last night; a queer world. Here am I with more bars than I need, while the rest of the country has not one before which to rest a raised foo't. And while the United States Senate is calling for more light on the peace treaty, the Knights Templars are Hooding the sky with raore light than a crab-esting raccoon craves. And where am I going to get crabs enough to gratify my appetite with old H. C. of Ij. ready to take all the joy out of life? I have only one hope: Senator Vare has said something about a cheap lobster. Where does he get that stuff? That's what I want to know. It may serve as a substi tute for crab. . runr- ift f r- r-v Cf i.nrc '7 cr s WPW& pw fm &. i r V'ftv ' j1 ,f, ?mp h ' ' 5r- ... ' & V -.' J fc17-" r. -a-wi'ras. '&mgf$. :&te. ' ' .- lfT,J rm ( v , tw- -: :3W56Jts5HriaS88Hajyra i ftA-siw-,(2,.'is ,.'"wui -. .. 'rixmRm jzssgm Tjr.iaitFmmTitntttatmmmmmMMhiR iaii,t!hii7 s i - , -er.c-mM : -.Jt ,-. 'i3-itKt:is f.-w-7v3i i in ii i i iiii i' in tt s jjwatt i - - r rntmi-i' i-iHL.'Kva w,msm nw mmmwm muj i r.u w m m- 'v&ftHH' .?w THE CHAFFING DISH The Average Man rpHE Average Man a darned good scout -- Bumped off nt last by some disease, Ascended heaven's stair in doubt And fell most humbly on his knees. His soul indeed bad much to vex it: lie feared some augcl would cry "Exit!" pOOD God!" he cried (in fact the 'JT phrase .Tumped out, for he was somewhat nervous) "I guess each soul before you prnys Better than our desert You'll serve us : My life since when 1 first began Was simply that of the Average Sinn. V"-REAT God, I hardly ever worked --T Up t the full of my endurauce : I lost my temper, often shirked Rut always kept up my insurance. I'm only one of n numerous clan, That poor Old simpleton, Average Man. UTijTY LORD, I wonder if you've guessed 1VJ. 'jhe most of us arc up against it? AVe like to see our kids well dressed Life's hard, the way that they've ex pensed it. ' It's terrible, you hove to pay so It's tough on the Average Man I'll say so. 'A For golf or books or contemplation, Rut still we must compete, and climb Against the chap with education. Of course I guess it's part of your plan To put the screws on the Average Man. 4T LOVED my kids, I loved my wife -- (I wish I'd told her so more often) I led a fairly decent life; I pray You, Lord, Your vengeance soften: I beg Your pardon as best I can For. being just nn Average Man." T THE Lord looked down in thoughtful wise Upon the soul who so besought: "My friend, do not apologize. For I was thinking that I ought To apologize to you how odd For being only nn Average God!" Our Foreign Correspondence Wc have Just received a postal card, post marked Gare du Nord, Paris, that gives us a twinge of remorse. It runs thus : 20 August, into I reach London tonight. I haven't heard from sou for months. WILLIAM McFEE. B Was a Bachelor WITHIN his flat There is no Cat ; Xo Cow, nor Dog, Nor Moon, nor Krog. No- Whey and Curds. Nor hot Blackbirds : No Cockle-shell Nor Garden-bell. And his excuse For "Mother Goose" Reiug on the shelf, Lies iu himself: Recause the place Has not a trace Of a Staid Forlorn. Nor of what is born. For Needles and Pius, In Rabbit-skins; Nor of what is styled A little child. FRANCIS CARL1N. yterary Notes Albert Mordell writes from Atlantic City "2d House from Boardwalk facing Steel Tier, hot and cold water, private baths" that controversy still rages over his recent bvok. The title of the work cau never be mentioned by us In this family department, but Albert Insists that the volume was en OUT OP THE WILDERNESS 4 '" V r. k jr . rs r i .m rnr? - v -. ' itrj r,pj.i. 11 ,. c si ' a '' " S ' .i- Jb r . j WW"' 9 -. ,..rV-'r ffQ v?:iw IkmmF: '- - -! ... i tSSRiSfflMaH'iEr-.-rTAKr-r rf. i M - lHJEWWVUlTmrATll " HHWOUJC',:rt,rM-.J' ' vWiVtLm y BpzmgBBNm mm && m&&S - ..tSfSSmuat&SoW LJmgm&...-BX&NtiXr!!W& r "ieffi(VfSSX TiTTMrTIMlr! TW7 WITT " M 1 1 r vsMirvi'sFS; 'xu'Mkmsiimiri . iwmvA- xf'-i.w? -njinBta yauflMufiSErggrSMMMM npawwuMaan mmmMVwF kbihis i ami i ii ' ii iiiin i s-f-xsytfix: x-.EMVit r"" -'.lOHBmsvf weaa thusiastically reviewed in the London Na tion. ' Dave Yablock, the enterprising news monger at the corner of Sixth and Chest nut, says he expects to sell a lot of copies of Ren Franklin's magazine today. Keep it up, Dave( is our ejaculation. Those of our clients who are Robert Louis Stevenson funs will be interested in a letter we have hud from Mrs. Josephine Rnlfour . uncioipn, ot uieau, .. l. .Mrs. Tiudolplrs iuim-1 was ur. i.cwis Dauonr, a nrst cousin of R. L. S., one of the numerous baud of cousins to whom It. L. S. was so attached and with whom he played in the famous gar den nt Colinton immortally described in "A Child's Garden of Verses." The particular interest to us lies iu the fact that Doctor Balfour came to Pennsylvania as a young man und settled in Eldred, McKeatt county, where he died iu December, 180-1, the same month nnd the same year that his cousin R. Ii, S. died in Samoa. Mrs. Tindolph writes : My father was a grandson of the Itev. Lewis Dalfour, of Colinton, and ho came to the TJ. H. A. nfter finishing the study of medicine at Edinburgh University. He lo cated at Eldred at the time of the olj boom. He was married there and my brother and I were born there. After father's death mother came to Olean (only fourteen miles away) and we have been here ever Blnee. In 1885 mother, father and my three-year-old brother went back to Scot land for a visit, consequently mother met all the relatives and spent two weeks with It. Li. S. It was not my good fortune to be In existence at that time, so I missed the trip. Sir. .lames E. Tower, the managing editor of the Delineator, dropped in to see us, nnd told ns of the unfortunate sailor who made a brave dash to catch the '2 p. m. train out of Rroad Street yesterday afternoon. The platform was crowded with people who had just got off tho noon express from Now York. The sailor had to run in the greasy, slippery path between the rails. He dashed gamely after the departing train, while hundreds of people halted on the platform to watch him. It looked as though he would make it, wdien he slipped and fell in a pool of oil, striking his head heavily against the rail. Undaunted, he picked himself up and started again. By this time he was outside the big train shed, but the express gathered speed and left him behind. Mr. Tower said It was one of the pluckiest exhibitions he had ever seen. Our only regret is that so gallant a tar should have been so nuxious to get away from Philadelphia. When Is a Twin Not a Twin? The President brought his report on the league of nations to the twin cities of St. Louis and Minneapolis today. New York "World. Proceeding tbenre, we dare say, to the twdn cities of St. Paul and Kansas City. . SOCRATES. The Sultan of Turkey is trying to sell the golden throne of Persia captured by the Turks 400 years ago. As the day of dime museums is past, his chance of a sale is slim. But he might' try the want ad de partment. When the President's industrial con gress gets through with its other problems it may solve the differences between uuiou organization on the one hand and "partner ship and co-operative ludustry" on the other. The action of the committee of seventy in offeriug rewards for the conviction of persons found guilty of fraudulent practice at the polls is plum discouraging to a re peater. ( . One deed Recorder Hazlett declines to record. He denies that he carried a dustrag aud broom Into Senator Vare's Rroad street house. It 'is not denied, however, that the house needed both. 'iMrwr r .r- Wy x - THE BLAZED PATH JUSJ1 when the path is lost to me Rewildered wanderer in the maze, Upon some unexpected tree I spy the Woodman's "blaze." A mystic rune of sight or sound A message quick from sense to soul, Thnt lifts the spirit from the ground And speeds it to the goal. A wind-flower nodding by an oak Hus cried deliverance from afar; Once in the dark n fragrance spoke And once it was a star. The silver fluting of n thrush ; The bursting of a sunken flame; A sigh of wind, n sudden hush, Out of the depth I came. A burning challenge to despair. Flashed from an idly open book, A dumb crenttirc's silent prayer, A friend's revealing look. And all the doubtful horrors fade The weary heart leaps up again. Through tangled thickets in the shade, The path shows broad and plain. Abbie Fnrwcll Brown, In Woman's Maga zine. The trouble with some campaigners is thnt they fall to differentiate between ginger and bitter aloes. So far as Shantung is concerned, the Senate may have to decide to make the best of a bad job. Knights who drilled on the Parkway struck a gusher of enthusiasm. Syracuse, N. Y., has learned that Philadelphia is also first in show horses. What Do You Know? QUIZ In whnt state has the Non-Partisan' League been most active?? What is Shrove Tuesday?. In whnt state has the first police strike iu the United States been called? Whnt is the difference between a pre sentment and a presentiment? How many ships were In Columbus's fleet when he discovered the New World in M2? Whnt is pomace? Who wrote "Peregrine Pickle"? Whnt is the coinage system of Switzer land? What two nations refused to sign the Austrian peace treaty? What is the "Brabanconne"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Dr. Stephan Fricdrich is the present head of the Hungarian Government. 2. "In hoc slgno vlnces" means "By this sign bhalt thou conquer." 3. Pnndauus is another name for tha screw-pine, a tropical plant. 1, Sir Humphrey Gilbert founded the first English colony in America in New foundland in 1583. 0. The current slang expression "Let's go" is said to have been derived from tho French "Allons," which means the same thing, 6, John Paul Jones was a native of Scot , land. 7, S?r Walter Raleigh introduced the po tato into Munster, Ireland, in 1584. 8, A nylghau is a short-horned Indian an telope, p. The priming of the tides is the iccelera ticu of them, taking place from'peap to spring tides. 10, The national political conventions are usually held from five to six months before the presidential elections. r rP j-r Sf3tw". r try w 'ii i a ..k tf- -a X t&i-Jl U r .it
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