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Al rinhtr nf republication of special d"ii patches hcren ire also reserved. rhlladrlphia. MliirJiT. Seplrmlicr 13, 119 AFTER THE CHEERS "M"0 MAN is rcnlly Brent until he can A ' get along without puiise. Pershing didn't lose his head in Fiance. It is clear that ho isn't going to let it get away from him at home. He took pains to accept the acclaim of the city gtaciously yesterday, only to pass it along over his 6houlder to the millions of men who were the cutting edge of his purpose in the War. He took it for granted, he said, that the demonstration was a tribute to "our magnificent soldiery." The wise old Indian, fighter knows how greatly he is honored and esteemed, liut he knew, too, that a large part of the cheering was, consciously or otherwise, for the lads who didn't come back, for the broken men who never will recover from the war, and for the majestic army that represented us at our very best. Po Pershing didn't strut. He wore none of his decorations, though his aides wore theirs. The commander of the American armies is not only a great soldier; he is a great citizen. It is an extraordinary man who can be both. THE GOVERNOR'S RENT PROBE TF HALF that the representatives of the ,J- Tenants' Association have been telling Governor Sproul is true, the case against the building associations, house owners and real estate men, who are reported in a combination to profiteer, is precisely similar to the case against food gamblers and larger speculators who are dragged into court at intervals as examples of conspicuous evil. The shortage of houses doen't excuse rent gougers. The law of supply and demand is a pretty good one ordinarily. But it has ceased to be acceptable in re lation to essentials like food, water, coal and shelter. Without these things people would perish. The barons of this country are finding that they may not play reck lessly with the essentials of life. Amateurs at the game will have to learn the same thing. That is why the Gov ernor's investigation of the tenants' com plaints ought to be as thorough and inclusive as it can be made. FRUITS OF OUR INDUSTRY A LTHOUGH Philadelphians lndivid " ually may be quite as vain as other mortals, the city considered as a unit is traditionally averse to blowing its own horn. There have been critics who re jected the word modesty in this connec tion. Indifference seemed to fit the case better. In that case the exhibition of Philadelphia-made goods, which closes tonight, may serve as a wholesome antidote. The variety of products on view in the First Begiment Armory can be surpassed in few, if any, manufacturing centers in the land. Throughout the current week 40,000 or 50,000 persons a day have pat ronized the exhibit. It could not fail to have made them legitimately proud of their town. The strangers in the throng must also have learned an illuminating thing or two. The plan to make such a display an annual affair is happily conceived. Leipsic with her great yearly fair was not called boastful, but enterprising. Lyons, her successor in this line in con tinental Europe, similarly fortified a good name. Philadelphia far surpasses either of these cities as a workshop. Some day we may have a great industrial fair of our own. The exhibition is an ex cellent start. BOSTON AND MR. COMPERS MR. GOMPERS was l.-'o in his attempt to deal with the police strike in Boston. Hia suggestion that the police men return to their posts, abandon their claims to union privileges and await the result of the industrial conference at "Washington can have no relation to the fundamental issue revealed by the walk out and its immediate consequences. The country wants to know whether the president of the Federation of Labor and his executive council actually believe that jiolicumen should be unionized. So far Mr. Gompers and his associates 3iave done nothing to explain the precise origin and purpose of the movement to organize the police in Boston and Wash ington. In both cities there have been aspects of recent labor propaganda which suggest a definite effort on the part of somebody to put the "policemen in every large city on a trade union basis as locals of the federation. If that aim were ever realized new police organiza tions would be necessary or the enforce ment af law would cease to be a privilege- cfr constituted governments Jt would be, instead, the privilege or oe aiaorMe coosututio Labor. Government as wo understand it could no longer exist. A movement like that instituted at Boston and Washington could gain no momentum without the tacit approval of the higher officers of the federation. What does Mr. Gompers think of the theory involved"; What is to bo the attitude of the executive council which is in session at Washington? Has Mr. Gompers been unseated by the radicals in his organization? Are organized labor and its loadeis in this country actually ready to invite for themselves the disaster that must follow upon an acceptance of the red gospel? COLONEL ROOSEVELT AS "ONE OF THE FOLKS" Great Men of the Past Are Uninteresting Because No One Has Preserved a Human Record of Them VIOTHING is more intetesting to nipn ' and women than other men and women, however much they may pretend to be interested in histoiies and philoso phies and other abstractions. This is why people in all parts of the country have been discussing the case of William Tanner, the Chicago man who died with his wife when she caught her foot in the track in front of an approach ing railroad train. In order to understand the situation it was not necessary to know Greek and Latin, or to be able to tell offhand whether the pleistocene era preceded the eocene, or to know whether escliatology is akin to piscatology. The problem that confronted Tanner arose out of the human relations which existed before the orderly study of language or science or history was dreamed of. History and biography are frequently dull and uninteresting bocau.-e the men who write them busy themselves with the externals, forgetting that the great men were first of all men of like passions with the rest of u. Confucius lives today as the maker of maxims and the creator of a system of philosophy. Hut we do not know anything about Confucius the man, whether ho disliked to get up in the morning and whether he loved his children and had a pet cat. He is a mere abstraction. No one has taken the pains to write of the race to which he belonged as if it were composed of human beings. The Chinese, to us in the West, are strange creatures, who, till a few years ago, wore their hair in a queue down their backs and ate rats. In the nineties of the last century, however, some one translated into English a volume of Chi nese nursery rhymes, which did more than all that had been written previously to create the impression in the minds of those fortunate enough to lead the book that the Chinese are akin to men and women on this side of the world. The father would speak of his little son as a peach blossom; he would refer with exquisite tenderness to the sleeping babe and reveal the delight which the prattle of children gave to him. After reading the volume one could stretch his arm across the ocean and clasp the hand of the Chinese and call him brother. Fifty years from now men and women will be wondering what kind of a man Theodore Roosevelt was. The histories will be filled with his achievements, but they will be achievements of the states man. They will tell how he made peace between Russia and Japan by persuading Russia to send her delegates across the Atlantic, and Japan to send her repre sentatives across the Pacific to meet in America and agree upon the conditions on which they would lay down their arms. They will tell how he built the Panama canal. They will discuss the war that he waged upon the standpatters and reac tionaries in his political party, and will announce that he was the first Vice President, succeeding to the presidency by the death of the elected man who was himself elected to that high office. But there is nothing human about all this. It deals with the intellect. To understand Us significance one must bo well grounded in history and economics and international law. But those who come after us will not be dependent on the formal histories for their knowledge of Roosevelt the man, for a collection of his letters to his children has just been published, which will pre serve a picture of him that will make him understandable by the unlettered. Roosevelt himself had a loliglng that he might be icmembered as a human being rather than as a statesman, for shortly before his death he said that he would rather have these letters published than anything that had ever been written about him. There is nothing i-emarkable about the letters. They are such as many a father has written to his children. He addresses them by pet names when they are small. Quentin, who lost his life in France, was "Quentyque"; Theodore was "Ulessed old Ted," and Ethel and Kermit and Archie were "Darling," and their mother, when the children were away from home, was described to them as coming in to dinner looking sweet and pretty. He writes to "Quentyque" about seeing "a real B'rer Terrapin and li rer Kaubit sitting sol emnly beside one another" when he was out riding and how as his "horse walked by B'rer Rabbit went lippity, lippity, Uppity off into the bushes, and B'rer Terrapin drew in his head and legs till I passed." He tells them about Bill the lizard, and how the dogs on one of his hunting ex cursions climbed the trees for the game. As the children grew older he gave them good fatherly advice. Ho writes of his interest in the fact that their playmates when he was President regard ed him without any awe, but as a sort of a big boy amusing himself with them. He says that ho doubts if any one had greater pleasure in the White House than he and Mrs. Roosevelt and frankly con fesses his delight with its quietness and with Its historical associations. The letters give to those who did not know him personally an intimate knowl edge of the kind of a human being he was, and they make him so much like the rest of us that he can nevei become an abstraction or a mere name. If we had a collect n of similar letters !: examsJe, how much more alivo the great Roman would be! All the most of us know about Alex ander is that he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. The Pharaohs are nothing but names, save to the Egyptologists, and it is doubtful if even they know much about them save that they were so fond of cats that they had their pets mummified with them when they died. But the mummied cats bring us into closer human touch with the Pharaohs than all that has been written about them. That is, unless some expert who knows more than is good for him should tell us that the cats were mummi fied not because, they were pets but be cause they were sacred. Shakespeare, who lived much nearer to us than the Pharaohs, may or may not have written the plays ascribed' to him. If he had preserved the1 letters written to Anne Hathaway we might have known more concerning him. About the only authentic fact bearing upon his intimate life appears in his will, which bequeathed to his widow his second-best bed. We know Samuel Johnson because Roswcll wrote his life, setting down all the trivial things that happened, and we know Pepys through his diary much better than we know much greater men of his period. A Texas father, when his son was about to seek his fortune in New Yoik, told him not to be afraid of the men he would meet in the great city, "for," he explained, "people there are just folks." The value of this collection of letters written by a man of great force and energy and courage lies in the fact that they exhibit him as after all "just one of the folks." A NATIONAL DISCRACE A S A people Americans have never 'i- been disrespectful of law. And there has always been a touch of reverence in the popular regard for federal authority. People of all sorts have been accustomed to feel assured of the lightness and wisdom of federal laws and even a sense of pride in 'their efficiency and dignity. Men who think nothing of squiiming narrowly through municipal or state courts accept the higher dictum with a feeling that to do otherwise would be neither safe nor quite decent. "It is the government!" So banks are robbed, but nobody nowadays ever tries to roll the mails. Only adventurers try to violate the customs laws. The food restrictions ordered by the national administration were automatically enforced by the pressure of public opinion on violators. And the food administration was con sistently aided even by people who suf fered great inconvenience under its rul ings. A change is noticeable now in some quarters. Disregard of the wartime prohibition laws is widespread, open and, shameless here and everywhere through out the country. Attorney General palmer wasn't giving the House appro priations committee any news when he told it that New York is, in its own lingo, wide open. The offenders in most in stances are profiteers and poisoners who are selling faked liquor at extortionate rates. There is only an imitation of effort to mask the traffic. Congress, which insisted on the con tinuance of the emergency dry laws, made no provision for their enforcement, and no provision to sustain the traditional dignity of federal laws. The question as it exists now is far larger than that of prohibition. If Congress is willing to have the laws of the land flouted and derided it is setting a lamentable prece dent for times like these. If the dry law was worth continuing it should be enforced at all costs, not for the sako of a few months of prohibition, but for the honor of the country. If it isn't to be enforced it should never have been left upon the statute books. Law is of little use if it isn't re spected, and that is why the spectacle of widespread violations of the liquor rulings will continue to be intolerable to right-thinking people in America. Con gress should appropriate whatever fund3 are needed to meet the situation and to make rigorous prosecutions possible by the attorney general. And meanwhile the zealots who forced a difficult com plication upon the country, and the Con gress which was subservient to them, may feel that they have done nothing for prohibition or the cause of enlight ened government. Indeed, it may be wondered whether the laxity and confu sion manifested in Washington recently may not be in some small way partly re sponsible for the amazing disregard of all law and all conventions which is one of the odd phenomena of the hour in Boston and elsewhere. N'ar Independence Time Was Short Hall yesterday Gen eral Pershing ga an exhibition of magnificent restrniut. He re viewed the Emergency Aid Aides and didn't kiss even one of them. A (strike of campaign orators? No. The best things possible in So We've Observed life never linppen. The president of the Firemen's Union in Boston said bn would not take the re sponsibility of calling a strike unless author ized by the American Federation of Labor. What he said in effect was that it was up to federation leaders to prove whether they were patriots or boncheads. There. i8 significance in Pershing's ad vice to the soldiers' organization to keep out of politics and in his ignoring of cries that hailed him as a future President. His level headedness is not the least of his good fluidities. It was fitting that Pershing should be welcomed in the home of independence ou the anuivcraary of the battle of St. Mihiel, the day ou which the American army dem onstrated to the world that It could be relied upon. It would have been also a great day for "Sergeant Pershing" but Warren was missing from the festivities. "Och-houe!" said the victim of the barbers strike, "if this thing keeps up we'll all look liks Uolshevlkl." If it permissible for a strlklnr K-W I U 3hv A striking Wilwacl CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER Reminiscences of Andrew Carneflle. Gossip About Commander Nelson, H. J. Glocke, Major Scott and Others ANDREW CARNEGIE hns passed away, leaving a reasonable fortune for distri bution despite his desire to die poor. The famous ironmaster hns been written about so much that little remain! to be told, but the newspaper boys who were at the Home stead strike will recall Hugh O'Donncll, the strike leader, and lliirgcss McLuckie, who were bosses of the town up to the time .Major General George 11. Snow den, of Philadelphia, arrived at the head of the National Guard of the state. At one stngc of the uprising, Carnegie Instead of showing ill-will toward the strikers, gnvo expression in n practical way to lilt sym pathy for the families of the iinfortiumte. This led the burgess, who was nn explosive sort of fellow, tn blurt out: "That was dniim kind of Andy." The correspondents carried that story and Carnegie read it in New York, lie clipped it and was so fond of it that for years it was naid he in tended it should constitute his epitaph. WILLIAM G. HERNARI) reminds us of another Carnegie Incident : The Atlantic Deeper Wateiwnjs Association held Its third annual convention nt Js'orfolk and made strenuous efforts to have President Taft attend. Carnegie was also invited, hut he paid little attention to the Invitation un til it was definitely announced that the President would go down from Washington on the Mnytlower. Then it was bruited about that Carnegie would gb and that he would join the President on his yacht. Carnegie left New Yoik and arrived nt Fort Monroe ton late to connect with the Presi dent, and in time only to make the last boat for Norfolk.' A iiiark doctor, who had been advertising extensively in Norfolk, was on the pier and greeted Carnegie, bidding him welcome to Noifolk, and inviting him to stay over night nt his home. The official Noifolk committee, because of this, failed to connect with the steel king. The advertis ing specialist made Carnegie comfortable for the night and delivered him over, much to the chagrin of the reception committee, in the morning. Carnegie believed him self to have been entertained by those who were expected to take care of him until the arrival of the President and Ms yacht. The enterprising specialist got the advertisement he wanted and the official committee, al though ready to chastise htm bodily, wero afraid to do so. fearing the ridicule that would surely ensue on the publication of the story. 1ENIAL TOM NELSON Commander -'Nelson, if you please is still on duty at the navy yard in charge of the personnel of the Fourth Naval district. We have succeeded splendidly in this work in the Fourth district and much of it is due to the good nature of those in charge of the naval forces, including Commander Tom. Tom NeNon used to be in the insurance business with his father, who is one of the best known adjusters of the city. He early acquired a love of the water and after the Spanish-American War, in which he par ticipated, became commander of the naval militia. Hence his advancement. Another naval militia .sharp, who figured in the earlier work of the organization of what hns now come to bo known ns the naval reserves, was John S. Muckle, who recently has been devoting himself to the entertain ment of distinguished foreigners. Colonel John has n hunch for "shaking hands across the sea.-' NOBODY along the Atlantic coast is boasting nbout mosquitoes, but reports generally indicate that the "skect" is out in full force and is showing no favors. The situation reminds old-timers of the efforts of George C. Itoldt to establish a fine summer resort near Lavalette. That effort was one of the few failures which the popular boni facc ever endured. Herman J. Glocke, the ( irk man, who hns one of the prettiest places at Island Heights, doesn't stand for cheap badinage on the mosquito question. "You ought to see Wildwood," he says, passing the buck. And at Wildwood they say "just wait until you get qver to Ocean City" and then Ocean City passes it along to Atlantic. The truth is, the mosquito pest has been wftrse this year than for many seasons back. And the federal government, which cleaned up Panama, leaves the ques tion up to the states and the states leave it up to the commissioners, and the com missioners say they could eradicate the pest if they had the money. And there you arc. MAJ JOR WILLIAM REESE SCOTT. hnplain, U. S. N., has been mado superintendent of education of the Caiftp Meade schools. An attractive booklet, com piled by him and printer: by command of Major General Grotc Hutcheson, has just been issued, which tells of the vocational and educational training now being done nt the military camp named for Pennsylvania's famous general. The departments of edu cation provided in the Camp Meade schools indicate that common sense efforts are being made to give the boys in khaki a chance to equip themselves for civil life while also undergoing military instruction. The Young Men's Christian Association, the Kimhts of Columbus and the American Library Association arc co-operating in this work. CONGRESSMAN YARE has been looking up the records in Washington, particu larly with regard to labor votes. The con gressman and his former colleague, John It. K. Scott, are adepts in this line. No ouo thought much nbout these labor questions prior to the Philadelphia mayoralty cam paign. Now they become of supreme im portance from the viewpoint of Brother Bill. There are those who insist that the Vare interest in the labor situation U due to a desire to defeat Congressman Moore, but friends of the latter are pointing out that he has consistently stood for the protection of American industry, that he has opposed the invasion of foreign-contract labor, child labor and other unfair products, that he has voted against child labor in the United States nnd bus generally supported the ef forts of government employes and of work ing men generally to obtain higher wnges and better living conditions. The Columbia Typographical Union of Washington nnd other federated labor bodies have already testiueu to iwoore k assistance in matters af fecting their welfare. JOHN P. DWYER, the stormy petrel of the 'draft board, has been out with Com modore Louis II. Elscnlohr on the Mira mar. So has George J. Brennan, the polit ical specialist, and Judge Patterson. If the handsome cabins of the Mlramar could talk they would probably tell of some In teresting conferences, although the com modore makes it a rule to let every man think and do' as he pleases on board. The Miramar Is a sea-going yacht, as- familiar along the coast of New England as It Is on the inside waterways of Nw Jrrsey leading north and south from AUauik CUj. i Jo tb frkLd of tt MImmm m Vtik; 'j if jve could Only wind up the week in ...u:.-... T',-' ,-V -N Jl fv risea25K-a!Sifi1vi:r.'iji!s''3Pafr -.. .-r--Bwa.,., -kj'w" rsrssasassss.-- .IElKiEK3SHBi'yffSCK2SaeKB'T - .-. -i v-iT 5 THE CHAFFING DISH We Saw Hlml rpHE pavement in front of Independence - Hall wns a gorgeous jumblo of colors. The great silken flags of the Allies, carried by vividly costumed ladies, burned and flapped in the wind. On a pedestal stood the (ioddess of Liberty, in rich white dra peries that seemed fortunately of sufficient texture to afford some warmth, for the air was cool. She graciously turned round for Walter Crail, the photographer of our con temporary, the Evesixo Pi'ULio Ledoek, to take a shot at her. Down Chestnut street came a rising tide of cheers. A squadron of mounted police galloped by. Then the First City Troop, with shining swords. Fred Eckersburg, the State House engineer, was fidgeting ex citedly inside the hall, in a new uniform. This was Fred's greatest day, but we saw that ho was worried about Martha Wash ington, the Independence Hall cat. He was apprehensive lest the excitement should give her a fit or a palsy. Independence Hall is. no longer the quiet old place Martha used to enjoy before the wnr. THE Police Band struck up "Hail to the Chief." Yells and cheers burst upward from the ground like an explosion. Here he was, standing in the enr There was the famous chin, the Sam Browne belt, the lygh laced boots with spurs. Even the tan gloves carried in the left hand. There was the smile, without which no famous man is prop erly equipped for public life. There wns Governor Sproul's placid smile, too, but the Mayor seemed too excited to smile. Rattle, rattle, rnttle went the shutters of the pho tographers. Up the scarlet lane of carpet came the general. His manner has a charm ing, easy grace. He saluted each one of the fair ladies garbed in costumes of our Allies, but taking care not to linger too long in front of nny one of them lest any embracing should get started. A pattering of tiger lilies or some such things came dropping down from above. He passed into the hall, which was cool and smelt like a wedding with a musk of flowers. WHILE the Big Chief was having n medal presented to him inside the hall THE CHAFFING DISH managed to scuttle round underneath the .grand stand and take up a pencil of vantage just below the little pulpit where the general was to speak. Here the crowd groaned against a bulwark of stout policemen. Philadelphia cops, bless them, are the best tempered iu the world. (How Boston must envy us.) Genially two gigan tic bluccoats made room against the strain ing hawser for young John Fisher, aged eleven, of 332 Greenwich street. John is a small, freckle-faced urchin. It was amus iug to see him thrusting his eager little beezer between the vast, soft, plushy flanks of two patrolmen. lie had been there over two hours waiting for just this adventure. Then, to assert the equality of the sexes, Mildred Dubivltch, aged eleven, nnd Eva Ciplet, aged nine, managed to insert them selves between the chinks in the line of cops. An old lady over eighty years old was sitting placidly In a small chair just Inside tho ropes. She had been in the square, over five hours, and the police had found lier a seat. "Are you going to put Tershing's name in, too?" nakcu John as we noted his address. INDEPENDENCE SQUARE never knew a more thrilling fifteen minutes. Tho trees were tossing and bending in the thrill ing blue air. There was a bronzy tint in their foliage, ns though they were putting on olive drab in honor of the general. Great balloons of silver clouds scoured across the cobalt sky., At one mlnuto to H Pershing nnnenred nt tha top of the stand. Tl.n whole square, massed with people, shook with cheers. Had it been nny other man we would have said the general was frightened. He came down the aisle of the stand with his delight ful, easy, smiling swing; but be looked nhrewdlv about, with a narrow.fyed. tuirk. ere4 H wa plainly a lltt!e3abbr. IBSted. He 'Mwid . tlea abacltf by U. ftmlmm' j iWwwwtwm. 'Bt'MM' A PARADE LIKE THIS saeLStU??Bf aMSHSffiSE--" - .-.JSSSSga Sjiie- -"" - something to himself. On his lips it looked Jlkc "What tho deuce," or something of similar purport. He bat down on a chair beside Governor Sproul. Not more than four reet away, peering over the floor of the rsrand, wns the alert representative of THE CHAFFING DISH. TTE WAS paler than we expected. Ho looked a bit tired. Speaking as a father, we were pleased to note the absence of Wnrrcn, who was (we hope) getting a good sleep somewhere. We had a good look at the renowned chin, which is well worth study. It must be a hard chin to shave. It juts upward, reaching a line exnetly below the brim of hia cap. Below his crescent moustache there is no lower lip visible: it is tucked and folded in by the rising thrust of the jaw. It is this which gives him the "grim" nspect which every reader of tho papers hears about. He is grim, there's no doubt about it, with the grimness of a man going through a tough ordeal. "I can see him all right," squeaked little John Fisher, "but he doesn't see me." The first two rows of seats at the right of the aisle were crammed with generals, two-star and thrce stnr. From our lowly station wo could see a grand panorama of mahogany leather boots nnd the flaring curves of riding breeches. It was a 'great day for Sam Browne. The thought came to us that has reached us before. The higher you go in the A. K. F. the more the officers are tailored after tho English manner. It is tho finest proof of international cousinship. When England and America wear the same kind of clothes, alliance is knit solid. PERSHING sat with his palms on his knees. He looked worried. There was a wavering crease down his lean checks. The plumply genial countenance of Governor Sproul next to him was nn odd contrast to that dry, hard face. The bell in the tower tolled eleven times. -He stood up for the photographers. Walter Crail, appearing from somewhere, sprang up on the parapet facing the general. "Look this way!" he shouted as the general turned toward some movie men. That will be Walter's first cry when he gets to heaven, or wherever. Tom Smith's face was pallid with excitemenf. His nicely draped trouserings, which were only six inches from the Dish's notebook, quivered slightly as he said fifteen words of introduction. As Pershing stood up to speak thfc crowd surged forward. The general was worried. "Don't, don't! Somebody wilUget hurt!" ho called sharply. Then Tom Smith surged forward also and said something to the po lice about watching the crowd. The general took off his cap. Holding It in bis left hand (with the gloves) he patted his close-cropped hair nervously. He frowned. He began to speak. THE speech has already been covered by our hated rivals. We will not repeat it, save hssay that it-was as crisn. clean- cut and pointed as his chin. He was nerv ous', as we could sec by the clenching and unclenching of his hands. His voice is rather high. We liked him for not being, a suave and polished speaker. He gestured briskly with a pointing forefinger, and pro nounced tho word pairiotio with a short A "pattrlotic." Later he stumbled over it again and got It out as ;a(ero(ijm. Wo liked bim again for that. He doesn't havo to pronounce it, anyway. We liked him best ot all for the unconscious slip he made. "This reception," he said "I understand Is for the splendid soldiery of America that played such nn important part In tho war with our AWcs." A respectful ripple of laughter passed over the stand at this, but he did not notlco It. Ho was fighting too hard to think what to say next. We Hked him. too, for saying "such an important part." A man who had been further away from the fighting would have said that It was Amerlcu, alone and unaided, that won tire- war, lie is just as wo nave nopeu lie would be: a plain, blunt man. We luvo heard 'UuUthe is going to enter the bankteg ,WI- : " W'd UM to Hit jwjjflufe; at tiwt !?t , ' r WSgSLiJse j "JLy- - BEAUTY AND THE ROSE Tho color that bathes the Intelligible World is tho beauty that blooms within its flower for beauty In tho In telligible World Is not a Hower that blooms only on Its surface. Plotlnos. T READ a page of mystic laws, -- At silent coon n garden's shade. A rose my nearest neighbor was, In more thnn rose's charm arrayed : And there (unless a dream it were) The soul of me had speech with her. "Say why should fiends of closest touch Within their hearts thy symbol wear, O rose? Their fond esteeming such No fenst of theirs but thou art there, Above their board a leaf of thine Afloat upon each cup of wine? "And lovers, too why 'neath thy sway Have they n covert taken, rose? Of all their lips or looks would say, So sure thou nothing wilt disclose! Why should they deem thou art so deep Unfathomed silenco thou wilt keep?" "Becnusc so beautiful nm I That beauty holds me as her own. And binds me by the closest tie, Rut bcauty'3 self cannot be known ! And she, so secret, makes me part Of her unsenrched eternal heart. "Love is the beauty lovers know All wistfully, a troubled joy, Since flaws across her image blow, That half its perfect lines destroy ; But if her mirrored face shone clear, Not love itself could hold them here!" A petal fell Oh, did 'I sec, Or did I only feel it fall? A petal, one nnd two and three, The rose had heard a sovran call; Its soul was gone, to be a part Qf an unsenrched eternal heart. Edith M. Thomas, in New York Times. William Penn nnd General Pershing wero alike honored. What Do You Knoto? QUIZ 1. How did stogies get their name? 2. How much is a moietyT 3. In what country has the parliament just indorsed woman suffrage? 4. What is the difference between a Mo hawk and a Mohock? 5. What nation has tho largest fleet in commission today? 0. Whnt is the highest mountain in Aus tralia? 7. W'hat is the shrievalty? 8. What Is the meaning of the Latin phras "Stabat mater"? 0. Who Is Baron Fisher of Kllverstone? 10. From what language does the word sen ator come? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. General Pershing is fifty-nine years old. 2. Glamour is recognized In American dic tionaries as the correct American spelling. From honor, labor, parlor, etc., the English "u" is dropped in this country. 8. Coxcomb: conceited, showy person. Originally a coxcomb was a cap worn by a professional fool. 4. Lord Byron swam the Dardanelles. 6. Alice Masaryk, daughter of the presi dent of Czecho-Slovakla, has jast re signed as a member of tho parliament at Prague. 0. Ten cents is the trolley fare In Boston. 7. Bret Ilarte wrote the poem about the st. .sate "Heathen Chinee."" 8. IU correct title is "Plain Language ' FromiTruthfui James." ; 0. Taft and Roosevelt were the tMtt KHTnn w nmmu a. rorouvaia - -' u.1 u ttaM In VbniaW. HUtaii'i '.'" 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