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All right of republication nf special dis patche.i herein arc aUo resencd. Phlladrlphla. Monla. September IS, 1019 ALL ARE EQUAL AT THE POLLS WHEN Senator Vare contemptuously said that some little fellow had chal lenged his right to register m order that he" might get newspaper notoriety he raised an issue which is likely to plague him before it is downed. Ho man is so big that he is immune to challenge if his right to lcgister is sue . pected. At the polls all men are equals, If not anywhere else. The vote of the citizen who puts out the ashes for the richest and most poweiful man in town can offset the vote of his employer. To talk about a citizen exefcising his rights L"'e"8 "some little fellow" is to assume that we nave a privileged class wnicn may uo as it pleases. But the little fellows will do their Voting at the primaries tomorrow. Theie are more plain people who cannot afford a big mansion in the suburbs than rich people who live in town in the winter and in the countiy in the summer. And their right to vote is undisputed, for they live in the same place the year round. The senator made as bad a break when he spoke of the little fellow as "Uncle Dave" Lane made when he said, "Public tsehtiment! Bah!" JERSEY COUGHS UP TT WAS clever of the Public Sen ice - Corporation in New Jersey to inaugu rate its zone system of higher trolley fares on the Sabbath. The day brings something of tranquillity and spiiitual restraint to the people of a state which still goes regularly to church. The ex periment, which is going to involve some- j. rider in New Jersey, was begun in an , atmosphere fleer of passion and profan "Jii'than could have been looked for under normal circumstances. The theorv of zone fares has never been fully tried out in practice. Jersey is being sacrificed to make an economic holiday. It remains to be seen whether the sac rifice Is wise or even necessary. While the F. R. 'P. is jovially inviting the world to ride with it for a nickel, the street rail way company operating lines a few miles away insists that it will starve if left dependent on a five-cent fare. One trolley corporation is seeking new patronage. Another is deliberately turning patronage away. That rule may . be found successful in public service. Certainly it isn't regarded as sound in any other business or industry. PROGRESS OF HOMEOPATHY rpHE meeting of the Homeopathic Med--- ical Society of the state, which begins in this city tomorrow, will be attended by physicians who know much more about medicine than was known by Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of the school. It is doubtful if any of them will go bo far as to say with Hahnemann that the mere smelling of a dilute solution of a drug is enough to produce a cure, and certainly none of them will assert, as he .did, that all diseases are a modification of the disease known as itch. The discovery that itch was caused by a parasitic insect made all physicians who had accepted Hahnemann's theory modify their views. Yet every convinced homeopathist is per suaded that the theory of the founder of the school is sustained by the discovery that many diseases can be cured by anti toxins, or that the disease can be cured by that which the disease generates in the system. Whether they are right or wrong need not trouble the layman. He is more in terested in results than in processes or tfian in the theories on which the processes are based. And, after all, homeopathist and allopathist alike agree that mother nature is the greatest cura tive agent known and that all a physician can do is to assist her as best he may. PASCO A LL sorts of places as well as all Sorts of people are required to" make a world. Yet it is a common habit to exag gerate superficial differences. People and .places that seem as widely separated as the poles may be amazingly alike at bottom. i Pasco, in the state of Washington which achieved an hour of fame when1. Aemr ivusuu s iraui aiuijicu mere ivr a lew mieutes the other day, was never heard of " kfore and it probably will never be heard " f f fy Tlio TPrnatrlflnf nnvArsivl with a handful of discouraged citizens as he might have conversed with the inhabit .aiits of a desert isle. The soil was un- Si-kmting and unproductive, they said. f( have to ihave lots of grit to live ' iorer mourned a spokesman tor the zuup ,'i!jiAuIg of Pasco. -(They had no band. They C' ehtd to have one, but -it slowly disin- ffiT ttrt?d. When a town in America hiiip't ,jbband tomething dreadful is the, matter with. it. But Pasco was resigned, without hopo or aspiration. It had run out of emotion. It had folded its linnds and given up and sat down to watch the trains pass through. The folk in Pasco seem never to have thought of moving alonj? to another and better place. The spirit of exploration was not theirs. But before we begin to make jokes about Pasco it might be well to look toward Washington and count tii a number of senators who are content to sit with folded hands in the comfort able shadow of great precedents and watch the world go by without any desire to keep up with it in the quest for greater comfort and greater happiness. MOORE CAN REDEEM CITY e , IF VOTERS WANT IT SAVED Tomorrow's Primaries Furnish Phlladel- phlans the Opportunity to Give Contractor Rule Its Deathblow rpOMORROW w'l determine whether - PhilftJelphla is devoted to its idols with feet of mud. The primary elec tion not only defines the issues; it vir tually decides them. The public can have precisely what it wants. Kach candi date for Major represents a specific thing. Judge Patterson is the Organization's man. He is Vale's man. Everybody Knows what that means. It means four years more of the same kind of admin istiation the city has had since 1916. Take Judge Patterson at his word and it is impos' ible to find any indication I hat ho has repudiated his masters. Have us glittering,' generalizing campaign speeches contained a single syllable im plying that he will throw over "The Or ganization"? They have not. He has never proclaimed that he will fight the Vare outfit. Therefore, he will protect it. A child could hce the point. Equally clear is J. Hampton Moore's position. Theie are no blank spaces on his standard. He is embattled to redeem the city from nefarious conti actor rule, to end Frog Hollowi'm, to crush a sys tem which has made its chieftains rich at the expense of the taxpayer. He uses plain language to describe a plain dis grace. With such a platform even r candidate Of less' ability than Mr. Moore would be infinitely preferable to a mere flabby agent l of the crowd that has brought Philadelphia so low. But fortunately Mr. Moore combines a brilliant, practical equipment and a ripe experience with right and lucid principles. His Republicanism is unshadowed, for he has consistently championed the high est ideals of his great political party. Machine Republicanism is a farce, a pre posterous sham. It is counterfeit, pie cisely as is the alleged "Democracy of Tammany." To be fooled by such a transparent abuse of terms is to be weak-minded. For members of a great community with imperial tesources a way out of bondage is now icvealcd. The long-delayed emancipation can be prevented in only three ways or by a combination of them. If the city goes crazy tomorrow it will nominate Judge Patterson. If it is lazy and stupidly supine, as so often in the past, the Vare candidate will win. If it really enjoys misrule, believes in contractor domination, rejoices in unnat ural burdens and takes delight in in creasing tax bills, the prospect of eventual bankruptcy and neglect of pub lic improvements, it will once again sup port the Organization. The first possibility might perhaps' seem extravagant had not past elec tions cast so much doubt upon the atti tude of thf citizenry. It has at times been exceedingly difficult to comprehend why Philadelphia has tolerated so many po litical atrocities. The second contingency, however, un fortunately entails no strain on the imagination. The lethargy of decent Philadelphians has become a byword. In difference to the primaries has given corruptionists so convenient a flying start that on the November election day there ha'j often been no worthy candidate for a self-respecting man to support. The importance of tomorrow's pii marics cannot be overemphasized. It will decide whether or not Philadelphia is still loyal to political thuggery. The large registration encouragingly- indi cates an awakening. But the interest already aroused will be largely inef fective unless there is also a great out pouring at the polls tomorrow. Registra tion was the indispensable preliminary. It is votes alone which will purge the city. The Organization leeringly prides itself on its strength. That will utterly vaporize tomorrow between the hours of seven in the morning and seven at night if Philadelphia hurls sufficient ballots into its vitals. Not the most brutal po litical machinery ever devised in the land can survive an active, determined, antag onistic popular will. Citizens who live by the Organization vote with the Organization. If repre hensible, they are at least consistent. But what of the brow-beaten general public? Does it actually long for abso lutism as the ignorant people of Spain did a century ago? ,If so, let these willing sacrifices line up soljdly against Mr. Moore tomorrow. Let them perpetuate the policies of the Smith administration; let them choose a candidate who withholds any pledge to 'overthrdw identified oppressors; let them encourage contractor tyranny; let them pile taxes upon themselves to sntisfy insatiable masters; let them plunge the town into insolvency, stifle its prog ress, crush its legitimate development. Any person who sincerely favors these things will know how to mark his ballot. If there are enough people of this type Philadelphia will gat exactly what it de serves. "This contest," declares Mr. Moore1, "for control of Philadelphia is not a question of the personality of the candidate, it's a question of common honesty and civic decency," He is right, and yet personali ties do iqiint for ji0tinet,nlng, top. His EVENING PUBhlC LEDGER wo.rds through the campaign have re vealed nn Incisive clarity and expllcltness of purpose. He is unafraid of names which Judge Patterson only utters with obvious caution. Mr. Moore maintains that he will end Vare maladministration. He is equally unequivocal in this dec laration: "Senator Penrose ha neyer directly or indirectly asked me to do or to promise anything for himself or his faction. I am absolutely unpledged to any political leader or boss." In other words, he is n candidate with a conscience. Philadelphia has had no opportunity to elect a man of this type to the mayoralty since the day of Rudolph Blankenburg. It was the councilmnnic handicap which prevented the full re demption of the city at that time. It is therefore incumbent on voters with a conscience to support tomorrow those candidates who can materially aid Mr. Moore in governing Philadelphia under the new charter. There is indeed no secondary feature at these primaries. The outcome in nil its features is of major importance to the fate of this community. It is needless to recall much of what Judge Patterson has sahi in defense of his morally weak case. The significance lies in the ominous omissions. His nebu lous plans for developing the city in olved, however, advocacy of the com pletion of the Frankford elevated. Naturally. It's a reasonably safe pro gram to champion a certainty. The Pat terson style of candidate has not the slightest hesitancy in standing for 365 sunshiny days a year, if possible, nor the remotest reluctance to promising for his constituents the unvcxed flow of the Delaware to the sea. Campaign bunk is customarily as safe as it is unillu minating. What Mr. Moore says is not bunk, be cause facts known to every one demon strate that he has a genuine fight nn his hands. Mr. Vare is his undisguised political enemy. Mr. Moore return's blow for blow. The battlelines are so vividly drawn that Mr. Moore simply could not employ hazy verbiage in the frav even if he were at other times inclined to its use. Moore is Vale's open foe. Vare has a stranglehold on the city and its populace. Vare's power will be shorn from him if Moore wins the Republican nomination tomorrow. Could any situation be plainer? Philadelphians can drop the shackles tomorrow or tighten them again. It's up to the men that go to the polls. THE CASE IN CHESTER "POLITICAL debasement is not peculiar -- to the large cities of America. i Cor ruption and contentment are often the rule in smaller communities, where petty bosses, with little to fear from organized opinion, acquire habits of recklessness unknown among the more cautious poli ticians who play for big stakes. Chester has been ruled for years by a miniature Tammany. Its bosses have been more insolent and defiant than a bo.s in New York or Philadelphia would ever dare to be. The squalor of their political system has had perceptible effects even upon the social and economic life of the city. Municipal policies were often formulated in the 'back rooms of some of the conspicuous saloons. Fatal race riots have originated in the schemes of heelers. Yet as an industrial com munity of the first class the city has opportunities and responsibilities of a sort that never can be. properly .met without the aid of an enlightened mu nicipal administration. Governor Sproul when he decided to take a 'hand in the coming elections did Chester a service by making the present issues clear and by providing the people with an opportunity for choice between what is debased and what is forward looking and constructive in city govern ment. The McClure ring represents a vanishing system of politics. Sooner or later it will have to go. The people of Chester have an opportunity to be rid of it. If they fail at the .coming elections it may be said of them, as it has often been said of the voters, in this city, that they have been getting only what they deserve. Mike Gilhooley' is on nelter Luck Ms wa.v bark to Rel-. Next Time Kium after the failure of his fourth attempt to land in this country. Mike is solid with the doughboys, but has no luck with the immigration officials. l!ut any boy with courage enough auil persistence euoiifch to stow away ocr and over again in order to reach the land of his choice would seem to have qualities that would make bini a good eitizrn. IJceau&e the candi Seasonal dates show cheerful alacrity as thoy spring to take a good-natured fall out of each other there h nothing wintry about a cam paign summary The stage is set in Ilostou for another Tea Party. Tliis Tells It Senator Vare had a Profligacy lively fight for his vote. And now he probably will go to the polls and waste it. Burglars entered a Hagerstown office and overlooked $300 of Liberty Honda iu a bafo which is never locked. Having re ceived this kindly tip, they will probably return for the lopt. One of the little girls kissed by Gen eral Pershing on Friday said he kissed "just like daddy," Which is more merited praise for a worthy man. Snow has fallen in Wilmington, Del., already. Just a small doTfb of comfort for the hay fever sufferer. The work of Gabriel d'Annunzio during the war was epic ; his recent trip to Flume teenu to be limerick. An ti-booze fighters appear to have at last raised JCane. Tomorrow we made pf. show the stuff we're The Last Minute Men pre doubtless pre paring tbeir broadsides. PHILADELPHIA,' MQKD AY, 'SEPTEMBER 15,,, 1919 , " .' POLITICIANS AND POKER Games Were Exclusive In Harrlsburg and Senator Magee Once Paid. $40 to Get Out of One Ily (il-OKOU NO McCAIN TT 1 1 wl T IS the consensus of opinion among those hose memories go bejond the dividing line of the century that the last Lrgisla tnre was the most humdrum, ordinary, and, intellectually mid Mcinll, sluggish and mediocre llnrrisburg lind known within" a generation. Tin; 18!i spoons of the Legislature between 8H7 and 1006 were memorable. The character of limine and Senate was above the average of niccredlng ones. Men who attended unj of these sessions, either as member or legislative correspondents, con cur in this view. It was, nevertheless, a period n heavy drinking and card games flourished. Oddly enough, gambling resorts during the sessions newr gained a permanent foothold in Har-ri-burg. Poker plajing was a pH'nte rfn,. renfined to membeis of the House and Sen ale who were personal fiiends and lo hotel looms. Rarely ever was an outsider ad mitted to them. The odd feature was that the ery men. who. because of their temperamental makeup, would be supposed to he poker players, never touched a card. William II. i"RulI"1 Andrews, Quay's right-hand man for j ears, and who would take the most daring lisks in polities, never touched a curd Senator William Tlnni. of Pitts burgh, Chris Magce's political side partner, was another. John (' (Inidj, of Phila delphia; William P. Snjder, afterward auditor general; William C Sproul, the piecut (!oernor: George A Vare, brother nf the senator and congressman, and John M Scott weie nirn for whom social card (Mines had no jttraetions I might nnui a scorn of others. Til EIIL would often be half a dozen games in progress on th" same floor in the 'ommorfwcnlth Hotel during the session of 1SI10. The same men plaed together night after night. A bleach of sporting etiquette that was rarely excused was for a senator or member of the House, not a poker player, to enter uninvited a room where a game was In pi ogress. Once invited, Mich a one was at liberty lo come again as often as he cared, though it was considered improper lo visit n game n' a spectator too freipieutlj . At the Commonwealth, and at the Demo cratic game at the Holton Mouse, Mich parties were pmelj pmate functions. They were held in the rooni of some senator or member. Participants in the game were all personal friends or personally known to each other. The stakes run fiom the ordinary ten rrnt ante and tcnt -tiw-ccnt limit lo two dollars call fhe, with ten or twenty dollars the limit. Verj occasionally it would be table etakes. W! the ucwsn'aner cot-respondents were wel- (ome to run in unj night at tlft- senatorial game, "to look 'em over." It was always after midnight when wont was done that they found time to drop in as occasional spectator. Of course the big games held the most fascination. Minute after minute would pass away with no sound in the apartment but inouosjllables front the plajers, tho rattle of chips and the flip of cards. It was the height of ill-breeding for a isitor to venture a remark or ask a ques tion. There was one game I recall that ran through the session of 1S00. All the par ticipants but one have since passed away. They were personal friends, experts at the game, cool, unruflled, and invariably good natured no matte' who von or lost. The circle was composed of Senator Chris Ij. Magee, his political lieutenant, George II. VonBonhorst, of Pittsburgh ; Senator Luther It. Keefer, "a cousin of Don Cam eron; Andrew .T. ("Jaek" Pitcairu, mem ber from Pittsburgh ; occasionally General William IL Kooutz, of Somerset, or John IL'Ttiebel, "Father of the House" for jcars, ' with an opportune fiieiul who would drop in to fill up the table. About three nights a week the party would meet in Seuetor Mngee's room. Oc casionally it would be in "Honney's" or Vonlionhorst's loom, and then the game would ruu until '2 o'clock. GENERAL KOOXTZ, .acmber of the Jlouse and once Independent candidate for speaker, a distinguished member of thp Somerset bar, a commanding officer in the Civil War, was possessed of greater vitality for his age than any mau I recall iu that period. Ho was of most gracious person ality and engaging- munnrr. One morning iu the session of 1001 I met him at the entrance to the House. lie looked unusually fresh and sprightly, so much so that I remaikI it. "Look fresh?" he replied with a laugh. "To tell jou the tiuth I do feel pretty good this morning. Those Indians," meaning some friends in a social game of the previous niglit, "didn't quit pla.vlug until 7 o'clock this morning. I had just time to take a bath, shave, have breakfast and get up here to a committee meeting at 0 o'clock. I'm feeling fine for I trimmed the bunch." And the genial general was then past beventy years of age GEORGE IL WELSHONS. one of the mosf graceful newspaper wiiters I have ever known, -a3 legislative correspondent for Senator Magec's Pittsburgh Times. He was much younger than Magee, but the latter was very fond of him. Several years after, Wclshona told me of the following episode, although it was known to nobody but himself and the sen ator. The game in Magce's room was short a player one night and Wclshons, who was no slouch at poker himself, was asked to "sit in" to fill up the table. They hud been playing for beveral hours when Magee began to get drowsy, nc was considerably to the good while Welshons was about $35, to the uad.a Wclshons said it was plain 'that Senator Magee was tired out and wanted to get the crowd out of his room and go to bed. But he was a winner and it would have been In decidedly bad taste for him to have suggested quitting. He was banking the game. The tablet with Jhe chip account was lying behind the chip box on h chair between Magee and Welshons. As the latfer made a fresh purchase of a "stack." Magee, with a know ing look in bis direction ran his pencil through the amount of Wclshons indebted ness. Up caught the Idea immediately. Tfley plajed a while longer and then Welshons pioposed cashing in and adjourn ing. Being a loser the suggestion came from hira with good grace. And so the game ended. Magee settled Welshons's Indebtedness as he had indicated by crossing off his account, It was over $40. J i Jt .cost .Magee that much to get to, bcj. GET UP AND CLEAN ?!$ ' ' . . - '.vr ; ,''Vi'l-' r?ttt&Si . .v.-'' -f &T?lfek. ft ' -. . A.K (Twsjc IHaaBtLi ( t . t """?.. "!! .. i i 117" "rr .. JlJ". &' ' ir i - THE CHAFFING DISH Ballade of an Inadequate Language (To J.) ' I SHAKE out syllables of dusty'rhyme, Refold the fabrics of old, wasted prose, To make a lyric garment that shall climb From jour patrician heel to naughty nose; I knit up silky erbingc for your hose. Weave veils of veise in green and cherry hue : It's all in vain the tome of Webster shows No words are worthy 'of the Only You. YOUR bronze young eyes that date the tick of time , When by the clock mirth comes and bore dom goes ; Your young, lithe bands, impertinent, sub lime ; Your prim, sweet mouth that mimics wines nnd snows; Your bell-bright chuckle, bare of foolish pose; Your comic forehead, low and white and true ; . And, what with hair as dark as coals and crows No words arc worthy of the Only You. TO PLAN your dress. Angelic Imp, trc crime. Best leave that to your ineffective foes ; For who am I to paint jour pantomime, Your vocal pause, your laugh that gleams and flows? Yet where the rumor of your being goes, Roger shall thrill,. and Funk and Wagnalls, too. ' Weeds might as well write essays on a rose : No words are worthy of the Only You. Envoy QUAINT deity, two couplets arc your toes, Twin, twinkling sonnets arc yout- eye lids blue; The Muse may wake, the Muse may dream and doze: No words arc w'orthy of the Only You I RICHARD DESMOND. .We Are Irreverent We think that our friend Dick Desmond has written a perfectly stunning ballade. But we' wonder what J. will say when she notes that he has spoken of her toes as 'couplets!'? Itsecms to us that (if Bhe has the full roster) he 'should have bpokeu of them as" quintetB, or at onyt rate quartoes. But perhaps the exquisite creature has been in a train wreck. On Chestnut street we. s- a sign, "The Doughnut Is the Nationul Cake of America." On every side we observe an increase in the output of the seductive sinker. They nre puen frvin them In the windows nowadays. It is all very hard on a man who is bjittling to subdue convexity. First Lessons In Sliding (A letter received by an American doughloy H France) Bourmont, 8 Fcvrler, 1019 ' Dear Friend; We have received your Interesting- book: The History of American People ; we read In It every evening after the supper, my sister and I. I am very glad of having- the-bool because In my book of General History the History of America has less pages. I lrko to near or your people. Your I-ttterary Digest Is also very pretty, I begin to read the politic .articles (the French girls like the politic.) When do you go at home? We could learn together the French history. I have several go,od books for that, and for learning the lltterature. The tasks of llteraturo are difficult; I write two of these tasks every week and I have no time for entertalnlngrs. Today, however, one could slide on a sled; there la much snow and It freezes; the etreeta of Bourmont are spark ling, because there Is Ice everywhere. It is difficult of not falling. In the meadows, this afternoon several Americans of the hos pital slid with a little sled ; I have met them with my friend Yvonne who was with I. Just at this moment tho bonnet of my friend has flown at lone; the soldiers have laughed very much as they htve been children, Today the snow makes little downs In the country because the wind is very strong. Ip their college my nephews have a ruaslan mountain In their playground. Thereupon the tieds slide very well. They are) large sleds for .. t...n . I l .,.-,, ATttr4alnlnv Th nit,.. yttrf alld In fhe me,dovys wjtfc my nephews UP Olfc STAY IN THE SLIME , JUST AS YOU CHOOSE, MR. ftTER! duilng the holidays of the first Januarj'. My nephews laid one's self upon the sled and I alt down upon Ills back Jlke upon a horse back ; we slid very much so and It was moie entertaining than to bo lonely on the sled. This year my nephew are not there and r am too busy with my lessons and tasks and my piano. .Goodbj-e till we meet again and I hope at soon. Your pupil The Boisterous Kettle 'rpiS often I've been thinkin' On the atiii' and the drinkin' Of the bread and tea, from -baskets That contained the harvest lunch ; And the feet of me are itchin' For a dance in Davy's kitchen Where the kettle sang the loudest That was boilin' for the punch, C1AITH, 'tis I am far from merry, Since the sunny side of Kerry Faded off with all the neighbors At the fire in a bunch ; Yet, in dreams, I'm full of laughter At the hob ncath Davy's rafter, Where the kettle sings the loudest That is boilin' for the punch. CH ! with sofas for a settle, 's-' And the music of the kettle Like n dirge for Johnny Barley ; (We have still the corn to crunch) Throth, 'tis I'll be soon forgettin' Where the tea was always wettln' And the kettle sang the loudest That was bolllu' for the punch. SURE, we're talkin' here sedately Of our toddy troubles, lately And the Pure-as-Water Party; But I have a certain hunch That we'll soon- fly o'er the ferry, In no time at all, to Kerry Where the kettle sings the loudest That Is boilin for the punch. . FRANCIS CARLIN. Autumn &'o&er gro'ic the, fields, and seie Kcst the yellow shocks of corn. Tokens of a vanished year; 'And the toorld is sad, forlorn. Spectral woods and naked glades Mourn the loss of vestures green ; Nature, clad iu sober shades, Heralds winter, cold and lean. And the north wind, biting, keen, Roars his rondeaux and ballades Down the chimneys now at e'en. Scattered arc the leaves; and lone Are the stragglers in the sky; Warbling throats have' turned, to stone As, belated, south they fly. Stubblcd fields and barren Jiills ' ", Cloak themselves in purple haze; .' Yet the murmur of .the'rills,, S'" V Tinkles, as In formerdays. '" ,'" . Now the northwind'havoc.plays ', With the earth, and slowly chills Flow'rs, till spring their heads shall ralse.j Thus, unsmiling. Nature's mood, Changed to one of beauty shorn, lulls to rest Life's laughing flood; ," And the corld is sad, forlorn. ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM. Chestnut Street (Twilight)' "TOW bits of dreams and yellow curls - - In visions dim and fleet, Go mystically to and fro ' . On twllit Chestnut btreet. The rustling folds of silk on silk Fill all the 'dying air,; And to a strolling doughboy's brain They bring the Paris flair. And as a yellow curl goes by With gea-blue eyes and mild, He cannot help but say, "They're fair, But I Sometimes think they're wild!" JOSEPH A. FINLEY. ' The ,8llent Colonel Admiral Grayson was listening to Colonel House's heart and lung action through his stethoscope, 'or whatever they call it. "Not even a luurmQr," be said, ad he admired the noiseless action of the .Colonel's I y9Vf SOCRATES,. : i if' t r SsJggSsrar&ft3s ' . "' T ,sovj&,5..jsrrj SSS Parting After a Quarrel YOU looked at me with ej es grown bright with pain, Like some trapt thing's. And then you moved your head Slowly from side to side as though the strain Ached in your throat with anger and with dread. Soon you had turned and left me and I stood With a queer bense of deadncss over me; And only wondered dully that you could Fasten your trench -coat up so carefully Till you were gone. Then all the air was thick With my last words that seemed to leap and quiver. And iu my heart I heard the little click Of a door that closes quietly, forever. Eunice Tietjens, In Poetry. , If we are prepared to say that democ racy is a farce and constitutional govern ment a failure, then the Boston police strike is all right, but not otherwise. Public opinion has its own way of deal ing with those who commit crimes against civllizatipn, and Boston offenders are bound to find it out. Some of the striking Boston policemen are said to be ready to return to dut Probably awaking to the realization that they are Americans first. ' Rioting in Lima, Peru. Rioting in Boston, Mass. Beans making trouble everywhere. News from Boston gives a sort of im pression that the police struck In order to have a little leisure to shoot craps. I ; ) What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who were the first white women te cross the American continent? 2. Who is governor of Massachusetts? ' 3. What is the most powerful telescope in the United States, and "where Ib it? 4. Where was the treaty which ended the Spanish-American War signed? , 5, Who wrote the comedy, "She Stoops to Conquer"? 0. What is a foyer? 7. How should the word be pronounced? 8. What American statesman delivered the famous eulogy on the dog? 9. In what coon try is boxing with the feet 'Practiced? .10. Wbaf.ls the sport called? Answer to" Saturday's Quiz 1. Stogies' take their name from Cone , stoga wajrons. The cheap cigars were made to cater to the taste and purse of Americans bound west iu the pre (railroad, days, 2. Strictly speaking, a moiety is a half. It is used loosely to "describe one nf . two "parts into which a thing I divided. 3. Woman suffrage has recently been in dorscd In the Italian parliament. 4. A Mohawk is a member of a certain tribe of American Indians. A Mo hock we s one of a class of arlsto - cratlc ruffianB infesting London streets at night in the eighteenth century. 5. According to Archibald Hard, the Brit ish naval critic, the United States has now in commission a stronger Sect than any other nation. 0. Mount Koidusko (7330 feet) is the i highest mountain in Australia, ,7, Shrievalty; the sheriff's office or juris - diction. 8, "Stabat Mater" means "The mothsr was standing." The allusion Is to the Virgin Mary. 0. Baron Fisher of Kllverstone, now n caustic and brilliant critic 'of 'British naval affair", was formerly first- lord of the admiralty. - a. Ar.. 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