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All rights of republication of special dte patcJies herein arc also reserved. PhUidtlphii, Fnd), Srplembfr 11. Ml! CAMDEN TROLLEYS rpHE New Jersey Hoard of Public Utili- ties announces that the zone-faro trolley system is an experiment. In that case, and assuming that it was on trial before the public, popular judgment lias unquestionably been found against it. Even for these uneasy times the situa- tion across the Delaware is phenomenal. Lawlessness, of course, cannot be justi fied. On the other hand, neither can the operation of a public utility on lines di rectly opposed to public sentiment. The trolley company over the river has a right to take the most vigorous steps to preserve order. At the same time it is incumbent upon it to realize the full sig nificance of the name under which it is chartered Public Service Corporation, ftlethods that beget rioting and anarchy cloud that title. An organization which confesses to the possibility of bankruptcy surely cannot afford to make costly "experiments." THE DEMOCRATIC SHRINKAGE rpHE shrinkage of Democratic votes in Tuesday's primaries signifies a sane Interpretation of municipal politics. So far as the issues wore directly involved, national party lines were meaningless. The tariff, America's foreign policy, government ownership, arc questions un related to the choice of a Mayor for the city of Philadelphia. The theme which interested Republicans and the missing Democrats alike was the termination or continuance of contractor rule. It is no wonder, therefore, that Mr. Wescott, chosen by a majority of the 14,000 Democratic voters as a mayoralty candidate, cuts an obscure figure. At last local politics are being governed by i strictly local considerations. This is a healthy and sensible change. Perhaps some day the parties here will (ceas trading on national names. Unoffi- cially, the nomenclature was without subterfuge this time. It was a case of pro-Vare or anti-Vare. PALMER AND THE PACKERS ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER an xx nounced to a conference on the cost of living in Albany that he was amazed when he read the evidence against the five big packers which is to be submitted to a Chicago grand jury. He said that "when it is laid before the jury the wrath of the American people will compel a verdict of conviction, for the story will umaze America as it amazed me." So much of it as Mr. Palmer disclosed indicates that the five packers control the distribution of 75 per cent of the meat consumed and 40 per cent of the meat substitutes. This may be true, but it is not enough to secure conviction under any existing laws. It will be necessary first to prove that there is a conspiracy among the five packers to fix prices and regulate distribution. Without that the suit will fall flat. But if Mr. Palmer is talking merely to cover up the inability of the government to do anything materially to relieve the people it will appear before long. In the words of the President, it is a case for the attorney general to "put up or shut up." THE ROOT OF THE MATTER rpHAT the Bos' an police strike should - be discussed during the celebration of the anniversary of the adoption of the federal constitution was inevitable. That strike was a blow at the democratic rep resentative institutions set up by the constitution. Elihu Root, at the New York celebra tion, paid his respects to the Boston policemen when he reminded his au dience that every officer, legislative, judi cial, executive or military, is the servant of all the people and that when any group of men who have taken an oath to main tain order and suppress crime refuse to perform their duty unless permitted to Affiliate themselves with an organization containing possibly 3 per cent of the population, they are attempting to set up the rule of the 3 per cent over the remain- iflg 97 per cnt This is not democracy, but Trotskyism. , This nation will never consent to any 'thing of this kind. D 'A POET'S MISTAKEN CHAMPIONS pABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO appeals to tlie France of Hugo, the England of Milton and the America of Lincoln to it tify his seizure of Fiumc in the name lot Italy, The invocation is melodramatic nnd, like most melodrama, it is far more ehowy than truthful. Milton was not of our times and it is a futile tax on the imagination to pic- 4tu M Vinnrlltno' of thn CrnAtfnn nrlalq tfrft JluV.the attitude of the modern Hugo and tOjlncoln upon open aenances oi mo jaw , Js J?$mingly registered. si' it was Ins abhorrence of Napoleon j Ill's trumpediup coup d'etat which, re sulted (n the French poet's'' banishment from France. It was the American President's re gard for the limitations of his power that restrained him provisioning Fort Sumter, because to do so would have placed the blame of starting the Civil War upon the North. The Star of the West turned back from Charleston har bor with her mission unfulfilled. The emancipation proclamation was a war measure, inapplicable in unrcbel ious states. The America of Lincoln has indeed quite the reverse of sympathy for the acta of the feverish and defiant D'Annunzio. It is noticeable that he summons no figure from his own nation's history. That cannot be because of ignorance of the tale of the tragic vanity of Cola di Ricnzi. THIS TIME WE ESCAPE THE AMATEUR MAYOR Congressman Moore Has the Mind and Training Necessary to Get the Best Out of the New Charter TO ONE who doesn't want to go as far A wrong as Uncle Dave Lane went in his vecent appraisals of public sentiment will suppose that the municipal adminis tration is as yet assured of deliverance from the sort of influence which the Vare organization typified. In the ejes of those who understood the possibilities of the revised city char ter the light for a majority in the new Council seemed even more important than the fight for the mayoralty nomination. Candidates who jubilantly wore the label of the Varc organization won nomina tions for ten of the twenty-one scats. Independent sentiment in the city is rep resented by the other eleven by a ma jority of one. Will that slim majority stand? Will it continue under the enormous pressure that is sure to be exerted be tween now and the elections, and even after the Council is organized, for con trol of a body that in the end must formu late municipal policies, spend municipal money and make or break a Mayor? Many of the candidates for Council who ran in opposition to the Vares arc not the sort of men whom you would expect to die for a principle. Nor are they even the sort who might be ex pected to oppose the rule of intrigue and stupidity that used to make many f.es 'sions of the old Councils something of a scandal. It is for this reason that voters still have it in their power to decide whether the city shall actually have an oppor tunity for enlightened self-government after the election. And it is because the nature and complexion of the new Coun cil cannot now be determined with in fallibility that Congressman Moore's election will be a fortunate circumstance. Mr. Moore is honest. He has courage. He is qualified to report to the people about what goes on in Council during the first years of an extraordinary experi ment with a new form of city govern ment that has innumerable possibilities for good and almost as many possibili ties for corruption and failure. There arc voters with an independent turn of mind who refused to support Mr. Moore because they couldn't sec all their ideals realized in a man who hap pens to be a practiced politician. Were they a little better versed in the processes of city administration these same men would perceive the futility of such a prejudice. A man who was not expert in politics and familiar with every detail of the game as it is practiced could scive only purposes of ornament in the Mayor's office during the next four years. It is with politicians that the Mayor has always to deal. It is with politicians that he will have to do battle if he is to have any success and if he is to do any good. It is by the political method that cities are governed. When we find another method it may be wise to elect men to important offices who do not know the ins and outs of the .system and are unable to understand the methods and means by which bosses and their satellites survive. A Mayor without a knowledge of poli tics would be of no more use to the city than any other amateur in a job that re quired a trained eye and an expert hand. Mr. Blankenburg was one of the ablest and sincerest men who ever held office in Philadelphia. But he wasn't a good ad ministrative politician and the reforms that he began lasted no longer than his term of office. Political leaders are necessary. But fhm-e is no reason why political leader ship should degenerate into villainy and establish itself on a basis of organized lawlessness. That sort of thing was familiar to Philadelphia until the tide began to turn at the primaries. No particular class of voters may be credited with Mr. Moore's narrow vic tory. . It is idle to say that an upheaval of righteous sentiment overthrew the Vares. It was something almost as good as righteousness. It was the determined desire of the ordinary voter in Varo wards and elsewhere for the great Ameri can privilege of a new deal. The people who like to be classified in dependently as "good" agitated them selves a bit, to be sure, in the fight against Judge Patterson. But they didn't agitate very greatly. It was within the Vare machine that the really important things happened. The Organization had presumed a bit too far. It had disregarded a tew too many of the decencies. Streets were a uit tnn fHrtv lenders were a bit too tvran- I'nical, the bosses themselves a little too reckless. Ward bosses like Harry fllackcy and Bill McCoach couldn't deliver when their chief beckoned. There was no morale in the ranks. In the Thirtieth ward McCoach mus tered a majority of 2000 for the Vare candidate in the previous election. He could find only a 600 majority for Pat terson. The Thirty-sixth used to give Vare candidates 1500 at least over oppo nents. On this occasion it delivered ap proximately 750, In Congressman Vare's own ward, the Twenty-sixth, a majority of 1800 was assured in advance to any Organization man. Hut the Twenty sixth gavo Judgo Patterson only 1200 votes over Congressman Moore. It was n general reaction of public opinion that turned the political tide in Philadelphia. Even to Varcitcs Varcism had become intolerable. The city's way is clear to the sort of government that makes other communities clean and con tent and prosperous. Let's go. A PEACE CONFERENCE AT HOME rpHE men whom the President has se-- lectcd as representatives of the public to confer with representatives of labor, agriculture and banking are not quite so representative as they should have been. We do not wish to be hypercritical, but it seems as if a man seeking conferees with expert knowledge would have chosen several from this state, one of the greatest industrial states in the Union. Put unless Elbert II. Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, can be called a representative of Pennsylvania this state has been overlooked entirely. It is possible that the President may revise his list and include some Pennsylvanians before the conference finnlly meets in Washington on October 0. The purpose of the conference is for the "discussion of the labor situation in the country and the possibility of formu lating plans for the development of a new relationship between capital and labor." This is a worthy object. Men have been talking about the relations between capital and labor for many generations and have not yet arrived at any clear ideas about what constitutes cither labor or capital. With all the discussion, there is a disposition to assume that there is no industrial conflict save between the employers and the employed, and that if this conflict could bo settled all would be peaceful. But at bottom the war is not between what are loosely called capital and labor. It is a war between conflicting selfish in terests. The employe demands high pay and a shorter working day. The em ployer seeks to get labor at such a price as will leave n margin of profit for him. He wants the margin to be as big as pos sible. But this conflict of interest is only a part of the greater war that is going on. The employers arc fighting one an other for the market in which to sell their goods, and they arc continually troubled by the warfare going on in their own factories and shops. There is the same conflict of interest between com peting employers that there is between the employers and the employes. Then union labor is continually at war with nonunion labor. The unions seek to organize all the workers in as many trades as possible in order to secure a monopoly of the labor and to be able to dictate to the employers the terms on which it will work. And the nonunion workers are selling their labor in the best market they can find, regardless of the wishes of the unions. There is com petition here between two groups of labor with conflicting selfish interests. The task of developing a new relation ship between capital and labor is not quite so simple as it might seem at first blush. The President, who has given some thought to the subject, is, of course, aware of this, but he is calling the con ference in the hope that he can do some thing to create the feeling that there should be n community of interest be tween employer and employed instead of a conflict of selfish desires. The con ference deserves the good wishes of all friends of industrial peace. An Altoona man while SmoUo t'p! dismantling the phoot- iiiff gallery of which he was the proprietor discovereil in a squirrel's npt in the roof of the bulldinc 4S0 cigars which the rodent had removed from his stock. The, story ns received is Incomplete. By grapevine wireless we learn that the Ml'uirrel hnd lined its nest with the hands in tasteful designs, and the supposition is that the bushy-tailed one was holding the rigars to swap for the nuts who would fall for the story. Sir Oliver Lodge says Weight Not if the atomic energy Sworn To of an ounce of matter could he utilized it would be sufficient to raise the German ships sunk in the Scnpn Flow and pile them on top of the Scottish mountains. His name sake, Henry Cabot Lodge, holds that a more noteworthy feat is accomplished when ths atomic energy of an ounce of gray matter delays the progress of the world. The community banquet to be given Lieutenant Commander Alfred C. Read in Atlantic City will be attended by ladies. This may be partly due to the growing strength of women in political affairs and partly to the passing of John Barleycorn as a supplementary guest of honor. Formers nrc seeking a larger repre sentation at the federal industrial con gress. "Labor has been given larger rep resentation, though it raised hell gen erally," complains the chairman of the National Board of Farm Organizations, "while agriculture has been loyal." While stating the fact it may also be that the gentleman has recited the reason. The Governor's probe concerning hous ing conditions and rent profiteering will doubtless develop the fact, aforetime sus' pected, that the landlord has less difficulty than the tenant in raising the rent. Hog Island has work enough on hand to keep its 30,000 employes going for sir months. And if the city knows its bus!- ness there will be no lay-off then. The sovereign citizen is quite satisfied that bis crown is on straight. It took the North Penn to show how to turn a healthy dollar into twenty sick cents. The Entente understanding is that Russia may gang its aiu gait, .but must bhlnny on its own side. . Old General Apathy headed the Demo cratic ticket. ' Gompers's hope of a truce in Boston was sunk without trace. j Gompers Is at the forks of the road, and one way lends to dimeter. Four years Moore. ... KEELY A'WORLD TRAVELER Col. McCain Tells of Philadelphia Bo hemian Group of Wrflch Doctor Is the Only Survivor Man Who Found Woodrow Wilson Uy GKOKOK NOX McCAIN Dlt. nOIlEUT N. KL'HLY was n rare figure on Chestnut street the other day. Ho lives nt Itrowiis-MUl.s-iu-tho-I'ines, New Jersey, although he spends about one third of the yenr In Philadelphia. The Art Club is his headquarters. Doctor Kccly wns surgeon of tho first Peary Relief Expedition. That was In the summer nnd fall ot 1S02. He enmc back and wrote nn interesting book of his experi ences that hnd n large sale. Everything about the Arctic was seized upon greedily in those dajs. I fancy thnt his experiences up 'in the white north gave Dr. "Hob" Keely the taste of travel thnt ho has developed in succeeding years. He has been nlmost everywhere. His record along the northern const of South America is six vojngcs. He litis visited prncticnlly every hnbltublc Island from Cuba to Barba dos. Two months were spent by him in our new possessions, the Virgin Islands, lnpt spring, where he had nn.opportunlty to study conditions in these "I'enrls of the Spanish Main," so called. As pearls they arc pretty badly damaged, the doctor says. The I'nltcd States took them over three, years ago and has permitted them to shift for themselves ever since. By them is meant the inhabitants. The doctor is of the opinion that unless Washington wakes up and ninnifests some interest, nud puts the population to work nnd extends some substantial aid to them, it will one of these dnjs be called upon to send a few relief ships to the islands as we did to Porto Itico in ISO!). WHEN" Melville K. Phillips was literary editor of the old Press under Bradford Merill, now general manager of tho Hearst newspapers in New York, as managing editor, his room was a rendezvous for a group of young fellows who comprised tho only real set of Bohemians it was ever tny fortune to know. There was Dr. "Bob" Kecly, ready for any adventure that might drift his way. "Dan" Dawson, nthlctc nnd man-about-town, of whom it wus suid that he addressed a young ladies' boarding school in the morn ing, had a four round set-to iu the after noon, and made up n party of n dozen at a private dinner nt the Brllevue nt night. Will Garrison, a writer himself nnd a delightful talker with a most remarkable ocabulary. He was a brother of Secretary of War Garrison. Joe Sinnntt, slender, handsome, wealthy and as compnnionnblc a chap as one could find in a week's travel. Then there was O'Brien Moore, of Ireland, one of the gentlest nnd most Kindly Minis I ever knew; soft voiced and sympathetic, but ready to light at the drop of a hat. Sloorc went back to Ireland, I believe, to an unexpected title of some sort. Dr. Rob Keely is now the sole survivor of that brilliant littl" company. Two or three times a week they would take lunch, consisting of soup, a stew and a salad, at the Holly Tree Inu. It was on Sixth street belpw Arch. It's n plumber's blion now. The little, long, narrow saloon disappeared ten years ago. M lunch with two glasses of beer in those days cost n quarter. This group, all brilliant young men in their wny, were Bohemians by nature. They did not wenr bow tics, long hair nnd woolen shirts. They were gentlemen. T HAVE known seveial men in my day who - had an uncommon fucully for slzjng un political situations. The late Congressman Krnest F. Achcson, of Washington county, was one of these wise men. One time in particular was the presidential campaign of 1892. Achcson went to Min neapolis as n Blaine adherent. He said Harrison could not win. And he was right about it. Harrison wns nominated and slaughtered at the polls. Henry E. Alexander was one of Achcson's intimate friends. He was a newspaper mun, but is now a publicist with residences in Washington, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. , It was Alexander who really first sug gested Woodrow Wilson for political ad vancement. He was then Professor Wilson, of Piinccton. "Hal'' Alexaudcr was editor of a daily newspnper iu Trenton, when ho became ob sessed with the idea that Wilson could be nominated and elected governor of New Jer sey. In leaguq with Colonel George Harvey in New York, former Judge Jnraes Gay Gordon, of this city, and some other friends he work ed up his ideas. I presume one reason was that Hal Alex ander comes of a long line of Presbyterian ancestors. The Presbyterian Banner still belongs to and is published by his family. Wilson was a Preshjterian and a rising man and conditions were favornble for the stroke that ultimately headed Woodrow Wilson for the White House. Alexonder, like his personal friend, Con gressman Acheson, has been successful in predicting political events. Wilson, for In stance. Edwin S. Stuart was picked by him for Governor at a time when things looked rather dark for the Republican party in the state. Incidentally, Mr. Alexander when I met him on Broud street the other day" pre dicted J. Hampton Moore would win. JS. SCATTERGOOD knows as much about photographic cameras and such things as any man in Philadelphia. He has been handling them and selling them for nearly a quarter of a century. He knows all tho big lecturers and has outfitted some of them, to say nothing of hundreds of travelers. Mr. Scattcrgood is of the opinion, judged on the camera basis, that this government need have little fear of Germany not being able to dispose of her products now that tho war is over. Already in the camera trade there is a great demand for German cameras. There is one in particular small, com pact, with an exceedingly fine lens that is in constant demand, although there is none on the market. ,It is really a coat-pocket camera. It takes a photograph of such exquisite detail that If pan he enlnrcrpil iitfi,,,t ..r i .w ,. --.. ,,, ouuerjug irora tho process; which is saying a great deal. The demand for German lenses by profes sional photographers is also increasing, be says. They have the glass over there. We have the skill, but lack the material from which to fashion these lenses. In order to sac food tho Austrian Gov ernment has issued a decree expelling all persons who have no legal residence In Aus triu. The open season for tourists will come later. It wasn't exactly a landslide for Wes cott, but it was a shovelful to spare. The world awaits the D'Annunzio l'envol to his cifte little Flume ballade. Things that arc purely political are sel dom politically pure. . "TACKLING THE DUMBLY," AN INCIDENT IN T?HE TRAINING SfeASON ITS. sT- r" C .r THE CHAFFING DISH Confessions of a Boob TTW'ERY now and then we go to the ' postoflico to mail a registered letter containing some money. On those occasions we wonder what there is in the ntraosphcrc of that ancient fortress that makes us go through such odd mental antics. Before we leave tho office wo, have care fully sealed tho envelope containing the bills, after counting them half a dozen times. We count them two or three times firbt, and they seem correct. Then we lay them on the desk and turn away care lessly as though to fool them into thinking we arc going to leave them there. We pounce back upon them suddenly to take them by surprise in case they have changed their denominations or altered iu any way. They are still correct, and we seal them up. Sometimes we do this twice. WD PUT the envelope in our pocket, but we-aro still suspicious of it. When we get to tho postoflico a horrible doubt seizes us. Are the bills still there? Or have they evaporated in some mysterious way? Or can we by chance have left them lying nn our desk and forcotten to close the desk? Is it worth while to dash back to the office and sec? We weigh and pinch nnd shake thn envelope "Trying to make out whether they are really inside. Unhappily the gum has already dried, or we would case open tho flap to make sure. Sometimes wo do go so far as to "break open the envelope nnd then (finding everything O. K.) have to buy a stampedr-onc after standing in line fuming for ten minutes while the people ahead of us buy 148 twos and 21io ones nnd all that sort of thing. WE GO upstairs to the registry room. Here we have a spasm of anxiety about th address. We study the envelope over and over. It looks nil right, but nre our eyes deceiving us? If we have n friend along wo ask him to read aloud the address that wo -iave written. If it sounds all right we are reasonably satisfied. We buy the registry stamp and stick it on, licking it with amazing care. We get our little receipt and hide It carefully away in a hip pocket. Then we annoy the next man by lingering so long at the window to watch the official put his rubber stamp on the envelope and watch the envelope as long as it Is in sight. Still we have an absurd feeling that perhaps something is wrong. Perhaps we put the wrong letter in the enve lope We 80 out onto tho street with beads of dew on our brow, and wonder whether it ever happens to any one else. PS. Wo havo consulted our sagacious friend tho Quizeditor about all this. He says ho docs exactly the samo sort of thing every time ho malls a check. He will never understand why we embraced him so nffectionatcly when ho told us. Thank heaven, wo are not the only one ! We havo a friend who is about to sail for Engla'nd, and who says it is one of his ambitions to Introduce the phrase, "I'll say it is" (with Its variants) into the British Isles. We shall watch the English papers with interest for evidence of his success. If we see It in Punch or the London Times within a year, we'll buy hlra a box of cigars. A Dream A friend of ours who ico living in Eng land before the war had a dream during the spring of JW-J. ' interested him so much that ha wrote aown n impressions oi t as soon as ho tcoko up. This is an absolutely auihentto reoon and ecm to us of suffi cient interest to reprint. I (stood oulsldo what Beemed to bo a London theatre. Before one entrance a huge crowd jvaa waiting for the doors to bo opened. Before a second dooiv only half a dozen people were standing. The posters on the walls announced the per formince as "The Play of Life." When the doors opened I walked In leisurely with the few people who had been waiting .. . ji-x' i.t'it.v.'jt :i jx,ixM'r!t!is.ra,ie.K.r-.i,ir&rjfSV7.'i .;. s r... .-. .. .i.rif.,u5.r-'.tfBr,rs:r.rew is SSetaSOm .ttx . atftaS?-"!' . -.,-"'-.-! or. . ,. -iu-"i- - r "2V. .j55SW!Ey,'r2. ". - 3"v?3Pfes - " f--fcr3lJ- ' ' .VT 5-rf. ' -- tt iir .-" -'". .- - a JrH-, , V' , H.. v"- -- -ys- before that entrance, and we camo to tho best part of tho theatre, which contained all tho most comfortable scats. An at tendant camo up to me nnd nsked for my ticket. I replied I had not got a ticket, but wished to buy one. Tho answer seemed to come from far. far away: "That Is too late now! All these 'seats are taken. If ou have no reserved Beat you ought to have waited at tho other entrnnco with tho crowd add taken your chance. But that la also too late now, for there Is no seat left thero cither. You'll have to walk out !" So I went out Into the dusk of the dying day nnd found myself on a hlllsldo with a wide view toward tho evening sky, which was all In a hazo of a deep, dark crimson color, a warning voice said on my right hand side. "Do you boo the doom?" I looked round and saw an old man with a lino but very serious face and n lone white beard pointing toward tho sky. And then it Hashed through my mind that tho curious color of the sky could not be caused by tho sun, hut that there must bo a great firo somewhere, and I asked, "Where does It como from?" He replied "from Germany." I said, "But surely one cannot see a flro so far off?" He shook his head and an Bwerod, "This Is not a nre. Look!" And as ho spoko the mists dispersed nnd the setting sun becamo visible; but one could see at once that It was a dying sun. It had lost almost all Its luster and looked a dull dark red like a gigantic ball of red hot metal, with cracks all over Its surface. Small parts had Bpllt oft and becomo molten , and now formed tiny balls adhering to the largo one like drops of quicktillver. I was terror-stricken, and It was somo time until I found words: "But If tho sun ceases to bo, tho earth or at leaBt all life on It must perish, for thero will be eternal night nnd frost 1" Then his face became like the face of God on the pictures of the Last Judg ment, and lie said In an awe-Inspiring voice: "Yes, the end of all hlngs has come." Meanwhile the color of the sun underwent marvelous changes. There was a deep metallic blue of an Intensity I had never Been before, and many other colors, mag nificent, but of Binlster and gloomy por tent. Suddenly, while I waa lost In cori temDlatlon. I heard a different volon K"n soft, sad voice of a woman: "Yes, there will bo no tomorrow !" I looked and beheld a beautiful faco like Lovo Incarnate Then I took courage and Bald: "But If there aro only a few hours left, cannot I have these few hours together with her I love?" An unspeakably Bad smile flitted over her features as she answered: "Yes, you shall. She will be here with you soon ; for when I knock and call, every one has to come." With these words she left me. and 1 woke, up. Speaker Clark, in addressing General Pershing, remnrked that "Grim visaged war hath smoothed her wrinkled front," thus making feminine what Shakespeare had de scribed ns masculine. TJiis was unchivalrous of the Speaker. No lady's front ever gets wrinkled. "Chickens were frying in the cabin, but that was the only sign of life," says a bandit story from tho wilds of West Chester. A sign of a pretty pleasant kind of life, say we, after having often looked amorously at a Maryland fry listed on the menu and passed on farther down tho list. BVAnnunzio is to b5 starved out, we read. It may take some time to do it, for most real poets have undergone a stiff 'course of meatlessness in their youth. It was Carlyle (or was it George Gissing?) who used to say of . certain plump writers: "They haven't starved enough." But hunger is a hard foe. D'Annunzio may have 14,000 men, but if ho has no menu the end is near Ho muy scorn tho league of nations, hut the league of rations will get' him. Scrapple, oysters, and punkin pic the heart of tho world is not broken yet. SOCRATES. Without feeling under obligation to swear to any ' affidavits, wo venture the opinion thnt Japan will show no unseemly baste in answering tho query of the United States concerning Shantung. - ""-- wr-rm j..- - wm. mm- Uy.,. rf?.MyisjJ,&i h rij INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM; LATEST STYLE OH, IT'S lovely to feel ns you sail on the sea That the ocean is yours in its entiretce. That wherever you happen to hit on the strand, That spot is the same as your own native land! Oh, it may be the border of Timbuckteroq, The haunt of the knickknack, the knot and the gnu, Or it may be the tip of tho top of the tarn Where Igloots and Izziuks don't glvo a darn. But wherever it is, you will feel you're at home, And will just settle down, never after to room; You will gas with the Madagascarians free, Or pat Patagonlans plump on the knee. And your brethren, whoever they are, -all will grin, And the cosmos will turn to and start in to (.pin, Till the metes and tho bounds of these United States Are quite lost in a blur that your soul elevates. Yes, whoever they are ticy will give the high sign, And you'll sniff at the breeze and absorb it like wine, And the Mars in their courses will cluster and group Whilst all of you join in a world anthem whoop. Maurice Morris, in the New York Sun., i What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What novel first brought Gabrielc D'Annunzio to international notice? 2. What is the highest altitude ever reached by man on the earth's surface? 3. Who attained it? 4. What is a marmot? 5. What is Cardinal Mercier's first name? 0. At what age did the poet Keats die? 7. Which is the largest of the Philippine Islands? 8, What 'is the cofferdam of a ship? 0. Who is director general of tho Pan- American Union? 10. In what weight do twelve ounces make, a pound? Answers to Yesterday's- Quiz 1. Napoleon surrendered himself to th British in 181C. 2. The Emden was the most successful of tho German commerce raiders in tho war. 3. Dion Boucicault wrote the comedy, "London Assurance." 4. The notorious French politician Call- laux has just been released from prison on nrcount of ill health, 5. Sir Edward Burne-Jones was a cele brated English painter of the pre Rantiaclite school. His dates are 1833- 1898. 0. The largest river flowing into the Pacific on tho American continent is the Yukon. .' ' T. The Dinner is the constellation of the Great Bear. 8. Faience; earthenware, porcelain of all kinds. The name is derived from Faenza, an Italian town where the ware was made. 0. Stgian darkness means that of the lower regions. Stygian is, the adjectUc made from Styx, the river of tho clas steal Hades, 10. Herbert C. Hoover was born in Wert -eSOTSKscr' 5niMtS-at2ir Tjy-rV Branch, Iowa, In 1874 !l V f. i , 1 tt ' If. -5 y a itf ..V"" Ail trl 1 r" j fl rfi i a , ftV Fun tiA - . ii. " "'n 1
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