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rhlUJflphU, Mluroij, September !7, 1919
ANOTHER BRIDGE DELAY
PHILADELPHIA pride is not stimu
lated when an nmbabsador from Cam
den is told that the municipal treasury
Is too slim to permit of a financial con
tribution by Councils to the highly neces
sary and important Delaware river
bridge.
Both the New Jersey and the Pennsyl
vania Legislatures have voted their due
shares for the preliminary survey and
preparation of plans. That the great
project will lag for at least six months
is directly to be ascribed to the delin
quency of Philadelphia.
It is evident then that it will be J.
Hampton Moore's privilege to foster the
co-operation of this city in an enterprise
which will be of prodigious benefit to the
metropolitan -area in the two neighboring
Rtates. There is talk of a loan by the
new administration. Whatever the ex
pedients adopted, it is imperative that
Philadelphia be relieved of the stigma
of holding up the bridge plan.
Mr. Moore may be expected to give it
.his enthusiastic and vigorous support.
There should be no more situations in
which Philadelphia confesses to its
smaller neighbor inability to further a
work needed and desired by the entire
public in this region.
GREAT BATTLE ANNIVERSARY
l"NE year ago today the public learned
that tho American army, fighting as
an organized unit, had begun a new
movement in the war. The full signifi
cance of the operation was at that time
unrealized. But as the final weeks of
the war speeded by. the tremendous im
portance of the Argonne battle became
more and more evident. We know today
that it was our pressure north of "Verdun
which squeezed the Germans into the
neck of a bottle from which there was
no "escape without surrender. The plea
for an armistice came when the fighting,
which ultimately attained Sedan, dashed
the last hopes of the enemy.
It is conceivable that September 120
may eventually be listed among our pa
triotic holidays. Certainly it deserves
such commemoration. The largest and
most powerful American army ever as
sembled cannot bo too much honored for
Its masterstroke in the greatest and
most terrible of all wars. And the mag
nitude of the event will grow with tho
years.
THEY MUST BEGIN AGAIN
TJOETS .were actually getting some-
where in popular estimation when
P'Annunzio sailed away to Fiumc to risk
his life for the fun of making glittering
wreckage of a plan that represents the
concentrated wisdom of the world.
The poets had cut their hair. They
shaved. They gave up free erse and
purple neckties. They no longer lectured
on temperament. For a time it appeared
its if the world was almost ready to for
give them all. Then one of their strange
crowd went forth into the world, selected
his graveplace on a high hill and, as the
solitary antagonist of all wise and rea
sonable men, declared himself ready to
die in order that the weary and tor
mented nations might see their greatest
liope grow slightly dimmer.
No matter how tilings go in the Ad
riatic, the poets, great and small, will
have to begin all over again. It will be
fifty years before they can lie down tho
memory of D'Annunzio.
JUDGE DICKINSON EXPLAINS
TUDGE DICKINSON wishes it to bo
understood that when he decided that
a saloonkeeper might legally sell whisky
to be used as a medicine he did not mean
that it was legal for a bartender to servo
a drink to a man who professed to have
stomachache. The illness must be genu
ine, according to the judge, and the need
must be manifest.
But he did not say that a physician's
prescription was necessary, and thus he
left wide latitude for the exercise of tho
expert judgment of the bartender as to
the .genuineness ol the illness which tho
whisky will relieve.
THE PIPE COMES NEXT
VIEWS comes from London that now
k' and then a woman in tho habit of
Smoking cigarettes is finding the cjga-T-ette,
too light for her. The sight of a
Vnmnn -inn restaurant smokim a clear is
tiHraeHm ntl pnlion -where the use of
is Jgarettes had becomo so common that
1r i . I? i !
nq one jiouce-u iu
Tin modern woman, however, has not
.ct adopted tlm liabits of the great-jrj-andmothera
who used a clay pipe.
When bhe" gets to the pipe stage and old
chokers pay that tho pipe is the most
'mrfifnrtnry after all sho wjll doubtless
ewe 'Jsieerseh3Um or a French briar
mtfUr thn th 3. P. of an arllr em-
cratlon. Now and then one of them who
wishes to bo "plcturcsquo will uso a
churchwarden and tho ultra-fashionablo
may adopt the Turkish hookah.
Tho cigar, however, is likely to retain
its popularity, for it has many uses.
The feminine Joe Cannon of the future
will go about with one of them in the
corner of her mouth, lilted up nt a rakish
angle, while she gives orders to her fol
lowers. And the Dick Crokcr in petti
coats will sit with her delegation in na
tional conventions chewing a cigar in
grim silence as she watches the proceedings.
WILHELM'S RED FRIENDS
ARE REVIVING KULTUR
A Big Volunteer Army That Doesn't
Even Draw Rations Is Giving the
Junkers New Hope
T"ULTUK, it appears, has not been
- dissipated or interred after all the
trouble the world took to be rid of it.
The thing is with us in what the adver
tisements describe as "a new and im
proved form." It is self-.starting, this
time, and warrnnted by 'the manufactur
ers to take any hill. America has the
opportunity to iew the phenomenon
clearly in the mingled light of the steel
strike and the review sent today by Mi.
Kospoth, the representative of this news
paper at Geneva.
Geneva is the strangest of cities these
days. It is the pivot about which Europe
swings m turmoil, a grand stand from
which you may contemplate the vastest
drama of human history. From Gcnea
any intelligent observer of events may
view tho operation of a plan to put a
blight upon the social and economic life
of all Europe except Germany; to im
poverish and exhaust the nations that
won the war by u method of attrition
known as sabotage.
Sabotage is the ultimate weapon of
fanatic radicals. It takes many forms.
It may be an oiderly strike. But in its
'more subtle manifestations it is applied
through secret agreements among work
ers who conspire, while remaining at
their posts, to disorganize lailway traffic,
the mails, the communication systems
and the means of production. Sabotage
means blow destruction and teirorism
from below. Railway unions which prac
tice sabotage deliberately put their in
tricate systems into a hopeless tangle.
Miners disable machineiy. The aim of
sabotage is the breakdown of the social
order, the overthrow of all existing ad
ministrative systems and the centraliza
tion of all power in the hands of groups
such as that which William Z. Foster
has drawn around himself at Pittsburgh.
Sabotage used to be practiced only by
the more leckless and desperate of labor
groups in Europe. But Mr. Kospoth had
reason to believe, and any one who ;ads
his article will have reason to believe,
that sabotage is now being deliberately
organized upon a grand scale over all of
Europe and that the strikes and contests
and conventions and all the paralyzing
philosophies spread under the pretense
of humanitarianism in the Old World rep
resent only its surface manifestations.
It is a method by which somebody some
where wishes to make Euiope a little
more weary, a little more desperate, a
little more unhappy than it was left by
the war.
Mr. Gompers seems to have been the
one labor leader of prominence who was
able to see below the surface of the pre
tentious Socialist congress at Berne
when idealists and crooks, saints and sin
ners, sane and insane gathered to decide
how tho world should be made over.
Gompers would have none of the con
ference. But it is plain now that the
issue which ho disdained to recognize in
Europe beat him across the Atlantic to
challenge him again at Pittsburgh.
Foster's refusal to delay the steel
strike until after the industrial confer
ence called by the President is sabotage
as radicals understand it and u pecu
liarly dangerous sort of sabotage at that.
The relaxation of productive effort in
England, in France and ill Italy and the
disorganization of the economic system
that follows it is sabotage on a grand
scale. Mr. Foster in his book describes
a dozen forms of sabotage for the guid
ance of those who follow him.
Meanwhile there is no sabotage in Ger
many.
There aie no widespread general
strikes in Germany.
Leibknccht, who was accustomed to
advocate that method to workers, was
shot not so long ago. He was bhot by
German army officers in the streets of
Berlin. Wherever bolshovism has shown
its head in Germany it has been clubbed
to death.
Nosko attended to that detail. He is
minister of defense in tho new govern
ment. He was a representative of tho
kaiser in other days. Thq German Gov
ernment has been begging its people to
be patient, to be strong and to be or
derly and systematic. They are urged to
work and build and produce. While the
new Germany is regaining its equilibrium
and its confidence and not a little of its
old resolution, all the rest of Europe is
being enervated, morally and physically,
by the Fosters of the Allied countries.
Not all of them aro vile. Arthur Hen
derson and Ramsey MacDonald arc sin
cere representatives of enlightened
liberalism in England. And yet even
they have helped to create the sort of
economic confusion which is the one hope
of German junkerdom in the days of its
defeat. Germany still has a dociio popu
lation and the personnel of a vast army.
The country is without war materials.
But war materials are not voryar away.
And it is worth observing that junkers
of some other countries aro playing un
consciously into the hands of the junkers
in Germany by their ignorant opposition
to the decent claims of conservative
labor.
To find a backwash of all this confusion
in America Is to realize something of the
force of tho social and political impacts
that are occurring in Europe. For tho
stee strike, though it was called in the
name of the Federation of Labor, is not
for federation principles. It la an agita
tion on behalf of what radical thinkers
in all countries know nB The Interna
tional. Tho International is not ah or
ganization of worklngmcn. It dojs not
encourage industry. It is an organiza
tion that includes tho restless, tho dis
satisfied, the neurotic of ninny countries
who arc convinced that thei o is a way to
find happiness without working for it.
The International is organized to bring
about un upheaval calculated to displace
constituted government, revise the social
system overnight und put all power und
authority in the hands of groups such as
Foster is leading in Pittsburgh.
Countless generations of men, workers
nnd pioneers, inventors und organizers,
spent their lives in creating the values
leprcscntcd by property and organized
industry. Yet the Bed of today has con
vinced himself und his associates that
all created things should belong to the
limited groups who happen to labor with
their hands, nnd that the world can get
along without talent, without trained
minds, without the creative instinct com
mon to the indispensable classes of men
who work for the loe of working.
Foster und his crowd aie now fighting
bitterly among themselves at Pittsburgh.
They arc the sort who, because they can
nccr agree, can never be satisfied.
Gioups like them have alrondy weakened
more than one European nation at a time
when those in Europe who value life and
peace need all their strength. And as
the hopes of the rest of Europe decline
the hopes of the bitter-enders in Ger
many naturally go up.
THE PRESIDENT'S RETURN
rpHE Piesident's speechmaking tour,
suddenly abandoned on the medical
advice of Admiral Grayson, was ob
viously bused upon the theory that popu
lar sentiment on behalf of the treaty
could be sufficiently aroused to overcome
the senatorial opposition.
For certain elemental reasons i'cnts
have not justified this hope. Most of
the members in the upper Iioum' ol Con
gress aie jockeying for position in a con
test conducted on party lines. Mr. Lodge,
for example', is not so much concerned
with the cheers which the President's ad
dresses have provoked as with the piob
lem of combining Mr. Borah, Mr. Johnson
and Mr. McCumber in a harmonic chord.
Mr. Hitchcock is engaged m unravel
ing Democratic complexities, of policing
the ranks so that Mr. Thomas and Hoke
Smith will not slip out. To the cham
pions of the treaty it is practically more
important that Senator Ashurst, of Ari
zona, has no longer any qualms about its
merits than that crowds in his state rush
to the station platforms to sec the presi
dential train whiz by.
There aie always safety-valve possi
bilities in the ptesence of the President
in Washington. Mr. Wilson's intermit
tent occupations of the White House since
last Januaty have been accompanied by
substantial political results.
Both the legislators and the Chief Mag
istrate profit by the closer relationship.
The President has talked moic extrava
gantly on tour than ho would to. the
Senators at home. There is a tendency
for spite and unreason to attain a maxi
mum when the President is from home.
The significance of u swing round the
circle has long been debatable. It was
bitterly costly to Andrew Johnson when
he sought to enlist the people on his side
against an enraged Congress. Mr. Wil
son himself refrained fiom spectuculur
touring in his successful campaign for
the presidency in 1910.
The barometer of popular enthusiasm
is far from accurate as an index of popu
lar convictions. It is disillusioning to
note that Mr. Wilson and Hiram Johnson
have simultaneously evoked fervent le
ccptions. In the assumption of unflagging phys
ical powers Mr. Wilson follows the re
grettable example of most American
Presidents. The public is an exacting
master. The conventional demands which
it makes upon its high officials are tre
mendous. When a servant of the public
olunteers as Mt. Wilson has to fulfill
more than the legulation functions the
extraordinary strain is bound to be regis
tered. There is really no mystery about the
public's attitude toward the peace treaty.
Ratification sentiment is strong. What
remains to be adjusted concerns amend
ments and reservation safeguards.
Party politics and honest convictions are
both involved in the issue. The place
where all the factors will bo eventually
clarified is Washington.
Freed from the burdens of trael, the
President in the capital should be a potent
aid to treaty progress. Tho gap between
the opposition senators is psychologically
widened when ho is abroad whether in
Europe or in the Far West. It is incon
ceivable that Mr. Wilson at home will go
to the extremes of speech which charac
terized some of his endeavors to feel the
popular pulse. The Senate, too, will bo
face to face with realities.
The President's recovery and tho ter
mination within a reasonable time of the
critical battlo of Washington are reason
able hopes.
Wine judging was a
The Good Old Days feature of the Allen
tow a Fair iu life good
old days when sauerkraut sold for ten ccuts
a pluto with a dub of mushed potatoes nnd
a slice of pork on the side. Now there is no
wiue, which is perhaps just as well; for with
kraut ut fifty ccuts a plate straight and
sevcuty-five cents with potato aud pork
fixiu's oue would baTC little moucy left for
libations. The good old days have ghcu
way to the good old daze.
The government will offer for sale in
Philadelphia and Boston next week 11,.
000,000 pounds of steel, including finished
armor plate and unfinished trench helmets.
No effort is being niado to prove that it will
bring down the II. C. of L.
Vare men vainly bunting evidences of
fraud may console) themselves with the
thought that tbeir fuilure proves this to be
a pretty clean cit.
Peon's thirteen commandmauta seem
desigued to take the freshness out of the
frcsbmcu.
There is indication that President Wil
son has so fondness for D'AnnunzIo'a free
verse.
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
How John Wanamaker. Wrlte6 His
Little Essays Gossip About John
K. Stauffer, J. Howell Cum
mlngs and Other Well-
Known Persons
Washington, D. 0., Sept. .27.
TjlVBIlY now and then wo have a visit
-" ' from Dr. Joseph K. Dixon, who at the
Instance of Itodman Wanamaker has been
keeping the American Indian on the map.
The doctor is a devoted friend of the fading
ince and keeps in touch with the latest offi
cial Washington information concerning the
red men. Ho is not only a student of the
American aborigines, but does n good deal
of writing on this subject. Ills collection of
Indian photographs is noteworthy.
rplllj famlllur signature of John Wana---
maker excites comment on the part of
those who wonder whether the distinguished
I'hilailolphlan really writes the editorial ad
ertiscineiits under which appear his fac
simile. It is not untimely to answer this
moot question on lirbt-hand information.
The great merchant does write those editorial
toitmiontR. As n conscientious workman
lakes pildo in the piece of eabinctwuro he
has built, no Ilr. Wanamuker dcrlu-s sat
i'fartlon in the effect of his literary work.
It is raid by those who know that the in
spiration for these business sermons is
i aught in the morning ride to the office or
in tho shadows of eventide. A sunbeam
finding Its way through tho window at
breakfast or the cheerful voice of tho news
boy furnish n theme for the day. Victor
Herbert may catch tunes for his new inarches
iu Hie revolutions of tho Ioeomotic wheel,
us Willurd Hpeuser gathered much of the
music of the "Little Tjioou" in u suenkbox
off llancy Cedars. And so It is with Mr.
Wanamaker and his inspirational writings.
After nil, it is gospel truth that we find
"sermons in stones."
TXTASHINfiTON correspondents hac noted
'' the absence in recent ears of John K.
Stauffer. who formeily wus one of the actic
spirits iu Iho press gallery. John quit
Washington several jears ago to take a hand
in politics iu Heading, lie hnd mndo n
stinlj of rll. planning and was elected to
Council, being superintendent of the Dc
paitnieut of orks arid Public Property.
In this new ofliec ho worked hard lo estab
lish improved recreation centers und pluj -gioiiuds,
ami fels now that he has a stuff
of l.'i.OOO children on his list. The other
clnj Washington woke up and learned that
its old friend of the press gallery has beaten
the slate iu Bending and bad become the
Kcpublienu nominee for major. Mr. Htauffer
is u fighter from way back, and his old
friends here hae the feeling that he is
going to be elected.
rnlin House is rassing legislation for the
-"- farmer just us if the fanner were about
Hie poorest paid of nil producers. And that
tails to mbnd Unit there aro some Philadel
phia farmers who uro actually making their
farms pay. It is a btanding joke that the
average Phlladclphian pajs the price of an
aero of ground for a quart of milk when ho
rims his own dairy ; but not so with Colonel
I. Howell Cumiuings, prisidcut of the John
15. Stetson Company, who has ."lfi acrcn,
more or less, near Wemersville in the Lib
nnon vnllej. The colonel has a beautiful
home iu the mountains ucarby and the family
gets a gieat deal of enjojmeut out of it.
The farm, however, is a separate entcrnrisc,
running to Guerusejs, Cheviots nnd Herk
shircs in livestock, ad to corn, wheat, pota
toes and soj a beans hi vegetable products.
it is u model rami, und model farms arc
generally of the expensive kind. Hut it is
run on practical lines nud is actually made
to paj that's the wonder of it. There arc
a good ninny other Philadelphia fanners who
might profitably take a leaf out of Farmer
Curamiugs's notebook. ,
TIG strikes and little strikes occupy much
--' space in tho newspapers, but little
strikes become ns far-reaching somet lines as
big strikes. Down in Florida there is a
lailrond which carries phosphate rock from
the mines to the seaboard loading points.
It is not a big load, but it is mighty im
portant with icsnoct to phosphate rock, and
phosphnte roc', is mighty important with
respect to fertiliser, and fertilizer is about
tho first con.tf'Js'-ation of the eastern
farmer who prNfricos our crops. There
fore tho farmer, tho fertilizer manufac
tures and tho (oiisumer aro all interested in
that little raihoad strike which has been in
effect in Florida since last May. The Baugh
& Sous Companj, of Philadelphia, wants the
phosphate lock, nud Secretary Itasmusseu,
of the. Department of Agriculture ut Harris
burg, and Prof .Jacob O. Lipman, director
of the New Jersey Agricultural College, at
New Brunswick, havo both been appealed to
to ask Director (ieucral limes, of the United
States Railroad Administration, to see
what he can do about that little strike iu
Florida.
A1
LICE M. GAIUtETT is secretary of
District Association No. 1 of the fim.l.
uato Nurses' Association of Pennsylvania,
nnd by Instruction ef that body of young
war workers has brought to the attention
of Congress resolutions urging that the army
nurse corps be given rank such as Is given
iu Canada and Australia, to onable the
nurses' to give to orderlies nud others orders
that will 1k obeyed The nurses nro quite
aggressive about this matter, contending that
many of their armv patients havo suffered
and died because the orders of tho nurses
were not promptly carried out. Tho presi
dent of tho Pennsylvania association, Dis
trict No. 1, is Helen F. Grcaney, of Chest
nut Hill, and the board of directors includes
Anna M. W. Penuypaekcr. Most of the
officers of the association are now actively
engaged in hospital work.
INTBBEST in the Philadelphia mayor
ulty contest has not wholly abated, .since
the newspapers are being scanned for the re
sult of the official count and the buttons of
one of the candidates uro still being worn
about the Capitol. A number of congress
men nnd public officials who were in Phila
delphia for the Knights Templar celebration
and for tho Pershing parade brought back
stories of the great local interest in the light
and seemed to evince, nn intimate knowledge
of tho situation. It is tho feeling among
Republicans that tho rrsult will be a good
thing for tho Republican party throughout
tho country, in tnc rieaato and House the
jrnpresalon prevails that care must be ex
ercised to set the Republican party straight
ana avom uiotuiu wuurevcr possiDlo prior to
the presidential campaign of next year. It
is still doubtful whether President Wilson
will run for a third term, nnd it is quite
certain taut no Republican candidate upon
whom all elements can ngrco is yet in sight.
The spirit of unrest is abroad, but Repub
lican leaders arc hopeful that in due course
the elements will get together for a wlnnlnr
campaign in 1020.
Oue hundred nnd seventy-five naval
cadeW arrived ut Hog Iidand jesterday on
u barkentinc-rigged steamship and inspected
tho plant ns the guests of tho Emergency
Fleet Corporation. And it Js a safe bet each
and every one of them saw in his mind's
eye tf8 Island launching the shfp of which
be .would some doy be master or cbicf
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TRA VELS IN PHILADELPHIA
, By Christopher Morley
September Sunshine
WHAT un nfternoon it was! Sunshine
aud blue sky, blended warmth aud crisp
ness, the wedding of summer and nutumn.
Sunshine as tender us Cardinul Mcrcier's
smile, northern breeze sober as the much
hnrusscd lineaments of the Tonismith. Citi
zens went about their business "daintily en
folded in the bright, bright air," us a poet
has put it. Over the dome of the postofiicc,
where the little cups of Mr. Itliss's wind
gauge were spinning merrily, pigeons' wings
gleamed white in the serene emptiness. The
sunlight twinkled on lacquered limousines
in dazzles of brightness, almost as vivid ns
the "genuine diamonds" in Market street
show windows. Phil Warner, the always
lunching bookseller, was out snapping up
an oyster stew. Men of girth and large
equator were watching doughnuts being fried
in the bakers' windows on Chestnut street
with painful agitation. The onward march
of the doughnut is n matter for serious con
cern iu certain circles, particularly tho
circle of the waist line.
STROMING up Ninth street one was
privileged to observe a sign of the
times. A lunch room wus being picketed by
labor agitators, who looked comparatively
unblemished by toil. They bore large signs
buying:
The C Restaurant
Is Unfair to
Organized Labor.
Side by side with these gentry marched
two blonde waitresses from the lunch room,
wearing an air of much bitterness und oil
cloth aprons emblazoned
Our Employes Are NOT on Strike
All Our Help Get Good Wages
Some of the Walters Want Our Women
to Quit So They May Take Their Places.
"Wo'rc doing this of our own free will,"
said one of these damsels to me. "These
guys never worked Jierc. Our boss gives us
good money and we're not going to walk out
on him." She leaned a blading lamp toward
one of the prowling pickcters, nn Oriental
of dubious valor. 1 would bo sorry for that
envoy if the lady spreads her lunch-books
across the area by which his friends rccog
nizo him. Almost next door to this cam
paigning ground is the famous postal-card
shop in which one may always read the
secret palpitation ot tho public mind. The
first card I noticed tbcro said:
Many Happy Returns of the Day
What Day? Pay Day.
ARCH. STREET seemed tt be taking a
jt momentary halt for lunch. On the
sunny paths of old Christ Church burying
ground a lew roeaiiaiors strouea to and fro,
und one young couplo were advancing toward
tho wooing stago on a shady bench. The
lady was knitting a sweater, tho swain ar
guing with persuasion. The Betsy Roes
House, still trailing its faded bunting and
disheveled wroaths, looked more like un old
curio shop than ever. Oue wishes the
D. A. It. would give it a ccat of paint and
remove the somewhat confused altrn POTIK
PSTRIA. A littlo further on oue finds a
sign .
Select Evening Trip
Down the Delawaro
On Palace Steamer Thomas Clyde
THEATKIOAIj MOONLIGHT
This reference to nautical pleasures
brought it to my mind that I had never en
joyed a yago on the palaco ferries of the
Vine street crossing, and I moved in that
direction, On Front above Arch one meets
the terminus of tho Frankford L, a tanglo
of talmon-colored girders. Something per
ilous, I could not hco just what, wus evi
dently going on, for u workman in air
shouted, "Watch yourself!" This terse
phrase is one of the triumphs of tbo Ameri
can language, as is also the remark I beard
the other evening. rcierred to a certain
1 pBbUcan whvl caneU a, sptak-caey t b'
THE OLD STORY
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address I shall not ndmc. This publican
had apparently got Into un argument solv
able only by the laying on of bauds, 'und
had emerged bearing an eyo severely pulped,
"Home one's been w'orkin' on him," was the
comment of one of his customers, -I
TXTATCHING myself with caution, I dodged
"' down the steep stairs by which Cherry
Btrcet descends from Front to Delaware
nvcuue. In tho vista of this narrow passage
appeared the bharp gray bow of the United
Stutcs transport Snutn Teresa. The wide
spaco along the dojto was n rumble of
traffic, as usual: wagothj of golden bananas,
sacks of peanuts on tUe pavement. But
along the waterside bulwark wcro tho ens-'
tomnry groups of colored clti.ens shooting
dice. Crap, I surmise, is a truly reverent
form of worship : nowhere else does one hear
the presiding deities of the congregation ad
dressed with such completely fervent peti
tion. A lusty snapping of fingers and un
occasional cry of "Who thiuks he feels
some?" rose from one group of'hrippy com
petitors. Here again the student ot man
ners may notice a familiar phenomenon, tbo
outward thrust of tho negro toe. It seems
that the first thing our brother does ot
buying n new pair of shoes is cut out u
section of leather so that his outmost pha
lange may sprout through.
Tho trauquil upper deck of the Race btreet
recreation pier is a goodly place to sit und
buryey the shining sweep of tho river. Tho
police boat Ashbridgo lies there, and one
may look down on her burnished brasses,
watch the tugs puffing up and down, and
the panorama of shipping from Kalgbn's
Point to a big five-masted schooner drawn
up at Cramps'.
APPROACHING the Vine street ferry a
mood of reckless vagabondago is likely
to seize the wayfarer. Posters inform that
the Parisian Ffijicrs' with "40 French
Bublcs 40" aro in town, nud ono feels con
vinced that life still teems with irresponsible
gaiety. A savor of roasting peanuts spreads
upon tbo air. Buyiug a bugy ono darts
aboard the antique. ship Columbia, built in
1877, and still making tbo perilous voyage
to Cooper's Point.
There is un air of charming leisure about
tho Vine bticct ferry. Two mules, attached
to n wagon, waved their tall cars iu a
friendly manner us we waited for the sail
ing date to arrive, and I tried to feed them
soino peanuts. All the mules I have ever
been intimate, with were connoisseurs of
goobers, but somewhat to. my chagrin theso
animals seemed suspicious of the offer.
After several unavailing efforts to engago
their appetites tbelr amused charioteer In
foraecj me that he didn't think they hardly
know what peanuts were. These delightful
mules watched me with an air of embar
rassing intensity throughout the crossing.
They had quite the air of ladles riding in a
Pullman car whoso gaze oiie has Inadver
tently Interrupted aid who have miscon
strued the accident.
These mules wcro so entertaining that I
almost forgot to study tho river. On tbo
Camden side 1 was somewhat tempted to go
exploring, but u friendly tinman assured
me the Columbia would shortly return lo her
homo port and curt-en tod mo not to allow
myself to be stranded abroad. So all I
have to report of Cooper's Point Is a life
sizo wooden figure of ,a horse, near the ferry,
slip, Then wo inadii tbo return trip over'
tbo sparkling beer-colored water, speaking
a sister vessel of tho Shackamaxon route.
TUERH is much to cafch the eye on a
ramble up Viuo street from tho river,
but probably most interesting is a very un
expected 'stable about number 1-0. Passing
under un archway, one finds a kind of rami,
barnyard scene; great wooden sheds. on cqch
sldo of an elbow alley, with lines of wagons
laid away. There is an old drinking trough
of clear water, horses 'stand munching Jn
the sunshine, and a queer tanglr of ragged
ref antijwuU tHa)w otI H
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fashioned scene. A few doors further on is
uu equally unexpected sign in a barber shop
window: Cups and Leeches Applied. Ono
also finds a horseshoeing forge iu full blast,
with puticnt animals leaning their heads
against the wall and rosy irons glowing hi
the darkness. With bimilar brightness
shone a jug of beer thnt I suw a man carry
ing across the street at tho corner of Fifth,
The sunlight sparkled upon the bright brown
brew, and as peanuts arc thirsty fodder I
pushed through tbo swinging doors.
The Bells of Beaimc
THD old bells, the bold bells, the gold bells
of Beauue,
They arc singing, they uro ringing in tho
ancient church of btonc.
They are ringing, they nro qinging where
the viuc-wreuthed hillsides stand,
For France is soft in autumu aud tho cloud
is off the land.
"Come back", come back, my pollu Live,
love and laugh with me
To red, red wiuo and red, red lips in sun-i
kissed Burgundy."
To those who cling to Cote d'Or, tho massif's
mighty line,
To those who guard her memory along a
black cragged Rhine;
To such tho bells are calling iu vibrant
chimo nnd tone;
Tho old bolls, tho bold bells, the gold bells
of Bcaunc.
"Come back, come back, my poilu Lire,
love and laugh with ine
To red, red wine und red, led lips In sun
kissed Burgundy."
Steuart M. Emery, in the "New York
ncrald.
Admiral Grayson is not only a good
physician, he is an excellent politician.
At least the labor leaders are not denied
free speech before the Senate committee.
What Do You Know?
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QUIZ
1. Whut 'is n brlgantlno? '
U, AVho isiBald to havo been chiefly re
sponsiolo for fixing the standard rail
way ' gauge ot four feet eight and
one-halt inches? '
0. What color is rcddlo? - (
4. On what syllable in the Word bacillus r
should tho accent fall?
5. What is a regicide?
6. Who were the Carpet-baggers in
American political history?
7. How did the verb to park come to be
applied to automobiles?
8. Who wroto "Robinson Crusoe"?
0. What were the winged sandals of the
classical god Mercury calfed?
10. In what century was Gutenberg, the
inventor of modern printing, born?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz s
1. Cardlual Mcrclcr Is a clti'.en of Maluies,
Belgium.
2. The present year is CCSO by tbo Jewisli
calendar. i
3. Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy
were members of tbo old Triple, Al
liance. 4. A personals in his nonage when he ia
In his minority or immaturity.
Si A rondo is a piece of music with a lead-'
log Jthemo to which return is made.
0. Pllmsoll's mark is the load tine mark
painted on the hulls of British mer
chant vessels to iudieato the limit ot
' submergence allowed by law.
1'. It takes its name from Samuel Pllm-
soil, who was instrumental iu having
the act of Parliament passed in 1870.
8. Plutarch was"U Greek biographer, who
wroto the "parallel lives" of famous f,
Gfeeka and Romans. -.
fi, Chejcato Is the capital ot Wyoming. n
18, gtwssna w"-s wy at yfivmtr.
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