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THE CASE AT HOG ISLAND
TTNDER agreements recently made be-'-'
tween the Navy Dcraitment nnd the
United States shipping board the war
scale of wages was to be made perma
nent at all shipyards cngagrd with gov
ernment work. Meanwhile every facility
at the disposal of the fedeial authorities
is being used to reduce the cost of living.
Unless picsbure from Washington and
the fprce of publc opinion prove inade
quate to lestrict or abolish profiteeiing
a circumstance that is altogether un
likely shipyard workers would in the
end find themselves prettv well off under
the existing wage ratrs.
Yet it is to force the government and
the shipping board to provide further in
creases that labor leadets have agitated
for a strike which threatens to close Hog
Island. Here, as well as in Pittsburgh,
there are tigns to indicate that the wage
question is but an incident in a cam
paign of unrest designed primarily to
paralyze essential industries over a wide
field, to bring about depression and hard
ship and to aid the narrow group of radi
cal agitators who feel that they and their
aESOciates ought to have power as great
or greater than that of the constituted
Eoyernment
The men at Hog Island and at other
yards will be ill advihed if they should
strike before their grievances and claims
have been submitted to the industrial
conference soon to meet in Washington.
It is at this confcience that attempts
will be made to find a rational solution
for questions such ds employers and em
ployes alike have been accustomed to set
tle by the crude and costlv method of
strikes and lockouts. In this instance
ship workers in eastern yards are being
asked to support a policy which is de
tractive, un-American and in the final
analysis unpatriotic.
HELP THE ORCHESTRA
"CWEN before the war devastated the
J-J Boston Orchestra the magnificent or
ganization directed in this city by Mr.
Stokowski was being regarded as the
best of its kind in the world. There is no
question now of the pre-eminence of the
Philadelphia Orchestra. It is unequaled.
It owes its existence to the generosity,
the artistic discrimination and the pub
lic spirit of the group of men and women
who met its deficits in the days when
deficits were largo and frequent. The
whole city was benefited immeasurably
by the work of the organization and life
has been made richer for innumerable
people who at the winter concerts re
ceived their first introduction to the
really significant literature of music. In
Europe the municipalities, aware of the
social and educational value of great or
. chestras, contribute liberally to their
maintenance.
Those who gave their money to estab
lish the Philadelphia Orchestra have es
tablished a public institution of an indis
pensable sort. The public ought to wel
come the privilege to aid in maintaining
it and increasing its prestige. Doubt
less the public will when the campaign
begins in October for the $1,000,000 en
dowment which the orchestra needs if it
is to continue in its present form.
HOW TO PLAY GOOD CARDS
t(T BELIEVE' declared Dr. Paul S.
-" Reinsch, fdrme'r United States min
ister to China, ''that Japan holds a trump
card if she will only play it. That is to
return everything wrung from China by
.Germany and to retain only the privilege
of entering Shantung on equal terms
with the rest of the world."
In other words, the finest hand in any
game is best directed by a sense of fair
play. Germany stacked her cards and
lost- It is refreshing to note that Doctor
Reinsch is among those statesmen -who
have not yet forgotten that pregnant
fact.
THE MEMORY OF A VOICE
k t K URAL memories are tricky, but re-
garding Adelina Patti the complete
concert of retrospective opinion cannot
be, discounted. That hers was the most
celestial voice which ever graced the
realm of song has for .years been an
accepted' fact in musical history,
Tho lack' of phonographs in her heyday
,hks compelled the newer generations to
take the verdict on faith, with the curious
result that in the artistic sense Patti
.herself! while shel stilt lived, passed into
the. enjoyment of unchallenged posthu
ippus fame. "None "of the,)amentable and
numerous "farewell" tours tarniahed the
recollection of those silvery tones which
TfU? .capHUed the world in the sixties, sev
$Y etlerand eighties of the last tentury,
".u TAe, distinction was emphatically
vt drawn between the Baroness Cederatrom,
vfko& vocal pWrs had Jne.vjtab.ly de-
cayed, and,, fhe fonricr queen of the
operatic and concert stages.
Modernists in-music have occasionally
questioned the appeal of a voice of the
Patti timbre today. The diva was not
noted for her acting, and except in cer
tain passages of "Aida," none of her
vehicles contained 'a hint of music drama.
It is incontestable, however, that when
ever a soprano of bird-like and fluty
tones soars into the musical firmament
she is rapturously received, even though
it is necessary to dutt oil the old purely
lyric operas.
The way In which the memory of Patti
I at the peak of her career is treasured
proves the permanency of taste stand
ards in the matter of radiant song.
AMBASSADOR LORD GREY,
PREACHER OF AN OLD GOSPEL
World Peace Can Come About
Only
Through the Rule of Men of
Good Will
0N A
w years
starlight night nearly M00
ears ago on tho enstern chores of the
McditPriancan angels appeared in tho
heaens and proclaimed "pence on earth
to men of good will."
The two thousand yenis since that mo
mentous night have been twenty cen
turies of wars. Peace has not come. It'
moves so slowly that we sometimes de
spaii of its ever coming. Wo aie saying
even now that war cannot be abolished,
for we insist that issues will arise over
which men will fight. We do not sem to
hae faith that theie ever will be enough
men of good will to make the men of bad
will understand that it does not pay to
tiy to get what they want by going to
WHr over it.
In iew of the slow progress of the
woild towaid the goal of ultimate peace,
the statiment of his purposes with which
I.oid Giey of Kalloden, the new Briti-h
ambassador, signaled his landing on
American soil is mightily significant.
Lord Grey reminds us that we have to
make n new stait after this great war to
rcpeir the Old World and to build a bet-
i tor one. He says that the greatest se
I cuiity against futuie war and the most
I peimanent cure for the evils of war lie
i in good will," and he announces that it
I will be the object of his mission to
! strengthen the good will between the
English and the American peoples in the
hope that this may le.id to greater inter
national good will on the broadest possi
ble basis.
Hate has divided the world for the past
five years. Like a knife with a inzor
edge it has cut old relations and sev
ered old bonds, and its effects are still
troubling us and will trouble us for a
generation in sp'te of all that can be
done. Yet Lord Grey's effort is worth
while and it is the only thing that is
worth while. Peace cannot come about
by stressing hate and keeping old
grudgos alive, nor can it be attained by
magnifying differences and exploiting
selfish interests.
It is of supreme impoitance that good
will between the two branches of the
Englisi- speaking race bo cultivated.
More than 150,000,000 inhabitants of the
globe speak the English language, a
greater number by 30.000,000 than speak
any of the other languages of the west
ern world. These people do more than
speak the same language. They are
grounded in the principles of democracy,
for they have inherited from common
ancestors the fruits of the great struggle
for liberty which resulted in the recogni
tion of the right of the common man to
enjoy all the privileges of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. As Tenny
son finely said, our governments are
"broad based on the people's will." As
each man is interested in the preserva
tion of his own rights he is jealous of the
rights of others, lest, if they be denied,
his own may be destroyed also. The
political institutions of America and the
British isles rest on that mutual good will
which is the cornerstone of all democ
racy. If the English-speaking nations enn
exhibit to the world the results of inter
national good will through the develop
ment of the friendliest possible under
standing between the peoples and the
most amicable adjustment of all dis
putes tho ultimate triumph of that peace
of which the angels sang will be a little
nearer.
But it will not come until there is good
will among all the nations, those which
have been hating one another in recent
years and those which by fighting for a
common cause have discovered that they
have many interests in common. We
shall have to lay aside all feelings of
hostility and tell ourselves that all the
nations of the earth have common inter
ests. We need not ignore the fact that
they have conflicting desires, but if we
stress the points of agreement and culti
vate them they will gradually spiead and
cover all the old sores as a properly
dressed wound heals, leaving only a scar
to show where it had been.
It will not be easy to do this, because
human nature is perverse, but the effort
is worth the making. When we calmly
consider the matter we are compelled to
admit to ourselves that there is no other
process under heaven or known among
men by which the world can be saved and
peace established on firm foundations.
We knofr that it will bring industrial
peace as well as international peace, as
we discover every day that it will bring
about harniony among individuals.
The greatest mistake we can make at
the present time is to consider these
great problems with our back toward the
future. The past is past and it should be
allowed to bury its dead. There is a
shining goal ahead of us toward which
we should face, keeping our eyes upon it.
Grim energy and resolute courage will
be necessary if we are to prevent our
selves from being turned aside to dig in
the muck of current controversies and
past quarrels, as the Senate is now paw
ing over the, chips that were made in
framing the great structure of the peace
treaty in the hope of finding something
that will cpmpromise one or mc-re of its
builders. That treaty is an nttempt to
increase the.arpa of good wijl in the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER -
world, and as such, in spite, of its defects,
It deseives the support of all who arc
hoping that the peace of which the angels
sang was something more than the. base
less fabric of a dream.
The progress of good wilt Isj like that
of the tortoise in tho famous fable of the
race with the hare. Many of the rulers
of the world have been like the hare.
They have thought that they cotfld reach
the jjoal quickly and they have sunk into
the nightmarc-buidcned sleep of war,'
while the men of good will have been
slowly plodding along in the direction of
the bright goal toward which their hearts
are yearning. But war does not bring
the peace of good will. It retards it.
There can be no permanent peace of any
kind until good will dominates the hearts
and pui poses of men and through them
controls the policies of nations.
There was a time when ambassadors
were sent from onp nation to another to
deal in trickery and deception, and that
time was not so very long, ago cithei.
But when the .ambassador from one gicat
nation to another announces that his
purpose is to develop to his utmost the
friendliest possihle relations between two
nations, which alike desite nothing but
jjstice, the fust glimmer of a new dawn
has. shown itself above the horizon.
LIMITS OF PATIENCE
rpHOSE who agree with President Wil-
son and those who disagree with him
are alike nowadays in feeling that he has
done his utmost for the people and the
governments of Europe and has ventured
as far in efToits to guide and pacify them
as he may iafely go. . There are limits
to American patience. The time has
come to inquire whether the Piesident
ma." properly bring further "piessure"
to bear on Japan in relation to Shan
tung or on Italy in relation to tho Fiumc
controveisy.
Viscount Kato has just announced that
the Japanese will hold on to Shantung.
The party in Italy which wishes to hold
Fiume is a pretty powerful one. If the
further peace of the wot Id nnd the destiny
of tho league of nations are to be threat
ened by these issues the fault is not Mr.
Wilson's. Nor can any blame lest upon
America. There are statesmen and gov
ernments in Europe who are far more
dependent for their safety upon the suc
cessful establishment of a league of na
tions. They, more than America, have
a right to be concerned with the crisis in
the Adriatic and tho confusion in China.
We as a nation have little to gain by
inviting the enmity of one or another
foreign government. Nor will we be jus
tified in fighting to protect peoples and
governments who seem unwilling to
fight for themselves. There is too great
a tendency among European statesmen
to depend upon the President of the
United States whenever "pressure" is to
be brought elsewhere. If the men who
direct the affairs of Europe prefer to risk
anothei avalanche rather than make the
open fight for decency that they seem
unwilling to make the consequences will
be for them to face.
A story from UrnilinR
A Natural Query hns it tlint fhc ki1-
Inn" of uhKkj uorc
poured into a (ollar lij the ihirf of police.
The hiskj. in bottles. Imil been confiscated
from Riirsts dnrins the Inwt half je.tr. Far
he it from us to show unieonily skepticism
but do the poliee of Heading neer suffer
from colic?
The story lins it that
1 lie Three Musltetrers a carrier pigeon got
n gasoline jag when
Miilvnney of Ardmore tried to renune tnr
from its feathers. We suspect Orthcris
nnd I.enrojd hnd something to do with the
bird being found stuck in the tnr on the
Ilnverford ro:id I'nge .Mr. Kipling and
quiz him.
W h e n Kixenbise, a
t'p. I'p. I'p! Heading barber, bet
(iroff, a Heading bar
ber, that the latter couldn't shaw him in an
airplane. fJroff took him up. Then nn army
aviator took thnu up. The trip was made
nnd the shnve accomplished. Eisenblse ad
mitted that it was the closest shave he
ever had.
Now thnt the (iris
n r e wearing cork
Why Nott
screw curls like Hopi
Indians and the boys are vearing bushed
scalps over shnved bases like Hottentots,
up mnj soon expect their fathers and mothers
to vvenr snuff boxes in their ears like Zulus.
There are thirty inein
Both In .Moderation bers of the Monroe
County Octogenarians'
Association, nud their ages aggregate J24L';i
jeurs. The members to a man declare that
pie and haul work are (onducivo to longevity.
Massat husetts nnti-suffragists who
seek in have the Legislature reveisc Uh
action in ratify tug the federal suffrage
amendment are understudying Mrs. Parting
ton And their failure to get sufficient
signatures to their petition seems to indicate
trouble in getting the broom.
After a study of internationalism, de
clares Demosthenes Mifiinnis, I have tome
to the conclusion that the Dance of Death
is in the nature of a Koi Trotsky.
With the present prices of coal dnd
clothing, perhaps a kindly fate will see to
it that a man is hot enough under the collar
to keep him from getting told feet.
Homevvherc in the middle ground he
tvecn Capital and Labor Truth stands with
extended hands ready to bring them together.
Auolher get-together meeting hoped
for Is one between Japan and China on the
Hhaiitung matter.
King Peter of Serbia has returned to
Belgrade. Now alt that his subjects need
is thnt prosperity return.
It is apparently the purpose of the mild
reservntlonlMs to make the article ten
tative. It is astonishing with what clarity a
statesman can see his own side of the case.
Justifiable tautology
her final farewell tour.
-Patti has made
fan members )f the local "fur gang"
be said to be working a skin game?
England, with her railroad strike, is
now suffering from the Hun within.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,
old-time reporters
Col. McCain Tells Stories of J. Hamp-
ton Mopre, Robert M. Sturgeon,
I '.Edward C. Howland and Others
I In Harrlsburg and Homestead
' lt.v CKOItfii; NOX .McCAIN
RlillUKT M. HTL'miKOX. of York, was
Ip town Inst week. He was "Hob"
Sturgeon In the old days at Harrlsburg.
Thnti was thirly-tlvc jenrH jigo. when he
was legislative reporter for the Hnrriburg
Call.
Itob Stingeon hns been ercrything from
cub icporler to editor-In -chief, nnd for
j ears past hns been Identified in nn editorial
capacity vvith York nevvspnpers. Mr. Stur
geon Is one of the three living survivors of
the rorps of legilntivc correspondents of
the session of 18S.".
Joseph ttllbert then represented the As
sni intcil Press nnd Thomas XI. Coleman,
who vpmetimes tried to musk his identity
under the signature of "Nnmeloc," which
was sunply his proper name spelt bnck
wnrd. was the Pi UMc LetxiKn correspond-
ut
IMward C IIowIhuiI vvns correspondent
for the t'hilndelphin 1'iess. lie whs one of
n brilljnut family whose last survivor, a
In other, Hnrr.v Houliiud, of New York, died
within the last couple of years. Howland
left Philadelphia to become a Washington
correspondent and was afterward political
nilter on sevetul of the New York news
pupcis. William Hodcirmrl. general correspondent,
was known to newspaper people, everywhere
ns "the man with a hundred nevvspnpers."
He was nn indefatigable worker, who grew
wealthy supphlng nevvspnpers in the state
j and over the country with Harrlsburg news.
lie was nrterwnrd postmaster of Harris-
Inn g under Clevelanil:
A. H. Watrous, of the Philadelphia News,
nnd (Jeorge Wclshons. of the Pittsburgh
Times, were also in Hnrrlshurg during that
session Thcv were two of (lie most bril
liant w liters I hnve ever known Strnngely
enough, fiitc drrrecd" them the same regret
table end Both committed suicide Wnt
rous in New York nnd Wclshons in Hnr
risbuig. Thomns M Jones, of Ilnrrisburg. who
(lied within the last two years, was the
denn of thnt exceptionally nble body of nipn.
H J Stnckpole wns just then entering
upon n inreer thnt wns destined to give him
a stiite wide icputatiou'ax newspnper man
nnd capitalist. Like Hodearm,el. he wns a
general new spnper lorrespondent. As yenrs
went bj be established permanent newspaper
connections and ultimately purchased the
Ilnrrishmg Telegraph, which is today the
most nbh edited and influential evening
newspaper in centml PennK.vlvnniii.
In those dnjs the Lochiel Hotel wns the
rall.ving point for the (orrespoudents. Here
the legislntors met nnd new simper men foie
gnthered nightly. p
RICIIAKD
Judge ,T(
HP PATTLHSON. father of
John M Patterson, served liis
first ti'im in th" Legislature at the session
of 1SS7. I recall thnt he was another of
the Philndelphinns who lived at the Lochiel
when he wns in Hurrishuig. He represented
the Fifteenth ward then, nnd one of his
colleagues wns Pi. J. W. AVnlk. nftervvnrd
Inigelv interested in certain chlrities.
The elder Pnttersnn. although born in
Tinlnnd, did not nrrive in this country until
n few jc-irs after the ( ivil War, n Ind of
eighteen, jet he l,trncd in his speeeli only
the slightest touch of thnt rich mellow brogue
thnt mailis everv true'son of the Emerald
Isle.
He was a fairlr Ir.Tge mat. with iron
fray mustache and rather rugged fentures.
He wns n good tn'.ker : not as fluent ns
Wesley Thomas? r.r ns polished uh John K.
Pnunce, but a nun who spoke directly to thr
point.
He was rnther blunt nnd outspoken nt
times, ns I rc-nll, whid- leads me to be
lie thnt the urbanity nnd wiuniug quali
ties which lmva counted for so much in"
the career of his distinguished son were
perhaps an inheritance from the distaff side.
I doMccall that when "Dick" Patterson
spoke it was without circumlocution.
rpHK strike nt Homestead recalls with vivid
- distinctness thnt other fnmous strike
twenty-seven years ago that made Home
stead famous throughout the civilized world.
It was in IS!)!!. Andrew E. Watrous. whom
I have mentioned nbove. J "Hampton Moon-,
L. C. Howland and myself were among the
newspaper correspondents on the ground
from Philadelphia.
The striking mill men were largely Eng
lish and Irish. I went alone from Pitts
burgh, nnd the instant I stepped from the
train nt Homestead was met by a committee
of striKers, who demanded to know my busi
ness. ,
Every arriving stranger was questioned.
The men were' on the lookout for strike
breakers. 1 was compelled to show the palms
of my hands and they were closely scanned
for callouses and small cuts, the honor badge
of an ironwoiker. As I started uptown I
discovered that I was being followed by a
little crowd of strikers, who were still sus
picious of my intentions.
Everything was in a whirl of excitement,
for the men were also expecting a visit from
the Pinkertons.
As I enteied a lestaurant for lunch a
crowd gathered around the door. An indi
vidual under suspicion had no business at
that time In Homestead. I walked fo the
rear of the restaurant, passed through the
kitchen to the buck jnrd nud into an nlley
and thence by a side street to the bank of
the Monongnheln river. 1 pnid a mnn (Jli to
row me to the other side, where I .got a train
to Pittsburgh
(Jencral (ieoige H. Snbwdcu, of Philadel
phia, was then major general commanding
the National Guard. Three days later the
Third Jlrignde. commanded by General J.
P. S. Gobin, camped on the hills above the
strikc'toru little ity and peace was gradu
ally restored.
IT WAS on this memorable occasion that J.
Hampton Moore first displayed that ten
dency to conciliate difficulties which has led
to much of his success in political life.
Sitting on a hillside above the silent mills
one afternoon, Moore and Watrous fell into
a discussion of the Homestead situation.
Moore Insisted that something should be done
to 'end: the bloodshed land strife. He tried
to induce Watrous to accompany him' on a
mission to interview Hugh O'bonnell, the
strike leader, aud afterward the Carnegie
people, in the hope of arbitration or adjust
ment., Watrous, by nature a gentle soul, de
clined, The iight had gone too far, he tu
slsted, Moreover, he declared that O'Don
uell was a fire eater who would resent such
" interference.
Thp fact was, ns I afterwnrd discovered
from personal contact with O'Donnell, that
he, was a very mild-mannered sort of chap,
impulsive and impetuous, but obsessed with
a 'hatred of Andrew Carnegie,
The outcome of all the talk was that the
' proposed conciliation scheme was born and
died thai same aitcrnoon on tne Homestead
hills.
The fact is now seeping into the Vara1
intelligence bureau thnt .7. Hampton .Moore
was nominated for Mayor at the KepublL
can primary election.
With a breakdown at the city plant,
gaid the Ilibulous One, it's' mighty little
I water we'll have lor the whisky we haven't
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RETURN OF THE CASUAL
By WILLIAM McFEE
fH'iffiam iloFce, Jhe icetl-knotcn author
of "Casuals of the tiea" and other tales and
upeiinl naval correspondent of The Chaffing
Dish, has just returned to this country after
ucailu five years of active sea service with
the British navy. It is the general feeling
of clients of the Dish that Mr. McFce be
longs to the family, and tec beg to assure
our leaders that tee trill do everything in
our potccr to persuade this delightful tcritcr
to continue to give to the Dish an occasional
ejaculation, J
Ntitley, N. J., Sept. 25.
I AM here, je suls lei, and urn just getting
my second "wind. I really am tired.
I've been living In trunks since July 25.
My ticket tnkc3 me to New Orleans, but
I'm not going a step further just now.
Well, and vvhnt do I think of your
glorious country? Sir, it is immense. It
is fine to be back. It is a vast improvement
upon Europe. I will go further: It is an
improvement upon the United States of five
years ago. People are kinder. I mean the
general rgu of people, conductors, telephone
girls, barkeeps and cops. The whisky even
seems to me to taste better, though why that
should be, when there isn't any, I leave you
to explain. Mind, I must say hospitality
has its responsibilities. It can be carried
too far. As when I stood at Forty-second
street and Ilroadwny or thereabouts and
asked a stranger if he knew n place where I
could wash my hands. He smiled bcatlfically
and said he did. He led mc by one of my
brnBS buttons (I was in uniform) and in due
course we arrived before a Door to which
one needs no Key. And he told me to apply
at the lower end on the left. And I did,
saying politely that I wished to wash my
hands. And the white-aproned servitor,
who seemed to be washing his own hands
"with invisible soap in imperceptible water,"
said it was forty cents, including a gargle
for 'the throat. And I sat down the Empty
Glass, as old Omar says one should, and
passed out and along the city ways mar
veling greatly, and wns nearly run down
by a Pulmotor Six which was bearing n
brewer's widow to n temperance conference
at the Sazcra Hotel.
B
UT everybody is so kind it is heartless
to discriminate. The Hritish naval at
tache was bubbling with good nature when
I reported to him. He offered me $4 for all
the pound Bterling notes t could spare. The
Hritish ministry of shipping gave me a
perfectly good blessing. The baggage man
on the steamer soaked me magnificently for
handing my gear to some one else to trans
port to Nutley. The United States immi
gration authorities deigned to accept one
pound sixteen shillings head tax. I've
never been so fussed about in my life.
With regard (to" coming to Philadelphia,
I should .love to, bft, 1 really do want to
fold my wings for a spell. I am busy with
a volume. I must tackle this work, for I
am going to 6ea again Inter.
WILLLUI McFEE.
The next. time we get our hair cut we are
greatly tempted to avail ourself of the" serv
ices of Prof. W. II. Ilutt, whose profes
sional pasteboard rends thus:
Prof. W. II. nutt
The JGreat Tonsorial Artist
Crinic'utural Abcisslon and Crinological
Trypais
Phrenological Hair Cutter
Hydfopatical Shaver of Beards
AH Work Physiognomically Executed
031 S. 17th street Philadelphia, Pa,
A sign seen by one of our adorable clients
In a millinery shop:
WANTED: Girls to Trim Hough Sailors.
Phil Qlbbs Pays His Respects to the Dish
"One young mn boarded the train at
New YorJ, bought me a drawing- room for
private conversation, and by the tlma we
reached Philadelphia made It entirely futllo
for me to give a lecture, because he bad
ft all In hls'inemory, and wrote the entire
history at ytrytblag I had seta' and
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thought through years of war. In next day's
paper." Philip Qlbbs', In September
Harper's
The Nature Class
rplIE teacher stood with hcrNaturc Class
-- Of little tots, who gazed between
Large bars of iron and rails of brass
At the animals they had never seen
Outside the pictures in a book;
Or the drawings that the teacher drew;
Or the many crackers, made to look
Like all the beasts within a zoo.
"I'll bet that wolf can smell our blood,"
Said a little girl with a gaping stare;
"And gee! I'll bet it Hiding Hood
Were here she wouldu't go in there !"
"A ugh ! that's no wolf," said a grinning boy ;
"The wplves are up among the rocks:
I guess I know, for I had a toy
Just like him, and he was a fox,"
"It is so, too, a wolf," said she.
"I'll prove it. See his long teeth snap?
Now make believe that oU can see
Hed Hiding Hood's grandmother's cap."
And the teacher smiled. "We'll have to draw
A wolf in a cap, I guess,' for John
Ilefore he sees what Mary saw
Now children, come, we must move on."
Then off they went to gate between
More bars of iron,, beyond which 1
Saw burning darkness, having been
The soul of Blake In 'a tiger's eye.
FRANCIS CARLIN.
On a Book of Lyrics
rjlHEAD softly, oh ye pnssersby,
- For here all congregated lie
The souls enshrined of lyric bards,
Who reared the fane of poesy.
Here is the holy inner shrine.
Where raptured souls in rage divine
Eternized wait the judgment day
Head in awe each sacred line.
For none have entered In save those
Whose heart with sky-drawn music flows':
The glorious spirits, bred of May,''
In whom perpetual blooms the rose,
J. M. BEATTr.
One of our hated rivals has been '.'con
densing" the classics. Its most notable
triumph of compression, however, is when
our rival states that the fourth booth of the
Aeneid contains the passionate love of Dido
for Aeneas. If all the Tamps were shut up
in booths that way, many problems would
be solved.
We are going to take a hand at condensing
some classics on. our own hook one of these
days. Lovers of literature will please stay
away,
We Depart From Custom
After some meditation we have decided to
leave to General Pershing himself the ques
tion whether he is going to get married or
not. SOCRATES.
Or if, for some reason Vjr other, former
President William H: Taft cannot appear
before the House appropriations committee
to enlighten the members on the budget sys
tem, they may- be accommodated with some
of his articles on the subject from the tiles
of the Public Ledger.
Cardinal Mercler is to receive the de
gree of doctor of laws from Yale Univer
sity, It Is an honor .that will be worthily
bestowed on one, who stood for the higher
laws during adversity.
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The latest Shantung development would
seem to show that Japan Is inclined to pay
no more attention to President Wilson than
does the United States Senate.
And with all due respect to Admiral
Grayson, "Washington &temn a ,9.btr place
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My Dream of Yesterday
WHERE is my dream of yesterday,
My buoyant, hopeful dream,
That led me on without command
To many n distant fairy land?
What 'unkind fate took it away?
My dream, my dream of yesterday.
Where is my dream of yesterday,
My brave, ambitious dream.
That placed the whplc' world at my feet,
And made mc fleetest of the fleet?
1 thought it would forever stay;
My dream, my dream of yesterday.
Where is my dream of yesterday,
My soft and healing dream.
That pierced' the darkness with its rays,
And gave me peace on bitter days?
Oh, come once more and never stray;
My dream, my dream of yesterday.
Where is my dream of yesterday,
My sweet nnd radiant dream
Of stainless life, of love aud rest,
Of joyous home byj children blest?
Oh, come again, I pray, I pray;
My dream, my dream of yesterday.
Robert E, Farley, in New York Herald.
Cardinal Mereier is a living exemplifi
cation of the fact that sturdy patriotism is,
after all, the only true Internationalism.
What he did for Belgium he did for the
world.
The St. Louis balloon race was note
worthy because no restrictions were placed
on contestants. Free as air, as it were.
Revolutionary leaders in Mexico are
said to he rallying to the banner of Villa.
Sort of Steal Corporation and subsidiary
companies.
Senator Ashurst is now definitely tied
to the treaty with a may-I-not.
What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. Where was Adelinai Patti born?
2. From what game was the American
style' of football an outgrowth?,
3. What state in the Union has only1 three
counties?
4. What is the capital of Honduras?
G. What is the English pronunciation of
the surname Cockburu?
0, When was the Hellenistic period Jn his
tory? 7. What is the Cordll!era,n system?
8. How is the word cordwainer associated
with a Spanish city?
0. In what century did Nell Gwya lire?
10. Why is a mansard roof so-called?
Answers to-Saturday's Quiz
1. A brigantine is a two-masted vessel
wtb square sails foremast and fore-and-aft
mainmast.
2. William Jessop, an English engineer, Is
said to have been chiefly responsible f
lor fixing tpe standard railway gauge
at four feet eight and a half Inches,
3. Reddle color is red ochef.
4, In the word bacillus the accent should U
fall on the second syllable. Ji
S. A regicide is a killer or participator in
killing of a king. -
Q. The Ciarpet-baggers Avere northern poll- iS
Helens accused by the southerners of
maklng'money by Irregular and some
times criminal means out, of' the cor
rupt governments set. up in the South
in the reconstruction period after the
Civil War.
7. "Parking" applied to an automobile Is
a transference of the word from IU
original use in army parlance. Ar
tillery was parked when it wns as1
sembled compactly Jn a given apace.
8, Daniel Defoe wrote "Robinson Crusoe ,tV
0, The winged boots or sandals of ,M-
t-urr were called talaria. n
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