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WICKEDNESS OF MOB LAW
IT IS seldom difficult to pick from the
ditv's news enouch instances of tho
V wickedness of mob law to point a moral.
v Military forces occupy Omaha, Neb.,
h where a bloodthirsty mob murderously
fc- attacked the mayor, a sworn officer of
I? tho law who sought to restrain it irom
EJL committing n crimo In rcvengo for a
crime.
In Montgomery, Ala., three were
3S lynched within an hour.
S .In Mt. Holly, N. J., there is talk of
lV. lm"JiTif it TiArrrn wlir nttjipkod n. white
IK; If anything Justifies a lynching it is
fth6 crime with whlcn this negro is
charged. But nothing justifies a lynch
inir. Lynching may be too good for the
E -JI.hI T. i 4-i flnmtinrila oflTiirtf tlinf
j itit has on tho mob and the reaction on the
r Bad.
W s TZTTf.
KlUril KULt i-uk wniiL.uurv
. JUSTICE in its varied phases, includ
, '"Hng tho poetic, is respected in tho
'President's nomination of Brand Whit-
VOCk,vo do amuutiauuur lu jjuiyiiiiu.
situations, his sanity and sense of fair
vpiay were magnificently demonstrated in
, wie.dark days when the Germans overran
and occupied the land of "Albert the
Valiant"
f-tAW one with a sense of dramatic
.'valnW'will te pleased that the rumored
Ilrit'evnUon to send Mr. Whitlock to Italv
wJS. iiuki vclllicu. AWitiu may uo 1.11c uiuic
tit.Li mwJA.i4 Pa.a . n . hn t a vn .A
(important post, but the romance of the
"wannot to be stifled in spite of sicken-
ing horrors demands that he return to
Brussels as the first American ambassa
dor.
WISDOM OF A VETERAN
MERENCE V. POWDERLY saw in-
l tolerance and stupidity wreck one of
' the post powerful labor -organizations
I - ever termed in this country, ihe Knignts
fp of; Labor, of which he was once the head,
' is S3 extinct as the Ku Klux Klan.
Mr. Powderly, now chief of the bureau
oi the United States Department of
Ltibor, is seasoned with experience and
proof against extravagant delusions. His
p 'remedy for industrial unrest is the ad-
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'tween employers uiiu empiuyes. xnure 13
itiritnrtii? stnrtlimrlv new in this solution.
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Illj. J8 merely sane, sincere anu Droaa
inSnded. 'a.Than1abor conference for which the
teer strikers refused to wait aims to give
i this principle an impressive trial. Mr.
vPAwderly is competent to claim some
k knowledge of costly alternatives. The
'Reds, who have scant patience with sub-
UU1C14 w WUUUGiuii milt aa a ii.iibui bu
their radicalism on behalf of class rule.
To tho eeneral nublic his opinion.
ft; coming from a veteran who has been
g&'Hlir.ough the mill, must carry a -certain
i amount of conviction.
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K f- A QUEEN WHO CAN COOK
m AN UNSATISFACTORY cable dispatch
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r J VUWhO AAVM. 11WVJ.KI, fcJl-WblOllU.
: s ''Oueen Marv and a"-i)artv from Bal-
iJBVtm wciii. uoiiiiiK ill xiuiiio uuui Uliu
--: ' J 1. 1- T- -- timi! ...
j(TnlWi nu iui:iv. iiuiuea vviuiuuis, un me
V; - biter sido of the stream, caught a fine
salmon and presented it to the queen, who
crfuked it.
.rTfatt's all the yarn, and we submit that
it stands it is irritatingly incomplete.
r. that the queen had no luck with the
1 she has our sympathy, untinctured
tar mrprise. That she was able to cook
ecHs our special wonder and delight
Anfc MA ftlip naif "Mr. WillinmH ft inln l.
B ".-, w - - -.. 4V111 (bl
K'jrty when the fish was eaten? That's
k? VwKat nalrjitatintr world desirea tn Imnw
J-L-flL Royalty has aforetime been known to
iA iVM-ekrasly accept" Has it reached the
-f '$' n tJie3e democratic days when it
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IE is naturally no general expec-
fijiw&CH that General von der Goltz.
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19 ynn nis troops .jibs unauiy lingered
it. Baltic provinces of the former
1 jpfcipire, will long defy the block-
by the Allied council. Until
the conditions imposed no
tuti ships will be permitted to
I fm Germany.
iVewirse, tho German Government
will Mon ome to its senses. Already it
14 aus to hava decided to recall Yon der
rjoltsf 'Pawns. Could anything better
itIiiBtrU the efficacy of the chief weapon
wich th league of nations is to use
iinat, smrsctory governments otcep
1 wk tir that the international part
jti will' b HBsable to prevent war
tariM tft (fcasjfw ? Germany
. 1s
,' . tit urlyf win, it.
mandate of the Paris council represent- I
ing only tho nucleus of the futuro league,
how much more effective will be tho deci- i
sions of tho comprehensive society which
is eventually to include all the countries I
of tho glob6? I
As a tryout of machinery which is
only just beginning to work the force of
this economic blockado is well worth .
watching.
CAN UNIVERSITIES FINISH
WHAT THE A. E. F. BEGAN?
The Army, With No Leanings Toward
Excluslveness, Was the Greatest of
All Schools of Americanization
TN THE crush of returning students at
all of tho American universities aro
many who left the classrooms for active
service in tho war. These veterans are
in many ways wiser even than their pro
fessors. They were flung out to tramp
and fight and die in furious years that
never wero prophesied in any textbook.
Of the aims and ends of that colossal
adventure they knew little. They know
vlittlo now.
But some of them at least have devel
oped n great curiosity. What they may
want to know is why a war was required
to give them their first glimpse of the
larger life of their own country and an
enlightened conception of its variety and
its wonders.
If unpreparedncss persisted anywhere
in the days before the submarine it per
sisted in the, colleges. University life
was a highly artificial business. Tho
undergraduate moved in a constantly
narrowing realm of his own, where edu
cation gradually became a process of
exclusion. He had no means of knowing
that his mind was being systematically
impoverished. And so even your senior
was necustomed to display a piteous
sense of superiority over the furious
world that waited to maul him absent
mindedly, to reduce him to atoms and to
make him over again in endurable form.
The fault was not with tho youth of
the country. There had been a gradual
and slow surrender in the faculties. The
wise professors sighed and accepted
material rather than moral factors as
dominant considerations in the educa
tional scheme. Men were trained. They
were' rarely educated, since education is
worth little if it does not go, beyond a
man's mind to temper his spirit.
Skill won the war. Wisdom might have
prevented it.
George Moore observes somewhere
that the most cultured man he ever met
was a railroad navvy who, knowing little,
of tho rules of English, yet had a con
templative mind, an imagination and a
great heart. This view of education was
not common in America or anywhere
else.
So tho young men who went from
American universities to the war found
themselves close to the cdrth for the
o L a. ai v ,, . ,,
first time in their lives, caught in the
stupenuuus uuk ui jibmiuii uiiu Bpunuu. ;
restlessness which, though they rule
creation, were rarely the subject of col
lego lectures. American youths actually
got acquainted with each other and with
their country after they entered tho
army but not before there had been a
rude breaking down of ancient barriers
through the operation of the draft sys
tem. The army was the greatest of univer
sities and it is a mistake to suppose that
its efforts were limited to the discipline
or the technical training provided in the
camps.
The men who organized the new army
knew that they would have to deal with
all sorts of men. They drew soldiers
from colleges and shops, rich clubs and
farms, from tho mines and the profes
sions. And there was rarely an alien
new in the country who didn't find him
self bunked in barracks between two
native Americans who had the advan
tages of American tradition and Ameri
can schooling.
The stranger in America was not the
only one who benefited by this system.
He learned the language through asso
ciation with his bunkies and often
enough, he used it to teach his bunkies
something valuable in return. There are
college men without number who found
a new sort of inspiration in the patience
and fortitude of the alien soldier.
Through him they had new,glimpses of a
larger world. Little hopes burned in him
like dim lamps and in that light the
meaning of the war became more or less
clear.
It was ah odd experience for countless
thousands of Americans to find that in
railway gangs, in the ditches of the
country, in the mills and on the farms
there are men of sensitive minds who,
though they might not always know even
our language, know how to be honorable,
aspiring and brave.
In those days many Americans with
college minds formulated their first clear
conception of what America must be and
of what education in America must be.
Somehow or other we shall have to find
a way to realize an aristocratic concep
tion of the democratic purpose. The col
leges will have to broaden their vision
until it includes the wholo aspiring life
of the country. We shall have to acquire
a sort of steadying philosophy that was
not available at the universities in the
time when college life was hopelessly
cluttered over with fads and fraternities
and football and a million isms. If the
war taught tho colleges anything it must
have taught them the folly of exclusive
ness and the futility of a strictly utili
tarian purpose in education. Similarly,
it should have taught America at large,
to understand how empty were the sneers
that used to be aimed at what we called
"the classics" only a few years ago.
Classical knowledge is, iq fact, that
knowledge which has been proved
through all the stresses of human ex
perience and rendered at last into a noble
literature. It testifies that, all material
calculations are vain rfnd misleading. It
invplves a prophecy of the moving friend
ships to which lonely aliens and the more
i ortunaW youth of America groped when
ther were flung: totitfaer tor the first
I'lUme m th cununo yifci: of Wtle-
fields. Tho colleges had it in their power
to prepare tho mind of the country for
such a crisis, as they had it in their power
to mako us better fitted to deal with tho
aftermath. But they were hindered by
th parents, who said, "Teach him to
work and mako a living. An education
that doesn't leave n man able to make
money isn't tho sort we want in this
country."
Bolshevism was no surpriso to truly
educated men. They know that the blind
had led tho blind beforo in disastrous
national adventures that ended in chaos.
Mankind has been fighting and defeating
kaisers since civilization began. What
education ought to teach the youth of
tho country is that mankind has a com
mon purpose, that nations are struggling
to understand each other as tho Ameri
can soldiers struggled in tho early days
.or tho concentration camps. The faculty
men who face tho classes of this season
will not have an easy time. Change is
swift and many of the theories cherished
a few years ago aro no longer valid.
Only the. old truths, disdained in the
years ,of materialistic triumph, remain
unchanged in the ruin. Colleges that
steer by them will teach their classes
that you cannot bo cither rich or wise
until you can bo patient, generous, slow
in judgment and just to all men.
REVIVING THE OLD CANAL
A HEARTENING augury of the con
structive energy which J. Hampton
Moore will bring to his incumbency of
the Mayor's office is suggested by a sig
nificant event scheduled to take place in
little Delaware City on October 11.
Hopes at once vivid and stimulating are
to bo revived on that date, which is to
be signalized by the formal acquisition
by the federal government of the water
way linking the Delaware river with
Chesapeake bay.
Ninety years ago when the canal was
opened it was regarded as a vital link in
the system of internal communications.
But 1829 marked the threshold of the
great era of railroad construction. As
the rail traffic increased tho possibilities
of inland waterways were overlooked. In
time the shallow canals were unable to
accommodate the increasingly larger
type of standard vessels. Despite some
barge traffic and one passenger line, the
Delaware and Chesapeake canal has for
several generations been virtually mori
bund as a prime factor in transportation.
Mr. Moore, however, realized that if
the channel wero deepened and widened
its original mission could be impressively
accomplished. The taking over of tho
canal by the United States Government
is largely duo to his initiative in Con
gress. Modernized, according to plans
in view, the waterway providing a direct
route to Chesapeake bay and Hampton
Roads ports should prove a powerful im
petus to the trade of Philadelphia.
All our Mayors have d.onc a lot of
talking about water-borne commerce
iiere. ait. moore win Dnnij practical
knowedge to thc famlliar teme His
-. nftrt?eination in thn Dplnwnvn
City exercises, in which Secretary Dan
iels is also expected to take part, is an
encouraging index of tangible progress
of the port while he is chief executive of
the largest city on the Delaware.
Bror Olson, student
Ills Crutch a of Pcnn, dropped liis
ISailgo of Honor studies and enlisted
in 1017. In thr Ar
sonne a German shell tore nwny one ot his
lees and pnrt of the other. Olson stood in
line in College Hall on Mondn seeking to
continue his studies. Here are three evi
dences of heroism right in n row, and thc
tnking up of everyday life tinder a handicap
is not thc least.
Public sentiment will
In the Swim sustain the plea of the
Life Guards' Union of
Atlantic City that politics be eliminated
from the beach service. The swimmer
whose life is in clanger doesn't care to what
political faction his rescuer belongs; but ho
is mightily interested in knowing thnt thc
guard is on his job.
The Holland -Ameri-Pleasing
Paradox ca Line will resume
its sailings October IS
between Philadelphia and Rotterdam. This
is prosperity's way of getting in Dutch and
getting in right nt one mid the same time.
"Shipbuilders at Los Angeles and Long
lleach hnrbors have declined n Saturday
hnlf holiday in order to. speed up produc
tion of ships to meet the country's growing
commerce." No. it didn't happen. They
arc talking strike. But wouldn't it be nice
if the world grew sensible?
Music-hall strike leaders in Paris have
had a resolution passed providing that nny
member who disobeys thc strike order shall
bo ostracized for ten years. Presumably,
the Claquers' Union will be called upon to
give thera the silence.
Our commanders abroad arc expected
to be diplomats as well as soldiers ; but it is
not surprising that they occasionally forget
to be diplomatic and hit from thc shoulder.
The chief of the district attorney's de
tective forco says the deeper they get into
the North Penn Bank nffairs the rottcuer it
gets. It is the earnest hope of the rom
munity that they will soon "touch bottom."
Thc law of compensation works in many
ways. The strike that reduces, thc supply
of dinner pails may also reduce the amount
of food to go into them.
The MacLaughlln ticket la baid to have
a Vare complexion. Nc'mind! It will be
given the necessary massage at the polls.
Is there significance in the fact that the
"appeal" of the inmates 'of the Kastcru
Penitentiary reads like a strike ultimatum?
Judge Patterson Js said to bo a good
loser, but lie isn't going to brag about
It until after tho official count.
Tho crowding of the country's colleges
shows that with prosperity comes apprecia
tion of education and culture, "
John Q. Compromise will probably be
the councilmanlc candidate in the Second
district.
Happily, time dissipates world worries
as readily as though they wero merely per
gonal. Tb? new food blockade ou Ctrinnuy will
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CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Election May Enable 8enator Penrose
to Spend More Time In Washing
ton Congressman Watson
Gets Washington Home
Washington, Oct. 1.
OKXATOR PENROSE'S return to Wash-
ingtou was hailed by many o his col
leagues on tho Senate side as indicating a
subsidence in .the factional activities that
have plagued thc Republican party In Penn
sylvania. At least that Is the Impression
one gathers from talks with members of the
Senate and thc House who arc anxious to
have tho support of Pennsylvania members
in matters of legislation.
It is not wholly creditable to the eastern
states that there is more absenteeism on tho
part of their representatives in Congress
than there is in thc South and West. Rc
causo of the nearness of the homes of the
enstern representatives they are more in
clined to absent themselves to attend to pri
vate business or to keep in touch with local
political conditions than are those members
whose homes arc further removed from
Washington, and it -frequently happens that
enstern interests suffer because the votes
arc not here when wanted. This is par
ticularly so with regard to the daylight
saving law. which might have been saved
if any one of thc large city delegations had
been in full attendance when the roll was
called.
Tho Senate appreciates thc ability of the
senior senntor of Pennsylvania and in view
of the closeness of thc vote in thc Scnntc
there is nlways n feeling of relief among
Republicans when he is Jierc. In recent
years, however, the spirit of factionalism
among Republicans In thc Keystone State has
compelled him to stay away, as, indeed, It has
done with Congressman Vare and some o
tho other nctivc spirits in Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania politics. Thc way tho leaders
here now look at it Penrose and Vare, too,
for that matter, will hae more time to
stay here and attend to business.
It is the belief of senators that Penrose
has been seeking to be relieved of tho fierce
political responsibility thnt has interfered
with his career 11s a statesman and that
thc upheaval in Philadelphia, promising n
new deal nil around and less factionalism
hereafter, will enable him to buckle down
more closely to thc great legislative work
that lies ahead of him ns chairman of the
committee on finance.
WHILE the Philadelphia squabble was
on, Chairman l'ordncy, of tho ways
and means committee of the House, called
up n number of "popgun tariff bills" and
accorded hearings on others to interested
parties. Such bills ns passed the House and
have now gone to the Senate arc not cer
tnin of passage in thnt body at once. The
peace treaty discussion is still on and some
big financinl bills are to be considered.
Neither Penrose nor his fellow members of
the finance committee, it is said, arc wholly
enamored of the popgun idea. The passage
of sepnrntc bills for separate interests when
Mr. Underwood was chairman of, the com
mittee on wnjs and means did not meet with
much favor, such bills as were passed being
vetoed eventually by President Taft. The
feeling is that any sepnrntc bills that may
now be put up to the President will meet a
similar fate nt thc hands of Sir. Wilson,
with thc possible exception of the djc
stuffs bill, which has now passed the House
with the Democratic licensing feature at
tnehed. This bill went through after a hard
fight, in which thc opponents of the licensing
feature insisted that the Introduction of such
a sjstem in a tariff bill was utterly op
posed to the Republican doctrine of pro
tection to American industries.
CONGRESSMAN HENRY W. WATSON,
of Lnnghorne, who grew tired of hotel
life in Washington and bought himself a
homo here, has become one of the real active
men upon thc committee on interstate and
foreign commerce, which is now shnping
legislation to deal with the railway ques
tion. The congressman has been looking
into nil phases of this problem nnd better
to perfect himself for the work in hand has
been cntertnining some of the leading sen
ators nnd representatives who arc interested
in thc bill. It is now genernlly conceded
that the committee will not stand for gov
ernment ownership of railroads. But it is
still n problem as to just how thc railroads
aro to be turned hack to their owners in
view of thc disturbing conditions that have
arisen during the war. The Bucks-Montgomery
member has 0 wage-board scheme
in mind which he will probably develop in
debate when the bill is reported to thc House.
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THE graphite producers aro hating a
hard time of it since the war. Not only
are they hit in.Toxas and Alabama but also
in the Pickering Valley, Chester county,
where graphite mining has been conducted
for many years. Before the wajs and means
committee recently T. I). .Tusf. of thc Morton-Just
Company, and William S. Darnell.
of the Pennsylvania Graphite Company, wero
witnesses, urging n protective tariff. The
crucible makers, however, contended thnt
there was no necessity for a tariff, they
preferring to have an open market with
Ceylon and Madagascar. Malcolm Mc
Naughtou, of thc leading up-.Terscy cruci
ble company, stated thc crucible makers
really did not care nuythlng about protec
tion. The Alabama and Texas mines are
"war babies" and much capital has already
been invested in the hope that American
production may be encouraged. The Mada
gascar nnd Ceylon miuVs seem to be largely
under British control, nlthough Madagascar
is a French possession.
.,-plLLT" MATOS'S brother, Dr. Louis
-aJ J, Matos, holds a conspicuous posi
tion In the dye world. The doctor has' re
cently toured the country delivering talks
on the subject of colors and their method
of preparation. In the fight in the House
over the dyestuffs bill it developed thnt the
shades and tints required in textile manu
facturing were almost unlimited and that
the public demands required constant
ciiangcs. Thc German chemists had the
bulge on dye manufactures nnd especially
with respect to fast colors prior to the w'ar.
But our own war necessities stirred the
American "prodMcers and developed chemistry
here in an unprecedented way. In the fight
over the dye-licensing bill it was shown
that American manufacturers had declared
themselves able to compete with Germany,
nlthough the passage of the bill was secured
largely on the representation that we were
still unable to make dyestuffs in the United
States to meet tne demands ot tne manu
facturers here. ..
THE Philadelphia Chapter, American In
stitute of Architects, is evincing a lively
Interest in a. bill to create a bureau of
housing and living conditions in the De
partment of Labor. Tho chapter, which Is
now headed by John P. II. ginklcr, presi
dent, and Edward A. Crane, secretary, has
also been considering the interesting ques
tion of city planning, these two problems
being of much importance at this time to
Philadelphia under thc new city charter,
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The fate of Fiuino depends on whetuwr
theAw f the poet can, b Mtlntftiliik. by
th JMPflj'f WlW-
THE CHAFFING DISH
The Kitchen Nook
rpHESE losin caudles ou the sheltcs
Fling little spattering llres about,
Like stars that scintillate thimselvcs
Untjl they sputter out.
And since they seem nlivc with light,
, I would rather nee their twinkling breath
Than the silent tallow-dips, so white
In their smoky dreams of death.
For every night when Darby lights
His black dudeen within thc nook,
He begins to tell of ghostly sights,
Till tho children sec a spook
In the air, on which lie blows n puff
As though a spirit left his lips;
So thc kitchen nook is queer enough
Without thc tallow-dips.
FRANCIS CARWN.
Drowsy Thoughts on Fall Fever
AHOUT this time ot year, when the mellow
. air stvoons (ns thc poets say) with
golden languor and thc landscape Is tinged
n soft brown like a piece of toast, we feel
thc onset nnd soft impeachment of fall
fever.
Fall fever is (in our case at any rate)
more insidious than thc familiar disease of
spring. Spring fever impels us to get out
in the country ; to seize a knotted cudgel nnd
a pouchful of tobacco and agitate our limbs
oter thc landscape. But the drowsiness of
autumn is a lethargy in the true sense of
thnt word a forgctfulncss. A forgetfuluess
of past discontents and future joys; n for
getfulness of toll that is gone and leisure to
come; a mere breathing existence iu which
one stands vacantly eyeing thc human scene,
living in a gentle simmer of the faculties
like a boiling kettle when the gas is turned
low.
FALL fever, one supposes, is our inheri
tance from the cave man, who (like thc
bear and the-well, some other animal, what
ever it is) went into hibernation about the
first of November. Autumn with its soft
inertia lulled Mm to sleep. He ate n hearty
meal, raked together some dry leaves, curled
up and slid off until the alarm clock of
Anril.
This agreeable disease does not last very
long with tho modern man, Ho fights bravely
against it; then the frost comes along, or
thc coal bill, and stings him into (nctivity.
But for a few days its genial torpor may bo
seen (by the observant) even in our bustling
modern career. When wc read yesterday
that Judge Audenried's court clerks had
fallen asleep""during the ballot-counting pro
ceedings tve knew that the microbe was
among us again. Keats, in" his lovely Ode,
describes tho figure of Autumn as stretched
out "on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep."
Unhappily the conventions forbidcity dwell
ers from curling up on thc pavements 'for
a cheerful nap. If one were brave enough
to do so, unquestionably many would follow
his example. But the urbanlte has taught
himself to doze upright. You may sec many
of us, standing dreamily before Chestnut
street show windows in the lunch hour, to
all Intents nnd purposes in a stato of slum
ber. Yesterday, in that lucid shimmer of
warmth and light, a group stood In front of
a doughnut window near Ninth street: not
one of them was more than half awake.
Similarly a gathering watched the three
small birds who have become a traditional
window ornament on Chestnut street (they
have recently moved from an oculist to u
correspondence course office) and a faint
whisper of snoring arose on tho sultry air.
The customs of city life permit a man to
stand still as long ,as be likes if he will
only pretend to bo watching something. We
saw a substantial burgher pivoted by tho
window of Mr, Albert, the violin maker, on
Ninth street. Apparently he was studying
the fine autographed -uh" Ot t'Attl there
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displayed ; but when
near we saw
that Jils eye.
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"THERE IS HOPE!"
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doubtedly carries a plate-glass sheet with
the orisons of Swett Mardeii under it, was
in a blissful doze.
TWrODERN life (as we say) struggles
' against this sweet enchantment of nu
tumu, but s'nture is too strong for us. Why
is.it that all these strikes occur just at this
time of year? The old hibernating instinct
again, perhaps. The workman has a sub
conscious yearning to scratch together a nice
soft heap of manila envelopes and lie down
ou that couch for a six months' car-pound-lug.
There aro all sorts of excuses that
one can make to ouc's self for waving fare
well to toil. Only last Sunday we saw this
ad in n paper:
HEIRS WANTED. The war Is over and
lias nuiile many now heirs. You may be
one of them. Investigate. Many now
living in poverty are rich, but don't
know It.
Now wiiat could bo simpler (wc said to
oursclf as we stood contemplating those
doughnuts) than to forsake our jolly old
typewriter and spend u few months in "in
vestigating" whether any one had made us
Ids heir? It might be. Odd things have
happened. Down iu Washington Square,
for instance (tve thought), arc a number of
sun-warmed benches, very reposeful to tho
sedentary parts, ou which tve might recline
and think over thc possibility of our being
rich unawares. Wc luiRtened thither, but
apparently many had had the same idea.
There was not a bench vacant. The same
was true in Independence Square and in
Franklin Square, We will never make a
good loafer. Tlicrqj is too much competition.
QO WE came back, sadly, to our rolltop
-' and fell to musing. Wc picked up a
magazine and found some pictures showing
how Mary Pickford washes her hair. "If
I am sun-drying my hair," said Marv
(under a photo showing her reclining in a
lovely garden doing just thnt), "I usually
have the opportunity to read a scennrio or
do some other duty which requires concen
tration, i! And it Occurred to us that If a
strain like that is put upon a weak woman
wc surely ought to bo able to go on moiling
for a while, Indian summer or not. And
then wc found some pictures by our favor
ite artist, Coles Phillips, with that lovely
shimmer around the nukles, and wc resolved
to be strong nnd brave and have pointed
finger-nails. But still, iu the back of our
mind, thc debilitating Influence ot fall fever
was at work, Wo Bald to ourself, without
the slightest thought of printing it (for it
seemed to put us In a false light) that the
one triumphant nnd unanswerable 'epigram
of mankind, the grandest and most resolute
utterance in the face of implacable fate, is
the bnore.
Ono of our alert clients finds the.follotv
ing ad in a Philadelphia Sunday paper :
MAnillAGKH A1IUANOKD, quietly, at
your convenience, and all at a moderate
expenditure. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Wo woulil like to know moro nbout that
guarantee. Is it ironclad?
Desk' Mottoes
By day I was much among, people, nnd
had many trials to go through; but iu the
evenings I was mostly alone.
JOHN WOOLMAN.
It 1st
Dear Socrates:
Isn't it a coincidence that the man who
is here to voice tho thanks of tho Belgian,
'people is a MertlerT FRANCOIS.
In the old days, before the war, whenever
Mr. WiUon took a day off It was allowed
to leak out that he was reading detective
stories.
Nowadays, we guess, he reads the speeches
pf Messrs, Borah and Sherman, which are
even more wyatwatms thaa the avrfte..teJU
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The Glories of October
GIVE mo autumn and October,
With its crisp and mellow air ;
When the rustle on tho corn-stalks
Drives away our summer's care, "
When the woods are red and ruddy,
And thc skies n golden hue;
At eventide arc glowing
With enchantments ever new.
For our bins are filled with plenty,
And our hearts are free nnd light;
And wc slug nway our sorrows,
With a satisfied delight;
For in October's gloamin
We open heaven's gates
Wliilc thc golden sunset shimmers
Wc think of what awaits.
So give me clear October,
When thc sun is sinking low;
For then tve near the glory ;
In the rich nnd golden glow ;
Wc almost hear the singing;
Within the golden gates.
Alniost hear the joy-bells ringing,
From thc glory that awaits.
JOHN McMASTER.
Philadelphia,. October, 1010.
Mauna Loa, on Ililo Island, is in erup
tion.' Tradition has it that it was placate
fn 1881 with a live pig, a plug of tobacco
and a bottle of gin. AVith the pig flying high
and gin taboo, the volcano this year will
have to content -itself with a chew. (
Though demobilization is npw' more or
less officially a fact, the prohibition law la
still in force. - That oasis was evidently a
mirage.
What.Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What city was the seat of the Belgian
Government during the' greater part
of tho war?
2. Who is President Wilson's secretary?
a. Who was called the "Swedish Night
ingale"? 1 -'
4. Who founded tho French order of thi
Legion of Honor?
5. What state does Senator Smoot rcpre
sent?
C. Where was El Dorado supposed to b
located?
7. What is a palankeen? v
8. What Is the origin of "Tell the truth
and shame tfie devil"? 1
0. Which is the "Blackwater "State" ?
10. What is a tandstickor?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1 Washington was inaugurated President
of the United States on April 30,
1780.
2. An ortolan is the garden bunting, a
small bird esteemed in England as a
tabla delicacy,
a. Real estate originally meant "realm
land," that is, land in trust from
the sovereign to distinguish It from
personal estate, the 1ropcrty of the
individual.
1, Goethe wrote "Elective Affinities.''
5. Paraguay tea is "mate," a popular
South American beverage made by
the infusjon of leaves of a tropical
shrub,
0. Queen Llliuokalanl wos the last mon
'arch of the Hawaiian Islands.
7, Orlando was Nltti's predecessor as pre
mier of Italy.
8. Sextus Properllus was a Roman poet of
the first century B. O.
0. The salary ot tho President was in
creased to $50,000 a year in the nd
ministration of Grant.
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