EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FBlDAlr, OOTOBEE 1919' It P i ter& I lt h" lis' 1 EV kB- l ' Euetung "public Sfe&ger I FUBLIC LEDOER COMPANY -ntta r v tTt ..-.. CfcfcrUa 11. LudWton, Vict' PrftrTiit: John C nj Bww arv anrl Tnnaurri Phlltn R OMHna. in B. Williams. John J. Snufreon. Director. UDITOJIIAI UOAIUJi Crurs H. IC. CmTis, Chairman AVID E. SMILEY .Editor JOHN C. liAIlTIN.. .Ocneral Business Manacor ' . Publlehul dally at rmtio I.ENirn IlullOlmr, f Independence Square. 1'hUoilelplila ATIANTIO ClTl Prrti-Vnlnn BulMlwf JIIT VOBK I'OO Metropolitan Tower Dstsoit ... 701 Ford BtilldltfJ Ht. I.ori8 loon rullrton iiuIMIiir CHICAGO 1S02 Trlfcuiio Building MTvVS BUREAUS) , TTiBUiNainv ntirvu. N. E. Cor. l'cnnsslvanla M"r. and 14th St. Nbw Yok IJcnuAU The Ami HulMlnir "-Lo.vdo.n1Ji.uhi.' London Times Tha Evenimi Pimii' Lr.norn N aerved to Mill rcrllers In rhlladelphtA and purroundhig towns aumo rata or iwene u.'j cents per wee pajaiiio to tha carrier. Ily mall to point outalde of Thlladelphla. In 4h United Motes. Canada, or United Statea ro aeealona. postage free, fifty ,.tn) cents per month Ulx (tt) dollars (wf year, payable In, advance. To all foreltn countries one ($1) dollar per month. NniicB Pubscrlbcrs wlslilns nddrefs changed tnutt give old as well as new address. BELL. JOOO WALNUT KEYSTOAF. MA1V 3000 C Address all communications fo Ft enliyi Piibllo Ledger, Independence Square, Philadelphia Member of the Associated Press TllD ASSOCIATED PRESS U cxchi rtvclv entitled to the use for icpubllcallon of all iicics dispatches credited to it or not othcritiso credited in this paper, and also the local nettr published theieiu All rlphti of republication of tpecial dis patches hcrclr. aic alio resrricd. Fhllidrlphii, Irldijr, Oclol.-r 3, 1919 klNCS, NATIVE AND FOREIGN ALBERT of Belgium is a king. Some wheie at home he has a crown and a scepter and royal robeg and all that sort of thing. Yet he has never exei cised and never aspired to the soit of absolute power that William Z. Foster is trying to grab as dictator to labor in the steel industry. King Albert could not paralyze the business life of whole communities nor could he subject some odd millions of men to the misery that follows'upon class lawlessness and wide spread economic waste. There is no king in Europe who would not shrink from the theory of absolutism that fascinates Mr. Foster just as it used to fascinate some of the industrial barons in the past. Europe has found a way to bo free of autocrats. It knows how to keep its kings in order. Albert of Belgium has his acknowledged function. He is the visible symbol of the state and he aims to be an inspiration to national loyalty. The world is rilled with less admirable rulers who, while they ache to be auto crats, insist that a crown is something to be despised by free men. ft MAKING AMERICANS rnHE school for Americanization of nr aliens being conducted by Judge Joseph Bufflngton in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals is one justified by existing conditions, as it doubtless will be by results. If it ever was the duty of a judge to inquire into the character and ideals of applicants for citizenship that duty ex ists today. An American, secure in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, has the added right to make sure that the aliens upon whom he con fers the privilege of brotherhood shall not upset the constitution on which his rights are founded. So there is appositeness in 'the lec tures which the learned judge, daily de livers to citizens in the making. Aliens must be made to realize that citizenship is a big and important thing, which car ries with its blessings a solemn respon sibility. ' EGGS FOR MR. REED TjTEELING must have been l mining amazingly high in Oklahoma when an audience absembled to hear Senator Jteed denounce the President and the league of nations triumphed over the middle western instinct of thrift and bombarded the gentleman witli gs ivorth at least a njckel each at the source if production. Mr. Reed has always played to the gallery. It was thek gal lery that answered him on this occasion in its own ancient and effectual way. Something of this sort had to happen to the senator from Missouri. He needed to be shown He has been shown. Mr. Heed has been for years the least inspir ing man in the Senate of the United States. Mr. Lodge and Mr. Johnson and Mr. Borah and all tha other opponents of the league of nations and the treaty have manifested at least the pretense of logic and decency in their methods, and argu ments. The Missouri thunderer stood alone as a panderer to bigotry, passion, ignorance and sectional prejudice. Trotters who crowd the Senate gal Aeries in search of excitement and diver sion have applauded him, but in Okla homa he appears to have faced an au dience that wanted truth rather than vaudeville in the political discussions of these crucial days. TURNING THE TABLES ON THEM j.AtiAT?T.VR AT. SHHWAR srpms to Ivavn (t-yj the gift of saying things. B In discussing me nign cost oi living no -- remarked in Chicago that when the nionrv of an honest day's work for an W henest day's pay was adopted here prices 5 R OUia come uuwii. i We nave neuru su inuuu uuuub a luir K ' 4y's' pay for a fair day's work that it jemes with the snocx or surprise wnen "m wan laye emphasis on the work rafher than on the pay, turning the tables on L !Wii who have been stressing wages. LAUNCHING THE LEGION art who were in the A. E. F. should know the value of free institutions i jrt . TVtfttF etannad ftCif ft lm - ... u I -..Y. J 1 f laminar worm mm jiiutcueu aim .a nnrl warn shot at and mauled 'anlrnen to nreserve principles that affray a-0 attacked in any sort of class war. . ... Jf the American Legion cap maintain Dm 'spirit of the army, its friendly re Iatiftiwhips and some measure of the ' TVTij rt..l.tnli hjh mrnrrsapH hv nnr 7 . ... it... I Vin fniirnnpfln war if. will jfWCipuun - .-a-- -- i an iNHstrapie service u me coun ts ttM JtfHnj. as im meiuuers am I overseas. du& we uwis of every great organization of men de pends very largely on leadership. Those who presided at the first as semblage of the legionaries at Harris burg yesterday are plainly sincere in their expressed desire to keep the new organization of veterans out of politics. Unquestionably the time will come when selfish men will endeavor to use the American Legion for their own pur poses. It is then that the returned boldicis who wish to preserve in civil life the causes for which they fought will have to stand guard if the prestige and the usefulness of their association are not to be alike seriously impaired. MITTEN'S LATEST TROLLEY PLAN TOUCHES A VITAL NEED Speeding Up the Lines to the Suburbs Would Be a Boon to Commuters and v of Vast Benefit to the City 17HEN a trolley ride develops into a ' trolley journey it is reasonable to expect a swifter rate of ttansit. In theory the case works out beautifully. Electiic transpoitation between towns lying without a metiopolitan area is m no sense agonizing. The cars run swiftly. The frequent service relieves the patron of his worried dependence on railway time tables. The irntations of short trolley trips in the business distiict of a crowded city cannot, of course, be obviated by the adoption of principles prevailing in the country. As we accept the fact of a modern metropolis, with its combined drawbacks and advantages, it is only logical to be philosophical about trolleys operated upon a fairly slow schedule and contending against inevitable delays. It doesn't piove that Norristown is more progressive than Philadelphia be cause its electric cars whisk along at a speed unattainable on Chestnut street between the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. What the comparison really rc eals is that Norristown has a simple transit problem, whereas Philadelphia's is infinitely complex. Aside from the theme of cential city transportation leading directly to the formidable subject of subways, much of the confusion has been occasioned by rather ague and antiquated notions of what Philadelphia actually is. For years the P. R. T. management teemed to act upon the theory that because a street was solidly built up for ten or twelve miles there was justification for running cars at a Market-street pace. The re sult in many instances was dread by suburbanites of trolley journeys con ducted at the veiy moderate rate of trol ley rides. The enormous recent growth of the town and the movement common to all metropolises of the residential sections away from the business center calls for a new view of the suburban transit situation. The railroads, with all their resources, cannot comprehensively take care of it. Their service to nearby places was originally instituted to handle traffic between small clusters of popula tion and the city terminals. But now that the town has been knitted together as London was, now that it is no longer easy to distinguish divisions between Haddington and Mantua, be tween Chestnut Hill and Germantown, between Darby and Paschallville, the railroads are limited in their functions. And it is not only in sections qualify ing with their lawns and detached houses as "suburban" that hardships prevail, but in districts where compact lows of brick dwellings face their duplicates on the opposite side of the street, although the neighborhood may be eight or nine miles from the City, Hall. The railroad stations are often too far away from these sections to be of any use. Depend ence of the population upon trolley serv ice is absolute. It is Mr. Mitten's present laudable airr to provide at least a partial remedy for these conditions. His elevated and sub way plans necessarily involve careful consideration by the city. Theie are for midable financial problems to be solved. Relief on a great scale fully com mensurate with the city's needs cannot be swiftly administered. Reform by "infiltration" is, however, a heartening possibility. The first es sential step is the realization that the trolley lines have not conveniently sup plemented the railways as they should. This Mr. Mitten appears to have taken. His immediate concern is with the po tentialities of the existing huge trolley transit system. Is it possible by simple and direct methods to shorten the trip from Chest nut Hill to Chestnut street so that the time consumed will not surpass that nec essary for a journey to Atlantic City? Will it be possible for Philadelphians to go from Kensington to Sixty-fifth Btreet and Woodland avenue with less hours consumed than in the passage to New York? As a prime antidote to such snail-like trolley service, the P. R. T. proposes higher speed schedules for routes that may bo rated as municipal trunk lines. The cars now being remodeled expedite loading by their double set of doors. The trailers already in service on Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Six teenth streets testify to a new con sideration long delayed of the public's needs. In the work which they perform the trolleys in this city of 129 squaro miles have somewhat the character of trains. It is fitting that they should have the appearance and some of the capacity. But the narrow streets, which handi cap the community in countless ways, serve as a cold douche to transit aspira tions perfectly possible of attainment in other cities. Perhaps some day recoi. struction of the thoroughfares in cen tral Philadelphia will actually be under taken. Costly as the change would be, intolerable conditions may in the end im pose it. Meanwhile, however, municipal aid in the traction company's practical plans should be freely given. The coal-wagon nuisance is now only mildly rebuked "in an ordinance providing for the arrestand fining of the offending driver, but accord ing the magistrate no authority to col lect ,tho fine. Council, should Drpantltf rewrllo the law so that it means some thing. The police hae also a drastic duty to perform. Thousands of Philadelphians, wcaiied by slow trolley service over long routes, will be quick to rejoice if track" hugging vehicles arc prevented from "dragging" the cars and if the unloading of coal wagons diiectly in the path is peremptorily forbidden. If the city does its share Mr. Mitten will be on his mettle. He is hopeful that, apait fiom the grandiose transit proj ects under way and under consideration, high-speed lines can be operated on cer tain Philadelphia streets. Wo have lacked them so long that the prospect of relief is rather staitling. The most stimulating features of the new move are the implication that the transit management appreciates that the full resources of its system as it now exists have not heretofore been all tapped and that a network of trolley lines in a vast urban community is a group not merely of short-distance tramway but of railway routes. In this sane point of view is an excel lent augury of reform. AT THE WHITE HOUSE TT IS not necessary to take a senti- mental view of President WilsotQand his work to feel that yesterday's news from the White House ought to have a sobering effect on the thought of America and that those of the President's, enemies who have been doing their utmost to confuse opinion throughout the nation must have an uncomfoi table awakening to a better sense of decency and a more honorable regard for the requirements of the hour. The country finds itself now in the shadow of an unlooked-for con tingency. It will have to sit down calmly and wonder whether theie is imme diately available any man able and will ing to shoulder the stupendous buidens under which the President collapsed. The precise meiits of Mr. Wilson's later policies are now aside. What is perfectly apparent is that ho has given all his strength and all his devotion to what he felt was a great and humane cause and that he strove for the good of mankind until he could strive no longer. Upon no other statesman of this genera tion have the winds of adverse criticism Ijlown so relentlessly. The President's situation has been all the more difficult because some of his bitterest opponents of the last few months were forme ly among his best friends and most ardent supporters. The fight waged from the White House has not been unlike the fight waged at the Peace Conference. It has been one-sided and lonely. Mr. Wilson found that he could not endow European diplomacy with a nbw soul. He could not, in the final emer gency, control all the tides of inherited passion that inspire so many foreign policies in the Old World. He tiied, at least. And he did better than most men could do in a taskhat will have to be completed if civilization is to save itself from destruction. Hatred and distrust of the President have been apparent chiefly among ex treme radicals and extreme conservatives, who alike seem temperamentally unable to lecognizo the wisdom of an enlight ened middle course in the disputes be tween nations on the one hand and capi tal and labor on the other. There are labor leaders, capitalists and statesmen without number who still believe that the world is flat. Mr. Wilson has been one of the pioneers. And pioneers always find the way hard. It is regrettable that the President should have to be weighted to the ground befote the country could understand his efforts or realize the need of services such as his at this juncture in America or perceive the wisdom of his policy of patience and reconciliation at homo and " abroad. Sanity and a sane voice are needed everywhere now. And for days to come the news from the White House is likely to be read with anxious interest by all those who still hope for peace in our time. Proof that our boys A Well-Deserved arp not only good eol Trlbute diers but clean, up standing men is abun dant, so it is AHh pleasure unmixed with surprise that vve note the comment of 15ur Hngton, N. J., citizens when they closed the community rest room for soldiers and sailors and turned the furniture and equipment over to a post of the American Legion. The fact, they said, that it had been possible, to run the room without the presence of an attend ant in charge was a splendid testimonial to the deportment aud honor of the American lighting men; An aged New Kcn- One of Fate's sington mau died the Little IronIe , other day immediately " after ho had received word that he had fallen heir to two million dollars. Think of the joyous follies he would have had a chance to commit if the money had come earlier ! No matter how much opposed Mayor Moore may b to political assessments from city employes, he cannot object to their giving political committees their pay for the first four days in the new jear. Because the old city government ends December 30 and the new one doesn't begin until the first Monday in January, the first four will be "payless days." The Prince of Wales is going to content himself with a brief visit to Washington while in the United States. Can't Mayor Smith drop him one of bis Justly famous letters? The Mayor may run away later If he wants to. Insurance men meeting in this city re port a bigger business so far this year than In any previous calendar year. Another cvldenco that war times encouraged the habit of thrift. Reed, egged on by Irreconcllablcs, was egged off by talk-weary auditors. With eggs at present prices this is strong evi dence of prosperity. Fall has put in another piece of evi dence the hot chestnut man is doing bust rjees. yes, Angelina, you have guessed cor rectly. A shuttle service is to gather up th looss mills o. triffie lumd T. L. HICKS, STATISTICIAN Ex-Postmaster Can Give Election Dope for Yeart Past Men Who Clas sify Newspaper Clippings and Find Them Useful Hy OKOHfJI! NOX McCAIN TpX-POSTMASTKU THOMAS L.'lHOKS J- rtiiiolEelal computer of election figures for Philadelphia. Like Itosco, "lie eats 'em alive." lie has election statistics at his finger ends. With remarkable facility he can reonll approximately figures of election re sults in Philadelphia for n generation. There is onp aide to the et-postmnstcr's political expel ienoes of which very few peo ple nrenvarc. lie is a consistent collector of literatuie and documents dealing with political upheavals, contests, criminal pro ceedings and councilmnnlc nud legislative action. It lias as much fascinntion for him lis the collection of raw manuscripts, coins or autographs lias for an antiquarian. He has pursued it methodically for yenrs. There is not a political event of any im portancehnt has occurred in Philadelphia, or in the state for that matter, concerning which Tom Hicl.s 1ms not gnthered mate rial. It embrnces everything from news paper clippings. Interviews and official doc uments to testimony aud copies of court records. He is a political vndc mccum. Once collected, k is as carefully pre served. It does not lie around loosely in his office nor is it piled up in n corner "f the nttic nt home. It is locked in n safe deposit vault, where mice and gonts, mildew nud dampness ennuot destroy or corrupt. "for Tom lllelts is u methodical genius with a passion for detail. Safety first is a prime requisite in caring for such a collection Sometime, I fancy, Ii(will make use of this material for pub lication. T)R. TALCOTT WILLIAMS, dean of Columbia University's Schooloof Jour nalism and for nearly thirty years connected with Philadelphia journalism, has the great est private library of newspaper clippings., public documents, reports and bulletins ju the United States. It would be difficult to say how many hundreds of thousands of clippings he has preserved in the lnt thirty-five jears. He began it when lie was a newspaper coiro spondent in Washington, anil it proved on invaluable asset in his subsequent editorial w ork. One room In his I evidence on Pine street was given over to tins collection. For jenrs he employed an amanuensis to file material It is completely catalogued on the Melville Dewey decimal s.vstrm. Any particular set of clippings can be produced with the same facility that n book can be found in any well-regulated libiar.v Walter C. llimm, for twenty jears past United States consul at Hull and New -castle, Kngland, was another journalist wlm built up a similar collection. Mr. Ilumm's specialty, however, when he was active in newspaper work in this city, was national politics. When he abandoned journalism for diplomacy, his collection was dissipated, though part of it, I believe, went to Columbia University. His clippings wcie arranged alphabetically and not on a libiary system like the Williams collection. It linH been only within the last twenty five yenrs, with few exceptions, that metro politan daily newspapers have undertaken the systematic formation of what in pro fessional slang is known as "morgues" or "gravejnrds." Originally, they were col lections of biographical sketches, Novv,they embrace every subject under the sun. JOHN X. MURRAY is the official reprc-. snutntivc of the emplojes of the Bureau of Water who are members of the Ameri can Federation of Labor. He tells mo that OS per rent of the men employed by the Burenu of Water arc members of the fede ration. He says that the city has nothing to fear from his organization in the matter of strikes to enforce any demand. Their ob ject is only to benefit their condition as far as possible. In this connection lie asserts that the wages paid by the city to this class of employes is CO per cent below that paid to men in similar capacities outside. Another angle on the question of his organization's activities is, Mr. Murray sass, that it is ns much interested in secur ing better salaries for men high up in re sponsible positions as it is in the lower grades of labor, and that ..superintendents w ho arc. now getting $1000 per year from the nature of their responsibilities should receive at least $2000. WALTER STENGCR has icturncd to Philadelphia, he tells me, to make his permanent home. He is.remembered by the older newspapermen of Ilarrisburg and Philadelphia, where for years he was active in Journalism. His is another case of the son of a well known professional man, prominent in poli tics and the law, who did not follow in his father's footsteps. Politics npd the law held no attraction for tire jounger Stenger when he reached the period when it became neces sary to decide upon his future course in life. William S. Stenger, the father, was a leading member of the bar of rranUin county1, and active iu Democratic politics when Robert K. Pattison was elected to his first term as governor. He had been par ticularly active in his efforts to land Patti son in the gubernatorial chair. He made an effective campaign through southern Penn sylvania and was rewarded by Governor Pattison with the appointment as secretary of the commonwealth. The Btate government irom 1001 to itssa wasva political potpourri. The Democrats centered their efforts on the head of the ticket. XA n result the Republicans managed to eject Jerome si, Mies, ot '.noga county, auditor general, and William Livscy, of Allegheny county, state treasurer. PATTISON surrounded himself with ex ceptionally able men that term, Includ ing Wifliam 8. Stenger, of Chambersburg, secretary ot the commonwealth; Lewis C. Cassidy, of Philadelphia, attorney general; Pressley N. Guthrie, of Allegheny, adjutant general, and II. Montgomery Forster, head of the insurance department. Chauncey P. Black, lieutenant governor, was the son of tbo celebrated Jeremiah Black, and himself one of the ablest and most courteous gentlemen that ever filled the second office in the commonwealth. Shortly after tbo close of bis term as sec retary of the commonwealth, William S. Stenger"removed to Philadelphia and entered upon the practice of his profession. He rapidly attained a high position. For years he resided at the southwest corner of CHest nut and Thirty-eighth streets, a block away from the residence of "Governor Pattison, which was on Chestnut street near Thirty seventh. A couple of years ago the old Stenger property was sold and the house demolished, the unsightly ruins of which still remain. Wflliam S. Stenger dial years ago, and his family removed to New Jersey. Within Ui last ten days Walter Stenger, with bis mother, has returned to Philadelphia to re side at, an apartment hotel within a few bloakof Uwlr iorwer hoia. "YESSIR, I i- jLi v. 'cr - ;wa - h -v S --. f m V ! m . -. --. 7b. "-. - . ---. ""I-- ' v.r ..i". r. i ft 'v2isaB!B - i4 .-v,-i"vrr-!-srr7.;LjL-:,ii wu--"" m .1. Mr, rs-" ..' gTT THE CHAFFING DISH STERN REVERSAL OF LITERARY JUDGMENTS McFee Brands Daisy Ashford as Hoax; . Barrle "Stung"? LAUDS HERGESHEIMER (Special to Tito Chaffing Dish) Nuiley, N. J., Sept. SO. YES, I read the Daisy Ashford fake. Talked It over iu England with two or three who write, not ns I write, but for a living. The consensus of opinion was that either Barrio wrote it or had been stung. Some one got the manuscript and dressed it up. I didn't finish reading it. My friend Margery Allingham, to whom "Aliens" is dedicated (she's fifteen now), has written a good dial, and had a paper of her own when ten or eleven called "The Wagtail," for which I was foreign correspondent. I also knew of a German girl at a grammar school with my cousin in Cheshito who ran a magazine of her own, wrote everything, in cluding advertisements, nud a very clever serial called "As Good ns a Boy." She was interned and so had to givoit up. I guess we'll hear of her when she is of age. But it is pitiful to see first-class passen gers reading "The Young Visiters" nfter pajing three and six, and wondering what Barrie is talking nbout. By the way (I know I'm putting my number ten into it ll0W) but by the way, what is there in Barrio's own stuff? Of course, I'm no theatregoer, but honest he'makes me tired. I used to fag through Ms Scottish novels and I laughed over "Admirable Crlchton," but I can't admit thathe gets anj where with me I don't regret this lapse pf good taste. I rather like giving inflated reputations a jab. As a dramatist I offer no opinion, but as a literary man Barrio Is miles behind Hcrgcshcimer, Merrick, Cable or Walpolc. But of course he's a baronet and the litst class passengers would read his laundry bills now and think them masterpieces. Perhaps tbey arc. ' Oh, I want to come to Philadelphia all right,' and I want to go to Boston. (A Voice- What! "Want to go to Bostont Mon Dieul) But how does one get books written if one doesn't sit down at all? Some day I'll describe my own amusing method of sitting nt a table and dreaming of the other side of the world. It's great, but it doesn't cet much done. Eh blcn, I must return to my muttons, ns the French don t say. m muuoua, -WILLIAM McFEE. We have drawn up n plan for our coat of arms, which bears tbo following devices: Two lunch hooks (dexter and sinister) ram pant, abovo a platter of spaghettj, couchant. On a horizontal bar, denatured, a goblet of "75 quiescent. In Usse, azure, a fried onion. On a lower bar, parallel, brass, a pedal, dexter, elevated. The Spread of Bolshevism Reds Win Two Pitched Battles, Sport ing Headline. p Keeplnn the Pheasants Awake A 8ehoolboy Adventure of Rupert Brooke Professor William H. Loyd, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania Law School, has called our attention to some rather enter taining legal proceedings in which Rupert Brooke took part as a schoolboy (aged eighteen). The incident sounds amusingly like "Stalky and Co." and we have copied out a portion of the report of the case given in Times Law Reports, vol. xxii, p. 411. This bulky volume Professor Loyd was kind enough to bring in all the way from West Philadelphia so that we might pass it on to our clients. The case was that of FIELDEN v. COX, March 30, 1000, au action brought by Mr. John Ash ton Flelden of Holme, Hunting, donshlre, v. Mr. G. D- Cor' Mr Kupert Brooke, Mr. Nevllle-BrooM, ana jvir, Justin Brooke, "for an Inlnnction and damages in i '.:;. . . - .: u., .t- ..i KNOW JUST HOW CHICAGO PEELS!" - - . VM-.. Yjtir "-sap-" of moths and other insects on the Holme Wood estate and a public road or highway by which the estate is intersected." Quoting from Times Law noports : The plaintiff's estate contains a great amount of same, and at the time of the defendant's visit to the neighborhood there were pheasants sitting close to the road running across It, which Is a public high way, air. Cox was at the time of the tsit a medical student and la a B. A. of Cam hrldga. lie is now twenty-two years old. The other defendants were hrej brothers, rather younger than Jlr. Cox. The visit took place In June and July of last jear (1905) and one of the brothers was only down one day, returning home the fol lowing day. As Mr. Buckmaster (counsel for the defendants and later Lord Chan cellor) observed, "he went to catch a but terfly and caught a writ." During their visit the defendants occupied a considerable time in catching moths and other insects; and the principal complaint against them was that they had -visited the road and tres passed thereon by using it, not for passing and repassing as vvayfarers, but In a wrong ful manner by frequenting and stopping upon It for hours at a time by night us well as by day, and setting appliances and lights thereon for the purpose ot carrying on their pursuit of attracting and collecting moths and other Insects. There was also a complaint that Messrs. Rupert and Justin Brooke had actually entered ono of the coverts and traversed it with lighted lamps. This sang of desperate men, as one of their own counsel described them, had, when tackled by a solicitor's clerk obtained from the clerk a definition of an injunction and had also performed a dance to relievo their feelings, but had ultimately accepted a suggestion from the clerk that they should leave the neighbor hood. Some evidence was adduced to show damage. Some peculiar kind of srass abounding on the estate, and Bald to be highly Inflammable, was produced, and It was also alleged' that sitting hen pheasants would be disturbed by tho flashing of lights and that the damage by a nest being deserted was twenty-fivo shillings. MR. BUCKMASTER, for the defendants, submitted thati tho action was frivolous, vexatious and contemptible. MR. JUSTICE BUCKLET, in delivering Judgnlent, said that the plaintiff had a pas sion for sporting, and the defendants had a passion for catching moths. On June 19, 190B, the defendant Cox, who was putting up sticks and a Bheet on the road for the purpose of catching moths, was a'd dressed by one Tant, an underkeeper of the plaintiffs. On July ,1 Tant spoke again tt Cox and complained ot the untidiness of the highway, and Cox. who had turned out the contents of an acetylene lamp and whittled a stick, answered the man civilly and expressed his regret. On July 3 a 'clerk of the plaintiff's solicitors gave to three of tho defendants a letter from the solicitors. The boys at this had been taken aback, and at first executed something like a war' dance. Two of the defendants, Rupert and Justin Brooke, while denying- that the plaintiff had suffered any damage, said that they brought Into court the sum of one shilling, tendered before action brought, and . pleaded that the sum was sufficient to satisfy the plaintiffs claim. There was no eyldence of any damage. It followed that the writ ought never to have been Issued against these four school boys as they might be called, after they had given their word of honor. The plain tiff was entitled to an order for payment of the one shilling paid In, but he must pay the defendants' costs of the action. Where Is He Tonight? Sign seen on Sansom street: Errant Boy Wanted. SPCRATES. The Young Lady Across the Way says she supposes the reason they knocked Cicotte out of the box was because they didn't know how to pronounce bis name. ,l , . The President, like other hard-works lug men, bas discovered that Nature will not be denied the toll she demands. What tb Senate committee has to de- terrains is whether Mr. Gary is firm ox .. .v-u..,.- Lament of a Fair Aspirant for Political Honors THE mornings are chilly, the skies over- cast, And southward the wild geese are hurrying fast; The grasses are withered and sere in the park, The short afternoons soon succumb to the dark; Tho breezes no longer are fragrant and warm, The barometer constantly threatens a storm ; The clouds' are like lead and the waters are I gray. And joy like 8 song bird bas flitted away. A sadness profound is enthroned in my heart, The tears to my eyelids at Intervals start; The shops interest me no more with their show Of frivols and frills as a short time ago. These old politicians are back of it all; I wanted to run for somo office this fall, But alas! at tho primaries here in my town They would not consider me Annabel Brown 1 J Minna Irving, in New York-Sun. Perhaps it 1b unfair to expect that the league of nations should arouse as much popular enthusiasm as the world "serious." If New York is normal there ought to be enough torn-up streets to remind King Albert of Flanders trenches. Tree cooties have made their appear ance in Falrmount Park Perhaps they ars looking for dclousing plants. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What is tho highest peak between tb Alleghanles and the Rocky mountains? 2. How many planets are therc7 3. Who was CoUey Cibber? .4. What'is the official title of King Albert? . G. What is the origin ot the expression "By jiminy"? 6. What are the three principal rivers of India? .' . 7. In what century did St. Augustine, live? 8. What is koa? 0. What is a chap-book? 10. How did cigars get their name? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The hoist of a flag is the division ot it nearest the flagpole. S. The federal government was free from , debt in ,1835. 8. The fuselage ot an airplane is the limousine body for passengers, 4. King Albert is forty-four years old. 5. Mauna Lea, one ot the world' cole . brated volcanoes, is now in eruption. It Is on the island of Hawaii. 0. "Hall Columbia' is an outgrowth from "The President's March," written to honor George Washington on Wi way to the inauguration in New York in 1780. Joseph Hopkinson, ot Phila delphia, set his "Hail Columbia" words to the air In 1708. , 7. Tho English surname Marjorlbanks is pronounced as though it were spelled "Marshbanks." 8. There were two celebrated Roman Plinys. Calus Plinlus fe'ecundun, called "The Elder," was a naturalist, His dates are 23-70 A. D. The "Younger Pliny" (02-113 A. D.) was noted as a letter-writer. 0. The words czar and kaiser art both derived from Caesar. r , 10. Specific gravity is the weight of aTiolId or liquid compared with an equal hulk ot water. 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