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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. For Instance, the
specific gravity of cold is 10.5, sine ' '
It weighs nineteen and oi.lf.tim
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