AfZSlfifcf " fyrrif'&p- ' f V 'J ' ' ' " "- SSiiV" 'vs-j V 10 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER .PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, . 1919 "dm , 4 ftf" I i'f t A t ? T Hi ft 4 f ?'h, y Evening $Jublfc11fe&gcE PUBLIC LEDCER COMPANY ' . .crnus lr k. cim-ris. piidknt Cfatrlm II. I.udlncton. Vlcn rrc-nldont: John C, Martin, BerrtUrv an1 Trenmnrs Philip S Cillln. John n. Wltllann. John J. fcpurwn, Dlrrctont. EIJITOniAl, llOAltl) I Ctncs It. K. Cimis, Chairman DAVID B. B.M11.ET.. ... . Editor JOHN C. MARTIN'. . general Ilmdnna Manager roblnticd dally at Prat to T.rrxmn Ilulldinff. Indfprndenca Square, I'Mlailrlplila ATt.iNTio Cirr rvrm.fiiloa mill.llne Nir ToaK SOU Metropolitan Tower DrrnotT ,-)l Korcl liulldlic ST. Ixicia.. . . ions rtillrrtKii ltulldlne Cnicioo 1302 Tribune Building . NKW3 DUnnAUS: WUHIVOTOM Iltiirv. K. n. Cor.' Pennsylvania Ave and Uth St. New Tobk Ilrnuu The Kim Iiulldlnr Lomdon Uiitui- ....London Tlfs sriwrniPTios TEnMs The ErRMNrt l'l-Rlle I,Etoca Is served to fuh acrlbera In Philadelphia and rurroundlni towns at tho rato of tele 113) cents per week, paiabla to th carrier, Ily tnnll to point outside of Philadelphia In tho united States, Canada, or United States po peialons, poetHta free fifty .50) cents per month Six ($CV dollars per enr. pajalile In advance. To all forelrn countries ona (ID dollar rr month NoTICr Subscribers svlshtnr address chanited must give old as well as new address. BELL, S000 WALNUT KMSTOST. MAIV JOOt) fC AMresa alt oommunlcoffons o K enino rublio Ledotr Independence NQuare, J'Mcdf tpmct. Member of the Associated Press TUB ASSOCIATED PMISS f rWn slvclu entitled to the use far republication o all vcics dispatches n edited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local nmti- published therein. All rights of irpuhlleatlon of special dis patches hcrelr. ate also icscrvcd. rhiliiMpMi, Silurdir. October 4, 1919 EFFICIENCY AT HOME M'OBODY ever talks of administrative efficiency at City Hall. It is easier to talk ubout a hip;her tax rate. Certainly the high cost of labor and mn'terial has made larger expenditures necessary in many of the municipal buieaus. Salary increases will have to be made in ninny quarters if the machinery of local gov ernment is to function decently. But the apparent intention of the present ad ministration to authorize vast expendi tures and leave the reckoning to Mr. Moore is no wiser than the earlier poli cies of Mayor Smith and his associates. If scientific administration can solve the wage problem of the P. It. T. and protect tho public from heavier burdens, why shouldn't it be tried by the munici pality itself? The people will be willing to contribute more in taxes only after they have been shown that shameful waste and lost motion are things of the past at Citv Hall. AND THEY CAN'T CO ON STRIKE "M'OBODY in the world ever had a more ,i- difficult or dangerous job than that assigned to American naval officers during the war. Here are men who worked all around the clock. They slept in rolling destroyers when they could, endured cold and unthinkable hardships in North sea weather or fiew fighting planes till they could fly no more and then made their beds on the wet ground of aviation camps on the French coast. They faced sudden death every day, and life for them was, as it always has been, a round of hard work, vigorous discipline and heavy responsibility. Their pay hasn't been raised since 1010. Few people realize that aimy and naval officers have to contend with the high cost of living like the lest of us. A great many of them are married. The ordinary allotments and privileges of their service eases their problems but little. Secretary Daniels's effort to have the pay of naval officers increase1!! is altogether commendable. His plea will provide a pretty good test of congres sional logic. The navy needs the best men available in all positions of author ity. And there is a limit of unnecessary sacrifice beyond which men should not be asked to go, even in the service of their country. DISCIPLINE AND CRUELTY TROOF that there were American offi- cers in France unpopular with their, men has developed in many news stories since hostilities ceased. After conceding all that is charged the natural query is, "What are wo going to do about it?" You can't run an army without discipline and in war- time that discipline must needs be harsh $o be effective. Where discipline is harsh there will be those who will take advan tage of it to be cruel. And the fools, like the poor, we have always with us. Perhaps the wisest thing to do is to make the league of nations a world fact and thus take a step toward abolishing the horror that has made necessary the .authority too often abused. TO EARTH, HIRAM! "DRISKLY over the wires yesterday J3 came the information that Senator Hi Johnson and his fellow irreconcilable, Mr. Borah, are to invade New Jersey for an extended stumping tour in aid of Mr. Bugbee, the Republican candidate for the governorship. Mr. Johnson has made it known that he will discuss only national and inter national issues like the league of na tions, Fiume, Shantung and so on. Pre sumably the folk in Jersey will hear some ominous things about British aspirations in Persia. Senators get pretty good salaries. Theoretically, at least, their time is valuable. It is a bit odd to think of a flock of senators clamoring about nil high and far off things and settling the affairs of nations on a speeching trip among people who, looking at the candi date and his aides, will have to" remem ber that none of them has yet been able to settle the simple matter of disputed trolley fares. THIS VARIOUS LAND A KING, a prince, a delegation- of wise " and careful Japanese and the presi dent of a, republic so new that its gov ernment has yet been unable to start in business are only a few of the distin guished visitors who are traveling in the United States to "'gather impressions of American life." They will find us egging one opponent of the league of nations and acclaiming artpthef as our next President. They will And a .ptwple who are spending; money like royalty on luxuries nnd crylnff out bitterly about tho price of food nnd the imagined peril of starvation. They will find men by the million threatening to walk out of the best-paid jobs in the world and strike! s taking vacations in automobiles. They will find girls dis carding their furs because the weather is getting Cool and vast crowds more inter ested in a baseball game than in the league of nations. These travelers will not be able to make many coherent leports about America. They will find it about as hard to understand us as we find it occasion ally to understand ourselves. THE PRESIDENCY IS THE MOST PITILESS OFFICE ON EARTH And Mr. Wilson, Victim of Its Grueling Strain, Piled Up Its Burdens With His Own Slngle-Handed. Ex clusive Endeavors TT IS not sut prising that the Piesi- dent has broken down." The phiase or its equivalent is on the lips or in tho minds of millions of Ameri cans. Their intent is sympathetic. And yet, however, unconsciously, their attitude is cruel. It is pieciscly the same attitude which would be reflected throughout the land in the case of the nervous exhaus tion of any President of whatever party. The thoughtlessness lies in the lack of astonishment at a .situation resulting from the abnotmal exactions of the na tion's highest office. The public is not surprised, but by all the tenets of ordi nary molality it ought to be. That the elected rulers of the United Stales, whoever they may be. labor under prodigious burdens, that the meie performance of their duties aside from any excess of endeavors, as in Mr. Wilson's case involves tho most intense physical and nervous strain is a fact re ceived as a commonplace. "I wouldn't ho the President," pro claims the average citizen, and he means it, "for all the glory on earth." He has no hesitation, however, in accepting a state of affairs requiung his President to be a superman, and when weakness and weariness lcsult the verdict is the conventional "of course." A republic may not always be ungrateful, but in the American manifestation it is often incon siderate. Aside from the inextinguishable Mr. Taft and John Quincy Adams, whose in tellectuality saved him from being a prey to emotions, most of our full-term Presidents have departed from office broken men. If they were not, according to medical opinion, actually ill, it is un deniable that their pristine forccfulness, mental virility and general zest of life were seriously dissipated by the grueling years of office. The problem of the disposition of our ex-Presidents has been, on the whole, more theoretical than real. The ranks of those living statesmen who held the most exalted American public post have sel dom been numerically embarrassing. It is another cavalierly recognized con vention that ex-Presidents do not die of old age. Survivors for any length of time, as, for example, Jefferson and John Adams, have become impotent figures in the national life, aloof and isolated relics of the past. Grover Cleveland's authority as a spokesman vanished as he left the White House. Washington had but two years of peace and quiet at Mt. Vernon, fol lowing his exit from the executive man sion in Philadelphia in 1797. Grant was disillusioned and tired by his presidential duties. Even the fiery Jackson was an ex-President for but seven years. The activity of Theodore Roosevelt, subsequent to his last term, is only super ficially an exception. His warmest cham pions cannot consistently claim that the splendor of his mentality, the driving en ergy of his character and all the fine attributes which make him so" impressive a figure in our history were displayed to the full after he had gone through tho presidential mill. Too often in that later period vehement extravagance replaced the firm and masterly judgment which preserves his fame. The pitiful truth is that American Piesidents burn themselves out. The office is merciless, the public far too com placent. As if one were not enough, Woodrow Wilson has been serving two taskmas ters. The first was the exacting public, tho other his exacting self. Upon the apparent assumption that his own shoulders were sufficiently sturdy to bear the weight which terrific and unprece dented events placed there, the President voluntarily took responsibilities which other men could have shared with him. Perhaps his university experience had made him unduly wary of action by un wieldy committees. At any rate he has been a firm belicvei in the philosophy of "if you want a thing done do it your self." It is conceivable that had the world continued to spin at the ordinary pace which characterized it at the beginning of the century Mr. Wilson, with his bril liant gifts and sterling powers of states manship, might have triumphed phys ically over the formidable regulation de mands of the presidency. But it was his fate to govern in cataclysmic times. Not since Lincoln has any President been compelled to combat such a deluge of difficulties as rushed down upon Mr. Wilson. The Mexican problem, complex and baffling, was an inheritance from a previous administration. Events over which neither the President nor the American people had any control multi plied its intricacies. The great war was not simply an eight een months' strain. It bore upon Mr. Wilson with almost insuperablo pressure from the first of August, 1914, until its close. The peace negotiations and the protracted political drama over ratifica tion were culminating blows upon an in dividuality which to speak plainly sought alone to accomplish too much. Woodrow W"ilson drove himself to Paris. Jt is no secret that the other members of the American commission were supernumeraries, Mr. Wilson, who had attempted to "go It ,aIon' in the war until, under piessurc, men like Stct tlnlus, Baruch, Schwab and Hoover woie called in, reverted to the same self-torturing policy in the most momentous ne gotiations in recorded history. There were capable men in and out of his party who could have helped hint. Their as sistance was unsought. In tho field of partisan politics the same tactics recurred. Mr. Wilson has made matters no less difficult for tho Democrats than he has for himself. As a lesult, his opponents come to direct their attacks not upon a party, but upon a single personality who both symbolized it and acted for it. His bitterest enemies cannot honestly question the sinceiity of his motives. It was his belief in single and all-inclusive generalship which has piovoked logical criticism. Mr. Wilson, in the most oner ous and oppressive office the world over, arrogated to himself still more colossal lesponsibilities. If theie was knightli ness in such conduct, there was also pur blindness and tiagioal unreason. There is nothing to show that the primeval emancipator Piomethcus . woul'd in his plight have i ejected aid had any been available. But all these facts do not absolve the heedless public of its share of the blame. The picsideney, even though it be filled by a statesman of less ambitions than Air. Wilson, has become to a critical de giee an impossible office. The Vice President, who should Jie a collaborator, is a figuiehcad. The constitution makers did not foi("'srp such a ro-ult of their Iabois, for then intent was tostrip the Piosident of anv suggestion of over weening responsibilities. But tho struc ture of society, the growth of the repub lic, the I'ti-onlination of uoild interests have wrought such a change that every Ameiican chief executne plays in some tlegree a sacrificial "lc. Kings are not prostrated by oveiuoik. The absolute monaichs of the era which the war ended were'earofrce compared to the occupnnts of the White House. Sinceie and heartfelt as is the sympa thy of the nation today for Woodrow Wilson, its compassion will be flighty and ineffective unless the office is made fit for the aeiage human physique and the average human nerves. The republic can no longer morally afford to say "Of course!" when its chosen admiliistrator.is confined to a sick-bed. WOES OF THE BARLEYCORNERS "ITU'EN a distressed and distracted na J' tion will find a moment for the sym pathetic contemplation of Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury, as he roams desperately about Washington in search of some one who can revoke the wartime "dry" law and give him the four hun dred million badly needed dollars repre sented by potential whisky tax. Mr. Glass, wandering in the twilight zone of wartime prohibition, is interested only in his own troubles. But his plight will serve to turn popular attention on the unhappy army of citizens who owned the hotels and the variously styled havens of forgetfulness where sundodgers used to go a-barlcycorning with Amaryllis in the shade of the artificial palms. They, too, are at sea. It is as difficult for them to find a sub stitute for the demon as it is for Jlrj Glass to find a substitute for money. "Coffee houses," cried the dreamers when the lid went on. "Coffee houses of the old-fashioned sort, where men can bo friendly and at ease!" The thing was tried with little success. Coffee houses belong to a vanished age of stately con versation. We do not converse nowa days. We leave that sort of thing to the Senate. Cafeterias are utilitarian. The palm gardens that have become matter-of-fact restaurants unquestionably fill a large niche, and they ought to be encouraged. But they do not stimulate imagination. You cannot Walk out of a cafeteria of the new sort and find the summer sky richer by a second moon. What the woild is looking for is" some new sort of fun, and any one who can invent it will find millions waiting for him around Broad and Chestnut streets. Meanwhile the true barleycoiner will surely be amazed to hear that tho gov ernment could collect $100,000,000 in taxes on the whisky now held in storage. That is almost ?4 for every man, woman and child in the country. The old days were not particularly good for Amaryllis. They weren't good for her complexion. Now it may be apparent that they weren't good for her pocketbook either. A inilrontl man ia I'ulilirit 1'ajs I.unrnstrr saved the life nf a Kirl whose foot was caiiRlit in n fing in ih(. railroad trnnhs. He unlaced lier simp ami pulled her foot nut of it just before the train whizzed by. This is in line with MiKgestiong made by correspondents whose led ts appeared in this newspaper at the time William Tanner, of Hubbard's Woods, III . was killed after a vain attempt to save his wife. It may he that the reseue was the direct tcstilt of the letters. Huron Shimpei (ioto (,io to, Sirrah! snjs the Japanese in tend tn settle the Shantung question "' promptly that it is Impracticable to settle a date." In order to confound critics of the treatj, therefore it is only necessary to quote Coto. Which! if j on happen to think of It as Japanese diplqmncy, sounds uncommonly like an in complete sentence. Iiiuj'h refusal to nr (luery hitrate. saiil Michael P- Tighp, spokesman for the steel workers at the Senate henriutc jestcrday, "sowed the seeds of anarchy." Well, who piepnred the ground and care fully tended and watered the interesting growth? Speaking of -peo-V llae pie's parties, " you b a v v observed, ' of course, that they invariably are things about which the people know little and care less, That Mucks county voter who all by his little lonesome put a complete Prohibitionist ticket in the field has a dry humor. The "drives" that surround its cause us to wonder if Germans oi coaches are "coining back." D'Annunzio doesn't care whoe little bag of tricks be upsets, CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER "New Mayor" to Set Good Example to Country by Enforcing the Law Against the Political Assess ment of Officeholders Washington, I). I'., Oct. 4. TDICPIHI.H'ANK have been putting in ' the Congressional Recoul lecently some evidence of the nidncj raising efforts of Democratic tnmmltter. The habit of assessing oljjj eholders is not confined to any one partj oiRaiii.ation, of coin so; but flic federal law prohibits solicitation f federal cmplojc. and some committeemen have been hauled up before the federal dis trict ntlnrnej.s for this offense in times gone bj. That postmasters "are now being solle lled is the charge made by Uepublicans, and a Kansas case js cited where S'J.'O. or 10 per cent of the snlnrj, was demanded fur oiga nidation puiposcs. The i iil of living Is pietty high all nicr Ihe imiutrj, anil If (he new .Major of Philadelphia sue teeds In enforcing the law nnilnst political assessments he will help (be nflirrholilrrs mid set a good example for the Uepubliran paitj in the nation. pm,vn:n copies -- Charles Wntlswor of a illxinuist" bj rth. Jr., entitled "Ne- hiii'liadiirz'.ar'H linnge." hnc made their np- pi'iininto in Washington and i being (pioled paiticularly by membeis of Ihe Massachu setts delegation as one of the smallest tienfiscs on the league of tuitions that has been receied here. Without naming the I'lcsideitl. the nildress trfuclies him up in cwrv line. Doctor Wadsworth will be re membered as nn eloquent l'rcsb.Ucrinn. long seiMiig in Philadelphia, wheie his e'otpience attiiicted attention, lie mini led the sister nf Colonel John P. Wood, long and fnr ahlj Known in the wool linde. TTWtNIIST I.. TI'STIN'. fornierh i ei order --J of deeds ill Philadelphia, is one of those luisj fellows In public anil piiwile life who would siuk into "inuoi nous desuetude" Jf Ihej had nothing to do. lie is a piai'ticing lawjer. head nf the Iloskins ennrern and, after leaving the iccotder of deeds ptlire, became president of the board of rrii ca tion, from w lib It he ictintl of his own volition, "more or less." In addition, he is a member of the executive committee of (he Philadelphia lioaid nf Trade, silting with William M. Coates, IMwurd It Wood. William It. Tucker and oilier members, helping to establish its politics with tegaiil to national, state and municipal affalts. b: the Smith is bo oming popular with Jorsownon Wil I in in I.. Hurley has n large plate in Hitiigia to which Canideultes are wont to no ncca siounllj when deer and quail arc in season I!. C Ktiser. nf the Trenton House, -i chum of Major Donnelly, Inis an Island near Port Knjal. which lie apptimchcs lliinugh An her creek An her being a good old Jcrsei name. Kuser's place is on the I'ne of the iulnntl wnlerwnjs to I'lorida. nnd is well prolerted finni Intrusion. Something in be ing "monarch of all jou simej." f IHAKIiKK r. WOOD, long n ong n tesident of Philadelphia, is chief- engineer nf the Warrior river development committee, with headquarters in Birmingham. Ala. This important southern riwr lias been the re cipient of ninny government appropriations, now mounting tip to about Slo.OOO.OOO. It hns been improved by locks and dams until an eight-foot depth throughout the entire j ear has been secured from Cordova, near Itirmingham, nil the way down to Mobile. Southern waterways, like the Black War lior, are subject to freshets and low stages of tide, n problem which seems to have been met by government appropriations on tV Black Warrior. Mr. Wood and his con ferees, however, have found that impiove lueuts without freight conditions co-ordinating with railroads make it diflicult to get the waterwajs in use. An effort is now being made tn secure joint mil and water rates which will permit the lllatk War rior to work successfully. FHANK CIJOWTIIEU, the New ' York congressman who beat the Democrat Prohibition -Socialist member. ex -Major I.tuin, of Schenectady, has o fine opinion of southern New Jersey. He lecently accom panied his son, Samuel V. ('rowdier, to Dr. Charles II. I.orenee's W'enonah Mili tary Academy, looking ncr (he Statigcr upple and peach orchards on the way. It looked to him, from the Tppenrance of the fine crops, thnt the apple ami peach business was something to tie up to. Congressman Crowther learned how to campaign in New Jersey, hnving once been a member of the state Legislature ami at one time on the Middlesex county hoard of taxation bj ap pointment of Governor D. ('. Stokes?. TDK time is inpidly approaching when the great political parties will bo seek ing funds for the presidential campaign. This is no new experience in Philadelphia, where men prominent in public life on both sides of the political fence know what is expected of them. When Matthew Stanley Quay was a national 'liguie, the hat was passed around among the public fellows to the evident satisfaction of the party at large. Men like John Wnnamaker and Mark Ilntinn were conspicuous, helping out in the Hurrisnn nnd M.cKinlcy campaigns, respectivelj-. The McKinley campaign came on while Ashbiidge was Muor, nnd a vol unteer committee which, undoi took to raise $100,000 for Mark Hautm found itself short. The Mayor was obliged to take up the work to save the city's pledge, and al together about 1211,000 was raised. Much of this went into the construction of n on vention hull. Horace (!. II. Turr, now prominent n Philadelphia's business affairs, wns one of those who came to the loseuo when it looked as if the city was not going to make good. That 1000 convention in Philadelphia was one of the most important in the history of the Republican pnrl. (jMcKinley beiug nominated for Piesidont mill ineociore iiooseveit, iresn noin Iiis Spanish -American War experience, becom ing the nominee for Vice President, partly because Piatt and Quay could not help it. PIIKSIDENT JUDC.K BAHUATT Nor ris S. Hanntt, of the Court of Common TleaH No, U likes n change of scene each vacation time. It is the sloping hills of Chester county one jenr, a farmhouse in Maryland next jear or a touch of New I'ng land the next. Last summer the judge spent much of his time at Cape Maj. taking a keen interest in the naval base and going out with Hip oflicers now nnd then on a brief fishing expedition. It is ou these vacation wanderings that the judge gets a chance to do much nf his histoiiul -and literary work. TTTILKUKD If. SCHOl'F, secretary of the VY Atlantic Deeper Waterwajs Associa tion, has been conferring with Senntor Itansdell, Congressman Small and other waterways men here With a view nf hnving provbion made In the new railroail bill to relieve waterways of the overnight of tho Interstate Commerce Commission. The waterways men contend that these streams should be free for public use, and that being left so with the nbllity to make joint traffic arrangements with the railroads transporta tion generally may be facilitated. The con ference in Washington this week included representatives from all parU of the couu- '.'tWf THE CHAFFING DISH The Week Gets Going I T II1CRK are no garbage carts on Sunday morning ; milk conies late, but lingeis on the The tread ; And father walks forth to the corner news stand With u strange air of being still in bed. One sometimes sees white flesh below loose pant -legs. ' And congress slippers sometimes leap and blide. But pn comes homo with black cigars and papers : The comic sheet turned decently inside. Then Suntlnj rises, sanctified nnd (ctatelj, When little girls enjoj their solemn pose; And dinner Is prolonged with stifT biowti gravy ; And there will be loud sleep in rumpled clothes. II TUB slop-cart rattles early clown our alley, For Monday is the slop man's heavy tiny. And chaps with upturned coats and muffled faces Converge toward bathers, while the dawn is. gray. The trolley cars arc loud on Monday innru- And tclioolboys wake to curse the' social plan; Hut there ure old clothes cfangling on the chair backs, And hopes to be n hobo nnd n man. Now nil the mothers reach around the door's edge, And book the bottles In and sniff the town ; And there is washing in the bag this morn ing. But mother smiles inside her loosened gown. 11 HOY Iini.TON. Playing Tag With the Trolleys IT SEEMS to us that the P. H. T. deserves 'a greit deal of credit for building up the sporting spirit in the community. We know that one of the best thrills we ever cet and it is the case with many others nloU in scrambling along Seventeenth street of a morning wondering whether a Spruce street car will roll by just before we get near enough to catch it. It is quite amazing bow often it happens just that way. Palpitant nnd hopeful, we fry the pavement with hastv feet; but half way along the block we see the vehicle crush resolutely over the cross-tracks and grind onward. Then we think mournfully, if only we hadn't been so conscientious in cleaning our teeth this morning, or if only we hadn't tarried for the second lump of sugar In our cofTee, we would have made It. Similarly of nn evening. c sometimes go homeward on car No, 12. along Pine street. Leaving the palatial rolltop of the Dish, we scour down Sixth. We have nn entertaining time as we walk, trying to cal culate what our chances are of just meet ing a car at the Pine street corner. We assess the probabilities with some enre, varying our conclusion according to the luck we have had during preceding evenings. Unfortunately, we are not stole enough to trust entirely td destiny. When the strain of suspense gets too great wc trj to help it out. The other evening we were going down Sixth, accompanied by the Quizetlitnr. Tor a successful juncture with a car all the omens seemed ripe, We had a feeling thnt n No. 12 would arrive at the Pine street corner just as we got there. But the Innate Instinct of the Qulzedltor to ask questions proved our undoing. When wn l cached the southwest corner of .Sixth and Spruce he turned and said in an oracular manner. "What tio You .Know?" "Quiz," .we replied, as li the custom when retorting to a QulKdltor. "Ja.wbat house, on Hie A LITTLE BIT OF THE PAST 6n"riNfa Out I ' M.S. NOWHERE OUT' l r. llJjL ' IN A HUR.W 'M lMA?lS ' southwest corner of Sixth nnd Spruce." said lie In hi,, best professional manner, "was Joseph Jefferson born':" Tills was all new to us, but we saw that theie could be only one answer. "In this one," we said, as we gazed at it, and noticed the tablet for the first time. "What actor," continued the Quizeditor. "had the tablet placed there':" But by the time we had gien it up. and he had explained thnt Mr. Prancis Wilson was responsible, our predestined Pine street car had dashed out from its hiding place and we were left with fifteen minutes to brood on the curb. But the game of playing tag with the trollejs is rare sport, and as we say, the P. H. T. deserves great credit for inventing the fascinating game, which lends a Haor of i It'll hazard to one's office-going and homes coming. Transfiguration rpHE common, dusty roads tliat were of old, -- Wnlking with jou, seem snuds of shin- -inggnld: . O'erhend the former dull and leaden skies Are luminous with glory fiom jour ej-es ; Each- note of bird-song niukes my heart rejoice, Hearing the low, sweet music of jour voice; The wajside flower I ignored erstwhile (Jives greeting gay since I hnve seen jou smile. All human hearts I better Understand Since I hnve felt the touch nf jour dear hand; Brighter, the gleiint, of sun and stnrs above Since dawned on me the wonder of jour love. Earth is made new nnd God seems very near Because one happy day I found ton, dear. MAPI) F. JACKSON. Sporting Notes LIKE almost every one else, we really i didn't g. a. d. about the World's Serious from the time that it began to look like a foreign entanglement as far ns Philly is concerned. But our friend Phyllis, the mutable office-girl, came round to remark that she had won fifty cents on Clney in the first game, and she seemed so coufideut nbout it that wc admitted we would hazard the moiety of one bone ou the gathering known (so we understand) ns the AVhltb Stockings. The alacrity with which our joung friend accepted litis wager quite shocked us. On tho second day wo went so far ns to pass through the telegraph room, where the office bojs were all drooping round the ticker, nnd ask casually what tho scene was. At the close of that afternoon Phyllis was already Informing us how she intended ttl faqtiander our fifty. Yesterday wc really began to get into the spirit of the thing and spent some time in watching Bob Maxwell's stuff as it came chattering in from Chicago. We noticed that the Quizeditor's sporting blood nlso began to seethe in his veins, for wo heard reliable testimony to the effect that he had posted a bet of ten cents. And nfter-tho long nfternoou lincl worn away and wo hail learned that tho White Stockings had goose egged the Scarlets, wo felt it advisable to caution Phyllis not to spend our fifty cents before she gets it. By next week, it is quite possible tliat we shall be letting the coutribs do the Dish for us and spend the whole afternoon watch ing! the ticker. We ure not going to lose thnt fifty cents without ut least getting U thrill out of It. Wc hope the reception committees aro keeping Cardinal Mercier so busy thnt he won't ha?e time to read tho papers. We would hate to have him find out that there are Huns In Omaha, We hope and pray that no one will ever out us down to a forty-foui-hour wpek. If the tlnic ever romes when we con ?arn our living by working pnly forty-four hours u wpek, what i er'h will wo do with all ,the reet of thn time. 80CflAT.ES. ft ,';'.", " d H v.,".. .V n . . -ft . WEEK .,J j To a Prospective Cook ( , pUIthV LOCKS, Curly Locks. 'milt thoa -' be ours? Thou shnlt not wash dishes, nor jet weed tne powers. liut stand in the kitchen and cook a fin meal. And riJe every night in an automobile. Curly Locks. Curly Locks, cinnc to us soon J Thou ueetlst not to rise until mid-afternoon ; inoti innyst no Croatian, Armenlati or Creek ; Thy guerdon shall be what thou askest per week. Curly Locks, Curly Locks, give ug a chancel Thou sh(ilt not wash windows, nor iron my pants. Oh, come to- the coziest of seven - room i bowers, Cuily Locks, Curly Locks, wilt thou be oiusV New York Tribune, The birth of the "People's Party" is but another evidence that there never was a candidate in the history of politics that did not know that he bad the people back of him. Of a boy who was projected by a mule into the patli of a patrol wagon. It was re marked that ho wns kicked in an opportune .moment. Even thus is time joyously frac tured. Progross with the North Penn Bank case seems to show that the scales of Justice are not an on lier ejes. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. In wjint country hns the lower house of the national legislature just ratified the peaco treaty? 2. AVhat is the correct pronunciation of tne surname cicotte? It. How 'old is President Wilson? 4. Who wns Benjamin Franklin's wife? 5. In what country did the game of la crosse originate? (I. What animal is symbolical of Venice? 7. Who wns Little John iu English tradi tion? 8. Who wns tho first secretary of the treasury in Wilson's cabinet,? !). Who were the minnesingers? 10. What is n miillinnetl wintljnv? Answers to Yeiterday's Quiz 1. Magazine Mountain in Arkansas, is the highest peak between the Alloghenles and Hooky Mnuntulus. It is 2S33 fee: high, 2. There nre eight planets, 3. Colley Cibber wns an English actor and dramatist. His dates are 1071-1757. 4. Albert is ofllclully "King of the Bel gians." 5. "By jiminy" is a corruption of "By Oemini." The latter is the Latin name for the constellation of Castor and Pollux. 0. Tho three principal rivers of India nre the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. 7. St, Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Afilcft, lived In the latter part of the fourth and tho first part of the fifth cen turies A. I). 8. Kon is a high grail? Hawaiian wood. It is of lino grnlu nud is effectively used In cabinet work. 0. 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