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Philadelphia, Thurdi7, October . 1119 A "DRIVE" WORTH WHILE rpHE lessons in fur.d-rnishiK drives which Philadelphia learned so quickly during the war can be applied in no bet ter way than in the prompt successful completion of the campaign to place a million dollars at the disposal of the university Hospital. To emphasize in detail the public's obligation to assist this institution should be superfluous. Every good citizen knows tho splendid role it plays in the community. What is requisite now is a display of generosity which will speedily foster the University's worthy ambitions Up to date the lecord is heartening. Phila delphia will honor itself if it raises the fund without recourse to eleventh-hour agonies. MORE SHIPYARD MIRACLES As S A wonder worker. Hot? Island is so -prolific that a surfeited public has come almost to accept miracles as com monplaces Only for Hog Island, how ever, is the latest performance "ordi nary." The delivery of the cargo-cairier Noble." to the government rounds out a record for the completion of ships for a period of ten months. Fifty vessels have been finished at the Philadelphia ship yard within that time. The total ton nage is nearly 100,000. No other ship building plant in the world's annals has ever combined so much speed with mag nitude of production. It will be the historian's privilege properly to estimate the might of Hog 4 Island His viewpoint will be sufficiently $""v-"detached for the undertaking. WISDOM FROM ADMIRAL CONZ MILITARY and naval commanders who cherish illusions are failuies, as the German general staff and admiralty strikingly demonstrated in the war. Ujjo Conz, of the Italian battleship Cavour, now in port here, demonstrates, on the other hand, his fitness for his high command. He is concerned with existing facts, not insidious dreams, and in the former class there is no room for the anomaly of divided citizenship. As a sensible Italian Admiral Conz sagely advises King Victor's former sub jects who "have sworn .allegiance to the United States. "Be American citizens," he told a group of visitors to his vessel, "so that Italy may be respected in America." He was addressing especially a crowd of interested children, but his observations are applicable also to all foreign-born families who have raised their offspring here. It Is fortunately true that Americans of Italian race hardly need to be set aright by the distinguished visitoi. Their sincere Americanism is firmly grounded. But it is heartening to note how a guest from the "old country" views the situa tion. There is no stronger basis for Italo American friendship than the frank recognition by a parent nation that her former children are no longer hers but ours, unsullied by the shadow of a hyphen. LESSONS OF THE GREAT FLIGHT rriHE romance of the flight by airplane - - squadrons over the1 American conti , nent Is balanced by practical considera tions which were less conspicuous in the transatlantic "hops." In the case of Commander Read and of Alcock and Brown the dramatic uncertainties at tached to their ambitions were prime factors in keying high the popular in terest, Everybody already knows, however, that winging from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice versa is possible. What remains to be demonstrated is the en durance of motors, the capacity of varied types of aircraft, the merits and weak nesses of aerial navigation on a largo scale. Important revelations on these themes will, of course, bo forthcoming in the present great aerial race under the army's auspices. It will then be up to the prophets to determine the future date upon which the historic driving of the last spike in the Union-Central Pacific Jtailroad will be set down as an act . merely of temporary value. ' . A HARD NUT TO CRACK INVESTIGATION into the housing sit- uation by representatives of the state r. 'government has begun with the declara- jfivji vy uiu juuu iii i'uuic Limb kiiem j no law under which the profiteers can bo j-ched. As a result those present at th'flrt hearing said that there was likiy ia be nothing but "a series of wordy conferences." v under uutcurcumsi Mdfcauilfc- Hon was begun it wrlj nnnounced in Harrlsburg that about the only remedy in sight was publicity. It was said the profiteering landlords might be shamed into decency by exposure. This remedy may be effective, nnd then again it may not be. Some of the profiteers have been exposed, but they arc still profiteering. In tho meantime Congress is btrug gling with nn anti-rcnt-gouging bill affecting the District of Columbia. It provides that rents shall be reasonable, and it creates a commission to hear com plaints and pass upon the fairness of tho rental. If the charges are exorbi tant they nre to be reduced. It is main tained that Congress has constitutional power to interfere in this way because Washington is the seat of the national government and because that govern ment can prevent anything which makes it difficult for its employes to live at the national capital. Even if it shall be decided that Con gress can regulate lents in the national capital, it is evident that the slates have no such power over lents outside of the state capitals. It looks as if we shall have to wail for relief untjl enough new houses are built to meet tile demands of the families looking for shelter. There is a shortage of between 20,000 and 25,000 in this city at the present time. JOB MERCHANTS ARE DOOMED BY MOORE AND THE CHARTER Vare's City Committee, Citadel of the Assessment System, Is Tottering Under a Fatal Snub riMlEKK aie few places cen in tins - wicked old world where you have to pay a thumping foe in good money for the privilege of working for a living The evcr-so-red Bolsheviks seerii never to have thought of a scheme -so wildly nt variance with ordinary conceptions of decency. In Mexico they tax a man for working now and then. But Mexico is full of involutions. Here in Philadelphia tho incredible rule i-, systematically applied. It has the dig nity of an accepted tradition. Every officeholder under the municipal govern ment, every ono who draws big or little pay from the city treasury, has been ex pected to pay a price in the foim of as sessments claimed by the Republican city committee. Mayor Smith himself and Sunny Jim Sheehan have proudly dccluicd.a belief in the principle and their willingness to pay tribute. The Mayor and Sunny Jim can afford it. But a question might be raised in the cases of underpaid policemen who stand out in the rain or firemen who do the city's most dangerous work or any of the employes in minor positions. Even women who go about on their knees to scrub the floors have been expected to give up their mites. Unquestionably there are little children in the city who have had to go to school with holes in their shoes because funds were needed at Eleventh and Chestnut streets and they aren't the children of the jobholders higher up, who insist piously that politi cal contributions in the municipal service represent a moral duty of employes to a benign and all-wise machine. Where does the money go? Ask the winds of heaven. They smoke good cifcars at the city committee rooms and no one ever heard of a ward leader being in want. Under the rule of Senator Vare and some of his predecessors the Republican city committee was an association of job merchants. Theirs was a profitable busi ness. And now it is to be abolished and outlawed! A basic industry, the very foundation of political prestige, is to be wiped out by a new Mayor and a new charter. In the storm of whispers that swept the vicinity of Broad and Chestnut streets yesterday it was being said that a riotquad would have been necessary to feel Senator Vare's quickening pulse when Mr. Moore administered an unex pected and almost brutal snub to the city committee and in a few words elimi nated it as a factor in municipal affairs. What did Sheriff Ransley say to Mr. Moore when he entreated him over the telephone to attend the city committee meeting? What did Congressman Moore say to Mr. Ransley before he made it plain that he wanted none of the com mittee neither a part in its affairs nor the pleasure of its company? No one knows. But it is easy to imagine that Mr. Ransley felt the ground tremble and saw the constellations of his familiar universe madly revolve in the wrong direction. The city committee needed the Mayor in its business if it was to have had even a fighting chance to persist in its pres ent form. Tiiere is the new charter, of course, and the definite penalties which it provides for any city employe who goes 111 uuuvciy xui Junius. uut vvimb is u little charter between -friends? With some such query the city committee, with Senator Vare at its head, must have comforted itself when it sat down at the meeting which Mr. Moore refused to at tend. As matters stand the bonds that held the Vare organization together are turned to sand. A perfectly good committee of astuto gentlemen' with old-fashioned minds are in need of other work to do, and a one time boss who ruled like a rajah needs a flock of astrologers to tell him "whero he is at." For if Congressman Moore's statement of yesterday means anything it means that the city committee is to bo rent asunder, scattered, razed to the grbund and made over again from better material. ' The technique of the congressman's attack was almost flawless. Once before in these .columns we said something of the worth of his acquired skill in party maneuvering. That quality was demon strated, as we predicted it would be, when Mr. Moore withheld his heaviest fire until the last day for nominations had passed, until he was suro that his new friends couldn't cut under him. Then ho announced his intention to ignore the Vare committee, to abolish all assess meat, to give city ahployea of all jrades dHolut ird4HR w'9UUob1 omw To the present leaders of tho city com mittee this meant but one thing. They were ordered to dig their graves and pray. In' its heait the present city commit tee will feci assured that Moore will not be able to get along without its nid and the aid of a machine sustained by assess ments and the spoils method. There will he a great deal of talk about Blankcn burg and It will be said that even that courageous old reformer couldn't survive because he was altogether honest and de termined to proceed without a corrupt machine. Blankenburg began a great work, but he left no organization to carry it on. The politicians will say that Moore, unaided by the privileged experts, is sure to go on the' rocks sooner or later and that no one will be able to finish what he hopes to start in the next four years. ' They will not be altogether wrong. Moore was helped in the recent campaign by disinterested people whoso interest in the city and in decent government took the form of big or little contributions to his campaign fund. Political campaigns di we conduct tllom in this country are pretty expen sive. The corruptionlsts are usually willing to spend money because they plan to get it back with heavy interest. The sentiment that nominated Moore was in spired by a long series of atrocities in municipal government. Will it last? If all the people inteiested in good government and in the welfare and tho good namc-of the city were cadi to con tribute a quaiter to Hie campaign fund of a candidate known to be free and forward-minded there could be no more gangs, no more plundering, no more Frog Hollows. Mqore is seemingly intent on getting the best out of the new charter. But he and the Mayors and mayoralty candi dates who come after him will have to have from the public at largo the same sort of support that others got from their gangs and from the old-fashioned city committees. Some one suggested not long ago that the city could save money by paying the campaign expenses of its major candi dates. Doubtless it could. But since that is impossible the men who have practical or sentimental interests in Philadelphia ought to continue the informal organiza tion that came spontaneously into ex istence behind Congressman Moore, to help him frankly and cheerfully in the open. They are better able to make such contributions as may be needed than the underpaid employes of the municipality. WHAT MANCHESTER DID rpHE two-page advertisement of Man--1- Chester and its ship canal which ap peared in this newspaper yesterday ought to have been suggestive to every alert-minded Philadclphian. Manchester, which is only thirty-two miles from Liverpool, felt that its indus tries were handicapped by the necessity of transshipping tho raw cotton needed in its mills and the manufactured prod ucts made from the cotton. It desired to become a seaport, notwithstanding the fact that it was near the second largest port in the British islands. Accordingly it built a canal thirty-five miles long and deep enough to float ocean-going steam ships, and developed a system of docks and wharves equipped with the most modern loading and unloading devices. The canal was completed in 1894. It earns more than $0,000,000 a year and has enabled the Manchester manufactur ers to compete successfully with pro ducers in other parts of the world. The canal cost $75,000,000, one-third of which was contributed by the city, and it was contributed gladly because the Manchesterians had faith in the project. In comparison the sums spent by this city for the improvement of the Dela ware, which connects this port with the sea. are infinitesimal. They are less than $15,000,000, and the total amount spent on the Delaware by the city, the state and the federal government since river .improvement began is only a little more than one-half what the Manchester ship canal cost. The Manchester business men knew what they wanted and they got it. Our business men can make of this port whatever they want it to be. A local restaurant Breakers Ahead keeper (looked a waiter n dollar for breakage. It was a bad break, the waiter thought, and expressing the opinion he could do better, he broke everything in sight. A policeman broke up his entertainment by pinching him. He'll likely be broke when he has paid his fine. And the restaurant keeper, all broken up, opines that in a restaurant one should break nothing but one's fast. Even if flour dropped A Question of Dough to $4 a barrel, which isn't probable, it wouldn't bring back the five-cent loaf. So declare master bnkers in convention in Syra cuse, N. Y., nnd the increased cost of labor is, the reason they give. It is not only yeast that makes bread rise. L'erhaps it is because of woman's long training in the art of getting money out of friend husband that the women's teams are ahead of the men's in tho University Hos pital million-dollar drive. Though a former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania is doing his best to popularize the patched shoe, no kindly genius has yet arisen with courage'enough to popularize the patched overcoat. At the first msplcion of agriculture being made the goat, O. 8. Barrett horned in on the Industrial conference, "Butted in," as it were. The farmers in the industrial conference want it distinctly understood that the eoll tillers won't stand for a steer. And the sum of the industrial confer ence may yet total ono or two notable fig. urcs and some ciphers. T A hundred and fifty Reds were forced to kfss the flag In tt West Virginia town. That's no Tray to treat Old Olory. , i i. - i . -rj ,And ,of eo?flr9 the real(barter party, is Lb g- mwwii fUummm w THE GOWNSMAN T4ie Graduate School THIS week and lasf, in some scores of in stitutions throughout America, nriously cnllcd colleges nnd universities', graduate work ntul study begins An npnemluga nnd addition to tho old accepted curriculum for tho bachelor's degree, tho grailuato school is just about a generation old, though n few of our oldest schools nro entering into their earliest thirties. The idea of further study after graduation gave these schools nt first tho clumsy designation "post-grn,duato schools." But ns a graduate only becomes such after graduation j we, for the most part, now dotlgu the "post." GltAlM'ATK schools enmc hit" eMucc partly became of foreign examples; more, boeaue it was felt that there must bo Home opportunity for n man who wished neither to be a lawjer, a iMijsician, nor a minister, to .tudj- fm a more complete or more special nniiltimniif. thnn tho ordinary college courso Leonid gho him. There were men who wnnted more knowledge and more training out oi which to make it better .living. The tceV nleal schools supplied much of this, but often at. the expense of a more general and liberal education. And een tlio4 technical schools did not supply all. If a student wished to perfect himself in the higher ma thematics, for example, either to teach or for the lo( of the subject, the applications of mathematics to engineering or shipbuild ing or mining were not exactly what ho wanted. And the student of chemistry, plijsics or biology soon found hiinselt be yond the industrial applications of thoso subjects. Hence the graduate school enmo into exislciKC to train in higher learning. In learning, unapplied and iintcchnlcal, with a stums bins toward practical utllilv In that it was, from the first, a school for tho training of teachers, but with an ideal beyond this, the training of scholnis as specialists and investigators into new fields ot learning. rnill.S double function of the graduate school has clung to it with some damago to its free aetiity in each function. A teacher and an investigator arc not always to be found in the same man or woman. No one who teaches can possibly know too much of tho subject in his charge, but a different degree of knowledge may suffice for the mere teaching of a topic from that complete mastery which can alone cpiip the investigator, him who le ids us out into new and untrodden fields and adds, by actual discovery or at least by placing tliiugs in a truer light, to the sum total of human knowledge. It U no wonder, then, that these two things, tho training of teachers and the training of soholars and investi gators .should have fallen somewlfat apart. On the one luiird we arc told by some that a teacher had better spend more of his time in learning how to tench than to spend it all in the acquisition of his subject, lllsc where we find a certain condescension on the part of the men ot microscopes and lab oratories for "mere teachers" who only impart what they have garnered nnd do not ncQiiirc original or new stores of knowledge. Tlin (townsman has often wondered why teaching is not recognized morn commonly as the art that it is, a technical matter pure nnd simple, to be learned like any other technique pinno-plajing. golf, bridge or sermonizing by practice: like any other t Mimical matter, too, a thing for which some people have nn aptitude and some hnc not. On the other hand, no one can speak to be listened to more than once, unless he speak out of a reasonable fullness of knowl edge. It is not the primary function of a graduate school to train teachers, because in becoming a mere training school'of this kind such a school becomes as much nn in stitute of technology as n school of en gineering. A graduuto school, like it col lege, ought to stand for knowledge, pursued disinterestedly and fur its own sake. It ought to make scholars, not pedagogues, in vestigators not mere teachers. It ought to bo the school of our great scientific men to be, our historians, our linguists ami philo logiuus, not merely a place for the equip ment of school superintendents, college teachers, deans and presidents. AMONG the things on the credit side of this terrible war just ocf, the tilings that wo seek bo eagerly to find and set against that black balance of debt and loss. a -more general recognition ot me practical value of the trained mind may be set down ns an indubitable item.' We may mil have had a sufficient tiuuiber of specifically trained mathematicians ,or engineers; had the war lasted longer,. we might not have had even doctors enough to go around, but we did have a respectable body of men who knew the discipline of schools, that proper foun dation for the discipline of life; nnd these constituted the material out of which the leadership of tho war was improvised with results, despite all cavil, remarkably suc cessful. WITH the schools and the colleges devoted to that general education which should be open as a foundation to all and with the technical schools, wnetner ot trade, science, medicine, law or cdurution, applying edu cation to the practical purposes of each, the graduate school takes its place at the apex of our educntional system as properly the school of specific inquiry, the school of individual development and research, in which tho chosen scholar, man or woman, may devote his time to amplifying his knowledge and with it the knowledge of the world. There Is a real danger that our American graduato schools may become too much mere schools for the making of teach ers. It is this tendency which has led to thfl foundations of institutions endowed wholly to foster research, the Carnegie In stitution, the Rockefeller Foundation, and now the NationnI Research Council, for ex cmple. We cannot neglect the advnuced training of teachers in our graduate schools, but we must not lose to our universities the still moro important function which keeps, the scholar abreast with the ad vance' of science and, nrming him with the most approved weapons of research, consti tutes him a soldier in tho forefront of the battle for morn light Even the industrial conference is devel oping some humor. "I want direct action." said Gavin McXab. "You ought to join the I. W. W.," said Samuel Gompers. Such persiflage 1 Such badinage ! Such repartee ! Anthrax Is said to have been largely caused by tho bristles in shaving brushes. If It were not for fear of becoming whis kered Bolshevists this might reconcile us to the barbers' strike. In pursuance of the suggestion of Chair man Lane, preliminary to each of the ses sions of the industrial conference delegates ought to be searched for concealed resolu tions; So far the industrial conference's lone suit 1 adjournment. But we won't give up , hope till sine me is lacieu oo. jr. XMh'ito Ml JhMtfiiW1 Hfeallroad 1' ..aJ inniMln I. (. .,... , j ,v in,, THE CHAFFING DISH A Country Boy's Diary October lit. Put shoes and stockings on, 2r7. Filled tho kindling bin : 3d. Played muinbly-peg with .lohn, .(ft. Had earache an;1 .'d in. 5th, The kitchen stove wffs lit, (1th. I went to Boy Scout Drill; Wi. Our cat bad a fit, Hth. The hired mun caught a chill. 9th. Sussed Teacher, .and got licked. 10th. I split some hickory logs. llih. Apples are all picked, 12th. Today I washed the dogs. 13th. Cleaned the stable out. l',th. Grandpf had the gout. loth. Lost my big front tooth (Ono I used for eating crust) IGth. Robert swears it's truth Warts grow on you when jouvc cussed. nth. Tonight I hid Two large mice m Sisters bed; 7Sf7i. rought the Thompson kid: He's too big; he punched my head. 19th. Punkins big nud ripe. See them in the field in rows; That John Thompson tried to swipe My old knife. I bled his nose. 20th auil'Slit, Mv, ,that turkey's getting fat ! If he ain't ct boon, he'll burst! a,l Killed n rat. I 23d. MyDad declared Xo Thauksgivin- nay mis year Giminy but I was scared .... He just said it so I'd hear. 2.J, J, 0 and 7 Jack o' Lantern's carved out clean; 2S(i. I'd bo in Heaven If 'twas only Halloween. 2Si. My punkin face (Join' to make n corking ghost; It'll bcarc old Sister Grace When she sees it on the post. Dad's new nightshirt, on a rake ' (Stole it from the laundry line) What a spook that's going to make, With tho punkin head to shine ! 30th. I've got n scheme: Wait till Sis has gone to bed ; I just want to hear her scream When she sees that punkin head. 31 st. Well, how'd I know That Dad's shirt would all get burned? n . i 11... 1 a.1 .,nn r ft,, hisier vemu uuii .. vm v. M Never fool with girls. I've learned" Our hired man says big black witches Fly tonight and choose their queen. Guess it'n true. Dad tanned my Pretty rough, on Halloween ! , ' On' Being Broke FORTUNATELY or unfortunately a man who la broke Is not necessarily a bank rupt No court takes over and manages his affairs for tho benefit of his creditors. A fellow who Is broke Is usually a salaried man whose Income Is under his own Juris diction, but whose outgo Is In other and moro veisatlle liands. Laboring under such disadvantages, lie neither knows the time nor the seasons of Ills approaching empty-pocket-ness. Today Harry's shoes explode at the toes. Just as If they had received a double charge ot T N, T, ; tomorrow Kan needs a new dress" for the church sociable; on the next day expires tho ultimatum of tho U. a. I. And thus It goes In one continual round of unexpected, and so unprepared for, demands. Did you ever notice a fellow apologizing to the street car conductor for giving him five little "brow'nles," all In a pile? Well that guy Is broke, it jib mj4 numing no still has a few pegs tn his pocket. A man who Is broko can talk in forty languages that Is, counting frestures, facial' expressions, shoulder patting, etc., etc., used In a "stand oft," THERE are, however, otfier and Just as exciting sensations along the dally path way of our unfortunate friend. Think of the excitement attendant upon receiving change o-it of a, last "twosle" after asking the butcher tor "three pounds of loin 1" And by tho way, you should never ask tho price ot such things as steaks and hams when you are about broke, for In receiving a reply ypu subject your nervous syBtem to too much excitement, exploded too eud denly. and In too conspicuous fi. place, Buch an, Indiscretion might rult.'Jn a. mlnorjcw of tbell shock; , CPi.'-!' '9?. HWU u ':t:il.. :Jw?:? lit psffistiiK?n&i "DARN THOSE SOX!" V . , llltu n millionaire's chauffeur, and then go out quietly and check up, you gradually pet jourself together for the worst should It appear. And rvhllo wo arc on the topic, may wo not ask why it Is that butchers and bakers and grocers do not try to exercise a little tact in dealing with a cautious, mildly hesi tant, unassuming purchaser? The poor man Knows the state of his larder as well as tho constitution, so to speak, of his purse. "Why then do these ubiquitous persons always wait to'et you In the presence of nt least three near neighbors, and then, with a wartUne ration on the scale, blurt out: "Do jou think that will be enough, Jlr. Jones?" . IF XOU nro du the verge of going broke never let your wife give you a list of pur chases, oven though tho total seems well within reaTh of your net surplus and cash on hand. If you are foolish enough to carry with you the Items all carefully listed you are not going to bo shrewd enough when you return minus a big item to make f lfey believe that you forgot something that she put down so plainly In black and white. Ab, It final rule, don't let folks, especially home-folks, know of an Impending crash In your "pi-it ato financial affairs. If you are four clays from the first of the month, or two clays from the end of tile week, and liae only six street car fares and tho price of two cigars, don't venture on any topic even remotely related to the" II. C. L. Somebody will certainly become suspicious and try to get In an early claim on your capital stock. If not that, they might bo so cruel as to suggest that you try somo lino of work other than your life-long and chosen profession or else take up home shoo repairing In tho evenings. WILSON JEFFERSON. The Spell of the Wlssahlckon TIID fir trees sweet nnd cool nnd green, The placid wntcr still and clear, With here and there a blossom seen; What peaco awaits ono here! TJ1UOM noise and heat, from fret and tears'" - To rustling leaves and thrushes' lay, Set free from vain desires and fears One happy hour of the day. DOItOTnY PETTIT WIGGINS. Acid Ejaculations How is it ' That so many friends of 'mine Have gone into the Insurance business? DOVE DULCET. W. II. Hudson, the well-known novelist naturalist, says that the pig is the most sagacious of animals, far more so than tho dog. "- But the dog seems to have a certain fund of practical wisdom. He has kept himself off the menu. i Exporting the Half-Baked Beans? Coming back from Boston with large padded van, will take full or part load from Boston at reduced rateB. Ad in Newark, N, J,, paper, Speaking of nnlmals, Randolph Hartley tells us nn aiffusing tale about Thurston', the magician, und a lion which played nn im portant part in one of Thurston's tricks. In order to produce the idght effect on the audi ence, it was necessary for this lion to pre sent n rather fierce and savage appearance, and as it was really a staid nnd friendly beast, inclined to fraternize nnd not nt nil bloodthirsty, Mr. Thurston had to spend a good denl of time in embittering Its disposi tion. The shrewlng of tho tame, as It were. Mr. Thurston took the animal out to" his summer home and spent the greater part of tho summer in persuading ti,e- non t0 mte him, so that he would roar and beliavo with the proper ferocity when Us tura came. He used to go out and drag the lion's meat away from it; poke it with sticks, make, faces at it, and try in every jwsslble way to arouse Its anger. As ho Is a very kindly man and fond of animals, this was a sore trial to the unfortunate Mr. Thurston, who used to go about his task of enraging tho lion with great reluctance, Finally ho got tho Hon to the point where it would show signs of Irri tation when he came anywhere near it. and the trick wit,pn- nnwrj ii,,h u gentle I . ma'srtftlafti JUttifLk '. r :--v!re".;7rH prwra'Mf'jiMK W may mW .?f pfr. S. r HI OCTOBER , 4 4 ODAY of smoke and flame, O ancient festal day! ' Upon the altars of the earth ,r 9 The heavenly fires play- . . Alt passion, art desire. Fulfillment, prdphecy Fuse into one consummate hour Of quiet ecstasy. Befbre thoso veiled Willis, The lake adoring lies; And shadowed in the quiet lake A migrant legion files. Tho meadow grass is mown, 'In withered sheaves the grain; And where the corn stood tall and sweet, . The stubblo gleams again. Again the hidden rites, (The old mysterious haze; Again tho leafy miracle, The sacrificial blaze. v Up from the sacred fires A fragrant mist distills " As fncense round a temple-dome, It floats about the hills. Tho plowman drives his blade In furrows deep and long; "Flowers to the earth, earth to the sun," The plow's primeval cong. My soul, nn upturned, field The autumnal sun hath blessed, Drinks of the ancient promises And gives herself to rest. O day of smoke and flame, O sacrificial Day! Upon the altars of the' earth The heavenly fires play; All passion, all desire,' Fulfillment, prophecy Ifuse into one consummate hour Of quiet ecstasy. Theresa Virginia Beard, in the Bcllmau. What Do You Knotv? QUIZ 1. Who commanded the forces which wdn the great British victories la Pales tine in the war? . 2. What is tho abbreviation for hundred weighty 3. What English newspaper Is known as "The Thunderer"? 4, On what charge was John Brown, of Ossawatomie, executed? Dv What Is a poetaster? C. What was the real name of Mercator, who invented tho Mercator system of world map projection? 7. Whnt is the capital of Egypt? 8. Who W8 Mcmling? 0. Who were tho principal commanders on the American- side in the Mexican War of 1840-1848? 10. Who founded the Mormon Church? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 1. General Leonard Wood was born In New Hampshire. 2. Italy ratified the German and Austrian treaties by royal decree. 3. The matador Is assigned to deliver tho death blow to tho bull in a Spanish bull fight. . 4, Ellas Howe. Invented the sewing ma chine. , ,. 0. "Beaux arts'' means "beautiful arts." In usage, however, "fine arts" Is the' f English equivalent. G. An ohm is a uplt of electrical resistance. 7. A sampler was a piece of embroidery worked by a girl and preservod as a specimen' of proficiency. ' 8. A toccata is a composition for piano, organ, etc., originally Intended to exercise tljo touch. It may also be a prelude, overture, fantasia or suite, 0, The ptsX elector was Frederick "yil-. nam ,.01 jjranucnuutg, inc. great M jrfAaettysburs .lifted thr M gfBJh,w of.rederJcic;t,he jeafc.;? u''klMl& W'ffWtetu.. lull it. Ill - M - 4 ",; . i . . . .. ' s V1 . t I M n 'ii i -'til n m M U m . V f-l Vl , ff. I K,., - H . fU fk. h . ? ., - 1H i MAith;,Vl'i ,j -nrf&fWfc f A nM Uli dJ''l3tfM IUIHIWII1"I w
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