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Hi tho ro"i nf th( U-l ivit pr w-ek, vv.'Blilo
to the rftirlr.
M mmi to pnirn o'it"nlo ef riiiiHlelnl'iit '"
the United stair i. i anada. or t'nittcl Stater, t""'
faaslnns pnntace free, lift. ivo cents per mmitti
Six (J(" dollar r-5-year MiWn In Mvnnefl,
To ft1! foreign tailntrlei one I'll dol'iiv per
month
Noitrr sutm-rlbers v 1-hlnr ncllress cininjteii
mut el e old as well mi n-w mdres. .
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f.rdoir. lintcpcHdciicf Scmarr. PI ilqnViP'ne.
Member of (lie Associated Press
T77: lSROCM7Tf) I'llHHH It rirfu-jtlt-cij
n ilrd ft fhr Hie for renubhrrrllmi
of nil ii " s divixitrhrs nedltcd iv II or not
oiherviae credited in thlji poprr. ""' ''s"
tho Incnt imrt publlahrd therein.
ill rlrjhlt nf irpubllcntloii of sio ill dti-jia"'i'-i
liririn nrr ahn rrsrrxrrl
fh.lidrlpkn lu'lil". Ortolor It. lilt
HAVE YOU BEEN ROBBED?
rptlb.l, nrc flusli litiirf. Tor linndilti in
- I'hiliid' lplnn. In Hie piu"P of two
week,- uliout R7U.00O orth of lewulry
has born stolen in broad dayliKlit from
shops in the heart of the citj. If the
mem round of hold-ups rocs on the
yellow barks will have to be revised. We
hhall hae a new littrature of the Wild
East
The t.mes are abnormal. l!ut ecn in
qu'etei da,s the ileteclic bureau ha
been unable lo deal cllii'iciUly with oi
Kanized inme. It is disoiKam.cd b
politician and it has not prowii. in cll'i
ciencj or in the number of its oftlcers,
with the times. It is niueli the same
bureau that it was fifteen years ago.
If professional gunmen and post
KradunU Iiurplars can come and tro in
the eit at will. r en while their photograph-.
haiiR m (lie lollies' j;aller,.
homellniif; serious is wrong. It is the
busmen of detectives to Know the where
abouts of lUch men, to pick them up nl
the railroad stations and hold them for
the pome who me sure to be looking for
them in some other city. To deal with
crooks of the sort who now harass the
city we need to hae better detectives
and more of them.
Ml of which i offeieil a a tip to
our nel Mayoi.
DEPARTING GIANTS
fpHK President is ill. Colonel House
had to be helped down the gangplank
s an invalid when he arrived in this
countr.. Clcmenceau is about to retiie.
seemingly weary and glad to go out of
office. Lloyd George is fighting for his
political life and, despite his moments of
triumph, the 1iHes seem .setting against
hun
, The tijen who participated in the Pans
cotierenre did not hoIip that a task so
great a"- theirs could be completed oet
nighf or in a month or tu a year. It
may be a decade or a generation befoie
the hopes incorporated in the cace
treaty and the Icaguc-of-nations cove
nant can be realized, even with wise and
sincere direction of afl'ans by statesmen
everywhcic. The men who- hoped and
worked for a fixed peace must depend
upon then successors to finish what they
began.
So the voi Id at laige would be wiaer
to bury its hates and forget its bickeiing
long enough to wonder who is to take up
the load that the depaiting giants must
noonci oi later lay down one by one.
ANOTHER SCHOOLMASTER
NE r the Hilprcituig photographs
-'made at the industrial oonfercne
shows joung Juhn Rockefeller in earnest
and friendly conversation with Franl'
Morrison, of the Federation of Labor.
Mr Gompers shook hands with Mr. Gary.
But even more significant than either of
these incidents is the news that former
President Eliot, of Harvard, has been a
highly esteemed adviser to both sides in
the conference.
Doctor Eliot is libeial minded, with
no awe of money as such, Long ago he
manifested an inteiest in labor. He has
gone to some pains to show the country
the mighty part which humble workers
play in ls affairs.
"What tratibpircs between him and the
leader at the labor (onfricnce should he
nf inomcnl. It is easy lo tritiii.r ,Mi,
Morrison and 1i t asaenatci, tT you I'm
gt that v often Uiry have worked
o ha"! dunne moil of lher live- thtt
they hue had no Unip lo acquire I he
knowledge of economic Uws tht tmgbi
help theni to a urer leadership of labor
"Will thev learn from Portor "Cliot '.' Will
the leader' on tho -nle nf cnpilal Irani
from hmi '
BLOCKING THE MAILS
CONGRESS and llurleson must sluie
about equally in the blame for obvious
inequalities and injustices of tho wage
scale which fifty-three letter carriers in
this city have just escaped by the hard
alternative of resignation.
The walkout in the Philadelphia office
represents but one detail in the slow dis
integration of the postal service that
has been progressing steadily under the
present postmaster general.
Mr. Burleson has been concerned only
with profit. Efficiency and morale are
nords that lie doeG not understand. His
example has encouraged Congrcsi in its
refusal to make such appropriations as
would insure decent pay to the rank and
file in the sen ice, The resignation of
pxperienced men and the appointment of
subttitutei to thiv vacant places mean
merely that the delivery sjtteni must
suffer until the new hand, arc trained.
The government department which Mr.
.Burleson controls is apparently unable
to comnete with private business cnter-
r&My. The process of resignation will
continue under n system that, if it were
designed to force nil the best men out of
tho department, could not operate more
effectually to that end limn it has been
operating fo'r two or three riirs.
ROBINSON CRUSOE'S POLICY
APPLICABLE TO THIS COUNTRY
Defoe's Hero Knew That the Only Way
to Get Enough to Eat and to Wear
Was to Produce It
WHAT is to be thought of the man who
insists that, because he cannot earn
enough to suppol-t his faniilv when he
works eight hours a day, he .should be
required to work only .-d" hours day?
This is not a hypothetical question.
Tho soft coal minors are making this
demand. They ask for a 00 per cent
increase in their wages, it is true, but
they seek CO per cent moie pay for -3
per cent less wotk.
The miners are not fools. They are
men of like intelligence with tho rest of
us. We must assume that they are
making these demands, not because they
expect them to be granted, but in the
hope that they can secure an increase in
their pa, by asking for tnme than they
expect to get and then compromising
with their employe) s. The employers
have thus far refused to coniproino ami
a strike has been called for November 1.
The soft coal miliars have undoubted
grieancpi-. Their pay has not been in
creased enough lo meet the incicascd
tost nf food and clothing and they can
buy less with the contents of their pay
envelope than tliev could befoie the
amount which it contained was enlarged.
It is important that some way be found
to enable them to live in comfort while
they continue to mine coal.
A strike will complicate rather than
simplily the problem. The wages of the
miner will not' stretch far enough to
coer his nccea.-ities because the check on
production caused by taking four million
men from industr, and putting them in
unifoims has been followed by a gloat
increase in the market price of that
which has been produced.
Other causes, such as high wages
forced by government bidding for help
m war work and the inflation of Ihe cur
icncy coincident villi the win. base nls-n
afTectetl prices.
Soft coal enters into the ioM ol ir
tually ewry thing that we consume. Its
puce affects the price of railroad
freights. Without soft coal we cannot
have elect! ic lights in fai tones, nor
power to opeiate their niachmerj, nor
electric power to run the tiollev cai. nor
steam power to operate the pumps m the
water supply departments.
A stoppage of the supplj ol soft coal
would mean a check in all industry and in
the distribution of its products. This
would still fuither cuitail the supply of
lood and clothing and biing about .-till
higher prices, so that if the .olt coal
miners, after the strike had continued for
seeral weeks, seemed the niciea.-o in
pay which they are asking their, paj
would buy no more than it will pa lor
now ami thej would be no better off.
ml the i est of us would be wor-e off.
Tlieie can be no improvement in pres
ent conditions so long as workers antl
ri'iployers think only of their own nai row
interest. They both would do well to
lake serious thought of the suggestion
for a truce made at the labor conference
in Washington last week. Whether the j
truce should last three months or six j
months is a matter of detail that can be
arranged as soon as it is agreed that an
attempt to settle gnevances be post- I
poned. j
i
Ve aie all -.uttering fiom the same
ailment of which the soft coal miners aie
complaining. We aie paid m a fifty-cent
dollar for our work and our employeis
arc paid in a fifty-cent dollar for what
they sell. The thing on which it is im
portant that we all concentrate our atten
tion is the lesloration of the value of
the dollai thai t, on making it possible
fur a dollai lo buy more potatoes and
meal, and coal. rhir canoo be done
unlets the supplv of coal and men) and
potatoes is untreated
nobinsoii Crusoe, living alone on hit
island, knew what he must do if he would
have enough to eat and to wear. He
know he must produce it. If he went
hungry he had only himself to blame. He
could not pass a resolution demanding a
six-hour working day, with just as much
food supplied to him at night as though
he had woiked eight hours.
The United States is an island of Juan
de Fernandez and the people aie a col
lective Robinson Crusoe, dependent on
what they produce for what they con
sume, it iney uo not, produce pnougn
some otic must go hungry. The country
is suffering now bc ausc wo have not
produced enough lo make the pioduclo
plentiful. The lemcdy is not lo drcicasc
production In 'lopping woik, nor by
working fewer hours day; bill to do
our ulniott to nunc more coal, rsitc moie
meat and potatoes and vhral and manu
facture moi'f clothinr.
No man who has cotridcrrd th crisis
through which we ate passing has
i cached any other conclusion. The Presi
dent has urged it upon the attention of
the country. It has been set forth by
Herbert C. Hoover and by an indefinite
number of bankers, and no labor leader
has disputed it.
Unfortunately, the labor leadeis heie
and in England have in too many in
stances decided to take advantage of the
situation to demand a shorter working
day and increased pay, under threat of
holding up industiy because they think
that public sentiment will support them
for feat that the situation may become
worse.
These lcadets aie, unfortunately, lll
advised. They are hurting their cause
rather than helping it. The public hears
threata of strikes with ill-disguised lm
patipncp. It believes in fair play and is
indignant when any group of men plans
lo hold ud the rest of us for its selfish
advantage. We have all suffeicd to
gether and we musl all strive togethei
to work our way out of the present com
plications,
There is a widespread feeling that
ieyances tha. cannot be redressed by.J
negotiation should bo endured until pro
duction has been restored to its normal
peacetime relation to the demands of the
counlrj, and theie is n general belief
that when production is no restored
many of the grievances will have disap
peared. So it is hoped that the soft coal .strike
may be mertrd. The mine'rs tire amen
able to l enroll and their employers should
be like-wise. Their leaders arc opccled
lo let pass the tempting opportunity to
display their power and to meet in a
conciliatory mood any negotiators who
may tr. to bring about ;i ,ettlcment of
the points m dispute. And above nil,
they .should abandon all effort to decrease
production through :t shorter working
day.
MOSES
nOCTOU DKUCUM was
almost too
-' kind when, commenting on the ru
mors relative to the President's illness,
ho characterized Senator Mopes ns a
backstairs gossip: Backstairs gossips
are rarely so giaceless as the senator
from Xew Hampshire appealed in the
letter which, written In an unnamed con
stituent, seems actually to have been in
tended for the whole world. "He may
live," wrote the Xew Hampshire prophet,
"but ho will not be nnv material force nr
factor in anything."
Wr wonder. Ihe Pie.iidclit did not
rralrp all his ideals. That is because
they were high. But even if Mr. Wilson
were never again to participate actively
in aflair.s at Vva-hmglon the wotk he
has already done will irmain as "a force
and a factor" in the world's affairs for
generations, perhnpt. even when such
gicat leaders as Moses himself aie for
gotten. The publu would welcome franker and
fuller statements fiom the President's
physicians. Lacking the information it
tlcsiics, the country will feel, for the
time being at least, that the President's
attendants may themselves be in some
doubt. It will not tulerate congressional
sniping at a sick man who sacrificed his
strength m the service of his country
while his present critics weie giv ing their
time to clflsi politii.
POISONED AIR
n is sun f
- to critieiz
fashionable if some quarlci
mission for its habits of conservatism.
Many people remembei that tho commis
sioners hesitated for a long time before
they permitted automobiles lo enter the
Paik. The public is just beginning to
perceive that thine wa wisdom in that
waiting policy. And m some particu
lars in the method ol caring for road
surfaces and in geneial motor regula- j
tious the Paik Commission still can I
teach many things to City Councils.
Because of the di&cu-aiou of the auto- ,
mobile smoke nuisance begun in these '
columns recently, Xew Yorker.., have sud- I
denly lealied that the tiecs and foliage '
in Cenlial Paik aie being slowly de- i
slroyed by the fumes emitted by imper
fectly adjusted motors. The giecneiy in
Fairmount'Park has never been seriously
injuied in that way for the simple rea
sons that iron legulalions existed from
the firt to pi event it. The I'airniounl
Park Commission, in other words, has a
better vcgaid for the trees and the
hrub.s and the lawns under its catc than
Councils have manifested for the lives
and the health of citizens.
A chauffeur may defile die atmospheie
of Philadelphia sheets at will if he is too
lazy lo adjust the mechanism of his ear.
But he will be halted as oon as he ap
pears with a smoking machine anyvvheie
in the Pai k.
Anti-smoke ordinances aie now being
talked of in New Yoik. They will be in
operation theie. doubtless, befoie our
own Council follows a sensible example
that the Paik Commission has been cel
ling for years.
Itxhaid HhI, ,.i l',
Ion lau VI . lust I e
tin tied mm I'ncland
ttn Wml.
t.OMICS Itcsl
"tu:e' to lake the
Lnglisb Etnkr: n imiali- firilmn to aunplr
takins a 'olida'", he cee3rf,r hen the
people get "fed up' T'tli loafiDg they'll jet
bark to work. It i- a comfortable theory
and may be be true in thit rnynlry a:, in
VbiRland.
Thr Nrw Yolk Slup-
Woincn hmldiDK Corporation
.Not to ltlatnr lias denied visitins
privileges to all women
because pretty women distract the attention
or. wotkmou and eflirieui-y is Impaired. Say
what you will, il is the men who can t male
their ryes behave
.Scrrrtary SmAeu. of
Hi" hii! the Indian Ttigbts As-
vjuation. sajs peyotr,
a ilru; pioruird fiuiu cacti has a ku-t, tnoie
potent linn whiskv With a oipilp on the
top of eyutv lactic Ho- Indnn iau jfloid
lo Hugh at piohihninn
ith all due ispc;, t to thr faith tieaisi ,
U may br irmqrkrd that- the Lnitcd States
HdI hao b'n Ef'nj the resident "audi
b'r treatment" for rom time pact, and d
liHru'l done a htt pf ;emd
Thr PrrsiHepl's phTuiriaus appcar'tn
lie of thr opinion thai Moses should slick
to Hie making of laws.
I'ormer Lieutenant Governor McClaiu
is wearing patrbed shoes. 'Well, be has
nothing on the rest of us.
The Atlantic City man who paid $4L'00
for water, thinking it was whisky, had to
provide his own kick.
T.y the time a perfect system )f trolley
transportation has been evolved the airplane
l'ltney drivers will be talking strike.
Chicago firm is ciporimcntiug with a
strain automobile This may yet put a
i.rtmp id John D.'s charities
An optimist is one who beUsres that
treaties will eventually be made of plywood
instead of piecrust
Ihe odd thing about the Ballan fp ii
be i forever tportiug n new tale.
thai
sticks and atones nmv break bones but
they never win strikes.
What the Russians want is Rigs with
out Lett" or hindrance,
THE "INABILITY" CLAUSE
No Congress Has Ever Enforced the
Constitution Provlilon Authoriz
ing the Vice President to Act
for the President In Case
the Latter Is III
NO VU'H IMtBKtDKNT of the United
Sfiilr.s lias ever hern ilclrsalcil by Con
Bies lo snro ,ih I'residrtil prior to flic
drntli of the Chief MnRistrnlo of Ihe Million.
Tim constitution, lmwcvrr, is dcllnlle
upon tins subicct. Arrtirdlnc lo a clmifp In
Avliilo 11. "In the ruse of Hip rrimiviil of
the l're-iiloiit fiom nftire, or nf Ms tlcntli.
trsisnnlinn or Inability to disclinrgp the
powers mid duties of snid office, the snmo
shall ilm-iilvp tin thp Vice President, and tho
CtiiiRrefs niitv bj law pjovide for the ease of
letnnval death, resignation or iluibilit.v."
Bui the prescience of the makers nf our
fundamental local instrument, in (his in
sfance. as in numeioiis others, assumed a
set of t uninistatices which have never in
their entirely ot cut-red. 1"Ivp Presidents
havp died in office. The constitution ma
chllierv was rasii equal to Hipsp condition1.
T'ivp Vice Presidents were "speedily iiiiiiicii
taled in the lilijhesf pxohiIivp unite in th"
land
Willi lejanl in "i rutins I no nc has
eter, niisen Hut-ins the imprndtninit dial
of Andrew .lohuson Ihe imintry was con
fidcrini; ti new possibility. The President's
inarsin wa citiemcl.v nnnow. I'aillnc of
-on Id ion b.v a single vote, bnwrvri, John
son, despite bitter UcptimVnn nnlnponiin
remained m office.
lit Ihe law of JiOI. then in lopr. the
president pm tcmpoir of the Senate would
havp stepped into Johuson's phors had the
two-thirds londrinnation vote been attain
aide at I be trial. I'nder the later ail ol
liSi: Hip siici cssion passes lo the sroel.ii"
of stair in case "lcmoval. death. lesiRim
don or inability" affects a President wlm
was orijinall.v elected as A im President
The Johnson crisis was r-vtinordinUM
Its outcome in a period of intense pailis.in
tancor lenders it extiemclv nnliKeh tluii
Consicfs will ever have to busv itself nun h
with Ihe presidential Slice ejsinn inirslinn
piopounded b.v "mnnval" id Hie p)miiii
H
Isj ' iiialiilnj" is a iiiin-li nioi pinbali'r
cveni el eon when il lias niwl
both (oni;iess and Hie nation Ii.'im hern
deeidedlv i onspcv at ive, tinrhelil livid relit i
daTs after (iuitrau fiird thr fatal liulh t in
July ". ISM. The pnlilital Mtualimt
fat f i out serene, sinip Ihe ltcpuliln ans then
in power, were ipiarreliiiK anions: Ho in
eehes ihe administration whir of Ihe pnilt
harms In lontend with flip New "Voil,
' Slalwaits, ' of whom the rrdoublablr l!osy
i oi ( (iithiins was chief.
I'm Coiikicss was mil pi srsinn and
heme Hip "inability" of thp 1'iesident vPl
mil. fiom the lrj;al aspect, of piessiiiE
momenl -No bills wen; awaiting tint lipid's
sicnnfnir. It was clear that if he Ihrd lir
would be sufficiently retoveied to perfoini
his necessary official duties bv the next
Pivrmbn .
Ileal Hess ami ltus.v mp.uhcl n el ilic-s did,
n is true ilivilss "iuabililv " Their in
sistence was invalidated when some five
weeks aflrr the Minuting the I'icsiclent did
icttially Mffn one document, a paper pre
sent ed bj the secietat-v of slatt inurcruinc
an extiaclition case with Canada
Shorily aflci'w.itd the patienl's cundllioii
took a tu l'ji for the win so and there was
fiiilhei" talk" about the piopriely of leaving
Hie executive depailinenl of the government !
without an acfivr brad. Tow aid the close I
of tin scorching August of 1SS1 the Prrsi '
drill became so ill thai the bad tasle of I
discussing a successor lo him was icalizcd
even b.v the m&sl callniis inquiier.s (iarfirld
was lighting for Ins life. lie died on Isep
irmber 1f). at IJIheron. N J . whithei In
had been leniovecl in older to avoid the
alleged malarial ans nf 'Washinglori
Chester A Arthur, his successor, made
an admiiable I'residenl. The Conkling in
fiueuie. which had alaimcd our of the
political factions proved to be negligible in
bis administration of moie than t liter and
a half yeats
PUES1DKNTIAI. "iuabililv was neier
an issue with legaid to auv of the other
Chief Magistrates who died in office. Those
who succumbed lo disease weie ill for too
brief a period 1oi" the theme to become
prominent.
l.imoln and -Mi Kinley who fell In ih"
assassin's bullet, bad no am ti appaienl
chance for life as (iailield .Inlm Wilkes
tiootli pei'lnrmnl bis despicable deed very
thoroughly. 'Abraham Lincoln was shot on
the evening of A pi il It ltTi ' lr ,,0,1
morning al 7 o'clock lie died
For a day 01 I wo onir piomtse of 1,
Kiuley'o icovorr w.il held out ht his nbv
etcisns. ftut hope .000 vam&bcd He
bugered tor only cijht da-ri. trom Prprn-i
ber 0 lo September 14. 1001
To the acute grief of the Whij nho bad
elected him, AVilJiam Henry Harmon died
exactly one month after taling his oath of
office. It has hern said that hr contracted
1 old on inauguration day Whatever tho
cause, bo was stricken with bilious pneu
monia on March 117. IS), and ou April I
the "Whigs had lost their first President.
John Tyler pioved a maddening disap-'
pointmcril to constituents who had shouted
so fervently for " 'Tippecanoe and Tvlei.
tool" By vetoing the Lnitrd States bank
lull Ihe former Yicc Piosidenl broke de
cisively with bis parlv and in September of
1SU the entire cabinet, ejupi Darnel Web
slcr, the secretary of sfjir, resigned ln a
body.
In the hisluiv of the pii-jidrmy br sin
cession'' Tyler holds ihe'tnord (or lenglli
nf term 111 oflne. o wonder the Whigo
regarded their cup of tesstiuu as full '
Nine jeai-3 Inter th'v rufTeir, jue (jjUj
Of their only olher succei:-Cnl picEidentjal
candidate Eschar-" Tavlor, eUctj for hll
military piowess in the Mciicau Wai, tm
he had hitherto made no pietcoElon; to
alatesmsnthip eerved ac Pi-sidcnt for six
teen months He difd on July j, yO, ol
bilious colic, having been ill but five dayi
Millard rdlmore tilled his pac ronsn
rntiously, but without conspicuous bril
liancy. IX 1HE drama of American history there
has never yet been the ease of a Presi
dent invalided for a protracted period
during which his services wcio imperatively
needed. Had Congress been in session while
the physicians sought to save Garfield per
haps more light would have been shed on
the nation's interpietationof the "inability"
clause than is at present available,
Judging by tbe speed and firnUem.v
with which they work local thieves must bo
trying CO comer cud iui Juarb-Ct,
"With the price of clolbtt rising tberr J
possibiUty tbst patents will bo f.thiocable
this winter.
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In the nutter of prices not eTen ili)t
gravity of the ettustiou insures thut what
goeS'Up must come down
Colonel House is said to be iou ill (0
talk. Itcticcncc js hardly a sign 0f m,.,ncg,
with the colonel.
Kvery strike iucrcasts the plighinc
aTtrsce of II. 0. Ia
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On Leaving France
OI'ILLDS of
ing. ic-sl
Cranio, yet giccti ami mil
ing. ic-sl
Starred led ill
popiiic-s. blue with scddicis
! slain
Who under while
limits fouml their peace
again,
j And ever wear ihe aspei I I loved brs,
I Lath bill loo niulr and lender for a bio.isl
I Cradling Hie bluest skies, or sleek with lain,
Thr pnplnis' silver nian'li iieinss the plain,
I And sloping vitieyaids puiplecl in the West.
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Not in one laud alone does Itrauly live
And their aie other suns than gild Aiijnu:
So shall I'renc h peasants soem to till the
loam
Jn Tennessee, ami cottage windows give
1)11 landscapes tapestried, a fairy virvv
I if Trance still lhing in the bills of honii
ALKC P.. STKVIINSON
, Utir genial colleague, C. W. I)., has been
doing a little desk-cleaning, in tho iinivse
of which vvr found him uimmaging through
.1 batch of old clippings. He pulled our oul
and showed it lo us, with the lemaik that
it is tho best autumn poem he knows. It
runs thus:
Autumn Poem
Thr nakril lulls lie wanton to the bnce.
The tirlds aie nude, the gioics unlimknl
Tiair are Hie limbs of thmurlesu lires,
No wnndir lhat Ihr torn i clioekecl'
Why Not F.dimiiHU
Al eur favorite movie thcatir we mii th
following announcement ou tho :crcrn "D.
"W. Griflith's cSupromo Effort, Broken Blos
soms, from thp story by James Uurkp."
Now it scorns lo us 'that if U. W. was
making an effoit like that ho might have
got the author's name right, vu.. Thomas
l'urkc. lut pish, tush, who cairs aboui
the nutliot?
How About It?
Dear Socrates: I note that you sav judg-
inent is born in one, and not likely to bo
improved by experience. Ticie is, on thr
other side of the question, a statement by
the learned Samuel ,inmisoii, i,i. . I vr
been searching through Boswcll ever since
I saw your note in the Dish, and heir it is ;
II Is a sad irtlecllon. but a Hun one, Hut
I tincw almost as nitirli ni riclittru .n I
do now- Mv ludgment, to )jj ruie ,,,,
ii"t 30 lood . but t had all Hie ta. ts
.WIXLIAM llAHis
The llrat mandate of the l'asue ot nation;
perms to be that exciclscd 01 cr 5ti AA ilsou
by Doctois Grayson. Kuffln and Slid
Out waggish friend M. M I. suggeeis
that wc will know the President is entirely
'well when we hear that he has asked to sec
Mr. Lodge.
Ignorant as we are about music we aie
greatly interested to 'note that the oichestia
is going to play something tailed "Stev
ensoniu" on Friday and Saturday. AVc are
wondering ubout this. Is it a symphonic
toue-biogiaphy of It. I. S.? As a Steven
son fau, it would interest us greatly to know
more about it.
Pctiograd, we understand, is again
"about to be captured." There is otn thing
about Petrograd that has never been ri -plained
to us, and that is, what has hap.
pened to the Mcnshevikl.
-Uiothtr question: Is there any one ivho
liseeen all the installments o a motins
rlrture serial?
Hroad Mreet Station Again
Speaking of Iiroad Street Station laj we
-cere jesterday) it occurs to us to add that
wandering about that place always from, to
us like living in a detective story. In all
thst panorama of life and burry there is a
ot of -Tuterr and enigma. Where ars
all these peeple toiof, pd what ar therl
BUT WINTER'S COMING
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going to do when they got theirV Thai
gill watching the bulletin boaul of ariiviug
liains. whcie she sees tho tcluulogiuph
scribble Ao. 26 iriorlcd rtui.li Hl"i one hr
hitc, why is she wiping her eyes? The little
Knglishman asking when the next train
lravcs for ''Bryn Mauor." what Is ho up to?
Theie is a subtle mystery about all this that
sets one studying for ways of escape from
hnl pursuit. It is n favorite imagination
of ours to devise ways nf eluding sleuths.
Broad Street Station has many exits. Wr
have counted nt least srven ways by whb li
we could dodge a ''bull.'' Tiist, Ihr outside
staiis on the soulh side. Second, the bag-gage-ioom
stairs by ihe south parcel room.
Third, tho stairway through the entrance to
the grneial offices. Fourth, the main stair
way with its double descent. Fifth, the
Filbert stieet staiis. where a little sliiniDg
ilevalor alwajs slauds open, into which a
haul-pressed fugitive muld pop. Sixth, and
best of all. over the little bridge across Mar
kot stieet. The buirying pursuer would
naturally rush down the stairs, thinking that
the only exit: but in leality wc would have
darted tluougb thai small door at tho side
and bo lost in the manv" passages and
stairways of tho Commeicial Trust Building,
Seventh, their is also that outside tcrraie,
overlooking Market stieet, near Ihe cnliance,
lo Ihe general ollicrs. This would make an
admiiable hiding place at night.
The geneial iucicasc in sharp wittcilncss
lhat you must have nuljcrd in thr popula
tion is due to thr great numbeio of us who
chop into the movies after the him ba3 begun,
and have to use our bean luittly to dopn
out what has happened before wr got there.
Ejaculation
O Time, from thy Ihght
Ope boon lot me borrow :
Make it tonight
All day tomorrow '.
JKSTA MLN'NIT.
Bill Reedy's Fish
In answer to seveial inquiries, we are
pleased to bo able lo state that Bill Jteedy.
ihe well-known editor fiom St. Louis, did
actually catch a ihanuel bass down at Cor
son's Inlet . The literary fishmg party ie
lurncd In town jestrrday and a number of
Ihe bookisbly inclined wrip invited by the
Icaitied Dot tor Bosenbach to attend the ob
cquics of the untorluoato fish Barely, if
ever, was a fish cousigned to iln ultimate
destination with greater splendoi. In the
erudite doctor's calou a litetarv gatheiing
assembled, including Doctor E-'ohs-Cohen,
Mr. A. Edward Xew ton and Mr. T. A. Daly'.
Doctor Polis-Cohcn entertained Jhc company
with his own delightful tianslations r
medieval pools . .ues3is. Aevvton and Dalv
not lo be outdone in literal matteis, ex
1 hanged anecdotes of tho prize ring, and Sir.
Beedy gave pleasing icminiscences of John
L. Sullivan. It was agreed by all that the
high point of the occasion was reached In
Mr. Newton's recollections of going to see a
horse-race in company with Lillian Itussell,
Blanche Bates, John AT. Gates and Jim Cor
bott. 'After this Sir. Itcedy adjourned to
St. Louis. s
Something positively unique has happened
to us and wo wish to chronicle it in our
own list of unexpected happenings. An
electric -light company has written to us as
follows : '
"On receipt of jour 'titer we cheeked
tlio meter u-adine ajitt found that tho iiutn
who lendered jour bill bad overread th
meter 10 K.TV , which mado a. difference?,
ot K.
"Thsiefoie wo ar now sending yo.u a.
corrected bill and enclosn herewith our
check."
This unprecedented occurrence has caused
us lo revise our whole philosophy of human
Dature.
We seo by the phutos that D'Annunzio is
eggiehly" hairless. At last the downtrodden
race of bald men have a hero,
If only all the week could bo as pleasant
and placid as the first pipo ou,Suuday morn
inr. what, a life this ould ,be.
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j PERENNIAL
AT EIGHTEEN' she was rather nlcs,
And acting fairly well.
I heard her say it once or twice
o mailer what befell
She would not stay for untold gold
Upon the stage if she weie old.
At twenty-five she reigned a queen
And always she could get
Tho town's applause, it she was seen
As dainly Juliet ;
And often she wns known to sat
"Till I am old I will not stay '"
At fcuty she had many friends.
Was still of the elect;
Her good looks still might make amende
For any small defect.
And in her interviews you read :
" 'I'll leave ere T am old,' she said."
At three-and-seveuly years of age
She acted still. A scold
Assailed her with: "Tou swore the stage
You'd leave ere you were old!"
She turned upon her friend, T heard"
"Yes, madamc, and I'll keep my word'"
Sydney Bulletin.
Perhaps some delegate will open Hit
Jrnliislrial Conference deadlock with a key
note.
Why don't the automobile thieves st-al
a patiol wagon for a change?
.New York baa already demonstrated
that a strike makes a longshoreman short
Every strike ended Is some quaricl
mended.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What patt of the eye is the retina' ,
1'. In what century did Ttobcrt Emmet '
live?
."?. What is palingenesis?
1. How long did President Garfield live
after he was shot by Guitcau?
." What stale does Senator Moses rcprr
isonl?
1; Which is the higher title in England,
duke or earl?
"x Who founded the Salvation Aimj '
S What is the meaning of 6mlatini''
9. Where did Messs die?
10. Who was Captain Charles Wilkts''
Answers to Yesterday's QuJ;
I ice Admiral Sir David Bcatty has suc
ceeded Vice Admiral Sir Rosslyn
Wcmyss as first sea lord of the Brit
ish navy.
2. Plumbago is black lead graphite used
for making pencils. It is a form of
carbon.
3. Shaddock and pomelo are other names
for grapefruit.
1. San Salvador Is the capital of th re
public of Salvador.
5.' In 1792, after Vermont and Kentucky
had been admitted lo the Union, the
stripes on the American flag were in
creased lo fifteen. By 1818 therft
were twenty stripes In tha flsr, and
then Congreta passed an act filing
the number permsnently at thirteen,
0. 'JJhe United States has a naval elation
at Gasntananso, Cuba. In 'Santo
Domingo and Haiti, which together
form the island of Haiti, the Amri
can Government is exercising alone
some lines temporary control pro
vided for in treaties and agreements,
7. On Hundred pounds ma,ke a quintal.
8. Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnifl
cent, ruled over Florence.
0. He lived in the fifteenth century, djiok
ln ld02.
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