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All rights of republication of special dis patches herein arc also reicri-cd. FMUdelpnU, TTedne.d.y. October 13, 1919 MOORE TELLS WHAT'S WHAT . CONGRESSMAN MOORE told the Re- publican city committee yesterday - 'afternoon just where it must get off. Mis speech was n calm, courteous as sertion of his detcimination to run his own campaign with the assistance of the committees which indorsed him for the nomination, and it was an invitation to the city committee to co-operate with him. He let the committeemen understand that he did not intend to submit himself to the tender mercies of men who tried to defeat him for the nomination, even to the extent of violating the party rules and disregarding the purpose of the direct primary laws by formally indors ing a candidate, when their sole duty was to secure an open and free primary in order that the voters themselves might make their own selection. Mr. Moore put his finger on the sore epot in Republicanism here and made it clear that he intended to use what power he has to bring about a change in party practices. J H the party leaders are loyal to the ticket-that now has the sanction of regu larity they can atone for what they did before the primaries. Mr. Moore invited them to display such loyalty, but he let them know that there were penalties for disloyalty which it would be in his power to inflict. If they want a fight he is ready for them. If they want peace he is equally ready. It is up to each man to decide for him- a M. Not in many years before has such a . ifrT,irrTrflinclimii'.-?n' cnannli Koan L-7:'y: " ; ..r" r." i::. .: I'miiao w uie men who rmvu uiuiutcu party xaffairs. It ought to do them good. A WOMAN'S COLLEGE AT PENN rpHE promise of a fully equipped col- - lege for women under the direction of the University of Pennsylvania is en couragingly stimulated in the plans for new buildings which Paul Cret has been commissioned to draw. Moreover, practical-realization of the ambitious project need not be far off, since the Charles Bennett foundation fund has now in creased to more than $1,000,000 and the Irvine' bequest amounts to $700,000 more. The three structures contemplated a woman's dormitory, a home for nurses of the University Hospital and an audi toriumshould serve to co-ordinate the interests of the women students at Penn along the lines worked out successfully at Barnard and RadclifTe. At the present the position of the "co-eds" is somewhat ill-defined. They are admitted to certain courses in the , University and barred from others. They ' deserve a college of their own, at once part of the University and yet sufficiently distinct from it for efficient operation. VALIDITY OF EXCHANGE TICKETS rpHE decision of the Public Sen-ice - Commission that the use of exchange tickets by the P. R. T., for which three cents is charged, does not involve dis crimination against particular sections of the city thus served apparently vali dates the legality of the exchange sys tem. It, thus confirms the position of the !P. R. T. and enables it to bargain with the city for the abolition of the ex changes. The company has offered to abolish them if the city will in return i"eive uti tho sums nnntinllv nn!H l it fn y 'street repairs and for the sinking fund, 'ine proposition will come before f!nnn. ?cil8 for decision in formal shape this; "waekL nnrl it is nn tn that hn,U, u,..i j,T .to consider the matter in all its bearings Cejore taking action. LIMITING RENTS BY LAW AT INTERESTING contribution to the I rk discussion of the ways for prevent- i ine rent Drofiteennir haa hppn tnoHn Viw jVi:. Clinton Rhoads, of the local bar, in ''e, suggestion that the principles laid , 'down Dy me supreme uourt in the deci Valorie on the granger cases in 1876 apply to tne, present situation. I," "..Tiie granger cases, so called by Justice ' iw, grew out 01 tne enorts of various L sjisrinf to reculate rnilroarl rntos anA h-eleVator charges. The railroads t hid theretofore charged what they pleased for carrying freight and passen--" ere, and the grain elevators had cxer w i-lsed, e. similar discretion. i.13, ti'Tfeft ppneral nrlnpinln laid ilnwn hv fri coarWas that whenever any person pur 6 ucs a public callipg and sustains such relations to tho public that the people M.'iUt fiAal with film nnrl nro undo mamI 4nr8 to submit to hlg terms if he is uaisVBina y ! tnwt m- tsvsnr w, BitjvfRti extortion the prle hji may I charge for his services or for the use of his property may be regulated by law. Since these decisions were handed down it has become tho custom for tho state Legislatures to regulate railroad rates, street-car fares, tho price of gas and electric light and telephone charges. The principle has been applied in many states to other enterprises affected by a relation to the public. In Maine, for ex ample, the constitutionality of a law fixing the maximum fees to be charged by the owner of a grist mill was sus tained. The Maine courts held that a man might maintain a private grist mill for grinding his own grain without in terference, but if he opened his mill to the public "he dedicated it to public use" and "became subject to public regulation and control." Mr. Rhoads insists that this principle can bo applied to houses offered for rent. He would doubtless argue that as soon as a house is put on the market it is "dedi cated to public use," as it is necessary for tho public to have shelter just as in Maine it was necessary for tho farmers to have access to a grist mill, and that when a house is dedicated to public use in this way "it becomes subject to public regulation and control." Whether Mr. Rhoadcs is right will not appear finally until a case has been made and submitted to the courts. If the courts should sustain his view, then the way would be opened for restrictive legislation. Then would come the bigger problem of finding the proper basis or standard bcale for fixing rents. WHEN WILL LABOR ITSELF SPURN ITS RED BETRAYERS? Each Day's News Development Piles Up Evidence That Evil Counsels Are Un dermining the Structure of Industry "TTOW," angrily demanded Walker D. " Hines, tho most patient of all directors general of railroads, "are you going to deal with labor unions? They do not keep their agreements and they will not obey even their own leaders!" That outburst of wrath came unex pectedly from an official whose subordi nates, down to the very switchmen, firmly desire him to be seen and not heard. Columns of criticism could not more' cftarly express the indictment that rests against the wreckers within the Federa tion of Labor, nor could a two-hour speech better suggest the desperate plight of American trades unionism under the red invasion. If the various units in the allied armies were to have gone wandering off on wild adventures of their own, the Germans would have eaten them up on an easy march to world dominion. That is precisely what many of the big affiliated unions are doing as they are Russianized one by one and led off to disorganized guerrilla enterprises by furtive lunatics who still believe that they can upset the world. If trades unionism in this country isn't to be utterly debauched and dis graced and rendered futile the Federa tion of Labor will have to invest heavily in rat poison. It will have to be swiftly deloused. It is being betrayed and doomed to disintegration by a new crop of amateur prophets. ' Seventy big strikes are on in the United States. Sixty-two of them were precipitated against the orders of the federation officials. The furious blast of excoriation that Gompers wired to the striking dock work ers of v New York, who are out star gazing on an emotional jag at the heels of discredited agitators, carried a note of desperation. The astute chief of the federation has been fighting a purely de fensive action, retreating, waiting for his Marne and obviously convinced that the disorganized hordes into which his organization is breaking will return sooner or later with the hard-bought wisdom of prodigals. But the evil has already been accom plished. The red invaders of the Federa tion of Labor are the first good friends that the remaining mandarins of indus try have had since Roosevelt turned the unwelcome light upon them. A month ago the people of this country were disposed to look doubtfully upon the obdurate Mr. Gary and his associates. Had the steel workers followed a sane course and gone along without the dreamers and rioters and seditionists there would certainly have been some general questioning of the policies insti tuted by the Steel Corporation in the mill country about Pittsburgh. Public opinion insures fair play sooner or later. The country might have blamed Mr. Gary for refusing to treat with the unions. But Foster appeared on the scene. He brought a flock of amateur revolution ists, crazed with undigested theory. The ragtag and bobtail of the slums followed him. Neurasthenics and assassins trailed along later with their bomb-making ma chinery in suit cases, established them selves in cellars and orated in tho name of the Federation of Labor. The soldiers at Gary uncovered machinery devised fori deliberate murder by mail. And all of the wretched and disgraceful business was done in the name of the steel strikers and in the name of the federation! It was easy then for Mr. Gary. Dis closures at the Senate hearings and at Pittsburgh and Gary made it plain that the Steel Corporation actuallwas fight ing something new and big and ugly, and that the issue of unionism was a minor incident of the conflict. , Foster and his aides, the men who or ganized the Boston police strike, those who called out the New York longshore men against the orders of the federation council have all helped equally to wdaken the trades union cause before tha high court of public opinion in America. And the only ones who have profited by the newer radical leadership in the unions are the unions' enemies. fTvTAm triA pnemv anil innni,Jl t. old J rule in "warfare1 Foster and the jojgneygHkWc;tooa dividers of their own forces. Had they been paid destroyers they could not have done greater havoc in organized labor. It is only necessary to listen to John H.' Maurcr, head of the Pennsylvania State Federation, to perceive that tho confusion in tho federation is not duo solely to economic illiterates with long hair. Mr. Maurcr has also lost his head. He has been infoiming the world that thero wilLJic a cull for a conference of trades unionists in this state early in November, with a view to discussing a general strike and forming a labor party. Now, if the traditional good sense of Americans is manifest anywhere it is in relation to political parties. Every party ever inspired by class interest of one sort or another has been sneered out of exist ence. What would Mr. Maurcr say if a banker were to call all other bankers together to establish a political party in the ex clusive interest of capitalism ? Suppose that all the business men were to join in a convention and organize a political party frankly intended to give business interests the right of way over all other public conccms? Were we to have a lawyers' party or a doctors' party would Mr. Maurcr laugh derisively or make speeches charging treason and brutal class selfishness? Doubtless ho would do both Tho public interest is above everyM '"""'J' Sannifl P. Ilotan and Vice Com ho,, liw i , TTnirnrl Kr.,rp nn,l h" "" Ldward I?. Smith, who recently other interest in tho United States and that is why no political party can survive that does not have at least the outward semblance of a general and patriotic purpose. Yet Mr. Maurcr has sdlemnly expressed fa desire for a labor party and he, too, talks in the irame of the Federa tion of Labor. Any working man or woman who re gards tho federation as a nccessaiy agency for economic equilibrium must look with dismay and despair at the de vastation being wrought in tho organiza tion by ignorant and excited men who still believe that a minority can dictate to free people. The disclosures at Gary and evidences now obtainable on every side make it pretty clear that organized labor is fre quently misled in local movements by men' whose aim is not better working conditions but revolution. What will the intelligent and conserva tive members of the federation do when they finally realize that their organiza tion is being steered to disgrace and wreckage by a few fanatics who toil only with gab? GERMANY'S NEW WAR QUT of the obscurities of the Baltic situation two facts stand out unpleas antly clear. The Germans in the Riga region have repudiated tho peace treaty and the Entente has failed to adopt suffi ciently forcible methods to bring the Berlin government to its senses. The immediate recall of General von der Goltz, whose troops, acting in con cert with alleged "Russians," have im periled the existence of the Lettish and Esthonian republics, is not enough. War is revived along tho Baltic shores in flagrant mockery of the judgments of Paris. The indications that junker elements in Germany are resolved to offset with force in the east what they have lost in the west are profoundly disturbing. More than a week ago the Entente threatened to restore the blockade of Germany unless the armistice and treaty conditions regarding Courland were ob served. It is stated now that the "entire Baltic coast is virtually blockaded." The inadequacy of this measure is revealed in the continuance of tho dishonorable fight ing. t Are the victors in tho world war afraid of Cermany in her present condition or are the Paris diplomatists waiting for Mr. Hoover to appear and tell them what to do, as in the case of the Hapsburg manifestation in Hungary? To the lay mind it seems that the en forcement of a drastic blockade against Germany would solve the problem forth with. Merely to talk about it without acting is to coddle German duplicity. The fact that eisht HottlliiR a Panic persous were Injured durinc a panic follow ing the burninc out of an overhead fuse on a Woodland avenue car suggest1) that there ought to be schools whore coolness and pres ence, of mind arc taught. Tho .suggestion is not so silly as it sounds. A fireman does not grow fxeitcd at a fire nor a sailor during a storm, but either may grow rattled if their positions arc reversed. In both cat.es disci pline and experience berve as a basis for courage. In a pity where tens of thousands of people ride on the ears daily it should bo comparatively easy to give guidance to ac tions under imagined eireumstances. Alton E. Kriggs, president of the Na tional Poultry and Butter Association. Salt Needed Willi This Kgg Story predicts the coming of a new type of super -hen which will lay eggs of suporsize. Though they will be three times as large as present eggs, he says, the price will be the bame. Alton E. is an optimist and we will leave it to (Jlare of that ilk to declare what the ultimate consumer is thinking about It. Tll'ngs are going from Would Tliey ere bad to worse with Wholly Unserviceable Cucle Sam, retailer. , ,, He is now selling "unserviceable musical instruments " He. is sowing the wood and wind instruments and the neighbors will reap the jazz and whirlwind. The Board of Education continues to give the faculty of the William Penu High School thorough dissatisfaction. II. C. of L. biffed again ! Surplus army food again on sale. Uncle Ham now brings relief with oatmeal, bacon, beans and beef. William Penn is more, than fortunate. He had considerably more than 275 candles in his birthday cake last night. Aosta and Flume divide all the vowels between them, which is perhaps why tho duke and the king are not consonant. Breakfast saccharinity "Cut out the sugar, sweetness!" Labor ubIom will know true' opulnce -.when tbw haven't a Kd. CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER Effect on Yachting of the Free Chesa peake and Delaware Canal Gossip About Rabbis Lev'lnthal and Krauskopf, John C. Bell and Others Washington, Oct. 1C. WORD reaches us that the opening of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, free of tolls, is putting life and spirit into the yachtsmen who have been nrciistomed to use the waters of the Delaware and the Chesapenke. The barge men nnd small sail ing craft owners have already become ac quainted with the new order of things and are using the canal freely. Samuel T. Kent, of the Union League, who simply cannot get over the boat habit, tells of a schooner captain who started up the plank with 517.1(1 to pay tolls in the usual way only to mnkc the stnrtllng discovery that Uncle Snm was doing It and that the Chesapeake and Delaware Oannl Company was out of business. Humor has It that the Chesa peake is likely to become popular sailing ground for such Philadelphia nnd Atlantic City navigators as Senator Penrose, Colonel James Elverson, Jr., nnd Commodore Louis II. Kiscnlohr, and 'that by the same token the Delaware bay nnd river are beginning to look good to some of the big yachtsmen of Baltimore nnd points south. Rumors of this kind make n deep impress upon some of the modern old son docs like District At made a. perilous run from New lork around thc ItarneKiit shoals, and .T. S. Loverinc N barton, John Kent Kane and Kern Dodge, who sometimes seek the smooth waters of tho Chesapeake as a soothing sub stitute for tho rock-ribbed harbors of New England. FEW of us appreciate the extent of Phil adelphia's literary endenvor. The tend cney to publish in New York, Boston or more recently in Chicago may continue to operate unfairly against Philadelphia insti tutions, but it does not indicate nny lack of authorship. Some of our biggest and best writers have grown up In Philadelphia, and ninny continue to do their work here. This is particularly true of medical productions, which bring to mind the litcfary activities of our Philadelphia dean of surgery, Dr. William W. Keen, lately major in the medi cal reserve corps of the United States army. Doctor Keen hns just put out through a Philadelphia house nn interesting story of "The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1Sf)H" a line testimonial to the ability of the surgeon to keep a profes sional secret and if the report be true, is preparing n new publication on the surgery of the war that may be applicable in peace. RABBI B. L. LEVINTHAL has been catching up with local affairs since his return from Europe, where he served as a delegate to the Zion Conference in London. This popular leader of the downtown Jews was a member of the committee to plead tho Jewish cause before the Peace Confer ence and visited Palestine before returning to this country. The rnbbi has a son who is nlso developing a lively interest in civic affairs, Abraham Lcvinthal, n member of the Philadelphia Bar. WHAT would the University of Pennsyl vania do without John C. Bell? There is no phase of University life or manage ment in which the distinguished former at torney general does not participate. He is strong on education from medicine to finance ; and as to sports, is conspicuous in every University netivlty from rowing to football. In the recent drive for additional funds to expand the University's usefulness and to nvoid the turning nwny of hundreds of applicants for admission for lack of facilities and accommodation Mr. Bell was everywhere all the time. Even' the recent legal association formed with Murdoch Kendrick had a University flavor, for though slightly younger in years Kendrick is as hard a booster for the alma mater as is Bell. THE New York dock commissioner, for mer Congressman Murray Hulbert, has stirred up Slayor Hylan and other promi nent New Yorkers to the importance of the proposed New Jersey ship canal, linking up the Delaware river with the port of New York. This is one of the links in the chain for which the Atlantic Deeper Water ways Association has been contending. A strong New York-New Jersey association hns been formed to press this whole matter before Congress. It -is called the New York New Jersey Port and Harbor Development Commission and is headed by William R. "Willcox, chairman, with General George W. Goethals as chief consulting engineer. This idea of a cross-cut to New York was born in Philadelphia, fostered in Trenton and is now very properly arousing the good people of the metropolis. DIt. GEORGE WOODWARD, of Ger mantown, is a bnsy man generally apart from his participation in reform politics. The doctor's advocacy of the new city char ter for Philadelphia and his debate with Senator Varc and others may be readily rep ealled, but it is not generally known that the doctor has other hobbies besides .city planning. Way out yonder at the foot of the Grand Teton Mountain in Jackson's Hole, Wyoming, Dr. nnd Mrs. Woodward and their children have a camp where, during the summer months, they enjoy what may properly be called "the last of the frontier," and this "call of tho wild,!' which has hitherto attracted big-game hunters like Theodore Roosevelt and the Penrose broth ers, might not have been revealed in the Germnntown senator's case had it not been for the Introduction in Congress of a greater Yellowstone Tark bill, a bill which pro poses to absorb a part of "the wild" for the gratification of sightseeing tourists. There are still many ranchers, some real and some with monocles, who inhabit Jack son's Hole nnd who regard the "coming of the white man" as an Intrusion upon their preserves. CONGRESS docs- not help the National Farm School at Doylestown, of which rr. Josenh Krauskopf Is founder and nresi. dent, but that school Is often referred to' as a model wnion migm wen oe introduced Into other sections of the country. The national legislative body is particularly friendly to the farmer and does very much for him In the way of education and prac tical encouragement. It helps In a thousand wnys: the distribution of seed, the fertlll zation of the soil and the increase 'of pro ductivity. Understanding all this, Doctor KrauBkopf and his friends, encouraged by the state of Pennsylvania and by private donors, maintain an institution where hun dreds of good citizens go annually as to a Mecca- This year the. harvest pilgrimage attracted Governor Sproul and a number of eminent meu. Former Secretary James Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture, visited the school on several occasions and placed upon it his stamp of approval. , j r The steering colttee of the industrial c4ifrMUK iff hWqM flW because of lULaMMtr to' wtt . i SOMETHING ACCOMPLISHED, SOMETHING DONE- - ,-'.irj,i'.:'".v",'ri- ..r . ij, . f V'SBSfesvi''.-..';. .vSKr-- 53 J JirJfc .JfeT1' .. '' THE CHAFFING DISH Remarks of a Guest rpiIRItK was a period in out- history, sev- eral years ago, when we wer.s much taken with n certain restaurant in New York down on Fulton street, nnd whenever we found ourself in the Bagdad-on-the-Subwny we used to go there for lunch. In this place, which was n French table d'hote, there was a genial uproar when the harassed tribes of Manhattan were busy over their midday soup add varnished chicken and a very thin and sour vintage of red wine which was served "compree." To this delightful place, as wc thought it, we would occasionally hale friends and acquaintances. The real reason for our affection toward the pli.ee was that we had been taken there (at the very -outset of our Grub street existence) by a distin guished editor who (Wc thought) was going to offer us a job on his paper. But, after a pleasant meal, through which wc sat in a state of beaming and embarrassed expect ancy, the editor did no such thing, but ad vised us heartily to get n good job cleaning the streets or something of that sort. At any rate, he paid for the lunch, and any place where a meal has been bought for us is always sacred in our memory. Well, one of the' gentlemen wc took to this place was a delightful literary man, of a shrewdly observant turn, who has since gone abroad to live. And what is our horror, on picking up n recent issue of a London weekly, to find thaj our much cherished resort is described by him(ln the most scath ing terms. He even goes so far as to make some dreadful assertions about the occasion when wc lunched there together. This is what he says: Some years ago I, was naked to lunch In New York at a restaurant In the neigh borhood of Wall street one of those places where eating becomesVeedlng, "where, as in a pn, men close-packed In a small room gToan and sweat as they devour probable dishes while flying scuds of soup and gravy are blown In the face from plates carjled at perilous angles by Irritable and dis tracted waiters. It has always seemed to me an'example of the great docility of the Americans and their slavery to custom that men should consent to go day after day for years to such caves of noise and fumes and half-warm food, when they might have a sandwich In peace on a street corner. My host was a large florid young man, rather ample In movement for the place, who locked bb If he mjght have seized the restaurant In his arms and swung It across the river to the Brooklyn side. It Aems to us, speaking with just a faint accent of pained reproach, that our friend has been a little unkind. The London New Witness, in Svhich his article appears, is the weekly edited by Mr. Chesterton ; it is read by many very nice and refined people; it doesn't seem to us fair to pu( us in wrong with those people by Insinuating that wo groan and well, the other thing while wo eat; and as for the flying spindrift of soup, we don't remember any of It. 'Of course, the next time our friend comes over here we shall know better than to take him to any of our favorite hash-counters. We will have a couple -of sandwiches done up in fair white shelf-paper, with tho scalloped edge folded outward, and we will take him up to the front steps of the Academy of the Fine Arts, whero we can sit-in peace. Affable Triolet When old Neptune upclimbs From his caves with his concb, Does be blow pretty chimes, When old Neptune upclimbs? Not at nil! Nothing rhymes With that queer word but honkt When old Neptuno upclimbs From bis caves with his conch. JESTA MINNIT. A Fifth avenue tailor asserts, in the full ness of his pride, that "to sell such clothes as these on Broadway or on a aide street would be a mesalliance, because they are aloof from tho roob. There's not a trace of mobbUhness about them." Not a trace of niobblshness, perhaps ; but more thad a trace in the tailor of something that rhymes verylwell with flsobWbasa. "? T -i '.'. " Wo" are far'rom Woe Vm '.? W n iuaUwst judgment ou wurff mtMf.MMt, my . ,i!j-:-'., .r w .-9i;' ," .it. --n -A . .. ( i , , . .FI-JIm. MW-KTHteS V -..f C-l. ,,.. "i-ynf ASSmBSSe- ,Mk.j, come up," but for our own paft we rather favor a trace of mobbishness in garments. In the present state of the fountain pen and safety match industries it seems safer. A Friendly Warning Dear Socrates: I want you to let my ewe lamb alone. In the Chaffing Dish you have been saying things about a famous book known as "Tho Balsam Groves of Grandfather Mountain." Worse, you have given notice that you are going to get the whole book and print bits of It. I do protest. When I was a little boy, thirty ytars ago, ( the Ltnvllle Impnnement Company, of Lin- Miie, i. u., onereu i&uuu tor me Dcst dooi. (romance) with the sceno.lald on the Grand father, which Is the most beautiful mountain In Jhe world. My father was one of the judges. More than 800 books were submitted. Sheppard C. Dugger, a schoolteacher and "slngln" leader" of tho Grandfather country, sub mitted his now famous "Balsam Groves." Ilo was very much offended that It didn't win the prize, whlcl. was awarded, byjhe way, to "In the Afterglow," a book that was never published. Shep's friends gathered'about him1 and con doled. They drank some moonshine and made remarks about the Judges. Shep made speeches. He.' had a wonderful mane of chebtnut hair, a magnificent chestnut beard and great yellow eyes. He was a lovely man. Shep took It much to heart. Genius was brushed aside; native eloquence was con fined to the hills and never allowed to reach "the outside." Finally he published the book, and the Charlotte Observer and the Charles ton News and Courier a'nd the New York Sun had tho time of their lives about it. But you are mistaken about Shep's ever having awakened to the fact that his book was humorous. He rode about the mountains with saddlebags filled with his book and sold a large edition. The book Is to be found In every mountain home In North Carolina. It is tho moBt exquisite Joke of tlte whole vast neighborhood, but the mountaineers never laugh at Shep, nnd he has never found out. Just as I read Treasure Island every Oc tober, so I so to North Carolina every May when I can, and ride across the Grandfather back of Boone, and Join In the quiet fun of my old-tlmo playmates over the doln's 'of Shep Dugger. So, I want you to let him alone. If you print anything mora about him he will sell his mule- and come up here and put his arms around your neck and claim you as tho brother who,at last understands. He'll settle down on you and there, you will be. Tn.f friendly warning from g, II, c - Twilight rpiIEUE by her window with half dream-- ing eyes, She watched- the slow procession of the years Creep up tho little street: Her hopes and fears Became vague shadowlngs in Time's disguise And passed as well her bosom's fall and rise Was all untroubled by Youth's long ar rears, And if at dusk phe knew the sting of tears There was a, solace in the evening skies. Long since her harp had rusted and Bhe seemed ' All but unheeding, yet her ears would fill With fragment melodies that slowly crept Out of the darkness ; so she sat and dreamed Away her life; her slender fingers still Touching the broken strings where Love once slept'. L, BLACKLEDGE LIPPMANN. King Albert Breakfasts on Mountain. Headline in New York Times. To which o,ur waggish client Ned Mus champ remarks, there's nothing like that western air to build up a big appetite. William McFee sends us the following tale,' from tho London Times: In giving vent to his feelings on his discharge, nn old soldier wrote to his late colonel: -"Sir After what I have suffered you can tell the army to go to hejl," In due course he re ceived the following; "Sir Any suggestions or inquiries as to movements fif troops must be entered pa awrf orm'138,;XY5!;"a eonr! cfhlch.fcljw&f?'. ,', ," vti TV - i r fQCBATBB. ' HAVE MADE SONGS rpHOUGH I have made you many a goljen - song, Hymning your loveliness in artful rhyme, No one of these but does your beauty wrongs Aud stands a libel for all listening time. Dusks, ,1 have said, arc clouding through your hair, And earth's old twilights linger where, you arc, Dreams I have said, have made your eyes a lair For largess brought from some old ruined star. Yet, all of this is but n faltering art Of futile words that strain, beyond their reach ; And still about your image in my heart, Trembles the cloistered silence closed to speech A templed shrine, a dim nnd holy place,, Where no least word profanes your lifted face. David Morton, in the Canadian Magazine. If It is true, as' Mr. Palmer declares, that food prices in all the states save Penn sylvania have decreased 25 per cent, Phila delphlans will feel inclined to raise Kane. A French aviator has started a flight from France to Australia": The wonder of today is always bound to be a commonplace tomorrow. Everybody at Washington but the physi cians appears to be worried about the Presi dent's condition. France has ngain signified! her faith In the league of nations by appointing a dele gate to the council. It is a poor washday when some Rus sian regiment Isn't taking the starch out of the Archangel front. What Do You Know? QUIZ lv,In what state is the town of Gary? 2. Who was the last king of France? 3. What Is the original meaning of the word caddie? ' 4. Of .what, disease did Napoleon die? 5. Who were the Brothers Grimm? C. Who was Frederick Douglass? 7. Japanese suicide Is often described as "hari-kari." What is the correct spelling of this word?" 8. What is a cachalot? 0. The two Presidents who died, a natural , death in office belonged to the same party. What party; was this? 10. What Is thcSpnnlsh name for Spain? Answers to, Yesterday's Quiz 1. The retina is the layer at the. back of the eyeball, sensitive to light. 2. Robert Emmet, the, Irish patriot and revolutionist, lived most of his short life in the eighteenth century. lie was born in 177S and was hanged in Dublin In 1803. 3. Palingenesis is regeneration, revival. Biologically It means exact reproduc tion of ancestral character. . 4. President Garfield lived eighty days. after he was shot by Gulteau. 5. Senator Moses Is from New Hampshire, 6. Duke is a higher title than carl in England. 7. William Booth founded tho Salvation Army. , 8. Seriatim means point by point, tnklnt , one subject, etc., After another in reg ular ordcri 0. Moi.cs died at Mount Ncbo. 10. Captain CbnrlcsVllkcs (later admiral) was an American naval officer, ex plorer and scientist,' He,U ilsrtlcu- 4 larljr iJbtatd, tit his ipWsttona . U 'ifcc ;&.&. arid H. Uiok'. W4 j , -!' unr WW!. im, if "7l fKl -fl 'IS .
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