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LABOR'S BOLT
MR. GOMPERS. left to himself, prob
ably would not h'tvo bolted the labor
conference. He would have beoji far too
wise to invite for otganized labor full
' blame for the possible wreck of the con-
ferencc and responsibility for whatever
loss and confusion may follow. The ex
ecutive council of the American Feder
ation, rather than Gompeis and his as
sociates in the confeience, seems to have
orip;inated the policy of staiulpatism,
which made reasonable agreements im
possible. It is a losing policy. Labor for the
moment has sunendered its claim to the
support of popular opinion. The em
ployers' croup and the conservatives
amonp; the representatives of the public
have now the general advantage that
goes with an apparent desire to be pa
tient, sincere, deliberate and ready for
compromise.
Each of the successive resolutions of
fered by the labor group implied clearly
the future dictatorship over industry not
only by the Federation of Laboivbut by
the representatives which the federation
membeis might elect. The federation
elected William 7.. Foster, a syndicalist
and I. W. V. red. It elected the men
who want to paralyze the whole indus
trial life of the country by calling a
? strike in the soft-ccal industry for a
thirty-hour week and a sixty per cent
increase in wages.
i If these are the policies to which or
ganized labor is consecrated, then any
sensible man must admit that even Mr.
Gary, who has not been conspicuously
public-spirited or liberal-minded in the
past, acted logically in opposing the labor
group contentions to the last. It is
Mr, Gompers and his aides who turned
aideaf ear to the appeal of the President
""" and it is the executive council of the
federation, which foimally offered its full
est support to the belligerent steel strik-
ers even when the labor conference was
trying to find a way to a peaceful set
tlement, that must shoulder the blame
for the defeat of Mr. Wilson's plans if
they are actually defeated. The executive
council has been radical-minded and ob
durate from the first. It may be granted
that the other groups at the labor con
ference were not always fair. The im
portant thing is that they seemed willing
to strivo for an acceptable middle ground
and that labor quit before the job could
be accomplished.
MOORE, P. R. T. DIRECTOR
WHEN he takes oflice as Mayor, Mr.
Moore will become ono of the direc
tors of the P. R. T. His duties in that
position will be to look after the intcr-
csts of the riders on the street cars.
He has already begun to gather infor
mation, for he has had an interview with
, Mr. Stotesbury and Mr. Mitten, during
which he asked them some pertinent
questions.
What those questions were has not
been disclosed, but those who know Mr.
Moore are confident that they went to the
heart of the issues.
Rapid transit development has been
checked by the war. The city is suffer
ing from lack of fast lines to carry pas
sengers to the outlying districts. The
new Mayor will be confronted by no more
pressing problem than that connected
with the way to provide those lines.
The public will await with undisguised
interest the disclosure of the plans which
he finally makes for relieving the con
i gestion in the central part of the city.
TAMING THE WILD TAXICABS
TD ULES announced by the Public Serv
" ice Commission for the regulation of
taxicabs are favorable to the taxicab
companies and more or less discouraging
to the men who operate what are known
generally as wild cabs. The owner of a
wild cab operates usually at night. Ho
owns his own machine and often wishes
he didn't. His aim in life is to get all
he can in the way of fees.
Under the new code taximeters are re
quired in all such vehicles and the 'own
ers must show that they, like other com
mon carriers, have arranged to compen
sate passengers in case of accident. The
taxi companies have already met these
requirements.
The regulations laid down by the serv
ice commission ate similar to those .exist
ing in other cities and are altogether
commendable from tho viewpoint pf pub
lic safety. Because of earlier laxity the
wild taxi business has flourished in
Philadelphia, Drivers often impose ex
orbitant charges and their patrons have
had none of the guarantees of safety
made necessary under the new code.
A BOUQUET FOR SCHWAB
LORD FISHER, who is usually credited
with having made the modern British
foayy what It 5s, has. taken his pen in
knd for a. scries of broadide devised to
jMjt-the;:Engllk,.owtiQf :,eMnplac(i;ucy
which ho deems worse than fatal. The
admiral's criticism of popular war heroes
has been scathing. Ho aims to speak
for the future with the voice of trumpets.
The British have just been reading
Lord Fisher's latest ptoposal, presented
as Bernard Shaw might have presented
it in his best days, for a practical bond
of unity between the United States and
Britain. He wants foity-mi!e-an-hour
ships lunning between New Yoik and
Blacksod bay, on the west coast of Ire
land, with fast rail seivice through the
gicen isle and a tunnel to England and a
tunnel to France and other ladiating
lines to the heait of the continent and
farther east.
The project is colossal and rojnantic,
but by no mentis impossible. It would
solve 'many of Ireland's tumbles. It
would give the Ihiliah and all Ameticans
a common inteiest. Such a system of
communication would be to Anglo
Saxons far mole than the Kcilin-to-Bagdad
Railway was in the dreams of the
Pan-Germans. But it is Loid l'l-hn's
pai ting shot to the Btitish that should
interest Amnrici.ns.
"Schwab," says ho, "could do it!"
Most likely he's right.
THE SENATE'S SILLY SEASON
SEEMS TO BE ALMOST OVER
McCumber's Reservations Clear the Way
for Treaty Progress Which It Would
Be Folly for the Democrats
to Obstruct
THE constitution says nothing about
open emotions, openly an ived at, and
so the Senate quite correctly assumes the
privilege to be "temperamental." Its
members have a way of wincing and
wailing and writhing and raving when
politics bear down upon exposed nerves.
All this is so perfectly in aecoul with
convention and tindition that it really
warrants no surprise.
But the sensitheness of the public is
also acute and its memoiy is short. It
is awfully upset when the Senate has a
tantium and is in the main quite obliv
ious of the fact that such an exhibit is
usually followed by action carefully
keyed to the tone of popular opinion.
Necessarily, this must be so or else lep
resentative government is a farce.
The truth is that most of us don't
think so for a minute and yet, despite all
our faith, we continue to take the regula
tion comic relief a trifle too seriously.
Consider the peace tieaty. It has been
inevitable from the outset that this na
tion would ratify the document without
compelling its return to the Paris con
feience. The country wouldn't tolerate
any other pioceduro.
The senatois. all except a fqw wild
men who will always be outvoted, were
well aware of this. But they were aware
also that veibose emotionalism in the
legislative halls was under no constitu
tional ban and that as politician's they
had a right to cultivate the technique of
politics.
For more than a month the scoring of
points in one of the most fascinating of
games has gon" men ily on. liming that
period this newspaper, which has from
the beginning advocated the passage of
the treaty, has said little about it in these
columns. The contest in Washington had
passed the phase in which it could en
danger the fate of civilization and en
tered upon the haimless and highly pro
fessional stage. Comment upon the va
rious moves for Democratic or Republi
can position, upon the exaggerated
calamity howling and on the whole spec
tacle of shifting triumphs and discom
fiture was hardly necessary.
Natuially, it mattered a good deal to
Mr. Lodge if he chalked up a point or
lost one, and tho maiks on the Demo
cratic dope sheet weie of deep interest
to Mr. Hitchcock. Such themes, how
ever, belong to the rarefied domain of the
political high criticism.
Through all the performance, how
ever, tho clutch of vital circumstance was
not to be shaken off by the spokesman
of either party. Hence it was that the
foolish and corroding amendments a
whole grist of them by Senator Fall, tho
Shantung trouble-urceuer, and some
others weie brushed away into the dis
card. Hence it is, furtheunore, that Senator
Hitchcock's obstinacy against legitimate
reservations to the treaty is likely to
leact most unfavorably against him.
The pompous booming of the political
big guns is about at an end. After a
thoroughly conventionalized spasm, the
Senate is settling down to its prime busi
ness of 1 effecting the people's will.
The argumentative absurdities which
senators commit seldom live after them.
The good is incorporated in American
history.
The nation is now facing a refreshing
chapter of estimable perfoimance.
Having indulged its errant humor to the
full, having toyed characteristically with
the amendment fallacy, the Senate is
now plainly preparing to subscribe to
the treaty of Versailles.
For the termination of the period of
whimsicality and abstruse professional
ism, the efforts of Porter J. McCumbcr
are in a large measure responsible. His
marshaling of the sensible and patriotic
elements best representative of the Re
publican party was reflected in the defeat
of the amendments. It is visible again
in the reservations which should admir
ably servo to clarify America's position
in momentous foreign affairs.
Mr. Hitchcock will be blundering
egregiously if he is bull-headed about
them. It is doubtful, moreover, whether
his obstinacy will faithfully mirror tho
President's sober viewpoint.
On tour it was perhaps necessary for
Mr. Wilson to be uncompromising. That
was certainly one way of attacking tho
amendment delusion, and when a spokes
man entertains passionate convictions it
is hardly advisable to confuse tho issue
with qualifications due for consideration
later on.
As the situation now stands, the treaty
is out of danger. The Paris Conference
is not going to be reopened.
Jt is, therefore, altogether fitting that
tho United States should exercise its
right to interpret tha'document soriouslx I
land explicitly 3fh Amlrican pepjSq are
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EVENING VVBUC LEDGER -
entitled to be safeguarded in that
fashion.
Theic arc individuals who no doubt
can find in tho treaty and the league
covenant implication of all the positions
which the seven McCumbcr leservations
take. In that case, though the interpre
tations may bo artistically offensive, they
are essentially harmless. There can be
no valid objection to the repetition of a
good thing.
On J.I10 other hand, persons to whom
the treaty text is unsatisfying ought not
to be ignored. They will bo reassured
by the icservation by which the United
States assumes to be the sole judge re
garding its fulfillment of international
obligations; by the additional safeguard
ing of the Monroe Doctrine; by the defi
nite exclusion of domestic questions from
tho league; by the expression of tho
right of this country to object to the
voting repiescntation of the British do
minionsv What Is "icserved" is not destructive
of tho covenant, It is simply our eluci
dation of language which unquestionably
permits of such construction.
Article X, which has rightly been
called the heal t of the covenant, is not
pierced bv the McCumbcr declaration
that "the United States assumes no obli
gation to piesorvo the political integrity
or political independence of nny other
country or to interfere in contiovorsies
between nations," unless Congiess au
thorizes such acts.
Of course. Congress must act first.
Respect for the "existing political inde
pendence of all members of the league"
is specifically emphasized in the pacT.
The leservalion is useful as a notice to
the outside woild of the structure on
which our government is based.
By the Shantung provision the United
States "refrains from entering into any
agreement on its pait" with reference to
the transfer of the foimer German out
post to Japan.
This is fair and logical, as the cession
in nctually a result of the treaties be
tween the Fiench, British and Japanese
Governments, in which we weie never in
volved. With tho season of inconsequential
senatorial antics viitually at a close, it
is imperative that tho patriotic co-operation
of the political leaders should be
registered.
Senator Hitchcock will enlist scant
sympathy, save from bigoted partisans,
if he adopts purely obstructionnry tactics
regarding sane reservations.
The Republicans will be equally blame
worthy if they press the foreign rela
tions committee's latest recommenda
tion stipulating that thico of the princi
pal Allied powers must agree to them.
Such a perfoimance is only a thinly
veiled. icpctition of the amendment non
sense. Furtheimore, it is a queer .mental
process which insists upon acceptance by
somebody else of our own opinions before
we venture to consider them valid.
Chicanery at this late day is no longer
nmus'ing. Happily such of it as still
survives is likely to bo swiftly discred
ited. The Senate has donned its working
togs. November 1 is approaching. Po
litical foiecasters have had a feeling
that the treaty would be ratified about
that date.
A rctiospcctive survey of the typical
functioning of a typical American Con
gress is confiimatory of that view.
The Mifini- destroyed
(iiU'crliiR Tlirmsrhrs by striking teamsters
is but a small tcn
spoonful in the national (oltce cup but in
the matter of public sentiment it is a moun
tain. Kwrj hou-ewife ilepnveil of her usual
amount of sug.ir feels a pergonal grievance
against its wanton ili'stn.c-i'. The (lump
ing of the sugar by the -Hikers was worse
than wltUcd. It was nsiuino.
If j 011 had to award
We'd Split the Trize a prize for the most
eint and accom
plished waster of cnerg.i, would jou honor
the mini who laboriously balances n cherry
on the peak of a sundnc, the chap, who puts
the twist in pretzels or the politician who
still lielieu's that he inn appear honest by
waving the Hag?
The Philadelphia Mint
I'l'imy-Iess is tin nine out be
tween two and three
million cents daily. "It is saving the na
tion from being penniless," sa.s Ray S.
Baker, director. Perhaps it is because lie
isv a punster that Mr. Baker thus hnndlcs
the dough.
When King Albert of
Our Various Land Belgium visits Har-
lisburg tomorrow he
will find a spec taele of the soi t that may be
viewed only in n few places eicn on this
diverting earth. lie will see a lot of men
cheering for political liberty without be
lieving in it.
The day approaches
No I-micer a Reason when a wink will do
no more than ihymc
with "drink."
Sugar is plentiful in Cuba, but the fact
gives us little joy. Water is plentiful at
l.uku Kiie, but it doesn't help Sahara.
According to the Carnegie Foundation,
Justice occasionally swats the poor with her
'scalei.
Bstinrntes for the new truck show that
the old IJbeity Bell is to be equipped with
all modern improvements.
When strikers destioy property it is
their cause they destroy.
Before the Senate gets through with it
it ma) be a piece treaty.
Senator John Q. Compromise will put
the treaty through if anybody can.
If it is thrills D'Annunzio wants, he
might icturn to the Itullnn quake zone.
And of course we'll avoid nil mention
of local polities while King Albert Is in
town. '
French Socialists are expected to split
during the coming eleetornl campaign. But
isn't this tho easiest thing they do?
The man in fighting trim is never a
trimmer,
Tho nrisontr tint on ball doenu't i-nrr
hoy lwden are the heels of, Justice.
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PHirADELPHTA, THUftfeDAY, ' OCTOBER 23,
THE GOWNSMAN
Freo Verse Once More
TX TIIK current number of the Atlantic
J- Monthly, Walter Pilchard Baton Is at
great pains to distinguish the hn.lt' "f free
Acrse If our free verse is growing hair
twlxt the north and northwest side. He
tells of "the bewilderment of the public,"
which to all nppearanees is as worried and
anxious over the momentous question, "Whilt
is the illu"crcnce between fiee verse ami
ptoseV" as It is troubled with the high cost
of living and the persistency of the I 'nlted
Stales Henate In prolincting to the utmost
limit our tinconcludeil world war. The
(iownsmiiii has not noticed ninny faces
among Ills acquaintances haggard and pal
lid because of rest lost over this pus-zllng
matter. But then the (Iownsmiiii has not
been ery lately in Boston, not indeed since
the famous night In which Ihe Boston police
turned over the city to the hoodlums, nil act
which, from its freedom fiom un.Uhiug like
firhjmc or icason, tuny not impossibly have
been superinduced by a spicics ol puciif.ii
Infection from the famous put' tltlonei.s ot
free cisu in Cambridge and lItiity.
SOMi; time ago, when the shot I story
was sciiitillatlui: in the spotlight of popu
lar discussion, mi eminent authority dis
lovercd that a short story is not a story
which is short, but a new species or genre
(beautiful and favorite word) in literature,
only properly to be designated by the
hjphenated word "bhoit-stor.i, ' r. still
iiinru accurately and precisely "the "hurt
slor.i." Perhaps Mr. Kittoii'n dKcoNcry Is
one of this delicate, discriminating kind.
Standing in n crowd the other day, Mr.
Baton heard u liinu declare, lie tells us: "lie
sas he wouldn't take his old job hue J; for
tw'iie his foimer wages." I,et we be misled.
Mr. Baton hastens to infoini us that "it
would be absurd to suppose that this mini
was talking 1111 thing but conversational
pru-e." This we uie really glad to know.
And our Mentor adds, "He was not even
emotionally the least excited." We ate glad
of that, too, for if the man had been emo
tionally excited, who could qticstiun that it
was that which had' driven him to erse,
as tunny a man now, alas! of joie hath gone
his fatal way to drink.
I
I1 Won.D seem that nothing, then, Is
mine fallacious than the lurking suspicion
whii h j nu cherish, dear lelteied leader, that
in some wise rhythmic prose and free, or
less than ligoiously rlijtlunie, icrsc can be
nn thing whntcer alike. Mr. Baton who
confes-es modestly tlint lie, too. has maw
iToits In "the new poetrj" declines
that in this free net of a free will, the writer
is nlwa.is "inwardly conscious that he is
not writing prose." Of course he is. Who
ever wiote nu epic who was not "inwardly
conscious" of rivaling Paradise Lost? And
what lyrist strokes his sounding Ijic who is
not oiitsinging Shelley? Mr. Baton sets
gieat stoic on the setting of winds "in linear
fashion," showing how 3011 cannot make
Pater a poet by printing his rhjthmic prose,
a line to each successive comma, and how a
cry nice passage of feeling from Sandburg's
"(trass" cannot be destroyed, as to its
poetic spirit, bj setting it up as prose. We
mav write Q. K. D. to this all. But what
o." it?
A1
LL "new poetries" and there have been
twenty "new poetries" nt least since
Spenser are lefciablc to two things, an
impatic e with restraint mid 11 ciaving for
novelty, singularity, difference. To piny the
game with all its 'rules and triumph in it
takes genius. To quarrel with the rules and
tamper with them is easy and a sore temp
tation. If ou cannot undergo the rigors of
long and assiduous piactice that 3011 may
play Bach and Chopin, you cm at lenst play
ragtime and, keeping up with tho taste of
the moment, ,i'i7.z music. And this hns the
further advantage of being novel and there
fore popularly acceptable. AVe are not con
cerned with musicnl or poetical values,
Chopin has been vilely played; and there is
excellent ragtime and jnwery. But we need
not dismiss contemptuously "the minor
poetry" of Francis Thompson, as Mr. Baton
docs parenthetically, because we have be
come votaries of lawless novelty.
UT AWLKSS novelty." These are dour
-L' words, Mr. (inwnsman. But nil our
dcpartuies from what is noepted and settled,
in government, 111 art. in conduct, in le
ligion itself, are, in their beginnings,, "law
less novelties." Some rebellions succeed;
some fail and ought to fall. Thin partitions
divide the rebel and the patriot, and then
are revolutions whiih substitute n higher,
finer form of go eminent for v. hat has gone
before as there are revolutions which appear
to return us to primeval ehnns. Tree speech,
fiee thought, free love, fiee vetse, free
lunch: there nre some good and some bad
things in this free list. And who is to
tell if Miss Amy Lowell and Mr. Masters
nre really going to discredit wholly the old
worthies who struttid their day upon the
stage in the laces and hiocndes, the farthingales-
and Htoinacheis, of verse musical and
regular?
Tyj-R. BATON in ris-ht. There is a differ-PU-cncc,
nn eternal difference, between
not verse and pi use that is a trille off
form, and nnimpoitnnt as the question
whether an oak leaf or 11 maple h (,p 1)ri,t.
tier but between the sphit of poetry and
that of prose. Prose, though 3011 me.isute it
out with the reguliriti of a paling fence, and
put the rhythm of n dance hnll into it,' will
remain prose, a thing (if arious motion,
swift or slow, upon the ground. Though
3 ou fihnko from it all the Jewelry of its
ornnmeuts and make its movemeiit as ir
regulnr and unexpected as the wash of the
sea, poetry has jet, like the sea, n grand
basic throb, pulsing from the heart its
Riilrit, not its form. The rent ,lifTn...,.,
after all, is that poetry gets you off the
ground; prose keeps you on it. Who soars
over the tombstones of Spoon River'' or
rises off the ground with the jingles regular
or irregular, of our little writers of free
verso or verso in shaikles? What we want
Mr. Eaton, is not more free cl.sc or ficer
verse even. Here's to free poetry with the
lift of n Liberty motor In it 1-
Assnyers from all oier the country are
in conference at the Philadelphia Mint If
Internal revenue men should be called' Into
consultation they might dig up enough 1111 .
tcrial for a julep.
Candidate Moore Is careful worker
who takes nothing for granted. He js con.
ducting his campaign as though he had a
fight on his hands.
One feature' of the teamsters' strike
runs true to type: V, hen the strikers rioted
an "innocent bystander" as the first
casualty.
Messrs. Stotesbury and Mitten called
on Congressman Moore probably to tell
Mm of the best nickel's worth in town.
Wo will oon have to amend the phrase,
b last leg" to the "last wing" of a
"the
flight.
InlpdW8 n M'1 dly usually bears
some relation to the fixing of fenct,g.
Jleet siar ,mcu ate aused 0 .ruU
it "beat"- r- - '
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TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morlcy
Ridge Avenue
ONE of the odd things about human beings
is, that wherever they happen to live
they accept it as n matter of course. In
various foreign cities I hae often been
amused (as every tiaveler hns) to see people
going about their affairs just as though it
were nntitral and unquestionable for them
40 be theie. It is just the fame at home.
Kvery one I see on the streets seems to be
not at all amazed nt living here iiiltead of
(let us say) Indianapolis or Nashville. 1
envv niv small lTichln his sense of the ex
treme improbability of overs thing. "hen
he gets 011 a trolley car he draws n long
breath and looks around in ecstasy at the
human 'scenery. I am teaching him to mi
in a loud clear tone, as be gets on the en,
."Look at all the human beings! m tin.
same accent of amazement that he uses when
he goes to the Zoo. Perhaps in his way 1 e
will preserve the happy faculty of being Mil
prised. I
T IS an agree
able thing to keep the same
sense ot surprise in one
borne town
thai one would have in a strange city. ou
iU find much to startle ,011 If ' P
Vur eyes open. Yesterday, for, nsnme
ity. ou
was lucky enougli to meei n -
ad stood only a few feet away fr' 1J,
when he made the Octtysbiug .speech. 1 1 en
I fomiil that in a certain cafeteria which I
fren. ent the price sou pay for sour lunch is
a "just one cent less than tha punch d
on "lie check.- Tlic cashier explained tint
?hs alwass gives 11 pleasant surpr.se to the
customers, and has proved such n good ad -ver
Wv' lodge that the. proprietor made t
1 i' ,?" And 1 saw. in a clothing dealer's
window on .Nim . m 7. -7 :- ., ' t
.. . 1. . n.xn fll'.V I'lllW
m..i .,,., .in unci cicIm e, that
for
"V .;... .1... ...lvoiirimiiis snail has not
men, mouicu i-m - . ., ,
...nf tmii liiirini' iittx
proven mm " ""'""" , - .
in I
died in the breast 01 im- ""-
mllEKE is nine
h to exercise tho eje in n
1 vosnge along Bidge avenue. Appioaci
iuc bV wav of Ninth street one sees in the
indow of a barber shop the new cont.nct
" t e emplosing barbers have drawn up
with heir journeymen. This agreement
1 .. J sound sense of human equities, pro
shows n i soun I , b en e mM
t do'no ac to enjure the haiber personal
estning " I 'lcn,' """'i'0 T'
I a,l not thought of before, how the
brbers of Croat Britain must have grieved
wl c. n London newspaper got up (some
vn, nL'ol nn agitation in favor of every
yenrs ago) "",,, bPnnl iu memory
TKi'ng wanl The plan was that the
mo. ey thus saved was to be devoted to
In,- I had nlmost s'md "glowing" n
Imt h7 to be named after the Meiry Mon-
arc O course., one should not speak of
raising a beard, but of lowering it. How-
ever
Rldec nvenue begins nt Ninth nud Vine, in
1 f . 1 nression. Perhaps tho fact that
" ' ; hr city's Kreatest collec-
on of eeneteries has made it mmbldly con-
clous of 'human perishability At any rate
u starts among pawnshops, old clothing and
urnU re" ami bottles of QUI Virginia Bit-
furniture, ai Bcstoier. The famous
National T hentre at Callowhill street has
1 ,, inrace- it is queer to see the old
become a gniag. u
proseeninm arch an rllpkii A
vaulted oyr a f (ls onp (.olm,s ,
wilderiiesK 0 .all way
fuS hat bends 'around into a huddle of
tiinnei in j- .. u)llhPS where a large.
l,nrrot was stooping and noddln,, on a
B, fftaffl This little scene is over
fl?l bv m 'tall brown spires of the Church
cTthe. Attsumpuon oSpring Garden street.
mnEBE is matter for tarrying nt the
1 Spring Garden street "ossing Here U
n ambitious fountain, built by the bequest
of Mary Rebecca Darby Smith, with the
rarvlne by J. J- rlcturinji another
Rebecca (ihe of Genesis xxiv, 11) giving
n drink to Abraham's servant and his
cntnels If is carved in tho bromo that tho
dono gave the. fountain "To refresh tho
weary and thirsty, both man and beast," so
it is disconcerting to find it dr, ns dry as
ihe inns along the way. The horse trough
to Broad street fqr adrasht. Tlie set
lwim Ti-Jjfej!:? JS- gf
11 V ' ' Y:itinmn2&h-hMr'''' mi ii
!h boarded over nun inn"i "" K" up
9
in the right direction
the New Yoik Journal, always a depress
ing sight.
Acioss fiom the fountain is one of the
best magazine and stationery shops in the
city. lleie I overheard n conveisation
which I leprodiue textunlly. "What sou
doing, loading?" said one to another. "Yes,
loading about the biggest four-flusher in the
Vcw-nitcd States," said lie, looking over an
afleinoon paper which had just come in.
"Who do sou mean?" "Penrose. Say, if
it was h Republican in the. White House,
they'da passed the tieaty long ago," The
proprietor of this shop is a humorist. Some
one came in asking for a certain brand of
cigincttcs. lie does not sell tobacco, "Next
door," he said, and added, "And 5011'H find
some over on the fountain."
RIDGE AVENUE specializes in tobacco
shops, where 3011 will find many brands
that requiie a strong head. Red Snapper,
Panhandle Scrap, Pinch Hit, Red Horse,
Brown's Mule, Jxilly Tar, Pcnn Statue Cut
tings, Nickel Cross Cut, Cotton Ball Twiv,t.
In the shop windows you will see those
photogiaphs Unstinting current events, the
two favorites just now being a pictuie of
Mike Gilhooley, the famous stowaway, gaz
ing plaintively at the profile of Now York,
and "Jack Dompsey Goes the Limit," where
Jack signs up for 11 S1000 war-savings cer
tificate. One wonders if Jack's kind of war
fiue is ri'ally so piofitable nfter all.
There arc a number of little side excur
sions from the nventle that repay scrutiny.
Lemon street, for instance, where in a lane
of old brown wooden bouses some children
were plnjing in an empty wagon, with the
rounded tower of the Itodcf Shalom syna
gogue looming in the bnckgiound. Best of
all is Melon street and its n.odost tributary,
Park avenue stretches of quiet little brick
homes with green and 30II0W shutters and
mottled gray marble stops. These little
houses have the serene and sunny air so
typical of Philadelphia b.vws-s. Through
their narrow side entrances one sees glimpses
of green in backyards. In tho front win
dows move the gently swaying faces of
grandmothers, lulled in the to and fro of a
locking chiilr. There are shining brass
knobs and bell-pulls; rubber plants on the
sills, or perhaps n small bowl of goldfish
with a white china swan floating. In one
window was n sign "Vacancies." Over it
hung a faded service flag with a golden star.
Who could phrase the pathos of these two
things, bide by side?
AT BROAD STREET, Ridge avenue leaps
up with n sputt of high life. In the
window of a hotel dining room n gentleman
sat eating his lunch, stevedoring a buttered
10II with such" gusto that one felt tempted to
applaud. There nie the white pillars of a
bank and the battleship gray of the Salva
tion Army headquarters. Beyond BiWl,
the avenue spruces up a bit and enters upon
n vivacious phase. Dogs are frequent: white
bull terriers lie sunning iu the shop win
dows. Offers to lend money nre enticing.
There Is n fascinating slate yard at 3525,
svhero great gtny slabs llo in the sun, n
temptation to. iiiehliis with a bit of chalk.
In the warm bask of the afternoon there
rises a pleasing nioma of fruits and vegeta
bles piled up In baskets and crates on tho
pavement. Grapes, give off u delectable
snvor-in Bie golden nir. Elderly ladies arc
out in force to do the marketing, and their
eyes nre bright with the bargaining passion.
Round the windows of a ten-cent store,
most fascinating of all human spectacles,
they congregate mill compare notes. A fruit
dealer has an Ingenious stunt to attract At
tention. On his cash register lies a weird
looking rotund little fish a butter fish, ho
dills it which has a face not unlike that
of Fatty Arbuckle. Either this fish Inflates
itself or he hns blown it full of air in some
ingenious manner, for it presents a grotesque
nppearance, and many ladles stop to in
quire. Then he spoofs them gently. "Sure,"
he says; "It's a jitney fish. It lives on the
cash register. It can fly, It can blto, it can
talk, and it likes money."
At the corner of Wylio street stands an
old gray house with a mansard roof and
giiblQ windows. Against it is a vivid store
of fruit glowing in trip sun, red and purplo
onq turns oft to cater the 1 -jualnt Jrlaogultir. J 'JO.h, Citanw uwinfjat as q condlWa .
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m nfMMiMft iJr ' 'if -rrnrtfi vir fa lA t :rlMllMtmMi-ri'iVuir'h .....
and ycl,low; Here, or on Y'neyarii street,
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POETRY IN A SHOE
MmllERE ain't much poetry in a shoe,"
-- Said Hiram Keith to John Ballou.
"Last night the parson at the kirk
Spoke of the poetry of work ;
The rhythm of the whirring wheels,
The coiling smoke, the gliding keels;
Of ardent minds that bring to birth
Tho necessary tilings of earth.
Hut I can't sec It. Here I sit
From stnrting time till time to quit.
So you may tick and tack and too.
I think there's poetry in a shoe.
"No poetry?" said John Ballou.
"I think there's plenty in it shoe:
In my mind's 030 I've often seen
The "Steppes, the Ind, and Argentine;
The fields of France wheio cattle graze;
The prnirics wido whereon we raise
Our own supply of needed hides.
Great ships come sailing down the tides
From Afric, Asia, many lands,
To bring the product to your hands,
So you may tick and tack and too.
Boston Evening Transcript.
If the Industrial conference should come
to nn agreement, the next step will be to pro
vide a guarantee that it will be kept. What
seems to be needed is n declaration, of prin
ciples to which nil enn subscribe nnd which
Uncle Sam can be called upon to enforce
like other codes.
The National Bakers' Association meet
ing iu Chicago has decreed n doughnut with
out a hole. That's all right. At present
prices and the present scarcity of sugar,
what the consumer fears is the hole without
the doughnut.
The Retail Grocers' Association pre
dicts that the price of coffee will go up. It
would have been n safe prediction even -for
one nonexpert. And if coffee goes up less
of it may go down.
Congressman Moore has discovered that
the man who makes a stand will eventually
meet many who are willing to take a posi
tion. What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who is the present surgeon gcnernl of '
tint American army?
2. What is a plane?
3. What English journals were for a time
conducted by William Waldorf ABtor?
1. What is an Amerind?
5. How did the word Utopian come to de
scribe nn ideal social state?
G. What is tho name and title of the heir
apparent to the Belgian throne?
7. How high is the highest mountain 'in l
North America? j
8. What is a concotdat? "
!). What is a scintilla?
10. What work ot fiction concerns a man
who lost his shadow?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Roosevelt's birthday is on October 27. 'l
2. The word cereal is derived from the "I
namo ot the classical goddess of corn,
Ceres.
3. Kronstadt is Jhe seaport of Petrograd.
It is situated 011 an island near the
head of the Gulf of Finland, an arm
ot the Baltic sea,
4. A hatchment is nn escutcheon or a
tablet, with a decensed person's armo-
rial bearings, affixed to the trout ot J
liti linustt. i
B. Washington nnd the Continental army
t 11.. ...Int.K nt 1777. 177Q nf
Bil-Ul, l ivv. vv .tft-Attu t ,11
Vollott Vnrei. B
0. The piny or "'ironus nnu urcssiaa" is
not clnsslneil either ns n comedy, a,
tragedy, or a history in the rlwt col-i .
looted edition of Shakcsnearo's works..
n K ntlittntan Is A fllnw rinnPA nf Tlnltan ul
origin. l 41
R Dupnn Victoria of' Snnln was born in
Tnirlniul. .
0, Tiia teifgrapn wns invented nopuc tniviF-;
,'twp years, before the, Jejcphos
Vil