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MUV 300(1 C Address all O3iimiin(coflonj to KitMnn PnMlo I.ctlacr, Int'cpcntUnce Square, I'ilfdrmilci, Member of Ihc Associated Press Tin: associated rnvss is cxciu- ttvelV entitled to the use for republication of all news dtspatclici credited to it or vot otheririid credited In thli paper, and also the local nrin published tlicicln All rlphti et republication of special dls fiatches herein arc also reserved. PbiUdrlpliii, Friday. Oclobrr 11, 1919 "LET 'ER BURN!" rpHE regret of the students of the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania when Logan Hall caught fire that the building was not consumed is likely to set the friends of the Univer sity to thinking about the inadequacy of the accommodations offered to the young men studying there. The building was erected in 1874 for the medical school, which occupied it for thirty years. The Wharton school, which haB been using it since 1904, outgrew its accommodations in College Hall, and it has now outgrown the larger quarters in the other building. If Logan Hall had burned it would have been necessary to provide a modern structure to take its place, with ample room for expansion. This is why the students exclaimed "Let 'er burn!" when they saw the fire. A man can get an education sitting on one end of a log in the woods if the right kind of a teacher sits on the other end, but in a community as wealthy as this the students ought not to be asked to get their education in buildings which have been so far outgrown in size and equipment that they have to be crowded In, with no adequate facilities for doing their work. MR. WESCOTT'S CREDULITY TTARRY D. WESCOTT, the Democratic candidate for the mayoralty, is an amiable gentleman, but he is altogether too credulous to hold the office to which he will not be elected. He has told a Germantown audience that the Republican National Committee has a camnaicn fund for next vear if" amounting to between $21,000,000 and rv5,wo,ooo. If this be true, then we must take our huts off to Will H. Hays, the chairman of the Republican committee. No at tempt to raise funds for a campaign has ever before been made so long in ndvance, and In the days when the barrels of the great corporations were liberally tapped by the national treasurer no fund one quarter so great as that which Mr. Wescott says has been raised was ever at the disposal of the committee. Mr. Hays is proving himself to be a pretty capable organizer, but no one would be more surprised than he to dig cover in any bank to the credit of his committee a sum so vast as that which Mr. Wescott has mentioned. Some one must have been trying to discover how much the Democratic can didate for the mayoralty could be made to believe. AFTER THE "ALIENS" TVSTRICT ATTORNEY ROTAN has -' apparently decided that the time has come to find out how many men who claimed exemption from the draft on the ground that they were aliens have de cided that they are good enough Ameri cans to vote. It is generally believed that many such registered and voted at the primaries. To hundred and fifty suspects were summoned to the City Hall for examina tion yesterday. Some of them proved that they had not sought exemption from the draft and that they were naturalized citizens. It is unfortunate that they were ta'en in the dragnet, but such mistakes are inevitable. As good citizens these men ought to di all they can to assist the district attorney in discovering every man who denied his American citizenship when he was called upon to fight and is now try ing to exercise the rights of an American citizen at the polls. Such a man is a lawbreaker in any event. If he is an alien and registered, he has violated the election laws. If he is not an alien and :dodged the draft on the ground that he Jiad not been naturalized, he violated the .iy...ir.lrtff law Tn oitYiof nnea lio alimiU a !. "-" -v. .. 0uu.u 6c T?n?t is coming to him. RAINBOW'S END TT NEVER will be missed" is evi- - dently a principle not universally applicable. Congress questions its valid ity and the public is likely to concur in its opinion of propaganda publicity con ducted by Scribe George Creel. The news bureau which he headed during the war turns in a bill of more than $6,000,000. Of course, the measure of accomplish ment with such a pot of gold is debatable. Sir, Creel will be likely to assert that his efforts in a national crisis were in fluential. As there is no way of deter- mlnlning the potency of a unit of propa ganda, he is in a position to floor the statisticians, but without convincing thern. Jt is not, however, the relative worth Wt his department's endeavors which is "the matter at Issue, but its absolute a 'raiaect, Ap Jtera ot $o,uuu,uuu is rormia- L's&U'by whatevsr standard it is judged. THiUitjrmnrr. the accounts or tne un rtiOsfaf raptained by the fluent Mrt Creel are said to be fearfully muddled and chaotic. Congress apparently thrives on investigations. Hero certainly is a legitimate opportunity for it to wax healthy and at the same time to be of genuine assistance to an inquiring public. And, by the way, it will take the in come taxes of a very considerable num ber of citizens to meet such a bill. DEMAGOGUES AND RADICALS IN A PARADE TO OBLIVION The Time Is Coming for a General Clean-Up In National Politics. and In Trades Unionism rpHESE are hard days for every soit of fanatic and demagogue in American life. What conferences nnd committees think of Mr. Wilson or Mr. Lodge, of Judge Gaiy or Mr. Foster, of the peace treaty or the coal strike does not greatly matter. It is the collective will and feeling of the country that matters. It is the silent judgment of the people that is terrible and final, as all men know who have observed the certainty with which it elevates men or breaks them when necessity arises, The national mind is patient and a little slow. Give it time. It is having the opportunity it needs. In Congress and in the strike debates the fanatics nnd the hard-boiled apostles of industrial feudalism have been dragged out into the light that will kill them. If Mr. Lewis and the miners' leaders have not yet learned anything from the fate of Foster they might look with profit at the things that have been happening to other dema gogues who have found a temporaiy refuge in Congress. The peace treaty and the league-of-nations covenant have been under fire in the Senate since July 10. Amendments and icscrvations proposed and wrangled over have fallen ono by one and the treaty is now exactly as it was when first offered for ratification. Has the time been wasted? No; not by any means. The treaty has been the wall against which a number of men who have out lived their usefulness have condescended to beat out their political brains. In the light of the recent debates we have per .ceived the dark and weak places in the Senate. The country has been permitted to see Mr. Sherman as a sinister nnd futile comedian. The people of Missouri now have the true measure of Jim Redd. Mr. Knox has dropned to the level of an illogical and bad-tcmpeied bitter-ender, yet only a year ago he was seriously re gaided as a presidential possibility. Senator Johnson's worshipers in Califor nia have seen their idol as a clamorous showman, wabbly on his feet and unable to be consistent even in his prejudices. Mr. Lodge, who wanted to lead the coun try, proved that he couldn't even lead a band of guerrilla politicians. The treaty of peace meanwhile has withstood attacks as furious as ignorance, bigotry, partisan hatred and sincere patriotic convictions could make them. It has broken down nowhere. There ought to be great reassurance for the country in that simple fact. And the old strange magic of events that has made itself felt in every national crisis is operating again in Washington, where destiny is directing a wholesome process of elimi nation. So Foster and Fitzpatrick and Lewis and others as red as they will have to go from organized labor before long. Troops at the mines, with guns loaded for mis guided and bewildered strikers, will not be a pleasant spectacle in America, but it will be more pleasant on the whole than a nation cold and hungry and in confusion. The perils of the situation are on the side of the miners, and the frightened statement issued yesterday at Indian apolis shows that they know it. In a larger philosophy there would be little reason to rail bitterly at the strike leaders or at the sorry crowd of haters and obstructionists in the Senate who pray for the night to stay rather than prepare for the duties of the morning. Properly they are objects of the sort of sympathy that always must be felt in the presence of inevitable casualties. These class-conscious guerrillas of in dustry or politics are not interpreters of America or of any purpose that Americu will accept. They have been fighting the forces of evolution. They do not move with the slow and mighty rhythm of national consciousness. They have been fighting as hopelessly as if they opposed themselves to the tides of the sea. The nation itself is all-inclusive, tol erant and patient. It will support only those men who, because of like impulses, serve not a class or a faction, but the republic itself. Such men always happen along when they are needed. They find the meaning of America and they come with minds and spirits endowed seemingly by destiny. They belong to no class. Rich and poor are alike to them because they have been rich and they have been poor. It was said that there could never be another Washington. When Lincoln died the nation mourned and said he was the last of his kind. Roosevelt appeared in the psychological years to advance to power as if he were pushed by a mys terious hand against all the tides of cir cumstance, and in time we came to know that the miracle had happened again. Bryan reflected very definitely much of the virtue of the middle western America that lives in peace through sim ple contact with the generous land. Buf a platoon of Aladdins couldn't make him President, because he had not a universal mind. It is being said now that no man will ever arise to work out the great pur poses defined by Mr. Wilson. Yet Gov ernor Coolidge, of Massachusetts, has loomed suddenly above Lodge to speak in a voice and manner unmistakably na tional. So has Hoover. Neither of these men has yet been wholly revealed. But they have made'it clear that the old order prevails and that the places of vanished giants will rtfever be empty. When the present tumult subsides the work of reconstruction and cleaning up -vyill have to begin (n the trades unions; EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERPHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, . OCTOBER '31, as it will begin almost Instantly in poli tics. The confusion left by the Fosters and the Borahs will engage the attention of abler and saner men. The radicals in labor and the radicals in politics are in the wny of moving forces that stop for no one. The miners have virtually accused the nation of unfairness. They ask the world to believe that Mr. Wilson himself is callous and disposed to ignore the rights of those who work and that he hns acted in the interest of capital. It is possible to disagree with the President in other iristnnces while perceiving the folly nnd injustice of this contention of the mine workers. The facts are simple. The miners' leaders have always been radical. Re cently they have become the most danger ous of opportunists. The strike order implies an ignorance on the part of the leaders of all the lessons of American history. It shows that they arc without u national view and therefore unfit to lead great organizations of men. Disas ter is certain for them and for the men in their ranks. And since they have placed their own interest frankly above the interests of the government and the people, the country will find a way to be rid of them if labor itself does not. HOMEWARD BOUND rpHE king and queen of the Belgians - board the George Washington at Newport News today to return home. We all wish them godspeed. They have doubtless profited by their tour of this country. They have seen its great expanse of territory nnd the evi dences of its wraith have been manifest to them on every hand. It must have been evident that when we contributed to the relief of their suffering people we were giving out of our ubundance. It has been good for Americans to see them and to discover that a king and a queen are merely a man and a woman like the rest of us, and can be as genuine and gracious as the best democrat in the world. Hundreds of thousands of Ameri cans will have a new idea of royalty hereafter, thanks to the excellent speci mens of it which have passed in leview before their eyes. THE WILCOX MUSE A GREAT novelist once lamented that " what was really worth saying, that what was fine, noble and inspiring was also trite. George Meredith was sin cerely troubled by this truth. His efforts to combat it resulted in the winning of tjic most exclusive and ono of the small est clienteles eer devoted to n literary genius. Not even the lucidly put Mcue dithian dictum that "Women will be the last thing civilized by man" is universally known. It is safe to say, however, that "Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone," is familiar to the ordi nary inhabitant of the English-speaking world. It is a commonplace, very simply stated. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who penned the lines, capitalized the obvious. That she did so ingenuously and with out the faintest hint of irony or sophisti cation was a circumstance which gave her a broadly oracular standing. Her verses were facilely rhythmic, facilely understood. It is odd to reflect today that her "Poems of Passion" were once re garded as erotically revolutionary. We have traveled far along the gallery of frankness since Mrs. Wilcox first star tled the eighties. Americans should be grateful to her. She expressed opinions and often, indeed, sound fundamentals in which her com patriots firmly believed no mean serv ice by whatever poet. A New Y o r k e r. in Making a Farce rags, on Tuesday of the Law pleaded ainly in court for the privilege of Koinff out to earn money to pay Lis wife ali mony. His wife, in silks, opposed his pica, demanding that he be kept in prison until he furnish a bond of $."00 for bnek payments, lie has been in jail since March. He is likely to remain there. Common law, we are told, is common sense. What justifica tion is there, then, for Netv York's so-called Alimony Club? Government agents arc said to be scour ins the country for prohibition lawbreakers. When they come to close quarters they will presumably have a scrubbing brush with the enemy. The high cost of labor is making gold raining in Alaska unprofitable, according to a returned traveler. Kven owning a gold mine has its drawbacks nowadays, A barn dance is to be given to raise funds for a memorial tablet for soldiers killed in France. First thing you know we'll be having a taffy-pulling to pay funeral expenses. The Belgian crown prince is suffering from indigestion. The divinity that doth hedge a king or a prince has no jurisdic tion over the royal tummy. If a man hoards food to get ahead of the profiteer and another sells at a profit to avoid being called a hoarder, what's the answer? A man was fined yesterday for delaying a lunerai. rroDamy a protcstant against unseemly haste. Strikers cannot go far in the face of public opinion. It is a hard face and not the kind that turns the other cheek. New Tork shipping business is being diverted to Philadelphia as a result of the long'shoremcu's strike. 'Tis an ill wind, etc. The one thing the miners had to con sider was just when a strike became a re bellion. There is no danger of revolution in this country, for the good union man In an American first. The dockraen's Btriko nppears to be ncaring drydock. "No knifing," says Mr. Moore, out the votes." 'Foik Allopaths, homeopaths and osteopaths are not at the present time paths of peace. Treaty amendments are celebrating Halloween with cute little rejection slips stuck in their bonnets. King Barleycorn Is dead. Lons live King Candy I OUR ONE-PIECE NAVY Pennsylvania's Battle Craft Plows the Vasty Waters of Lake Erie and the Commissioner of Fish eries Is Admiral Ily OKOrtGIS NOX McCAIN SJATHAN It. nULTjEH, state cotnmts- ' (doner of fisheries, is just back from n trip to Buffalo to inspect the navy of I'cnusshatiln. It is in course of construe tlon there. It's like the nay of Vcnzucla ; it consfsts of one vessel. Few citizens of this, state arc aware that Pcnusjlvanla has n navy. Tho commis sioner of fisheries is the admiral. It con sists of one vessel, n large tug that plows the waters of Lake Krle. Its principal business is that of a fish nursery! or conservator of fish eggs, ns you may choose to designate it. In addition it is a patrol boat for the preservation of International amenities. One of its principal functions is to sec thnt Canadian fishermen do not poach on I'cnnsjlvania's preserves or fWiliiK grounds. New York and Ohio also maintain these fishing ground patrols. If they did not etcry once In so often the careless Canadian fisher folk would stray ncross the interna tional water line particularly when fishing Is poor on their own side and scoop up tons of white and other fish tunt proyerly belong to Pennsylvania, Ohio or New York. This particular tug which Commissioner IStiller is having built is, he tells me, ono of the complctcst craft of its kind in the Vnitcd States. It will be equipped with all the latest scientific paraphernalia. It is to replncc another smaller craft that has grown too small nnd antiquated for the purpose. rjMIK Duller family are natural piscicul- 1 turists. The commissioner himself has made a life study of fishes. There ate four of them now in the service of the state. One brother hits been with the fisheries tonimis mou for over foit.v joars. Nathan It. IStiller tells me that I'ennsyl vnnia has the finest fish hatcheries in the countrj Theic nie five of them, located at I'liasant Mount, Wojne count;; Torres dale, Uric, Corry nnd Union City, The cntiie sjstcm of hatching has under gone a ihangc in the last two decades. In the old da.vs the fish eggb were hatched out nnd when the lish were a couple of inches or so Ions they were placed in the state stteams to be stocked. Now the fish arc reared, the brook tiotit partieuliiily, in the ponds until they are five or m inches long nnd arc then "planted" in the sti earns. There are two great ad vantages in this: It gives the young fish a better chance to live and the sportsmen do not have to wait so loug to permit them to reach the legal length to be taken with hook and rod. GKORGE H. BILES, assistant highway commissioner of Pennsylvania, is a Philadelphian. Prior to the Sproul admin istration he was second deputy commissioner. When Lewis S. Sadler beenme state com missioner he sent Geoige II. lilies up to the front. It was one of tho many wise moves that Commissioner Sadler has made to strengthen the department. Mr. Biles hag the exper ience, education, executive ability and tho "how" of handling men. Besides, he has the glorious heritage of young manhood as an aset. With approximately $100,000,000 to spend in building and bettering the high ways of the commonwealth, the commis sioner should have his hands as free of de tail us possible. He should be at libetty to study the problem in its broadest aspects, leaving routine to the subordinates. Fortunately George H, Biles is in a peti tion to relieve his chief of many minor responsibilities, by reason of experience rnd a thorough kuow ledge of the highways of the state. He knows the topography of Pennsylvania as well us he does that of Capitol Hill, in Harrisburg. At least that Is his reputation among the roadbuildcrs of the state. HARMON M. KEPHAItT, in his capacity of state treasurer, is paymaster for some of the oddest jobholders conceivable; places undreamed of in the employment of the com monwealth a quarter of a century ago. There arc, for instance, nearly forty "charmen." They ate the male of the species known iu Great Britain as "char women." They are the cleaners nnd washers and scrubbers in the public ofhees nt the Capitol. These are in additjon to the care takers, of whom there are five. But utnong the odd and presumably neces sary craftsmen employed on the Capitol Hill there arc, permanently ou the payroll, or at least recorded in the treasurer's books: Florists, 3; carpenters, 0; marble workers, "; metal furniture mechanic, 1; hardwood floor experts, 1), and cabinet maker, 1. Further down the line one comes upen these: Locksmith, clock repairer, up holsterer, guides, electricians, wircmcu, btenmfittcr and matrons, Tho executive mansion payroll includes butler, houseman, night w.tt'iimaii, house maid, laundress, cook, lioiiickcepcr, chauf feur and footman. When the Legislature is in session the variety of vouchers calls for nearly every thing kept by u first-class couutiy stre. BROMLEY WHARTON, general arjent and secretary of the State Board of Charities, and his efficient assistant, Edward Wilson, have nbout completed their report on the wnrtime activities of the charitable and penal institutions of the state. It will be an interesting presentation when it gets into cold type. It strikes one as peculiar that the in- , mates of the houses and asylums, hospitals and prisons of the state could bo useful in such a crisis. But they were, Iu propor tion the institutions under the supervision ot Mr. Wharton nnd the State Board of Charities "did their bit" as fully us more powerful and more pretentious ogencies outside. The lame, halt and blind knitted and sewed month after month, making socks and sweaters, bandages and hospital gar ments by the thousands. They helped con serve food, meat and sugar and everything. Even tho prisoners iu certain institutions, gave money and sacrificed their meager privileges, iu some cases, to help win the war. It makes one proud of the penal nnd charitable institutions, paradoxically, to read of such things. With the death of Ella Wheeler Wilcox the author of "Laugh and the world laughs with you" may bo settled definitely on the other side of the Styx. Mr. Moore's appeal to those who went through "pitch and fire for him" is also a notification to those who opposed him that tbey had better pitch in or look for a fire. A banker and a convict contributed a thousand nnd one dollars to the Roosevelt memorial fund on Wednesday. The propor tion is immaterial: the sentiment that actu ated the gift, everything. Examinations for state police will be held in Harrisburg Saturday. Those who pass are not likely to suffer from ennui. Knowing htm to bia square man, the populace is anxious i&Hlhe President up auu Kruuuu. V "'ri-tt '": J"-"'1''" ,j,.""V'"4-"" noiwk"-1 Or '"" THE SAUCEPAN INDIRECT ADVERTISING fyOU like fried ovstcis? In that case J- Let us adjure you : Never Neglect to buy our Persian luce!" "Dear me!" thought I, "how clever!" "You powder always when you shave? Then burn our coal this season." "Does your new auto misbehave? "Eat 'Choke-O' there's a reason." "You wear a coat in winter time? You have your pencils pointed? You mustn't miss our table dilute The clapper's double-jointed!" "You boast a watch? Then wash your shirt With 'Smere it's all pure tallow." "You keep a dog? There's no dessert Like 'Marmalademarshmallow.' " How wonderful, methought, is art! I see m j self in clover One simply needs a subtle start To put the Big Thing over. And straightway to Maria Jane I hastened,' much elated. "You know," quoth I, "Bill Merivanc?" (He was my rival hated!) "Why, yes," she smiled. '"You like him, too?" She nodded. Hope was rising; I felt that I would put it through By crafty advertising. "You really like him very much?" (Moro business of assenting.) "His charms are such and such and such? She sighed. (O circumventing!) "And hence," I thrilled, "I am your man," When, in her accents mellow, j (, She warbled, "Jack, I love your plan, And hence the other fellow!' Jl J. , L Courage and common sense do pot always go together. Many a hearty of oak has a head to match. Ring Out, Wild Bellsl Clarice He has the right kind of timbre. He ringt true. Eunice Oh, I suppose so. But there are rats in his wooden belfry. From a Rural Correspondent Clem Wiley's hired man says, "A good way to strengthen your legs is to keep tur keys." Ad Classified "Lorer is a finished scholar rather than an original thinker." "Yes; he has what you might call a hardwood finish." The Young Idea "Don't go too near tho firo with your dress " "What shall I do, mother; take it off?" A Wrong Impression "My husbapd struck me last evening" began the placid little woman. "And do you stand for that sort of thing?"! demanded her strong-minded friend. "You interrupted, ine," explained the other. "I was about to remark that my husband struck me as' being particularly kind and thoughtful. He bought me a beautiful box of candy." Music Demosthenes McGinnls has no more music in his soul than a cow, which, of course, prompts him to speak of the subject. My wife, says he, possesses ft whito An gora cat with blue eyes and excellent hear ingthe color of tho eyes and the effective ness of the ears making a combination, I am given to understand, most unusual. When my Ufa partner (bless her heart) tvhistlcs (and I scorn all disrespectful super stitions, for she whistles very vwUJndccd) J tk cat jUBUjssa h?1p, plaint 'we. 1919 BUGABOOS CAN'T SCARE paws on her breast, looks in her face and purrs like a coffee mill. I take it that there nre fiddlo strings in that cat that proceed to vibrate in sjmpathy with certain, high notes in the tunes whistled. I deduce from this that man's love for music has the same foundation; nud that having trained his fiddle strings to appre ciate, first, melody, then harmony, ho pro ceeds to accustom it to classic dissonance. But because he is not satisfied to be sim ply pleased, as is the cat, with what he hears, he needs must analyze his emotions and dis sect the various notes and combinations of notes that cause these emotions. Naturally, having gone to all this trouble, he is quite ready to prove that appreciation of music is something very tr.uch moro than sensuous pleasure. But, personally, I'd as lief be a cat. At 6 A. M. Conscientious Wife Don't you hear the alarm clock?" Sleepy Husband Yes, but I don't believe all I hear. While the chronic optimist is forever being bumped, lifo for the pessimist is full of joyous surprises. And tho moral is: Just bo as darned cynical as you picas:. How About This? F. P. A., writing iu tlio New York Tribune about tho prevailing drought, says : Wo have known Joints, wo have Known cm-, porla " ' Where tho rum was sold, whore the gin was vended ; All, all are closed, tho old familiar places. Now we would like to know what William Allen WhltoT""Eraporia's most famous citi zen, has to say about this, Kansas has been dry, a good many years, but jf rum is sold in. Emporia it has not been so dry as outsiders have supposed. More Commercial Candor One of our most promincpt fruiterers car ries in his window the following sign : CALIFORNIA HONEY DEW MELONS LARGE AND SWEET AS HONEY Tho advertisement is silent as to whether honey was peeved or flattered. The multitude of Barkises seeking audi enco w'ith Congressman Mooro and talking about vacancies to, bo filled reminds Pericarp of a famous limerick which runs something like this: Vare men flock around him galore And say to a Mayor named Moore : "If you name me, of course, Tod will have to use force, But Go knows you are able to score." Gone YOU came again, to get your things, jAnd stood within my door, The silken gowns, the shadow-robes, The rings you seldom wore ; i Ah, love, If you had only known Tho words I longed to say, I think you would havo pitied me And kissed my lips that day. FLOYD MEREDITH. Halloween Nonsense; This world Is full of "ifs" and "buts." How curious is fame ! Tho squirrel cannot sing for nuts But gets them just the same. ' Protection for. Poachers The Abington Game Protective Assocla- tlon draws attention to a new law in effect in Montgomery and Chester counties which "virtually confines to landowners and their friends" all hunting privileges. Patrol war dens, "with authority to net," have been sworn in to attend to strangers. There is hope and promise for the stranger, however, in the notice sent out by Secretary More land. He says, "No shooting of strangers or. gunners, from city districts will be allowed HUk ytar I fhl sWob, , HIM Halloween Reminiscences TnTTE LINK the present with the past, ' Glory in what has been; Our thoughts we sometimes backward cast, Through dim nnd misty screen, Reviving long forgotten days When tve kept Halloween. At gloamln' we walked down the dell ; Wo watched the shadows play, As dimly then tho daylight fell, At close of short'ning day The hawthorn hedge, the spring, the well, Fields turning sear and gray. And then wo dauncr't doon the burn' To deep nnd darksome pool. And tremblingly we each took turn At winding o' the spool, Till at the end some freak was caught Decked out in granny's wool. To keck oot o'er our shouther then Some bogle we would see (From some grim, dark and dismal den In lands beyond the sea), Ready to show both maids and men Tho things that were to be. . As spring revives a sleeping year, Repeats things often told, So in our children now appear , The bygone days of old. Then let them laugh and sing and cheer: Tis better far than gold. Renew In joys and lively ploys The old times on the green, The shouts and laughter of tho boys Such times as we have seen. Trip light and long and swell the song, In keeping Halloween. John McMastcr. If? hat Do You Knoto? x QUIZ ' ' 1. Who Is the first Polish mlnlsttr to the United States? 2. What is the name of the presidential yacht? 8. What' is a pyx? ' ' 4. Who created tho character of Flora Mac- Flimsy? 5. What is the capital of Mississippi? 0, What disposition of the island of Hel goland has been proposed? 7. When is the next French president to be elected? ' 8. Who will elect him? 0. Which state produces the most soft coal? 10. What is koumiss? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Tripoli belongs to Italy. 2. Oysters are most edible when they are from two to three years old. 3. Jefferson Davis was a native of Ken tucky. l 4. Tho woolsack Is the stuffed cushion on which the lord chancellor sits, in the House of Lords. C. The Red river Is a tributary of the Mis sissippi and flows in a southeasterly direction. The Red River of the North flows north In the United States, crosses the Canadian boundary and empties into Lake Winnipeg In Canada, 0. Numbers Is the fourth book In the Bible. 7. Alma Tadema,was a noted Dutch painter, especially of classical scenes. He resided in England from 1870 until ' his death. 8. Horace Greeley ran for the presidency and was defeated by Grant la 1872. 0, The word vizier should be pronounced as though it were spelled "vfzeer," with the accent on the last syllable. 10. The House of Commons can override the "veto power of the House of Lord by jiftwsiua, mu tunic qui ac turce iue-.t ijhr$ZJpi' yi i j l -fl 'S m j i r J1 'SI i m rJT HM ' f u .. "5 .L ..r.--&U ,A ; M 7 ,y 'Vi , m ,-' W.E?faUilBh v. 'r i. 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