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rhiUdclpliii, Friday, NoTember 7. 1919
A NEW OPEN-DOOR POLICY
The duo. of my office will altvajs be
opcu I want publicity. There are to bo
no sen of- in the office of the Mayor after
January 4.
IT IS the Mayor-elect speaking. Wc can
imagine the effect on every old-time
grafter, buttonholer and gumshoe politi
cian still cynically believing that some
shreds of the familiar system of covert
rake-offs and handouts are bound to re
main in City Hall despite the new dis
pensation. Publicityl Open doors! What kind of
a politician is this man Moore anyway?
Doing business without concealment? It
sure begins to look as if the jig is up.
It's almost enough to make a hard
working handy-man get a real job and go
to work.
THE ROOT OF THE EVIL
pOLO'NEL McCAIN and Carl Acker-
man, who appear actually to be the
first impartial investigators to look be
low the surface of the coal strike, are
sending reports that are of peculiar value
as commentaries upon recent election re
sults in Massachusetts and elsewhere.
There seems to be little innate radi
calism among the rank and file of the
workers in the coal fields. But there is
misapprehension and unrest traceable
chiefly to the unbearable costs of living
among men whoVsually have large fami
lies and limited pay. Add to this situa
tion the work of shrewd, energetic and
unscrupulous propagandists of violence
who have fought a way to leadership in
some of the trades unions and you have
the cause of widespread and disastrous
labor demonstrations.
The best aid to the Red agitator is the
profiteer whom Attorney General Palmer
discussed yesterday at Harrisburg. Prof
iteering, as Mr. Palmer sees it, represents
the efforts of men in all classes of busi
ness to pass the burden of their income
taxes and their profits down to the ulti
mate consumer. It is natural, if this
appraisal of the situation is correct, that
the burden should make fruitful fields for
the radical troublemakers.
The attorney general is convinced that
profiteers ought to be jailed. He will be
listened to with greater respect if he will
suggest a way by which that desirable
end may be achieved.
WORK FOR NEW BROOMS
TF MR. MOORE attacks the question of
congestion and inadequate housing in
the tenement sections as vigorously as he
discusses it in explaining his plan for a
Department of Public Welfare he will
deal properly with a matter that his
predecessors have avoided as if it were
pestilence.
Some landlords profit greatly through
ill-kept and overcrowded houses. Agita
tion for a closer regulation of tenements
is met often with a plea for tho sacred
rights of property.
The city itself should be concerned
about the health and well-being of the
humblest of its citizens. House owners
have been left too free in the systematic
exploitation of families that can afford
only a minimum rental. The sanitary
code should apply in every dwelling.
KNOX IS WRONG AGAIN
TF PERSISTENCE in a bad cause is
virtuous, then Senator Knox must be
credited with the possession of unusual
merit.
He tried several months ago to get
the Senate to adopt a resolution separat
ing the league-of-nations covenant from
tho treaty of peace so that the two parts
of the document could be considered
separately.
His colleagues listened to what he had
to say and then forgot all about his reso
lution. Tho senator has now offered another
resolution ratifying the treaty, sb far as
It relates to peaco with Germany, but
declaring that the United States reserves
to Itself complete liberty of action in all
matters connected with tho league just
as though it were not a member of that
body.
The resolution asserts that the United
States may withdraw summarily from
the league and from any commissions ap
pointed under it and may accept or reject
any decisions of tho council as though it
had never been a party to the agreement.
And the resolution further provides that
the Allied powers must accept this form
of ratification within sixty days.
Put into plain English, this means that
the United States declines to become a
member of the league, Senator Knox is
a lawyer. He knows the nature of "a con
tract. If a client asked him whether he
should enter into an agreement vith a
man who insisted that ho uld respect
the agreement only -when It pleased him
tnd disregard it when he felt like it the
"jwrnator would advise his client to break
eff all negotiations at once.
If Mr. Knox feels that way why -docs
I
he not demand the immediate rejection
of all of tho treaty savo that part of it
relating directly to pcaco with Germany
and reintroduce tho Fall reservations,
which withdrew tho United States from
participation in any of tho commissions
created by the treaty for carrying out its
terms? Tho Senate has rejected tho Fall
reservations, it is Uuc, but it has not
adopted any of Knox's treaty resolutions
either.
THE HIGH COST OF
BAD GOVERNMENT
Every Citizen Is Likely to Pay the Pen
alty Next Year for Consenting
to Evils This Year
A SUIT begun to test the validity of a
city loan, begun primarily in the in
terest of the bidders for the bonds, ends
in a way to affect every renter and every
houseowner in the community.
The Tenants' Protective Associations,
which have been fighting tho rental
profiteers, will have to take the Supreme
Court decision into account in their
future campaigns.
And here is the reason:
Part of tho money to be raised by the
bond issues was to be used for the repair
of streets, fireboats, public buildings and
such like current expenses. The new
chatter provides that no bonded debt
may be incurred to pay current expenses.
Tho section dealing with this matter
went into effect before the bond issue was
authorized. It was assumed that it did
not yet apply to such a loan as was pro
posed. But the court has said that the
city may not borrow any money to pay
current expenses.
The money needed for the repair of
streets and buildings must now be raised
by a tax. Because Councils have de
clined for years to provide the amount
needed for these purposes bonds have
been issued to meet the deficit in current
expenses. Several millions are needed to
make tho repairs which have been neg
lected during the war. This money must
bo raised by tax next year.
In other words, a burden properly be
longing to last year and this year will be.
unloaded on the city next year.
It is difficult to see how tho sum can
be raised without an increase in the tax
rate. If the- rate is raised the landlords
will hand on the extra burden to their
tenants and the houseowncrs who occupy
their own property will have to pay it
anyway.
The new administration is doomed to
suffer for the sins of the present Coun
cils. The time when the politicians can
fool tho people into believing that public
business is conducted economically has
come to an end.
It is no longer possible to keep the tax
rate down by borrowing money to pay
bills.
The charter requires the new Council
to raise by tax each year all that is
needed to pay the expenses of that year,
savo for permanent improvements. It
cannot borrow for repairing streets or
for rcpaving them. Nor can it borrow
for making repairs to police stations or
fire houses or fire apparatus.
The Mayor has been in consultation
with the heads of departments in the
hope of finding a way to prevent the dis
missal of two or three hundred employes
for whose payment there is now no
money. But these employes are in de
partments spending money for perma
nent improvements. No suggestion has
been made that there be a reduction in
the force of departments where there is
not work enough to keep the clerks busy.
Every one familiar with conditions in
the City Hall knows that many hundred
thousand dollars n year go to clerks who
hold their jobs by political favor. They
are not expected to do much. They are
part of the political machine.
The first duty of the new Mayor will
be to overhaul all the offices in the City
Hall over which he has any control and
weed out the dead wood and put the de
partments on a business basis. If he does
this as thoroughly as it should be done
he can reduce the burden on the taxpayer
and improve the efficiency of every de
partment. He may displease a few poli
ticians in the process, but he will gratify
the great mass of the public.
The conditions which he will inherit
from the present administration will
make it easy for him to introduce re
forms in the City Hall. His administra
tion will have to carry the burden of debt
for curient expenses left by the present
administration. He can say to the men
who object to his reorganizations: "Gen
tlemen, you have mismanaged the affairs
of the city in such a way that there is
nothing left for me to do but to cut ex
penses down to the bone. There is cer
tain work which must be done and we
must have the money with which to pay
for it. There is only so much money
available and we must use it first for
what is imperative."
There can be" no answer to such re
marks savo that ho should raise the tax
rate and let the old conditions continue.
That is what would have happened if
there had not been an overturn in the
control of the city government last Tues
day. The city is expecting from Mr. Moore
a radically different kind of conduct of
public business from that to which the
city has been accustomed. Certain
abuses will be brought to an end ab
ruptly as soon as all the provisions of
the new charter go into effect. Others
will disappear if Mr. Moore fulfills the
expectations of those who nominated nnd
elected him.
Current expenses will be paid out of
current revenues because the charter en
joins it.
City Hall clerks will abandon all
political activities because participation
in party affairs is made a misdemeanor.
Public business will no longer be de
layed until two chambers of Councils
can come to an agreement, for tho new
Council has only one chamber.
And the sinking fund is likely to be
managed with greater regard for the
taxpayers, and there will be set aside
for it only what it really needs instead
of what some one thinks it may possibly
require.
When every family is suffering from
tho high coat of living is no time to in
crease the cost of government. Confer
EVENING PUBLIC MDGER
ences intended to find a way to bring
down tho prico of meat and vegetables
aro all very well in their way. What
the people hero aro expecting is n confer
ence of the membctrf of tho new city gov
ernment to bring down tho cost of admin
istration so that it may not be necessary
for tho Tenants' Protective Associations
or any other bodies to fight tho land
lords who raise tho rent because extrava
gance or incompetence in the City Hall
has forced an increase in the burden of
taxation.
ATTENTION, GOV. SPROUL!
WE DESIRE to call tho attention of
ll.c Governor of Pennsylvania to tho
following letter, which was written on
the official letterhead of the Municipal
Court of Philadelphia
judge of that court:
Chattel L. Ilroun
I'rrildtnt Judge
Jimn E. Cnrman '
it. Cilbrrl ('iMl.lr
UilH.itl Crajr hnl,i
nnd -igned by a
I uri-lr C nonnitvpll
Kaymond MarNrille
I'lley E. Crane
rltarlra I'. Ilartlell
Thomal F. McMthol
Judges
aiU
.Munlripal ('outl
of Philadelphia
November ii, lllll).
;:ifo-
Kvening Public Macr,
l'hllniU'lpliia.
Dear "(ir :
I'ndpr tho caption, "Can .lorsoy lie
Wet?" on jour editorial hiru today, jou
state:
"It leaves Mr. Kdunrds In a KtrniiKi1
ly tieklMi position. If lie Keeps his
promi-.es to the people, lie will have to
disregard the spirit, if lint tin- letter,
of the Constitution of the United Stales,
after .lanuarj L'O."
Permit inc to observe that lie will not
be obliged fo do anything of the Kind.
Section 1' of the KlKhteciitli Amendment
provides :
"The Congress and the hpernl States
shall llne concurrent power to enforce
tliif nticle bj appropriate legislation."
If tho word "coneurience" means am -thing,
it menus similar and identical, it
would therefore follow that one of two
propositions is correct: First, cither the
nation nnd the State may each adopt
Mich legislation as they please, with the
interminable conflict which such a nu
ance would create; or, scrondlj , the Fed
eral legislation must remain inoperative
ns relates to the State of New .Icrsej . as
well as the State of I'cnnsjlwinia, until
concurrent legislation is adopted. It
would also follow , that "concurrent"
would mean that in all tho mateiial
clauses of the legislation for the pm poses
of this contention, the State of New .Icr
sej and the Stnte of I'ennsjlvnnia would
be obliged to adopt the provisions of the
Volstead bill to legally enforce the pen
alties in either of these States.
The purpose of Section - of this act
can onlj be construed in that form,
unless the Supreme Court of the Fulled
States proposes tn ignore this section of
the Eighteenth Amendment. I snj this
despite the ill-considered nail untenable
opinion expressed in the elo bv the Gov
ernor of PennsyUania of the Ramsey art,
to the effect that the C'ongiess have al
renily derided that .where IVdeinl and
State legislation is in conflict, the Federal
legislation operates. There has been no
decision of nny such character fontiuing
an amendment written into the Federal
Constitution, for the very simple reason
that never before has either the T'nited
States Congress .or the trainers of the
Constitution created such an anomalous
condition.
Therefore, (invernor-clcct I.dwards is
not only standing upon hi- legal lights
when he declaies that he will not aid the
enforcement of the Fedeial statute, but
ho is doing his ilutj a- an executive of a
sovereign State in protecting the liberties
of the people of New Jersey agnuist the
intolerable interference of bigots and
fanatics a duty, lij the waj. in which
the Governor of I'ennsjlvnnia has abjcitlj
failed in this relution.
The deliberate and studied defiance of
"'resident Wilson represented lij the rut h -le-s
and indecent haste with which the
presidential veto was overriden in rela
tion to the Volstead net, is an Example
of lawlessness on the p.ipt of the law
makers that can only be a -ource of
gratification to the anarchists whom these
self-same lawmakers arc o eager to de
nounce. The wnr-time net itself was mi
act of hjpocrisv. The war wns done
when the act was passed; jet these
Pharisees, having paid a stupendous pait
of the war's oxpen-es b.v a taxation upon
liipior, dishonestlj maintain that a con
dition of war exi-ts, when, as a patent
fact, we are not phjsicallj at war.
A deficiency in revenue means nothing
to the paid, meddlesome interloper in other
people's affairs. The poof have borne tho
taxes In their ultimate appliiation, and
the poor can continue to bear them, no
matter how onerous thov may be;- and
when they reach the breaKing-point tliere
are always the militia and the regular
troops, together with a govcrnnfont by
injunction, to teach the poor how happy
they ought to be.
Yours verj trulj ,
i:i'(!FNn,r ito.NNiwni.i,.
We believe this communication, which,
so far as we aie informed, was written
and sent to this newspaper by Judge
Bonniwell'on his own initiative, merits
serious consideration by Governor Spioul
to determine whether the views it ox
presses are proper and reasonable in a
member of the state's judiciary sworn to
support the constitutions and laws of the
United States and Pennsylvania. We
wish especially to direct the Governor's
attention to the last paragraph, with its
concluding sentence, as a grave state
ment coming from such an official at this
time of crisis and national stress.
LONG LIFE AND HAPPINESS
T")R. JOSIAH OLDFIELD, of London,
says tho way to keep old ago at bay
is to partake of a daily diet of dandelion
leaves, fowl's eggs, grapes, lettuce, cow's
milk, watercress, honey and Salads.
He goes further and declares that an
old man may become young again on this
food, because it will replace the old cells
in his body with new cells.
And, of course, ho is right in every
thing ho claims. Horace Fletcher was
similarly right. And Dr. Harvey -Wiley.
And Dr. Alfred McCann.
Mr. Fletcher told us we nte too fast,
and he .spake truth.
Doctor. Wiley told us vm ate many
things we ought not to cat, and ho spake.
truth.
Doctor McCann tells us wo neglect to
eat the parts of food that aro beneficial
to us, and he speaks truth.
Doctor Oldfleld tells us- we cat too
- PHIL'ADEtPHlk, FRJDAY, ttOVBMBElV 7,
much nnd wo should restrict our diet,
nnd he speaks truth.
Unquestionably tho world will bo bet
ter nnd wiser and healthier when wo take
tho advice of these food experts. It may
even be that the average life of man will
be extended four or five years which
may or may not be desirable.
But let us not fool ourselves with the
thought that we can dodge old age. Wo
can't. For wise men though they be,
Doctors Oldficld, McCann and Wiley will
die when old age reaches them, if they
don't die beforo that time, as Fletcher
did.
Dickens makes Sam Wcller tell 'of a
mnn so passionately fond of crumpets
that ho consulted a doctor on the number
necessary to kill him, deciding that a
surfeit would mean a joyous death.
And wc have the word of the poet who
sang (with who knows how much wis
dom) "I would not live alwayl"
So wo need not consider the matter of
extending life. It will bo sufficient to
give heed to the food experts for the wis
dom they speak, tho wisdom that means
hcaltlj and consequent happiness. And
Death may come when he is "good and
ready."
A WOMAN'S REVOLUTION
pvRDINARILY it is never given to men
to know what women are thinking
about. The feminine, world moves in a
mysteiious way its wonders to perform.
When, speaking through Mrs. O. II. P.
Belmont, Miss Doris Stevens, Mrs. John
Rogers nnd other distinguished members
of the National Woman's party, which
Miss Alice Paul used to lead in the
stormy days beforo the Anthony amend
ment was aceppted, it reveals itself as
prepared and eager for a "woman's revo
lution" tho other half of humanity may
only sigh and wait and wonder.
"The social fabric," says Miss Stevens
placidly, "is rotten. Women will take
contiol and make it over by establishing
absolute sex equality."
Sex equality is a misleading term. It
might have been devised by women to
conceal the fact that there never can bo
equal rights until man wins back the
authority and the varioussacrcd rights
that he relinquished generations ago
before accepting second place in tho so
cial scheme.
In all the really important affairs of
life woman leads. Women decide what
men shall wear, what shows they shall
see, what books they shall read and what
they will have for dinner. They arrange
the order of 'a man's environment and
quietly and finally direct all his habits of
life. They decide whether the family car
is to be a Sputz or a Heartburn. Any
man who looks around the circle of his
friends will find that most of them have
been chosen for him by his wife.
The masculine world has retained to
itself tho precious rights to dig coal, to
run locomotives, to fight in wars, to dig
the ditches of the world, to burrow for
iion and clean the streets and do the
general chores and worry about bills. If
Miss Paul and her associates refuse to be
happy until they can take away these
last lemaining piivilegcs of a once
mighty sex they ought by all means to
be encouraged in their new campaign.
LOVE AND A GREEN ISLE
milEY have in Ireland a language that
includes more nnd lovelier terms of
endcaimcnt than any other in the world.
It is a language admittedly without an
equal for the four purposes which wise
and gieat men regard as being supreme
in this life for telling stories, singing
songs, making loe and bidding defiance.
The ancient wisdom and humor that
gave to the Irish tongue its subtlety and
glory must have suffered grievous confu
sion when high officers of the new repub
lic foimally warn the girls of tho land
that they must not fall in love. That the
restriction is supposed to annlv onlv
where British soldiers aro concerned mat
ters little unless we nio to assume that
the bitterest punishment imaginable is
here reserved for the hated invader.
Isn't love blind?
The southern Irish are, without excep
tion, poets. That is their strength and
'their weakness, ns any one who ever was
in Ireland knows. Has the time come
when you have to tell poets that love
cannot be helped? Must they be in
formed that the penalty, the cutting off
of the offending ghl's hair, is altogether
without meaning? A girl whose hair
was cut off for love would feel that she
was made thereby the more beautiful.
And all the woild would share that
opinion!
Premier Lloyd George
He Probably Ims indorsed the enn-
Keasonetl It Out didaej of l.ady Astor,
who -seeks a scat in
the British Mou-e of Commons, ,1'eople
don't t'nin for ofi'iic" m Fngland. They
"stand for a seat." That maKes any woman
who has traveled in an American sticet car
eligible.
The miners picture
li'ir lot ns one near
destitution.' The op
eintors paint them as
living adjacent to a
the average citizen, un-
ailllres-. mcrnlv unmlsn
A Triancle of
Haul Lines an 1
Sharp Points
bed of roses. I tut
aware of 'their ical
if he'll have coal for his furnace this coming
winter.
...... . . r'''1 "" n diet of dan-
.Saiail Dajs Kxtended delinn leaves, eggs,
grapes, lettuce, mill:',
watercre-s honej nnd salad-, (.uncooked), a
inaii'should live f ninety (n l()."i jenrs
declares a lAindon phvsninn. Perhaps Neb
uchadnezzar was not so craty a h'c seemed
when he went the vvav of all flesh and turned
to grass.
The cashier of tl. Xortli Perm Bank
has pleaded not guiltj to a charge of cpn
spiracj. Those who weie depositors will
readily recall the case. Ot,prH mv rpmom.
her it if they jogtMrineiiiorien sufficiently.
The tilling of the state Supreme Court
concerning cltj loans will tie up the sain
ries of n number of cltv emploves. This- Is
not the kind of a lie n man expects for a
Christmas present.
A government cargo carrier lias just
hew launched at Wilmington, Del. A
number of them went out of commission July
1 last. '
As n star campaigner, tho woman as
pirant for a seat in the British House of
Common, in a good Aktor-rlHk.
Thoee who went down to defeut in Ma,
.sachusetta mar be accepted as lied.
YESSIR, SMALL
The Spasm of Life
The Hussinii llolshcvhts have abandoned
the sistcm of Chiiitian tmiiic, ninf the
members of eroy family will hereafter be
designated by numbers. News report from
1'ctrograd.
rpKLL us in speciiic numbers
J- What we really want to Know;
For nomenclature encumbeis
And arithmetic's the go,
a.
Life is figures and statisltlcs
And the grave is hut the sum
Of its factors. Dale the mystics
Challenge our millennium V
Ait is false. Imagination
Is the foolishness of bards
And a urse upon a nation
AVedded to its index card-.
i
In the dauntless revolution,
Clearing paths before untrod;
lian the obsolete locution
l!e a number in jour squad.
Ti ust no tale of Tom or Jerry, .
Mav the dead past prate of .lack
Or of Jill. Let each be merry
VMth a digit on his back.
Lives of "Six" and "Four'' remind us
Of a lot, and "Twelve"' does more;
Ignoiaut ju shall not find us
Of how many beaus make four;
Beans that are perhaps symbolic
Of the way free babies thrive.
"Hush," we cioon on nights of colic.
"Mushabje, my Twenty-five!"
Let us then be up nnd druining
I'v'ry drop from wisdom's fount ;
Lver changing and arranging,
Learn lo imtcx mm n LViiut. (
15.V a pleasing dispensation of Providence
the fire that is staited by lightning is bome
times extinguished by the neconipaujing.
!"" . ,
Commercialism
The Spirit of Dreams, flitting off from
msllf' ' . , .1 . .
Flew into n band-organ out in the street.
And, tossing the notes to the dailce of
joungfeet.
Came back to a manuscript long on my shelf.
And now that the urge for to sell it de
mands ,
That' the script be tjpevvritten, herewith
I must hint ;
That the Spirit of Dreams has been lost
in the print
While 1 tossed out tho words to the dance
of old hands.
FRANCIS CiARLIN.
Why the Saucepan?
1'Mlxr The Saucepan: '
$jr An anxious and vtistified trorla
irotiW 'tike to know irAy fn thunder you cal
it The Saucepan, ft. '. V. i.
The name was conceived by,, the members
of the Kitchen Club while the Chufling Dish
was temporarily put of commission nnd the
fires of hope wero burning low. It is de
rived from n Fijian word ihueh jised (lifting
missionary wok In the good old days. It
was. in u manner onomatopoeic, "stiuoo" In
the wift Fijian dialect describing the slosh
ing effect of the piece de resistance dropping
Into tho soup, nnd "pan'4 the effect of the
clanging of the spoon ou the pan Itself.
Anglicized, the word took on greater
strength and virility, sauce meaning pot only
th piquancy and wivoriness Imparted to a
dish by some added condiment, spice or
fruit, but also the pert flippancy which
juvenility imparts to, serious conversation.
"Wan." t'. Brew in its new environment,
and as n verb describes the rough but bene
ficial treatment accorded to sufferers from
exaggerated ego.
There are, of course, "pans" nnd 'pans."
Vnlnr ran .describes the condition-ot Ham
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GAME IS PLENTIFUL
self of tin- ills he Knew for those he knew
not of jumping, in other words, from the
frjing pan into the fire. And there is the
roasting pun, which, in a sen's, is tauto
logical, for w ho is roasted is also panned
The Saucepan, therefore., n receptnele
for all manner of good things, allowed to
simmer on the fires of good nnture and theu
served hot to those who do not object to an
occasional btevv.
The Rainstorm
On stormy dajs, when wind nnd driving rain
Are rampant, lashing ev'ry window paue,
I cannot idle near a fireside,
A frngiunt call takes mo to Held and lane. .
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When ev'ry dripping bush and ev'rj field
(Has with lefrcshing odors me nppenlcd,
My mind will dwell no more on- tasks
undone
But to those calls from nature gladly jield.
Xo sultry heat, no dusty herbage seen.
An cast wind beats and diives and washes
clean.
Come out with me nnd have jour soul
washed, too,
.And leuin what life's new secret jou may
glean. L W, K.
On Going Dry
Prohibition seems to have created consid
erable excitement in both town and country.
Within sight of the Country Life Press
there is a vvajside tavern conducted by one
August Porrier. 1 have it on good authority
that during the .pring he decorated the
mirror behind his bnr with this lamentation:
"The first of July will be the last of An-,
gust."
I'p heie in the farming country cider bar
rels are at a premium, but that is appar
ently not the'only result of the .edict. How
my cows came to learn of It I do not know,
for, .valuing their peace of mind above all
things, I keep the newspapers away from
them. At any rate, they declared a general
strike iu June and went dry. 'Matilda, in
fact, had gone dry some time back, nnd when
her calf came in June she wus due. to re
sume production. But that calf immediately
developed such an elephantine appetite that
he left little or nothing for the rest of us.
Then Nancy began to show signs of nn ap
proaching chauge and on July 1 she also
was dry,
1 went over to Hiram Belden's to buy
inllk, but his two cows were in the same
l-ase" ns mine. Joel Cutler's Holstein had
also obeyed the law on July 1. Hitherto an
udvocntc of prohibition on general principles,
I began to wonder whether this uniycrsal
drought were not belug can led too far, and
I found mjself quoting the poet:
"What are we gjifig to have to drink
When the whole darn world goes dry?"
Of course, I cannot but approve of the
morals of my cows, though tbeie wus n time
once, in npple season, when Matilda but
that is another storj.
Who. ever fancied what far-reaching re
sults this war would have?
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The 8parrow
Bright in the hall the torches burn,
Whirling their flame in the wind;
Singing, the saffroned minstrels turn,
With the boar's head borne behind.
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Ruddy the Yule log roars In the hall
While the warriors bask around, '
Aud the bcnins creak loud ini the timbered
wall, , ,
With n wlnter-bodlng sound.
Out of tho rain nnd sleet and snow.
In through the open door,
A sparrow .flying, flutters slow,
Then out to the dark once more,
r
Darkness, light, and dark again,
Aud never the mjstcry dies,
For out of .the 'light 'to the sleet and rain,
Man, like the sparrow flics,
J. M, BEATTY.
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THE old gods died when Zeus appeared
And seized the high Saturnian throne;
I wonder if Zeus ever feared
Their ghosts', what time he reigned alone?
Pan died when Christ enmc down to man,
But mnn soon came to feel and see
A Devil with the form of Pan
Goatjhoofed olid horned ns he
Aud I, who threw my gods away
For Science, that I thought sufficed,
Feel on my futile work today
The tearful eyes of Christ !
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The steamship record between Jackson
ville and New York has been reduced two
nuurs uy use oi me gyroscope compass. w
a time reducer the gjroscope might be found
useful by the striking miners.
Not having a doctor among its mem
bers, the new Council will have to worry
nloug with an undertaker auu a Vemeterjr
superintendent.
There is no likelihood that the Sunday
School Association, iu convention in Cam
den, will; pass n resolution congratulating!
Mr. Ldwai'ds on the result of the election.
The city solicitor lias ruled that a man'
may fly in the air ou Sunday without vio
lating the blue laws. He is above the lavf,
ns it were. ;, a
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Loan authorization having, been bowled
out by the Supreme Court, the municipal'
authorities will have to set 'cm up again,
, u,
The. assertion is confidently made that,
Mr. MacLaughlin is not nilxiously awaiting 'J
the result of the official count.
What Do You Knoiv? ""
QUIZ
1. When did the Turks win possession at!
Constantinople? s,(
'. Who was AlDcrt unuatiu? j
;i. What are the chief exports of Hawaii? "i
4, The wnr turned, sauerkraut into "lih-.'ll
erty cabbage." What change did lt'j
make in the nomenclature of Hamt
burg steak'!
5. Where nnd when wns the battle of ?J
(J. AVho was President Wilson's first see"""?!
retar of war? T
7. Iu vvhut island are most of the scene
of the tragedy of "Othello" laid? i
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1. Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote "No quesr
tlon is ever "settled unless it Is BettlU
right."
''. The Columbia, a New England salllne &
cssel,wus tho first American ahlp.tov,
circumnavigate the globe. She started .
onher voyage qn September 30, 178T.
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fl. John L. Lewis is Acting president of k
Jliuc workers oi America, ,
0. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore RooeJt
bus been elected to the New Yru
- Legislature. .'T
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8. Von Spec's Herman fleet was destroyfJty
by the British off the Falkland JslanAA i
on December 8, 1014,
l). Von der Ooltz, Von Bisslng andFalke;
liauaen were the Oerrttan governors tlt
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