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Philadelphia, Thimday. 'Wenihfr 13. 1019
A DEMOCRATIZED ORCHESTRA?
rpHB million or more contiibuted to the
endowment fund of the Philadelphia
Orchestra will prove to be the best in
vestment ever made by.thc people of this
cit if it can bo used to make the Ren
eia! public better acquainted with Mr.
Stokowski's organization nnd its woiU.
The orchestia interprets a literature as
rich and various as anythinp written in
books. Music of the sort that endures
is like light. It illuminates- times and
motives that are past and it is filled
with meaning, glorious and profound, for
any one who knows how much there is in
life and in human aspirations that words
cannot express. No one ought to be
shut away from it. Yet circumstances
beyond the control of the orchestia and
its directors have created an atmosphere
of exclusiveness about the Academy con
certs. The number of people who can
buy season tickets is relatively small.
So the rank and file were left to fare as
they could in the queue line and the
upper balconies.
Even now it is difficult to suggest a
( manner in which the orchestra may make
itself genet ally heard and understood.
But Doctor Hart and the others asso
ciated with him in the effort to use the
new endowment fund to the best advan
tage hope to find a way and we wish
them luck.
Orchestra leaders have always found it
s, difficult to reach grounds of common un
derstanding with what are called popular
audiences. It is apparent at times that
they make a mistake in the attempt to
play down to the multitudes. The multi
tude is far from lacking feeling and a
critical sense. It will swiftly reject
whatever is dull and pretentious. Yet it
, has little sympathy with the shabby and
hackneyed music that too often fil's out
so-called popular programs. If there are
to be great public concerts in this city
they ought to include compositions that
,are dignified and impressive. Music of
1 the sort likely to be of exclusive interest
to the technicians ought o be left for
cither times.
SUGAR
'CUGAR is a food. It is not a luxury.
When it is withheld the people are
left without an important commodity
that cannot be dispensed with without
some thought of the consequent effects
upon general health.
Sugar is now no more scarce in Europe
than it is here, where most of it is pro
duced and refined. Vast quantities have
been exported in recent months. While
Europe is in want any talk of embargoes
on food from the United States may not
sound pleasant. But if the sugar short
age continues the public will demand a
fuller explanation than any yet offered
and Congress will be required to correct
a situation that involves undue hardships
for the country, while it permits at least
some producers to demand prices far be
yond any ever contemplated before.
It is all very well to help Europe. But
the welfare work of the government is
it little like charity. It ought to begin
at home.
GENERAL PRICE ON MILITARISM
"NJO ONE familiar with the record of
the Twenty-eighth Division, or the
Pennsylvania National Guard, would call
General William G. Price either a paci
fist or an amateur in military science.
What General Price said when he
brought up the question of compulsory
military training for discussion at the
American Legion convention in Minne
apoTis is therefore authoritative and of
interest not only to Pennsylvania, but to
the whole country. He charged that
there is a lobby inspired by the army
general staff to institute an "un-American"
system of compulsory military
training under government direction.
The army staff doubtless is sincere and
intent merely on getting military effi
ciency of a high order without regard to
methods. That is what army staffs are
for. In other quarters there is noticeable
enthusiasm for compulsory training sys
tems of a peculiarly drastic sort, and not
all of it is inspired by patriotism or a
i-ense of duty. Before long the country
will have to decide how and to what
extent it wishes to prepare for war. And
the peop?e, deluged as they will be with
propaganda of a peculiarly subtle sort,
ought nlways to remember that military
training in the future, if it is organized
upoh a large scale, will not be like mili
tary training of the past. More wilj be
j-cquired than a few guns and a field to
iril in.
The military organization of the future
will have men and guns as mere inci
dentals. Training will have to be based
upon vast and elaborate systems of artil
lery, tanks, dirigibles, airplanes, gas and
chemical machinery and all the rest of
the devices, perfected and In contempla
tion, 'that science has evolved for pur-
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ment is highly expensive and it is highly
profitable to the makers. Any extended
system of military preparation will here
after be almost as expensive bs war
itself in money alone. It will remove
vast numbers of young men from schools
and from productive employment for long
periods. Some such costly alternatives
may be necessary and even imperative
later along. But for the time being the
nation ought to be permitted to look
clearly at both sides of the question and
to decide according to its needs nnd not
nccording to the desiresif selfish or
emotional cliques.
General Price nnd any one else who
continues to keep the whole general ques
tion of future preparedness out in tho
light is doing a Service to the country.
GOVERNMENT NOT TO BE
AN INDUSTRIAL BUREAUCRACY
J Congress Is Turning Its Back on Public
Ownership Plans and Harking Back
to Sound Americanism
'TWERE is most gratifying evidence
- that Congress has nbandoned its hos
pitable attitude toward government
ownership plans.
Not so very long ago the advocates of
progressive government socialism were
listened to on the floor of the House with
curiosity, if not always with respect, and
there were men in high executive offices
who favored government purchase of the
lailroads and telegraph and telephone
lines, and now nnd then some one advo
cated the nationalization of the mines
and the oil wells. Indeed, less than ten
days ago former Senator Jim Ham Lewis,
of Illinois, expressed the opinion that the
President in his annual message to Con
gress would advocate this soit of na
tionalization. But Congress responds to public senti
ment nlmost as quickly as a chameleon
changes color when it changes its en
viionment. It is now considering two
bills, one dealing with the return of the
railroads to their owners and the other
adjusting the relation of the government
to the merchant marine, vhich under
other circumstances might have con
tained very different provisions.
During the debate on the railroad bill
no one was so lash as to advocate the
Plumb plan for government purchase of
the railroads in order that the employes
might operate them. Sentiment was
a?most unanimous in favor of the with
drawal of the government from all direct
connection with the operation of the
roads at the earliest possible date.
Chairman Esche, of the railroad com
mittee, remarked in the course of his
speech that after hearing the proponents
of the Plumb plan "we were more con
vinced than ever that government own
ership will not and ought not to be the
solution of the railroad problem." Every
one who denounced the Plumb plan was
applauded by both sides of the House.
The experiment with government
operation of the railroads during the war
hasrevidently convinced the country that
it has had enough of this sort of thing
and Congress is merely reflecting the
sentiment of the people when it advances
arguments in favor of the abandonment
of government operation.
The attitude of the House toward the
merchant mnrine is even more signifi
cant. For several years we have been
told that the only way by which the
American flag could be restored to the
sea was through the operation of ships
by the government over routes neglected
by private capital. Even if the ships
were not operated by the government,
we were told, thev should be owned by it
and leased at such a rate as would en
able the lessee to make a profit.
We have had experience with govern
ment construction of merchant ships
during the war. A shipping board was
created, great shipyards were built nnd
we have turned out several million tons
of merchant vessels. The time has come
to adjust the shipping policy of the gov
ernment to peace conditions and what
do we see? Is Congress preparing to
continue the shipyards and to make the
shipping board a permanent institution?
Nothing of the kind. The committee
on merchant marine of the House has
drafted n bil! dealing with the situation.
There are twenty-one members on the
committee representing both parties. Its
bill is now before the House. Chairman
Greene, of the committee, explained the
other day that the bill had the unanimous
support of every member of the commit
tee. Former Chairman Alexander, a
Democrat, to whom the duty of explain
ing its provisions was delegated, said:
The fitst nupstion the r-ommittop was
(ailed upon to iletprniiup was tho present
nnd ftituip policy of thp 1'nitPil Stntes
with rpfprpiicp to this vast flppt that h,
hhnulil it be permanently owned nnd
operated lij the government or should it ro
into private ownership and operation?
The committee in Section .'! undertakes to
indicate to the shippiiiK board the policy
of ConRress with rpfsnrd to thii gieat fleet
of merchant vessels, and, if it is ngreed
to. to declare that these vessels shall ro
into private ownership and operation as
soon ns practicable. In other words, that
we shall develop tho American merehnnt
marine under private ownership ns a per
manent policy of the government.
Nothing could be clearer or more ex
plicit than the final sentence of this
statement. When one reflects that this
expresses the well-considered conviction
of all the Republicans and air the Demo
crats on the committee one is forced to
the conclusion that government owner
ship of a merchant fleet is a dead issue.
The bill continues the life of he ship
ping board for five years, it is true, but
that is in order that it may complete
the ships now under construction and
may have time to dispose of the whole
fleet on advantageous terms.
As to the nationalization of the mines,
the settlement of the coal strike by fed
eral interference seems to indicate that
we have about all the nationalization
that we need in order to keep the mines
in operation.
Government in the immediate future
is apparently to confine itself to govern
ing that is, it is going to preserve
order and protect the worker and the
employer from unjust and indefensible
interference and it is going to insure to
every one the enjoyment of the right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ncss. This harking back to the great
principles formulated by the statesmen
who 6et up our political institutions is
most encouraging to all believers in
genuine democracy.
Emphasis is likely to be laid on the
importance of insisting on equal rights
for nil wjthout special privileges for any,
and all the incentives to individual en
terprise are to be preserved so that
every industry may be developed to the
fullest" possible extent and so that the
men with ability may receive adequate
rewards for their initiative, breadth of
vision and commercial courage.
Our political democracy is not to be
superseded by an industrial bureaucracy.
The experiments made during the war
have made this certain beyond the
shadow of a doubt.
A YOUNG IDEA SHOOTS
A new relationship mut be realized
between the employer nnd the employe
in puhlic service corporations.
Kntli woikers own a dnh to the people
Hut it is equally plnin Hint the ppople
one a special duty to them. Uefoie we
become many jenis oldei the (Jovern
ment of the I'nited Slates will cieatp
courts with iiiithmity to en
force their decrees: courts of equity anil
iustlre to settle these controversies
Kranklln I). Roosevelt, assistant sccie
tnry of the navy, in nn nddrpss to the
Knight of Columbus in this city.
JT CHEERS us to see Mr. Roosevelt
move to p place in the growing com
pany of big nnd little stntcsmen who ap
pear to have made themselves familiar
with h suggestion repeated at frequent
intervals on this page within the rast
few weeks, while almost everybody was
too busy damning one side or other in
the strike controversy to recognize the
fact that patience, justice nnd an hon
orable l cgard for the rights of both par
ties in industry require far moie than a
surface study of labor unrest and its
causes. Mr. Roosevelt echoes the belief
expressed in these columns when the
steel strike was called.
The logic of the argument is clear.
Labor organizations on the one hand and
the men who direct great industries like
the mines and rail systems on the other
have achieved a sort of power and in
fluence thnt the general public cannot
regard without some misgivings, es
pecially when it is' apparent that differ
ences ike those existing in the coal fields
are to be left to settlement hv dovnstnt.
ing trials of strength and methods of
attrition applied to the country at large.
Strikes nnd lockouts do not assure
justice to anybody. They give victory
and advantage only to the strongest.
The wrongs and grievances that may
animate one side or the other are never
intelligently scrutinized. It is no won
der that we have begun to talk of indus
trial barbarism.
Congress, for the benefifof tho country
and Its safety, will have to set up a now"
code of industrial relationships and define
new mornl and legal principles wHich
labor or capital may not violate in the
future without inviting public condem
nation and disgrace.
Then we shall be rid of strikes. The
accident of poverty will not serve to
weaken the case of men who strive for
living wages and the right to care de
cently for their children. Nor will
fanatical agitators again find it possible
to threaten the industrinl fn r tu
country with disorganization and paral
ysis. , The fight of the di-
h.iil In the rector of the I'enn-
Orlglnal Package s.vlvnnin Bureau of
., ,. Fon"s against the
Colder bill, now pending in the United
htntes Senate, deserves the serious atten
tion of the public and the public's enmest
backing. Not nil the states have bpen so
careful as the Keystone State in securing
for thp people good food for good money.
The Colder bill, which makes interstate com
merce n party to adulteration, will, if
passed, nullify all the good the state has
done in this direction.
Wnodbu ry, X. J.,
There Ain't hienks into the news
No Such Place because i t s servant
girls, who are receiv
ing double the wages they lereiverl a year
ago, are demanding mote. Hut the town
that will merit first -page display is the town
that has no servant ghl problem.
Only on the 'hvpoth-
Tlme Will esis that wnr has
Bring Sanity made them mad can
one understand why
Fienchmen should cry "I.ong live I.enine!"
nnd "I.ong live the bodies:-' ns tloy are
reported to have done nt Dortan, a 'small
industrial town in France.
Lloyd fieoige is said
to have made n pledge
to Kionccsco ltn
D'Aununzin to
Ise Ills Job
.... t h n t t h e Adriatic
question will be settled in a wov consistent
with the honor of Italy ami the'interests of
nil the Allies. John Q. Compromise is about
to get in his licks.
-. . Delegates to the in-
No Compromise ternutionnl labor con-
Wlth Evil ference are undecided
whether to favor the
acceptance of the pence oiler of the Russian
soviet government. Amu icons who have
had experience with the miud-workings of
soviet believers in this country will suffer
no Indecision.
Perhaps the shooting of four frilled
Stnlei soldiers by I. V. V. snipers iu Cen
tralia. Wash., may help the international
labor conference to decide whether or not to
favor he acceptance of the peace offer of the
Russian soviet government. The offer and
the shots come fiom the same hiand of
"lefonner."
Life Is just one menacing tiling after
another. It was the Hun in U1S: it is
the Red in 1019.
Herbert. Hoover's words nie as direct
as his deeds. The Poles of Uuffalo now
Know exactly where lie stands.
A smait slap on the wrist by the Fed
eral Reserve Hoard is sufficient to,keep Wall
btreet from hysterics.
Hot heads nnd soro heads may balk nt
resuming work in the mines, but cool heads
and clear heads will lead the way.
"They walked right out and turned
around nnd walked right in again."
The political dopesters are busy In
Charleston, 8. C.
"Back to the mines I"
THE GOWNSMAN
Hamlet
TTH Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson's
W delightful "dlscoiiisps" on Shnkespenre
nnd Mr. Walter Hampden's recent imper
sonation of the piocrastinatlng Dane in this
city, no one can question the coliteinpo
rnneousness of Hnmlet. As to Sir Johnston,
he mny be said to levolve in the orbit of
Hnmlet and this Is said in ndmlrntion, not
In disdain. For Sir Jolmslon hns mane
Hnmlet in n sense his own, In n relilcarna
tlon which extends back through "hi
lnnter,"' ns he has cnllec! him, 'Samuel
Phelps, to Xlacreadj, the Keinbles nnd to
(inrrick himself, to lose itself In n deeper
past. As the (iownsmnn listened the other
evening to (he familiar speech to the players,
pronounced without nffectation or man
nerisni nnd ns If It wpip the easiest thing
iu Hip world, he could not but feel thnt here
Is the realization iu practice of Shakcspeare'n
own simple and sensible ndviec wherein he
warns how things "overdone" nre "fiom
the pin pose of plining" nnd pleads for "the
mirror held up to nnliiie." Sir Johnston's
l.nglish is a delight, for there is no mouth
ing In it. no trace of a localism nor of man
neiisni. In listening Ic. Sir Henry Inlng.
years ngo. we were always sensible, great ns
was his art, that this yas Sir Henry Irving
impel scuintiiig Hnmlet. With Sir Johnston,
the other evening, neither the convention of
evening ilothes. most iin-Hnmletlikp of
habiliments, nor perilous piny with a pincc
lie, could disabuse Us of the conviction that
here was file veritable Hamlet.
pO.MPARISO.VS are odious and generally
finite giotiiitous. The (iownsmnn has
not been so fin Innate as to see Mr. Ilnmp
ilen this time; but he remembers his Hamlet
of a year ngo null n vivid and mostMiappy
impression icmnins. If Sir Johnston
I'm lies-Robertson icpiesents the English
tiaililion, harking back to (intrirk: Mr
lliimpilen -.tnnds be if said to his credit
for (lie tindition of our American Booth nnd
Forrest befoie him, The Cinwnsmnn, ns n
hoi. was raised on the Ilooth Hamlet To
him. Hamlet's was the dark, saturnine face
of a man bordering on the elderly, black of
hnir, nve for n grizzling on the temples,
of n dignified, graceful figure, deep melan
choly voice, volntile'in his clinic of mood,
iust a bit dare it be said? thpatrlc, sus
tained nlways with n subconscious sense of
lu's rank ns n prince nnd to perpetrate an
anti-climax, usually abominably supported.
Mr. Hampden's is a lomnntic. n beautiful
Hamlet. He looks thp part according to thp
Ilootli Ilamlpt tradition. He is younger fnr
than the (iownsninn'N late recollection of
Ilnoth. ns lithe, ns graceful, as melancholy,
as sonorously musical in the rendition of
i his lines, ,
QOMF.IIODY has written interestingly
nbout the grand manner of Shnkespenre
nnd Mr. Shaw has stuck his tongue in his
cheek ns to all this nlifpomp nnd circum
stance. Sir Johnston called attention the
other evening to the large proportion of
prose employed by Shakespeare, not only in
Hnmlet which contains n great deal but
throughout the plays, and he mndc the point
onp never too frequently to be emphasized
that the poetry of the play does not flicker
in and out with the verse, in a word thnt
the prose is often nn les poetical than the
verse. Thcer is n poeticnl glamour over thp
whole of thp Shnkesppoipan age. a glamour
which exists to us not only because we see
it nfnr off. but because the lomnntic way
of looking nt things was the prevalent one
in thnt time. Such an agp expressed itself 1
in its own language and that language is
habitually imaginative because such was the
habit of its thought. To object to the grand
manner of Shakespeare is to quarrel about
the ruffs, the flowered doublets and the
llhen stomachers of old time.
TTAMLET, the greatest of tragedies, is
- written like nil the serious plays of
Shnkcspeare, in the grand manner. Its
scenes are gorgeous with the colors of the
imagination and glittering with wit nnd
with fancy. It is emphatically the story of
a prince; and the poet hns raised the petty
little castle of Klsinnr with everything in it
to the heights of nny poetic dilation to
which your mind can follow him. But all
this, like the robes of the king or the staff
of office of Polonlus, is but the trapping,
the garniture, not the essence of the piny.
Hamlet does not move us because he Is a
prince, but because he is a man, We are
not so much concerned with his loss of a
kingdom perhaps ns may have been the
Eliznbethnns, but we are equally concerned
with the terrible forfeit which he must pay
for his fatal proerastinacy, his indecision of
soul ; for, ns Kir Johnston happily reminded
lis, we are all procrastinators.
tTTTHRREFORR the . C.ownsmnn would
' modestly state his preference for a
Hnmlet, natural, not grandiose, simple in
the complexity of his mood, not complex in
his simplicity. Hnmlet is a man who 1ins
seen n ghost in an age which believes in
ghosts not nn age in which Sir Oliver
Lodge believes in ghosts nnd Sir Conan
Doyle but the age of a general belief in
this manifestation of the supernnturnl. The
sight of his .father's spirit, wondering out
of purgatory, has given Hamlet a state of
nerves, it has unhinged him nobody in liis
own wits believes Hamlet to have been out
of hi and n man witli n stntf of nerves Is
ns open to impressions as nn Aeolinn harp
is to evpry zpphyr .No man should be
allow rd to act Hamlet--no man can really
act Hamlet who is not a gentleman to his
finger tips. And this ciioumstnncc makes
the disturbance of bis equilibrium so very
much more terrible nnd touching. He puts
nn antic disposition on. but he is ns he ex
presses it "tickle o' the tere," readily
nettled, and the senility of Polonitm irritates
him, the spying Rosenkianz and fiildenstern
exasperates him: Ophelia, whom he loved,
caught in a lie, maddens him, nnd the
bombastic grief of Laertes drives him to a
frenzy of mockery. Sir Johnston is right,
there is nn element of impishness in Hnmlet.
In happier days he might have made a teas-'
Ing, nagging husband for Ophelia.
The student who c aided $0000 worth
of rrfdlum around iu his vest pocket without
knowing either its nature or its worth may
congratulate himself that he did not lean up
against a soda water counter and break The
tube.
A dispolch fiom Constantinople by way
of Rerlln tells of a plot to depose the sultan
of Turkey. There are one or two other pos
sible! world events that we might view with
lebs calm.
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No matter how unwillingly they acted,
the leaders of the miners have done the patri
otic thing and deserve credit. It is so much
easier to do the flanibojaut than the wine
tiling.
Anil we venture the belief Hint Uncle
Sam will see ta it that the miners get a
square deal. j
RniRsels stores nre selling women's
clothes Imported from London via airplane.
Prices are probably 'way up to match the
transportation,
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Lament - .
Slumbers
The plumber
To dream
Of the number
Of sure-enough
Dollars
He makes
In his sleep.
Our baker's
A faker ;
The smooth
Undertaker
acks rates
To assure us
A big
Extra weep!
The grocer?
"Oh, no, sir;
It couldn't '
He so, sir!"
Cries lie
5 When I say-
That his stuff
Is too high.
The butter-and-egg man
Is just a
Plain jeggiiinn !
And nil
You can do
Is to pay up
And sigh.
Nobody curses
The maker v
Of v erses.
Words aren't enten, -
I can't
Profiteer.
Hut I'll do
Like the crew
That despoils
Me and you
And spread it
Out thin
In the manner
Shown here.
THE EMPHATIC IDEALIST.
Fixing the Furnace
Silas Pegg ordered his winter's cool in
April, His name was inscribed on pnge Hi
of the coal company's order book. On Sep
tember 0 he learned that the company had
delivered all orders up to page 0. There was
possibility then thnt he would receive his
ronl late next spiing. Hut it chanced that he
knew a chap who had a cousin who was n
friend of n man who lind intimate business
relations with the proprietor of a delicatessen
Btore whose wife was the sister of the junior
partner iu n coal firm, nnd he learned thnt
by pnyiug cash be could get eight tons of.
nut coal within ten days ; nnd he really got
It. So when the dnys grew cold he went into
the cellar'nnd interviewed the furnace.
It was n very niee furnace, big nnd
henltfiy looking. Mr. Pegg was proud of it..
.In previous winteis he had fed it well nnil
"it had always given him n warm welcome
when he paid it n visit. He used to declare
that It had no bad habits, that it neither
drank nor smoked. Occasionally he would
deal It a baud at poker, and the success
with which it would draw fairly delighted
Mr. Pegg, spite of the fact that he, and he
alone, paid for oil the chip. It is true that
some mornings after a hot time it had a
hoi rid appearance and the glories of the
night before were ns nshes in its mouth.
And clinkers. Mr. Pegg knew about the
clinkers. He was dentlstjo the furnace, and
when he surveyed its fine; open countenance
he extracted 'most everythingfrom it except
satisfaction, When the bnrs were down his
vocabulary grew hot. When his vocabulary
grew hot the bars were down. For a nou
drinker, they had a line collection of burs in
thnt cellar,
r
But that was last winter and the winter
before.
This winter things were different- Some
time in the summer the furnace had con
tracted a chill from which it, bad not recor
ered; from which it. refused '(o recover,"
had entirely lost its nppetite, ordinarily
largp. Fuel forced upon it lay undigested;
lay heavy on its tummy. Nothing but Mr.
Pegg's newspapers nnd Mr. Pegg's patience
went up in smoke. The wood refused to
"catch," though he criss-crossed it pains
takingly on top of piles of paper, nnd nfter
every little flare-up there -was n drop in
coal never reflected in the market reports.
So Mr. Pegg at last telephoned the place
where they sell heaters, and they said they
would send n mnu to give it treatment nt the
earliest possible moment; which, of course,
meant Hint the Peggs were going to wnit a
long, long time. And they did. And the
time come nt Inst when Mr. Pegg said he
would wnit no longer, nnd Hint the very
next afternoon, Saturday,, he was going to
pull the "mnnrtls" out of' that furnace and
give it n thorough overhauling.
' .
Mis. Pegg was alarmed. She knew that
Silas had no more mechanical ability thnn n
rooster. Anything that was done around
the house she had to do. So without say
ing n word to anybody she decided to fix that
furnace herself, nnd do it before her husband
got home.
She never would have thought of the over
alls if she hadn't seen them negligently re
clining on the window screens stored for
the winter. The garments hnd been left by
the colored mnn who had whitewashed the
cellar. He had left hurriedly to accept a
position 'ns bellboy in a hotel. As he-was
going to wear n gorgeous'unifonn, he didn't
have no use for dem t'ings nohow, Aud
Mrs. Pegg donned them. The whitewash
was a whale of n man aud
The poets have compared, a woman to n
ship. Well, vyith her sails tucked away
Mrs. Pegg looked like a barge, brood in the
benm and tight in the seams. That last
phrase may not be correctly nautical, but it
is descriptive.
And this was the moment Fate ordained
that the Rev. Edgar- Xossington should
make a pastoral call on his parishioners, the
Peggs. He knocked nt the front door nnd,
getting no reply, wnlked mound to the bock,
and came fore to face witH Mrs, Tegg as she
carried a pail of ashes up the cellar steps,
Mrs. Pegg was embarrassed; so was the
pattor. Hut they are both good sports, and
instead of trying to pass it off they both
laughed.
' I'm really well pleased with the person.
One naturally would not expect any stiff
ness fiom a woman brave enough to don
overalls and tackle n furnnce, but it was
somewhat trying for a young clergyman to
meet one of the liTB-st dignified members of
his .flock, a woman ohl enough to be his
mother, masquerading in overalls. That he
took it as a mutter of course is greatly to
his credit. He went into the cellar with hen
examined the furnace nnd snld, "Mrs. Pegg,
if you'll take 'em off I'll put them on and
jail can boss the job."
So Jlrs. Pegg took n tiip upstairs to the
kftchen, removed 'em nnd took them down to
the preacher, who donned 'em. And they
worked nt the furjjace for n full hour and a
half and started it, and It worked beauti
fully. "How did you fix the cussed thing?" Silas
demanded that evening..
"It is not a cussed thing," Raid Mis.
Pegg. "It isn't that kind of n furnace at
all. It is a w.fll.behaved furnnce; it has
been blessed with labor nnd good works."
DEMOSTHENES McOlNNIS.'
Sir William Osier is II! at his homo iu
Oxford, England, which suggests to every
paragrnpher in, the world that if he had only
said what he was credited with saying some
few yen'rs ngo about the duty of every man
to shuffle off when he reached forty or was
it thirty? why why, bless us, what on
excellent paragraph it would make !
The ono redeeming feature of a bad ac
cident is thnt It usually brings to the frpnt
some hero; and the accident to the, Reading
Railway ferryboat was no exception.
PROGRESS THERE I"
"Whenco Is this, that tho mother of my Ijcrd
should come unto me?"
TN THE hill country
J- Where the streets clomb
Ry kirk nnd market
There wns my home.
There from wise teachers
Patience I learned,
Waiting till truth be
Rightly discerned.
Still to thnt teaching
Weary I clave,
Shall not Messias
Mightily save?
Then nt that moment.
Love's maid wns shown
In flic hill-country
In n small town.
And to the gathered
House of my kin
Came she, exalted,
Suddenly in.
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Then snid I: "Whence now
Should this thing be "
That my Lord's mother
Comelh to me?"
While in her glory,
Near ns she trod,
Sang she: "My soul hnth
Magnified Ood."
Chnrles Williams, in the New Witness. '
The question suggests itself thnt If
China is willing to leave the Shantung mat
ter to the league of nations, why shouldn't
we?
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What is radium?
2. Who was Eugene Scribe?
.1. IIow long have the Bolshevists been in
power in Russia?
4, Mexico has hnd two emperors? Who
were they?
5. Artificial legs have seldom or never been
made of cork? Why were they so
called?
(I. Who is Franklin D, Roosevelt?
7. What was the Minotaur?
8. What is "a laverick in the lift"?
0, What language is sunken In il, ,vi.i
of Guadaloupe, in the West Indies? ,,
10. Who wns the great general of King
uaviu :
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. To "go to Canossn" means to eat
humble pie. Conossa is a town in
Italy where Kaiser Heinrich IV wtMit
to humble himself before Pv .c Gregory
VII (Hildebrand) in 1070.
2. Victor Berger, Socialist congressman
from Wisconsin, has been ousted from
the House of Rcpresentntives.
3. The mesquite is nn American leguminous
tree, especially common in Texas aud
New Mexico,
4. The "Ranz des Vnehes" is the Swiss
herdsman's melody, mndc of harmonic
notes of the Alpine horn.
!, A merle Is a blackbird.
0. A round In muBlc is n composition iu
which several voices entering nt stated
intervals sing the same music, the
combination producing correct har
mony. 7. Wellington is the capital of New Zea
land.
8. Avgowan is a daisy.
0. It is thirty-five years' since the metal in
a silver dollar was worth more, as It
now is, than the face value of the
coin.
10, Thomas a'Kempis wag a German eccle
siastic nnd tho reputed author of the '
"Imitation of Chrls.t." His dates are
130V-1471. "-Y,
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