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All riglits of republication, of epeclal fs patches herein arc also reserved. Phllidelphli, lunajj, rvoirmbrr 10, 1919 JAKE COMES BACK 'M'O ONE who knows anything' ubout ' the codes thai rule at the Cent il police station experienced even u mild surprise at the spectacle of Jake Jilman, ward bully and underworld strong-arm, blustering all over the place, threatening policemen, defying the law that he had flagrantly viulated and being bowed to meanwhile by a deferential magistrate. Jako had been in the station many -times before his arrest the other evening for a particularly offensive violation of tho motor-traffic laws. He has been up, under the charges that usually are made against lawless heelers anil hangers-out in tenderloins. On this occasion he had endangered the safety of many people at a crowded crossing by deliberately lgnor "mg the traffic rules made, wo arc to cup pose, for lesser mortals. Jake iirst run down the policeman who attempted to arrest lain and then cursed tho traffic man. Yet he was treated with unusual respect by Magistrate Pennock and ushered out of tho Central police court like a visiting dignitary. It is in this same police court that friendless prisoners aro herded like cat tle and sentenced with callous indiffer ence. It was Pennock who required days to determine whether charges of subor- , nation of perjury against a practicing attorney deserved consideration by the grand jury. And it was Pennock who sent a man of means and breeding to spend a week at Moyamensing because ho happened to be a stranger in the coun-. try in momentary difficulties about a hotel bill. Traffic Policeman Patton appears to have been one man at the Central sta .lion who was not awed by Gilinan. The ' rourt needs a general cleaning up. And t fn the present instance every one who has any respect for law or a decent re gard for the safety of the people who use the streets or a proper understand- ing of the work done by the traffic police will hope that Director Wilson actually - meant what he said when lie promised to push the case against Caiman to a finish. "BY WAY OF PANAMA" rpHERB aro now anchored in the Dela " ware river freight steamships from Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in the Schuylkill a steamship from Hongkong is awaiting a cargo. Theso essels passed through tho Panama Canal on their way to this port. They find hero bafc anchorage, good piers and doubtless tlicy will get cargoes large enough to attract them here again. Philadelphia is many hours nearer than New York to the At'anlic entrance -of the canal, and the facilities for trans- fcrihg freight from train to ship are much better here. There are railroad lines tapping the wholo country with ter minals on the piers. All that is needed to t develop a thriving trade between this y- port and Pucific ports through the isth mian canal is the co-operation of the big whippers with tliu port authorities and the steamship lines.. Those with faith in tho port will not ho satisfied until ships from tho Pacific at anchor in the Dclavarc are as com mon as tho ferries pl ing to Camden. JOURNALISTS IN THE SENATE rpHE acceptance by Carter Glass of the -- appointment to succeed tho lato f Senator Martin, of Virginia, inc-cases .the number of journalists in the Senate. Senator Glass owns the Lynchburg News, .llitchcodc, of Nebraska, is the publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, for which Bryan used to write editorials. Harding, of Ohio, owns the Marion Star. la Follelte publishes a weekly named after him. Secretary Daniela, of the Navy Depart ment, is a journalist, who owns the Kal fligh (N. C.) Observer. When Carter Glass left the House to enter the cabinet ns secretary of the treasury ho became the second newspaperman among the president's official advisers. J Tho men mentioned aie actual news '.'liuper editors and owners rather than ' .jnitnHs!s who hvn inv,ifi-.,l in unn...-- ify, v t papers to. advance their political ambi- fa tfpns. Two of them, Hitchcock and r '( Harding, arc talked of as possiblo candi dates for the presidency next year. Tho ' .7 uiWltriftr nf till ftP tliaaA ton. ? ....I. it. J 7 it is not easy for the lawyers in the Scn- ' ato to have everything their own way. THE WORM TURNS t. rpO THE uverage New Yorker, educated ' by cxperienco and tho crusading j-ess, the milk trust is tho most odious " wfall combines. It is to muko war upon , ' itbis organization that about half of Man- '' i "kitten is preparing to dispense with its s " t tipple. Thcro is to bo a boycott of ' 'milk, in which more than u million people proUitbly will join for three days each h MMKMTM.moveaient, top, is voluntary. tOOllJ'tj fiUwr strikes in that It fond t. lcadcrsnip only after II was actually under way as tho voluntary expression of widespread resentment. Will tho unorganized public, bedeviled by trades unions on Ilia one hand and profiteers on tho other, bo driven finally to form a now mid novel union of its own? Voluntary boycott brought the Camden trolley company to its senses. In instances it brought down food prices. Now in New York tho mention of milk less days is likely to havo a sobering effect oife tho milk distributors, even though tho fight is being carried on with out a moneyed organization or a clyirtcr from the Federation of Labor. ACCORD OR DISGRACE, OPTIONS IN FINAL TREATY CRISIS Only Narrow Partisan Pride Can Refuse to Accept a Basis of Compromlse'ln the Present Reservations rpiIE threats of both sides in tho acute and final stage of the treaty contro versy reflect very imperfectly the gen eral bcntimcnt of the nation. According to Gilbert M. Hitchcock, the President is in a mood to pocket the docu ment and let the civilization he bought to save go reeling toward chaoi unless the taint of reservations is effaced. There 13 a suggestion more of pique than of zeal for humanity in this ulti- tude. Furthermore, Mr. Wilson has made no official statement under his own sig nature. It is conceivable that, skillful politician as ho is, ho is playing a spec tacular card in order to extort conces sions from his opponents. In tho game of partisanship, moves of this sort aro common. It is traditional strategy to demand more than will possi bly be granted m order to gain a few point3 hitherto unyiclded. Mr. Lodge, too, bristles with threats and sensationally makes ready to pro claim immunity from responsibility should the Democrats win sufficient sup port to defeat the treaty if weighted with its annex of reservations. But should tho pact be rejected in that way the senator from Mastnchusults will be no more com fortablo than tho President, with his pocketing pruccM. It is a pervasive fact that the public as a whole faors tho passage of the treaty and will bo ill disposed to any statesman on whom tho onus of having nullified it may bfc found to rest. Prejudiced partisan Democracy, preju diced partisan Republicanism have ag gravated a crisis winch is excessively irritating. The country is weary of the technical blutfing and tho academic "vic tories" and "defeats" which hu've marked tho agonizingly long era of treaty wrangling. Thcro is, of course, a way out, and eventually it will have to be employed. The pestiferous Kced and the cyclonic Borah loom large when it conies to sen sationalism, but the realities arc per sistently too much for them. They and their small group of out-and-out treaty smashers cannot alone cfl'cclually block the road to compromise. In fact, tho very hysteria of their efforts has cleared the air by making plain what reservations were really cor rosive and what are merely trite state ments of facts dresspd up in language soothmtr to partisanship. "The Kced proviso defeated in the Sen ate yesterday by a vote of 5G to 3G was a deliberate repudiation of the principle of arbitration, which is the essence of tho league of nations. In this reserva tion the United States reserved to itself "exclusively the right to decide what questions affect its honor or its vital in terests and declares that such questions aro not under this treaty to be submitted either to arbitration or to the considera tion of the council or of the astembly of tho league of tuitions, or any agency thereof, or to the decision or recom mendation of any other power." Mr. Tuft was quite correct in ilatly. condemning so pernicious a qualification to entry into an arbitration compact, and the League to Enforce Peace was equally justified in urging rejection of the treaty if presented in such contaminated form. But Kced, though ho may call bogies from the vasty deep, cannot persuade them to remain. The Senate's sensiblo scrapping of the most damaging of all tho reservations occuired shortly after the defeat of tho foolish qualification which debarred us from participating ill the disposal of the Germau colonics. There arc left thirteen reservations, sulkily worded, but on analysis far from subversive of the purposes of tho league. Nearlv all of them are sons to senatorial sensitiveness; and, despite their flourish ing preambles, Uiey sav little more than that Congress will perform its constitu tional functions, no matter what the com plexion of tile new civilization may be. A sense of humor is helpful in inter preting reservation No. C, which safe guards ilie Monroe Doctrine to the .ex tent ol asserting that it is "wholly un affected by any provision contained in the said treaty of peace with Germany." As Article 21 of the covenant excepts the doctrine from the jurisdiction of tho league, the reservation assumes the atti- J tude of disdaining in ono breath the very concession that is actually granted. Unquestionably this is all wretched manners. It is a bad start to begin a, course in international umity with a scowl. But our sister nations can dis pense with an exhibit of some of the social graces providing tho essence of agreement can bo discerned. In twelve of the thirteen reservations this accord, sullen though it be, exists. The languago concerning the acquisi tion of Sliantung by Japan plainly re flects the displeasure of the United States at the most unsavory act of the Paris conference. But if there is not concord in tho beventh reservation there is little that presages defiance. Tho United States simply withholds its assent to the cession and reserves "liberty of action" regarding any controversy over the subject between China and Japan. In other words, we disapprove of tho situation. That is u public fact. It does not, however, mean that wo propose to adopt a bcllicoso policy. Treaty well wishers of tho, typo that rises abovo parly prejudice would natu rally bo delighted if the broadside of reservations had -been more temperately phrad,iif ttay bad bona Iaubsardiy EVENING PUBLtCi MJDGEB tautological and if they had not pursued tho course of constantly raising up Blraw men to bo demolished by defining tho obvious and indisputable jiowcrs of Con gress. But political attitudes bad to bo struck. Both sides havo mudo their frantic gesture. Tho public, as usual, has been rather tolerant and, again running true to form, it has becu mystified by tho congres sional tempests. But adjournment is now visible through the fog. Tho time for action is brief. For either faction to burke the treaty now would bo infamous. If the Democrats and their allies among the "mild" Republicans feci that they cannot accept the thirteen reserva tions they havo insufficiently exumined them. If the Republicans aro deluded into legarding them as more potent than they really aie, the belief may be u par tisan infatuation, but it 13 not intrin sically harmful. Thcro i3 only om- way for the Senate to liquidate its heavy responsibilities to the American people. It must ndopt the treaty, and if compromise on points upon which partisans have been touchy is nec essary, then comproiniso it must be. Tho alternative is chaos and disgrace. The luccssity for tccuring a two-thirds voir- on Hie treaty complicates the situa tion and lodges power in the bauds of a comparatively small group which- is under obligation to make an adjustment. If precedents clog progress, it is impera tive to shchc them. It might shock Mr. Lodge to have to call on Mr. McCumbcr to effect a settle ment, but his emotion would be mild com pared to that aroused by the obloquy which would bciis portion if the trm patriotism of tho nation should brand him as a treaty wrecker. The President is similarly placed. He has often enough withstood a storm of criticism. His moral courage should be sufficiently trained to offset the wincing that might accompany n concession or two. ANTI-SEDITION LAWS Tt, AS Attorney General Palmer has '- baid, the picsent laws are not broad enough to reach the anarchists and Bol shevists, they certainly should be amended and teeth should bo put in them strong enough and sharp enough to hurt. But the amendtnents or the new law should be drawn in such a way that they will not do more harm than good. The bill which Attorney General Pal mcr has submitted for the consideration of the Senate is not tho kind of a meas ure which would have been prepared at a time when men could look at the subject calmly. It is much too sweeping in its language because it would convert a whole series of acts now comparatively inoffensive into the grave crime of sedi tion. Sedition, according to the dictionary, contests in the excitement of discontent against tho government or of incitement of resistance to lawful authority. It is conduct which approaches treason, but which falls short of it for want of .an overt act. And treason, as every one knows, is actual or attempted betrayal of a government to its enemies. Mr. Palmer's draft of a bill makes such a sweeping definition of sedition us to include within it any attempt to ciiange the laws of the country and any resistance to an officer of the law. For example, it would bring within its penal ties the people who aro attacking the wartime prohibition act, and a man who resisted arrest by a United Stales mar shal to the extent of assaulting the offi cer would render himself liable to im prisonment for twenty years or to a lino of $10,000. It might be argued that no . judge would enforce tho law upon ciLizens urg ing the repeal of offensive statutes or upon any man who, without attempt to overthrow the government, resisted the authority of ono of its officers. But there have been judges who hae enforced the letter of the law regardless of the spirit and intent, and have even wrested il from the evident meaning of the legislators. It is not bafe to make any act of Con gress so comprehensive as to cover offenses not properly punished by the penalties provided. Lawyers have not forgotten their astonishment when the courts applied the Sherman anti-trust act to railroads. 1 1 was intended by the Congress which passed it to prevent com binations of manufacturers in restraint of trade. Its terms were made general, but every one was thinking of manu facturers like oil refiners and steel makers. That its prohibitions nhould not apply to transportation lines was admit ted by the government as soon as it look over the railroads about two years ago, for the government at once began to do those tilings which it had been forbid ding tho private managers of the roads to do under tho prohibitions of the anti trust law. Thu purpose of an anti-scdition law at this limo is to reach the anarchists, the Bolshevists and tho I. W. W. leaders who have been plotting to overturn the gov ernment. That is where it should stop. Secrelliry Glass, of the Procrastination Treasury Department, has accepted appoint ment os senator from Virginia, but has been "told by members of the Senate that there is no particular need for him to take the oath as senator for a week or morr." AVhut numbers? Aud were they predicting victory or conceding defeat in tho mutlrr of certain not altogether unimportant measures now engrossing the attention of that more or less august body? The fact that tho Prince of Wales played golf with a professional at White, Sulphur Springs may bo worth a pnragraph, but if he had beaten him it would have becu worlh a first-pao ditplay. Perhaps tho reception committee put on tho fog especially for tho l'riuce of Wales jestcrday. It wnsfcwf'ly lite dear ol' Luu non, y'kuow, old top. New York "wets" looked all day yester day for the lifting of tho ban on booze. Nothing but death can euro John Barley corn's optimism. If President Wilson were a well man he would doubtless like to luudlo Senator Bccd without reservations. .In his "Poems of Patriotism" D'Aununzio sever gU thick for a rhyme. - PHIEABELPHIA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER J. L. LEWIS A HARD FIGHTER . Fact Was Somewhat Obscured In Recent Coal 8trlkc by Many For tuitous Circumstances Uy OEOUGI3 NOX McCAIN JOHN h. LEWIS, president of tho United Mine Workers of America, who ban loomed large on tho labor horizon for tho past few months. Is, I find, regarded by the out side world as a fire -eating radical and the ciponcnt of theories allu to lliote of Lenine and Trotsky. In real life, however, John L. .Lewis la a tiipst affable and agreeable Indhldual. He is a trifle reeericd, not given to overmuch talking, and Is particularly reticent about discussing with outsiders questions affecting tho bituminous coal situation, In personal appearance ho Is of average height and well built; heavily built in fact. Tho conspicuous feature of his physical make-up is a largo head with a mass of bushy black hair parted on the left, stand ing out all around, us though rebellious of restraint. Mr. Lewis has a good face a notable face. It is smooth Bhavcn and Is that of n preacher or eiaugcllet. His eyebrows arc dark llko his eyes und very heavy. Uo has n good command of language, does not hurry his tittfrauec, and docs not waste hla words. "lyrn. LEWIS is not uu ciccplloji to up t'J. to-date labor lcadcra uo class In tho matter of dress and personal appearance. He wears black, usually with a dark four-in-hand tie, md uo jewelry. The labor leaders at the recent great but unfortunate industrial conference in Washington were, as I pointed out at tho time, as carefully dressed and as particular about their per sonal appearance as the most fastidious members of tho other groups. t tho Indianapolis conference -of mine oilicials last week-the tame manner of dress and deportment distinguished tho second lank of mine leaders ns it did the first. I could not icfraiu from comparing the appearance of these mine representatives o today with those whom I know a generation ago in western Pennsylvania. Tho office of the Pittsburgh mining district at that Umo vaa on tho left side of Fifth ntenuo just above Smlthfield street on the second floor front of a four-story build ing. Tho stairway was dirty and lm swept. The banister was broken. The Iir.'idciunrtcra was in n largo room whosf furnishment consisted of a deal table in the center, littered with newspapers, nn old fashioned desk near tho window, where President Jones eat, and a dozen or luo wooden chairs of the kitchen typo ranged round the walls. The floor, like the stair way, was worn and uncarpeted. II was snept once a week, I judge. W. A. Jones, the then president ot the miners' union, was a member of the bar, where he bad achieved no great success. -)Ic was a graduate of the mine und ho carried tbo roughness of a mine driver dealing with his mules into the legal profession. It didn't work. Finally ho was elected presi dent of the district union. From first to last he was nn unlovely character. He was com bative, wordy and uncouth. Lien the miners got tired of him ut last. Tbo miners' delegates of that day gao litlle heed to personal appearance when at li'iiding a district meeting. Many of them were collnrlcss. Others carried their coats on their aruis, if it was midsummer. 'They were not particular in the use of bojp, and there wcio often littlo grimy circles around their eyes. ALL that U changed now. You enter a uiarblo vestibule und are whi&Ucd up an eloator by a. cried operator to tho oOice of the district union. It is in tho bnme office building as 6ume of the biggest mining cor- ' porations in the country. The miuer3 presi dent is a gentleman in appearance, manner and speech. He is a representative citizen. Morcoicr, he Is a city official. His callers, mine delegates and union officials, have the appearance of inral business or professional men. Tbcy talk business in quiet tones. There is no boisterous mannerism, no rough pleasantries. It's nil business. .It is a wonderful change one that can be appreciated only by those who can bridge the gap of thirty-lhc years und comparu conditions uraong the miners then and now. Labor has dignified itself in the inlcn cu ing years. SINCE the memorable morning in Indian upolis when President John L. Lewis uttered tbo words "We arc Americans; wo cannot light our government," tho public is acquiring a new impression of the man. John Mitchell was as ruthlessly criticized and denounced in the years of his presidency of the rnino workers us Lewis is loduy. Lewis is as brainy as John Mitchell. I believe, ho has as much eclf-poisc, but he comes into the limelight at a particularly inauspicious time. President Hayes, who should hac managed affairs antecedent to this strike, is incapacilated, and Lewis, who is only acting president, was thrust forward to assume his duties. Lewis fought the radicals, tho mcu who were disposed to fight tho goerument. The weight of bis influence was against them and tho strike was tailed off. But just the t,aino, John L. Lewis Is a bard lighter. He will drive a hard bargain. As statistician for the United Mine Workers ho bus all the facts of eicry previous con troversy, a knowledge of tho field, the condi tions in cuch state, and is even acquainted with the character aud reputation of mep and operators in every mining district. And ho will use this information iu tho light he is waging at Washington. rpHE Pennsylvania Kailroad is losing one of its moEt popular und able officials by the resignation of George Stuart Patterson. Ho is ono of the ablest railroad attorneys in tho country. It is uguifieaut thut Mr. Patterson is not only leaving the Pennsylva nia Railroad, but be is also entering com mercial life. It is tin established fact that in the rail road business a man can go just so far and no further. The late John B. Thayer, when vice president of tho Pennsylvania, stated In my hearing that he knew of no business in which advancement was so slow and merit so tardily recognized as railroading. Mr. Thayer himself began as a clerk, grew dis gusted ut tho slowness of promotion, re signed, and years afterward wus called back to high place in tho camo organization. It was an Indication that his superiors did not recognize his abilities in tho first place. Iu the case of Mr. Patterson be his held high official position for years. Fortunately, his abilities, were recoguiied by his super iors, and bo resigns from office with well earned laurels. , Tho election of five members to tho Islo of Muu's representative ussembly draws at tention to tho fact that that body is known aa tbo Uuso of Keys; not at all tho kind of body in which you would expect to find a deadlock. The Reed reservation nays in effect, "We will make an agreement with you on the strict understanding that nothing con tained In said agreement must bo construed as committing us to compliance with suid ugrecment." Yesterday's fog cauted maay accidents. ni DiouwuiDKicm accident caused.yceteT' Uar-UNb 't f 1 '' "HELLO, SIGN HERE, G'BYE!" . ' ". ' r ..a .-;' -i-.:..rt-.3ij333fen:is riir:a-- J'5B?$9PSK1S1B? a. -it'-".V.-SM-rV!irtjrsCrif'fJ!3I lJCHE5ri3Sic:j' 7uS-., --.-y ,: Gp&fc',l"M,.-:0,i THE CHAFFING DISH One-Night Stands rpO THOSE looking for uu cihilarating --vacation let us commend n week of "trouping" on onc-uight elands with a theatrical company, .which mirthful ex perience has just been ours. Wo went along in the very lowly capacity of co-author, which placed us Eomewhat beneath the stago hands ua far as dignity was concerned : and we flatter ourself that wo havo learned our btation and observe it with due humility. Tho first task of the director who Gtagcs u play i is to let tho author know wtcro ho gets off, This was accomplished in our case by an argument concerning a speech in tho play where one of tho characters remarks "I propose to send a mentaj message to Eliza." This sounds (we contend) quite u harmless sentiment, but tho director insisted thut tho person speaking, being an' Englishman of btiidious disposition, would not bay anything bo inaccurate. "Ho would uso much more correct language," said tho director. "lie ought to bay 'I purpose to send.' " "Wo bulked mildly at this. "All right," said our mentor. "Tho trouble with you is you don't know nny English. I'll send you u copy of tho Century dictionary.'' rniHS GENTLEMAN carried purism to - ulmost extravagant lengths. He objected to the customary pronunciation of "jew's harp," insisting that tho word should bo "juice-harp," und instructing tho actor who mentioned this innocent instrument of melody to write it down bo in his script. When tho dress rehearsal camo round, ho was surveying tho "bet'" ror the first act with considerable complacence. This eccnery was intended to represent a very ancient English inn at Stralford-on-Avonnnd one of the authors was heard to lemark boftly that it looked more like u broker's office on Wall Street. But the director was unshakcu. "There's an old English inn up ut Lurcli mont," said he, "and this looks a good deal liko it, so I guess we're all right." u a ' LET ANY ONE who imagines the uctor's life is ono of bevo and 'skittles sully along with a new play on Its try-out in the ono-night circuit. When ono bees tho de lightful humor, fortitude and high spirits with which tho players face their task be gains a new respect for tho profession. It is with a, sense of bhnmo that tho wincing author hears his lines repeated night after night lines that seem to him to have grown so stale und disreputably stupid, und which the ingenuity of the players contrives to instill with life. With u tenso of shame in deed docs he reflect thut becuuse one day long ago ho was Btruck with a preposterous . idea, here are honest folk depending on it to earn daily bread and traveling on n rainy day on a local train on tho Central New England Railway ; hero aro 800 people Ixi Saratoga Springs filing into u theatre with uaivo expectation on their faces. Amusing things happen faster than ho can stuy, to count them. A fire breaks' out jn a cigar store a few minutes before thcatro time. It is extinguished immediately, but half .the town has rushed down to ser tho excitement. Tho cigar store is almost next door toMke theatre, and the crowd sees tho lighted sign and drops in to give tho show tho once-over, thus giving ono u capacity bouse. Then, there uro the umusing acci dents that happen on tho stage,- duo to ).ho Inevitable confusion of oucnight stands with 'long jumps each day, whqn scenery and props urrlvo ut tho theatre barely in time to be set up. In the third act ono of tho characters has to take his trousers out of a handbag. Ho opens the bag,, but by some error no garments are within. Heavens! has tho btage manager mixed up the bags? He has only one hope. The girlish heroine's luggage is also on the stage, and our comedian dashes pver and finds bis trousers in her bag. This casts a most sinister im putation on tho adorablo hcrolife, but our friend (blessings on him) coutrlvcs it eo delicately that the audlcnco doesn't, get wise. Then doors that are supposed to bo locked have a habit of swinging open, and .rtbe - luckloee hroiatrredy4oray; furiosi, 18, Ml!) ' ?S m.i--Jri& ..; ISSKWfciaSSMt--''- m:.-'' -r-' .-r.r--'j-s.-" ..---JTsT-ir. S. .v-"1 .. --" .-jurirxe- J- ,u,-i. -..-u- -j ..- "' JjitfSr1 j.rKr- I to tho hero, "Will you unlock tho door?" Cud3 herself facing uu open doorway and bus to incnt a lino to get hcrtclf off the stage. V V l "OIJiG on the road is a cry humanizing experience, and one gathers a consider able respect for the small towns ono visits. They arc so brisk, bo proud in their local achievements, so prosperous und so full of iiltracuio shop-windows. When ono finds in Johnstown, N. Y.. for instance, a. book duuii iiu uimosi. us weu-nssoricu u siocis us ono would seo hero in Philadelphia; or in Glovcrsvillo aud Ncwburgh public libraries that would bo u credit to uny largo city, ono realizes the great tide of public intelligence that has rlseu bo greatly In recent years. At the hotel in (Glovcrsvllle tho proprietress assured us that "an English duko" had just left who told her that ho preferred her hotel to the Biltmoro iu New York. Wc rather wondered about this English duke, but we looked him up on tho register and found that bo wus Sir II. Urnick of Fowuc3 Brothers, tho glove manufacturers, who bi.e a factory in Glovcrsville. But then, being a glovo manufacturer, he may hao been kidding her, ns the low comedian of our troupe observed. But tho local pride of the bmall town is a gonial thing. ItSuy always bo, noted in the barber thops. Tho small town barber knowshis customers, and when a straugo face uppcars to bo Bhavcd on tho afternoon when tho bilU aro announcing a ploy, ho puts two and two together. "Aro you wi,th that show?" be asks; uud being answered in tho affirmative (ono naturally would not admit that uno is merely thcro in tho frugal capacity of co-author, and hopes thut be will nnugiuo that such a faco might conceivably belong' to tho low comedian) ho proceeds to expound tho favorlto doctrine that this is a wiso burg. "Yes," he says, "folks here aro pretty cugy. If your show can get by hero you needn't worry ubout New York. Believe me, if you get a baud hero you can go right down to Broadwuy. I always tuko in tho'shows, and I've, heard lots of actors say this town is harder to please than any place they ever played." coo AND, GETS a new viewpoint on many -'matters by a week of one-night btandu. Theatrical billboards, for instance. Wo hud always thought, iu a vague kind ot way, that they weru a defacement to a town and cluttered up blank bpaccs in an un seemly wuy. But when you ure trouping, tho first thing you do, after registering ut tho hotel, is to go out and scout round the town yearning for billboards and complain'' ing becuuse thero uren't enough of them. You meet unother' member of the company on the sumo errand and say "I don't seo much paper out," this being tho tcchuicul phrase. You both ogrco that the advanco agent must be loafing. Thou you set out to seo what opposition you arc rhiyiug against, .uud emit grouns on lcnrning-thut "Tho Mil lion Dollar Doll in Puris" is also iu town, or "Harry iJulgcr's Girly Show" will bo thero the following evening, or Mack Scu ucjtt's Bathing Beauties in Person. "That's tbo kind o&stuff they fall for," said tho other author mournfully, and yoU hustle around to thobox oflkts Jo bee whether tho tlckot ruck is still full of unsold pastebourd. ) w , AT THIS dine ofycar,' when ull tho met ropolitan theatres are crowded and thero aro Bpme thirty plays cruising round in tho offing waiting for a chance to get Into Now York and praying thut some show now thero will "flop," one crosses the trail of many other wandering troupes thdt aro battering about from town to town. In remote. Johns town, N. Y., which can only bo reached by trolley und whero thero is no hotel (but a very fine large theatre), ono finds that Miss Grace George Is to bo the next attraction. Ou the train to Saratoga one rides on tho bamo train with the Million Dollar Doll, and thoso who have seen her "paper" on the billboards in Newburgh or Poughkeepsle keep an attentive, optic. open for the lad; l...10 4 i....nu..l .!, 1t.,. .... ,''!.. JuwM&to ce iic-'awnly she lives up to hvtA m-0m && l-t AIH J n."'i,l .1 .TC"fT H -I't . -L-- - nJTT en. , . .-,-..-r. rWS-MiSi. rr5'-.i-,;-'--j- T""?3?'--" 5&at' Vssf. JS?fisS2?oa lithographs. And if the passerby should see u lighted window iu tho hotel glimmering at two iu tho morning, ho will probably aver that thcro are oomo of thoso light-hearted "show people" carousing over a flagon of Virginia Dure. Littlo does ho euspect that long ufter tho tranquil thespiano have gono to their well-earned hay, the miserable authors of tho trying-out piece may be'vlgil ing together, trying to dopo out a new scene for tho third act. Tho saying is not new, but it comes frequently to tho lips of tbo one night standcr It's a great life ir, you don't weaken. SOCRATES. AN AUTUMN MORNING 1ALM und deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench tho furze And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold: Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps with all its autumn bowers, And crowded farms -and lessening towers, To minglo with tho bounding main. Tcnnyoon, The lean coal bin doesn't care whether it is called a btriko or simply delayed re sumption. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. TO what position has the governor of Airginiu appointed Carter H. Glass, secretary of the treasury? l 2. What are the two great rivers of Meso potawia? II. WJio'is'tho &hau of Persia? I. What Btatcs havo ratified tho woman suffrage amendment? C. Who is John'Drlnkwa'tcr'A C. 'What is ontology? 7. What is a philter? S. Who was Thor? 0. Which is the largest planet' 10. What is a horologcr? Answero to Yesterday's Qulr 1. Uho scientists who havo lust been awarded tho Nobel prizes for physics and chemistry aro all 'Germans. 2. Ineluctable is that which cannot bo es caped. '8. Tho'Council of Nicaca, tho first general council of tho church, established the Niceue creed and condemned the heresy of Arius in 325 A. D. Nicaca or Nice, was a town in Asia Minor. 4. The three chief gods of Egypt were Isis, Osiris and Uorus. 5. The battle of Buena Vista occurred ia ' tho Mexican war and resulted in victory 1 t by the Americans under Zacbary Taylor over tho Mexicans under Santa Ana. C. A socle is a plain, low rectangular block, serving us support for a pcdcSiuI, vase stutue, etc. v 7. Christian Samuel Friedrich Hahnemann was the founder of homeopathy. He was born in Saxony In 1755 and died in Paris In 1813. S. In uccordance with tbo expressed desire of Charles II, William Pcnn named hla possessions, in. North America Pennsyl vania In honor of his father, Admiral Sir -William Pnn. The name originally selected was simply Sylvania. 0. The Turanian race embraces peoples of Ural-Altaic stock and ln( a vague sense tbo nomadic people who preceded the Aryans In Europe and Asia. Some ethnologists, however, employ the wprd Turanian to describe all peoples not white or black or mixed, 10. Thomas Jefferson ordered that his tomb stone should record that he was the author of tho Declaration of Independ ence, of the statutes of Virginia for rei ligious liberty and founder of tMIUnl- c., ersltyoC Vlrsinfcu IHWwUli Jw ''1 if "7r .i wv --..- !4 Ji ?! ,,.,, ri ri ' ha' t'S- 'WS?.,
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