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EDUCATION AND MISS TAFT
IF ALL college girls and women will do
as Miis Hele.n Taft did ecterday i"
her debate wili Or. . ',. liainber-. of
Pittjbuvs
the uljeci ef oatlO".1l
tfaiuing i'. ile schov't thev w'll do niucl
to justify thtir claim to equal author
ity with men in the direction of public
affairs.
Doctor Chamber:, as a Pittsburgher,
iras naturally a passionate advocate of
-the teach-theiu-to-work doctrine. The
classics! A tut for the classics! Teach
'em, said the Pitlsburgher, to make a
living, to do things. Down with the
fancy stuff in schools!
Miss Taft. uwlii.macd ami (.cniiiig 10
speak for all the women who slud and
think in American collegia, made out a
very good cast, for the classics, though,
like all other sensible people, she was not
unaware of the benelks of practical
training. What she implied was, that a
broad, human, general education such at
tempera the spirit of a man or a woman
is of vast benefit een in a carter of
practical work and makes ineiitably for
better technique, better approach and
better morale ccn in the technical voca
tions. The practical education now so popu
lar teaches you how to work The clas
sics teach you how to live
THE COST
PHILOSOPHICAL observert continue
to insist that there cannot be another
war of conquest in Europe for at least a
hundred years. The ariuus peoples are
tired ?nd disillusioned. Governments arc
weakened, and impoverished. Such arc
the evidences on which a good many stu
dents of politics base the convictions that
va-more or less onduring peace 13 assured,
no matter what happens.
JThh appraisal of the situation might
"Ho questioned. Germany is tired, impov
erished, disillusioned and as eager for
peace as any one else. But Germany
lost and lost hcaiilj. She lias incentives
for new war unknown elsewhere. She
cannot lose any more. Powerful cliques
are trying to convince her that some time
in the future she might win.
Japan has great ambitions in Siberia.
In a pinch, perhaps, she would tight for
them.
Meanwhile the bavants associated with
the Carnegie Peace Foundation have
been estimating the costs of the war.
The earth they behee is poorer by
5372,000,000,000 than it was live years
ago. Losses of life, property and di
verted effort are included in this calcula
tion. Civilization paid some such total be
cause it had not formulated a universally
acceptable philosophy of life and national
relationships.
The peace treaty and the covenant of
the league of nations were drawn to es
tablish just that sort of philosophy. We
all know what has been happening at
Washington. And it is impossible not to
wonder whether civilization will have to
pay again.
VANISHING RADICALISM
r1! EVERY European country the first
elections after the armistice seem
always to be expressions of thankfulness
for"vjctory. Thus the Lloyd George gov.
ernment polled unexpected majorities in
. England at elections arranged almost
Vjpimediately after the tiring ceased. At
lister elections the liberal and labor ele
ment made big gains.
The French are an extremelj conserva
tive people at heart. No one expected
that the recent elections w ould show any
trace of an advancing radical sentiment.
5r"yet the strength of the Clemenceau
group was something of a general sur
prise. There has been a great popular reac
tion from the few extreme radicals in
European politics. Similarly the soberer
liberal! are gaining new strength. The
Tajik and file in Britain and on the con
tinent want reforms, but they do not
want bolshevism. They know more about
Bolshevism than we do. They saw it
prk in Russia and they remember the
Jya when it released a million fresh
CMSfroan troops against their tired linec.
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RETRIBUTION AND PUSSYFOOT
Vt'CYW'ATHY for "Pussyfoot" Johnson,
11. aujmruuuu ot nun ur even nmreci ana
" iat8Lation of all his works cannot settle
ithje" various questions that rise naturally
because of his presence in England as a
'propagandist of the American theory of
f , ipobihiUon.
'S' ' It' i apparent that the thought of tee-
' (toUHsm enforced from outside is mad
i'f Hwilttg to uan Englishmen. Tho Eng-
l lish havo a rigltt to boact mat tiey arc
p&tty jjood tuiukertf und that they know
.
av - awru
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3F 4 SprHT, ,,,
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ir1 JET Ctacaoo.
!KW & otdcr their own affairs. It in have beeit active,' but Industrial eondi-..im-al
to assume that if urohibltion is Hons have been more effective in abollsh-
a ,'iJfcK lor England the-vEnglish
EVENING
ought to know It. American dovolcca or
the "dry" principle huvo the appearance
uf assuming that the Uritish need to be
guided, led ubout and forcibly reformed.
It is largely because of this attitude
that Mr. Johnson vab raided and hazed.
vnd yet It may be that Pussyfoot is, in
this inblnnce. retribution's other name.
Mr. Johntoii illicit eay that he, too, has
taken up the While Man's Burden. Ho
has enabled a few broad-inindtd llrilish-ei-3
to scute bomcthing of what stubborn
multitudes ustd to feel in Asia and in
Africa -when they wore being tauglit to
wear calico frock coats and the top hats
of western civilization.
PROPAGANDA CAN'T RIPEN
APPLES OUT OF DUE TIME
The World 13 Moving Forward Accord
ing to Program In Spite of Etfortn
to Hasten or Retard It
MTHK friends of the peace treat, the
- men who have been trjing to bring
about a belter understanding between the
workers und those who pay their wages,
and the advocaU-s of all kinds of social
and political reform have been bandi
capped in their efforts b.v denunciation of
them as propagandist.-! l those who die
agree vvit.i them.
Since 1911 the word propaganda 1ms
had 11 sinister meaning. The world was
tilled with German propaganda that is,
with a concerted effort to conceal the
truth and to mislead men and women
iuto support of an indefensible cause.
Propaganda i 11 perfectly innocent
uovd. It .i original! used to desig
nal' ti oonely of cardinal, instituted in
Konic ni H'L"J to huv lh earn and over
sight of foreign missions. The function
of the propaganda was to propagate the
gospel or to cause the go3pel to multi
ply and spread. The word was later used
to" describe any institution or1 systematic
plan for propagating a doctrine or sys
tem. Iu time it was extended from the
institution to tho sj sterna tic effort to
ward securing support of an opinion, and
linall.v it was used to describe tho princi
ples advocated b a propaganda.
Wendell Phillips and 'William l.lo.vd
Garrison were propagandists.
When Willium Jennings IJryan . was
advocating the free coinage of silver at
the ratio of sitcen to one he was a
propagandist.
Every clergyman is a propagandist.
Tlie propagandists of the anti-slavery
movement, of the free-silver era and of
the church were and are engaged in
legitimate effort to spread doctrines
which they honestly believed and believe
would or will benefit the World at large.
They had and have 110 selfish interest to
serve. They wero and are not Irving to
put over anythinc on an unsuspecting
public. -
Gfiriuauy, as alreaclj indicated, was
seeking by her propaganda tojpersuade
the world to bclirve about her what she
wished it to believe, just as for jeais she
had been engaged in persuading the Ger
man people to believe what the mililarj
caste wished tliein to think was true.
Tlie German press was controlled. It
printed only vvhut the government wished
it to print and it refrained from print
ing what the government was unwilling
that tlie people should know.
We arc now 111 America tlie witnesses
of an orgy of propaganda in the bad
sense. Agents of special interests arc
active in Washington tr.ving to convince
tlie congressmen that what they advo
cate should be supported and doing their
best to debauch the newspaper corre
spondents so that they can be used for
the same sinister ends. Capital has its
nropugandists and so has labor. And 1
eacli thinks that it can fool the public.
But, as George Ade would saj, the pub
lie is wise to them. It reads between
tlie lines of that which gets; printed and
discounts by about t0 per cent every
statement made. t
Many of Judge Gar '3 statements
about the bteel strike did not convince
anv one save those who wished to be
convinced.
Foster's repl to Gar was equally
futile.
We all knew that both were vitiated
by special pleading and that neither was 1
seeking for 11 lair ana equitable settle
ment of the dispute. Each was fighting
for his special interests.
The comparative futility of it, how
ever, will not prevent a continuance of
this sort of thing, because the occasional
success of an effort to fool the people
leads each propagandist to hope that he
may be able to put his schemes acrosj
before he is found out.
Experience has proved that selfish
propaganda can have only a temporary
success, when it succeeds at all,, in a
country where there is free speech and a
free press. It succeeded 111 Germany,
where tlie government dictated what the
newspapers should print, but it took
more than forty years to put the tiling
across within the confines of tlie Ger
man empire. When the attempt was
made to put it over by force upon the rest
of the world the whole thing tumbled to
the ground like a house of cards.
Even unselfish propaganda does not ac
complish very much. One has only to
take a casual glance over the course of
history to reach this conclusion.
Martin Luther may be said to have
propagandized the Protestant Reforma
tion, but Luther could have done nothing
if -Europe had not been ready lor wnat
happened. The time was ripe and Luther
did little more than reach out his hand
to pick the fruit which had been mellow
ing for generations. He did not hasten
the movement. He merely led it.
Garrison and Phillips thought they did
much toward tlie abolition ot slavery,
but slavery w-as doomed as soon us the
Missouri compromise was, adopted, early
in the nineteenth century. It took about
forty years for the issue to become acute
enough to provoke the war which
brought slavery to an end. And it would
have been abolished anyway whether the
Garrisons and Phillipses had talked or
not. It was an institution which could
not exist in a free country.
Tlie same truth applies to the prohibi
tion issue. Tho temperance advocates
ins the Hojior traffic ,than,all tho prohi-
PUBLIC
bition orators from Ncal Dow to Bryan.
We were discovcringHlmt it did not pay
to become fuddled with drink. Competi
tion was so fierce that 11 man who wished
to got on needed to have nil his senses
about him, and he deliberately cut out
drink. Employoru who had to conduct
their business with the greatest possible
efficiency refused to hire habitual drink
ers. A man could not get a job, or If he
got it he could not hold it, if he went to
work tho worse for liquor.
The ubuses of drink were curing them
selves and the nation was convinced that
drink could bo abolished with profit to
every one concerned. When it reached
this stage the passage of the prohibitory
constitutional amendment was compara
tively easv .
All this means nothing- more than thai
great reforms are made slowly as fruit
ripens on a tree. One may fret or" fume
about the greenness of apples in the
orchard in June. One may engage in an
active propaganda in favor of ripe apple-,
all summer. In the autumn one may
point to tho trees laden with fruit readv
to be picked as evidence of the success of
the propaganda. But us a matter of fact
the frujt would have ripened an.vvvav in
due season.
The worjd is moving forward toward a
goal the c.'.acl iiaturn of which no one
knows, guided bj forces the workings of
which are little comprehended. Yet
there are men who buzz about like a lly
on the driving wheel of a locomotive and
think that they arc the power which
moves the machine.
If the world ) read for the league of
nations provided for m tlie peace treat
thij league will . uVeecd. If it is not
reed for it not all the denunciation nl'
the senators opposing it nor all the
praise of the men who drafted the cove
nant will make it succeed, for propa
ganda cannot ripen an apple before its
time.
So why get 0citcd if the plans of
Providence apparently fail to synchro
nize with our own 7
OUR TIME IS OUT OF JOINT
AIJDENT milleiinialists may be annocd,
but the ordinal' erring mortal can
hardl fail to derive a kind of back
handed cheer from Professor Doolittle's
expressed conviction that not only is the
time out of joint, but it can never be re
paired. '
And so if tho league of nations is not
perfect, or we llunk on a mental efliciencv
lest, or discover a (law in the coustitu
tion or an imperfection 111 our household,
or the dollar table d'hote is now a dollar
ten, or there arc more rainy Sundays than
any other da, or we only got half our
promised raise, well there's the calendar.
It's a failure, too.
Doctor Doolittlo declares that the Ital
ian scientist who claims to have discov
ered a calendar that will last forever
without revision is tOing with the im
possible. Ilio trouble ij that we swing
around the sun in "an indivisible num
ber of das.'' The fraction which trails
after oGu is endless.
The Mohammedans gave up worrying
about it, with the result that their New
Year's day has sometimes arrived in
January and at others in June. The
.French revolutionists coined a batch of
fancy names like Yciidemiare and Nivose,
but didn't solve the riddle.
We fret along under the Gregorian, but
we can't devise a calendar that will
check off das forever without occasional
rectification ard adjustment. Nature
made the muddle and there is refresh
ment in that knowledge".
When nature nods there is excuse for
all of us.
Judge MeNii'liol M'orcJ
iiil I hero rc
1nerira11s Abroad
a man who asked to In
evented from jur. dmj
because ho vwis not a
citizen. He told the mau bo ounlit iu be
ashamed of himself for living in tbii country
for ear without taking out his papen..
Wherein, it would recm the curt erred. We
have the right to deport aliens but no right
to tcold them for mildly protesting that fhej
do not wish to break the laws.
. -
Educational oppor-
Kduccitioiiand tunities in the army
Sen lee and navy ure thought
to be responsible for
the fact that more joung men enlisted lart
year in this city than in an;- other city. It
may easily be that the evuaenees of the ad
vantages of education arc particularly patent
in this city; and most eertainlj it wan not
lack of cmplomeut that drove them into
terricc.
"Cutting tilde his coat
A llirilllug Incident of preconceived opin
ion, John Q Compro
mise boldly plunged into the rea of contro
versy and rescued tho peace treaty us she
was sinking for tlie last time." Extract
from a forthcoming installment of the thrill
ing serial now appearing in tho Congres
sional Record.
If operators and union
Give and Take leaders are willing to
Peace Will Sialic gie as well as take,
agreement may be
reached; after nuich the miners, evcu as
they did after the strike hud. officially been
declared jiff, may or muj not return to work,
being 'governed by their desires or the de
mands of their pockets.
A IoclI post the
Clean.up Djs Needed American Legion hns
passed a resolution
deploring the condition of the old Supreme
Court building in Independence Square and
has tent copies to the newly elected members
o Council. 'With sweeping changes to bs
made, they put their faith in new brooms.
. New Orleans news-
Chauce for lilckers papers have Increased
thtir street price from
two cents to three cents Because of the in
creased cost of white paper. And tho reader
who cheerfully pays a dollar ard a half for
a book read in an hour and a half will
doubtles.1 KieU llto a steer.
The National W. O.
Turkish Mixtures T. U., in convention
in St. Louis, desists
moraedtarily from its war on cigarettes to
assist in the cause of 100,000 Armenian
women said to be enslaved in Turkish
harems. They doubtless consider both as
campaigns againtt slavery.
Federal authorities
o-hn o and a have seized two boats,
Mottle of Ituni alleged to be bootleg
gcrs, plying between
loridu ports and the Bahamas, These boots
iresunsabiy encased sea. less
LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, -NOVEMBER
MAYOR-ELECT MOORE'S
LETTER
Qosolp About the Deep Waterwayo
Convention Warner Hargrove'a
Snake Story
TUST before New Year's forty years ugo,
" II. B. Vanseivcr, u lod who hud grown
up in the Fifth ward, took a mluor position
with the Philadelphia ond Boston Sltiiinnlilr
Compnn.i, commonly kuowu iik the iiisor
Line. The founder of that line was Heury
WinFor, 11 Philftilelpliian, and he Is reputed
to have maJo 11 great deal ot money n n
pioneer in the New England Delaware river
trade. Henry Wiiisor had two tour, Jnme
D. and William D., who took us active nn
interest in tho business as their forebear
and who were cquallj successful. They wero
ig figures' uloug the riverfront when Joel
Cook, William K. Tucker, Christian K Bosi
rud Jonathan May wrrc keen onug fellows
iu tho shipping world. Tn tho course of
tioai- Hi" Wlnsur Line wu absorbed bj the
Merchant und Minors1 Transportation o
11 much largei concern, having etenshc in
tercets north and south, hut the merger cai
ricd Vanseivcr along with it aud toduj I).
is tho superintendent of tho consolidated
ennipunj. On the recent trip of the slum
ship Howard to Savannah, for the tvvelflh
nnnirit convention o? thr Atlantic Derpor
Waterwuj' Association. Vanseivcr s a.,
pioi.chlng lortieth auuivorsur.v in the Menu,
bout bnsiiies war. commented Upon, nud it
J- jii'-t posidlilo fiforgo 1'. Sproule. John
iinnu, .Mocrt 1. urown auu vv iinum 1.
Bernard may take occasion to cchbratc tho
event during the Christmas bolidajs.
"UTILLIAM T. BCDD, whose long experi
' euce with the Harlan V. Holllngsworth
P'ople brought him 1111 exceptional know ledge
of sliip und shipping, is m 'eoretur.v ot
the Wi'iniugtoii Hoard of Irude aud ls such
U (morning tlmt thriving Delaware city.
Mr liudd hu' lookid over Ma.vor Douuell.v t
greater plan at t'renlou, is keeping in touch
with Major Ellh i activities iu Camden and
hab an eje on Chester's new Mayor Ilamfay,
who is about to joiu the waterfront contin
gent. John Meigs, at one time Director of
Wharves, Docks and Terries of Philadelphia,
devised the plans for Wilmington which Mr.
Budd bar in mind. They contemplate a
business uuiou of the Delaware and Chris
tiana with great wharves extending along
both rivers and industries behind utilizing
the vacant space back to the reuns.vlvauia
Railroad. Perums who observe Wilming
ton i situation on tho high land, with its 1
wuterfiout eicept for the Christiana almost
waste, have often wondered wh.. the city
bur not been built down to the gnutcr
stream. The Wilmington Chamber o Com
merce plan coutonipliitrs that very thing.
UpRNU; HARGROVE continues to put
' Browns-Mills-iu-the-1'iiies on the map.
According to Wnrnor, who holds most of the
public office of Browiifc-MilU-ln-lhc-l'incs,
hi iiian.v thing-, are going ou'in that vicinity
that even Doctor Kcl.v of the Art Club and
William H. Rcurson, kudiug summer nsi
dtntt ure beginning to perk up 11 little. liar
grow hu uildul to his list of uoeomplMmjents
11 suukc-collecting ugoucj. and up to dut"
ho sujs It bus boon nicusurablj profitable
except In om inrtunee. And this i" how
ho tell- it: "I went out iuto the I'iues cue
du to look for snakes uud found two big
fellows tight mg. Now u suukc light is worth
witnessing and I stopped to act us umpire,
but this is what happened. After spurring
a little, out uf thoc snakes grubbed the other
bj the tail uud begun to swallow it. When
the second snaj o observed what wus hup
pcuinc. he grabbed the tajl of tho first suuku
and also begun to sv.ulllxw. Aud those two
stiukis kept ou swallowing each other until
there was uo -nuke." Hargrove eu this is
the funniest snake light he over suw.
E c
1111,1,, of Trentun. put in an ap
pcarauce at the Charlutou convention
of the Atlantic Deeper Watcrwjjs Associa
tion with u report of the National Roard of
Trade procediug of li!J7. In thoie pro
ceedings were contuiusd a stenographic re
port of tho action of the board concerning
the intracoa-tal wuterwaj us it is now
understood und generally approved. A
number ot I'hiladelphiaus participated iu
that meeting of the national board aud were
not altogether iu favor of treating the proj
ect as anything more than local It wus
about the time eit.v Councils appointed a
committee to obtain u turvej across the state
of New Jerse with h view ot couneetiug
New York and Philadelphia bj water. The
report of this committee came to be known
u the Martindale report. Protestor L C
.lluupt hud much to do with its preparation,
but tho project did not get xer far aud wus
held in abeyance until the Philadelphia con
vention of 1007. Now tho project across the
state of New Jersey is regarded us national,
since it is tho one couuectiuj link between
the waterways leading up from tho South
and those running on to New England.
ELISHA WEBB, Jr who gathered his
friends around him for the celebration iu
Charleston of his twentj -fourth wedding
anniversary, is cot only a live steamboat
man, but an exceptionally fair comedian. In
order to make up us a Chinaman for a
masquerade on board ship, it was neensary
for Elisha to shave his Edgar Too mustache.
The deception was so perfect for the pur
poses ot entertainment that it is said to
have occasioned some 'embarrassment when
tho boss returned to the Webb establish
ment on South Trout street. Taithful em
ployes are not prone to take orders from
men the 'do not know
THE REV. DR. II. A. F. IIOVI, of C;u
wyd, whose work as an army chaplain
made him a favorite with the boys of the
old national guard, has taken to water.
The doctor goes aboard ship and eats three
meals regularly like a veteran mariner.
Moreover, the doctor mixes. He likes people
and is not afraid to talk to them It is
not altogether idle to suggest that the mixing
habit properly cultivated materially assists
the minister in his work.
SOUTHERN towns are increasing their
business with Philadelphia. Some of
(hem now nre more active than they have
ever been and tney are crjing out fur in
creased transportation facilities more rail
roads and more ships. The southern towns,
ore ulso beginning to understand tome ,of
the perplexities of large industrial com
munities. Take Savunnah. Tho chief of
police reported to Muyor Stewart that a
troublemaker had come to town to organize
the police in tho I. W. W The mayor
sent for the agitator and told him his
presence was not desirable The man
threatened to make trouble, but about the
time the legality of proceedings againit him
was being determined, information reached
headquarters that he had brought with him
in his grip u bottle of whisky. That was
ufficlcnt evidence for the police and settled
the bash of that particular agitator.
A dispatch fnjm Paris sets forth rbo
fact that Frenchmen believe that the United
States will not be able to kill the treaty.
Which is as it may be. It will not be
denied, however, that the United States
Senate can do much to gum up the pro.
ccedlngs.
Ten million dollars hnB been paid b.v the
American Sugar ttefining Company for u
sugar mill and plantation in Cuba, but the
fact, during the present shortage, adds noth.
1 ins, of sweetness .to pur cup.
I THE CONVALESCENTS
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THE CHAFFING DISH
The Great Pharmacist
C
1UU however jou choose to name Him
r Ulnided a notion maddening strong:
liave it lu man, and can jou blame him
If he er with u fevered song?
Houim hc.voud his tongue's describing,
Tiuts ot dusk on the tawny hills,
t'ristulliiio lungs of air imbibing,
Cold wet cheeks where the rain-cloud
pill.,:
SU.Vi made him shiver, und wind spaces
Turned hislieart to u wordless flume
Huuutid uud stricken by golden faces,
Through the tumultuous vcars he cumc.
Ureum uud doubt uud folly und passion,
Each he grappled, usured of Truth;
Drained or tasted, utter his fashion.
J'his, the elmr that men call Youth.
G10D however jour priests devise Him
f Blended a magic wild and new:
t.uve it to mail, uud thus Ho tries him
Whether his fiber is fube or true.
Trembling looks, und his heart is shaken
1.0, the uuswer of all desires,
tudreamed paradoxes awaken
A tended name to halt fiercer Dc.cs
EXES that had (canned tho world s far
tuTiiingr
Enter glad through u homely door ,
See, with suddcu aud painful xcurniugs,
Childish to.vs on the bedroom floor.
He that was frantic can never bo lonely,
But unguesscd pangs in his breast will
mov c
Such is the riddle he meets, ho oul.
This is the mani" that men call f.oic.
GOD however jour creed defines Him
BJended a sirup rich und clear :
And, as a-touic to mau, assigns him
Thi"! new draught for the passing jcar.
Gives him peace, and relief from doubting.
Practiced eye and the word well-weighed;
Quiet hearth -Vires upart from shouting,
SunSCt llgnl Us lue. wsms ..
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YET Is bis mind ull quick to ponder,
Hot to grapple the problem shrewd,
Watching, as he grows softer, fonder,
Youth with its lusty hunger crude.
He, with an infinite affection,
Watches the torment, stage by stage
Knowing uo goal, he points direction.
This is ."i" siruP ihat men ca'1 Ac'
GOD however your mind conceives Him
Blended the phtlc unexplained:
As for the drinker, one task He leaves him
The manner in which the cup is drained.
Yet it seT-rus but a surly gesture
Toward this liquor to swtct and wild,
Toward this earth's bright comely vesture,
To face it like an unwilling child.
ai-ADDENING draught of young xcius'
1V1 crazing.
Dyes that linger, ejes that evade,
Half-seen glimpses that find no phrasing,
Pangs and passions to quick to fade
tweehlcss appeal of human face3,
Strife "uwinnable. out still strife,
Lilac dusk on the mountain Places-
T7iis is ne P'"!310 nat men caU L,,c'
That' princely gentleman Mr. Thed Per-
-Mn.. has been kind enough to lend us bin
t of "The Balsam Groves of Grandfather
Mountain," from which work we inteud'to
cull a few PS3S8KC3 as o'"8'011 warrants.
Wm. H. Calloway and J. C. Shull, Esq.
.'.. tra.vel along a good road between
bioomlnc CKW""U -":"
b r . ,...h..l r.n nnR fclHft and
1 onrn oil ure
other you pass tho
w"t;V. or troscoe. where birds of good
omen have always n tteH through the skies
nf William H. Calloway, and arrive at
four destination, where J. C Shall. Eca .
5ou' ,,.nrtiri wi(a and two charm-
wn "as A'"",., 1,.... . nice .
in a nice, uiv
tne aaug.H-p .-- --
Lvfnied farmliovfiie, surrounded by a grassy
fivn will Blve jou nice country, board at
JH.M.O .. n n ulf r tin a
flftv cents u. "j. - "--. . ---
month. "The Balsam Groves of Grand
father' Mountain."
The above, w e regret to say, was written
, 1802. We wonder what,JvC. Shull,
Esq., is charging now.
When
f!rs V- has an ubsentmiudedues-, a sweet
uncoi'ScloUsness, about her thut sometime;)
mukee u remark of mere politeness as euttiug
tnHlcil surcutni.
gUej5"amlnl2i-t''ia"f'0fipearls,in,a'
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local jewclcr"s the other nay and the clerk
at last became almost pathetic iu his euger
ness to cell.
"You Ehould take u bargain whtn you see
it!" be urgedat laEt.
"Thank you, I shall," she replied sweetly
iis she departed. ,
An Everyday Allalr .
&p(.aking of absentmindeduets :
A distinguished-looking ild gentleman,
xv ho may bo cither a lawyer or a doctor,
gets on a car daily at Eighth ana Pine. The
other day, five or ten minutes after a passing
shower, he arrived at the corner holding up
an umbrella. For full five minutes he waited,
f-rapped in thought, strolling up and down,
the umbrella over Im head, oblivious of the
fact that the sun was shining and that people
were staring at him and giggling.
Ho didn't put down the umbrella until ho
was ready to step on the car, and not even
then did he realize that it had stopped
raining.
To us it seemed the most natural thing
in the world, and what excited our amuce
ment was not the old gentleman so much as
those who stood and laughed at him.
Days That Are Gonr
"j-AYS that are gone! Shall we recall
-' The happy hours spent iu all
louth's laughing grace? A pleasant haze
Has fallen o'er those other days ;
Dare wo respond to Mem'ry's call?
THE answer sounds through Time's dim
hall :
Remember? Yes, and in tho tall
Of life, bring forth a hymn to praise
Days that are gone.
ASIDE tear Nature's brooding shawl
That cloaks the past; the somber pall
But hides the eweetly pleasant maze
Of memories. Then let us raise
A banner, that it may recall
Days, that are gone.
ROBERT L. BELLEM.
Threadbare?
Rite Is like the pattern
Of an old-time Paisley shawl,
With myriad colors xvoven in the days
And nights and all ;
And though, sometimes, I wonder
What it is all abou,t
Life may find me worn down a bit,
But NEVER worn out.
FLOYD MEREDITH.
The Morning After
0 STARS that slowly f aele aw aj ,
Before the withering glance of day ;
Some glances wither, some delight
I met tho only girl last night!
OSUN, that daily new is born,
Come herald in the eager mom,
Blaze all your splendor, all your light
I met the only girl lust night.
0 EASTERN sky of fairy hues,
O newly fallen, glistening dews,
0 gleams und shades, my heart is light
1 met the only girl last night!
31. BUOHBINDER.
' "Some, Hair!"
Dear S.
Trom our own dear paper of recent date":
Unbreakable Dolls With Hair
14 Inches High
SPECIAL $3.CU
Some hair, eh? IIUGHEr.
Well, we have made our first preparation
for the glad Yuletldo seuson. In other
words, we hare been to tho bunk aud got a
new checkbook.
We ure told that one of the reasons xvhy
the prince was so eager to get '.o New York
wasyto -see the evening rush hour on tho
Interfiorough subway. Having been through
the war, we are surprised that Eddie is
still Interested iu such scenes of carnage'.
SOCRATES.
The Mexican, consul at El Puto has been
elismlssed b.v tho Carranza government bc
caueo he fulled t'j resent remarks made by
OoTernor Hobbj at a banquet. Wo may
therepro expect more ginger in future El
-Paso'baneiuets. -
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The Poet Discovers Chicago
f CI'JY of bcatity,
They have Epoken without understand
ing;
They have called you evil!
O city of beauty,
Maybe it is only my heart you have.shakeu
With your sadness of rose evenings,
And the shadows falling
In the misty evening
Under the bridges.
Your avenues arc velvet and symmetrical
As speech 6low moving.
0 city of beauty.,
1 come not with vain enumeration!
For in the untrod night
I have looked upon your rapt
Presence.
There was a xthitcness as qf wings stirring.
Mark Turbx fill, in Poetry : A Magazine of
"Verse.
The Prince of AVales was in Philadel
phia for twelve minutes yesterday which
was almost long enough for a foreign tourist
to get material for a book.
Senator Reed has to date upoken fl&$
inches of the Congressional Record on the
peace treaty. Isn't it about time somebody
called " 'Fend inchln' !"
The PuLcySsJones riveters who stoned
Camden trolleys probably had no specific
grievance, but merely acted on general lack
of principles.
Neither the Lodge rcservationa-them-telves
nor the President's opinion of them
may be considered mild.
While admittinj that the best is not too
good for the children of Philadelphia, it is
grievous to learn from a local architect that
what they get in the matter of playgrounds
is the worst.
What.Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
'Two ex-premiers were returned 0 ths
Trench parliament in the recent elec
tions. Who wero they?
What are fasces?
What noted American novelist wrols
tho campaign life of Franklin Pierce?
"What two cities claim to possess the
r
remains of Christopher Columbus?'
5. What is a hospodar?
C. What Princo of Wales was the intimate
of Beau Brummell?
7. Where is Donuybrook, famous for pugr
nacity and annual fairs? ;
8. What is a malaguena?
'0. What planet In the Eolar system is
farthest from the sun?
10, How did Charles Frohman meet his
death?
Answers to Yesterday'u Qu(r
1. Caster II. Glass has been appointed
senator from Virginia to fill .the va
cancy caused by the death of Senator
Martin.
J,. The Euphrates and the Tigris are the
two great rivers of.'Mesopotamia.
3. Ahmed' Mirza is the shah of Persia,
4. Nineteen states have ratified the woman
suft'iago amendment. They are Wls
conbin, -Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, New
York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massa
chusetts, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Ar
kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Minne
sota, New Hampshire, Utah, Califorv
nla and Maine.
C. John Drinkwater is a young English
poet, now In America. lie has re
cently commanded attention for his
play "Abraham Lincoln."
0. Ontology is tho department of meta
physics concerned with the essence of
D things of beings ivy the abstract.
7. A-philter js a love pption.
5. Tbor was the Scandinavian god of
thUidcr, agriculture and war, k .
1 if, ouyjiu " iu
'lQAJierohwWis'f
ff, Jupiter isitoe largest. planet. .
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