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AT THE PENITENTIARY
A READING of the grand jury's re
port on conditions at the Eastern
Penitentiary makes it plaiti that shri
ennui, once the dreadful afilictiun of tlir
S ultra-rich, is the chief trouble uinong the
convicts and the inspiration ot muny oL
the complaints that have been penctrat
ingr to the outer world of anxiety and
hard work. The devil, as somebody has
entT rt 1tiwc finrl lonfv nF Wftrlf fflP
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daia nanas to ao.
LonK aeo the labor unions of the stale
a forced tho enactment of laws devised to
eliminate competition between convict
labor and those who have to urk for a
Hving. In principle the law is sound and
fair. But it has provided some restric
tions that properly might be lightened.
Ihero are not enough convicts in the
g,3tat perceptibly to alTcct labor condi
tions, even if they were penmuetl to
work unhindered.
K "Pinna fnrrnnhiteA s.nmn vpjirx nifu for
r creat central nenitentiarv near Iielle-
; Xonte will solve tho difiiculties of comict
bs labor if ever they are carried out. If
the state's prisoners arc ecr concen-
i'- Iraled on the central penitentiary site
they will be in an isolated region where
L they can make agriculture a tempuiary
'i'Vpcation. 1 miners would not complain.
igJThe building in this city is inadequate.
, The site coultl be put to bolter uses.
j 'Great prisons should be removed from
glcities altogether. And when thoy are
r'(oved we shull no longer have to bo
1old bj- grand juries that it is wrong
Hto force strong men to lie in bed in the
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SUOjJo.
1PREAR DAYS FOR SCALPERS
ONE effect of the amusement lax law
.fkttii in Im jio i'llnlpnmn n if vcn
R&jiexpected. For years bills against
ticket scalping suiTered eleventh-hour
L" extinction m legislative halls and, if re
formatory measures were passed, they
It 3ere either absurdly mild or enforced
ponly in theory.
The infuosition of the federal lax
'changes the whole situation and places
the speculator directly under the eye of
the government. Obviously the scalper
,fa averse to charging a lax commensu
rate with his extortionate nricc of tlio
'We of Wrt nrnfifa lint nf 'ill Vitf 4li im
iKpost and prospective purchasers arc
Bj Beared on by Hie additional cost. And
lirfao the sidewalk vultures and others.
f, within doors have dared to base the tax
I"-' collected on the original and legitimate
V price of the ticket.
I"" Tllft TPRlllfc lei npnrtpnmrr. 'Twnnfr-
; four alleged scalpers will appear today
"before Thomas Littlehales. chief Held
deputy of tho Internal Revenue Depart
,mcnt in this district, to submit their re
& turns to the government in connection
f Tlt 4t.n!u ln aT . AA J Xl... 1 .
' wiiu wicii paic ui acaws lur uje i enn-
; Pittsburgh football game.
E-HJAt?oems odd to penalize a lawbreaker
1 he hasn't made sufficient drafts
public's pocketbook. Itegard-
spcculators, however, "any-
,'ive pain" is in accord with
ntiment. Football and Ihea-
s will be almost inclined to
amusement tax if it succeeds
ig an ancient and disgusting
LODGE'S BOOMLET
-.DECENT events in Massachusetts in.
Efr dicate that there are men in thp Bay
,-3iaie who are iKKing ine Jodge presi
dential boom seriouslv. Two iiflliopo.ita
jfef the senator havo declined oflices to
which Governor Coolidge aopointed them.
One Df them said a lot of nasty things
about the governor, and remarked that
If there was to be any favorite son in
Massachusetts "we are going to have
TTah.. Pnln T .1 rt
This happened a dav or two after tho
K, Massachusetts Republican Club had in-
B,Oorcod (Joolidge lor tlie presidency.
i. 1 the friends of Lodge and .Coolidge
;,u' ewu w iiKiib uvcr me siate deie-
-atioh, the friends of favorite sons in
thyr states will be likely to take heart
Of Tiopo and leave Massachusetts out of
their reckoning when they count their
Uifcossiblc rivals.
BIRDS OF ILL OMEN
I (T UD.WIG C. A, K. MAKTBNS should
I -bi sent to join tho colony of quefc
Wrtin cribbed, cabin d and confined B
Ellis Island.
The self-styled ambassador of the
.soviet government of Russia is frankly
oppajftd to our system of government,
and. admittedly has received largo sums
rf money from abroad for tho purpose
of propaganda. That money was used
to Mttol bolshevism and decry democ
u$J;yj Iq attack a representative sygtem
ir"jrsvernmont una to laud tho most
uuunfcll class dictatorship that ever
tha world.
dvof tho money Jia probably
lklKvakld hlnnica known as
"n
Parlor Bolshevists is indicated by his
allegation; 'that ho paid $1000 to one man
of this stripe to "help in a commercial
transaction" for advic. In tho matter of
arranging for a shipment of boots,
meats and chemicals, valued at 9,C00,
000, to be shipped to Petrograd.
Martens is an enemy of tho republic.
Hit wings should bo clipped and he
should be caged. With Russia blockaded
and no faraway dumping ground to bo
found, Ellis Island seems to be the only
cage immediately available.
Send him thorel
Perhaps tho other recalcitrants may
induce him to join in their hunger strike
which heaven forfend should bo inter
fered with in a free country!
Then let a blanket of silence be thrown
uvr" the cage so that law-abidinr men
n:;i.. hae a needed rest.
A LABOR PARTY THAT BARS
MOST OF THOSE WHO LABOR
Union Men Who Wrote tho Chlcjgo
Platform Have Studied the British
Doctrines Without Much Benefit
TF LIBERALISM in politics means
- utter detestation of platform bunk, a
human v lew of human affairs, a deter
mination to get control of economic
forces that havo been running danger
ously wild and a wish to make industry
serve the life that now serves industry,
then there is a great deal of it among
all sorts of people in America.
If liberalism means disgust with tho
doddering party bosses who flee to the
tombs of their ancestors for comfort
Mid guidance in any cvj'.s, most of u.-
M'u liberal.
'1 ho men who formed a new Aniuncan
Labor party tho other day forgot this
if they ever know it. They mot in Chi
cago, wrote a platform that sounds like
a series of angry exclamations, and
adjourned. And because at tho outset
they acted with a more than aristocratic
exclusiveness, it ought to surprise no
ono if their party is never heard of
again.
These are times of criticism and dis-d
satisfaction. If there is little of liberal
sentiment at the top of either big parly,
it is because men who meet and write
platforms like that of the new Labor
party forget their enthusiasm when thg
meeting ends. ' They do not carry it to
the polls. Thej drift with the gang.
And it '.s the gang that supports the
men who so often "misrepresent Ameri
can sentiment in high offices.
A staccato paragraph in tho now Labor
party program demands the abolition of
the United Stsites Senate. Why abolish
llic Senate V Why not elect oiij thut is
human and in tune with tho times? A
Senate is u pretty good thing to have
around.
Some angry and embittered delegate
who obviously was thinking of Debs
and Mooney wrote the plank that de
mands the immediate release of all po
litical prisoners.
The interest of emotional labor men
in Debs and Mooney is easily under
stood. These men were at least the de
voted partisans of a large element that
had no one else to talk for it.
The Labor platform begins loo far
awry in the clauses which demand the
immediate nationalization of mines and
railwajs and banks. If you nationalize
utilities you have to depend upon elected
officers to administer them. "You put
llicin into politics He is a brave man
who can think of the banks of tho coun
try under the direction of the sort of
job hunters who manage to squirm into,
high places so otten nowadays.
The new Labor party has infinite
faith and infinite credulity. Do its mak
ers suppose that the tribes of politicians
who arc now so pitifully without en
lightenment, without idealism, without
a sense of patriotism, would suddenly
become efficient, wise and honest if you
gave them the railroads and the banks
to play with"
Mr. Uompors had no hand in the for
mation of tho American Labor party.
If any of the other influential leaders
were present their names didn't figure
in dispatches.
As u matter of fact the abler and more
experienced labor leaders seem to have
had no part in the job. If they had
been there they might have told tho other
delegates that you cannot reform any
thing by passing resolutions and writing
political platforms.
When the politics of the country has
been cleaned up, when shysters no longer
arc elected to office and when there are
no vast party machines to bo sustained
by patronage, it will be time enough to
talk of the nationalization of basic in
dustries. And when that time comes the na-i
tionalization of industries will not be
necessary, because there will be better
ways to make the basic industries effi
cient. As a political document the Labor
party program has little value. As an
indication of what younger labor leaders
ure thinking about it is significant. They
hae been thinking for the most part of
the British Labor party and its plat
form, because they obviously would like
to apply the theories of the British in
America. That an entirely different set
of conditions exists here does not seem
to bother them.
The British labor men agitated vainly
for tho nationalization of mines und tho
nationalization of railways. That pros
pect was intolerable in England. And
yet England has no such complicated
system of graft and patronage and boss
control in politics as we have tolerated,
with diminishing patience, in America,
England, too, is finished. Thero will
bo no further need there for the ex
plorers or the adventurers or the pioneers
of industry- All the mines are opened.
All the railways have been laid. Tho
economic system is complete. Bureau
crats could not hold back tho country if
they wanted to.
But the tinhorns and illiterates who'
still get the votes of even dissatisfied
labor men might very well work havoc
with the utilities of the United States.
If the government were to take over
the mines and the railwajs wc should
havo to depend upon Congress to settle
undeveloped territories, to vision great
cities In tho iYlldcro,5s,.'to stay up all
'4f
night in laboratories for tho study of
new methods of mining and to go forth
into tho hills in search of coal and min
erals and cuch like. Yet a few years ago
Congress didn't believe i.. aviation.
It is skeptical of aviation now if you
aro to believe the evidences of the de
bate which preceded tho refusal of
money which the urmy and the navy
needed to continue tho development of
their air divisions.
A solidified nnd rationally dirccled
labor vote, whether it appears in a new
Labor party or through u closer co
operation of trades unions, can do a
great deal to temper and ndvanco polit-
ical thinking in tho United States. But
it will be best felt, as Mr. Gompcrs and
tho experienced leaders know, as a bal
ancing weight to bo thrown to ono side"
or thu other in every big campaign.
Tho labor vote will never bo tho fac
tor that it might bo until labor men
themselves are free of tho vaiij assump
tion that to labor you must labor with
your hands, and that only those who do
manual work can have any interest in
progressive and protective legislation
or any real concern with reforms in gov
ernment. Tt is because the Labor party formed
at Chicago was rigorously exclusive that
it must rank, for the present, far be
hind tho British Labor party in signifi
cance and power. Almost all Americans
work. The majority of them work hard
to earn a living. Of the professional
and technical men who work with their
minds, of the nervous exhaustion that is
more wearing than physical weariness,
the Chicago comentiuii took no thought.
So, unlike the British, tiicj .-.hut most
laborers out of their labor party. Had
they done otherwise they would bo in
a way to forming u party actually rep
resentative of the majority in America.
Such parties already exist. And if thoy
do not represent tho majority, if thoy
only protend, it is the majority's fuult.
COAL
rpODAY, after meetings and delibera-
tions and ultimatums, after the an
nouncement by Doctor Garfield of tho
plan that was to have averted tho dis
aster of a fuel famine, the soft cou.1
situation it, about where it was when
the miners were fir.st ordered to strike.
Mr. McAdoo's charges of "shocking
profits," Doctor Garfield's row with Sec
retary of Labor Wilson about the rale
of wages to be proposed, the obduracy
and secretiveness of the operators, grow
ing bitterness among the miners and the
obvious lack of any tiling like a sound
and ordered governmental policy have
served to complicate rather than to set
tle tho coal situation. And winter is
hero and industries aro succumbing to
slow paralysis all through the middle
West.
"It was too late to hold hearings,"
said Doctor Garfield, in answer to
Mr. Farrington, one of the mine work
ers' representatives, who complained
passionately because the strikers were
not permitted to explain the grievances
or their side of the case at tho cabinet
meeting where the Garfield scheme of
adjustment was discussed and sanc
tioned. Of course, it was too late to
hold hearings. But there was time for
hearings and investigations six months
ago when tiie minors first began to talk
of a strike. There was time for an in
telligent survey of the fuel industrj
when the miners and operators first met
to discuss new working agreements. If
profits in tlie coal industry were "shock
ing," it must havo seemedi to the re
sponsible authorities m Washington that
matters were drifting in the wrung di
rection. Matters were left to drift.
Tlie public is becoming awaro thut it
is still in tho dark. It has been deafened
by the clamor of opposing claims. No
one has seemed able or willing to tell
the simple truth about conditions in the
coal industry. Miners and operators
alike have conducted campaigns of hate.
What is clear, however, is that Wash
ington waited for the storm to break
before it could get up courage enough to
deal with a situation which was swiftly
developing under everybody's eyes as a
domestic crisis of the first magnitude.
There is hope that
Senator Lodso and
his fellowi may real
I?cii!on for
Trouipt Action
ize before Congress
meets asaln that peace postponed until 1021
is peace postponed indefinitely. Reports
from dispassionate observers in Europe tell
of a possible merging of radical forces in
Germany, and Russia, nnd such a combina
tion may well startle the world.
Thero are hotheads
Ico Bags Ncgdid among the railroad
brotherhoods who are
demanding a general ttrike, but there is little
likelihood that they will have their way. To
consider such a course pof,sible is to believe
their leaders either knaves or fools, and wo
refuse to consider them cither tho ono or the
other.
The occnltation of the
Xow Tmiu See It, star Beta Capricorn!
Now You Don't was v i s i b 1 o in tho
heavens last night.
Luna got its goat for a brief interval.
It sometimes seems to
riain Itctl and Yellow us that the real yellow
peril is to bo found in
the shades of Ellis Island.
The S0.0C0 spectators
Financial Noto that banked Franklin
Field yesterday had a
capital time chock, full of interest.
Doctor Grayson would not allow the
President to eat turkey yesterday. Dr. H.
C. L. prescribed in exactly the same way
for ever to many others of us.
Some one takes a sporting chance in an
airplane fox bunt. It is the innocent resi
dent of the neighborhood who happens to be
out of doors.
It was a successful Thanksgiving Day.
The only kickers were the football players.
The only turkey ever so many of us got
was on the cover of our favorite magazine.
Old Man Winter Is cnoyhg this sea
sou's first game of freeze-out.
The eeat of the Mexican Government
teems to be fet for a boot.
Can the Mexican message received at
El Pato be a Texas etetf V J.
KENDRICK CAUSES SURPRISE
His Turning DoWn of Office After Ho
Had Elected His Candidate a
Most Unusual Course
By GEORGE NOX McCAIK
JXTUIIDOCII KENDRICK Is at once an
" object of admiration and astonishment
I discover with political workers, lie has
enhanced his reputation enormously by his
uuusunl action in declining any cabinet ap
pointment at the hands of Mayor-elect
Moore.
And yet it Is nn open secret that be could
have commanded the cholco of nny position
in the gift of tho incoming executive.
But he declined all preferment. Frankly
he told Mr. Moore and his friends thnt ho
did nor crave politicnl distinction. And this
i! whore "Doc" KcndricU looms upon the
vision of the average division and wurd
leader as a personage to bo regarded with
genuine surprise.
Any man who, after conducting a suc
cessful campaign and electing his candidate,
is tendered high position and deliberately
brushes the offer aside to take up his legal
practice where ho laid it down. Is a new
and striking figure iu Philadelphia politics.
But those who know Murdoch Kcudrick
bet likfwisc know that he chose the wisest
part. He is on the hlghwuy to success as
one of the nblect younger members of tho
bar. ne has recently formed a connection
with the law firm of which John C. Bell is
the head. All things considered, Mr. Ken
drick has displayed, in the judgment of his
best friends, unusually good commou tenso
in declining to sacrifice a career nt tho bar,
even temporarily, for the ephemeral dis
tinction of it municipal cabinet office.
Ilo'ides, It would be a financial tucrifice
ou his part.
rpilE carelessness of u clci-L nt llnrrlsburg
in transcribing Philadelphia's new char
ter barred from political activity something
like 0,000 officeholders. It Is not tho first
caso of careless transcribing.
Senator Homer J. Humes, father of E.
Lowry Humes, present United States dis
trict attorney for the western district of
Pennsylvania, once had the unique distinc
tion of introducing a bill, paradoxical as
it may seem, o repeal u law that never
had been passed.
Tlie statute iu question can ho tound on
page fi of the laws of Pennsylvania of 1RS.1.
It provided that county assessors should
make assessment upon laud on which the
Mansion House was erected where county
lines divided the tract.
In Itself the bill was of small moment.
It became a law through the mistake of :i
elnrls at Hurrlxburc at the session of 1SS3
who transcribed the wroug bill and Governor
Pattisou signed it.
Senator Humes was a Democrat and a
eloso friend of Governor Pattison. It was
understood that the repealer was introduced
at Pattisoa's suggestion.
I do not think that another instance of
this kind can bo found in tho legislative
records of the state.
riDMUND SHAW died last week. With
" one exception,-Captain Archie 1). Glenn,
he wai the last survivor of the little coterie
of Civil War veterans who were members at
the House at Harrisburg in the session
of 1SS3.
At the time of his death Mr. Shaw whs
eighty-three jears of age and the oldest
member of the Blair county bar.
He was a tall dignified, courteous gentle
man, with smooth-shaven face suggestive of
: colonial delegate of pro-revolutionary
times. The late Reuben O. Moon was an
other who possessed that distinguished cast
of features that seemed to belong to a distant
historic period.
Anion1; Edmund Shaw's colleagues from
Philadelphia, all of whom have passed away,
were William t'arborry, from tho old Third
district, and William F. Stewart, of the
Eighteenth -district, who, until his death, was
known as "The Father of the House" b"
cause of his long service as a member. Ho
was succeeded as the senior Philadelphia
member by John H. Ricbcl, of the Twentieth
district. Riebel was another Civil War
veteran who enlisted in the marine corps at
the age of sixteen and served until he was
mustered out in '03. John E. Faunce, after
ward Democratic speaker of the House, wao
another.
During the session of S5 tho veterans
worked closely on all matters pertaining to
pensions, soldiers' orphans' schools and
battlefield monuments. There has been very
little work of that kind before the sessions
of recent years.
EDWIN J. CUMMINGS has very decided
views on the coal situation, as might be
expected from one of the leading trade figures
in his line in this city.
Like thousands of other citizens who,
however, are not identified with tho coal
trade, either bituminous or nnthracite, Mr.
Cummings finds it difficult to reconcile the
insistent attitude of miners' leaders with
the general principle of poorly paid directoro
of labor's troubles.
There is an Impression that labor leaders,
certain of them, aro in receipt cither of
Inrge salaries, or have incomes from other
sources not clearly defined. I have been to
the trouble of looking up certain of these
cases nnd I discover that there is little basis,
visible at least, for apocryphal stories ot
leaders' wealth.
I have known a number of labor heads
and all of them have died poor. One nhom
I recall as having handled tens of thousands
of dollars in steel strike benefits, with ample
opportunities to graft, is now In his old aga
in receipt of a salary of less than $100 a
month as a night watchman. In the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel
Vorkers two presidents whom I knew per
sonally, John Jarrett and William Wcihc,
died poor men.
The greatest detectives on earth keep tabs
on labor leaders; their own followers. Let
a labor leader once come under suspicion of
dealing .sub rosa with the employers, and
his end Is not far off.
In recent years I understand that the
heads of "national unions receive considerably
'larger salaries than in former years, salaries
commensurate with their positions. Espe
cially is this true with the railroad brother
hoods. Measured by their responsibilities
they are entitled to large salaries.
"Once tho general question of corruption is
raised, thero looms up beside it the twin
query r Who is the worst, the leader who
would accept a bribe to betray his fellows
or'thc employer who offers It?
Anyhow it's easy to surmise, and talk Is
the cheapest of commodities.
No one, we are Informed, takes Cool
idge seriously. Much tba same thing was
said 'about Lincoln.
y ;
The Amerongcn nermlt views with dis
'gust not uumingled with alarm tho tentutlvu
...rtf-amenta helnz made foe Ma fini
Food profiteers should remember that a
nation sometimes gives Its hardest punch at
the moment when it is thought to be wholly
helpless.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Eureka
TiTOR many years I wandered,
. A-huntiug for a dame ;
For many years I pondered
On whom to wish my name,
Afhen finally I met Minnie,
With curls of pretty red j
She was a trifle skinny.
But yet she knocked mo dead.
Suppose Bhe teas quite bonj ;
Suppose her eyes did cross ;
Old Minnie was my honey,
Yes, Minnie was my bosi.
Her teeth were false? admitted;
But w hat of that, I pruy ;
My Minnie, SHE COULD SHIMMY,
Tbut's all I havo to say.
G. AV. r
Wo see in tlio photographs that all the
juniors at the L. ot P. carry canes. This
seems another evidence of social upheaval in
college circles. Iu the good old days nu
undergrad was permitted to push himself
about w Ith a cane until ho nana senior.
Thoughts on Cider
OUIt friend Dove Dulcet, the poet, came
into our kennel and found us arm in arm
with a deep demijohn of Chester county
cider. We poured him out a beaker of the
cloudy amber juice. It was just in prime
condition, "sharpened with a blithe tingle,
beaded with a pleasing bubble of froth. Dove
looked upon it with a kindled eye. His arm
raised the tumbler in a manner that showed
this gesture to be one thnt ho had com
passed before. The orchard nectar began to
sluice down his throat.
Dove is ono who has faced many and
grievous woes. His Celtic soul peers from
behind cloudy curtains of alarm. Old un
happy far off things and battles long ago
fume in the smoke of his pipe. His girded
spirit sees agrarian unrest in the daffodil
and industrial riot iu a tin of preserved
prunes. He sees the world moving on tho
brink of horror and despair. Sweet dalliance
with a baked bloater on a restaurant plat
ter moves him to grief over the hard lot of
the Newfoundland fishing fleet. Six cups of
tea warm him to anguish over the peonage of
Sir Thomas Lipton's coolies in Ceylon. Souls
in perplexity cluster round him like Canadian
dimes in a cash register in Plattsburgh, N.
Y. He is a human sympathy trust. When
we are on o'ur deathbed we shall send for
him. The perfection of his gentle sorrow
will send us roaring out Into the dark, and
will set a valuable example to the members
of our family.
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BUT it is the rack of clouds that makes
the sunset lovely. Tho bosomy vapors of
t nu1 nrK the nalette unon which the
decumbent 6un of his spirit casts its vivid
orange and scarlet colors. His joy is tho
moro perfect to behold because it bursts
goldenly through the pangs of his tender
heart. His soul is like the iufant Moses,
cradled among dark and prickly bullrushes;
but anon it floats out upon the river and
drifts merrily downward ori a sparkling
spate
It has nothing to do with Dove, but we
will here interject the remark that a pessi
mist overtaken by liquor Is the cheeriest sight
in the world. Who is so extravagantly,,
gloriously and Irresponsibly gay?
DOVE'S eyes beaconed as the cider went
Its way. "the sweet lingering tans' filled
the arch of his palate with a soft mellow
cheer. His gaze fell upon us as his head
tilted gently backward. We wish there had
been a painter there some one like F. Wal
ter Taylor to rush onto canvas the gor
geous benignity of his aspect. It would have
been a portrait of the rich Flemish school.
Dove's eyes were full of a tender emotion,
mingled with a charmed and wistful surprise.
It was as though the poet was saying he had
not realized thero was anything so good left
on earth. His bearing was devout, religious,
mystical. In ono moment of revelation (so It
appeared to1 us as we watched) Dove looked
upon all the profiles and aspects of life, and
fyund "them of noble outline Not since tho
grandest of Grand Old Parties went out of
tiowee.nai Dove looked less as though ha
' falt-fja world were on tho verse of an abyss.
OF US HAD A REAL CLOSE VIEW
OF YESTERDAY'S GAME
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For several moments -revolution and nuar
chj j-eccded, profiteers .were tamed, capital
aud labor purred together on a mattres3 of
catnip and tlio cosmos became a free verse
poem. He did not even utter the customary
and ungracious remark of those to whom
cider potations arc given : "That'll be at its
best in about a week." We apologized" for
tho cider being a little warmish from stand
ing (discreetly hidden) under our desk.
Douce man, ho said: "I think cider, like
ale, ought not to be drunk too cold. I llko
it just this way." He stood for a moment,
filled with theology and metaphysics. "By
gracious," he said, "it makes all tho other
stuff taste like poison." Still he stood for a
brief instant, transfixed with complete bliss.
It was apparent to us thnc his mind was
busy with apple orchards an'i autumn sun
shine. Perhaps he was wo .Oering whether
ho could make a poem out if it. Then ho,
turned softly and went back to his job in a
life iuiuranco office.
AS FOR oursclf, wo then poured out
another tumbler, lit a corncob pipe and
meditated. FalstafE onco said that he had
forgotten what the inside of a church looked
like. There will come a time when many of
us will perhaps have forgotten what the In
side of a saloon looked like, but there will
still be the consolation of the cider jug. Like
the tmell of roasting chestnuts and the com
fortable equatorial warmth of an oyster stew,
it is a consolation hard to put into words. It
calls irresistibly for tobacco ; in fact the true
cider toper always pulls a long puff at his
pipe before each drink, and blows some of the
smoke into the glass so that he gulps down
some of the blue reek with his draught. Just
why this should be, we know not. Also some
enthusiasts insist on having small sugared
cookies with their cider; others cry loudly
for Reading pretzels. Some have ingenious
theories about letting the jug stand, either
tightly stoppered or else unstoppered, until
it becomes "hard." In our experience hard
cider is distressingly like. drinking vinegar.
Vk'e prefer it soft, with all its sweetness and
tho transfusing savor of the fruit animating
it. At the peak of its deliciousness it has a
small airy 6parkle against tho roof of the
mouth, a delicate tactile sensation like the
feet of dancing flics. This, we presume, Is
the 4'4 to 7 per cent of sin with which fer
mented cider is credited by works of refer
ence, There aro pedants and bigots who in
sist that tho jug must be stoppered with a
corncob. For our own part, the stopper does
not stay in the neck long enough after the
demijohn reaches us to make it worth while
worrying about this matter. Yet a nice at
tention to detail may prove that the cob
has some secret affinity with cider, for a
Missouri meerschaum never tastes so well
as after three glasses of this rustle elixir. ,
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T3AT ingenious student of social niceties,
John Mistletoe, in bis famous Dictionary
of Deplorable Facts a book which we
heartily commend to the curious, for ho In
cludes n long and most Informing article on
cider, tracing its etymology from the old
Hebrew word similar meaning "to quaff
deeply" maintains that elder should only
be drunk besldo an open fire cf applewood
logs:
And preferably on an evenlnc of storm and
wetness, when the awlsh and sudden patter
ing of rain against the panes lend. an added
agreeable unugness to the cheerful scene
within, where master and dame elt by the
rosy hearth frying eausages In a pan laid
on the embers.
This reminds one of the anecdote related
by ex-Senator Bcveridge In his Life of John
Marshall. Justico Story told his wife that
the justlcer. of the Supreme Court were of u.
self-denying habit, never taking wine ex
cept In wet weather. "But it does some
times happen that the Chief Justice will say
to me, when the cloth Is removed. Brother
Story, step to the window and see If It does
not look like rain. And If I tell him that
the sun is shining brightly, Judge Marshall
will sometimes reply, 'All the better, for
our jurisdiction extends over so Jargo a
territory that tho doctrine of chances makes
it certain that it must be raining some
where.' "
Our own theory about cider is that tho
time to drink Jt is when it reaches jou: and
If It hails from Chester county, so much the
better,
SOCJUTEa.
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Where the Grass Groivs Like
the Sea
OH, LET me hence to empty wastes
.Where the kind wind sweeps free ;
Where silence has her brooding place,
And on the earth's untrodden face
The "grass grows like the 6ea,
AU gray-green, rippling to and fro, v
AVhen the soft breezes o'er it blow.
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Oh, let me hence to' open plains
Where there Is no man's mark;
Where sound is caught but nature's sigh,
Or n chance heron's lonely cry
Out of the gathering dark
The dark that in the land of men
Is pierced to aching .light again.
Oh, let me henco that I may seek
Tho balm of quiet space ;
Choked in the dust of countless feet,
The bars which I so vainly beat
Oft crumble from their place,
When sleep brings back old days to me
Out where the grass grows like the sea.
Ethel AVolff, iu the New York Times.
The suggestion that Fiumo becomo a
buffer state brings the thought that a man
of the D'Annunzio stripe might at any time
make It "a lively old buffer."
AA"e are authoritatively informed that
spring clothes are to be higher. Neck or
ankles?
Speaking of righteous campaigns, what a
the matter with a housewives' campaign for
all prior rights to sugar?
Whether or not Holland surrenders tho
kaiser for trial, she is likely to get in Dutch.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ v
1. When did James Monroo announce the
Monroe Doctrine?
2. Where Is Khartum?
S. When was the naval battle of Jutland
fought?
4. Who wrote "The Story of Kennett"?
5. What la1 the feminine of the word ex
ecutor?
6. What is rattan?
7. On the slowness of what general did
Napoleon blame his failure to win the
battle of Waterloo?
S. What is the meaning of the musical
term "sordamente"?
0. What is the' coinage of Italy?
10. How long is the term of a justice of tho
United States Supreme Court?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Chauvinism Is derived from Nicholas
Chauvin, a French veteran of the Na
poleonic wars. The word now means
bellicose patriotism, foreign jingoism.
2. Two cities in Schleswig-Hoisteln aro
Schleswlg and Hadersleben.
3. William Wycherly was a noted English
writer of comedies, ne died in 1716.
4. Two Presidents who dropped their first
names in political llfo wero Thomas
AVoodrow Wilson and Stephen Grover
Cleveland.
B. The game of bowling was Introduced Into
America by the Dutch during their
rule of New York. It was originally
played on Bowling Green. Indoor
alleys were a later development.
0. A truncheon is a short club or cudgel
carried sometimes by policemen. It
is also the baton or staff ot authority
of an earl or a marshal.
7. Kolchak and Yudenltch are two anti
Bolshevik generals.
5. Steps to organize a labor party harp
been taken in Chicago.
0. Felipe Angeles was a Mexican general
aud revolutionist" He was shot nt
Chihuahua on November i!0, 101S.
10. Tho Spanish regularly employ the term
"Your Grace" in addressing each
other. It is contracted Into the word
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