JBPt'lSMpppw'W Is , j; jb K IIj B- w T ft!.. s2 ft r I , r fc 8 ..a,,,-l Aliening public Pledgee PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY . , .crnus it. k. cunTis, rnmiMtNT JfharN H. Luatneton. Vlca President! John C. JMrtln, Syr, tarj- anil Traurer: Jilllp S. Colltna. Jh B. Williams, John J. Spurgeon, Dlrectora. editorial, board: Cubs II. K CniTiB. Chairman .bAVID E. SMILEY Editor - ' --- JOHN C MARTIN.... Central Bualneaa Manatar Published dally at Pdolio T.toain nulldlnc. Independence Square, 1'hUadelphla. AMlxIta CUT rrtaa.lnton Building- t? Tom.. . ,,,,.,. 200 Metropolitan Tower Jhrraotr. 701 -Ford, nulldlivc ?. trfims ..100 Fullerton llulldlnr Clciao. ,,.,., 1303 THtnint Bulldlnc ' NEWS BUREAUS I WiSHINQTON BDSMO. -, K. E. Cor. Pennsylvania Ave. and lllh Bt. tftnr Tonic Bceud Tha Butt Buildlnff kOM0)( Bmur t , London Times SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Tha Etbmino Pubuq Limotn la served to aub acrlbera In Philadelphia and tt Toundln town at the rate of twelve (12) cents per week, payable to the carrier. Br mall to potnla outside 6t Philadelphia In the united States, Cnada or United States po yf.slons, rofttaso fr-'. Aft., (."10, cents per month. 51 (101 dollars per year, payable In advance. To all forelcn countries one (It) dollar per Noi!cb Subscribers wlshlnif address changed must slve old aa well aa new address. BLLL, SOOO WALNUT KEYSTONE, MAIN iOC" ty jtddj-eaa alt communications' to Evening PiibHo Ledger, Independence Square. Philadelphia. Member of the Associated Press Tnn ASSOCIATED PRESS is exclu sively cniltlca. to the use for republication lot (til news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also tha local news published therein, Alt rights of republication of special dis patches herein arc also reserved. l rhlltdelphla, JilurJ.y, Drcrmbrr , 1511 MOORE ISN.OTAFRAIDOFAFIGHT THERE are men who will disagree with Senator Varc when he says that whatever political suppoit Mayor-elect Moore has must come fiom the Repub lican city committee. Mr. Moore was not supported by the committee in the primary campaign. He was bitterly opposed. ff the sena tor's plans carry and the new committee to be elected in the spring is controlled by his friends, Mr. Moore will find little support there. The senator's statement is really a threat that unless the Mayor-elect makes a deal with the city committee he will find himself opposed by that body. And the machine politicians chuckle when they think of the charter provisions which forbid city officeholders from tak ing an active part in parly affairs. They think that as the new -Mayor cannot use the officeholders he will be impotent, and that a combination of outsiders, hungry for office, can tie his hands so that he can do nothing. Well, perhaps they can; but the new city committee has not yet been elected. And not even Senator Vare is certain that when elected it will be the kind of n committee which will do his bidding. The voters did not do his bidding in the mayoralty primaries. He has no guar antee that they will do it in the spring when the members of .the committee are to be elected. He regretted that the victory for the opposition was not more decisive, for he said that under the circumstances there would have- to be another fight. We gather from what Mr. Moore has said that he is -ready for it and that it cannot begin too soon to suit him. He would - prefer harmony, but he prefers a repre sentative political organization to a patched-up peace. And all the signs lead to the conclusion that he will have H even if he has to fight for it. REFERENDUMS AND LIQUOR f"PHE attempt of the Ohio wet forces to have the date of the enforcement of the prohibitory constitutional amend ment postponed on the ground that when the secretary of state issued his procla mation only thirty-five states had ratified it is not likely to accomplish much. It ia insisted that the ratification of the Ohio Legislature was not valid until it had been affirmed by the voters. The amendment has been ratified by forty-five of the forty-eight stales. Sev eral of these stales, including Ohio, have laws which require the submission to the voters for indorsement of all such resolu tions as those ratifying constitutional amendments. The federal constitution, however, provides that when amendments are ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the states they shall be valid. The point at issue is whether the federal constitution is superior to .state laws. Few lawyers are in any doubt about what the Supreme Court wilf say about it. r .$r : . . UMYLIUril &AVINU TN THE absence of a federal law put- -- ting the clocks back an hour in the spring, the simplest way for any com munity which wishes to sae summer daylight is for its business men to agree to start all industries an hour earlier 'in the morning and stop work an hour earlier at night. This can be done without producing J, any confusion of time among neighbor- jJJiaR cities within the same time zone. JlBd it would save just as much daylight as if we should try to fool ourselves "by setting the clocks back an hour so ' etiof wn eltmilrl rr in ,i.nlr of U .nm V " w W..WM.U faW v TTW.,1 l t V.IC OUIHC time as usual. LOGAN SQUARE fpHE rearrangement of the roadways and grass plots in and about Lbgan Square to make way for the Parkway Jnay not be satisfactory to every one, but; it has generally been supposed that it is 'within the power of the city to rrtake what disposition it pleases of this open space so long as it is not given over to private use. The suit just brought to compel the city to restore the square to its original condition will result in a desirable defi nition pf its powers over open spaces. It toay be that we nre bound by the rUd hand of William Penn. If so, we tould like to know it. "It will occur to many that Center Bynre, nowoccupied by City Hall, is serving a very different purpose from thfc had in mind by Penn when he laid ty. out. Public buildings were to be i Qtvcted on its four corners, but no one contemplated covering tho whole space vjth u building. Whatever objection 1 tiwr wwy haVO been raised to the ercc tto ot City Hall there wjia removed m the Mfltasras disappeared as an ,rpt?Jl ajaajpvaB. , 89.041 to ft u bui-y)ng ground for years. A strip fifty feet wido on its western sido was cut off long ago for a now street. The square has been rented as a cow pasture, which was cer tainly not in tho purpose of Penn when ho laid it out for public use. The great sanitary fair of 18G4 was held within its limits, just as the Centennial Exhibi tion was held in Fairmount Park in 1876. It was not until 1842 that tho mounds on the, old graves in Logan Square were leveled so as to remove all surface traces of its use as a cemetery. The layman will bo inclined to believo that if the square could have been used as a cemetery and a cow pasture it cer tainly can bo cnlnrged to make room for a boulevard connecting the City Hall with Fairmount Park. Rut we must sus pend judgment until the court speaks. MERCIER'S SPIRITUAL SWORD PROVED UNCONQUERABLE His Own Story of Belgium Stirringly Demonstrates the Weakness of Mate rial Weapons When Unsup ported by Right and Truth "QTRONG is desire," said a great Gcr- man who died before his nation Vas disgraced, "but stronger still is re sistance." The war proved that. It w"as an epic of resistance. It is a familiar belief that endurance is made potent by weapons, by concrete instruments marshaled with skill, wielded with emphasis, welded into a material organization. These indeed are powerful agents. But it was not by yiese alone that civiliza tion was saved. It was an unseen sword that made victory inevitable. There were statesmen who raised it fV blade of spiritual puissance there wero soldiers of many lands who bore it proudly into battle, there were men and womer innumerable who disdained to sheathe it through tho bittciest of all the world's agonies. There was in Belgium Desire Joseph Mercier. q The strong lance of justice was his, unviewed and unconquerab'o Others have hurled it before the great cardi nal, but to him was given command over three factors making for superb accuracy of aim a mind, a soul and a pen. Thus equipped, he waged a fight that has few parallels in history. It is, more over, unique in wdrfarc in that the rec ord of it is undebatablc. What happens in the clash of armies in battles is the stuff of argument for centuries. "Interpretation," however, is powerless to becloud tho truth of Cardi nal Mercier's utterly fearless resistance to the oppressors of his native land and his undaunted defense of his enslaved compatriots. For crystallization of his lofty purposes is revealed in the ex traordinary series of letters which he ad dressed to the agents of the occupying power. Tho German rebuttal is of equal au thenticity. The authorship of tho return correspondence cannot bo questioned. The result is not merely documents in the case but the case itself. It is this unequivocal disclosure of history which this newspaper is privi leged to present to its readers. Of all the many chapters of the war which have already been sot down, hero is one in which the principals are not asked to tell what they think they did. Nor does the personal equation of a chronicler coquette with truth. The annals stand. The collected correspondence corrobo rates many general impressions. Ever since the news of the Christmas pastoral of 1914 leaked out of Belgium early in the next year tho world has known something of the courage and patriotism of Cardinal Mercier. It was known that for four and a half years he was, so far as material forces are concerned, at the mercy of the Ger man invaders. Yet throughout all that tragic season no coercive physical hand was ever laid upon him by any repre sentative of tho foe. Tho primate of Belgium never le callcd a single flaming utterance. His faith in the eventual triumph in the right never wavered and he never flinched when the expression of that conviction became necessary to hearten his coun trymen. The slenderest opportunity for alleviating in any way their lot was ever eagerly seized." Why did the confident von dcr Goltz, the stern von Bissing, the intolerant Falkenhausen, delegates of a nation that had mastered half Europe, fail to dis may this incessant questioner of their authority ? The unseen sword is the only answer. It challenged every new iniquity of their invention and it was wielded with consummate skill. It is evident now that theie were two wars in Belgium. King Albert stood firm in the marshes of the Yser. He fought with guns. The caidinal estab lished his position in Malincs and fought with voice and pen. The conflict was opened with the arrival of the first gov ernor general of Belgium, von der Goltz Pasha. With magnificent adroitness the prel ate opened an offensive with a demand for a guarantee that there could be no deportations of Belgians. The extracted promise intrenched the cardinal, and with it, when lepudiation took place, the subsequent authorities were repeatedly plagued. It was so with many other despicable Gorman maneuvers. The ca'rdinal was not only brave, patriotic, spiritually exalted, but he was a master of the technique demanded by the char acter of this singular drama. The strategic brilliancy of the prelate is displayed at every turn. There are episodes in which the oppressors, capital izing brute force to the utmost, refused to be swayed from their fell designs or to recall their despotic fiats. There are other scenes, however, in which even the ruthless on Bissing is embarrassed. Occasionally he dispatches the cynical and clover dilettante, the Baron von der Lancken, to argue the matter out with the fearless cardinal. Invariably the legate retires, outmatched and discomfited by the noble candor and the spirited logic of his antagonist. There is onq letter in which the goi oVnor general, it, his wits end ai find a :auu( lor wiBMJiwinjf frpm tui EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER- rnssing situation, lamely requests the cardinal to "let bygones be bygones." The humility was, of course, tempo rary, but that it was observablcat any time is proof of the extraordinary na ture of tho Btrife. Some of the cardi nal's victories wero scored at tho very moment when tho might of the German power clsewhore was, though transient, very terrible. The defeats of tho right present the other and piteous side of the picture. Autocratic cruelty in large and petty( forms was consistently practiced in Bel gium throughout tho entire period of the occupation. Unjust arrests and imprisonments pale the excesses of tho French revolutionary terror. Cities destroyed, persecutions and tortures, the agonizing deportattpns of the industrial population, hideous of ficial crimes of every description for ever blacken the record of the insenpate empire. But, though outwardly Mercier in his unending rcsistaricc might seem to have failed, tho fight for him was never hope less. For he had hope. It burned a lambent beacon when outrage and defile ment wrought their foulest evils. The pastoral letters, issued on many such occasions, throbbed with patriotic eloquence and unshattercd faith. Albert was called the kirig, Belgium was called free when the tyrant's heel supcificlally appeared least vulnerable. The cardinal's ringing addrdss m Sle. Gudule, Brussels, on the anniversary of Belgian independence thrilled its audi tors with its forecast of certain redemp tion. The great organ poured forth the strains of "La Brabanconne." Cheers for freedom rang out. And a few blocks away, at the "Kommandatur," was von Bissing, so-called ruler of Belgium! The usual threats of icprcssive meas ures'followcd this stirring incident. But those which wore executed could not recall the dcmonstiation. The cardinal had heartened his flock. No punishment that von Bissing could impose could pay for the spiritual refreshment gained. Professor Mayence, of Louvain, editor of the cardinal's book, declares that the prelate had "one thing alone in view to do his duty." As the cardinal conceived it, and as it is revealed in the products of his own pen, this determination embodies the whole philosophy of patriotism in its loftidst sense and a simplicity of hero ism and a zeal for justice against which no ring of slccl or might of material weapons could prevail. INTO SPACE! pAIMA GOLDMAN and her associates -LJ made anarchy pay. They capitalized and exploited a pretended regard for tho poor and lived fatly ,vith the divi dends relumed by unruly temperaments expressed in books, pamphlets andnews papers. But in Russia all- tempcramenls arc unruly. There Miss Goldman and Berk man will not have the appeal of novelty. They will have to compete with the en tire population. And so, when they were ushered from the mainland of the United States yesterday and interned at Ellis Island to await deportation, they faced a prospect of real work for the first time in many long years. It is not surprising that these two anar chists fought bitterly for the privilege of remaining in the United States and shrank in terror-from the prospect of life in a country that lias come about to their point of view. Their trade is gone. Government bureaus rarely have a sense of humor. But the immigration authorities manifested n fine irony when they insisted on paying for the passage of Miss Goldman and Berkman to so viet Russia and refused to depart from their determination to deposit their charges in the midst of anarchy and nowhere else. There ia difference of opinion ns to whether the allied powers have Hie right to eomnel The Ifcclirx All Sublime Tliey Will Achiete in Time Germany by force of arms to sign the protocol which contains clauses not included among the armistice provisions. It will at least be conceded that they have as good a right ns Germany had to hink the ships in Scapa Flow. A Chicago man told Conserilng Leather the National League of Compulsory Edu cation meeting in this city that what was needed for the successful upbringing of chil dren was jnore old-fatthioncd spankings. Hut the dear man loses sight of the fart that one can't get the ohl-fashlcncd slippers nt the old-fashioned prices. Unless the final peace Itiril or Hot Doe; terms arc acceded to by Germany, allied troops may occupy two German cities. Either the Huus will cat crow or the Allies Ksseu-Frankfort. Here aud there is the Industrial Golf feeling that the gov- 1 ernmenl in causing the arrest of all the mine lenders is UBiug the wrong kind of a club. What it needs is a putter. Three thousand six hundred and twenty -one tons of raw sugar arrived in this city yesterday which is about enough to sweeten somebody's cup. The proposed two-eighty-fivc tax rato is just a shade stronger, as it were, than the late more or less lamented near-beer. Jt is not true that a meeting of foot padf has been called to protest against light -less nights. Time might be saved in newspaper of fices by having u standing head : "Today's Kur Robberies Jn approving the Sli.STi tax rate, Mayor elect Moore shows the right kind of courage in the face of a disagreeable situation. Five punches put Beckett out in the London mill. The same 'thing happened to many, too, before the uniform lid went on. We aro not hcariug from the large sec tions of ltuly, where order is being main, tained. . Beckett was a victim of the Carncn ller's strike. , " ifVbUlerHnza ' is itltcly- lu get cw; -PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 MAYOR-ELECT MOORE'S LETTER Reminiscences of the Shooting of Henry C. Frlck The Bacharachs of Atlantlo Clty and the Washington Dinner to Mr. Moore Washington, Dec. 6. rpiIB death of Henry O. Frick will recall -- to the minds of Colonel George Nox Mc Cain, V, Crcsson Schcll nnd other Philadel phia newspaper men that exciting day in Homestead, July 3, 1802, when the great ironmaster was shot in his Pittsburgh office by Alexander Berkman, the anarchist. Pitts burgh was in n ferment of excitement all day, but Homestead, the little steel town eight miles out on the Monongahela, where thp emplojes of the Carnegie works were on strike, became figuratively a seething human furnatc. Feeling had been intense in Home stead since the capture of the Pinkcrlons by' the strikeis and the law had been taken over by the workmen, who ruled the town under the auspices of the Amalgamated Associa tion of Iron and Steel Workers. The news of the attempted nNvasslnatlon aroused the workmen to n high pitch and gave the news paper eorrespondeutH who were unhappily laboring In tho borough tho time of their lives, ine organired wormnen cany iiis claimed any connection with the shooting, nnd it soon developed from Hcrktniin's own .statements that he was acting on his own n count apart from those who were engaged in the industrial contest. That was hack in 1811". nbout twenty-seven years ngo, and Colonel McCain, who has recently gone along with the international industrial congress, held in Washington, will probably admit that while the industrial unicHl of today Is moie widespread than it was twenty-seven j ears ago, it has been no more exciting. And though twenty-seven cars have elapsed anil Iierkmaii. the anarchist, has served his term of imprisonment for shooting Frick. he and Kmina Goldman, to whose actiitics many people attribute the shooting of the lamented McKinlcj, are still active. The Department of Justice talks of deporting these two "borers from within, ' but they still linger with us in the United States. Surely the mills ,ot the administrative gods giind slowly. PRESIDENT WILLTAM M. COATES, of J- the Philadelphia Board of Trade, has for warded to Congress n memorial protesting against the further tolerance of "the Red cul" in the United States. Secretary Wil liam R Tucker joins Mr. Conies in this me morial. It deals with conditions of unrest and insists that the "boring in" process should be met by appropriate legislation, suggesting deportation for those who will fully disturb the peace and breed anarchy in the United States. The committee on im migration and naturalization, of which Rep resentative Johnson, of Washington, is chairman, will probably receive this me morial. That committee now has under con sideration sexeral bills intended to hasten the deportation of undesirables. One of the great difficulties, however, is the ease with which somo undesirables seem to return to the United States oier the Mexican and Canadian borders. Although it hns not made much hcadwnj, a proposition is before! Con gress to deport undesirables to some island of the tea where they would be obliged to remain and "bore in" for n living. Some members of the House hac suggested that a guard iriifjht be placed on such an island to see that the trouble makers, once located, should not be permitted to gel away. They could then practice thoir theories upon them-' selves. CHARLES L. FLANAGAN is about the same to the old "Young" Republicans ns Emanuel Furtli is to the State Fenciblcs always on deck and always true to the old associations. Rut Charles has suffered a handicap in one way nnd ha i attained an advantage in another, in that he pulled out of Philadelphia some years ago and located permanently at Rivcrton. N. J., where he was postmnster. AVIicn Charles gets oier to Philadelphia, like most other nearby Jersey men, he talks Philadelphia politics like a native aud wears the button of his favorite candidate. If old-time Philadelphlnns, still interested in its nffairs but living on the other side of the Delaware or in Rucks, Montgomery, Delaware and Chester coun ties, Pennsylvania, were to get together the Quaker City would have n fine army of re serves to draw upon Although they have given up their citj otc, they may still be counted loyal Philadelphians. THOSE Racharacb bojs of Atlantic City held the boards at Washington this week. Tsaac, the congressman, was the host of "Uncle Joe" Cannon and other celebrities nt a dinner to the Major-elect of Philadel phia, and Mayor Harry, of Atlantic City, was one of the star speakers. Brother Ben jamin was u silent 'listener, but as a fra ternal leader at "the playground of the world" he hnd already met many of the congressmen who wcreascmbled at the board. There is a pleasant relationship now exist ing between Washington and Atlantic City, in which Philadelphia shares. To a largo ex tent the Atlantic City part of it is due to the cleverness of the Racharach boys in look ing out for members of the national legisla ture when they go down to the shore for a breath of ozone. CONGRESS5IAN JOSHUA W. ALEX ANDER, of Missouri, comes along to lake the place of Secretary Redfield, of the Department of Commerce. Judge Alexander is one of the best-known members of the Ilouse, a Democrat of the old school and n highly respected citizen of his state. Curi ously enough, when the Democrats organized the House they picked Judge Alexander, nn Inland lawyer, for the chairmanship of the committee on merchant marine and fisheries. The President sent him abroad on a com mission to endeavor to bring about a better understanding with regan to international navigation customs, and on that expedition he was thrown in contact with Andrew Furu scth, tho leader of the seamen's unions of this 'country. Much of the war legislation respecting navigation and shipping interests was piloted through the House by the judge. On numerous occasions be went to Phila delphia, evincing n deep interest in tho Dela ware river and our shipbuilding institutions. Philadelphia had n friend in Secretary Rcd field. who was always strong for waterway development, and there is every reason to believe the new secretary will be equally friendly. PITMAN, the camp-meeting place on the West Jersey Railroad, where many Philadelphians live happily in the summer time, figured in the recent Charleston Sava'nnah watcrwajs exposition. William C. K. Walls, the paper bag man of North Elea-enth street, Pitman's (Ire marshal, was the ship's decorator. He also participated with Captain William E. Rerpard, once of Camden, nnd W. W Morgan, of Philadel phia and Alloways, in most of the entertain ments of the convention parly Another Pitmaoite, also of Ardmore, was James M. Knlpc. of tne American Dredging Co. ivnlpo did not make many speeches, but as a chorus leader he surprised even the river men with whom he had fraternized so many years. T. HAMPTON MOORE. The newspaper paragraphcr notes with -. ilial nrtAR Tridtitnan'a fnl.Kll. .31 COBV5F 1.MW. vr".- .....nM wv .UM.fll l,( jncB8iwr.fceoi;lcs neither affect hl time nor fill tfWaiMIB. '- tsrSj (v A BEclSg AN , K QU&STIOM VvAS .' v. iv.-: :a THhT . W irf -Tf ' iffllbi - ydHMPsHHr ( ;V'--i""i -'... ASWMto3WJrF Mf '' xb: &''&?'?'' ' ' N S . 'Pbr5lHP?'?Jr HSHf I ..AJ-4 ' : .nHr'i1 ACHING '1 1 m JFP "M, mm, VMn C 1111111 . -t. " lil I-1M I -mil a-- -- . I III ---"J'V- . J- -." RtNFftD vr) fUamnntnn.nij' jss z '! ,,rrENT- ' m gs. n mni ymm Ifeylli THE CHAFFING DISH The Owl Train A CROSS the cold mooulit landscapes, " while good folk arc nt home curling their toes in the warm bottom of the bed, the Owl trains rumble with a gentle drone, neither fust nor slow. There are several Owl trains with which wc have been familiar. One, rather aristo cratic of its kind, is the caravan of sleeping cars that leaves New York at midnight and deposits hustling business men of the most aggrcshc tjpe at the South Station, Bos ton. After n desolate progress full of in credible jerks nnd jolts these pilgrims reach this dampest, darkest and most Arctic of all terminals about the time the morning codfish begins to warm liis bosom on the gridirons of the sacred city. Another, a terrible noc turnal prowler, slips darkly away from Al bany about 1 a. m., and rambles diseonso latel and with shrill waitings along tho West Shore line. Below the grim Palisades of the Hudson it wakes painful echoes. Its first six units, as far as one can see in the dark, nie blind 'express cars, lontaining milk cans and coffins. We once boarded ll at Kingston, nnd nftcr uneasy slumber across two facing seats found ourself impaled npou Wrchawkcn three hours lntrr. There one treads dubiously upon a ferryboat in the fog nnd brume of dawn, ungluing eyelids in the bleak dividing pressure of the liver breeze. a BUT the Owl train we propose to celebrate is the vehicle that departs modestly from the crypt of the Pennsylvania station in Now York at half-past midnight aud emits blood shot wanderers at West Philadelphia at .'! :1C In the morning. The railroad company, which thinks these problems out with nico tare, lulls the passcngeis into unconscious ness of their woes not only by a gentle and even gait, a progress almost tender in its carefully modulated repression of speed, but nlso by keeping the cars at such an amazing heat that the victims promptly fade, into a swoon. Nowhere will you sje n more com plete abandonment to the wild postures of fatigue and despair than in tho pathetic sprawl of these human forms upon the sim mering plush settees. A hot eddy of some varnish -tinctured vapor certainly not air rises from under the seats and wraps the traveler in a nightmarish trance. Occasion ally he starts wildly from his dream ami glares frightfully through the misted pane. It is the custom of the trainmen, who tiptoe spftly through the curs, uever to disturb their clients by calling out the names of stations. When New Rriinswick is reached many think that they have arrhed nl West Philadelphia, or (worse -till) have been carried on to Wilmington. Tlic.i nish des perately to the bracing chill of the plat form to learn where they nrc. There is a mood of mystery about this Owl of ours. The trainmen take n ouaint delight In keep ing the actual whereabouts of the caraan a merciful secret. ODDLY assorted people appear on this train. Occasional haughty rcvcleis, in evening dress and opera capes, 'appear among the humbler voyagers. For a lime they stay on their dignity: sit bravely upright und talk with apparent intelligence. Then thn drowsy, poison of thalxstlflcd atmosphere oercomes them, too, and they fall into tho weakness of their brethren. They turn over the opposing scat, elevate their nobler shins and droop languid heads over tho ticklish plush chair-back, Strange aliens lie spread over the scats. Nowhere will jou sec so many faces of curious foreign carving, It seems as though many desperate exiles, who uever travel by day, use the Owl for moving obscurely from city to city. This particular train is bound south to Washington nnd at least half Its tenants are citizens of color, Even the endless gayety of our dusky brother is not propf against the, venomous exhaustion of that jjoxed-in suffocation. Th" ladles of .his 'race arccfvrtWy prepared for the. uaracaip w vm ? fi j avm 0, 1019 I PAST PERFORMANCES CTAttPtNTItR- Voip. iS1- COUR.TPEOSION 1 M? R.PA5E. VOL) TVJO INJUNCTIONS' sclies in huge fur coats and all have sofa cushions to recline on. Ecu in an nll-night session'of Congress 5011 will hardly note so complete nn abandonment of disillusion, weariness aud cynical despair as is written upon the blauk' faces nil down the, uislc. Even the will-nower of a (ieorge Creel or a Will II, llnjs would droop Micfore this three-hour ordeal. Professor Einstein, who talks so delightful!) of discarding Time ami Space, might here icconsidcr his theories if he brooded, baking gradunll) upward, on the hot green plush. 4 0 rplHS genial Qwl is not supposed to stop at -1- North Philadelphia, but it ulwa)H docs. Ry this time Philadelphia passengers are awake aud gathered in the told vestibules, panting for escape. Some of them, against the rules of the train, manage to escape on to the North Philadelphia .platform. The lest, standing huddled pcr tho swajing couplings, find the leisurely transit to West Philadelphia ns long ns the, other segments of the ride put together, Stoicnlly, and bc )ond the power of words, they lean on one another. At last the train slides down .n giude. In the duik and picturesque ttinucl of the West Philadelphia station, through thick mists of steam where the glow of the firebov paints the fog a golden rose, they grope nnd find the ancient stuns. Then they stagger off to seek u lonely car or a nighthnwk taxi. To Will Lou (Who thuiKs Alec teas the only caller at the Olohc Cafe) WILL! 0,Will, O Will, O! cognac ran so madl), , Porto giic such zippy edge to the niorn- ing head That I cannot blnmc )ou, much; if you look back sadly -To thoo Clermontois ila)s, days that now aic dead. I THOUGH f often saw jou in that old cafe, Will. Nccr when Marie as gone, (iencvievc nwu). Has Yvonne icfused you flat? And Gcr mnine? And say, Rill, Do you still get letters headed Olobe Cafe? ALEC R. STEVENSON, What the economists used to call the law of diminishing returns nowhere comes iuto pla) with such tragic rapidity as in the de 0111ing of doughnuts, Wc went with a certain Soothsa)cr to harry u' player of steaming hot sinkers nt u Chestnut street pnlacoof pleusurc. After the first, our mood was "All's well with the world." After tho second, wo both began to recall that Napoleon won his victories on nn empty stomach. After the third,, wc wandered along the street agreeing that life is a melancholy illusion. We hear it said thut thcic urc going to be some vast new hotels in'PhilHdelphla. It is curious lo think tl.at.somewherp in this city there ore modest, docile and sweet-notureil inntlia iv tin U'tll lllivn in tin lmif1nnAil !, 1 .ivhh'u ' .... .. ..imiu iuiu belUhops nnd hat-checkers, M. A. E. protests thut it is poor teain work fotthc Qui, nnd the Dish to deal with tho same topic, us they did the other day when Dr. Albert Einstein was mentioned iu both departnieuts. Not at nil. we aver. If the .learned Quiz editor can find n suggestion for it query in the humble Dish, or the Dlsl( can gleaq a whee.c by studying the Qui., then both de 'partineuts feel that they have doubled jn brass and get home to the cenlng meal five minutes earlier. SOCRATES. The .number of times Villa has been lrtltA in IIia nntit ..nitce ,.... 1. 1....1 1,1- UspJclB on a story. wltJy.np wore puma (tf . H ftM ier twin, n ,v i ' .IMP 1' ' I I Mill i II i 'l ' " iif-w tr ctR?w7I 3B WWHK- ' 1 J-! jl jtk ""B ciW2w3y. .3JMt-4wtff . . ",f ii i N Too TO HANDLE. iBS- "THE" THE IDOLS IT LIES, n broken thing, upon My heart, poor scattered clay Of fancy, all its beauty gone; While each prosaic day Assists the lust That wears illusionmcnt away, Vi'nausmuting it lo dust! When loie within my heart wus young My idol in its shrine I set, nnd tribute to It flung Of all hopes that were mine. Rut it was she Whom I had faucied half-divine Destroyed it carelessly. The dullness of oppressive years, The hurt ns love expires, The petulance of needless tears, The dust of old desires Within my shrino Lie like the ashes of old fires 0er that dream of mine. And in my soul a sullen smart Persists. 'Tin she has wrought This desolation-in my heart .... ' And yet., n tender thought Slirs; for she who Has brought my fancied dream t naught May moiirn nn idol too. Sydney Bulletin. Pride goeth before a Fall. What Do You Know? QUIZ How old is the ex-Empress Eugenic? Whnt iinino does she adopt in France? What is acedia? What state does Senator Fall represent? Who is Rene Razin? To what nation did Fiumc belong be fore the war? Who is the new Italian nmbassador ta the United States? What is a licentiate? What is replevin? In traveling westward ;irouud the world, is aday lost or gained? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz Yguaclo Rouilhis Is the Mexican atnbas sailor to the UniteiLSlalcs. s ' Mndero succeeded Diaz as president of Mexico. V In Mrs. Centilivrr's comedy "A Hold Stroke for a Wife.'' n Colonel Felgn wcll passes himself off for Simon Purs mid wins the heart of Miss Lovely, No'sooner does he get the consent of her guardian than the veritable Quaker si imvs himself, and proves, bc)ond a doubt, that lie isthe real Simon Purs. Hence Simon Pure means the rCal man. Pompeii was overwhelmed by tho crop tlon of Vesuvius in 70 A. D, Agenda are thiugs to bo done, items of business to be considered at a meeting ; a memorandum book. , "The Silver Fork School" of literature was composed of those English novelists) who were sticklers for" etiquette and th graces of society, such as Theodore Hook. Lady Rlessluglon, Mrs. Trollop and Sir Edwnra''Rulwcr Ljtton. For his defense of tho union position iii the great battle of September 11). 20, , 1S0.H, General Thomas was called "Tb Rock of Cklrkamauga," Einllc 'Ma belonged lo the Jewish rac,e 8. 0, 10. The Dead sea is a salt lake, sixtcerf miles southeast of Jerusalem. ,X The, "Suicide Fleet" was composed of -fc T Jw ILW I "3 'Stfl '58",1 HjL k$ American snips engaged tp ; uu 'mlncj In Kuiypvuf woltj'rg M,tcyt V4f t 'SI vl .T l .- ' V . L tf1 , t i. ,A vT -. . '
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