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In the United States. Canada, or United states pps- 6enlon, postage free, fifty (00) cents pr month Ix !) dollars per year. Par'Wa In advance. To all foreign countries one (til dollar per ...TnotIcb Subscribers wishing address changed ftvuat give old as well as new address. , JELL. 3000 TALNUT KEYSTONE. MAIV 3008 fry Address all communications o TV" np P6Ho Ledger, Independence Square. 1'hilaAclpMa. Member of the Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED ritEBS is cxclu- itlvelv entitled to the use for republication of all neics dispatches a edited to it or not otheruHsc credited In this paper, and also the local nctos published therein All rights of republication of special dls hatches herein arc also reserved. FhUiJelphli. Stnrdir. Bwmber . IW INTO THE DISCARD DOCTOR GARFIELD'S job never was enviable. Ho will go down in his tory as the man who invented heatless .Mondays and gasohneless Sundays and tfark and dismal evenings every night in the week. Ho will hold the novel distinc tion of having a high appointment to .protect the public from lack of fuel and ' "Julfilling his mission by depriving it of that very commodity on a spectacular Bcale never before dreamed of. Most people, remembering only such discomforts, will agree that he and his whole fuel administration were failures from beginning to end. So his passing "into tho White House discard is not likely to bring him any very profound or 'abiding sympathy. ,, But it is irony that he should earn tfiis exit by protesting against the usual and familiar passing of the buck to the dear old public. Yet, as he passes from the stage, he may find consolation in the fact that he joins a distinguished company :i the "This Way Out Club," of which Messrs. Garrison, H.-fvey, iryan and House aie leading members. RAINBOWS GOVERNOR SPROUL, on his return from Washington, -.-emarked that he "vyas'-not ehasing ra'-tenvs. Wice man ! TheVe is no less profitable sport than that of pursuing an iridescent phantom that consists of nothing but mist and sunlight. Phantoms sometimes chase men, and fcatch them, too, if they do not watch out. The Governor has a very large job on his Rands already, and if he does it well "t-'as a vast majority of Pennsylvanians Ifiope he will it will be time enough to figure on the next step upward in states- "manshiij. In fact, it may be tho next $v nrjjtep itself. ESS PLATITUDES, MORE PORT lX GOOD many Philadelphians have !p-favored a forty-foot channel and port expansion in just about the same spirit as they have admitted tho obvious ad vantages of virtue, liberty and independ ence. Attractive programs always have a host of friends. It is the real workers that are so often lacking. Fortunately George F. Spioule, named Dy Mayor-elect Moore as the new director of the Department of Wharves, Docks and Ferries, deals more largely in the ,j;(K!lities "than in the platitudes of his specialty. He has an excellent record as secretary of the board qf port wardens and secretary of the commissioners of navigation. He is versed in the needs of the harbor and efficient ways of filling them. His appointment is a hopeful sign that the commercial facilities of Philadelphia may catch up at last to the constantly increasing and broadening commercial (opportunities. f MYSTERY jfT EGElD, rumor and experience --J taught me that Philadelphia is de Voted to the thing called scrapple," said (tha Well-Dressed Stranger, with a look pp and down Broad street, "but until jow I did not know that you use it to i repair the street paving." h IS IT THE SAME OLD STORY? EN in Washington are now begin ning to say that the soft coal strike Jwa3 brought about by something resem bling collusion between the miners and jho operators so that the miners might jet higher pay and the operators might get higher prices. ! If it shall appear that the public has ,teen fooled, there must be a reckoning, ,Which will demand the creation of a per manent tribunal for the settlement of jjabor disputes before which the Interests at the public will be set forth as of at least equal importance with the interests tof the workers or the employers in each industry. ' Any tribunal which permits the work ers and the employers to co-operate for their own profit, regardless of the public, is pernicious. 1 UNINSTRUCTED DELEGATES SOMETHING can be said in support of the desire of a majority of the mem fcers of the Republican national commit "te that the delegates to the Chicago Convention be uninstructed. ,W71m vtn Mnnrllrlnfo lino ft mnlnptti. nf . . fy list) v .."-. ..-.. ..jvvjr w ltrought about by combinations among C? friends qf the different candidates, Mrfteuier ueictjmeo uic iiuhuiwu uf jiuw. Jflitl instructions are respected when they Jve been obeyed on one rollcoll. After that tho war cleared for whatever ' tb leaders plan to do. . o i'U There are too many favorite sons, g jjrvwu-flr-, for the wishes, of tle mem- bers of the national committee to bo uni versally regarded. The delegations from many states will go to Chicago committed to certain candidacies, whllo every candidate will bo anxious to get !, the support of the largo delegations from Pennsylvania and New YorK. as tnese two states could combine and bring about tho nomination Of any candidate on which the"y could agree, the matter of instruc tions can be allowed to take core of itself. CHAIRMAN HAYS, THE PARTY AND THE ETERNAL FEMININE Leaders Who Will Predict the Results of Universal Suffrage Must Be Wiser Than Solorhon rpHE hope and faith of a great many - ardent advocates of equal suffrngo are founded upon the oldest human tra ditions. They firmly believe that women are at heart better than men. Conventional pleas for the vote have always takerfthe form of appeals to ra tionality, to logic, to common justice, to common sense. But behind every prac tical consideration there is often an in stinctive reliance upon the familiar con seivatism of women, on their instinct for good order and on their habit of devo tion to humane causes. Voes expressive of such attributes are still depended upon to humanize politics and exalt political aims. Now, Mr. Hays, national Republican chairman, may feel this way about it. There is no telling. In his appeal to the states for immediate ratification of the national suffrage amendment, party idealists will see a desire to summon the best resources of the national mind and spirit for the hard decisions of 1920. It will be far more reasonable to view this summons from the national com mittee as a forward move in the efforts which both parties are making to mo bilize feminine sentiment against the Great Day. All political leaders of the first magnitude arc frankly eager for the good will of the 28,000,000 new voters of the near future. They yearn to get these voters safely under 'party wings. They pine for the privilege of tutoring them in the ways of politics. They are not visionaries. After Janu ary only ten states will stand in the uay of the universal franchise. New Jersey, Kentucky, Maryland and Rhode Island are reported ready for ratification. The Colorado Legislatuie ratified the amend ment yesterday, and thus twenty-two states of the necessary thirty-six were listed on the side of the suffragists. With New Jersey, Kentucky, Maryland and Rhode Island out of the way, there will remain thirteen states which suf frage leaders depend upon to sustain their cause. These are Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wyo ming. Nine of these states have already granted full presidential suffrage to women. Twelve of them are Republican. Mr. Hays is a good chairman and a wise one. Political leaders of both parties are gradually becoming reconciled to the inevitable. They have passed swiftly from attitudes of doubt, ridicule, antag onism, resentment and awe to a mood of suave acceptance, knowing not what is to befall in the end. Mr. Hays is not playing an exagger ated role in suddenly appearing in the open as the official little father of suf frage. 'The Democratic leaders, largely because of the South, have always been temperamentally opposed to women vot ers. They cannot safely appear as pro gressive as Mr. Hays, even if they wished to. Some of the qualms of uncertainty with which routine politicians of all sorts view the advent of universal suffrage arc justi fied by the ardor and the mystic energy of suffrage leaders in this city and else where. They are establishing schools of politics. What is a ward? What is a division leader and why? Why is Congress what it is? Why do bosses survive? Why do ward leaders lead? Women every where are manifesting an ominous in terest in these ancient and perplexing questions. They are approaching their investigations with a sort of fen id in tensity. And yet the women who have already voted in many of the suffrage states have been a sad disappointment to the idealists. There is always Chicago, where the women voters are reported to have aided the wets and kept a wicked political ring in power. Women, too, have been mani festing a sort of class interest that puz zles reformers who depended on them too greatly. In some of the western states, the women's vote has reflected a greater liberality of thought, a genuine concern with progress and the legisla tion of humanity." But the difference between the West and Chicago seems to have been largely a matter of at mosphere, environment and suggestion rather than the reflection of a exclusive feminine purpose. The old cry has gone up. Women voters, we are told, will be the mirrors of their husbandi, their fathers and their brothers. They may be finer tempered than men, their opponents say. They may have a greater devotion to virtuous principles. But if you believe the people who have been analyzing election re sults in suffrage states, the loyalty of women can never be definitely enlisted in behalf of the abstract thing we call the state because the state does not live, it does not suffer, it is not visible, and women, therefore, are supposed to be unable to serve it as they serve in the routine ways of everyday existence. Suffragists cannot bo blamed if they are irritated profoundly by these super ficial deductions. They hov not tho knack of discrimination and leadership in politics. How could they have 'it? How ever were they to have been trained ? Universal suffrage is much like the league of nations. It will not emerge out of chaos as a perfect thing. It will need practice and refinement. It is fatu ous to suppose that women will always drift or he led in politics, They may EVENING PUBLIC lose sight of many technical details of the game. They may oven bo fooled, slnco It is their wish and their habit to believe. But their concern is with life and tho means of life. They will feel, if they do not always think, in the devi ous ways of political organizations. Unquestionably they will be a power behind all legislation7 that is intended to make life more tolerable for women and children in industry and they will be a terror to those who oppose that sort of legislation. They nro diffident and shy for a time in politics. They could not be otherwise. "You never can tell what a womnn will do." That fearful thought will haunt a good many bosses in tho years to come unless wo arc mistaken. It is questionable if vomcn voters will ever be as amenable to party rules as men have been. They nro mysterious. Lately they have been complaining that clothes designers enslave them. They are afraid of many harmless things of cows, for example. But tho lord of creation, who is begin ning to feel again that he nlone is quali fied to vote, ought to think again. Women do not hang about street cor ners. They do not sit up all night to play poker. They do not meet secrotly to hatch wars. They do not fight police men and they did not loaf in saloons. Women may be unable to cope with some of the physical stresses of modern life. But that is not because they nie not? strong. They will cling to desolated hearths and hold tho order of existence together, and wait and smile and be patient in storms of trouble from which a man would flee to the neaiest dock for a jump out of a world grown too hard for him. THE WRONG WAY TO DO IT T EADING members of the Governor's -"' constitutional commission, in session in Harrisburg, are said to be assuming that their duty is to rewrite tho consti tution so that the calling of a (constitu tional convention shall bo unnecessary. When the law authorizing tho Gover nor to appoint the commission was passed, it was not understood that thi3 was to be its function. It was to study the constitution in tho light of modern conditions with a view to discovering what changes ought to be made and to report to the next Legislatuie. The law authorizes it to recommend the best way to have these changes made. Under this gianft of power it can, it is true, advise against a constitutional convention. It would be a grave mistake, however, for the commission to assume that a con stitutional convention is unnecessaiy. The only pioper way to revise the con stitution and biing it up to date is through the election of a body of dele gates by tho people and by commission ing those delegates to do the work. Twenty-five men and women cannot)' do it. Though they were tho ablest twenty fivo citizens of the commonwealth they could not propel ly speak for the people of the state without a mandate of tho electorate. It is not democratic, that is to say, truly representative, to make a constitution in such a way. When the commission was appointed it was understood that it was to clear the ground for a convention by doing some of the pieliminary work. It was expected to point out the in&nsistencies in the present document and to show how they could be removed and how tho con stitution could be simplified by tho omis sion of all the present complicated re strictions upon the Legislating and by pioviding for a grant of power with wide discretion in its exercise. Instead of doing this, however, the commission is considering such a silly provision as that all bills passed by the Legislature should bo punctuated be fore they are passed, and other provi sions that have no place in the funda mental law. If the apparent purpose of the com mission is carried out it will be impos sible to put any of the amendments into effect until the beginning of 1924. And they cannot go ino effect even then un less two Legislatures consent to submit tliem to the voters in November, 1923. If the commission were devised solely J as an expedient for delay, its course could not be more ably directed to that end than it appears at present. In Mr. Moore s (onp Literary Note serial, "The New PubUc Safetj Direc tor," the gifted author lins coMtmed to cause rising interest with everj succeeding chap ter, and It is confjdentlj expected that the concluding installment, wliieii ue are in formed will appear "within a few dajs" will fullv justify the hopes of au enthi ailed community. The poem on the Iraperator written by the Earl of Limerick, bewailing the absence of liquor, should properlj hae been writ ten in the mcaBiire his name has made fa mous. As for instance: A tar who was dry as a crater Went to sea ou the ship Impcrator But the absence of booze Has affected the muse, So I'll finish this Limeruk later. The evidence is unmistakable that the government, demanding a show-down, ex ecuted a back-down in the coal situation. Hut n retreut may bo strategic rather than an evidence of defeat Ever and anon police c.ourt items bring home to us the fact that among the highly paid professions must be included that of begging on tho streets. Doctor Garfield is Uearh within his rights in resigning and the public similarly intrenched in Its priulege to take his de parture ph!I6sophirallj Life would be far more terrible than it is if world problems did not hae the habit of eventually solving themselves. A conference is being held in this city on ministers salaries The men most con cerned admit that these are small matters. "We're all torry that Doctor Garfield feels as he does he's done a fine job," said Secretary Tumulty. Resigning? Not only the wicked walked in slippery places yesterday. Doctor Garfield has wandered off into lightlcss and heatless night. LEDaER-PfllLADEPHIA SATURDAY, DECEBIBEE 13, MAYOR-ELECT MOORE'S LETTER Congressman Mondcll Was a Cowboy. Who Became Mayor of a Western Town and Carries Bullets Around With Him piItANK W. MONDRLL, the Republican leader of tho House of Representatives, whom rx-Liciitcnant Governor Frank Mo jlnln Introduced to the Terrrfpiu Club at Its recent dinner, was once mayor of a town in Wyoming. He had been a cowboy anil had eujojed the experiences of a frontiersman. The major's job didn't pay much, but j citing Mondcll took It ns a step toward other things, Uc soon found something to do. A bunchy of roughnecks come In one day and began to act In n manner which called for the exercise of authority. Frank went out to do the job and succeeded, nl though it required considerable shooting on both sides. The Republican leader still carries a couplo of bullets which dug into his boilj on that day. Hut thek incident proved his gamonoss and helped hlin In after life. He might have been governor of. AVjoining several years ago, but report in Washington is that he would rather wait for the United States Senate. CONGRESSMAN LaGUARDIA, of New York city, recently elected president of the board of aldermen a powerful position in thp metropolis is n delight to the Ital ians of the country. He has been a guest on several occasions in this city, where the active men of Italian birth or descent cstccmhim highly. Some of them arc even suggesting that the New York member might oome forward some day as a vice presi dential possibility. LaGtiardia, who hos had experience in tho consular service abroad, came into Congress, a Ilepublicnn, from a district that has gcncrall gone Democratic. He enlisted for tho war and distinguished him&elf in aviation in Italy aud over Austria where he led sonic of our flying forces. It was this record taken with his popularity among the Italians in New York that helped him beat out Tammany. BIG Tom Cunningham, leader of the Re publican Alliance, and George W. Coles, leader of the Town Meeting party, arc strong on duck hunting, but they don't like it in foggy weather. On a trip Co the ChesapcaRo, these Philadelphlana evinced every desire to meet tho canvasback on his own ground, but each morning the fog bettlcd down just about starting-out time, which, by the way, is 4 o'clock In the morning. As "the early bird catches the worm" so does the early riser get the duck, u piece of philosophy that might be attrib uted to that old-time I'hiladelphian, Bill Douglass, ex-county commissioner, who has become a solon among the duck hunters of the Chesapeake. -pvAVID J. SMYTH, the new city solicitor, X and Commodore Louis H. Eisenlohr have been swapping western experiences. Each of them for a time, earlier in life, bpent .omo stirring days in the bad lands of tho Southwest. flew people in Philadelphia know it, but "Commodore Lou" was once n deputy sheriff when few men wanted to hold down the job. That was in the days when train robbers and desperadoes were doing battle with the -vigilantes. The commodore says he never aspired to be sheriff because in the county where he berved as deputy the records showed that no sheriff up to his time had died a'natural death. GEORGE W. COLES, who led the Town Meeting party to victory in the recent mayoralty ""ampaign, is a native of Ljkcns, the coal town which nestles in tho moun tains of Dauphin county ; nnd Lykcns Is a town where the Coles name is familiar -Jo almost every bodj in it. The father of George , now past seventy, is superintendent of one of the mines. He came from Welsh stock and is popular with the old settlers. One of the customs which holds in the Coles homestead is the killing of the steer at Christmas. The Coles boys, and there arc half a dozen of them besides George, get together with the home folks and after the bhooting match, which is a part of the day's festivities, beparate the edible part of the btecr from the hide and hoof, and distribute it among the neighbors. The Town Meet ing party leader is generally in at the killing. -1EOBGE T. GWILLIAM, for a long time secretary of the Philadelphia Engineers' Club, like Congiessmau George S. Graham and Lawyer James M. Beck, has one foot in New York and one in Philadelphia. The Gwilliam Co., of which George T. is the head, throws its sign across one of the prominent thoroughfares in New York, although the directing genius Insists upon keeping up his voting residence iu Philadel phia George brings back the New loiK news to a little group of clubmen known as "The Mariners," talking yachts with Sam uel T. Kent, the president, and automobiles with Howard B. French, of the Chamber of Commerce. Gwilliam knows a lot about iho French genealogy from Its early origin, which is naturally pleasing to the bead of the big Philadelphia paint house. Ql UITE a number of prominent Philadel phians, including W. W. Frazier, Mayer Sulzberger, John T. i;mlen anu Samuel Fels, are interested in the work of the national association for the advancement nf colored people. Isadore Martin, secretary of the Philadelphia branch', of which Dr. J. Max Barber is president, claims a member ship for the general association of 00,000. The association hopes for the advancement of the colored man, and some of the local adherents point to the case of W. Basil Webb, who started us a messenger in the Mnvnris office twenty years ago and is still a messenger. They say nico things about Webb and insist that he has executive ability and diplomacy, which most visitors to the Mayor's office will confirm. -pv. KNICKEUBACKEH BOYD, chair JL man of the executive committee of the Philadelphia planning conference and a member of the Philadelphia Chapter Amer ican Institute of Architects, has written to Colonel Furbush, the incoming director of public health, concerning the relationship which exibts between sanitation and city planning. The architects, theAre under writers and various other organizations bold the opinion that there is a yery decided community of interest in this regard and tbey also draw uttcntlon to the fact that bo council of associated building trades looks with favor upon city planning, espe cially sl"ce 'l contemplates the establish ment of comfort station8 T)ANK PRESIDENT CHAIILES S. CAL JJ WELL thinks the Comnlercial Museum bhould be made the nucleus lor a larger institution on the Parkway. He likes the Bush terminal scheme in New York and thinks buyers would bo attracted to the city if ucl1 an Institution were established here Mr. Calwell also takes a more than ordinary Interest In the Delaware river. He observes im? waterways leading to trunk lines a fine -opportunity for agriculture and ..Aa In cnnprnl. f Vi comra"" J. HAMPTON MOORE. X -N -STAJ2T '" THE CHAFFING DISH In Manayunk AMIDST the crooked streets and dirty mills In strange nnd devious paths their lives must go Who live on Cinnamlnsou, Conarroc, And practice Alpine climbing o the hills. How steeply down tho cobbles slides the Milk On wintry mornings, wltlui windward luich Disposing him, and others of his Ilk, To lactlfy the steeple of the church. When mall adorns the slippery garden path Oiir apoplectic gran'thcrs groan aud pant With rusty knee nnd ankle protestant, And threaten waistcoat buttons in their f wrath. If one had nightmares, cxther years, when drunk, One climbed unending sleeps in Manayunk. ALEC B. STEVENSON. The cruel cruller continues its conquering path. Our cheerful haunt, the little waffle shop on Eighth street, has jettis-oned its grid dled batters aud npw deals only iu "cream doughnuts." The next step, we foresee, will be a convention of doughnut dippers, prob ably held at Fryburg, Pa. . Speaking of the origins of modern slang, the first instance of "calling it a day" oc curred in the fifth verse of the first chapter nf Genesis. It was distinctly promised us, in the same (jrst chapter of Genesis, that man was to have dominion over every creeping thing; but we have never yet seen the human being who could get the better of an athletic aud mature cockroach. Brooding over these things, it comes to us that if the forty-four-hour week had pre vailed in the Garden of Eden the creator would never have had time to make woman. And th,e Garden of Eden attitude toward prohibition may be deduced from the name given to the first of all rivers. If you don't believe us, turn to Genesis ii, 11, and see what they called the stream Adam had to drink from. "The name of the first Is Pison.". Adam really felt that Paradise was Lost when they took the movies away from him. For, as Milton says in his justly celebrated scenario dealing with the subject : Michael from Adam's eyes the film re moved. Hospital Corridors ALL hospitals have flower beds," You may see them bloom At evening after lights arc low Beside each quiet room. Roses there, and violets In nests of living grass, v They bend to kiss the nurses' feel Aud watch the doctors pass. They seem to be quite happy there And do not mind the pain. For flowers live where they are loved And are at home again Wherever thero is suffering. Tbey have seen death too near To close, for him, their colored cups Or look on bim with fear. BEATRICE WASHBURN. Desk Mottoes In this country, riches constitute a greater bar to scholarship than poverty. ISAAC SOA.RPLESS. Bobert W. Chambers wasnU such a bad nroohet. In 1805 ho publlshed book called 'The King In Yellow." This is how it begins: Toward the end of tho year 1920 tha Government of tho United States had prac UoaJljt oompJoted the program adopted during: the last months of President Win throp's administration. . . , The war with Germany had left no visible scars upon the republic. I Apd, speaklos of prophecy, how's thUT . -1919 AS WE VSAW IT Ben Jonson, in "Every Man in His Hu mour," which the erudite Quizcdltor has been re-reading, gave the first solution of the Mexican problem. That was in 1C98: Tho bastlnndo ! a most proper and suffi cient dependence, warranted by tho great Carranza. Come hither, you shall chartel him; I'll show you a trick or two you shall kill him with at olcasure. Meditating on unsuccessful plays, as one might conceivably do, we picked up one fa mous first-night flop, since printed, and read the pieface. There we found: It were unnecessary to enter Into any further extenuation of what was thought exceptionable In this play, but that It has been said that tho manager should have prevented some of the defects before Its appearance to the public. . . . Tho season was advanced when I first put the play Into Mr. Harris's hands. It was at that time at least double tho length of any acting comedy. . . . With regard to some par ticular passages which on tho first night'B representation becmed generally disliked. I confess that if I felt any emotion of sur prise at the disapprobation it was not tliat they were dlsappioved of, but that I had not before perceived that they deserved It. The above does not refer to some recent play produced in New York by Sam Harris, but is from Sheridan's preface to "The Rivals," 1775. Mr. Wlllium JI. Wills writes to us that our postal card, mailed to him on April 28th ultimo and addressed correctly to his office at 1225 Arch street, has just arrived. It occurs to us that we had better get busy and send off our greetings for Christ mas, 1020. One of our cheery clients, whose name we can't decipher, has been listening to the organist at our favorite movie theatre. And he says that the other evening, while cam paigning pictures of Lady Astor and hus band were being shown, the ingenious or ganist played "If You Can Tame Wild Women, Won't You Tame My AVife for Me." A Plea pvOWN a deep cauyon in the western land, '-' With the black rimrock frowning over head, Lletho last two of some brave Indian band, Peaceful and lone in their last narrow bed. The smell of sagebrush, pungent as the sea, No niore will greet their nostrils on the height ; But who can say that still it may not be In some rich hunting ground their souls' delight? This was their land; this wealth of hill and plain, . Theirs not by right of conquest but by birth, And fyou who plow their fields, who reap their grain, Begrudge them not their little piece of earth. . D. P. W. "Help! help I Mad clog!" cried some one. "Wisdom is better than rabies," retorted Dove Dulcet, as he hastened in the opposite direction. And it is sad to think, said the philosophi cal bartender, that a mad dog is the only creature that has a chance to foam at the mouth nowadays. We Are Enigmatic We have received an earnest inquiry as to what we meant when we said that the Uni verse was.Dlctated but not Signed, i In accordance with our stern policy, we refuse to amplify this hard saying. We will even make It harder by remarking that wo are not nt all certain whether the StenogA Tapher saved a carbon copy in the files. Any rigid theory of life, we might add, is about as uncertain as a savings account at the North Penn Bank. Life Is replete with small irpnles, we ven ture Think of the satlrjc sensations of the director general of railroads when he sees the children at Christmas time having such I a good time with the toy trains. soqnATisa. Ji x THE ROMAN ROAD I LOVE the grass -grown Roman road Crossing the bosom of the downs, To conjure up tho life that flowed From all the busy, bygone towns. Beneath the sward, the sullen ground Once echoed to the rhythmic tread OfmarchtSj legions, northward bound, Marking the highway with their dead. I love to stand where Caesar stood Gazing across the smiling shires. The same clean wind that cooled his blood Tempers the sun's enlivening fires, The dappled fields stretch far aud wide A gentler kind than Caesar trod, When ruthless Saxon hordes defied Tho maker of the Roman road. The ramparts that hid fighting men Arc carpeted with green and gold, The cave that was a wild beaBt's den Now serves a plowman's gear to hold. The road that echoed to the tread Of inarching legions, northward bound. Is hut a highway of the dead, Dear Nature's happy hunting ground. F. Ci Breton Martin, in the Spectator. If the price of coal is raised following an increase of wages to the coal miners, there is nothing to prevent tho government from investigating the coal business nnd in cidentally discovering whether or not the excess charge is justified. Wluxt Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who is the newly elected president of Switzerland? 2. What is the capital of Minnesota? S. How old was Cleopatra at the time of her liaison with Blare Antony? 4. How long was James A. Garfield Presi dent of the United States? 5. Who were tho Hellenists? L 0. What is nenuphar? 7. From what town in France does vaude ville take its name? 8. How is the surname Cockburn pro nounced in England? 0. The word plaza is sometimes pronounced as though it were spelled "platsa." Why is this incorrect? 10. Name three commanders on the British side in the American revolution. Answers to Yesterday's Qulr 1. Hansom cabs take their name frorq Aloysius Hansom, of York, England, who was their inventor. Hig dates are 1803-1882. 2. Skagway, Juneau and Sitka are Alaskan cities. , 3. Slax of Baden was the last chancellor of the German monarchy. 4. An odalisque is an eastern female slave or concubine. 5. A seismograph is an Instrument indi cating the place and force of earth quakes. 0. Roosevelt settled the anthracite coal strike in 1002. 7. The hanging gardens of Babylon were four acres or garden raised on a base supported by pillars towering in ter races one above the other 300 feet iu height. At a distance they are said to have looked like a vast pyramid covered w'lth trees. 8. The Novum Organum was the chief philosophical work of Francis Bacon, published In 1020. 0. The frequent occurrence of the number forty-ln the Old Testament has been explained by the fact that the original Hebrew employed a word meaning forty to express "a great many" in an indefinite sense. 10. Frauk II. Hitchcock was postmaster general in Taft's cabinet and managed the Taft campaign for the presidency In 1008. He was also campaign man- ' ager for the nomination of Hughes in 1010. Gilbert M, Hitchcock is Demo cratic senator from Nebraska, s. v 1 ' .. 4 '1 A 7 v . Nl r - I'' 3 -r.
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