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Member of the Associated Press Ttlll ASSOCIATED Pit IMS Is cxclu tivelv entitled to the use for republication tit all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In thte paper, and also the local news published thcieln. All rights of republication of special dis patches herein arc also reserved. Philadelphia, W-dnriilsv, llerrmlier 17. Ills CORTELYOU FOR DIRECTOR TN CHOOSING Chief Corteylou, of the district attorney's detective staff, lo be his director: of public safety, Mttyor fclcct Moore evidently believes that the principal qualification needed for the job is u thorough knowledge of police meth ods, rather than proved business ability adequate to administer a great depart ment of the city government. The wisdom of this conception remains to be shown in practice. One thing is sure: It would have been difficult for Mr. Moore to pick out a man tnoro generally liked by .those who have come in contact with him in other official positions, nor one more likely to com mand the respect and friendly interest of thu rank and tile in the various large forces of men who will come under his direction. During his long service as chief of the postal inspectors in this district, "Jim" Cortelyou became a terror to criminals breaking the federal laws, and his suc cess in ferreting out swindles and other fraudulent get-rich-quick schemes was universally admitted. His appointment to the directorship is a big promotion from his present position, but it is one Which a wide circle of friends will hope his administration proves he has de served. He starts with one larg'c asset that is a hatred of anything pertaining to crookedness and graft. A THING TO STAND ON riHAUNCEY M. DEPEW used lo say that a political platform was like the platform of a railroad car to get in on and not to stand on. The chairman of the Republican national committee, However, is promis . Jng. something different this year. In a speech in Buffalo on Monday night he said that "The platform will deal with the great fundamentals and when adopt ed, jt shall be the evidence of a sacred contractual obligation between tho party and the people." Let us hope that this is so, and that not only the Republican platform, but ' the platform of the Democratic party as well, may be something more than a mess of words intended to catch votes and then be forgotten. VICTORY IN SIGHT fpHE optimism of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt outfit to be encouraging to Will B. Hays. Mrs. Catt has been touring the West and she reports that the suffrage amend ment to the constitution will be ratified by thirty-six states before February 1. If her forecast bo correct then the women irr all tho slates, including Penn sylvania, will vole in the next presi dential election, a result which Mr. Hays has said he would do his best to bring about. It lias been a long fight and a hard one. Now on the eve of victory every gallant an will doff his hat out of respect for tlio heroic and undiscouraged women who have led the battle, not forgetting the late. Mrs. Anna Howard Shaw, of this state, RIGHT FOR ONCE MR. BRYAN, who has devoted himself to prophecy ever since he was first nominated for the presidency in 1890, has usually played in bad luck, for the things Which he foretold did not como to pass. There is one exception, however. On November 15, 1910, he Baid that within four years the Democratic party would become a dry party and that prohibition would be the chief issue in 1920. Well, he was right about his party. It is dry, and so is tho Republican party. The liquor question has disappeared from politics. But he was wro-.g about the big issue for 1920. Yet one must not' be too criti cal In this case, for Mr. Bryan should have all the credit that is duo to a prophet who guessed right for onco, even If his guess was wrong in its details. REWARDS WHEN Mark Twain said that virtue was its own and only reward auto mobile thefts wero not so common as thejr'are now. Yet cvfcn then ill-paid policemen sometimes had to bo spurred on to do their duty by tho offer of a jsuin of money in addition to their sal-pries- y Superintendent Robinson of the police department does not seem to approve the jM-ictice of automobile owners and auto motVilo insurance companies in offering aruwards for the recovery of stolen cars. Mi does not say i,, but the inference front his remarks is that the police will not1 bestir themselves until the reward Ik .offered, And when the money is paid ttjfl ttftWei' who found the car does not t flfc.lW tl nlfuker men In the defective) ,k.-( jn-iMk- rockets There is not a fair division of the spoils and thcro is consequent dissatisfaction. Thero is one obvious way out of this tangle, and that is to pny the members of the police force a living wage, so they will not need iho incentive of gratuities to do their duty, and to turn over to the pension fund every reward paid by a grateful citizen for tho recovery of his stolen property. Then tho police would not be under tho sinHcInn of neitlpctfng their duty until special inducements were offered, such as have to be used to make n waiter in a fashionable restaurant give decent attention to a dinner party. CANDIDATES APPEARING FOR 1920 SUICIDE CLUB The Country Will Grieve to See Mr. Gerard First to Enter the List of Democratic Presidential Aspirants TT MR. BURLESON or Mr. McAdoo or even Mr. Palmer had been first among avowed Democratic candidates for the presidency there would have been no mis givings anywhere. Nobody cares what happens to Mr. Burleson. No one would pity him. He might be mauled at the polls, ho might be trounced by a noisy amateur like Cali fornia s Senator Hi, he might be drawn and quartered politically without inspir ing any demonstrations other than songs of praise, in which underpaid letter car riers might lead the majority of their countrymen. Mr. McAdoo is used to weathering storms. Misadventures and travail seem needed lo complete thu education of Mr. Palmer's political soul. It is because Americans have a great fondness for James W. Gerard that they will grieve to sec him first on a ticket that cannot have even a lighting chance. Mr. Gerard told the German emperor to go to the devil. He let the country know that the lunatics at Berlin had actually included the United States in their plan of frightfulness and he did magnificent service in behalf of the Americans who were unfortunate enough to be caught behind the war blockades at Berlin. We would wish for Mr. Gerard a far happier "fate than the one he has chosen by filing his own nomination papers in South Dakota. Other companies of proud and desperate men have advanced to awful defeat before now, but none ever faced odds so great as those that now seem to wait presidential candidates who go under Democratic banners in the next election. They may even be known in political history as tho Suicide Club of 1920. Party interest or party prejudice is not necessary to sustain this view. Few men think exclusively in party terms now adays. Tho times arc too serious; the future is too uncertain for that. It is daily becoming clearer that the Deniocratic party will be at a greater disadvantage in 1920 than for a genera tion. It was the war party. It is asso ciated in people's minds with all the stresses and discomforts of the last few years with profiteers and high prices, with lightlcss nights and workless days, witli tea without sugar and fourtcen dollar shoes. Democrats were in power when wo bo came entangled with Europe. They were running tilings when war was declared. They will bo held accountable for in come ,taxcs. The disposition of the acrago man lo vote out a party in sheer irritation may not be wise. It may not be just. But it persists and the Demqcrats will suffer by it. The accomplishments of the last few years have been exclusively tho ac complishments of Mr. Wilson. The Presi dent absorbed his party and in justice to him it must be said that he seemed during the war days to care little about what happened to it when the welfare of humanity was in question. Retiring, he will leave his party woefully enfeebled. The collective mind of the Democracy will return like an exile, enervated by a lack of exercise and dazed by the sight of a world that has got ahead of it. And it is only necessary to look beyond tho President to New York, to the South, or at the aberrations of tho party during the last gubernatorial campaign here in Pennsylvania to see that the Democratic party is well, the Democratic party. A one-sided fight is not a thing that the country may view with entire tranquillity in 1920. The misfortune of the Demo crats may easily become the misfortuno of tho entire nation if affairs are .per mitted to drift as they are drifting now. The prospect of an easy victory will not stimulate idealism or inspire great purposes in the men who are now trying for the control of the G. O. P. It will not help tho progressive element among Republicans. Omens of a decline of Democratic prestige therefore should have a very definite meaning for all those on the Republican side who are preparing to oppose Old Guard absolutism in plat form conferences and at the Chicago con vention on June 8. The Old Guard will correctly read the lessons of history. It knows the habits of the popular mind. It is aware that a saint would have a hard time to win next year for the Democrats, not altogether because of anything that the Democrats have or have not done but because of the atmosphere in which they functioned. It wasn't a cheerful atmosphere and the country is aching for a change. Tho danger for Republicans is that their vic tory may be too easy. Mr. Gerard's candidacy is sure to bring other conspicuous Democrats hurrying into the open with their hopes and their plans. A declaration from Mr. McAdoo may be expected at any day. It is being said fchat Mr. Hoover is a Democrat, and Mr. Hoover has made it plain that he would not run away from a nomination. So far he has not been clearly identified with any party. He was a long while out of the country. And Mr. Hoover is in all likelihood far too wise to run for tho presidency against handicaps of the sort that Mr. Gerard is willing to contend with. , , Senator Hitchcock was viewed in recent months as a possibility. But the drift of the ficht n tho Senate, tho.jirirt of popti Iry -frlinr and, & m "m 'WOTe '"1- portant, tho drift of affairs in Europe have been against him. Lloyd George, Clcmcnceau and tho Italian adventurer in Flumo arc factors in coloring pre-election sentiment in tho United States. Thero is a disposition in many quarters to wonder whether, after all, some of the European statesmen have been made quite safe for democracy. This question rises naturally whenever the name of D'Annunzio is mentioned. Mr. Gerard's platform as he announced it in South Dakota consists of eight words: "Make and keep tho countrsafe for democracy.'' Only recently the official representa tives of the party wcrj thinking in more inclusive terms. Their beneficent i in tentions extended to all the world and to tho islands in the sea and the peoples thereon. It will bo interesting lo observe whether tho experiences of the past year have made the Democratic party more conservative and more modest in its aspirations, or whether the now limita tion of effort is representative of an old and familiar characteristic which Dem ocrats abandoned when they followed after Mr. Wilson's leadership in foreign affairs. LET THE 80 SENATORS. LEAD rpHE treaty situation in the Senate calls - for plain talk. Tho President has shown by his third person White House hand-out statement that he is again thinking as tho chief leader of the Democratic party and not as the leader of thu American people. Whenever ho docs that he is wrong wrong in principle and wrong in prac tice. It is a caso once moro of his celebrated misguided appeal for the election of a Deniocratic Congress which he could control without question. It is not only bad taste but bad politics. The American people showed what they thought of his blunder before and they will do it again. Mr. Wilson probably thinks that lie is playing skillful politics when he tries to shift the whole burden of responsibility on tho Republican party, which he was so careful to mention in his statement. But ho is mistaken. It is not a proper issue for political maneuvering, and if he were not cooped up by sickness and isolated from close touch with the people, them selves he would rea.ize it. We have indicated in these c lumns how petty and piffling Senator Lodge's Beacon street self-importance appears to the average man in the street. Ho seems to think the accident of senatorial senior ity has given him an indisputable right lo play schoolmaster himself, but he is quite as mistaken as the President. Botli Mr.- Lodge and Mr. Wilson have forgotten that primarily they arc not in office to represent their own personal views. They arc there to represent the views of the people of this country. Those views today are unquestionably in favor of a speedy ratification of the treaty in the best form obtainable, and they should not placu obstacles in the way of an agreement as they arc now doing by their .stubborn punctilio. Eighty senators have shown by their votes that they are in favor of ratifying a treaty in a compromise form. Only sixty-four votes arc needed. It is ridicu lous that these eighty should let cither a false sense of fealty to their respective party leaders or a desire not to injure personal feelings interfere with their duty as free-thinking, responsible rep resentatives to use their own judgment in terminating the disgraceful deadlock. Already there are promising signs of something like this outcome. Mr. Under wood seems to have a better practical grasp of tho treaty situation than tho nominal leader of the Democrats, Mr. Hitchcock, who has been forced to play the marionette to tho White House strings; while Mr. McCumber on the Re publican side has shown a far greater in sight into truo statesmanship than Mr. Lodge and his few familiars of the for eign relations committee inner clique. Why do not the eighty pro-ratification senators get behind Mr. Underwood and Mr. McCumber respectively and settle the treaty as they wish and have tho power to do? Then tho sulkers would quickly cqme out of their tents and tho country could turn its attention lo the long neglected business of restoring peace. Philadelphia is not Signs of Progress the only place where faith in the nbility of the police to protect life and property is re ceivinB a M"vere jolt. A New York bank has erected a pillbox which commands the whole ground floor and where the riot guns of a watchman may bo ppked throush the rIUs whenever the hn'6-up men get huny. This shows us bov far we have advanced since the days when citizens went abroad with guns and kept a wary eye for Indians. Nobody is willing lo rasslng tho Buck take responsibility for having knifed the peace treaty and shot it all to pieces; and therein lies acknowledgment of its worth. And the fact that it still has a chance for life, after being patched up a little, Is evi dence of a good constitution and ctccllent blood circulation. -; Jienceionn no grauumo or a inow lork high school will receive a diploma until he Has urst maue a pieuge or loyalty to the United States. Tho regrettable feature is that circumstances should have made the rule necessary. It is generally conceded that there is possibility of an increase of freight rates when the railroads are turned over by the government to their owners. These rail birds have long billB. Sooner or later, now that the strike is over, differences between miners and op. erators will be readjusted. Discussion Is poraetimes windy, but; the winds blow away misunderstanding. The rest of the country appearing fairly well reconciled to the Supreme Court deci sion. Old Man Gloom took up his residence on Broadway. IIppc of even seven days grace has de parted from tho liquor interests. But, after all, one wet week would be but one weak wet. Every saloonkeeper In the land Is willing to agree witn uencrai Dncrman. Jack Frost ban charge of all the sea. -fcon.'ii sntiiig, John Barleycorn having re- ij " I MAYOR-ELECT MOORE'S LETTER Presidential Booms of Sproul and Palmer Promise Interesting Possi bilities In Pennsylvania Washington, Dec, 17. , TN DUD course presidential booms will be bursting In Pennsylvania. Talk of Gov ernor Sproul as a possibility, with tho In teresting suggestion (hnt If nominated he might bn opposed by his old schoolmate, A. Mitchell Piilmer, brhigs the Keystone Stuto into the political Bun. The General Wood boom Is already putting In an nppeurance, which may account for the activities of some other booms. The Wood boom cjmes along like the MeKInlcy boom did lu 18911. Mc Kinley agents left out Peuns.tlvanla without very much success. Senator Quay, the old political watch -dng of the state, was ou guard and finally announced hit candidacy, with a view of closing out all Intruders upon Pennsylvania soil. The MeKInlcy boom vi as based upon the prominence of MeKInlcy as a protectionist, which at that time strongly npjvculod to most Ponusyl vaniuns. The Quuy men endeavored lo beat It down from the local pride point of view mid th,cy succeeded iu interfering tosomc extent with a much heralded McKluley meet ing at the Academy ' of Music, at which Kcnnlor Thurston, of Nebraska, was the principal speaker. The McKlnleyites con tinued their agitation throivgh the activities nt the late Mark llanuu and proclaimed Judge Tliomns J. riu.tton as their first con vert. Senator David Martin, from the heart of tho Kensington district, where protection is a household word, was the first Philadel pliluu to fnll in line. Christopher Mugec and William Fllnn, of Pittsburgh, also helped to give MeKInlcy a standing in this tlutc. Delegute.s to the nuliouul convention hne not ,i,ct been agreed upou in Peuu sylvaoiii, but if they were now Known, it is safe to suy the Wood boomers would be knocking nt their doors. It Is the knowledgo that tin state is bclog politically' invaded that may hasten a declaration from one or more of the home talent, i pONUItESSMAN GEORGE P. DAR-'-' ROW'S membership on the naval af fairs committee helped along the efforts of his colleagues and of the Pennsylvania authorities in securing n schooWiip for tbo port of Philadelphia, Darrow, Moore and C!corge I Sproule. the new director of Wharves, Docks and Ferries, had this matter in baud, and evoked the aid of "Torn" llutlcr, the Pennsylvania chairman of the naval nITnirs committee. TJicy put the mut ter up btrongly to Secretary Daniels, who had lirst assigned n lessel which did not come up to the Philadelphia expectations. They then made u dead set to obtain the bark Annapolis, which had been temporarily as signed to California. Secretur.v Daniels and Admiral Coontz were appealed to in this matter and iiMtcd to put California to the test. Was the Coldcn State prepared to take over the ship uud use it ut once? The Califnrniauh were communicated with nnd it was ascertained that a sufficient appro priation had not been provided nud that more than a jcar would elapse before the stale would be ready lo meet the federal appropriation. "Iu that event," said the I'hiladelphians, "we are ready to proceed. Our slate has made the appropriation and vie arc ready for the ship right now." This urgument won, uud the Annapolis has been ordered to Philadelphia. The navy is short of meu and to furnish u crew to make the long trip round via the Panama canal would probably disorganize the force of some other ship. Therefore, it has been agreed to tow the Annapolis down the 1'aclllc ' coast to thu Punamu canal and up the Atlantic coast for delivery to the Pennsylvania authorities. IN A fit of economy some years ago when Tcucr was (Jovcrnor, Pennsylvania with drew its nautical schoolship appropriation. Through 111. activities of J. S. W. Holton, president of the Maritime Exchange, and members of the commissioners of naviga tion, the appropriation was rcucwed last year under Governor Sproul. The boys who want to study navigation and who can qualify will, therefore, Soon have a chance, subject to the ship's limitations. C STUART PATTERSON, president of the Western Saving Fund Society, will have iu Robert.!. Urunkcr, who has just been elected vice president, an assistant who has lieeu in harness filling almost every posi tion iu the company froj junior clerk up since 1881. Mr. Brunler started with the society when its assets were about ?5,000, 000, but has seen those assets grow until now, lfnder Mr. Patterson, they amount to over $48,000,000. The career of tho new vice president is something like that of Francis 11. Reeves, another prominent Gcrmantowucr, who began work as a clerk in tho Glrard Bank and worked bis way up until he became president. MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN presides over a meeting withthc dignity of a veteran. Her many activities, particularly in the matter Of the Emergency Aid of Pennsyl vania, have given her an case and grace in tho chair which many of our fellow citizens might accept as an example. Mrs. Martin has some right to take a hand in our civic discussions,' since her father bad so much to do with the consolidation of the city of Philadelphia after the old district system had worn out the patience of the people. ADMIRAL CLARK, the bcro of the Oregon, which made the long trip around the Horn to reach the Atlantic ocpnn in time for service in the war with Spain, is tho father-in-law of Admiral Hughes, the com mandant at League Island Navy Yard. The admiral, who was better known in Philadelphia as Captain Clark during the peace jubilee period, has many friends in this city. When he comes over, which he often does, League Island naturally, has first placo in his affections. T71X-SENATOR DAVID BAIRD, of Cam- C den, is feeling good over the selection of Richard Coljlngs, of Colllngswood, N. J,, as vice president of the Delawaro River Bridge Commission. Mr. Colllngs belongs to the old Jersey family which has helped make Camden a thriving suburb of Phila delphia. Mauy people remember when Ed ward C. Knight, the sugar refiner, had his home in that vicinity. Vice President Col lings has a little speech something like Mayor Ellis's favorite about the ig things Camden is doing. He knows the factories and tho shipyards by heart. FORMER Congressman Joseph E. Thropp, who has large furnaces "In the western part of the state, Is also a Philadelphia1 tax payer. Ho was educated in this city, graduating from college here. Mr. Thropp knows enough about the -city, therefore, to advance some Ideas with respect to Us development. He thinks we should have an art gallery at once, that the Parkway should bo completed, and that a little moro arcadl' log might be done like that on Fifteenth street, between Market and South Penn squarp. , But it Is oh a shipper that Mr, Thropp Ik also Interested. lie believes 'our jrjrt facilities rupablo of g(tt.advsnceBiWK - J4 HAMW.MOOJtB. " , n U ' Jyt- ,' ' - v. ... ,P . ';lS:L"i"-WC-iir av f f .JHM)' r-rtf(i.r-S-"Vj.V;"i THE CHAFFING DISH . LIKE our favorite burllcuo theatre, the Dish gives a matinee every week-day; and 10,000 ladies attend without a per ceptible blush. We Were Better Men Than You Were, Gunga Din (In answer to the Grease-Hound) THE mademoiselles of Clermont, They did not weep nor sigh When the (non) Jighting Ninety-seventh Went flying Home on high. I Know, for I teas there that day, Heady to kiss their tears away. THE mademoiselles of Clermont Had quite the proper bunch ; Tbey much preferred a poet To a Grease-Hound of Gravanches. This elemental fact I know; The girls themselves have told me so. WILL LOU. Speaking of those mademoiselles, tbey were all right. Only tho other day one of them sent me a beautiful pink silk thingumbob (the use of which I have not yet discovered), and all I bad lo do to get it was pay $1.75 duty on it, WILL LOU. And speaking of dinners reminds me of those well-worn lines that run something like this: So many fetes, so many feeds, So many calls for public hash ; When what a feller really needs Is beaucoup cash, is beaucoup cash 1 WILL LOU. Sometimes we rub our eyes when we see how glibly humanity talks of the possibili ties of future wars. Have the filth, the weariness, the anguish, the thwarting of every human impulse that is worth while have all these been forgotten already? We have a horrid suspicion that thero are a lot of folks about growing up with the idea that it was all just too One for anytblng. It is said that the finest compliment a widower can pay lo his deceased wlfo is to marry agaiu. And perhaps tbo finest compliment hu manity can pay to" war la lo contemplate more of them. Maybo people really enjoy wars? A Generous Offer ( (In reply to "Lieut.") DEAR Lieut.: I've read with interest keen Your letter most pathetic, Concerning nita's raven hair, And Ann tbe Energetic. IF MODESTY did not forbid (In my more solemn moods), I might discuss as well as Ann Life's grave vicissitudes. T'LL vie with Rita's vampisb ways, A Though it must here be said: I cannot match her midnight hair, For mine, alas, is (Well, auburn!) a YOUR problem's not so hard to solve, And were I got so sby, I'd say tbe answer that you seek, Maybe, perhaps, its (No, can't say ill) PEGGY. We have an idea that the reason Peggy found it impossible to say was not shyness, but because it should have been "me" and not "I." M. V, N. S. sends us a nice chatty letter, duly franked with a Red Cross seal, in which she asks how many of Mr. McFce's writings are required for good standing In the Dish. We reply, two: "Casuals of the Sea" and "Aliens. iui me most exciting leaiure or M. V. N. S.'s letter is that she says she is a former cHeot of Susannah Cocroft. We oursclf, as a perfect 30, welcome ber to tbe Inner circle, ' ' Miss Margaret Has the Floor Mr. Wlttef Bynner states that he recently jecelvjMJ f,r -, WWW, t"W. '0r ANYHOW, THEY'RE BITING . chief need is for short sonnets." I do not know tho editor's name, but here's to him: .A poet should be studious to please; Ho here to you, unknown, I'dtdicate The novelty that you have asked of late, A sonnet to bo read with joyful case, JS'Aont of half its terrors. What's its fatet Perhaps you'd like nine lines in groups of , threes t I'd like to make it' strictly up to date. MARGARET WENTWORTH. Tbe above reminds us of tho only-published poem, so far as wc fire aware, of our friend Russell Lolncs. Ho wrote '.t 'way back about '9-1, when he was an undcrgrad at Columbia, I uuu it runs souieiuiug hug uiia . On a Magazine Sonnet Scorn not the sonnet, though its strength be sapped, Nor deem malignant its Inventor blun dered : The corpse that here in fourteen lines is wrapped Had else been buried In a hundred. We have been reading "The Voyage of a Vice Chunccllor," In which Dr. Arthur Shipley, the vice chancellor of Cambridge University, describes bis adventures on tlu trip of tho British universities mission to this country last year. In this we find: October 10, 1018: Motored to the studio of T:dt MacKenzle, whosa sculptures go from strength to strength, lie Is modelling' a group of men going over the top, tho finest war memorial I have yet seen. Doctor MacKenzle Is a modest man and be will probably scowl at us for this, but we can't resist sayiug that his recent medallion of SValt Whitman Js the finest thing ever done of that rugged old pagan, and a copy of jt makes the best Christmas present we know for tbe few Philadelpblans who really care about the fine and original work that is being done in this city. A committee has bad some copies of the medal struck off, and the proceeds of the sale aro to bo used for some kind of memorial to Walt. What Doctor Shipley says about Tait MacKenzle is wholly true, but we wish the learned doctor bad been more careful in some other portions of his book. Nothing leads one to a moro complete diffidence in human accuracy than the comments on American life made by our English friends on their hustling, visits to this more leisurely land. Doctor Shipley, for instance, says: A class is a very important factor In American university life. If' you mention you are a graduate In one of their Institu tions you are at once asked, "What class?" and the class dates from tlio year when you enter' college. . How that ever got by tbe 'proofreader of tbo American publisher is beyond us, Tbe oldest joke in Anglo-Saxon circles is leveled at tho American traveler who dasbes around England, spending three hours In Ox ford and Cambridge, an hour at Stratford and Chester and a day in London, but our EuglUb pals do tbe same over here, and then in addition the? write n book about it. We have had the privilege of saying this to Mr. Galsworthy, Philip Glbbs, Hugh Wal pole and others, and 'Mr. Walpole has gone so far as to say that ho will be careful not to bavo his book about America published in this country. . Tbe truth of the matter really is that tbo English are the real hustlers. Wo over hero arc far jmoro penslvo and dilatory In our ways. Tbe old fetish of American speed has done us a lot of harm. Tbe Eng lishman conies over here imagining that-if be doesn't fly about furlousljr he will be deemed a dead one. As a ma'ttcr of fact, wo would like to have him spend a little more time with us, sit down quietly and see tbe things that are, worth whllo and talk them over. This is an old, old country, and it doesn't like to be hurried too much. Think, for. instance, of tho peace treatj . , . SOCRATES. That "planetary pull" was like many a political pull: It existed solely In tbo im agination. i Mne aiicgcu, (supremo uviuri , leait" sg J.i4MM. I'wmv'UM'ma: tWwt H . . ''V&'&r ' ' . if fw imifw, ' r V LAZY MAN'S SONG T HAVE got patronage, but am too laiy- lo use it; I have got land, but am too lazy to farm it. "My house leaks ; I am too laiy to mend it, My clothes arc torn ; I am too lazy to darn them. , I have got wine, but am too lazy to drink ; So It's just tho same as if my cellar was empty. I have got a harp, but am too lazy to play : So it's jusf the same as if it bad no strings. My Vife tells me there is no more bread in, the bouse; ' I want to bake, but am too lasy to grind. My friends and relatives write me long letters ; I should like to read them, but thoy've such a bother to open. I have always been told that Chi Shu -y eh .Passed his whole life in absolute Idleness. But bo played the harp and sometimes trans muted metals, So even he was not so lazy as I. Po Chu-1, A. D.-811. Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley. A decision, of local druggists denies John Barleycorn a chance to soothe his battered I nerves with a dose of paregoric. It now appears that Uncle Sam has a constitutional objection ito strong liquor. Those who prophesy the end of tho world will never have a chanco to say "1 told you so." Wlial Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What Turk of war notoriety baa just been crowned a king? 2. Who was Gil Bias? 3. What is -the meaning of the musical term "moll"? "us.w, 4. What Democrat, formerly in the dlplo. matic service, has entered the race fo the presidency? C. Distinguish between Socrates and Isoe rates. 6. Why is a sailor called a tar? 7. What is tbe meaning of the word chlnta, and from what language is it de rived?, , 8. Who is Luis Cabrera? 9. When was Christmas -Day "celebrated oa January 0? -v 10. What is the characteristic of dry winpl Answers to Yesterday's .Quiz , 1. Gabrlele D'Annunzio is fifty-five ears old. 2. Port Darwin Is a harbor, in the northern territory of 'Australia.' "Captain itoss Smith, winner of the airplane race from London to Australia, recently landed there. 3. Samuel Pepys, tbe great diarist, ?ru born in 1633 and died in 1703. 4. Belladonna is derived from the deadly nightshade. 5. Christmas waits are bands of persons singing carols, etc., on Christmas. The word Is derived from tbe old, French, "waite," a sentinel. 0. Paddy is rice in the straw or in. the husk. 7. The Locofocos composed the equal rights or radical section of the Demo , cratic party about 1835, The name was given in allusion to an Incident at a stormy meeting of Democrats in Tammany' Hall in 1835, when the rad ical faction, after their opponents had turned off the gas, rciighted the room with candles by the eld of luclfer or "locofoco" matches. The matches 'were so-called from the Latin, "loco foci," in lieu of fire. 8. Sir Lucius O'Trlgger is a swashbuckling; Irish duelist in Sheridan's comedrf "The Rivals." 0, The planctMars has a reddish appM nnce, 10,"wat Trcf?n,'ws' soUd.. 'mmA ' -WtBRr.' m i kr '4a .amm . ' .U m u A I I , 1 Vi J ,'IB W m ai i VI J I tf r V. '"'I; ' r 'Ml t !,
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