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INFORMATION FOR BAIZLEY
pOUNCILMAN BAIZLEY, moved by
something said in these columiiabout
the S.'IOOO d'nner for which h" wants to
r.nn.1 Mnl-il'. rvi. 11.-. ilonmnrlMfi rt :i meet-
inpr yesterday to be told who I'elshuzzar '
was.
Bclshazzar, Mr. Baizley, was called a
king. In reality he was a boss. He
didn't behave. So his kingdom was di
vided between opposing factions.
That is what always happens to bosses
who don't behave.
SUBSIDIZED JOY-RIDERS
TO RIDE in an automobile is pleasant.
To joy-ride in an automobile without
having to think of the cost of tires, gas
oline, wear and tear or the staggering
tolls of imperialistic garage men must
be heavenly.
This is the celestial diversion known
only to the elect of the various city de
partments and bureaus who are accus
tomed to flit about at week ends and in
their Idle hours in municipal cars behind
mun'cipal chauffeurs. Of course, the sug
gestion of a city garage with a checking
system to restrict this ancient abuse is
wise. And you may have observed that
it is wise foil: who are always taking
the joy out of life.
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
LOOK in for a minute at any railway
stati'i) and it appears that all the
world is going, or coming, home for
Christmas. For the time being nobody
fares how the railroad!) on-which they
travel aie administered so long as trains
move on time and with adequate speed
toward places and people that, during the
rest of the year, are little more than a
warm memory. Pconlo who crowd at the
ticket windows in Broad Street Station
aren't thinking of the Cummins bill.
Their cars ache for the sound of bells
drifting far over tranquil fields whore
the snow still lies heavily. They are
off to find doorways lit for them in far
places and the trust and gentleness and
the sense of surety that is somewhere in
the world for every one. So it is every
year at Christmas. There is a lucid
Interval in which people become them
sel cs again. All the obligations and
promises of the season are of the heart.
Congress, too, is going home for
Christmas. Mr. Lodge is going. Mr.
Reed is going. Even Senator Fall is
on hia way and ho isn't asking us to
let the blood run in Mexico. It is inter
est inn to think of them all, down from
the clouds, mingling in the rational and
friendly crowds upon the common earth
that is so intensely eager to be decent,
generous and at peace. In the Senate,
just before adjournment, there was a mo
ment when it seemed that Mr. Under
wood had inspired the members with a
reference to the season and its meaning
and purposes. But the mood passed.
It is only possible to hope, now, that
Christmas trains out of Washington may
net go too fast. The senators may learn
much from the other passengers if they
will look and listen.
RENAISSANCE OF BILL
MR. BRYAN is credited with an ambi
tion again to dominate the affairs of
the Lemocratic party and to direct it
nniid the shoal.-; of 1020.
What, let us ask, has infected Mr.
Bryan with a desire to give aid and com
fort to the Republican party?
GASKILL'S ANTICLIMAX
rpHE first test of Proseeutor Gaskill's
- cast? against Charles F. White and
Mrs. Edith Jones, of Haminonton, who
were jailed for alleged complicity in the
murder of little Billy Dansey, came yes
terday before Judge, C. C. Black of the
Supreme Court of New Jersey. Both
prisoners were released untler bonds.
The sum of the bail, 57500 for White
and $2500 for Mrs. Jones, doesn't indi
cate that the detectives were able to
fully sustain in court the charges orig
inally made. The public may wonder
whether a group of over-zealous detectives
have blundered tragically again, as detec
tives have often blundered before.
DEMOCRATS HOLD THEIR OWN
ATTEMPTS to find a moral in the by
rlecti'ii in the Ninth congressional
district of North Carolina are not very
successful.
The district polls a Democratic major
ity varying from "J500 to 4000 at the
regular elections. The Democratic can
didate was chesen tho other day by n
majority of about 1C00, which is about
aa much as could le expected at a special
election.
The Republican candidate ran on a
platform of opposition to the league of
nations. The Democratic candidate ran
on a platform of opposition to the oft
iliscussed Republican proposition lo cut
iwu me rvpre&ciiiuviuii vx. uc puum u
. li.f - 4.1 C.,U in
Congress on account of the disfranchise
ment of the negro voters. It would be
easy to say that opposition to the league
of nations was condemned, and it would
be equally easy to conclude Hint tho
present apportionment of congressmen
to the southern states was indorsed.
But the truth is that a Democratic dis
trict remained Democratic. If there is
anything more than that in the result
it does not appear.
HOW CAN WE LET GO OF THE
MAD BULL OF PATERNALISM?
This la the Bin Question Before Congress
In Dealing With the War Control of
Railroads and Otner Things
pONGRESS has adjourned for the holi--'
day season without providing for the
return of the railroads to their owners.
The Senate lias passed the Cummins bill,
which arranges for one plnn of regula
tion of tho roads under their resumed
ptivate control, nnd the House has passed
the Esch bill, containing a different plan.
Each bill makes some attempt to reim
burse the railrcads for the losses which
they have sustained under government
operation. Unless suitable financial pro
visions are made in the bill finally passed,
many of the roads which were solvent
when the government took them over
will go into the hands of receivers.
Yet labor oiganizations and organiza
tions of farmers are asking the govern
ment to lo'itiuue to operate the roads for
two moiv yeais in or'.er that the experi
ment of government opemtioii may have I
a fair tttt,
The rest of us believe that it has had
a fair test and that it has failed. With
supreme control over wages and freight
and passenger rates the general director
of railroads has accumulated a stag
gering deficit. The service given to the
public has deteriorated and no one who
usc3 the roads is satisfied. Trains have
been put on and taken off without ap
parent regard to the demands of the
traffic. All this has happened because
no one has been lesponsible for earning
dividends.
Paternalism in tiansuoitation has pro
duced the kind of results which it always
produces.
We are experiencing similar lesults
from a paternalistic policy in dealing
with sugar and coal.
We cannot get cpal when we need it.
We cannot get sugar for our food and
we have to stand in the overcrowded
trains, not only those used by commuters,
but those which ply between this city
and New York.
We got into this me.s because of the
war. Things had to be done and had to
be do"e quickly and the government look
the short cut, without serious thought
of the consequences. Indeed, it is doubt
ful if it had considered the consequences
whether it would have done differently.
When a nation is at war everything must
bo subordinated to military necessity.
But the government today is like the
man in the pasture who caught a mad
bull by the tail and is afraid to let go
for fear of the consequences.
But without any metaphors, paternal
ism is a mad bull. The whole busi
ness of the country is in dread of what
it will do next.
... .. .
Precedents have been set which arc
likely to curse us for a long time in tho
future. We have fixed the prices for coal
nnd wheat and sugar. The grangers two
years ago began to discuss the wisdom
of continuing the policy in time of peace,
so far as it applied to the products of
the farms. For years they and the cot
ton planters have wanted tho govern
ment to valorize their crops in order to
remove all risks frorti farming and cot
ton planting and to insure to the plant
ers and the farmers a definite return.
Now the railroad owners are asking the
government lo guarantee to them such a
return on the value of their property as
will give them a good profit. And there
arc people who think fio loosely that
the" are unable to sec the difference.
The railroad is a public highway
operated by private capital under gov
ernment regulation as' lo rates charged.
This is necessary' because there must be
uniformity of rate for the same service
and because the railroads must bo open
lo all on the same conditions. There is
an obligation on the part of the gov
ernment to protect the money invested
in railroads in order that these highways
may be maiiitainci. at the highest rate
of efficiency.
But the government in normal times
has absolutely nothing to do with the
regulation or control of farming or
planting. The prices for farm products
arc fixed by tho operation of the good,
old-fashioned law of supply nnd demand.
When the supply is plentiful the price is
low and when the supply is short tho
price is high. Tho farmer is rewarded
for his industry, efficiency and foresight
in the same way as the manufacturer is
rewarded.
The government cannot go into the
business of regulating prices save on
those things supplied by public service
corporations without producing endless
complications. The first development of
such a policy would be a widespread in
sistence that there should be a limit to
profits, or to the rewards now open to
men of courage and initiative who are
willing to risk their capital on the chance
of reaping large returns. There are
those, we know, who insist that it is n
moral crime for a man to do more than a
certain amount of business. Mr. Brynn
a few years ago was insisting that it was
impossible to accumulate a fortune of
$1,000,000 without dishonesty, and he was
saying at the same time that $5000 a
year was income big enough for any one.
America has been transformed from a
virgin wilderness to the richest country
on the globe because men were willing to
invest heavily and wait for their profits
tocome out of the development of re
sources which they had tapped. The
thing which happened fifty years ago -is
going on now. The only difference is
that men are investing fn different kinds
of enterprises. They are not building
railroads nor are they laying out town
sites, but thov arc putting their money
into automobile manufacture, into chemi
cal industries, Into tho production of
electricity and into scores of other en-
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
tcrpn'ses which may' or may not prove
profitable. They take the risk and they
believe that they aro entitled to the re
wards. They do not ask the government
to protect them from the consequences
of their folly if they, make mistakes. They
are opposed to laws intended to pre
vent n fool from being a fool, because
they know that such a thing is impossi
ble. They know that if a man goes twice
to the store which sold him a shoddy
garment at a high price no lnw will
prevent that man from going to tho store
a third time if he has not sense enough
to stay away. They know that fools will
continue to expect something for nothing I
no matter what statute may be passed
declaring' that it is a misdemeanor to
invest in ruinbows. And they know, too,
that the surest wuy to eliminate fools is
to permit them to be destroyed by their
own lack of sense.
The sooner we enn return to the in
dustrial conditions before the war when
the government was keeping its hands
off business nnd allowing the fundamental
economic principles to work themselves
out the better it will be for the whole
country.
THE RED ARK
TT WILL seem to some people that the
government condescended too greatly
in its attentions to the deported plotters
and anarchists who, let us fondly hope,
are by this time thoroughly seasick on
the mystery ship that is taking them
to Rus-iiu. An ideally managed exit of
'heso turbulent folk would have been
quieter, less dramatic, less stately.
Propei lv, they should have been made
to pay their own passage and firmly
urged aboard the first ship that hap
pened to be handy without any of the
heavy formality suggestive of secrecy,
which, as it happened, permitted Miss
Goldman and her associates to nssume,
temporarily, an altogether spurious air
of martyrdom. The red ark's passen
gers were a nuisance and nothing more.
A ponderous movement of governmental
machinery is not necessary to dispose of
nuisances.
The end of the matter is not et. Odd
and unexpected developments may follow
the arrival of the good ship Buford at
her destination. For Miss Goldman,
Bcrkman and tho majority of the de
ported group will be no more at home in
Russia, and perhaps no more welcome,
than they were in the United States. As
anarchists they nre avowed enemies of
ill government. Contrary to a general
notion, there is no svmnathv between an
' ...
anarchist and a Bolshevist, and there are
vast differences in the beliefs and the
ories of the two. In Russia at this mo
ment the anarchists arc the relentless
enemies of the Soviets, which they deem
not half wild enough. They are pretty
roundly hated by the leaders of bolshev
ism. The men who aro running things
in Russia nowadays arc not patient with
their enemies. This fact may explain
some of Miss Goldman's tears and the
noisier of Berkman's curses.
The riskiest thing any one in Russia
may do is to oppose the Soviets. Critics
aren't wanted in Bolsheviki-land. Whips,
dungeons and firing squads await those
who would criticize bolshevism half as
freely as Emma Goldman used to criticize
the democratic form of government and
our method of administrating it. So it
appears that the Reds who went out on
the Buford will know freedom the next
time they see it if they ever do.
TIip Vouns Lady Nft
Door Hut Ono. sn.vs slip
suppo-pi prohibition is
Itnslflii
Please Note.
all riKli t m its way.
lutf it is pushins the idea ton far to make
the battleship Virsinia so into a drydoik.
Twenty - four million
TaltC Your Choice dollars' worth of whis-
ky is iiiovinc toward
tin- seaboard for shipment abroad. Must of
51. it is said, will ro to (iprmnnj. li 'this
consolation or punWniiPiit?
'"Every time jou feel
Cinod Ail vice inclined to buy dan-
gerous toys for your
children."' says Director Kruscn, in effect,
"buy harmless ones for unfortunate chil
dren in hospitals and eliaritable institu
tions." Scientists nre excited
Pull Negligible. over the alleged ilis-
covery of a new planet.
We don't know its exact distance from the
earth, but it is probably too far away to
affect the high cost of living.
When it comes to re
form in politics one
Martin does not make
Itirrl Note
a conclusive summary.
Tlip sugar situation is admittedly com
plex, nnd not the least complex of its fen
lures is that the stuff is bard to gel at the
grocer's but easy to get when it is turned
into candy.
Judging by the preparations being mnde
by the Navy Department for his capture,
the business of being a whisky smuggler is
going to be an exciting one.
Is there any particular significance in
the fact that April I has been spoken of ns
the day on which the railroads are to be re
turned to their owners'.'
Nobody knows yet in whose stocking
Pitntn AVoodrow Clans is going to put tlio
railroads.
At the present price of stockings Santa
Olaus begins to wonder if ho. dare lo put
them to the usunl Christinas strain.
Santa Clans having finished his shop,
ping has gone into the liousc-dccornting
hiisiuesH.
The league of nations simply cannot be
cut out of the peace treaty. It would have
to be picked out from the web and woof.
II. C. of L. is a fairy godmother com
pared to the famine that stalks in boine parts
of Europe. -
Noah had nothing on Captain G. A.
Hitchcock in the matter of "queer ani
lnllcs." r.odgc is ering "Peace! Pence!" when
there can be no pence.
Hopes for n while Christmas are still
high.
Sunday was moving day for the Reds.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER. 28,
'NAILS LIE AGAINST STATE
Major Murdock Proves Pennsylva
nlans Were as Physically Fit as
Men Elsewhere In the
Country
Hy (ilCOUOi: NOX McOAIN
MAJOR W. (i. MUUDOOIC, who was
state drnfl executive for the United
States army during the war, has done a real
service to the stale, He has set the com
monwealth right before tho country and has
clumped the lid down tight on certain inngn
zinlsts nnil careless statistical sharps.
There is a class of pseudo-investigators
and alleged publicists who hnve. been Hulk
ing capital out o C the alleged fact that Penn
sylvania hail one of the highest averages iu
the I'lilon for men rejected for war service
beenue of physical and mental defects.
Flatly it was a rellection on the manhood
of the state. Hut it isn't true.
Major Murdock clears it all up in the
statement a brave one to make under tflc
circumstances that some one has blundered.
He doesn't say it wus at Washington, hut
j on can thaw your own inferences.
rpllE first report of the selective system
-L published by Washington, back in Decem
ber, 1II17, contains, as Major Murdock points
out. a statement showing that the average
ratio for the United States of the physically
unlit lo the totnl number of registrants was
-0.11 to every hundred. The ratio of Penn
sylvania was, according to this, -10.07 per
cunt. "
According to Ihese llguies nearly one
half of tlie Pennsylvania men examined were
unlit for service.
"If thcnc figures were correct," said
Major Murdoch, "then there certainly
would be cause for alarm."
Hut they were glaringly Incorrect.
The same repoit shows by a careful tabu
lation of tho figures in detail, by every draft
board in the state, that the percentage of
men unlit for service, and thus rejected, was
only -8. 5,"i, which is less than the average
for the entire country.
And this percentage would have been
considerably less had it not been for faulty
regulations which in the beginning were
neither clear nor, complete.
The largest class of Pennsylvania men re
jected for obvious defects was because of
deficient vision.
Another large class of cases was for flat
feet, due to u fuihue, for a long time, to
ditlnKtiili between occupational and heredi
tary flat licet. This caused many rejections
of men who could do hard manual labor nnd
who were undoubtedly qualified for military
service.
THE new prohibition enforcement officer
for the state, ex -Senator William .Wayne
Uiudman, is, at least by family tradition and
ancestry, peevlinrly fitted for the office.
lie is a native of Clarion county, where
his father was n leading member of the bar
and a prominent figure in Democratic poli
tics for years prior to his death about four
years ago.
His mother was Miss Margaret Shallen
berger, a member of an old Westmoreland
county family that removed to Clarion
county about 1770.
The head of the famil.v was Lloyd Shiil
lenberger, a consistent churchman and a
temperance lender in his community.
Ex-Senator Hindiuan is a member of the
younger and dominant element in Demo
cratic state politics, the Palmer-McCormick
faction. He wns until 11)18 state senator
from the Twenty-sixth district.
He will bring to his new duties not only
political experience but a high degree of in
telligence and ability. He is a graduate of
Princeton.
PROHIBITION dodging stories aYc apropos
now an the edge of the desert daily
draws nearer. Charlie Howell, of Pitts
burgh, tells the latest.
A widely known and wealthy iron manu
facturer out there, who objected to trailing
over the hot sands of the future without
something wherewith to brighten the hegira
and moisten his clay, commandeered by the
plentiful use of corn a tidy stock of red
liquor. He didn't trust bonded warehouses,
so he stored it in his cellar.
One night recently a uniformed police
man nnd a plain clothes man called at his
home and bluntly inquired if he had any
whisky stored about his house. Knowing
he wns safe as to the law he replied in the
affirmative.
"About how much have you?" the de
tective asked.
"Well, if you must know, I've got ten
barrels."
"May we sec it?"
"Certainly," and the manufacturer led
the way lo the lower regions in' person.
The policeman nonchalantly .paraded
along in front of the array of barrels, tap
ping ouch one lightly with his club. They
were all empty save one, which had a spigot
in it and from which immediate supplies
were drawn.
"Just as I thought," said the cop.
"We've been after a couple of negroes for
two months who've been 'bootlegging'
around town. We g,nt 'cm last night.
They've been peddling some mighty good
liquor fairly cheap and we wondered where
they got it. One of them .says he's your
chauffeur. I sec now where it comes from."
"Better lock up your next supply,"
sapiently remarked the plaiu clothes man as
the pair departed.
At present quotations the iron manufac
turer is out about $iri,000.
ARTHUR It. H MORROW, secretary to
Councils' finance committee, is one of
three men who, possibly, know more about
the city's appropriations than any others
in Philadelphia. The other two are Joseph
P. (iaffney, chnirnmn of the finance com
mittee, nnd Controller Walton.
It wns Mr. Morrow who handled the
Mulls of the budget which forms the finan
cial program for the coming year and the
new charier administration.
It is only by going carefully over the
items of the budget that one gets an idea
of the odd ways in which the city spends
its money and the odd people that it
employs.
Thus there is appropriated, without
detailing the departments, $S00 for the
chemical analysis of bodies, and $1 5,01)0
for miiblc for afternoon and livening con
certs: $6000 for meats, groceries and mar
keting for the municipal court; $.1000 to
celebrate the Fourth of July and $1)7,-0 for
Memorial Day.
Then there is n tide-observer who gets
$1000 per annum, nnd $10,000 is for piano
plajers and swimming tenehers; $S(( p, a
shoemaker and $1000 to a collector ,,f bio
logical specimens. There is $t!(!0 for a
barber and $t).'0 to an expert masseuse, to
say nothing of a city diiir.vnian ut $(i(lo ami
a technician nt S1000. A plumber there Hr
Kc7cral at $1200, and an entomologist
tlu-y call it a "bugologlst" at Hurrisburg
at $1000.
For removing ashes from City Hall
$,-000, and n bandmoster at $S00. A.
drillmaster at $1000 and n sheetiron worker
at $lt00; $0000 is for vaccine virus and
the list ends with an expert pole climber
at SI, SO per dnj.
All of these Hems, and thousands more,
come under the expert statistical hand of
Arthur Morrow.
lie's a sort of tlatistlcal wguder.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
First Snow
IN autumn fields lone graves uiinoticed lie,
Hid in the stubble, lost in withered
grass ;
While dark, sun-loving swallows southward
fly,
And flowers fade and summer glories pass.
They lie unseen, until the drifting snow
Marks out the hills nbove the barren
ground,
And says to every passing stranger, "Know,
A man like tlicc lies buried 'neath this
mound." ,
SO lay my dead, forgotten, till first snow
Awoke far memories of long ago
Thanksgiviugs, New Years. Chr'ntmas days
With pleasures innocent and simple ways;
And then my quiet dead returned to bless
Me, wandering in the lonely wilderness.
WILL LOU.
Synthetic Poem
Dove Dulcet.
With Walt Whitman- in mind,
Intends to say
On his deathbed :
"T regard my, poems as
My carle dc visile
To posterity."
Tt is sad to have to add
That posterity will reply
"Not at home."
H. C. L. Couplets
(ftympathising Willi -If. V. A'.'NJ
On vile profiteers we would falu vent our
spleen
When, au lieu tlu beurrc, we must use
butterine!
Ynrnall Abbott tells us of a singular in
stance or perversity nu the part of the law
yers. They are going to have some sort or
convention' i" Chicago, and are not going
to stay at the Blackstone.
Carol
THRUM'S a smile on lips a-gleaming,
There's a light in every eye,
And the angels smile upon us,
Peeping from the smiling sky.
For. 'tis hearts He's come a-seeking.
Hearts in grief that still arc gay:
God's own mirth be in your laughter-
Christ is come 'tis Christmas Day!
HM IS come again to Bethlehem,
To His Own. as distant, cold,
As the lowly little manger
On .ludean hills of old.
Itut 'tis hearts He's come n-seekiug.
Hearts in grief that still are gay,
find's own mirth be in your laughter .
Christ is come 'tis Christmas Day!
WHAT have ou to offer, grniidsire,
With your silver years bent down?
And your gift. oh. brown-eyed maiden,
Half-way on to Woinnn-town?
It is henrts He',come n-seeking.
Hearts in grief that still are gay:
God's own mirth be in your laughter
Christ is come 'tis Christmas Day!
CHRISTMAS DAY, on earth. In Heaven!
In your henrts that Babe must sleep
Angel-silenced all your passions,
ui.nniiopilpit vour truant sheep,
For 'tis hearts He's come a-seeklng.
Hearts In grief that still are gay:
God's own mirth he in your laughter
Give vour hearts 'tis Christinas Day!
1 J SISTER MARY DONATUS.
John Drinkwnter's "Abraham Lincoln" is
nu interesting play, but we do not quite
understand why Mr. Driukwater is so hard
on Seward. For instance:
LINCOLN: "There's a tide in the affairs
of men " Do you read Shake
tqienre, KennrdV
SMWAJtD: Shakespeare? No,
LINCOLN: Ah!
Wc uubiuit that Mr. Seward, as a college
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man and a distinguished Inwycr, could hardly
have escaped some Shakespeare.
Desk Mottoes
The art of art, flic glory of expression and
the sunshine of the light of letters, is
simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN.
The .Park In Winter
The river is n sheet of goldr
A river in a dream cony true;
The gray rocks gleam in icy mail
t Against a sky of winter blue.
The long chill roadway winds nnd winds,
Like life, when each day is the same:
Hut still there burns the sunset sky
And onward flows the stream of flame!
i D. P. AY.
Altars
T71VMRYWHKUK arc altars.
-- You may see them rise
In the places where men find
Stones of sacrifice.
T3UILT of fragile things like friends,
-D Reared so tenderly.
Broken by the winds nnd cold
Into tnncsty.
T YING open to the bky
-' Where they once have glowed ;
Some mail lingered ere he turned
Off another road.
HUItK ambition built too high,
There love built too low".
Wc find nllars everywhere
On the roads we go.
RMATRIOn WASHBURN.
Confessions of a Ghost
If seems my duty to report to the Society
for Physical Itcieacch the very curious ex
perience I had the other evening, especially
as it 'casts a great deal of light on the
question ul communication with human
beings.
I was drifling about in my usual cheerful
fashion, not thinking about nnvthing in
particular, when I suddenly became nwnre
of a sinking sensation, a feeling of great de
pression and dread. Hoping lo brace myself
up. I took two or three twirls nlong the
Milky Way. and skimmed nlong severnl of
the astral planes. But still I had this horrid
feeling of being haunted, pursued bv some
palpable and tangible body. Then I saw it.
Can you conceive my alarm? Disbelieve
me if you will, but it was a solid and per
sonal being, habited in clothing and with
all the gruesome appearance of humnn
reality. I approached, timidly, and, hoping
to reassure myself, attempted to pass
through if in the usual way. Horrible! It.
was solid, and resisted my movement. It
seemed to he iu great distress and repentedly
plucked from a slit in its garments n small,
round, gleaming object, apparently inechnn-
ical iu its nalure, lo wuieli it seemed to at
tach great importance. T heard it speak.
It said, "Great guns, I shall miss the 5:1S
train." It was obviously uneasy, and I tried
to reassure it ; but my alarm was so great
Unit I am afraid I had no success. Then
it faded away and left me shuddering.
ft would he impossible for )ne to tell in
full the unpleasant and unnatural effect this
apparition hud on me. In every respect it
was romplelely human, nnd for my own part
I have not the slightest doubt that.it was a
man, and that he was endeavoring to com
municate with me in some crisis of his
mortal life. The emotion I experienced was
not so much one of alarm as that of com.
pletc and shuddering strangeness. The crea
ture was si) weirdly and tangibly human, so
evidently living, that I felt the strongest
impiilso of nausea. No longer, I think, can
anv skeptical spirit deny tho actunllly of
life before the grave. SOCRATMS.
We venture llii' guess that the Reds
are having a bel'lcr time on the llufunKunn
I hey will liuve when they laud in their home
country, j,.
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LAUNCHING THE BABY
THKRB was a man,
And all his life he worked
In a shipyard.
And he got married
And in due time
A baby was born.''
Tho man felt very
Happy for a while,
When suddenly
He changed,
For the christening
Of the baby
Was approaching.
And the man seemed
Nervous; ho couldn't sleep o'nights
And he told his wife
That he was sure the Minister
Would hurt the Baby
When he hit it
With the Bottle.
-Tom Fox, ironworker of Robins Drydock
and Repair Co., in the Southern Marin
Journal.
The fact that bandits can go into a
local club and rob n score of members 61
$22,000 predicates equal parts of nerve,
mendacity nnd prosperity.
A boosted attendance of 200 at a local
Bible class when sugar was given away
suggests a desire f for sweetness rather than
for light.
Judging from attacks and counter-at-s
it would appear to be a poison "pen."
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. How long docs it take a vessel to pass
through the Panama Canal?
2. Who is tho primate of all Ireland? Mta
ii. How mntiy seats aro there in the'
Senate?
I. What state has "Eureka" for its molfo?'
5. In what country will the reds, now
being deported to Europe on the Bu
ford, bo landed?
0. Name two of the most eminent British
exponents of spiritualism.
7. From what year did the Romans number
their years?
S. Where is the Tngus river?
0. What is a loggia?
10. What musical instrument is named
after a goose?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Captain Sir John Alcoek, who made, the
first nonstop flight across the '
Atlantic, died recently.
2. Under the pence treaty Danzig is to be
a free city under League protection.
3. Chalcedony is precious stone of quartz
, kind with many varieties, as agate,
cornelian, chrysoprasc.
1, Dulelnea wns tho idolized and idealized
mistress pf Don Quixote,
5. Three of Moliere's most famous come- i
dies arc "Tartuffe," "Le Mcdccln
Malgro Lul" (The Doctor 5n Spite -.
of Himself) nnd "Le Misanthrope,"
(1. A cosset is a pct-larab.
7. Hongkong is on island lying off Chins, "
ncur the mouth of the Canton rher.
It belongs to Great Britain.
8. Ylscount French wns commander of th
British forces in the retreat from Mons
to the Marno, in 1014.
0. An nd valorem tariff is levied in propor
tion to the value of the goods im
ported. 10, In the Battle of the Nile the British,
under Nelson, defeated the Frneh .
under Bnieys, on August 1 and 2,
170S. The engagement was fought la
the Bay of Abukir, between Roiett1
nd tbe RosUmoulb of the Nile.
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