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4&HOTERS COME BACK
,-?,x-V Ajvfar ir most of the active incm-
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n" . .1.... ....... .. XTn "n.il
".t.e-Ac tteicd ovei the loiitinent
S'or b hbin- nliout 111 bint)1- tioon
fe&amc of them will never eomo
"- improvised parade of last New
arranged by those who ueie
' ve least movintr incident of
al ithi3cit. Now the clubs
els. life all over acain with
r Balv errand. Thcie is cood
.honor e leport that Thursday's
I thoaad street will be the most
u ... . .
atseen in this 01 anv other
f laty owes the ilubs a. tfioat
ior onl be one day at least when,
rev. w iear c'ubs aic ba-.lv, the
e pret the various and assorted
stine011 l0 -' aunosL msconsu-
jt ,i,lie prizes navo been matin
jjjUl;e. Next yeai they should
? actractne sun.
of the ciedit for the annual
.trades that have helpetUto
'famous belongs to Couniiil-
aizley, who, when he isn't
an extremely likable man.
rivo Riven lnm a cut class
Xln r1ot.ni ml ll T'tit uhnf
ift mean in times like these .'
of the downtown dubs moie
lu have believed it to be?
HGRESS AT PLAY
L DECKER has joined thos,o
refusing naal medals offered
Daniels because they beliec
frned decorations of a hipher
l-esmen have piomptly come
? Si Tipcker.
' vthinp; unimpoitant that
J 11VIV- Willing WJ lUVU-'U-
intr reallv lmrxntant that
Or SB. f,trft frv witli nnnn mij
Ihotoffh when the nou&e and
S-iernbIe there will be the
?he unsettled coal stuko and
,cd industrial tubunal to de-
Lntion and calm stuth. The
Ad their medals can wait. This
lt;al year. But the country is
It of politics and ConKiess will
i realize it now
hSLER AND FAME
jLIAM OSLER was a great
n, a frreat man of science and
llishfirl rnnn rTf Inttnit vnr lio
v.. -- " - ' i -- "
.umtuaL- uiuvuuvvu mi rviuuLi(;cl
Aid in the course of an addtess
be humoious that this mijrht
r world if men of forty were
ifrorti active life to await a
eat i by chloiofoim at sixt.
rk crave Osier mtei national
had been oxrjlaininir for flf-
i that he d'dn't mean it scri-
d wen were mitatcd and an-
iuni? men felt that their lives
how being tragically shortened,
ler was dsluged with questions
ridiculed and abused.
nt proved to me," said he.
x has no sense of humor."
jumption Doctor Osier was
had unconsciously touched
Wisitive spot in human con-
id he learned that the great-
ot lite is inc.
E3AN FOR A CRISIS
I'dly be any promise of new
on behalf of the peace
aias caused to bo circulated
i a petition in iting Will'am
'rome to VVashiiiKton. The
Jtlnforce Peace maintains a
raiment of pamphlats through-
Ici- Jiminent men in all walks
a cuiimpioneu -.ni Versailles
fcpUblic as a whole v silts it
M(V,f'-VJr' U,t IJUOIlUllyl 1 JILT
Lasoning in support of it hae
monplaces.
ji ne Fiioum maKo an aci
Jlfhave nothing new to .sav. It
rCnPn nnifl. Anil vmf liic mncnr,.n
.. .-. &.v. JWV ,, 3 ft,.,.,, .v.w
sly besought. Why is tins Whv
iuhe thousand and first proclama-
mic obvious i
ua(wer is not at all difficult. It is
pn,wprds that will put the treaty
jftbufc personalities. Mr. Taft is
fit ns a dialectician but as a man.
5y-enonal equation is of enlivening
ffr IJe lias tact and common sense,
fcpnesty, an unllaggmg- zeal for
VjjKOtid a detestation of obstiuc-
DUt-x Bnuiiijii-. jh sucn a
. xe m mio mvui Bguncy ior tom
Flitfri a crisis.
imnltf because Taft is Taft. tlmt
fedfc personal interference in the
Avoulu count so hugely.
ltel . , g
-STINCTIONS IN JAZZ
r-JtNESS to Coilslantln von Stern-
'HI in order to soothe the pub-
KfW )viniy ptoiiiuuiy ye -juiiiicu
yhkt this eminent pianist con-
thti nieetiuc of the Music
Actional Association yesterday
iz but "jOrcalletl jazz." In
10 distinction lies a wliolo
i of art-
lowsky Iwa written jazz, mighty
V", tno In romp "F "l" rf "v",
B
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co.ueu pussani-s ot the 1'ouith and Jifth
symphonies. There aro Brahms vaiin
tions which juggle n simpto little tunc
far more dexterously than Irving Berlin
in his most inspired vein. Lis-t knew
SLincthing of it also.
Jazz has its place, happily not n dis
pioportionate one, in the wotks of most
of the gicat modem composein. It has
its place as the neaiest thing to folk
music, of which, npait from the Indian
themes, Ameiica enn boast.
"Tin Pan Alloy," of couise. has been
responsible for some deplorable offenses.
The worst fcntuie of much of the wigtimc
of thr cabal ct or of the musical comedy
and vaudeville stages is weaiisome pov
erty of inspnation. Neail all the nl-
IcL'cd melodies sound alike. But jazz tan i
bo fhuoifully chilaiating. Viilually any
foim'of music may he good or bad.
Eliminate art from ceitain accepted
pioducts and it will be haul to defend
them. Take, for instance, scrapple. The
outsider may pionounce it unpalatable.
That is bectuso he has never tasted the
genuine Philadelphia article.
THE FIRST BIG JOB
THAT AWAITS MR. MOORE
All the Bureaus Dealing With the Stieets
Should Be Consolidated In the
Interest of Economy and
Efficiency
"DEPOUE Maor-elect Moore and his
- d'lPctor of public woiks go any fur
ther in tin- consldeiation of the appoint
ment of buieau ihiefs it is of the first
linpoitii'ice that th"t considet the need of
rp"'gani7incr the whole Uepaitment of
Public Woiks.
That department is iuit,cd b a multi
plicity of buieaus. Each of the seen
bureaus has a liend at a .salary langing
fiom 2000 to S000O a vea), anil eadi h.s
an ofilce staff and a lot of inspectors,
many of whom duplicate the work of the
others
If theic is to be economy and efficiency
in the conduct of public business, the
thice buieaus dealing with the streets,
foi example, should be consolidated into
onn bureau.
I he buieaus of highwas of sheet
denning and of s.uies ate all occupied
with the opening, paMiig and cleaning 3f ,
the st'eets. One htiirau can dose a j
sticet for lepans to the pavement or to I
the sewers without onsultation with
any r-ther biiiei'it Connirtimr oirlcrs, may !
be issued bv different bureaus A on
tiactoi engaged on .' lame building opoi
iil'on has to see a lot of independent ofli
crils b"foie be can ret the st'cot opened,
(he evns laid and the gas and wilei
pipes put down. He is nut to needless
evneti'i1 and tiuiHo and his woik is de
layed while he his to await the action of
the different buieaus.
In an pihate business it would be
necessaiv tn tee but one man, who would
attend fo the details and gio the neces
aiy penmts to "i ahead with the work
contemplated. This is becmise niivate
Ijusini'sc is otginicd for the sole pur
pose of producing lcsults expeditiously
and economicallv.
Not only does the present system com
plicite thn work of stieet ntiPinng and
building, but it jirovids three sets of
inspectors to go oer the same streets,
each set inspecting a different kind of
w ork.
The men fiom the hu'hnav buieau aic
ndmg over the t it v all the time, looking
foi defects m the old pavement and see
ing that new r.'vng is laid according to
sppeitift'ons 'I he men fiom the stieet
(.lp-inine- bm ran aro going over the same
stieets to see that the rubbish is carted
uwav wlipn it should be lemovcd, and
the inspectors of the buieau of surve"s
ttail the instiectois of the other two de
railments, looking foi eivioachments on
the building line, seeing that thcie is no
upauthoiizpil vaiiation fiom the estab
lished eiiy plan and m forth
One set of inspectois could do all this
woik better thin it is row done" bv thioe
sets. It might be necessaiv in fact
would be advisable to pay laiger sal
aiips than at piesent, but even then at
least one-half of the inspecting force
eculd be dismissed and the city would
savo money and get' better sendee.
If th's teoi-ganiation of the Derail
ment of Public Works is to be made, it
"hould be umWtiken befoio anv new
buieau hpads aie named bv the director
and the Mayor-elect, for the bond of the
con'olidatpd buieaus dealing with high
wax s should be a man nf very different
type from that which might be acceptable
as the head of any of the bureaus as at
piesent organized.
W'th concentration of responsibility it
would be possible to attract a first-class
man to the new job who would devote
himself wholly to the maintenance of
the streets and to keeping them decently
in older And if the city is to clean its
own t'-eets -if tpr next year the man at
the head o'f the bureau should be of such
high standing that no breath of suspi
cion could destroy public confidence in
the honesty of his pui poses.
Mr. Winston, who is to be at the head
of the department, is a successful busi
ness man. He is familiar with the meth
ods that must be employed if public busi
ness is to be done with the same economy
as private business. The opportunity to
proe that the methods which succeed in
piivate entei prises will also succeed in
the conduct of public business is facing
bun. And Mr Mooie who is pledged to
give to the people a full dollar's worth
for every dollar snent, cannot ignore the
situation without disappointing those who
voted for him.
The initiative must come fiom Mr.
Moore. He must be backed by Mr. Win
ston when the appeal is made to the new
Council to organize the Department of
Public Woiks in the interest of economy
and simplicity.
The charter ompoweis.thc Council to
"organize any department of the
city government." As the bill passed the
Legislatuie the power to reorganize was
also conferred on the Council, but by
some trick the word "reorganize," as it
appeared in the bill when it left the Leg
islature, was changed to "recognize" in
the bill as signed by the Governor.
But the "power to oiganize" may
cleaily bo cv.ercis.ed bv the Council, for
the assumption of the new charter is
that it is cieating a new foim of govern
ment for the city. It does not fix the old
foim upon us
But even if there should be any doubt
about the powers granted to the Coun
cil, there is no doubt of the poweis
for it Is expressly provided that "each I
department snail hac power to piescnoo
rules and lcguhiMonn for tho dis
liibullon and pot formative of its busi
ness." Undei th's piovision tho director
nf public wnrk-i can distiibulo as he
pleases the duties of tho'e intrusted witli
the caie of tho highways.
'Iheie is no doubt about the possession
of power. Thcie should bo no doubt
about the disposition to escrcisc that
powoi in tho public intcie.sts.
'I he politicians will not like to have
the number of buieau heads reduced, but
the city go eminent as wc understand
it. is not to he tun for the benefit of the
politicians foi tho next four yeais. Wc j
have had all of that toit of 'pveinnient
that wo caie foi. Any repiisals that
tho politicians maj, thunlen can be ig
nored, for the voting' taxn'i vers are 111010
potent than the ward leadeis. They are
the power which ousted the old political
machine from contiol and put Mr. Moore
in the City Hall. A move of this kind
would affoid proof that ho is the man
thev thought he was when they otcd
for lnm.
BAD NEWS
p)LMOCHAT.S big and little all up and
down the land must iae been shocked
yesterday to heal that William J. Biynn
is to iuu again for the picsidency and
that he will begin what is to be in effect
Hliimnilir. In,,,. itC 4lin ..,,, f 1, , n,ll ll
next month. Tor Mi. Bivan's party this
is sciious news It was expected Hone
doesn't J ic pum1 in Nehinka. In Mi.
Hi Min it tloP' n t die at all.
If pvci thcie was a time whtn political
leaders needrd to he flop fiom motion il
i-m and fiom the sort of .iiilolij, pilosis
induced bv too ninth ihetoitc, that time is
now. If the parties aic not to have the
s-ciMce of lnoad and tempeiatc minds in
the nct campaign thev will be a hin
drance lather tlnn a help to the countrv.
Mr. Biyan didn't tlescne half of the
abuse and ridicule that his opponents
heaped on him in the past. He is a well
meaning and gentle-minded man who
happens to be hopelessly ingenuous and
impiactiial. Had we tal en his adicc
we would have slaved out of the wai. Wc
would have beaten our suotds into plovv
shaics accoiilmg to the leltei of the code
enunciated fiom the blale Department
when the (leimans weu lamping tluough
Belgium And now we should be tilling
the soil with all our might to pay in
demnities to a cievv of lunatits at Beilin.
The sage of the Demociats left his po-,1
in the Wit'on cabinet at a critical tune
aftei meddling disastiously in the tail
diplomacy of the war penod. As a pati
tist Biyan is siiiieie lie leflects a sort
f nnninn that i natural enough in the
Middle West, wlicie even m wai every
body thinks he would be safe. He was
never fnvoublv disposed to the navv
because the Middle West has little knowl
edge of til" r aid nothing to fpai fiom
it. As a piesident of the Middle West,
whose native virtues he shmes to all
extiaotdinaiv degree. Mi. Biyan might
do. Vs piesident of a vanous countiv he
would not do at all, and even the Demo
piats themselves know this now, as they
knew it in thice national elections of
the past.
But the Commonei has many followers.
His voice is like a strange magic in some
of the middle western states. Elsevvheio
he is disti listed and, as a politician,
feaicd. If any one was needed to split
tho Demociatic party moio hopelessly
than Roosevelt split the (!. O. P., it is
Mr. Ill van. And he is to begin the fatal
job at Omaha on Jnnuaiy 1".
'I lin Kiivrrnni of Ninth
(I ul In IKlllll i li is h t il ho
Hear I 'mm Him Known in m uiieeitaiu
I runs tlmt lie is op
posed In It nt lung When hot wouls ot de
nunciation lite inntPil with told deeds the
rnuntiv iivpi wi'll I now tint mob law h.is
Iipoii repealed nevi i to ho ic enacted
BOYER BLUFFS THE BOYS
As Speaker of the House He Threat
ened to Eject Newspapermen
and In That Way Kept
Them Quiet
"WHERE AM I AT?"
. himili of lionbs who
Oh, Well. Mislaltts inhbtd a bunk in To
Will II i)H m Ircln O. overlooked
L.'(l,t)l)(l m uiripiiij
and bonds Ilnw it must gill u self risicit
niK bandit to lonlie Hut in his hnste he
mis-od it good bet '
There is a point where
Kmb ihiiing 1 liliil the learning out for
new business rcises to
lip legitimate If Ihe ihuge ngninst tho
ItionLIwi undcrtnkti alhgi'd to be the king
pin of the wood tikohnl ting is sustained
that point litis appnienth been le.irhril
At the iinnttil mtotin' of the Millie
Tracluts' National Association in this citv
n speaker declared that the dnv of j zi ami
swnph tunes was about ovei Mavliup,
ma Imp! lint the nights .up still hideous.
The adulation Hun milituiv bailers
meet pveivwhere in (ioiiiiituv pauses one to
wonder what would have happened if thej
h id won the w.u
Tho kai'ei sas the Allies dire not
touch him Ilia statement might have some
weight if he had not pieviouslj '.mil that
the Allies could not lick him
After reading of the Ni w Year plans of
local hotels, the Young Imdv Next Door But
One siiid she thought patrons might avoid
corkage by usiu bottles with pitmt stop
pets. A nun mav be punishid foi plunging
the world into wai, for that is n einnp; hut
theie is no punishment for the men who
sturvp the world bv withholding peace, foi
that is statesmanship.
There are slvty miles of wine cellars
beneatli Kpeinav nud Itheiins, and there tup
pome thirsty men here and there who would
be willing to traverse the whole distance.
The belief still sticks that the Vare
crowd euu't beat eleven in the coiiucilmauie
crap game
It is n Fnfc bet that when the Sennti
again tackles the peace tieutj the influence
of the folks bark home will be felt.
The census man will have no terrorf, for
those who have filled out draft question
naires, motor license applications or income
tax blanks
It has aforetime given us concern but
we nre now in a position to announie that
the date of the morning aftei the daj before
U January 1"
The ouditor general has doubtlefs bj
this time realised (hat ono can't harmonize
two factions with ono plum.
Oue la going to miss that righteous feel
ing as one climbs onl tho water wagon on
"pw l en 'w.pii'
Hy ii:01!(ii; M). McCAIN
"N HARD oeiasions a tall, while-
niiistarhrd, whlte-lnlred man, whose
ehnks hnvi been tunned a du'l pink bv Hip
eniintrj nir of Montgomery (ountv, Is seen in
town It In p-Stnte Tiensurrr Henrv K.
Hot i r, foimer member of tho T.egislntuie and
'nt inlii i of tin House f i onl the old Seventh
disliRt of Ihls l.
Shire Ins nliremuit finm active politirnl
life Mr. Itowr bus lieiii k siding in Hvniis.
lung ii quaint little village Iivp miles wet
of Viriistnwn whcie he wns bom seventy
jrnrs ago.
1'ublie nflV mis are erv human. Thev aro
very much like the ordlnarv run of mortals
'ten win n t'ligircd in the dlsehnige of their
public diiths This fart is rei'tilled in uni
on Hon wilh Mr How r's triune as speaker
of the H"iisr in 17- lip iin sneaki I for
two si sshuis ifler Hill 111 ll little ipi0(e
whiih oerimril at (hill session
It is the nnh ore of n similar kind Hint
I lepnll in flu iiiiiisp of mint sp-isinnu.
It was a ptirlniiliirlv nutating session.
The siin'ikpi whs new Mini loiistiuith under
n pailinmenlitrv Jiip from Hmrv D (Irccn.
"f I'fiks .fi,i.i ,1 .ii(. ainitur Hiii'hrv
"M.irkln. of 1'lilhidelphia: "Tom" Sclinat
t"ilv, of 1'iwlli nod ollirt unn gene'sted
Drmoernts. tohn P I'lkiu, nf liidianii,
iiftciwird n slue nf Ihe Sum fine ('unit.
Cp. , piiv t ll'i'i"" ttnips IVntosP
mil Honlin 1 ( unlit II. of I'liilndelphin, and
ollnrt vni n I thin lepn sentatives Hint I
w in
(in n pnitiuiiii ifteinoon tht House ui
iii nil iinntnnlb obstreperous mood To add
In Ihe Ppenkri s imiiovaiice the now (-piper
lor-espondenl -rioiiprd he tote and below the
sni nVnr's roslnim ncr Piiiiilntl
One of the inrrcsptnulrnts I think it wa3
Aieli It C'liiin of the Pittsburgh Disp-iteh-tinted
up o the desk to inquire about a
teilrilti bill The -iienker waited until he
bud leached tin side of his p.iiliitmenlariiin
mid tlerk. I) Petlriolf. now a bank
ptesidriit, when in an aside loud enough
to he heatd In Cm in. be s-tid
"Abe. Ilinsi iMHspapei i nt lespondents
'.own thtie mi li iving ll ii gllhir t Ileus I've,
gol enough tn do to h indie this Hniisp and
in about li v t inmiilfs I m going to oidrr the
seigeant at urns to leiiinw Ihe whble damn
t rnwd fiom t'l limn '
"Anlin Him nivii wailed to iiupiiie
about his bill In live srtonds be was batk
in the luiil-l nf the voluble coips; the
spi ikei s ii 1 1 1 mi 1 1 1 1 n i vi is pissrd utoiind mid
from that moment that irowd of w tilers was
the most oideilv both tint vol leported
the sessions of the House in mv li collection.
In till tin speeding vrars I nev - dis
(oveied win tin i llinv Iiojei was lrullv Jn
earnest or wis uurelv Hiiowiiig in effective
bluff
In tithei t tsr it vvotkrd out to Hit rpircn'b
taste
T Ml'iT Colonel Pied Tin Ior Pusej striding
-- down Chestnut stnrt a inent dav. I sav
stiiding bttause that propeilv dt scribes his
gilt whiih he stems to have atfiiired dur
ing his tour of diilv tis a member of the
A H 1' "ovei thtrr."
He has nlw ivs hnd more or liss of that
ilislini live nulitiirv manner wluth everv
Ptiinst Iviitiui gii iriNninu stems to atipine in
the toursp uf his servne vears. Befoie and
after the Sn inih-Amei'it an war he was in
the National (tmird. ,am! while I am not
making compimsons he steins to have added
a something, pnsstblv the lesult of his
ivptritnte abroad, to his nsuallj iipught
tniri lgc
The tolonel is n I'lul.idelphian bv birth.
Por two trims he tipiesenteil Delawaie
i ountv in the T.egislatiuc. He still lcsides
in Medh
His lot out connection ns speei tl iii
rtsintatite nf the attornet general in the
now celebrated IN nn Hank affnit has kept
him before the public, though the tlulits of
Hint case in which ho Is still engaged,
have seeniinglv not impaired his faith in
cvrrt -dav hiinnnitv
CANDIDA'! KS for the various btnte ofliees
to be liomiiinted ntt jear arc spiinging
up like tulips in Apul
John !s Pislirr, cnm'nissiomr of bank
ing, is among those "talked of" in counee
Hon with the ullice of niiditni general.
lie is a niemhir, as the state knows, of
that exceptional bodv of men which com
puses the cabinet of fioveinoi W. C
Spioul, ivreptioiml in the fur t that even
one of them who had occupied public ofliee
puor to his appointment as n cabinet nflieinl
has thr lrputation of being a "tlcan" man
I mean "elean" in the scne that no intima
tion 1ms evn been nude that affected then
petsonal lnlcgiitv ot political rtcan
handciliuss Fisher was taisrd on a f.mn not fai
fiom that on which John P. Hlkin was
born and raised. Like most farm bojs bo
nttrnded country school, then tuught, and
iiuall.v, when he was seventeen yeuis of
age. entered the Indiana State Noimal
School
It was a clear case of making his own way
in life and for seven yens aftei graduation
he taught school, reading law at nights and
at rti h odd times as ho could spare from
his dutiis as a teachei.
His opportunity came when he was choen
ptiuiipal of the Indiana high school, which
affordtd linn tbu opportunity of leading law
with Samuel Cunningham, who was then oue
of tho leading mcmbcis of tho bai ot that
coiintv.
Later on ho foi mod a partnership with
his picceptor, bognn taking an interest in
politics, and in 1000 was elected state
siiiitni from the Thutv-sovonth dlstrit't. He
vwis re-elected, then went back to tho proc
tio ot law in HltlS
The state bunking 'ommissioner is ipiiet
unassuming and dl'intlinid to tho spotlight
In this tospei't he is like most of the other
niciubeis of Governor Sprout's cabinet,
THE friends and former students of Piof
Vincent H. Brccht, head of the de
partment of English of the Northeast High
School will be interested to know that ho
Is the editor of nu editor.
This lather unique phase of his profes
sional lite is disclosed in a little 230-page
vol ime, fashioned after somo pocket editions
of Lamb's. Tales, George AVilllam Cuitis's
'True and I," which has leceutly been
issued by the Mncraillaus.
1'iofessor Biecht's cnieful work in dis
closed in the bibliography, introduction, col
lection of ciiticai comments, annotations
and tvventj pages of notes, which in them
selves are delightfully informative, evun to
the most tasual leader.
' (ncj's Klegy
With tare few toll the kuell of parting Grey
The blovviug henrd is thut of Solons stout.
The treaty fight pursues its dreaty way
And leaves the world in daikness and m
doubt.
Speaking of tommuuications fiom the
dead,. Mr. Bryan is making himself heard
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THE CHAFFING DISH
PERPLEXITY AT THE STATE
HOUSE
How to Ring "Nothing" on the Bell?
FEELING a bit short of news, wo walked
ojer to see our good fiiend I'tcd Eckcis
burg, tin eugineei at Independentc Hnll.
Wo went down mto the nut waini cellai, but
Pud was not their Wp waited around n
Fl llllllllIrL lin, tot.. I .- tnn mil" 1 l.tti, ,il
Muttha, the will known Slate Hulls. cat 1
It was pi tin that Mailha had hud hti hint li,
for on tin little table wiip spiiad out nil the
delicuciis that ninth pamptied ntiiinil cn
jojh Their was the eolti e pot, the null,
faueer (eniptj), tin pot of nun and the little
nr of vaseline tint Maltha uses fo keep hoi
fin in good condition in this cold weather.
And on the desk wtir the photographs of
thirti men who me Maltha's paiticillal
hrroes Geoige Washington, 'Thomas A.
Edison and the Hon Divid Martin.
Hut we mot Tied outside, and he told us
that he is in n good dc il of peituihation
about the annual uiemonv of iinging in
tin new .war m Hie State House brlfiv
"Last .vear," be tuld us, ' we iang it
otir-iiiiir-oiie-iiuic, am ever thin,; went Ime,
It was a cold, vw t nulit, but whin we canu
down fiom the towti there was an old man
htit on tho steps He said he had been
comiug eveij New loai's Eve for tweutv
jeais Now this vrai how nu wc going to
woik it? You sie we'll have to ling
oue uine-two nud tlnn nothing, llow tan
vou img nothing on the bell''"
''That's prettv hind link," vie said.
"ou'H have to mig one thousand, nine
bundled and tweutv times in oidrt to get it
accurate. I hope it II he a nice night. It will
bo too bad to Koi p Unit old man out hcie so
long."
Pied uiniled fainth, hut his bout was
tioubled. "I don t ste how vve'te going to do
it," he said ' One, nine, two, nothing
How are wc going to ring that nothing on
the htllV"
Eted's dilemmi leimnds us of n Christmas
card wo saw on Olustnut street last week.
The motto rathoi tukled out fauoj. It tan
thus
Chiistmas without You tall be just a
tUiolc lot of nothing at all.
And a fncnd of outs, with whom we once
went to Prance when ueithei of us could
talk enough Pniirh to make any bcrtous
inroads upon the minds of the natives, cointd
nn ingenious and rather similar phrase.
When ho was asked at a restaurant if he
would have auvthing moie, and didn't want
unj, ho nlwavs utteied fragments of mis
pronunciation tint i.tn olilj have meant "A
little hit of nothing '
This same friend who is now professor of
lftathematics nl (lettysbuig College, en
tountored nuothn invsleij of the Ptench
tongue thut caused him much suffering. Ho
was pnbSionatth fond of hot chocolute tie
prepared by the Picnch cooks, and about
tho time he finished his first cup ho used to
begin shouting "Phis de chocolnt," which,
according to our ideas of language, ought to
imply "moie diorolate " tyiforlunutcl), the
prrvcise Pieutb idiom interprets it as "no
more chocolate"' in fact, as a very em
phatic intimation thut the chocolilr is
atrocious. So the louder and moie pleadinglj
our friend utieied this remark the more
deprecatingl) the waiter would bow and
express his irgirt that the beverage was not
satisfactory To see our friend hotlj crying
"1'lus de thocolat," and pointing eagerly to
his cup, while tho waiter hovered in pained
nnxictj , is one of our cherished memories.
Wo read in our sprightly contemporaiy,
tho Sundus Public Ledger,, the compara
tive meaFineinents of the Vonuses dc Mlln,
dV Wcllrsdev de Swarthmoro and de Itryn
Mnvvr In pai titular wo wete pleased to
obseive that the Venus de Bryn Mawr has
a chest expansion of IS." inches ns against a
paltry two inches for the Venus de Milo.
Hut, ns Pied Bigelovv eagerly inquires, how
do they know the chest expansion of tho
Venus de Milo? It seems taus that two
inches is pretty good for n Jndy with such
hardened arteries,
Jtyfiy 11 r ln ' f- ' T"-n Afnwr
GRAY
slntisth inn's nieitsiiiemeut of the Venus dc
Milo's wust ns I! " intlies. This reminds us
of our fiiend Hove Dulctt's poem about
Venus iu which ho savs that the leason she
looks so uiihnppv is because she can novel
wear one of those little platinum wust
watches.
James Cianeia Cooke, ot tills city, urged
the founding of .t united music oisanlza
tlon to comb it tlio present evil of selling
puemj News Item .
This sounds to us like a nuel and aban
doned doctiine, and if it is adopted wc shall
gather our fellow minor ports to letaliate
b bojtotting iiitisn teai litis and oiuself
teaching our ehilditn to play tho piano.
This, uicidt utall.v, will do a grtat tltnl to
hung down itnts in our put of town.
We Bow, and Concur
Vrai Socrates, in W.O
May lion haic smokes and dnnlt i plenty;
And may you aluays take yoiii toll
Plow heaped tool bin, full euijai nnitl! v
The soh ieipe-t in nhich a ihaith
I u ish foi yon, hind ,Voc, is atilh.
M. 1 . A' a.
History Grants an Encore
Dear Koctalci:
'.Mr OIleH observed tbat ho thought tho
.idinlnlstiatlon bad been ueflclent in wis
dom M my Btntlrmeii, ho said wero vciy
pirtleuldily opposed to tlie tieaty
llo believed th it tho President possessed
ljotli wlfdom and llrmness Ho was vvlll
Ine to compliment tlio President as much
ns possible in his personal cliarai ter, but
lie tould not think, it appllcablo to bis ad
ministration "
A fninilia- obscivatlon, sav vou-'
Tlio quotation is fiom a debate In Con
gioss coneeriilns an 'Address to tho Presi
dent ' (Washington) In 1700 VV. n W.
Desk Mottoes
I have a great deal of company In my
bouse ; especially In tlio lnoinlnff, when
nobody rails
THOTtEAU, "Wnlden "
Further Discoveries While Desk-Cleaning
MEMORANDUM given us bv Professor
Lovd, of the Univtrsity law school, to
look up an amusing case cpneeruing an un
fortunate tobacco chew or who sued a tobacco
company because ho found n human toe im
bedded in his plug.
Copy of the New York Render, a school
hook published in ISIS, lent us hy Ed Mum
fold, that biiglit-ecd scrutinizcr of human
destiny, with the idea that we might find
Fomo desk mottoes in it. In this naive vol
ume w e find the follow ing :
The Beggar's Petition
A little faim w is my paternal lot;
Then, like tho lark, I spilshtly haU'd the
morn . '
But, ah! oppression foicd mo fiom iny cot,
My cattle died, and blighted was my
corn
My daughter, onco tho comfort of my age,
Lur d by a illaln from her native home,
Is cast "abandon'd on tho world's wldo
stage,
Anil doom d In scanty poverty to roam
My tender wife, sweet toother of my care,
Struck with sad anguish at tho stein
decree.
Tell, llne'rlng fell, a victim to despair;
And left tho world to wretchedness and
me
A very tine mince pie tbat Leonard Wells
sent us fiom Minneapolis, which tho ex
pressman put on our desk whllo we were out,
and then somehow it got shuffled under last
week's output of poems by Robert Leslio
Hellem and wc have only just discovered it.
MA N tl , former pupil of Susannah
Cotioft, the perfect woman, says she wishes
she hud saved her mistress's letteis. Hut
sho loutcmbeis that Susuunah, in addition
to tho physical cultute, bunded out majciuis
in will-bracing, of which this was one;
Remember you must peiscvere. As
Vfafor Uugo so grandly puis it, "Jlitch
your wagon to a star,"
c0-'n ITT'1!
GHAY of the twilight come,
Sin end those wide wings above our
meadows bung
Coolness and mist; make dumb
The jnrung noise of day, and gently ring
Our woods and ponds with dimness; take
nvvav
All busy stir, but let the gray owl swuy
Noiselessh over tho bough like a little ghost;
And let the etieket iu the dnik hedge sing
His witheied note; nnd, O Immortal Host,
Welcome this traveler tn voui drowsy hall
And, standing at tin poich, speechless and
till,
Close the gieal doois, shut out the world,
nud shed
Youi benediction on this diooping head.
Martin Armstrong, in the New Statcsniuu.
It may ho, as the bibulous ones declare,
that there isn't much kick to this holiday
season, but tbat may be because (or why)
the families of said bibulous ones mo not
kit king.
"It is jout move," hays Senator Lodge.
"No, it's joins," touuteis Senator UiU.li
totk. And thus tho international game of
checkers is dejnjed.
Tho man who is willing to do his bit is
not ho who takes it iu his teeth.
A grievance may start many wheels,
but it never gets the owner anywhere. Which
may bo what's the matter wilh tho Wood
boom.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What Is wood alcohol?
2. Where is the land of Oman?
(3. Tho Piesident's birthday occurred on
December '27. How old was he?
1. Who wa the first of the six wives of
Homy VIII of England?
fi. Name three of the great waterfalls of
the world?
ji. What island jin the Iiish sea has homo
mle? - N
7. Who was the viceNpresIdential candidate
of the Progressive; paity in 1012?
8. What is a hemistich?
0. In what novel of Dlrkns does tlio char
acter of Seth Pecksniff, tho unctuous
V'
Hypocrite, occur t
10. Whcra is tho utmndillo found
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The nes.t president of Trnnco Is to ho
elected on January 17, 1020,
2. Sarah Siddons was one of the most
celebrated actresses of the English
stage. Her dates aro 1755-1831.
3. Two plays by Gabrielo d'Anntinzio aro
"La riglii dl Jorio" (The Daughter of
.Torio) and "Lu Cittu Morta" (Tho
Dead City).
4. The United States shipping board h
considering turning over the former
German liners in its possession to
privato Ameiican ownership.
5. Tho salary of tho chief justice of tho
United States is $15,000 a year.
0. Arthur Yager is governor o Torto
Bico.
7, No Democratic Piesident- over died In
office,
'8. Gladiolus has two pluiuls gladioli or
gladioluses,
fl, Tho name Bauta Clans isjhfilved horn
the Dutch Saint Kluas, meaning St.
Nicholas.
10. The sapodilln i? n large evergreen
tropical South Americau tree. Its
fruit, also called t"iljlla, lmggr h
ncld pulp, highly.;
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