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All rights of republication of special dis patches herein, arc also reserved. Philadrlphia, Thursday, January 13. 1920 NO TRUCE fttTVECRIMINATION, photographs of dirty streets and other exposures," said Freeland Kendrick, in discussing his effort to establish harmony between the administration and the Vares, "do no body any good." Mr. Kendrick's approach, in this in stance, was manly. It had the rare qual ity of complete frankness. It is hard to criticize a man who sticks to his friends through thick and thin. But exposure of wrong is the first step toward right. The streets" are being cleaned. The health of the community is of greater importance than the fortunes or misfor tunes of a political faction. Mr. Moore, therefore, was justified in .refusing a truce if a truce meant com promise. A man who insists on being loyal to his porrtwal friends does no mean thing. But a man who insists on being loyal to the community that he represents does' something that is at once more difficult and more admirable. WESCOTT'S APPOINTMENT TN APPOINTING Harry D. Wescott to - fill a vacancy on the Board of Regis tration Commissioners, Governor Sproul recognizes tho very much minority party in this city. 'Mr. Wescott is an able young man and should occupy his not exceedingly ardu ous new post with credit. Fortunately, his political affiliations have not person ally entengled him with that wing of al leged Democrats here who regularly played the game of the Republican organization. To identify M. Wescott further, it may be recalled that he enjoyed the honor of running against J. Hampton Moore for Mayor, conducting his campaign with clean, manly methods, both on the stump and off. POLICE MOTORS NEEDED ryHIEVES have been quicker than the -- police to understand the possibilities of the automobile. That simple fact ex plains the ease with which raids such as that at Sixtieth and Master streets are carried out. To deal with the newest of complica tions the police have only the method and system of twenty years ago. The audacity of the yeggmen in recent in stances suggests that the business of touch-and-go robbery is not casual, but highly organized. What the police need is means to meet the modern thief on even terms. Somebody will have to find a way to apply motors more extensively to the uses of the department. Mean while, better marksmanship in the serv ice, tho enforcement of motor regulations devised to make the identification of automobiles easy and the merciless treat ment of the first bandit caught will tend to keep motor thieves in check. NEW NEED FOR UPLIFT TN ITS current appeal to the business in- terests of the state the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce deplores the fact that many aliens in American industry have no time to learn the English language. There is wisdom in the sug gestion that employers do all that is pos sible to aid their foreign-born workers toward a better understanding of our aims and our government. The appeal is timely. In the steel in dustry the majority of workers are foreign-born. Many of them work twelve hours a day. Naturally they continue as strangers in a strange land, since they have neither the time nor the inclination to attend night schools. Americanization thus is a pretty difficult business. Yet Americanization is necessary. And while we are about it, and in the light of recent experience, it may be proper to ask whether it isn't needed at the top occasionally, as well as at the bottom. Who, for example, will volunteer to Americanize men like Mr. Burleson, Mr. Palmer and the majority in the New York Assembly V "OUT OF THE SCAPA FLOW SNARL TITITH the worst and most dishonorable '"of intentions, the Germans sunk a prickly international problem when they scuttled their fleet at Scapa Flow. Al though heartily contemptuous of the Teutonic treachery, there were unques tionably many Americans who hailed the disappearance of the warships with relief. Trip mtrrpHm tint nf Mm fmnlc ....w..... frhe allied nations would almost certainly j5 nave occasioned jealousies and would j nuve spurreu interest in increased naval t armaments. It is an open secret that th.S government favored thn sinking of . the ships by order of the supreme coun cil. Had the fleet continued in existence, hc-wever, the chances of a ruling to that .wflfeci, would have been slim. Our late allies have demanded couipen Mttion. for tho destruction in the form of 400,000s tons of German floating clocks. Ttkjm and other material. The 2 per Xtfni Miw vi inc Oi'oim pruuerrti 10 me United States has been rojected by tho government. This renunciation is a high-minded and thoroughly commendable act. It is an index of what our best sentiments would have been if tho fleet had remained in tact. But an assumption of such an at titude under those conditions might have been difficult and open to misconstruction. Today wo are enabled to put our prin ciples in force without offending our former partners in the war, and they themselves are unable to augment their naval strength by a rake-off from Scapa Flow. It is seldom that idealism can be so concretely practiced without provoking the imputation of hypocrisy. Americans who 'remember the lofty reasons alleged for our entry into the war have occasion in this .instance to be proud of the con sistency of their nation. .EVILS THAT ALL ADMIT BUT NO ONE HAS YET CURED Scandals of the State Charity Fund Ad ministration Considered by tho Constitutional Revisers TDKFORE the constitutional revision '-'commission finishes its work the pres ent system of state aid for private char ities will have a wholesome and needed airing. About one-fifth of the revenues of the state are appropriated to public, semi public and private charities. It has been charged that there arc private charities organized and maintained for the sole purpose of getting state money. If the , treasury could not be tapped in their be half it is said that thev would not exist at all. Various members of the General As sembly have their pet charities. Every two years they seek an appropriation. The passage of the appropriation bill is uniformly held up till the end of the ses sion and each member with a pet charity carries himself circumspectly lest the powers in control should deny to him the money that he seeks. The appropriation bill is a club held over the heads of the legislators. Their complacency is bought by the prospect of a share in the public funds for their local institutions.' This is the political side of the matter. An incidental and subsid'ary abuse arises out of the habit of the legislators, after it has been decided what institutions are to bo taken care of, to dicker with one another about the amount to be set apart for each institution. The appro priations are not made on any recognized system, though there may be some pie tense of an equitable apportionment. In practice the most expert, log-roller gets the most money. This is the efficiency side of the matter. Two propositions are before the re vision commission, each of which is in tended to cure the abuses. Gporge Wharton Penrer has suggested that the chavitabln appronriation be made in a lump sum instead of in specific amounts to specific in'tutif"s and that a standard of service be fixed bv which the deseit of the different institutions is to be measured. Then an administrative authority would apportion the fund among tho institutions qualifving accord ing to the standard in proportion to the service rendered. Every institution in the state which did not confine its bene fits to adherents of a particular sect would be eligible to participate in the fund according to the PopDer plan. Judge James Gay Gordon, however, is opposed to the appropriation of state funds to nr'vate 'nstitutions, and he has proposed thnt tho constitution be so amended that after 1927 no money shall be appropriated save to institutions under the complete control of the state. He would not cut off the monev at once, but would give the private institutions sev eral years to adjust themselves to the impending change. He is persuaded that the legitimate charities would not suffer for the reason that 'those who now con tribute to their support would continue their contributions and would enlarge them. In fact, he is inclined to the belief that the rich wguld become more gener ous than they have been in the past for the reason that every dollar given to charity reduces the amount of their in come subject to taxation. But if the private charities had to go out of business when state funds were cut 6ff they would be proved really not private charities, in the opinion of Judge Gordon, but public charities, supported by public funds and managed by private individuals under no public control. No conclusion has yet been reached by the revision commission. It has thus far done nothing more than develop the anotnaliesin the present practice and admit thaT there are grave abuses. But this .vas admitted long ago. For various well-understood reasons no serious' at tempt has been made to better the con ditions. They can be bettered under the present constitution whenever the Gen eral Assembly is so disposed. Certain members of the revision com mission, however, seem to wish to lay down hard and fast lules in the constitu tion itself, which shall bind the Legisla ture. They do not seem to be able to get away from the theory that the con stitution should contain a large body of bylaws framed in distrust of the honesty and efficiency of the legislators. It must be admitted that there is some justifica tion for their position, in view of the way the Legislature has exercised its dis cretion in the past. There are merits in both tho Pepper and tho Gordon plans. Theoretically, the Gordon plan is admirable. There can be no disputing the soundness of the gen eral proposition that public money should be spent only by public officials and for public purposes onlj. Grants to purely private institutions are indefensible. The so-called private charitiea, how ever, insist .that they are engaged in sup plementing the proper work of the state in caring for the sick and the indigent. The state does not provide adequate facil ities and private charity intervenes in the interest of humanity. It is argued, and plausibly, too, that these private institu tions which do the work which the state neglects should be compensated by the state. The Pepper plan provides for their compensation by a system which would eliminate favoritism and apportion the fund.' with sorao degree of equity. A very good ease can be made out .for it, EVE&ItfG PUBLIC liBDaiSRPHItABrtlA, TffUKSft&Y, JANiciX- but no better case than can bo made for the Gordon plan. The question cannot bo argued In vacuo, however. The state is confronted by existing conditions. They must be considered and some way must be found to end tho scandals that biennially accom pany the passage of tho charity appro priation bill without destroying tho efficiency of the work of caring for the sick and indigent wherever they may be. MANHATTAN IN SECOND PLACE "piIE reports from the new census-takers and other sources that Brooklyn has outstripped insular New York in popula tion tell a familiar story of municipal development. The "city" of London is today almost without permanent inhabitants. It is a business center, deserted at nightfall. Some of tho large towns of Franco lie immediately contiguous to tho fortifica tions of the official civic entity of Paris. The drive toward the suburbs is irre sistible in Philadelphia, although tho magnitude of our city-county area ren ders it unlikely any outlying residential neighbor in this "district" will soon sur pass us in inhabitants. Nevertheless the prospect of the Dela ware bridge inspires curious thoughts. Brooklyn, butt of the musical-comedy clown and conventional jokesmith, grew prodigiously when tho great work of Roebling and his followers obviated tho necessity of ferry transit. Residents of Camden are perhaps pondering the de motion of Manhattan with a peculiar interest. BARTERERS IN THE TEMPLE? PROPAGANDA and tho mysterious -1- thing known as "pressure" organized by paid lobbies at Washington often as sume disagreeable and even odious forms. But no news from congressional commit tee rooms could be so certain to inspire general disgust and loathing for the whole scheme of subten-anean intrigue at Washington as the report that cliques representing undertakers are furtively agitating for the wholesale transfer of the bodies of American soldiers, from France to the United States. Is it conceivable that there are in America business men so hard up or so driven by a lust for easy 'money that they are willing to exploit the grief of parents who contributed so heavily to the cause of patriotism, and actually traffic in tho bodies of young men whose very memory is a sacred thing? Sepator Thomas, of Colorado, has in timated bioadly that such men exist and, according to the dispatches, evidence in dicating an organized propaganda in their behalf will be laid before an in vestigatmg committee within a few days. Such evidence, if convincing, would touch national consciousness in a sensitive place, and all that would be needed to pillory such base profiteers would be the publication of their names. The War Department has encouraged the tranrfar of soldiers' bodies only in exceptional instances. Remains disin terred in French war cemeteries cannot always be certainly --idcrtified a fact which unscrupulous agitators have ig noied or hidden in the course of their campaign. The government has held that it is more seemly to leave these men of ours in the land for which they died, where their graves will be honored and tended by a grateful people for all time. It has been suggested, too. that all the bodies of the American dead be brought to this country and interred in a national cemetery. If they are left in France they will be asssmhled in ground set apart under the joint care of the French and American governments. Whatever is done should be done honor ably and cleanly. The final decisions should be inspired solely by honor for these soldiers and by pride and gratitude. To goad parents in a search for lost sons who cannot be identified and to involve the general ciuestion in a get-rich-quick scheme is to affront tho nation and debase and bemoan the sentiment of patriotism as it has never before been debased and bemeaned in the United States. ' Congressman Vitro is Watch His Dust! ns busy s a strcet rlraiifr. N'o sooner does lie pet tliroiiRli agitating for pneumatic mail tubes tlian lie takes up the, matter of surplus material at Hog Island 'which lie thinks ought to be removed to the nnvy yard. And he is er.v likely quite right about it. They arc alleging in llawtig .1 Had .Spell Kansas that the es tablishment of an in dustrial court will spell disaster. These po litical economists have not Miocessfully conned their letters. They have forgotten the cold spell they had during the coal strike. Now that Oregon lias stepped into line, rat ification of the amend Only j;icen More to ( ment by eleen more states will give women the suffrage. Fate's rattling of the dice is all in women's favor nowadays. A Uoston woman who Masticator; Kxercise has been investigating Congress alleges that congressmen chew gum. At the risk of ap pearing low, not to say vulgar, we venture the opluion that they are then less harmful than when they chew the rag. The steamship Atalia Sugar! has just sailed for France with L'lM.OOO bags of refined sugar. What a nice profit retailers would have made if they had been allowed to sell it here! Old Uncle AVashing Crjpiical tou Adams explains it thusly: They's some as thinks they's candidates what isn't and some what isn't is. The fact that Assembly mau McCtie, former prize-fighter, hus looked 'upon him with suspicion for ;ears, will doubtless cause former Supreme Court Justice Hughes many sleepless nights'. This is a great week for the man who has pretty nearly made up bin mind about the kind of car lie intends to buy when he can afford it. Whatever imij be paid of automobile headlights, the police are seeing to it that local red lights are being dimmed. Truth insisted! on details, and who.so shall cross her with hasty word repenteth earlj. Theie i.s something very alluring about the Mibject of nugiu It Is bO refilled ! THE GOWNSMAN "An Allen Enemy" TT A'AS an inspiring spectacle, that of the - other evening, which was only the repe tition of that of the prerioiiRhfternoon, when Mr. Kreisler, constructively still "an alien enemy," stood before nn American audience to receive nn ovation which even our new grown enthusiasm for music in Philadelphia has scarcely ever equaled. As an artist none will deny that Mr. Kreisler deserved it; never did soul and spirit, so completely supported by virtuosity In it perfection, combine to n happier result. As a man, too, dignified and courteous, those who know Mr. Kreisler cannot but rejoice in this deserved reversal of the treatment which he has re ceived, to our shame as Americans, in some outlying regions of provincial spirit ns well ns geography. TT HAPPENED to be the prhilegc of the -- Gownsman', some months before we de clared war on Germany, to lunch nt the tnblo of a kinsman in New Tori: in com pany with both Mr. Kreisler and Mr. Patler ewskl. Mr. Kreisler, as In honor bound, had already served his country on the eastern front against the Russians; and, wounded, hautig been ridden down bv a Cossack, had been honorably discharged from the Austrian service. Mr. Pndercwski had then, ns ever, "Poland" engraved on his heart; he was then, ns he hud nhns been, pro-nlly and intensely auti -Teutonic. The party wnB a small one and the conversation was general; but nil were eager to see this meeting of two men of distinction, united In their great art however sundered by the disturbing exigen cies that rule the conduct and the fates of princes. Did they talk ubout the war? ''Yes, frankly nnd without rancor. Did they dis cuss its politics tmd its "glory"? Of these, not u word. Did they argue and take sides? No: they were In agreement in their sorrow and detestation of the whole wretched thing. Mr. PadcrcwsM spoke with regret of a young forest, which he had iu part replanted ycar3 ngo, now reduced "to mntclisticks" by effi cient modern nrtillery. Mr. Kreisler replied iu a similar tone; his precise words were lost, to the Gownsman iu the irrelevancy of some of the chnttcr which broke out nearer him. But the tone was unmistakable. rpHK Gownsman wonders whether the good and patriotic folk who wrote letters to the papers on the question of German music and other Kreisleriana if tho shade of Jean Paul and of Schumann will forgive such a use of words the Gownsman wonders if such hnve happened to hae rend Mr. Krelsler's little bonk of a few jears ago which told the simple story of a musician's experieucs in war. The Gownsman has not the volume by him, but be remembers, for he read it, that it contains nothing about the murder nt Sarn vejo nor of the machinations of Vienna or Berlin. The trained musician's ear was in terested in the quality of tone produced by projectiles in their passage through the air, w ith a curiouslv impersonal detachment. But there is one episode that remains vividly, iu memory. If approximately recalled us to detail, it runs somewhat thus; The Aus trian nnd Russian trenches lay quite close iu one of those long periods of deadlock. And, to the amazement of all, n handker chief on a stick was reared oer the Russian trenches. A parley was arranged nnd the Russians were asked if they wanted to sur render. "No, we won't surrender, but the fact is that this detachment of us is starving." Then a very uuwarlike proceed in? ensued. The Austrians. in much the same plight themselves, went over the top and diided their own scanty stock nf ra tions with their perishing enemies, fraterniz ing with them in a manner scandalous and most reprehensible. rpHE Gownsman has not followed circum-- stnutinllv the difficulties which he under stands that Mr. Kreisler lias hud to encounter in the provincial parts of patriotic America. A sene of shame has dcte-red him. To turn over the toothsome particulars would be like reading scandal about a maiden nunt or perhaps better in this case, about one's country cousins; nnd in the face of the world and its ueeds our paltering party-ploying politicians are giving honest Americans a great deal to be ashamed of at this moment. But whatever may have been the tactlessness nf some of those about him, the heart nf this great urjist is lojul to higher things than discarded Hupsburgs and Hohenzollcrns, nnd we might, as lovers of the arts, to rejoice alike that when called on he did his duty to his couutry, us we to ours, and that the musical "projectiles of the Russians spared to touch a finger nf the precious hiimun mechanism whereby his art is made eloquent to all. mllD war is oer. despite the fact that one bad little bov cannot be induced 'o nut his tin soldiers back intn the box nnd that another's grandmother sajs that he must not agree to anj thing that any other little boy wants, nn matter what happens and even it he did help whip the big bully. Rut there are nn politics in art. and eeu uationnlitv at times may be a limitation upon it. When the Guwnsnian once upon u time witnessed "Richard the Third" archeolngienlly, metic ulously and protractedly acted1 in Germany, nn enthusiastic professor of Leipzig said to him: "Now. come, confess it. Isn't it un deniable that Shakespeare could not possibly be better done? I'ven the translation into our noble German i.s a clear improvement on the original." The Gownsman could only say, "Yes, for fiermnns." Great music is ift no such peril, for its language knows no nation, however ill some of us speak it. A certain old Greek, from whom the nges have stolen some GO per cent of their wisdom, once declared music to be the most truly imita tive --by which he meant, the Gownsman takes it, the most accurately and emotionally reflective or mirroring of all the ttR. Ami this is veritably the truth, for the voice of music, like thnt of seraphim, is above all distinctions of tongue, race nr parish. The fact that former Kcpublican gov ernor of New York will appear before a Republican committee to plead for five So cialists ngainst the action of a Republican majority in the New York Assembly i.s nu other proof that common sense is more im portant than party politics. Eight thousand American troops arc soon to return from Siberia. Perhaps some of them will be able to enlighten the couutry as to why they were sent there. As yet no injunction has been sought to restrain the birds from singing on Sunday in Kairmount Park. Desk Motto for Labor Lenders The country that is worth fighting for is worth working for. Tho one objection to a national referen dum on the peace treaty Is that it is too far off. 4 Germany for some time to come will have to choose diplomats with ability to speak softly. Tho Demon Hum will pull in his horns tomorrow night. The Ratification course appears to bc popular iu ail the colleges. Article Ten is still Article Kx, B w I I in I II I -. .,,., . "I SOWS, DEY RfcAPS YET-K -" " r-m -; rTTT jTJTr j 1 ? ' .J.l - '- i yivwhf& t i :.it AW f 11 I -IB r1 lIEJ Xf ', . fill tfjrilTT V "V P ,JL' fcTsmwj&mr mmw: - i . ; -jet I 4? y&4pWI&rt&95fia7UigiaBC& -u?3Sfc;S4!tew'irsT!i. t I T T ill lv " J Jr Umrh tfs03jlBrhHP'w' "a-,.i .; yA-JUr 8- rf I- .-T - r 7l.Y I r'V ' V y-r "'''' . "wi'C"--i" '"''" " -Vrir-'r--:-?Wvk ut .tia I 3 THE CHAFFING DISH I 1 ' jest tired Meditations in Port By William McFee (Special Correspondent of the Chaffing Dish) Nutley, N. J., Jan. Hi. T AM awfully busy, jou know, ull the time I am iu New York, and 1 don't get about much. I am confined principally to lower New York. We discharge at Pier 15 iu the East river, under the shndow of the Brook lyn bridge, and there is a very real pleasure, after the toil of coming up-river, of shutting down nnd paying off, iu scooting gayly up Maiden lnne, cutting briskly through the surging tide of home-going stenographers which pours along Nassau street, durtiug across Broadway at the risk of one's life in front of those stenographers' employers' cars and diving into the Hudson tunnels for Jer sey City and home. No one who has not served ou ships going to places like Glasgow aud Cardiff and Loudon, where one may be miles aud miles from the heart of the city, cun understand the blessed privilege of dock-, ing within a stone's throw of the City Hall. One of the miseries of sea life is the horrible messiness and dingy surroundings of the average port, where one has to wander up and down freight-cluttered quays, round congested basins and filthy coal-chutes which foul one's shore dunnage bejoud the cleaner's art. Here we skip ashore and immediately we are iu the heart of things. Beyond the granite setts of Soutb street roars the L and the trolley, and the earth trembles to the rush of the subway express. Here in South street the II. C. L. seems tn have forgotten to touch the lintels. Here one cau get a meal for thirty cents, a pair of boots for eight dollars aud a cigar for a nickel. As I stand nt the counter und wait fur ham uml, roll and butter, caw fee and wedge of pie, nil extremely good and wholesome, I wonder whether above Porty-second street is such a line place after all. I wonder whether when I settle down and get married I shan't follow B's exnmple und take an upartmeut oer in Brooklyn at twenty-five a mouth and live in a dream of golden-oak and hot air, with a spin up Fourth acuuc ou summer evenings in my flivver in my shirt-sleeves. And so to bed or to sea, ns the case may be, coming back futigued to the bruciug air of Ninth street, carrying, a bug of sugar over my shoulder which I bought iu Costa Rica at eleven cents a pound and a banana for the baby. Do babies eat bunnnasV I forget. Let it puss. This is my dream, you know. Tl IS ery happy. He is entirely subju--'-' gated by his wife, he has a good job in a good line und he has become so accustomed to running to (lie store ut the corner that he never makes a mistake nowadays, I sup pose you know he is one of those people who are more frrqueut now than they used to be I mean people who arc born without souls. I am surprised the psjchologisls hae not yet recognized this phenomenon. The churches, too, seem tn be blamlly unconscious of their existence. They are ery common in Brooklyn, that is why I would like to c there. It is n wry beautiful place, only artists liac not yet bren tnld ubout it. The great open si.) like it chalice full of a roseate luminous glow, which seems to inform the long lines of ruddy brick houses with n transparent aud pulsing lowliness; tho noble distances of the neimes down which the children como iljiug, with exquisite poise, on one roller-skuting font, like jmithful Mercuries; the stutuescpie beauty of the po licemen directing the traffic; Hie magical mystery of the suba., where men und women walk to aud fro belweeu white walls like cloistered spirits w lilting to be admitted In tho other wqrld; and lluull, as one leaws that enchanted region, the breuth-stoppiug vision of lower Manhattan, iih the western hky fades from crimson to dusky purple, the 1$20' piled immensities glowing with light and the dark river bearing ou her bosqm the necklace of diamonds which adumbrates Brooklyn bridge, und the ruby and emerald of a pass ing steamer. Yes, Brooklyn is beautiful. But, as I said, the artists have not yet found it out. I really must go to bed. We sail tomor row that is today, it is 12:45 at li p. m. WILLIAM McFEE. Yes, We Always Leave Our Pipe In There Dear .S'ocratciiDld you ever tiptoe Into the Urchin's room, iuter ho was asleep? You know one always forgets somethtng. And did you trip over everything In the room, trying to be quiet? And did your heart tighten up and you stopped breathing', as you wondered whether or not lie had heard it? Aud just.us jou thought cverjthiug was all right, and you started to sneak out, did he sit up and cry? Or didn't he? Mine generally does. MAC. Our Fortune Is Made w1; E HAVE thought of a Lew method of making our fortune. Every now and then, .when the course of ewnts has given us an opportunity to do some kitcheneering (aud we would like to state that we are rather proud of our cook ing; we doli't know any one who opens a condensed milk can as neatly as we do), we luno attempted to make soup. Now we have alwu.is noticed that iu making, soup our chief tiouble hns been to get it thick enough. The general outline of procedure is very simple. Wo tuke whatever happens' to be lingering in the icebox, the mutton-bone or the stewed spinach or some turnips und onio'us and beets, or the chine of n hen, or those little sardine sandwiches that were carefully pre pared for Aunt Emma the night she was coming and didn't we tuke these, as we say, lower them tenderly into a large po't, fill it with water and boil lustily. By aud bye a fine hot broth is apparent, very savory indeed, and we toss iu u large amount of suit and pepper, ever and anon passing our face through the uscending steam to determine how the culorfes are fariug. Tho problem now is how to thicken the liquid, for we like a soup to have a certain body and substance. This tusl; we liavo never successfully achieved. We have a ngue idea that either Hour or cornstarch will do the trick, but we generally find that they coagulate into tough lumps or else tho whole mass suddenly turns into paste aud hus to be curried shamefully down to the comer of the alley und left there wrapped up in the Suudaj puper. This is where our new idea of making our fortune conies in. There is something queer that goes on in our inkwell. We don't know just what it is, some chemical stunt that is beyond our grasp, but in our desk a well of perfectly cleau fluid ink turns overnight into n kind of thick chowder. About once n week we implore Phyllis to take it out and give it a good washing, nnd she does so; she tills it for us and we start off gayly. But hi one evening the ink hus turned again into Hint viscid and curious sort nf gelatine, which comes out in inveiy clinging gnus Hanging on the eml nf the pen. uur inu Hikes on, almost as Minn gets in our inkwell, exactly the thick ness mid consistency thut we love in u mjup Now you begin to see what we uro drlv- ing at The reason for we do not know. our ink acting thut way The lady who bus charge of tho conduits whence we draw our writluir llailfl i ii in i a.t. llkl.-l... it. ii " ...... n.., pu mums ii is me tobueco dust In our desk. One of our colleagues, a muu with a severely reullstic mind, insists that the heni-oaches luy their eggs in our inkwell nt n g lit. But whatever it is, wo arc having our inkwell analyzed, and we shall then put the sediment ou the market iu the form of a powder, which jou will see advertised every where us Socrates' Soup Thickener, and thcu (as we. say) our fortune will be ouly a matter of adding six ciphers nt the business cud of our bank occouut. KOCJRATE8, 4 T AM sick of the sight of a newspaper pagi -1- Where the pictures are weird and un pleasant ; Where the jokes are at least of Methuselah" age ' ud All fhe world is as flat As a scullery hat And its folks don't know how to behave. It mar go to the dlvvle! I I'm tired of its drivel Aud I'll go and hang out in a cave ! Oh, give me a spot where Dame Nature writes books And where proofreader Time doesn't stint her; Where the only newspapers 'are read iu the brooks And the sun is his own color printer. Where a guy may be glad At the times he has had Since .no galley may call hlra a slave. So I'll sing a hosanna With dear Glorianna And hie me right off to a cave ! And when I get there I nm bound to admit I may growl at my rustic position. The beauties of nature won't please me a bit And I'll sigh for the latest edition. 1 will long for the noise Of the office ; the joys Of the hard-hitting world that I cravo! I will .stick up for Nature The swnte little craturc! And then'; while I'm sticking, I'll cave! ' D. McGINNIS. The promptness with which response ii made whenever there is a call for fresh blood for trausfusion is proof that Courage aud Kindness are neither dead nor dying. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What aro the three largest states of Germany? 2. Iuto how many articles is the leaguc-of- nations covenant divided? IS. What nations were allied against Turkey in the first Balkan War of IMS-IS? 4. What is the meaning of the diplomatic phrase "fait accompli"? f. How should it be pronounced? C. In the reign of what king of France did Cardinal Richelieu live? 7. What statesman in American history was known as "Old Public Function ary"? 8. How mauy lines should a sonnet con tain? 9, Who ran against Abraham Lincoln in his second campaign for the presl dency? What is the loftiest active volcano hi tho world? 10, Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Louis Napoleou was the only president of the second French republic, which was established in 1848. 2. Sir William Blackstone, uuthor of tho famous commentaries on Euglish Iuw, lived in the eighteenth century. 15.' Tho three futes wero Atropos, Clotlio and Luchcsis. A. The red flag under the Roman empire signified war. 5. Kuster Sunday falls on April 4. 0. Hyssop is a small bushy aromatic herb, formerly used mediciually. Its twigs w ere used la Jewish rites. 7. Jumes G. Blaiue was secretary of state for r most of the administration of Benjamin Harrison. 8. The wprd "quattrocento" is used to de scribe the fifteenth century as a period iu Italian art. , 0. The cr-Emperor Karl of Austria -Hub gary is now living in Switzerland. 10. Tho word katchUp is a corruption of the Jananow.Wd 'kltjiip,'' aj-omllinW L . V! n
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