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Philailrlphla, Kriday, Junuiry 16, 'I20
THE LAST DAY
WHEN the sad bells toll athidnitfht
' the nation will be, in theory at least,
bone dry. Wartime enforcement laws
were not always obeyed even in the liquor
trade. But all people interested in the
business have been manifesting a whole
some respect for the rules laid down in
the prohibition amendment. The clause
which forbids the transportation of in
toxicants is the one whirh 's likely to
Jiave the most general effect.
It is clear ulready that the troubles of
prohibition will not be exclusively among
the friends of the frisky demon. The
Agents charged with the duty of en
forcing the law will have no easy time.
Yesterday the Internal Revenue Depart
ment demanded 2,000,000 of Congress to
pay 2500 watchmen, u ho, the amazed
committee was told, will be requiied to
guard vast quantities of whisky still held
under bond. The whisky is outlawed. It
cannot b'e shipped. As a basis for com
mercial spirit it is hardly worth elaborate
outlays such as that now proposed. This,
perhaps, is only the first note of con
fusion. Vast expenditures by the gov
ernment 'will be necessary to sustain the
new law.
CLEANING UP
TT IS apparent that dirty street's wcic
- not the sorriest legacy left behind by
the faction recently ousted from author
ity at City Hall. Director Cortelyou's
program of reorganization in the Police
Department, like Chief Davis's plan for
n clean-up in the Water Bureau, is sig
nificant, not of a new seiies of political
maneuvers, but of the extent of the de
terioration brought about in the munic
ipal service by the most reckless soil of
factional jobbery.
Mr. Davis, who has always been known
as an able official, is acting like a man
ribwly liberated. No one can question the
cpropriety of his desire to get all deud-
. , ttobd out of a department which, because
of its physical limitations, is most acute
ly in need of an efficient personnel. The
Water Bureau appears to have been
weighted down by men who drew wages
for political toil alone. So far as it im
possible to judge at this time, Chief Cor
telyou, in the general reassignment of
minor police officials, is striking at the
'root of corrupt politics.
When there has been giaft or crimi
nality in the police districts or indecent
relationships between the Police Depart
ment and lawbreakers, the rank and file
e the men in the service knew little of
what was going on and benefited less.
The offenders were the men higher up.
And yet captains and lieutenants in the
police service wjre often helpless. They
were sloughed in the morasses of petty
intrigue created about them by profes
sional heelers.
It is unlikely, therefore, that all the
officials moved by the new police admin
istration will regret the change. Sonic
of hem will. In either case the general
rearrangement in police districts where
politics and crime were in one way or
another associated cannot but have a
beneficial result.
Meanwhile the grip of an antagonistic
faction on the police service is being
thoroughly shaken. No one can blame
the Mayor and his associates if they play
politics in self-defense. You have to fight
the devil with fire. But the present and
prospective shake-ups seem actually in
tended primarily for the good of the pub
lic service. And if Cortelyou and Davis
and other executives in the new admin
istration have to cut deep it is chiefly
because factional inefficiency was pretty
deeply rooted.
KANSAS SETS THE PACE
T" HE lower house of the Kansas Legis
lature has passed Governor Allen's in
dustrial court bill and it is announced
that the upper house is likely to follow
the lead of the lower bod.
This is a good beginning, and it is es
pecially good for the reason that they aie
calling the governor's bill an anti-strike
measure. They are not mealy-mouthsd
about the matter at all, because they
- understand that the purpose of the bill
' Ns to prevent the stopping of industry by
strikes and to substitute negotiation and
" aditfclicution for violence in settling labor
disputes.
Kansas is setting the pace. The other
states cannot afford to lag behind in the
, procession that is moving toward the
""achievement of justice for the employed,
the employer and best of all for the
piibjic at laige.
k THE GEOGRAPHY OF IT
AFIER the caucus of the Democratic
Senators adjourned yesterday after
noon without succeeding in agieeing on a
Ueder, the line-up in support of Hitch
)c, of Nebraska, and Underwood, of
Alabama, wus disclosed.
?i?'TSCh candidate had nineteen votes.
"riHirteen of the supporters of Hitchcock
c'iej from northern states and twelve of
Ufa supporters of Underwood were south
rww Jf we count Missouri 'ami Pkl-
.' s
homa as Bouthern states, fourteen Under
wood votes camo from the South.
Senator Smith, of Georgia, a southern
er, who is understood to regard the can
didacy of Underwood favorably, did not
vote, and Carter Glass, who has been ap
pointed to the Sennte from Virginia, was
not present. Ho has not yet taken his
seat. Glass is said to regard Underwood
as the proper man to lead the minority.
The caucus will meet again when the
two candidates can agree on a date. Un
less there is a change in the situation in
the meantime, it looks very much as if
the southerners would elect their candi
date, as they ought to do if the party is
to be directed by a man representing the
group of slates in which the Democrats
arc in the majocfty.
RELUCTANT MR. HOOVER PLAYS
HOB WITH PARTISANSHIP
His Unique Role in the Presidential Race
Embarrasses the Politicians and
Cheers the Public
OHOltTLY after the national election of
1!)1C, a member of the Amcricnn Com
mission for the Relief of Belgium ad
dressed the Engineers' Club of this city.
Speculation on Woodrow Wilson's prob
able successor in the presidency followed
discussion of the war topic. The speaker
was asked his views.
"I don't know much about politics," he
apologized, "but I should say that the
next President of the United States will
be Heibert C. Hoover. He is the greatest
American nlive today."
A current of laughter, boin chiefly of
bewilderment, rippled through the gath
ering. Auditors who knew vaguely who
Mr. Hoover was were quite as much
amazed as those who had never heard of
him before. The forecast was charitably
relegated to the realm of the preposter
ous. The other night in New ork Julius H.
Barnes, federal wheat director, categor
ically considered Mr. Hoover as a pres
idential possibility. His audience, 1100
members of the National Wholesale Dry
Goods Association, was nol the least sur
prised at the conjecture. Indeed, the
chief emotion stirred was one of raptur
ous relief. Hero at last was hopeful in
dication that Mr. Hoover might! permit
his name to be introduced in the coming
national campaigns.
But the old persistent clement of the
seemingly prcposteious was not yet re
moved. Nobody knows and this prob
ably includes Herbert C. Hoover himself
on what ticket he will run if hu docs
urn. Nobody knows and again we ven
ture to include Mr. Hoover whether he
will lun at all.
It is useless to seek the politicians.
Their oracular pietcnsions on this sub
ject lamentably break down The situa
tion has gone beyond them. Thov had
nothing 'whatever to do with making it,
although they may be compelled in the
end to give it cognizance.
There is no "Hoover boom." That
phrase implies an eager, self-seeking
candidate, an organization of profes
sional boosters, a brigade of press agents,
an army of propagandists and an as
semblage of political machinery dpigned
to produce a "hand-picked candidate."
Under these familiar conditions the pub
lic's powers of initiative are decidedl
restricted. The people can merely ac
cept such a piesidciitial aspirant or they
can reject him.
But in the phenomenal historical drama
that is(nov being enacted the public has
restless ambitions to be the stage man
ager. If this desire is consummated, if
the large-scale popular enthusiasm for
Herbert C. Hoover is eventually trans
latable into distinct political terms, a
genuine and exalting tevolutinn will be
under way. Its progress will meyn that
the widespread disgust with professional
political methods has borne definite fruit.
.Since national party conventions first
took cliaige of presidential possibilities
thej have never been confronted with a
situation faithfully akin to this one. Of
Mr. Hoover's fitness to he the chief
magistrate of these states no rational,
honest American can doubt. His mastery
of the complexities of the food problem at
home and abioad, his supeib adminis
trate e gifts, his comprehension of inter
national affairs, European and Asiatic;
his phjsical and mental vigor, his sincere
and unspectacular patriotism, his disdain
of political trickery, his predilection for
facts instead of theories, his sound and
ethical grasp of business and social
lelationships constitute a remarkable
equipment.
Hoover's services to the nation have
been vital and tangible. They are espe
cially significant as an index of his worth
as a constructionist, which is the type
of administrator which every nation on
earth primarily needs today.
His past lecord is quite as concretely
informing as his prospects are veiled and
mystifying. His prominence in a unique
situation lias embarrassed the political
inner circles and delighted the formerly
helpless geneial public. The latter has
fast been losing faith in the conventional
party terminology.
Democratic and Republican "prin
ciples" are astoundingly acrobatic nowa
days. The faction which formerly ad
vocated decentralization is now the
champion of federal control. Similar
somersaults have been taken on the
subject of world interest and isolation.
Absolute free trade is now not even
whispered by the Democrats. Despite
traditions and some platform essentials
not et surrendered the two great parties
of the nation are, perhaps, broadly class
ifiable as the "Ins" and the "6uts."
It is natural, therefore, that the public
should think in terms of men rather than
in political formulas. This explains the
deep interest in Mr. Hoover and the com
parative indifference save in the old
guard partisan camps to his political
affiliations.
And yet the practical aspects of this
singular case cannot be disregarded.
They are almost as puzzling as was the
submission of Mr. Hoover's name to the
Engineers' Club in what now seems a
remote and rather unintelligible age. It
is asserted that twice in his life Mr.
Hoover voted the Republican ticket and
then quit. He loyally served'the Wilson
administration, urged the election of a
Democratic Congress in 1918, and is sid
to believe in the ratification of the treaty
witl'out reservation..
JI'x friptnl. Mr. But nes, a sef-an-
EVEOTNG PUBLIC Ll3DaEI
nounced "life-long" Republican, is not at
all dismayed by this recent record. Ho
proclaims that Mr. Hoover's scintilla of
political preference inclines him to the
party which produced Taft and Roosevelt
and defines his "candidate" as a Progres
sive Republican who would have pre
ferred Wilson to havo been defeated in
1912. Later advices insist that the
former food administrator spells his
progrcssivism with a small "p," which
means that it is dispassionately large and
dispassionately liberal.
His "platform," if political convention
compels us to use the word, is explicitly
expressed in his recent "Some Notes on
Industrial Reconstruction" written for
the Saturday Evening Post. There is a
great deal of sound economics in this ad
mirable treatise and particular emphasis
on his cardinal "plank."' of "equal oppor
tunity." But of partisan politics not a
glimmer is revealed!
To cap the climax, Mr. Hoover is re
ported, and probably correctly, to be ex
ceedingly averse to entering the pres
idential race. His attitude docs not sug
gest the mock shyness of some previous
aspirants. Indeed, it is apparently so
sincere that not only the political leaders
but the people arc forced to consider
themselves somewhat rebuked.
What will be the outcome cannot be
prognosticated. The haulshell elements
in both parties are doubtless both op
posed to the nomination of Mr. Hoover,
should popular pressure move him to
change his present determination. Much
depends on the keynote which the Repub
licans will strike in their convention, the
first of the pair.
Should the "Old Guard" prevail. Mr.
Hoover, according to Mr. Barnes's horo
scope, might be found in the rival ranks.
On the other hand, Democracy with a big
"D," would be likely to accept Mr. Hoover
only with cousideiablc pain.
In truth, should either party elect him,
its entity as Republican or Democratic
would be hard to outline. Politically, he
will "make" neither party and would be
apt in the partisan sense to complete its
demise.
The air is charged with potentialities of
political paradoxes and sensations. For
the injection of novelty into the presiden
tial contest, Herbert C. Hoover, who
hasn't lifted a finger to advance his pros
pects, takes the amazing prize.
WOMEN AND CITIZENSHIP
"EpOR clever women the realm of politics
-- is a newly discovered country filled
with novelty and wonder. They look
around them, for thu time being at least,
with eves that, being unsophisticated, are
therefore discerning. Unlike men, who
have been accustomed to the vote, they
are nut bored. They are not blase. Their
perceptions have not been dulled through
familiarity nor hardened in the weary
acceptance of things that are evil, or
flagrantly inconsistent. So women who
talk of politics talk critically.
Congicssmen go to sleep during ses
sions. Many of them are dull. They flee
from the floor when speeches are being
made. The ward systems arc corrupt.
Both political parties are dominated from
below by self-interested groups. Men
accept these sad truths. Women aie be
ginning to worry about them.
The school of citizens'iip established
hole by the suffi agists has been, there
fore, something of a revelation. Women
like new things. Their zeal for politics
may diminish. Now their intelligent ap
proach to the ditties of citizens challenges
lespect. A little while ago some people
were disposed to smile tolerantly at the
suggestion of a woman's school of pol
itics. Since then u good many people
have been wondeiing whether a similar
school for men who vote would not bo a
good thing for the community if men
could be induced to emoll as students.
The Uncoln Uigliwiij
While I!lou (lir bclwoi'ii (iroeu Tree
Wintr.v Winds niiil Wajnc Iuis tiiKcn
to itviatini. under the
able tuition of l'rof. ,!:ick frost. Zco
weather pri'veiilul lomplelinu of the inter
national liisliwaj at this point and the
macadam intitlbeil is ilNiipeiiriti! in dust
with the palace of Micresshe automobiles.
U took the ctheicticj of Mr. ford to piove
that the invention of Air. Mai-Adam amounted
to naught without the foituuntu discovery of
Colonel Drake.
The case of Hoover i
Anil fhe I'uhlir w i t li o ti t precedent.
I'robabl.v Will Ordinarily a man is
willing to believe in
the good faith of Hie public which wishes to
do him liouor. Here is one who sajs in
effect that the public will have to prove it
tinU.
William Allen White
From ltlecilins ,-as Governor Henry
Kansas Allen is the man the
country wants for
President. Oh. well, it is differences of
opinion that make piesidentinl races.
The Western Comet,
Cltalli I'inc NcriU'd clearing from this
port, lias a cargo of
2u,000 barrels of whisky. That's enough to
make uirj comet steer an erratic courie.
Nobody need go thirsty
Sober Soofli in Gloucester tomor
row. Two new aite
siau wells are producing.
The grunting of uu lujuuctiuu by Judge
Stanko restraining striking tailors from in
terfering with merchant tailors aud those
wiio wifh to enter their employ is not us
far-reaching in its importance us it would
be if refereuce to an existing state of vvur
were omitted.
Colonel 11 C lion. Quits 1'ennsy
Ilallroad Headline
Tills, of (nurse, is not wholly unexpected,
considering the date. Would that II. C. 1.
would depart with II. f. It,!
for the great bulk of the population
tomorrow will be no drcr than a hunch of
jcsterdajs.
Whether Hoover he Itepublican or
Democrat, he is undeniably u good American,
Meteorological Note Shifting
play around police headquarters.
w inds
As mediator, it is to be presumed Mr.
Moore will have .1 ('row to pick with Gruuily.
Trouble has acciimulaled for Mueterlinck
since lie crossed the Pond.
Nuvul lions continue to benrd Daniels
In his den.
- PHILAi)3iJLPHIA, ITEITj'.JANtTABf 6,'
CARNEGIE'S WAY
Great Ironmaster Enlisted In His
Service Skilled Men and Brought
put the Best That Was in Them
Ily CIIAKLKS M. SCHWAB
In "The Ration's Uusincss
TT IS nearly forty jenrs since 1 first knew
Mr. Carnegie. An n boy I met him when
he sojourned in the Alleghany Mountains for
his summer outings, and I little thought ut
that time, when I did trivial services for
him. that fnte in later years would so inti
mately throw our lives together.
Kven in those early days his personality
was such ns to Inspire one, whatever hts
station, to better efforts and tp an appreci
ation of the finer things In life not by what
he may hnvc written or spoken, hut just
bv the tender attitude of n strong person
ality. t
Never before, perhaps, in the history of
industry has n man who did not uuilorstnml
the business in its working details, who
made no prctcnc of being a technical steel
manufacturer, or n special engineer, build up
such n great nnd wonderfully successful en
terprise ns did Mr. Carnegie. It was not
beenuse he wns a skilled chemist, or a skilled
mechanic n skilled engiueer, nr n skilled
metallurgist: it was because lie hud the fac
ulty of enlisting people who were skilled
in those arts. .
While it may be an easy thing to enlist the
interest of such men. it is quite a different
thing to get their best efforts and lojal sup
port. Tn thnt Mr. Carnegie wns paramount
over all men that T have ever known.
T
HU tremendous
results which Mr. Car
were ulunvs obtnineil
through n spirit of unm-oval and never of
criticism. .Air. Carnegie was alwiiys one to
take j on by the hand and encourage nnd
approve. It was the rarest thing in the
world to hear him criticize the actions of
others, especially in a business sense.
How every man rcsnonds with his best
efforts under such conditions! In my wide
association in life, meeting with many nnd
great men in v minus parts of the world. T
have yet to find the man, however great or
evnlted his station, who did not do better
work and put forth greater effort under a
spirit of nnnroval than he would ever do
under a spirit of criticism.
Many venrs ago when T wns manager of
he Tiraddock works, at n time when money
was not too plentiful in the Carnegie com
pan.v . 1 had asked permission to put up n
new converting mill and it had been built.
It was everything 1 eP"cted it to he.
ever.vthin? I promised Air Carnegie it should
he. and he came out to liraddoek to see it.
As T wns slmwins him n-nund the works
and cxpluining Hie new mill he looked into
mv face and said: "Charlie, there is some
thing wrung about this. T can see by vour
cprcssjon that joii are disnnnointod. Tnere
is something wron with this mill."
I said: "No. Air. Carnegie, it is just
exactly what I tnld jou it would he and
w have reduced our cost lo the noint that 1
said we would. lint if T had it nil to do
again there is one thing which has jnst
recently been discovered that I would intro
duce here, nnd that I am sure would result
in further economy."
lie said: "Well, what does that mean?
C-m jnil chmigc fllis work?"
I said: "No. il would mean tearing this
down -intl rebuilding it."
"Wliv." ho said, "then that's the right
thin-: (o do. It's onlv a fool who will not
profit by anv Ihing flint 'mav have been over
looked and discovered after the work is
done. Tear it down nnd do it agaiu."
And although that converting mill hud
been runnlir; tvo "-months we did tear il
down nnd we did rebuild it. nnd the return
upon the capital thus .etprnded repaid the
g-ent firm many fold.
mllAT spirit was characteristic of Air.
--. t'linie-rie. lie did not sir in criticism.
'Win ilidn't vnu think of (his before?" If
lie I'cil lioon that fvne of, man who would
s-M tlinl soit of thing to me or to anv
manager he would never Irive learned of this
new idea that had developed, and as a re-
nil the linn would not hnve reaoed the
benefit of the littler mill. lint that is the
wav Air. Csmcjio inspired us all.
Another phnse of his character was thor
oughness, and Hint mav he illustrated b"
this. which shows how his mind worked all
around u subnet. In those olden dnvs when
perhaps we had n profit statement which,
showed that the lmu had made five or sW
h'indred thousand dollars in a month, or pos.
iliiv more, and I would go to him with pride
"n.l siiv. "Mr, faviieie. wn have made'
S.-.OO.nnO this month." it would not be u
s-iirit of gratification alone that he mani
fested. He would saj : "Show me vour cost
sheets. It is more interesting to know how
cheaply and hnw well joii have done this
thing thnn how much money jou have made,
because Hie one is a temporary result, due
posspilv to special conditions of trade, but
the other means a permanency that will go
on with the works us long as the.v lasl'
TM'IUNCi the great war the one spirit that
' seemed to animate everv man. no matter
how great his station in life nnd indeed
the greater or the more aristocratic that was.
the more lie tried to live up to II wns the
spirit of democnicv . Mr. Carnegie nil the
veurs of his life was the simple democrat
that we preach of todav. Tie never had a
particle of snobbishness in his character, nor
could he tolerate it in others.
He numbered among his friends not nlnne
the great anil the rich nnd the powerful of
the world, but the honest working mail and
woman in anv eanaeitj who was truly doing
the best possible in n straiglitforwurd wuy
to accomplish something.
Among Air. Carnegie's best friends were
those he made in business. He had no weal;
sentiment as tn business, but he believed that
it was best accomplished under happy condi
tions. A certain picture used in hang on the
wall in the directors' room of the Carnegie
mill.
It seems that some criticism was innde,thnt
it was not sufhViontlv dignified for the place.
That reached Mr. Carnegie's ears and he
sent the picture to me and said. "Hang tills
in your room." It wus n picture of a jelly
old monk who owned nothing but the robe on
his back. Air. Carnegie added, "Any time
that ;inu feel blue or inclined to be despond
ent just look ut this old monk's happy
countenance and jour depression will dis
appear." lie used to suv. "Alwu.vs remember that
good business is never done evcent in a hnppv
and contented frame of mind." That was
Air. Carnegie's philosnphj : that is the way
lie acffd with nil of us bojs, and that Is the
leasnu we loved him so much.
Air. Carnegie has not departed, except in
the body ; his influence and the imprint that
he made on the minds of nil of us live with
us today just us strongly as ever, ne was
n great mnn among men. ne has left his
influence and the force of his personal phi
losophy upon thousands, not because of his
great business ubility nor his vast philan
thropies, but because of the ideals that he
practiced nnd thnt he set for every mnn who
has his life to lire
ThP trouble with Mr. Palmer's cam
pnign Is that he Js liable to manufacture
more discontent thnn ho deports.
"S'POSEv WE ASK HIM IN AND HAVE! A
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Streets
"I HAVH seen sunsets gild the pillarcJ steam
- Where IJroud Street Station hoops with
arches dark
The westcrti lite; and seen the looming,
stark
Crags of the Hull grow soft iu morning
gleam.
One drowsj eve I wandered far to murk
The Neck, a laud of opal color-scheme:
And kuow no fairer place to watch uud dream
Thuu on a bench iu old Penn Treaty Park.
A ND there arc corners, glimpses, houses,
- streets,
Willi curious satisfaction in the view,
And uuc,oufessed swift momen when one
meets
, The destiny of human life aucw.
A city rarely beautiful' I kuow . . .
It is not men ulouc who make it so,
AI. Maeterlinck, we understand, estimutes
the citsh vuIiip of the Alcssago ho was going
to give to the American public ut .f'JO.tlOO.
llathcr thuu puy us much us that for ma
terial for the Dish we have decided to go
ahead and give the public Our Own Message
instead.
.Tust'us soon ns we decide what that Ales
suge will be, we will spring it.
One result of the so-called constitutional
amendment will be, perhaps, to turn this
iuto n uution of seafarers Once, uguiii the
American flag will be seen in everj port in
search, we presume, of the foreign flugou.
The American flagon, suggests Dove Dul
cet, bus been seen in every export rcccntl.v.
Friends
THU faces were struuge, the buildings tall;
The city was great, and I was small,
And I was a thousuud miles fiom home
Who hud never been west of Vermont before.
ALONG the streets I walked, of nights.
Through level miles of hostile lights
And earned for the heaving hills of home
Aud the pale ulght-mist on the vullej floor.
"OUT I came, iu the end, to a little park
-'-' Where grass wus soft, and trees, in the
dark.
Whispered iu voices I knew well
Aud nodded ubovc me, frieudl.vwise.
E1
ILM and maple, uud ouk aud ush,
Black spruce-shadow and birch's flash
Nnmes of all of them 1 could tell
And they were home to mv homesick ejes.
STKPIIKN W. MKADHIU-
Round the Town
I
T'S just a mile. On evenings
That weie dark blue nnd bland,
Aly grandfather used to walk it
With u lantern in his bund,
I'ust meeting-house and meadow laud.
Of T that was IStSO,
-'-' If jou would wulk it now,
At sunset time electric ejes,
Promptly from pole and bough,
I'eer forth to show jou how.
WI1KN
W I eh
HKN I urn old und whimsical,
oose no bigger blne
Than inv own hand can carry
To twinkle uisy rajs
Hound these ojd-fashioued wnjs.
A ND 1 want no grandchild with me,
Who will not understand
My wish to wulk nt evening'
I'nst meeting-house and meadow land
With n lantern in my hand !
wiNifuni) wnu,n8.
Lieut Comes Back
The sex wnr proceeds merrily. It seems
rather appropriate uud a bit pathetic, too,
considering that today '.s todaj'-v-that Ideut's
last commiiuicutinn reaches us mulled in a
paper drinking cup. Because, says he, if he
used one of his office envelopes wp might blub
his identity Little does he know how dis
creet we ure Some of the most terrible se
crets in Philadelphia have beeu confided to
us, uud we have never turned u hulr,
Lieut's poem is too long for u to print
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cntirc, but the gist of it is rathe startling.
Thus he retorts to Marjorinc:
'Tis plain u man's
A fool who plans
, To help the dames
Whom AIcFce pans.
Because you see,
It haps to be
'Tis AIuc they love,
for him they'd dee.
Moral
Dear Murjorine, from jour rebuff
I've leurned a lesson cleur enough:
'Tis them they love can treut 'em rough.
LIEUT.
The
Cup of the Wind
milH Wind
is my cup-ueurer, many
the
- savors
He brings mo to quaff from the luud, from
the sea ;
Of love and of laughter, of sorrow nil flavors
I drink from the golllet lie offers to inc.
The scent of the wild waves, the fragrance of
flowers
Whut sounds and what odors, und none of
them doled.
Arc blent with the louiuucc of long-vanished
hours
That brightened it world that is now grovv
Ing'old. fTUIli wine of the AVind from the vincjard
of Time
Only the favorites of fancy may drink;
Aud swift with its quaffing the bubbles of
rhj me
Leap to the bruin from the charmed gob
let's brink :
The magical cup holds u wonderful vintuge;
Poets hnvc drunk of it early und long.
Void of color u marvelous tintuge
It gives to the dreams of the children of
song.
THU jo.vs of life and its tragedies, too,
'The AVind hath distilled them and treas
ured them up :
Though lost iu the silence they maj be lo you
for the singers of tongs they are ull iu
the cup:
The shrieks of the drowning, the sighiug of
lovers.
The cry of the new -born, the laugh of the
bride.
The rattle of buttle, the I'oet discovers
And ravings of lost souls within it ubidc.
AND sturlight -und moonlight in islands
ufur,
And flowers that blossomed and shattered
unknown ;
And fancies that merely to speak is to mar,
That enter und dwell iu.the heart all uloue;
I'rnjcrs tliut only ure uttered by tears,
Love Hint's too sacred for vowing to bind,
And longings ineffable only God hears
A poet finds all iu the Cup of the AVind.
SAMt'KL MINTURN PRCK.
Social Chat
Much alarmed by the news of a conflagra
tion at our favorite doughnut factory tlio
other day, wo hastened thither. AVe took
with uu, aa a bodyguard, the Qulzedltor tlio
Soothsayer and the editor of the Beauty Cor
ner. All were relieved to And the trallic
proceeding as usual. Tho Qulzedltor ex
pressed his thankfulness by buying u lound
dozen, which were lndcntuied at A'eranda's,
accompanied by fried shrimps.
Friendship never meant as much as it does
tills evening. The secret clink ot real estate
transfers will be heard in many a secluded
cellar.
Mr. IJllery, Sedgwick, the editoi of the
Atlantic Monthly, Is now in town. AVo
printed jesterday's dispatch from AVllllifm
Mcfec, our star correspondent. Just to show
Mr. Sedgwick that he still lias the Dish to
compete with.
Wo wish to warn our udomhlo feminine
clients, by the way, to bo on tho lookout for
another very vlgoious dispatch from Mr
McFee, which wo shall shortly print. It Is
called "The feminist Menace," und will cause
acute suffering.
When told, some tlmo ago, by our West
Chester corresondciit, that Joo Herge
hlieimer hud been learning how to shoot cruo
we wondered whut would bo the outcome AV'o
know now The slory la In the Century
Mugnzlne this month. Nona no resolute iui
Joo In pursuit of local color.
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SOOitATJSS.
REAL GAME?"
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This Shall Be the Bond
rpHlS shall bo the bond between us, mate
-- of my heart
Stir of willow branches where the gapliDj:
start,
Out of sedgy meadows .by the downhill
Btreatu
Where tho air lies deep in dream.
This shall be the bond between us, windiug
in the sun
In and out from yesterday till all our daj
ure done, 4
Tho free, onward flowing of the full -hearted
river
Past reeds fiut rustle und quiver.
Ache of throbbing heavens torn by bursting
storm,
Tang of bitter wood -smoke where our food
waits warm,
And the dear, broken music of the hurd
driven rain.
And the cold or thirst or pain
i
These shall be a bond between us unto th"
end,
Aud 'the unknown venture where the singins
rapids bend
To the clean, white danger of the foamins
rip, .
AVhere our boat must dunce nnd dip.
Ringing of the pebbles where the riffles are
shallow,
Pleasant quip ot quail in the fields Iods
fallow,
A,ud the down's quaint chorus out of old
delight,
.And the sweet-scented peace of night;
Blowing of the merry buds, rosy, blue, and
yellow,
flushing ot the wild fruits until they are
mellow,
Strawberries, ruspberries and saucy winter
preen, All rich things heard and seen ;
for the love of ull wild thiugs is warm upon
our lips, . .
Tho old earth is answered in our chngiot
finger-tips, .
We ure growing full-hearted ns the rivers
grow great
This shall be the bond, my mate.
Alarguerite AVilkinson in Scribner s.
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What Do You Know?
I
QUIZ
1. What is a hierophnnt?
2. What is the middle name of Herbert
Hoover?
II. Name two rivers of India? I(
4. AVkat is the meaning of "impasto
applied to puinting?
5. The death of one American President ft"
been ascribed to his partaking of few
milk and cherries. Who was tins
President? ... .
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7.
Whut is the mcaniug ot tnc '""'
phinsc "infra dig." .
Name the twer queens of France
belonged to the fnmous I-lorcntiw
family of the Medicis?
Which of the two national party
8.
ventions this year is to do nem ....
When wus the story of Hip A an AMnKie
0.
' first published?
10, AVImt is u surtax?
Answers to Yesterday's Qulr
1. The three largest Btates of Germany "
Prutsia, Bavaria and Wurtcinbctf.
2. The leaguo of nations covenant is J
posed of twenty -six articles and "
annex. .rni.
a. Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Mont
negro were allied against Turkey U
the first Balkan war of l,01--1',:
4. The diplomatic phrase "fult accompli.
means "accomplished fact. (t
5. It should be pronounced as tuousu
were spelled "foy tuceoropK. '
thu '"com" sounded nasally. .
0. Cardinal IUchclieu lived during the r
of Louis XIII of France. IIQi
1. .Tunics Buchanan was known as
Public Functionary."
8. A sonnet contains fourteen lines.
0. Genernl George II. McClelUn was
rival candidate against Lincoln for
presidency 1804. )(j.
10. Tho ofticst nctivo voicam. ... - , j
is Popocatttpetl, 17,748 feet above HVJ
level.
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