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Ul rights of republication of special dts vatches herein, are also reserved. Ph Udrlphia. S.lurdav. January 31. l":0 CUFF FROM GAFFNEY T71ROM the eloquent epicedium delivered by Councilman Joseph P. GafFney. leader of the Left, over the new Council's salary roll we cu'l the following choice expressions as worthy of preservation: Poppycock lnexpcrienec.il political Ocm or a loh creditors Steam rnltorni; alet secretary for presi- Pat jobs ilenr lunkct Soft job for a soldier of Fat salar.es Untune po'itics : ! : Not that we would intimate that these terms were original with Mr. Gafifncy fur bo it, for they have a strangely famil iar sound. But they are interesting chiefly as showing a state of mind on his part that we venture to assert would never have been suspected of the genial, suave and usually dignified gentleman who used to function as the chairman of the omnipotent finance committee in the old Councils. From mere reformers jaundiced-eyed, meticulous, inquisitive, suspicious re formers who were a pest to hard-working regulars accustomed to obeying orders such testy utterances were to be expected in the past. They were the stock in trade of the members scornfully known to all the handy boys as chronic kickers, but we never expected to sec Mr. GafFney cast urbanity to the winds and indulge in them. Well, well, times change, and men change with them. Plainly it must be very much less comfortable to be Left than Right. Yet it used to be a motto of Sturdier times in the City Hall game never to let your winning opponent see how painfully defeat galled ycu. Wc mourn for M GafFney'.-. lost savoir fairc. A VARE MAN TOTERS may vote and reform eis may pirc, and the critics may rage and rhev public may hope, but it will be a long time before politics in this city am be made altogether free of a scourge that is as deep rooted as typnoid and as hard to fight as boll weevils. Chief Hepburn, of the Buieau of Street Cleaning, had stanling proof of all this when, while the city wondered why dirt and disease-laden debris remained on big and little thoroughfares, hs found en lightenment in the frank confession of an inspector who said, bluntly: I'm a Vr- man I :i uo here when ou ml Mayor Moori are Rone. If Senator " are tells me to k anything I'll do it if 1 have to bo nacK on the ash carl to morrow This man was (Uncharged after he had been accused of a lefusal to report fla grant violations of the street-cleaning contracts His name ought to be pub lished. And his statement of motives and principles should be largely engraved somewhere in a conspicuous place where voters might read it when they are dis posed to wonder what has been the mat ter with Philadelphia. ENDING A FERRY ANNOYANCE A WELCOME lemoval of a penalty on " prepared ness i- contained in the order of Regional Director Baldwin that trains in the Caniicn station must wait not only for the connecting ferryboats whose departure us particularized "in the time tables, but aho for any preceding boats that may lie delayed. Under the old system passengers en dowed with u special "zeal for prompti tude wore most unfairly handicapped. If their boats, boarded ahead of time, hap pened to bt late iheir trains pedantically and inconsiderately steamed out of the station according to schedule. While, however, the new ruling is com mendable, it serves a No to accentuate the difficulties '. boat and rail connections. There wil- no necessity for the trains to leave m Camden terminal behind time when :i.p tiolleys whisk over the Delaware undge. Responsibility will then rail du- ly on the individual pirs sengcr, be Ins tendencies dilatory or hustling. DEMOCRATIC REPARTEE "TJNDKRTAKKU!" shouted Governor Edwards, of New Jersey, at Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, afttr a doleful refer ence to the Cominonei's work within his paity. "Murder! ' nailed Mr. Ilryan over half the country, in answer to Governor Ed wards, when he wished to define in one dreadful word the result of labor done for this same party by Mr. Edwards and ,olher ''wets." Tlfjth gentlemen seem to agree by in ference that their party is done in. Mow and then you will find a Democrat who has an uncanny talent for clear dis cernment. .PEACE-LOVING MILLINERS Pal "jruCH na the call from New York to $J Jyftl'lilludelphla for a homely girl to J. l tirv elf pretty hats for the Retail Mil- 118' Association Is to be resented, the :iiiyftUan hud t leust tho virtue of ignor 'in'r okl rivalries. Mlgldicntion" is not "everf i Wl suv,e :c n Hi topsy- lurvy realm of Carroll's Alice. We are quite eontcnt to bo bracketed with New York when it comes to a shortage of unattrac tive danise' . Tho enforced conclusion is either that the millinqrs did not want any models at all or that they feared a request for fair lasses might reopen the world war. For there arc precisely as many hamlets, towns, cities, states, nations and conti nents with the prettiest girls on earth as there arc hamlets, towns, cities, states, nations and continents. The council of the League of Nations, whatever its scope, wouldn't dnrc touch any competi tive aspects of this topic. True, there are certain grudgingly ac cepted conventions regarding the come liness of tht ladies of Cadiz, Seville, Aries, Burmnh, Tahiti, Caucasian Geor gia and the Marquesas. But these legends are not convincing to Philadel phia, New York, Baltimore, Louisville and New Orleans. We doubt even if they are convincing to Boston. On the whole, it seems better for the milliners to have been merely rude than the instruments of a tierce belligerency. EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS MUST FINANCE THEMSELVES And the United States Must Practice EconomySo That Privatt Funds May Be Available to Relieve Old World Industry OECRETAi Y GLASS'S inference that the AmCi.can people are not willing to tax themselves to pay the interest on the debt of European nations is based on a proper understanding of the state of mind on this side of the ocean. The European nations already owe the United States Government $9,450,000,000 on which they arc unable to pay the in terest. This money either has been bor rowed by the government from the American people or raised by taxation. But it is a debt owed by the American Government andit must be carried until such time as the European nations dis charge it. The suggestion has been made that we cancel it in the interest of world solvency. Along with this suggestion conies the proposition of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States that a group of American representatives of commerce and finance confer with a similar group of Europeans for the purpose of discov ering how much mor.. noncy Europe needs from this eountrj to save it from bankruptcy. But there is no disposition here to put up more public money for the use of the European governments. As Secretary Glass points out, those governments can not be controlled from Washington and we can have no control over the expendi ture of money lent to them. While the gravity of the financial situation of Europe is admitted, the secretary holds that the governments over there must adjust their financing to their resources and that the funds for the industrial rehabilitation of the fighting nations must be raised by the ordinary processes of private financing. Arrangements for such financial aid have already been made by the Edge law, which authorizes the formation of for eign trade corporations to advance money to European business men who wish to purchase American products and to float here in the form of debenture bonds the loans thus made. This plan relieves the government of financial responsibility and it provides a way for facilitating in ternational trade. There should go along with Secietary Glass's objections to the use of public money to relieve Europe a definite and positive policy of economy in the use of public funds for domestic purposes. But Congress does not seem to be devoting that attention to the conservation of the financial resources of the nation that con ditions demand. The interest on the national debt now amounts to about a billion dollars a year. Advocates of compulsory military train ing for the youth are attempting to se cure the passage of a bill which will call for another billion dollars annually to carry out its provisions. A group of western senators and rep resentatives is working for a loan of S250,000,000, on which the interest at a high rate would have to be paid, for the reclamation of arid and waste lands. The congressmen accustomed to spending money by the billion during the war re gard this as a trivial sura, and are as tonished at their moderation in asking for so little. They have lost their sense of values and their sense of proportion just as many of the business men who were drafted into government work during tho war have found themselves temporarily disqualified to do private work. The situation was described by an en gineer who had been supervising con struction work when he said that he no longer know the value of a dollar. He had been ordered to push his work to completion regardless of the cost, so he had been concentrating his mind on re sults and not on anything else. It was not necessary for the government to earn money dividends on the capital invested. All it wanted was a product in the short pst possible time. But private Jbusine.-s c'annot he con ducted in this' way. Neither can public business bo long managed without dis aster unless serious attention is given to tho relation of the value of a product to the monoy spent for it. Tho western congressmen have forced tho paring down of the rivers and harbors bill, while they insistently demand that a much larger sum be used for the social istic projects of land reclamation in sparsely populated states. Such a pro vincial view ought not to prevail. Yet the states of Idaho. Wyoming. Utah, New Mexico and Montana, with a total popula tion no larger than that of the city of Philadelphia, have ten men in the Senate committed to the reclamation projects, while thorp are only six senatois inter ested in the development of the Delaware river. It should be obvious that when Con gress has to cut down its appropriations it should not diminish tho amounts spent to benefit large populations while it inrrcased the amounts asked for by small groups of people. If appropriations arc to be scaled down and every one seems to ad mit that they must be they should bo scaled down with ome regard to the populations affected. fliii m linrul satin fur now imnrove- ments.is out of the ijuestion at the preii- cut time. The war loans have not been digested. They arc clogging the banks and absorbing money thaF should be freed for the use of ordinary business. Men bought the bonds under pressure. Many of them who might have paid for them gradually out of their current in comes have spent their incomes for other purposes and arc still allowing tho banks to carry the bonds for them. Some of tho banks have begun to demand the pay ment or reduction of the loans, and busi ness men arc finding it difficult to adjust themselves to the situation. There will bo trouble and uncertainty until these government securities have been paid for out of the earnings of the people and have ceased to become a bur den on tho banks. And until this time comes it will be virtually impossible to float a government loan for any purpose whatsoever. If we cannot borrow money for national improvements we cannot borrow it to lend to Europe for business purposes. RELIEF BY FOOD DRAFTS T7EAR of the red tape which sometimes -1- cribs and confines humanitai-ian enter prises need not be entertained regarding the system of food drafts for Europe, which are now purchasable in Philadel phia and other American financial cen ters. Mr. Hoover recently announced that as soon as shipping conditions permitted the relief administration would enable indi viduals to purchase these drafts at banks, and that the European friend or relative in whose favor it was drawn could cash the slip in for food as soon as it reached him by mail. Provisions are now stored in great warehouses in Warsaw, Ham burg, Vienna, Budapest and Prague. American cargo vessels will keep them supplied. The whole process is refreshingly sim ple and explicit. Americans who, in view of the magnitude of the distress in Europe, may have felt personally impo tent can now easily indulge their gener ous impulses. Three banks in this city already have the drafts for sale. Similar institutions are to follow suit. A $10 draft will supply the beneficiary with twenty-four and a half pounds of flour, ten pounds of beans, eight pounds of bacon and eight cans of milk. The costly trimmings of relief drives are eco nomically eliminate-. Laudable in spirit as these were, the change is stimulating, and it ought to be inspiring to Americans who know of specific cases of suffering. REVEAL FLETCHER'S FINDINGS CRITICISM of the administration's un- intelligible Mexican policy frequently meets with the letort that the general public is not in possession'of sufficient facts to argue the question. This is per haps true, but the fact in itself consti tutes an exceedingly weak defertse. Correct information about Mexico is sorely needed in this country. The State Department, however, pursues a policy of mystery and concealment, and in the past has even requested the exemption of the whole topic from journalistic discussion. If this attitude was defensible during the critical war period it is so no longer. For this reason, among others, the with holding from the public of Ambassador Fletcher's resignation letter seems un justifiable, i Mr. Fletcher may hive summed up some significant facts concerning the Carranza government and the effects upon it of our own government's vacillation. Disclosure of his findings would enable Americans, quite apart from partisan considerations, to obtain some intelligent and specific view of Mexican affairs. The public has no desire either to criticize in ignorance or to be merely ignorant and mute. Mi- l'uLlinc Gold llinrn Discouraged iniirk. manager of the women's service scc tiou of the railroad administration, in her annual report to Director General Ilines. says SI .SO,", women are still in the railroad service and that women will undoubtedly progress further in all forms of work. Which suggests that in 10.10 Mr. Paul Silvermark. superintendent of the municipal ereclie and employment bureau, may teport to the Mayor that the number of men enrolled for general housework-ha increased to 'teen thousand, while the number of t!io?e win are taking the rnursp for the rare oF small children has grown at so gratifying u late as to encourage the hope that they may in ihe near future fit themselves- for the station in life in wluch the stronger and more competent sex has placed tliein. There is a great deal Ma Wurli With Hi in a name, Shaltcs Kose; Not Willi Flu peare to the contrary notwithstanding. New York lias more acs of "flu" this winter than last. Hut in October. 101S. a dread discaf' was labeled "flu" and public excite ment was iu a measure allayed. This year the penalty is being paid for the euphemism, for there is a disposition to think of the "flu" or "grippe" prevailing as identical with the plague that a year ago swept the country. Condemnation of "Al Tlmr Will Tell bion's perfidy in Per sia" should be tem pered by the fact that strictures stress al leged world-dNsatisfartion with the present treaty and work the light pedal on the indus trial .and political conditions that made a bargain, admittedly bordering on a protec torate, pcrhnp." a present necessity. It might be well to reserve judgment until nil tbc oards are on the table. Lord I.eve-liulme in an interview in New York said be favored prohibition for I'jiiglanil. lie added that it would enable Great Britain to pay all her debts in live years. Here is one man who was not carried into the House of Lords by beer. He was wanned in with soap. Satisfaction in the fact that a London-lo-New York airline is one of the possibilities of the near future is tempered by the knowl edge that It is an English combination that has the enterprise in hand and not an Ameri can one. The .Marylnnd Legislature is considering the making of a law requiring four days to elapse between the issuance of a license nnd thp performance of the marriage ceremony. This Is cruel blow to Hlkton and Dan Cupid. A Japanese acquitted of murder in Los Angeles is paying board to the sheriff for the privilege of rcmaiuiug in jail. This is disquieting. It throws doubt -in the declara tion that the way of the transgressor is hard. There is a girl in a New York hospital whose specialty is teaching babies to smile. The trascdy concealed Jn the fact is that there are babies who need to be taught,. WOODWARD LOOKS FORWARD New Secretary of Internal Affairs Has Force of Field Agents Collecting Flgures'Concernlng "the Indus-' tries of the State lly (IHOIlGti NOX McCAIN SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS WOODWARD is a very forehanded olli eiat. The spirit o( the, now dispensation ut llnrrisburg looms large before him. 1 lis latest innovation is one that is -'crtnlit to arouse the Interest and co-operation of every textile manufacturer in Philadelphia nnd southeastern Pennsylvania. 11c has es tablished an office for his bureau of statistics In this city. It isn't a large, commodious, well-furnished and elaborately equipped headquarters. Not by any means. It is a room with a desk and n few chairs that ho has commandeered In the suite of the Work men's Compensation Bureau. There arc no clerks, stenographers, secre taries or messengers. It is a business office, nnd will be open for business only about two days In the week. In this respect it differs from many other political offices, which usually arc open daily to give jobholders something to do and n place to go. ' , Here is the verbal blticpriut of the secre tary's scheme. rpHE Department of Internal Affairs muin--- tains a statistical bureau, which in turn employs n staff of field agents. It is the duty of this staff to collate all nvailablc fig ures concerning the industries' of the state: amount of production, cost and everything of interest pcrtainiug to work and wages. M. Hoke Gottschall is chief of the bureau. He is the product of a wide search for brains and competency, lie's a college man, with ideas of organization acquired through con tact with practical politics. He wus for yea's private secretary to Mayor E. V. Bab cock, of Pittsburgh. Any young man who has been trained in the 'Pittsburgh school of politics has no need of a post-graduate course in Harrisburg or Philadelphia. I have known Mr. Gottschall since his sophomore days in college, and he is a man worth knowing. He was appointed to his present position the first of the year, and already, as the late General Thomas .1. Stewart would remark, "he's got things run ning round iu circles." The statistical field agents have heretofore been reporting to headquarters iu Harris burg. On occasions they had to go up to Harrisburg on business. It cost time and the state's money and trouble. Hereafter they will stick on the job. Once or'twicc a week one of Mr. Gott sehall's deputies will come to Philadelphia, meet the field agents, receive their reports, map out their work and issue instructions on the ground. The advantages of the new system are self-apparent. Instead of a bunch of field agents running up to Harrisburg. Harrisburg comes to them. All of which indicates that M. Hoke Gott schall is on to his job. ANOTHER evidence of the perspicacity of Secretary AVoodward is that wheu he requires an expert he goes where experts are to be found. When he needed an apostle of tongue and jeu to keep the municipalities of the state posted on the vast and varied func tions of the department, he selected a news paper expert in the person of Robert T. Gor man. Gorman can talk as well as write. In his dual capacity he i another asset of worth. As I have aforetime said, every depart ment at Harrisburg is handicapped by a lack of publication facilities. Reports are held up for years. They are out of date before they aie iu print. The publication system is a farce. Hut Messrs. Woodward. Gottschall and Gorman will bridge the difficulty iu a way. It is proposed every three or four months to issue bulletins iu pamphlet form of the work of the statistical department. They will be up to date and available to every one interested. Just now the big statistical drive is on textiles. The first bulletin will have to do with this great Philadelphia industry. The action of the Department of Internal Affairs is a long step forward in efficiency. MY FRIEND John P. Doliouey. chief of the bureau of accidents of the Public Service Commission, is convinced of two things, he tells me, viz.. that wc are enter ing upon the horseless age and that the number of reckless fools is increasing out of proportion to the increase of population iu tho state. '. And he cites figures iu proof of his con victions. It is the business of the bureau of which Mr. Dohoney is the head to investigate every railway and trolley accident that occurs any where in the state. He knows, therefore, what he is talking about. The big majority of grade -crossing acci dents were to automobiles. Grade-crossing accidents to teams were t0 per cent less than the preceding year; while 2."0 occupants of automobiles were injured, only forty-seven riders iu horse-drawn vehicles met with in juries. Of all the persons injured at crossings, 01 per cent were struck at crossings protected by gates. This would seem almost inex plicable were it not. as Mr. Dohoney points out. that 01 per cent, 7 per cent less than the entire number, courted fate by crawling unler the gates. The pathetic side of thi. exhibit of crim inal negligence and idiotic disregard of per sonal safety is presented in the statement that four crossing watchmen were killed nnd thirteen injured in the attempt to keep the fools fiom rushing into the arms of death. While Mr. Dohoncy's assumption is correct that the number of fools 's increasing, it is also apparent that the fool-killer is on the job. WALTER T. MERRICK, former naval officer of this port, hefted '. is 2.10 pounds of smiling personality into the city yester day. It was the first. breathing spell, he informed me. that he had had in weeks. The Honornble Walter is. as usual, in politics up to his eyes. He is a candidate for Cougress up in the big Fifteenth district, hich comprises Lycoming. Tioga, Potter and Clinton counties. He is from Tioga. It is a triangular fight, with 'two other candi dates. Brua C. Kcefcr and Edgur R. Kicss, the present member, involved. Tne fact that Lycoming ccunty has held the congressional seat for twenty years, and that Tioga is always safely Republican, gives Mr. Merrick a mighty good nrd logical lever age in his fight. The demand for rotation in office is always a dangerous slogan, nnd Mr. Merrick will adorn his banners and the outer walls of the Fifteenth district with it in large and luminous letters. The further fact that Congressman Kiess has opposition in his own county leaves the doo'r of hope open to Merrick, who hopes to slip through while Keefer aud Kiess go to the mat. Some price -fixers get their idea of 'fair" from the weather bureau. It is the opinion of soldiers more or less wire that Itcrgdoll lacks intelligence enough to feign lunacy successfully. College presidents meeting iu Harris burg recommended that tuition fees be raised to meet rising costs and to permit of their receiving living salaries. Trnit gouge or strike committee? orsor K-tP . .JilllP JKr$ h 'O-s wMs- . ov i-i-i IJv!!,, I lllr "N (' I V'i- vu s NVlts, vkU.vv, u iwv i-'-'iwiWilKWiegii- x' XT . ,. v.,.WXgfcJ ,,, VA X . i- TT -' Vl I A ! V X. """. "X..- THE CHAFFING DISH On Making Friends pONSIDERING that most friendships arc made by mere hazard, how is it that men find themselves equipped and fortified with just the friends they need? Wc have heard of men who asserted that they would like to have more money, or more books, or more pairs of pyjamas: but we have never heard of a man saying that he did not have enough friends. For, while one can never have too many friends, yet those one has arc always enough. They satisfy us completely. One has never met a man who would say. "I wish I had a friend who would combine the good humor of A, the mystical enthusiasm of B, the love of doughnuts which is such an endearing quality in C, and who would also have the habit of giving Sunday evening suppers like D and the well-stocked cellar which is so deplorably lacking in E." No; the curious thing is that nt any time and iu any settled way of life a man is generally provided with friends far in excess of his desert, and also in excess of his capacity to absorb their wisdom and affectionate atten tions. THERE Is some pleasant secret behind this, a secret that none is wise enough to fathom. The infinite fund of disinterested humane kindliness that is adrift in the work) is part of the riddle, the insoluble riddle of life tha,t is born in our blood and tissue. It is agreeable to think that no man, save by his own gross fault, ever went through life unfriended, without companions to whom he could stammer his momentary impulses of sagacity, to whom he could turn in hours of loneliness. It is not even necessary to know a man to he his friend. One can sit at a lunch counter, observing the moods and whims of the white-coated pic-passer, and by the ime you have juggled a couple of fried eggs you will have cuught some grasp of his philosophy of life, seen the quick edge and tang of his humor, memorized the shrewdness of his worldly insight and been as truly stimulated as if you had spent un evening with your favorite parson. IF THERE were no such thing as friend ship existing today, it would perhaps be difficult to understand what it is like from those who have written about it Wc have tried, from time to time, to rent. Emerson's enigmatic and rather frigid issay. It seems that Emerson must have put his cronies to a severe test before admitting them to the high-vaulted and rather draughty halls of his intellect. There are fine passages In his essay, but it is intclleetualized, bloodless, heedless of the trilling oddities of human in tercourse that make friendship so satisfying. He seems to insist upon a sterile ceremony of mutual self-improvement, a kind of religious ritual, a profound interchange of doctrines between soul and soul. Hhis friends (one gathers) are to be anti'septicated, all the poisons nnd pestilence of their faulty humors lire to be drained nwny "before they may approach the white and icy operating tabic of his heart. "Why insist," lie says, "on rash, personal relations with your friend? Why go' to his house, or know his wife and family?" And yet docs not the botanist like to study the flower in the soil where It grows? POLONIES, too, is another ancient sup posed to be an authority on friendship. The I'olonius family must have been a thor oughly dreary one to live with ; jvp have often thought that poor Ophelia would have gone mad anyway, even if there had been no Hamlet. Laertes preaches to Ophelia ; I'olo nius preaches to Laertes. Laertes escaped by going abroad, but the girl had tc stay at home. Hamlet saw that pithy oh) I'olonius was a preposterous and orotmd nsH. Polo nius's doctrine of friendship "The friends thou bust, nnd their adoption ried, grapple tbem to thy soul with hoops of steel" was, wc trow, a necessary one in his case. It would need a hoop of steel to keep them near such a dismal old sawinonger. 1 - I FRIENDSHIPS, wc think, do not grow up in any such carefully tended and contem plated fashion ns Messrs, Emerson and I'olo nius suggest, Tlicy begin haphatard, A w? SCRAPS look back on the first time we saw our friends we find that generally our original impression was curiously astray. Wo have worked along beside them, have consorted with them drunk or sober, have grown to cherish their delicious absurdities, have outrageously imposed on each other's pa tience and suddenly we awoke to realize what had happened. Wc had, without know ing it. gained a new friend. In some curious way the unseen border line had been passed. Wc had reached the final culmination of Auglo-Saxon regard when two men rarely look each other straight in the eyes because they arc ashamed to show e.-.ch other how fond they arc. We had reached the fine flower and the ultimate test of comradeship that is. when you get n letter from one of your' "best friends." you know you don't need to answer it until you get ready to. TjIMERSON is right iu saying that friend - ship can't be hurried. 1 takes lime to ripen. It needs a background of humorous, wearisome or even tragic events shared to gether, a ccrti.'-i tract of memories shared in common, so that you know that your own life and your companion's have really moved for some time in the same channel. 1 needs interchange of hooks, meals together dis cussion of one npothcr's whims with mutual friendsi to gain a proper perspective. It is set in a rich haze of half-rcmcmbcred occa sions, sudden glimpses, ludicrous pranks, unsuspected observations, midnight confi dences when heart spoke to candid heart. rpHE soul preaches humility to itself when - it realizes, startled, that it has won a new friend. Knowing what a posset ol con tradictions we all are, it feels a symptom of shame at the thought that our friend knows all our frailties and yet thinks us worth af fection. Wc all have cause to be shamefast indeed : for whereas we love ourselves in spite of our faults, our friends often love us even on ncc'ount of our faults, the highest lcvcHo which attachment can go. ';.! what au infinite appeal there is in their faces ! How wc grow to cherish those curious little fleshy cages so oddly sculptured which in close the spirit within. To see those faces, bent unconsciously over their 'tasks each different, each unique, each so richly and quccrly expressive of the lively nnd perverse enigma of man, is a full education iu human tolerance. Privately, one studies his own ill modeled visuomy to sec if by any chance it bespeaks the emotions he inwardly feels. We know as Hamlet did the vicious mole of nature in us, the o'crgrowth of some com plexion that mars the purity of our secret resolutions. Yet our friends have passed it over, have shown their willingness to tnke us us wc nre. Can we do less than hope to de serve their generous tenderness, granted be fore it was earned? THE problem of education, said R. L. S., , is twofold "first to know, then" to utter." Every man knows what friendship means, but few can litter that complete frankness of communion, based upon full comprehension of mutual weakness, enlivened by a happy understanding of honorable in tentions generously shared, When wo first met our friends w.e met with bandaged eyes. We did not know what journeys they had been on, what winding roads their spirits had traveled, what Ingenious shifts they hud devised to circumvent the walls and barriers of the world. We know these now, for some of them they have told us; others wc have guessed. Wc have watched them Mien they little dreamed it; just or they (we suppose) have done with us. Every resture and method of their daily movement huve become, part of our enjoyment of life. Not uutil a time comes for saying good -by will we ever know how much wc would like to huve said, At those times one has to fall back on shrewder tongues, You remember llllaire IJelloc: l.'rom qule.t liomea and first beginning Out to the undiscovered ends, Thero'H nothliiK Asorth llio wear of winning Hut laughter, nnd tho lovo of friends. SOCRATES. "I'm thoj.-zar of Russlttl" crlea IScrg doll. Uh, wclL let hi in biiTc hts owu way. Everybody knows what happened to the czar. $f '4h :.' ff THE SAVING GIFT ERE youth takes wings, forsaking mc, And leaves me lone with ngp. Give .pic the freedom of the hills, Man's ancient heritage; I crave the friendship of the birds, The kinship of the trees That greet all understanding folk With kindly courtesies. Though some contented are to tread A straight and narrow groove, Give me the freedom of the plains, Wherein to l-.athe and move; For though 't' said of rolling stones They gather little moss. When nil is in the crucible What's gold and what is dross? Old instincts are but covered fires That flash to flame anew ; Give me the freedom of the seas . That iu time's twilight drew My forcfolk from their ancient shores With strange, enchanting spells, AVhen singing to the rhythmic waves They launched their coracles. Since all I am and all I have Shall fade and fail like mist, ive me the freedom of the winds That wander where they list, Now north, now south and now where dann Red roses on her breast, Comes up the skies, nnd now 'where moon And sun go down to rest. All things that sing, nil shining shapes. All nature's gifts far-flung Tall hills, wide sens, lit plains, loud "winds They make nnd keep us young ; For if our spirits, like our flesh, Beneath grim time's decree. Grew old, and crouched by dying fires, Oh. woeful it would be! Roderic Quinn in the Sydney Bulletin. What Do You Know? QUIZ What is heckling? What arc witches' thimbles? What republic unmed its capital nit" an American President? Whnt is argon? What is amortization? What nre capers? Who wrfs Samuel D. Gross? What is a' mortise? Who was the classical god of dieaini-'' What Character of plays did Arislonli anes, the Greek dramatist, write? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz Odin .was the chief god iu Scandinavian mythology. He was regarded as the . source of wisdom and the patron of culture and heroes. Two Presidents of the United State' Thomas Jefferson (for his first term! 'and John Qulncy Adams, were elected by the House of Representatives. Cicero, the Roman orutor, was born J Oil II. C. nnd died 43 R. C. Jefferson City is the- capital of Missouri The first daily paper In the I nited States, the Advertiser, was issued I" Philadelphia in 1781. The treaty of Ghent, between tire Rritnin and the United States. wa signed before tho finul action in Hir war of 1812 was fought. The event took place In' December, ISM, and Hi' battle of New Orleuns occurred I" tlie following January, 1810. The baobab is an African tree wttt. enormously thick utein. It is aL called the monkey -bread tree. To eke menus to supplement, to cotili'"' to make a livelihood or to contri)c '" support un existence. Tho onl. s an udrvrb, incuns also, hi England "L. , Deism,'' nlltnlhit t to the Initial for pounds, shilling nnd pence, int'Mnsxuionc-)vorhl', Seal? VeJcr,, IW. PWhko; fawllr. i JO. rs ,f rt i o r ' X A -
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