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rhiUdrlphia, Tuesday, February 17, 1920
MORE TALK!
Yn SUGGESTING that a tube to Cam-
den might be better than a bridge Mr.
AVcglein was careful to assure the Busi
ness Science Club that he had an open
mind. What he desired was "to open
the way to a thorough discussi6n" of this
new angle of an old project.
Discussions supposed lo be thorough
delayed the bridge at least twenty years.
Talk, if it is ever started again, can delay
it'for twenty years more.
Vehicular tunnels of the sort that the
president of Council seems to have in
mind are still in the experimental stage.
No one has any doubts about the utility
of bridges. The monumental span now
proposed should be put across the river
without further delay. When it is fin
ished the people of both communities
will know how swiftly such improve
ments pay for themselves. Then we can
build other bridges or a tunnel.
There will bo need for such additional
conveniences. But it has required many
weary years to get the mere talkers out
of the way.
MISTS ON THE ADRIATIC
rpHE Fiumc situation seems to be a case
-- of complicated proposals mysteriously
arrived at.
Neither the American, the British, the
French nor the Italian position has
been publicly defined. Out of the thick
fog, reminiscent of the old days of the
most furtive European diplomacy, arise
indications that Italy is resigned to the
enforcement of that portion of the secret
treaty of London which denied her
Fiume.
On the other hand, there are reports
that the Home government now demands
an extensive strip of territory along the
Dalmatian coast. President Wilson in
the new note dispatched to the allied
premiers is said to. be opposed to such an
acquisition at the expense of Jugo
slavia. Absence of details invalidates
praise or blame.
The best feature of the muddle i the
evident desire on the part of all the na
tions concerned to settle the Adriatic
problem, so long and so perilously post
poned. Its very regrettable factor is the
dense mist, much more impenetrable now
than when the doors were closed at the
Peace Conference.
OBSCURITY FOR WILHELM
rpiIE alleged waiver of the Allies of
-- their demand for the extradition of
William Hohenv.ollern has at least one
signal merit. It promises tr dispose of
an extremely tiresome subject. Opinions
differ as to the extent of punishment
which the e::ile of Amerongen morally
deserves, but the public is virtually a unic
in desiring some practical settlement of
his case.
It is said that the Entente urges the
transportation of the ex-emperor to one
of the islands of the East Indian empire
of the Netherlands. DuU:h sentiment is
reported as favoring internment of tho
refugee under strict guard in Doom.
Agreement upon the precise isolation
quarters ought not to ba difficult, now
that Holland and the Allies are no longer
at odds over legal principles of jurisdic
tion. Obscurity is what William Hohenzol
lern ilc&fM-vcs. There will be popular
satisfaction if he is entfulfcd in it as
speedily and as securely as possible. Ho
doesn't belong in the news.
THE SALE OF THOSE SHIPS
npiIE country will be glad to receive the
assurance of the President that there
is no basis for the report of a secret
agreement between the shipping board
and British interests for the sale of the
thirty former German passenger ships
taken over by tho government during the
war; and it is no less pleaded to learn
that the board will insist upon assur
ances that the ships will remain in the
service planned by the board.
It causes somo little concern, how
ever, to learn that the board cannot put
permanent restrictions on the use of the
craft. The fact raises a host of con
jectures and possibilities. It gives "tho
impossible" a chance to happen.
PEACE IN OUR TIME?
STRIKES of the icope that is possible
in modern industry cost more than
many good-sized wars of the past. The
need for a peace of understanding
throughout industry is as greatly to be
desired as settled peace between nations.
Mr. Hoover, Secretary of Labor Wilson
and numerous other practical and well
informed men are sitting as members of
tho industrial conference organized by
the President to suggest a way to per
manent peace in Industry. Mr. Taft,
Daniel Willard, Mr. Bedford, of the
Standard Oil Company, as well as Mr.
(Gonipers and countless other experienced
labor, und industrial leaders, have been
giving the conference the benefit of their
JtrWwleilgc and their opinions.
Tlcii;t is announced that what the
members of tho conference believe to bo
a workable method of strike prevention
will be suggested in tho forthcoming re
port it is presumable that some progress
at least has been made in what tho cynics
liko to regard as an impossible task.
Tentative expressions from Mr. Hoover
and others serve to indicate what they
have in mind. They would "humanize
and dignify work of all kinds." Seeking
a means to prevent strikes and to avert
the hardship and losses of organized idle
ness, they would insist upon "good
wages, reasonable hours and all-around
decent treatment for working people."
Tho general lack of information rela
tive to the fundamentals of labor dis
putes seems to have suggested a way out
for the industrial conference. The
remedy which the members seem to have
in mind is based upon the belief that you
can alwas's submit your case to tho gen
eral public and be assured of fair play.
Tho scheme of future industrial settle
ments probably will be based upon somo
ugency authorized to uncover and pub
lish the facts behind every strike pro
posal in order hat the force of public
opinion may deal with the offender. That
isn't by any means a bad beginning.
MR.
BRYAN'S EMERGENCE
FROM A FIVE-YEAR ECLIPSE
Other Democratic Leaders Must Reckon
With the Man Who Usually Senses
Current Evils, Even Though He
Prescribes Wrong Remedies
TJIROM his winter residence in Miami,
" in the region of palm trees nnd
orange groves, whore the well-to-do es
cape the cold season of the North in tho
balmy atmosphere of the far South, Mr.
Bryan has given out the synopsis of what
he "regards as tho proper platform for
the Democratic party to adopt in San
Francisco in June.
Consideration of the merits of the
synopsis may be postponed for a moment
in order that attention may first be con
centrated on Mr.. Bryan himself.
Who and what is he that he should tell
the Democratic party what its platform
should be?
The Miami winter residence suggests
part of what he is, but only part. ' In
order to get a complete picture one must
recall that Mr. Bryan also has a resi
dence on a large farm in the suburbs of
Lincoln, Neb.
Mr. Bryan's ownership of a ranch in
Texas must also bo kept in mind if one
would get a material picture of the man
whose landed estates occupy the three
angles of a triangle, the base of which
stretches two-thirds of tho way across
the continent, while its apex is in tho
heart of tho Middle West.
There is here political strategy of a
verjf subtle kind. And there is also evi
dence in it of the accumulation of a con
siderable fortune in the period between
the year when Mr. Bryan went to Chi
cago to report the proceedings of the
Democratic National Convention in 189G
for an Omaha newspaper and left that
convention as tho presidential candidate
of his party, and the time when he was
able to cash in on his political prominence
and invest the proceeds in landed prop
erty. The man who owns the three
widely separated residence., grew up
among people of such mode'sV wealth that
an income of $5000 a year seemed to him
to be riches beyond the wildest dream of
avarice, and the owner of a fortune of
$1,000,000 became prima facie a criminals
for, according to Mr. Bryan's expressed
opinion while he was still poor, it was
impossible for any man lo accumulate so
much money honestly.
In these views of his will be found the
whole secret of Mr. Bryan. They were
the views of hundreds of thousands of
worthy men and wpmen of modest means
in the Middle West. In expressing them
Mr. Bryan merely put in words what the
people among whom he had grown up
were thinking. His strength from that
day to this has lain in his ability to sense
the feeling of tho silent masses. He did
this when he protested against the mone
tary system of the country in 189C. His
cross of gold and crown of thorns speech,
bombastic and fallacious as it seems
when read today, carried the convention
off its feet because it made vocal the
feeling that the country was controlled
by the bugaboo known as "the money
power."
His attack on "imperialism" was in
spired by his knovleifge that the average
American was opposed to the entrance
of the nation on any adventures of em
pire beyond the seas. His demand for
government ownership o railroads came
at a time when people were protesting
against the abuses of power by the capi
talists who controlled the transpoitation
lines.
It may be argued that the success of
constitutional prohibition, after his ad
vocacy of it for years, proves the con
trary. But it does so only apparently.
The reasons which Mr. Bryan always
urged for prohibition were moral. It was
not moral but economic reasons that car
ried the constitutional amendment. The
South is for prohibition because it had
been discovered that liquor was so de
moralizing the negroes that they were a
menace to the safety of the whites. So
the South prohibited the sale of liqu6r in
order to keep it from the negroes. In
the North excessive drinking was rapidly
disappearing because it had been discov
ered that it incapacitated men for work.
Tho man who wished to keep his job had
to remain sober or a man who did not
drink would displace him. Great corpo
rations declined to hire men who were
known to drink to excess and some of
them refused to hire men who drank at
all. Intelligent self-interest abolished
the liquor traffic in both the North and
the South. But Mr. Bryan sensed tho
feeling of tho country when ho aligned
hinlself with tho prohibitionists.
A recent instance of his power to. read
the minds of his countrymen is found in
his Jackson Day dinner speech in Wash
ington, when he protested against making
tho peace treaty an issue in the presi
dential campaign and demanded its early
ratification by the Senate. The speech
in which ho made this protest raised him
in an hour from his five-year eclipso and
mado him the spokesman for that wing
of his party which wishes to fight tho
presidential campaign on issues which do
not cut across party line! so confusingly
as the treaty question, and consequently
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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER -
desires to get tho treaty out of tho way
before tho convention meets,
This brings us to tho Miami platform.
It is not so definite on some, matters as
ono might wish, but on others Mr. Bryan
has agnin sensed tho feeling of great
numbers of voters. Of course, tho plat
form will indorse prohibition and woman
suffrage, just as the Republican platform
will indorse them. T,ho country at large
is in no mood to consent to enforced
military training. Mr. Bryan feels this
when ho says the Democratic platform
must oppose it. Ho denounces profiteer
ing. No ono favors it because it sounds
bad. No one will admit that ho is a
profiteer. But every one who thinks ho
has been a victim of a profitccr'will ap
prove Mr. Bryan's denunciation of tho
greedy. Ho' talks nbout "taxation,"
"labor problems" and "political owner
ship" without going into details.
If ho has learned tho lesson of his past
failures and can refrain from prescribing
remedies ho is likely to have as much in
fluence in tho San Francisco convention
as Mr. Wilson, if not more.
When the weather gets mild enough
Mr. Bryan will go to his Lincoln farm
and issue proclamations from that point
of vantage, and he will laugh at the
Nebraska politicians who think they can
destroy his power by refusing to allow
him to go to the convention as a delegate.
Mr. Bryan's political strength is not de
pendent on Nebraska indorsement. Mr.
Wilson is likely to make this discovery
before the national convention meets in
Jun;.
THE WATER CRISIS
TN SPITE of the fact that new pumping
stations and new equipment are sorely
needed, the immediate responsibility for
the serious limitations on the water sup
ply in certain sections of Philadelphia
falls upon tho public.
During tho war period plumbing re
pairs were in abeyance. Water wastage
by dripping pipes and spigots has re
sulted. Tenants of insufficiently heated
buildings often keep the faucets running
in cold weather to prevent the pipes from
freezing. In addition there is the chronic
extravagance of a community in, which
the per capita consumption of water is
160 gallons daily forty gallons more
than in New York city.
I Arguments for the universal installa
tion of water meters here have been re
iterated, but they now arc more perti
nent than ever. Jvlo real hardship would
be involved if the arrangements for cost
were properly mado and there would be
powerful spurs to discretion in the use
of a water supply which under normal
circumstances is exceedingly generous.
The present crisis is attributable to
the continual cold spells and, so far as
central Philadelphia is concerned, partly
to the exhaustion of tho reserve supply
in the East Park Reservoir. With due
caution and somo consideration of plumb
ing deficiencies, the public can rectify
matters temporarily.
The obligations of the Water Depart
ment cannot, of course, be overlooked,
but their bearing is upon tho future. It
is stated that new pumping'stations nec
essary to minister to extravagance can
not bo completed before eighteen months.
In the meantime there are likely to be
periods of shortage in summer, when the
heat increases the water demands, and
in winter, when the, fact that running
water will not freeze occasions squander
ing. Broadly speaking, it io obvious that
any great metropolitan district should
have us much water as it wants. But
miracles cannot be performed offhand.
In their absence observance of tho ra
tioning principle, which eased the food
situation so materially in wartime, would
be highly beneficial. Meters are a check
of the most practical type. They will
teach us. among other things, sane
economy a subject to which our re
markably liberal water supply makes us
indifferent until a serious penalty for ex
travagance is imposed.
, The Bureau of Water and the citizens
served by it have joint responsibilities.
The virtue of an ae
Amba.adur Commerce t ion sometimes lies
in its limitations. As
for in.-tunce : That the lifting of tlio block
ade of Itussia lins its limitation.-, is mani
fested by the fact (to cite but one case) that
the American Manufacturers' Export Asso
ciation has warned its members against
trudiug with soviet Russia because the gov
ernment there is neither stablo nor perma
nent. Commerce in its nutural channels will
now proceed, by withholding credit, cither
to wipe bolshcvlsm from the face of the
world or to give the party which bears the
name a course in conservatism and business
horse sense that will change its complexion
and warrant the resumption of business
relations. Commerce is a great little diplo
mat and its line of talk is nt once convincing
and constructive.
Holland has invited
The Original Sweden, Norway,
Dovecote Denmark and
Switzerland to meet
with her in the Carnegie Peace Palace in
The Hague to discuss participation in the
permanent court of international justice pro
vided for by Article XIV of the Loaguc-of-Xations
covenant. Perhaps the Peace Dove
will hover around its own original dove
cote, and, then again, it may be that discus
sion may drive it away. Every once jn a
while a "prelim" has enough "pep" to dis
count the big "mill."
Tho tobacco tin in
."smoke Up! January in the first
Pennsylvania internal
revenue district amounted to more than a
million und a half dollars. There is no more
peaceful and delightful way of raising
revenue.
"I don't amount to anything." says
Vice President Marshall. Well, nobody can
accuse him of having an exaggerated ogo.
And he assuredly has a sense of humor. Per
haps the gentleman really totes up higher
than the country imagines. Without doubt,
many pompous windbags huve acquired fame
on a smaller mental equipment. An1 if that
is but scant praise, ho has himself to thank
for it. No man can continually knock him
self without others catching the habit.
A London professor has discovered thut
Loudoners have black lungs. But they need
not become unduly excited on that account ;
the same thing was discovered nbout Pitts
burghers u generation ago, and they're not a
bit the worse for it, apparently.
Mr Tlryan and Mr. Edwards may both
do good work m tho Democratic national
convention They may dfy'troy each other's
chances.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IT,
BEHIND THE SCENES
WITH FAMOUS MEN
LariaJng Tells Story of Thomas Bailey
Aldrlch Blaine In Philadelphia.
' Bryan's Sense of Humor
THE Washington newspaper correspond
ents will miss Secretary Lansing. In spite
of tho fact that the Department of State -is
supposed to be tho most secretive place in
the City of Rumors, thcro was the utmost
candor between the newsgathercrs and tho
secretary of state. The reason for this was
not difficult to understand. Nothing was
printed without permission.
More than one star newspaper man lias
possessed state secrets, tho publication of
which would have created mild (sensations,
but which were not printed for the very
reason that they were secrets affecting tho
good of. the' nation. In a word, tho news
paper men had the confidence of Mr. Lansing
and respected It with scrupulous fidelity.
Secretary Lansing frequently met the cor
respondents' iffter the day's work was over
nnd chatted Informally nbout mcn.nnd things.
He was fond of telling a story of Thomas
Bailey Aldrlch, the writer, who was ono of
his friends. When Aldrlch was beginning
his literary career he called upon an eminent
Boston editor with a poem. Unfortunately
tho editor was not iu his office, but the
aspiring poet noticed a memorandum stuck so
conspicuously upon his desk that it was
impossible not to sec it. Scribbled ou tho
paper in pencil were the words:
Don't forget to sec the Hinder.
Don't forget to mail B his contract.
Don't forget ll's proofs.
The temptation to Aldrich was too great
to be resisted. He left his poem on tho desk
and, pulling out a pencil, added to the
memorandum :
Don't forget lo accept A's poem! '
JAMES G. BLAINE was another secre
tary of state who was highly esteemed
by the newspaper men who came in contuct
with him. At tho time of his famous visit
to Europe many men, including Andrew
Carnegie, wanted him to make another run
for the presidency. It was planned that the
canny Scotchman should sound him on tho
subject nnd if he was a receptive candidate
Carnegie was to cable New York friends
"goods delivered," or words to that effect.
But no cablegram came, and when Mr.
Blaine landed the decision like Mohammed's
coffin was in midair.
Soon after Mr. Blaine's return he was in
duced to roiike a speech in this city. It was
a hurried nrrnugement, with little time to
advertise, but when the Plumed Knight
reached Broad Street Station he was greeted
by a crowd that blocked the streets in every
direction. He had to fight his way to the
Academy of Music, and when he left that
building, after speaking to u record-breaking
audience, he was almost engulfed by the
mob. As it was, in reaching his carriage
yes, they used carriages in those days his
high silk hat was ruined. There was nothing
to do, except to go to a fashionable hat store
on Chestnut street and purchase a new tile.
It was there, while the obliging hatter
tried to fit Blaino with adequate headgear,
that the man from Maine talked iu a genial
and informing manner with the newspaper
reporters. He recalled the days when he hud
been an instructor in the Pennsylvania In
stitute for the Blind and at the same time
an editorial writer on one of the leading
newspapers in the Keystone State. After
he had been fitted with a hat and as he rose
to leave the shop he put his hand on the
shoulder of one of the young reporters now
no longer young, alas! and said in a
fatherly tone:
"My son, there isn't any occupation in
the world so interesting, so exciting, so vivid
as the newspaper game. I know because I've
had a taste of it and besides that I've natu
rally come into contact with many men of
the profession. It's the bct business in the
world und will lead anywhere if you get
out of it soon enough." '
There was u sequel to this little incident
of the hat shop. One of the newspaper men
induced the dealer to give him tho damaged
tile. It was blocked into shape, placed in a
glass case und for a long time occupied a
place of honor in the main room of the Pen
and Pencil Club. By one of the little ironies
which add to the guyvty of life, it had for
company the boxing glove used by Jim
Corbctt when he put the great John L.
Sullivan "to sleep." i-'or jears the plug hat
and the discolored mitt remained side by
side in the clubroom, and if inanimate things
hud the power of thought and speech, what
tales the tile and tho glove might have un
folded to one another !
w.
1LLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN is uu-
i other secretary of state who has natu
rally come into clove association with news
paper men'. It will be recalled that he re
ported the Republican national convention in
the year that ho captured the Democratic
nomination for the presidency. It was the
time he made his famous "cross-of-gold"
speech. That oration for it was an ora
tion won him the nomination. It became
evident long before tho roll call of delegates
was finished that he was going to bo a win
ner, and three newspaper men from Phila
delphia determined to be the first ones to
congratulate him upon his nomination.
Leaving the convention hall, they hurried
to the sccond-rutc hotel where he was staying
in Chicago and, bursting into' the room, pre
sented their compliments and told him that
they had tho distinction of being the first to
fellcitute him upou his new honors.
"No," he declared, smilingly, "you are
not the first. I have here a telegram from an
old friend 'in Nebraska."
They looked curiously at the little slip of
yellow paper, and Mr. Bryan added:
"That is from the superintendent of tho
State Insane Asylum of Nebraska."
Before the laugh had died away he was
telling them of an incident in his career as
a public speaker.
' "It was in Nebraska, and I had a most
attentive audience," lie buid. "I noticed,
however, that the men on the first two
benches iu the little hull were always the
first to grasp my points and to applaud them.
After the meeting I spoke to an acquaint
ance and told him how much 1 appreciated
the discrimination of these particular men,
who seemed to be so mentally alert and who
thought so much quicker than the rest of
the audience. He was silent for a moment
nnd then said:
"I'm sorry to spoil your joy, but the ptcii
on the first two benches wero partly cured
inmates from the State lusuno Asylum,
brought here by a keeper for an outing."
Tho fact that Uryau could tell this btory
on himself proves that he is not entirely
without u bensc of humor.
Mayor Hague, of Jersey City, says the
only issue worth while thnt faces tho country
Is the liquor issue. 'Tin thus the wisdom
of the world finds itself in a pint pot.
There i3 increasing und, Tor tho most
part, kindly inclination to consider the
Lansing episode un indication that the Presi
dent is still a sick man.
Fear that the dry laws will aftcct pas
senger traffic on American ships Is not well
founded. People will travel ou good boats
whether they be "wet" or "dry."
Those whom Trotzky sneers at as "red
without uud wblto within" might retort that
it is better so than "white without nnd black
wlt!in,
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DRJOHNSONTALKSOFRAILROADS
Dean of Wharton School Tells Why Government Operation
Proved a Failure
pOVERNMENT operation of railroads
J has been a failure because the govern
ment gives, way to pressure for wage in
creases, but docs not have the moral courage
to increase railroad revenues by a raise in
rates," said Dr. Emory R. Johnson, dean
of the Wharton School oLtho University of
Pennsylvania, today.
"That is exactly where government oper
ation breaks down in a democratic country,"
he continued. "Tho lust twenty-six months
have developed the inevitable shortcomings
of government administration of the rail
roads." It was made plain by Doctor Johnson that
he was not criticizing tho wage increases.
Ho was merely pointing out the lack of
moral courage ou the part of the government
when the question conies up of raising rates
in face of country -wide protests, to meet in
creasing operating expenses. "This was not
the case in Prussia, for instance," he said.
"There the railroad board quietly sat down,
figured what the rates should be, and they
were put into effect whether the people liked
it or not.
"Notwithstanding au increase in traffic
from !$a,GOO,000,000 to 55,000,000,000
during the' last twenty-six months, there is
a deficit of $000,000,000."
Concerning the critical railroad situation,
ho said: "Can the railroads be successfully
financed and operated when they are re
turned to their owners'; For two years the
government has drawn upon the public treas
ury to maintain the credit of the carriers;
after March 1 the companies uni-.t be self
supporting or become buukrupt.
"If the curriers avoid failure their in
comes must cover operating expenses, muin
tenance and capital charges ; if the com
panies succeed to the extent that is de
manded in the public interest they must not
only be able to meet unavoidable expenses,
they must have surplus revenue. If there
is no income to be used in part for better
ments and in part for building up u surplus,
or reserve fund, the public will not invest
in railroads, their credit cannot be re-established
and muiutuiued and corporate owner
ship and operation of tho railways will full."
The country, according to Doctor John
son, must decide between udequatc revenues
for the railroads or government ownership.
"The countfy has hud two years' experi
ence with government operation," he con
tinued. "With the exception of tho rail
road employes very few people want the ex
periment continued. Free as the people of
the United States are with government
funds, they will not be disposed to make an
iultial investment of $18,000,000,000 to .f'JO,
000,000,000 iu railroads and to raise u
minimum of even f per cent of that sum
$1,000,000,000 additional capital each year
to provide for betterments and extensions.
"If bhippcrs und travelers had been better
served during government operation thun
they were during corporation management;
if the government, hnd made ends meet in
stead of incurring a large deficit, thcjmblje
might possibly desire tho continuance of gov
ernment operation and, might favor public
ownership of the railroads ; but the showing
made by the government is not encouraging,"
Failure of the government to run tho rail
roads with positive biiccess, according to
Doctor Johnson, was not due to luck of
ubility upon the part of cither Directors
General McAdoo und Hines. Both arc men of
great executive capacity and ability, ho said,
. "However." he said, "the limitations of
government management of transportation
have been clearly revealed by the experience
of the railroad administration during the last
two years. The service has become less
efficient, 'the number of employes has been
Increased, wages and other expenses have
riben rapidly partly because of the war nnd
partly because of political reasons revenues
have not been increased to meet the enlarged
expenses and a large drain has been mude
upon tho taxpayers to make up annual
deficits.
1 un
'Tie government is entitled to credit for
V
1920
CAN DO IS TO MUZZLE
having given greater unity to railroad oper
ation, both lino and terminal. It has done
much that the carriers wcre prohibited.from
doing. The public now realizes thnt co
operation of the carriers in the joint use of
equipment nnd terminals should be encour
aged inste'ad of jircvented.
"Past regulation forbade many economies
and conveniences iu transportation that will
in the future, be required of the carriers as
a result of government operation, and it is
most fortunate that the experience of tho
government lias given the public clearer views
concerning" the principles thut should con
trol tho relutions of the government to the
curriers.
"Tho railroad legislation now pending in
Congress must solve very difficult questions,
but the most critical one is that of providing
for the future regulation of railroads in ac
cordance with a policy that will causo the
carriers to secure revenues sufficient to en
able them to perform their bervices ade
quately and with progressive efficiency.
"The railroad business must be made at
tractive to private investors or the country
will have to adopt government ownership
and operation of the railroads. Thcro is no
other alternative." ' ,
Earnest politicnl students have decided
that the only way to scoro'a knockout against
a contractor-politician is with a right-hnnd
blow to the pocketbtfok.
Would it be too frivolous to remark that
a municipal asphalt plant might knock tho
tar out of the contracting business?
The President's mind is keen, says
Doctor Dercum. Mr. Lansing knows that it
is sharp, at least.
We presume the peace treaty will be
ratified just as soon as tho Senate grows
tired of debate.
Potatoes arc being used as currency in
Poland. A fortune of that kind could be
easily frittered away.
Modem fashions give coufirmatiou of the
old adage that beauty is skin deep.
Every duy is clean-up day in the police
department.
HUNGER
TO! NOT that kind of hunger! Mine
' leads my soul nfar;
My body may bo motionless, my dreams be
yond a star.
Perhaps ihn out n-wnlking. It may be with
a friend.
Ho thinks I heed his talking, and my vision
without end
Seeks, with craving ho suspects not, a far
and viewless goal,
Mny be n face I've loved and lost whose lack
ing works me dole,
And in my heart, upon its knees, my aching
spirit cries
Imploringly to Memory to feed its hungry
eyes !
Another hunger too there is That comes and
never goes,
That does not leave mo even in sleep when
weary eyes I close,
With pangs uiicenslng keener far than those
of cara or eyes, '
Whoso crnviug is more hopeless, for which
no solace hies,
And never artist's limning can o'er nssungo
the pain,
To which no balmful echo floats amid tho
wlud or rain ;
For naught can bootho the hunger of a heart
bereft and sore,
Whose nrms would clasp a vanished form
that's fled fororcrinorg I
SAMUEL MINTURN PWIC,
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THE BRUTE!",
SIX TEAPOTS
TOHN ANDERSON, my Jo, John,
' When you and I wero young,
Wo had a weo U.'"o teapot
With rosy garlands hung ;
As underneath the evening lamp
Its smoking stream would flow,
We often kissed above It there,
John Anderson, my Jo.
John Anderson, my Jo, John.
When children first began
To fill our house with laughter
As about tho place they run,
We had nn earthen teapot
With a 'redly brownish glow,
AVe'd give them just a taste from it.
John Anderson, my Jo.
John Anderson, my Jo, John.
When all our bairns grew up.
Wo had a Sevres teapot
To fill each fragile cup,
And in a merry scrimmage
It got broken, John. You know
I almost cried about it then,
John Anderson, my Jo.
John Anderson, my Jo, John.
When our Mary was a bride.
Wo had a silver teapot
That was rather high and wide
When Thomas brought his girl to tea
Or Martha brought her beau,
It held enough for all of us,
John Anderson, my Jo,
John Anderson, my Jo, John,
When our birdlings nil had flown.
And settled in new houses
With new teapots of their own
Wo had a small gray teapot ,
With gilt figure's in a row
1 broke it only yesterday,
John Anderson, my Jo.
John Anderson, my Jo, John.
This one you've bought is bun:
With rosy garlands, like the one
We hnd when wc wero young
I like to think it is tho sumo
We had so long ago
We've gono bnck thirty years tonipt,
John Anderson, my Jo.
SUB BOSA.
What Do You Knoio?
QUIZ
When was the Mninc
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blown up
in
Havana harbor?
Who was her commander?
What is agouti?
Who was Victor Cousin?
AVhat mountain in the Uuitcd State- i
ranked ns an uctivc volcano .'
AVhat is a celesta?
When did Galileo live?
Of what country is Bucharest tuc l
tal?
AVho was secretary of state wan
field?
AVbat was tho value of a groat .'
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10.
Answers to Yesterday's Quit
Robert Lansing is a native of New k
state. , . . v.i.
Horatio was the first name of Lord "
son and Lord Kitchener.
An exordium is tho beginning or iutw
ductory part, especially of a dlscoarm
or treatise ...
Edelweiss literally means no We " uc
General Ambrose E. Bumslde, f
manded tho federal army at H
icksburg, was nicknamed Kaiser
ThoTxprcssion "'' "'"ll'XIw
,ru nmnlnved-bv Washington. Iivw
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0.
In "AVoIferfs Roost," in "'
use of the phrase is said to warn
llcl,utr. .-.. . ,n,t in order
7. 'Jo box tne compus . w . . --- , b
n, ii,piv.tu-n nolnts, The worn i; ;
i.. .1.1.. cv,. is from the hpani.
'l.nvnr ' to Kail UlOlind. . II
8. Teheran Is the capital of 1 era a'
0. Tho'MaorU nro the aboriginal luluwi
tanU at New Zealand. y, fi
30. Thw- scruple maKc u ur"
rai'lch' wri?ht ,
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