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FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 24
Don't look for /fates as you go through
life,
And even though you find them
Be wise and kind and somewhat blind,
And look for virtues behind them.
—ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
PUTTING OUT A FEELER?
SECRETARY OF STATE LAN
SING gave out a brief Interview
yesterday relating to a possible
embargo on the shipment of certain
kinds of food stuffs from the United
States to foreign countries which has
some of the ear-marks of a "feeler."
The secretary casually remarks that
he doesn't suppose any foreign nation
■would raise objection to an embargo
on provisions placed by this country
and artlessly adds that the subject is
"domestic, not International," and that
he has, therefore, given it no atten
tion.
Just the same, an embargo on foods
from America would become a great
international Issue the moment it was
announced. Europe is living off Am
erica. It would go hard with England
and France if we cut off our shipments
of provisions. The effect would be to
some degree, at least, similar to the
"Iron Ring" England has been at
tempting, with more or less success,
to draw about Germany and Austria.
The people in this country are cry
ing for relief. New York authorities
estimate that we in America are pay
ing five to eight cents more a dozen
for eggs and five to seven cents more
a pound for butter because of the im
mense shipments of those two pro
ducts to England, and the orders
placed for more. Doubtless the same
Is true of every other line of provi
sions originating here and figuring in
International trade. An embargo is
being urged. That Secretary Lansing
has seen fit to comment upon the pro
posal only illustrates to what degree
the thought has been discussed and
how seriously It is taken by those in
authority.
Perhaps it is just as well to put out
such a "feeler" as Secretary Lansing
gave to the press yesterday. England
and France may in the same round
about diplomatic way let us know how
they would entertain such a proposal.
It is almost certain that they would
protest vehemently and it will be in
teresting to observe the attitude of
Germany, which all along has held
that we have been favoring the allies
at the expense of the central powers.
A food embargo declared by Washing
ton would be a big card for Germany,
no doubt.
"Football Fatal." Why not let the
type stand?
FRF CH INDUSTRY RUINED
FRAVCE appears to hold Verdun
'lth one hand and the Ameri
an market with the other, not
wlths mding the assertions of Secre
tary AlcAdoo that France is bled as
white as her own fieur de lis.
The official figures of the Depart
ment of Commerce for the nine
months ended September of the cur
rent year show that our imports from
that country, compared with the same
period last year, increased 47 per cent,
or from $53,000,000 to $83,000,000,
the latter figure marking a return to
the record of the first nine months of
3 914, In the meantime our exports
to France reached the astonishing to
tal of $630,000,000, or about $540,000,-
000 above normal, due to the huge
drafts which France has made on us
for war material.
But with the cessation of war these,
colossal shipments of goods made In
America will stop, while the pro
ducts sent by France to us will con
tinue to Increase, If the present 9
per cent, tariff law is continued.
Emperor Charles announces that he
will push the war to a successful end.
The new Emperor isn't bashful about
taking on big contracts.
LONDON AND BARLEYCORN
NO more pitiful picture has been
presented in the news recently
than that of Jack London, the
brilliant young writer, lying cold In
death at an age when his once vigor
ous body and mind should be at the
very zenith of their power; and the
more so because it was all so unneces
sary. London met John Barleycorn,
and was vanquished.
The writer s story of that name,
published in a popular magazine re
cently, was admittedly his own ex
perience with drink. He recited the
horrors of the habit with all the
graphic power of his virile pen. The
FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURQ (£££& TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 24, 1916.
wreck of body and soul on the rock
of Intemperance has never been paint
ed in such vivid colors as London de
picted it from his own lurid expe
riences. And in the end he summed
up all the damning evidence him
self had given as a witness against
old John Barleycorn—and then de
cided that for him drink was supreme,
that he preferred the "short life and
the merry" with whisky to cheer the
way, to the drab side of existence with
out the stimulus of drink.
The result is in full accord with his
own prognostications, but it is most
pitiful, for all that.
Denmark is to issue iron money. If
the price of paper keeps going up may
be Uncle Sam will find it cheaper to
let Charlie Schwab make a few dollars
for him, the aforesaid Mr. Schwab al
ready having quite a little reputation
as a dollar maker.
AN ABLE RULER
THE declaration of Emperor
Charles, successor to Francis
Joseph on the throne of Aus
tria-Hungary, that he intends to con
duct the war to a successful conclu
sion, is based on more than the heroics
of an archduke called suddenly to
imperial duties. Charles has conduct
ed himself with distinguished honor
and marked ability in the field since
the very beginning of the great war
in which he now finds himself so con
spicuous a figure, and he speaks from
deeds rather than" from the mere de
sire to do.
The new Emperor has had a bril
liant military career and is now the
only member of the Austrian imperial
family known to be holding a high
command in the field. . The world
learned with surprise last May that the
Austrian heir-apparent was In com
mand of the Austrian army which
penetrated farthest into northern
Italy in the dramatic drive which was
brought to an abrupt close by the
Russian counter-offensive in Volhynia
and Galicia.
From that time he was hailed as the
rising military genius of the house of
Austria and while Archduke Frederick,
titular commander-in-chief of the
Austro-Hungarian forces, went Into
mysterious seclusion along with his
brothers when Von Hlndenburg was
made generalissimo in the east,
Charles Francis was soon called to
divide honors with Hindenburg him
self. The official German bulletins in
recent months have referred only to
the front of Von Hindenburg and his
successor, Prince Leopold of Bavaria,
and of Archduke Charloe.
Recently his command was extend
ed to Include not only the region from
the Dniester to Bukowlna, but, nomin
ally at least, the entire Rumanian
frontier. So far as official statements
reveal, even General von Falkenhayn,
former German Chief of Staff, was
outranked by Charles Francis.
It is not conceivable that Austria
will permit her ruler longer to remain
in the field at the head of an army
corps, much as his services there may
be desirable, but what the Central
Powers will lose by his call to higher
duties will be amply repaid by the in
telligent service he will be able to
render as head of the nation when
military genius is its sorest need.
A Southern bandit stole $40,000 the
other day from an express company.
Probably he wanted the money to ex
press a few Christmas packages.
SHOOTING IX WILD WOOD
THE following extract from a some
what lengthy letter to the editor
of the Telegraph is only another
illustration of the slipshod manner in
which the City Park Department has
been run by Commissioner Gross:
I would also like to draw your
attention to the fact that my chil
dren dare no longer spend their
Saturdays in Wildwood Park,
where they used to take their
lunches and fish or hunt for nuts.
Gunners are everywhere. Not an
officer is left in the park. I don't
believe there has been one there
since the hunting season opened.
Last Saturday, when I told one he
had no business there, he told me
to "go to the devil." If I had not
been a woman I'm afraid I would
have had to face a charge of break
ing a park rule for disorderly con
duct. It is a shame that we can
not use our only up-town park for
fear of being shot by men and boys
who kill our squirrels and rabbits
while the Park Commissioner looks
on and smiles.
This letter is from a well-known
West End woman, the mother of three
boys. Her name is withheld at her
own request.
It is a shameful fact, as this corre
spondent says, that Commissioner
Gross should have withdrawn all of
his police officers at the very time
they were most needed in Wildwood.
Always there will be some violations
of the gunning law in the park. But
in former years offenders have been
dealt with so vigorously that few have
cared to take the risk and the park
has been comparatively safe.
There is another regrettable side to
this reckless "shooting up" of Wild
wood. Ever since Its purchase park
authorities have been endeavoring to
make the tract, which is ideally suited
for the purpose, a great game pre
serve. Water fow*l, quail, opossum,
squirrels and rabbits have found refuge
there and have multiplied under the
protection of the park officers. All
this good work has been undone oy
the neglect of the present adminis
tration.
Commissioner Gross' only excuse for
withdrawing the police Is that he has
no money and that Council will not
give him any. This is in large part his
own fault. In order to attempt a
grandstand showing he deliberately
took less than Council would have
given him when the budget was made
up last year. Council is also to be
criticised in not coming to the rescue
of the Park Department at a time
when it is In sore need of assistance.
The public Is aware of these things
and It Is not likely to forget, even
though for the moment it is to some
extent helpless.
London hotels are putting up prices
on account of a scarcity of food. Ameri
can hotelkeepers have done the same
because of a plentltude of dollars.
Chicago women are having a contest
to find who can dress most quickly. We
hope this fashion comes Bast.
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By the Ei-Committeeman
Friends of Representative Richard
J. Baldwin declared in Philadelphia
to-day that the Delaware county man
was in the race for the speakership to
the finish and that none knew it better
than the men who were opposed to
him but who had not been as yet able
to concentrate upon anyone to oppose
him. It is said that in the event of the
Vare-Brumbaugh-Magee forces not be
ing able to count enough noses to de
feat the man from Chadd's Ford, they
would try for a compromise candidate,
failing which they would offer the
olive branch and unite with the Pen
rose forces for a harmonious session.
This will be entirely agreeable to the
senior senator, who has not been hunt
ing a fight, but will contest if forced
to do so.
The Baldwin backers say that their
man has strength in districts claimed
by the other side and that even in
Philadelphia he has a pretty good fol
lowing. If the opponents of Baldwin
cannot swing the delegations from the
two big counties, the Delaware man
will have easy sailing.
Mr. Baldwin in discussing his boom
declared that he was in the race to the
finish line. "I have started and lam
not going to stop," said he. "I stood
aside for harmony two years ago. This
.time it's my turn, and that's why I am
going to run. I feel confident of the
outcome and will be in Harrisburg to
open headquarters right after Christ
mas."
One of the interesting things about
the State Society dinner last night was
that Mr. Baldwin sat at a table with
Speaker Ambler, of the last House,
and Representative Herman B. Hecht,
of Philadelphia, who was to be
Speaker.
President Pro Tem. of the Senate
E. E. Reidleman met most of the
members of the next Senate in Phila
delphia last night and was assured of
their support for re-election as the
presiding officer of the Senate. The
senator was a guest at the Clover Club
and also at the State Society dinner.
He will not be opposed in the Repub
lican caucus.
Resolutions of the legislative board
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, in session in this city, opposing
Richard J. Baldwin, of Delaware
county, for Speaker of the oc
casioned little surprise last evening.
Representative Baldwin was sponsor
for the full crew repealer which passed
the legislature by a vote that was dis
tinctly nonpartisan but which failed to
become a law because of the veto of
Governor Brumbaugh.
The resolutions also set forth that
"it is in the interest of this organ
ization that the hands of the Governor
be upheld iit the next session" and ask
members throughout the State to so
petition the legislators of their re
spective districts.
While a large number of legislative
matters were considered by the legis
lative board at its sessions yesterday,
members said after the meeting the
only decision reached was that the
trainmen would again exert every ef
fort in their power to oppose in the
session of 1917 the repeal of the full
crew law of 1911.
—Three of the Prohibition presi
dential electors and one of the Social
ist electors to-day filed their expense
accounts incident to the presidential
election at the State Department to
day. They are: William F. Euler, of
Meadville, Crawford county. Socialist,
no expenditures or receipts; F. E
Whittlesey, Corry, Prohibitionist, spent
$135, SIOO of which was contributed
to the National Committee, $25 to the
State committee and $lO toward a
town meeting held at Corry; John B.
Killheffer, Philadelphia, Prohibition
ist, $7 contributed to the Philadel
phia county committee, and Charles
D. Sensenig, Coatesvillek Prohibition
ist, no receipts <fr expenditures.
Control of the next national House
of Representatives, which seemed to be
drifting toward the Republicans, may
rest with the Democrats. This sit
uation is brought about by the de
clared election of three Democrats in
Pennsylvania, namely, M. Clyde Kelly
and Guy E. Campbell, in two Alle
gheny county districts, and William E.
Tobias, in the Twenty-first Pennsylva
nia district.
The reported election of Representa
tive Scully in the Trenton district and
Zeb Weaver over James J. Britt, Re
publican, In the Tenth North Carolina
district, with the possibility of an
other change in the Tavenner district
in Illinois, according to Representative
Doremus, chairman of the Democratic
congressional cofrimlttee, gives con-
trol of the next House to the Demo
crats.
The political complexion, according
to Mr. Doremus, will be:
Democrats, 217: Republicans, 213;
Progressive, 1; Socialist, 1; Protec
tionist, 1; Prohibition, 1; independent, 1.
Republican leaders have been count
ing upon three members of these
minor parties—Schall, Progessive, of
Minnesota; Martin, Protectionist, of
Louisiana, and Fuller, independent, of
Massachusetts. This would give the
minority party only 216, while the
Democrats would have 219. Final
election counts may change the esti
mates of Mr. Doremus.
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT]
Appacrntly the Mexican joint commis
sion can see no need of hurrying tiie
negotiations so long as the two Gov
ernments concerned are paying the
hotel bills.—Des Moines Register.
The hyphen turned out to be only a
minus sign.—Philadelphia North Amerl
can.
The temperature of the Deutschland's
second welcome is about U-53 degrees.
—Boston Herald.
The Nobel peace-prize is cumulative,
the future competition will look like
war.—\\ all Street Journal.
The Law Falls Short
[Pittsburgh Dispatch]
The complexities of our social life
will furnish the reason for slow
movements towards the elimination
of child labor under the age of 16. So
much must be done before that can
be accomplished, and whatever is
done must be so slowly worked out,
that hope for thfe abolition of child
labor cannot grow strong.
Owen R.. Lovejoy, secretary of the
National Child Labor Committee,
gave his approval to the recently en
acted federal law, in an address in
Philadelphia a couple of days ago.
But he qualities his approbation by
saying it is good only so far as it
goes and it doesn't go far enough by
almost 2,000,000 child workers in the
industries. In spite of all that has
been done to soften, to eliminate, the
evils of child labor, he regrets that
there are 1,800.000 children at work
whose welfare Is not touched by any
law, federal or State. His own so
lution is the outlawing of child la
bor. He says nothing but to make
all child labor unlawful will ever
reach the heart of the problem.
Long before society is ready to
abolish child labor it must be willing
to make sweeping changes here and
there to lead up to the final outlawry.
To prohibit all child labor now would
be to throw upon society the respon
sibility for the millions of little work
ers which would be as great a prob
lem, perhaps, more serious, than the
original one. Obviously if child labor
is an evil the only cure is its aboli
tion, but recognizing an evil is vast
ly easier than working out means for
its removal.
By the time society is prepared to
abolish child labor by outlawing it, so
many other conditions will have been
made over that it will appear in the
general shifting without attracting
much, if any, attention.
Great Opportunity
[New York Herald]
Speaking in Philadelphia Myron T.
Herrick expressed the wish that
President Wilson might see tit to ap
point a committee of leading Amer
icans to raise a fund of a billion dol
lars for relief work in the belligerent
countries.
"It is often said," declared the erst
while ambassador to France, "that
ithe I'nttcd States will have no friends
when this war ends, but were we to
, create this gigantic charity for the
relief of the wounded and des
i titute Its beneficent work would over
shadow nil the animosities which now
vex us. We should have all these na
tions as our friends."
Coming so closely after the Presi
dent's Thanksgiving Day proclama
tion calling upon all Americans to
share their bounty with the afflicted
peoples of Europe, this suggestion of
Mr Herrick merits the deepest con
sideration. In the midst of this world
cataclysm America can achieve noj
nobler nor more durable dlstinetlorf
than by being the Great Samaritan
to the war's innocent victims.
Courtesy Saved Life
"Courtesy to grafr hair, which he
has always tried to respect, saved my
boy's life," said Mrs. Mary Fox of Wo
burn. mother of William Fox, a pas
senger on the car that plunged into
the Fort Point Channel a few days
ago. Pride gleamed in her eyes as she
told of her boy's escape.
Fox had left his seat in the car and
smilingly gave It to an elderly, gray
haired man. only a minute before the
street car arrived at the bridge. He
then took his place with several others
on the front platform, from which he
leaped to safety.—Boston Post.
MAN IS LIKE MOTOR CAR
SAYS HEALTH
THE three danger periods of hu
man life formed the subject of
a talk by W. Earl Flynn, health
evangelist.
Infancy, Mr. Flynn said, was the
first danger period.
"You talk abouf preparedness!" said
the lecturer. "Can anyone tell me
anything people should prepare more
carefully for than the bringing of a
new life into the wOrld?
"We ought to start avoiding the
dangers of infancy a year ahead.
Strong, healthy, intelligent parents are
the best defense a child can have
against illness and death. Talk about
infantile paralysis! Why, parental
ignorance kills more children every
year than Infantile paralysis kills in a
hundred."
In discussing the next danger pe
riod—between 13 and 16-—Mr. Flynn
compared the human body to a motor
car.
"Between 13 and 16," he said, "the
change in a child is equivalent to the
change from a 1-cylinder to a twin
six motor car. Unless it has been pre-
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"
MY KINGDOM TURKEY
Harrisburg, Pa., *ov. 23, 1916.
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I have a new 1917 model auto
mobile that I would like to exchange
for a turkey. Is there anybody you
can suggest who might be induced to
make the trade?
I do not expect a large turkey—Just
a moderate sized one. Anxiously
awaiting your reply, because we ex
pect company for dinner, I am.
Yours truly.
PIANO MAN.
P. S.—My machine is a 1917 model
Peerless.
Where Big Men Serve
There would be a lot of things
which can't be done—if it wasn't that
somebody is always doing them. It is
well known that cities can't be gov
erned without a mayor and two
houses of a council—only cities are
governed without them and governed
much better' than with them.
East Cleveland has now adopted the
manager plan, and it ought to be of In
terest to the Kansas City Charter
Commission to note that in applying it
that city has had no difficulty in get
ting leading business men to serve as
commissioners. It is this body that
hires the manager—and fires him if he
doesn't perform.
It is the hardest thing in the world,
as Kansas City knows from its own ex
perience, to get competent men to give
up ail their time to city business. Hut
East Cleveland and Dayton and the
othpr commission-manager cities are
finding no difficulty in getting first rate
men to act as city directors and give
up an hour a day to seeing that the
manager they hire is making good.—
Kansas City Times.
Gold Coins Disappear
Bankers and pay officers of the
army are puzzled over the rapid dis
appearance of new gold coins and
their replacement ly old and worn
gold coins. That someone is collect
ing and retaining all new gold coins
being paid out by the army to soldiers,
replacing them with old, worn gold
coins, was asserted by quartermaster
department officers. As much as
$175,000 in gold has been paid out at
Brownsville, Texas, In one month. II
is believed that the higher weight of
the new coins is the cause for their
disappearance.-—San Antonio Express.
Business Briefs
October figures show $2,500,000,000
gain in the United States' foreign trade
for the year.
Representatives of the Russian gov
ernment yesterday placed orders with
Baldwin's for 40 largest type locomo
tives, making a total of 109 In the past
two weeks, aggregating a contract
price of $1,250,000.
Wheat crop estimates Indicate a de
crease below normal of nearly 28 per
cent, for the whole world.
A big rush is reported for knit
Kobds, with the result that prices are
up and stocks are depleted.
High cost of cotton caused another
advance In bleached cottons of all
kinds yesterday.
An extra dividend of 3 per cent, has
been declared by the Lackawanna Steel
Company.
More than $4,000,000 worth of auto
mobiles ready for shipment are held at
Detroit because of car shortage.
pared for this period, it stands little
chance of staying together.
"The time to prepare for this period
is the thirteen years before it begins.
Then the child will reach manhood or
womanhood with a fair chance to get
over the long road ahead of it in good
shape."
The third danger period, Mr. Flynn
said, Is between 50 and 60.
"This is the most difficult of all to
handle," he said. "This is where we
meet the machines that have managed
to survive the road. They aren't all
in the best of shape, though. They
are beginning to pufT and steam and
rattle. The next few years will tell
whether they can make the long hil
ahead or go to the junk heap.
"The thing for every man and wo
man to do at this time is to stop and
cut down the horse power. It's time
to reduce the fuel, and to see that no
carbon gets on the cylinders.
"But there's no excuse for the ma
chine going to pieces. It's all a ques
tion of intelligent driving and care."
—Kansas City Star.
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Speaking of getting interviews from
distinguished visitors under difficulties,
a reporter recalls Ills success in getting
into touch with General Shatter when
that officer was a much sought for
personage by newspapermen after his
return from the Cuban campaign In
1898, of which he was in command.
General Shatter was at the Common
wealth Hotel for a brief time and his
orderly at the dining room door would
let no reporter In. "No use," said one
of the older men who had tried In
vain to a young reporter at the foot
of the stairs. Forewarned was fore
armed, so the youngster went on up
stairs, hung his hat on a peg like any
registered guest, strolled leisurely Into
the dining room and got a seat just
opposite the General. Then he told
his mission, and the officer, after get
ting over his surprise, laughed heartily
at the ruse and "gave up" quite an
interesting bit of an interview.
• * *
Dr. Francis D. Patterson, chief of
the bureau of hygiene and engineer
ing of the Department of Labor and
Industry, is still suffering from the
shock of an answer he received at the
bureau of information at Union sta
tion the other day. The genial doc
tor arrived here Monday with some
friends and according to what he told
the other day, he asked at the station
in order to make sure just where the
Industrial Welfare and Efficiency con
ference was to be held. It also seems
that he asked about it under the name
of "convention." This is what he
drew.
"There isn't any such convention
here. The only two here this week
are the Methodists and the Owls."
*
Governor Brumbaugh's mall, which
is lilled with all sorts and styles of
letters, includes many begging ones
and quite a few which may be said
to be in the offertory class. The other
day the Governor was offered a sure
cure for infantile paralysis anywhere
in Pennsylvania for fifty dollars. In
the same mail came a letter from a
man invited to attend the Welfare
conference who said that a five-dollar
bill would about meet his expenses.
* * *
Justice E. A. Walling, of the Su
preme Court, forgot law and turned
to the gospel in this city this week.
The justice is one of the pillars of the
church in Erie county and came to at
tend the Laymen's meetings in which
he was immensely interested. The tall
form of the justice was generally sur
rounded by a group of men as lie has
many friends and his interest in re
ligious matters is very keen. He pre
sided at one of the most important
| sessions of the whole conference yes
terday.
• • •
I Out-of-town residents who came to
I this city to attend the Methodist con
vention this week did not experience
much trouble in finding the place
where the convention met. All along
the principal streets of the city lead
ing to the hall the committee placed
signs on ail poles, pointing out the way.
i At the entrances at both stations signs
were placed and from all city hotels
strangers were guided to the conven
tion via these signs.
• •
Automobiling in the city is very
dangerous on account of some people
who drive cars having an idea that
they always have a right to the street
and also to persons partially under
the influence of liquor trying to oper
ate a gasoline vehicle. Last Saturday
evening a Harrisburg resident said
that he was driving down South Third
street at the rate of 15 miles an hour.
At' Blackberry, he said that he sound
ed his horn. Hearing no response ho
continued down street. Just as he
was about to pass the street he said ->
a "fool autoist" came out, crossed
ahead of him at the rate of about 35
miles an hour. "Had I been going
more than 15 miles an hour," he said,
"we would havei collided and oc
cupants of both machines killed or
serously injured."
* • •
Ex-Governor Samuel W. Penny
packer, contrary to the general
opinion, liked to talk for publication.
Only he did not always answer the
questions. Once he was asked by a
well-known reporter, now an up-State
editor, about his cabinet. In reply he
gave a fine discussion of the art of
printing spelling books In 1750.
* * *
According to the notices being filed
at the State Capitol immense sums of
money are being made available for
manufacturing purposes. There have
been literally millions of dollars au
thorized to be secured by companies
for sale of additional stock or bonds.
The increases have been filed at a live
lier rate the last six months than ever •
known before. Incidentally the State
gets from $lO to $35 on each paper
according to character and size.
* •
Somehow or ojther people never get
tired looking at a fire and Saturday
a good many people found much of
interest watching flames sweep along
the First Mountain above Enola. The
tire got started on Friday night and
in the afternoon spread rapidly. The
battle between the men engaged in
lighting it and the flames swept by a
high wind was extremely interesting
and as the tire was high up the ebb
and flow of the lire could be plainly
seen.
A Writer's Ups and Downs
A writer does his very best to make
his work excel.
To charm the critics one and all he
strains his brain like—everything.
He reads a script a dozen times before
he wet 3 a seal;
Than have the thing rejected, he would
rather miss a meal.
" 'Tis done!" he swears by all the gods,
but still his face grows pale
When from his hand the finished
product drops into the mail.
And from Hope's highest mountain
peak he takes an awful dip
Into the Valley of Despair just like a
storm-tossed ship
When where his thrilling masterpiece
should have appeared In print,
Of anything from his free pen there's
not the slightest hint.
He sees the busy Editor glance quickly
o'er his script,
And down into the wasto box, then, It
takes Us final trip.
"A schoolboy, now," he says, "could
see the whole blamed thing was
punk,
I don't know what I ever meant by
sending in that junk.
That Editor will surely think that I'm
a silly boob,
An amateur, perhaps, or some un
educated Reub, 9
"I'd just as well stop trying, for I do
not have tho gift."
Then, down the stream of Pessimism,
ten to one, he'll drift.
Until someday, while looking through
tho paper with a sneer.
He tlnds his thrilling masterpiece; It
make him feel so queer.
And then to him, just as to an afflicted
Israelite,
The very thing that poisoned once be
comes a healing slight.
Ashamed because he didn't have the
confidence to wait,
Quite modestly, he mutters when his
friends congratulate:
"Of course I knew he'd print the thins,
for dash it. don't you know,
That, after all, it's mighty good ex
cept a line or so."
JAS. C. BOWEUMASTER,
For the Telegraph.