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versation above the daily news, bridge
whist, the stock market and personal
palaver.
What society for a young painter.
What society for youth yearninS for
poetry and beauty. For the man who
has ideas and wants to air them. or
for a battle-ground OF wit. The ordinary
Paris cafe kills all aspirations, all origi-
nality that is not business
Here only in the Closerie des LilaS can
hurrahing welcome from his peers. Elder
men will take him by the hand. He is
in no danger of dissipation. These are
intelligences. even when cubical- lie
listens He talks He plunges. Swelied
with happiness. he even invents, dis
covers. initiates. What II his cubism
have rounded corners?
Here we care only for ideas. wit, art,
poetry. High ideals sweeten us from the
blighting bluff of the boulevard" said a
very sane young poet with no hair on
his face. He is a rich boy, son OF a
millionaire manufacturer. and he takes
a taxi, in the rain, to come four miles
across Paris. Never mind their stimuli
taneousism-it Will develop into some
thing else. or else. who knows. perfect
itself in beauty The charm of this place
are miles away from the gilded and iced
cake-baking boulevard and its systematic
self-advertising.'
beckoned to Ellis to get ready. He
began to joint the flashlight tripod
Cant we take photograph Of Paul
Fort and his friends hereT' l asked.
The word photograph went like a
whirlwind. There was pandemonium
Mobbing the central tables. packing the
aisles. massing behind the prince of poets
and his court, paving his shoulders like
compact bunch Of grapes. they hauled.
mauled. struggled and chung, to keep in
the focus of the camera They hid Paul
Fort; they hid Zweig. the German liter
airy critic on a visit: they upset the
tripods and almost smashed the plates.
Flash! Pf-f-f. Is that all: Is II over?
i had my head turned. Won't you take
another?
We smiled. but the prince of poets did
not.
I'VE were peace and modesty. he said.
You brought a disturbing element.
STERLING HElLI3
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The DoewooD. Is The BELLE
OTTLOwERMGiTREES.

have grown the opium poppy of China
and India, however, and the introduced
plant has taken to the woods until II has
become no uncommon sight TO find cluS-
tiers of these purple blooms Of unsurpassed
beauty in almost any field Then there
is the yellow poppy OF California and
of many of the other Pacific coast states
that lays down such "A carpet of gold as
is rarely revealed anywhere else in tho
world. 1t Is the glory of the flower
loving tourist to climb a spur of the
Rockies after abundant spring rains have
awakened the dormant poppies that have
seeded I'm the desert. If the time Is ripe
that tourist may look away far as the
eye can reach In this dry atmosphere and
that carpet of yellow is spread out IN
terminably for fifty or "A hundred miles
upon the desert. The sea of yellow bill
lows without end before the breezes that
sweep down from the mountains
Among the introduced flowers that the
photographer may encounter is the great
lotus from Egypt, that subtle flower that
is reputed to steal into the veins OF the
eaters of 1t and breed strange fantasies.
The lotus is a water lily that sometimes
measures a foot or more across and that
is an amazon of the flower world In
many American gardens it has been set
to grow in cement tanks kept supplied
with water 1t has overrun these tanks
and gained the American streams and
may today be found growing in all its
seductive glory in the streams tributary
to the Potomac below Washington and
in many other places
So is it becoming possible that the
minds that dominate this, the most power
full civilization Of modern times. may
find at hand the mystic flower upon which
the mobiles Of ancient Egypt fed until their
faculties were drugged into inaction ana
the race dominance was gone. The ma
terial is being placed at hand that may
convert the men of America into the lotus
eaters of modern times.
So does the flower photographer encoun-
bloom in the spring. about every one
a flame of sentiment. Jobs tears, purple
are gone. The bellwort hangs for awhile
on its delicate stem. There is the lily
of-the-valley which also hangs forth
flags and another of pinks, there are
the laurels of the mountain side and
and forget-me-nots. there is black-eyed
family of thistles. and the rattlesnake
the damp solitudes of the forest the
tinels suggesting peace. There are flow
and the tales of them and the pictures
might go on forever.
Copyright. 1918, by W. a. Du Puy)
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Tie INDIAN PIPE APPTARs
INCONSISTENCIES.

that scrambleS about the shady, rocky
hilsides of the eastern half of the con-
tinent puts forth its flowers in clusters
at the ends of its vines. They are wax
like and pink, and have an odor much
like that of the water lily.
The skunk cabbage of the low. wet
places and the arbutus of the hillsides
are closely followed in the spring by the
found a place in the springtime joy of
the people of the outside. The pussy
willows not uncommonly are seen in
February. The red and yellow and green
and brown of their soft and fuzzy cylin-
ders delight the early farer abroad. while
their fragrance fills the early spring air.
And there is the hepatica that crowds
close on the heels of the skunk cabbage
and often shows itself among the SHOWS
of early spring When the men of Yer
mont go forth to tap the maple tree for
its sap that begins to rise with the first
touch of spring, they often find the dell
cate white and pink star-shaped flowers
blossoming at their roots. The anemone
frail creature known also as the wind
flower.
BY this time spring is a thing of
reality. The gray poplar has burst into
bloom overhead and the blue violets, says
the photographer, are to be seen in the
grass and a handful of them may be
gathered for milady's corsage. The bird
foot violet is the largest of the blue
violets, though not as early as some
They grow in the borders of fields and in
thin woods, hiding modestly close to the
ground. The common violet may shade
into a purple. while the sweet, white
violet. most fragrant of them all and
the smallest. is of a modester color.
The yellow violet Isl the tallest and proud
est and chooses the dry hillsides, though
it may often be found looking into the
waters of a brook as though to get
view of the reflection of itself. The So
called dogtooth violet Is not violet at
all and it's other name of fawn lily Is
much more appropriate.
The lady's slippers come later in the
spring, and may not be found yet
except in the far south. These
lady's slippers are real aristocrats among
the wild flowers. They are orchids and
orchids are the fancy and pride Of
many a magnificent garden. Emissaries
of flower fanciers travel the world
around gathering orchids and single
plants are often worth thousands of
dollars. Yet the lady's slippers are royal
orchids. They are things of beauty. but
not SO highly priced as those that are
more difficult to procure. In the White
House gardens there is the rarest OF
these flowers, the spotted leopard or
child of Africa, which Mr.. Crandall has
pictured.
To the nature student there is an eter-
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school boy at the College Louis lie Grand.
Along with Andre de Lorde-who later
was to make Paris and America tremble
with THE System of Prof. Goudron and
DR.. Plume''-he rented a stage. engaged
actors and trained them to play piece
of Maeterlnck's when Maeterlinck' $
name was unknown. For which the two
boys were expelled from Louis lie Grand,
on the ground that they could not be
scholars and theater managers. Nova
days he says: Il owe more to Maetter-
linck than he owes to me!'
'In France said Paul Fort I'VE love
art.' He welcomed smiling man with
short gray beard. ALLOW me to present
you to the poet. Victor Emile Michelet -
A solemn-looking party eats boiled
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tear at his lapel and six at his coattail.
Paul Fort finds time to greet a beardless
boy poet blushing and stammering, and
accept, as a precious deposit and sam
pie, the boys perhaps virgin verse. He
pockets the poetry reverently. He pock-
cts ten such in the evening And-mind
you-every poem will be read. examined
as d jewel. and quite possibly be pub
lished when 1t shows a promise of nov
city. 1t may, indeed, be published in his
Verse and Prose Review. whose CO.
director is the supple Alexandra Mer-
cereau.
How shall they not love him-and give
him their votes for Prince? Paul + ort
made Maeterlinck in France. and thinks
nothing about 1t. He was still a high
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eggs at the next table. Come" he says,
meet the prince of story tellers, Hans
Ryner.' And. "Ah, Aeschemann!' A
friendly wave Charming French poet,
he whispers.
Is Paul Fort really the prince of poets
Or does he owe his election partly to his
kindness, his goodness, his solemnity, his
perennial youthfulness. and because he
welcomes and prints slathers of youthful
poets in his review?
You cannot divide him up.
If poetry is thing of pure imagina-
ton. II poetry IL q thing In which the
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The Home of Truth.

lfY TNcLE JOE" CANNON. at a repub-
~ lican luncheon in Danville. tilted
a little higher the cigar in the corner OF
his mouth and said grimly:
These undertaking writer's call me
names. Well. gentlemen, truth lies at
the bottom Of q well, but that doesn't
necessarily mean an inkWell."
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cream of them has just been collected In
The Choice published recently.
Here is baggage-and it sells handsome
ly. to swell up a man. yet he leaves the
Ivory tower and pink teas and the
boulevard press to Rostand.
See the Closeries des Lilas of Tues
day night. Middle-aged Bulgarian poets
with four volumes seeking a publisher:
American girls who have translated
Swinburne into French: epigramists
from Bremen-with diagram-and Bel
Sian trohbadours stick their heads in the
door: HAS he come YETI They wander
about: HAS he gomez"
He comes, the prince of poets, sur
rounded by his bodyguard in felt hats
and long hair. Yet In Babel. where Ave
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GOVERNMENT Photog-
~ rapher Whose Specially
Is Faring Forth in the Spring
Months and Recording the
Unfolding of Blooms-His
Picture Records Are of Great
Value-Queer Plants of the
Floral World - Tribulations
of the Photographer-Flow-
ers That Flame and Flowers
That Are Comedians.
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poetry. was born on the night of my
visit, which conceded with the independ-
ents vernissage Things happen like that
in the Closerie des Iilas.
II Is the last of the literary and arts
tic cafes An American magazine recent
" asked for an article on them. and the
contributor in his haste. wrote back that
Ernest Lajeunesse and four disciples
hold to themselves frigidly from > to Z
at the ice cream Neapohtan Cafe on the
boulevard: that Georges COurteline and
CASTOR Leroux play bridge at the Grand
Cafe from y to also the boulevard
that Rostand when in Paris, takes tea
with the ladies at the Majestic off the
Champs Elysees. and that was all, the
literary and artistic cafes had perished In
boulevard bluff and self-advertising.
Now he knows another world, the real
thing. ardent youth. virgin genius. bat
Ting for tomorrow, at the Closerie des
1ilas.
II is the last stand OF Bohemia.
=
Philistines call them cafe poets
Georges Batault. youthful philosopher in
the style of Bergson. son-of family who
quits the Avenue du Bots for Paul Fort
Tuesday evenings, has explained ii to me
So has Canudo. editor of Montjoie. the
organ of artistic Imperialism. So Paul
Fort explained his younger brethren. re-
plying 10 Jean Richepin's bitter-sweet on
the night of his election prince OF
poets.
IF we hold forth in cafe said the
prince lit is because most of US have nc
salon"
| knew man whose aunts life ambi-
tion was to go TO Paris and frequent the
literary salon of Nine. Adam. which, she
was convinced as late as 1897, still
created public opinion and guided taste
very surely. So Is the bourgeois ever. The
salon. for him cor her,-who does not GO
but reads about it. is a mysterious place
OF conversation, art and manners whose
Kitchen he does not realize or the back
stairs. or servants gossip. or the skeleton
IN the closet. But he knows the cafe. its
plate washing and sweeping out. its free
entrance and window wide open.
Therefore he despises the cafe as he
rsyeres the salon-just as We admire a
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HE government has
an official photog-
rapher to the flow
err world. The
months of April
and May comprise
his busy period. for
then all the Won
derworld of nature
is putting on its
garlands. Today
he is somewhere in
the wilds seeking
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out rare blooms of beauty or better
known flowers in new and striking guises
That he may know what he should pic
ture and the value of the things he en-
counters he has. of necessity, become a
man STEPPED in the lore of the woods and
the fields. His story of the watch for
the appearance of the flowers In their
cycle of the springtime weeks IS full of
nature lore from new angle.
This photographer Is f. l.. Crandall,
and for years he has made pictures for
the Department of Agriculture. In all
those experiments of the government
scientists in their hothouses, where they
seek to breed flowers that the world
never saw before. and in the gardens that
grow a wealth of rare blooms to decorate
the White House on festive occasions, E.
l.. Crandall is the photographer artist
who records the beauties OF those blooms.
He has pictured many flowers that have
bloomed in these hothouses for the first
time since flowers began to bloom, for
they Were originated here. He has pic
tured rare orchids that have been sent
to the White House gardens from the
ends of the earth. He has pictured the
first blossoms in America of plants, the
seed for which agricultural explorers have
sent home from the high Himalayas or
the jungles of darkest Africa.
Crandall. as the flower photographer of
the government. makes the flower pic
lures that appear in all the government
publications. But above and beyond this
he is attempting to register a photograph
of every flower that blooms in the wilds,
that the government, the naturalist or
the nature lover may have true material
for illustration whenever these beauties
OF nature are being portrayed
So Crandall knows the things in nature
that first appear in the spring. He knows
the procession of mowers as they follow
one after another. He knows the haunts
IN which they are found and the tricks
or getting them on record
There Is. for instance, the skunk cab
bage, the first bloom of them all to
appear in the spring. Often the snow is
bage pushes its way through the fecund
earth and bursts into bloom. The flower
Is protected by a shell-like covering that
reveals 1t from only one side, the whole
being something like a cabbage with
hollow interior, vase for flower
The flower. to be sure. has a bad odor
from which II takes its names. Its prime
virtue of being the first of all to appear
and the additional fact that ii is an
edible plant. largely redeem the skunk
cabbage from the ignominy of it's odor
Following closely on the heels of the
skunk cabbage. according to the flower
photographer, comes the bloom of the
trailing arbutus. This we'll known plant
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HAVE seen the
prince of poets and
his Tuesday night
crowd.
] have visited the
center of cubisn.
futurism, unani-
mousism, orphisrn,
S | m II ltaneousism,
sensuouSism and
others.
Sensuousism. as
a new kind of
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS, April 81. 1913
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Following closely on the heels of the
skunk cabbage, according to the flower
comes the bloom of the
trailing arbutus. This we'll known plant
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HE government has
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WHITTIER THOU GoEsT."

Comrade Yetta, by Albert Edwards:
He took her to Lorber's for supper,
And leaning over the brightly lighted
table, over dishes which altogether
cost less than a dollar, but which
seemed to her very wonderful, he SOL
EMMY asked her to promise to marry
him. Just as solemnly she said yes,
Jove's laughter did not reach her ears
to disturb her as she looked trustful
and happy into his eyes. One -canno
but wish that sometimes the outlaws
Of Jupiter were louder.
Harry promised to go to a jeweler
in the morning n buy her an en-
gagement ring. And when they had
finished talking about this important
detail, Yetta remembered about hel
ticket to. the Woman's Trade Unior
league ball.. Harry tried to laugh the
idea away. He knew nothing about
trade unions except that high class
crooks" did not belong to them. But
held, was a very modest place.
ITS sure to be stupid in that hail.
he said. "They never have good balls
there. I'm going to take you to the
| Palace. There's a swell affair there
| every night-the real thing. And 81
cents! What fun can you have at
50-cent ball? Sometimes the tickets
cost SIS at the Palace"
But Yetta had set her heart on us.
ing her own ticket and it seemed ar
u~nimportant detail to Harry. They
compromised: they would go to both
first to hers and then to his. She
would see that he knew what he was
talking about.
He proposed a bottle of champagne
For a moment Yetta was frightened.
81 never drank nj wine," she pro-
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tested.
oh, come" he said, "they always
| drink wine over a marriage contract
I wouldn't ask you If it would hurt
you"
Yetta looked at him out of her big,
deep eyes. He had the peculiar kind
Of nerve which made it possible for
him to look straight into them. He
reached his hand across the table and
put it caressingly on hers. And so she
believed him.
IF you says for me to-" she said,
I'll do anything you wants me to,
Harry-aIways." And then Yetta re-
membered her father and the VOW he
had taught her. 1t made her suddenly
bold. She took firm hold of the hand
Harry had reached to her across the
table, and in a sing song, but throb-
bing voice began to recite the wonder
full old Hebrew words. The cadet"
was bewildered. His religious instruc-
ton had been neglected; he knew no
Hebrew.
"wot's this yer giving me?" he
asked.
And Yetta translated into the ver-
%nacular.
1T means: Wherever you go, I'll
go too, where you sleep. I'll sleep wild
you, your folks will be my folks and
I'll pray; to your God; when you die,
I'll die too and be buried beside you.
And God can do more to me,tif I leave
you before I die My father taught it
to me. Amt it a swell thing to say
when you're engaged?'
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u

government not only furnished it's own
army with a sufficient supply Of food
but on several occasions came to the
assistance Of its allies. However, for
some time past it has been reported
that the grain supply is giving out,
and the price of bread has risen per-
ceptibly. The same situation that fac
es Servia also confronts it's neighbors,
in whose markets the needed supplies
will scarcely be found.
Servia imported in 1909, 236, 807
pounds Of flour, valued at 1891; in
1910. 153.027 pounds. value $5,113; in
1911, 279,314 pounds, value 1851, or
average values Of 3.21, 1874, and 2.75
cents per pound for the respective
years. Almost the entire amount came
from Austria Hungary and was Of a
finer grade than the -four commonly
used in Servia. There was practically
no importation of meal. In 1911 Servia
| exported 15,715.96 pounds of flour,
worth $361,529 8. or 2.3 cents per pound,
, and 81,607 pounds Of meal. valued at
1894. or 10 cents per pound. The av-
erage production for the past ten years
| of wheat and corn in Servia was:I
Wheat. 8.540,S75 bushels; corn, 14.925.-
900 bushels. I
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New York, May 15.-President
Ebbets of the National league
team in Brooklyn has had another
stroke of luck. He has found in
Stengel, center fielder, a cheap re-
cruit from the Southern league
what seems to be a great baseball
player. The young nan jumped
right into the class of 800 batters
in the first few games he played,
and in the first four weeks of the
season he has remained there. 1t
is believed that the pricesfo r this
1 player, who may prove one of the
sensations. of 1913, was $500. He
might be sold today for eight
times that sum.
Ebbets or his managers have
discovered as many great players
as any other chiefs of a big league
team In two leagues in the past
few years. There is Nap Rucker,
for instance, the equal of any left
hand pitcher in the business.
There Is Daubert, the best first
baseman now playing-since Hal
Chase of the New York American
league team is not doing his best.
Somehow, though, Ebbets can't
win a pennant.
"The reason is plain" said a
Brooklyn fan. while he has the
faculty of finding great players, he
won't pay them good salaries. A
young fellow who has proved he
is worth $4,000 a year becomes
discouraged IL he fails to get more
than $500. Then he will quit
trying to be a star. After a couple
Of years of this kind Of treatment
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new
UNDER The sun
HOW FASHIONS AND FADs CHANGE
IN THE SPORTING GAME ALL
ALONG THE LINE, AND NEW
STUNTS EXPECTED IN THE Bird
MEN OF THE AIR.

The man who said that there was
nothing new under the sun. abiding
of course to the great King Solomon,
did not keep track Of the constant
changes that are taking place in the
various ines of sport.
The old style of boxing which had
for its basic principle stand straight
and hit from the shoulder has gone
it's way. Nowadays the best expon-
ents of the art crouch and hit from
every old angle. .
~ Latter-day Jockeys perch upon a
horses withers instead of riding with
the long stirrup Of other years, while
the innovations that are seen in foot
ball, baseball and wrestling are sure
ly too numerous to mention"
Now certain teachers of swimming
have discovered that the breast
stroke, even though it has endured
since the beginning, is all a mistake,
and hat in order to achieve the best
results the young idea must be taught
to swim on it's side, and for a change
method of natation use the crawl"
Well, here is one threatened reform
tina lends itself to discussion. With
the human family swimming is an ac-
quired art, and it stands to reason
that the living things with which the
practice is natural, long ago settled
which is the best stroke. Whoever
heard of a frog or q sturgeon or a
luck using anything but the breast
stroke? .-
Pretty soon the aeronauts will be
discovering faults in the method of air
navigation followed by the birds.
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American Flour in Servia,

Consul Madden Summers, Belgrade:
The removal of the Servian duty on
imported flour and meal would seem to
open the markets Of this kingdom to
American shippers Of those products.
The continuance of the Balkan wal
will practically prevent any crops be-
ing raised this year at least in Servia
and Bulgaria. These two countries
are distinctly agricultural. and bread
constitutes the principal article of
food. During the winter the Servian
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CnAS. MURPHY
Speaks Right Out From he Shout
der and Tells of the Prospects
of h Cubs.

e New York, May 14-Whether he had
consulted an oracle was not made clear
by President Murphy of the Cubs re-
Gently, but he made the following
statement:
1--WE will win the pennant by a mar
gin of eighteen games. l said last
the top, but 1 wasn't sure of the mar
gin. But now I am in a position to
speak with unbridled confidence"
President Murphy added that If Nc
year he would have won the worlds
series. "Bridewell is the best short