Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-30

FTNHlS may be base libel on an honored
l. profession, but 1t is told by the man who
perpetrated the faux pas. He was a reporter
for a Baltimore paper-or had been one for
about an hour this being his first experience
in newspaper work-when the city editor sent
him out to see Cardinal Gibbons The cub"
rushed down to the modest white house
where the venerable prelate lives and rang
the bell man servant opened the door.
rs the Cardinal at homer" asked the
reporter.
mo, sir"
"oh, Mrs. Gibbons will do" calculated the
cub"
TTTHo invented the cocktail? Some bar
w tender? bon vvant? Or vas its dis
Covery the result of drunken frolic?
The cocktail was invented by Mrs. Eliza
beth Flanagan, widow of an Irish soldier
who fell in the service of the American army
during the Revolution. After her husbands
DEATH Mrs. Flanagan became an army suit
Ter, following a troop of Virginia horse under
Colonel Burr. In the winter of 1779 she took
up quarters with the troop in place called
Four Corners, on the road between Tarry-
town and White Plains, N. Y.-near the
demesne of John d. Rockefeller. There Mrs
Flanagan set up hotel which soon became
the rendezvous of the "swells" of that day.
One day the hostess surprised her guests by
announcing drink-the cocktail-sup-
posed to have been named after the blending
of colors in the tail of game cock.
livery time King Menelik of Abyssinia
Lwas reported dead again, the news re-
called the Solomonc manner in which the
dusky potentate meted out justice. Once two
of his subjects went to an orchard to gather
fruit. One climbed the tree and shook the
fruit down while the other gathered it.
Finally the branch on which the treed one
sitting broke and he fell on his COM
panion, killing him.
Under the Abyssinian law, the relatives Of
the dead man demanded a life for a life, de-
Ginning the proffered blood money. The case
went into court and finally reached King
Menelik. When he had heard all the evil
dence in the case, he delivered his judgment
thus:
You are within your tights in demanding
the life of the accused But the law says
distinctly that he must be killed in exactly
the same manner as was his victim Let one
of the dead mans relatives climb high tree
and fall on the accused until he has killed
him"
There being no volunteers the accused was
set free.
"A prisoners in the Siberian Jail at Akaitoi
had dug a tunnel-to that wonderful freedom,
so long denied to both. On the outside
friends were waiting them. Finally they
gained what they had sought. The one pris-
oner was hustled away; the other hidden In
a barrel of sauerkraut and shipped to
lrkutsk, where he emerged, odoriferous but
free. He managed to make his way to Japan
and thence to San Francisco. Eventually,
Gregory Gershuni came to this city-some
five years ago Accompanied by a friend he
wandered about the town, seeing the sights
in the cradle of American liberty.
Slowly he walked along Fifth street until
he came to Independence Hall. Slowly he
read the inscriptions Of the tablets on the
walls For a long whle-mnutes-he stood
in silence, the while tears fell down his
cheeks
For that, for liberty for freedom, for
humanity-we are fighting in Russia-even
rs you fought here" he said Even you
won, so will we win. Even as your fore
fathers suffered for their ideals and princi-
pies so have we suffered and so must we
suffer more in the days to come, until free
dom comes to Russia"
WHEN your gaze runs afoul of a male
w adorned with wrist watch and pink
a
unkindly of HINT all depends upon whether
you swear by Thomas Carlyle or Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, both of whom have furnished
intimate descriptions of the dandy" Says
the former in "Sartor Resartus':
"a dandy is a clothes wearing mana man
whose trade, Office and existence is the wear
ing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul
spirit purse and person is heroically conse-
Grated TO this one object, the wearing of
clothes wisely and well; that, others
dress to live, he lives to dress"
And now look on the other side of the
picture furnished by Holiness
There was Alcihiades the 'curled son OF
Cllnias,' an accomplished young man, but
what would be called a swell in these days
There was Aristotle, distinguished writer
OF whom you have heard-a regular dandy
he was. So was Marcus Antonius-so was
Sir Humphry Davy-so was Lord Palmer
ston. If / am not forgetful Dandies such as
/ was speaking of have rocked this planet
like a cradle, aye, and left it swinging to
this day"
(WHICH brings back to memory that his
w toric Joke about the American girl who
would not marry British peer, declaring
that the Yankee dudell do"
BRADFORD.
Taking the Gin" Out of Virginia
From the New Orleans State.
BY actual count 325 paragrapheTs up to
date have observed that the Prohibitionsts