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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
MORE HARM THAN GOOD

To the Editor Of the EUeninO Ledger:
Sir-People who rule are almost always ideal.
istic in their conceptions of things economic.
The reason for it is because their life is not
practical enough, using the pen to show how
to do things, while others use muscle and
grain to actually do things Statesmen under
take to figure out on paper what cannot be
done in practice and in consequence govern
ment laws policies hurt more than they
help industry. .
READER.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

Reassuring features OF the business situa-
tiOn the remarkable increase i'm exports
and indications that American debts abroad
viii be settled without the necessity of further
shipments of gold to Europe at present Ac-
cording to estimates made by the Department
OF Commerce exports In October amounted to
500 100000. The trade balance in favor of this
country was SG0OOOOOO, gain Of S44 600 900, over
September.-Rochester Post-Express
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
Fate ofthe Moose

From the Springfield Republican.
IL was clear months ago that. If reaction came,
the new Progressive party would suner Sc
Yerely. For the Progressive party, 10 degree.
vas the eliminating political expression OF the
radical movement which had been forcing Tecog-
nition of as claims by an parties Tor a dozen
years hadicallsm Was the supreme force under
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
Wartime Gilbert and Sullivan

AS sung by tho AHies.)
The flowers that bloom in the spring, ira ia,
Have nothing to do with the case,
He's trying to envelop our wing, tra-la:
The most unattractive old thing, tra-la,
we'd like to get out of this place,
We'd like to get out of this place,
And that's what we mean when we say or wei
sing
Oh. bother the flowers that bloom in the
spring.
Ira -Ia-la-la-la Boom! Tra-la- -la-la- la -
Bang!
The howltzers boom in the spring
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
II. saneluary Of Free Speech

III JOSEPH FELs life meant anythins. Il
i meaut a me. free expression of the long
ine for human liberty He Thought 70 accom-
.II.h 4 - re Single Tax. others have
rnt ths same ena by different means.
aaf fte righteous state az human freedom
af S. cherished IS tha important thias +
= Ia Efforts
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

Belgium, according to some dispatches,
objects to the failure of England 10 cone
to her rescue in time.
Indicating that the British don't care
Continental as 1t were, about the war!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
An III Wind, Etc.

My wifes parents have come to live
with u.s.
Hard luck. old man.
ooh. | don't know: she can't threaten to
go home to mother any more
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
shIlio be Feared

From the Ohio State Journal
The gnawng taar is that when Uncle Joe
Cannon. Mr.. Mckinley and Nick LongWorth re-
join Senator Penrose IN public life and resume
general charge OF our liberties. Il Will develop
that their experience in the outer darkness
hasn't chastened em any more than a rabbit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
The War of Words

Commend us to the peaceful war in which
the shells are words, sc,
Enough, If one desire, to fill up bulky
Volume: -,
The war that harms the world no more than
carong of birds,
We mean the letters the paper colyum'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

Found-Oct. 27, a black mare. weight
about 1900 pounds; two hind feet OwneI
answer, pay charges. II. Tetley Brother
Ad in Detroit Tribune.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

and not as a reward for his political services,
which are great, but for which he asks and
would receive no reward. There is at this
time no vacancy on the Federal bench in
PENNSYLVANIA, but It is not unlikely that
there will be, and the President has Mr..
Palmer in mind for the first place that offers.
In the event that there shall be no vacancy
OF this sort It Is certain that Mr. Palmer
will be taken care OF in some other office OF
honor and influence and service in the Gov
ernment. What It will be has not been
divulged, but the President would not care
to lose the services of so clean, able and high
minded a man to the country.
TT WAS said yesterday by authority that
L the President fully appreciates the sacri-
fee made by Mr. Palmer in his race for Sem
ator in Pennsylvania; that he does not think
that the man who led so forlorn a hope
should be overlooked in the distribution of
high places not in the nature of reward, but
as a recognition Of merit, and that he will
take the first opportunity to express in Sig
nal way his sense Of what the public owes to
men who are ready to sacrifice themselves
for the public GOOD
1t will not be Attorney General Palmer,
but II the chance comes it will be Judge
Palmer and that would be better really, as
the service OF tho former would be passing
and the service OF the latter enduring. ME
Palmer has been at the bar for u years, and
he is well equipped for the bench His mind
really runs In the way OF justice rather than
in the ruts of politics. lie is just now in the
height of his powers. and it would be Il pity
to spoil him in partisan politics. His famil-
iarity with legislative matters would make
him all the better judge of the laws when
sitting in the scat of Judgment The Presi-
dent knows him like book; knows what he
did at Baltimore when the fate Of the party
hung In the balance; knows what he did dur
ing the recent long session of Congress and
how well it was done; knows how courageous
he is. how unselfsh and devoted in all his
aims; knows how he would resent any sug-
gestion that he had been working for per-
sonal honor and gain and not sincerely for
the public good, and he will take care of him
now that he has fallen outside &c breast
works in the cause OF clean politics and good
government.
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GebibelinR
Accuracy First!

with German submarines in the straits
of Dover, Britain has a Deal to worry about.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

FOR the Penn Dartmouth game the wealth
ermap has supplied easily the best weather
uf the football season. Even the players are
net Akeis io quarrel with N though they
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

a big Chicago merchant. commenting on the
business situation, remarks that THE trouble
lies in the frame of mind of the large financial
interests who sit on their money bags and
shout panic" There is less and less of that
however, business developments give the
lie to forecasts of dlsaster.-Tacoma Tribune.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

The head stenographer was blonde
again.
bov; dark hair looks fiat against this new
mahogany office furniture"
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The non-partisan declaration Of the suhra-
gists At Nashville doesn't however. put them
out Of politics. There are the II voting States
70 be reckoned with.
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Elucidating a Mystery

From the general trend of the news, we
should Judge that il was the Russian army
which put the crack in Cracow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

Joseph Addison, the English essayist,
used the pseudonym clio When he wrote
a manuscript in the city he annotated it
with "a "C"; when in London, IL; when
in Isllngton where he lived, "I," and when
i'm his office, "O" the whole spelling Clio.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

And now it would be just like the hen TO
get back at man BY inventing some comb and
claw disease.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

"Peanuts!" calls the train boy.
"Haye no teeth. egad!"
Muttered Mister Toothless.
Gum drops!" cried the lad.
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(As snnn bu the Germalls.

They are the rulers of the sea,
At least they think they be,
Their fleet hangs off ten miles away,
But our U-nlnes get them every day;
And though their banner proudly haunts,
We've scared out their sisters and their
cousins and their aunts,
Their sisters and their cousins and their
aunts.
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(As sung By Cockrey prisoner Of UdrJ
1 sit and loaf and l smoke,
The culies treat me nice;
sure am the luckiest bloke,
Getting caught in this here plice
The company here is VERY select
And proud as an oxford Don,
And that is something I didn't expect
When | first put this uniform on.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

II the suffragists Of Philadelphia put
price on anybody's head it will be on era
MUM nearer home than the Kaiser's.
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Add In,ransitive Verbs
NJ Words IN That Effect

Speed ton Philadelphia street carr
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LOrimsr pleads not guilty-again.

villa may get his triumphal entry into
Mexico City, after all
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If Germany Wins
A Matter ofElfatching

Buy big gun and help the Krupps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

in lSlinRtOn, WneTe he liNeu, l. anu Wllcll
i'm his office, "O," the whole spelling Clio.
The word gauntlet in ito run the gaunt-
let" is improperly used. The word should
be "gauntelope." Phillips, in his World of
Words" tells us that ito run the gauntelope'
Is a punishment among soldiers; the of
fender having to run, with his back naked
through the whole regiment, and to re-
Ceiye a lash from a switch from every SOL
der. II is derived from Cant (GhenD,
town of Flanders where the punishment was
invented, and the Dutch word lope, run
ming.
When a man is debilitated from the effects
of the previous nights debauch, he is fire.
ouently counseled TO take "a hair OF the
dog that bit him." the meaning being that
he should take little of the same kind of
llauor that had upset him, The saying is
a remnant of an old superstitous belief that
the burnt hair of a dog was an antidote
against the i'll effects of intoXication. In
a song of the date 1850 the following verse
occurs:
''If any so wise is, that sack he despises,
Let him drink his small beer and be
sober;
And while we drink and sing, as If it
were spring,
He shall droop like the trees in October
But be sure overnight, II this dog DO
You may may take it henceforth for
warning,
Soon as out Of your bed to settle your
Take a hair of his tail in the morning"
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Regardless OF election, the principal legisla-
tlon OF the SD Congress will remain In the
statute books for many a day. The currency
bill VIII not be repealed. the income tax bill
nor the Federal Trade Commission bill nor the
Clayton antitrust bill, nor the labor bill nor
the Alaska railroad bill nor the seamen's bin.
Nor win there be an upward revision Of tbs
tariff. Nor will there be any reputation OF
the ''watchful waiting policy or alteration of
the Administrations peace-with- all the world
progTam.-Hartford Post.
BY daily consular reports. by allowing banks
10 establish branches abroad, by admitting for
egn ships 10 American registry the Federal
Government facilitates trade intercourse with
South America. Manufacturers are bestlrrlns
themselves in the face of new OPPORTUNITIES
Through associations and conferences with the
Department OF Commerce through schools OF
commerce, through advertising and foreign
agents they are adapting their several plants 10
South American needs.-New York Press
Just now Russia would feel bit more COM
Portable in the region Of the Caucasus had she
treated her Persian neighbors with a little moro
deceney and had made a friend instead OF a
bitter enemy Of the most enlightened and pro-
gressive OF Moslem natlons.-Cleveland plain
Dealer
The Progressives should have learned from
Belgium the danger OF trying to be neutral
between the big hghters-Florlda Times Union
II men viii go after business in the usual
manner. having due regard for the safeguards
business viii take care Of him IN Ike manuer
But Il Is certain that II one undertake 10 carry
on business while he Il allied with unnecessary
fear he cannot be as successful as he would bs
Il he should discount his fears IA the Beginning
and 90 after n in a safe and sane manner
Columbus Enquirer sun
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WORK AND WORRY

PhiIadeIphIa, November 12.
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NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW

November 10.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-29
CHAPTER xv.
AAn Extravaaane IILeaaIity. :,

A FEVER, of course, had there 4N been so provisional a govern
 ment. It was an extravagant
 ilIegality. It was indeed hard ly more than a club, a club of about a hundred persons. At the outset there were ninety-three, and these were in creased afterWard, by the issue of in vftations which more than balanced its deaths, to as many at one time as 11o Always its constitution has been mis- ceHaneous. At no time were these in vitations issued with an admission that they recognized a right The old fnstf- tuition of monarchy had come out un- expectedly well in the light of the new regime. Nine of the original members of the first government were crowned heads who had resigned their Separate sovereignty, and at no time afterward did the number of its royal members sink below six. Tn their case there was perhaps kind of attenuated claim to rule, but except for them and the still more infniteSima1 pretensions of one or two ex-presfdents of republics, no member of the council had even the shade of a right to his participation in it's power. It was natural, therefore, that it's opponents should find a com mon ground in a selamor for representa- tive government and build high hopes upon g return to parliamentary fnstitu- lions.
 The council decided to give them ev- erything they wanted, but in a form that suited i'll with their aspirat ations. It became at one stroke representa- tive body. It became, indeed. magnia. gently representative. It became so representative that the politicians were drowned in deluge of votes. Every adult of either sex from pole to pole was given q vote, and the world was divided into ten constituencies, which voted on the same day by means of a simple modification of the world post Membership of the government, it was decided, must be for life, save in the exceptional case of a recall but the elections, which were held quinquen. nia11y, were arranged to add fifty mem bers on each occasion. The method o1 proportional representation with one transferable vote was adopted, and the voter might also write upon his voting paper in specially marked space the name Of any of his representa- thai he wished to recall 4 ruler was re calIab1e by as many votes as the quota by which he had been elected and the original members by as many votes ir any constituency as the returning quo tas in the first election
 Upon these conditions the counci submitted itself very cheerfu1ly to tht suffrages of the world. None of its ! members was recalled, and its fifty new associates, which included twen ty-seven which it had seen 1t to rec onmendy were of an altogether Co,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-29
4 CORNER FOR COOKS
Bearnaise saIsce.

Beat the yoIks Of five eggs in a. saucepan, then add one tablespoon of butter and 2, pinch of salt. Stir ov- CT a slow. fresuntil the eggs commence to thicken, then remove and stir to to thicken, then remove and stir in two more ta,blespoonfu1s of butter. Keep stirring at the side of the fire until the butter is dissolved. Season he sauce with chopped fine herbs and parsley and pour in a teaspoonfu1 of white vinegar. The sauce is then ready to serve. Salad oil is some times used in place of butter, giving it very much the appearance of may onnaise.
 Allow one tablespoonful of olive oil and hot water to seacht egg yolk. Cook in .. double boiled until it t11iclsens, stirring constantly. Add a ; table spoonful of Paragon vinegar, one of lemon juice and salt and paprika to taste Add at the last a teasp oonfu1 of minced chives and parsley. Anoth- CT variation consists in the use of a rich glass, adding to the eggs as they begin to thicken, and using as much in bulk as will equal the eggs. Then stir in the vinegar When the glaze is not at hand use on tablespoonful of beef extract. se2
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-29

Once, a long time ago, there was little girl who lived in 8 country where they had all sorts of hens There was a Green Hen and a Yellow Hen and a Pink Hen; but the Rooster was Sky Blue. They all sang a, diff ferent song. The Yellow Hen said: .Hoop-de-dooden-do hoop-de-dood- en-doo!" and the Green Hen said: 'tChick -chick-ehee! chick-a-chick- ''Tra la la! tra la Ia!'' for she was very lazy.
 Row the Green Hen laid red eggs and the Yellow Hen laid blue ones; but the Pink Hen never laid any, she vTas such lazy thing.
 Well, this little girl thought this would never do, and so did the Sky blue Rooster. So, one day, she, went to the Pink Hen and said to her:
 "Snai1, snail, come out of your hole, or else I'll beat you as black as a coal!"
 And the sky-b1ue Rooster said to her:
 Twinkle. twinkle, little star!'
 I don't know what they Tneant by it, but the Pink Hen knew, for she went straight to her nest and laid a little white egg. The Sky-blue Rooster was so tickIed that he turned fourteen ssomersaults right off in suc- cession, and sung .tThe Star Spangled Banner all through three times standing the tip of his longest tail feather. But the Pink Hen only said 'sTra la lat" she was such lazs E1aAA9s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-29
(Contin1ed.I

Man, who is ceasfng to be an agri- cultural animal, becomes more and more builder, traveller and maker. How much he ceases to be a cIltivator of the soil the returns of the redistribu- tion committee showed. Every year the work of our scientific laboratories increases the productivity and sinpIf-, hes the labor of those who work upon the soil, and the food now of the whole world is produced by less than 1 per cent of it's population. percentage which still tends to decrease. Far few CT people are needed upon the land than training and proclivity dispose toward 1t, and as a consequences of this excess of human atteutfon,i the garden side of life, the creation of groves and lawns and vast regions of beautiful flowers, has expanded enor- mously an2 continues to expand, for as agricultural method intensif1es and the quota is raised one farm associa- ton after another, availing itself of the 1875 regulations, elects to produce a public garden and pleasanca in the place of it's former fields, and the area of freedom and beauty is increased, and the chemists friumphs Of synt1e sis which could now give us an entire Iy artificial food remain largely in abeyance because it is so much more pleasant and interesting to eat natural produce and to grow such things upon the soil. Each year adds to the variety of our fruits and the delfghtfulness of our flowers.
 The early years of the world republic witnessed a certain recrudescence of political adventure. There was, tt is rather curious to note, no revival of separatism after the face of King Fer dinand Charles had vanished from the sight of men, but in a number of eoun- eries, as the first urgent physical needs were met, there appeared 8 variety of personalities having this in common that they sought to revive po1ikieal trouble and chamber by its aid to po- sitions of importance and satisfaction. In no case did they speak in the name of kings, and it is clear that monarchy must have been far gone in obsoles- cerlce before the twentieth century be- gan, but they made appeals to the large survivals of nattonalists and racial
 feeling tnRt were everywhere to be
 found, they alleged with considerable justice that the council was oveEr1d- ing racial and national customs and disregarding religious rules. The great plain of India was particularly prolific in such agitators The revival of news papers, which had largely ceased, dur ing. the terEible year because of the dis1ocation of the coinage, gave veh- icle and q method of organization to these complaints At first tue council disregaFded this developing opposition, 1 gnd then it recognized it with an en. tirely devastating frankness.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-29

"AssaiIed by scandal and the tongue of strife,
 Her only answer was a b1ame1ess life. Nor do they trust their tongues alone, But speak a language of their own; Convey a libel in a frown,
 And wink a reputation down" They say all is fair in love and war. But it is certainly a very cruel as well as undignified procedure for one girl to deliberately take another girls | lover from her While 1t hurts the l a blow, she has the satisfaction of knowing that g.. iclk1e lover is not worth keeping.
 l The girl who wins him is never so pleased as when he is telling her that l he had never quite lost his heart to 1 the other girl. She is delighted if he
 goes on to say that number one was
 not quite his fancy; that he found 1 her frivolous, e1travagant, conceited, and, he could not say so positively, but he was quite sure she would be Inclined to hirt, if occasion presented itself
 1 The girl who listened, knowing her
 sex well, realized that he was mis-
 judging his former sweetheart, wEo i was a plain, sweet, modest girl, who
 wouldn't have thought Of flirting to
 have saved her life. She also knew
 for fact that she made her own I dresses, trimmed her own hats, re-
 modelled them to last two or three l years at that. In fact, she was a l girl who had been held up ex-
 ample by all the mothers in the neigh
 borhood, adnonishing their daughters
 to be as near like her in principle as was possible. N
 Instead of listening with interest to
 men who speak lightly of other wo- men the rigJat kind of a. girl will t'frown scandal down, for 1t is cer-
 tainIy that and nothing more. They
 should realize also that a man who is
 false to one girl may be hckIe to two | aye, and half a dozen. When she in l turn is tilted, she knows that he will
 speak just as slightingIy Of her; make
 just as much fun Of her; enugnerate the faults which she never possessed.
 He is a man to beware of. No faith l should be placed in his words.
 It is not to be supposed that a man should marry a girl to whom he is not engaged if he sees another girl | who. appeals to him more strongly. | Women should take this philo@ophf- | ca1Iy and as a matter of course, be- ling thankful that they found out his preference before it was too late. How
 much more to be respected is the man | who speaks well Of the sweeth cart | with whom he has parted, simply | saving, stWe agreed to disagree Or Ibetter still, 'sWe simply drifted apart. Our friendship for each other is sim
 cere. She isx a splendid girl" am
 sure her many admirers will be de- lighted to see one who is losing in
 the race drop out. A second sweet
 heart would feel that her reputation | was safe with such a man; that if they chanced to fall out and their
 ultimate parting was the result of it,