Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-29
PASSED BY THE CENSOR

! INOR ways that are dark and tricks that
! IL are vain, the Pennsylvania machine poll
tician is the veriest tyro compared to his
! Texan prototype, if reports from Delhi In the
! Lone Star State be correct. According to
! advices received in a letter. Mayor Walker
! who is a candidate for reelection, addressed
! q town meeting the other evening in the
! Op'ry House. At the end of an eloquent and
! lengthy speech, he played his trump card by
! passing interstate cigars to the men. Here
! be it explained that Interstate cigars are
| of the kind which, when smoked in Texas,
are smelled as far North as West Virginia,
the wind holding right as they say at sea.
To double cap the climax, as it were, he
passed chocolate candy to the women in the
audience Then the trouble began
"Deys pepper in dis candy" howled a
woman. Just then one of tie gift cigars ex-
ploded with the dull, sickening thud' of
which cub reporters write eloquently.
Then another popped, and soon there was a
fusiade akin to the battle on the Marne
The Mayor, aghast at first, spotted an enemy
in the audience and seized him as perpetrator
Of the outrage. The constable sought to ar
rest the consprator, and soon there was as
nice and pleasant a fight as ever enlivened
a political meeting. The letter vouchsafing
all this information winds up:
There is much indignation here"
TNHAT unreasonable panic seizes even the
i bravest is borne out by brief dispatches
from the war; which somehow or other have
passed the censor. 1t is related that one OF
the French army corps, possessed by some
psychologist fear wholesale scale, bolted
causing a retreat of the French army from
Alsace. But the strangest fear that ever
seized a body of armed men was il the war
of 1866 between Prussia and the German
States A regiment of Bavarian cavalry had
been retreating before expressing Prussians
for days-harassed and hammered at inces-
sanity At last the Bavarians found refuge
in a dense copse of trees, where they rested
their weary horses. Suddenly shot rang
out; then another
'rhe Prussians!" came a cry and the Bava-
rians bolted at top speed never stopping for
ten miles, the while two poachers gathered
in the rabbits they had shot.
THIRTY- SEVEN years ago A. II. Ray
i nolds of Denver, banker of that city,
cashed vouchers amounting to S2290 for
contractor doing business with the United
States. The banker obtained the necessary
proofs and submitted them to the Depart
ment of the Interior where they lay for four
years without action. Since then Congresses
have come and gone statesmen big and little
have espoused Mr. Reynolds cause; Sena-
tors and Representatives have worked in his
behalf and the claim is still unpaid.
A week ago the attention of Joseph p.
Tumulty, private secretary to the President.
was called to the matter. and he interested
himself to such an extent that Cato Sells,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs who has the
claim under jurisdiction, took prompt ac-
ton. But he was as unable to pay the claim
as were his predecessors, for under the law
it will require an act of Congress to reim-
burse Mr. Reynolds for money legally due
him. So the matter rests once more.
All of which reflects little credit on the
business methods of the United states.
ENERAI. RENNENKANIPF, who al
VI though of German ancestry, is fighting
for the Car. is inordinatey proud of his
huge mustachios which divide his face into
two distinct entities. once, during the Man
churian campaign, an American photogra-
pher named Rogers pursued him across the
steppes until he overlook the CossaCk COM
mauder at Tchlta. He explained his quest
to the general and soon the entire corps was
ready to parade before the camera man.
Vow, my friend" Numbered Rennen-
kampf as he gave the forward march,
order to his men, take all our faces and
don't forget my mustache."
And every officer saluted the American as
though he had been king personifed.
THE man who gives out carriage checks
i at one Of the principal hotels in philade
phia is inclined TO be absent minded.
whether it is love or financial worry that
causes this state is not known, but it was
productive of trouble for him few nights
ago. Mechanically he gave out checks. Me
chauically the chaufteurs and drivers took
the slips and tucked them in their pockets.
Suddenly one of the drivers came back.
SAY. boss" he asked, what's this for?"
That's TO get your fare when he's through
eating"
Eat" exclaimed the driver "He'u get
darned little to eat from my wagon. drive
a garbage cart"
THE Bryn Mawr horse show recalls a sim
/ liar event in New York held some years
ago. The cream of American snow horses
were entered Society docked 10 Madison
Square Garden as never before.