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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
IN NIENIORIAM

Notre Dame lie Rheims, September 1914.
Men raised thee with loving hands;
Thy stones more precious than gems,
They wrought for "A Light to the Lands;
Now the Light ~ all Lands condemns
Hun and Nandal and Goth
Who serve the Lords of the Night,
Who have turned the coat of their troth
And darkeued our Lady OF Light.
Men made thee beautiful, yea
Their hearts flowed out they wrought;
Thou vast builded not for a day,
For an age thou vast bulldcd not;
And tl-oy carved thy portals and towers
For peer ana bTugher and clown,
That the Book Of our Ladys Hours
Might endure tho the sun burned down.
By the grace Of thy ruined Rose
By Ehe sllllsd strength OF thy Towers,
Taou ahat triumph, Lady Thy foes
Shall cover as the hunted covers.
Thou hast not fallen In vain
Fallen2 Thou canst not fall:
They shall crave thy pity In pain,
Who flung thee hate fer a pail.
Lea Wilson Dad. IN New York Tribune.
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WHERE DOES THE FUNGUS GROW?

To the Editor Of the Eventn0 Ledger:
Sir-May congratulate you upon the engross|
ing news conveyed through the columns Of
your paper. both in the and editorial
columns? Very interesting recent edi-
torial telling of the discovery of an Intoxicating
mushroom and it's description by Doctor Verral,
of Yale. An Intoxicating mushroom must surely
prove a popular delicacy, especially If, the
discoverers assert, it has no bad after effects.
l have been interested-purey from scen-
tific standpoint, l assure you-in the use Of
alcoholic stimulants from ancient to our times.
"The Banquet" of Plato is chiefly fascinating
in that it gives vivid picture of the bibulous
habits of philosophers. Socrates is described
passing his cup until morning. Jack London
and Will Lexington Comfort are the most recent
confessors along this line. 1t indeed seems all
the struggles against the redoubtabe John have
been in vain. AS you say, perhaps the reign of
Bacchus may be over. But can you tell me
where the delectable inebriating fungus can be
secured? r. d.
PHILADELPHIA September o. 1914.
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the fundamentals of the mob spirit from \.
to day is quite imperceptible. as
We can take lesson from these Ieados-
even IL we do not aspire to wealth Ma,
OF us harbor an indescribable aversion ~
meeting new people, mixing with folks VIII
are likely to be quite strange and forei,,o,
In their ideas and activities. Sometino
we think they know so much less than o,,r
Interestingly dull uhf
The minute you begin to mix with n.
mob high, medium and low, then Won bosIe
to Know human nature. Continue TO kea
your acquaintanceshps within a lmite99
circle on the strength of their social stand
ing, education or possessions and Won p,il,
never know IL. "'i
Doubtless, the merchant with the autono,
bile wheel had mixed with the mob bino ,
self, for certainly he knew its habits And
knowing It's habits is knowing human natrro
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The Sure STRUGGLE Inward

TIME history of all society is the history of
i strife and struggle. out of the conflicts
of the ages has risen the modern structure
OF civilization. All along the path of history,
through savagery, barbarism, feudalism and
our modern industrial state humanity has
made its way toward the realization Of an
IDEAL which I'm its sum total can be Charac-
terized as social happiness. The attainment
OF this ideal may be far off as yet, but as
sure as the earth reyolyes around the sun
does humanity mare5 forward toward its
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

FINALLY, in 1859, Councils agreed to the
i removal of the sheds from Market street.
and then the market houses began to assume
importance. The Eastern Market was erected
on the site of the BOurse. The Franklin
Market erected the building now used by the
Mercantile Library. Indeed, this building
was never occupied as a market, and the
statue of Franklin, which was cut by Bailly
and adorned the platform over the entrance
was later erected on the PUBLIC LEDGER
Building, At Twelfth and Market streets
two market houses We're built the Twelfth
Street Market and the Farmers Market
These have been superseded by the Terminal
Market Above Sixteenth street on Market
another market house went up, and still an
other at Nineteenth street.
But they were put up in so many quarters
that the housewives soon appreciated their
convenience and the old, ungainly sheds
were never missed. GRANVILLE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

To the Editor OF the EUemin0 Ledger:
Sir--I am glad you are devotnG the edtora
columns of the Evening Ledger to a campaign
against the election of Penrose.
You know the saying, 1T is the man behind
shc gun that counts" applied to war. 1t is
much more pertinent saying when applied 10
peace and the development of a real prosperity
The prosperity of a country cannot be meas-
urcd by H. great material and financial de.
velopmcnt. 1t only be measured really and
permanently by the character development anu
opportunity of the great of its people,
A II. TOMLINSON.
Smnrthmnre. Pa. Snntcmher Is 1911.
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PASSED BY THE CENSOR

| CHIEF POSTAL INSPECTOR CORTEL-
| ~ YOU, of the Philadelphia district, who Is
| brother of George 3, Cortelyou, once a
| newspaperman but now descended to a mere
! f1nancier is a busy man. Cranks, black
mailers and black handlers are his special
forte. He has saved hundreds of people
from the clutches Of defrauders, and, Incl
dentally, has helped solve a few mysteries
of which the newspapers know nothing even
TO this day.
Not so long ago members of the Cabinet
Senators, Congressman, Governors, Mayors
and others in public office were deluged with
letters, evidently emanatng from an unbal-
anced brain. The writer must have spent
all his waking moments indlting the mis-
sives, for there were busy days when indi-
vdual office holders received as many as six
and seven each. Cortelyou was put on the
case and the hunt began. Suspicion soon
narrowed down to George Washington katz-
enmuler, a Pennsylvania. Cortelyou and
an aide called on the man. His room was
weirdly decorated with newspaper clippings,
playing cards, picture postals and odds and
ends.
Katzenmuller admitted his identity, but
insisted on being called George Washington
Katzenmuler" every time addressed. He
confessed sending the letters, but argued that
as they contained no threats and were SIM
ply advisory the postal authorities had no
right to interfere knowing him to be in
the right, Cortelyou tried moral suason
"I know that you have the right to advise
the settling of differences between capital
and labor by making both eat indigestible
pie, as you wrote, thus killing off both sides,'
said Cortelyou, "but don't you see men in Of
flee seldom get letters from strangers, their
mail being intercepted by secretaries. So
why not send the letters to me and I will
forward them"
For a year, until Katzenmuller was sent
to an asylum, Cortelyou was swamped daily
by his letters.
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A NON.PARTIsAN VIEWPOINT

TO the Editor OF the EUenn0 Ledger:
Sir-Knowing the powerful influence @ tls
LEDGER welds in Pennsylvania, write to you
in all sincerity and ask whether you 40 ios
think that this influence should he drecteII
against the reelection of Senator Penrose' \
do not write from "A partisan standpoint. haV-
ing only i'm view the welfare of my "la'0'
Won't you give this your consideration?
SAMUEL KUNkEL'
IInrrishmrr Pa Sentemher rs. 1914.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
Divorce in Kansas

From the Kansas city Times.
one diyorre proctor representing society and
raft of divorce lawyers making fees out OF
that particular branch Of the administration
OF justice!
Is 1t any wonder that our divorce business Is
in a very bad state OF health and hygiene?
Two or three or half dozen proCtors attached
T., tho divorce courts could handle all the busi-
ness Al far less cost 10 the clients" and to
society. The business would be much reduced
Inn yon!me-no one would be interested in pro-
noting il; no coilusiye suits would dare be
filed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
Di-illusiOned

In Denver they tell Of young Britisher
who will some day inherit title, and who
not long ago married q daughter of sup
posedly wealthy man Of that town \ month
or so after the marriage the father-in-law
took the husband aside,
u am ruined" he exclaimed. Practically
every cent is gone
The Briton was a good loser, however for
he gave vent 10 long, low whistle, and eX-
claimed with a little laugh
by George Then | did marry for love,
after all."-Harper's Magazine
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To the Editor Of the ErenuD Ledger:
Sir--In an essay university and research
work, written by Hamilton Wright MIabie before
the slogan of Educated in America" was
created by conditions, the author has this
paragraph:
Opportunities for advanced work in the
American universities now ample that
study in foreign institutions while not without
its advantages, is no longer necessity, and the
number of Americans in German universities
has greatly fallen off"
The whole essay is a substantiation, by means
of concrete facts, of this assertion.
+. r. G.
Trenton n. j. September %, 1914.
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He Lived in Boston.

There was a young fellow named Murray
Who knew not the meaning of hurry;
And when he was chided
He laughed and derided
His friends and declared
Really. If I were addicted to the reprehen-
sible habit of using slang. / should find it
incumbent upon me, at this particular juno
turc of circumstances, to enunciate the
lightly ironic current expression, Il should
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
Killing OF the Race

From the Christian Herald. . .i,,.
From the Christian era till the present tilns.
as strtists and historians tell us, there mas Hs
been less than 2iO war!ess years Up 10 w
middle of the 18th century it was roughly COM
putcd that nearly 7OoOOoO,OO0 men had dled ~
battle since the beginning of recorded hlslo,S..
a number equal to almost five times lhe PleS'"'
estimated nomination Of the globe.
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DONE I'm PHILADELPHIA

MORE serious attention to markets has
lNl been given lately than at any time since
1852 when the city had time for little else
But the occasion which drew attention to the
erection of market houses all over the city
so and more years ago had nothing to do
with reducing the cost of living.
We are now beset with that problem in
addition to the one of convenience, which
was all that seemed to call for consideration
in 1869. The establishment of a farmers mar
ket at 69th and Market streets, where farm
ers from the surrounding country, and as
far away as Lehigh and Northampton Coun-
ties, may bring their products to Philadel-
phla, promises to be very interesting ex-
pertinent.
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ernment. they were known as the Fifth
Monarchists

eminent They were known as the Fifth
Monarchists.
The phrase "gossamer days" was orig
mated in the legend that one Saturday even
ing n maiden was spinning fine thread IN
the moonlight. The moonlight drew her
up into the sky and now she may be seen
spinning in the moon. When gossamer
days" set in, in the early autumn, the whlte
threads she spins may be seen hoating
about in the air
Jack Ketch, the English hangman, was
first mentioned in 1878 1t was he who pc
headed Lord William Russell and later the
Duke OF Monmouth His successors nave
been popularity known by his name.
The quotation "He that runs may read Is
not from Habakkuk, who says, That he
may run who readeth IT," but from william
Cowper, who wrote:
But truth on which depends our main con-
Cern,
That tits our shame and misery to learn,
Shines side by side of every path we tread
With such lustre, he that runs may read
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

VI7HEN Alfred G. Vanderbilt was stu
w dent at Yale he had in Vanderbilt dor
mitory a suite of rooms the furnishings Of
which cost $4,000 A few doors away roomed
a student who was working his way through
the university and who poor as the
proverbial church mouse. The latter was
no respecter of mere wealth, and had
habit of borrowing anything he needed, from
a razor to a dress suit.
Hey. Vanderbilt" he shouted one evening
while dressing, lend me the scissors with
which you trim your cuffs, will YOU, old
MANI"
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Not a Bit Heroic

"Why don't you see that your daughters
learn to COOKE"
"Why should I? They wouldn't cook for
me. Let their husbands supply the material
for them TO practice on."-Louisville Courier
Journal
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The Friendly Isles Will Stay So.

King George II of the Tonga or Friendly
Islands has just heard about the war in
Europe. 1t may be ended by the time he
reads through the files of the last two
months to learn what it's all about.
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Naturally.

81 say old man, you're looking rather
drawn"
Yes I've just had a tooth pulled"
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Tommy Fggjam-Paw, doesn't reverse"
mean to back?
Paw Figgiam-Surey
Tommy Figgjam-Then what did Uncle
Bill mean when he said that he busted up
in business because he had too many re-
verses and not enough acking?-Chicago
Post.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

VETHEN Philadelphia started to regain ts
w commerce and was doing larger manu-
featuring business than any other city In the
country in the early sos, the business men
on Market street began to demand the
removal of the market sheds. They might
he convenient, but they did not believe It,
They declared business demanded that the
main business thoroughfare should present
a better appearance, now that the city had
become a metropolis by the consolidation OF
all political parts of the county.
Accompanying this agitation for the re-
moval of the sheds was movement for the
erection of market houses in the central part
of the city. A good many business men,
probably to assist in the removal of the
sheds more than from any idea that the
investment would prove profitable, took
shares in numerous market companies that
were started. For few years there was
a veritable craze for erecting market houses.
Other sections of the city became inoculated
with the spirit, and market houses arose in
virtually all of the populous centres. Some
of the speculations proved failures, or at
least enjoyed little success, but some of them
are still in being.
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Grent Guns!

Brander Matthews says the war will slim
ulate literature Possibly somebody will
write a book ON the six best shelters. De
trolt Free Press.
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Vegetable Gardens

garden"
al right" said Mr.. Nurich, And Well
plant some spaghetti." Kansas CITY journal.
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Architecturally Speaking
Censored

Shooting at the towers of ancient cathe
drals is something to which not to aspire.
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Does your wife hathe? The girls on the
beach make some pretty pictures
My wife has no time to join in making
pictures She and some others have formed
a board of nsorship."-Pittsburgh Post.
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Unlimited Opportunity

The publisher was in despair.
What's wrong?" asked the eminent
author.
My best advance notice man has left me.
He's writing letters for breach of promise
plaintiffs"
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ITO STIMULATE recruiting for the British
i Army in France, certain girls in Brigh
ton, the well-known English watering place,
resorted to clever device. Early one fore
noon they went to the boardwalk and pre-
sented a white feather to every man to place
in his hat. Naturally, the men gladly ac
cepted the attention of the pretty misses.
But at noon a change came DER the spirit
of their dreams. for a town crier promenaded
up and down the boardwalk, crying in stem
toran tones:
THE Order of the White Feather has beer
established this day and is worn by all those
who are afraid to come to the aid of their
country Oyez! Oyez"
White feathers were NOT in evidence that
afternoon, and the recruiting offices did
land-offiCe business
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
CURIOSITY SHOP

Written on d hackman's slate in Kennebec,
Me was the following: Joe, send hacks
and wagons in time To carry the following
10 the Bar HarbOT train: one wife. two
nurses three servants. four children, five
trunks four yalses three grips two bun
dies, one Me"
About 1915 a strange sect made its appear
ance in England, maintaining that the mil
lennlum was at hand and that the Saviour
would descend from Heaven ana erect tEs
NTH universal Kingdom Its followers wat
- far as to elect JsSus King OF London.
Cromwell dispersed them In 1863, but in 1851
occurred another uprising. which was sup
pressed with loss OF life They eonspiTed TO
murder the PF)tector and usurp the Gov
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More or Less

This war. indeed.
Is mixed up so
The more you read
The less YOU know.
Kansas city journal.
And we didn't know much in the first place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

TIME "On to Berlin" and con to Paris"
/ cries Of the European combatants recall
story about a certain gentleman known to
history as Napoleon First, however be It
said that Charles XII of Sweden was the
original con to Moscow man, and that he
came to grief on the road at Poltava, where
Peter the Great overwhelmed the Swedish
army.
Napoleon had begun his Russian campaign
and had crossed the River Niemen. Car
Alexander sought peace, and sent General
Balmashoff as an envoy to ask the COrsican
to go home like a good little man and stop
annoying the mujiks. No sooner had Ma
roIeon heard the proposal for peace than
he led Balmashoff out Of the tent in which
they had been comforting and said:
MY dear general, do YOU think that I
brought my army merely to look upon the
River Niemen? Won't you please tell me the
best road 10 Moscow"
There are many roads To Moscow" re-
piled Balmashoff For instance, there is
the one via Poltava. Charles of Sweden
tried that one"
\ reference TO history will tell you about
Napoleon's ION to Moscow" trip.
NOW that ii is rumored that the United
IN States and Spain may act as arbiters in
the European struggle, attention is called
again 10 that most democratic of monarchs,
Alfonso Kngly dignity sits lightly upon his
still youthful brow. An example Of this has
just come from CASTLE, where Alfonso spent
q week more or less incognito. He put up
in an old inn. where modern improvements
were unknown. one morning he went into
the courtyard to make his additions, like
any other citizen and 10 shave a maid fur
nished a piece Of broken mirror Then she
began To quiz the stranger
You don't look like an ordinary traveller"
she said Are you connected with the court
at Madrid?"
Il am" said the King.
Perhaps you know his Majesty hinsef"
Il do"
What do you do for him?'
"Oh, lots Of things. Just now | am shaw
ing him."
BRADFORD.
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JNROM the point of convenience 1t has some
Il thing to recommend 1t today, while in
1859 It would have been impossible and
ludicrous. Before the elevated railroad on
Market street was erected 69th and Market
streets was not so near as West Chester, SO
far as time was concerned. Now 1t Is q
small matter of 20 minutes or little more.
One of the first conveniences, we might
call It necessities, that was considered for his
capital by the founder of Philadelphia was
the establishment of market in High, now
Market street, at Front The old journals
of the Common Council are filled with refer
ences to the regulations for this market. IN
deed scarcely one meeting of that body from
1904 until the Revolution passed without more
or less reference to the markets
In those days the city fathers did not have
authority to create loans and sell bonds for
municipal improvements When they desired
to extend the market sheds another square,
they had to borrow from some Philadelphian
who had civic pride enough to advance the
necessary money. There was some income
from rent of stalls, from wharfage and tew
other perquisites, all of them rather trivial
and small from the modern viewpoint
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

DY 1916 the market sheds extended west
ID ward on Market street to Eighth street,
where they stopped. There were also the
sheds on Second street north and SOUTH ana
these still remain. Later in the last century
similar sheds were erected in the middle OF
Spring Garden street, by the District OF
Spring Garden; in Grard avenue by the
Penn Township. and in Bainbridge' then
shippen. street, and in Moyamensng avenue
by the District of Southwark The DISTRICT
Of Moyamensing erected sheds in Eleventh
street, south from cambridge street.
Those were the places where Philadelphia
went to market before the Civil War. All
Of the sheds except those on Market street.
survived until about 25 years ago. and Visi-
tors to the city, especially those early
European travellers who came here TO look
us over like some rare and astonishing tribe
that had done we'll under civilization, wrote
enthusiastically about Philadelphia and her
markets.
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The President still insists thSt -sA Govern
meut should buy merchant marine q fLs
ora - var in Europe lad n0thiDE 20 de
with this scheme EXCEPT 70 give it's sup
porters an excuse for bringing il forward.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

That New Jersey iron and steel manufac-
turer who went into bankruptcy "on account
of war" has probably not been dealing in the
styles of those metals popular just now
"a
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Italy can tread on Philadcphia's toes as
much as she wants to and she will find them
On he the best toes that her soldiers ever
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WHAT HAS PENROsE DONE?

Trenton, N. J., September 90, 1914.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

In spite of the high prices reported elsewhere
port is at "A discount in Washington just now
New NOr!: World.
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UNIVERSITY OPPORTUNITIES IN U. S.

1iIadeIphia, september %, 1914