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

Il are vain the PENNSYLVANIA machine poll
tican 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 letter, Mayor Walker
who is candidate for reelection, addressed
a town meeting the other evening in the
. Opry 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 we're, he
passed chocolate candy to the women in the
audience Then the trouble began.
"Dey's pepper in dis candy" howled
woman. Just then one Of the gift cigars ex-
ploded with the dull. sickening thud' Of
which cub reporters write so eloquently.
Then another popped, and soon there was
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 conspirator and soon there was as
nice and pleasant a fight as ever enlivened
n political meeting. The letter vouchsafing
all this information winds up:
There is much indignation here"
FINtAI unreaSOnabIe panic Selzes even lne
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, on a wholesale scale bolted,
causing retreat Of the French army from
Alsace. But the strangest fear that ever
seized body OF armed men was IN the war
Of 1856 between Prussia and the German
States. 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.
THE 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. n Ray
i nolds. of Denver, banker Of that city, |
cashed vouchers amounting to 5000 for a |
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 ana Representatives nave WORKED III MS |
behalf and the claim is still unpaid.
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
ton. But he was 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 the
business methods of the United States
X ENERAL RENNENKAMPF, who. al
Vt though of German ancestry, Is fighting
for the Gear is inordnatey 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
mander at Tchita. He explained his quest
to the general and soon the entire corps was
ready to parade before the camera man.
Now, my friend" thundered Rennen-
5arnpf 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
hough he had been a king personifed.
THE man who gives out carriage checks
/ at one of the principal hotels in Philadel-
7hia is inclined TO be absent minded.
whether il is love or financial worry that
.auses this state is not known, but 1t was
productive of trouble for him a few nights
,go Mechanically he gave out checks. Me-
the chaufeurs and drivers took
he 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
ating."
Eat" exclaimed the driver. He'll get
arned little to eat from my wagon. l drive
garbage cart"
THE Bryn Mawr horse show recalls a sim
| liar event in New York held some years
go. The cream OF American show horses
we're entered. Society hocked TO Madison
;quare Garden as never before.
Down in the old Jefferson Market Court
Iouse, sixth avenue and Ninth street, on
he top floor, is the office Of a paper box
with keen sense Of practical
llmor So it was not surprising that he
noUld take advantage Of the horse show to
Iay a trick on worldIy-wise New York.
'rst If all, he bought a discarded car horse,
ne that had drawn a Chambers street ark
7r some tWeuty-odd years Then he sent it
, his stable TO he fattened up. Next lie
roomed it for the show by feeding it oats,
lterspersed with ginger sleeked its coat
sth crude Oil tied beautiful blue ribbon
, irs tail, which hai been heightened with