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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31
ME RABBLING FOOL

II is the hardest thing In the world to gel
up enthusiasm over the people who 81
about saying. with the air OF proIoah1
thought, that two and two are four. FoL
some reason they fail TO excite the nervous
sensibiitles OF intelligent men and women
Sometimes we fancy that the world has a.
ready acknowledged the seriousness OF TINS
great sum in addition. -..a
And one of the greatest two and tWos
the one which is sprung upon the unsus-
pecting with the deepest OF "I-am-w
Than thou airs. is the little proyerb apou'
experience. Experience is a hard schoot.
but fools learn in no other" IL runs, ana , ~
ought to be in rhyme. II is quite sil'
enough for a rhyme. -
In the first place, experience Is hate
school only for stupid scholars, and IN tIe
second place, fools never learn by expert
ence. Wise men learn by their own eA
perience, fools by the experience or otheiis
The only thing that makes life toleraple
the fact that men must go through each g
periencs themselves. Birth, measles, MAJ MAJ
rlage and death have all been gone throuss
before. II we could learn what they Hsiiss
from the experience OF others there Woui4
be precious little left for us 10 do.
Walking down Chestnut street may De o.
experience in the life Of one man. TO -
other nothing short OF piratlcal escaPaoe@
in the southern seas will SAVIOR OF aaEeI
ture. Because to each man, unless ne u
willing 10 take his life secondhand ana
live in the mirror Of the experiences IL ~
others, life Is perpetual adventure. oas ona
the stupid folk know life from books .LsS ~
take the words OF wisdom granted by 0'p''
people as 80 many grains OF gold
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31
Ringing Words

From the New York Evening Post Qnd Dsm.).
The fight against Penroses reelection is
unique for the way In which II Is enllstinR
prominent Republicans of other States When
before did man who had held so prominent
post as that OF chairman OF the Republican
Committee OF New York County raise his voice
In opposition to the return of Senator OF
his party from another State? This is what
Herbert Parsons has just done 1.-THE Repub-
lcans of Pennsylvania" he says in a letter
signed by himself and Ogden Mills Reid editor
OF the Tribune. have an opportunity this year
to do a great service to the Republican party
of the nation" This great service is to help
restore the confidence OF Republicans them
selves in the capacity OF their party ito rid
itself OF the corrupting and debasng elements
which have fastened upon it'-specifcauy
'self-seeking bosses like Boies Penrose, who
try to blind good men TO work for evil and
clean men TO work for corruption" These are
ringing words with touch OF Puritanlc FIRE
in them.
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Hum OF HUMAN CITIES

Every visitor to France-or to the France
that was when peace reigned-remember
the rows of regularly spaced trees that fol-
low the roads for miles cross country. Ger
many also has planted trees out OF public
funds. making them town forest" from
which a considerable revenue springs each
year. And now Massachusetts is taking
steps in somewhat the same direction.
There is to be a renewal of the induce
ments which were offered last year by the
Massachusetts Forestry Association TO
cities and towns OF the State to plant
shade trees 1t will plant a hundred such
trees in each of the four cities and towns
OF the State which wins the prize for the
most and best planted trees in its respec-
tive group, provided at least one-fourth OF
the cities and towns in such group shall
have entered the contest.
The beauty of this arrangement, COM
ments the Boston Transcript. is that every
city or town which contends for the prize
will be a gamer whether II wins that prize
or not, because II will have added to the
beauty and the value OF the community by
Its efforts. Shade trees bordering the high
ways frequently transform them and invest
the locations where they stand with an at
tractiyeness which they did not before pos
sess. The farmer whose land is thus bor-
dered can sell his farm for a better price
II II ne wishes 10 dispose OF it, or he and his
ramlly can derive much more enjoyment IL
no prefers TO remain on IL. The Substantial
inducement that is thus being made TO the
various communities should have a mission
ary effect upon the whole State
Independently OF any special Inducements
the town or Willamstown last spring took
a step at the suggestion OF President Gar
Held to which we called attention at the
time and which might proftaby be copied
by every town in the State. An appropria-
ton was made to begin the work OF piant-
Ing trees along the roadside each year
mus blocking out public forest which in
nishing revenue for the town-a plan which
mas peeh successfully put into operation.
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Getting Their Deserts

From the Ohio State Journal (Rep0
These are bad days for politicians like PEN
rose and Lormer The former is running for
United States Senator in Pennsylvania, and
though he has the Republican nomination. he
is meeting with firm opposition. The conscience
of the people is rising against him, and he has
only the usual political claptrap to oppose 1t
with That is strong in Pennsylvania, and he
may succeed, but the country generally will be
much disappointed II he does. This nation will
never be in its right mind until Penroseism is
overthrown.
And Lorimer-he is indicted for some erratic
banking business. He Is not running for any
thing. He has lost out entirely. He is an ex-
ample of that trite saying about chickens COM
ing home to roost. Penrose was his special
champion in the Senate. He didn't believe
Lorimer did anything wrong. or course not.
Nothing is wrong with him In politics that sue
ceeds. What was buying ones way into Office
to him? Not straw.
It is to be hoped that Penrose will follow
Lorimer into private life. 1t will be sign that
this low-down, selfish politics is getting weaker
in this country And that is what we want moro
than any party policy that can be named.
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sition doing everything TO hold the enemy
until his fianlsing column should arrive. But
the column did not come, and at evening
Frederick was driven back, his army almost
routed. His last chance Of carrying Prussia
triumphant over his enemies was lost.
In that hour of defeat there was but one
thing for Frederick to do-to retreat ana
save his army. In a dark and cold little
church at Elsng he spent the night fighting
the battle over again, persuaded fmmoVaDiy
that he ought to have won. He knew that he
had to retreat.
And he refused. In that little church came
Fredericks decisive hour, and he rose to the
decision by not doing what he should have
done. He reorganized his army began the
battle again the next day, and with the ar
rival of his flanking column achieved victory.
That victory gave him % years of peace as
King OF Prussia
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g The Height Of the RidicuIous"

From the New York Evening Post.
The empire OF Charles v, which was the Inn
p0rtant Government of Europe IN the 18th CEN
tury, has long ago disappeared the enormous
fortunes which were then, now, gathered
together have long ago been dssipated; but
the theses which Martin Luther nailed upon the
church door at Wittenberg are still swaying the
world"
II New York readers have 70 be told that this
bit OF eloquence Is from statement In favor OF
the reelection OF Senator Penrose II Is because
this Stale has not reached the lofty heights OF
Pennsylvania politics. It Is from the pen OF ex-
Governor Pennypacker, who won fame by COM
pairing his cousin. Senator Quay with Daniel
Webstsr-not altogether % the lAst-namsd gen
tlsman'g advantages
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

II. sings for youth, the passionate and sad.
Youth that despairs and triumphs and is
blind;
And ever through the singing. clean and glad,
The keen cool moorlsnd runs and the north
wind.
A starkness and neroeness and pride
That stiu dehes the night, and with caught
breath
Cries hope-tho louder. not to be denied.
The suen trumpets Of the court OF death
Peal through the page with strong. inslstent
surge
And ever is the bHckness tensnted:
Somewhere far of, song rings Ike dirgs.
And a yelled King stands BY the poets head.
Ethel Talbot Schaefrauer In Book News
Monthly,
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CRISIS IN GREAT LIVES

It was at Torgau that Frederick the Great,
seeing the tide or battle turning against him,
ter and fall back dashed into the battle line
under the heaviest musket fire. and was shot
on the breast. "On" but not in" the breast
for the bullet failed to penetrate further than
the imperial shirt and although the incom-
parable Emperor was stunned and breathless
he was not hurt But he lost the battle.
It had been Frederick's intention 10 strike
a Ranking movement against the enemy. ALI
day he played foE time. maneuVeTlng Tor po-
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Uninue World Experiment

NCHOOLBOYs OF the future will read
= strange chapter in their histories. 1t will
tell Of one Of the worlds unique experiments,
18th century milltarlsm Even barbartc his
tory knows nothing like IT,
In the face Of the greatest international,
traternlzing influences the world has ever
known, the nations OF Continental Europe
made soldier of every adult man. What
might have been the immense creative Power
Of the modern State backed by invention
and machinery, was turned 10 destruction,
And the text books OF the future will
cord how this piling avalanche OF malevolent
energy drove irresistibly-and yet how little
foreseen-toward a catastrophe end. The
histories will picture the great soo-mile bat
tle-lines Of whole peoples locked motionless
in e deadly embrace till
What will be the Anal chapter TO this
strange story?
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Horrible Example

From the Charleston News-Courier CDem.).
Senator Penrose has illustrated faithfully for
years the policies which made Aldrich and
Cannon and all their tribe notorious.
A. Mitchell Palmer, the Pennsylvania Democrat
who is trying to beat him for reelection, is a
first rate fellow and would make valuable ad-
diton TO the Democratic membership in the
Senate, but 1t is really doubtful whether his
presence there would be OF enough Importance
to offset the loss to the Democrats which would
result from Mr.. Penrose's removal. We cannot
afford to lose all our horrible examples.
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sCRAPPLE


hHedo6tSuW Ho0utfHSa tbo hofTs4TG Affr~
Twelfth Night VIII Run Lonser.-Ion.
don Evening World.
winters Tale" Gets Chilly Rsception.
Fleet Street Mall
Hamlet" Exhumed from Gloom By or,..
Digger,--Pall Mall Tribune.
"As You Like r'-very well, thank you.
Alan A. Dale in The Ellzabethan
"Othello'-A Disgusting Racial Prohi.-.
side Evening Post.
"Pericles'-A Success for An Time--1on.
don Evening Sun. Oh-
Measure for Measure Proves ebc,.
Weight.-Windsor Herald.
NCoriolanus"-A Play That Will End ~.
White Slave Misunderstanding Cross Clobn
Much Ado About Nothing" Lives I'm =
It's Title,-London Journal. ~ ="
'The Tempest"-A whirlwind of Iauebt.-
-FliZabethan Times
Henry VIII'-Fearless Drama Of Divorc.,
Tremendous Arraignment of the Tudorse,
London Sun.
Merchant Of venice"-Bitter Attack a.
the Money Trust.--Westminste Commercial
Advertiser. SiNiat
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31
Advanced Republicanism

From the Manchester IN. H. Union (Rep).
There are many and the Union is among
them who believe that the lesson taught by
1912 has been we'll learned, and that the Repub-
lican party Is seeking earnestly and honestly to
again be the spokesman and agent OF the liberal,
the progressive spirit OF the age; and the honest
men who. first OF ALL want to see the principles
OF social and industrial Justice actually achieved,
best aid such end by joining hands with the
progressive element in the Republican party in
the struggle to restore that party to its former
leadership in wise and humanitarian legislation.
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Inside Stuff
deer mr.. Lardners,

well, Ring 1 see your gone to rite about
this here harvard michigan game for the
evening ledger that's alright ring know
you an like your stuff. | was gone down
charley Brickley he aint gone to play for
the harvards so guess you better go your
self. say Ring will you do me a favor. there's
some guys around here say that 1 aint AL
well Ring, you know l amt proud, but a
feller wants what comm to him what do
you think. they say AL a guy in brook
lyn but who wants to live in brooklyn, az
the feller says so next time you rite about
the michigans or the harvards | don't care
i'm nootral / don't care who licks columbia
will you give the guys a strait stere that
i'm Al alright. you know me- Ring. am
yours respectfully
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Raging Around


fLove's Old st0eet sonO.)
Once in the dear, dead days beyond recall
When In the dusk (gettlng dark, III getting
dark) the mist began to fall,
Out of the dreams (kid, I'm a-dreamlnR ~
you) that rose in happy throng,
Lo, to our hearts Love sang that old sweat
song.
oh, that song,
Oh, that song,
Old and sweet,
Dances neat
Sing 1t, dance It, dance It, sing It.
oh, that old sweet songl
Just a song, sing II, kid; TIL sing It too.
little song,
Comm when the twilight comes; it's COMING
quick, I see It come,
And the lights are low:
Come and love me, don't be slow,
Turn down the light, my honey,
Don't waste the gas, for time is money,
Shadows fickering, quit your sniclsering,
Days are weary, ain't you leary,
Sing that old sweet song.
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the matter that Councils will scarcely openly
erect barrier.
The one thing to avoid now is delay. All
citizens should vote for the loan BILL which
carries an appropriation for preliminary
work Thereafter, It will be proper to urge
the Union Traction Company to decide defi-
nitely whether or not It will participate in
the agreement to give metropolitan Philadel-
phia metropolitan transportation service.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31
THE PRESS ON PENRosEIsM
Public Opinion of Nation Specifies Real Issue
in Pennsylvania Campaign.

From the New York staats-zeltung.
In Pennsylvania heated campaign Is draw
ing 10 a close. Its aim has been the complete
and final annhation Of the corrupt political
system which has existed in that State under
the trade name of "PenroseIsm." In the presl-
dentlal campaign OF 1919 the system was so
completely overwhelmed that II was believed
that It finished forever But the very next
year the hydra grew new heads, and Boies
Penrose laid wires to regain his former power.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31

TITS surprising" said DR.. Martin q:
Brumbaugh. "how much superintendent OF
schools is supposed to know and how lituS
he sometimes really does know.
81 was stopping at the home OF the head
OF New England school system, and We
agreed one night to tell each other every.
thing we had ever learned. The agreement
was carried out and we went to bed at ,
n,clnck"
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The war greatly disturbs when II does not en-
tirely stop education in the warrng countries
Universities abroad are being drained OF their
students, and many professor finds his income
cut on. In this blessed neutral country, how
ever much We may he feeling the effects OF the
war, the colleges were never more largely at
tended than now. May peace always be the
handmade Of education" in this county,
Springfield Republican.
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Penrose the Issue

From the Ohio State Journal (Rep).
There is Pennsylvania--the political Issue Is
Penrose. II he is defeated all will be we'll The
only principle involved relates to his political
character. When he sounds q keynote Tor q
protective tariff, Penrose bulges out as a far
greater issue than the tariff The only
true party is one Of tendency, aspiration, moral
purpose and unselflsh opinlon.
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Mother Booze

Nursery Rhymes for Second Childhood
Old Father Tottle,
With a big bottle,
And a red nose,
The longer he drinks
The redder 1t grows.
Merry. merry Tom and Jerry,
How does your bardom grow?
With miniature hells
And prison cells,
And gallowses all in a row.
Hot Cross buns"
Hot Cross "'buns,"
One a bottle, two bottle,
Hot cross "buns."
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CURIOSITY SHOP

Halloween. or All Hallow-Eve. was kept
by the Greek Church as early as the 4th
century, although it's observance did not
become common in the West until the be-
ginning OF the 7th century. Originally, the
festival was set for May H. but subsequently.
on the last night of October. 1t is thought
that the celebration really originated with the
Druids, whose priests lit beacon fires in
honor of the sun god on the hills Of England,
France and northern Europe.
Belief in fairies, well as in witches and
goblins, was common in those days. So late
as the nth century 1t was common for
English farmers to make the rounds Of their
places on Halloween night, torch In hand,
chanting doggerel to ward of the evil spirits
during the coming year.
One modern custom may be mentioned.
Hazel nuts are placed in a fire, after each
has been named for particular youth or
girl. According as they burn quietly side by
side, or crack or sputter and break apart,
will be the result of the wooing. Says Burns:
THE auld gudewife's weel boarded nits
Are round and round divided,
And monte lads and lasses' fates
Are there that night decided.
Some kindle, couthie, side by side,
And burn thegither trinity;
Some start ava with saucy pride,
And jump out owre the chimlie.'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31
A Gentle Came

"And do you not think football is brutal7-
inquired the nurse.
Certainly not" said the bandaged hero
of the gridron. 'Tn that game yesterday not
a single man was crippled for life and there
was only one fractured skull"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31

To the indiscrimiRats use OF potent drugs
Doctor Wilbert ascribes the growing ratio OF
deaths among persons who should be in the
prime Of life from diseases proper to senillty-
Washington Times
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Same Old Story

From the Springfield Republican
No phase Of the is more Instructive than
the firm conviction OF all the beIlIgerents that
they are peaceful people.
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Docs It2

From the Chicago Journal Den.).
The Republican party stl submits to the
dictaton OF men like Reed Smoot, of Utah; Boies
Penrose, OF Pennsylvania; Joe Cannon, OF 1lli-
nois.
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Secret Cause of tho War

From the Boston Transcript.
The firing line has made a great bit with
the CARTS safe and unhomelike
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Darwin INDICATED
From the Cubs Notebook

Near Warsaw" says a Berlin dispatch,
"the situation is still in a state of evolution
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What They Missed

7.
Alcibiades and Plato
Never ate a stuffed tomato.
8.
Sarey Camp and Mrs. Harris
Never visited in Paris.
8.
Heloise and Aphrodite
Never wore a cluny nightie.
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Turkey has staked her fate on Mars. A
wear hence Russia may be asking for "a first
ioint and a little OF the breast"
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Outside Stuff

That 60 church. on Sunday" move.
ment is lively but the go-to- the-gall- game
movement is like a German advance
Louisville Courier Journal.
Soma GALL
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CAPITAL GOSSIP

the Ordinary People
PnonersHogs Chickens Will Save
the Grower of the Southern
spedaW Correspond
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With November in what may safely be
called lmminenCe, every day brings the
weather a little nearer true Indian summer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31
Fortified

We know man who amt a-skeered
or any winter storm.
He always grows heavy beard
To keep his features warm.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31

The planet Venus is often called '1ove's
white star" Tennyson, in THE Gardeners
Daughter" has the phrase:
"Tiu every daisy slept and loves white star
Beamed thro the thickened cedar in tho
Dusk
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31

Ducking for apples is a mild and saIu-
brious exercise compared TO what awaits
Roles Penrose on Tuesday.
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Vice Versa

ASK HOLIDAY FOR THAw."
News headline.
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So far. the English may be pardoned II
they describe the Boer rebellion as only a
beasuly bore.
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Assassination Rates on Application

"Don't Kill your wife. Let the Banner
Laundry do the work.'-A Michigan laun-
dry sign.
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NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW

The growth OF our exports in recent wears
has been in quarters Of the globe to stand us
In good stead at this time when war Is
raging over Europe.-New York Press.
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Sir Robert Peel was known as Orange
peel because of his strong anti Catholic ten
denotes while Chief Secretary for Ireland,
lSl2-lslS.
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Boston Products
Prepayment Cars.
Hoods Cultured Buttermilk.
Pierce's Refined Cider.
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application OF the Monroe Doctrine to the sps-
cidc will be defined in washington, not In
Berlin.-New York World.
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Poland, or rather that region in which the
Russian and German Austrian armies are
in a death grapple, was formerly known as
Sarrnatia II was inhabited by the Sarmatae,
q powerful Slav race.
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SO far as Penrose is concerned the odd
fashioned Republican victory" he prays for
I'm probably be OF the vintage OF 1912.
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Life at Sing Sing seems to be Just one
warden after another.
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TJ-s" "S-so"-what romantic names TO
zsDd ringing down the centuries!
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Now the Black Sea runs red,
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Breakfast-Bacon and eggs, bread and
butter and coffee.
Dinner-Beefsteak and onion gravy
mashed potatoes with tomato gravy
bread and butter mince pie. coffee.
Supper-Poached eggs on toast hot
sweet biscuits, assorted cakes, cocoa