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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01
HARPOONINC IN
OUR SQUIRE
By Stephen W. Meuder

THE grass in the square was very green.
Lolled on a warm bench, I was soaking
in the tender colors at every pore, when
there obtruded itself upon my pleasant
field OF vision scrap of pink paper wan
toning ungracefully with the spring wind
And so it was, l found my adventurer.
OF COURSE, I had read enough OF
~ Stevenson to recognize the man at
once as one who had followed the sea.
There seemed to be about him that inde.
farers. He was tall but stopped in the
shoulders, and walked with wide. solid
planting of the feet. lie wore a jacket
Of old blue cloth above nondescript baggy
trousers, and on his head was "A visored
cap with list to port. From under the
cap curled rough gray hair matching his
grizzled mustaChe. His face was leathery
brown, wrinkled' deeply about the eyes.
At one corner of his mouth was a slight
qurk of humor; from the other hung a
curved briar pipe, black with age. That
completed him, except for the burlap sack
he carried under one arm and the broom
stick grasped in his hand.
He crossed the grass plots, not rapidly
but with a firm deliberation Of purpose.
Thrust out before him was the stick.
and as he approached I saw there was a
long, bright spike in the end--a cruel look.
ing thing. The scrap of pink paper, which
had lain quiet enough for moment now
started up hastily at his approach, availed
itself Of passing gust, and whirled away
in frenzy of hurry. with the calm certain
ty Of fate the old adventurer moved after.
He drew close, five PAGES, three PAGES, a
single pace-the steel point Of the spear
drove through its fluttering prey and
pinned it to the ground. There was the
grim satisfaction Of the hunter in the old
mans motions as he thrust the victim into
his burlap pouch. lie turned away with a
contented pull at his pipe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01
THE GONNSMAN

TNHAT august body Of the elect and the
l. elite Of Philadelphia's brains and talent,
the Contemporary club, once met in solemn
conclaye TO discuss that perennial topic, as
current now as it was then: Is Philadelphia
actually corrupt" And if Philadelphia is
really as corrupt as is commonly reported.
why is she so Snug and satisfied about IT.?
There was much argument pro and con.
Most Of the speakers put in what the lawyers
call plea in confession and avoidance
dwelling on the .eXtcnuating circumstances
which accompany corruption as certainly as
the symptoms Of any other hideous disease.
marking often as certainly the coming NOR
tai dissolution. But the careful committee
on program had provided one speaker vino
at least met the issue squarely.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01
Answers TO Yesterdays Ouiz

Answers 10 Yesterdays Quiz
1. Dixie; a ditch or channel for water mada nv
digglngi especially the artificial Wats,
courses of Holland.
2. Count Szereny Is the new Hungarian premier
8. Princess Jullana l. the dauEhter Of Queen
Whitening aud heir 20 the throne Oh the
Netherlands, "
4. "The Bells" u poem by Edgar Allan Poe
g. Vermont is called the Green Mountain State.
a translation OF the name.
einle truth.
= EngIand's main naval bases are NJ DoVer
HarWieh and Portsmouth,
g. Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitte commanded
the British ships | the raid on the ter
man submarine b" : at Ostend and zee
bruEge.
d. 0Straight," ''Dlaee" aud 'shOw" urs terus
used BY persons addicted 20 wagering their
on horse races. In betting on horses
they assume will be the Wnners, In lie
order OF hrst. Second and third.
10, Aresi the Greek name for Mars, god of war
and sometimes Of Destlenee.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01

Speaking of the cir
Gus, II Is proper to OBJ
serve that there is
only one animal rarcg
Il is the rhinocerOstrIch
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01

And ]. A. C. adds that in spite of his
initials he is a total abstainer.
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01
IInuILADELPMIA corrupL

HDHILApELPHA corrupt" said he'
L "why. Philadelphia is the cleanest city
in the world and the safest. Philadelphia
is the best-governed city in the world. No.
where will YOU find 50 competent body Of
municipal officials. serving 50 mseihShlN'
And. az 10 cxtravagance he quoted some
figures about something on somebody's "un-
impeachabIe authority" The elite and the
elect gasped at each Of these stupeudous dis
charges and, like suhocating fishes. sought
the surface for a breath Of air. For the
sneaker was an old man, grave man,
respectable man. In precinct, in ward. in
CITY. state and the country at large he had
been identified all his life with great
nolftical party surely he ought to know
Why he had helped make that party great
If not good lie had risen to the slogan:
MY party, right or wrong 4; preferably
wrong. And he might have carried it with
the elect and the ete-for most Of them
were of his great and good political party
had il not heen for the last slab or butter,
which was really too thick philadelphia.
gertIsneu and ladies' is not only the clean
est unrest best governed city in the world.
il is likewise the most beautiful. And he
launched forth into a euogum of the archi-
tectural glores Of that monument of'clvic
taste extravaganza and ugliness which cuts
the only two good streets Of Philadelphia
~; t,vo Here. the Gownsman regrets to re-
mort the elite and the elect broke down. and.
forgetting their manners-whtch they should
NOT have done-grected the speaker with
meals OF laughter Subsequently, one elderly
Gentleman resigned from the club because Of
the insult" to his friend.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01
" hat Does
He Care?

II was said recently
What Does of the Kaiser that he
lie Care? was winning just
about enough ground
10 bury his dead. Even that meager con-
ISOLATION seems to have been denied him IN
the battles near Ypres yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01
Desk MoIioes

Dear Socrates-My desk motto is:
When you're down in the mouth,
Think Of JOnah-he got out!
My side-kicker wears this one:
Never wear your wishbOne where your
backbone ought 10 be.
j. A. G.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01
And II MAY
Not

Since this is May Day
And II May i'm Germany and Aus
Not tric and the pet dem
onstration day of So
calists and pactiists in those countries, il
isn't too much to expect that the long-eN-
pected revolution may show signs of be-
ginning.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

UUIL
I. What l. peat:
II the distinction: """t
g. Name the author Of "RasseIas."
g. Identify the Everglade State.
.. Who said Eureka?
O. What is an aria?
:. What is meant by n barraEe?
\. Who l. the German Minister of War;
o. who is ArgOn?
10. What Is a hypOehOndriac?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01

A GAIN HE was approaching. This
a time royal game was afoot. A great.
unwieldy newspaper rustled over the grass
with an air Of overweening insolence that
was maddening In its leisurely sportive
progress it gave no heed to the figure that
stalked behind, until tpere came a sudden
vicious thrust and the paper was thrashing
in its death agony.
l could hardly restrain cheer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01

7 HALE rose from the bench in my de-.
Alight. "Ah, beautiful" exclaimed, under
my breath, What glorious end for his
days."
| thought Of him as he must have been
in his prime lashed in the pulpit" Of
some swordfsh smack. riding the steep
seas. and " pnging his harpoon into the
mottled sie' OF the great fish as it flashed
below. Perhaps he had even shipped out
of New Bedford in the old whaling days
stood in the tossing bow of a thirty -footer
with poised lance, waiting for the wounded
monster to rise and blow. Too old for the
sea, he still followed his calling. and hunt
ed whales UP and down the green reaches
Of the square. ] was almost overcome.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01

ArOW. what was our political friend? \
N satirlst practcing the art Of delicate
raillervo No. there was nothing delicate
about him. An dealst artist substituting
his hopes and his dreams for the deadly real
tiles? or only bold auticpator of the gross
art of camoufage laying il on with white
wash brush and working uphappy too near
TO the observer not to be trapped by his own
nrepogterous boldness? The vices, the
methods of arbitrary government are the
same ali over the world. The Germans make
a thing so, by repeating that II is So sol
a,,,ul,, and frequently. "on the unimpeaChable
authority of a high but undivuged source"
THAT is the manner I'm which Germany got
10 Paris i'm 1914 the way in which she de-
stroyed "England's contemplate little army"
tha yay-the only way--by means of which
~ is going to arrive at that precious Ger
man peace the shifting terms Of which have
hean candled so long before a disgusted
world. The trouble with ''it is so because l
cav II is so" lies in the unhappy circum-
stance that 1t hardly works well outside OF
C,ermany-and Philadelphia. And, even in
backward communities this gross method of
deception does not invariably work.
THE Gownsman--who sometimes leaves the
l. cloister-has recently been up to the Cap
Itol and likewise down to "a certain Ameri-
can mort" (hs movement must be sedulouslv
nrotected in these times of war; In both
places he was chagrlned to be asked perti-
nently: what is the matter with Phiiadel
mia" And he was not without the blush of
shame in his replies. A city in which the
Chief Magistrate has not suffered trial bv
impeachment merely because his faction con-
trolls the impeaching body. city which
"vindicates" at an election manslauRhter
and factional interference with the most
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01

Two, Counting
the Camelephant
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01

am faint with too much beauty.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
Montana Ha. Made
$l,57l,820 Farm Loans

Helena, Mont, July 2s.-rhe report
Of Sidney Miller. register Of, state
lands. for May and June, shows that
the net balance in the common school
and state educational, charitable and
penal institutions permanent funds
June 30th was $1.284.432.07. The re-
port shows also that the pending ap-
plcations for farm loans amount to
$1,474,ooo. These applications aggre-
gate about $500, 900 more than there Is
money on hand to loan. However, it
is probable that, due TO reflections and
to reductions in applications, when all
of the loans now pending are passed
upon, the two items will balance.
This is the first time since the state
board OF land commissioners has been
making farm loans that the total of
the applications has exceeded the to-
toll Of the money on hand.
During May and June 1877 farm loan
mortgages were made, amounting to
$359,500. The entire total of farm
loans to June 3oth is 6S7, amounting
to $1,571,820.
The investments during May and
June aggregated $441,50O, Of which
$392.400 was In farm loans and the
balance in school bonds.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
United States
Casualty List

y Washington. July # 2s.-The army
casualty list shows: Killed in action,
At; died of wounds II; died Of dis
ease 4; died of accident and other
causes IL; wounded severely 93:
wounded, degree undetermined 4;
missing 20. Total 199.
The list includes:
Died OF wounds: Lieutenant COL
onel Russell G. Hand, Sioux City, Ia.
Died Of disease: Private Murle Nc
Nulty, Roy, Montana.
Wounded severely: Captains Hugh
H. Barber, 1914 Eleventh ave-, south,
Minneapolis; Lewis c. Coleman. 1774
Sheridan ave-, St. Paul, Minn., Ser
geant Hanning g. johnson, $500 Ell
liott ave, Minneapolis Privates
Charles -Jsz Bsnson, 81, Eastman ave,
Duluth, Mimi, Harold J. Lee, 2OO2
Penn ave-. north, Minneapolis. MINI.
Private George B. Reid. sos
Seventh avenue s. E., Minneapolis;
Norton Risedorph. 1896 selby avenue,
St. Paul.
Wounded, Degree Undetermined.
Private Earl e. Newman, Twin VAL
ley, Minn.:: William J. Otto, 1926 Wal
nut street, Milwaukee.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
PRESS ASSOCIATION.
! CIRCULATES FALSE
!. REPORTS FROM PARIS

New York, July 2s.-On July 10 a
pEess association distributed over the
country, an alleged Paris dispatch pur-
porting to be a declaration of the
Allied high command. which includes
the American forces, quoting the high
command as saying that prisoners and
guns surpassed the fondest hopes Of
the command. and giving certain 9TH
er battle details. The Associated
Press caused an investigation to be
made in Paris and learned that the
command bad issued no statement.
The, investigation disclosed also that
the dispatch as fixed by the corre-
spondent did not attribute to- tho
command the expressions quoted and
that apparently the dispatch was
changed after being censored in
France and in the Uiitod States SO as
%. represent the Allied high command
-SAs making Statements OF fact and
authorizing comments, not one word
= which the high command ever ut
tered.s Et
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
Montana Hail Loss is
Estimated at 100000

Helena, Mont. July 29.-Hail losses
on crops insured with the state board
of hail insurance commissioners, are
estimated by Chairman e. K. Bow
man to aggregate 100000 up to the
present time; compared with total
losses last year of $65,OO0.
But the acreage insured this year is
approximately 100000, or twice as
much as last year, so unless disastrous
storms occur between now and the
time the crop, is cut, the indications
are the board will have tidy sur
plus at the close Of the season.
Most of the acreage insured this
year lies in central and southern Mon
tana, where crop conditions are best,
and 1t is not anticipated there will, be
any appreciable percentage of deiin-
quency. in the payment Of premiums
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
ITALIAN SHIP 4 4
DESTR|0YEDBY
BIG EXPLOSION
Dynamite Believed to Have
Been Placed on Steamer
. by Germans:

Rio Janeiro, Sunday, July 2s.-The
italian steamer Giuseppe Garibaldi.
1000 tons. has been destroyed by an
explosion 200 miles of the Brazilian
coast. Six members OF the crew were
killed. The remainder were rescued
by the English ship Ardgrange. The
officers Of the vessel have reported to
the italian consul here to the effect
that the explosion was caused by q
dynamite bomb. which is believed to
have been placed on board the ship
by Germans. -
The Giuseppe Garibaldi was for
merly tbs steamer Cleveland Range.
She was built in 1898 and was $40
feet long and IS feet beam. She was
owned in Genoa.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
ARGENTINA AND
GOVERNMENT
Congress First Chosen by
Popular Majority in
Free Election.

Buenos Aires, Argentina. July o.
The Argentine newspapers are COM
menting on the fact that the Province
OF Buenos Aires, the largest and richie
est In the republic, now has a radical
government, the first that has been
chosen by popular majority in free
election. 1t is. therefore, truly DEM
ocratic government, composed of new
men who are themselves the product
OF an economic evolution which COM
menced about SO years ago in the vast
territory of the province.
Even fifty years ago the province
contained allth elements Of its pres
entday greatness and efficient culture,
but while the transformation of this
great plain was going on, politicians
continued to exploit the governmental
powers Of the provinceIfrom the clubs
of the metropolis.
And While the progress Of the peo-
pie was being retarded and the real
ization of their lawful aspirations held
back, In the social clubs of the cap
ital the names OF those. persons who
were to form the legislature were
quietly selected s. then the legislative
body sent forth the commissioners
who became ins this way the masters
of the situation. being neither more
nor less than Representatives Of feudal
power in q rnodernized form.
Nevertheless, the pofitieAl evolution
advanced with long strides and would
have been victorious Of itself had not
the president Of the republic inter
vened In the government of the prov
ince with the idea of fastening mat
ters and bringing about the instan-
taneons solution of the problem.
II An interventor, appointed by the
president, supplanted the governor of
the province and directed its affairs
until after the election, and now the
province has started on new career,
which one OF the Ruenos Aires papers
hkens to the democratic triumph OF
the United States when Andrew Jack
son. was elected president.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
tBy the Associated Pres)

(By G00 A89OC2aW5Q 1EC6oJ
North of the Marne the tide Of
German invasion is fast ebbing. The
fact that a general retreat in this re-
gion is going on is not questioned.
and the only question Of moment to
be cleared up in the location Of the
position at which the enemy will turn
at bay.
Since Saturday morning there have
been important changes in the battle
line between scissors and Rheims.
Today it runs almost directly east
from oulchy.Le-chateaY to Fere,en, nns
and continues eastward until it
reaches the Dormans-Rheims road
northwest of Rheims mountain.
1t had been contended by military
experts that the Germans might elect
to stand on the line Of the Ourcq
river from which their heavy cannon
might dominate the Paris Chalons
railroad along the Marne. The idea
Is now proved erroneous. 1t appears
that there is no defensive position
south Of the vesle river to which the
Germans can retire and organize
their resistance to Allied pressure.
The only other defensive position
seemingly possible is the one that fol-
lows the Aisne and Vesle from Sois-
sons to Fismes, and from that point
follows the course Of the Ardre river
toward Rheims Burning villages
along the Ais11e and Vesle from Sois-
sons to Bazoches are reported. and
tend to confirm the impression that
the Germans do not contemplate or
ganized resistance south OF that line.
There is every indication that the
! ~ ISo n
in extricating its forces from the trap
sprung by General Foch. The re-.
sistance Of the Germans for week
after the beginning of the Allied
counter offensive probably gave
them time to withdraw their heavier
guns and large proportion of their
supplies from the salient. This re-
sistance was strong along the line
south of Scissors as far as Oulchy-le-
Vile and west and southwest of
Rheims, which were the vital sectors
Of the battle line.
The advance Of the Allies east OF
Oulchy-Le-Chatea must soon COM
pei the enemy to ,evacuate the line
from the Ourcq river toward Scissors
for q considerable distance. Nearer
Rheims, however, the Germans seem;
to hold positions that will provide q
pivot for their retreat toward the
In this region. the Allies this morn
ing were getting closer to the Ardre
river. which forms q protection to the
right flank Of the enemy posttions
near Rheims.S
A the situation now stands the
| Germans must DO considered to have
suffered = 'sevsre defeat north Of the
kAr1e, but It u net q Sedan.
While the Germans have been busy
getting their fercss back oat Of the
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
EIGHT STEEL SHIPS,
DELIVERED LAST WEEK

ashinston. July ss..Eight steel
ships with q total dead weight ton-
mage OF 50, $50 were delivered by
American shipyards last week. the
shipping board announced today.
for the week included ton
steal vessels with : total tonnage Of
b3.3t0 and fiyess wooden ships with 8
of 1880. ISL N 83ss3
lclflc coast yards TUNED out three ships
while the single eastern delivery VS.
i Z, 400 ton freig ghter from the Bethle-
hema torporati Sparrow Point, Nd,
yard These deliveries bring the num-
ibsr Of ivepselsI built for the shipping
board; ~ AAarfy . 3Go, with, u milIlpn
md shAie SdeAd oi&ht stonIiagss e. n
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
WITNESS DECL ARES
/. w. WIS. ARE OUT
I. 81. TO GET KAISER

Chicago. July. q. .''1n this war. the
!. w Wa out to get the kaiser as
me 4rsatest autocrat," Otto .stolp. an
enlisted e. man stationed at Fort Benz
iamin, Harrison, testified. in the frial
81 the I. w. W. before Federal Judge
stolp and two other soldiers, Ray =.
Carter. . member Of the I. Nv. W.. in
Minnesota and Charles Thompson
formerly an 1. w. w., Organizer I'm
Minnesota. testified In regard to their
beliefs IN the principles Of the orEani-
sation and its attitude toward the war.
Carter said ,he never heard the term
~ ellow. legs" app Ned 70 soidi6r BY
the !. w. W. members and knew Of
no reason why . member fSthe or
Esnisation could not become good SOL
edier1. y III. Isl s ~
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
REPLY TO WORKMEN
NOT SATISFACTORY

Basel Switzerland, July 29.-The
Swiss workmen's congress, organized
by a socialist committee headed by
Robert Grimm. yesterday voted by a
large ma !ority that the federal coun-
cil's reply to the workmen's claims
was unsatisfactory and that If further
prompt negotiations failed in obtain
ing concessions general strike would
be called.
The congress included representa-
tives Of the railway mems union,
numbering 10000 and the federation
OF officials and employees of the fed
eral department, numbering 10000.
In official circles the situation Is re-
garded as serious.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
Advance Not Interrupted.

With the French Army In Francs
July 29S-The forward pressure OF thu
Allies was continued uninterruptedfy
Sunday. On Saturday thl
progress Of the Allied forces was ex.
tremely rapid, with slight opposition
from the retreating enemy but yes
terday the Germans everywhere den-
onstrated that their poweK OF de-.
termined resistance was still very
strong -. i a
In the streets Of Fefe-en-T Tardenois
there was very severe hand to hand
lighting, but the Allies eventually OBJ
tanned the upper hand. E
Late last night. fighting was still
in progress for the mastery Of ville-
en-Tardenois, the Germans strong
point on the Ssoutheasterly side OF the
salient, but the Allies were gradually
gaining the ascendancy here. They
are established IN the southern por-i
ton OF the: town, having beaten an
Efforts OF the Germans to dislodcoI
them ~. As -s ISL ~ : KS s d S=
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
RECEIVER APPOINTED
FOR NAT GOODWIN'S
PROPERTY AND EFFECTS

New York, July ga receiver for
the property and effects of Nat C..
Goodwin, actor, was-appointed in the
city court here today. Goodwin was
described n the papers fled as "stock
promoter, theatrical manager, moving
picture star, actor in legitimate
drama, etc."
The receivership.i the outcome Of
q Judgment for 1896 recently re-
covered, against Goodwin in suits
based on notes given in payment for
land near Hemet,, California, where
the actor has ranch.