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lose sight of many technical details of
the game. They may even be fooled,
since IL is their wish and their habit to
believe. But their concern is with life
and the means of life. They will feel,
if they do not always think, in the devi-
Gus ways of political organizations.
Unquestionably they will be power
behind all legislation that is intended
to make life more tolerable for women
and children in. industry and they will
be terror to those who oppose that sort
of legislation. They are diffident and
shy for time in politics. They could
not be otherwise.
"You never can tell what a woman
will do"
That fearful thought will haunt good
many bosses in the years to come unless
we are mistaken. 1t is questionable if
women voters will ever be as amenable
to party rules as men have been.
They are mysterious. Lately they have
been complaining that clothes designers
enslave them. They are afraid of many
harmless things-of cows, for example.
But the lord of creation, who is begin
ming to feel again that he alone is quail
fed to vote, ought to think again
Women do not hang about street cor
ners. They do not sit up all night to
play poker. They do not meet secretly
to hatch wars. They do not fight police
men and they did not loaf in saloons.
Women may be unable to cope with
some of the physical stresses of modern
life. But that is not because they are
not strong. They will cling to desolated
hearths and hold the order of existence
together and wait and smile and be
patient in storms of trouble from which
a man would flee to the nearest dock for
jump out of world grown too hard
for him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13
THE ROMAN ROAD

r LOVE the grass grown Roman road
L Crossing the bosom of the downs,
To conjure up the life that flowed
From all the busy, bygone towns.
Beneath the sward, the sullen ground
Once echoed to the rhythmic tread
or marchflS legions, northward bound
Marking the highway with their dead
love to stand where Caesar stood
Gazing across the smiling shires.
The same clean wind that cooled his blood
Tempers the suns enlivening fires,
The dappled fields stretch far and wide
A gentler land than Caesar trod,
When ruthless Saxon hordes defed
The maker of the Roman road.
The ramparts that hid fighting men
Are carpeted with green and gold,
The cave that was wild beasts den
Now serves plowman's gear to hold.
The road that echoed to the tread
OF marching legions, northward bound.
Is but highway of the dead,
Dear Natures happy hunting ground.
F. Ee Breton Martip, in the Spectator.
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bers of the national committee to be uni
versally regarded. The delegations
from many states will go to Chicago
committed to certain candidates., while
every candidate will be anxious to get
the support of the large delegations from
Pennsylvania and New York. AS these
two states could combine and bring about
the nomination of any candidate on which
they could agree, the matter of instruc-
tions can be allowed to take care of
itself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13
UNRESTRICTED DELEGATES

CoMETHING can be said in support of
~ the desire of majority of the mem
hers of the Republican national commit
tee that the delegates to the Chicago
convention be uninstructed.
When no candidate has majority of
sfhe delegates the nomination is always
brought about by combinations among
fhe friends of the different candidates,
whether delegates are instructed or not.
The instructions are respected when they
have been obeyed on one rollcall. After
that the war Is cleared for whatever
the leaders plan to do.
n There are too many fayorite sons,
l'yerer, for the wishes Of the mem
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RAINROWS

HOVERNOR SPROUL, on his return
~ from Washington. remarked that he
was mot chasing ra''sz1ws.
Wise man! There is no less profitable
sport than that of pursuing an iridescent
phantom that consists of nothing but
mist and sunlight.
Phantoms sometimes chase men, and
catch them, too, if they do not watch out
The Governor has very large job on
his hands already, and if he does it well
LAS vast majority of Pennsylvanians
hope he Wilt will be time enough to
figure on the next step upward in states
manship In fact, it may be the next
eStep itself
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MYSTERY

tET EGEND, rumor and experience
IL taught me that Philadelphia is de-
voted to the thing called scrapple," said
the Well-Dressed Stranger, with a look
up and down Broad street, "but until
now did not know that you use it to
repair the street paving"
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If the price of coal is raised following
an increase of wages to the coal miners,
there is nothing to prevent the government
from investigating the coal business and in
cidentally discovering whether or not the
excess charge is justified.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13

The poem on the Imperator written by
the Earl of Limerick, bewailing the absence
of liquor, should properly have been writ
ten in the measure his name has made fa-
nous. AS for instance:
A tar who was dry as a crater
Went to sea on the ship Imperator-
But the absence of booze
Has affected the muse,
So I'll finish this Limerick later.
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What Do You Kno,u?
QUIZ

QUIZ
l. Who is the newly elected president Of
Switzerland?
g What is the capital of Minnesota?
3. How old was Cleopatra at the time Of
her liaison with Marc Antony?
A. How long was James A. Garfield Presi-
dent of the United States?
5. Who were the Hellenists?
6. What is nenuphar?
7. From what town in France does vaude-
vile take its name?
8. How is the surname Cockburn pro-
nounced in England?
8. The word plaza is sometimes pronounced
as though it were spelled "platsa"
Why is this incorrect?
10. Name. three commanders on the British
side in the American revolution.
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. Hanson cabs take their name from
Aloysius Hanson, of York, England
who was their inventor. His dates
are 1903 1882.
.. Skagway, Juneau and Sitka are Alaskan
cities.
8. Max of Baden was the last chancellor Of
the German monarchy.
4. An odalisque is an eastern female slave
or concubine.
5. A seismOgraph is an instrument indi-
eating the place and force of earth
quakes.
G. Roosevelt settled the anthracite coal
strike in 1902.
Z. The hanging gardens of Babylon were
four acres OF garden raised on base
supported by pillars towering in ter
races one above the other 300 feet in
height At distance they are said
to have looked like vast pyramid
covered with trees.
8. The Noyum Organum was the chief
philosophical work of Francis Bacon,
published in 1920
8. The frequent occurrence of the number
forty in the Old Testament has been
explained by the fact that the original
Hebrew employed a word meaning
forty to express "a great many" in
an indefinite sense.
10. Frank II. Hitchcock was postmaster
general in Taft's cabinet and managed
the Taft campaign for the presidency
in 1908. He was also campaign man !
ager for the nomination of Hughes in
1916. Gilbert NJ Hitchcock is Demo-
cratic senator from Nebraska.
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HOSPITAL Corridors

ftoSpltaI SorTloorS
ALL hospitals have flower beds,
"A You may see them bloom
At evening after lights are low
Beside each quiet room.
Roses there, and violets
In nests of living grass
They bend to kiss the nurses feet
And watch the doctors pass.
They seem to be quite happy there
And do not mind the pain.
For flowers live where they are loved
And are at home again
Wherever there is suffering.
They have seen death too near
To close, for him, their colored cups
Or look on him with fear.
BEATRICE WASHBURN.
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The evidence is unmistakable that the
government, demanding a show down, ex
ecuted back down in the coal situation.
But retreat may be strategic rather than
an evidence of defeat
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13

Were all sorry that Doctor Garfield
feels as he does--he's done fine job, said
Secretary Tumulty. Resigning?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13

Doctor Garfield is clearly within his
rights in resigning and the public similarly
intrenched in its privilege to take his de-
parture philosOphically.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13

Ever and anon police court items bring
home to us the fact that among the highly
paid professions must be included that of
begging on the streets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13

Life would be far more terrible than
it is if world problems did not have the
habit of eventually solving themselves.
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Literary Note

In Mr.. Moores tense
Literary Note serial, The New
Public Safety Direc-
tor, the gifted author has coatrived to cause
rising interest with every succeeding chap
ter, and it is confidently expected that the
concluding installment, which we are in
formed will appear within a few days"
will fully justify the hopes of an enthraled
community
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13

A conference is being held in this citv
on ministers salaries The men most con.
cerned admit that these are small matters
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A Plea

TOWN deep canyon in the western land
- With the black rimrock frowning over
head,
Lie the last two of some brave Indian band,
Peaceful and lone in their last narrow bed
The smell of sagebrush, pungent as the sea,
No more will greet their nostris on the
height
But who can say that still it may not be
In some rich hunting ground their souls
delight?
This was their land this wealth of hill and
plain,
Theirs not by right of conquest-but by
birth,
And you who plow their fields, who reap
their grain,
Begrudge them not their little piece of
earth. d. p. w.
"Help help! Mad dog!" cried some one.
"Wisdom is better than rabies" retorted
Dove Dulcet, as he hastened in the opposite
direction.
And it is sad to think, said the philosophi-
cal bartender, that mad dog is the only
creature that has chance to foam at the
mouth nowadays.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13

Not only the wicked walked in slippery
places yesterday.
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Desk Notices

In this country, riches constitute greater
bar to scholarship than poverty.
ISAAC SHARPLESS.
Robert w. Chambers wasn't such a bad
nronhet In 1895 he publishedNa a book called
H"The King in Yellow This is how it
begins:
Toward the end OF the year 1920 the
Government of the United States had prac-
tioallN completed the program adopted
during the last months OF President Win
throp's administration The war
with Germany had left no visible scars
upon the republic
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In Manayunk

In Manayunk
A MIDST the crooked streets and dirty mills
I 4 In strange and devious paths their lives
must 60
Who live on Cinnaminson, Conarroe.
And practice Alpine climbing on the hills
How steeply down the cobbles slides the Milk
On wintry mornings, with windward lurch
Disposing him, and others of his ilk
To lactify the steeple of the church.
When mail adorns the slippery garden path
Our apoplectic gran thers groan and pant
With rusty knee and ankle protestant,
And threaten waistcoat buttons in their
wrath.
If one had nightmares, other years, when
drunk,
One climbed unending sleeps in Manayunk
ALEC B. STEVENSON.
The cruel cruller continues it's conquerng
path Our cheerful haunt, the little waffle
shop on Eighth street, has jettisoned its grid
died batters and now deals only in cream
doughnuts. The next step, we foresee, will
be a convention of doughnut dippers, prob
ably held at Fryburg, Pa.
Speaking of the origins of modern slang,
Cured in the fifth verse of the first chapter
Of Genesis.
1t was distinctly promised u.s. in the same
frst chapter of Genesis, that man was to
have dominion over every creeping thing;
but we have never vet seen the human being
who could get the better of an athletic and
mature cockroach.
Broodng over these things it comes to us
that if the forty four hour week had pre-
vailed in the Garden of Eden the creator
would never have had time to make woman.
And the Garden of Eden attitude toward
prohibition may be deduced from the name
given to the first of all rivers. If you don't
believe us, turn to Genesis ii, IL, and see
what they called the stream Adam had to
drink from. "The name of the first is
| Pison"
Adam really felt that Paradise was Lost
| when they took the movies away from him.
For, as Milton says in his justly celebrated
scenario dealing with the subject:
Michael from Adams eyes the film re-
moved
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Doctor Garfield has wandered off into 8
lightless and heatless night.
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We Are EnIamatic


We have received an earnest inquiry as to
what we meant when we said that the Uni
verse was Dictated but not Signed.
In accordance with our stern policy, we
refuse to amplify this hard saying. We win
even make it harder by remarking that we
are not at all certain whether the Stenog
rapher saved carbon copy in the files.
Any rigid theory of life, we might add, is
about as uncertain as savings account at
the North Penn Bank.
Life is replete with small ironies, we ven
ture. Think of the satiric sensations of the
director general of railroads when he sees
the children at Christmas time having such
good time with the toy trains.
SOCRATES.
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THE CHAFFING DISH

Ben Jonson, in EVERY Man in His HUI
mour," which the erudite Quizeditor has
been rereading, gave the first solution of
the Mexican problem. That was in 1893:
The bastnado! most proper and suffi-
cient dependence, warranted by the great
Carranza. Come hither, you shall chartel
him; I'll show you a trick or two you
shall kill him with at pleasure
Meditating on unsuccessful plays, as one
might conceivably do, we picked up one ia
nous first night flop, since printed, and read
the preface. There we found:
1t were unnecessary to enter into any
further eXtenuation of what was thought
exceptionable in this play, but that 1t has
been said that the manager should have
prevented some of the defects before its
appearance TO the public. The season
was advanced when first put the play into
Mr.. Harris's hands 1t was at that time at
least double the length of any acting
comedy. With regard to some par
ticular passages which the first nights
representation seemed generally disiked
I confess that if felt any emotion of sur
prise at the disapprobation it was not that
they were disapproved of, but that 1 had
not before perceived that they deserved it.
The above does not refer to some recent
play produced in New York by Sam Harris,
but is from Sheridan's preface to 1.-The
Rivals 1875.
Mr.. William NJ. Wills writes to us that
our postal card, mailed to him on April 2Sth
ultimo and addressed correctly to his office
at 1925 Arch street, has just arrived.
1t occurs to us that we had better get
busy and send off our greetings for Christ
mas, 1920.
One of our CHEEKY clients, whose name we
can't decipher, has been listening to the
organist at our favorite movie theatre. And
he says that the other evening, while cam
paigning pictures of Lady Astor and hus-
band were being shown, the ingenious or
ganist played IF You Can Tame Wild
Women, Won't You Tame My Wife for Me- -
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And. apsaklng q prophecy. how's thiai
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.I.0.R.M.I INSTALLATIONS

Chiefs Of tribes OF the Improved order
OF Red Men OF Cherokee No. q, ano
Usage No. 80. have been raised this
week.
Cherokee No. g.
Deputy Great Sachem Milton w. Fer
guson, assisted by the following actins
Great Chiefs, Great Senior Sycamore
William w. Cohee, Great Junior Saga
more Frank D. Walker, Great Prophet
Anllard F. squires. Great Chief OF Rec
ords Alfred Wharf.nby, Great Keeper
OF Wampum w. H. B. Maxwell, Great
Collector OF Wampup William II. Fer
guson, Great Sannap Stephen ]. Bar
Gus, Great Nlishinewa Albert Wilhelme.
Great Warriors William NJ Money @.
A. Zebley. z. C. Burbage, Arthur Wood.
Great Braves Carter Baldwin, John NJ.
McCrone, d. z. Eakin, Otis swain Great
Guard Of Wlgwam Theodore Buckalew
adm Great Guard Of Forest Elmer Z
Hare. visited Cherokee Tribe No. and
raised the chiefs as follows
Saohem, J. Harvey Semerteen; senior
sycamore George II. Meginness; junioc
sycamore, Frank P. Bowers; propnet
w. Earle Johnson; sannaps, Paul w
starr and P Henry Slower; warriors,
Charles II. Waddlngton, T. kinsey Car
penter, Jesse T. Semerteen and Frank
ID. Walker; braves, James T. Semerteen,
Marlton Pritchett, Herbert c. Foote and
w. w Cohee; guard Of wigwam, Ray
mond P. Bowers; guard Of forest, How
ard S. Johnston.
Cherokee Tribe had an unusually
lively and interesting meeting, their
teams report showing a gain both in
membership and in finances.
Usage Tribe No. 80.
on Wednesday evening Deputy Great
saehem Milton w. Ferguson, assisted
by the following acting Great Chiefs.
Great Senior Sycamore William w.
Cohee. Great Junior Sycamore Harvey
3 Hansburg. Great Prophet William II
Ferguson, Great Chief Of Records Alfred
whartenby, Great Keeper Of Wsmpum
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w. II. B. Maxwell, Great Collector OF
Wampum Samuel Gamble, Great San
nap Stephen J. Barcus, Great Mlshinewa
Albert Wilhelme, Great Warriors VIII
liam NJ. Money, C. A. Zebley, E. c. Bur
bage, Walter Young, Great Braves Otis
swaine. Carter Baldwin, Il. w. John
ston, William Sherlow, Great Guard OF
Wigwam Theodore Buckalew, Great
Guard OF Forest Elmer z. Hare, visited
Usage Tribe No. 80 and raised the fol-
lowing chiefs:
Sachem, Paul Horsey; senior saga
more, q. Clyde Burbage; Junior saga
more, William Swan; prophet, arthur
Wood; sannaps, S. ]. Barcus and VIII
liam NJ. Money; warriors, Joseph Mag
nell, N. l.. Russell, Clarence A. Zebley
and Walter King; braves, Andrew
Hofer, N. Oscar Duntor, Oscar SeIfes
and Webster Walls; guard Of wigwam.
John Batty and guard Of forest, ]. H.
Mason.
Usage Tribe had quite large at
tendance at their meeting and the mem
bers enjoyed the long talks Of the Great
Chiefs.
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WELCOME NEWPORT
Heroes JULY 4
Home Folk Arrange Elab-
crate Reception for Re-
turning S ldier Boys
TOWN JOINS IN
COMMUNITY SING
speeIal % The Evenlng JournaI.

Special TO The Evening Journal.
NEWPORT, April 4-The committees
In charge Of arrangements for the home
coming celebration for the soldiers met
in the school house last night The
celebration win be held on July 4 II
the greater number OF the boys are
home by that time.
The community sing was held in the
school house last night and was well
attended
The Ladies' Aid Society Of Newport
NJ E. Church will hold its monthly
business and social meeting at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Z. Gregg on
next Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Harry Mitchell Of Butte, Mont,
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Craig.
Arthur Groome, who was with the
American Expeditionary Forces in
France, and who recently arrived in
New York Is spending a furlougb here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. w. T.
Groome
George Kipe, who has been with the
American EXpeditlonary Forces in
France, and who has been IN the hos
pital in New York ror e Few weeks.
has received his discharge from the
army and is now at his home at Chadds
Ford.
Miss Lela Lyman. who teaches school
al Berwyn. Pa. is spending her spring
vacation with her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. John r. Lyman, Jr.
Mrs. Bertha Jones, who was burned
at the Isenburg plant Wilmington. on
Wednesday. and who was removed %
the Delaware Hospital for treatment,
is in a serious condition.
Miss Rebecca Maclary IS confined 10
her home with q severe cold.
Mrs. Robert P. Houston Of George
town and Mrs. Annie Fisher OF W
mington spent Thursday with Mrs.
John A. Cranston.
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TO SELL RODNEY LETTERS.

A collection OF manuscripts, books,
relics, etc. believed to be valued at
$4,000, the property OF the late John
NJ. G. Rodney, Of this city, soon win be
sold to historical societies and collec-
tors in Philadelphia. Rodney was a
family Connection Of Caesar Rodney. one
OF the signers Of the Declaration Of In
dependence. The collection has been in
Evening journal., 1919-04-04

creased by several generations and In 1t
are included autograph letters Of Wash
ington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and
many others famous in the early his
tory Of the country. On the death OF the
owner some months ago, the collection
came into the possession Of the admin
lstrator, II. N. Twelis, Of Woodbury..
N. j., a nephew. who viii dispose Of it,
Evening journal., 1919-04-04
DR.. Carter's K. 4 B. Tea
Real Springtime Tonic
and Blood Purifier
Old Fashioned Vegetable Remedy That
Drives Out the Impurities OF
Winter

Take DR.. Carter's K & Tea &c just
about the best spring system regulator you
can get and don't fail 70 give II 20 the
children also. -
a eood-sized package costs but tribe
and with IT, you can brew enough real
GOOD medicinal tea 70 last q long time.
And such wonderful tea-its pleasant TO
drink and it lust does regulate the stom-
och liver and bowels without any dis
tress or harshness.
ASK your druggist for a package today
Take Z cupful every night for two weeks
Its one good sensible way 20 give me
entire system good spring Cleaning
children love n
Evening journal., 1919-04-04
5ec-MARTN CHOCOLATEs-50o.

One-pound boxes containing rich ma
rie and vanilla creams, with Walnut,
Fiberts, Brazil nuts and Peanuts.
Special, $40 the pound box.
Tempting Fruits In Cream. IN one
pound boxes, 500 the pound.
Victory Jelly Eggs, special. 25c the
pound
Danforth's Dependable Drugs,
Market and Second Sts-Adv.
Evening journal., 1919-04-04
5sc-MARIIN CHOCoLATEs-Ssc.

one7pound boxes containing rich ma
pie and vanilla creams, with Walnut
Filberts, Brazil nuts and Peanuts.
Special 500 the pound box.
Tempting Fruits In Cream, In one
pound boxes, 500 the pound.
Victory Jelly Eggs, special. 25c the
pound
Danforth's Dependable Drugs,
Market and Second Sts.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1919-04-04

The Want Ads. VIII rent houses and
apartments TO good advantage.
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Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-22

u OB1NS amt been the since they the Reds In fact they
II weren't the same before they met the Reds
Looks like it's Stephen Dempsey will dump Wizards
apple cart But Jess gets the most of the apples.
Congress wires private but still retains the
kind you pull
a hymn of heat
NOT IN THE 1920 WHO'S WHO.
Shimmy
Old Grow, Young Crow or MddleAg Crow
YOU CAN TAKE THESE STATEMENTS WITH
"A grain Of sale
Although they thirsty enough tits
Up go 1920 A. D., meaning America dry citizen who
used off ard become deney populated with the old
was listed in the little black book as weak sister
In unhappy days Of happiness the old guene had kick
like two a Paducah mule going north.
Now the old muclage down and sinking like the
at twilight
Two per cent?
That's like drinking margin
Of oang tuoad Of the odashioned powders and
wpng Of the guy up the
margin will get wiped out himself
The works have dropped from grand to petty boozng
timer swzzed glzzled snooza the
weak citizen
Drink
And weak.
Now drink is weak
And
Drinking nc longer a weakness
But drink
Two week Entishmen hung nostop record
Robins hung no-start
Now watch dizzy Yank over the old ocean