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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

&oI[
I. Where is Minsk?
2. What is solmization?
3. Where is False bay?
4. What English writer is known as the
Founder of the English Domestic
Novel?
D. Who wrote Happiness is an equivalent
for all troublesome things?
6. Who was Admiral George Byng?
Z How many Federal Reserve Districts are
there and where are their headquar-
ters located?
s. What queen was known as the White
Queen?
0. What is the Guidonian ut?
10. What is "kinematic"?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
Answers to Yesterday,s Quiz

/. Though the mills of God grind slowly,
yet they grind exceeding small" was
written by +. Won Logau in the sew
enteenth century. George Herbert had
previously written Gods mill grinds
slow, but sure"
2. The three hundreds (nominally villages)
of Stoke, Burnham and Desboroush
in Buckinghamshire, England, are
known as the Chiltern Hundreds. An
English crown officer long ago was
called upon to protect inhabitants
from the robbers that infested the
beech forests. The work has gone, but
the Office remains. 1t is used as 4
means of allowing a member of Par
lament to resign. He may not re-
sign directly, but he may accept the
stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds
and resign from that office.
3. A pogrom is an organized massacre of
body or class in Russia.
4. Great Britain declared war on Germany
August 4, 1914.
8. Texas is known as the Lone Star State.
6. Henry Jones, English writer on whist,
was known as "Cavendish."
7. The commonwealth of Australia was pro-
claimed at Sydney, January 1, 1901.
s. The word 'sack," bag, is pretty much
the same in all languages, and for this
reason tradition has it that 1t was
the last word uttered at Babel befS..-
the tongues were 'confounded.
o. Sarah Ann Glover, an Englishwoman,
developed the tonic sol ia system.
10. The tonic sol-fa is method of teaching
singing on the solmization basis. sub
stituting a movable do for the
GuidoniaD ut. and intended Il, en- N
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
OMENS IN JERSEY

hNTI-SUFFRAGISTS in New Jersey
a are banding together to help Mr..
Nugent in his run for the governorship
because Mr.. Nugent loathes the thought
of a universal franchise.
Z Mr.. Nugent might as we'll quit now and
save his time, money and voice.
The ants always lose.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
In a Nutshell

His personal friends can conceive of no
greater mistake on his part than to enter
the mayoralty race under present condi-
tions. He is today In political life Phil
adelphias most distinguished citizen
Said Of a suggested candidate.
And so long as Philadelphia does not want
distinguished citizens as mayors, she won t
get them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
Desk Notices

His humor was sardonic His repartee
was rude. He made one laugh some times
by speaking the truth, but this is form
Of humor which gains Its force only by its
unusualness; IL would cease to amuse IL 1t
were commonly practiced.-W. Somerset
Maugham, "The Moon and sixpence."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

A Muskegon. Mich,
Waste Of Energy mob. to show its oppo-
Sition to seven cent
fare. burned couple of trolley cars. This
is as foolish a way of seeking redress as
the Chinese method, according to Charles
Lamb, of cooking roast pig
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
THE CHAFFlNG DISH

Routes to ElktOn, with an appendix on Ten
Minute TrousseauX, by Orange Blossom
How Gnash My Teeth. Il book OF political
hygiene by Senator Borah.
Loud Applause, n handbook for Democratic
senators, with a supplement on the Com
mand of Language and the Language of
Command by Professor W. Wilson.
A History of GalIantry. by Floorwalker.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Mr.. Lansing might have saved his repu :
tation as a big man by resigning long ago.
Mayhap he proved the other thing by not
resiRning.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

One thing a President has to learn is
that he cant keep his head erect and his ear
to the ground at one and the same time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

With army food on sale next week a
host of reputable citizens will see the inside
of police station for the first time in their
lives.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
Literary Notes

Ed Mumford, the we'll known publisher,
recently found surcease from care in week
at the romantic hamlet of LOvelady's on the
Jersey shore. Mr.. Mumford admits that he
saw the orb of day rise over the ocean one
morning, and from the excitement he dis
plays in describing the experience, we can
not help suspecting it is the first time this
phenomenon has been brought to his per-
sonal attention.
Jolly old Roscoe Peacock writes. US from
North Cohocton, N. Y, that Suck in
the August Harper's is the greatest story
he's read in years. We are going to send
him Harry Levenkrone's serial.
V, r. c. writes us as follows:
Will you kindly give me a list of good
books to read which will help ones knowl-
edge bit. Not fiction or literature.
We are little puzzled |. V. r. G. will
explain the kind of books he wants, we will
be glad to help.
Among the new books to appear this fall
we confidently expect to see the following:
How to Live Within Other PeopIe's In.
comes, by Paying Teller.
Hitting the Hay at Nine r. NJ, or Sim.
pie Life at West Chester, by Dave Bennett
and Others.
The Public BE damned, by Rapid Tran
sit Oficial. . .
How to Evapcrste, by The Committee of
100.
Revisiting the Old Home Town, by Grover
Bergdoll.
1901 Ways. Of Agreeing With Mr.. Wilson.
a handy manual, by Robert Lansing.
Looking for Candidate, Detective
story, by y. and w. Ware.
Where Oranges Biosscn Rapidly, o. 1fotor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

'Mr. Wilson has an unusually long face,
says visitor to our kennel. when he
addresses the Senate it measures about four
teen inches from apex to suffix.'
To which we urge that stern face is al
ways a long one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Japan wants to import white silica
sand from the Philadelphia district. We
have it. and we ought to have the ships to
carry il,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

The aim of cold storage sometimes
seems to be to give the ultimate consumer a
cold deal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Think of big strong government
making war on poor weak little thing like
oI5 beer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Ware, oh, Ware. are the little doggone
Town Meeting registrars?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Now if the proitcer could only Join
the gang at West Chester.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

The Frog Hollow police convicts found
breakfast in Jail joke yesterday morning
but the very best joke grows monotonous
after q while.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Tarrying for a moment at a certain sec :
ond- hand bookshop| we asked a young man
if there was anything by &. X. Chesterton
in stock. Sure" said he, and led the way
to copy of Get Rich Quick Walling
ford"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Dear Socrates: Do you lay bare your souI
in the Chatting Dish? Sometimes suspect
you of being merely facetious.
MINIMUS MAXIM.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
A CIty Notebook

Walking up Chestnut street we heard be-
hind us two short, sharp sternutations,
sounding rather like the sudden kissing es-
cape of steam from an ovcrburdened valve.
We turned and saw a pitcous individual
with bloodshot eyes rapidly fumbing for
handkerchief. We gazed at him with the
agonized sympathy Of a fellow sufferer whose
time is almost come.
The hayfever season has begun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Some members of the
City TLays in Luck Philadelphia O ce
force have gone to
West Chester. and some have returned from
France The city is benefited by the ex-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Rumanians consider armistice terms
merely the thin end Of the wedge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

THE smaller streams of northern South
America are literally rivers of gold. Gold
seekers generally are not aware of this Ven
ezucla with northern Brazil and n portion
of western Guiana is land of undcvcloped
riches and romance.
1t was up the Orinoco river that Sir Wal
ter Raleigh sailed on his quixotic quest for
the tabled FL Dorado. IT was on the soping
Ciudad Bolivar. that he rested for two
months while refitting his ships.
Until fifty years ago Ciudad Bolivar was
known as Angostura. 1t was the original
home of the famous bitters. Raleigh ex-
city rich in gold and gems beyond the
widest dreams of Spanish avarice. Instead
he returned empty handed to an execution
er's block in London.
Strollng through the western or poorer
section of the little city of Ciudad Bolivar
one morning some years ago ! saw an i'm
mense negro seated at table near an open
window in a native hut with handful Of
nuggets before him. They were diScoored
and he was cleansing them in a gourd bowl
half filled with water. He did not resent
my curious gaze.
told Robert Henderson, one of the two
Americans in that remote region, of what I
had seen.
Very likely he's a Barbados negro who
has just come down the Caroni river"
There must be gold along the river" I
said.
II believe it is richer in gold than any
river in South America" he replied. but
no white man can live in the climate"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

The ties that bind are not those that
tie up industry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

And after all, if Congress were any
more intellectual than il IL it wouldn't be
truly representative Of the great mass Of the
people.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
O ProHteers!

0NE word is too often profaned
~ For us to profane it,
One traffic so justly disdained
We need not dsdain it.
We're candid a word in your car
a musing to dance to-
Perhaps we would all protiteer
If we had n chance to.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Mr.. Lansing, too, has shown himself
adept at passing the buck.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Mr.. Shelley 1t was who spoke of Sleep az
.the flmy eyed but the kind Of filmy eyes
that we fall for are those Of Miss Dorothy
Gish. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
Eighteenth Amendment Shattered

Upstate" geniaIIy calls our attention to
the following:
A slight fire occurred at Port Carbon
shortly before noon, when flames were
discovered in one Of the foreign born
residents northeast of the town. The dam
age was slight An investigation Is being
made of the cause Of the blaze.-Potts-
willie Republican.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
ROMANCE OF GOLD MINING
Success Of Spencer Penrose and
Charles MeNeIll In colorado--Per-
lis In the Hunt for the Precious
Metal In the Arctic and
In the Tropics
BY GEORGE SOX MCCAIN

NEXT to love the great adventure in life
Y is gold hunting. In nine cases out Of
ter. though. the world overland ! think the
ratio runs higher--the reward is either fail
urc or death.
The gold hunters graveyard in southern
Alaska is the most desolate spot ! ever saw.
It is a tiny Gods acre, not larger than a
city lot, on the shore of Lake Bennett. Lake
Bennett is the most trcacherous sheet of
water north of the Canadian boundary. 1t
is the head waters of the Yukon river.
The little cemetery is on barren rise OF
ground, with mountains on three sides.
Within the rough. wooden rallied inclosure
are about thirty graves; the last resting place
of men-and there are several women-who
embarked in the Klondikc rush of 1898.
Some died of exposure. others of accident,
but most of drowning in Lake Bennett. 1t
was near here that the pioneers, having con-
quered the White Pass. felled trees, hewed
planks and built bargcs. They had 800 miles
of n river journey ahead of them before they
reached the gold fields.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
Hogging Food
Products

Inc county prosecutor
Hogging Food in Columbus. Ohio. is
Products trying to force a local
packing company to
disgorge 1j1 ,G5l pounds of pork, which he
alleges has been held in storage, for prof
iteering purposes. beyond the period allowed
by law. He hopes to sell it publicly at the
figure at which it was acquired. This is
what may be termed putting virtue into the
pork barrel.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

The political cycle has It's daily blowout.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

1t is amusing to hear that Mr. Wilson
ordered certain matters withheld ito avoid
irritating the French Senate.
Not irritating Senates is something he is
notably good at.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Two very eminent newspapermen, Mr..
Haywood Broun and Mr.. Jay House. have
been finding amusement in the remarks OF
former EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER corre-
spondent, Philip Gibbs. Mr.. Gibbs, in his
admirable novel of newspaper life, The
Street of Adventure, speaks of English
newspaper reporters as sitting in the city
room with their legs stretched out toward
an open fire. Mr.. Broun and Mr.. House
agree that they have never seen this phcnom
enon in an American news Office.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

T DOUBT the details of tina, story sent out
from New York last week about gold
hunting expedition starting for Dutch Guiana
with widely known gentleman and his
wife at the head of it. 1t said that they
were going to develop gold field which the
leader located on the Moroni river eighteen
years ago.
AS the story runs. they are carrying with
them a company of fifty mining engineers and
n million dollars worth of equipment. The
main story may be true. but the latter state
mcnt suggests cXaggcration.
Evidently it is a dredging proposition in
the alluvial sands of the river. If So half
dozen American engineers and assistants
would be ample for the purpose. Labor is
plentiful and very cheap in that country. as
! know, and million dollars worth of ma
chinery would dredgc dozen rivers.
Not all Of the party, / venture, will come
back alive 1t'G n wretched country for
fever and all sorts of tropic disorders.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
Or a Game
Old Rooster

Leghorns are wonderful fellows and
Plymouth Rocks can hold their own. Which
might indicate that that's the kind of chick
en- Mr.. Moore is.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
1.-TWO philadolphians who

TWO Philadnlphians who have grown very
u wealthy in gold and copper enterprises are
Charles Mcneil and Spencer Penrose,
brother of the senator. Spencer Penrose will
go to the United States Senate one Of these
days, | believe. He is very popular in
Colorado. He is big. hearty. kind and
hospitabe. His homo is in Colorado Springs,
though he has spent considerable time in re-
cent years travelling in the Orient.
Charlie Mcneil and Spencer Penrose made
their first venture in Cripple Creek twenty
five years or more ago. They struck it rich.
Later on they became interested in copper
mining, and Mcneil is now ono of the copper
magnates, high official in the Utah Copper
Company. For years they have deserted the
effcte East for the wealth and fascination Of
the expansive West
a little known mining romance is that of
Sherwood Aldrich, whose name figures fire.
quently in eastern society columns He was
n New York man and long time acquaint-
ancc of Penrose and Mcneil. He had made
and lost money around Cripple Creek. Then
in 1904 came the Tonopah Goldfcld rush.
talked with Aldrich in the Fl Paso Club
in Colorado Springs. of which we were mem
bcrs, few nights before he left for the new
discovery. For months before he had been
rather down in his luck. He expressed the
confident belief that he would strike it rich
in the new Nevada field
And he did. Within five years he was
worth half a million.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

TN ROUTE to Port of Spa L on my return
hfrom the Orinoco valley, on the Chester,
Pennsylvania built side wheel steamboat, I
met a Yankee named Shaw from Snow Hill,
Me. He had lived in the country for twenty
five years. had married n Spanish woman
and raised a family. He corroborated Hen
derson's story. only his picture of the Caroni
was more vivid
Il believe the Caroni with it's tributaries
like the urape is one of the richest rivers in
the world. I've seen plenty of gold from it,
but always in small lots. It's impossible
for white man to live in the low climate
along the banks. He'd die of fever inside two
months. Nobody but the Barbados and
Trinidad niggers can work there and they
can stand it only short time. The native
Indians wont work. They rpend their time
hunting and fishing, and care nothing about
gold. Besides they re treacherous."
This old fish of a Maine Yankee told me
the story, or romance rather, of the New
Providence mine. 1t is famous in that part
of our sister continent. 1t is, or was, in
the Urupati country about seventy miles back
from the Orinoco Its nearest city is Qua
cipati, the capital of the territory.
The mine had been worked for more than
250 years. The natives. they say, discoy-
cred it before the Conquistadores came. 1t
was estimated that more than 500, ,OOO. 900
had been taken from it. 1t was worked by
tunnels, drifts and slopes.
Then one day about thirty years ago the
miners tunneling ran against great rock
wall. The gold vein ended. The wonderful
richness OF yellow stuff suddenly ceased to
exist. They had struck what Is. known geo
logically as fault" To right and left
they blasted and searched and sunk shafts
far down the face of the rock II was all IN
vain. They never recovered the lead.
i The Nueya Providencis mine ceased to
sxist from that dax.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

On Broad street. at little after O clock
in the afternoon, was q long line of people
waiting to see certain already famous
movie. A young lady, deeply rouged and
dressed in the garments Of street arab
with trouser fringes a little too obviously
scissored to counterfeit indulgence, performed
a languid canter on the pavement to enter
tain the customers with visions of something
highly heart throbbing. All down the street
one could see groups of women and girls
Fastening desperately toward the box office,
with that far-away and anxious gaze of
those fearful that the best seats will be gone
before they get to the window.
We commend the hopelessly old fashioned
pedal polishing artist who has the little tenn
pie at the northeast corner of Twelfth and
Market. He descends to no such slang as
the word Shine His sign reads, with
sober restraint, Shoes Blackened.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Our contribution to the discussion is that
the object the newspapcrman legs are most
likely to be stretched out toward is the ofhce
boy And we have heard that in the rough
old days the cub reporter was sometimes
openly fired by the managing editor stretch
ing his leg in the direction of the stairs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

The question whether the paying teller OF
the North Penn Bank has made good his
escape reminds us of the old tale about the
Bacon Shakespeare controversy. Some one
said that he didn't know whether Bacon
wrote Shakespeare's plays or not; but if he
didn't, he missed the greatest opportunity
Of his life.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
Gone Up In Smoke

Found Dead, Pipe in Mouth, says head
line. At any rate it was a peaceful demise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

Discussing the Phila
dolphia mayoralty con-
test, Mr.. Moore is
nmntnd nS saving that
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08

We do not give any credit to the state
ment that Britain is trying out Mr.. De
Valera as the new American ambassador.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-08-05

Han llegado mis- manos algu
mas publicacioneS-una revista,
un semanariO ilustrado-, orga-
no de la novfsima generaci6n poe
tica espahola. Mentiria 81 diiese
que no me han iconmovido estas
| paginas, escritas tientas en-
busca de nuevas formulas de ar
te; estas paginas, tipografica-
mente pobres, pero tan ricas de
ideal, frmadas por los nombres
que empiezan apenas conocer-
Sc, aureolados empero de juven.
tud Y de esperanza, de Luciano
San Saor, Xavier B6veda, j. Ri
vas Panedas, Guillermo dc To.
rre, Luis Mufoz Marin, Andria-
no del Vale Y otros que siento
no recordar, y que en- su ansia
incOncreta aGn, pero imperiosa
de mas ALA, han suscrito en- Su
bandera Irica la generosa pala,
bra ultra. GQuienes son-me
direis-estos nuevos paladines?
Los j0venes del ULTRA" son la
Ultima .palabra, el Gltimo CRITIC
un grito adn tremulO, debil v fe-
bril-de Ia Poesfa espanola. Son
los hermanOS memories en- afiOs,
mayores en- ambici0n, de los "cu-
bistasV, ''planistas", "vibracionis
tas" de la Pintura, Y, en- general,
de todo ''futurista"-ioh, Mari
netti de cualquiera de las be-
Has artes tai como Sc entendian
hasta aqui; 81 bien ell futurismo
ha decidido borrar, con harto
buen sentidO = por parad6jico
que parezca-el calificativo de
"bellas" como una capitidisminu
cion de las artes.
La postura de nuestros sui
traistas" es, sin embargo, mas ga
narda Y al par mas seria y homes
ia que la del ffuturismo de Mari
netti; el cual trata de cuadricu-
lar el porvenir y sustituir al ge-
MO que Sc adelantara al tempo
por una teoria caprichosa de un
arte prejuzgado y mas menos
arhitrario, Pero es tambien una
postura vagamente aindefinida. /
No acertare yo de momento a,
deciros concreta Y taxativamente
30 que SON. los j6yenes de "ul-