davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20
BELSHAZZAR BAILEY

THOSE members of Councils who,
= spurred madly on by Mr.. Bailey, are
ready to dip $4,000 out of the city treas
ury and spend it in feasting to show
how greatly they appreciate themselves,
are running true to form.
If there is any overwhelming desire
among the people to dine the councilmen
at SIS plate, Mr. Bailey has been the
first to perceive it. Frankly, we doubt
the existence of any such desire. Haven't
the members heard enough of their own
oratory? Must they assemble in last
grand rally for eliminating tempest
OF speeches? And why should Mr..
Bailey want to do the Belshazzar thing?
Sitting comfortably in his own Office he
ought to be able to read the handwriting
on the wall.
There are poor folk in this city who
will not demand SIS for Christmas din
ners. The $4,000 ought to be appropri-
ated and when it is appropriated the
members of Mr.. Baizley's raiding party
should turn it over to one of the charita-
BILE organizations. Thus fifteen poor
men, women or children could have a
pretty noble sort of Christmas dinner
for the price of every one that Mr..
Bailey has planned. There would be
very real virtue in that arrangement.
And the members of city Councils would
show that they are not, as we have sup
posed them to be, altogether without
Imagination.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20
"Street Closed"
a Christmas pIaIoaue

AJAX-Hullo, Socrates Bless me, when
I saw q stout gentleman tumble with such
emphasis l had no idea 1t was you. What
have YOU in that package? Nothing break
able, trust?
sOCRATES-Some little glass balls for
the Christmas tree. ! fear they have gone
West.
AJAX-well, it is quite a while since I
saw you last. What do you say to an oyster
stew?
SOCRATES-A very meritorious idea.
AJAX-It is CHEEKY to see all this snow,
think. 1t seems to bring one closer to the
real Christmas spirit.
SOCRATES-It also brings one closer to
the pavement sometimes. AS / thought,
these nice little globes got at the ten cent
store are irremediaby fractured.
AJAX-Somehow, something seems lack
ing in the season nowadays. Christmas isn't
as iolly rs It used to be. miss the old
fashioned blazing fires, the great joints of
roast beef, the mealy boiled potatoes. There
isn't an inn anywhere in the city where you
can drop in and watch an open fire while
Won eat. There used to be those sleighing
narties up the Wissahickon. Dear me, some
thing seems to have vanished since the good
old days. don't know just what it is
SOCRATES-Yo know perfectly well
what it is.
AJAX-No, no don't mean that. Some
thing of that large and genial simplicity has
gone. / always read Dickens and Wash
inRton Irving at Christmas time, and il
makes me homesick for the old ways. 1
often wish had been my grandfather
SOCRATES--Why do you hold such a
grudge against your posteTityi
! AJAX Yesterday the ashman called snd
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20
SNOW AND SMILES

THE weatherman refused to identify
yesterdays snow as a blizzard.
There was a general disposition to re-
gard the white mantle as the reverse
of a calamity. 1t was beautiful, sea-
sonable and quickening to the Christmas
spirit.
Some years have passed since snow
storms could be really enjoyed. Last
winter the southern isotherms were
pushed north and Philadelphia's weather
was almost as mild as the low average
in Charleston.
The year before nobody had a good
word for snow. The wartimes were
black. 1t was unbelievable that the end
of the conflict was so comparatively near
at hand. Coal was short, transportation
altogether too long. Streets were light
less. Theatres were dark and icy. Army
camps were crowded. Submarines ragged
Not since Valley Forge had an American
winter been so dismal.
Pollyanna is often an annoying imp.
But she would be justified in pointing
out to US that the picturesque winter
aspect of the town ought not to have
been unwelcome nor genial contrast
with drear days of the past inapt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20
AFTER DANNY DEAVER
I,WAY AFTER

CWAY AFTER)
tJNTHAT makes the janitor so nce?'
w said the Tenant on parade.
"a son of touch; son Of touch" the
Older Tenant said.
"What makes, the hall boy so polite and
what's is little list?''
"a bit of graft, a bit of graft" the Older
Tenant hissed.
"What makes the milkman grin that grin?"
said Tenant newly come.
"He wants some coin and you are it," said
Tenant very -glum.
what makes the phone girl speak SO
sweet?" said Tenant on parade;
She's got you down for two or three, that
surely must be paid"
For they're macing every tenant, you can
hear the old bunk ring,
The regiments in hollow square all ready
with the sting;
And you must be their victim before the
Christmas morn,
Or spend a year with heinous hate, and
crouch, and silent scorn.
Anon with apologies to r. K.)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

is not likely that IL will decrease the
price of grain or hay on the farm. The
high price of meat goes right back to
the high cost Of producing il, when it
is not due to the profteering of the
retail dealer.
If the charge be we'll founded that the
packers were conspiring TO monopolize
the sale Of all food products, there will
be considerable satisfaction at the break
ing up of this monopoly regardless of
the effect on prices. On the surface the
packers were competing with the whole
sale grocers in the distribution of meat
substitutes, but the wholesale grocers
and the attorney general apparently
feared that this competition was under
taken for the sole purpose of driving the
wholesale grocers out of business.
The result Of the agreement with the
packers leaves the wholesale grocers in
control of the field. They were COM
peting with one another before and the
public was not suffering. This compete
tion in the trade is likely to continue.
In the meantime the Democratic party
is planning to enter the presidential
campaign with the boast that its attor-
ney general has brought the packing trust
to its knees.
But unless the price of meat comes
down the long-suffering public will want
to know what good has come of this
glittering triumph heralded by spangled
rhetoric in the dispatches from Wash
inpton
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20
ANOTHER HoLD-UP

TN COMMON decency Recorder Hazlett
\ should order the immediate return of
money collected from the underpaid en-
ployes Of his Office who were asked to
contribute to a fund to buy their chief
q Christmas gift.
In almost every department at City
Hall there is Man Friday ready and
eager to do things that the boss of the
place wouldn't or couldn't do. Solicitor
William p. Siegert seems to fill the part
N the Office Of the recorder Of deeds. It
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20
What Do You Knotu?
QUIZ


l. What common domestic animal was un-
known to the Indians in America until
the advent of the white man?
2. What is the correct pronunciation Of
the word prestige?
8. Who are the Doukhobors?
4. What is a duniwassal?
8. Name four notable novels left unfinished
by their authors.
6. What is doublet?
Z. What is chrysoprase?
8. What part of American territory was
the first to be discovered by the white
man?
8. What is a coatee?
10. What does the Latin phrase "Deus ex
machina" mean and how should the
"ch" of "machina" be pronounced?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. 1t was popularity believed in Europe that
the year 1000 A. d. would mark the
end of the world.
.. Lima is the largest city in Peru,
8. Andrew Jackson virtually named Martin
Van Buren as his successor in the
presidency.
4. Rudyard Kipling's "The Light That
Hdlleu mas DOLH tragic ana happy
ending. The latter version was the
first one published in America.
5. Daniel O'Connell was noted Irish
statesman and orator. He was a
leader of the movement in favor Of
Catholic emancipation. He became
member of Parliament in 1928. In
1S43 he was convicted of conspiracy
and sedtion, but his sentence was
reversed the following year.
6. Oberon was king of the fairies in
medieval mythology.
Z. A hereditament is property that can be
inherited.
g. Heterodoxy is the opposite of orthodoxy.
0. Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Ice
landic are Scandinavian languages.
10. Washington, for his second term, and
John Adams were inaugurated Prcsi-
dent in Philadelphia,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20
THE CHAFFING DISH

Dear
Red
Cross, in reply to
your
ap-
peaIs, we are heart
lily
glad
to
the
Seals
One proof of the degeneracy of the present
age is that every little snowstCrm is called
a blizzard.
n. C. L. Couplets
That our butcher bills with some ease we
may view,
Au lieu de flet, we employ kidney stew.
NJ. V. N. S.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

The motto of the Reds who will parade
in manacles on Christmas Day in New York
is, "But we anticipate
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

Now that Patriotism has taken Business
for a partner In urging the passage of the
peace treaty, perhaps the Senate dawdlers
| will quit dawdling.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

The Atlantic is rougher just now than
it has been for forty years, navgators say.
Presumably kind O. compromise on the end
of the world
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

If you can't think of anything else for
a Christmas present send your friend
copy of the peace treaty, with the package
beautifully decorated with Red Cross stamps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

The best that may be said Of the New
York vets who threaten to sue the govern =
ment for $500, ,000,0 900 IS that they wish they
may get It.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

Since 1t is case of peace on earth and
good will to men, why wouldn't copy Of the
peace treaty make good Christmas present
to send to anybody?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

The Rotary Club will play Santa Claus
in an abandoned saloon. And the dryest
of the vets will have to admit that the new
business is the better one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

Why should Philadelphia object to pay
ing $4,000 for a farewell dinner to departing
councilmen? AS farewell, isn't it worth
the money?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

The humorist who was went to put
piece of coal in the toe Of Christmas stock
ing is not indulging in any such extravaganza
this year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

D'Annunzio, having deserted two spots
he picked for his grave, perhaps believes that
"the third time is the charm"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

The weatherman has done his bit to
bake the season Christmasy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

The straws that show the way the wind
blows have deserted the julep for the soda,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

There is a suggestion of restiveness in
Hitchcock's declaration that the President s
uosition is a puzzle to him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

United States District Attorney Kane
always speaks convincingly when he tells of
what won't be done.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

Perhaps New Jersey needs the light
aing TO kill the skeeters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

There will be no dove of peace in the
Soviet Ark.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

City employees will find old Uncle Bonus
a valuable assistant to Santa Claus.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

The presidential potency of no candi-
date appears to point to more than a 2.75
kick
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

said he positively must have something for
Christmas. 1 offered him a cigar, which I
had intended to give to my father-in law,
and he was furious.
SOCRATES-I hope you don't think the
Christmas hold-up is only recent custom.
When the Wise Men got to Bethlehem, prob
ably the first person they met was the stable
boy, demanding hand out.
AJAX-But it is always the people who
have scamped their work most during the
year who are most vociferous toward Christ
mas time. / am really surprised that the
people who sew the little buttons on soft
collars haven't sent in an appeal. And those
who work hardest of all, folks like trolley
car conductors and bank cashiers and poets,
do they stand around asking for a tip from
the public? What would be thought If you,
Socrates, should stand at the corner of Broad
and Chestnut with little box and placard
saying Don't Forget Socrates's Christ
mas?
SOCRATES-Th other poets would be
sorry they had not thought of it first.
AJAX-Everybody nowadays wants to be
happy without earning their happiness.
There's no fun-in giving people things when
they expect them beforehand. That's one of
the troubles the Senate is up against. France
says the Senate ought to ratify the treaty,
as Christmas present to the world. Now
that Cne Wn0le world Is waiting TOT Cne sen =
ate to do this, it takes away all the fun OF
doing it. The organ grinder on our street
has sent in an appeal asking us to save our
old clothes for him. What would your clients
think of you If you asked them not to throw
their old jokes away, but send them in to
the Dish?
SOCRATES-They do it already. But
look here, Ajax, you are forgetting the thing
that gives Christmas its real charm.
AJAX-Tell me.
SOCRATES-The beauty Of 1t is that
whatever the trials and absurdities of the
Christmas season, it is the one feature of
human life that we approach with perennial
and happy illusion. We imagine, with
cheerful idealism, that buying purple
sateen waist for the cook is going to make
her a more docile and efficient kitchener.
We imagine that overwhelming the children
with woolly rabbits and clockwork boats to
sail in the bsthtub will make them 20 to bed
with less uproar and outcry. We imagine
that Rhode Island will be able to bluff the
Supreme Court into declaring the. eighteenth
amendment unconstitutional. The joy of
Christmas does not lie so much in the Day
itself as in the happy simplicity of heart in
which we approach it, Everything that is,
is for the best. If Scotch has gone, we can
still drink cider.
AJAX-LoOk here, know man up the
street who says he has a friend who can
get
SOCRATES-Hush!
AJAX-It's fact.
SOCRATES-Jus let me make a note OF
| that address.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

After the draft QUESTIONABLE the census
man has no terrors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

Palmer's Don't Buy Now" does not
altogether "gee" with do your Christmas
shopping early"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

Pershing's candidacy puts a nail into
Wood.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20
Il. C. /. CoupIets
Where to Eat After Meals

Where to Eat After Meals
A Greek restaurant, Eleventh below Wal
nut, lures the eating public thus:
Ladies & Gentlemen: 1 beg to state that
to my long experiences in the business OF
this kind I absolutely found the greatest
difficulties to have the good people to come
steady to a mentioned business, because
in most places nothing can be had but sur
face attraction otherwise it will cost you
fortune and by that reason we want you
to tell your friends about this place to give
US trial, after you have finished eating
your meals.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

Third term talk is still term of re.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

Add hard jobs-Choosing Her Christ
mas present.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20
Exile

TXyE'VE eucalyptus and bamboo
w And almost everything
Grows in our garden; palm trees, too,
Where sweet, wild tbrushes sing.
TNHE California hills are gold.
L I'd like to see again
All laughing in their autumn dress
The little hills of Maine.
LROM here we see the ocean throw
l. Great balls of flying foam;
wonder If the sumach's out
Along the roads back home?
BEATRICE WASHBURN. =
Santa Barbara, Calf.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

Turkeys are flying higher than ever this
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

It Is customary to say OF the opposing
political party that they have learned moth
ing and forgotten nothing. As we survey
our education thus far, we feel that our case
is worse still. We have learned nothing and
forgotten everything. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

We have been asked what we consider the
best poem ever contributed to the Dish. 1t
is not fair to single out one above all others,
as our clients verses express many different
moods; but as specimen of neat wit, the
following is our favorite. 1t came to us in
August, 1918, with no name attached. We
have never learned who wrote it, and reprint
it here in the hope of finding out.
"Street Closed"
DARBARA'S heart, like busy street,
ID Teens with throng of little loves;
Each holds onward with stubborn feet,
Jostles his neighbor, pushes, shoves.
DUT all congestion would swiftly stop
ID No crowd could travel that thoroughfare,
If only I, like traffic cop,
Could be forever on fixed post there!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

It will be wise to suspend Judgment
in this case until the effect of the attor-
new generals compromise on the high
cost Of living is manifest If the packers
have been robbing the public, including
both the producers and consumers Of
meat, the unscrambling of the packing
omelet may bring about lower prices.
But it will not decrease the number of
bushels Of grain required to produce 100
pounds of pork nor the amount Df hay
and grain to fatten beef cattle. And Il
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

In elect, is a vigorous debater in Councils.
He is also an orator and story teller. And
the Lamberton children, "who are the
brightest ever" figure in some of these
stories. One of the best of the sheriff s
warns is that which deals with the young
snort in the back of the crowded hail. who,
when square jawed Bob appeared upon the
platform, inquired of bystander, "what
The = is Philadelphia Jack O'Brien doing
nm on the stage?' Sheriff Bob is of the
robust type, once a football player at the
university, something like Harry A. Mackey,
who also grew up that way and still keeps
nm his exercise, walking long distances and
whom necessary, taking it out on his
"Hivver." j. HAMPTON MOORE.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
THE BROAD AK



In this city since July 18th, 1899.
without missing one single issue. Re
publicans, Democrats, Catholics, Pro-
testans, Single Takers, Priests, inf
dels or anyone else can have their
say as long as their language is prop
er and responsibility is fixed.
The Broad Ak is 8 newspaper
whose platform is broad enough for
all, ever claiming the editorial right
TO speak its own mind.
Local communications win receive
attention. Write only on one side Of
the paper.
Subscriptions must be paid in ad-
vance.
One Year. --------------------------------$2.OO
Six Months ---...--------------------------- Luz
Advertising rates made known on
application.
Address all communications to
THE BROAD AK
s2o6 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill.
Phone Wentworth 25s7.
JULIUS F. TAYLOR
Editor and Publisher
DR.. M. A. MAJORS.
Associate Editor
400 South State Street
Phone Drexel 1916
Vol. XIV Jan. 25, 1919 No. 10
Entered a. Seeond-Class Matter, August 10,
1902, AZ the Pest Office AZ Chicago,
H., under Act Of March ;, 1879
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
NEGRO COUNCIL DELEGATES
GET PASSPORT TO FRANCE.


Washington( d. C.-Word has
been received that the commission
composed of Prof. John r. Hawkins,
Judge VIM. II. Harrison, Rev. Jern-
agis, Rev. Stokes and DR.. J. NJ. Wal
dron, who were delegated to attend
the conference for Smaller and Weak
er Nations in Paris, have received
their passports knd they are on their
way to France
Prof. Hawkins, like the most of the
big Colored people who are looking
for free doings, wanted the A. NJ.
E. Church or Bishops to put up the
money for his expenses, but the
Bishops could not see it that way
and he had to dig up his own money,
which was perfectly right and proper,
for there is no use in posing as big
leaders of the Colored race unless
you are willing to spend some of
your own money.-Editor.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
Faint Praise

Speaking Of doubtful compliments
q subscriber writes: Il wish 10 Offer
the following as one OF The best exam
Piles have ever seen An accomplish
ed musician was invited by friend
TO church service 10 order TO hear
the chorus choir render - special Sc
lection. The friend. highly pleased
with the rendition. was awaiting with
much interest her companions verdict.
Ia came thus, in a whisper: They
sit WELL From the Outlook.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
SUNSHINE RESCUE MISSION.
$3.50 S. State Street,
II. FRANKLIN BRAY, d. d. Supt.
Service Every Night in the Year.

Rev. Mr.. Augustus of the evan
gelistie department of the Chicago
conference will preach on Sunday
night. Special music will be rendered.
Mrs. Matte B.. Williams one of the
founders of the Rescue Mission was
buried from Quinn Chapel last Wed
nesday afternoon. She was faithful
to both Quinn Chapel and the Mis-
sion until her death
DR.. Bray has been looking after
the sick and burying the dead of
Bethel Church during the illness of
the pastor, DR.. w. D. Cook.
Mrs Hattie Jones an evangelist
of Wayman Chapel preached a very
acceptable sermon last Sunday night
following the memorial services in
honor of Mrs Hattie B. Williams.
Assistant Superintendent, Rev. p.
Il. Lewis has been on the sick list
for several days.-"C."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
The New Puritan.

The new puritan is instructed In
cleanliness. believes in IL. practices its
As a good apImal guided by an en-
lightened mind. he purposes TO make
the best of his body, not to poison IL
with alcohol or TO pOllute II with dis
ease. For his own sake and for the
sake Of the future OF the race. he
conducts himself morally. His philOs-
opher. guide and friend. however. Is
the physician and science is his inspi-
ration and his teacher.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25

An Interesting result OF recent ex-
periments with coal Is the demonsfra-
ton Of the benefits OF submerging the
mineral In water. Coal deteriorates
in the air. and there is the danger OF
spontaneous combustion. while when
submerged not only was the fire dan
ger eliminated. but scarcely any de
terioration was shown. Experiment
ally, coal kept in the air showed from
2 to 10 per cent OF loss In nine months.
while when submerged there was
scarcely any boss at all.