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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
Autumn

Som Der groto the fields. and sere
Rest the yelloro shocks of corn,
Tokens of q panished year;
And the Dorld is sad, torlorn.
Spectral woods and naked glades
Mourn the loss of v~estures green;
Nature, clad in sober shades,
Heralds winter, cold ana lean.
And the north wind. biting, keen,
Roars his rondeaux and ballades
Down the chimneys now at cen.
Scattered are the Leaves; and lone
Are the strdgglerS in the sky;
WarbEing throats hare turned to stone
As, ~belated, south they fly.
Stubbled fields and barren bills
Cloak themselves in purple haze
Yet the murmur of the rills
Tinkles, as in former days.
Now the north'wind havoc plays
With the earth, and slowly chills
Flow'rs, till spring their heads shall raise.
Thus, unsmiling, Natures mood,
Changed to one of beauty shorn,
LuLs to rest LIES laughing food;
And the World is sad, forlorn.
ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
ealIade Of an Inadequate Language

Ito d.
r SHAKE out syllables of dusty rhyme,
L Refold the fabrics of old, wasted prose,
To make a lyric garment that shall climb
From your patrician heel to naughty nose
knit up silky v~erbiage for your hose,
Weave wells Of verse in green and cherry
hue:
It's all in vain - the tom of Webster
shows
No words are worthy of the Only You.
YOUR bronze young eyes that date the
L tick of time
, When by the clock mirth comes and bore
dom goes;
Your young 1.-THE hands, impertinent, sub
lime;
Your prim. sweet mouth that mimics wines
and nows;
Your bell bright chuckle. bare Of foolish
Your comic forehead, low and white and
true
And. what with hair as dark as Goals
No words are worthy of the Only You.
ITO PLAN your dress, Angelic Imp, we're
crime,
Best leave that to your ineffective foes;
For who am / to paint your pantomimc.
Your vocal pause, our laugh that CLEANS
and flows?
Yet where the rumor of your being goes,
Roget shall thrill, and Funk and Wasnalls,
too.
Weeds might as well write essays on a
rose:
No words are worthy Of the Only You.
Envoy
QUAINT deity, two couplets are your toes,
W Twin, twinkling sonnets are your eye
lids blue;
The Muse may wake, the Muse may dream
and doZe:
No. words are worthy of the Only You!
RICHARD DESMOND.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
What Do You Kno.U?
QUIZ

I. Who were the first white women to
cross the American continent?
.. Who is governor of Massachusetts,?
s. What is the most powerful telescope in
the United States, and where is it?
4. Where was the treaty which ended the
Spanish American War signed?
5. Who wrote the comedy, 'She Stops
to Conquer?
6. What is a foyer?
7. How should the word be pronounced,
s. What American statesman delivered the
famous eulogy on the dog?
8. In what country is boxing with the feet
practiced?
10. What is the sport called?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
III CHAFFING DISH

during the holidays of the first January. My
nephews laid ones self upon the sled and I
sit down upon his back like upon a horse
back; we slid very much so and 1t was
more entertaining than to be lonely on the
sled. This year my nephew are not there
and i am too busy with my lessons and
tasks and my piano. Goodbye till we meet
again and | hope at soon. Your pupil 800.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
The Silent Colonel

Admiral Grayson was listening to Colonel
Houses heart and lung action through his
stethoscope, or whatever they call IL.
mot even a murmor,' = he said, as he
admired the n~olseless action Of the Colonel's
valves, SOCRATES,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

Public opinion has its own way Of deal
ing with those who commit crimes against
civilization, and Boston offenders are bound
to find it out.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
Envoy
We Are ~lrreverent

We think that our friend Dick Desmond
has written 4 perfectly stunning ballade.
But we wonder what j. will say when she.
notes that he has spoken of her toes as
''couplets'''? 1t seems to us that (if she has
the full ~roster) he should have spoken of
them as duintets, or at any rate quartoes.
But perhaps the exquisite creature has been
in a train wreck.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
Better Luck
Next Time

Mike Gilhooley is on
Better Luck his way back to Bel
Next Time gium after the failure
of his fourth attempt
to and in this country. Mike is solid with
the doughboys. but has no luck with the
immigration officials. But any boy with
courage enough and persistence enough to
stow away over and over again in order to
reach the land of his, choice would seem to
have qualities that would make him a good
citizen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

If we are prepared to say that democ.
racy is a farce and constitutional govern
ment a failure, then the Boston police strike
is all right, but not otherwise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

Some of the striking Boston policemen
are said to be ready to return to duty
Probably awaking to the realization that
they are Americans first. So ST..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

On Chestnut street we 50 a sign, The
Doughnut Is the National Cake of America"
On every side we observe an increase in the
output of the seductive sinker. They are
even frying them in the windows nowadays.
II is ali very hard on a man who is battling
to subdue convexity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

News from Boston gives a sort Of i'm
preston that the police struck in order to
have a little leisure to shoot craps. .
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

Burglars entered a Hagerstown Office
and overlooked $500 of Liberty Bonds in a
safe which is never locked. Having re-
ceived this kindly tip, they will probably
return for the loot.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

Rioting in Lima, Peru. Rioting in
Boston, Mass. Beans making trouble
everywhere.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

Snow has fallen in Wilmington, Del,
already. Just a small dash of comfort for
the hay fever sufferer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

One of the little girls kissed by Gem
eral Pershing on Friday said he kissed Just
like daddy" Which is more merited praise
for a worthy man.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

Anti booze fighters appear to have a
last raised Kane.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

The Last Minute Men are doubtless pre-
pairing their broadsides.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

Tomorrow we show the stuff we'r,
made Of.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
Because t h e candi-
Seasonal

Because t h e candi-
Seasonal dates S how cheerful
~alacrity as they spring
to take a good natured fall out of each
other there is nothing wintry about a cam
paign summary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

The stage is set in
This Tells 1t Boston o another
Tea Party.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

Senator Ware had a
Profigacy lively fight for his
vote. And now he
probably will go to the polls and waste it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
POLITICIANS AND POKER
Games Were Exclusive In Harrisburg
and Senator Magee Once Paid.
$40 to Get Out OF One o..
Nv GEORGE NoX MCCAIN

TT is the consensus Of opinion among those
l. whose memories go beyond the dividing
line of the century that the last Lcgisla-
ture was the most humdrum, ordinary, and,
intellectually aud socially. sluggish and
mediocre Harrisburg had known within a
generation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

WITH perhaps half a dozen exceptions,
w the newspaper corresponding were well
come to run in any night at the senatorial
game, ito look 'cm over 1t was always
after midnight when WORK was done that
they found time to drop in rs occasional
spectators.
OF course the big games held the most
fascination. Minute after minute would
pass away with no sound in the apartment
but mouosyllables from the players, the
rattle of chips and the flip of cards.
1t was the height of i'll breeding for a
visitor to venture a remark or ask a ques-
ton.
There was one game | recall that ran
through the session of 1890. All the par
Elephants but one have since passed away.
They were personal friends. experts at the
game, cool, unruflcd, and invariably good
natured no matter who won or lost.
The circle was composed of Senator Chris
J.. Magee, his political lieutenant, George
H.. VonBonhorst, of Pittsburgh Senator
Luther Il. KecfCr, Il cousin of Don Cam
cron Andrew j. ("Jack'( Pitcairn, mem
Der from Pittsburgh occasionally General
William H. KoOntz, of Somerset. or John
II. Rebel. Father of the House for years.
with an opportune friend who would drop
in to fill up the table.
About three nights a week the party
would meet in Senator Magee'S room. Oc-
casionally it would be IN ''Bonncy's'' or
VonBonhorst's room, and then the game
would run until . O'Clock.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

GEORGE, H. VERSIONS. one of the
VI most graceful newspaper writer's have
ever known, vas legislative correspondent
for Senator Magee's Pittsburgh Times. He
was much younger than Magee, but the
latter was very fond of him.
Several years after, Welshons told me
of the following episode, although it was
known to nobody but himself and the SEN
ator.
The game in Magee's room was short a
player one night and Welshons, who was
no SLOUGH at poker himself, was asked to
sit in" to fill up the table. They had
been playing for several hours when Magee
began to get drowsy. He was considerably
to the good while Welshons was about $50
to the bad.
Welshons said it was plain that Senator
Magee was tired out and wanted to get
the crowd out of his room and 90 to bed.
But he was a winner and it would have
been in decidedly bad taste for him to have
suggested quitting.
He was banking the game. The tablet
with the chip account was lying behind
the chip box on a chair between Magee
and Welshons. As the latter made a fresh
purchase of a stack" Magee. with a know
ing look in his direction ran his pencil
through the amount of Welshons indebted
ness.
He.caught the idea Immediately.
They played a while longer and then
Welshons proposed cashing in and adjourn
ing. Being a loser the suggestion came from
him with good grace. And so the game
ended.
Magee settled Welshons's indebtedness as
he had indicated by crossing of his account.
II was over $40.
IL cost Mage that much to get to bed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

THERE would often be half a dozen games
i in progress on tho sam floor in the
COMMONWEALTH Hotel during the session OF
1890. The same men played together night
after night.
4 breach of sporting etiquette that was
rarely excused was for a senator or member
Of the House. not n poker player. to enter
unlimited a room where a game was in
progress.
Once invited. such a one was at liberty
to come again as often as he cared, though
It was considered improper TO visit n game
rs a spectator too frequently.
At the Commonwealth. and ut the Demo
cratic game at the Bolton House, such
parties were purely private functions. They
were held in the room Of some senator or
member. Participants in the game were
all personal friends or personally known
to each other.
The stakes ran from the ordinary ten
cent ante aud twenty five cent limit to two
dollars call five, with ten or twenty dollars
the limit.
Very occasionally it would be table
stakes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

GENERAL KOONTZ, .lcmber of the
House and once Independent candidate
for speaker, a distinguished member of the
Somerset bar, a commanding officer in the
Civil War. was possessed Of greater vitality
for his age than any man ] recall in that
period. He was of most gracious person
atty and engaging manner.
re- One morning in the session of 1901 | met
him at the entrance to the House. He
looked unusually fresh and sprightly, so
much so that I remarked it.
Look fresh?" he replied with a laugh.
ITO tell you the truth do feel pretty good
this morning. Those Indians" meaning
some friends in a social game of the previous
night, didn't quit playing until I o'clock
this morning. ! had just time to take a
bath shave, have breakfast and get up
here to a committee meeting at 0 o'clock.
I'm feeling fine for / trimmed the bunch
And the genial general was then past
seventy years of age.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15

"This contest" declares Mr.. Moore, "for
control of Philadelphia is not a question
of the personality of the candidate. IT'S
a question of common honesty and civic
d~ecency," He is right, and yet personali-
ties do count for something, too. His
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-06
REAL rEACGmAKrH, THIS DOG
Human Fools Completely Cured of All Desire to Fight With Any Kind
 of Living Thing.

Three men in Brooklyn, neighbors and friends, were sent to St. Cath crimes hospital recently suffering with dog bites, and were attended by the surgeons. The men were sitting In tllr beck yard of the residence of one of them and got into an argument which turned into a free-for-all fight. The dog of one of the men, who was lying asleep. said to himself: "Is not this a pretty picture? Men have no right to make brutes of themselves; much less friends who have no. treason for difference. But since they really want to fight SO badly I will teach them how to do the trick"
 And so he rushed in and began to bite them terribly, not sparing his master. Sung with the pain, they turned from knocking each other to fight the dog; but he was too much for them, and cleaned out the crowd. Completely vanquishcd, the men made a break for high fence and climbed upon that, hut the dog chewed the calves of their legs till they pulled themselves m out of his reach atop the fence. The dog then went back tO his corner as though saying to him. self: "N0w I guess they are cured. It will he a good while before they will disturb the peace of this neighhor- hood again. or disgrace my back ya"d." And they were cured, sure enough. All the fight was gnawed out of them. They did not want to fight each other, and from considera- tions of penitence and prudence they did not even want to fight the dog.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-06
HOW AMERICANS
 STAY ON THE JOB
The Victorious Fifth" Loan Win Prove That We Garry Out a
 Task, However Great.

The Fifth Liberty Loan will give the army of patrioti, buyers the chance which all good Americans welcome.
 It will let the millions of buyers of bonds prove that they are stayers. They will show that they are deter. mined to finish job to tho very end. even so great a job as a world war.
 In April or Mey of this year the time comes for the last chapter. The Government cannot for moment drop the great task upon which we entered in April, 1917. until firm and lasting peace Is secured throughout the world.
 It cannot stop until the Armies of Occupation are brought home. UntiI then the Treasury Department must borrow from the people to finance the expense of the war establishment. Af. ter that our expense will come from taxes.
 The reserves at home whose dollars have fought with the men in the field must mobilize now for demobilization of the troops. They have stood by the nation fin time of stress. The critical period is past, but the work is yet to be completed. Complettrg it rests on the VICTORIOUS FIFTH Loan.
 The responsibilities of the nation, like It's hopes, are as great as they were before the armistice brought the end of the war.
 Staying to ths end means taking up the Fifth Loan just as Pershing's men fought through the Argonne Forest.
 It is backing the Government to the finish in the war loan that crystallizes peace and prosperity.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-06

nervous spells and my back and head ached. My kidneys were out of or der, too. At night, I was restless and mornings was all tired out Doan's Kidney Pills soon made me feel better and the symptoms al disappeared" Statement given July 20, 1911.)
 On September ', 1916, Mrs Scamerhorn said: C am glad confirm my former recommendation l still use Doan's Kidney Pills occa. sionally and they have never failed to bring quick results"
 Price 60c. at a1l dealers. Don
 n2ly ask for kidney remedy-g, Do&n's Kidney rI.4s-.he same tn, Mrs. Scamerhorn had. Foster-Mi burn Co.,, Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.-adv
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-06
TIE FIFTH LOAN }
 COMES IN SPRING
It Will Be Called the Victorious Fifth" and Will Celebrate
 the Wars End.

The next and last Liberty Loan will come in the Spring. probably in April 1t has already been named the VIC ToRIUS FIFTH. This tells its pur. pose in three words.
 It will provide funds for taking care. of the American Army in Europe dur ing occupation and in bringing the soldiers home.
 It is a peace loan as we'll as q war loan. The men have done their share magnificently in securing peace for the whole world. The money that is to be provided for them is being spent now.
 It must be spent it they are to 20 on properly with the great work they have accomplished; if they are to come back in good order and are to be demobilized as they deserve.
 The billions raised in other loans and taxes have gone to the expense of actual fighting, guns and ships, munitions, transportation, clothes and food.
 And with these funds the war has been won. The victory has destroyed the menace to civilization. It has brought the peace for which we have worked and for which our forces have fought gloriously.
 The men have finished their work. It is for the nation to finish it's pro- vision for them ganeroualy.' And the VICTORIOUS FIFTH will do this.
 To do it in a way worthy of the men who fought will be source of pride to every man and woman and child in the nation. It will be done best if the whole people hegin now with the new year to prepare for the last loan.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-06
WHAT FIFTH LOAN
 BONDS WILL DO
They Will Provide Funds Needed to Finance Peace and Recon
 struction Work.

The dollars of the United States supplied largely through four great Liberty Loans were of tremendous power in helping win the world war.
 Through the forces they added to the fighting strength or the Allies. they tipped the balance of power against the Germans for victory and peace.
 The fighting men and the fighting ships, the guns, the food, and S7,00O,' GOO 000 of loans to the Allies gave the momentum needed to hurl upon the Germans the avalanche that finally swept them back to defeat and de stroyed their menace to civilization.
 The four loans from the American people, by the American people, and for the American people, brought final victory.
 But there remains a great chapter to be brought out and finished.
 To provide funds for this is the purpose and need of the Fifth Loan the VICTORIOUS FIFTH.
 It will furnish means to the Govern ment of this country to do its part in Inc tremendous work of concluding peace, in restoration and reconstruc. tion,- .....~
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-06
NEW BONDS FOR PL0UGHSHARES
The Fifth Liberty Loan Will Finance Construction and Not Destruction-It Creates
 Assets.

Four times the people of the United States have made loans to the Gov ernment of billions that have gone for destruction.
 The Fifth Liberty Loan will furnish billions for construction for the sol diers, for the nation, and for other na- tions.
 The other Liberty Loans were of tremendous power in preserving this country and its people. They helped to save others and to preserve liberty upon the earth from its deadliest, most cruel and wicked menace in his tory. But all the time the work in- volved destruction far and wide. With the victorious peace come ob- legations and responsibilities as great as they are imperative, of building up again.
 Fortunately this great nation is most wonderfully equipped to go for. ward with this work.
 Restoring the men of the armies to their homes and turning the guns and munitions of war into ploughshares, implements of peace in a thousand forms, is a task that is inspiring. It carries all the splendid promise of a great and expanding future.
 Turning the great fleet of ships built by the nation to carry men and sup plies to the battlefield into the chan nels of great international trade, is work that widens superbly the hori- zons of the nation.
 Reconstructing and re-adjusting the enterprises of fighting to the pursuits of peace has in every step an uplift and an upbuilding.
 But every one of these tasks before us is as expensive as it is urgently de manded.
 The Government must finance every one, and to finance them, the FfftH Liberty Loan will be asked of the pel pie in the Spring.
 It is the endeavor in which the Liberty army of two years service will enroll once more with gladness and confidence.
 Their sayings as loaned to the Gov ernment have won them real rewards, not alone in patriotism but in substan- tial interest.
 To lend again now will round out and make perfect the existing peace with reward no less high and fine.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-06
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Connecticut western news., 1919-02-06
ALL OUT OF SORTS
Has Any Canaan Person Never Felt
 That Way?

Feel all out of sorts?
 Tired, Blue, Irritable, Nervous? Back feel lame and achy? Perhaps it's the story of disorder ed kidneys
 Bad blood circulating about; Uric acid poisoning the body. There's way to feel right again, Stimulate the sluggish kidneys; Do it with Doan's Kidney Pills. Doan's are recommended by many Canaan people.
 Here's one case.
 Mrs. Jacob Scamerhorn, w. Main St., Canaan, says: "I had dizzy and