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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
What Do You Kno,v?


/. When was Ukrainia declared free and
independent? "a
2. Who was Sunset Cox?
3. What is bark or barque?
4. Where is the river Tames?
5. Who wrote "Trilby'?
6. What are syndicalism and sabotage?
7. What is the area of Paraguay?
s. Who was The Ettrick Shepherd?
o. What is the forest area of Germany?
10. Who said, 'An honest man is the noblest
work of Cod?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
Maids, Wives and Widows
The Romance Of an fastener from the West
BY Harry LeVenkrone
Chan I


THE SUN not yet beginning to down
land where my father killed. One Of my mo-
tiyes was to have revenge on the murderer who
killed him. Another motive was to try my hand
at luck in finding girl which my father on his
death bed told me he tried to save from the
bandit who shot and mortally wounded him. She
should of been as I was only twenty
was Mabel Kayer. Her parents were dead and
she looked after by her married sister and
They were both about twentv-eight and good
wherever you II easy for IN
find them, All these things my father informed
me hut the thing he refused to tell me was the
name OF his assaiiant before his breath failed
him.
/ was nearing the tree under which father
was shot and Kill ed when to my ear came the
against the flesh of my horse rode swiftly In
the direction OF the scream. As ! was nearing
the scene masked bandit trying to kiss
She punched and kicked and all in vain A fash
Of revenge on such low-down character all
| needed and pulling from my pocket an auto;
He threw both his hands up over his shoulders
and in an undortone muttered to himself. "Tll
NJ took from my saddle the rope and dropped
1t on the ground near my horse and getting from
my horse carefully keeping one eye on the bandit
liberty | saw the young woman lying on the
ground near the bandit and walking slowly but
Cautiously nearer took from my head the riding
cap and said, Good mor9ninS IT ny ,oSs SpEns lady =,
her said in feeble tone OF voice PLEASE tie the
bandit against a tree" -
nearest tree tied him against It very tight.
kfer, long silence in which the young woman
came back to her senses she again said ''Wiil
you take the bandit to the sherin Tor met
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
LAWS ENOUGH TO PUNISH

A PURCHASER of potatoes the other
~ day, finding his basket four pounds
shy, had the dealer arrested. The magis-
trate not only fined the tradesman and
complmented the prosecutor, but he or
dered the offender to make good the loss
at the purchasers home.
All of which demonstrates that we
have laws enough to protect US if we are
courageous enough and panstaking
enough to have them enforced.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
"HARD-

THE strange distinction that has come
to Lieutenant "Hard- Boiled" Smith
will remain as long as that disgraced
soldier lives. If half that is reported
from French prison camps is true, Smith
violated all the traditions Of his service,
all rules Of chivalry and every standard
Of military ethics by deliberate cruelty to
helpless men in his charge.
But there seem to have been a few
hard-boiled colonels and hard boiled gen.
erals in the background of these same
prison camps. What of them and what
of the method by which, so far, they have
lodged punishment for sort of negli-
gence or ineptitude that plainly has en-
gendered great bitterness in an astonish-
ingly large number of returning soldiers?
Representative Bland, of Indiana, de-
serves the thanks of everybody inter-
ested in the army for his efforts to log
the House investigating committee along
to the point where it will probe behind the
gentlemen's agreements which seem to
have protected a few exalted brutes in
the service when they were in the shadow
of cOurts-martial.
1t is noticeable that every officer of
every rank who has a record of distin-
guished service is eager to see the serv-
ice cleansed of such men. Our army
abroad was large. Complaints of unfit
ness and inef1iciency against officers have
been relatively few. But that does not
relieve those charged with the present
investigation of their duty to root out the
few men who seem to have been poor
Americans and worse soldiers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
THE CHAFFING DISH

Another pause and she continued, Because he
Is wanted for the murder of man five years
ago who tried to from him.
My blood boiled and walking quickly over to
where he tied tore from his face the mask
and said, so your the man who killed my father
up yonder five years ago" Looking around to-
wards the girl l continued. We'll you better
lead"
Don't shoot him I might be mistaken she
said quickly fearing that was going to Kill him.
Lady said the bandit. II am the man who
killed Bill Freeman for buttiu' in in my business
also"
Look pleasant. please. cause I going to
shoot"
ITO be continued)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25

A poet of Nesquehoning utters as follows:
Oh, Mighty Man. destined to lead,
Whomever thou mayest be.
Prepare thyself to crush the greed
Which leads to Anarchy.
Come lead the host set free our speech
1t looks to us as though the Nesquehoning
brother has already set our speech free from
rules as to ,chom and nho.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
On the fnce of the evidence nddnced

On the face of the evidence adduced the
police of Woodbury., n. j.. in arresting
Charles Sabor, whose wife was murdered by
burglars, appear to have been guilty of an
act as stupid as it was cruel and this view
is backed by the opinion of the county coro-
ner. 1t is bad enough to see ones wife
killed without having to undergo the horror
of being accused of foul crime.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
A CltY Notebook

On a warm evening nothing is more pleas
ant than ride on the front platform of the
Market street l., with the front door open.
As the train leaves Sixty ninth street it
dips down the Millbourne bend and the COOL
damp smell of the Cobbs Creek meadows
pushes through the car. Then the track
straightens out for the long run toward the
City Hall. Roaring over the tree tops, with
the lights of movies and shops glowing up
from below. warm typhoon makes one lean
against it to keep footing. The airy sta
tions are lined by girls in light summer
dresses, attended by their swains. The groan
of the wheels underfoot causes a curious
tickling in the soles of the feet as one stands
on the steel platform. This groan rises to
a shri scream as the train gathers speed be-
tween stations, gradually diminishing to a
reluctant grumble as the cars come to stop.
In the distance, in a peacock blue sky, the
double CLEAN of the City Hall tower shines
against the night. Down on the left is the
hiss and clang of West Philadelphia station,
with the long, dim, amber glow of the plat
form and belated commuters pacing about.
Then the smoky dive across the Schuylkill
and the below of the subway.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25

There are earnest students of the North
Penn Bank disclosures who may view with
longing interest the establishment of four
steamship routes from Philadelphia to points
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
Song of Little Rivers

TNHROUGH the dusky evening
Creeks are falling home.
Spated with the rainfall.
Muddy, creamed with foam:
Pennypack. Tacony.
Wingohocking. Crum.
Dancing down their courses
Merrily they come.
Wissahickon. tumbling
Down its hoarse cascades,
Or the green Neshaminy
BY the tulip glades
Mill Creek goes Drawing
Through the Gladwyne glen,
Cobb's Greek overfowing
All the Nlillbourne fen.
Jersey too has rivers
Loved by their own clique
RanCocas and Pensauken.
Waits old Timber Creek
Leniently they eddy,
Shady, cool and fair
Past their banks of rushes
To the Delaware.
But of all our streamlets,
Vehement slow.
There is one I cherish
Fairest that | know:
That is good old Darby.
Silver rippled, still.
Down its quiet reaches
Toward the cider mill.
One result of the Mount Clemens trial will
be that whoever writes 'Mr. FOrd's Own
Page in the Dearborn Independent will have
to be lot less intellectual. In recent issue
we find on Mr.. Ford's Own Page the follow
ing words and syllables, none of which, we
feel sure. sounds like native Henry:
diSparities
NccretiOu
social nrtagonisms engendcrcd
grFgnrious
PlWdrd
fictitious land rnlues
cOmmondltV of interest
illicit charm
cOngested dbnormdlity
After the now famous cross examination.
none of us will be able to be persuaded that
Mr. Ford himself is pulling that sort of
Webster.
At any rate. Mr.. Hays has now one claim
to being mentioned in the history books-he
once got two letters from Mr.. Taft.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
About a Stick

A BOUT stick, by heaven $ grace
"A still require to fill my space
THAT is. two inches and a half
To finish up this Dish of Chaff
And entertain the populacel.
ITpon the desk now abase
NV mournful and despairing face
From weary brains how can 4 strafe
About q stickf
A man will use stick to pace
country road, to ward the chase
OF savage dog or young bull calf,
Or on his way--but hear me laugh
This verse is now. in any case,
About stick
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
SaStronomy

The dainty one day moon can scarce be
seen
slender yellow like young string beam
The four DAYS moon behind be budding trees
Hangs like a moudy slice of Roquefort
cheese:
The twelfth day moon seems scarcely fairer
than
The bent back top of a tomato can;
SO on the round moon most | cogitatc-
For it. suggests a pumpkin and plate.
ROY HELTON
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25

Every small boy will be a willing con
servatonist during the threatened water
famine. 1t will be a hard hearted mother
who will look too critically at neck and ears
in the circumstances
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25

The North Penn Bank probe at present
consists of dollar marks and question marks.
The easy marks may be disclosed later
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25

Present prices suggest the advisabiity
of making war gardens" a permanent in
stitutiOu
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
And He May Have
Been BlameleSS

child was killed by
And He May Have street car and police
Been Blameless had to be rushed to
the scene of the acci-
dent we are told, to prevent the crowd from
attacking the motorman. Maybe he would
have been hurt if the police hadn't arrived.
We prefer to point with pride to the fact that
he escaped unhurt pending their arrival We
are q law nhiding people.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25
A QujntupIe Play

The number of assists necessary to get over
an r. s. V. p. to the Prince is amusing
Woodrow invites the Prince. Prince passes
it to King George. The King confers with
Curzon. Curzon accepts to John w. Davis,
and John W. replies to Woodrow. No
errors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25

The Chinese cannot conceive of the pipe
of peace being made Of Japan ware
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25

Old Probs is now lined up with the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25

But if the Prince really isn't going to
Newport, some one had better rush SPECIAL
crate of Abyssinian ambassadors or pulmo-
tors or something up there to revive broken
hearted hostesses
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25

Maryland farmers are
said to have lost five
million dollars as the
result of the 'continu-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-25

TIME death Of former State Senator James
i G. Mitchell. Of Jefferson county, which
occurred last Sunday, will recall to active
politicians Of the state in the last decade of
the nineteenth century one of the most pic
turpsqur characters ever elected to the
Senate.
He was famiiarly known as Jim" To
the politicians whom h" so frequently bested
he was known as slippery Jim" The
pseudonym was used i'll admiration rather
than contempt
He was veteran Of the Civil War and
an inimitabe story teller. One of the best
he ever told concerned a former member Of
tho Senate from western county, pom
mons. overdignifed. and very egotistical
man--onp of the mock heroic kind of states
man.
AS Senator Mitchell told the story it ran
thus:
"Senator y and his wife started on a
steamboat trip from Pittsburgh to New
Orleaus. The senator attracted consider
able attention by his tendency to pose and
strut. One afternoon when they were on
the upper deck which was crowded with
tourists, the engineer suddenly blew off
steam below. 1t made horrible noise and
created some excitement. Old Senator Y IN
the midst Of it sprang to his feet, threw his
arms around his wife, at the same time
striking an attitude, and shouted above the
din:
"HolG me tight, Betsey; Wen die like
men
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-21
TREATY FRIENDS
 SET THEIR LINE: FOR COMP ROhNISE:: E:
Action in Session Beginning De- cember l, Is Desired-May
 Interview Other Nations.
ATTITUDE OF THE
 PRESIDENT UNKNOWN
Silence Maintained at White House. Wartime Prohibition Given New Lease on iife--Political Ef-
 fects May Be Many.

Washington, Nov. 20.-Avenues of speculation leading many ways were opened up today when officials and diplomats turned over in their minds the possible results, at home and abroad, that are to follow terminal tion of the special session of con- gress last night without senate rati- fication of the peace treaty.
 The thoughts of the treaty's friends in the senate centered on ac- complaining some compromise for a ratification in the session beginning December 1, and to that end steps are understood to have been taken to ask that President Wilson ascertain from the other powers what reserva- tions they would accept.
 At the white house silence was maintained and callers got the inn pression that for the present the ad- ministration was willing to await quietly the outcome of compromise efforts among senators. It was not revealed whether the president would permit that policy to stand in the way of undertaking the diplomatic exchanges suggested.
 Chief among the matters of do- mestic concern affected by the sen atn's delay is wartime prohibition, which took a new lease on life with the postponement of legal status of peace. In the same class is va rious other war legislation and, al- tho the republica nleaders in con- gross will seek to end the war nor mally by resolution, constitutions al objections to that method are likely. in the opinion of some off, cials, to tie up the effort for some time in the courts.
 Feeling Strained.
 Another line on which speculation turned was the possible effect of the senate show down on domestic politics. Althoueh both parties have disclaimed any desire to put the treaty into politics, the chances of keeping it out of 1920 calculations were admitted on all sides to have been reduced by the bitter clashes in debate last nieht when both repub- lican and democratic senators hurl- cd across the senate chamber their challenoes to go to the country on the issue.
 The stubborn struogle which was feature of the final hours of the snecial senate session was generally declared to have made harder the compromise for which the democratic leaders today earnestly set to work Thov ,Unro Optiuistic hOwevar that in the openin" days of the new ses- sion, if not before. thev could reach sor'e a"renmont with the republican ~roup of mild reservationists who hold ont in vestordav's debate aeainst all efforts to divorce them from the republican organization.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-21
CONFERENCE 10
 BRING ECONOMIC
 BALANCE CALLED
Wilson Summons Seventeen of Nations Leaders to Meet
 On December 1.
TO PROTECT PUBLIC
 AND INSURE JUSTICE
No Groups Will Be Represented as Before, But Body Will Attempt to Act in Interest of the
 Whole People.

Washington, Nov. 20.-Another cf- fort to bring industrial peace to the country is to be made by confer ence of former federal and state of fcials, business men and economists, the personal of which was announced today at the White House.
 Unlike the national industrial con- ference, which came to brief over the question of collective bargaining, the new body will represent no distinc- tive group, but will undertake to act in the interest of the people as a whole. It will meet in Washington on December 1, the date of the be- ginning of the regular session of congress.
 In his letter of invitation to the 17 men who are to make up the new gathering, President Wilson said the man will feel himself induced to put concern that our industries may be conducted with such regard for jus tice and fair dealings that the work men will feel himself induced to put forth his best efforts, that the en- ployer will have an encouraging pro- fit and that the public will not suf- fer at the hands of either class"
 No procedure was outlined for the gathering and this will be determined by the conference itself. No repre- sentatives of labor were included in the personnel, nor will there be any of capital as such Secretary of Labor Wilson headed the list, which included three former cabinet officers and two former fed eral officials, but the president did not appoint any of the men who served in the first conference.
 The personnel of the conference follows:
 Secretary of Labor Wilson; Form CT United States Attorneys General Thomas w. Gregory and George w. Wickersham; Former Food Admins trator Herbert Hoover; Former Sec retary of Commerce Oscar s. Strauss; Henry M. Robinson, Pase. dena, Cal; Professor Frank M Taussig, former chairman of the tariff commission: Former Gover:or Daniel w. Mccall of Massachusetts; Former Governors Martin H. Glynn of New York and Henry c. Stuart ot Virginia; Dr. ". o. Thompson, Ohio State University; Richard Hooker Springfield. Mass; George T. Slade St. Paul; Julius Rosenwald, Chicago Owen D. Young, New York City; H. J. Waters of Manhatten, Kan. and Stanley King of Boston.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-21
Federal Court May
 Force Operation
 of Toledo Railway

Toledo, O., Nov. 2O.-Mayor Cor nell Schreiber and Frank R. Coates, president of the Toledo Railways and Light company, were served with an order from United States district court late today to appear tomorrow and show cause why they should not order the return and operation of street cars, which have been off the streets nearly two weeks because of an custer ordinance approved by the voters on November 4.
 Judge John M. Killits, who issued the order, discovered state law passed last April, by which an oust- CT may not become operative or any public utilities corporation may not cease to function until after the pub lie utilities commission of the state has been given notice and time to in- vestigate the advisability of discon- tinuing such service.
 Immediately after issuing the or der Judge Killits announced that the cars may be running tomorrow.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-21
Former German Officers Are in
 Jail at Lille

Lille, France, Nov. 20.-Captain Herman Toffesvorff. Peter Gunicel, Philippe ht-Samstaut, Chrst- ian Buskh, and Frantz Klansa, former officers in the German army, were arrested recently in Germany and are now incarcerated in the Lille citadel. They are charged with theft, pillage and robbery in the dis tricts of Lille, Roubaix and Turcoing during the period of German occupa- tion.
 One hundred and fifty warrants for other men wanted on similar charges have been issued by the Lille court martial, but have not as yet been executed. Allied officers are search ing for the men in German occupied territory.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-21
FEDERAL COURT
 ISSUES ORDER
 AGAINST STRIKE
Colorado Miners Are Restrained from Walkout; Injunction
 Is Asked.

Denver, Col, Nov. 2o.-A restrain ing order preventing the strike call ed for tomorrow morning of Colo- rado coal miners was issued here to- night by District Judge Frank J. Morley. George o. Johnson, dis trict president; H. c. Stewart, secre- tary and other officials are restrain ed from putting the strike into ef- feet.
 The order was issued at the re- quest of Victor E. Reyes, state attor- ney general, just before 6 o'clock Within five days the attorney gener- al will ask for a temporary lnjunc- tion. he announced. The state in- dustrial commission law, requiring 30 days notice of a strike, was the basis of the request of the attorney general.
 Johnson, when see here tonight, said he would seek legal advice be- fore determining whether to comply with the court order. He said he doubted if he could get cancellation of the strike order to local unions in time to prevent the strike.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-21
Negro Who Lost Mind May Yet Be
 Sent to Chair

Little Rock, Nov. 2O.-Fred Mayor. neoro, sentenced to be electrocuted m Nov. ' for the murder of an ltal- ian restaurant keeper of McGehee, hmt who became violently insane and was sent to the state hospital for the treatment of nervous diseases, has SO far recovered as to be returned to the penitentiary. Governor Brough will set another date for the electro, c,,tion of the negro. Fear caused Mayo to lose his mind, and when he was returned to the penitentiary he requested that if he is to be executed that it he done as soon as possible in order to relieve him of the mental anguish he suffered before he became violently insane.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-21
Captured Villa Aide, Known
 at the Capital

Washington, Nov. 2o:-General Feline Angeles, of the Villa forces, whose capture was reported last night in dispatches from Mexico was intimately known in official circles here, where he served as munition insnector for the French government during the war. Officials assumed a that he would be executed if fl actually captured. as he was in arms against the Carranza govern ment ,, L. was the best military man, south o1 the Rio Grande. He graduated rom Chapultepec. the Mexican West Point, and St. Cyr in France. and was known in military circles throughout the world as an eminent artillerist.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-21
Palmer on Verge
 of a Breakdown

Washinoton, Nov. 20.-Attorney General Palmer was reported today on the verge of a nervous breakdown and under orders from his physician to get away from work and take all the rest he needs.
 MT. Palmer's physician has told him, it was said at the department of justice. that "unless he quits work for more than week, he would not he was in a serious condition. It was explained however, that this was not to be taken to mean that he was ma serious condition.