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4 Song of Great Days
COME day I shall 60 out and fin,

| COME day I shall 60 out and fint
~ strange lands,
Wonderful under new skies;
Touch the great statues of bronze which
cunning hands
Shaped smooth when the East wa,
WISE
Taste a salt kiss from the oceans we,
lip:
Hear the Trades shout In the ropes
Feel the quick shuddering joy of ship
These are my hopes.
Some time the night will lie wrapped in
swoon
Star busted and FREELY lit
Quick oars will splash in sleeping
lagoon.
Vague indigo shadows fit
I will hear deep voices swing in an old
song,
Hear the sly words as rogues scheme.
And the red thund rous cry Of mad
throng-
Thus dc I dream.
Yet will l taste strange fruits. cloying
and sweet.
Learn the fierce love Of brown earth ;
Lose looming peaks in soft winding
sheet,
Dulled by the spring waters mirth
Find in a world of snow low huts and
cheer
Under a pale. frozen moon;
Stumble upon brown tavern and beer
May it be soon,
Proud shall ] walk on the globe meath
my feet,
With my high head mid the clouds,
Finding all joys and all labors are vel :
come and sweet,
Making bright banners from shrouds.
Still do / linger and dream, idly gay,
Feeling contented. in truth
Drab are the things which surround me
today
But | have youth
Dale Collins. in Sydney Bulletin.
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| important constitutional body which the
fathers of the country, in their simple
faith, intended it should be. He hired
a house in Washington. right between
| the homes of two senator's, thus giving
them a certain standing by showing the
! world that he was willing and even
honored to live right next door to them.
Now. the press generally was not
| considerate In it's treatment of the Sen
ate. II had been a fashion for a
long time to speak contemptuously of
both branches of Congress. The colonel
had the wit, or 1t suited his purposes
to depart from this practice and treat
the Senate as a great legislative body.
Since the decline and fall Of Wilson
at Paris the Senate has had but one
ambition. and that was, as the slang
phrase of Washington goes, to get back
upon the map. Colonel Harvey's power
full vocabulary was exceedingly help
full to the Senate in getting back upon
the map.
The Senste was deeply grateful to
Colonel Harvey. II admitted him into
its council. He became almost n steer
ing committee of one outside the Sen.
ate in the matter of the treaty. He
was the chief Of Che general staff in
the great fight on Wilson.
Thus he got in.
The colonel picked a long shct and
the long shot won. This Republican
National Convention just ended at Chi.
cago has been dominated by a group Of
senators. Colonel Harvey's friends. one
of them being his next door ncighbor,
in Washington.
The senators have run things so as
to nominate a senator for President
They hope to get back by having in the
White House n man in thorough sym :
pathy with the Scnate's aspirations.
If Senator Harding is elected Presi :
dent an extraordinary overturn In the
government of this country will take
place. We have had party government,
we have had one man govcrnment-like
that of Roosevelt and WilsOn-and now
we promise to have senatorial govern >
ment, conducted by the elder statesmen
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Answers to Saturdays Quiz

|. Charleston, S. c.. was first settled
May 20. 1870.
2. The first secretary OF war OF the
United States was Henry Knox,
OF Massachusetts
g. The area Of the Atlantic Ocean IA
I,32l,000 square miles.
4 Is there any other word in the
English language In which "su'
Is pronounced as In sugar" ana
"sumao"? Sure
., Idaho got its name from the In
dian words "Edah hoe" 0ight on
the mountains)
@. Grant Allen was an English nov-
elist and writer OF popular
science who died in 1890,
Z. Brook Farm was Socialist COM
munity organized by George
Ripley in l84l at West Roxbury,
Mass. Among its members were
AlCott. Hawthorne, George w
Curtis and Charles a. llama.
8 The Inghamites were a sect found.
ed by Benjamin Ingham I7l2-
l7I2D, who endeavored TO unite
the chief features of the Mora
vians and the Methodists
., The lngoldsby legends were a col
lection OF legends written by the
Rev, Richard Harris Barham
under the pseudorym OF Thomas
lngoldsby.
10. william j. Duane, OF Pennsylvania
became secretary OF the treasury
In 1893 In the cabinet Of Presi,
dent Jackson.
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A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON

TT is probable that the pardon granted
i by President Wilson to the editors
of the Philadelphia Tageblatt is pre-
liminary to general executive clemency
for a great many men who are doing
time in federal jails for offenses that
became known as political crimes
during the years of the war. Not only
the approach of a presidential campaign
but the trend of thought in many
quarters unrelated to partisan politics
supports this view.
The justice Of that sort Of procedure
IS a. matter about which individuals will
plDays differ. In England, those who
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II may be taken for granted that
the American Federation Of Labors s
talk of reprisals on the Republican
party Is merely bid for recognition In
the Democratic platform. And there is
as yet no evidence that the Democrats
will bite at the bait offered.
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A FoUR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Thing. on which the people expect
the new administration TO c"ncen
trate its attention;
The DeidUdre rtuer bridge.
A drvdock big enough to dccommo'
date the largest ships:
Development Of the rapid transit sys-
ten.
A contention hall,
A building for the Free LIBRARY.
An Art Museum.
Enfar1ement Of the water supply.
Bomes 70 ccommodats The populd-
tior.
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What Do You Kno,u?
QUIZ

I. What Is the area of Lake Michigan
9 Who was the first secretary Of the
interior?
8. When did Caxton set up his first
printing press?
4. What poet was known as the
"Chaucer of France"7
S. Who was the first woman to receive
medical diploma In America?
6. What Is meant by the dog days? ?
Z From what raw material Is paper
chiefly made?
8. Who were the Pilgrims and why
we're they so called?
0. What kind OF gas Is most common,
~ used in balloons?
10. What is meant by tho Scotch word
"aihlns"?
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The delegates may now spend a
few days explaining just why they
did it.
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tween now and election who win take
the test ut the polls.
Governor Coolidge, of Massachusetts,,
is an admirable candidate for the vice
presidency. His nomination is an in
dorsement by the Republican party Of
his insistence on the theory that the
first duty of public Officials is loyalty to
the government.
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So long as the candidate and the
platform cannot be referred to as Hi
and Dry We'll all try to be grateful.
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Light having been turned on the
local ''Limehouse, the Crawling,
creeping things" disturbed will have to
hurry away.
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Now that IL Is all over, we realize
that neither the speeches nor the ballots
were Hooverized.
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The. sproul boomers made a coed
fight as far as it went.
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Happily for the country at large,
the Man on Horseback invariably turns
out to be riding hobby.
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HARDING, LAUNCHED, MUST
PLAY PILOT FOR THE PARTY
His Conscience VIII Be OF More
Help to Him Than the Plat.
form or the Orators

LNORTUNATELY for the country there
is long. vivid and formative
interval between national conventions
and national elections. 1t is a period
of revelation in which a presidential
candidate finds himself. and. as a rule.
develops the policy and the point Of
view that actually guide him in office
There are Republicans who would
have preferred another candidate than
Mr. Harding. hut Harding has at least
the advantage of an open mind. As
men go in politics and in affairs he
looms large. And in the contacts and
associations which he will experience
during what promises to be hard and
exacting campaign he will be able to
learn more in a day about what Is at
the heart Of America than he could learn
in months as spectator and listener
at any convention of any political party.
During the months to come, therefore,
Mr.. Harding. as we'll as those who will
have to manage his campaign. will have
an opportunity to Rght. free Of the
hypnotic effects Of standpet oratory and
a standpat platform.
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According to precedent, the candi-
date will now proceed to live down the
platform.
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Now that Chicago has subsidized,
San Francisco is getting ready for an
eruption.
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After studying the census report,
neither New York nor Boston Is willing
to declare that figures can't lie.
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Judging by the stories that come
out of Geneva. the watch on the Rhine
has Swiss movement.
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Well, it's as nearly the will Of the
people as circumstances would permit.
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Vacation booklets are, for most
people, more interesting than any no.
litical speech.
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The significance of
Come on in. three fingers has
The Waters Fine! definitely disap-
peared, but the sign
Of two fingers still delights the youth
OF the land. City public bathhouses
and recreation SWIMMING pools open
June 20.
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Chicago now takes its normal po.
sitiop in the news
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The hot spell ought to boost the
fur business.
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Hog Island launched it's 1osth ship
on Saturday. Hog Island is never
weary of well doing.
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SHORT CUTS

What has become Of wilicm He.
hensellern?
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The inning Of the real Republicans
Of the country will come now
The front pages OF the newspapers.
cleared OF star spangled speeches and
the narrative of elaborate party maneu d.
ycrs. will tell again Of the fcrmcnt in
Mexico, of stupendous establishments in
Europe, of the decline Of agriculture.
of labor and its demands, Of new aliRp
meuts of new forces in America and
elsewhere. These are the actualitics of
existence today.
Senator Harding will sense this. In
his tours of the country he will he
brought inte direct contact with people.
He will feel the effect Of popular opinion
as it is reflected in a hundred ways
through assemblies, the newspapers and
in Congress.
The people will feel that they are
meeting Mr.. Harding for the first time.
And IT is the Harding who develops be g..
tween now and election and whose ae-
quajntanee the country will make be :
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Mayor Moore may now rest up by
taking a whirl at local politics.
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Of the party and enjoying the Wit 4
ready pen Of Colonel George Harvey,
All In all, something for an sdl,
to have done.
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WALTON ROOF

e:sO DISTINCTIVE DIVERSIONS 1,,.
A HALF SQUARE FROM EVERYWBERB y
Florence Andrews The Glad
Loda Goforth Golden yoios
Singer"
Mckinnon Twins Songs and
Dances
Iuella | loyd Singing
cornetist"
comedienns
Jean Tennyson chau''%.s en-
MY Lady Friends"
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Unsettled, occasional showers and
thunderstorms warm" The forecast
was not primarily directed to the Re =
pubIican convention in Chicago, hut at
that it could hardly have been e1ccIed
for accuracy.
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4 Significant
Election

Uncle Dave La .
4 Significant has been elected TO
Election the Republican city
committee after he
had once resigned from il, Evidently
those who in the past have proited by
the political counsel OF Uncle Dave see
A sufficient number of gales ahead to
make them anxious for the advice of
one who has steered many courses well
for the boys If not 50 well for the city.
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The platform will help him in no i'm e
portant instance, nor can he find much
inspiration in the work Of the orators
who moved in dreary procession across
the stage at Chicago. They left him
many platitudes worn thin at other con
ventions. Yet in his present position
Mr.. Harding is no different from other
candidates who have had to fight the
battles of both old parties in the past
All men who ever sought the presidency
got large part of their education on the
stump. That is where Harding will
get his.
Thus far the professionals have had
their way with the party's affairs. The
time between now and November be-
longs to the people. who have a way
of making their opinions and their power
and their wishes understood during every
rational campaign.
Harding is merely launched. He will
have to devise his own platform, just
as all other great Presidents have done,
and tho degree of his sincerity at that
difficult occupation will. in all proba
bility. determine the degree of his sue
cess first at the polls and later in tho
White House.
The predOminance of noise and hollow
phrases at national conventions provides
no basis for an indictment of a party.
It is rather evidence for an indictment
Of the slipshod and outworn system of
party administration prevailing in the
I nitcd States. We shall have repe .
tition of the Chicago scenes at San
Francisco. And so long as such spec .
tacles continue they will prove merely
that the process of government under
democratic forms is still far from per
feet and in need OF great deal Of re
fnement.
II it were 10 be assumed that the
G.. q. =. stood for nothing but what
was reflected in the platform oratOrv,
we should have to believe that the party
is the one thing under the sun that
does not move. We should Shave "a
believe that the party's leaders are
sunk in a state of ineptitude aud decay.
In Chicago, for example, there was
far too little of tho Ropublicansm OF
Taft, of Roosevelt, of Wickersham. Of
Hoover. Republcanism as it exists in
the West, on the farms, in the schools
and the colleges and in the progressive
cities of the country, had few to speak
for IL
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The weather predic-
An Accurate tion for the region
Forecast of the Great Lakes
for SaturIau ,aad
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The newest candidate of the G. o. r.
has been aligned with the Old Guard,
though not hopelessly aligned with it,
in Ohio and in the Senate. He is not
hard boiled. His mind has not been
frozen either with bigotry or with fear.
And to dismiss a man who happens
merely to be conservative would be al
together unwise in time when depend
able balances are needed amid a play
of new political and economic forces that
no one is able completely to analyze.
and that tend. at times toward un-
known and dangerous ends. No one
knows better than Mr.. Harding and his
friends that the country is weary Of
professional standpatters and that, no
matter what the professionals at Chi
cago may think, a man who is con-
servatve and nothing more is not the
mau needed or desired in the White
House.
The degree to which Mr.. Harding
can sense and respond to the collective
will of a country that Is at heart cour
ageous. just and progressive will deter
mine his fitness. He will have to blaze
his own way and go according to his
own free conscience and, in the end,
formulate his own policies.
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n ltlE dUseHce Ot tHe telckrdpl
n made Jackson President, so the
completion of the Morse instrument
ended the brilliant political career Of
Silas Wright, of New York, in 1910,
by allowing him to decline nomination
for the vice presidency which might
have allowed him to reach the goal Of
every American, the presidency. Incl
dcntally. the message he sent eliminat-
ing himself as a national political factor
was one Of the first ever sent over the
wires.
He had been offered the Democratic
nomination for Vice President on the
ticket with James X. Polk by an almost
unanimous vote, the convention being
held in Baltimore, Mr.. Wright was a
member Of the United States Senate
from New York and was in Washington
at the time. The telegraph had Just
been completed and the only line in the
world ran between Washington and
Baltimore.
Mr.. Wright was informed of his nom
ination by wire, but, smarting under
what he believed to be betrayal OF
his friend Van Buren, he wired back
neremptory refusal. which two years
later ended his political career in dis.
aster. Had there been no telegraph he
wo,,ld have been elected Vice President
with an excellent chance of being tbs
presidential candidate four years latex,
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Member of the Associated Press

PbiisdeiphiO, Monday. June u, 1920
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Ancient Chinese Art.

Attention has been called to a not
able addition to the treasures of the
British museum, in the shape of a
colossal Chinese figure in wood. 1t is
sculptured from cleverly jointed
blocks, and represents a figure, in a
sitting posture, five feet, eight inches
in height. 1t is the first specimen of
its kind to be added to the national
collections in Great Britain; the date
is thought to be from 1926 to 1910 A.
d. 1t is to be hoped that the interest
aroused will lead to further study of
this branch of art. 1t is pointed out
by writer in the Burlington Maya
zine of Art that in Cleveland o., a
competent scholar In connection with
the museum is sent to China to study
the art and collect suitable art treas
ures on its behalf.
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Cultivating Edible Bamboo.

The japanese edible bamboo has
been successfully introduced into the
southern portion of the United States
by the department of agriculture. Sew
'eral plantations are now established in
Georgia and Louisiana. Populariza-
ton of the bamboo will furnish large
homegrown supplies of this useful
timber required by our manufacturing
industries. The giant grass grows a
foot a day, and its 50-foot stalk is
well. adapted for making frames, furni-
Gure, ladders, trelises and barrel
hoops. The new sprout is a delicious
vegetable and resembles asparagus in
flavor and in the manner of its prep
aration. There is an increasing de-
mand in America for the bamboo tim
Der, and also for the edible bamboo
shoot.
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Must Have Been to Movie Show.

A recent night in an eastern city two
policemen saw a man swinging wom-
an back and forth from the fourth
story window of building while she
kept up a continuous screaming. They
rushed upstairs and into the room.
saved the woman and arrested the man.
But, they noticed that his eyes were
closed. At police headquarters a doc
tor who examined him said the man
was suffering from nightmare and was
not aware of what he was doing. If
we lived in that family 1t wouldn't be
necessary to close the. windows at
night, they would be nailed down tight
all the time.-Capper's Weekly
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Bradford.

Helen Wakefield of st. Johnsbury
spent Sunday with Mrs Sisco.
Mr. and Mrs Tom Eastman are the
parents of fine boy born Monday,
November 8th.
Fred Winship of Wells River is
spending a few days with Mr. and
Mrs F P Worthen.
Smith Sisco is in attendance at
Rexall Convention in New Haven,
Conn. He will return home by the
way of Boston.
DIR. and Mrs Franklin P Dwinell
are the proud parents of a son born
Wednesday, November 3rd. Mother
and son are at Cottage Hospital,
Woodsville.
Among the members of Clover Leaf
Grange in attendance at the National
Grange held in Boston this week are
MIR and Mrs C P Davis, Mr. and Mrs
G w Carleton, Miss Jennie Grey
Mrs Harry Renfrew and Horace B
Blood.
A card received from Miss Sara K
Parker, dated November 7th, reads:
s'We are spending Sunday here in
Washington. We drove 1853 miles
yesterday, twenty miles of it was
over the battlefield of Gettysburg.
We spent three hours there and it
was very interesting. The roads were
fine yesterday and we had perfect
weather. 1t has seemed like early
September and the autumn foliage
has been lovely through Penn"
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VIII You Spend Csc On Rat-Snap
Save 800

One Csc pkg. can kill so rats. The
average rat will rob you of $40 a year
in feed. chicks and property destruc-
ton. RAT-SNAP is deadly to rats.
Crenates after killing. Leaves no
smell. Comes in cakes. Rats will pass
up meat, grain. cheese to feast on RAT
SNAP. Three sizes, 35c. Csc. s1.25.
Sold and guaranteed by Sisco's Phar-
macy.
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ARE THEY THE COMFORTABLE KIND?

KIT HERE is vast difference in Rocking Chairs Some are
conducive to comfort, ease and pleasure than
others. Perhaps you may have discovered it,
It's all in the way they built. We enjoy good
Rocker ourselves and think have selected some comfort
able ones. Come and try them