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i EVENING PUBLIC LftDGEK-lILADEHIA MONDXT, OCTOBER 21, 1918 Mi '( o. It- 'V' X. ff Jt lb It K1. LJi nx Et w.r rj 'f -i 't fc ft 1 if h' A IX i nix" ytl EVENING TELEGRAPH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY Lodlnston, Mr rrfldtit, John C. tin, Secretary ana Treaauren t'hlllpH ollln.

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Mond.j, Orlober PIS ONLY THE DIG GAME AT HOG IS1AM) fTIHE major league of nations' came comes first. This Is the Irrefutable opinion of Charles Plez, lco president of the Kmcr-gency fleet Corporation, and his prompt action upon It putt, an end to the baseball and pugilistic matches which hivo been dissipating Log Island's potential The world's Kreatest ship aril alms at absolute. Irresistible professionalism In but i single sense that of the speediest possible production of ocean-going vessels The Ingenious ball pttchcr, the agile Untie expert aro altogether supcrfiultles In tho establishment If the hamper Us purpose In the smallest degree "Entertainment committees" should eon-flno their attentions toward getting up the biggest of ull shows for the Kniser Tlio port demands the punch of unremitting hard work. All other "pastimes" mean waste times, which are Intolerable until freedom takes the long breath of conclusive victory. No wonder the basis on wli'ch the Hun-aTarian premier wants Austria rcorsinlied Is faderal.

The accent on the first xjllablo of -that word explains its tharms In a land where een the rights of small nations liao been unconsidered. LIBERATION NOT the least among prisoners of war who be Just tasted again the sweets of liberty wire the multitudes of gasoline fionds who flocked out een In thu rain of yesterday, dclKered up at last from the dark and dismal dungeons of necessity Every dellwagon moscd with a new ela tlon. They croaked, bawled, snuffled, sneezed and purred their ecstasj, according to their age and their ability fllwcrs and promenading limousines, dusty old road hogs that grunt and seem to feel life a burden until they hinellanopcn road where txty an hour may be clone without feir of wreck or arrest, morose old busses that tote mtling families; glittering new machines of 'next year's model wherein tjie fortunate of this world movo to take the air It was a p.ad da Lille jml "he other recaptured cities In Belgium couldn't shuw people more acutely aujre of their new freedom than thoho who trottec out tholr automobiles jes.tcrda to celcbrato the passing of Gasless Sunday The had good reason to fee! pleased with thcmselics, because they had done all that the Goern ment suggested, cheerfully nrd without compulsion. It remains to be Eecn whether they will continue to cooperate with the Government salng gasoline during tho week. If they presume uroti their new liberty and burn too much fuel back thej feo to Sunday seclusion.

And It ill bo too good for them There are rumblings in Austria-Hungary Which seem to presage an earthquake TWO WEEKS TO ELECTION TLECTION day Is two weeks from to morrow, but no one seems to bo thinking about It. All active campaigning wis abandoned during the Liberty Loan drive and now the grip epidemic is llkel to prevent what little speech-making there was to have been. There Is no doubt of the election of Mr Bproul as Governor, and tho Hcpubllcan candidates for Congress will be elected in most of the districts There are one or two doubtful constituencies, hoveer, in which every effort should bo put forth to elect men in sympathy with the majority sentiment In this Commonwealth. It can be done if thoso who arc interested set about it. Every way jou look at It.

Germany Is in tha.raldat of the fall season. WHO ARE THE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPALS? fPHE Women's Regular Democratic! rth Evergreen, a district of Brooklyn, has -t appiiea to me courts lor Incorporation. Sl.Jf.'" vojcti ui me ciuu, uccuraing to the g'JietitJon, Is "to maintain and uphold the principals of the Democratic party." T. hna bun, It. 1 Ya.

-aio wuugu uao 1110 I'apers D3CK IOr iw uoouiijcb mac ine women 'i Jilan to support the Democratic "nrlncl. Kv'e-Vr But ho seems to have failed to under- tand the principles of the regular Demo-erata. The Democrats are like sheep, tfhej' follow the bellwether, spelled "prln-tpal" In the petition of tho women, and jnia-Hlng. In New York city politics, Churles IF. Murphy.

What the boss says Is the law feapei 01 me regular Democrat. We C-at little, surprised that a New York a should have been unaware of this. ItMW it here In Pennsylvania, even tbare seems to be some dispute as tin. Democratic principals are. Jiw, JaraV and In Dla- wAj- LESSONS OF THE EPIDEMIC A Pwenlable Whlrh Demands Official Explanation OMIUS far America has been too busily engaped fighting the Influenza epidemic to demnnd explanations of the mnnncr in which the plague was permitted to get flying start in this part of tho world.

It is nn indisputable fnct that, though wo lind adequate warning, wo met the epidemic hands down), Tho medical authorities of the Federal Government pppear to have viewed the approaching scourge in (deepy lethargy. Each successive jiiotrmcHt in the fight apninit the plague wtt made too late. The medical authorities, falling into the habit of mind that has always retarded tho better piocesse3 of democratic government, appeared to shrink from the sort of encroachment upon individual rights which would have served to check the spread of the dlRense at the outset. Such encroachments had to be made later on and they were vastly more sweeping than would have been necessary at the beginning. The result has been overwhelming loss, immeasurable suffering nnd the dislocation of industry nil through the East.

Wo haven't heard of nny proposal for congressional inquiry in this instance. Congiess is accustomed to agitato itself into a high fever over issues far less important. Grip and party politics I apparently cannot be mi.scd. Mr. Wilson I cannot bo accused of responsibility for I tho epidemic.

Therefore tho country is I not to be enlightened or helped or safe-I guarded for the future by the soit of information which a congiossional in-quiiy might turn up if a systematic effort were tnndc to trace the responsibility for a disaster that should easily have been preventable. The epidemic as it has prevailed in Philadelphia has served, too, to jcveal shameful flaws in the American system of municipal administration. Thcie has been cumulative evidence to indicate that some undertakers, dtuggists and even the corporations which conttol cemeteries piofitecrcd heartlessly at the expense of afflicted families. Yet there seems to have been in all our system of local government no authority so constituted as to be able to inteifcre to insure some measuic of justice and comfort to the stricken homes whore the plague entered. After families had consented to bo plundered out of respect for their dead theic wasj semblance of interference by tho Health Department to check profiteering undertakers and cemeteries.

After druggists had sold medicines and whisky at extortionate rates for a week or more the health authorities began to murmur threats of prosecution. But that was all. Tho city and tho State, like the coun-tty at large, ib blundering through the crisis. We knew what to expect. The influenza had made itself felt in almost every European city as a mysterious and extremely virulent and highly contagious disease long before it appeared in America.

So far as nny one has been able to learn, no proper safeguards were set up to prevent the entry of tho scourge at any of the Atlantic ports. The influenza first reached America tlnough the port of New York. A vessel with 200 convalescents aboard appeared at quarantine and tho inspectors pasted her with little more than a wave of the hand. The members of her crew were permitted to walk from the infected ship out into the crowded streets of the city. At the New England naval bases the influenza next appeared and spread.

And it was only after it had progressed beyond bounds that a quarantine was set up about the ports where vessels lnd entered with convalescents o- influenza patients. America likes to talk of its efficiency. But we are not efficient in matters of this kind. The influenza must be listed as a preventable disaster which some one should be made to explain. It Is the Irresistible Intention of the Americans cirU'ng tonard Mezieres to turn the kej of victory th-it will start tho Huns lockstepplng TWO MILLION! rin.snitAI- MARCH has announced that two mlllltn American soldiers are al-read on the other side of the ocean.

And Secretary Baker said tho other day that they would continue to go at the rate of two hundred and fifty thousand a month so long as they were needed There will bo more than two and a half million American fighting men In Europe before January 1. This Is the way the war Is being won. We are supplying the power which General l'och needed to overbalance the strength of the Germans. He has armies big enough now to keep hammering at the weakest point until cold weather stops active fighting. Ho Is tho last man to let up because of peace talk, for he knows that tho surest way to a permanent peace Is over the road of an overwiiclmlng military victory.

Tho intimations that Germany may adjourn her U-boat activltlea aurgeat the rf a tirlea.wl ma.lili. i hh.uv.d w. w. nivEnijr resigning; ni8 weapons to the policeman who has handcuffed him. BELGIUM', THE BATTLE MAGNET IN THE fascinating process of sentimentalizing history a German debacle at Sedan has been lusplrlngly foreshadowed.

Thero aro strateglo reasons, dependent upon the rate of the northeasterly advance of the Tranco American orces, for considering such a possibility. The huge armies employed In modern war, however, may be trapped only under the most exceptional conditions. Kven a definitely beaten Germany may escape auch an iron ring as Yon Moltke forged around Mac-Mahon on September 1, 1871. Furthermore, jjo bnae th enticing HUihary aWaajwyliM ajtt MfJtYjn and more on tho Instinctive human feeling that history has a way of haunting tho same old battle cockpits, would bo to give tho soil of Belgium priority over tho Mouso valley. Inlanders has flamed with battles slnco modern nationalities wcro born at tho cloo of tho so-called Darlt, Ages.

Twelve miles from Brussels tho field of Wnterloo, with Its lion on tho hlllcri-Jt, tells Its story of world ambition wrecked Near at hand, ns Americans measure distances, aro Cudemtrde, where Marlborough and i'rlnco Xugcne defeated the Grand Monnrqtio's troops under Vcndome In 1708; l'ontcnoy, where the tnbles wcro turned and Louis XV's army under tho Marshal do Saxo prevailed over the Ungllnh and Austrlans In 174fi; Jemmappes, wheie Dumourlez asserted tho claims of Trench revolutionary freedom over Austrian feu dallsm In 1732, nnd l'lourus, where Jour-dan re emphasized tho same, thrilling truth two ears liter. At once pitiably nnd gloriously Belgium Is tho cornet of tho globo where tho great Issues of history nro determined. Germany's military power may not nctuallj crumble there, but the effect In the father-land of tho skurrlng withdrawal may demolish tho lemulnlng vcstlrcs of the morale which alone prevents tho Hun from facing bitter facts. A reversed Sedan In tho Mouso vallcj would be a specific atonement, but tho destruction of German tyranny through the events In tho heroic llttlo land so Ions a battle mignot would bo In oven closer con formlly with tho historic proprieties All means of sustenance are rapldlv bolng reduced In Germany liven food for thought has become altogether unpalatable AMERICA ALSO WANTS TO KNOW "1KKMANY and Austria-Hungary arc cn-VJ dravorlng to discover exnctlj whit the President means by his peace cdndltlons. Certain principles havo been laid down, but no one knows Just how they are to be npplled to existing conditions Tho President has included among his terms of peace a statement that economic barriers must be removed In intcrnitlop.il trade.

Europo wants to know what this means. And so does Amerlcu. Efforts have been made In Washington (o discover what was in the mind of Mr Wilson when he wrote about tho removal of economic barriers; but thej havo been unsuccessful lit his confidence and out of it uro forced to guess. The Washington correspondent of this newspaper reports that tho Republican Sen itors yav he meant freo trado and that the Democratic Senators say thev do not know what ho did mean If he had said that no new economic barriers wcic to bo raised It would have been fair to csbtime that he was referring to tho undcslr.ibllity of an International hojcottlng. But he talks of removing bar-rlers, and so he must have had in mind some obstacles that alreadv existed Before diplomatic conversations proceed much further every American interested in the development of American Inuustrj hopes that Mr.

Wilson will be a little more explicit and will let the country know what ho har in mind We aro reluctant to believe that he Iirm been laving the foundation for a demand for lntern.ttloml free trade. That ma come sonfo time, but tho world will not bo readj for It In this generation at nny rate. If the war has cs tabllshed any economic fact. It Is that cich nation so far as possible should be sulll-cient unto Itself. When wc were shut off from trado with Germun wo discovetcd that tho Germans had been making ninny things which were indispensable to us We have had to get along without them until our chemists and Inventors could learn to mako them.

Wc are In no mood to become dependent again on any other nation for things which can bo produced here, and wo know that thero Is nothing for the production of which our climate is sult-ablo that cannot bo made here And we know, too. that with proper protective tariffs wc can become sclf-safllclent Tho arrest of fifty The, Lockup for students of the Uni- Uotb Claaara vcrslty of Pennsjiva- nla for destructive pranks and other acts subversive of military dlsclpllno emphatically demonstrates that Uncle Sam has no more use for offensive h'gh Jinkers at home than for offensive high bunkers abroad Enjojment stokers The Ilia- Mkiit who may chafe over Iserer l)ulta the continued dark ness of Philadelphia's playhouses can, nevertheless, most profitably turn their attention to tho theatre of war Unquestionably It is offering the greatest show on earth, and we havo tho stimulating Information that soino of Its leading actors are in for exceedingly long runs. Since the Germans quite True have Just torpedoed the American 6hlp Lucia, which was supposed to bo torpedo-proof, they may boast that they havo been able to sink an unslnkuble ship. That is a small thing, however, beside the beating of an unbeatable Bmperor. In Itarrlaburg tho Tlie hllter Dolor health authorities announce issues of free grog to Influenza victims.

And If we were given to betting we would wager that tho list of grip victims at Harrisburg will soon reach a truly appalling total. One cannot bo sure The 11 oU Thud that It was an earth- quako tliat caused the shocks recently felt at St. Louis. It may have been that the Kaiser's falling hopes hit the ground at last. Self-determination The Uncertain Future among peoples sug-gents a system of Internationalism that It will be pretty difficult to work out.

Itecent agitations In Kurope suggest that It Is about time Guam dug Itself In and declared Itself republic. The mist chastening llumblloc fact in connection with Our Hurrah our efforts to put the loan campaign over Is that lnce the wr'l conflict opened Franco has subscribed for war bonds totaling twenty-four billions not of francs, but of dollars. Would It be fitting to If It You say that the Kaiser's government is a tea. I pot i In a tempest? A THE CHAFFING DISH How Wc Brought the Bnl News From Ghent to Aix By Hlndrnbttrg SPRANG to tho tonncnu, aridLudy 1 nnd He-Bill put on the gas nnd wc hustled all three; Tho tanks were behind us and getting near Ghent it was high time for going, nnd Gott knows iccntl We stopped for no blow-outs, vvo'put on no brakes; The one thing that mattered was getting to Aixi rpHROUGH Brussels wo bustled with side-slip and skid The Belgians wcro flying their flags they had hid. Bill cursed ns he saw tho stripes, black, yellow, red, But "Better not stop to remove them," I said i "For this is no timo to make fatal mistakes; We'd better get over the fronlicr at Aix." rpHE rumble of tanks was still plain in tho rear; Bert's cavalry galloped, unpleasant to hear; On the const, British navnl guns grumbled and slammed; Old Ludy looked greenish, Bill muttered and damned.

Wc opened the throttle; for all of our sakes We thought it was wisest to get on to Aix. "pOR three elderly men, that was pretty lough stuff; A placid retirement is all well enough, But when peasants lie out behind hedges and snipe At the Geneial Staff it's bit overripe! And Bill, Ludy and I had a bud case of shakes Until wo got over the frontier at Aix. Germnny was said to have ceased murdering noncombatants, pending an nrmls-tlce but If tho Berlin Socialists have taken to singing the "Murselllalse" down filter den Linden manj and many a stretcher will bo needed for disabled nnd mingled Trench syllables The German Gott Is a guttural Gott, cruel to the last. We used to bellcvo that the color of tobacco ashes is a good hiio for a suit of clothes, so tt at we could drop cinders on It from our pipe without fear of detection bv our superior officer at home, but until tho safety match heads are provided with parachutes wo think usheo will ho a better fabric for smokers The clocks nro to be up again next Sundaj. Docs that also apply to hosier Itlsaterrib'ethlngtocontcmplato suppose that tho bartenders' serving nnd mixing muscles should atrophy during their long leavo of absence! The curlou-j tottering gait that vou will observe In tho movement of some of our citizens is due to the unaccustomed disuse of tho brass-rail muscles in their legs.

If thev must choose Sunday for turning the clocks back again, wo hope the deed won't be done Just as the minister Is winding up his sermon To llie German Emperor and All His Clan Nc OU thdt avenging armies Hurl back lour shattered You lift jour cheating proffers And tuno jour subtlo whines. The flail is raised to sinlto jou And now beforo Its fall You would avert tho whiplash In fate's stern Judgment hall ACROSS the fields of Belgium You leav the spoor of hell, We trace the Beast retreating And mark his actions well; You launch a rain of shrapnel At wounded men In boats The while you cry us 'Comrade' With blacktly perjured throats T1TE HAVE been stern and patient, Wo have withheld our hand In that tlrm-llpped appraisement You do not understand Now jou shall have our answer In storm of belching shelU "No covenant with devils, No compromise with hell." PVT. WILLAB.D WATTLES. Tho Dutch newspapers have an ingenious way of dealing with uncertainties. When they think of something that they would like to bo truo they announce It as a "persistent" rumor.

And if the obstinate rumor refuses to persist they "withdraw" it. All of which gives tho newsboys on our streets soro throats. What merry duj-s next week for the horologlsts If everybody tries to put his watch or clock oacfc one hour on Sundaj-. Don't bo a chump; put your timepiece ahead eleven hours Instead of turning it backward. The Kaijer'a Nursery Rlivmcs Abdication is vexation, And exile's Just as bad: Democracy cloth puzzle mo And "Wilson drives me mad.

When the Berlin democrats come to batter down Wllhelm's front door and tell him where he gets off, perhaps he'll have an Innuenza-tralned phone girl nt the gate to ask them "Is this a really Important call?" Wonder what tho Sultan's thinking about? A Lullaby for Dutrh-Swiis-Scandinavian Newspaper Editors See rumor, pick It up, All the day you'll have good luck: Never let a rumor lie It may be true by nd by. Humors about abdication Are a help to dreMtation. THE READER'S Don't Abandon Latin and Greek To the V.ditoi of the VieMng l'liblir f.cclflri. Mr I want to mngratuhitc the Gownsman, whose vvcil.lv contribution to jour columns I alwaw read with pleasure, on his courage In coining to tho defense of the classics IHIlltiirlaulim In education, 'u-liK the word la Hh it.inow cense, must be Jought with nil the power wc povsc-J If this Is to bo a nation nude up of unjtlilng except mono grubber- V. ct str.inge as It may seem, tho utlllt irlans will defeat their own rurpo-i" If tlifj succeed In abolishing classical tdtu itlmi, for it Is that kind of education whb tia'ns the mind and equips it to grapple with new problems 1 onio licit a mining engineer saj to group of graduates of an old-fashioned college which taught tho humanities that ho would rathri havo ono jomig nnn on his force with an A II degree than two whoso onl training lnd been received in technical school He hald that tho man with tho A II.

degree lnd been taught to uso his mind, and that his bralir bud become a tool that could bo qulcklv adjusted to nn task, whereas the graduate of tho technical school had ills mind filled with a mass of technical facts and was ull at tea when ho was confronted with conditions different from thoso which had been described In his textbooks Of course, this was nn extremo statement, but It his tiio elements of truth In it It would be fatal mistake to drop Lilln and Clock from the colleges and to Kubstltuto for thorn more "practical subjects. The college courses may need revision In man ic-spoctp, but the should continue to include such subjects ns will open to the mind of tho students the dooi Into tho treasure liouso whore Is stored knowledge of what men havo thought and done frorti tho earliest dato that they begin to consider tho problems beforo them not thrt material problems of bread and btittet, but the eiue-tlon'i of tho meaning of life MAKrEIt OF 'A UTS. Philadelphia. October 18. This Is Cruel To the h'dilor of the PubHcj Ledger Sir The Illustrated "Joke" page of tho Hv rvisii Plplii- LtDfiBR Is a matter of groat surprise and ugrt to at loat ono reader.

That an otherwise valuible and cjrccedlngly interesting paper should permit a page of vulgar and stupid Jokes is bejond all under-standing home of tho so-called hymorous sketches refer to llttlo children ono readily Imagine tho demoralizing effects upon cvery llttlo child unfortunate enough to read them. The world has need for humor, but humor of refined and uifllfttng niiturS-that makci! all llfo the nobler and bcticr for it. That "a llttlo nou'tiiso now and then cl rellsbcid.by tho bent of men, Is tu.e all vulgarity OLD PHILADELPHIA.V. Philadelphia, October 18. tr How Long! How l.onpl To the lUlllor of the Elcning I'ublic Ledger.

Mr find ii necessary to submit tho Inclosed sonnet to jour paper, for It Is duo largely to tho suggestion of Mr, Sjkes's cartoons, as well as to tho broad principles of tho greatest world statesman. President Wilson. Hon I.onzl How I.onsl How long. Hod! shall wo In madness creep! How long In bitter hato shall we abide I .1,. I.ll1u III Y-'illnUH wide.

Wll Itll HIV. v. Men bow their heads today and stand and weep, While death Its dreadful harvest still doth reap Still roughly casting brother-lovo aside; Still rudely pressing with an endless tide Of horror and of fear from deep to deep How long shall I'eaco be brtisht aside by hands That drip with human blood, nor heed tho1 plea Of wife and child, of wounded -from the ship I How long, God. how long shall cruel bands He rulers over all tho land and sea. And hold the weary earth In tyrant's grip! I shall not attempt to form nn explanation concerning my IdeaM expressed In this poem: but ona thing must be clear: That I earnestly feel that one man or a smuil group of men cannot and nust not hold the world under tyranny nnd keep the door closed to a permanent peace.

Naturally, I refer to the eleventhaparagraph" of the German Con-atltutlon. LOUIS it. KIIOOPNICK. I'hlladelphla. October 18.

A.PiinIlinieiit to Fit the Crime-To th'e Editor of the Kt'cnliip Putllei Ledger: sirAn "Tho Da" the day of reckoning, draws near, the question of a Just reparation occuploa tho thoughts of men. Iteatoratiun of recently and less recently stolen territory and Indemnities for the material havoc wrought nre already in the final terms of paace; but In 'the mind of the aver- ia fear that the AllUd Governments, will not dictate eon- dltlons wnicn win suroesienuy -wsi "jwirti-i 1'wure' 'MS, jjh- ptnw THROUGH WH(Ctt HE SEES' HIS VIEWPOINT cIlffcrentialQ between tho Gcripan military dcsfiots and tho people, tlioj nio now general) conceded to be ono anil tho same. Tho German vvero quite willing to bo ltd their mllltar class to tho plunder of tho world so long ns they imagined that tlio attempt was going to bo successful. Tho onlv remorse tlio Gciman people feel Is tho tcniorse of failure. How can It bo nrost forcibly impressed upon thu Germans tint they hive committed tlio gioatcst crime In the history of the 01 Id Take mllitarv possession of tho wholo country.

Including Austria; keep the German and Austrian armies mobilized ns armies of lohoreia and workmen and sot them to work to tcbullil vv'lth tholr own hands the "ruined cltlcji of Belgium, Prance and ltal to tcconstiurt tlio slielj-totn reads and wrecked bridges, once tho finest In Europe, to level tip, till and fence tho oneo fertile fields nnd gaidcns, to ropliut tho vineyards and orchnids the hivo so wantonly dostrocd: to repilr nnd put Into operation onoo more the railroads and Canals they havo mutilated Iliiposlble? Not nt all Sumo one must rc'bulld and reconstruct ull that lias been dostrojed Wli) not tlio people who caused tint destruction? It Is tho logical punishment which fits tlio ctlnro If It takes twontv ens to dcr It, It should bo done; and during tint time tvety German boy who reaches mllltit ago should bo drafted liilo that army of laboicrs. No class should be ovempled, and particular care ought to be taken to put all tho mllltan olfieeis of all ranks, including even tho Ktlscr and h's sons, to tho dally tasks of pick and shovel or hodcarrlng. That and that alone would euro military fever for all time. If the generals had to dig tho trenches, there would bo fewer wars. There would bo no wars nt all If those responslblo wcro forced to rebuild what they had destrocd.

This plan would, to certain degree, solvo the question of commercial reidjustment, which must bo faced in allied countries, by eliminating for timo the Industrial of Oeimany and Austria, further, this arm of workers would require overseers and guaids, vvno could bo drawn from the armies of tho Allies Not at nil It Is Just exactly what Germany has done With those who havo fallen lllulel her nn-inr Land without tlio Justification which the Allies nun exactly what she intended to do to the test of tho world 'WALTER OLIVER. Philadelphia, October IS, O. Henry, Pharmacist Alplionso tlio author of the O. Henry Blographj, lias recently discovered the. origin of Henry, tlio nom do plume of tho late William Sjehioy Porter.

He writes that lie had long suspected tho source of tho name, but that his surmise was not confirmed until ho iccelved tho following letter from Dr Barrlnger, president of tho Virginia Institute. Doctor llarrlnger-vvjICei)' "At vorlcjurf tlnSea lp -my )lfe. Phavo run upon chemTral. analyses" ntado, by, a. Contl-liental chemist who sfguod 'O.

While the under anal-jsl i Were to usej in the materia medlca.eJ li4d-vncIdW Jpntll yesterday that tho manwas1 a In looking up the preparation add" In the United DLspensatori-, found In the hands of 'every drug clerk in. tho United States, I found (pages 64 and 398) 0: Henry twlco referred to, In short search. 'Seemingly ho was of Antwerp, on ho wrote a good deal for tho Journal do Pharm. 1'AnverM, and also Paris pharmaceutical naners. in tart' I find Ills trail ftom 1833 to 1867, nnd ho' loucnen many or mo lines southern drug clerk would be Interested in quinine, chi-chonlne, ctcV Can It bo possible that this sho.rt, eiljjpj unusual itahie.ltbat hlis tho ejo from the page, ever caught tho eye of the joung drug clerk, Sydney Porter, und stuck? O.

Henry, It looks like a vocative. The edition of tho V. a. J. that I used In looking this up was tho seventeenth of 1891, but the dates show that O.

Henry has been In theso editions from quite early." Mr, Smith says that on turning to the United States Dlspcnsatbry. which O. Henry used when he was a drug clerk In his uncle's store In Greensboro. C. lie found frequent references to O.

Heniy. Ho communis: "When It Is that Will Torler had' from early boyhood atl unerring feeling for and narrative us well as! facqs, and that he was filling prescriptions from the United States Dispensatory when he first signed thonamo O. Henry to a 'short story, the evidence becomes. It seems to me, practically conclusive that here and here ulono.the pen name took its origin." Famoui Ruitlani Th arrival ot th first a or urtgory ihwuhkih mK w- FINISH VI IN BOHEMIA I'D BATHER llvo In Bohemia than in anjr other land l'or only there urc tho values true. And tho laurels gathered In all men's view.

The prizes of traffic and State are won By shrewdness or force, or by deeds undone; But fame Is sweeter without the feud. And tho wlso of Bohemia are novcr shrewd. Her pilgrims stream with a gait sublime Prom everj class nnd climate and Applrlng only to be enrolled With the names that aro writ In the book ot' gold, And each ono bears In his m'nd or hand A palm of tho dear Bohemian land The scholar first with a book a jouth Allame with the glory of harvested truth; A ghl with a picture, a man with a play, A bo with a wolf ho has modeled in clayf A smith with a marvelous hilt and sword, A player, ii king, a plowman, lord And the plajer Is king when the door )s pat, Tho plowman is crowned and tho lord Is lastC I'd rather llvo In Bohemia than In any other land Thero aro no titles Inherited there, No hoard or hope for the brainless heir; No gilded dullard native born To staro nt his follow with leaden scorn; Bohemia has nono but adopted tons; its limits where fancy's bright sticam runs. Its honors not garnered for thrift or trade, But for beauty and truth men's souls hava 'nude. To the empty heart In a Jeweled breast '1 hero is value, inajbe.

In purchased crest; But tho thlisty of soul soon learn tc know The molslureless froth of the social show, Tho vulgar sham of the pompous feast. Whom tho heaviest purse Is the highest priest: Where tho organized charity scrimped and icod In tho name of a cautious statistical Christ; The smllo restrained, tho respectable cant, Ahen a friend In need la a friend In want; Where tho only aim is to keep afloat. And a brother may drown with a cry In hla throat. Oh, I long for the glow of a kindly heart and the grip of a friendly hand. And I'd rather live In Bohemia than in any, other land.

John Bole O'nellly. It Is reported that file. MAll CtlA Ornnm w.w".. iiiatBS mo coniriDution to the Berlin war council" consisted chiefly in slapping the Hun officers on the backs. As tho Allies are Just now'1 engaged in doing the same thing, who cafc deny that harmony In a war-wracked world Is not inatilni.

nma-M. I vatimi If tho old and good Oh, friend of ours, the Man In the Street, was as thirsty for truth and 'knowledge as he seemed to be for a drink stronger than coffee when the saloons were opened for an hour throuch n. mlfiunricrnf nnHIni- ce v.unu wouio, (e a jar pieasanter place to live In. The Ilun has fever been a marvel at tho In the Laboratory production of suhaii. tutes.

Now It remains to be seen what ha Is able to evolvo to replace a vanishing government. What Do You Knotv? QUIZ Who wrote. "How We Urnntht tha Cm4 rw from CJtient to Wlist Million In the Ilrttlth cabinet dM Lord Mlltxr hold? What la tha official nam of France? What la un archltrue-? VVbat la "Uojavi How lonr before the lcnlnr the trtatr of peace between tire.it llrltala and Amet. lea nil the lluttle of Yorkiown fou-ht? What la tha derivation of the word plebltclts? Who said "HUtonr la iihtloaophr teachlnr br What la tha French form of Ghent? Who waa the rlaialcal aoddeta of recrlbutloa? Aniwer to Saturday's Qus Klliabeth Is Queen of Belslum, S. In the United Htates h.

makn a niuion. in llrltala a hllltii 1 rontiaia oc minion mtuiona. Lout. Kouuth waa a famoin H-iS-Wir- "olu.lonf.t. III.

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