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’ 'art 4—6 Pages HO is this Urbain J. Le- the hungry and champion- ing of the down-and-outer have at- tracted nation-wide attention and won for himself, through personal distaste for vainglory, the sobriquet of “Mr. This question has been heard on all sides recently and has been ampli- fled as the newspapers carried de- tailed accounts of fresh exploits on the part of this man of mystery. It nas been rumored that Ledoux is not 'wealth and eccentricity who has dedi- cated his life to ameliorating the con- dition 6f his less fortunate fellow that he is any one of a score of things but what he actually is. With a view to settling a few of these questions in the minds of those who have followed from day to day the stories of Mr. Zero's activity in| 'Washington, New York city and Bos ton, a Star representative interviewed this human question mark at his room in the Ebbitt Hotel and reccived the cooperation of the man himself in clearing up some of the mystery which has been attached to his name In the press. Trbain J. (for Joseph, maybe, but ne would rather not emphasize this probability) Ledoux, pronounced Le- doo, is by hirth a French-Canadian and by naturalization a citizen of the Tnited_States. He was born August 13, 1874, at Saint Helene, Quebe Canada, the son_ of Mr. and Mr! Joseph Ledoux. His father, who still living, is descended from a Nor- mandy family. His mother, who died not long ago, was from Brittainy. The elder Ledoux was a laborer in the warp room of a cotton mill and his wife a_domestic servant in one of the best families of Quebec. * ok ok ok HE home of the Ledoux is in Bid- deford, near Old Orchard, Maine.. It was while his parents were on a visit to Saint Helene, Canada, that [Urbain was born, and he returned ith his father and mother to the [United States when but three months of_age. Urbain's father, no doubt, handed ldown to his son the traits of leader- [ship and of sympathy for his fellow man which have distinguished the heir in labor circles. Joseph's job in the cotton mill necessitated him stripping to the waist and standing 211 day in an atmosphere of steam and unsavory odors, characterizing the rarping process. One day a dispute etween the foreman of the room and he workmen took on serious propor- ions. and the foreman threatened to Jismiss the entire force for insub- ordination. The erstwhile spokes an for the laborers was beginning o weaken in his stand when Ledoux, Juitherto unnoticed. pushed forward, argued the cause of his work mate cith an emphasis that foretold phy al violence—and the dispute was set- led satisfactorily forthwith. As a_yvoungster Urbain was the idol of his parents and of his sistel hnd he was sent to school at an earl ge in Maine. After receiving a good lementary and college prepgrato educatton he attended Baimg sMar! (S doux, whose auctioning of the unemployed, feeding of his real name; that he is a man of WASHINGTON, D. MAGAZINE ':SE’C‘TI'ON' The Su WHO IS URBAIN J. LEDOUX, SOMETIMES - KNOWN AS “THE MYSTERIOUS MR. ZERO?” EPRESENTATIVE *to The Sdnday Starl Interviews Man Who Brought “Human | Documents™ to Washington and Who Con- ducttd “Slave Sales™ in Boston—Ledoux Tells of His Early Life, How He Entered His Present Work and Who Is Financing It. BETTER KNOWN AS “MR. ZERO.” | TRBAIN LEDO | { | | College, Van Buren. Malne. and later | was sent to Paris to complete his | education, taking an intensive course in_international law. Having acquired an education qual- ifying him for service in the diplo- matic service of the United State Ledoux obtained a position in th | consular service of the State Depart- I ment ana was assigned as United States consul at Prague, Austria, in 1897. He served at this post until 1907. His services in the diplomatic world were favorably commented upon by European statesmen and by American writers on trade journals and The John Quincy Adams Elm. N a rounded knoll uou(heast‘ of the White House stands a graceful elm, towering over all the other trees in ts vicinity. It was planted by John Ruincy Adams some time between the ears 1825 and 1829, the years in vhich he was President. Although ohn Quincy Adams was the son of President—George Washington's uccessor, John Adams—he never ven visited the White House during is father's administration. For ears he lived in Europe as student nd diplomat, returning. however, to Jake his degree at Harvard like ‘ue son of Massachusetts. While the lder Adams was in the White House, he younger was United States minis- er to Prussia. Through the years of his life John uincy Adams kept a complete diary. 1 it one can trace his growing inter- st i s. On July 5 1826, he rites “I have betaken myself to a ursuit which already absorbs too juch of my time * ¢ ¢ the wish b promote the plantation of live and hite oak and perhaps other forest ees, has driven me to consult at ce the books and the forests and to | how me again how much I have to arn. The leaves that I took from ree lofty and beautiful oaks, stand- g side by side of each other, were three different varieties of the lee—two of them not described or presented by Michaux and several those described by him are so lych alike that 1 cannot determinej 1to \ | nursery. | lowing: | morning walk, visiting the garden, I found in the seedling bed that a t he is in possession of a number of com- mendatory letters in this connection. When Ledoux made known his in- tention of resigning from the consu- late at Prague in 1907 Secretary of State Elihu Root dispatched the following cablegram: “Department reluctant to have you leave consular service. Will you re- consider? This cablegram was followed by a letter accepting the resignation and expressing the department’s “sincere regret at your decision to leave the consular service and its best wishes for your future welfare and happi- nes: John Ball Osborne. chief of the { bureau of trade relations, Department ! of State, recognizing Ledoux's ability made the following statement in th American_Exporter: “One of the best equipped offices in the service for the dissemination of practical information about Ameri- can manufacturers and the foreign consumers is the consulate at Prague, Austria.” * K k% PPARENTLY Mr. “Zero's” services in the consular bureau met with the approval of officials and private ibusiness Interests throughout the duration of his term as consul. Ledoux, a year or so after leaving the consulate at Prague, became In- terested in the then general move- ment to encourage world peace. He attached himself to the World Peace Foundation, of which Dr. David Starr Jordan was the chief director, and interested himself in securing for the United States the meeting of the In- ternational Congress of Chambers of Commerce, in 1912. For this work he received the formal thanks of Dr. Jordan. . To say that Urbain Ledoux con- fines his' thoughts to a narrow chan- nel is contrary to the facts. He : thinks in terms of the fourth dimen- sion, always juggling in his mind ideas just beyond the grasp of the ordinary person’s reason, and maybe slightly beyond his own. This constant struggle to “uplift ithe heart and elevate the soul and peer into the great unknown” has led Ledoux to become affiliated with many movements and organizations of as strange a nature and, it must be admitted, of as laudable a'purpose as his drive in behalf of the down-and- outer. Chief among these side Issues was Ledoux’s “investigation. propaganda and efficiend® engineering work” in harmonizing the ardaétectural plans for an “international ety.” or inter- national center of world communica- tion, as projected by Hendrick C. An- derson, scuiptor. of Rome, with the co-operation of Ernest Hebrard, French government architect. This “world city” was to have been the “progressive development of the science of internationalism.” to house international interests and unite peo- ples and nations upon broader hu- manitarian lines. The activity of Ledoux in this en- terprise was whole-souled and took up much of his time in the latter part of 1911 and the early months of 191 He wrote volumes of manuscript cov. ering his “investigation, propaganda and efficiency engineering work * and - Loy ecrieties those that I®nd ben N, : '@RSpose to com- mence i nursc.y The next autumn and to plant acorns, hickory-nuts and chestnuts. But what is the season for planting, and how is the nursery to be managed? I should have com- menced this process at least thirty years since, but I never had a per- manent residence, and mow I shall plant, if at all. more for the public then for myself.” John Quincy Adams did statt a Scattered through his diary in the mfdst of lengthy accounts of affairs of state are notes like the fol- “April 26, 1528. After the e which had shown itseif last week, but which I did not then know was a wild oak. I fix therefore, on the last week in April for the appearance in this climate of oaks from the acorn planted the preceding autumn. “May 12, 1828. I found in the south- ern seedling bed twenty-one chestnuts up of a row of fifty planted the 20th of October last, and twenty-five black ' sent these data to Anderson. At walnuts of several rows planted the|Anderson's request Ledoux acted as 31st of October. 1n a seedling-pot two | his representative in presenting plans shoots of the turpentine plant are|for the world city to the Interna- coming out, and in the nursery. I dis- | tfonal Commission of the Union of covered eight cork-oaks first appear- | International Assocations, assembled ing. * * * ] planted twenty rows|at the Palais du Cinquantenaire, Brus- of shellbarks, pignuts, black walnuts|sels, in April, 1912. Henrl Lafon- and cork-oak acorns, in the nursery, | taine, founder of the general office vestward of the transplanted cher-|of International Associations. and ries. then a member of the Belgian senate, When we consider that all these |commended Ledoux in the following nuts and acorns were planted in the|language: “You are a precious man, White House grounds, it is easy to|andI cannot tell you how grateful we believe that we, the present “public” [are for your co-operation for which he planted. have John Quin- * k k% cy Adams to thank for many beautiful [yr w: § heca In thet\Winiter House: erountad| Vo oy o the exening of hisiapeech aside from the single elm which bears| before the International Commi his name. sion that Ledoux says he underwent ISABEL SEWALL HUNTER. the great change in his life which resulted in his decision to devote the remainder of his life to “service.” In his address he had told the commis- sion of his ecstatic plans for a world city, but his carefully prepared theme and’ an enthusiastic oratorical de- livery failed to greatly impress the assemblage as_ bying either practi- le or desirable. Disappointed, Le- doux returned to his hotel and pon- dered. He described his experience that night as follows: “I went to the window of my room, threw up my arms toward the stars and cried out in anguish of spirit, Why had my ideals been trampled upon? 1 asked myself. What was lacking In myself or in my listen- ers that I failed to awaken them to the sincerity of my plans? 1 had been delving for the secret for hours and 1t was almost dawn when I sgw ‘the light' and I felt a drastic change come over me. It was then I under- stood.” “What was this ‘change’ of which you speak? Mr. Ledoux was asked. “1t was the dawn of & new—a superconscientiousness. I was bath- ed in the light of loving service. I saw _the sham and the insincerity of men’s lives. Imbued with enthusiasm at my baptism into the state of ultra- service, 1 left my hotel the same morning without giving notice of my destination and wandered from city to city incognito for a period of about two week: during which time my friends searched for me in vain. 1 was secking my bearings, so to speak.” 1t was not long after this “ex- perience” that Ledoux came back to Amcrica_and started on his career of “service.” Reaching New York city, he became interested in the efforts of the Salvation Army and other wel- fare organizations in harboring the poor, feeding the hungry and provid- ing employment for men out of work. His ardent assistance in this respect attractd the attention of a number of wealthy men and women whose ideas regarding treatment of the un- employed situation paralieled his own. Among these were several well known men and women who, Ledoux clai are living in the same state of sciousness” as himself. He named some of these as follows: Claude Bragdon, author of “Tertium Or- ganum” and “Fourth Dimensional History”: Harry Barnhardt, director of community singing at Camp Upton, N. Y. and leader of the weekly “sings” in Central Park; George Grey Barnard, sculptor, frequently referred s_‘the “Michaclangelo of Amer- Walter Hampden, the Shakes- perean actor, an1 Walter Kirkpatrick Brice, son of the late Senator Brice of Ohio. Mr. Brice. ts, man who has’ been furnishing him with money with which to carry on his campaign in behalf of jobless men. * It was Brice who_ paid_ th: bread-line expenses in New York city. The same person aiso is pro- viding Ledoux with a drawing ac- court during his stay in Washington, Ledoux dcclares he has not a cent of his own in the world. **xxx AT this point Ledoux explained the origin of his other name, “Mr. Zero." He was lining up a group of men in one of the famous bread lines in New York city when several of theie favored requested that they be “I._in" on the identity of their bene- factor. “Oh, I am nothing,” Ledoux replied. A tall son of Erin piped u that he must be Mr. Zero. © Shortly afterward some newspaper men ap- proached the group and asked the men what Ledoux's name was. The same Irishman announced that it was Mr. Zero. The press reports the fol- lowing day told of the incident. Le- doux has been known ever since as Mr. Zero. _In appearance Ledoux-is a physical giant. He is heavily built, broad shouldered, and his face is ' usually wreathed ' in a broad smile. His speech is that of an educated French- Canadian, characterized by a faint trilling of his “r's”" He s versed in French, German and Bohemian and has a knowledge of several j tongues. He is considered a talented artist in black and white and in color and delighis in sketching landscapes about his home. in Maine. He is proficient and has won a in_tennis. hockey while serving at Europe. ner and swimmer. has plaved ama- teur base ball, and is interested in wrestling and similar sports. Ledoux is a strict vegetarian and, if practicable in this climate, would be what he calls a “fruitarian.” He {claims that fruits can furnish man with all the necessary nutritive ele- ments and are more desirable for food purposes than vegetables. Meat never reaches his mouth. Ledoux thinks that persons who eat “leather” are “pldin fools.” He never touches tea or coffee, but wiil drink milk. He believes in having no designated hour for meals and eats whenever' he feels hungry. A typical lunch for him con- sists of a double order of sliced to- matoes, double order of fried egg- plant, several slices of bread and a glass of milk. His stamina has surprised news- paper men who follow his_move- ments. On certain days he has re. mained up all night and yet appeared fresh for the next day's activities. Regardless of what hour he retire Ledoux rises with the sun. He at- tributes his remarkable staying pow- er_to ‘“reserve strengt Bahaism, with its mystic creed. naturally has attracted t\e attention of ‘Mr. Zero. He has devoted his labors and thoughts to the Bahai principles, assisted in the establish- Ledoux ass is the n number of prizes and other games the consulate in He is a long-distance run- other | most branches of sport | - St SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1921. FEATURES Lord Robert Cecil. Lord Robert Cecll ( Cecil. Born, 1881. Education: At Eton and Oxford. Private secrefary to his father, the late Marquis of Ralishury, 188A.8R: called to the bar, 1887: M. P. for Tast Marylebone, 1908-10; °for Hitchin division of Herts, 1912; ander. secretary for foreign affairs, 1915-1 Amsiutant secretary for forelgn affafrs nager of blockade. 1916-18. Principles of (omuieocial ationsl Church.' dgar Algernon educated gentleman who ex- presses contempt for the license and indecencles of modern life, !it is ten to one that the critics, who | confess themselves on other occa- {sinnn as sick of prurient tales, will pronounce this hero to be a prig. In like manner, let a politiclan evince concern for the moral character of | the nation and it is ten to one his colleagues in the house of commons ané his oritics In the press and everywhere the very men most in despalr of politics will declare him to be a fanatlc. This has been the unfortunate fate of Lora Robert Cecll. He s regarded by his countrymen as unpractical. Men speak weil of him and confess willingly that he is vastly wuperior in character and intellect to the ruck of politicians, but, nevertheless, wind up their pancgyrics with the regret- ful judgment that, alas, he is a fanatic. It is a thousand pitles, I think, that ke is not a fanatic. It is for the very reason he is not fanatical that his progress In politics has been in the suburbs of the second rank. He has every quality for the first rank, and for the foremost place in that rank, save the one urging passion of en- [thusiasm. 1t 1s a senac of humor, an engaging sense of diflidence, a con- {tinual deviation toward a mild and | gentlo cynictsm, it is this spirit—the very antithesis of a fanatical temper —which keeps him from leadership. The nation has reason on its side [for suspecting Lord Robert Cecll. In the mind.of the British people noth- ing is more settled than the convic- ition that the conquering qualities of a great captain are courage and con- fidence. He has given no sign of these qualities. He appears upon the !platform as a gentleman makes his jentrance into a drawing room, not as a toreador leaps into the bull ring. He expresses his opinions as a gen- tleman expressvs his views at a din- ner table, not as an alehouse poli- tician airs his dogmatisms in the tap- room. The very qualities which give such grace and power to his per- sonality, being spiritual qualities, prevent him from capturing the loud and grateful loyalty of a political party. * % k¥ N7OW., while a man like Lloyd “N George can only afirm his own essence by the exercise of what we may call brute force, and by making use of vulgar methods from which & person of Lord Robert Cecll’s quality would naturally shrink, is never- theless not at all necessary for a man of noble character and greater power to employ the same means in order to earn the confidence of his countrymen. What is necessary in this case is not brute force but fanaticism, and by fanaticism I mean that spirit which in Cromwell induced Hume to call him “this fanatical hypocrite.” and which Burke adequately defined in saying that when men are fanati- cally fond of an object they will pre- fer it to their own peace. Lord Robert Cecil meed not adopt the tricks of a mountebank to achieve leadership of the British na- tion. but he must contract so entire a faith in the sacred character of his mission that all the inhibiting diffi- dences ,of his modest nature will henceforth seem to him like the whisperings of temptation. He must cease to watch the shifts of public opinion. He must cease merely to recommend the probable advantage of rather more idealism n the poili- tics of Europe. He must act. From the very beginning of the war Lord Cecil perceived that the need of the natlion was not for a great political leader, but for a great moral leader. He told me so with an unforgettable emphasis, well aware that under the public show of our national life the heart of the Hritish people was famishing for such guidance. ‘He numbered him- self among those anxiously scanning the horizon for sueh a leader. He should have been instead answering the fnarticulate cry of the people for that leader. . No good man of my acquaintance is ngore powerfully convinced of the goodness . of _British nature. He watches the British people with an abiding affection. He believes that they possess, even those of them who appear most degraded and sordid, the foundational virtues of Christian character—a love of justice, an in- atinct for kindness and faith in truth. He is convinced that no moral ap- ment of Bahai rest clubs for poor men of the Bowery and in other ways lent his. personality to the work. These places were known as “Step- ping Stones.” One was set up at 203 East 9th street, New York Cit; an- other at 44 Bowery, close to “Tin Pan” Market, between Bayard and Canal streets. In connection with the breadline organized gt the two “Stepping Stones.” mdcye thrm 73.000 persons have been Mwelv ,rovided with food fana akow 23,000 with lodging and hundred™ #lp& along to positions. The Coffee Tree. AROUND & g5 of the old homes in Maryland %nd Virginia one finds growing fig bushes, pecan trees and that other very useful trce of the early co- lonial and revolutionary periods which our ancestors called the Kentucky cof- fee tree, because its seeds were used in brewing a drink which was used as a substitute for coffee. The coffeg tree is usually found in rich bottom lands in company with the black walnut, blue ash, hackberry, cot- tonwood, honey locust, Ted elm and the hickories. It Is a native American tree and the name which the botanists have given it is “gvmnocladus dioicus.” The first word is compounded of two Greek words meaning ‘naked branch,” and the second part of the name is also com- pounded of two Greek words meaning that the plant has both male and female flowers on different branches. The cof- fee tree at maturity is from 75 to 110 feet tall and from two to three feet in the diameter of {ts trunk. The leaves are “pinnate,” that is “feather-like," from “pinna” or “feather.” The leaves are ‘pink at first. Later they turn bronze green and then dark green above and light green beneath. In autumn its foliage turns bright yellow. Legumes hang on it all winter unopened. In the pods are dark reddish brown secds three-quarters of an inch long and ovate in form. These are the seeds or “ber- ries” from which many early Americans made cuilce, R . peal has ever been made to the Brit- ish people in vain. And yet he has never made that appeal. He saw the majority of the British people's war- like mood degraded and vulgarized by the propaganda of hate. But he made no_move to save the national honor. The better part, and as I firmly believe, the greater part, of the nation was waiting for moral leadership; particularly were the young men of the nation who marched t{o death with the purest flame of patriotism in their hearts hungering for such leadership; but Lord Robert Cecll, the one man in parliament who might have sounded that note, was silent. The voice that should have made Britain's glory inarticulate, the volce that might have brought Amer- jca into the war in 1914 and rendered Germany from the outset a house di- vided against itself, was never heard. Lord Robert Cecil looked on and Lloyd George sprang into the prize ring with his battle cry of the knock- out blow. 5 1 wonder if even the sublimest humility can excuse so fatal a silence. Great powers- have surely great re- sponsibiljties. I REMEMBER speaking to Lord Rob- “ ert on one occasion of the sgooting of Miss Cavell—a brutal act which distressed him very deeply. I said I thought we weakened our case against Germany, by speaking of that atrocious act as “murder,” since by the rules of war, as she herself con- fessed, Miss Cavell incurred the pen- alty .of death. He replied: “What strikes me as most serious in that act is not so much that Germans should think It no crime to shoot a woman, but that they should be wholly Indapable of, realizing how such an atrocious deed would shock the conscience of the world. They were surprised—think of it—by the world's indignation. . , In this remark you may see how far deeper his reflections take him than what passes for reflection among the propagandists of hate. -Abuse of Ger- many never occupied his mind, which ‘was sorrowfully engaged in striving * % %' O T i TN F a novelist take for his hero an ' SOME POLITICAL REFLECTIONS By “A Gentleman With a Duster.” LORD ROBERT CECIL. to comprehend theé spiritual condi- tions of the German people; he real- ized, that is to say, that we were not fighting an enemy who could be shouted down or made ashamed by abusive epithets, but that we were opposing a spirit temper twere entirely different from our own, and therefore a spirit which must be understood if we were to conquer it Every now and then he has half let the nation see what was in hix mind For example, he has taken those il- luminating, those surely inspired words of Edith Cavell as the text for more .than one address—"Patriotism is not enough.” = But. beautiful and ALL IN A DAY’'S WORK O the editor: Every little wile I get in a bunch where tlie boys is talking about foot ball and what is the matter with Yale and ete. and of course T half to but in a wd. or 2 and finely somebody asks me what college did I tend and I half to admit that T didn’t tend no college and then evervbody kind of sniffs and from that time on they don’t pay no tension to what 1 got to | say. Well friends 1 suppose the; mongst my readers that same boat like I am of no alma mater so will be gratified it I take up the cudgels in behalf of the non college man and state a few incidence where a_young man has spent 4 or 5 of their life and a whole lot of mone: to get a college degree and now it's pretty near as much use to them as a thirst for beer. Like for inst. the other night we was playing bridge in what 1 sometimes call my home and 1 of the players was a man that had studied electric engineering for 4 yrs. and wile we was piaying it begin to sprinkle out doors so pretty soon all the electric lights in Great Neck_ had a sinking spell and finely died. Well the rest of us past a_few jokeing re- marks about it and after 5 or 10 min- utes somebody asked what was we going to do and the electric engineer cleared his throat and says: “Haven't you got no candles in the house? * * ok ok \/ ‘ELL friends, that is just a sam- '\ ple of how much good this bird’s education done him in a big crisis like the above, but what 1 started out to tell you about was a young friend a few in the iof mine that had always been inter- ested in chemicals when he was a kid and had a laboratory in his house and was always monking with acids and etc. and finely when it come time for him to go to college he insisted on takeing a pharmacy which is the same thing like a drug store course, as that was his hobby and besides they's suppose to be a whole lot of profits in the drug busi- ness 80 he took 3 or 4 yrs. of it and come out a register pharmist and his old man decided he better work in a drug_store a wile before he started him in a store of his own. 8o the day before the kid went to work he was nervous and scared for the fear somebody would bring in a prescription that he couldn’t read it right or something, and he might give them a fatal doze of poison, but the next time I seen him I asked him was he getting along O. K. with the prescriptions and at st he give me a kind of a sad smile and then his voice broke so I asked him what was the matter and finely he says he had quit the business and I asked him why and he says because he didn’t have the right kind of ‘a_education. Well friends, I got his story out of him and here it is. He spent the 1st day overlooking the stock and the next day the prop. went out and left him alone on the job and pretty soon in come a lady and he asked her what could he do for her, madam, expect- ing her to pull out & code letter from some Dr., but she says: “Could’ you cash me a check for $2.00 as I haven't time to go to the bank and my husband forgot to leave me any money.” So_he cashed the check, and an- other lady come in and bought a telephone slug_and she was in the booth about 15 minutes and finely come out and told him the people she was trying to call up had moved and she had got a hold of some- body else that lived where the peo- ple she wanted use to live and the £irl wouldn't give her back the slug 50 _he would give her back her nickel. So ‘he give her back her nickel, and then 3 gals come in-and one of them wanted a maple nut parfait whose anger and | yrs. | es have vs had the of philosophy ervor of fans | convincing: | been. their < wistful and pian never the consuming 'nol be even divorced from moralit THE MIRRORS OF DOWNING STREET much less to comprehend that mora ity is the very sinew of politics, being in truth nothing more than the con- Pscience of u nation striving to ex- s itself_in stite action. But a man_ like Tord Robert Cecil does surely apprehend that the essence of politics iy moraliy and, therefore. his rawillingness 10 use moral weanens in the political arena is hard fo.sn- derstand. He daebates where Te should appeal; he criticises where he should denounce, and he accepts a compromise where he should Jead a revolt. He is ultogether 100 civil for the rogues with whom he has to.do. 1 remember being in the house of commons on an aftermoon when- Mr. Lio¥d George wes expected to maka an important speech. Lord Robert Cecil sat in a corner seat on the baca benches: his brother, Lord Hugh. oc- cupied the corner seat on the f=snt bench below the gangway. i the prime minister's &peech, ! was a succesxion of small scoMfng points aguinst the labor party, deliv- ered with that spirit of cocksureness which has grown with him in the last few years, I noticed Lord Robert make a penciled note on a slip of paper and pass it across the gangway with a nod of his head toward Lord Hugh. * % % I WATCHED the journey of this little paper and watched to see its effect. Lord Hugh unfolded the slip of paper, read it, smiled very boy- ishly all over his face and. folding it up again, slowly turned his heas &nd looked back toward his brother The smile they exchanged was a Cétiian biography. One saw in the light of | that instant and whole-hearted swaile ithe danger of a keen sense of ifonical | humor. |making of creative fanatics: Both these men havs the in both is an intense moral in both great intel- but nature has mixed se gifts, which were in- f them there rnestness and lectual pow up with the tended for mankind, a drollery of spirit only amusing in the confi- idences of private life, which they have allowed to weaken their sin- ceritise, Humanity may be thankful that St. Paul was without a sense of thumor. During the war. as minister of blockade, Lord Robert Cecil render- ed services of the greatest magnitude to his countrymen; he kept Sweden out of the war when the Russian for- eign office could hardly breathe for anxiety on this point, and at a time when many British newspapers wre doing thair best to facilitate the great desire of Germany to march an urmy through Sweden and Finland to {the thus easily reached Russian capl- tal, | “His work. too, at the peace confer- [ence in Paris entitles him to the | gratitude of the nation; he kept the idea of the league of nations alive in He knows. as few other men v, that without { the future of civiliza even the future of the white | but he has never made the feel genuine alarm for thix enthusiasm for the He has avert it. Eue of : he has only r can | ommended legal tribunal | 1t is apparently difticult for a poli- tician statesmanlike quali nd can't boast | ybe these few | N TWO GALS COME 1 UT PARFAIT AND THE OTHER A THEY HAD TO TELL HIM HOW TO '.nd the other asked for a garlic ecrush and they had to tell him how to make them and then another lady come in and wanted a book which she had forgot the name of it but it was either by Mary Roberts Rine- hart or Zane Grey or H. G. Wells. * % * X THEN they was anotber lady that wanted a $£1.00 check cashed and a man that asked for some good clear Havana cigar not too heavy for $.10. The next one was a big sale—lady 1 bought 21 cts. worth of stamps for 1a partial post package and she said it was home made candy which she was sending it to her brother in Spokane and did he happen to know anybody in Spokanme. She said it was a great country out there and her brother liked It but sometimes he got home sick. Then a gal wanted a bathing cap | that would keep her hair dry but the last one she bought there was too tight and tore and here it was and would they take it back. By this time it was raining and a lady dropped in and borrowed his silk umbrella. Then they was an what _time was the next train to Port Washington and if they wasn't some other way to get there except the R. R. The dentist from upstairs come down to borrow ink to fill AND O an atmosphere that was charged with {war. He prevented these conferences from making “a peace to end peace.” | But on the whole I feel that he is ruther the shadow of great states- manship leaning diffidently over the shoulder of political brute force than tie living spirit of great statesman- ship leading the moral conseience of | the world away from barbarism to- ward nobler reason and less partial truth. (Copyright by G 2 reserved. 2 OF THEM WANTED A MAPLE SKED FOR A GARLIC CRUSH, AND MAKE THEM." wile and could he tell her a good cheap furniture store in the city. Another tourist stopped-and_asked if they was any way to get to Brook- Iyn withou® going through Jamaica. A guy that was repairing the tele- phone wires come in and borrowed a box of matches. The grocer from 2 doors away come after change for a $50.00 bill. Then 2 more ladies come in and one of them bought a package of court plaster and the other one bought a speclal delivery stamp. Then it stopped raining and the lady come back with the um- brella. “I am much obliged for this” she says. “Now I wonder if you could help me out again. My husband ! was in Pittsburgh yesterday and he was going to come back last night but he was to a banquet and missed the train so he had to take a day train this A. M. so 1 wondered ir you could tell me if that would get him to N. Y. in time to catch the 7:19-for out here.” * % % % GO my friend told her he didn't know but she could find out by call- ing up the R. R. Information and she ot insulted and walked out and took the umbrella with her. Well, to make a short story out of it, the young man was on'the job 5 hrs. and his total receipts was $1.10 and the estimated profits was $.14. But the umbrella had cost him $4.00 his fountain pen. A car stopped out- side and the tourist come in to ask if they sold gas and my friend told him no and he went out mad. Then come a lady that was just going to catch the train for N. Y. and she hadn't lived in the east only a little jolher lady that wanted to know and then they was the nickel that he had give the lady that had got the wrong number and not only that but the $2.00 check turned out to be just a check. The only drugs he sold was the courtplaster and 10 cts. worth rat poison,