ed to the contrary. - "Some day," said a newspaper correspondent at Princeton, "some of these storiea are going'; to 'be upheld by an actual an- houncement from you, and'when 'that time comes it. will look bad for the correspondent on the 'ground here who has accepted you at your word and refrained (from speculating about who it to 'be in .your cabinet. The paper that has got it right will point out Jthe fact that it made such an an nouncement, on such and suchTa -date.'; "Yes," replied, the president elect, "I suppose that will happen, 'but if they're truthful they'll say: I'The appointment of Mr." So and So, as exclusively guessed in the ;Daily Blast, has been, confirmed by Gov. Wilson.' " ,. . o o ; TO A. M. D. FROM M. LeP. iLay your hand in mine, Pal. t Let me hold the match. Let us spend a lazy hour, . And watch the heroes scratch. Let us talk of life, Pal, . Small humans' dearest joke, 'As we watch our eloquence Sailing off in smoke. True, you stole my title, ' My "To My Cigarette" " The laugh's on Philadelphia,. ! I hear her groaning yet. -That sleepy, drowsy village, Without-a spark of hell, You wisely left her pavements, If you've a soul to sell. OVly.. soul is still mine- p wnr IJal, i Although I've -won my bet, My book of verse is published! Light up that cigarette ! Editor's Note : This poem was sent us by Maude LePage in an swer to A. M. D.'s verses, pub lished last week in The Day Book, A M. D.'s lines being an answer to" the original Maude LePage ef fdrt. Far' be it from this office to be. hypercritical, but we must say jthat Miss LePage evidently does not know the Philadelphia of to day. Possibly the oldest inhabitant of Philadelphia can remembe'r a time when that" satrapy of Pen rose, McNichol & Co. was "with out a spark of hell." But even this is extremely doul5tful. Whatever Quaker-like purity Philadelphia may have been af flicted with in the past, Philadel phia, today is one fine place to go to give your wife grounds for a divorce. The "sleepy, drowsy village" days, of Philadelphia certainly an tedates, the Stotesbury-Philadel-phia-Rapid -Transit-Co.-Penrose-toMcNichol-to-Jim Carey re gime. Might .we, also suggest that Miss. LePage ,herself has. dodged the. issue raised, by Miss A. M. D. in her. .verses; "If Miss LePage's soul is worth a thousand dollars because it can turn out such poems., as .haVe appeared under her name in sThe Day Book," . wrote A. M. X)., ''how many nick els is mine worth" in -view of the abpveefFor:t2',