And the first morning of creation wrote

What the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

Yesterday this day's madness did prepare;

Tomorrow's silence, triumph, or despair.

Drink! For you know not whence you came, nor why;

Drink! For you know not why you go, nor where.

Omar Khayyam

[!-- H3 anchor --]

PHILADELPHIA

A Staten Island man, when the mosquitoes began to get busy in the borough across the bay, has been in the habit every summer of transplanting his family to the Delaware Water Gap for a few weeks. They were discussing their plans the other day, when the oldest boy, aged eight, looked up from his geography and said: