55JiKvfiyt -wTfips; 8 EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 191U. 1 i" " J' " ft 8 EVENING && LEDGER PUBLIC LEM.E t COMPANY CTI108 K ri KTIS t'nrtr.NT. , John OrlM.I VlrrrcH(nt ''" W Och.Beertry: jhn C. Martin. Treai-tirer marlo It l.udlngton. Philip 3 Collins. John ti Williams tiliectnrs . nunoiiiAt, uovno: Ctiii s It. K 'ui:1i '-'hilrmnn ?. if tv,t.t:r.. i nwutiv Editor JOHN' P M,yU rlS...... ,. Upturn 1 llti'ln'f starmRfjr 1'ubimhM ilaurMTvnt"- t.ftHini ItiilMIn. InclenemlMire f?iuin. PhlliuWpnln ..,. Irwntn Centum tlroad an.l chestnut f Mine ClilcAoo '. . 117 Home In;r1?n.c,',!IUsw Lo.VDO.v s Waterloo l'lnre. rail Ma"- s- " NKWSTIfnKU'P: .... JMiiRifiKt-im ntnrAi- Th rnJrtflf "' ' " JYVncton fti uti JJKF"ll n !,' Nrw Yonrc ni nrit? Thri' ?.",; Uswiv nnsic ....2 rill Mull W" .?.. X'abu Dlkeau 82 Hue touU le urand i MUM IIIPTIO rtHMS 'i ti I i virtprAtMt. TMHV ristv, Klifftit. uymAil pnr' Butdhlf of Phlln,llihln. erepi where foreign pntas:e la. required Dtiiv Om i. on- mrnith. twentv-ntc cents. hChlt Qit.T. one.v-ar. three dollars. All mall subscrip tions panhlo In alliance these findings fire recorded and fire of great value. They cover tho child's history up to, Usually, about 16 years Why should not this valuable data be turned over to the Juvenile Court for use In cases of delinquency occur ring among school children? It would save the court n vast deal of time and money, and would cut out a lot of testing and Inves tigating and duplication of work already done by the schools, and done more carefully and thoroughly than the courts can do It. tn 1'ufTnto, out of a public school graduat ing class (average age 16) 64 weto known, by test, to be only from Ave to right years old mentally. Yet they were turned loose on the community without any adequate provision for future help or protection against the dan gers Inherent In their defective slate. There would seem to bo a great need of Unking up and co-ordinating nil our public and private social ngciiclfs to prevent this sMte of affairs. PASSED BY THE CENSOlt HM.U ,inno TTA1.MT KnsTII.NF. MAIN 3000 E5" JcMri nil eommunleatlm to Evening Ledger, Indrpendenre Square, Philadelphia. irruciTtos xtjtnr; at tut rniMPEtriiM pojTorr'cn rou rvTItT AS TCnvn-PtAS!' Ml. MATTfll ritlLADEI.PIIM. WKD.NESO VY, SKITtMIltlt 1ft. 101 1 Transit a Juggernaut to llohl-Bnoks. IN THE letter sont out by James O. Bal four and John M. Kogelsanger, urging the stockholders of the Cnton Traction Company to protest to tho company's directorate ngalnet acceptance of the suggestion relative to rapid transit made by tho ISapld Transit Company, appears this statement: "A committee of the Hoard of Directors of tho Kapld Transit Company has come before tho Board of Directors of the I'nlon Traction Company with the proposal that Vnion Trac tion stockholders shall give the Itnpiu Tran sit Company financial support to the extent of supplying funds for tho extension and equipment of existing linos AND FOIt THE EQt'IPMKNT OF THE X"W T'ROPOSHD CITY BT-ILT AND OWNKD SYSTEM OF RAPID TRANSIT LINES." The agreoment resulting from conferences between the Department of City Transit and the Rapid Transit Company, under tho cap tion, "Union Traction Co-operation," says: "The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company will rely upon the I'nlon Traction Company to aid In securing only SCCH Kl'Xns AS WILL, BE REQUIRED FOR THE NORMAL EXTENSION OV THE EXISTING SYSTEM, the requirements for which will be greatly lessened bv the establishment of tho new high speed lines." The discrepancy between the two utterances Is obvious and vital. The Union Traction Company has not been asked and will not be asked to provide funds of any sort or in any amount for the proposed new system. The Union Traction Company, of course, is at perfect liberty to decline to participate In the program. It may. If It wishes, forego the guarantees offered by tho city against loss of net income occasioned by diversion of traf fic to the high-speed lines and the abolition of exchange tickets. But the Union Traction Company cannot prevent the achievement of rapid transit in Philadelphia. There Is no company that can do that. The thousands of workers, men and women, who are paying six cents a day more than they ought to pay for conveyance to and from their work and the thousands of others who enjoy a five-cent fare, but loae pre cious minutes dally through slow service, arc not Interested In the details of finance. They only know that tho municipality is am- Ply rich enough to accomplish tho project. ' They will sweep politicians or any other set of men aside. If necessary, and use their votes to get what Jiey want. Public opinion Is settled. It will have rapid transit. The movement has already become a Juggernaut to the little fellows who think they can check it. M An 'I;m That Hamstrings Protection ADEMOCR-i T has been elec ed Governor . of Mains. Tho wave of revolt has not subsided sulllciently to throw this naturally Republican Commonwealth back into tho party column. The Progressive allegiance proved strong enough, despite tremendous losses, to prevent Republican success. The result is typical of what may be ex pected in other States If the party does not kick out of leadership the men who were responsible in tho first place for the wreck of tho Institution and who are standing now, In the manner of dogs in the manger, In sisting that tho wreck and ruin they have left behind them constitute a reason for their retention in power. There are thou pands of Progressives who are still good Re publicans, but they will not come back Into camp until they know that It has been fumi patPd and cleaned. The eloctions In November ara merely preparatory. Tho real fljrht will bo in 1916. The Republican party has this ear the op. portunity to prove its moral competency, Its Independence. Its convalescence. The way to the White House is straight, not crooked, and there is not enough arsrument In the world to convince thn people of other Com monwealthfl that Penrosetsm travels on tfe broad highway It Is triumphant Republicanism without Tenroselsm or !t Is a languid, heartless, powerless and nerveless Republicanism with renroselsm Intelligent citizens should have no difficulty in determining which they pre-Jer. K ' A New Kind of Men For Bullets. WHEN th? veil is lifted from the broad battlo lines east and west of Germany and the splerulor of the victories Is dulled by the sombre pall of suffering and death, a new spirit of determined opposition to war ulll force Its way around the world. Tho tele, graph and cable, the enormous facilities of the modern world for communication, have torn the mask of glory from tho battlefield. It was well enough for men to fight when only the living returned to tell of it, whan Tales of massacre did not reach men's homes until weeks or months after tho event. But now the horror of war is shoulder to shoulder with- th glamour pf it on the front page. A , single. bullet can destroy two decades of edij. cation or sweep into eternity the fickle light of genius, for more terrlblt- ;han the number of men Is the kind of men killtd. That Is the loss that staggers civilization and drives it baokward. It is not the last great war, but It la one' of the Ust. and it will do more than all the pamphlets ever printed to hasten the ay of universal petice. The commqn sense of Immunity as a whole l certain eventually to gain the mastery over passion. Bent Pcnroe : Win the Nation 5 PENROSE could not be elected United States Senator from Illinois. In Califor nia his candidacy would bo ridiculed In Maine not a corporal's guard would rally to his support In Ohio he would be treated as his prototype, Fornker, was treated. In Mis souri It would not take 20 minutes to count the votes he could get. In Maryland, another doubtful State, It would ho Penrose last, with none of the other candidates In sight. A So cialist would poll more votes than ho in Wis consin and Iowa. In Washington there would bo an avalanche of women's ballots polled against him. Where, East or West. In any doubtful State, could Penrose command a following? Yet this Is the man who, pleading for Pro tection, refuses to step aside and permit some other man who could really do something for protection to go to Washington. It Is mock ery of reason to assume that the rest of the nation would follow Pennsylvania in devotion to such a leader. It Is sheer madness to sup pose that there can be any rehabilitation of the Republican party to long as he is one of Its accredited leaders. It Is proper for men whose business is threatened to dedicate their work and Influence to the restoration of Re publican policy in Washington, but every ef fort they make will be futile It they insist upon using as their representative a man whose name is Identified with tho most thor oughly discredited and hated system of poll tics in America. Tho national Republican party has many enemies and Mr. Penrose Is the greatest of them all. In his own State and In his own town ho has alienated tho Independent Re publican press. In no other Commonwealth Is there any Republican newspaper with any pretentions whatever to Independence that would even consider apologizing for or ad vocating Penroselsm. They know It for what It Is. They have no doubts about the cuckoo being in the robin's nest. Only In Pennsylva nia Is tho party expected to be a Little Red Riding Hood Elsewhere and here, too, the alluring front of the house of Penroselsm does not deceive observers. They have also been looking at tho back yard WHEN you read In your favorito news paper that somo one has found a $1000 pearl In an oyster, put It down to Ignorance or to tho attempt to advertise tho restaurant, l'earls found In salt water oysters aro worth less. So says Herman Myer, father of tho American pearl Industry, who has devoted 20-odd years to exploiting the fresh water pearls of this country, from Wisconsin to Arkansas, from his nntlvo State, Tennessee, to Maine. Myer's llfo work has nil the glamour of romance. Born In Carthage, Ten nessee, he was sent to Harvard and was graduated with honors In chemistry. Dur ing one of his vncatlons, spent at home, a fisherman brought him a pearl. Thnt started his downward career, for his father, himself a banker, had wanted his son to follow In his flunnclnl footsteps. But young Myer thought otherwise, and, packing his grip, went to New York, where he sold his pearl to Tiffany's tho first American pearl ever sold in the New York market. There was a time when Oriental pearls wore worth their weight In gold; today the Iridescent pearl, found In the rivers of Iowa and Wisconsin, Is more valuable than a dia mond of corresponding size. And Myer Is lnrgely responsible for this. Up nnd down the Inland rivers ho traveled, on foot, by train, In wagons, prenchlng tho value of the gem to the fishermen, telling them how to find It. how to value It. how to market It. And the upshot of It all was that tho self same fishermen became so expert that they doubled and trebled the price to Myer, until the profit to the wholesaler was almost negligible. BUT even Myer was not the first to deal In American pearls, for In the great cathedral In Seville, Spain, rests a collection of these gems, gathered by Do Soto and his followers during their Invasion of our South ern States and his trip to the Father of Waters. In the archives of the Spanish city may be found wondrous tales of tho vast riches of the American Indians of Do Soto's days, of tho Immense stores of pearls found by the adventurers, of the utter disregard the natives had for their value. But tho bushels of pearls gathered as spoils by tho Spaniards were lost In the main when Ill fortune overtook them. CONCEDING for the sake of argument that you know the names of our rivers, did you ever hear of the Opeck or the Alllwege sepe or the Causlssepplone? Or the Al bacha? Yet you know them all well, only the river now Is known as tho Ohio, Iroquois for "beautiful." A Really Responsive Government WHEN, in 1T76 and thereabouts, a goodly proportion of the inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies threw off the yoke of Brit ish bondage they thought, and their descend ants after them, that they had acquired a considerable superiority over the rest of the Anglo-Saxon people It seems however, that in political matters the English trust them selves much more Implicitly than Americans do. Their Constitution varies according to the will of Parliament. It was proposed yesterday In the House of Commons that tho duration of the present Parliament be extended to 1017, and it Is quite likely that the several parties will agree to such a continuance. The Government of Ireland act and tho Welsh Church act, ac cording to the probable arrangement, will be simply relegated to the future, and all at tempts to force a general election on domestic issues will be abandoned After the "Pensionary Parliament" had sat from 1660 to 1677 and lost all touch with the country another Parliament limited the life of each assembly to three years. Then the Septennial act prolonged Its possible life to seven years, and by the five-year clause of tho Parliament act of 1911 the term was reduced. A Parliament rarely dies a nat ural death, and now comes tho generally fa vored proposal to prolong the present one, which has been in session since 1310, to 1917. That means, of course, tho extension of tho Cabinet tenure for one year .over the statu tory limit. Where, exeept in England, can be found a governmental system fo quickly adjustable to the npeds and exigen cies of the time? No slow-moving machinery to be operated to effect a change necessary to tho new conditions, no referendum, no con stitutional convention. Simply a response on the part of the men In Parliament and tho Cabinet to their obligations as public ser vants. In such spirit as that In which Burke addressed his constituents at Bristol: "Your representative owes you not his Industry only, but his Judgment." WHEN you see a person of the male per suasion approach and note his delight fully pink socks or mayhap they may bo pale green or lavender do not start and wonder at his folly. It's nothing new to wear brightly colored hosiery, which, by the way, threatens to become extinct because we can not get dyes from abroad. In the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries In London Is an exhibition of ancient socks, dug out of tho ruins of Antlnoe, Egypt. The examples shown are In good preservation and are suf ficiently "loud" to please the most extremo of futurlsti. Principal among the exhibits are socks of yellow, green, red and black In horizontal stripes, which outdo anything yet shown In our haberdashery shops. WHEN the Boer War broke out General Sir John French, commanding tho British forces In France, was In Ladyamlth, Natal, about to be besieged by tho Boers. He took the last train out and seated him self In tho compartment of the car, smoking. Hardly had the train left the city for Durban on the coast when the ping of Boer bullets resounded and the windows In the cara were shattered. Sir John, unperturbed, assumed a horizontal position and finished his smoke. General Grant was another soldier who smoked and died from cancer said to have been caused by that habit. Once, when he was going to New York, his train fell into the Passaic River, near Newark, only tho windows of the coaches being visible above the water. When tho rescuers reached the scene of tho disaster they found tho General stand ing In water up to his neck puffins' as usual on a coal black cigar! LOOKING through old newspaper files makes Interesting reading. A Topeka paper reports under date of 1864 the arrival of 200 bales of buffalo robes, "tho largest cargo eer seen" In that city. And a few items further down tho column we read: "Gov. James Lane, of Kansas, and Gov. Yates, of Illinois, will be speakers at the Lincoln and Johnson ratification meeting here on September 6." Aided by that recent hrush with the Ger man ships, the British fleet should have no difficulty in sweeping the seas. The way to get rapid transit la to get it. and the way not to get it is to permit holdbacks and lovers of technicalities to stand in the way. The troops will ho glad to get away from Vera Cnjz. They are anstous to get hack home and find out what they were down tUere for. Link Up the Social Agencies THE public bchools are now sorting out the. children of defective mentality, refer ring them to psychologists and physicians and social workers. o as to know how to grade them and how best to deal with them educationally The psychologist tests their mentality; the physician testa their physical condition, and the social worker find uut ffcglr family history and enlr"nmnt. All Those who are best, acquainted with the work of Doctor Brumbaugh tn the schools are convinced that he will be ablei to teach the politicians something. The Maine result shows that the only thing necessary to turn small Democratic plurali ties Into big Republican majorities Is to shake off Penroselsm and other things of the kind that have fastened themselves on the party. The Government - ownership - of - rail road a idea seema to have become very popular in Mexico, where the Provisional President thinks he is neglecting his duty unless he confiscates something or other before breakfast. BUT there are things which happened years ago which do not get into the newspapers, such as the mistaken adven tures of the first Chinese Minister to this enlightened country of ours. What his name was has slipped memory, but his malaprop Isms have not. His first social visit was to tho wife of a Cabinet member. Ho arrived at 8 In the evening and, knowing some Eng lish, proved entertaining. Tho minutes turned into hours. Eleven came and found tho Minister still talking. Twelve came. Then one. "I am very sorry." said the hostess, "but it Is getting so late " "I am so pleased you spoke," replied tho Minister, "you see, In my country a gentle man cannot depart until tho lady of the house has given her permission." And as he started for the door the hostess graciously asked him to call again, "very soon." At 8 tho same morning the bell rang the Minister had called again, "very soon." THE Chinese are the most literal nation on earth. They will obey orders, no mat ter what the cost. An American naval ofll car on temporary duty In Hongkong discov ered this. He was the proud owner of a pair of hitherto immaculate white flannel trousers, which had been put hors da combat by a grease stain. So he took them to a Chinese tailor with instructions to make an other pair exactly like the sample. Twenty-four hours later the Chinese tailor arrived with the new trousers "exactly alike even to the stain! BRADFORD. CURIOSITY SHOP The red and white striped barber'a pole dates back several centuries, when bar bers still exercised tho profession of blood letting During the operation the patient had to grasp a stick, and " a polo was always kept at hand, together with the band age necessary after the cutting. Eventually the barbers hung their insignia, pole and bandage, out of their windows. Early in the eighteenth century the British Parliament passed a law compelling barbers to put out J. .,!. nir,.,l ht,i nnrl white, while aiireon- 1 barbers cW-l tllr r J in'l white, 'fhe - -AstMdMMuribSriB last known barber surgeon In London was ft man named Mlddledltch, of Groat Suffolk street, who died thero In 1821. Ho was also a dentist, nnd a writer of that day says in an "Autobiography": "I have n vivid recol lection of his dentistry." Tho Battle of Kegs really took place dur ing the Revolution when pntrlots set afloat Infernal machines, formed like kegs, In the hope that they would destroy the English fleet In the Delaware, off Philadelphia. Tho British discovered the stratagem and began firing at every floating thing, thus establish ing tho name of tho battle. Tile largest bed In tho world may be seen at Ware. England. It Is twelve feet square and Is capable of holding a dozen persons. Shakespeare refers to this monster bed In "Twelfth Night": "Although the sheet were big enough for the Bod of Ware In hngland. IS THIS PUBLIC OPINION? Contributions From Readers on the Scnntorial Situation in Pennsylvania To Ihe Wlfor of the Evtnlno LeAgtr! Sir Senator Penrose 1ms again demonstrated his dominance of the organization of tho Re publican party In this State nnd has promul gated a platform of platitudes and gcncialltlcs. He professes what his Inst Legislature jef need to enact Into laws, nlbclt his professions nro far from binding party obligations to do any thing definite nnd really remedial, nnd every one Is confident that he docs not Intend thnt the next Legislature shnll Improve on its pro deccpsorp. Ills Intention to pecuro re-election as United States Senator nnd the power ho wields through his organization to thnt end nro the alarming things. Yet he can be defeated, ns the defeat of the State rond loan has demonstrated, lie Is a blight on his pnrty nnd on tho State. THOMAS ROSS. Doylestown, September 11, 19H. MUST END HIS POLITICAL POWER To the Editor of the .'icnliij; Ledger: Sir Tho ninny persons of diversified Inter ests throughout this Commonwenlth, who nro Interested In tho forthcoming November elec tion and wish to see the result thereof bring about the defeat of Penrose, are very much concerned over tho attitude your vnlunblo paper, the Evening Ledger, will take during the cnmpnlgn with respect to his candidacy. Mny I not urge upon you the very gravo re sponsibility which you hold ns editor of this very excellent paper? The prlmnry cam paign committed you against Penrose, nnd your nctlve opposition to his election during tho next two months would have a great Influence In ending his opportunity further to misrepre sent this Commonwealth nt Washington. I hop". Indeed, thnt you will see your way clear to oppose, with all the editorial and news power of your paper, tho claims of Pcnroso for election In this campaign. RALPH J. BAKER. Philadelphia, September 14, 1911. A RECORD OF MISREPRESENTATION To the Editor of tht Uventna Ledaer: Sir I recnll, with pleasure, tho brllllint fight mndo by the PL-nuc Lddoeh ngnlnst Senntor Penrose In the primaries. It won most credit able to the tnanngement of the pnper ns Indicating its Independence and Its high stnn nrd of service to tho people of this Com monwenlth. Senator Penrose Is now the same man he wns before the prlmnrles. The same record of misrepresentation of tho people nnd servlco of tho Interests remains. Tho snmo "mornl Issue" confronts the voters of this Commonwealth. I am glad to see the Evening Ledger maintain the high stnndnrd of right eousness which It has assumed under Its present manngement. V. J. LYNETT. Philadelphia. September 14, 1911. A MENACE TO THE STATE To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Remembering the attitude of the Punuc Ledoeh during the Senaterlal primary contest in this State, I am glad that you still recognlzo the "moral Issue" ns paramount In tho general campaign this fall. Tenrose Is a menace and a disgrace to all Christendom, nnd you will bo held responsible, In tho opinion of a humble Ponn sylvnnlan, for any endeavor to prolong this monaco on Pennsylvania. You can render a lasting service to this Stnte by supporting the opposing candidate for United States Sena tor. Am I correct? THOMAS J. MOVER. Uniontown, September 14, 1914. DISGRACE TO THE STATE To th' Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir I nm a render of tho Public LHlccr and have alwayB admired its fearless stand on questions of public Interest and its Inde pendence in politics. Of lato I have been In terested and concerned as to what stand the Evening Ledger would tako editorially on the candidacy of Boies Penrose. In view of tho fnct that tho Pfnuc Ledoeii vigorously opposed his nomination, and editorially declared thnt Penroselsm was a moral Issue, I rejolee that you decided to take a stand ngainBt his elec tion In favor of Palmer. With the wide circulation which tho Evening Ldgcr has throughout tho State it would bo nn Importnnt factor In bringing about tho defeat of a man who is n disgrace to tho fair name of this Commonwealth. ARTHUR McKEAN. Beaver Falls, Pa , September 14, 1914. WAGE FIGHT AGAINST SENATOR To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir It seems to us that the Evening Ledger can render a very great service to the people of the State and do honor to Itself by opposing the re-election of Boles Penrose to tho United StntM Senate this fall. Sonator Penrose stands for policies nnd for political methods that meet the disapproval of most all who have the public Interests of tho Commonwealth at heart. If the Evening Ledger will take decided ground against Ills re-election It will probably be the turning point In the campaign and assure tho defeat of Senator Penrose. W trust that you will give the matter eerlou5 consideration. GEORGE R. BEDFORD. PAUL BEDFORD. Wllkes-Barre. September 14, 1914. POLICIES FOR REVENUE ONLY To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir As a subscriber and render of the Punuc LcPOEn for over twenty yenrs. I want to ex pres to you my delight that you are using tho power of the Evening Ledger against tho ro. election of Senator Penrose For many years ho has stood for all that Is worst In Pennsylvania politics. lie has been closely nssoclated with tho disgraceful happenings at tho State capital. The fact of his presence In Washington as Sona tor from one of the greatest States in the Union Is a standing menace to the higher patriotism, a constant encouragement of policies for il-voiiuo only. JESSE H. HOLMES. Swarthmore, September 14, 1911. SORDID CARICATURE OF STATESMAN To the Editor of the Eiening Ledger: Sir The political reputation 'of this genera tion In tho great history of the State demands that the battle you have so worthily begun shall be fought to a victorious end. RuliEUT C. BROOKS. Swarthmore, September 11, 1911. WHAT A JUDGE WRITES To the Editor of th Evening Ledger: Sir Would It be deemed wholly Impertinent and ntruslo If one who Is fond of the Evening LrnoEH fhould suggest that In his humble opln. Ion there has never been a more opportuno time, not Indeed a more marked occasion, for great public service Dy a great newspaper than the present? I am only one of Its readers who have In dulged the hope of seeing the weight of Its In fluence cast Into the scales against Penroselsm. E. C. NBWCOMB. Scranton, September 14, 1914. OPPORTUNE TIME FOR DEFEAT To the Editor of Eiening Ledger: Sir It seem, to me that you could not do a better service i r machine-ridden Peniiudlia than to oppose the election of Holes i'tiirohy for Senator. This soems to be an opportune time to set rid of the machine and u may be effected by his defeat for the -Senate SAMPFL U PRICE. Scranton, September 14, 1914. DONE IN PHILADELPHIA AT FIRST glance one might think there was . no connection between the site of the building where the Evening Ledger Is Issued nnd Sunday schools, but thero Is. Sttndny schools are now so common that their existence Is taken as a mntter of course, and yet only 100 years back they were so much a novelty that they were being studied else where, especially in England, with a view to Introducing thum Into this country. And when It hnd been decided to Introduce them here, tho movement that was organized to support them hnd Its homo In Philadelphia. Now tho connection botween the Ledger Building and this movement Is simply this, that the American Sunday School Union, hav ing been formed, ma'do the nnclont building then on this Alto Its headquarters, and remained hero until nbout 60 years ago. It removed to Its new building on Chestnut street, near Twelfth, from which location It again removed only a few years ngo still further westward. But tho site was historic even boforo that day. In the now view of tho group of buildings on Independence Squnre, which cm'-.elllahcd the Columbian Magazine In 1790, thero will be seon In tho foreground nn Isolated structure, named the Academy. Unfortunately It Is only tho rear of tho structure that Is presented to us, but It Is sufllclont to give us nn Idea of tho character of building which wns first erected on this lot. This building was erected for the then new Academy of the Episcopal Church, Just about tho tlmo tho forfeiture of tho chprter of the old College nnd Academy of Philadelphia was ac complished, which, ns It turned out, wns a good thing for nil concerned, for that Institution raised Its head again as tho University of Pennsylvania. Tho Episcopal Academy, which still thrives after mote than a century of useful service In tho cnuso of education, was organized In 1"S3. Tho Rev. John Androws was appointed Its first principal, and In 1737 tho Institution received Its charter nnd nlso a grnnt of 10,000 ncres of Innd from tho State. Its first homo wns on Fourth street, below Market, but this provided little more than a makeshift, and arrangements wcro begun for tho erection of tho building on Chestnut street, west of Sixth. Tho alto of this structuro Is covered by tho Washington Building, C12 and C14. Tho building was still unfinished In 1788 when the Acndemy moved Into Its new home. But. while tho Fourth street house was too modest, this wns soon found to be too ex pensive, nnd It wns sold In 1791. Subsequently It beenmo a hotel, and suffered severely from the flro that destroyed Rickctt's Circus at tho corner of Sixth and Chestnut Btrcets In December, 1799. Ocller's Hotel, ns the house was known, wns tho finest hotel In tho city. Thoso historic banquets of tho French sympathizers, who woro the tricolor cockade and tried to sing tho "Marsolllalso" in French ns thev waved liberty caps in honor of Citizen Genet, wcro held here. Talleyrand himself, while In tho city, la aald to have stopped there, and tho celebrated Doctor Priestley honored these affalra by his presence. In thoso das the doctor resided for a time on Market street, west of Sixth. There Is a long story to tell about Ocller's Hotel itself, but this Is about Sunday schools. It was qulto a long tlmo afterward that tho American Sunday School Union camo to this site. Tho Interim was filled by the building being used for various purposes, part of tho time as a bonrdlng house. When tho nineteenth century opened, strange ns It may nppear. thero was not a Sunday school In tho modern sonso in this country. There had been such schools In England Blnco Robert Raikes, a Gloucester, England, printer, opened one In this city, and set nn cxnmplo for tho entlro Christian world. Rnlkes' Idea took hold, for he seems to have been one of tho first to have not only seen tho connection between negloct and Ignorance and crime, but to have put forth a plan by which this might be remedied. This plan was put Into operation In Gloucester In 17S2; by degrees tho Idea spread all over Englnnd, Lon don having Introduced this form of Instruction in 17S3. In these first schools an effort wns made to tench the children something more than piety nnd correct conduct; It also sought to give them a rudimentary education. It should be remembered that what wo call public schools were still a long way off, and thoso children whose parents could not pay for their education got none. Our own public school system Is les3 than a century old. What seems to have been tho first Sunday school established In this city was organized In 1SU by Robert May, who had received his knowledge In a Sunday school In London. May loft the country In 1S12, but the seed took root. It was not that the Idea was not regarded ns a good one that It did not take hold more quickly, but there was the expensa attached to It that had to be borne. In order to assist thoso Sunday schools that needed It, and at tho same time to supply proper literature for them, tho Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union was formed In 1817. New York had a similar union, and finally. In 1823, It was pro posed that a national union should be estab. Ushed. This was tho beginning of the American Sun day School Union, which was formed that year, and was constituted In 1821. It was de cided that Philadelphia was most centrally lo cated for tho headquarters of the organization, and this became Its home. Three years later tho property now 612 and 614 Chestnut street was purchased nnd the union established here. Ten years later It had the titles of 600 of its own publications on Its catalogue. I am not suro of what constitutes a hlrtorlo site, hut I am Inclined to the belief that this has some claim to the distinction. GRANVILLE. THE IDEALIST Yesterday I came across an Instance of good healthy energy lying dormant. Among a group of folks with whom I was chatting wns a oung woman hardly out of her twenties who dominated the whole group with a most remarkably magnetic peruonality. Pho fairly effused sunshine. I hao never seen such a spirit of sincere optimism as thlB little lady put into her evtry word and gesture. CiL-iQus about her personal Interests and ac tivities. I iuostlond our hostess. "Tills young lady," she answered, "U the most energetic person I know. Her sincerity Is as deep as the sea. She wants to do work of the helping sort For Instance, she has a craving for youngsters, poor oungsters, those that live down in the city's darker parts. She wants to go down there and help make those little tots happy, give them trinkets that every ihild, poor or rich, yearns for. In fact, she's got tho 'mother' Instinct, and In some noble work of this sort she would be a real power." Then I learned why she was not doing It, Iter weathy father did not want her to become "contaminated," as ha put it, with this sort of work. "Stay away from the misery of the , 1 A .. - . ttw.u ou jwn xeep yourself from miserable.1' Thiv , iff mta Mcemia, The father llv.a A clean, tpottoti ,,f there he stops. He utterly took. J"' ncterlstlcs of personality that "nd i I! ' others toward him. Mta a,hS? Jl " them In goodly measure. eiiM I have an Idea that this otherwls. ... charactered man was providential., Tu, 1 !& his child with that Important power S' '' allty, thnt his own make-up lacked 0a' Is the selfish Interest In his dan.M.. . !er In the balance of his own eh , "'' would be the exercise of thta M!" " th, which he was endowed? Wttgy w i tnink not T"E IDEALiaT( IN A SPIRIT OF HUMOR Not Pininir. bnt I do not plno for human gore. Tot boldly I assert ' wik0 t0u slap .the brainless yap Who calls a girl a "skirt." , , Peoria Journal I pine not to bring othora woo I trust I'm not so mean: BJ W0JM ,lk0 t0 8Wat the bo Who calls a girl a "queen." Houston Pott I plno to see no Injured gink Clutch at himself and wall: wi1 d " V t0 b..ot the crud0 Ba'oot Who colls a girl a "frail." New York Evening Sua I nm not prone to violence But I should llko to maul And kick and muHs tho Inane cuss Who calls a girl "some doll!" Judge, I have no wish to go about To glvo a guy a llckln', But I'd llko to clout tho loonoy lout Who calls a girl a "chicken," "Awfully Literary" Srazle I henr that your brother's wife i renl literary. Haldle Oh, sho 1st She's awfully literary! When she spanks her baby, sho docs It with I book! Fun. Caution to Quoter "Poastbry," according to the Kansas Clt Star, "the poetic gift is born In people whj die "mute, inglorious Shakespcares." Th "posslblly" Is fortunate. Before now It hu been said that a Milton a Milton could not poi. siDiy oe mute or inglorious, The Patriot's Complaint "I object," declarod the Hon. Bray LowiJr, "to this Government tendering Its good ofI)i to the warring Powers of Europe! Why, hani It all, there ain't enough good ofBces to n arouna among me patriots nere at nome, let aione wasting 'cm on iorcigners: Fuck. IIow Did the Boss Know That? "Why should a married man be paid raorj than n slnglo mnn7 "The married man ain't so anxious to gtt Homo early," declared tno boss. aeattle roat Intelligencer. Pure Milk and Water Mrs. Bacon Do you suppose the milk our man brings us Is perfectly pure? Mr. Bacon Oh, yes. Why, they say he never uses anything but distilled water. Yonken Statesman. The Scltish Brute She I don't see why you should hesitate ti marry on $2.W0 a yenr. Papa, say my gowu never cost more than that Ho But, my dear, wc must havo somethlni to cat. She (petulantly) Isn't that Just like a mini Always thinking of his stomach? Kansas Citf Star. Fair Words or Nothing "George," said tho wife to her generally tin- appreciative husband, "how do you llko b; new hat?" "Well, my dear," said George, with gttil enndor. "to tell you the truth " "Stop right thore, George! If you're golrf to talk thnt way nbout it, I don't want U know." Idena. Showing Up Father A young minister prenched ono Sunday to I rural congregation and spent tho next 1T visiting the people. At ono houBe the man of tho houso was ex pressing his appreciation of the sermon In coo pllmentnry terms whllo assisting the mlnlsW to put up his team. Ills little son had followed him, and after eyeing tho minister a minute ot two exclaimed: "Why, papa, you said he wns a one hen preacher, and he's got two hosses!"-Kaniu City Star, Interview Ills Majesty received me with grave courtejf. As I entered ho had been sitting by the fir smoking, as usual. "I came down to ask you," I said, "if yet have any comment to make on the situation la Europe " , . lik He rose swiftly, while his face flushed wU Indignation. "Only ono thing." he replied, hotly. Tom long time they havo been calling war by ttj snme nnme ns" he gestured In the direction" his well-known plant "my demesne, Now, sir. In view of what Is happening in Europe, 1 1 to ask you If you don't thlnit mats a libel on my own nome town? i-o. Words of Wisdom It's surely very foolish to bear the Ills el Without a soul to share them, a sweet tsi loving wife "Ask the man who owns one- Each year you wait is so much loss; you r not growing young; Far bettor pop tho question that tremDIM" the tongue ,. "Eventually why not nowi Among the maidens charming there's ' awaiting you, . Her heart Is worth the winning, her o kind and true "99 4M00 per cent pure. The single life Is cheaper, a. fact I "n1 And married life brings worry that times grows acute . . "Costs a little more than others-wortn it The wife will moke a sunny home, dispel eas cloud of gloom. . Her loving labor lightens and brightens "' r00m- "Chase, dirt" Don't think your Ufa Is all complete and J tho wedding ring. ,ju) You may be overlooking the most lmpor"j thing t.r "Have you a little fairy in your honur TOE NATIONAL POINT OF VIE That is a mighty army which If ?'$ lllzed In the United States these o" army of school children who are f0"1,,. learn how to solve the problems of lit out killing each other as tho barbarlani The right sort of education will put on enu war. Macon (Ga.) Chronicle. Of the men voters In Chicago 67 1' voted in the primary on Wednesday, w women only 8 per cent voted hsi nlng blow that Is for "Votes for worn"" Savannah Morning News. If emergency taxation bo n'ce,WHf, luxuries be taxed, not "'"ssarles o u of ordinary business. Congress hl pel the committeemen to Impose a "Tr on their own ingenuity and think '""VU and harder. Tho freight tax should p " and defeated Chicago Tribune. It Is an Indictment no nation n jjsl escape that patriotism, which ought w . , tho rlnest eentlmsnt and loftiest '"". , el people, continues to be fed from '? m human Irapulsef that had their " Stone Age. Kansas City SUr. . -X w
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