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nilLADELTIIIA, SATU1IDAT, DECEMBEII 13, 1914.
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Fog
44tIVH us facta nnd wo'll know what to do
VT with them" In an old cry of tho Ameri
can people. But thero Is a disposition to sur
round the wholo question of tho navy with an
Impenetrable fog. What Is tho Administra
tion afraid of 7 It Is not a political question.
Tlilo haphazard preparation has bcon going
n for years. Anybody, It Bcems, If strong
politically, was good enough to bo Secretary
ef tho Navy. There have been landlubbers In
ahnrgo year after year, with ono or two In
tervals of really Intelligent leadership.
But now tho people want to know, and thoy
are going to know. Try to hldo anything
from an American and thero is no power that
can prevent him from finding out all about It.
Mr. Gardner may not succeed now, but the
frankness he demands will bo forthcoming
sooner or later and tho sooner tho better for
those in authority. Lift tho fog and got out
Into tho clear light. That Is tho thing. If
there is anything -wrong, tho nntion wants a
ehanco to correct It; If thero Is not, by all
means let the public bo convlncod of the fact.
"Women, War nnd Government
WOMEN suffer from tho effects of wnr not
lesi than men; women nurso tho
Wounded who fall In battle; women are tnxed
upon their property to pny the costs of wcr.
If the hundreds of thousands of bereaved ano.
starving women of Europo might havo their
way at tho close of the terrible European
holocaust thoro would never be another ap
peal to arms. And undoubtedly women are
right when they point to tjio present cata
clysm as nn Illustration of man's Incapacity
tor government, ho has ruled, negotiated,
quarreled, on behalf of only n fraction of tho
race, and that tho comparatively small mas
culine militaristic class.
Mrs. Pethlck Lnwronco has laid down two
propositions that are worthy of careful
thought:
"Reinforcement of the democracies of tho
world by the Inclusion of the mother-half of
tho human race Into tho ranks of. articulate
,.liUJzenship."
"That women ns well as men Bhould bo sent
as representatives of their nations to The
Haguo Conference " ,
Thesq suggestions nre not only practical,
but they are right. If women nro an Integral
part of tho nation and Inseparable from the
well-being and progress of tho race; If they
are sufficiently responsible to hold property
nnd capable of shaping tho physical, mental
and moral life of tho country, they surely are
competent to share the problems and perform
tho duties of full citizenship.
Charity at the Breakfast Tahlc
THE demands upon tho charity of Phlla
dephia have been extraordinary this fall.
A Macedonian cry which no great people
could neglect thundered from oversens At
home, with industry not yet recovered from
Ita heroic experiences on the operating table,
unemployment has become tho most pressing
of immediate problems. Those who havo suf
fered least during the period are being culled
on for contributions with a regularity that
has seriously depleted exchequers. Yet there
lina been no let-up In generosity, and cor
tnjnly Philadelphia has set a new standard
. for community servlco und the practical np-
f pjlfsatldn. of the Gqldon Rule.
iBut what man, tr hoenn avoid it. wants
Charity? The most priced right of the Ameri
can citizen is to do wltffout it. That Is what
Ami I lea has stood for the land of oppor
tunity, with n living in it for every man
with grit enough to take it Prosperity la
urirtetlilns demanded as a right. It belongs
to this people They have been trained to
espoot it Better, then, than charity is com
mon sense in legislation, capacity In states
manship, leadership that will shun the shoals.
There Is no charity that can cgmptwate for
industrial depression caused by Incompetent
legislation The economist has It over the
gtvejr every time henu hysteria Jo govern
tnpt means leas unemployment nnd less need
- fgr oharity PubUe policy Is tested at tho
, breakfast table of every man In the eountry.
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What's In It for Jones?
JONBS' picture is in th magazine. It
began to appear in the neHapapers ten
yeara ago. That was when Jonea gathered
together five or six heap of scrap iron and
converted them into a great nroduotlvo In
dustry. An expert in. ffleUnoy, men called
hjm, and so he was. His was a genius for
organisation. Quiek, sharp, incisive, ha met
: situation? day by day and got the better of
$J$g?n. The world has a reward in dollars for
at sort of man. Sliver and gold leaped to
A great man waa Jonw, liveried in
otimm." but Jobwj i dead. TiMara is the.
Wauaoteum, cold and forbidding, and in It
What Is left of Jone will ty Wll It onuu
Mas. Poor Jones. A fale note anywhere is hta
efganisatkm and he anew it Innoedtetety,
but wImb nature hoisted danger Hguul Joaaa
etta not recoeulaa them He waa too busy. As
to that taut liver. thre was Capaton. tbe Hvar
SjetXaHst. and aawthet man, rencwaad the
r)d over aa a authority on nerves, was
ipgal)I dawn th street go Jonas took
', Mp tneteaa of ftftenlse The machine be
alrnjleyl meted, but lone didn't Where
ptt$l to tet the tiiat.? It never occurred to
lgf tfcay J hour a 4ey for 10 years was not
OUtcA as I tour a da. fur 30 yttars lis
yaa so imhd for time U.at lie sttuaadered it
. Joftee b ii.aJ I'u.jr de.ll and thee
$ tWvl ltt tU- ( J il wilier J .rie cjafv-
8ajEjw rh s Hi i.uoie.i J.o0 he W
ftnil ni'"-i n i .1 ,: . i . cei fur elfiuiiiakers
la ttm - ' iirOiy, uj.t ttum of dm
JsaJJL In the eoUnjippartntly
haven't tho "foresight of n rjuffer" so fnr"n8"
care of the machine Providence put tholr
souls In Is concerned.
All Together to Help the Needy
TOMOMIOW, In nil the churches of the
city, the cry of our own people for aid
Will bo voiced. Tho Division for Organising
Branches of the Bmorgency Aid needs ne
slstnnco. Into the broach every citizen can
leap with full assurance that duty rests as
heavily on him as on any soldier In the
trenches Let thero be an outpouring of
I'htladelphlans that they may hear and un
derstand the necessity at hand and conso
crato themselves In this Interval of suffering
to the needs of their fellow men.
SclcclhiR the " Gonts"
IN THE henring beforo tho Public Service
Commission It was argued that "Now York
was enjoying better commutation scrlco at
a cheaper rato than I'htlsdelphla and no In
crease had boen suggested for Now York."
Mr. Pennypacker seemed to think that tho
railroads woro suffering from rato delusion.
That Is tho opinion most people have when
they stop to consldor tho absurdity of great
railways urging tho necessity for Increases
In tho environs of one metropolis whllo they
themselves, by thclt actions, admit that thero
Is no necessity whatever for BUch Increases In
another metropolitan territory but 00 mite
away. Tho situation Is so obvious that It Is
scarcely worth nrguing.
The truth Is that the Interstate Commerce
Commission has put tho railroads In such a
fix that they uro trying to wrlgglo out In
whatovor way they can. They havo boen
goaded to desperation by extra-crow laws nnd
grade-crossing enactments and dorens of
other roform-the-world-in-a-mlnutc statutes,
all ot which havo combined to Increase ex
penses Inordinately. But tho solution Is not
to mulct commuters. It Is to get fnlr treat
ment. We surmise that tho Legislatures will
be less radical hereafter, and thoro Is somo
reason to believe thnt tho Interstate Com
merce Commission is waking up But the
commuters do not Intend In tho menntlmo to
havo tho burden shunted onto tholr shoul
ders; nor do tho Philadelphia commuters, In
particular, feel that they should ho singled
out for punishment.
ltcalism in the Nursery
IS THE doll-fnco dono for? Not on ladles, of
course that wcro too much to hope but at
any rato on dolls "God has given you ono
face." says Hamlet to tho doll designers,
"and you make yourselves another." Tho
simpering, pudgy sweetness of fat checks and
fat foreheads and teeth llko a picket fenco
has been thrust upon children year after year
us a model of feminine perfection, until one
can hardly bliimo the way young ladles have
taken to Imitating It between IS nnd 22
But that Is over now. Realism has Invadod
tho nursery. Tho toy shops arc full of real
baby dolls. Thoy havo a Jolly sort of every
day klddlshness about them. Rolypoly and u
bit gawky, they look very much llko nn In
fant at Its most Investigative age, and with
a subtle Insight Into tho wlshywashy framo
of mind behind the baby-doll face, tho makers
call them "character" babies. Hooray for
character!
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To the End of the Game
THE war Is reaching tho stago when
economic laws come Into play. Tho enor
mous losses nro beginning to bo felt. Pro
digious loans cannot nbscuro the facts. No
dispatches from tho Interior nro necessary
to prove that tho nationals, as distinct from
tho nations, are becoming restive. Tho bur
den is becoming too oppressive.
On sea, the Allies hao succeeded In sweep
ing aside tho German menace Tho Kaiser
haB virtually no naval force lett except that
bottled up In his own ports. On land, the
campaigns nre beginning to produce some
thing definite. It Is evident, for Instance,
that the Russians arc Inferior to their oppo
nents, nnd are holding their ground, so far
un they nro doing eo, only by weight of num
bers. Tho Cznr's chief servlco to tho Allies
is In keeping so largo a forco of Germans
away from the war in tho West In Franco,
following General Joffro's magnificent de
fense along tho Marne and tho obvious with
draw il of Important German units to the
East, the Allies are in a strong position, vig
ilant and aggressive.
But a standstill means to both sides ulti
mate bankruptcy. Thoro Is n rebound from
madness ns from everything else, and hu
manity in Europo has not become so hysteri
cal that It will not count the cost. Rumors
of peace iipgotlatlons, or a feollng-out proc
ess, are significant In the circumstances. An
appreciation of tho utter wnste nnd folly of
the rltuatlon Is becoming apparont. The war
will not last three years. Another Bummer
will see the end of it. Tho gambler will play
so long as ho can get chips. When he enn't,
he has to quit. Europo is rushing to the end
of the game.
The greatest Russian triumphs are In re
treat. The plan to make tho City Commissioners
more powerful roads as if Mr, Costello might
have had something to do with it. ,
Theie have been more signs of prosperity
while Congress was not lit session than there
ever were, when It was.
There will be no peace prize this year, it is
announced This must mean that the Chau
tauqua lectures are to continue.
According to Admiral Fletcher, submarines
are no terror. Still, they and trouble are
always bobbing up together.
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Couldn't these new revolts breaking out in
Mexico be stopped under the provisions of
the hvyvs prohibiting endleas chains?
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Who will the five members of the Federal
Trade Commission .be? Three democrats and
two others, perhaps.
It is reported that tbe Japanese assault cut
TsIngtao la two. But It's etlll Just as hard
to pronounce as ever
Tha Osar has not yet Bone to the HrinaT
line, but be baa begun to praittee by firing
General Rinaeakarapf.
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The raid al Jeaaa Jaroea into Coffeyvllje,
Kan., is et)ualfd ealy by the daring raid of
tho Federal IVeague into Uie same town,
German arms ase evidently making prog
rtat eastward, bajk la Poland and in Bl-
glBffl-
It's a great thing to have the greatest
coaat-dafanea gits in (Jan world, bat there is
a growliw faeJtqj? thai tfea detail of supply
ing tbeja with maaunKtoa ahould be taken
under advisement
About ,80jeo Busaiaac and twttw as away
Otfrtvau and AustiUm itava baas tapwrad
S far tn tht. war accoMing to tha wex
oAkc, wl.uli .!! m iu huw wal leppur
htj co do tut vt-ratlty.
SOiME JGLUlDINdJlUXES . .
FOR SELF-EDUCATION
How Leadership Wns Achieved by Some
of tho World's Most Famous Men.
Eighteen Languages Mastered by a
Carpenter Alter Ilo Was Twenty-one.
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lljr JOSEPH U.ODELL
ANY ONE can gain nn education who la
J willing td spend his spare time in study,
In many cases tho mind does not awaken
in childhood, and tho erroneous conclusion
Is reached that tho dull bby or glri has no
natural aptitude for education. Many of tho
world's conspicuous men were dunces in
youth, among them Newton, tho discoverer
of gravitation; Shakespeare, the dramatist,
Edmund Burke, (ho orator: Patrick Henry,
the patriot; the Duke of Wellington, Eng
land's soldier and statesman; Stonewall
Jackson, tho Confederate leader, John Wee)
Icy, tho founder of Methodism; Henry Ward
Bcecher, tho prlnco of preachers! Ulysses S.
Grant, President of tho United States; Sir
Walter Scott, tho novelist; Linnaeus, the
botanist, and Byron, the poet, By stern
resolution and unflagging application to
books, thoso men were able to rotrlovo their
early losses and rlso to positions of leader
ship.
Tho possibilities of systematic read!
tho books are well chosen, are almost
limited. An Intelligent man can cosily
and digest an avcrngo of ten pages
oven of what Is called serious literature, If
ho will set osldo ono hour scrupulously for
tho purpose. Tho ordinary book contains
about 300 pages, nnd ho would thus grasp
(ho contents of 12 books a year. Almost any
branch of knowledge may be completely mas
tered In flvo years If such a habit Is per
sisted Iu. Sixty books, or their equivalent
In pnges, if carefully selected and thought
fully read, w.111 undoubtedly give a man export-
knowledge of tho subject upon which
they treat. When wo think of tho number
of days in each year in which more than
one hour could bo given to reading, wo see
how vast must bo tho gains nnd how swift
tho progress of tho man who is fully de
termined to educate himself
Romance of Hard Work
Ono cf tho most rcmarknblo stories of solf
educatlon IS that of Samuol Lee, of England
(born 1783, died 1862). As a. boy In n charity
school ho was so dull that his t . chcr gave
him up In despair. When 21 jenrs old ho
heard a priest read soma Latin in a Catho
lic church where ho was working as a car
penter. Leo's curiosity wns nwakened, nnd
buying n second-hand Latin grammar ho
learned It by heart. Following this, ho quick
ly read tho Latin clnsslcs and tho Now Tes
tament Ho wns very poor nnd had to sell
ono book In order to buy another. Then ho
learned Greek nnd Hebrew In the iamo
manner, working as a carpenter all day and
studying at night. Ho begnn to teach tho
elementary subjects In a school, but soon
found thnt, though ho knew soveial Ian
guacs, ho was deficient In tho humblest
branches of knowledge Ho had to resign
his school and almost starved whllo master
ing English grammar, geography, arithmetic
and history. But ho persisted, and swiftly
addod Arabic. Pcialan and Hindustani to
his stock of foreign languages. At tho ago
of 30 ho managed to enter Cambridge Uni
versity and four years later he was mado
professor of Arabic In tho snmo Institution.
Ho became complete muster of 18 languages,
and when he died ho was honored by all
tho world as ono of Its grentost scholars.
What Is Importnnt to remember Is that ho
reached manhood beforo ho realized 'the need
of study and yet by tho uso of his sparo
time ho was fnmous In less than 15 years.
Hero ore a fow rules for tho homo stu
dent which I wrote somo years ago and
which were adopted and sent to the .stu
dents by a well-known nnd successful edu
cational Institution that promotes homo
study.
First. Launch yourself upon tho task of
study with ns much Impetus as you can
command. Make n solemn vow to yourself
that you will study; write your determina
tion upon a piece of paper and sign it, and
If tempted to break tho promise read what
you havo signed It will remind you that
your manhood Is at stake.
2. In deciding upon tho course of study to
pursue estimate your Inclination and powers
to determine along which line you will reach
the best results. Usually tho thing to which
we turn naturally Is the one we shull bo ablo
to do best.
3. Get tho best available books. Some text
books nre written for professors or advanced
students, and aro useless for a beginner;
others are written for students In a class
room and presuppose a teacher present for
explanation or demonstration, but somo aro
designed for the man who must work alone
without a personal Instructor these should
be obtained. Thoy explain each difficulty in
clear and simple language and lead the stu
dent forward by natural stages from the ele
mentary to the advanced.
rorminp the Study Habit
t. Set aside a definite time for study, and
keep your books and papers always in one
place. In this way there will be no irritating
obstacle to delay the work or excuse an
omission,
5. Never allow an exception to your rule.
Let your friends know that your study hour
Is sacred. To make this easier set apart
another time for outside engagements and
pleasures When you have made such an
arrangement stick to it as if the destiny of
an empire depended upon your fidelity.
, If you study at night allow a few min
utes before going to work the nejtf morning
for review. A quarter of an hour will do,
and the subject will thus get firmly fixed In
your mind.
7. Whatever you learn from your books test
out In practice at the first opportunity,
g. Establish the habit of study by being
inflexibly diligent for a month. Work over
your books will be more tedious the first
week than the saoond, and tha swod more
irksome than the third, but It will stan be
oom normal and wilt tbaa be a dtilght,
8. Do not study with your h,ad near a
lanjn, JM fresh, ajr Into your reajB, V y
stow drowr" takj) a few moments 0f rW.
ojea and then resume study.
10. If you have hcadaehe as a. result ot
study $et your ayes exewlaed by a propr
poulijrt, and let hu preserjbe the right
glasses,
Tbera is oaa feature of thjs study habit
that U jtn averiaoked it not eihy quail
Asa a maa seatally for a sucaessrul life, but
also morally. Andrew Carnegie pays u, trib
ute) to the value of study upon character
3rit4 he says of bis youthful days I w
tcjo iMaffr studying to contract the bad habits
that auX sucl) inroads on the health ai.d
loclMU af yruas mm, ad Uua fceitMd ma
t Mglgr Majaj."
to,.KAJ.i4M'!TOBB M
n. " SfflHSEJSiSSS!. . .
3fe?,.
read , raga&fig3gEg
a day. ragHiNtiU
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COLONEL JOHN NIXON, PATRIOT
Memorial to the Man Who Publicly Itcad tho
Declaration Alter the Signing.
ON THE slto whero tho Declaration of In
dependence was first proclaimed to tho
proplt, a memorial bearing tho name of
C'nlorcl John Nixon Is to be erected Colonel
NImiii uuh tho man whoso voice carried tho
st mi g message of that great charter of
liberty Into tho very soul of tho listening
assemblage According to tradition, ono of
the iLimns why ho wns chosen for this func
tion was tho fnct that his voice wob of un
usual clearness nnd power, nnd It Is written
that tho multltudo which assembled at 6th
nnd Chestnut streets heard every word. But
before July 8 of that fateful year of 177G
this Philadelphia!! had already eurncd dis
tinction In tho colony and boyond Its
borders.
Ilo wis oiif ot the signers of tho Declara
tion which hd himself read In public Back
In li.Vi ho had put his signature to tho nou
Impoitatlon asntiment; In resistance to tho
stamp net. Ficm that timo ho was ono of
tho loaders In tho opposition to tho tyranny
of England. Ho was a deputy to tho con
vention of the provinces In 1771-75. In April
of 177G, when the "Assoclators for Homo Do
fenfe." (t which his father had beon ono of
tho fotndcis years earlier, was ngaln callod
Into sorvlce, ho whs mado a lieutenant colonel
of tho 3d Battalion, known otherwise as "tho
Silk Stockings'.'" j
A year later ho took charge of tho defensos
of the Deiawnro at Fort Island, nnd In July
beamo commander of the Guard of the City.
Following the signing of tho Declaration of
Independence, tho Committee of Safqty, ot
which Colonel Nixon was a member, ordered
that tho Declaration bo proclaimed tiom tho
State House on Monday, July 8, at noon. Tho
document was read by Colonel Nixon from a
wooden observatory erected for tho uso of
Dr. David Rlttcnhouse, tho astronomer, an
other great Phlladelphlan to whom a me
morial may bo erected. Tho observatory was
built by the American Philosophical Society
nnd torn down soon after the Revolution. A
wooden tablet mnrks tho slto at present. Tho
Pennsylvania Society, Sons of tho Revolu
tion, will replaco it, probably with one of
bronze. Tho inscription has not been de
cided on.
Colonel Nixon served the Colonies In battle
and In helping to Bupply the money and
credits without which the war would have
been a failure Succeeding John Cadwalader
as colonel of tho 3d Battalion, In December,
1776, he Joined Washington's army at Tren
ton, and took part in tho Battle of Princeton.
Ho was at Valley Forge in '78. In 1780 he was
a member of the committee which formed a
bank for financing the supply of provisions
for tho army. He helped organize the Bank
of North America, still a flourishing Institu
tion in this city. In recognition of this work
he was made Its second president in 1792,
holding the post until his death in 1S0S
Throughout the war he was constantly ac
tive, furthering in one way and nnother the
interests of the revolutionists,
Richard Nixon, father of the Colonel, was
closely associated with the pre-revolutionary
history of Philadelphia. He came to this
country from Wexford County, Ireland, near
thf close of the 17th century, and was one
of the large shipping merchants of the city,
Rlchurd Nixon was a member of City Coun
cils In 1721. During the excitement Incident
to the French and Spanish War he helped
organize the Assoclators and became captain
of the Dock Yard Company.
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Not a Good Show
From tha New York Bvanlnc Poet,
The news from Mexleo continues to be
kaleidoscopic in the suddenness of its changes
though it cn certainly lay no claim to the
beauty and order whiob belong to the Azures
of the kaleidoscope.
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Middle West for Busmen
From tha Omaha Be.
AH prognostlcstora logic for a steady revival
pf business, and they all look for the Middle
West to lead the procession. The moral u that
wery wide-awake matmlfcsturer or Uualnasa
man will find It to hie advantage to cultivate
the trade of this seetiaa gf the country where
farm jwoauet values are greater than ever, and
every farm produat festwy running full time
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AIIorMsl A Hone 1
Frept tha 8t, Paul IHepaUh,
It is reported tram hmlm that the British
are about to confer- a new kbedtve. on Bgynt.
But the Bgypttatw are ure than llkajy -to
lok tula gift khealve In the taouth before
Whole-heartedly aerlog him. '
sa-v tue oavy
(Na
Vnm Uw Xw York HfVt
It witt aot mead mattes by leskteg to sa
por Hon the blame pr to trace tbe aws fora
decline that Is psrlloualy near a deasdeaaa.
What Is wautud ie action action rtlrji) beiiJ
on knowledge and iataiUeuc and tollow4 by
h. quKk cuiirl uu.1 Curis'e aluiio uu fur
i.lab By ortl ui ni.ntaui.iu the at La ahojt
lg4 eaiit4 uisu ovj .aid above the fu
KfrAfi2tL auzaurtuui fit ia.Br ai,A .u ... ..h,a
1 &$'$ ' th taW- IJIlflWrtW
FOG
FOG J&; -
WHY THE ITALIANS
HATE THE GERMANS
Paris of Italy Have Been Overrun by
Visitors From North Who Prove Any
thing But Neighborly in Their Ways.
SGVKRAL cars ago un American, who
was making his first trip to Italy, fell
Into conversation with a German follow
traveler on tho subject of beggars. His rend
ing of Baedeker and other authorities had
convinced him that from tho moment tho
ship reached Naples his lifo would bo mado
miserable by swarms of repulsive men,
women and children soliciting, almost demanding-,
alms. As a matter of fact, ho was
less troubled, even In Naples, than ho had
often been in Now York. But nt the time
ho was greatly plcasod to discover an easy
means of protection. "You speak Gorman
well enough to bo taken for ono of us at
least by an Italian," said his candid acquain
tance. "So If you aro troubled by beggars
Just roply In Gorman. Thoy will run from
you as from tho plague. Wo Germans aro
not popular In Italy." Tho American was
duly grateful for tho hint, nnd pn tho ono
occasion when ho followed It ho found that It
worked llko a charm.
To say that tho Italians hato the Germans
Is hardly putting It too strongly. It is a
different kind of hatred from that which
thoy foel for tho Austrlans. The latter is
moro historical than personal. Were Italy
in possession of Italia Irredonta, Indeed, It
would doubtless become In tlmo a merely
traditional sentiment, llko that which waa
so long fostered by Americans against tho
British. The Austrlans aro n much pleas
antor peoplo than the Germans, nnd thoy
havo moro in common with tho Italians.
With all their flno qualities, tho Germans
cannot be called adaptable. Even In this
country, whero they become cltUens and
the best of citizens thoy keep their na
tional and racial traits with great tenacity.
And they aro more nearly akin to us than
to the Italians. When, therefore, they settle
In Italy, thoy aro very distinctively strangers
In a strange land though they may sing
tho Bong of Zlon almost too loudly. In other
words, they havo not tho tact to consldor
Italian sensibilities. The Italians nre nat
urally a grateful people. Tljey do not for
get that Germany, as well as England and
France, had a hand in the achievement ot
Italian unity. They woujd love the Germans
if they could, as they love tho English nnd
In a less degree tho French. But tho Ger
mans Irritate them by a condescending and
supercilious attitude toward Italy and every
thing Italian.
Control Many Banks
German enterprise and German money, to
be euro, have dono much for Italy. The
much visited Island of Capri is a familiar
illustration of this fact. The present inhab
itants are largely German, and they havo
carried out all sorts of Improvements with
truly German efficiency, The Italian Riviera
is another spot where this efficiency has
been manifested. Then, too, the Germans,
with their wonderful aptitude for business,
have Invested large sums in Italian under
takings; they control, for example, many
of the banks, as well bb the chief steam.
ship companies. This dominance has been
shaken recently and probably the war will
put an end to It But all the advantages,
and they are many, which have come to
Italy from German enterprise, have not suf
ficed to allay this fundamental antagonism.
The German would be obnoxious If only
for the reason that he Is not "flitnpatico."
Add to that a fear of his eQonomio and po
litical supremacy, and the cause of the ac
tual hatred which exists (a plain.
Probably there was never any chance that
the Triple Alliance would be unbroken In
time of war. Even. Bernhardt, dn his now
famous book, pojptsd out that the weakness
of tho Alliance was "its purely defensive
oharaeter' a. statement worth considering
In ocnneWpn with the German assertion of
the obllgajjoas ol Italy In the present war.
And he urgtd that, as Sngland stood In the
way of Italian ambitions tn the Mediter
ranean, Germany, should reconcile Italy and
Turkey and act as Italian champion against
both Baglamd and France. That would have
bean a wlsftwaad more Intelligible policy
than th one Germany nursusd when Italy
took Tripoli. Had she wanted to threw
Italy" Into the araw of her, low se eould
hardly haya, acted differently. Bvea If the
Geqesa had been batter Ufc4, the Italians
wuJd hay had no nthuslawp for Ue wric
of pttiRg tha Kaiser's cfcastisMs out of tha
4re.
Tea Seif-Csatrad
QM asftoiis auatax whtab tha "rreimii
hV naa lit their daaJMws with tha Itei
Mfltv k natural fssuit at what mm
plltia4l4t we mi -ail-
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or provincialism, but simply an inability 1
look at anything snvo from their own pofi
of vlow. An Illustration of this may
found in tho neighborhood of La go dl Gardi
wnicn is rapiuiy occoming a miio uermaa
Englishmen and Americans go to italSj
many of them to live there, not for tha
poso of taking England or America wlUV
them, but becauso thoy lovo Italy and It
Ian ways so much that thoy are willing,
a longer or shorter time, to expatriataJ
themselves.
Open my heart nnd you will si
Graved Insldo of It "Italy."
Browning's well-worn word3 express thejfi
feelings. No doubt tho Germans are
moro patriotic. Ono need never expect froS
them any variation from tho straiw
"Deutschland, Deutschland, ubor Alles.
Thus, though they compel respect, they a
not conquer affection.
Tho Trlplo Alllanco was never popular
Italy, and oven Us cxpedloncy was g(
orally doubted. Long beforo this war brokj
out, most Intelligent Italians would admit
that tho Idea of fighting with Germany
only less distasteful than that of flghtlnx.
with Austria. Tho writer remembers how.
In a long conversation on Italian aftal:
with h Sicilian priest ot pronounced derj
leal vlows, ho found that ono indictment,
acalnst tho Itnllan Government. In the CVM
of this loyal son of tho church, was ths,
Trlplo Alliance. It was. ho sold wrfh de'
llghtful Inconsistency, unpatriotic though
antagonism to United Italy was the highest.
kind of patriotism) But tho same idea
expressed by Italians of all classes in vi
ous ways. A peoplo who now cheer
hemently for England could not havp been.
oxpected to throw In their lot with Gej
many. It speaks ill for tho efficiency
German diplomacy that the adherence
Italy to tho Alliance in ari offensive i
should havo boen counted upon for a1 1
ment. v i
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THE NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM
The New York Central System was lnentel
by old Cornelius Vnnderbllt, a genial brleanjl
who starved out connecting lines Dy rnonv
ollzlng terminals and who Invented the phrwi
"The Public be Damned," an expiession wuv
has dona more to brine the railroads und
public control than all the reform speeches
the last 50 years.
in,. -KTci, Vn.V Pftntml hnffln In fl. SSO.000.
station In New York city, sweeps up the Hud
son and on to Buffalo, a magnificent four:
track railroad, covers New York, onio 8
Indiana like a fish net and ends at St. Lo
nnH varlrtitn TUInnla TinlntR In fl. humble S
unostentatious manner. It owns the La.!
!,. .hj XTIaItaI Uinta flnrl tYin Xflrhfcan Ceil'
kM'VIC, WIU ...WAV. A.UVV v.... ..- -. .- - .
tral systems, all competing lines, and wrmj
its pull with tne Qovernmoni is no ono .
tell, for no suit has ever been brought to dl
solve this Illegal combination. It operates ovei
isnnn milna nf railroad, la caDltallzed for J225.
ooo.ooo and owes halt a billion dollars La
.,. it ..rneH iir (VKt.nno. but this year
has to charge the traveler 10 cents for bread;
nnd butter on Its dining cars ana is exniuuim
other marked signs of poverty. u
Th New York Central has been the beet ad-d
vertlaed line in America. It built the first four-
track railroad. It ran the famous Empire State
TTnro. tha fastest train in the country It1
nut on the first 21-hour train between New
York and Chicago. It owned ana opersiea
Chauncey M. Depew, Ameriea'M famous after
dinner speaker, for many years. It published
a magazine of its own. Oeorge Daniels, its
enterprising general pasienger agent, lost no
chance during his life to emit an effective
shriek for tha New York Central, He even
fr.trniinpnil locomotives to the nubllo. and old 1
"999," with a record of 112 miles an hour, was I1
as famous as aiauu p in ua oar.
The New York central connects New York, .
n..M.1 M.v.lnmit Ttafrnlt HhlflvA niiu Im. 4
XJUUUIV; ..w, .., .., ....vwow, W...V.M-
natl and St. Louis with high-grade, double.
triple and four-track lines. It owns magnln
cent stations In New York and Detroit, but
still maintains a prehistoric cattleshsd in
Cleveland and recently caused several hun
dred cases of near-apoplexy in that city T.
propping up lis aepor. witn umbers instead o,
removing It with sn axe. George Fitch.
AT A GATE ON THE UIVC
At a gate on the hill in the parting Hour.
When the wind blew eolt on the spa.
He laid In the maiden's baud a flower,
Q sweet, thy pledge from rael
Years shall be sped, the flower be dead,
But net my love to thee;
O not my love to thee I
Keep thou it sUll in a heart on. the hill
In a tender memorial"
At a. gate on the hill, in a weary hour
When tbe rough wiad vexed the sea.
She held in her hand the faded flowers
"O eweet. wy pladge from theel
The years are sped, the flower 13 dead.
But not thy lova to ma.
T.Tfr taw "on" no news front the a
t iin sun ia a aa on the BUI
In a queaehtess nwraorlel"
Oa a grave by the Mil he knaU-alww.
w . use nam the sea;
He knelt atons by wbK gnAreHoae;
rheacToU heraaA:'
A -lWw Sowar is dead.
"i s my leva is nit,
Tho that) stays loli M the a.
B a topks hUi liwattsth U,
4a fairer sals fW thae:
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