Sjf-TO-v-" f- - - - ... 'A ) s igttttuug fSfc&gfr PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CVnLS If. K CURTIS. PttDt.it, .trilift P. Martin, TreAttirer. r-Mrlr Jt I.urtlnnlnn, Philip S Collin. Jnhn U William. Director IJDITotl. At, ttOAltt) t Ctfttslt it rmTi. rhalrnwi. P tt WHAI.EV Kxccullve Kdltor J01INC MAIVTtN... !' i'. i i mt in Ueneral nuathctit Manafer PuMtahfrl dally at t'Lotic Lttopa tJulldlnj, iwl&wmlence Square, Philadelphia. trrtr.ti rismii. , . , , , Broad and Chestnut Street Atlantic Citt PrMa-ttiftfH Ilulldlng Kkw Yrtms 170-Aj Metropolitan Tower CillcAno 81T Ititrnc Insurance llulMlnit UiHBOH S Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S. Vf. NnwsnunEAUfli tlAiarjn(i tlrrmF The Pnlrlot tlullillnr WiaillNftTttN rimMU The lol lliilMIn Nf Tonx TlcaKAB ... .. ...The Tlmrt IMIMInr BilN ItuaCAU nil Frtertrlehatraiw JjONOON MlntAV ... 2 Pall Mall Kant. S. W. Pa ma Ucr.u .33 ltue Loula la Urand sl nscniPTio,VTt.nM tly rrrlr Daii.t Only, l renin. Ilv mall. pnalpaM fititylde of rtillarlelphtn. except where forrlKn pomade reqiilmt. IJliiT unit, emu month, twenlv.flve cental Daiit ohi.t, nun year, three ilollara All mall ub tctlptloni payable In advance DE1.L, 0000 WAt.NUT KFTl STONE, MAIN 3000 BT" .IiMitjj nil communications to five-nine Ledger, arfcpenifertca Square, Philadelphia kNtiuah at tub rniLApELrnlA roatornci: a second Ct.AB MAIL HITtPR. rillLAtlFl.rillA, TIIUIISIIAV, JAMMKY 14, 1918. A'cicr put off aiivthluu until tomorrow ccpt jour clothes. THE Evening Ledokh Is four months old today. The nveragp net paid circulation for the econd week of publication, September 21-26, Inclusive, was 44,123. The average net pnld circulation for the 17th week of publication, January 4-9, In clusive, was 59,284. Thin means an absolute Increase of 1B.161 copies d.illy. which Is u Rain of more tlinn 84 per cent. In a period of a little more than three months. The weeks selected for comparison were normal wcckB. On special occasions, not during tho weeks specified, tho circulation reached as high an 80.000, nnd on one day the distribution was 95,000. There has been nothing spectacular In this Increase of circulation. It has been steady, Week by week, with an upward trend even in tho December period when newspaper circu lation generally shows heavy looses. Tho Evening T,kihikii has become In four months a Philadelphia Institution. SEPTEMBER. 21 46.987 22.... 43.C87 23 43.781 24 42,097 25 44,003 26 44.182 JANUARY. 4 BD.Bf.S 5 59,334 6 69.924 7 58,828 8 58,722 9 69,339 Average 44,123 Average ,...59,2?4 (Averngo not paid circulation means thoso papers for which actual cash Is received. It does not include office or other Incidental distribution, mutilated or returned copies.) No Right to Dictate THE DAGBLAD, voicing the sentiment of Sweden, declares editorially that "the Swedish people will never submit to Great Britain's osaumpton that it has the right to dictate Just how much of any particular goods Sweden requires for Its own consump tion, or how much of such goods she will be permitted to Import." It Is for Great Britain, If she can, to blockade the German Baltic harbors and so hut them off from commerce with adja cent ports. But Great Britain cannot expect the United States to acquiesce in the dis ruptive doctrine that her neutral trade to Sweden must be subjected to quantitative analysis by British ships. It Is enough for us to show that wo have legitimate orders for our goods from merchants In neutral ports. What thereafter becomes of these products Is none of our business. It Is for England to prevent them from reaching Germany If she can. Great Britain, unable to blockade the Bal tic ports, has In effect instituted a paper blockade of the neutral ports of Europe. She Is penalizing neutral commerce and eeklng to strike Germany through other nations not at wnr. It Is an arrogant as sumption of rights that no self-respecting nation can accept. There must be. no In terruption of purely nputral trade. That is a principle to which this nation Is his torically dedicated nnd which It must vin dicate. Let Mothers Teach Morality Many persons think that the schools should do everything to train the girl for life. This Is an Impossibility. The schools Must do their shore, of course, but the main part of the taak of properly bringing up a girl of the high school age falls upon the, mother of the girl. Miss Katherine Puncheon. WHEN the principal of the GlrlB' High School made this statement to the Mothers' Club she put the responsibility for the moral upbringing of girls where It be longs. The schools can teach girls arithmetic and history, modern languages, and chemis try. They can teach trades and professions. But they cannot teach righteous womanhood. The catechism tells us what Is the full fluty of man. The girls must go to school to learn cooking. They must go to school to learn how to sew. They must go to school to discover the proper way to make a bed and to darn their stockings. Some persons who call themselves progressives are demanding that tho girls go to school to learn the mysteries of life. And there are those who complain most bitterly because the schools do not lay greater stress on the common moralities. But what can a teacher, occupied with 40 or 50 Individual pupils, know of the moral needs pf each one? How can she help 60 rirbj understand what temptations are before tiiem and strengthen them to resist? How ver desirable It might be. the task Is physically Impossible. The responsibility for tfie protection of the girls- resls 'upon the mothers who brought them Into the world upon the very mother who Is reading these words as well as upon her neighbor next door. Every school teacher knows this, even it tna mothers do not Literary Road to Reform DtpECTOR COOKE tJjnks that reports of the city departments should be more in teresting; He would have them so written that the average citizen would read them as lui would read documents dealing with his personal business. Then, in the opinion of the tslrecter of Public Works, the people would nuUre th cltr business their flwi SlUtt take gtride la Its honest and efficient conduet and the Qreatsr and Better Philadelphia, of whlob. luauy are dreaming, would draw much awrr V u will dtMgre with Mr. Ceke. But v-u.is is the nan who cd make a public j ( ..mtuit a fartnUjis as the Intent novel? j lutetAlajr ueeeia to mukm Wtug j pamphlet o Intensely absorbing that It dis placed tho latest fiction In otheV forms oh the dressing tables of fashionable society. Glad stone could make a btidgci speech full of fig ures almost as entertaining an any fnlry story, anil other makers of language have achieved similar feats. It Mr. Codko had at his command n Gladstone or ft Macaulay, or Inciting these, an enthusiastic and trained newspaper writer, he might demonstrate wlml he means In his own department. But If ho succeeded In making his reports as read nble ns he thinks they should be, ho would nml thai tho advertising manager of a great enterprise would otltbld him for the services of his genius. The experiment, nevertheless, Is worth making, Be n Good Citizen Tonight , Lr.T every citizen of Philadelphia do his 1 duly tonight by taking part In the mon ster demonstration. A city is up In arms, a whole people reverting to methods of older days that their representatives In Councils may be estopped forever from pleading Igno rnnco of the public wishes. Take part in this ultimatum of the citizenry that you may boast of It to your children nnd their children. For let no citizen Imagine that a great outpouring Is unnecessary. There nro wary obstructionists nbout, even If n storm of protest has swept them temporality Into their holes. There still aro Councllmen who must be whipped Into line. One gentleman, for in stance, sagely announces that ho does "not understand rapid transit," although the nlr has been full of little else for months. An other says that he hns been out of town nnd knows nothing nbout It. Still another talks nbout what he will do "If plans are made by March," as If the plans had not been pub lished months ago. No, nothing must be takon for granted. There Is obduracy to bo overcome, and the public must speak tonight In a voice so freighted with determination that no group of men will daro defy It. There Is but one issue. That Philadelphia shall have rapid transit nnd a universal 5-cent fare hns become a civic passion which cannot bo denied and opposition on tho main proposal has been hamstiung. Tho ob structionists still cling to tho hope, never theless, that they can delay the beginning of construction a full year by postponing tho election until June. March or Juno is tho lsue, the vital issue. It Is to this point that the meeting tonight must be directed Let Its verdict In favor of a March election bo overwhelming nnd mandatory, ns it will bo If the demonstration approaches what Is augured In magnitude. For theio Is no power In Philadelphia that can successfully resist a program of the whole people, intelligently conceived and definitely brought forward. It Is a citizens' assemblage, and In it every citizen should take a part, rich and poor, employed and unemployed. Let them march by tens of thousands within the shadow of City Hall, with one purposo In view and one purposo only: namely, that they be given the opportunity to vote for rapid trnnslt in March, not In June. The people have their lasso on rapid transit and now is the time to corral It. Let every man put his citizenship to' tho test tonight. The Earthquake iii Italy WHEN the legendary Enceladus turned In his bed under Mount Aetna In 190S and Sicily and Calabria were shaken as they were never shaken before, 103,000 lives were destroyed. This was the most disastrous earthquake In Italian history, after the fa mous destruction of Pompeii nnd Hercula neum. It was so recent and so terrible that the earthquake of Wednesday, in the vicinity of Rome, seems trivial In comparison. But not b nco 1693, when Sicil nan shaken by the vulcanic disturbance In Aetna, have thete been half a dozen more serious calamities In Italian territory. The Itnllan peasants, and even some of the -well educated, are seeing signs and portents In this earthquake. The colonnade on one side of the plaza fronting Bt. Peter's was cracked. The column of Marcus Aurellus In the Piazza Colonna was broken, and the statue of St. Paul that surmountB It changed Its position. And, more ominous than these, the 60-foot statue of the Saviour on the roof of the church of St. John Lateran was hurled to the ground. "What can these things mean, but that God Is displeased because Europe Is at war? The natural explanation of the earthquake will not satisfy those who are pleased to see In It a manifestation of divine displeasure. But whatever theory we may hold, the stricken districts deserve the sym pathy and assistance of, that part of the world which Is at peace. That part devas tated by war will extend Its sympathy be cause It knows what suffering Is; but it cannot give much assistance Are you for rapid transit? Say so tonight. There Is a rush to get on the transit band wagon now. Flops show which way the wind blows. That shortage of toothpicks In Belgium would seem to be the absolute zero In things to worry about. Mr. Bryan warns all Americans against making unnecessary pleasure trips to Eu rope, What do you mean, pleasure trips? Senatpr Borah shpuld not be toq hard on the President, Batellltlah la a strange word, oHiarsh word, and Mr. Bryan may not like It. An American newspaper writer has been wounded, which goes to show how dangerous war Is for correspondents, now that they can not get to the firing line. Governor Tenetfs experience as an execu tive may enable him to steer the baseball ship of state through the shoals. Good luck to him In the trying, but ha has a man's Job ahead of him and more besides. The resignation of Berchtold, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Is one of the best things that has happened In a long tme. The opinion, baa been general that he waa a little more responsible than anybody else for tho war. He ivould haye been entitled to the peac prize had be resigned a year agD. fr without him there would taav been po oatajtlyUm. It woul4 at Jeat ba been itgoacd. MORE EFFICIENCY IN OUR CITY GOVERNMENT Why Philadelphia Needs n Single Chnmhcrcd Council Senatorial Dis tricts Might Bo the Election Uittts. The Present Legislative System. Hy CLINTON 110GK11S WOODRUFF HOW many subdivisions of a municipal legislature should thero bo? Or, to put It In another way, should n municipal Council, lo achieve the maximum of governmental efficiency, consist of one or two chambors? Tho answer of recent Amellcnn develop ment hna hecn overwhelming. It Is that a single-chambered Council not only suffices for all tho city's needs, but It Is an essential part of a modern charter. Not a single now charter drafted within tho Inst 10 yenrs but has provided for a single body. Every commission-governed city, and thero aro 400 of them, has one sln-Blo-clmmbercd Council. Of tho lending 50 cities In the United Slntcs, only the following havo a two chambered body: Philadelphia, Baltimore, Kansas City, Piovldenco, Louisville, Wor cester, Mass,, Itlchmond, Va and Cambridge, Mnitn,. Why should Philadelphia remain In tho "diminishing clas1"? Why should not Philadelphia, havo the 'best posslblo legislative machinery Instead of the least effcctlxo7 Juggling of Public Policies Why has tho tiond of American cities been toward a single body? Chiefly becnuso of the demand for responsibility nnd re sponsiveness. The American pcoplo want t'lllclency. To grit clliclency theio must be ii concentration of irtiponslhility, nnd there enn bo no such result when thero nic two IrglHlutivn bodies, between which public policies may be Juggled nnd pvenlunlly lost to sight. Wlioro jou hno surh n Council, now j on sco a policy, and now you don't, nccmdliig to tho desires of those In 'Con tiol. Tho American people want a larger mens uro of democracy In their city governments, and, tbcrfore, they want responsiveness In tholr legislative bodies. The Evils in a Double Chamber True, a double chamber Is responsive but to tho political organization In control, rather than in tho people who nrc moat directly concerned. Philnilclphluus do not havo to go far nlleld for an lltiistrnllnn. To whom do tho pres ent Council respond the more quickly: Tho people who nominally elected them, or to tho political organization that selected them, In tho first place, nnd mnnnged their election In tho second? How should tho Council lie made up of members selected nt largo or elected from wnrdi? The trend in the smaller communities has been ovei w hplniliigl v toward election nt large: and so in cities llko Boston, Buffalo. Pitts burgh, St. Paul, Denver, Seattle. Pnrtlnnd, Oic: San Francisco, Los Angeles. Cleveland In her new chnrtcr lias rotniurd ward representation. Sho has a single chamber, consisting of one member fiom each ward. St. Louis clerts her Council nt large, but thero Is one member nominated from each ward. The Case of Philadelphia What about Philadelphia? Thero are thoso who advocate a single body of ID, elected at large. But is that the wisest course to follow In a city of tho size and character of Phila delphia? Is thero not some mlddlo ground between election nt largo and ward repi oscil lation which will do away with the dangers of the two plans? Log-ioillng Is tho great evil of small ward lepiesent.itlon. But there is a real demand for Borne sort of local rep resentation In a city of Philadelphia's size. Partisan control Is the great danger of a Council elected nt largo in a metropolitan community. Why not adopt a large unit say tho Sena tmlul districts nnd elect two or three mem bers from each district? ' This would give us a slnglp small body, nnd n repic-entntlvp body South Philadel phia. West Philadelphia. Ninth Philadelphia, flprmiintown, Nmthcast PlillndPlphln and the cptitinl sections would nil be lpprespnted and ct wo Mould be getting away from the domination of tho small wards, which now conttul the situation. To such a body, so elected, tho city paying an adequate compensation, wo could entrust the election of a city manager, when the time comes, with a reasonable assurance that a high-grade man would be selected on the basis of merit. To be sine, as the late E L. Godkln said: "No municipal reform will last long or prove efhclpnt without a strong and heathy public spirit behind It. With this almost any char ter would prove efllrlpnt", but at the samn time, there are certain forms of government which make for Inefficiency and misgovern ment, and the double-chambered Council Is such an one. And thero are others which make for bettor government, and he slngle ehambcred body Is such an one. Antiquated Tools The big Idea that crops out In nearly all the formal discussions upon the Improvement of municipal government hinges, as the Bal timore American says, upon the theory that government for a city means, or should mean, the management of the city's affairs upon scientific business principles. "Tiat," In the words of the American, "was the Idea that cropped out in the discussions at the sessions of the National Municipal League. It Is also the Idea that is being more or less effec tively applied In the governmental affairs of the majority of modern cities. We are. grad ually outgrowing the belief that protecting the Just from the unjust Is the main func tion of government." The Modem Idea jn Government This new conception of municipal govern ment, which makes It tho greatest' actor In our lives, requires a new conception of our legislative body and a, new conception of an administrative force. The former must bo selected because of their ability to see the city and Us neads and to formulate wise pollolM. The lattwfmust be selected because of their ability toejute policies. The need of experts Is coming to be recog nized more generally and there are few cities In these days that are attempting to do things without expert advice. There is a vast amount of experimentation Just now with th machinery of city govern ment, but to quote again from the Baltimore Ataerlean. "there is not now and thsre never will ba a government machine that will run automatlally and grind out a good brand cif go'miavot, Ajway awl always It vlll FLOOD 1 ' ' , . ) bo the men behind the mnchlnery that will put the good or bnd stump on tho results"; but It is equally futile to expect oven the host of men chosen by the most enlightened constituents to do good work with antiquated tools, nnd yet this is what wo nro expecting our municipal legislators nnd administrators to do In thoso cities vvliero old-fashioned governmental machinery hns not been role gated to the Rcrnp-heap. THE CLAWS OF ALMA MATER Wlmt Happened to Hill Smith and Some Other l'cllous Willi the Snmo Name. BY HURTON KLINE AT lcn.st by heaisay, If not by experience, everybody knows the startling rpvplatlons that befall when you look at tho simplest drop of water especially Philadelphia water thiough a micro-scope. But vvntor Is not tho only simple substunco to reveal hidden wonders. Tnko Harvard University, for ex ample. On the surface Harvnid wears even better than Hip usual divine smile of Alma Mntpr. Under the microscope she confesses to traits of character that would have dis graced Semiramis. Alma Muter has n benign fnce, but slip has also cruel claws. All col leges have turned out distinguished men, Other men, worthy fellows, they nro as stead ily driving to suicide. Read on, If you don't bollevo this. Havo a look through the micro scope and bo convinced. Young mpn come to college in what Is cour teously called tho formative state. Their minds are as if packed lit boxes. No one, not even tho owner, knows definitely what Is In each box. College exists to pry oft tho lids and liberate the contents. Some of tho lids never get pried off In college. It takes the heavier hammer of the real world io knock them off. Most of the lids como off readily. A few of them fly off of their own neemd. Tho minds within them leap out at tho (list touch of tho college hammer. They begin taking tho prizes. They get olected to class offices. The faculty, regard' lng them as happy results of their shaping, slnglo these minds out for favors and hon ors Fame, at least within the college, has como nt onco to these chaps. That Is to say, the college has nlieady begun to pinctlce Its cruelties on some of these poor devils. Because the four ycais of college are not a long enough test. College cannot avoid sometimes ciuelly encouraging tho wrong man One chap it may discover, by every test, to bo a second William Slinkespeare. It tells him this. It carefully but proudly prepares him for tho responsibilities, the pinnacles and pitfalls of being another Shakespeare Then ho goes out Into a wait ing world, which Is apt to bury him as plain BUI Smith. This Is rough on William. Hitter and sometimes traglo disappointment is his lot. Some years ago one of these William Smiths shono brilliantly nt the greatest of our col leges. No Cambridge tea was complete with out his presence. His epigrams and pithy grams were dnlly bandied about the college, and even beyond It. By every appearance he had only to step out Into the vvprld, take a firm grasp of things and Immediately be President, or a great poet or railroad mag. nate. Today he Is probably the most accom plished member of the I. W. W. fraternity. No doubt he regards himself as a sincere and Impassioned reformer. In reality lie hns simply formulated a philosophy to explain his failures and express his personal disap pointment and bitterness. College had cruelly encouraged, overencouraged him. Alma Slater has Beorred him with her claws. Do be careful, Almal Prussianizing the United States Senile From th New York Herald. Being blessed with the leisure essential to a proper reading of official reports of Congres. slonal proceedings, the Hartford Courant has discovered that the chaplain of the Senate re cently advised the Almighty In an opening prayer that "The State Is a divine Institution called Into being by Thy grace to secure the freedom of Thy people and to guarantee to them their nat ural rights" Most Americans regard the State as a man made business arrangement for carrying on the affairs of government. The Idea that It Is a "divine Institution" was born lq Prussia, has beeu fastened upon the German people in the name of "kultur" for the convenience of the ruling caste, and should not have any place In the United States of America. Chance for Home Textile Trade Prom the New York Press, One of the best results of the war Is to teach the United States to depend upon herself for fine textiles. With the Prenoh mills closed, the most exquisite novelty silks must be manufac tured here If they are tQ be worn In coming seasons. Now tbat our manufacturers are put upon their mettle they are In a fair way to establish In this emergenoy a reputation worth having as a permanent asset Those "Literary" Battalions Vrom ih AtUnia Constitution. Tt I'hkagu Herald speaks of "literary bat talions " That's wbttre war has a utneh. Any critic .can uu.lt th.ua fighting toad. CRUISE OF THE GOOD SHIP "RED CROSS" Incidents in Foreign PorLs Dodging the Borders of War Hospitality of tho Netherlands. By ARMISTEAD RUST Cpliln U. S. r7, Itctlrerii Ltle Miller S. S. Itn) Crou ON August 5, 1914, the International and Wnr Bollef Boards of tho American Red Cioss Society Society issued an appeal to tho people of this country for funds to sond a ship to the unfortunate nations Involved in this war and to carry on tho work of tho society In Europe. This plan was approved by President Wilson, who made a second ap peal on August 13. In response to the needs of the society Congress passed a Joint resolu tion on August 20 authorizing the American Bed Cross Society to chnrtcr a ship of for eign register for tho purpose .of sending prompt assistance, and tho steamor Ham burg, of the Hamburg-American Line, vvns selected to transport tho surgeons, nurses nnd medical supplies to tho ports of Fal mouth, Bordeaux and Rotterdam. The ship was given tin American register, her name changed to the Red Cross, and on September 3 the United States ensign nnd Red Cross Aug wcro hoisted and tho ship placed In commis sion. Tho Red Cross personnel came on board on September 5, 30 surgeons under Major R. U. Patterson, Medical Corps, United States Army, and 125 nutsos under tho direction of Miss Helen S. Hay. Tho loading of about S00 tons of medical supplies was completed on September 12. The Red Cross sailed for Falmouth the next day. Great Interest was manifested In tho depnrturo of the ship as she proceeded down North Rlvor the day before, as sho was saluted on all sides by tho shipping at the docks and passing steamers, ferryboats and tugs. On her return to New York, travel stained and worn, with the white paint wash ed off In great patches, there was not one tug boat so lowly ns to do her reverence not a "bloomln' 'orn to give a toot." As fine fenth ers mako flno" birds, so fine paint makes a fine ship. The Light of the Cross In order to enable foreign men-o'-war to readily distinguish the ship at night-a large cross mode of rod electric lights was carried on the mainmast, which could be turned on In a moment The first night out from New York a large ciulser approuched and turned on her searchlights, but Bped away In the darkness when this cross wns displayed. The ship arrived at Falmouth about mid night September 23, and wns boarded and Inspected under the searchlights of the forts on shore, and given tho necessary private signals to enable her to enter the harbor. The Mayors of Falmouth and Penzance and other officials visited the ship, and at the request of the Mayor of Falmouth the ship was oponed to visitors for a day, when It was estimated between 1500 and 2000 persons came on board. Prior to chartering the Red Cross tho society had requested Rear Ad miral Aaron Ward, U. S, N retired, who was In Europe when the war broke out, to make preliminary arrangements for the transportaion of the personnel and supplies to their various destinations upon the ar rival of the ship. Admiral Ward came on board at Falmouth and returned to New' York In this ship. During the passage from Falmouth to Paulllac, tho port of Bordeaux, the present capital of France, the ship was frequently spoken by British and French cruisers and torpedoboats, On one occasion while sig naling to a French cruiser it was observed that her gun's were trained on the harmless, old Red Cross. Of course this was not any thing but a very proper precaution, as a good rule to observe In time of wr Is not to trust anything that you see until you know all about It. However, a negro waiter seeing this threw up his hands and exclaimed, ''Come an' git us, but Lord, don't shoot!" Cotton Bales Bayonetted As the stores were being discharged at Paulllao one of the soldiers on the dock, not having an X-ray machine, handy, ran hla bayonet through a bale of cotton, presumably for purposes of inspection, to the Intense disgust of one of our Red Cross surgeqns, who was very indignant that any one should take such a liberty with an American bale of cotton and pel haps Introduce some foreign microbe. He could hardly have been mere Ipdlgnant had the bayonet been stuck in him. Or perhaps he was Indignant that the soldier should have put his bayonet to such an Ig noble use as tQ stick It In a bale of cotton when it was Intended to be put to the noble use of sticking a manl These soldiers seemed to b fond of bayonet practice. Judging from the experience of a colored gentleman who left the dock to ex plore the town but soon returned very much out of breath, saying, "Dat ain't no place for me One o' dera sojers Jus' chased me back to de ship with one o dem rosat skewers!" Bet after Mfovtpir B$w Xork tbre stow- Mines in the North Sea Scenes on nwnya woro found onboard, one Austrian &nl two Germans, who were hero turned over (? a French army officer. Tho day belofi' reaching England theso hid again for feu that they would be delivered to tho British authorities, and they gave tho ship's police' lively hunt before they wero found, but lif British authorities declined to receive uW They left tho dock at Paulllac In an auty mobile with their captor, contentedly smoking cigarettes, which had been furnlshM them by this polite ofTlcer. Dead Floating on the Sea We sailed from Paulllac for Rotterdam October 4. At 1 a. m., October 6, a wlreleivi message was received stating that the Brit lsn nau laid mines In tlio southern part,o( tho North Sea, nnd warning nil vessels, mill crossing tho North Sea a number of BrltMs torpedoboats and trawlers dragging Iota mines wore sighted. Every effort was evMa dently mado to keep a route to Holland cleir; of mines. On October 6, nbout 2:40 p. m., near this Maas Light vessel off the Hook of HollandJl tho bodies of Boveral seamen were seen froa the ship floating In tho water. Without dpufct these poor fellows had been members of thl crews of tho British cruisers Abouklr, Crclsr nnrl TTnrrnp wtilnli lin,l hcoti nnnlr siSmn tlmft beforo by a German submarine. This spec- tacie urougnt it home, to thoso on board uiH they wcro approaching the scene of hoi-a unties. ;M sonnel, the parties for Germany nnd AustrliS wprn lanilpfl. Wp nil felt pnnvlnreH of tell fact that no more earnest and efficient rrS ties were over sent out by the Hed trosi Society thnn those who went to Europe o: this occasion. vJB Moored to tho dock In tho quiet harbor cli Rotterdam tho ship's officers passed tM stormiest part of the cruise. It l w, known among senfaiing men that it Is Ii posslblo to mix Irish firemen, West hid! negroes and gin In such proportions as tw produce harmony, at least It was not done,45J this rnsp, but nn obliging and efficient I'Mrf of police on shore with his comfoi table qu3 tcrs for the unruly relieved the sltualioa very much. Refugees in Holland During 'our stay at this city Antwerp w taken by the Germans, and we saw thou; sands of refugees arriving nt the rallw& station, men, women and children, paea In box cars as close as the,y could stM Tho general spirit of tho Netherlander w, shown in the way they received and csrf4 .. 41 ......., ntnnla .l.Vir, WrA rlfCS the greatest hospitality. The American lw Cross Society and Its ship shared In l", generosity. The firm of Hudlg & Veder afe, tended to the business of the ship wlthootl chnrgo, nnd Important repairs were made v tl the machlnerv without cost: In fact, everR thing wns done to show their appreciate of the mission of the ship, though it n" S. no ndvantace to the neonle of Holland. On October 12. at 6:30 a, m., the Red Cntf, sailed for New York. As soon as clear lh rlvnr th wlrftlpKn teletrrailh aPPaWWi L was put in commission, all watertight dogi closed and the boats made ready mr .iu l n .,IM,l nnnalhla for It W88 MS lit, an ,,b.w , ,vi.H.w.v, - realized at this time that the North Sea' every day becoming a more dangerous a lng ground. During the afternoon a female stowM njna rilannvprort nn hnnrd. The paSSew made up a purse for her before we re3tiM XT.n. -vl. .i.aha alia .,aa turned OVff J2, iyqw A u n, nitc(g mm ,, .,.- the Immigration commissioner- Should Have Learned Ifl Albany Journal, . j? ... .. m .. . i.. ., InaUwflfl. inougn tne rresiaeni, wnen - jnw Inln nfflxa bnxv llllln about bUSlne$S .ffii average bu!no man knows about Mn.J,f"a the affairs of a college, ha snouia - ,jyi by this time that the railroad of the wfjgfi of this country's business. nmi i ' ' """ Cause and Effect From the Omaha Bee. i, Paradoxically, tSe soimenng in ""'"Jjaj M coninnuung caue o vio ihm. - - -Ays? soldlerine rolnsr on at present In our ow "i try. , THE WINDS OF GOD Aoroji the azure spaces. Athwart the vasts of eky. With windowings of mighty wln The wind of Clod go by Above the meres and mountains. With unseen sandals shod. Above the plains, with chorlo tru Sweep by th windi of God, "Peace'-ln His name'" they tnuramn "Pm in Jis name"' thy cry Ob men. give aj-l Do y(e not bear uue winds si uoa go p-t -Oltntos EcvJlird. jfa in lna