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EVENING LEDGER PHILADELPHIA. flATTTKDAY. MARCH 13, 1016;.
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Chariest! Lucllnition, Vile i,re,.litent,.fohn L" Martin,
Secretary ami Tmmuref fVhlllp H Cnlllna John II.
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KDlTuniAt. ISOAllDt
1 hi H K c tin, Chairman
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In t,priiilltia tl.
Woman's Place in the Nation
ANSWERING tho arguments nf suffragists
Xi Is n pnstlmo In which few opponents of
the calise Indulge. They prefer to talk In
gencrnlltIo, nnd Irt It go at that.
"Woman's placr Is In the home'-- from
which sho has been ousted to the number of
nearly 10,000.000 hv (conomic pressure. Phe
belongs In the home, perhaps, but she hap
pens to bo In the factories anil behind the
counters of stoics Tn be sure, women's
giandmothcr., did not Imve the v He nnd wore
satisfied, but in that .state n'so were the an
cestors of the ploneois who c.ilne to this
country because at home they faced the sumo
blind wall of prejudice, and wnntcd to fret
to some place on the geography where stund
pattlsm "Would not be a. religion. They suc
ceeded In their purpose, wherefore there Is
now a United Stales, n nation bulltlod
quite as much by the heroism of Us women
ns by the brnverj ol its men
The best kind of electorate would bo a re
stricted ono, whereby tlio right to a voto
would bo earned and prized accordingly; but
since breeches nnd "I jcars of life nro now
the solo qualifications for the franchise, ordi
nary good judgment icqiilro.s that the quall
fl( atlon of Kurb be eliminated and npe alono
he left. Just wh an uneducated man should
be considered more lit for the ballot tluin an
educated woman is not clear except to tho
uneducated man.
Ably Represented in Mexico
THE Brazilian Minister is without doubt
the ablest representative tho United States
has had In Mexico since the present Admin
istration came Into utile e Within less than
24 hours After the muuler of an American
citizen by tho Zapatistas in Mexico City ho
demanded that tho murdeieis be punished
and that reparation bo mado to tho family.
Then ho reported to Washington what he
had done. This is the ordinary cotirso of
diplomatic proceduro In such cases instant
and vigorous demand lor punishment and
reparation and the Hrazillan Minister could
not have done less without neglecting his
obvious duty. Hut the men sent from Wash
ington to Mexico City have been content
with much less in similar cases.
Now it Is up to Washington to enforce tho
demand made in Its behalf. Mr. Crynn says
ho approves tho course of the Brazilian Min
ister and has urged him "to leave no stone
unturned until the murderers are punished."
IJut those Americans who hao been match
ing the courso of the Administration are not
confident that redress for tho murder of
Americana will bo found under any stone
which tho Brazilian Minister can turn over.
Give the Other Fellows a Chance
THE scheme to givo tho haHebnll teams of
other cities a fair chant o to beeoino
pennant-winners bv apportioning among
them tho gicat suns of Philadelphia will
doubtlths be advnntngiou.s to the national
puntlmc Mr. Mack, it appears, had collect ml
so great nn aggiegatioii of ball placrs that
adversaries became discouraged, and wero
whipped boforo they began to fight. In tho
circumstances, it Is right and proper, and
sportsmanlike gonerosity requires, that thera
bo a shifting of players to tho end that bat
tles Instead of slaughter may bo furnished
at Shlbo Park, Easy victory has become
monotonous. As for tho Phillies, now In
process of Incubation as a ball club, It may
be remarked that oven If many strong mon
have left, tho inappi oathable Alex-ander still
remains, a wholo nine In himself when occa
sion requires. It may bo a summer of real
sport
End of a Beautiful Life
EVEN his bitterest enemies should cense
their reviling while John D Rockefeller
is engaged in performing IiIh last solemn
duties to his wife Indeed, they should bo
alilo to discover something fine tn say of the
rtlation that has existed between husbiind
and wife for SO years. Ills friends will say
It, anyway.
And It was fine, this companionship for half
a century between the most suoceesful
money-getter of his generation and this
imet. modest, retiring woman who sought
ipuher to exploit herself nor her husband's
wealth. It might have beon no different!
Society, with a capital "S," had no charms
for her and none for her husband. A bos nt
the opera, dinner parllrs In her own home
and at the publlo restaurants, with frivolous
guejjla who cared for nothing but what they
ate And what they wore; a season at the
watering places of Europe and K parade as
an animated dummy for displaying gowns
and diamonds, active participation In the
standala that disgust the Judicious and
make the Injudicious emuloua thoe things
v.r within her reach If she had chosen to
take them. Hut the sought the quiet society
c ," bvr husband and friends after the fashion
tt tne ladies of old raintly ami long-estab-Hfcbfd
position, in preference to the tragl
tnmvd of the display of thoae who have Just
come mtu a fortune, without having smimb
enough 40 understand that money cannot
juake people different from what they are
And Mr, Rockefeller solultous care of her
$!irtj; recent years ha hen a fine tribute
'It.jM'M' worth ami 4 revel. u ion of a side of
'f''.' uiaii' suture wbirh was, Jn tl.- euspeited !
j 1 tiftor all, uch a life js these tww peopb
,ut Uyd Is 1 1 psjMWlioj a 1 li m s 1 .' in
1 1 1 !.at iif Ulkf it M 4 (patter of iourm.
' if i- UDtauig about it to attitl uuunual
,, 1 tun or tt Sliitfb uveif like the twrmony
a. i'li uic jhumh lhv d(corUs are what
lEutmmg
g( t Into tho newspapers nnd persuade the un
thinking that the domestic lire of tlio eiy
rich In America Is full of lottenncss nnd nit
uuclentiness.
Greatest nf Modern Salesmen
BIGG lilt Minn any uini In It !i Philadel
phia. It Is the irmilt of forcos which
have accrued to It through sum ceding gener
ations nhd lme stumped upon 11 n ehnrneier
which it enn neer lose, tt lied Uh great
men !e!terdny nhd II bus its gtent men to
day. There will be others tnttiuttmv ti tflko
IhPli places. .Men dip but tho t'll.v HtirvlVM.
becttitse thtl'8 Is inme In It I hall hllrlt Rild
tnnrtar or living Mesh. A imturul catnhtrnphe
mleht lay Its bulldlugs In ruttis, but 1'lilln
deltihla would remain. Tho genius of Its
instlttillons Would survive, inspiring tho new
with the old, emphasizing tho city's Itletitfl
hut not changing them, giving them a dlf
fricnt garb, but In no wlso filleting them In
essentials.
it was progiesHlvcnosa, stamped with wlso
rntisorvntlsin, that pushed tho city forward
In lis beeliinfnR tn Revolutionary times
the henrt of the radicalism Hint spelt free-
I (lorn wns here, ttpfore then Philadelphia
, nrtlsnlis hntl spread their fame from ono end
of the Colonics to the other. Industry here
hnd allniiied an nseendnney nnwhero elao
DPimrrni. Men thotiHlit and talked Philadel
phia. They udvortlaed tho city In tho only
way then Ictinwn In which to atlvortlse It.
There Is nothing tho matter with Phila
delphia's great Industries now. In excellence
of innnufncturo they ehnllengo compnrlsnn
with tho liest anywhere. Hut our pnducrrs.
many of them, have boon enntont to hide
their light under u bushel. A new weapon
lifts como Into tho Held, os vastly superior
to old ones ns the modern 42 centimetre guns
nre to the obsnlcto cannon of tho ISth cen
tury It In publicity. Markets arc no longer
circumscribed, fo excellent Is our system of
distribution that the irerchint can sell to nd
vnntnge In everv hnmlet of the land Cheap
printing has made It possible for hlrn to take
llto world Into his confidence And whatever
the market the merchant or producer seeks
to cultivate, (hero Is but ono Instrument
with which he ran thoroughly plow It. nnd
that Is publicity. The great salesmen of
modern times nro dressed In type, not
breeches.
Philadelphia producers must market their
own products. They lire mnde In Philadel
phia and must be so'd from Philadelphia.
Cities retain supremacy by attracting
brains, nnd tho value of brains is to conceive
now methods and sclzo quickly processes
which have been proved advantageous else
where. The Unchurched Masses
of the must interesting books issued
cr;
from the Government Printing omec is
tho Statistical Atlas. It contains more than
BOO pln'es and dlagiams in whirh tho statis
tics on a Inrge number" of subjects 1110
graphlca'ly represented so that at a glancf
one enn tell which county In Tenncwen
lalses the ' most cotton, which county of
Pennsylvania contains the greatest number
of inhabitants of foieign hiith. wheie marriage-
mid divorces are most common, nnd
the relative strength of the different reli
gious denominations to one another and the
relation which tho ohuiched population has
tn tho total population In the different
States.
The recently issued Olllei.il Catholic Direc
tory shows that about one-quarter of tho
population of Pennsylvania, for example. Is
Roman Catholic. This corresponds roughly
uu ..... ..h..." ........c. ... l..c ...uK. a...... ... 1
1110 ouiljsiiuui juiuh, Aai 111 urucr ox
mimbors hero nro tho Methodists, followed
by the Lutherans, the Presbyterians, the mem
bois of the Reformed Church, the Baptists,
tho Protestant Episcopalians, tho Evangeli
cals and tho United Brethren. But thoso
church members includo less than 45 per
cent, of the population. Indeed, thero aie no
States In thp Union unve Louisiana. Massa
chusetts, Rhode. Island, New Mexico and
Wyoming In which more than 60 per cent, of
the population Is connected with tho
churches.
In Now Jersey tho percentage of churched
population Is less than In this Stato. but
tho percentage of Roman Catholics is much
greater. In Maryland the Methodists nnd
the Roman Catholics break about oven, and
in Virginia the Baptists comprise more than
one-half of the church meiubeis nnd tho
Methodists about one-fourth. In New York
tho Roman Catholics outnumber the Prot
e.stunt.s by nbout two to ono, and tho per
centage of churched and unchurched Is
about the .nme as in Pennsylvania. Tho
diagrams and maps ought to ho of especial
Interest to religiously awakened Philadelphia
at this time.
Who can toll, offhand, why they aro called
tho Olympic games?
According to the Administration, in tlio
vocabulary of elllcloncy tlio ono big word la
Jail.
The surgical operation on Sccrotnry Mc
Adoo will not euro what nils tho President's
Cabinet.
Tho HUlferlngH nf the drug victims In all
parts of the country suggest that tho "dopo"
law was not passed toon enough.
Ten countleB of tho Commonwealth havo
already gouo "dry" under the discretion of
the Judges enforcing tho Brooks law.
Clean-up week will soon ho here, but some
human rubbish will bo left that every 0110
knows ought to be carted to the dump.
Tho moviiig-plcturo innnagora apparently
do not like the Stato censor any better than
the State cen&or liltoa tho movlng-plctura
men.
If tho Interstate Commerce Commission
could only reduce all freight rates on coal to
this elty It would be potwdble for houwhold.
eis here to buy cmI as cheaply as it Is sold
In New York,
The pjoposed tax of W a head on bach
elors In West Virginia ought to be author
ired, especially as the money raised is to be
ud for Improving1 the roads so that It will
be easier for the bachelors to go courting.
Judge Staake uttered only half a truth
iwnen he said that publis opinion might
obanse. but that the law did net change, for
It kt public opinion that really changes thq
law through tbe orderly processes fixed by
th Constltuttea.
If the story of Mrs. Mayo, at Scrunton, Is
11 ue. VUgiPtus Mao, f New Haven, ought
to i.e ieraudd to face a proper tribunal to
. xpuiu bis conduct There are three parties
i.) cwi)- marriage, the man. the womau and
the community. Even though the wonieu
nu be ttllliujc that this man should make
lia-hc of the marriage bowl, the commuiuiy la
net willing.
itiltt. iltA flnllKAii Uitlnn l,l I . t It n .-II, n.n ll... V
CALLING OUT OUR
RESERVES OP ENERGY
Past Accomplishment Is a False
Measure of Our Possibilities It's
Never Too Late to Succeed The
Habit of Trusting Oneself.
Hy JOSEPH H. ODI3LL
PRntlARt.Y thero nro thousands of. boys
nnd .Voting men In tho schools and col
letfes, In tho Holds, fuclorlts, ofllpos nnd shops
of America, capable of the ery highest
nchievpmem. nblo to do things as great and
valimbln ns any that have aliendy been done,
but who cannot bring themselves to launch
out on their own account. The writer was
nlire ilshltig for trout In a river flowing
through a sparsely populated country. He
and his companion were suddenly slopped
by a waterfall having n dlop of nbout 60 feel
One or the sportsmen said, "Whtit a sliamo
this river Is lost!" "Lost!" echoed the oilier
In a tone of surprise. "Lost! How can tho
river lie lost? tl is right hero now and has
been here for ages." "Yes." responded tho
llrst speaker, "but It Is lost because It is not
being utilized. There Is enough power run
ning to waslo over these falls to make a con
siderable Industrial city."
Multitudes of men nro lost to tlieniselvas
nnd lost to the advancing Intercuts of civili
zation by falling to use themselves to their
full ndvnntnge. They nre doing llttlo things
when thoy might be doing great things; thev
nro letting forces run to wasto which arc su
premely valuable, nnd by which thoy could
accomplish astounding results. They need to
do Romo prospecting among tholr own pow
ers, nnd then, when the nssny turns nut tn he
high, they need the courage to work the
vein.
Strata of Combustible Mntorial
To measure the possibilities of life by what
wo havo already nccoinpllshed Implies an un
worthy and nn Incomplete conception of our
selves. Tho science which deals with man's
Inner life, his povveis, faculties and senses
psychology nsnures us that thero aro large
strata of energy, mop In our naturo, upon
which wo have not et drawn. The latp
Prof William James, of Harvard Unlverslt.v,
wrote" "It is evident that our organism hns
stored-up teserves of energy that are ordi
narily not cnllPd upon; deeper and deeper
strata of combustible or exploslblo material,
(lisenntinuously arranged, but icndy for use
by any one who probes so deep nnd repair
ing themselves by rest as do tho superflcliit
strata. Most of us continue living unneces
sarily near tho surface. Of course,
there nre limits; the trees don't grow into
the sltv. Rut the plain fact 1 cumins thnt
men the world over possess animintf. of ip
souice, which onlv very exceptional indi
viduals pubIi to their extremes of use. Hut
the verv tame individual, pushing his ener
gies to their extreme, muv In a vast number
of cases keep th-6 paco up day after day, and
find no reaction of a bad sort, so long as de
cent hygienic conditions ate ineserverl."
Which simply menus that n man Is usunlb
much bigger thnn he thinks himself to bo,
that hp Is capable of doing more than he has
ever dicnmetl or attempting nnd that, having
started doing more, he can continue doing It
indefinitely.
"My success has always turned upon ono
maxim," said Nathan Rothschild. "I said,
I can do what 'another man can,' mid so I
nm a match for all the rest of them. When
Jnmes Cordon Bennett sent Stanley to find
Livingstone lie did not nsk' Stanley if he
thought he could find him, ho simply fur
nished tho money. And Stanley started for
tho unexplored continent without a question,
saying, 'If Bennett wants mo to find I-lv-tngstono
I can find him, nllve or dead." "
Galileo and tho Telescope
Galileo heard that a Dutchman had mado
and given to Count Maurice, of Nassau, n
curious instrument by menus of which dis
tant objects wero mnde to appear as near; and
this was all tho rumor stated. But It was
enough for Galileo; he belioved hu could do
what any one elso had dnno. Ho Immediately
set to wnik to find out tho principle upon
which tho new discovery was bahed, and
vcr ""on decided that it was by nn ar
rangement of spherlcul glasses. In the course
nr a few da.s he presented a telescope to the
Senate of Venice with an extended memoir
upon Its importance and value.
Somo time alter Lincoln hud uehlovod con
siderable success uk a lawyer ho was en
gagod upon an important case in Cincinnati,
lu which ho found himself associated with
men of high training collego graduates,
equipped with tho ctilturo of tho moro de
veloped East. After tho trial he wild to a
friend: "Emerson, I nm going homo to study
law." "Why." Emerson oxolalmed, "Mr. Lin
coln, ou stnnd at tho head of tho bar In
Illinois now! What nro you talking about?"
'Ah, yes," ho said, "I do occupy a good posi
tion thoro, and I think I can get along with
the way things nro dono thero now. Rut
thoso collcgc-trninod mon, who havo devoted
their wholo lives to study, nro conilng West,
don't you see? And thoy study their cases
ns wo novor do. Thoy havo got us fnr ns
Cincinnati now. They will soon bo in Illinois.
I am going homo to study law! I am as good
as. any of them, and when they get nut tq
Illinois I will bo ready for them."
Very many of tho most distinguished men
did not succeed until mlddlo life woh leaohcd,
In some Instances long years of grinding ap
prenticeship were necessary tn cultivate the
faculties; In other cases the. men wero not
aware that they had great powers locked up
In tholr nature until a hudden emergency
mado an unusual draft upon their re
sources, and thus revealed the unsuspected
possibilities; here and there we find an exam
pie of slow development as the result of an
oarly miutako the adoption of an unsuitable
profession or business, for Instnnco.
An Astronomer Built St. Paul's
At 40 years of age l.'lyssea H. Grant was a
failure as u real estate dealer. Three of
America's greatest practical benefactors were
artists; Pulton, tho Inventor of the steam
boat, was a creditable painter, but his powers
were stronger along the mechanical line;
Morse, tho man who made telegraphy prac
ticable, actually won a certain fame with his
brush before turning; his attention to scien
tific pursuits; Alvan Clark was 30 when he
dropped portrait painting to manufacture
Christopher Wren, the architect of St.
Paul's Cathedral, London, was a professor of
astronomy; all he knew of architecture he
.aught himself, and when the great Are of
London swept away the entire centre of the
city. Wren submitted plans for the rebuild
ing of the cathedral which were accept!.
h himself auperintetulliig the work of con
struction during the 30 years necessary to its
completion Professor Benedict, a teacher of
Latin, beard the click of an axparlraental
a .. immitfmimw tow $M4
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typewriter, nnd Inntiititly realizing the possi
bilities of Hip invention, threw down his
Lntlti grammar nnd began to innnufncturo
the Remington machine. Alexander Graham
Bell, the successful ndnpter of tho telephone
to practical use. whereby he mado a fortune
and won enduring fame, was a teacher In a
deaf and dumb Institution when bis private
studies In electricity and telegrnphv opened
his p.vps to the possibility of speaking
thinugh a wire
None of thej.p triumphs wns ntcompllslipd
without self-reliance. Self-reliance Is the
habit of trusting oneself. Wo must rest our
claim to success upon the powers that nro
stored within us Wo must believe thnt wo
are equipped to meet every emergency, to
overcome every obstacle, lo win every battle.
In Mtidy there Is no subject tho mind cannot
master; in life there is no problem thnt pei -slstenco
cannot solve. To cultivate self-iell-anco
wo must prnctlco It. Wo cannot buy or
borrow It : we do not need to do so bornuse
we nlready possess It. Simply uno it; that
Is all.
MINERALS OF THE SKA
Common Salt in Greatest Quantity, but
Even Gold Is Pound in Solution.
Prom thp Washington Star.
It lias been pointed out that ucnily all the
mlnet nlH, In a state of solution, aro found in
Hid sea. In the beginning, scientifically spenk
Ing. the earth was "Incandescent"; then, grad
ually, as It cooled, it acquired a solid oovoilng
or crust, which for a long tjmo remained nt a
high temperature.
The different elements of which the chemical
combinations are formed wero nt that time
floating itliovo the cnrth"B covering in the form
of vapor. When tho temperature lowered sulll
elently these elements grnduully combined.
AVhon thero came a still lower degree of teni
peintme water fell rippling In hot torrents over
tlio teircstrlal ciust. dissolving everything that
it could dlssnlvo and accumulating in the tlc
picsIon.s lo form tho first oceans. This is why
tlio v nters of the spas aro salt and whv this
saltiness Is derived not only from mdlnnry suit,
but from many other substances.
Common salt gives tho sen threo-fonrlhs of
Its salinity. The other marlno substances aro
cliloililf of inngiiPHhiiii, bisulphato of magnesia,
sulphate of lime, chlorate of potassium, bromide
or magnesia, metnphosphato of lime, blenibon
nto lime; in brief, nearly all the mlneruls to he
found In a pharmacy, not to speak of thp inre
metals snbldlum, caesium, etc., together with
gold and silver.
Tho totat salinity of the sea Is placed at
21 grams to n llttlo moro than a quart. In
other words, It something In excess of a quart,
or water drawn directly from tho ocean bo
evaporated thero will be a residue of 31 grams
of a mixture of nil tho different salts of tho sea,
ami three-fourths of that mixture will bo com
mon Knit. Tho Immcnso mass of salts held lu
solution In the sea would covor many square
thousand miles of the earth's surface. The total
volume of tho European continent above tho
level of tho Bea Is only ono-thlrd as great ns
tho block of salt produced by tho evaporation
or the oceans would bo could It bo laid out ns
n solid.
This enormous wealth of snllno elements is
not uniformly distributed nmong tho different
seas of the globe. There nre. therefore, seas
that nro nnt so Bait ns others. Tho warm seas,
which receive llttlo fresh water from rivers,
are more salt than those receiving floods that
nro free ftom salt.
SPORT THAT IS RARK, INDEED
Prom lh nosKili Tot.
The news tells about a man from Wnretnvvn,
P.i.. who caught tnil landed a deer lu a fishnet.
Det.iiU are lacking, yet we can readily believe
this to be n fact. This siiort or Until tiff for deer,
however, cannot compare. In excitement, with
gunning for fish. Tho best time to hunt brook
trout with hrearins is eaily In May when the
tender bui's of the trees begin to bhoot forth.
At this season of tho ear trout should bo
hunted with n shotgun, never with a rifle a
rllle mangles tho trout so that they nro not fit
to eat. Co along the shore of any stream or
lake with the fhotgun cocked already to shoot.
Sneak along very quietly, because trout ar
wary and can bear ou coming a long distance
away Never look In the water or on the ground
fnr trout always look up among the branches
of the trees at this season they will be up the
trees budding on the tender shoots. Wh'n
you see a trout perched on a limb take careful
aim with the shotgun and pull the trigger. If
your marksmanship is good you will have the
satisfaction of seeing the trout fall to the
ground, where, after a few spAsmodiq flops, It
will expire. Proceed In this way until you shoot
enoush trout for a mess.
p 8 With a little patience you can train a
dogfish to follow you Into the woods and re
trieve your trout for ou after they fall from
the trees.
A PARLIAMENTARY MIDDLEMAN
A sreat Parliamentary Middleman; It la well
known what a middleman Is: He Is a man who
baroboozlos one party and plunders the other,
only, having obtained a position to which he Is
not entitled, he cries out: "'Let us have no
party questions, but flltyof tenure "--Disraeli.
WEAKENING ONE'S LIFE
Kew things are more striking than the levity
nf the motives, the feeblaoes ol the impulses
undsr which, in youth, fetal steps, are taken.
wbkh bring with them a weaksued lift ami
ofteu an early srave. Lky.
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"NOTHIJNT POINT!
READERS' VIEWS ON TIMELY TOPICS
The High Cost of Living How the Organization Controls the
City Taf t for the Presidency Again War Comments.
THE SHADOW OK THE REAR
I'o ttir lidiUir of thr ;irnlti( Lrttjtcr
The picture. "The Wild Charge of the Wild
Cossacks," on the front page of the IIviinino
Lunacn ot llnrcli 1 in, rrom art's vlovvpolnt, an
excellent reproduction As fnr ns high excel
lence, good tnste and general an aiigcmcnt of
rending inntter Is concerned the Uvcsi.va
LKoarcu In easily lending nil other evening
pajiers published anywhere in UiIh country.
This is high praise, indeed, but It is desercJty
earned.
The able and well-intentioned editor was
pleased lo write underneath Iho nbovo-nnmetl
photo: "Tho sninc Mnd of neoiiFatlons as thoso
made iiRnlnst tho Cieunnns in Ilclglum by the
Allies hiivo been lnld ngnlnst tlio Cossacks In
Unst Prussia by the Germans, who charge
wanton murder ninl pillage " The Hermans
weic, a few weeks ngo, acquitted of all atrocity
charges. 1,0-tteia like that by Jnmes O'nnnnell
nnnet (printed some six weeks ago In the
I.'v fvivn I.UDonn nnd tho results or n t-enrch-ing
Investigation made by tho Rngllsh authori
ties among the Ilclglnn refugees in Great
Tlrltain contributed much to tho Hermans' ac
quittal Uut the cruel behavior or tbn Itussinns hns
been piovocl beyond a doubt nnd attested to by
the American correspondent, K V. W'legand.
and by tho rnmous Danish critic and author,
Georges nrandes, nnd by many othor trust
worthy vvritern. The writer of thce lines re
cently paid n visit to Klmlrn. N. Y., and there
piivnto letters wero shown him, written by
residents or LotU, hi Russian Poland, to their
rokiilvPB hi Rlmlrn, In which letters tho follow
ing sentence was oft lepcnted: "Tho German
troops are hem; now vve nro tntc and UTo Is
secure; before the Germans cnine the Russians
outraged and maimed our .voting women,
hacked to pieces old people and bnblcs, burned
and pillaged our houses nnd drovo many sur
vivois to insanity."
Why Ainoricnn newspapers neclcct to publish
nnd fnll to comment upon such mnssacrcs com
mitted almost daily by tho Russians (even now
during tho wnn upon Jews, Lutherans, Roman
Catholics and otlieis is n mystery io me.
Should Germany bo crushed in this war, then
the monstrous, sinister shadow or barbarous
Russia would full over all Ruropp nnd beyond,
nnd tho fllthv hicnth of the "Henr" might
eventually extinguish tho Unlit of Anglo-Saxon
civilization. CONSTANT RRADCR.
Danville. Pa., Match 4
THE KISII DEALER'S DIFFICULTY
To the KMtor o the Ilienlna Leitaer:
Sir Allow me lo state a few farts in legnrd
to the high erst of living mid whv It cannot
bo reduced Tor Instance, when the prlco of
beef goes up io tutli a price thnt It Is consid
ered a luxury tlieio Is usually n big cry tn tho
people to eat fish, im It Is iiimli cheaper nnd
Just ns nutritious and benellclal ns meat: hut
if nny fl.sh denier in tho wholo city nf Philadel
phia, would mark his fish 7 or S cents a pound
ho would be unnblo to sell any of them, for
tho simple rcas-ou that tho public would think
he Is selling fish that Is not good at nny price.
Now I am .peaking tho truth, being a rctnll
dealer In fish myself. Pish last summer was as
low as 3 and Jl a buriel, nnd I don't mean
stnlo, cold storage fish, but rresh porgles, but
tcrflsh, coalings, etc. Now that means that
tho wholesale prlco of thoo fish was nt the
moat 2 or L", cents a pound, and any rctnller
would have been glad to sell them nt G cents
a pound, but they could not afford to do so, as
thoy would not bo able to cll nn fish nt all.
As I Bald before, the people could not bo con
vinced thnt they .could buy rresh fish at so low
a prlco. Tlie outcome was und 1h that the
dealer. In order to maintain his icputattnu of
keeping fresh fish, could not afford lo sell bo
cheap, as ho would positively lose tinde.
Philadelphia, March 6. II. II.
FLAG AT HALF-MAST
To tlie Kiltlor of the Evening Ltdgtr;
Sir Please answer In our correspondents'
tnbimn why tho flag over tho Uustcrn Peniten
tiary la always floating nt half-mast.
LEONARD.
Philadelphia. March 9 ,
ITho flag over the Rastcrn Stnto Penitentiary
U at half-mast for a period of 30 lns ns a
mark or respei t to the memory of Robert Hal
four, a niton luspeotor. who died recently.
IMitor of tho IIvh.nino I.KDfisn J
PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER
To the Bdltor of the ZicMno Ledger:
Hlr "Professor Tuft for President?" by J. O.
llcinphlll, In the Rvc.nino Ludgisr a few days
ugo, looks good to me, nnd I think It would
look the same to about the three nod u half
million, the Irreducible minimum, who voted
for him in llil!, as well as several million
more who are no doubt sorry they did not
voto for him then.
As to the chances of the Republican party
for IShJ. one has only to look at the figures
at the last election, which will prove that the
Democratic party (Wilson, that's all) Is going
to get it so hard that it will stay down for
about another W years, or until some other
possible fluke may temporarily put It n
again. And the ilggres are large enough, no
that It does not tako a ''prophet" to dope out
the above conclusion And as it Is the regular
Wing of the a. O. P. that counted In the last
election, like Penrose. Cannon, pilllngliani,
Brondegee, MeKlnley, Longvvorth and a host
of gueh other "comebacks," It is a cinch that
the party doea. not want to run a La Kollette,
a Curomln or even a Borah to wn( for, on
the other hund, take note that the power of
La Follette was crushed In Wisconsin in the
Republican landslide, a standpatter being
sleeted for Governor instead of a man bifcked
by Im Kollette
And then note that another so-called Pro
gressive Republican. BrUtow, of Kansas, was
beaten bv ex-ttenator Curtis for the Senator
ship, and some others who got through by the
si. 1 1. of their uih or were beaten by a Peoi
otnet on. account of the split. There are Mor
i
tis, of Nebraska; Kenvon, or lovwi La I'ol.
lettc. ot Wisconsin, who In voilnB with lh
tiiiui.. aiic rnouer stamps roi thp
prcpos.
(crous snip purchase bill onlv
show how
tnev and such as thev
as linn nlunvs ninmi ft,..
only nro iiRitt pintr the nnmo ol Ronnlilir.ini. J
li,u, ... Ml.l 1 r , . . . . "'"", 1
.inn. ,.
is Michael Donohoe, late defeated Con- 1
nnn from Philadelphia, really r.o '
gieasm
uoniocrni, necnusc lie votcil atr.imst (in. tv
tlervvood tailrf bill nnd tho ship purchase bill,
for Inslnncc Rut he vv.i hentpn in the Tit
publican landslide, nevcrthclo..-i William Row
ird Tnrr is the lilenl ninn lo load ilia stand
pal element of thp G. O P to virion In 1316.
Philadelphia, March 4 H M tt '
A VOICE FROM THE TENDERLOIN
To the r.dllor o the Kicnlnn I.rdirr
Sir:
"They
lvrtniW uliy (ho nrEi.nl iitlon to
?.,"1."ff." "aid n resident or the "Irndnrloln tnJar.
ill tell 5"nu: Ii'b becau-n thm hnw. h rood
relloun oh Clinrlln Qtilgley, uh .. niu ,v ready
l" Ket n feller i,m o" tinuHe m m linn n mml
without iiKklif iiuenilnna Thii ..in ,. t(it
nis tii-lict. (hat's v.hj .. mtn r, ,,, ,, hn0l,
nro no Rood, lieramo a gowl fellow ho is
friend nslca an to."
Tho above, which annrnied in tin I.venimi5?!
J.nnaEn on Wednesdn.v, tells its own storv nnd 3
gives tho Inxlglit ns to hou tin inm-arton'
'Koiu&iiioii noui us dupes in line to roll un
fraudulent majorities.
"Alw.ija ready tn get n feller out of trouble
WUUOUt nRklnr- iinnQlIn,.. "
Thnt Is what Diiuctor ticoige Porter U
"i. utiiiuisc mtiny in fact, eveiv l,uKe iltvln
Iho country Is sufTc-rlng fiom It 1 hev all have
Uiolr good "fellers," who aie -uppmted by tin
laxpnj era.
Thank you, Mr. Resident of the Tenderloin.
ou nnvo slated j.mi i.w n-nln-t mr city -
.... Biien cinrity and pptcisioti. that there wlU
lip no robuttnls. Uon"t wottv in the meantime.
V. "'Jcilolnei. Thero will be no Inek ot
good fellers" to look nfter vou and vour kind.
it is tne principal dutv or om "invKiblp govern- :M
ment to nrrnim-n u,,ni, .....,... k. ., m
-....n., uuv.. ,,,,.,,i;i
Next
RVRRKON
J ! N INGS,
PhlLidcIplila,
Match 10.
"AN UNCONSCIOUS HUMORIST"
To the Keillor 0 the IXenliiu I nlw, ,
Sir In the long lettei of the It. v l)r rtobert
.loiinston. appealing in toniwhi , ivie of jour
paper, I note that this vvoithv .hviiio states with
conimciid.ihlo candor ho "would nitlior Igtit
than pie.ich the Gospel nt this hour W'ouldt
(tint wo mid more, or the cIcikv with tilts ru M
..... .una opposition, lamer than Me peace on
earth to men or good will" po m. .ommonto
many divines nntl so lnconiMni
Doctor .lolinston's views, thougli ho Is
t-i-otclinmii. have evidenilv heen nulved at (9
ftnill ,1,. linn.ll..l .....I ... .. ... I (BJ
.."... .... .,,,ij.ii ..a. wciKiiniK 01 in, ev liicncc it. .1
tne case; nnrl ills ntnteiiicnt tlmi Hie ""press l
a nun; ino Mcoi or Its nrtl.lcs. (he oftv con'
ccptlmi or right is not excelled In the London
aresa, Is coitnlu to bo commenicd fnvorabiy
upon hy Philadelphia now.spapis Hocior John'
ston Is mi unconscious humorist'
INTRRESTRD RHADCR
Ardmoro, Pa., March 0. 1915.
FOR A BETTER CITY
To the r.dttor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Pray tor Philadelphia nnd whv not "get
together" more? I want to thank jou. sirs, forj
jour stand on the Sunday movement, your nm
picture ot the evangelist given with your paper,
yesterday, also jour clear, concise mid helpful
news columns In certain other lines or endeavor.
Let the good work go on. Success to ou, dear
Mrs.
Also, plcnso occept thanks of a grateful reader ,
31 portions of yesterday's Lvbnino LBDOek.
Thnnks. t say, ror your Utile portions publlshe"
over cdltmlal page. "Smile and Hie W'orW )
Bullies Willi You" would bo a helnrul ono, and
"Rojolco Rvermorc; Again I S Rejoice," or
any good Rlhllc.il quotation While abroad I
saw Loudon Times, which hnd such n quotation.
dli.l In (tits rnnnln, vnt. .nm tl.A nnlv nJDer fOl"
lowing, or originating, such nn idea Thanl' '
atrnln.
Plousn rend carefully now what ,s on !
mind to say. Why not havo a stono bulldlnf
nt 19lh mid Vino stieets on the Uouievard, so -
l,n,,ft,..l ,ll, llhrn.... nr, IIai l,mlt SehOOl k
and human Institutions, for wcek-dav meetings' j
Tlie city whoo "God is the Lord" l the 1"
ri.ii If tho prospeious city, and other thins8-
food, cloihli'g. Iiealth, wealth an suncraciueu. ,
It is well to remomber this, and. taking example,!
llnhtiliin lnl, rnMin.i tn ,i ii nr A IieFI'SC
Philadelphia, to make it moro of a city 'v
urotherly Love.
. Ai.iiunT LAND. A
Gallilee Mission, Philadelphia, March S,
CONCERNING A CARTOON
To the lldttor ot the Bienina Ledger:
Sir Do ou think the people ot rhlladd r
fr.nt tl,n u,,l.al,llvA.l nwtimiM fltwl (lift AtRVOr W1 i
tlLanlA. rPfiv,!,.. nA tl.A n.tau l.'l.n HrA (StUUgl
pot counails change the duck to read councm ,
and the other vvikq change to (Weeri
TAXPAYER.
Philadelphia, March 10.
LOVE'S ANSWER
Dost thou grow old? Doth time, tho darlnS :
thief. ,
Pileh from they cheek, even thine, the boa"'
teous rose?
Alaa. the nmrn at all fulr tlilnss Is brief.
Yet chide him not that calls It to Its clo.
He doth but change the nid roe for tho whitfc
Doth but a little shade the Intenser pu".
And shield us from the sharpness of that 1UW
Wtirhu mil" HAana wan trolilblpd. tlS V6JI '
done. -
Thou growest old? Dar Iajve, It sliould be 1
That eveu thy beart should feci the grav
xtmtu
Of his wise haul, ami thou n dealer i,row
To u who change, I uioum not m eunuch-
lav. r&tbAT. BKBlsA dim. nlin l-, j.Lliltl, lltSS
Tho rea4 I so, must keep thee .uc i- ""'
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