EVBKiyq LBDGB-HlbAPElPHIA ATtTBDAY, MARCH 27, 101 8 :& linger PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY cmtJ8 ir. K cuims, rst-iuKitr. Chattm II LuHnttm.Vlc-Iralint! John C Martin. EjMf,,rjr JU"1 Treasurer i FMIIp 8.' Colllna, John II. Wltttamii, Director - i - i H EOIIOIII AL BOARD : Ctnoa It. K. CcaTta, Chairman. P. It. TVHAtET ... ..i. RxecutlVe Editor . JOHN C. HAriTIN.. General Dualneaa Manscer - i i Published dally at Pciato Ltoorn Building, Independence Square, Philadelphia. LtPQCR Cnnui....... .....Proa.l and Cnettnut Btreela Atlantic Cm ...... rrtt'Unton Building Kbit Yosk. ........... ,. 1T0-A, Metropolitan Tower Ciihuoo. i81T Home Insurance Dulldlnr London B Waterloo Place, Tall Mall, S. Vf. ,, NEWS JlUnEAfBi wiHI"toTOi noatuD.. ...... . ... The rM Uutldina; r-rw iok iicacAU..., .......... Trie rime nullum iiMt.ti llcaiuo no Frte1rlchatrae ionoov ncaxio 2 Pall Mall r.aat. H W. PiUa SviUD ,,....,32 nue Loult lo Grand subscription teiims Br carrier. Dam t Onlt, alx centa Br mall, poalpald utalda of Philadelphia, except whera foreign postage la required, Daily ONLT, one month, twenty-five centa i Daily Ovi.t, one year, three dotlara All mall tub erlptlona payable In advance BFIX, 8000 WALNUT ketstom:. main sooo Bar Aidmt all communication- lo Evening Ledger, Independence Square, Philadelphia. tNTEiio it ins rnincrtrmi roitorrtcx ab second- CtAtl MAIL UATTtll. rlllLADELTIUA. SATUnDAY, MAItCII 87, 1915. The moth docs not care whether the oarment cott five or fifty dollars. What Would You Do With $30,000? AN Evening Ledoeh reader has $50,000 X"JL which ho wishes to use In providing a suitable memorial of some dead friends, and he does not know how to spend It. An elab orate tombstone, in the form cither of a mar ble monument or of granite chapel In a ceme tery, apparently falls to satisfy his sense of the fitness of things. The Mayor has suggested that he put tho money In a trust with arrangements for tho use of tho Income In supporting some society engaged In the relief of tho young, and the Socialist National Committeeman from this Stato thinks that It should be used to endow a. public forum devoted to tho exploitation of the. truth about economics. Neither of these men likes tho Idea of Investing the money In brick and stone. One wants It Invested directly In humanity, and tho other proposes that It shall be used to disseminate knowl edge for tho good of humanity. AH other suggestions that are made will probably como either under the head of benefiting humanity or of glorifying tho persons In whose memory It s to be spent, although some one may pro licso that It be used for preventing cruelty to Bn-mals. If any one who reads this page has any suggestion to make that will assist the in quirer he will be glad to get it. And It is possible that Borne man or woman who never owned $600 may be ablo to think of a better use for 50,000 than thoso who have never had to think of the value of a dollar since they began to cpend their riches. The Spanish Trade Commission THE Commercial Museum Is tho most fit ting headquarters for the Spanish Trado Commission now in this city. It is possible to get more information there about tho ex port business of the United States and other countries than anywhere else in the United States, unless It be at the Department of Commerce In Washington. Spain produces things that we need and wo proauco things which Spain would bo better for buying and using. If she had our farm machinery, for example, her fertile fields would become still more fertile. Spain, as a whole, Is ono of tho backward Industrial countries; but aho Is awake now, or she would not have sent six distinguished business men hero to seek to enlarge her foreign trade. The Spanish commissioners aro most wel come. They will find this city hospitably dis posed both toward them and toward every proposition Intended to bring about closer relations between Barcelona, for Instance, and, Philadelphia. While they aie hero they will doubtless study the water front with a view to recommending tho establishment of new steamship lines between Philadelphia and the Mediterranean ports of Spain. Wo cannot help them without helping ourselves, and we stand ready to give them assistance to the extent of our ability. We Eat Too Much Disease-laden Dirt WHEN women enough refuse to patronize a grocer op provision dealer who leaves his stock exposed to the dust of tho street and the ministrations of stray dogs, the dealers will protect their goods from con tamination whether the law requires it or not, Some of the members of the women's clubs aro already Interested in tho subject and they aro buying no food which has not been kept In a place free from the disease germs that are blown about by every breeze. They are also using their influence to Induce tho General Assembly to pass a bill Intro duced recently which requires all dealers to protect their wares. It will apply to the ven ders of pretzels who Bit on the ctrcet corners and sell their dust and germ-covered stomach stayers to those willing to risk eating them, and It will apply also to the corner grocer who spreads his lettuce and celery and spinach In attractive display before his door. It may be necessary to eat a peck of dirt before we die, but few of us want to have th Jjeck made up of germs of consumption, diphtheria, bronchitis and no one knows what else. Regulation Still Stops at the Farm It's regulate the hours of sleep And regulate the hours of rest. The length of the woolen coat on sheep And the hour when the cuckoo seeks Its neat. From "Pocraa of Political Paaalon." THIS beautiful lyric has set the chords of a Jew York legislator's heart vibrating, and Rf nao uraiiea a cm lor the relief of agricul ture which deserves the serious attention of Very friend of the back-to-the-land move ment. If It should be enacted there would be such a rush to the farms that the mills and factories would be emptied of their operatives and the price of clothing would go up whllo the price p( food would remain stationary. The object of the bill Is not to reduce the cost of living but to extend the paternal, or the superpaternal, care of government over the fanners and their laborers. 1hf measure provides that every hired man shall work only eight hours a day and that; he shall not work on Sundays, legal holidays or on Jack Love's birthday, whoever Jack tov may pe. Every farmer Is required to wwploy ona more hired man than he needs. Hjwry wagon and wagon pole roust be ped with couplers, coupling by impact, m ifcat tha hired man may not have to risk lr Hf by going between the wheels of the km 4 the heels of the horses. Bvery fcKH, h$ waving on the public highways, asuist fc awwHPi'Bid Kt bU weighing- not to tttf p laNittfaV. a wteam wbiU and an tfestite hattrftttht (U ijJc lw than IW wwolla j I Aliening power, ntid sheds must be built over all fields; whoro hired men have to work In summer. There nre other cqunlly wise and beneficent provisions In the bill modeled on those In tho laws passed by Congress and tho State Legis latures for tho protection of the laborers en Raged In other occupations. Hut the farm laborers have not yet realized their political power and they wilt have to wait somo time before they have nn eight-hour and full-crow law, for regulation still slops short of the farm. The Fight Has Just Begun milE plans for a demonstration In Harris a. uurg in ravor or local option are progress ing favorably The committee expects to make arrangements for 6000 voters to leave this city on April 6 to accompany a petition demanding tho passage of a local option law Hut the number of voters who can find timo to go to the State capital Is no measure of the number favoring local option For every man who can go there nre probably BO Who have to stay at home. Tho active demand for county control of the sale of liquor Is so widespread that the General Assembly will fall In Its representative duty If It refuses to consent. Bargains that party leaders may make with the abhorrent Interests In politics are not binding on the free legislative agents In Hnrrlsburg Every man who owns his own conscience will vote as his conscience dlctntcs. Uut those who arc bound, body and foot, by obligations to political IcaderB, who have sold their influence to the liquor In terests in return for tho support of the liquor machine, will be compelled to respond when tho whip Is cracked. The fight must centre on the Senate, be cause tho plan Is to let tho bill go through the House and bury It In a Senate com mittee. And tho fight, to bo successful, must bo such as will demonstrate to the Senators that they cannot afford to disregard tho overwhelming public sentiment of tho Com monwealth. Tho march on Harrlsburg by tho local option forces on the first Tuesday In April is part of the demonstration, and Its significance will not be lost on those Senators who have their ears to the ground and can hear tho tread of tho multitude of voters willing to follow tho conscience lend of tho Governor. Every report from tho State Capi tol Indicates that the local option fight has only Just begun. A "Hull" Lot of Optimism REPRESENTATIVE HULL. vho assumes responsibility for the Income tax law, with all Its incomprehensible intricacies, is confident that the tax will produce $80,000,000. This Is the kind of optimism that Is delightful to contemplate. Hull is proud of his law, and he Is sure that it will be the most ef fective deficit remover that was over con structed. If he were ashamed of his progeny ho ought to be drummed out of Congress. The prldo of Mr. Hull, however, will bo small in comparison with tho satisfaction o? the whole country If his optimism shall prove to bo well founded. If there have been tnx able Incomes enough to produce J80,000,000 revenues this year there is no longer reason for discouragement. Tho disgruntled stato of tho man doing a poor business will be offset by tho content of the man who has Increased his earnings enough to counter balance the losses of his less fortunate neigh bor; and wo shall have it demonstrated that, while It Is not possible for all of the peoplo to be prosperous all of the time, It is possible for all of them to have prosperity somo of tho time. And when a man's turn comes he can rejoice that It was delayed no longer. The Luxury of Grand Opera THE presentation of grand opera Is not a business, but an extravagance. No grand opera company employing tho grcnt singers pretends to glvo performances unless It Is backed by a group of capitalists willing to pay several thousand dollars apiece each year to cover a deficit. Tho reason for this ap pears In tho list of salaries paid to tho sing ers In the Philadelphia-Chicago company, now In tho Illinois bankruptcy court. The sum of $66,000 was paid in salaries to four of the managers, one of whom received $30,000. Tho singers received frojn $2000 a performance down. There wero several who got $1000 for each timo they sang. Grand opera ns at present offered is an expensive luxury. It cannot bo put on a paying basis until tho salaries given to tho singers and to the managers aro computed with some reference to the possible Income from tho sale of seats and boxes. But per haps the backers of the opera season would rather have grand opera remain an exclusive luxury than to make It show nn even balance sheet. Mlllvllle iu determined that Its name shall not be Illvllle, but "Wellvllle. "Will the President bo kind enough to say who is rocking tho neutrality boat? The Terre Haute gangsters aro discovering that they cannot terrorize the United States Court. Mr. Rockefeller, If he wants to keep the water in his Pocantlco Hills lake, should call In ii suecwsl til corporation rcorganizer. Such men can wrap up whole oceans In a few stock certificates. Tho RupHlans, who have begun to storm the passes in the Carpathians, will soon bo tu o to eay, after the manner of Napoleon on the southern tlopo of the Alps, that yonder lies Vienna, and a little farther are the blue waters of the Mediterranean. The Senate has passed a bill that sleeping hours of telephone operators shall not be counted as working hours; but It has not provided a way for the public to learn whether tho operator is asleep or Just gos siping when he calls vainly for a number, Senator Chilton, who thinks that the Issue In 1912 was "Roosevelt," gives too little credit to the political skill of the Colonel, who was able to see the revolt against the reaction aries brewing and to put himself; at the head of It, The Issue In 1913 was much bigger than any one man. Detective Mtineely, who was killed while dolnn- his duty, met a death as heroic as though It had come to him on the battlefield The police, force la filled with such men, who risk their lives every day as part of their regular work. But we are so well acquainted with them that we are In danger of forgetting; their heroic qualities. In many ways the war In Europe has been remarkable and provocative of wonders. A dispatch, for Instance, announces that "the Ghurkaa crept forward toward the enemy's lines. The wind drowned the silent noise" If "client noise" should be one of the out floojes of the war. the aatastrepha l a blew- Jng iu disguise. It is not the Unci of nolso v.e are aoouatetaed to tsar- Uh YashIs$ton, J SECOND GREAT CRISIS OF EUROPEAN WAR Since Leipzig; No Meeting of Armies Has Meant So Much to So Many People, Nations and Continents as the Battle in Carpathians. By FRANK H. SIMONDS IP IT be accepted as ttuo that the first great crisis of tho present conflict came In early September, when Germany ap proached Paris and seemed about to dlsposo of France, It Is not less patent that wo are now facing a second crisis equally great, but this time Involving tho fate not of France but of Austria. At the Battle of tho Mnrno France saved herself and Europe from German supremacy. In tho snow-covered passes of the Carpa thians Austria Is battling not merely to save herself, desperate as her own plight now is. but to save her greater nllfr- For If Russian nrmles again crown tho Carpathlnns and flow back Into tho Hungarian Plain, not even tho most optimistic German enn reasonably ex pect ultimate victory. In Vienna and In Berlin It is equally well recognized that the Battle of the Cnrpathlans mntfen n prnrliil TinlM!- In thnlr fortunes. More Important than the military nre tho political Issues involved Russlnn defeat at tho Masurian Lakes was followed by a sudden cooling of the aidor of Rumanian, Italian, Greek and Bulgarian. Those who with out direct Interest were concerned only by questions of spoil and nggrnndlrvrtnent found In Russian disaster full wnrrnnt to delay their own operations. Austria Faced With Ruin But the capture of Przemyst, the roar of allied cannon along tho Dardanelles, tho far less considerable but distinct British triumph nt Neuvo Chapelle the cumulative effect of these is unmistakable In dispatches that como from Rome, from Bucharest, from Athens; even Sofia now hesitates between ancient In juries and profits tho futuro promises. A declsivo Austrian defeat In the mountains will mean tho Invasion of Hungary. It will necessitate tho evacuation of Transylvania and Bukowlna, which will bo open to Ru manian Invasion. For Rumania, then, to hesitate nt this time will bo to permit Russia to pluck tho fruit, and Russia may well decline to share provinces conquered with a small neighbor whose caution conquered her avarice. For Austria ono more defeat must mean ruin. Hungary, swept by Cossack hordes, will not long consent to fight at homo the battle for Germany which the Kaiser's hosts still carry on in Poland, Belgium and Franco. Tho onrush of Rumanian and Russian armies, tho Inevitable incursion of Servians from the south these will bring Budapest to a new and unmistakable position The Meaning to Italy And Italy who now doubts the meaning of her wnlting? But if she waits until Hun gary has collapsed, until the guns of the Queen Elizabeth and tho soldiers of General d'Amado have opened the Dardanelles, why should France or England or Russia pay her a pourbolre for neutrality out of tho profit they have nmussod by rudo and terrible labor? In European history It Is doubtful if any battle has had so grave Immediate possibili ties as that of tho Carpathians since tho great Napoleon lost Leipzig and all his allies. Thoso who still hesitated, held back no longer when the terrible "Battle of tho Nations" was decided. The doom of tho Napoleonic empire was scaled about tho Saxon capital, although tho final act took place In Franco at Fontalneblcau. Cracow the Gate to Berlin On tho military side Austrian defeat in tho present conflict would compel tho im mediate withdrawal of Austrian troops from Russian Poland. Cracow Is tho gate to Sllc&la, to Berlin, not to Vienna. The army corps of Francis Johpph which nre defending German frontiers behind the Nida and cast of Cracow will ho needed on tho Thelss and the Danube if tho Czar can force tho Dukla gateway to, the Hungarian Plain. To Germany must then fall tho whole task of defending her eastern marches at the pro clso moment when Anglo-French armies are opening the long promised spring campaign and from Switzerland to tho North Sea now myriads are breaking against tho dlko Ger man military genius has erected In hostllo lands. The Effect on the Western Front "With Russian troops In Hungary, with Italian armies thundering at tho Tyrolean and Dalmatian gates, with Rumanian troops flowing through Transylvania to Join hands with Russians and Servians in the valley of tho Danube, will Austria, If she still endures, fall to demand that Germany draw back her garrisons from conquered provinces to clear tho homo land of her stricken ally? Military men the world over frankly ques tion tho ability of the Anglo-Fiench armies to "turn the Germans out of France." With such force as they now have, with the great resources of artillery at their command, the Germans aro generally believed to bo capable of holding- their present lines for a spring and summer campaign. But if Austria must bo rescued, Budapest as well as Cracow cov ered, will German numbers still prove ade quate to meet the strain without fatal deple tion In the wst? Ag41n, If Przemysl Is followed by Constan tinople, If Italy, Rumania, Greece enter the contest, will German spirit still hold out? For the outside world the outcome of the war has been settled. Neutrals who bellevo that Germun triumph Is still possible are far to seek. In our own country It Is unmistakable that hope Is beginning to desert the most loyal sympathizers with the Teutonic cause. But so far as It is possible to judge, German confidence endures. Could It survive the shock of on.e severe disaster In the field fol lowed by the onrush of new nations? Behind the Censor's Veil Unmistakably the contest In the Carpa thians dwarfs all battles since the Mama. An Austrian victory, the arrest of the Slav hosts at the Carpathian barrier, may permit new alignment, new preparations. But a prompt and decisive victory can hardly fall to change the whole face of the war, ' Now and again in this great war there are momenta which seem to give a sudden realization to a world benumbed and dazed by the dally progress of destruction and con flict of the magnitude of tho whole struggle in human history Patently, the present crisis is one of them Since Leipzig in the last century perhaps no meeting of hostile armies has meant sg much Jsp tMnv millions qf mejaTtewans WtiSftj. SSS?aaU, for AfJaterHii are almost equally concerned, as tho Battle of tho Carpathians rlow proceeding behind tho Impenetrable veil of tho censor. A HUMORIST IN GARDENING Joseph Addison Found Innumerable Sub jects for Meditation in His Flower grown Acres. I AM one, you must know, who nm lookod upon as a humorist In gardening. I have soveral acres about my house, which I call my garden and which a skilful gardener would not know what to call. It Is a confu sion of kitchen and parterre, orchard nnd flower garden, mKcd nnd Interwoven with one another. Jy flowers grow up In Boveral parts of tho garden in the greatest luxurlancy and profusion. I nm so far from being fond of any particular one, by reason of Its rarity, and If I meet with any ono In a field which pleases mc, I give it a place In my garden. By this means, when a stranger walks with me, ho Is surprised to sco soveral large spots of ground covered with ten thousand different colors, and has often singled out flowers he might have met with under a common hedge. In a field or In a meadow, as some of tho greatest beauties of tho place, Tho only method that I observe in this particular Is to range In tho same quarter tho products of tho same season, that they may make their ap pearance together, and compose a picture of the greatest variety. There Is the same irregularity iu my plan tations, which run Into as great a wilderness as their natures will permit. I take In none that do not naturally rcjolco In the soil; ana am pleased when I am walking In a labyrinth of my own raising, not to know whether tho ncYt tree I shall meet with Is nn apple or oak; an elm or pear tree, You must know that I look upon tho pleasure we take In a garden as ono of tho most Innocent de lights In human life. A garden was the habi tation of our first parents before tho fall. It Is naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness and tranquillity, and to lay all Its turbulent passions at rest. It gives us a great Insight Into the eonttlvance and wisdom of Providence, and suggests Innumerable subjects for medita tion. I cannot but think tho very complacency and satisfaction which a man takes In theso works of Nature to be a laudable If not a virtuous habit of mind. WHEN THE SUN "DRAWS WATER" From tho Pathfinder. When the sun Is to tho east or west of us on a cloudy or hazy day, beams are often seen radiating from It toward tho horizon; then many peoplo eay the sun Is "drawing water." They actually bellevo that tho lines of light and shadow appearing to converge In tho sun are great shafts of water and vapor that the sun is drawing up Into the air to bo precipitated later on tho earth as rain or Bnow. These shafts, as a matter of fact, are generally In dicative of coming rainy weather, but they cannot be counted nn as infallible signs. Tho Idea that thi sun Is "drawing water," however, l entirely erroneous, for the lines seen are tho result of tho passage of Ilftht through openings in clouds already formed. The lines that appear dark are shadows of clouds, while the light lines or ras from tho sun are made visible In the air by the presence therein of dust or watery vapor, just as tho duet in the air of a room makes visible the light that enters it through small apertures. Although as an effect of perspective the shadows and bars of light appear to converge In tho sun, they are really parallel. Usually tho condition of the atmosphere which makes it possible for the beams and shadows to be seen Is Indicative of the active condensation of moisture, bo that when the sun "draws water'' rain may bo ex pected with some degree of certainty, although like all local signs It Is far from Infallible. Sometimes when the sun Is below the horizon a phenomenon, almost the same, s observed a group of beams spreading fanlike upward from the sun. In lines of blue alternating with lines of pink In the western eky In the evening and In the eastern sky In the morning, A DOG'S "CONSPICUOUS VALOR" Lucky Js the soldier, be he private or officer, who is mentioned In dispatches for conspicu ous valor. Needless to say It rarely happens that any other than a human being earns such honor; and yet not long ago a dog, Marquis, the regimental dispatch dog of the 23d French Infantry, received honorable mention, having 'alien while on duty at the battle of Sarre uourg, on the Belgian frontier, Says the dis patch from Dunkirk, appearing in thn New York Times; At this action It became necessary for an officer to send a report immediately to hla su perior, but at the time, the German fire was too Intense to allow a man to cross the fire zone, and Marquis was charged with the mlialon. Off he ran. across the fire-swept zone, and arrived nearly at the objective point wiien a Oerman ball struck him In the right Bide and brought htm down. He struggled to his feet, though losing a great deal of blood, and dragged himself UP to tho poiition where the oflicer was directing a section of machine guns. He let fall the order, reddened by his blood, and breathed bis last. His soldier comrades are raising a fund for a monument, en which is to be Inscribed, "Marquis Killed on the Field pf Honor." WORK OR FAITHFULNESS t Is it the work that makes life rreat and truet Or the tmo sow ys, wonting as ?, Pees faithfully tha iak, 4 ha) uaj a wfA , "IF DIS WAS ONLY EUROPE!" mmimmm VIEWS OF READEES ON TIMELY TOPICS Woman Suffrage, Compulsory Voting, the Sunday Campaign art! Capital Punishment Among the Topics Discussed By Our Correspondents. To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir I can answer tho question. "Do I be llevo that the Stato should kill?" with an em phatic "no." This does not mean that I have a sentimental view about crime and criminals, i bellevo In punishment, but not In revenge. I do not bellevo In maudlin sympathy, but in gcnulno reform. Capital punishment Is a relic of barbarism and should lie abolished. I am opposed to It, first, because It docs not act as a dotcrrent to crime. When men com mit murder they do not pause to remember tho long list of oxecutlons which blacken the history of punishment. Wo havo more execu tions now than wo ever havo had and more murders. Second, capital punishment Is an abrogated law, contrary to the higher standards of Chris tianity. The ground taken that n man ought to be killed hecnuso ho has killed another is tho old covenant principle of rovenge, "An eye for nn eye, and a tooth for a tooth." If there Is any ground for killing a man. It Is that that man may not kill another. That only Is the defense of capital punishment. If tho end of punishment is reform, a man is not reformed when ho Is electrocuted. Destruc tion Is not reformation. Tho moaning of chas tlement Is, In the original, to make clean and chaste, ns linen Is whitened and cleaned in the laundry. A matt Is not cleansed when ho is electrocuted. Nobody Is helped, least of all the man himself. Again, when tho Stato kills a man It lessens the respect for human llfo nnd cheapens the value of n human being. It feeds the spirit of tho mob and brutalizes public opinion. Apart front the barbaric fact Itself, capital punishment In Its method Is an Inhuman prac tice. 1 nm opposed' to Mils' form of modern sav agery, perpetuated In penal Institutions which still continue tho bloody customs of tho past. Tho last hour of a doomed man aro hours of abject loneliness. Ills friends disappear. Often Ills body Is unclaimed and tho punishment which he tecelves before his death Is inde scribable. I do not bellevo m capital punishment and hope that the time will como when tho people of Pcnn.). Ivanla will stop this Inhuman custom. HUNItY KELMAN. Philadelphia, Pa., March 10. ACCIDENTAL POISONING To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir A poisoning of a patient today by a nurse who ndminlstetcd In mistake tablets, probably of bichloride of mercury, suggests the unwis dom of physicians using that disinfectant or antiseptic, as ono may wish to call it, for any purpose connected with tho treatmont of the sick, I havo given up entirely the use of this deadly poison for external use, and employ other antiseptics less capable of doing harm, but which are equally as cfllclent. Jinny ef forts havo been mado by manufacturers of pharmacals to so guard theso "tablets of mer cury" as to make unintentional poisoning a negligible quantity, but no matter how guarded they aro they will bo mistaken for lozenges, etc., and poisoning, even tri death, will occur. Therefore, I never order a patient or nurso to use theso mercury tablets, nnd I my self never use this form of antiseptic, not only because of the danger of poisoning, but nlso be cause other antiseptics are preferably more efficient. If physicians will eetiso using bichloride of mercury, or "corrosive sublimate," as It is popularly called, It will not be long before tho manufacturers will ceaso to make them, which will not be a loss to medicine or surgery. GORDON 5T. CHRISTINE, M. D. Philadelphia, March 25. MAKING PEBBLE SOUP To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir I recall a recipe for making a most nu tritious soup out of just ordinary pebbles. The essential thing was to wash the pebbles clean, put In a pot with sufficient water and place upon the stove, Later, Just for seasoning, a few minor Ingredients, such as beef, vege tables, etc., were to bo added, Tho exact pro portions have escaped my memory, but I re member that when tho instructions wero care fully followed the result was a most tasty and nourishing dish. Curiously enough, this came t6 my mind as I was thinking of the recent evangelistic cam paign In this city. C. A. B. Philadelphia, March 25. THE DEPARTURE OP SUNDAY To the Editor of tha Evening Ledger Sir "Billy" Sunday has gone! Whether he has done good remains to be seen; at any rate, there is not a unanimity of opinion on this point. But this seems to me to be the most certain fact at which one can now arrive; Mr. Sunday remained in Philadelphia three weeks too long. Until the beginning of this month, Mr. Bun day's supporters stood solidly behind blm; In the last few weeks he lost some of his etancheat adherents. A striking example of this Is the He v. Dr. Alexander MacColl, of the Second Presbyterian Church, The Presbyter ians and Methodists, as is usually the case In revivals of the nature such as Philadelphia has just witnessed, have been Mr Sunday's most ardent supporters. But a feeling not only of dUtniat, but of wonderment at how they could have been "bamboozled," one might say, into advocating Mr. Sunday and his methods made Its appearance toward the end of the evan gelist's stay. Doctor MaoColl, In speaking at a Lenten serv ice of the dangers which lurk In great revivals, aid that many of Mr. Sunday's teachings "are breaches of ChrUtlan courtesy and against the spirit of Christ ' The sermons had become in creasingly more bigoted and unchristian. A growing spirit of Intolerance for those who did not approve of his creed or methods charac terised Mr Sunday's Ubcm. Thte out bursts uad deetritM wuSKMalUt the Word wJiv.l UnMJIgMeritaM U that Mr. and Mrs Sundnv nnd thru mi. n....T Marquis, took unto themselves Jewelry amount; ing to nearly $1200. And this In the face et" '" u"iuicies oi mo evangelist mat Jeweltt Is the curso of woman nnd the surest meant to the road of ruin! This sum, which they i." lowed td be squandered on their vnnltv. v. I, been placed at the service of some chariUMi uiKitmzHiion would, according to tne Enur. gency Aid, mean life to 2000 babies. Flfty-alx" cents will keen a babv In food for n. wak. i yet tho "servant of God" took this Jewelrjl 1 Thoso who have met Mr. and Mrs. Sunday uer- sonnlly Know that they are well supplied with' jewelry, nnil that they have no pressing nl .u. u uiu turquoise an diamond ring, or a t ummonu ring, or a $uu stlcupln, or a Jl! cuciy uiiiBp ior snia pin. D. C x-uuuueipnia, .viarcn z, EVENING LEDORR IRATIS To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: W Sir Thnnks for your good smallDox atorr la today's editions. Your men aro on tha 1nh. nni account of good stories your paper leadj In tltA cuiauon. uooa lucK! J A. FATtt Mlllvllle, N. J., March 25. WHICH DENOMINATION To thn TZdttnr nf fi rn.HlMi T.Anm. Sir Leonard Stadler desires to know the cVtff nomination ono Bhould Join nfter heartaf ,It f "iilliy" Sunday preach. As ono who iDDrorn of all tho words of the noble evangelist, ralikt I suggest to friend Stadler to loin the dnomi nation within which he feels hp can do thi molt good. Tho most costly mistake foraconj vert to make is to become a religious partiiaiM Tho great men gave more to the world thmll they got out of It Socrates, Savonarola anil I uruno. It was at this very season of the jear tdut Jesus warned tho chief priests and PharUl that tho "Kingdom of God shall be taken frtBj you, and given to a nation bringing forth thi. rruits thereof." JOSEPH STEWART. Philadelphia, March 2i. COMPULSORY VOTING To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir With amusement tho writer notices Jw cuuoriai against compulsory voting owins w tho fact that you bellevo In "votes for wonwaS You know It is ono of tho main argumenta with tho stiffs that "womon won't havo to vote an; less they want lo." The suits are perfectly will ing to do all tho voting; but this compuUwr voting: Gee WhlzL It will kill tho Huff agitation deader than Noah's menagerie If the Btate M; tually makes tho glittering "right to vote" duty, with a fine attached. ' Do you know that with woman suffrage thef have to pass compulsory voting laws to It tho women out? Australia did, you know, anj Oregon is trying It now, too, , Of course, that $2 rebate would have a raucS greater attraction for some of our bargain- Invlnc Inrllon thnn It la xstimntpd to haVO fOf your fisherman; but as Jefferson, whom wo will j a. . a.t.1 -. ala IliTntn; conceao to nave oeen somewiins ui a '' Kiilrt: "Thn Interest nf the neonle can be WOH: rnnllv nwakened b nnneals to their POCXCUUaw It Is my humble opinion that Governor Bfiwil baugh's measure would prove effective with th men also. V But tho best thing It would do would BJ?J kill tho acltatlon for "votes for women. JJ women don't want votes-thcy only wj tnll. nhnut tt.Am YF itinv rnnllv wanted tnClUI they would go out and colonize some of'Hl Western woman suffrage States, because rm , sylvanla Is ono of those sane connnnH whlch will never Indulge In this folly. r. ,- .1.- .,! n.,(l,t itl tue aj their "lnrllrect Influenco" to make It a crln,?H offense for any qualified elector to iieglect fl duty of voting. If they did you'd need a micro, i . ...... AVMA.ui.., n ftiscover relic called the "woman voter-actualiy J large in Chicago, Iceland. Uheyenne ' "; places about the year 1916, after which the i ptj. ,i. .i..... i.,.n ne ft. fun nf raatlnir Daiici l" "U" '"" EDWARD TOAU Ardmore, Pa., March IS. PRAISE FOR EVENING LEDGER Tv ihm Editor of the Evening Ledger: jH SIr-I cannot refrain from xPr',lnLS; gratification and satisiaction ovt . --- j I ,It Is Interesting In so many different wWJj or,,l ...m tn hnVA thn Itnnclf. not Only Of V1' Z Ing different people of varied tastes, bttt J cf falling In with a person's vary Ing m09o- .A As one of the city's notable institution. " U . . . .... .....i mirA Known 7ij appreciated. MEYER MOBDEW-. Philadelphia. March 2t. THE DARDANELLES I've always longed to ve" b8 ,pq Where bold lander Breasted the wave to Hero fW Defying slander; Yea, ever since I was a boy My fancy's beckoned Across the etorled plain of Troy That Homer reckoned. And, oh, toVee where Xerxes M His legions fabl0 . . , Where Alexander fought and Dwo. Killed and disabled. ' The next my bark in fancy pU (At aawnmg it w ,,,., uum To where enhorned In BW there The pearj or cutest But from th r6 w ve'v T It piusj be hot there, . 'J lr.fTik.. tm rather l4 1B A: mmw ""- IP ,T ii aa&to
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