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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
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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!"
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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
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