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fighting a battle under my own new flag
that vAll teach to the world that tho
American flap means something
afloat and must be respected
at sea. John Faul Jones.
Vetoing Fundamentally Unwise Procedure
THE Governor yesterday vetoed tho bill
providing that tho Municipal Court
should be given cxcluslvo Jurisdiction over
all houses of detention established within
tho city limits and providing that tho Board
of Managers should bo appointed nnd re
moved by the President Judge of tho court.
"The court very properly," says tho Gov
ernor, "should have tho power of appoint
ment referred to, but the power Bhould bo
given to the court, and not to ono member
of tho court. This proceduro is funda
mentally unwlso."
It is not only fundamentally unwise, but
It would be exceedingly unsafe, in view of
the orgy of appointment which has char
acterized the operation of the court up to
this time. It has provided loafing places for
a groat number of political hangers-on, at
handsome salaries, in spite of tho protests
of a few members of the tribunal.
The President Judgo need not bo given
the opportunity to mnko any further ap
pointments. In a matter so Intimately con
cerning tho court as a whole, tho power of
appointment should rest In the whole court.
Economic Prohibition
THERE Is ono kind of prohibition that
prohibits. When 22 liquor dealers quietly
and unostentatiously slip out of the trade,
there Is a reason.
Economic law needs no policemen to en
force it It achieves results without Juries
or constables. "We will not employ men who
drink," says business. "We will not drink,
anyhow," say more and more men. If men
will not buy "booze," dispensers cannot sell
It They are not In the trndo for pleasure.
They want profit and If thero is no profit
they will quit.
So, slowly but surely, the number of
saloons is adjusted to the demand; and tho
demand, fortunately, decreases. Next year
2?, maybe more, liquor dealers will also- go
out of business, in time even those who are
left will be changing the entire customs and
methods of the trade, realizing at last that
there can be no survival of the fittest unless
the Attest ore (it.
Needed: A Place to Dance
WHEN the Evening Ledger epoko
against the evil of the "saloon cabaret"
last week a reader who agreed with the
stand taken bemoaned the lack of any place
where dancing can be had on decent terms.
There is plenty of dancing as a byproduct
of buying cocktails, but no dancing to be
bought for its own sake except in tho danc
ing schools, it Is a condition which the
Evening Ledger regrets quite as much as It
abhors the cabaret saloon.
Dancing has come Into its own again with
ajl the energetic, vital and varied steps which
are generally called "modern." Peoplo are
ready nowadays to dance any time and any
where. But so far the corruption of the cab
aret has fastened Its deadly fangs upon It
In Philadelphia.
It U different In a few cities farther
West. The leader of them all is Chicago,
whero the city established "municipal
dances" last fall with marked success. Cleve
land, also, has recognized the necessity for
decent daces for a decent pastime. Danclna
Is a Una expression of natural vigor. It needs
proper outlet In Philadelphia.
Race Suicide Cannot De Justified
HOW many children ought a family to
haver There is an Increasing number of
families answering this socially Important
question by declaring, either by word or by
practice, er by both, that the number should
be limited by the financial ability to give each
child a college education and such advan
tages as the rich can provide for an Indefinite
number of boys and girls.
No more destructive doctrine was ever for
mulated and proclaimed. Colonel Roosevelt
understood whither It tended when he began
his campaign against race suicide. The dls
position of families as they become educated
and prosperous is to become sterile. They
have one child or twp, and do their best to
t'f. J1-3" tD,r offBPfng dependent or others for
S-Thiarr nnhrtnirlna- it,. ,. ..- .. .. ..
m-'Cam --- miuw oi mo small
jTXaroily Is a recent product. It has accompa-
" " mmivtwmii m jemwism and the
demand for a life of ease.
It tuts remained for Miss GUdersleeve, the
dean of Jternard College, to tell the Columbia
TJntveridty Phi Beta KaDDa Bcwletv th.t
.teerels no longer need of a large birth rate
I x-vvp io pepuMUMj numerous, g be thinks
ttwt the decrease in Infant mortality has been
't&mt, to Justify the derea ln the birth
yifct among (be eduacted a&4 weJM4o. If
. mi iwwwiBg wu sort ot thing to
the yHRff wowen in Barnard CoUege, the
velfbe4ed tsuetMa Of that institution
nieH reH caH upea her to eease her efforts
t mm the wtrol f America c-ver to the
tfcMdfww of the Ifftwant and the peer. There
has Ma no decrease in the birth rate among
tb JawMsTants. The Slavs, the Poles, the
n. the Armenians and tfee Hungarian
ajta !. eos m are reynAteiaMT Ubr
MM ft, ittty that tsr tt tk schools La
Un Iwfc. Tfce m ; jj erewalig wm j
EVENING Tl
ths offgprlnjr of parent who are not Infected
with the notion that the hlrth rale must bo
kept down.
H I of vital Importance that the Americans
whose Americanism dates back three or four
(fenerations should neek to preserve their race
Instead of deliberately condemning It to ft
slow nnd certain death through strangulation
nt tho source.
A Pnn-Amcrlcan Pocket Nerve
THE strengthening of tho tics of amity
which bind together the nations of this
hemisphere Is n desirable thing. A common
purpose In diplomacy, In regard to Europe,
and a Joint support of a deflnlto American
program would be a natural result of tho
Monroe Doctrine, which has been maintained
almost a century by this country alone. "An
Irresistible union of unconquerable nations"
Is a phrase with a swing to It.
Communication, however, la what brings
peoples together. National enmities are too
often tho result of misunderstandings aris
ing from a lack of Intlmato knowledge. Had
Intercourse been as freo between the North
nnd South In tho 60's as It Is today, It is
doubtful If thero would ever have been a
Civil War. Tho way to tlo the two Americas
Inseparably to one another Is to link them
by steamship lines, to promote their recipro
cal trade, to glvo them, In fact, a common
pocket nerve.
The representatives from South nnd Central
American republics hnvo given every evi
dence of tho warm feeling of their respcctlvo
nations toward us, particularly of their de
sire to Increaso greatly their trndo with us.
It Is a golden opportunity. It has been
neglected and It is still being neglected. To
be sure, at last we have American banking
facilities In South America, but that Is a
recent development, and considerable expan
sion Is necessary. But wo havo not mado
tho study of tho situation wo should havo
mado. We havo not accommodated our trado
practices to the customs and hahltB of our
prospectlvo clients. Wo havo not gone after
the business with true American energy. Wo
havo waited for It to como to us instead of
going after and getting It. Now, despite our
neglect, it is whistling a welcome for us.
Wo have, wo aro told, three billions of
dollarn avallablo to finance our poorer
neighbors. That Is a sum sufficient to tako
up their aggregate debts, owed to Europe,
and also to furnish a billion of new capital
outright. We do not need to tako up tho
debts, but wo certainly do need to show our
faith In South America by extending to It
liberal credit.
Let ub Pan-Americanize trade, and nil other
forms of Pan-Americanism will follow Just
ns surely as night follows day, or cruelty
war.
Breaking All Records
THE automobile races over tho Indianapo
lis Speedway on Monday were concluded
without a serious accident. They thus es
tablished a new and noteworthy record of
safety of far greater Interest than tho suc
cess of tho winners ln covering ajl distances
from 100 miles to BOO miles ln shorter tlmo
than any other motorists ever did. Three
minutes and sixteen seconds was cut from
tho best previous time for 100 miles, and half
an hour, loss a few seconds, was cut from
the 500-mllo record. The averngo speed was
8D.84 miles an hour.
Progress making toward the annihilation
of distance has ceased to astound oven tho
men of science, whose predecessors were
convinced that the first steam railroad
trains, unning nt less than 20 miles an
hour, would nover be successful because It
would be Impossible for a man to breatho
when moving through space at such an In
credible speed. We havo grown so accus
tomed to marvels that they do not, even
metaphorically, take our breath nway.
Praise Senator Cummins For It
WHEN you miss your train for Delaware
or New Jersey because the baggage
master insists that you must elgn a declara
tion of the value of your trunk and Its con
tents when it is checked you should thank
Senator Cummins for it. The Interstate com
merce law has been amended nt the instance
of the Iowa Senator so as to rcqulro every
traveler to state the value of his baggage.
The purpose of the new law, which went
Into effect today, is supposed to be to protect
the public. A hundred thousand travelers
are to be compelled to unwind a lot of red
tape In order that one man who loses his
trunk may have less trouble In persuading
the railroad company to pay for It. The
Cummins amendment Is typical of the mod
ern business reform legislation. Tho Sena
tor la proud of It, and he should not be
allowed to escape any of the glory that la
coming to him.
A little common sense would not do Amer
ica's humanttarlanlsm any harm.
Thero Is a Pan-American Union already,
with a hall of Its own ln Washington.
Mexico has no troubles that money ex
pended In the right quarters cannot cure.
It is no time to be washing dishes when
Incendiaries are pouring kerosene over your
front porch.
The President demands that the relgu of
terror In Mexico shall' cease, but he does not
nominate any one to succeed htm.
Now that harvest time Is near Uncle Bam
can afford to let his surplus stock of grain
be shipped to Europe without fear of famine
at home.
The rapid progress toward completing tho
fund of jseo.ooe for the Sisters of Mercy Hos
pltal suggests that there are many brothers
of mercy also.
wai
The Pinehots insist that they are still
teyat They kww they will rise higher tied
to the tail of the Colonel's kite than the
CatoaeJ will rise tied to their ty bailee.
The latest Ferd Joke: To leave your car
in frost of your house and then eoete out
to find It gene. But It is being perpetrated
so often that it will sooB eease to he funny
for the men who steal the oars.
Belgian aviators have been literally drop
ping a line to their countrymen to let them
know that Italy has entered the war with the
Allies. This is the sort of dlseeialeetton of
whvs wkks tt Qerawit wuer wttj tad it
tttSevK ta rat.
- R - navPTrTTrA - nEL'PHra. WEDNESDAY.
SOME YOUNG IDEAS
THAT MISSED FIRE
Schoolboy "Howlers," or Curious
Results of Mental Reaction to
Knowledge A Collection of An
swers to "Exam" Questions.
By ROBERT HILDRETH
r
P HUMOR Is Indeed "a collision of two
Ideas marching In opposite directions,"
then It seems as If schoolboy "howlers" must
be classified as humor: nnd yet sometimes
this mlx-up of Ideas has more tho appear
ance of a football scrimmage than of a
head-on collision.
Last week we looked over somo examina
tion papers In search of "howlers," but saved
a few subjects for today. Let us see what
wo can learn from history.
History
Entirely right was the distinguished his
torian who said, "Not a clause In tho Decla
ration of Independence sets forth the real
and underlying cause of tho American Revo
lution," For a schoolboy has discovered that
"the cause of tho Revolution was that tho
colonists wanted room to pasture their cat
tle." Of tho Civil War a high school pupil
wrote, "This war tho soldiers had to deal
with vicious characters, and I think this Is
why this Is called tho Civil War, because
after tho war the different races of peoplo
were moro civilized." (Cf. tho present Euro
pean war.)
Q. "What happened ln 1492?" A. "Dls
covcry of America by the Spinach."
Q. "Wlint happened in 1776?" A. "Dec
oration of independence."
Now a bit of ancient history: "Romulus
obtained tho first citizens of Rome by open
ing n lunatic asylum."
Hero nro somo "liowlers" from Harrow:
Itorkc's Drift was a b.ittlo at sea.
The Whlto Man's Grave Is the grave
where General Gordon died In.
Kcllahs are donkeys.
In William ill's reign Dysentry got pcr
mltslon to worship.
Elizabeth ascended the Throne ln 16S8 nnd
died 1560. Bho did not have a long reign.
The Black Death was terrible for the la
bourers, becauso they were forced to do all
the work that was left by tho thousands
that died.
It was nn English BChoolboy who wrote,
"Tho King was not allowed to order taxis
without tho consent of Parliament." (An
excellent restriction on royal spendthrifts.)
Language
"An abstract noun Is Bomethlng you can't
seo when you nro looking at It."
"Gender shows whether a man 1b mascu
line, femlnlno or neuter."
"Two legntlves mnko an afflrmatlve."
"Tho masculine of 'vixen' is vicar."
"A clauso Ih a group of words distin
guished as to sex."
"Inflection 1b to cast a Hhadow on a sylla
ble." Latin and French
III Horsecollnr according to O. Henry
translated tho opening words of tho well
known Commentaries of Caesar, or rather
tho well-known opening words of Caesar's
Commentaries, as follows: "It will tako all
of our gall to devlso means to tree them
parties." Small Latin nnd less French ap
pear ln tho following schoolboy translation:
"II pleut a verse Ho cries at poetry."
"Le coeur purine Tho disinfected yard."
"Ad hostea suppllces saccrdotes venerunt
The priests, came to tho enemy ln their
surplices."
"Terra tribus scopulls vastum procurrlt in
nequor Tho earth being laid waste by three
scorpions runs into tho sea."
"Cclerl sauclus malus Africo Celery
sauce Is bad for an African."
Mathematics
"Algebra was tho wlfo of Euclid."
"Algebraical symbols aro used when you
don't know what you are talking about."
"Geometry teaches us how to blsex
nngels."
"The line opposite tho right angle In n
right-angled triangle Is called the hippo
potamus." "Parallel lines nro the same distance all
tho way, and cannot meet unless you bend
them."
Science
"Horsepower Is tho dlstanco one horse can
carry a pound of water In an hour."
"Gravitation Is that which if there were
none wo should all fly away."
"A vacuum Is a largo empty place where
the Pope lives."
"To kill a butterfly you pinch Its borax."
"A ruminating animal Is one that chews
Its cubs."
"Etymology Is a man who catches butter
flies and stuffs them."
"The earth Is an absolute spheroid."
"The Zodiac Is the Zoo of tho sky, where
lions, goatB and other animals go after they
are dead." (Herein the makings of a literary
man are apparent "the Zoo of the sky" Is an
excellent phrase, Is It not?)
Conclusion
"The salaries of teachers are paid from the
dog tax."
"Tho Eustachian tube Is so you can hear
yourself talk."
"One great modern work of Irrigation Is
the Panama Canal."
"The Rhino Is bordered by wooden moun
tains." "The Pyramids are a range of mountains
between France and Spain."
"A working drawing must be a drawing
picturing, a person at work."
Addenda to laBt week's Biographical Notes:
"Shakespeare founded 'As You Like It on a
book previously written by Blr Oliver Lodge,"
"Henry VIII was very fat, besides being a
Nonconformist." "Andrew Jackson was
called 'Old Hickory' because when he was a
boy he was a little tough,"
A freckled youngster who was sent to the
blackboard by his teacher to write a sentence
containing the word "income" evolved, after
considerable dtflloulty; "I opened the door and
In come a cat,"
Another lad on another occasion used the
word "Tlmbuctoo" orally with gTeat success.
"I played with my goats yesterday, Tom
busked and Tlmbuctoo."
Don't ever doubt a "schoolboy howler."
Ask teacher.
NEW USE FOR AEROPLANES
yteat lb Jlrtf4 CauHtt.
Aeroa)an may have as Important vw in
pence aa they are devetewiiir for timaMives in
war. Since the autmvarifMa became aedve it le
etelmed that one ef these war veeeels can be
HUd by an aereptoas even whn the ship
Is under water. It le pjropod to cand out
aeroplane to seewt for seal, and when the
herds are located the Ashing Oest can sail di
rectly for team, instead of westing time In
the bunt. Oprtlea of the ealttag alfa
duriag the last seasoa were not suet4fui,
and th bells in Newfoundland le that te
uttMaallen ef the aeroplanes ss scouts will add
Materially to ths catch la the Quit at St.
Lawrence uttt year.
WAITING FOR U. S. . ;
A;bC mm mm I
IMMIGRANTS FIGHTING ITALY'S WAR
How the Italians in This Country Are Furnishing the Sinews
of War in the Millions of Dollars Which They
Send Home Every Year.
By ADALBERTO CAPORALE
THE Italians residing ln this country aro
financing, nt least for n. good percentage,
tho war which Italy Is now waging ngnlnst
Austria for tho recovery of tho "Unredeemed
Lands." Tho Immigrants will simply loan
to the Italian Government tho money they
havo deposited ln tho savings banks' of Italy
and especially In tho postal savings banks,
becauso the Government will ln this way
Invest their savings, which, It Is fair to
say, will not be ln danger of being lost by
those who have tolled hard to send them to
their country.
Let us see, from statistics furnished
mainly by the Italian Government, the
truth of our statement. Emigration Is
one of the most conspicuous assets of Italy.
The host of toilers that every year leave the
home chorea to cross the Atlantic aro respon
sible for tho making up of one-half of tho
J2i0,000,000 doficit that thero Is In the Italian
economical budget; that Is, the difference be
tween Importations nnd exportatlons.
Emigration ns nn Asset
During tho year 1906, which was tho record
year for Italian emigration, 788,000 persons
left Italy to seek better conditions of living
and better wages abroad, and nearly 500,000
of them crossed the Atlantic and landed in
the United States, Canada or South America.
It la believed that thero are now ln tho
United States not fower than 3,000,000 per
sons of Italian birth of parentage, though the
oillclal figures are below 2,000,000. These Im
migrants or natlvo Italian-American citizens
are distributed In overy State of the Union,
but mainly in tho States of New York and
Pennsylvania, In somo of the Middle West
and on tho Pacific coast.
According to tho estimate made by Prof.
Lulgi Rossi, ex-Commlssloner General of
Emigration In Italy, tho Italian emigrants
send every year to their mother country not
less than $100,000,000, tho bulk, perhaps $80,
000,000, according to figures recently pub
lished In this country, being sent from .the
United States. A moro recent Inquiry mado
by tho Banca d'ltalla, which la tho greatest
financial Institution In Italy and Is under the
control of the Government, shows that Pro
fessor Rossi's estimate was correct.
According to Rossi's report, the money sent
homo by the Italian emigrants is Invested
ln the payment of rim all debts, In tho savings
banks or other financial institutions, in tho
Bmi trade, and In tho purchase of small
houses and email farms. But the Influence
of the savings of tho emigrants' Is mani
fold. The deposits made In the postal sav
ings banks go to swell the funds of the Cassa
Deposit! e PrestUI, bo that loans to cities
and Btnall communities are made possible.
The money sent home by the emlqrants con
tributes to the reduction of the Interest rates,
and, In fact, has mado possible the conver
sion of several hundreds of millions of Gov
ernment bonds from 5 to SVi per cent, bonds.
It has made possible tho return homo of an
enormous amount of Government bonds
which was In the hands of foreign Investors,
and, as we have already stated, goes to make
up one-half of the difference between Im
portations and exportatlons.
Statistics published In the latter part of
1913 show that In September of that year the
postal savings banks of Italy were holding
deposits to the amount of $403,000,000, while
$510,000,000 was .deposited in private savings
banks and $373,000,000 in other financial In
stitutions of the country. These figures
show then a total of $1,186,000,000 deposited
ln the various savings Institutions pf Italy,
not Including the money Invested In com
mercial or Industrial enterprises.
Millions Upon Millions
We have not available statistics to show
exactly what portion of this huge total be
longs to emigrants, and more difficult It
would he to discover the percentage belong
ing to Italians residing in this country or
those who have made their mosey while
working In the United States, The only
available figures in this respect are. in faot,
those publlihed by the Banca dl Napoll, an
other big financial institution controlled by
the Italian Government and taking charge
ef a good percentage of the money sent ta
Italy by her emigrants. These figures, which
refer only to the Banca dl Napoll and, there
fore, are aecerUy meoplte, show that
JTTNE 2, IDlfr
during tho year 1912 the Banca handed over
to the postal savings banks nearly $2,400,000,
which was sent to Italy by Immigrants re
siding ln tho United States. But this Is only
a small part of the total Sum sont from this
country .to bo deposited either in tho postal
savings banks or in other financial Institu
tions of Italy, and wo must tako Into con
sideration tho fact that tho bulk of the sav
ings' of tho Immigrants Is sent to the wlve3
of the latter and by them deposited directly
In tho savings banks. Wo can safely assume,
thereforo, that qulto one-fourth of tho
money sent homo every year by Italians re
siding ln tho United States goes to swell the
funds of tho savings banks of Italy.
The Government usually turns tho money
received for safe keeping over to tho Cassa
Doposltl o Prestltl, which, as wo have seen,
Invests It in loans to cities nnd various com
munities of tho kingdom but tho Govern
ment may ask tho Cassa for a loan should
tho necessity to do so arise. Moreover, tho
prlvato savings banks usually Invest their
deposits ln Government loans, which are tho
safest Investment, and leavo them a profit of
about 0.70 per cent., that Is the difference be
tween the Interest they pay to tho depositors
and that paid to them by tho Government
bonds. It was mainly in this way that the
bulk of tho Italian bonds held by foreign In
vestors could bo recalled.
Many of tho depositors of the postal sav
ings banks convert their deposits Into Gov
ernment bonds directly, deciding not to run
tho risk of a commercial Investment. The
recent loan of more than $200,000,000 launched
by the Italian Government to cover the ex
penses of the military preparation for the
present war was In a good measure covered
by tho savings of tho emigrants held in tho
prlvato banks, and It may not bo Impossible
that the Government took advantago of the
two billions or moro deposited ln the postal
savings banks to complete that loan. Cer
tainly It will use tho money If Its needs In
the present war make that necessary.
They Also Servo
From tho figures given above It can be seen
how great a contributor of prosperity to his
mother country Is tho Italian emigrant In
time of peace, when his savings are used
mainly to advance the development of the
fatherland; and ln time of war, when the
money saved by him In foreign lands Is used
for the realization of tho national aspiration
and probably to savo the country. This fact
explains why Italy Is not very eager to call
to tho colors, at least not until that becomes
an Imperative necessity, her emigrants tolling
abroad, especially those who, are working ln
this country. In fact, they will continue to
send home their savings, supplying the money
needed for the national war, and in this way
they also will serve their country.
And this without taking into consideration
the money which will be sent to Italy to
lessen the sufferings of tho destitute families
of the soldiers. To clto only one Instance, the
uanan coiony or pmiadelphla expects to send
to the Italian Red Cross, to be distributed to
the wounded or to the destitute families of
those who are fighting for their country, not
less than $100,000. What will the Italians of
New York, who aro four times as many as
those of Philadelphia, do, and what amount
will be sent by the remaining millions of
Italians scattered all oyer the United States?
SECONDARY CONSIDERATIONS
To th Editor of Evsnlnp Itdptrf
S'T .uW?en wm thI hubbub and
whining about the Lualtanla affair cease? Wo
know, o far as the less In human Ufa U con
cerned, , it U a horrible calamity, but I cer
tainly do look at this part of It aa a secondary
consideration, under the conditions. There la
no doubt in my rolnrt but what the Lusltanla
vae loaded down with ammunition.
What I condemn la those people going on th
Whether the paeeeugers knew of the srarounll
Ueo being on board. I do not know; but the
Gjrmsn i Government must have known it or
why did they do all in their pew,? to .top it
from sailing No matter how hard we trv to
put another construction vwa th cj.,7
have the cold facte staring u in the face We
were caught with the good H America wantS
; . M her take what I? ffl
out to her. We have a rljht to send aiSni
J!"i- The Mut.I,, wwMes he warring aa!
Uone. to fay as private BUuufsotur.r. so but
when we pil tmmw UUj, o 4 veMel teadid
down with war munitions and deliberately taVi 'i
tnem into a war zone anu run tno ris or trend
ing them to the bottom, after duo warning be
ing given, I want to know where we set ortf
Calling the Germans savages nnd barbarism
does not alter tho situation one bit. It Is not
a caso of thinking Germany would not dare do
such a thing, or would be eo Inhuman as to
eend hundreds of peoplo to a watery grave.
Philadelphia, June 1. AMERICAN.
ANSWER TO "COLD FACTS"
To th Editor of Evening Ltdger:
Sir Although tho Lusltnnla tragedy has besn
pretty well hatched out, I would like to reply
to a letter signed "Cold Facts," dated the 28th,
I fall to seo where tho Cunarder was making
any breach of maritime law In carrying pai-
congers, American or otherwise. Also as to ,l
tllllJJilK titly LUiiiiuunuMi it nob ui aiubivcb bm
and shells was given out by the Cunard people. JB?
Tho Collector of tho Port of New York's state- if
ment that sne was not armed, it teems, should i
every thinking' person Bhould know that any
ship built in the United States Is also liable for
seizure by the Government for the above pur
poce. ,
The Lusltanla, being still In the service of
the Cunard Company, I think Is sufficient evi
dence that she had not been requisitioned. If ths
United States would spend moro tlmo In build
ing up a merchant marine of her own there
would be no need of American lives being en
dangcred ln English ships. The seas are God'i
own. nnd are the one place "where the honor.
able admiral should not bo replaced by tha j
atnlthr nAflatnaln " 1
AMERICAN SEAMAN. ,
Philadelphia, May 23.
MUSIC IN THE BUSH
She sings' a wild, sweet song that throbs with
pain.
The added pain of life that transcends art
A song of home, a deep, celestial strain,
The glorious swan-song of a dying heart
A lame tramp comes along the railway track,
A grizzled dog whose day Is nearly done:
He passes, pauses, then comes slowly back
And listens there an audience of one.
She sines her colden voles Is mission-fraught. I
As when she charmed a thousand eager ean; j
He listens trejnbllng, and Bho knows It not, 4!
And f!nwn hie tinllnw tiA.t,. fill hlte t.nH 'J
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She ceases and is still, as If to pray; j
There Is no sound, the stars are all alight
uniy a wretcn wno stumbles on his way.
Only a vagrant sobbing In the night.
Robert W. Bervlea. '1
AMUSEMENTS
BOTANIC GARDENS
AFTERNOONS, June 8 & 9, at 4:30
Lilian' McCarthy Granville Barker
Aiuplcts of Vnivenitu of Penntvtvanla
GREEK PLAYS wS&,m
12, ll.SO, $1 and 80c. Srata at Glmbela.
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B. F. KEITH'S THEATRE
CHESTNUT AND TWELFTH STREETS
"BILL HITS
DOUGLAS
MlhL-A.
?- FAIRBANKS & CO.
.r. J.eaer. Erneat n. Ball; Ahearn'a Corned;
Cp.i Avon Comedy Four; Mleeee Campbell, as:
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GARRICK "S , to p.
FIRST TIME IN PHILADELPHIA
JAMES I1ARNES (Hltm.lf) Prtaenta
THE WONDERFUL MOTION PICTURES
THRO CENTRAL AFRICA
atott Dangeroui and Thrilling UtptdMon
! Evr Undertaken by White Men
Mr. Barnea Apptara rerionally at 2:1(1 & 8:15 P. it
GLOBE
MARKET AND JUNIPER
11 A. U. TO 11 P. M.
Plnsl Rlinnrivn
FLORENCE REED
1N omanI0" B HER OWN WAY
lomaaica rravoioruei Draraaa Educational.
Playa Ohtalnad Thru Stanley Booking Co.
THE
MARKET ST. ABOVE 18TS
. I' I O T U R E S
11 A. M. TO UtlS P. M,
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viHi a MAnatiij, BATURDAX. 10 A. M.
goss Keys Theatre ""ISl .ora
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