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Bible to regard more hopefully the .ant of the
group of (sentences explaining the Mexican
situation, which declares that tho first prob
lem to bo solved 1 to And for a provisional
President ft mnn who represents the cAuse
of the original revolutionists agalnat Huerta,
Aa n matter of fact, the first problem to be
solved Is to find for provisional President ft
man with the will to restore order and the
executlVo ability and military genius to make
his will offcetlve. It matters not whether ho
was In favor of Hucrta or opposed to htm,
or whether he was In favor of Maderp or
supported one of the revolutionists who
plotted tho overthrow of the visionary weak
ling w,hose election every one who knew
Mexico was Confident would be followed by
anarchy.
Mexico needs Just now the kind of a
benevolent despot who sits In tho President's
Chair In any one of tho great American uni
versities, a man with a Arm hand and ah
Iron will who will go about his work un
torrlfled by any ructions In the faculty.
THE CZAR'S RIVAL
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Grartd Diike Nicholas the NSw Auto
crafc Despite. RovorBCd, He Is the
One Man to Whom the Country
'Looks fdr Success.
ritlLAnrLPIIIA, MOMDAY, AUGUST 9, 1915.
A. world with no rival enterprise and ambi
tions struggling upward! a world of eter
nal contentment In statu quo, would
he a loiut eater's dream of change
less rest and nothingness.
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Another Dunco Game by Councils
DIUECTOn rOHTEIl'S commlttco com
mends tho work thus far accomplished
toward making -Holmoaburg a model Houso
of Correction, and advises many wlso ex
tensions In policy and organization. It rec
ommends a dining room for tho Inmates In
place of serving meals In the cells It rec
ommends running water and electric lights In
the confinement quarters. It recommends tho
comploto segregation of the women's depart
ment and many Improvements therein. It
rccommendi tho exclusion of mln rs and tho
establishment of better medical and psycho
pathic caro for tho sick and feeble-minded
Inmates. And It rccommonds that Councils
do ItB obvious duty by appropriating funds
to carry out tho law of 1913, which provides
support for tho dependent families of, In
mates. How tiresome that phrase Is getting: "By
falling to mako the necessary appropriation.
Councils has I" Tho trail of It Is over
phase after phnsc of public work. It Is not
merely a question of Insufficient funds, of
pltlablo appropriations for playgrounds, hos
pitals, housing and pollco work. Here, as In
many another case, It Is tho deliberate old
trick of killing an act by providing no funds
for Its enforcement. Philadelphia has a law,
B, very fine law. But what earthly uso Is it,
so long as the teeth are missing? Such con
ditions reach the height of tho Idiotic. They
reflect on tho mentality of lawmaking: thoy
reflect on tho mentality of lawmakers, and
they reflect on tho mentality of voters who
let themselves be buncoed year after ycar-by
such thlmble-rlggcrs.
The System Is WorthWhat It Costs
Titin conference between tho consumers
and the Philadelphia Vegetable Growers'
Association to discover who gets tho differ
ence between tho wholesale and tho retail
price of vegetables will havo little dlfflculty
In learning all about It.
Tho consumer, pays for tho convenience of
having his potatoes and peas and beans de
livered at his kitchen door when ho wants
them and In as small quantities aa tho needs
of his family" Require. The telephone com
pany gets part of tho money, because every
green-grocer has to, have a telephone fqr tho
convenience of hla customers. -It Is easier to
send" the order by .telephone .than to go to
the store, The. clerk, who takes tho order
over tho phone gats sbmo more of the money,
and tho other clerk who Alls thp order gets
more and tho delivery boy also has to be
paid by tho consumer, and he has to pay
ftlso for tho upkeep of tho horse and wagon
or the automobile used In delivering the
goods. The middleman, who supplies to the
corner grocer .a large or small quantity of
vegetables us ho requires, also gets his share,
and he is entitled to It. And so on, through
the long jchaln of men .hat connects tho
farms with the kitchens, every mart takes
his toll,
And, after all, tho consumer does not pay
eq much for his vegetables bought under
the present system of distribution as they
would cost him If ho had to spend half a day
going Into the country to tho producers to
buy direct, If ho counts his tlmo as worth
anything, Ve cannot havo all the con
veniences of the present system without, pay
ing for tljem. The majority of housekeepers
think the conveniences are worth what they
coat.
And If the producers should 'attempt to
make their deliveries direct to tho consumers,
they would .doubtless discover that thnv
would have tp charge about what the retail
ers now get and that their margin of profit
would not vary much from the present
figures.
Pennsylvania's Labor Famine
TUB glut In vegetables doesn't extend to
labor. For tho first tlmo In a good many
years there Is literally more work than work-
crs In the most Important of Pennsylvania
Industries, mining, steel making and the
metal trades In general. Tho vice president
of tho Carnegie Bteel Company says: "The
greatest labor famine Industrial Pittsburgh
has ever known Is on Its way." Whoro 300
men a day applied for Jobs at Homestead a
few months back, only 20 mako application
now, and the plant needa far more.
The Philadelphia office of the Federal
Labor Bureau reports much the same situa
tion In the metal trades hereabouts. Early
In the year tho bureau received 200 appli
cations from metal trado workers a day;
now tho avcrago has dropped to 10. Any ma
chinist can get work.
Such "war prosperity" does not seem as
yot to have penetrated deep into many other
industries, while even tho metal working
factories farther west are still waiting for
big war orders of the sort the East has
drawn. Obviously the condition Is local.
Obviously every effort of organization Is
needed to rcllovo tho stringent labor market
hero and benefit workers In other parts of
tho country. Just as obviously an Institu
tion llko tho Federal Labor Bureau Is of ex
treme Importance and utility In such cir
cumstances. It cannot spread the prosperity
over other parts of tho country and other
industries, but It can bring the men In to
fill tho Jobs that aro waiting. It can relieve
both tho stringency here and conditions of
unemployment In other sections and trades.
Fluidity of labor Is a prime necessity of
modern Industry. This is a good tlmo to
tako steps to secure It.
'fly EDWAltD K. BUSHNELL
GnANti liUli)? NICHOLAS, commander
In chief Of the Russian forces, has, put a
respcfitablo meaning Into that old' adage:
He vfM fights and runs away wilt lire to
fight another day. '
That seems to be the Ornnd Duke's care
fully thought out plan or battle. Ho has
been adhering' to It faithfully. For almost
an entire year ho has
been personally con
ducting the legions of
tho Czar back And
forth across Poland
and GallciA, and right
how ho Is back at his
original starting point.
Ho has lost consider
ably moro tlmh a mil
lion men In tho last
twelvemonth, but then
ho has harassed Dor
many and Austria al
most continually.
Thore Is no leader
on either front about
whom as a man or a
fighter there Is moro
romance than the
Grand Duke Nloholaa,
In military genius he
OJUND DUKE
NICHOLAS
seating; of the JSrand Duke NlohOia on the
throAe. Th throne has long been stained
with blood, and It would not be difficult to
concelVfe of a situation that -would give the
Grand Duk! his opportunity. Should Itussla
be overwhelmed, the people might easily take
theif revenge on the Czars and if P.ueslawlns,
it will be due to the military ablilty of the
Grand Duktf Nicholas. That explains why
the Czar la watohlng Internal polltlea quite
as closely aa the developments of the war.
it is also said to explain ft -return 'of the
Czarina and her daughters to public prom
inence.
The Grand Dtlke comes from a military
family. His father, Nicholas Nlcolalwltch,
was famed for his exploits as a soldier, but
he had no Blandlng In court About the only
legacy ho left to his famous son was his
magnificent physique and his debts.
The Grand Duke contracted a. morgahatle
marriage with the -widow1 of a merchant
millionaire, though he was Irt love with the
Princess Aiiaatasla of Montenegro, then mar
ried to the Duke of Leuchtenberg. Almost
Immediately after tho Princess secured a
dlvorco tho Grand Duke announced his plans
for his marrlago to her. Tho present Grand
Duchess Is of quite aa striking appearance
a the Grand Duke himself, and on more
than one occasion has created a furore by
her appearance at various court functions.
No Friend of Western Culture
The Grand Duke la an Intensely religious
He Is one of
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SIXTY THOUSAND WEEDS AND MORI
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How to Get Aong With Them in the Suburbs-They'te a Go!
Deal Like Folks Coaxing Crops With Song a Pro- ,
posed Method of Agriculture. "
By PJfeRHY BALSAM 4
percentage of thoroughbreds Is small excel
In our own blinded estimation, by tn9 Mg
token there aro Innumerable weeda that wJJ
produced for a good purpose. Even pofsoi
ivy IS aecurawv ts, uiiu a. iiuiu oi wna mustAr
la considered the peer of them all. Indeed, If
he had Under him an army as well trained
as that of Germany or France, a different
tale might have been told of tho operations
on tho Eastern front.
A Footnote on Preparedness
IT IS frankly Impossible for any man to
provo that an adequate navy and a thor
oughly maintained army would keep this
country out of war. It Is Just as impossible
for the pacifist to deny that without theso
safeguard! the country is at the mercy of
tho world, or of any part which finds Itself
both belligerent and prepared.
That being bo, a comparison of values Is
necessary. The British naval appropriation
for 1914j amounted to $250,000,000. Tho esti
mated military expenditure of tho German
Empire for tho corresponding tlmo was $300,
000,000. These aro. tho maximum appropria
tions of Europe. Tho slnRular,and Instruc
tive thing about them Is that together thoy
represent the cost to England alono of run
ning the war for one month.
No. Thero is no guarantco that by spend
ing as much', or ten times as much, this coun
try would bo kept at poace. But It Is made
clear In the gaunt and sinister fires of
Europe's purgation that unless we spend
frqey now. wo Bhall be called upon to spend
much and. tytterly later on. If we refuse to
prepare, wo aro none the less preparing for
disasters!
Mexico Needs a College President
THAT "authoritative announcement" of
the state of mind In which the Adminis
tration l( approaching the Mexican problem
leaves much to be desired.
We are told that the real purpose of tne
revolution ,was accomplished a year ago when
Kuerta was overthrowrt and that the suo
needing events have not bee,n In reality reyo
lution At All, but mere factional fights.
This begs the whole question. Huerta was
not overthrown by his opponents In 'Mexico.
he had been let alone by the United States
he nilght still have been jn power. Huerta
was starved out by President Wilson, who
deeWed that no man whose hand were
tafrtled w.lth murder should -be allowed to
I-emaln at the head of the Mexican Onv..
k5!! 7h' Mpx,ean ftave " Hh Jjlgh.
iHr"""n' j "J uetUBiorrjea 'toaum
mry xeemiqn and to th,p triumph stmtil.
Upr dfcfator. And letleW to .foim' L
nerly a forroaV jH-osilnff ftr.rkttrfeg
tho will of the An on tap, Tftte n3
a real lctlin while DUa w7 PrMtdSf
Tfio who," mmmm'mau
taAv the country VJfai voting. Te
purpoM of a MttUCM Wkttlwi is to uiu
the control of the Ajwernment And not to i
soroid fact, and tber? is no use in trx! 1
Utlnk U The wnw the Admlnirtrfttton aaUl
mm tf k msaerttuoij mis cunflition tie sooner
It Stan on a TathlfyrWfcf4 pom?.
If It - at for Oie oonfused thinking
, , East Bows to the West
NO 'LONGER may tho conservative East
assert Its athletic superiority over tho
Rrogresaivo West. Twice .this summer the
two sections have measured their skill, speed
and strength. And both times tho West has
won.
Last month wo sent a team of our best
tennis players to tho Pacific coast only to
see them slaughtered. TJien, to show us that
the result was not due to a fluke, tho West
erners came East and aro still engaged In
the pleasant task of cleaning up our best.
Only laBt week w.e sent a carload of the best
track athletes we could collect to the A. A.
TJ. championships at San Francisco. The
Middle West did likewise. Assuming that
tho population of tho Unltpd States Is evenly
divided by a line drawn through Indiana, the
Western half demonstrated Its supremacy.
Of tho 19 events on the program the West
furnished the winners In 11.
What does It mean? Simply this, that the
Western universities and clubs are now get
ting the crop of athletes whose development
started with the Introduction of Eastern ath
letic methods into the Western public and
private schools. Western huatle and courage
have done the rest. It Js now correct to aay
mat westward the course of athletlo su
premacy takes Its way.
A Jovian Figure of a Man
Physically the Grand Duko Is a command
ing figure. He stands 6 feet S Inches In
height and Is magnificently proportioned. Not
only that, but artists attribute to htm tho
possession of perfect facial features.
Tho Grand Duko has achieved his great
ness In tho face of tremendous obstacles. His
physical attractlvoness and his mental ca
pacity made hJm an object of envy to tho
rest of the royal family. Alexander III, then
the Czar, could not abide tho sight of this
youthful Jove, his cousin, when he con
trasted him with his own puny, dull-eyed
sons. Tho kingly bearing of the Grand Duke
was tho moro pronounced as ho grow Into
young manhood, when statesmen and peas
ants Instinctively bowed before his regal
bearing.
Alexander III hampered the progress of
Nicholas and limited his activities to tho
cavalry, and It did not make him feel any
better when the Grand Duke mado his cav
alry forco tho best In Europo. It was not
until tho present war broke out that the
Grand Duko had his chance. Authorities
differ concerning the means by which ho
secured command. It Is pretty well under
stood that Czar Nicholas himself wished to
lead his troops as supreme commander.
Whether he was forced by tho situation to
offer the post to Grand Duke Nicholas or
whether, as Is stated In same quarters, tho
Grand Duko arbitrarily took command him
self, Is not clear. At any rate, It Is known'
that tho Grand Duko at once Issued mani
festoes on his own authority to both the
Jows and the Poles which the Czar was com
pelled to respect.
Tho Now Autocrat
So Cleverly has the Grand Duke, though
handicapped by Insufficient munitions, kept
Ge'rmany and Austria engaged that his word
is law In military matters. When the Czar
is in Petrograd tho Cabinet Council holds
darty sittings with him. But the Czar Is
not supreme. Tho war party backs tho
Grand Duke almost to a man, and the Czar
dares not obstruct their plans,
To Grand Duke Nicholas must bo given
credit for having once saved the Czar. At
tho closo of tho disastrous war with Japan
tho country Beethcd with revolution and an
archy. The Czar was ready to flee, but tho
Grand Duke took command of the army,
started a long line of political prisoners on
their way to Siberia and by his complete
reorganization of the military system re
stored order and saved the Czar. But little
gratitude was shown him by the Czar, who,
once his own safety had been secured,
stripped the Grand Duko of most of his
authority.
Thero exists In Russia a feeling that the
Issue of this bloody war may result In the
man and. Slavic to tho core.
tho few men In Russia's official life who
never became tho slavo of vodka, or the bal
lot dancers. One of His Ideals Is that Russia
shall not bo contamlnatod with the Ideals
and mannern of western Europe. He has
always contended that Ruaila possessed ft
taoIaI genius capable of developing without,
tho aid of outsldo cutture. This probably
accounts for tho popular Impression that the
Grand Duko Is a reactionary.
Tho strategy of tho Grand Duko has been
tho closo otudy of military authorities. Con
sidering tho handicaps he had to overcome
and the great superiority of tho Teutons In
munitions and military training, his per
formances are acknowledged to have been
a tremendous success. It Is true that ho
has lost an unheard-of number of men In
killed, wounded and prisoners, but more
marvolous yet Is tho manner In which ho
has carried on his daring Invasions and still
been able repeatedly to extricate his armies.
That neither Russia nor the Allies Are cast
down over tho reverses on the eastern front
Is accounted for on tho assumption that this
sort of a campaign had been carefully
planned. But it la a question whether or
not tho Russians are entirely pleased with
tho present situation. Wo wcro told by
London during tho first Russian Invasion and
tho subsequent rotreat that all this was
being dono to keep tho Teutonic forces en
gaged in the East while tho Allies drove
the Germans back on tho West. Tho Rus
sians have done their part, but they can't
Bee what advantage the Allies on. the West
havo takon of their activity. It Is a situa
tion difficult enough to tax tho patlenco of
oven tho optimistic Russians.
THE CZAR IS A PROHIBITIONIST
The Tresyenikl, a Russian sect that preaches
nothing but temperance, drew up a great peti
tion, which, after ten weeks of the war and
of enforced sobriety, was presented to the Czar,
a petition for the prohibition of vodka forever.
It seemed preposterous to ask the Czar for
complete prohibition in the, face of Russia's tre
mendous war debts. The Czar had promised
that no more vodka should be sold until the end
of tho war, and that promise had been greeted
with great satisfaction. But the impossible
happened. , The Czar not only received ,the pe
titioners, but answered them In the significant
sentence:
"I had already decided on total prohibition
before I read your petition." Stephen Graham,
In tho World's Work.
HILLS
I never loved your plains!
Tour gentle valleys,
Tour drowsy country lanes
And pleached alleys.
I want my hills! the trail
That scorns tho hollow.
Up. up the ragged shale
Where few will follow;
Up, over wooded crest
And mossy bowlder,
With strong thigh, heaving chest,
And swinging shoulder.
So let me hold my way,
By nothing halted,
Until, at close of day,
I stand, exalted,
High on my hills of dream
Dear hills that know me!
And then, how fair will seem
The lands below met
How pure, at vesper-time,
The far bells chiming!
God, give me hills to climb.
And strength for climbing!
Arthur QUIterman, In Scrlbner's.
YOU need not venture far afield In agfl"
culture to mdka the acquaintance of
weeds. If you pot a plant or start a window
bbx a host of unwelcome' little strangers will
bob up to greet you. Adolphus Commuter,
taking his first crack at gardening, begins to
learn In the latter weeks of Juno that thero
Is an nmazlng multitude of aoeds and root
growths In the soil that ho did not put there.
Generally, he Just rolls up his sleeves and
goes after them, remarking tho while.
Occasionally he Is a bit brash In his method
of extirpation and up come his crops with
tho weeds. In the course of a decade or so
he Is able to dlscrlmlnAte with somo small
degree of skill.
There Aro oodles of weeda. DArwln never
got the run of moro thAn a fraction of them.
In the course of centuries all tho legions of
botanists the world over havo listed only
About 80,000 of them. It Is estimated that
there are easily twioe that number and more
crosses and hybrids appearing all tho tlmo.
Tea, the weed family Is large and varied,
and, to many, pestiferous. You will never
get along smoothly with thorn until you learn
to deal with them phllosphlcAlly, Toil will
never get them all out, and If you should
(by some miraculous method of manicuring)
you may count on a fresh host of them blow
ing over from your neighbor's garden.
Sweet-warbling birds will visit your prem
Ises, no matter how small or humblo, bearing1
presents of moro weeds. Rodonts, canines
and felines carry them to you. Tho balmy
breezes of spring aro as replete with them
as they are crammed with microscopic and
ultra-mlcroscoptc germs.
A Curious Oversight of Nature
Mean germs and mean weed seeds browse
Along In tho Air currents hand In hand. You
Inhale tho weed seeds as you lnhalo tho
germs, but owing to a lack of sunlight and
plant food and other benign ossencea In your
midst you do not break out with a rash of
bUll nettle or prickly lettuce. It la a wonder
that tramps do not sprout some of tho hardy
varieties of weeds, but there Is no record of
such an occurrence In the botanical archives,
though I did read once of a hermit who grew
n, fuzzy coat of moss.
There aro good and bad weeds. Just as
thore are good and bad gorms. As a matter
of fact thero aro differences of opinion hero
And thore as, to Just what weeds aro. Somo
call them plants out of place, or butters-tn
among your pure broda, whereas others Juat
set their teeth and refer to them as con
sumed pests. Tho common dandelion and
ox-oyed daisy havo a high place in tho popu
lar fancy because of their dccoratlvo qual
ities, but when they lnvado your lawn thoy
are not so charming. Italians aro extremely
fond of dandelion greonsand you will see
them going about In the springtime digging
tnem up and Ailing canvas bags with them.
I have a small lawn and invite all the dan
delion lovers who come by to help them
selves, but when thoy havo filled their bags
npd gono on 'theif way It seems that thoy
havo left a scandalous quantity of dandelions
behind them.
Decorative Poison Ivy
Realljr the best thing to do in the case of
weeds Is to accept them as Inevitable. Thero
are human weeda Juat as thero are weeds In
plant llfo. If wo can subduo our egotism
sufficiently we can seo pretty clearly that we
are all weeds one way or another. Wo con
flno soma of our more Insidious weeds In
prisons and our sociologists are forever try
ing to do something with tho seed of theso
weeds. The whole theory of eugenics la
baaed upon the theory of haphazard weed
production. If we study each garden weed
wo pull up we need not strain tho Imagina
tion to And some human analogy. Thero
Is the eprawly purslane, or pusley, which
grows like a tangle of worms. "Mean as pus
ley" Is a common elmlfe In many farming
communities, and thero are few of us who
have not In tho course of years had some
Neighbor Pusley.
When you get right down under the okln
of It, weeds aro a whole lot like folks. The
I- - .11lrt,t A 1m ns If .... I .. Ti'
IB t uwiftit. .u ..u ww m. juu imvo evi
seen the fire-weed In tho full glory of T,
purple raiment on tha cleared hillsides ft
northern Maine you havo seen BomethiS'
that surpasses In eauty arty and all fis
products of tho hothouse. Springtime a'ni
early eummer on tho southwestern pralrffi
bring a. succession of magic carpets of wift
flowera, every ono of them tho bloom
M
weeds. There Is no more nourishing produS
of tho soil for tho fattening of cattle thtB
tho tallow-weed. j
Going" back a few eons, tho entire mS
dano surface of things was blanketed wltg
wnftds. Mr. And Mrs. Troarlodvtn lt n-i
bloom tholr heads off, or occasionally j
down on their hands and knees and rum
nAted. If Mr. Troglodyte noticed that Mffl
T. was browsing on somo choice moraelj'ra
Asserted his manhood rights by tapping fat
on the head with n, club and turning her'C
a coarser cover .while he appropriated 55
tidbits. Thero jfo not so much a "tj;
crudest records on atono to Indicate tiu
Mrs. T. rotallated In kind or organlied avi
an academlo protest. '';
A Suggestion From the Hindoo Vj
What wo call plant llfo la Just man's chola
of weeds. For centuries he has been select!
lng varieties and breeding them up on thl
ougonto principled Many Intelligent, If sol
learned, farmers did this by rule of thutaf
planting by tho moon and observing certila
superstitions of their ancestors. What wJT
call tho modern sclenco of agriculture seeltf
to correct all this, to name and pedigree. f
things that grow, to nurturo and comforf
them and bring thorn along to tho fullufl
fruition. A Hindoo scientist comes along anf
tells us to bo kind to all things that grow
to coddlo and pet them, and aing to them, if!
wo display anger or annoyance they $.
droop and wither.
According to his theory If you sat deirf
beside a milkweed and ftddlod one of Chofiln'
Borenades or a Bcothovcn symphony sijjf
weed would thrive mightily, would UAiW,
kick up Its heels with Joy and producejffl
mighty foliage, and possibly a, supenffl
bloom. If you have a blighted lemon two
bring In a. ragtime quartet and have It ilni
to It through the cool hours of the mornMra
The lemon, tho orange and the grapefruit
were all weed growths once, In the estiioU1
tion of certain pomologists. Tho tomato W
colled tho lovo applo and was regarded M
a poisonous weed. All tho coreals have been
brought up from weeddom, and so far as W
know no especial blandishments were est'
ployed to coax them along. It will be 1
long' time before we find all our farmers sit'
ting on tho fence singing up their crops, for.
If they could sing up their crops so couli
they sing up their weeds, and past experf.'
ence will show that tho weeda not only thrlTi'
without song, but desplto persistent male-l
diction and tho liberal uso of a sprlng-tooti .
harrow. ' 4
But tho subject of weeda Is endless tsi.
can always be made fascinating. We.eu
aorjlv weed nhllosoDhtea to every brandreif
human knowledge. Wo can Immensely 'la-
prqvo our understanding of plant life by )
study of weeds; and as wo get our weeJi
lined up and doped out wo can nppjy tiV
lessons learned to a Btudy of folks, wi
hear that the great war Is devouring the
flower of Europe's youth and manhood, txA
by the tame token innumerable human weedi
must bo Included In the slaughter. Some
hundreds of millions regard tho Kaiser ii
tho most vicious weed of tho ago, but thi
German hosts look upon him as tho ultlmiti
of thoroughbreds, tho product of the nojt
Intensive system of culture the world til
over known. And so It goes. A weed la whil
you mako of It. If you will cultivate monv
of the milk of human kindness and less Oil
the acid of pessimism, you will find the
Weed nrnhlnm n Invful raflii. ITinn a Ati
tresslng and hopeless subject ji
.POLA SINCE THE ANCIENT COLCHIANS
Austria's Naval Stronghold, Fortined on Modern Plans, Has a Varied History
and Has Figured in Many Wars.
By ADALBERTO CAPORALE
How's your gold supply?
To Jit or not to Jit, that Is .the dilemma,
,
Why. do baby contests correspond with the
"allly season"? '
At any rate jiobody can eay the Russians
aren't .skilful retreaters, ,
Every tramp thla summer Is not neces
sarily a Belgian refugee.
A
go
bit.
A little piqued at the attention Warsaw
Wast week, Gorlzla threatens to totter a
Complaints of mpsqulto nuisance stung
city bureaus ,to action." "Stung" la the
word," .
If "big navy" sentiment la growing In the
Weetv then the country has learned a thin
i 'T - .,
"Mlif accused of burglary said, to hayo
posed, aa honest workman." Did any ono
say "plUmert?
Bx8tr LwlaMf Javih sought fey
mmk eawifaUt foi'ofnje.' HVz In the
wapapew. so must b,e tsue. ;
''P& fafe Vf r 8? U ot- arrival to thj
r '4we-s sine .papera. it wnj
o Qgjiea a Ntra4 ffint Book.
t ii i...i m ii...... i
fc lterJ Of vlotpry" has moved
tWNeW York to New Jsraav and U
rta t&la direction for punase of 11
tutstbtatlon on or about November J.
mllE city which is believed to have been
JL founded by a party of Colchlans who had
started In search of Medea, the sorceress,
daughter of their King and famous now through
Euripides' wpll-known tragedy, Is today the
naval stronghold of Austria, on the Adrlatlo
Sea a baao which many naval authorities deem
Impregnable or comparatively so. If there are
degrees of Impregnability, Certainly Pola,
whloh for more than half a century has
been a menace to the Italian coasts on the
Adriatic, Is so strongly protected by a chain of
powerful forts and by the Brlonl Islands guard
ing the entrance to the bay, that the Italian
fleet, the commander-in-chief of which la the
daring Duke of Afaruui, has not attempted to
train Its guns on the city, and it has not been
attacked otherwise than by a dirigible belong
ing to the Italian navy.
The military value of Pola was recognized
as early as the tlm of the reign of Augustus,
when the Romans attacked the city because It
had sided with the Republicans, conquered it
and made of It a fortin4 port. For nve cen
turles the city belonged to the Romans, and
nnaiiy waa annexed to the Byzantine empire,
Belhjarlus used it as a base for Wi operations
against the Goths, who menaced Italy. Doge
Moroslnl, of Venice, subjugated Ppla, to the
cqntrol of the republic ln Jl, but-H yer
later It was conquered, by the Plsans. who held
It only a abort time, for Bnrfco Dandolo, new
poge of Venlee. succeeded In taking it from
the PIsans, only to be burned latw on by
Jaeopo Tlpolo after an uttsueeessful rebellion.
After it had been the chief victim of the
war between the Venetian and the- Genoese,
a.t the beginning of the l$th century. Napoleon,
gat poaiewlon of the Iitrian peainsula by the,
treajjr of Preaburg, and sent a fsjuous en
BlriHf. Beautempa-Beauprft to select a bay Ja
JH Adriatic a whjeh could be made a naval
Use. The tislnr eelaated Pel. w 'vi.
tfwa were not accepted; fcy Napoleon, and
., , r Aunna, oeeupi4 th, pBtouU
and began to fortify the splendid bay, which
on account of its being Inclosed Almost like a
lako and of offering only a narrow channel as
entrance, and, furthermore, of being protected
by the Brlqnl Islands, appeared as an Ideal
base of the Austrian num. w ,i-k .,.-
Vienna Govenment had planned to hold the
mastery of the Adriatic. The plan, however,
was held In abeyance until 1856, when the work
of building there a navy yard waa begun. The
fortress la therefore a comparatively modern
one and has the advantage of being free of old
and obsoleto works on which to rely for de
fense. Later on Pola was connected to the
Interior of the peninsula and to Lalbach and
Flume with two double-track railroads, and a
shipyard was built there, giving work to nearly
Such was the rapid development of Pola taU
lowlng.lta transformation into a naval base,
that Its population, which in 18.M was' H.jil
had increased Jn 1310 to 70.600 Inhabitants,
aT.hlntTr,,r,0f tay to miti o by
a small Island, the northern part being the
commercial port and the southern half the
navy yard. The defensive value of Pola ,, m!
creased by the fac that th, nearby coast ca.
Tain6 Ty 'V1"- tnewXi th
andlng 0f troops nprfh or south of the fortress
Is uteri difficult. If pot impossible. PoU "eX
Adria :VhU nMthm "" "e
Hi. S? Vh4ro- JWUn side. Venice
I K denmd hm,r antl not to. serve
as a base for otUnaiyt Qperatl9na , JJJ
ea.Um .here. The Italian fleet, however, hti
blockaded the whole Austrian wait, and the
their ase, under cover of the powerfui sua.
Ownh,g the height, around Pol. WUl S
TesetfwK, and give battle to the Duk.
Ata Or will the Italians, after ov!Sm,
invert the fertm, tnm the lead ui u
and starv. the AuraT
ARMOR FOR SOLDIERS
Sir Arthur Connn Doyle Advocates Old
Roman Uniform.
Blr Arthur Conan Doylo writes In the London
Times advocating the use of protective armor
for soldiers attacking over open grounds, Ho
says:
"Aa a man facea the hostile rifle fire his fore
head and heart are the only points presented
which are certainly vital. The former would
be protected by such a helmet as the French
havo evolved; the second should be covered by
a curved plate of highly tempered steel, not
more than a foot In diameter. With this simple
light equipment the two centres of life are safe.
"A wound In the abdomen la no longer cer
tain death, thanks to the advances of surgery
but a third curve of steel at-apped across the
"" " "" 'up oqnea woun inord protection.
"But granting that individual life would be
saved, this does not bear upon the capture of
positions, since so manv would rait wnn.j
that the weight of the attack would be spent
before the stormera reached the trenches, For
this, armor which would give complete protec
tion la needed, and since the weight of this Is
more than a man can readily carry, it must be
pushed In front upon wheels.
"I picture a great number of plates held to.
gether like the shlelda of the nSmans. pushed
by men who would crouch behind them
"When one Is disabled It can readily be
dropped and the gap closed. Othew could hi
JF , '"way upon wheels and used upon the
"" 0,..tht f?1"00 t0 prevent nn'adlng fire!
ti,2a i.r .' -Woul! at,ract the concentrated
fire of the artillery, but aa each company or
a!Sir , numerourarmS?
fiH od,',s c?uld ," wh small Joss, over
the space already cleared as far as possible of
fnfhie"."n1.S0hav 8pm9 WPof reaeh
Bc intact01"1 "t0rn"n Payty w,th
IN PRAISE OP CROQUET
nfT.I iU doub". mld-Vlctorlan game
and that Is the worst that can be said of it
It la gentle, polite, unstrenuous. The nrim
Udy Way participate without relaxing her dS
nlty. The athlet, and the octogenarian maSv
manipulate the mallet with eqal .kill it u f
game for every one. a am JiX.i. "T"1!." s.
out wearying, wbleh kills time without wi ini
Into undue perspiration. l not
JS. esi day" orolu,1t Pooh-poohed. Ooir
with Its long) rap d "hikes," u Mh;r, . '
with It. helping, and .kWniHnd i6'
ln of arTle highly eSSSffilS n,"WaV
quu is Mom a. oliodndetaBdBU,):
oe,
who se.k wBlrf a'iJJEa w wob.
there U (wtbW m?.i & L,'!VmMM
aH4 the wEfi. 2. thf a J""4
may be .wJJ? " fw. It
.. . .. .
me Victorians accomplished was In the W,
Of mlldnesa. A tnnrh tf MlMn... (n ttiMA tttli
rushing times would be a dennlte benefit, Wllif
one Is tired of reading or talking about tlJJ
WAr, what could be a better contrast or refresha
ment than a game of croquet? Cleveland Pltte'SI
Dealer, 3
NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
General Hlndenburg has done enough to litil
.... , ,j 4vu,jjouiau,o runs umuns mo Tfv-sa
o.v-v aviiusi . uyriUKiic lu .ttepuoucan
Fortunately, American meohanlcal genius U
auch that it will not be necessary to Import
from Europe any Improved submarines thatnur
uo neeaea, wasnington Star.
Women everywhere are taking more InUrwtj
in aquauo accomplishments than ever beforej
Natatorturos and swimming schools are rM
Celvlng unwonted Datronaire. It now comlto;
ered to be Just as Important to know how l1
swim as It Is to know how to play tennis, dM!
w uii u uuiomoDiio. Cincinnati jsnquirna
AS between the flAVnim.nt n nnvlan
the Government nt th TTnit. m.... h. n.nr
of the United States are with their own Cum
" "" "y aro WHO weir Own U9M
eroment where the difference la with the 0S
... uuYcrnmeni. Kansas city Star,
iow..,a th t.,.ra8 r soe constructive isfl
obiowuiin reaojustlng the laws on A more i
voraole basis tar nn.ntinn A M..Ai.a
line under American tradition and bustea
Principles. Anything. ! win moV rin-itn
ment ownership or Government eubsjdy all tM
-. v .m.j.-T.unmo xriDune.
In the facn of thA ,., a..i.,ah th., YtiAfa.
IJndsey la In. contempt, tho oomraon verdict w3
J 1 pa8 flla 81Je to sustain, eomro
5"i,fncuj8-e him the Principles of tnteirit
..ii. . "ono.r- nnd he should be reqwi
to serve a. t. in u u .... .. ...n, k.
?fv.!r,ast.,nf! crtedtt nl wl'l constitute an o
;.nBr. " "ttPn,nS he boys In his court u
jon.lV,ft i confldence and virtue of fidelity
'""" sneeean.
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