T&VWi IfciJIMHl ' J "TT r (h te u Wrr wept O' In. tic- W J.ig 2)i& Uri-gcr Uk Tsmjtc LKDC1 COMPANY CTfWttt . X. CtlRTIN, IImimht. K. uafMReii. VbM rrmldrnli John C, Martin. I M Tw urw; Tblllp S. Collin, John R, m 1 1 iii MttTOftlAt, BOAnDl ,..; Can II K. Coin. Chairman. "Grumiw. o mm C MARTIN... .General Bualnua Manartr lni OCJO- oatlr At rcnuo Lawtt nulldtnc. si IM, IiMtasenatiic Square, rtilladtlphla. CMTjal.,...IIre.d and CtiMtnut Blrte (ken cm. ....... . .... .iTMt-VMton uuuainir ....,....11UA, Metropolitan lower ..,...,...-.... Bio i"ora iiuminj t...i ....u uion urmocrai iiuuainc ., ......... ,litV4 iriDune iiuiiain- ,... Waterloo i-iac. iau oiau, o. tv news nunnxuai iruofoM Hnui Tha Il TJuliainr iota mjRuvllM,MIMI,IMTM lime jiuiiainc .lC flnrj.. ...DO Frtrdrlchitraoa t noamo z ran uiuniL s. w. 'unltiHu...i .12 Hue Louia U Qrana BUnSCniTTTOK TB71MS Br eerrkr. DlttT Otlt. all tenia Itr mall, corneals MM4 of Phtiadalphla, aicept where forelrn poatat m required, Diilt Onlt, on month, twentr-nreeenlai Duly Onlt, on rear, three dollar. All mall aub mpiiim paraDia in aoranra. i None Sobecrlben wltnlnr 44re chanced mmt I Old aa wall aa new adilreaa. w-AtJTOT KETSTOWi:. MAHt lM EJ Aiirttt all rommunimtlon to Evntng JXytr. Indrptndenct Bquare, rMladelphio. ir tbs rBaisn.mii ronomci i sreeso cuis Miib Minn 4?WSjSJP. rE brought HK AVERAGE) NET PAID DAILT CIHCULA Lbeen SU TION OB Tim EVKNINO LEDQEn alt rut FOR AUQU8T WAS M,1B. mt Off ' 'HILADIXr"'A,"""'AY.SEPTtMDEn.lU. AH ! and v wore thought you give to your icorfc the ', scowled let you can give to mUcMef. 'man wtu ' L. also dat , , , ..... d on. c uuuii CAMi'Aiumm k on the ed andORTER and Potter aro Just aa (rood Re- J6.1' "JihlIcan8 as Bmlth. Thero Is not a aeri- haffaome tender for the mayoralty who Is not Itrltton ha ibllcan. Tho elevation ot Smith would COOK a. i.1 o dlnHnn cnll to th nntlonal TjartT. L1tljgr0tt,1ectlon of a.nepubllcan who wore no he in tha Ron ma necK migni very wen, on mo Ixplalnlrjg Vy, o Interpreted aa a decided step mat, 1.,,. jn th0 rehabilitation of tho party. "eopYtiow that tho aorloua candidates 1,. .wi . , . .. . A. mvv ikii in iwvor oi x'roteciion. vnai mey H to know Is whero Smith stands on (TTi J? If what aro his Ideas of cinclency; has iULEi IV backbone or a sponso where It ought i 7 Thnv wmiln Illrn tn lfnnwr. tnn whv IpnT TPpwaa aelcotod as standard-bearer. Of f aX , -...-.( iimiai tnAflr Vtfiai Via rr(tfn aI )1 This talk of Smith belnc orthodox rector i1'8 PPonentB political barbarians is tho ' . , test sort ot Idiocy. jomtces, "vantaT villa nnnnLK nun.sTs ,TTIIE Villa bubble seems to have burst. t JL His shadowy Government la crumbling LAXrsd his armies aro reverting to the brlgand- i from which they were recruited. Tho Bummarf money Is worthless. Ho Is able no held by r to furnish oven a pretense of protcc- dld not for Uvea and property. Tho llnht has .tried in out, and there is no hopo left for him hew patnpt the possibility that his advisers can fctor Porltho United States into Kivlnc him a new Ee Sen tin e3 on )lfe. Bureau, .rrespondlncly stronrror Is tho cunning ' editorVnnza, who used Villa when ho needed "forcef ona threw him over when he began to it. too large. Carranza has gradually Ivo miwid his arms like a fan over tho countrv. 5ie!S'j0M not now control a domain bo larire w atat under Hucrta's orders at the " fjtne tho Constitutionalists began their 'jXvork of devastation. Hla Government Is v'Zwlthout the authority and without the re- ; rapect that Huerta's had. But even so he 18 the strongest of tho bandits left; the only eviA with nnv nAmh1nnrA nt r.nnnntnl11ltv ry fit Wi .. i. iluhlai Bhould he be recognized? Doubtless ho kme than waded through as much blood nnd tg treachery as Huerta and ha8 probably put a (p little more of hla country's gold Into his bide pocket. Tet Washington ia almost ready to Pd 'v Wt order in Mexico at any price. It may jo .willing even to turn to Carranza. Thero KTovw tone thing, In any event, which our Gov- lt.y.rnlment must do, and that is prevent in- btly ac?rBl0n8 ,nt0 our own territory, for the t achotas oorder ha8 been, In fact, almost In lice "a condition of warfare. Lequ' oml SOUKCE OF HIS INSPIRATION V3 INI"113' BRYAN ,n tno Illuminating biog y7v -ii raphy of her husband In "The First Pyu. Battle," aaya that when Mr. Bryan waa a young man nis enemies wero In the habit vol af remarking that his mouth was so largo r - Ha nnnM wYl1nf. In hla rtwn tin ,r1ltn. Alt fq y floulty. Then she aaya that hla faco has ipt.trown fuller with age and made It seem that M'e-thB feat In difficult. th Bu( he can still do it, for where else can ivtshe get the fantastic notions with which ha P' clls reeallnir the nation excent from thn iliiUi Kwhtapertngs of hla own expansive apeaklng Lrit organ T . h trrwv mainncADiun nmirnTn llZC WiOAUWUllllU OlllULililLr E - flTTTfl wa nmi, nf t.la n.naA. . I. . gi .....www . ..vuu wk ma iia.oiuijr Jl iU 1X1 1 v- inincaciea or ltniian nnance wnen he dls ir covered the difference between a pound ster- fJ lins and a guinea. The extra shilling apecl- j 1 1 AM In guinea contracts appealed to his (J thrifty soul. The war, however haa vuaii$cu iiiu Bvuid ui vuiuca until it lanea vttlnn In tnn TJtinr Vni1r m..l.l 4n 1..... ,. . .... ...... ... ...w ... w.. .... ..wv .u uuy a. pound sterling In London. The primary pur- ii ljuvju ui. ij.o vioih u Liin xjriiiBii Banners 10 ! Arlca, la to restore tho value of tho pound S-' until It can again satisfy thoso who aro j eager to count their shillings. ' To put the case In terms of dollars, the f ratio of value haa changed, until Bryan's famous formula of 16 to 1 governs interna r! iional exchange and, the British have to sur- '' rndor to us one irood dollar nut of nv.rv 'tlnfl "-w,rf jfykixteen which they send to us, so low has n QtJn "l W"sn money fallen. Condl- '"I'tioJa. to improving, ana a pound may be tttf .Aai nniiml nnM mnra nvin h.fn.. . it AMUtr. But Jt cannot continue to main- ;Ut",tP Ye unless something like parity MUVlUlied In the balance of trade bo TWWn th nation IVMMaLH TRUTH OF STATISTICS ffc , laCHTM given out by the enemy are Mm )! ones that lie. Statistics are moaftlncloau until they are trans- into human terms. But 1twen false- futility there Ua, ia tho statements war uf)n Jt lued, a terrible truth. "ifrno. by a ponprvatfva estimate, la ponding Itt.WMOa a flay on the war. Itus- w k4s I8.000.0M a. day more. England od Game tut apmnUnjf In t)w neighbor. Mot of MfM-f - M fc-w. AM In W Pp IWp . MM tMB AAA - .riW. W""WeneW W Wv llBVyH EVENING sand dollars are spent In a minute; in a month the total Is 2,260,000,OOO. That Is enough to glvo each man, woman and child in the United Btates the rental of a moderate house for tho same period. One minute's expenditure would supply 10,000 commuters from Wayne Junction with their monthly tickets. There are other figures a little more terrible to contemplate. When it Is announced thnt nussla will call out 8,000,000 more men, thnt fact makes no Impression. But those 8,000, 000 men stand for millions of women nnd children left without support, for fields un tllled and factories unmanned. They stnnd for colossnl wnsto nnd unlmaglnnblo disas ter. Four million prisoners havo been takpn Blnco the wnr began, nnd nono knows how many havo been killed. Irreparable loss Is hidden behind tho senseless figures. Human lives nro cheap. The earth is full of people, and no one Is Indispensable. Let tho slaughter go onl In the end thero will bo no one left to protest. HOW LONG WILL WE STAND IT? mnn confiscation of $2,600,000 worth --of American meat by a British prize court on the ground thnt It is contraband, cnrrylng with It tho mornl certainty of tho confiscation of cargoes worth J12.500.000 more, Is part of tho outrageous policy of Interfer ence with neutral trade which tho British Government adopted from tho beginning. Tho meat cargoes wero billed to Danish ports. Tho British nssumed that thoy wero to bo shipped through Denmnrk Into Ger many. It had no cvldonco to support thh assumption and It had no proof that tho meats wero for tho German army. Accord ing to all tho prcccdonts of International law, food for noncombatants Is nover con traband. England, however, decided to mako now precedents. When tho war broke out It called to British ports tho British merchant ships carrying cargocB of food, regardless of tholr port of destination, BClzcd tho food and prevented Its shipment out of tho country. Tho purposo of this act was to starve tho neutral nations of Denmark, tho Nether lands, Sweden and Norway Into putting an embargo on tho shipment of foodstuffs to Germany. In tho case of Holland, tho grain supply became so nearly exhausted and tho prospects of famine, wero so Imminent .that tho Dutch Government finally surrendered nnd Issued tho embargo order. Tho American meat cargoes seized wero tnken In the pursuit of this policy of tyran nical tntorferenco with neutral trade. In stead of disposing of tho matter in Novem ber, when tho goods wero seized, tho enso has been allowed to drag on for 10 months. The presiding Judge of tho prlzo court, In handing down his decision, assumed thnt ho had tho right and power to dccldo how tho trado between neutral nations should bo conducted nnd that tho neutral nations must accept his decrees with thanks for being treated so leniently. Tho Government In Wnshlngton has not yet protested ngalnst this outrageous ruling. It must protest with all tho vigor at its com mand or else confess thnt It was meroly uttering empty platitudes when it said through Secretary Lansing on July 14 that tho United States will Insist upon Its rights under the principles of International law as governing neutral trade In time of war "without limitation or Impairment by Or ders in Council," and "will not recognlzo the validity of prize court proceedings taken under restraints imposed by British munici pal law in derogation of tho rights of Amer ican citizens under international law." SPLENDID REGRETS "TK I had my life to live over again," JL said Alexandra Dumas tho elder, "I think I should elect to bo a virtuoso llko Pagnnlnl." What a superb Idea! Tho elder Dumas wns a genius, a romancer without a su perior, a successful and happy man. Yet he would havo preferred to bo a Pagnnlnl. It sounds pessimistic, but essentially it is nothing of the sort. It is glowing, splendid optimism. Every llfo which is lived to the full Is a good life, Just as every Job which Is worked to the utmost is a good Job. At least half of the workers of the world aro dissatisfied with their Jobs. The same half Is not doing Its work well. Paradoxical, as human na ture frequently la, but true, is the observa tion that a bad Job well done Is better than a good Job neglected. And it pays better. So the great genius who preferred to be a different kind of genius recognized tho truth. Anything done supremely well would have satisfied him, and he would havo been will ing to do anything, even fiddling, because he was willing to work his soul out over It It Is a wise man who knows his own widow. For England the prescription seems to be conscription. Tho only kind of cracking tho Phillies aro doing ia with the bat. Experts ror the navy aro good thlnger, but battleships are better. Austria Is willing that Dumba snould go home. But ho will hava to go, whether sho consents or not. The tattooed woman Is HI. The tattooed man, famoua In American politics, died several years ago. So long as the Treasury la piling up a defi cit at the'rate of J1G,OW,000 a month thero la no prospect for a repeal of the war tax laws. Mexicans are attacking the U. a force nt Brownsvlle, Tex. Don't they" realize that the soldiers ore too proud to fight back? Or aren't theyt Circulars have been distributed declaring that Porter 1" not u Republican. There were a lot of people, who once said that Lincoln was not a patriot. i Jt tt' t fe feof4 that during hla tour to leek vr fit. Wwjni at tho State Gov. enter WrMistMeTi wltt wi lUar own eys. "We 4t Mtikmmrtm M U Mtata ttt saam , akiHa1mte aftTaf BBWJt LEPGER-PHTUAEEPHIA'B-AT-gRDiY, SEPTEMBER fC8 JOTg? A FRENCH PARALLEL TO THE FRANK CASE The Story of Jean Calas Bears Striking Resemblance to That of the Victim of Georgia Mobs By E. F. MAITLAND WILL -the Frnnk case, now that Frank Is gone, bring forth Its Voltaire? This Is tho question asked In an artlclo published in the American Hebrew. While It is per fectly true thnt under Americnn law Frank's guilt or Innocence Is no longer nn Issue, It Is nlso tmo thnt "tho rights of tho mob" nro mot omphntlcally an Issue In Georgia today. You have only to look at tho broad sldo fired by tho Augusta Chronlclo ngalnst Tom Wntson, tho mnn who denounced ex Governor Slaton ns n "rotten rascal" for commuting tho death sentenro and who Jus tified tho lynching ns tho redemption of tho Stnto from dishonor, to know that tho Frank case has not censed to exist. In several particulars thero Is a rcmark ablo similarity between this Georgia nffalr and tho clrcumstnnces which Biirroundrd tho caso of Jean Cnlns, condemned to denth on tho rack In Franco In tho mld-clghtcenth century. A mob was Judgo and Jury for Cnlns. It was Voltnlre, In tho later period of hli life, who cleared tho stain from tho namo of tho Calas family. It was Voltaire, tho deist, neither Catholic nor Protestant, who conquered religious projudlco In tho namo of Justice. An Unfortunate Explanation Jcnn Cnlns tsas a small shopkeeper of Tou louse. His family consisted ot his wife, two daughters and four sons. Tho oldest son, Marc Antolnc, aged 28, had tried to enter tho legnl profession, but hnd been prevented by a provision In tho French lnw which bnrr.cd out Protpstnnts. Marc, naturally of a melancholy disposition, became deeply de pressed becauso of his failure. Ono eve ning In tho nutumn of 1701 his dead body was found hanging In tho shop by ono of tho Cnlns boys and a young neighbor. Everything showed that It was a enso pf suicide": But (suicide at that time was ro gnrtlcd ns an especially holnous crime, and tho fnmlly determined to conccnl the facts. Tho news of Marc's death got abroad, however, nnd tho suspicion aroio that It had been caused by tho family's objection to Marc's becoming a Catholic. Though there was no truth In this 'suspicion, as Voltolro nfterward proved, a mob collected around tho house and shouted that a Catholic had been slain by Huguenots. Tho events that followed havo to bo considered with refcr enco to the conditions of tho tlmo. Tho re ligious animosities of the period and place are beyond our present comprehension. Police officers enmo to tho houso to con duct an Investigation. Tho family saw that It was futile any longer to deny that Marc had committed suicide, but when thoy changed their explanation the officers nnd mobs were more than ever convinced thnt thero had been foul play. Mobs gathered repeatedly nbout tho house, nnd during tho trial they surrounded tho courthouse. Jean Calas, aged 63, was accused of overpowering and murdering his own son, nged 28, though thero wns no evidence thnt weapons of any kind had been used. All winter tho trial lasted. Tho cries and threats of tho mob Influenced tho Judges to such an extent that with ono oxceptlon they declared for the conviction of Calas. Ono of the Judges said to Lasalle, tho solo dissentient: "You seem to bo all Calas." To which Lasalle replied: "And you seem to bo nil mob." Calas wns subjected to excruciating tor tures after tho trial In the effort to extract a confession, but even when broken on the rack he protested his Innocence nnd bo died. Tho youngest son of Calas, named Donat, after ho and tho rest of the family had been released, fled to Geneva, In the neighborhood of which Voltaire wns then living. Vol taire, who hnd heard of tho case, sought further knowledge from Donat. Convinced of tho Innocence of Jean Colas, he resolved to procure. If possible, a re trial. Ho published the documents In the case, raised money by subscription for legal expenses, nnd enlisted the support of Valtar, Richelieu, Cholscul and the Chancellor of Franco, among others. A retrial was finally granted, nnd forty Judges unanimously do clared that Calas had been Innocent of any crime. "He Is the Man" One outcome of Voltaire's participation In this nffalr was tho writing of the celebrated "Trcntlso on Tolerance." Voltaire himself said that for nine months ho "dreamed, dwelt In and lived in Calas." Thirteen years later, shortly beforo his death, Vol taire revisited Paris. Crowds thronged the streets In his honor. It is reported that a bystander, on ono occasion when the famous vlsilor was being drawn In triumph through the streets, asked a poor old woman the cause of It all, and she replied, simply, "Ho Ib tho man who saved tho good name of Jean Calas," The likeness between the Frank case and the Calas case is founded principally on tho manifestations of prejudice and mob passion In both Instances, nnd in their effect on the men sworn to see Justice done. They are both likely to be remembered by future gen orations. The Calas case, It Is worth noting, was a landmark In the history of toleration nnd Judicial reform. So perhaps will be the Frank case. Whether or not Leo Frank was Innocent nnd the public at largo is not yet thoroughly convinced on that point certain ly no pretense can be made that Justice was dono "soberly and in order." BEYOND DEATH In lonely bays Whero Love runs wild All among the flowering grasses, Where light, light, light, as a sea bird's wing, The chuckle of the child-god passes O to awake, to shake away the night And find you dreaming there, v On the other side of death, with the sea wind blowing round you, And the scent ot the thyme In your hair, Tho' beauty perish. Perish like a flower. And song be an idle breath; Tho' heaven be a dream and youth for but an hour, And life much less than death, And tho maker less than that he made. And hone lets than deapalr. If Death have shores where Love runs wild, I think you might be there. Reborn, ah I white From, the splendid; sea. There should you awake and sing-. With every supple aweet from the head to the feet Modeled like a wood dove's wing O to awake, to shake away the tilcht And fla you hapy there, On ,Uie other sWa of th. wtt the sea. wto Wow- retuut yoti. ' JMkt tfc bag Um tfcna la yeejr kir. T" ' V "V. .- 1 III I 1 JT JwN -...- i. I I .I..I. --- i ii " " '"I ! ! ' - i HISTORY JUST AROUND THE CORNER Philadelphia Is Richer Than Most of Us Are Aware in Places of Interest, Some of Which Are Known to Only Few Citizens or Visitors What's to Be Done? By EDWARD PHILADELPHIA ought to fairly bristlo with bronzo tablets and other memorlnls of tho deeds and events of tho Colonial and Revolutionary periods of our history. And it would bristlo with them If tho City His tory Society had tho funds, or it business firms occupying the historic sites would tako the Initiative shown by tho Cncsar Rodney Chapter of tho Daughters of the American Revolution, which has asked Councils to permit tho placing of a bronzo tablet in Independence Hall In honor of the man who rose from u slcjf bed to ride hero from Dela waro In order that there might bo a unani mous vote of all the Colonics for tho Declara tion of Independence. Philadelphia of all American cities stands pre-eminent In the possession of national historic relics and sites. Only Boston ap proaches It. In this city tho first Continental Congress met; hero was written tho Declara tion of Independence, and hero It wns signed; hero met tho convention which drafted tho Constitution. Philadelphia was the hub around which tho Colonies and later the young American Republic revolved. Tho notable men of that day have left behind scores of buildings, retics and records which ought to bo revered, not only by tho ptoplo of Philadelphia, but of the nation ns well. But when the loyal Phlladclphlnn reflects on the historic wealth of his city he ought to blush with shamo to realize how -wo have neglected so many of these relics. Every day our people tramp by dozens of places of In terest, unmnrked for tho benefit of the tour ist or tho passerby and known only to the historian. In our falluro to mnrk properly and preserve hitherto historic sites nnd rel ics Philadelphia has been outstripped by Boston and other Now England communi ties. Proud of their possessions, they also want tho world to know the historical treasures of their cities and towns and coun trysides. That Philadelphia's historic sites are not appropriately marked Is because, with tho exception of tho Slto and Relic Society of Gormantown, no effectlvo movement has ever been made hero to Identify and mark the many we havo. Tho Gcrmantown excep tion is a notable ono, for this vigorous or ganization has shown nn appreciation of that suburb's hlBtory and an Initiative In marking Its Bites that rivals anything New England has done. The local chapters of tho Sons nnd Daughters of tho American Revolution, though not formed for this pur pose, havo done something. But Philadel phia has been woefully negligent. In 1908 a committee compiled a list of Borne 300 sites famous in tho history of the city and nation, which In connection with the cele bration of the city's 225th anniversary It had marked with ordinary wooden sign boards, with the intention that these should be replaced with bronzo tablets. Yet seven years later nearly all tho original wooden markers have been torn down, and hardly a dozen have been replaced with bronzo tablets'. To put it bluntly, Philadelphia ought to be ashamed of Us inaction. If these relics were for sale, a dozen cities would take them off our hands Instantly and properly mark and preserve them. Business Men to Help Fortunately wo havo one organization which almost single handed Is trying to havo these sites and relics properly marked. It 1b tho City History Society, organized in 1900. But this aoclety has practically no funds, for Its annual dues are hardly more than nomi nal. It is doing a missionary work by laying before business men who now occupy htstorlo sites all the Information at its disposal and trying to persuade them that loyalty to their city demands that they should erect bronzo tablets on these sites. Aa these tablets cost vabout ono hundred dollars each it Is obvl. ously impossible for the City History Society to provide them. Just recently tho society has induced the Chestnut Street Business Men's Association through its members to provide markers for tho Important sites with,. In Its districts, Dr. Wiljiam Campbell, the president of tho society, is hopeful that sim ilar actipn will bo taken, by tbo business men's associations in other parts of the city. But It is alow work, for the business men with a few exceptions do not seem to realize that these bronco tablets would pay for them elves many tint over aa advertisements, Tho cjai? U tho 4(y btwn Walnut and A a VNt aja4 Broa4 street Is J "OHIT JUST PROVES WE'VE GOT V".vr ( R. BUSHNELL peculiarly rich In these unmnrked historical sites. Take, for example, thoso having to do with Benjamin Franklin, who, next to Wash ington, is America's most famous man. In a llttlo alloy, now called Church nlley, Just nbovo Market street, nnd running west at 18 North Front street, Is tho site of Robert Grace's house, made famous by tho meeting of Franklin's Junto Club, out of which grow tho Philadelphia Library, the first subscrip tion library In America. At 135 Market street Is the slto of Franklin's first printing oftlco, nnd on Orlnnna street nearby Is a vacant spaco whero stood Franklin's first home. At 325 Market street Is slto of another of Frank lin's homes, on which was erected tho light ning rod which ho Invented. Not one of these places is marked. Now take William Penn. At tho northwest corner of Front and Dock Btrects Ib tho slto of tho Blue Anchor Tavern, whero William Penn first landed. At the southeast corner of Second nnd Sansom streets Is the slto of the Slato Roof House, the homo of Penn, while nt Letltla court Is tho site of tho Le tltla house which Penn built for his daugh ter, and lias since been removed to Fair mount Park. The site of Washington's residence, at 626 30 Market street, Is now marked with a tab let, as is tho site at 7th and Market streets, where Jefferson wrote tho Declaration of In dependence. But Jefferson's residence, at 808 Rn,ar?,et ,StrCOt' Qnd hla omce' wnlch at 801 Market street, are unmarked. This city contains many Institutions such ns banks and Insurance companies which vsero the first of their kind In America, yet rew of which are marked. Tho GIrard Na IZ ..BanSftt 12 South 3d 8tret, nnd bni ? a1" ye0ra 0ld' ,s the olaest bam building In America. Then there is the Bank ?r T America' tn "rot bank in the United States, which is to mark Its build, hig with a tablet. Near at hand Is the First National Bank, which enjoys tho distinction of being the first national bank In tho United States to bo chartered under tho national ,sal?h n S?.At 212 8outh "" ""eel is the Philadelphia Contrlbutlonshlp, tho oldest Insurance company In America. There nro dozens of residences of famous historical and literary personages which aro as yet unmarked. At 611 South Front street is the site of Commodore Decatur's resi dence, and In one little street at South and American streets nro tho residences of Ed win Forrest, the famous actor; Commodore ?.1fP, hJCassln: Alexander Wilson, the or ULnl.?"1, ."V"1 JCl Suthera"0, a famous Philanthropist. At 30 South street Is tho ?, I .5 S0" nnd Dlxon observatory. In which these two famous surveyors deter mined the meridian line from which the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland was marked out. This meridian Una became famoua before the Civil War and It was from Dixon's namo that the South became "Dixie." At 254 South 2d street is tho birthplace of General George B McClellan At what used, to be L North 2d street, before the present system 0f house numbering was jnstaUea In 1854, the site of tho residence of JohnTltch, who. tho City History Society maintains, was th, J, ! venter of the steamboat And at 121 South 2d street was the tesldenco of Robert Fulton, who has received world-wide credit for the Invention. Both men CM CenT rM1' achIeve"'nt. ranked so high in the history of transportation that 2 ZS' the 8,te8 oi --8 Interesting, but Neglected Among America's foremost literary men whose Philadelphia homes are unmarked with tablets is Edgar Allan Poo, who lived at 7th and Brandywine streets. At the north cast corner of 4th and Arch streets Is the hqme in which James Russell .Lowell lived? in 1845, and which was originally built for Provost William Smith, tho first provost of tho University of Pennsylanla. Among other historic points and residences worthy of tablets arer n Sputh 4th street, where was erected tho first free school li America by tho Society of Friend The Prune Street Theatre, qn Lo0U street, belofr jtht whero "Home, Sweet Home" was first sung. 716 fevpmco street, tbo rt4ejKe of NUhoUa 1M44K e!Wnt t)w Ur1U, ',1? tat Auhmm for bia uuwel wlU - imj -. ja-o. STEAM UP" Andrew Jackson over tho tatter's banking legislation. Third street, below Chestnut, tho residence of Jay Cooke, financier of tho Civil War., , J301 Walnut street, homo of Dr. Benjamin Rush, surgeon general of the Revolution. ' Walnut placo near 314 Walnut street, slto of tho Friends' Almshouso, on which was founded tho romance of Longfellow's "Evangellno." 127 South 5th street, where still exists the oldest dispensary In the United States. Southwest corner Ionic and American streets, supposed to be the oldest houso in Philadelphia, erected about 1700. ' 708 Chestnut street, site of the homes pf Jared Ingersoll, signer of tho Constitution, and Georgo M. Dallas, Vlco President of the United States In Polk's Administration. , 108 Market street, Robert Altken's printing shop, whero wns prlntect the first English Blblo In America. it Northwest corner 7th and Arch streets, site of tho homo of David RIttenhouse. x Southwest corner 6th and Haines street, slto of Pennsylvania Hall, tho meeting placo of tho Abolitionists, destroyed by" a mob In 1838. 221-23 North Water street, residence where Stephen Glrnrd died. 413 South Tenth street, birthplace of Henry George. Northwest corner 3d and Pino streets, sfto of residence of John Nixon, who read the Declaration of Independence to tho crowds assembled outsldo the hall on July 4, 1776. WHAT'S A "REGULAR SHOW"? Spoken Drama Would Be a Novelty to Mil lions of Movie Fans I gave the boy who delivers the groceries a ticket to a war melodrama recently. A few days later he described the play to me. He de scribed it as If he were a discoverer. "It was the darnedest thing I over saw," ha said. "You get what It's about easier than you do In a regular ehow, on account of them talking It out. But it seemed kind of funny at first to hear them chewing the rag llko that. It didn't seem real till you got used to it, like a regular show does." "What do you mean by a regular show?" I asked him, puzzled. n He meant. I learned, the movies. I cross questioned him. He haa been going to the movies every time he could get hold of a spare nickel for seven or eight years, and ho Is now 15. He has been to a few vaudeville shows; ho had seen a couple of circuses. But the war play was actually the first spoken drama he had ever attended. It was a novelty to him. I gathered from what he said that he felt like encouraging It. Ho took a liberal attitude toward this new thing, the spoken drama. It was quaint. It didn't move fast enough. It was too long, too ."many things happened In one place, nnd there was an abiding strangeness In hearing1 tho spoken words. But, on tho whole, tho queer experiment had madoi big hit with him. "It's funny," he repeated, "It's darned funny to hear them chewing the rag like that every time they're getting reajy to do something. But I kind of liked It when I got used toJt, Though, of course," bo concluded. "It Ain't a regular show." The movlee have been shown to millions of people during the last 10 years. They ,haye chased a certain typo of cheap melodrama oft the boards. I wonder how many thousands, how many hundreds of thousands, of people there are, from 12 to 20 years, who regard them as the "regular show," and to whom tho spoken drama would bo more or less of a nov elty, Outlook. BIBLES AND BULLETS Th. AM-l -nit., . . .. t i V ': "X?i" "'mo society has sent to tho tJf. , of ihe Pharaohs. in the past year. 17,0,t8T Bible German protests against tho filling pt r id-r,.a.re to b8 "Pected. A bullet Is often deflected or deadened by a Bible near tho heart. So far, however, no Power has yet made Bible contraband, though they give aid and comfort to tho enemy. Brooklyn Eage. NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW ' The wild boom that has occurred on WU ctf. in stocks of companies that aro busy filling war orders shows how readily tbo specu lative spirit can bo aroused In this oountryi Kansaa City Times. Adequate defense against a powerful foo (can not be brought Into being In a day, whatever Mr. Bryan may think about raising and. equip ping a rnllllon men between sun-up and sun down. Detroit Free Press. a The defense of the State Is wrought by horrid deeds of blood and death. But the spirit ot the vouiuv iigiucne up wie terror and renders -way. Ing for sake of land and home a heroic and .ex alted acL Mlnnnnll. 1 1 ......m,.w.. tivujuai. Unles wo can establish a competent native - , i nu-a very aouDirm cpminn ffenrv wa nnall t.A ji. ... mr2i.li., -L with tho managing of a country threi StzS Of-tha German ml. j li UWW people alUn toY. in MM trodltionChlcago Journal, " ,T 1 4MIhlUi rrony has Ui recent ear, jwUst to retain as German isubjecta expitrfaieT So omb.n1'" jwU n otheVcflnTsle,, jhe ar,m Jw 4oe not apply t thT VnfrM Statw. Tbeexcertlon Is slinWcant s shOng that America', dalms to the alkaielci ToYTiJ 0 "HI U '-V '. . - 5 r pv : ' "W . y " - ' ' i w i p m IHHWJL JSijPUMJKvK J
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers