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Friendship which prow slowly like the oak
aic stronger than those which spring up
like mushrooms.
THE crime of American business Is the
aloofness of the American business man
from participation In politics, at the same
tlmo boasting American popular government.
This crime, of omission Is magnified becauso
wo aro all tho time broadening the responsi
bilities of citizenship, leaning from tho ropro.
aontatlve typo toward pure democracy, in tho
namo of tho people's rule, nnd the business
man Is moro aloof than ever when duty
charges him with moro active participation.
When a business man declines to step Into
what he designates the "muddy pool of poll
tics" he forgets that wherever It Is "muddy"
It Is chargeable to his neglect. But It Is not
always "a muddy pool." Wo havo ten thou
sand pools as clear as the crystal spring,
else we should have no Republic today. And
the dirty pools were what they were because
business men, who are usually leading citi
zens at least possessed of Influence to make
for leadership deplored conditions, but never
were aroused to the call of duty which de
manded correction at their hands. Senator
Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, beforo the
Chamber of Commerce.
WHY TURN BACK THE CLOCK?
Reform laws and public sentiment have
made it Impossible for public contracts to
be awarded except upon square and open
bidding In the market The Inquirer.
WHY, then, go back to tho old system
whereby the laws are made dead letters
and public sentiment is flouted?
THE ASTOUNDING MR. MELLEN
FRANK and disconcerting to the last, Mr
Charles S. Mcllen was almost Jaunty In
his testimony concerning tho New Haven
railroad. He publicly confessed that ho was
made vice president of his road becauso ho
was an intolerable "nuisance" as head of
tho New Tork and New Kngland. He took
a certain amount of pleasuro In detailing
tho piratical practices ho Invented and the
competition which he encouraged.
When Mr. Mellen proposed a one-dollar
faro between Boston and New York he
showed his mettle, When he began to con
trol all of Now England he showed the dan
gers of unlimited irresponsibility in trans
portation. His successor is still reaping the
whirlwind. But Mr. Mellen remains a pic
turesque figure in our railroad history. No
wonder his former associates think he is
dangerous on the witness stand.
BARBARIC BELGIUM
THERE Is a feeling of deep disappointment
In Berlin. Not even the magnificent suc
cesses of tho Teuton arms can consolo the
Germans who, as heralds of light, brought
their torch into Belgium. The Belgians, it
seems, are unworthy of Kultur. For a year
now they have had it spread before them.
It is like pearls cast before swine.
In spite of its glorious benefactions, the
Belgians have proved faithless to Germany.
When the news of Joffro's drive in Cham
pagne reached the city of Brussels the in
habitants, Instead of donning sackcloth, went
to the cafes and opened bottles. Sur
reptitiously they hummed an air once well
Ipown as the "Marseillaise," Queer smiles
played about the countenances which should
havo been lit only by the serene light of the
higher civilization.
"We shall have to instruct the inhabitants
of Brussels on the proper way to comport
themselves In such crises" Is the comment
of that Supreme Command which prders
t'lilngn. Instruct? Wasn't It given out as
a known thing that Belgium was part of
'that happy German land"?
TOE CniLD IN THE nOUSE
WIIATEVKIt the rationalistic theologians
may say about the doctrine of tho Trin
ity, there is no human completeness outside
Of that triple union of father, mother arid
child.
Ho who has no wife Is only partly dovel
oped and she who has had no husband Is less
than half a human being. And the husband
and wife who have no child have missed the
most beautiful experience in life. We say
It Js tho duty of parents to train their chil
dren, hut as a matter of .fact the children
train the parents and bring out qualities In
them, the existence of which they neyer sus
pected, Tfc re-eon tor all this is not far to seek)
It Is ta the oer of nature. Man 11 vet, h net to
' alone. The jaarrled man cannot, and
h naarried woman does net want to. And
Kaon the ehJM c&mm tfcefe Is a union ot -
jwjers-taeea tn earing foe the Infant that
flUs Use feeuao. wltfc," a new spiritual
WtmfSbr
Slure at tospsswd. 'of motherless children
Ae mr kaMsi te a Jrts ot orphanage unlet
the UMWemaslt eMMlee wives take pity en
them and ttMnpte and adst tho orphan.
"h 4'oiuu, Ipjlr to mlllkws, who has Just
aJupUsi a waif as Iter own, that tfeere May
. fea the voio of a child in her fcouee has
pro her wiadom. The child will do more
fcer Um ake can do for him, even though
SolltUifM to bim
M about Poll
ndclphla today In elegantly upholstered mo
tor cars who would gladly exchange places
with the wife of their chauffeur who holds
her baby up for htm to kiss when he goes
home at night. These women know that
thero nro rlchc's that no" money can buy as
their arms acho to hold a little babo of their
own. And tho scrub woman who feels her
babe nestling beside her knows- that thero
aro gifts vouchsafed to her that nro beyond
price.
Our whole fabric of society Is ordered and
organized for the benefit of the child In tho
houso, that tho future may bo safe for him.
So ovory houso should havo a child oven if
one has to bo sought In an nsylttm.
EIGHT-CENT-FARE SMITH
Here we have a maglolan (Taylor) who can
carry us all over tho city for E cents. It Is
a dream. My principal objection Is his talk
of S-cent fares. "Dave" Lane at tho hear
ing beforo the State Senate Committee,
February 11, 1915.
t
QMITH was selected as a candldato for
Mayor by "Dave" Lane. The one thing
this man Lano has set his heart on is the
prevention of universal transfers In Phila
delphia. Ho Is devoted, heart and soul, to
tho prlnclplo that there must not bo universal
flvo-cent faros.
Listen, then, to Smith, his man.
I am In favor of ENDEAVORING to get
a B-cent universal trolley rate for Philadel
phia. This answer applies also to the ques
tion of the abolition of tho 8-cent exchange
tickets But I am unable to determine at
this time, however. It It Is possible for any
company to operate successfully at that rate
of fate.
Fortunatoly, tho Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit has been able t determine that It Is
possible, for It entered Into an agreement
with Director Taylor to do that very thing.
"Dave" Lano knew what ho was doing. Ho
set out to throttle rapid transit and ho Is
going to do It If he can delude tho people of
Philadelphia Into electing his candidate.
Only people who havo so much money they
do not know what to do with It will want
to voto for Smith and eight-cent fares, when
they can get Porter nnd five-cent fares.
DR. CONWELL'S PESSIMISM
DOCTOR CONWELL Is represented as say
ing In Pittsburgh that a young man's
placo in collcgo does not depend on what he
knows, but upon how rich ho Is. A poor boy
has no chance, In his opinion, according to
tho dispatches.
If ho holds this view ho must havo grown
pessimistic all at once. Ho knows, or used to
know, that tho prizes of tho world aro to bo
had by the man who has tho wit to see
where they nro and the courage to reach out
for them and the strength to Belzo them.
Strength, courage and wit do not depend on
the size of a man's bank account. On the
contrary, the bank account depends on tho
size of the endowment of these qualities with
which a man Is blessed by nature. Thr poor
boy frequently has a better equipment of this
kind than tho rich one: While the rich boy
Is squandering his tlmo and patrimony the
poor boy Is marching steadily forward to
ward the goal of success on which he has
fixed his eye.
FLAPDOODLE FOR GROUNDLINGS
If Philadelphia should fall to give a large
majority for the Republican candidates
(meaning the Organization nominees) at the
approaching election, It would be a set
back to Republicanism throughout the coun
try and most unfortunate for the prospects
of Republican success In the presidential
flection next year. Senator Penrose.
THE Senator must have had his tongue In
his check while he was talking, for no one
knows better than he that the Issues on
which the next presidential campaign will bo
fought havo already been framed and that
the voters have already decided whether they
will keep Wilson in Washington four years
more or not.
Tho Administration must stand or fall on
tho record which It has already made, un
less the unforeseen happens and somo great
crisis arrives that will make It necessary to
recast tho popular Judgment Every man
with the slightest knowledge of political his
tory knows this. The advisers of the Pres
ident are as well aware of it as Senator
Penrose himself.
No matter how the election goes In Phila
delphia this year it will not change the voto
of a single Republican or Democrat In the
presidential election. If Smith should be
elected those Independents who are disgusted
with tho connection between gang rule and
Republicanism would doubtless still adhere
to their economic principles. If Porter,who
Is a better Republican than Smith, is elected,
those Independents who prefer Republicanism
to any form of bungling Democracy will be
strengthened In their determination to vote
for the Republican candidates. But the elec
tion of Porter would not lose a single Repub
lican vote and the election of Smith would not
win a single Republican vote to the national
ticket In 1918. The man who la attempting
to persuade the public otherwise Is simply
ladling out flapdoodle for the groundlings.
Smith will be known as a daisy, too.
Mr. Mellen is confessing too much to suit
the prosecution.
Why is there something inherently funny
in a name like Uskub?
Smith's masters seem to be afraid to let
"him debate with Porter.
A college education apparently does not
disqualify a woman to be a detective.
Greece has decided that Cyprus is too small
a price. The Allies may make another bid.
arranza needs money, too, for national
defense. Perhaps he will propose a bond
isfue.
Who would not be a soldier, If he could
camp out on the beautiful hill of the Droiel
estate at Lansdowne?
The suffragists who guarded the Liberty
tBell in the parade last wight were confident
that Us voice would, be fey4 tterdays.
It was really unktad la, Mr. .Porter, ie. ad
dress Mr. ftmltR at OIpiIe a. the' W
rival for the mayorahy were net a reetyeitt
of the cjty.
Dumb says -teat the, aWisjid war laterylaw
with hlw at Fakwon ta elsyra.
some of the Interview Jm New Yek wl
he did not deny.
' ' ' 9
Ajj the political campaign grows warm Jm
Una grhiirtttr (here are reports ot as out
break of h poot 4 mouth
McCa-V -w ever, t tm-e
WINNING "LOST"
FOOTBALL GAMES
Thrilling "Come-Backs" on tho Grid
ironBeaten Teams That Cnmo
Off Victorious After Psycho
logical Transformation
By EDWARD R. BUSHNELL
ORDINARILY, football games, Uko alt
other athlotlo contests, aro decided sole
ly on merit, physical and mental. TJsually a
team loses becauso It meets a better team.
But thero have been some notable excep
tions, apparent, perhaps, rather than real, in
the history of Intercollegiate football. Back
of some of the greatest upsets on the gridiron
Is a good deal ot Interesting, unwritten his
tory. Nearly every big university can pottit
to some contest in which a slnglo Incident,
tho Injection of a powerful personality into
tho crisis, or a psychological mlraclo of a
different description, enabled tho supposedly
Inferior team to pluck victory from seeming
ly certain defeat. Such occurrences minister
to football prestige and college spirit, and
from them succeeding generations of athletes
draw Inspiration. You And them chiefly In
intercollegiate sports. There are at least four
football games, won- against the force of
probabilities, which have become historic and
classic.
In some respects the most historic "como
back" team in footbalt hUtory was the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania eleven of 1M2. None
of the 26,000 spectators who saw that team,
weak and despised as It had been all season,
give the powerful Cornell eleven a lead of
11-0 at the end of tho first half, and then
with a mighty rally In the second half beat
them by a score of 12-11, will over forget the
sights or the sounds which greeted the per
formance. To appreciate tho achievement the
situation should be explained. George Wood
ruff, who had put Pennsylvania on the foot
ball map, had resigned as coach, and Dr.
Carl Williams was given the task of develop
ing new material. The players were green and
not up to the usual Pennsylvania standard.
But they had spirit and they never knew
what it was to quit. The season had been
disastrous. All the Important games had
been lost, though most of them by the margin
of a single touchdown. Cornell, on the other
hand, had had a wonderful season and no
ono believed that Pennsylvania had a chance.
The first half went off according to schedule,
and the score was 11-0 In Cornell's favor, with
the prospect that It would be more than
double this at the end.
Speech Between the Halves
But here the story begins. Between the
halves the Pennsylvania players sat about In
gloom, facing their fate as best they could.
A few minutes before time to return to the
field a message came from the Cornell dress
ing room from "BUI" Warner, captain of the
team and brother of Glenn Warner, tho pres
ent coach of the Pittsburgh team. It sug
gested, apparently out of consideration for
Pennsylvania's feelings, that the second half
be shortened ten minutes. This, at least,
would keep down the score.
At first no Pennsylvania man replied. Sud
denly, Walter Balrd, a tackle, leaped to his
feet, and, although he was not the captain
and did not consult his teammates, per
emptorily declined the offer. Then Jumping
on one of the rubbing tables, he appealed to
tho honor and courage of those Pennsylvania
players, and, using Cornell's offer as a text,
rallied the players with a speech that ought
to be historic.
"We'll show these fellows," ho shouted In
conclusion, "that Pennsylvania isn't beaten
yet. It's up to us to get together. We can
hold Cornell and we can win this game yet."
The rest Is well-known history. Balrd's
spirit was contagious, and when the men re
turned to the field they went at their work
with a fine frenzy that told the spectators
that some wonderful transformation had
taken place. Getting the ball on the first
kick off, Just under their own goal, Pennsyl
vania marched straight down the field for
a touchdown in twenty minutes of play. This
left the score 11-6, still in Cornell's favor.
Tho fury of Pennsylvania's attack increased
rather than diminished, and the final touch
down came with less than a minute to play.
It made the score a tie at 11-11. But the goal
had to be kicked. The touchdown was made
near the edge of the field, and, although the
field was heavy and tho ball water soaked.
Captain Gardner kicked the goal and mnde
the final score 12-11 in Ponsylvanla's favor.
And the memory of that game has since won
many a victory for Pennsylvania teams.
Introducing "Ted" Coy
Whon Yale men wish to rally their foot
ball teams all they havo to do Is to point
back to tho Yale-Princeton game of 1607,
which Yale won by the score of 12-10 after
a fight which resembled in many particulars
that of 1S02 between Pennsylvania and Cor
nell. Princeton had a great eleven that year,
and when the first half ended with 10-0 n
Princeton's favor the Tigers' supporters
thought It would be an old-fashioned slaugh
ter. But something happened between the
halves. Just what 1 was no one knows. The
Yale men were no wrapped up In their new
plans of battle that they overstayed the In
termission limit by five minutes and the of
ficials had to look them up and ask if they
Intended to finish the game.
It was at this point that Yale Introduced
"Ted" Coy, the son of a Yale professor, to
football fame. This young blonde giant had
not hitherto been conspicuous, but In the sec
ond half he was unfettered and that day
Yale owed victory to his individual skill and
strength. By actual count Coy carried the
ball an average of every other play. No one
else could gain. But nothing could stop Coy.
If his forwards didn't open the line he did It
himself. And when he had scored Yale's first
touchdown and the goal was kicked, leaving
the score 10-8 In Princeton's; favor, nothing
oould holl tho Yale attack. Another touch
down was needed and Superman Coy was
chosen to get it. Coy did all the kicking,
the forward passing and the plunging. Fi
nally a forward pass advanced the ball to
Princeton's 10-yard line, Coy took the ball
and with one plunge earrled it and several
tacklers over the IJne fer the winning touefc
down, ?krs was another vam of wHra speetae'
Mlar feetteall feetween these twe team la Wt.
Tale we, lt-E, hy ewe at the meet thrlUUg
eaWtotVofle U vt4al aHty ever p m
any gfteUro. yriwieMn was leeway f- bar
the grace ef a M-itaM eteesi Mek from
4ot ot the mWy DeWttt. These weee the
toys ot "tsiMes ha," Bv tfcfc kalterinc
ram ooM aet erees Prlawa' jwal Hae.
But Yale had aoane giant forwards. At a
aruclal moo-ant, two ot them, one the ate
James Hocan, lifted their Princeton oppo
nents out of the way and opaoed a big heie ia
the -as through wMeh aeUmi-aet Captala
Oeorge .Chadwtck, Me flay was sudden
that the Yale man was through the line and
off for a W-yard run and a score before the
Princeton backs could realize It A fow mln
uten later Yale repeated the play wllh the
same man,
Tit for Tat "an- Then Semo"
The University of Pennsylvania In 1812 ran
another ''como-baek" exhibition which was
oven more Spectacular than tho 1M2 game
with Cornell. It was the first championship
gome of tho year. Michigan was known to
havo a groat team but Pennsylvania had
playod Indifferent football. Throughout the
first half Pennsylvania could gain little,
whllo nothing could hold Michigan. Three
touchdowns did the Westerners score In this
first half and when the teams went to their
dressing rooms tho sooro stood 21-0 in favor
of Michigan. It looked like a Waterloo for
the Red and Bluo.
Hut home magic, elemont transformed the
Pennsylvania team between tho halves. For
during tho second half they raced up and
down the field and ovor Michigan's goal for
four touchdowns. Just a fow minutes beforo
tho game ended tho score stood 21-20 In Mich
igan's favor Thero was time for only a fow
plays ant' Hhlng but some lucky turn of
fortune ci I glvo Pennsylvania a victory.
The battle Bttrged back and forth. Then loss
than a minute before the reforco wns to blow
his whistle Michigan punted. The ball was
caught at mid-field by Dlok Marshall, tho
Quakers' sprinting quarterback. If Marshall
ever ran at a 10-second gait In his life he
must have done It on this occasion, for In
somo mysterious fashion he, threaded his way
through the entire Michigan team and plant
ed that ball behind the goal post without ono
Michigan man having touched him.
LONG FIGHT FOR-THE BALLOT
Many nnd Strange Were the Qualifications
Which Burdenod Early-day Voters:
At the time of the Declaration of Independ
ence our American forefathers ere busy
making State Constitutions, and everywhere
they put qualifications on the right to vote and
hold office.
In some States Catholics and Jews were de
prived of the ballot. In other Btates only Jews
and Unitarians wpre excluded. Ex-President
Taft. as a Unitarian, could not have voted In
Delaware under the first Constitution, which
required a voter to believe In tho Trinity. Jn
one of the States belief In hell fire was a
prerequisite to voting, on the assumption that
only fear of punishment and hope of reward
could make men straight In the polling places.
In almost every State property qualifications
were put on voting and office holding. In New
York only those who held land worth about
$500 could vote for Governor and Senator, while
a lower qualification was placed on voters for
Assemblymen. In Virginia only freeholders,
could vote. Under this plan In New York the
people of the towns were subjected absolutely
to the landholders, and they did not like It. It
Is estimated that more than half of the adult
white males were excluded from the right to
vote In the beginning of our Government.
In this long battle of the common man, Jew
or Gentile, Unitarian or Catholic, freeholder or
non-freeholder, for a share In the government,
every one of the arguments except the bear
ing children argument now used against woman
suffrage was used against the unfranchised
men. New Republic.
. AN OPINION OP KULTUR
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Germany certainly has the Irish complaint
of "every time It opens Its mouth It puts Its
foot Into It." In starting this war Germany
outraged the civilized world with Its treatment
of Belgium. As time and crowding events began
to distract attention from that outrage Ger
many perpetrated the foul crime of the Lusl
tania. and as that was passing she had to
murder a nurse Just to keep before our eyes the
image of what the Blonde Beast really is when
seen under strong light that brings out charac
ter. Intriguing, untrue to pledged word, cruel,
grasping are traits when Joined to an ability
for plodding work that make an enemy to be
feared and a neighbor to be shunned.
. It Is a rood Providence that has revealed these
traits to the world, while they may, at what
ever cost, be scotched. Let us of America have
no doubt as to "Kultur," and let us be more
outspoken as to our opposition. And let us re
member that German "Kultur" began in the
class rooms of German professors who first
bowed themselves out ot the Christian faith
and then substituted their own Ideals, now In
action. We claim to be a Christian nation.
Now Is tho time to affirm It by word and deed
for wo behold the Blonde Beast that has sud
denly spread slaughter and ruin, and are ap
palled at the sight. AN AMERICAN.
Philadelphia. October 21
THE CATTAWUMPUSSES
Sometimes my father has to git right out ot
bed and scold,
And love me right up tight to him, as tight
as he ean hold.
And scold and' scold and scold me, and speak
cross until I bear;
For I'm so skeered that I fergit I've got htm,
pretty near.'
And then when he has got me still he cannot
sleep no more
Till he has 'shut and turned the key in that
there closet door;
And then, when he has done that, he can go
to bed again,
For cattawumpusses and things Ilk that can't
git mo then.
Sometimes something gives me a poke and
wakes me In the night,
And I lift up my head and look, and It Is dim.-
my-llght
'Most everywhere I turn my ayes, essept that
closet door;
And when my ayes git there they can't turn
from It any morel
That's whera the cattawumpus Is, nnd other
things that squirms,
That has as many reaehy hands as thousand
legged worms.
And I kin see them 'rtgglln' round, thest this-
away and that,
Beneath the shelf that's In -there where my
mother 'keeps her hat I
I ean not tee them plain, I thest can see them
stlrrin slow.
Some uv urn way up near the top and some uv
um down low,
And all mixed In together like a can of flehln.'
worms, '
And slldn' in and out an trlstln' ,'round, the
way tney squirms:
And I know why they're trlstln' so, and sortln
of thelrvetf
In there where It Is always dark beneath my
mother's shelf,
An I thest lay an' watchum In the darkhole
there. Mil they
Are almost ready .to.urni9Und an face roe
thls-awayl
And than I scream and seream, because their
teaths Is awful sisal
And their tongues Is so red but, oh, the
wo seat is thalr, ayeal
They era the roundest, awfuHeat that I don't
want to seel
And alt the time they're squ-lrmln' round to
turn them all on me,
And turn them on ma all at once and then I
b'bvs I'd dial
And that's the time I aH swlak upageast the
wal an' ery, f
And erewd myself, away far ba ageaet the
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PANAMA-PACIFIC
The Commercial Museum Is the Graveyard of Expositions, Oni
T4- Tr "KT.- Mnnna n Flnnrl PlnPP MilTlV Rvn.lt. TTniva T... ..
. .. ,
By WILLIAM
PHILADELPHIA is the graveyard of ex
positions. Minus tho original environment
of bright lights, gaudy midways and specta
tors by tho hundreds of' thousands, tho ma
jor exhibits of tho World's Fair of Chicago,
the 8t. Louis, Buffalo, Paris and Guatemalan
expositions are now on display In tho big
gray, buildings of tho Philadelphia Commercial
Musoum on tho west bank of tho Schuylkill
River at 34th and
Spruco streets.
There, also, wilt
bo Installed most of
the exhibits of per
haps a score of for
eign countries now
attracting t h o u
sands of visitors to
tho Panama-Pacific
Exposition at San
Francisco. Yet to
say that they will bo
"burled" is meroly
a figure ot speech,
for In the long run
the exhibits will bo
of moro use, both
from the commercial
and from tho cult-
on. w. r. wiLsoN'
ural viewpoint, at tho Museum than they wcro
at tho Exposition.
A Collector of Expositions
Dr. William P. Wilson, director of tho
Commercial Museum, who holds tho Unlquo
distinction of being tho only collector of ex
positions In the world, announces today that
13 countries exhibiting at the Panama-Pacific
Exposition have promised to turn over to tho
Museum virtually everything It wants in
their displays. Negotiations to this end
wore started by Dr. Wilson shortly after tho
opening of tho fair at San Francisco. They
are still going on with the Exposition Com
missions of eovoral other countries, and It Is
probablo that the list of contributors to Phil
adelphia's Commercial Museum will bo con
siderably Increased before tho lights aro
turned out at San Francisco and tho crowds
melt awny.
Tho countries that have already given their
permission, through their exposition commis
sions or Ambassadors, are China, Holland
and Colonics, Slam, Sweden, Honduras, Gua
temala, Bolivia, Japan, Argentina, Australia,
New Zealand, Uruguay and Canada. Tho
Chinese and Japanese accessions will be es
pecially valuable In bringing up to date tho
Oriental exhibits already Installed at tho
Museum. Tho exhibits Include objects of in
dustry, geology, mineralogy and forestry, art,
and commerce, representative of each of the
countries named.
Since early In the summer W. L. Fisher,
of the Museum staff, has boon at work In
San Francisco checking up everything on
display, but paying especial attention to tho
foreign exhibits. Knowing just what the Mu
soum needs to complete vfirlous sections and
bring them up to date, he has been ablo to
advlso Dr. Wilson exactly what to ask for.
Paying the Freight on Priceless Goods
The Financo Commltteo of City Councils
has been nsked by Dr. Wilson for an appro
priation of $5000 to pay packing and trans
portation charges. According to Dr. Wilson,
it would be Impossible to secure what has
been promised for many times this sum.
Many of the collections, as a matter ot fnct,
cannot bo reproduced at any price, Including
as they do relics of ancient civilizations in'
many lands. Th'o tonnage of the shipments
that will como to this city from San Fran
cisco has not yet been computed, but a largo
number pf freight cars will bo required.
Chicago's Columbian Exposition contrib
uted no less than 25 carloads of collections
brought together nt tho expense of more than
40 Governments and dependencies. This really
provided the start of the Philadelphia Com
mercial Museum. Doctor Wilson, then at tho
head of tho School of Biology at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, went to Chicago In
1893 on private business, and while there
visited the Exposition. There he was struck
by the thought of the immense wasto In
making such wonderful collections only to
let them disintegrate when the fair clpscd. Ho
THERE ARE STILL TRAPPERS
They Manage to Live In the Old Way,
East as Well ng West
Not far. from Louisville, but across the river.
In Indiana, Peter McDanlel, a trapper, whose
home was a solitary cabin at Beaver hole, on
Fourteen-mile Creek, Is dead. He lived to bo
T7 years old. During the last 20 years of his
life he earned sufficient for his modest bache
lor necessities by following a calling which in
the popular mind Is associated with the fron
tier during the period In which white men
gradually worked their way westward from the
Atlantic coast, and before there were trans
continental railways.
Every youth who Is healthy Is by nature an
adventurer, Those who have the hard luck to
be born In flats and brought up in tjte streets
may become members of gangs and regard the
peaceful and peace-guarding policeman as the
natural enemy of their kind. But that Is a
perversion of Instinct brought about by arti
ficial environment The boy whose bare feet
feel the soil In summer time, and who fishes
and swims and hunts, even where fishing Is b
waste of time, economically viewed, and hunt
ing a matter of tramping about with a Flobert
rifle to murder Innocent, unsuspecting, Insec
tivorous birds, longs to hunt and trap for btav
ers and sell pelts, and fight Indians, .ilka
Leatherstocklng, the Fenlmore Cooper hero, In
whom were Incarnated tbe Ideals of normal
boyhood.
As a matter of fact there still are many pelts
to ba gathered. Quite an army of hunters and
trappers, all told, get their living by harvest
ing them In the remaining fringes Of forest
and along the water courses and ravines which
civilization has not metamorphosed. t l( pos
sible still or a man to live, like Peter lie
Dinltt. In a shack in the woods and depend"
upon his rifle, his traps and his dogs, if ho
may not dine upon" bear meat, venison and
wile turkey, as Daa'l .Boone did, he may at
laast have plenty et smaller game with his
earn eaka. And "varmints' whesa fur U as
sataWe as gtlt-edga seourUlac still art fairly
aumetewi In sections at the eldest and moat
dwssly populated States. There still are for
seted arses whera a man may Valid hie hut
et round legs, chink It with stieiw er atonoa:
a weed wHkv clay, get his waUr mumIv f-
a ssrstol luring and hie fual from raUan or
no ive oeyoM four score with
foot in the settlements, Mve fo
ot bartermr hia "kll" - -.a..
tor and powder and hall, LetUvllle
ts-is-iir-Jewrnal.
AMERICA mtKAM BAY
Thare days ed days, patriate days, ,
merial days, eantenntal days, hut at ay that
hesMMa the early residents V tha eeatlnesTt!
the AsNsieen Indians. The survivors of the
Brat Worth American famlllae heye Wrae this'
neglect in thalr usual taciturn fashtoa ut re,
ocntly, at a eeogreas of IW Iiialaas, eoavenad
nt Lawranoa, if an , tha preposition to hava pna
say is th ar t a.lUe uJ observed
Aaserioa Aadlaj day mat with atraag ap-
Show in Philadelphiasnarea witn rubiic Schools.
t" HBi
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f 7" . V Mf
6L- Vi ,Lr
Mv' 4&MiSr
IS COMING HERE
' e s f-4
A. McGARRY
conceived tho Idea of a permanent Mus.
for the best exhibits oT such exposition,
ouiuo dl me loaning uusincss men Of I
city became Interested In tho plan, and
Juno IB. 1894. the Cnmmi-lnt ..'...
' -.-... museum M
organised by ordinance of Councils i7
William PenDor was th Aft n.u.-.' . r
ing that offlco until his death In 18.L rC
Wllann In Ifto. pA-,i .,i.i '.. '"tiM
--.ummuns Which tiW
hard opened with various Governments ii-f
....,.. .Uv...c vA...u.iuk ui ntcago. an 'j
' - "- iumia cnmo to t,tl
...w " "...u m.u wirco great bulM
Intra lira. nf . CI. ....Il.n. .. . "Ullfl.
...a- ,.ua. v. uiu uuuuymiii mver hare
constructed and thero aro thousands of
ui iiuur bijiii-u aim uvnuauio. n
TV. C.. - it. . )1.1
Aiu lug vi mo norm i
The most notable slnalo enliiv.ii,... ..
Chicago, becauso of its completeness. ! S
....,.. a,., ...,u.i. ,i mciuacs hides, I-
preservation, of virtually every fur-besrti;
animal extant, and mnnv -. ...,..?
Since exterminated. Tho collection Is M75
be the largest of Its kind In tho w-..m -. . v
lnnlly this wns turned over to the JV?i'
Pnlilmhlnti ftfli-o.i. . rtl.t. '-
-. .. ......v...... , v uituso, m the or.'
ganlzatlon of which, Incidentally, Director'
,,..ov.. i-mnu uu iiui'ununt part. That Mu
seum found the exhibit somewhat out of it.
ttnn nnrl TV. 1 . -1 1. . I a. '
miu, mm j-uuuui-IIJIlia gor. II.
Moro than 500 tons of collection. - .
talned by Dr. Wilson at thn ni.o -. ;."
Paris World's Fair In 1D00. AV.n., iM .!"?
were contributed from tho South and CentrAii
Amo-lnon .wt.ll.tl- -. .. ... irB
........ .... wv...ullo ui mu exposition In QtiaJ
temala. Thrco corporations with an eye hi
futuro South American trade landed thk
cargo in Philadelphia absolutely free Z
charge. They aro tho Pacific Stearashis
Company, tho Panama Itallroad and lh,;
-iyae imo.
When tho Buffalo and St. Louis Exposition!
were held tho Philadelphia Commercial Ma.
BCttm wns becoming rather ivnii .t..
Some Of thO exhibits wpro tinf -i.-i... 3&
complete to satisfy tho Director, however, to'
ho selected various specimens from Butr'ato
weiRinng wi an jo ions, and at St. Louis JoB
carloads of material were obtained. Director
Wilson, by tho way, wns Commissioner fori'
the Philippine Islands at tho St. Lout, v-..!
sltion, nnd In that office had cnmni-f. v.
of tho Island exhibits. Nearly all of them
aro now at tho Museum In this city.
A Help to Foreign Trade
Tho famo of tho Museum has spread so f.rl
now, mainly becauso of tho activities of luj
Foreign Trade DeDartmnnt. thnr "?
countries are extremely anxious to have rep-
resentatlvo exhibits of their lands on display
In this city. Accordingly. Director wiin )
having the full co-operation of the Foreign
commissions at San Francisco in selecting
exhibits for installation hern, nhina nna t.:
pan are especially anxious to bo accurately
represented jn tho Commercial Muaum.
Chow Tszchi, Minister of Agriculture anl
Commerce for tho Remibllo of Chlnn - J
this country a delegation of 20 Chinese btn
mess men nnd commercial experts. Theyj
spent an entlro day at tho Museum examls
ing tho collections. $
Tho visitors wero not nt all satisfied with
the section devoted to China, nor war. it,.
Commissioners at San Francisco, who alW
nave visited tho Museum. They all take n
Jnterse pride In the nrneresK rondo hv tv.
republic, within the last few years, and havf
made arrangements to send here from the
Pacific coast a collection of Industrial and rt
objects that Will be tho monr comnlet and
up-to-dato In the United States. The Japanese
commissioners also havo visited the MuseumJ
From their section at San Francisco Director
Wilson expects to obtain a fine exhibit of i
now weavo of silks. 1
Most Of tho material nhtnlnofl. of oiir:
remains in tho Museum, free to tho public,'
faome of the smaller objects that happen to
be duplicated, however, aro included In the)
collections sent out by the Director to publl?
schools all over the State for uso In cducaj
tlqnal work, and others are traded with Mai
scums elsewhere for articles wanted. Throush
tho exhibits sent out, and the lllustratsl
lectures, tho Museum last year reached taor?
man f&.uoo children In Pennsylvania.
proval and a heaw sustalninar vote. A C09K
mlttee was appointed to take up the suj;p3
Hon with President Wilson, and later wl
Congress, and legal and official recognition. )
cunnaenny expectfd, The first day to 6e CM
hrated Is announced br May 2. 1916. !
The Idea Of an Amprlonn Tnrilii" itnv WSI Mf.
gested In 1912, and the agitation which follows
was not permitted tp die down. The Dacw
of the measure claim flint In addition to,.
serving recognition as the original Amerttj
their Increasing civilization, their educational
progress and their .tnnrtlnrr ns rood citletM
entitle them to a placo In the roll of race celej
iiruiiuns, j
The request, which Is backed by the Indlea
congress and Its leading representative Pl
fesslonal men of high standing, seems an
nently reasonable one. Aside from Its :
mental featurn If uoni.i . rfe.rvu1 trlboM
to a race that has struggled upward Mlm
a host of retarding conditions, and Is demt
stratlng Its Increasing fitness for good eltjje.
ip ami nigtj responsibilities. Cleveland --
Dealer. W.
NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
If America Is to come first it must come t3
w.v jimu m uousi a secondary city, a w--ji
harbor, a sectional crop or a favprlte tier!
States. America must not be first as awl
it,gur- ana last among American" ""ai
".,... .isn .urn nun.
From the nebulous regions of watchful w3
ing we come to a program which Is not wiu" I
choice that could have been made under ,j
circumstances and tha -nunt-v now entenMSmi
a period of more hopeful expectation. Cato
The British made thalr Island tha tr
k-pu-o or we world ay buying wnaiovs
-vim uu id aeu, storing ana rorwarawa
British porta what Great Britain could, petj
' insr. is praauaay what te
States la ,not in thn oinaf. and
everything conalderad this country may net
mu iq up. urawe jupms rreas.
Mk fAllntrv 1... a 4t.i.wl . .affff
WW, My ether nattoa. aar will It eW
to war save te protect .tot own rights M
rights of Its tisH ata, test whan such a
nw ia require t a-ams hi aao It "
"v i io accora k.
V IUm.i ,...... .... .. 1
"""w " -aettM nawn-i "
Hs an easantlal to naUaaal eitence.-Clj
-". Kf-WWIgr,
Jeuh yean men la tha UnUad States
prohaWy fc .found to aaaure tne success J
Set the plan la sure to. fell It the volue.
tf.oliM an. u.a . i. i.-1-.j..l .X.AM
tlo hv Ik.l- ,.1.... . .JsJT.arJ lh
r - - -j"wr!. mm lu ...-,.., t.
tentlqn of their Jobs sfter tha breaking uJ
.,. i..,.iu Hinyj. xjn. r.al lMl pa wit
Tnnl wniilj . .41 ..-- 1 . -..! i
-.I, ii, uiHifl war H9 nvt?iii w --
men k.4 !. . -., .u" ,i ..! c.
-.,-,.. ,.. u,u ana ia !urm j
down again to a period of peec,-tfiita
vncHviwaa. i.
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