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PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MAnCH 21, Ms.
Vnblemishcd let mc live, or die unknotcn;
O grant an honest fame, or prant mc nonet
Vope.
All the details for catching Villa seem com
plete except for Information its to which firm
haa the movlng-plcturo rights.
Next thing you know, Mr. Ford will bo
starting an agitation to get the boys out
of the cactus before Christmas.
With .eggs selling at $1.50 per dozen In Eng
land, wo can Bee no reason why so many
British actors are leaving homo to tour the
United States.
linvcr Pasha wishes It to bo understood
that ho Is not dead. He has just been away
from Constantinople Inspecting the Turkish
troops In Asia Minor.
Mr. Roosevelt says that ho will not enter
Into any fight for the nomination, this being
the first Instance on record where ho passed
up a light of any kind.
A Now York writer says tliat tho candidacy
of Justice Hughe3 would seriously embarrass
Prpsident Wilson. Yes; especially as It would
leave him with another Supremo Court
Vacancy to All.
.The artificial aurora borealls proposed as a
feature for tho convention of tho "ad" men
noxj. June would bo highly appropriate and
significant, too. In its symbolism. Advertis
ing Is the lllumlnant of tho modern business
tlnlycroo.
Maryland has been good in the lino of eats
to the Rev. Mr, Sunday, who Interrupted a
homily to thank tho good people for hampers
of horns, biscuits and other toothsome deli
cacies of the Eastern Shore. And when he
was here nobody thought to send him some
scrapple.
1 Salvador, tho eunhonlouslv namod renubllc
down South, has indorsed President Wilson's
plan for mutual guarantee pacts. The chief
Importance of this Item is in Its Information
that tho President of tho republic Is named
Molendez, thereby "slipping one over" on
"what do you know?"
Delinquent taxpayers never like to see their
names posted for public inspection. Over in
Camden delinquents threaten to make it warm
for the political party which Initiates enforce
ment of a law requiring nowspapcr publicity
ot their names and delinquencies. The method
Is very efficacious, however. This year certain
Delaware County boroughs tried It to collect
the annual dog tax, and receipts were larger
than, any on the records.
William of Wied has been restored as Mpret
Of Albania, just as Austrian guns are pound
ing at the outer works of Avlona. Yet the
Mpret made himself scarce In the Sanjak of
Novlbazar when the Montenegrins were hav
ing their hour of triumph in Albania, Ho
went to a Swiss resort, differing from the in
trepid Ahkoond of Swat, who led his forces in
the fray. For does not tho poet speak ot
"Swats wha haa wl" Ahkoond bled?"
Mrs, Isaac Rice, who tried to make New
York, quiet, has a local emulator In Director
Krusen. Milkmen, Icemen, coalmen and other
disturbers ot the morning rest must abate
their noise, according to a decree of tho
Health Department, Every assailant of the
tympanum, except the Schoenbergs and Stra
vlnskya of modern muMc, are included in the
peace and harmony ruling. Some of them, of
course, are incapable of harmony.
One. wonders now how the city got along
without the domestlo relations division of the
Municipal Court when tho record of Its
annual report is read. Reaching 300,000 per
sons In Its ministrations, which adopt the
policy of conciliation and reconstruction In.
Etead of the old punitive methods, the court
has smoothed the domestic path for more than
a thousand estranged couples, has "big
sistered" hundreds of wayward girls, and has
exercise amnion sense judgment in 16,600
juvenile es.
If every American could get Into the mental
HttUuda of Mrs, Mildred Farwell, the news
paper woman who was with the Bulgarians
and Serbians for three months, there would
.nxLiJoubt anywhere of our neutrality. Mrs.
Farwell went Into the war zone prejudiced In.
favor of the French and English, Hera Is
how Bho feels now:
I don't think I am pro-anythlng any
more, unlaw pro-humanity. It Is for their
convictions that I respect men, and If their
convictions are strong enough tq make them
willing1 to die, how can any prejudices sur
vive that?
Why can't Philadelphia parent? witness a
convincing demonstration pf what their taxes
p.ru doing n the public schools In, tho line of
what used to be called educational fads?
Dc that was the term of reprpapo applied
to wwing, cooking, manual training, etc No
9etor. nowadays, depreciates the discipli
nary &s well aa practical value of these courses.
, wtuca are. in a. very aennue eenso, as import-
Mft as the formal branches of the curriculum.
rat3 know that these once despised "side
enliat the interest of their children and.
fur a sort of candled coating for the
asademlo studies. Some children.
tvj ? incapable by temperpneat of fixing
ifjgHy nJftotiwutely for even oae of the three
i m mcagfl turouga uuuusai truu
fetenco. up m vwmout$ ttw.
EVENING- LEDGER-frHILAPELPHIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1916.
pupils of tho Columbia County rural schools
displayed 20,000 pieces of their handiwork nt a
school fair last week. Possibly some such
exposition could bo held here. At one time
tho League of Homo nnd Schools Associa
tions held an educational carnival on n.
large scalg, This could bo revived as the
basis of a school exposition, which could bo
supplemented by tho drills, choruses nnd
dances which formerly constituted tho pro
gram of tho carnivals.
A TRICK THAT SHOULD FAIL
TImi plan to tin up local option to the
nriimbfttiKli prelilenllal boom M n trlrU to
deceive the vnlera. The liquor Inwa are to
be mmle by the members of the Oenernl
AMembly nn1 not by the delegate to the
Chlcaio convention.
THE attempt to persuade tho voters that
thero Is no hops for tho passage of n
local option law next winter unless Brum
baugh delegates nro sent to the Republican
National Convention Is an Insult to tho Intelli
gence ot tho children In tho civil government
classes In the public schools.
They know that the laws of tho State are
pasied by the regularly elected members of
tho Oenernl Assembly. They know, too, that
tho Republican National Convention hao no
power to Interfere In the local affairs of '.his
Commonwealth,
Thero Is no reratlon between local option
nnd tho nomination of a cnndldnto for the
Presidency. Every dolognle elected to tho
Chicago convention could bo an ardent sup
porter of tho present Urooks high license lnw
without In any way weakening tho cuho for
local option hero.
Tho only way to secure tho c!uuirc In tho
license law which t'.o local optlonlsts Ucslro
Is by tho nomination and election of enough
members of the lycglalaturo to enrry the pro
posed bill. It Is ni.t necessary that all the
members of tho Legislature favorable to local
option should bo Republicans. A man 'an
favor enlarging the control of the communi
ties over tho sale of liquor and still bo In
favor of tho ro-cloctlon of President Wilson.
Local option sontlment exists In both purtles.
If we nro to havo a satisfactory law it must
have tho support of tho best elements In nil
parties, Just as no satisfactory national do
fenso program can bo prepared and carried
out which docs not commend Itsolt to tho
best Judgment of the citizens regardless of
their views on the questions which divide tho
voters into party groups.
The delegates to tho Chicago convention are
to be elected to assist In tho nomination of
a candidate for the Presidency. It Is probable
tnat the candidate for whom they will vote
will bo a resident of some other State who
is not at all Interested in tho local questions
which agitate the voters here. Tho delegates
from Philadelphia may believe that tho Taylor
transit plans should be thrown In the ash
heap and that Mr. Taylor should bo drawn and
quartered for being guilty of tho crime of
seeking to servo tho best Interest of tho com
munity. But no one cares what they think
about tho Taylor plans provided they will
combine with tho broad-minded and concilia
tory delegates from tho rest of tho country
In the selection of a candldato for tho Presi
dency who can unlto the party and command
tho full Republican voto noxt November.
Tho national Issue must be considered apart
from the local issue.
The only way to Insure tho passago of a
proper local option law Is to nominate and
elect enough members of tho General Assem
bly committed to such a program. They are
to bo nominated at tho samo primary olectlon
that will select delegates to the Chicago con
vention. In tho preliminary canvass every
candldato for the General Assembly nomina
tion should be forced to como out in the open
nnd declare himself on tho l&sue. The local
optlonlsts who oppose tho presidential am
bitions of tho Governor are entitled to tho
support of all other local optlonlsts, regard
less of their attitude toward tho pergonal for
tunes of any man In national politics. And
if any anti-local optlonlsts, who nro trying to
get control ot the Stato political machine
with tho aid of the Governor, seek nomina
tion to the Legislature, the local optlonlsts
should havo intelligence enough to voto
ngainat such men, not because theso men are
backing tho Governor on another Issue, but
because they are opposing him on a vital
question of State policy.
Tho names of the candidates for nomination
to the Legislature will appear on one part of
the ballot, and tho names of the proposed dele
gates to tho Chicago convention will appear
on another part of It. It will bo easy to dis
tinguish between tho two sets of men Just as
easy as It will bo to distinguish between tho
two issues.
It would be a calamity If tho efforts of
those who are trying to place the control of
tho liquor traffic in the communities of tho
State were dependent for their success or
failure on tho failure or success of tho men
who are trying to make Governor Brum
baugh a national figure. But when one recalls
that the Brumbaugh boom Is not really in
tended to advance the fortunes of the Gov
ernor, but to strengthen the hands of a group
of factlonlsts. It becomes difficult to escape
the conclusion that tho plan ti tie Brum
baugh and local option together Is ono of tho
most outrageous pieces of political trickery
that has been attempted In many a day.
MAN IS MORE THAN A MACHINE
OUR great-grandfathers would have been
somewhat at a loss to account for the ap
pearance of a society for the encouragement of
liberal studies. For them moct studies were lib
eral and the great movement for practicality
was but beginning to show Itself. Now, with the
pendulum swung to tho other extreme, the
Philadelphia Society for tho Promotion of
Liberal Studies finds hard work to do, and its
third annual meeting next Saturday will
hardly be a word-haklng event. The whole
question of the classics Is, in reality, only a
small part of the great question of why
young men and young women should study.
The feeling that every hour of book-learning
should be not only represented by but trans
latable into a given amount of money is
prevalent, and the colleges of the country have
humored, the feeling to their own temporary
advantage. Eventually they may rind that
they have lost their most precious gift. What
the college needs most to do is to light
eternally against the claim of Immediate
values and against the Intolerable narrowness
ot technical training. It Is obvious that once
a man leaves college he will have little time
for study, little leisure for finer things than
those which make up his business, commercial
or Industrial life. The college can anticipate
the confining Influences of necessity and can
convince each student that Homer has been
and Aristophanes has been, and that -these
men will continue to be. Becaue if theau
things are not lef.rn.ed. "re they will never
e tesFMl properly. Thf, $ffloufy now is to
get pupUa enough o justify the, really great
ifaaM,M th? t$afcle Of the huwiuies
wty js JefB fd in" wkU yr,
Tom Daly's Column
SOME "tlmo ngo wo uttered a Macedonian
cry for a copy of Jamos Jeffrey Roche's
"Her Majesty tho King" and a fairy ap
peared nnd handed It to us. Some day wo
hopo to give extracts from It.
In tho meantime, tho lovely fnlry' has
favored us again. Sho nnd another appeared
suddenly nt our elbow tho other morning. Sho
said: "This Is my sister nnd this Is myself."
"And your name, O Queen?" "Ruth Plum'ly
Thompson," said sho, "and hero Is a copy of
tho Saturday Evening Post which my great
grandfather once sent to my grandmother,
with certain things marked for her to read.
It has other things In it which may interest
your readers."
Indeed It has. First of nil' wo notice how
strong and comparatively Unyellowed by tho
years Is tho slnglo sheet upon which tho four
six-column pages nro printed. They used good
rag paper In thoso days. Tho Saturday
Evening Post then, according to tho blurb
on tho front page, was "n family newspaper-
devoted to literature, morality, science, news,
agrlculturo and amusement." It was "pub
lished by Samuel Coato Atkinson, No. 112
Chestnut streot. between Third nnd Fourth
streets nnd directly opposlto to tho Postofllco
Counting-Room on Hudson's Alley."
Hero's part of a "colyutn" wo find In It:
Epitome of News
There were 86 deaths In Philadelphia
during the past Week, viz.: 19rndults nnd 37
children, of which 22 were under 1 year of
nge. ;
OM-fftaMonrd Comets The only healthy
corpot. says the editor of a Georgia pnper,
for a lady's waist, Is a husband's nrms.
The number of Militia of Delawnro Is
9229 nnd the sets of uniform 14D0. This
Is little over 6 men for each uniform.
An Irish gentleman was lately lined 180
for Innsiingo tending to provoko n Magis
trate to fight a duel.
Tho Washington Tclegrnph Informs us
that Oenernl Jnckson wns In good health on
the Cth Inst., and expected to leave home
by way of tho rivers on the 20th.
A correspondent of tho Baltimore Onzetto
lias visited tho apartments prepared for the
President-elect, nt Qadsby's Hotel, and re
ports Hie two drawing rooms, which may
lie thrown Into one flno saloon, front on
Pennsylvania avenue.
We are obliged reluctantly to trnilt a num
ber of advertisements and several Inter
esting articles of news which nro In type,
but crowded out for want of room.
A gentleman left tho city of lloston on
tho 6th ull., and by stage and Btennilioat
reached Natchez In 16 days!
LUAVIXQ UAGUELOimOOD
The sort of single hlcsscdncss
That I consider fun
Is what will come to mc and llcss
HVicit she and I arc one.
For tho loss of voice a simple and effec
tive remedy is to beat tho white of an egg
to a froth, ndd the Juice of half a lemon
nnd a tcaspoonful of augur. Tuko this once
or twico an hour.
MornlnK Contemporary.
"TVTIGHT bo grnpo Juice, eh?" queries Em
1VJL Jay Gee. Not unlikely, say we. That
comes pretty close to our notion of It.
DOGS
BREED GUINEA PIGS
From a classified ad.
Dear, dear! Animals seem to bo getting
more and moro intelligent and wonderful all
tho tlmo!
Sir Will you pleaxo publish the following
poem, and let mo havo your opinion of the
same, and oblige,
A CONSTANT READEIU
J. G. S.
SOME TIME
The day l hrlsht. sunny nnd clear.
For mo to set a can of beer.
It slvea me Joy and lota of cheer
To hoc myself with a can of beer.
The bartender smiles ns much as to say,
"I haven't seen you for mnny a day.
"Here. Johnny, have one on mo." he said:
"Thanks; It's a little too strong for me."
Well, would you blame mo for refusing?
I aucss you wouldn't If you knew.
To have some one offer me a bracer
When I an ore off a year ago.
Eterythlnr mitet. no nolie about.
Ily golllcal I'll have soma tun,
llalso the dtckeni and play tho drum.
Down! goes my llrst one.
I'll take a smoke and read the paper
To make me feel a little more at home.
I.uclty for me, the ulfe has gone:
I think I'll hao another one.
To mnka things a little more lively
I'll lmtte the chambermaid.
"Will jou have one on my health. Nancy!"
"fturel" And I'll tako another one.
Hark! Ther goea he doorbell!
Quickly must I get rid of this.
Poor fellow was too late,
I think ou can gueas the rest,
r. S. This ppem naa made up and typewritten In
ten mlnutei as a result of a sager. and your opinion
or the same will undoubtedly win the wager for me.
Thank yuu In advance, J, a. S.
Our guess Is that it your typewriting ma
chine had been a later model, you could have
done much better than 10 minutes.
Not Impressed
"Yes," the new Shade was boasting. "I was
one of the leaders of the great Beet Trust. I
tell you. we cornered cattle to suit ourselves."
"Yes?" replied the old Shade with a long
beard, moving away with a yawn.
"SaBtf" the new shade called after him, "you
don't seem to lie duly Impressed." ,
"No. 1 had a corner in live stock myself
once. My name's Noah."
COOIl OOLl'EKS
IJKKP THE EYKg
ALWAYS ON HALL
Een Jerry Travera Often Com
mits Thla Error Matter
of Overambltlon
Does our own dear paper, In printing the
above hend, wish us to believe that Jerry is
not a good player?
WE'RE afraid this Is not absolutely new,
but Just to please our English nephew,
who told It to us, here goes;
Q. Why do the Germans spell Culture with
a K?
Ajr-Uecause the British have control of
the Cs.
Sir I have a fine old mother who lives in
New York and who came yesterday to spend
a .while with us. Knowing we have but two
bathrooms, one of which the missus and I usa
and the other the kids, and we having said
nothing to her in the matter, when she woke
up and saw the bright light shining in the
window, aha listened, and hearing no sound,
hopped out of bed and tripped lightly to the
neartwt bathroom. She had her bath In comfort
and went baok to her room. Much to her sur
prise. It was absolutely dark. She turned -on a
light and looked at her watch. It was 2:30. The
moon had set. I1- '
Sir Here's another Instance of the antiquity
of our praent-day slang It's from Dickens'
"Bleak House," chapter 57 (written about I860): J
Jnspactor iJucKei. speaKiag to Esther Summer
son about the vacillating character, Harold
Skimpole, says: 'Whenever a person claims to
you, 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you con
sider tnat that person U only a-crylng off from
balng held accountable and that ypu have fcot
that person's number, and It's No- 1,"
Yeluaw.
On
"Yes." jtaid the red-ayed clerk, "I'm a little lata
thU BwrBUjK- The mldntgbt oil, you know."
"Ahfy?? broke In Vitplo.ver. VfJI. U18
next t!wi 7ot paint thai' town I'd advlta yw to
uu water color eet-rivmly. ""
il WHIP BEHIND ! WM
FROM STATE BOSS
TO U. S. SENATOR
Tom Tagjjart, Proprietor of So
called American Monte Carlo,
Takes the Toga His Ready
Smile a Help to Fortune
N
INE months ngo It seemed that Tom Tag-
Bart faced political annihilation. Now
comes word that ho has been' namod by tho
Governor of Indiana as successor of tho late
Bnnjnmln V. Shivcly In tho United States
, Senate. Tom Tnggnrt,
who stands for everything
In politics ngalnst which
a quickened American
political conscience Is
struggling Taggart,
master gangmhn, ono of
tho groatost nnlltlonl
wizards tho M 1 d d 1 o
West has ever produced
Tom Tnggnrt has been
promoted to tho United
States Senate, has been
Thomas tacioaut honored with tho Sena
torial toga. Behold tho "miracle man."
Last Juno tho former chairman of tho
Democratic party, who for a decado has made
Senators, Congressmen, Governors nnd vir
tually evory olllcor of Indiana, wus accused
by a Grand Jury of felony, and 47 other
election crimes. Ho was arrested and then
released under $10,000 ball. In October tho
case ngalnst Tnggart wns dismissed. Tho
action may bo tnken ns exonerating him from
personal participation In tho election' crimes
at Indianapolis, but not as lifting tho Tnggnrt
machine from dlsrcputo to an honoied plnco
In public estimation.
At Torre Hauto the United States Govern
ment placed under arrest 114 machine hench
men, and later sent moro than 100 convicted of
conspiracy to servo sentences at Fort Leaven
worth. Indianapolis saw tho samo political
gamo played In tho same way as in Torro
Haute. Slush funds and stuffed ballot boxes
wero tho order 'of the day. Machine politics
was exhibited at its worst. Yet out ot It nil
has como a United States Senatorshlp for the
Stato boas'.
Man With a Smile
Oh, well, it's possible to see something
romantic In tho career of this distinguished
Indiana politician. Our great American
romance Is the romance of success. It oven
makes a man somohow likable. Ah, hero we
have It. Ab ono enthusiastic biographer
has said:
"Tho power of personality never was better
Illustrated than in the enreer of Thomas Tag
gart, tho Indiana and national political lead
er. Irish by birth, Taggart must havo car
essed tho blarney stone from the earliest days
of his Infancy to the day of his .departure for
American shores. This Is not to say that he
Is an orator. Ho Is nothing of tho sort. On
tho contrary, ho Is no speech-maker at all.
But when it cornea to saying quickly, in pri
vate conversation, or In passing greeting, the
right thing in the right way at the right
moment, Tuggart is without a superior in
tho whole country. Not even his bitterest
enemy will find tho slightest fault with Tag
gart's ovor-brllllant, ovor-pleasant smile. That
was tho gift with which ho began life. That
was his talent and his capital. A cheery smile,
a firm, f riondly handclasp, a ready sympathy
these went with It, And tho combination ele
vated Thomas Taggart from a clerk's position
behind a depot lunch counter and a salary of
eight dollars a week to the highest position
-of political bosslsm in State and nation and
to tne miuiunaires biuiu id uiiu m tuiiuuu,
Thomas Taggart was born in Ireland In
1856. When a youth he came to this country
and settled In Xenla, O. Later he moved
to Richmond, and then to Garrett, Ind.
Indianapolis first saw him In 1877, The lad's
first position was that ot o, waiter at a rail
road lunch counter, History haa it that his
genial disposition, his wit, thrift and In
defatigable energy soon lifted him from the
ranks of the teryera Into those of the pro
prietors. The future boss of the Middle
West became owner of a third-rate establish
ment which he metamorphosed Into a first
class rebtaurant. Ha always had the ability
to make money and to keep It. Ills res
tauront enlarged Into a hotel, and before the
people of Indianapolis knew it this Irish Im
migrant was part owner and then proprietor
of "the Grand Hotel,
Even In the lunch-counter days Taggart
liad a leaning toward politics. He had a
peculiar facility for lining up and taking
care of "the boys." Like all true politicians,
he stuck to his friends. Thbi trait was ex
emplified last summer, following his arrest.
He Immediately tecured rus own release, out
refused to leave the, city until ha hod arranged
nearly 1200,000 hall for "tho boys," a he ex
pressed it He first ran for office as County
Auditor In the early SO. For yearn Marion
I County bad been Republican, Taggart. ;ths
mlUng Irlibmaq, carrleo-lt j,y Igao. jft nss
im became County ChajHB. and sh0w4 W
;ir
. - ,t
leadership In tho county, carrying it for
Cloveland, dcsplto tho fact that Indtannpolts
was Harrison's homo city.
In 1895 Tnggart nominated himself for
Mayor. Two years before, Denny, Repub
lican, hnd won by 2800. Taggart carried In
dianapolis by 3200. In 1890 tho city gave Mc
Kinlcy C00O majority, but In tho following
year Tnggart was again elected by a ma
jority of 4700. Ho was re-elected in 1899, but
refused to run a fourth tlmo. During theso
years tho Taggart organization was con
structed cog by cog throughout tho Stato.
From thoso days to tho present Senators,
Congressmen, Governors, county and State
officials have been made nnd unmado by this
man. Ha oven has been fulrly successful
with tho Vlco Presidency.
American Monte Carlo
Of course, tho politician was not overlook
ing any financial hots. Ho, together with
Cravford Fairbanks, money-bags of tho
Terro Hauto organization, built tho French
Lick Hotel, known ns tho "American Monte'
Carlo," nnd reputed to bo tho finest hotel In
the country. Recently ho Is said to havo
refused an offer of $3,000,000 for tho placo.
Franchises, banks, trust companies, land
deals and hotel speculations havo nottcd him
millions.
This man finally became State Chairman,
then Natlonnl Committeeman. In 1904 he
was elected chairman of tho National Demo
cratic Committee. It was hq who conducted
tho Parker fight. Tho entire party recog
nized his political sagacity. It may bo said
that In tho Bryan days, while Taggart nlways
supported him, ho was never an enthusiast.
It made llttlo difference who won tho national,
Stato or county tickets Taggart remained on
top In his State. Following tho defeat of
Judgo Parker, Taggart did not tako an active
part in national politics for many years. At
tho Baltimore convention he supported Champ
Clark until all hopo was abandoned then he
swung In line on tho 29th ballot and becamo
nn ardent Wilson rooter.
There's this to add: Tom Taggart, United
States Senator.
BOTANISTS IN THE U. S.
About 1000 persons In the United States are
now engaged in advance botanical work as a
profession. This Is the estimate of Dr. G. P.
Clinton, as given In hip address to the Amer
ican Association for the Advance ot Science,
and tho number Includes about 300 botanical
teachers and Investigators In agricultural col
leges and stations, about as many more in uni
versities and institutions not connected with
agricultural colleges, and the 400 Investigators
of the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washing
ton. Tho work of the agricultural experiment sta
tions began at New Haven, Conn., in 1877.
There are now 67 stations, covering a varied
field of activity, and each ot theso receives
$30,000 a year from tho National Government,
while some get much more from Stato aid,
tho total revenue In 1313 having been J1.6M.000.
The 400 specialists of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry, which was established In 1901, are now
working on 32 groups of investigations. These
Include such problems as fruit diseases, soil
bacteriology, soil fertility, drugs and poison
ous pkints, grain standardization, fibre plants,
seed testing, forage plants, Irrigation, seed
and plant introduction, economic and sys
tematic botany, horticulture and pomology,
sugar beets, etc. New York Tribune,
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW S
Force can never take the place of home,
church, example and precept It can merely
strangle liberty, and, liberty once dead, civiliza
tion is doomed. Houston Post.
Every Instance of cruelty to a horse should be
stopped by the police or by citizens, If for no
other reason, because the slghtt cruelty makes
a community cruel. New York Mall.
The Chamberlain bill follows expert lines, and
If It Is the best we can hops for from Congress
until Congress has heard direct from the country
It should be accepted with the determination to
Improve It later. The Hay bill Is a fraud. It
should not be tampered with. It should be de
feated. Chicago Tribune.
The unanimous passage by the Senate of a
resolution Indorsing the Presldent'svactlon, but
at the same time declaring that the United States
has no intention of encroaching upon Mexican
sovereignly or interfering with the domestic af
fairs of the Mexican people, should have a re
assuring effect and still further strengthen Gen
eral Carranza's Government In Its present policy.
Springfield Republican.
SPRING
Now fades the last long streak of snow
Now bourgeons every maze of quick
About the flowering squares, and thick
By ashen roots the violets blow.
Now rings the woodland loud and long.
The distance takes a lovelier hue,
, And drowned In yonder living blue
The lark becomes a sightless song.
Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,
The flocks are whiter down the vale,
And milkier every milky wll
On winding stream or distant saa;
Where now tne ecamew plpea. or dive
In yonder greening gleam, and fly
Th happy birds, that change thai kr
To b id and brood, that live their llvaa
From 'ind to land, and In my breast
--i wkna too: and my reTt
aer tea an April violet
An buO and blossoms Ilka hs rst.
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What Do You Know?
Queries of general interest will So anacttti
in this column. Ten questions, the axrieeri
to which every xocll-in formed' person ikotjM
fvmiw urc uavcu uauy.
QUIZ
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10.
Who In the American AmbaMadorloFrtaeif
In wlint part of l'lorlun la St. Peteribnrtt
Who wti the lust American to recelre a
Nobel prlzo?
Did Henjiimln Franklin found the FraaUla
Institute?
In what direction does the ranama Caul
runv
When la the next legal holiday In Fennil
vnnln?
Is it lejrnl for a man to operate a psnitnrtr
elevntor In Philadelphia without' a IletDii!
Is Senator Penrose a nntlve of renniln-
mar
How mnny Vice Presidents have btei
elected to the l'realuency?
Nnmo ii illHtlngulahril New York man of let
ters, living or dead?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
One'Iiour.
Itobert Ilrlclges.
April 18, 1006.
The Colossus of Rhodes and the llaailsf '
unruens or iinnyion,
Itonltl Amundaen.
lamea Hay, of Virginia,
The Dry Tortuiras are a small croup !
Islands west of Key West, Fla,
There have been 27 Presidents.
Portugese la the language of Ilraill.
John 1). Rockefeller, Jr., Is 43 years old.
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Enrl ATnrslml nf 'Rnflnnrl 1
Editor of "What Do Yon Know"M the fi
cent opening of the English Parliament thi1";
Isarl Marshal was mentioned. (1) who Is Hi
Earl Marshal and (2) what are his duties?
simopsiiina Oji
1. The Earl Mnrshal Is tho eighth in rank i
of the great crown ofllcers of Great Brltalit SlA
Tho oluce Is hereditary In the Howard faralir,
whoso head is tho Duke of Norfolk. 2. Th
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iiari .narsnai escorts tno King to ueuver m
Breeches from ' tho throne, is maBter of cere-
tnnnlau nt nnmnnilnnD nnil la stVin ifral With Ink Hi
J".v" ": """V""";s,""" - i
ucuuis ot royui weuuuiga.
Measuring Timber Tracts
Editor nt "What f)n Von Knoui" In-nttMUf-
l ...... ., .UL. -,n i.n . e.nA
lll 1UJKO 11UHB Ul UIIIUUI, UU UltJ IIICl. hbv... ,..
every treo ror measurement, or ao incy wu
approximate the girth and height?
THEEMAN, M
According to a practical expert, timber &
cruisers do not ascend'the trees, 'lneir an u
a matter of practical skill of vision. 'SMY V $
through an acre sizing up the trees larger than J
jo inches in Ulameier, noting tne apiironu-
timber contents of each tree and jotting down
estimates on a pad. From these data the amount
of timber on an entire tract Is estimated.
Statue of Sliakcsncarc
v.ittnr- nt "whnt nn Vm Knntn" I underitn"!
hrA la n ntntuA nf KhnVftflnenre over a DllbUO.'f
building in this city, but I never have been iMi J
to find It Avun.
Just cast your eye up at the bust which urj
mounts the old Chestnut street uncuuc v- ,
Chestnut street, above 12th.
Phllndelnhia's Flair
JJdlfor of "What Do You Know" Wl)l yW '
kindly give mo any available data concerninir u
city nag; ,. i
The city flags were provided for In an ordi
nance of Councils of March 27. 1895. The colori
for all are azure blue and golden yellow, m
civic flag or standard of the city la to be mo
of American-manufactured bunting or silk, to m
10 feet long by 8 feet wide and parted verticw
In equal pales, with the mid one yellqw. On W
middle pale Is emblazoned the city arraa, tmv
llshed by Councils In 1874, The city ensljn, or
merchant flag. Is of the'same partition! leniw
fly, 8 feeti depth of hoist, 4 feet! the i mMM
pale Is emblazoned with the crest of tne jwu
arms, surrounded by 13 five-pointed azure ur.
The city pennant la a triangular piece of WW ,
centre is a ume uiuhku"" " - : ,T. ' in.
2 feet wide, upon which Is emblazoned M
slgnlum of the ensign. The city streamer Ui.,
reet In wiatn ana id km '"" ., limlh.
Is next tho staff and Is one-fourth the ien-
It bears In tne centre tne ciiy nn.
UJITKIII1B1I VHiVltMlH -trill wftO
Editor of "What Do You Know" 1) W ."
klndlystate If it was Pop. iflrW
J.1110 uirniqi, tne jiuuuu """"":; , an .
formed the calendar? ( Was the Pope an a.
tronomer? (3) Did he write-a v--,ltl, i
omy? And. if he did, can you rive me '!" j
h) Pope Gregory. .XVII OI0M ' J-4-i
institution ot tne &ienur wmw. -J-7 -',,,. fc
Th calendar, which was "-formed in JW"J
the deduction of ten days which had a"r .
lated under the principles of the Julian ,
was revised by the i astronomer Ctajiw . g W
pope was proiesavr - - --' "-, 0.
ally of Bologna. (3) There is no ecord M i
astronomlcal treatise by Pope Gregory.
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.leaning ui vu- ftl
Bdlfor of "What Do You Know"- L g ,
word "Col." used in the otnciaj war "V"'"" I
Rome. Obviously, this oes n refer e pg$
and cannot be an abbreviation f "!, 1
Well, what does It mean? ,,.,X ltn)ki
Col. Is the topographical and military '""j
for hill or mountain.
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Editor of "Woi do """""""r'nTiw i
that there r two operas based on i tb sw
the Barber of Seville. If w O) what m "
UI b? are the composer fcJS,k-
onuw source i ,,,v'ti
,. -i ru?. . v1;rte m
and "L trtS &o Figaro."
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