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PHILADELPHIA. TUWDAY, AH1IL 11, 1916.
What the superior man seeks is in htmsclf;
tchat tho ordinary man seeks is in others.
Confucius.
If wo continuo to drlvo Villa southward,
first, thing wo know ho'U bo Invading our
territory again In tho Canal Zone.
"Buy, Ship, Soil via Philadelphia" may not
bo bo high sounding as "Mnneto Philadelphia,"
but It means business Just tho samo.
An imitation Burbnnk now announces an
Improved Georgia watermelon. But how Is
It posslblo to lmprovo a Georgia watermelon?
How can wo expect to capturo Villa while
such eminent "getters" ns Roosevelt, Bryan
and 'William A. Sunday aro In tho Hat of
slackers?
"Wouldn't tho Republicans in Congress bo a
llttlo moro than human If they forboro to poke
fun at tho Democrats for taking sugar oft tho
free list?
A thirty-day truce has bcon signed In
China. At tho end of that tlmo tho govern
mental "now you sco it, now you don't" will
begin all over again.
Tho Russian Government's reported order
for 10,000,000 brass rings makes us wonder
whother they think this uffalr they havo on
their hands Is a war or a morry-go-round.
Doctor "Walto has discovered that thoro Is
a difference between confessing guilt to tho
newspapers of Now York and pleading guilty
in tho courts of tho same State. He decided
not to.
It will bo quito a disappointment to those
who expect tho war to end by exhaustion of
men to learn that only 681,437 Germans havo
been killed, according to British -sources of
information.
ler Governor Stuart comes back from
giles without a Roosevcltlan dis
covery of new and strango birds. Ho may
find Pennsylvania a moro fertile field for re
search In this line Just now.
Baron Astor of I lever has been assessed
$280,000 in addition to the $1,450,000 ho has
already paid the British Government. It will
bo recalled that Baron Astor of Hever left this
country and became an Englishman of hla
own free will.
"Not tho least terrifying page for the Eng
lish to read in "Hlndenburg's March into Lon
don," tho latest German book of prophetlo
fiction, Is that which says the Invaders will
treat the conquered Islanders with true Ger
man benevolence.
That non-magnetic ship on which some Car
negie Investigators have circumnavigated the
globe will not be In demand by candidates
for the presidency this year. They want
something which will bo drawn Irresistibly by
the magnet in Washington.
There Is more Joy among English inventors
oyer tho capture of that new Fokker plane,
Germany's latest contribution to aerial eel
ence, than over tho loss of a hundred ma
.chines with their pilots. Men and machines
are cheap compared with ideas.
My! TVon't old Robert W. Chambers be
mad when he hears about Meredith Nichol
son's appointment as Assistant Secretary of
"War? As a writer of best sellers air, Cham
bers Is vastly superior to Mr. Nicholson. ' He
has not, however, progressed with the years,
for his early work alone entitles him to con
sideration as a serious writer or thinker. Mr,
Nicholson, after years of money-makers, at
lost attempted a novel of dally life In the
Middle "West, and wrote entertainingly on
socla) an literary problems. As for tho
"Wap Oftlee, that is entirely another matter,
Mr. Chambers has written the better stories
of lave and arms and the man.
The decision pf the Storthing to amend the
law so that women will have the right to sit
la the Norwegian Council of State, or Cab
inet, a another step forward In tho hard
earned advance of the suffragists. No new
group. Is thus added to tho ranks of women
kwho fifive the vote, but every victory of this
hind, no matter whore It Is gained, will havo
its effect In this and every other country in
L- ."which equal suffrage rights are not granted to
Bn women. Suffrage is Jn the realm, of Inter-
jjcuioijiji potmes it js never merely a local
istnie, la this campaign an argument that
holds good Jn Norway, or China, or TJmbuc
oo, cfm be used with equal effect in Massa
chusetts, Iowa or Pennsylvania,
Tha battle about Verdun began tthl3 week
with what appears. In the ordinary strategy
of vmr, a. serious setback for the French. The
evacuation pf a salient which bent the enemy's
line and which they had beet holding at;
tremendous cost was certainly unpalatable to.
ihfl Srpnc! pommand, and the efforts to ex
plain t by French critics are, not entirely satls
.fitetery, A bitter retort cama Jn the swiftly f ol
Jowtaf news of a recoup and of another stum
f)UttS bios put In the way of the advancing
CJcrnwns. The Eethlncourt salient on, the
W at the Meuse was a sharp angle on both
n-l3, rf which the Hermans 'un4 heavily.
i'Tfer ihty tfouid crush in the sides or sur.
re- wtf b ofn tack of tM Pf ! tb FrHsh.
, .t4w. Imme Hman artiyej-? po t,
IffCS. Mi fcjf lUiifri vh to attade, Star t&u
German wers repulsed. But It Is not to be
supposed that cither tho withdrawn! from
Bethlncourt or the repulse of tha Invaders
which followed can havo nny vital effect on
the entire battle. Both wero nibbles, and the
French system of defense has been since
February 21 to allow such nibbles a tem
porary satisfaction. Each Gorman advance Is
discounted by tho murderous artillery which
still command? overy position leading to tho
city of Verdun. When those positions havo
fallen tho German oblectlve will bo gained,
and not till then. Whother they will fall
before another action elsewhere on tho front
Is propared Is tho question which tho German
high command must determine.
UNDEMOCRATIC EDUCATION
Tho sehoothnuse Is betnjr swept clean.
Some rnbbMi Is itolnir out. Home preelons
stun Is lielnu destroyed. In the change the
polltlrnl nnrposo of American education Is
belna- forotlen. A system of etlncntton ,1s
forethadovreil In these reforms which will
create a class distinction between mechanics
nnd cultured persons. It Is ttnilemocrntlo
nnd un-Ameilcan and nnnecessnry,
THE common, domestic broom is an lnstru
m'ont for tho sweeping together nnd, with
tho help of a dustpan, for tho disposal of
rubbish. No housewife, howovor pleased sho
may bo with a now broom, fancies that It Is
Just tho thing for smashing pictures, tearing
down drnperlos, or gouging tho oyos out of
tho Apollo Bolvedero In tho front parlor. Not
In tho wildest flights of her fancy does she
imagino that sho will go riding on tho broom
over tho housetops.
Tho excluslvo reforming broom Is a horso
of another color. On It serious thinkers can
rldo to Armageddon and remako tho world.
Tho latest Is tho schoolhouso vacuum cleaner,
highly sclontlllc, guaranteed. 11 comes under
tho patronngo of tho Rockefeller Foundation
and tho Inventor Is Dr. Abraham Flexnor. A
llttlo resentment has beon manifested on ac
count of tho very superiority of tho mechan
ism. But with tho abundant enthusiasm of
good Americans tho Flexnor plan has been
halted ns tho salvation of tho educational
problem.
It ought to bo fairly nppatcnt, aftor nearly
a century of experiment, that the Informing
reason for tho American system of education
Is not that tt makes scholars, nor proficient
technical experts, nor business men, but
simply good citizens. Tho public school is
In actual fact tho basis of our political sys
tem because that system presupposes the in
telligence of every citizen. It is also tho
fundamental of our social system, becauso it
offers a democratic springboard, from which
overy man may start, to finish his course In
necordanco with his abilities and desires.
Wo pay a heavy price for that equality of
opportunity, for tho universal basis of our
existence. It Is true that boys who will grow
up to deal in bricks aro taught a great deal
about tho beauty of Parian marble. It is'
true that you can span tho Delaware with
a suspension bridge even if you do not know
that Washington! ever crossed that stream.
But It is equally true that the man who has
looked on u picturo of the Parthenon will
build a bettor house, though It bo of brick.
And It is more Important that tho man who
builds tho brltlgo will vote moro honestly
and more Intelligently If ho knows why Wash
ington once Rtood, with hopo and resolution in
his heart, where his brldgo now stands.
Tho loss of cultural studies, of the habits
and traditions of civilization, would bo deso
lating to American life, but It would not ap
proximate tho loss to American democracy.
No resourceful person, giftod with a senso
of history, honestly can hopo to cling to our
present elementary nnd secondary systems of
education, in nil' their details, forever. No
ono questions the value of criticism and the
benefits of change. But it Is seriously a
question for tho American people to deter
mine whether they havo not been led natray,
Into methods and programs foreign to their
very life. Has not something crept in which
will corrupt the entire spirit of a democratic
country?
Let no man bo docelved. If the modern
school Is to put Its chief emphasis on science;
If actual contacts and practical tests are to
be tho burden of our education, there will
inevitably grow up a class which will be dis
tinct in its habits of mind, superior in Its
ability to think, becauso It will cherish and
preserve wh.it others discard. Behind every
plan for "bringing tho school Into closer con
tact with life" by which wo mean "moro
Immedlato relutlons with commorco and In
dustry and business" thero lurks tho danger
of class distinctions. You cannot hold tho
boy's face to the grindstone of mean fact and
expect tho man to walk, head erect, In the
presence of great Ideas. You cannot train
a man to be a mechanic, giving him no ink
ling of other things beyond, giving him no
training in the processes of thought, and ex
pect him to sit In counsel with the mastering
Intelligence of men accustomed to the use of
the mind.
It might be thought that there Is a con
spiracy afoot to separate In tha United
States the workers and the masters. If there
is, It is not the fault of our pseudo-aristocrats.
It is the fault of our practical men, who are
so bent on immediate results, on the cash In
hand, that they are. forcing another, and a
superior, education on those who see greater
things see tho future of America as a great
International power, see education as a prepa
ration not for business, but for life. The old
system of education gives every citizen at
least a chance to Join this class of supermen.
The new forbids It. It may sound like a vague
abstraction, but the situation Is the most seri
ous problem In the social existence of the
United States.
RUBBING IT IN
THE events of the past weeks have mado
a certain poncjuston inescapable. It Is that
Germany's U-boat campaign is what It 13 In
contempt and defiance pf the United States.
The propf pf that has been somewhat dla
torted. by conflicting accounts, but essentially
it remains sound. When Germany temporarily
gave up her submarine activity in deference
to the views of this country, critics of tha Ad
ministration gave t out hat Germany, ha4
yielded only because England had destroyed
all the German submarines. Now we know
that England did nothing of the sort and is
incapable of protecting her commerce from
whatever U-boats Germany has built or may
build.
The resumption of torpedoing vessels with
out warning now is a direct answer to the
United States, Germany found that she could
not do without that weapon, not even for us.
Her pledges are waste paper and her denials,
as in the Sussex case, sound strangely un
convincing from her lips. Day by day tha
danger to this country and to every neutral
country increases. It to clear now that tha
German menace to the rights of noncorabat,
iBta pn tha seas pannot pa met; by reason pp
justice. It is for the Government of tins
gouatry to aaviaacoteggya,
Tom Daly's Column
ALCOHAUIj.
Wlno la n mocker and that's all
And wlno Is mado of alcohaul
So Alcohaul Is Just a sin
Unless to wash tho baby In
Or in tho perkolater use
To mako tho coffeo that It brows
And whiskey, too, Is made of it
And so no whlskoy can bo fit
To drink and put Inside of you
If to yourself you would bo truo
For alcohaul will make you wild
And foolish with your soul defiled.
And what la moro It makes your breath
Ltko something that Is stalo In death!
THM New York Sun, snys It. If. If., editorially
laments movlng-plcturo English and gives theso
horrible examples:
"Neither mother nor I wcro frco to net as we
doBlred."
"I didn't expect to find her hero. 1 only camo
to sco you."
"Thero Is no man In alt the world as good
ns you."
All of which makes us wonder what the Sun
would say had It seen a supposedly very fine
movie, In which a (or nn) European prince travel
ing In this country receives this, telegram:
"Tho King Is seriously 111. Return at onoo.
"Sec to King."
Tim VXDYIXO PAST
I've kissed a hundred girls since von,
Ohloc,
I've sicorn to many I'd bo true,
Ohloc;
Hut the kiss that 1 remember
Was our oivn make, lalt December,
And your Utile nose was blue,
Ohloct
Your kiss vHU haunt me when I'm old,
Ghloc,
Altho' your hair's no longer gold,
Chloe;
For I never shall forget
(Nat, I dream I feci it yet),
Ooshl your Uttte nose was cold,
Ohloat
WILI, LOU.
LOST A lnther nnllet. with Arthur Gray
burnt on tho back. Kindly return, etc.
Classified Ad.
Sir: I'm suro you'll sympathize .with Mr.
Gray. It's bad enough to get lost, but to
bo burnt on the back Is sort of henptng conln
of fire; still If Mr. Gray means that ho and
tho wallot got lost together, thero's samo
compensation In that. McManus.
The Anagram Contest
O, I All SUCURB AND THE FITTEST
Of all tho nations that are;
They pllo up their armaments higher
And drown In the carnage of war;
Rut nature intrenched me In oceans
And Bet mo from rivals afar;
My hosts nre tho hearts of my people
And they shall defend mo from scar;
My arms nre my master mechanics.
Who will keep mo as fair as a star.
O, I AM SECURE AND THE FITTEST
Of all of the nations that nre.
D. P. F.
ANSWERS TO SATURDAY'S
Deep In It. I see; call on T. n. Presidential Elec
tion. In It near ten years, pet Eastern Penitentiary.
To iiulet run Tourniquet.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S
Con T. D., llomus' ally Tom Daly's Column.
George Bernard Shaw Says
THERE has come Info my hands from a quarter
It was not meant to reach a certain address "To
the Men and Women of the Irish Race In Amer
ica." which Is so typical of tho stuff which gives
Its title to this article ("Irish Nonsense About
Ireland",) that I feel moved, In tho Interests of
my unfortunate countrymen In Ireland, to offer
America a pleco of my mind concerning It. As
an Irishman I have been familiar with Irish
patriotic rhetoric all my life. Personally I have
had no ute for It, because I always wanted to
get things done and not to let myself go for
the satisfaction of my temper and tho encour
agement of my already excessive national self
conceit. I hae seen It going out of fashion with
the greatest relief.
When something like an Irish national theatre
waB established in Abbey street, Dublin, and a
genuine Irish drama began to germinate, I
enjoyed the new Irish plays because the heroes
always brought down the house by declaring
that they were sick of Ireland, by expressing an
almost savage boredom at the expense of the
old patriots who were usually the fools of the
piece when they were not the villains, and, gen
erally, by damning the romantlo Old Ireland
up hill and down dale In the most exhilarating
fashion. In New York Times.
IT VEYER COULD HAPPEN.
"As pretty as her picture," she
By ail her friends is known;
And yet, of course, she couldn't be
As pretty as her oxon.
Overheard at a Fire O'clock Tea
"TVE received 85 per cent, of them already."
X "Well, what about the other 85 per
cent.?"
"He was speaking In some foreign tongue
that I couldn't understand at all. Oh, I caught
a word here and there, such a 'Deo vojente'
of course, I know that was French!"
"I'l meet you In a quarter of an hour."
"Let's see, that's only 15 minutes, Isn't t?"'
Hugh Merr,
THE Racquet Club, beyond peradventure,
has the most varlecj assprfment pf athletes,
active and mosgpack, to be found under ons
roof in this or any other city. They have
heavy-weights, middle-weights, welter-weights
and so on down N tlneat, an4 they havo
one who is in a class all by himself. His real
monicker doesn'f matter; ha Is known, atl
jetlcally as "The Battling BJrdseBd."
COY THING,
"And hast thou ever loved leforef
He asked; "I pray thee, speak!"
She pushed. Her sweet eyes sought the floor;
fjfte answered.; "3ot this week."
A Grouch.
Beauti(ul Snoyr
She snowdrop pf Spring
Fail today frppt the skies.
Kind is April to bring
The snowdrops of Bpring,
An4 from heaven t the thing
Is the biggest surprise.
The snowdrops of Spring
Fall todayNrqm the skies,
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ON INDEPENDENCE
The Little Kingdom, Unlike Belgium,
Is Prepared, if Need Be, to Fight
Off Both Sides in the Great
War at the Samo Time
THE rising of Dutch wrath against Ger
many over tho sinking of several vessels
has divided opinion Into two oxtromo views
on tho question, "Will Holland enter tho
war?" Ono sldo argues that tho Dutch havo
sufforcd nearly as much as tho Belgians, havo
as much to fear from Fnn-Gcrmanlc aspira
tions, and will naturally taku their placo
among tho Allies. Tho other represents Hol
land as greedily nursing its German market,
so immensely lucrative now nnd under tho
economic alliance with Germnny In tho past,
and so promising in tho future whether Ger
many wins or loses. In a word, the Dutch
are represented either ns heroes or as misers.
Tho mistake in both cases Is natural, No
nation lias developed in such an even balance
Insistence upon libeity of tho dle-In-tho-last-dltch
typo nnd tho canny clutch on riches. It
is truo that the Dutch havo often seemed
to need tho stimulus of fear of financial
loss to mnko them fight, but this docs not ex
plain their unconquerablo tenacity In war.
The man who Is all merchant does not fight
to tha last ditch. He makes terms.
Tho lovo of wealth has given Holland
fatty degeneration of tho soul In moro than
ono period, but tho best proof of lndcllblo
Dutch manhood Is that the llttlo patch of
country at the mouth of tho Rhine, composed
of mud and silt brought down by the rivers
from tho highlands of Gormany through tho
centuries, has never yielded Its nationality In
tho 200 years of Prussian expansion.
Champions of Liberty
Tho Dutch aro classed as a Germanic peo
ple in the samo sense as tho English are.
Racially they are probably closer to tho Eng
lish than to tho Germans, If any one still
cares to speculato about racial affinities after
tho dismal explosion of tho Pnn-Gernianlsts'
theory of where "Teuton England's" sympa
thies would He. But from Krlesland, tho
northern province of the Netherlands, comes
our English speech. In Frleslajid today they
bay "como here," "go on," "back," "on board."
They construct sentences as the English
speaking peoples do. They pronounce "bread,"
"butter," "water" and "cheese," fundamentals
on which a man can go a long way without
feeling faint, pretty much as wo do.
Rut the greatest bond between the English
speaking peoples and tho Dutch Is the free
Institutions which both have been ready to
hold to tho last drop of blood. The great war
of the pygmy against tho giant, In which the
pygmy won the war against Spain at the
height of Spanish power was not a religious
war, though the Spanish Inquisition played so
Important a part in it. It was a war for
local self-government, against "taxation with
out representation." Following that the Dutch
for 215 years maintained n republic to the
loathing of all the autocratic monarehs of
Europe. One "William of Orange stopped the
Spanish monarchy's menace to Europe In the
sixteenth century. Another William of Orango
broke the Stuart autocracy In England a
century later nnd was at tho barao time King
of England and President of the Dutch Re
public. Ha formed an alliance which under
mined and led to the, defeat of the ambitions
of Louis XIV of France, the Kaiser of his day.
In no other individual could tho spirit of
Dutch national character be studied to better
advantage than In the Ufa of AVilllam III,
Dutch King of England. For he not only
carried personal heroism to the point of lead
ing his, troops (he was wounded more than
once), but he also freed the activities of tha
commercial classes of England, which there
after were to govern that country,
Effects of Too Much Success
In fact, in the JSth century the spreading
trade of England robbed! the Dutch of the
commercial supremacy they had gained, At
tha same time the dulling effects of wealth
had their effect on the governing classes,
Luxury, extravagance and loose morals pre
vailed, Ft, pidgy faces appeared on the
canvases pf portrait painters instead of the
strong, serious faces of the earlier heroic
time, The office of stadtholder, or "president,"
became hereditary In tha House of Orange
and thus paved tha way fpr monarchy, But
all this did pot taint the sprt of the people at
large. Tha Pqtclj were the first to salute the
American flag In 1776, and materially aided
the American Revolution with Joans aggre
gating 14,OQO,QO0. Four of our original 1?
States wero Prat settled by Dutchmen, and tha
principles fpr which "Washington fought stirred
the sympathy of Holland.
Today the Dutch are a fundamentally demo
cratic people. They govern themselves. The
great point about the so-called "self-control of
the Dutch Government' In not getting into
the war has been that tbere nQ government
could pptke up the people's minds tee them.
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had ns much to fear from England us fiom
Germany, seeing that tho rlvnlry between Ger
many and England was economic. This fear
was demonstrated to havo been well founded
when, In 1910, the Dutch consldeicd fortifying
tho mouth of the Scheldt. This could only bo
considered as a defenso against England, nnd
tho proposal aroused a storm of wrath In
England and Belgium. Tho Dutch had pros
pered through their economic alliance with
Germany, said tho English, and now they
wore oboying Gorman orders to mako tho
tlver mouth Impregnable. English newspapers
wont so far as to threaten tho Dutch East
Indies, tho richest colony In tho world. Long
boforo that tho alliance botween England and
.Inpan had beon a sourco of uneasiness to
Holland, for tho Japanese look with envious
oyes upon Java nnd Borneo.
"Within tho last fortnight Yusabuio Take
koshl, former Minister of Education of Japan,
has published an nrticle seriously discussing
tho advisability of Jopancso occupation of tho
Dutch East Indies.
"Wo Japanese," ho says, "must devote our
attention to tho islands of tho Pacific. Our
licet has. In consequenco of tho war with Ger
many, taken possession of Island groups like
tho Caroline and Marshall Islands. But theso
are mere rocks. Wo cannot be proud of our
possessions In tho Pacific until wo havo Java
and Sumatra."
Such presumption tho Dutch consider tho
xllrcct result of the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
Prepared Against Both Sides
So the Nothertunders have dono what Bel
glum did not do prepared defenses against
both English and Germans. The chief system
of defense, tho Inundation of part of tho coun
try, Is not so much a defense against Germany
as It Is a plan to make fighting of any kind
Imposslblo In that part of the lowlands. Hol
land refused to bo a cockpit. And history
proved her fears Justified. The suggestions Df
a posslblo Allied raid at tho heart of Germany
through a sympathetic Netherlands came from
English sources.
So we have the remarkable spectacle of a
llttlo nation with 500,000 men under nrms
ready to fight off both sides at once. Splen
didly as Belgium has acted, what would not
have been tho effect on the history of tho
great war If the Belgian guns had been turned
simultaneously against Germany and France?
Could tho other neutral countries havo resisted
bucIi nn appealing situation and withheld
their armed support of sucbslncero neutrals?
FOR PEACE OR WAR
It has long been evident, though the fact
has not yet made Its due impression, that In
dustrialism Is the modern training school for
war or peace. It is there that men are actually
thinking of one another lm terms of war or
peace. It Is there that they learn to organize
for or ngalnst one another. The lockout and
the Btrlka are distinctly warlike measures. Arbi
tration Is a term of war, the most advanced
term looking toward peace, but still presupposing
a state of warfare. Co-operation, In some one of
Its manifold forms, Is the only distinctive term
of peaco. It Is such, not simply because jt Im
plies sympathetic action, but because It educates
all concerned In "those sobrieties on which
democracy must at last rest." Ah we recall how
many persons are In the training school of In
dustrialism, how early they enter It and how
long they remain in It, and how various and
how Influential are the experiences through
which they pass, we can see how far back the
peace movement must reach in its educative
work. What can we hope to accomplish In the
training of our diplomats for carrying out tha
policy of universal peace, if we cannot train our
captains of industry, in the ranks both of cap
ital and of labor, to think and to act in the
terms of peace? William J. Tucker, In the
Atlantic.
. ANOTHER WAR MYSTERY
We observe that the Germans are using liquid
fire against the French. What we want to know
Is, how do the North Carolina moonshiners man
age to 'get the stuff to the Germans through
that blockade? Houston Post,
A JOKE ON MARK
St- Louis, burglars stole a statue of Mark
Twain. How Mark would have enjoyed that!
Detroit Free Press,
NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
Mr, Taft has certainly done more than his
share, even as an ex-Presdept, in educating
Americans Ih the duty of preparedpesa. New
York Sun. i
The man who "makes the selling of hats an
exercise In transcendental philosophy" may be
an anwlng person, but lie Is groping in the
rght direction. Taxorga Tribune.
The Congress of the UniUd States, at work
upon a program oi legislation for preparedness,
may read into the dispatches front The Hague
a meaning for America as plain as day. The
Netherlands s rertYt byt the United States Is
not. Cleveland Paln Dealer,.
It s fortunate on many accounts that fn th
press pf other matters the Japanese war scare
has been forgotten. If the war In Europe is tg
be credited wtb no ofher service, It has at least
distracted American attention from a lot pf
Imaginary troubles n tho. Qrlent,i-Dea Mens
Register.
Mr. Hughes Is in a position In which ha can
not directly let the people know what he thinks
on tb subjects cpncernlng which a candidate's
thoughts ought to be known to the peopI. But
if his name is to jro before the Republican cgn,.
vsatwn H ought to go pmctdsd by jn announce
rowt, wfdOndirecily If m4 be, but with au
thority, el what fcf Wmm S youM, do,s
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What Do You Know?
Queries of general interest will be answered
in this column. Ten questions, tho answers
to which every well-Informed person should
know, aro asked dally.
QUIZ
Who Is Wnrren O. Hnrcllnc?
I.
2. In whnt Kcnrrul direction from Paris Is
Verdun?
3. Whnt three nations took pnrt in the parti
tion of Poland?
A. Ilns America n "nntlnnnt flower"?
IT, llnw many children illd Napoleon I hnve by
his two wives?
0. Whnt Is the negro population of thn United
State-.? Whnt proportion of this Is In the
South?
7. Whnt nre "Mucwamps" nnil whnt Is the
origin of tho word?
8. Whnt net of (he popalarp storied the French
Itotoliitlnn unil whnt ilnj- Is celebrated In
rrnnce to roniiiirmoriite It?
D. At nlinut whnt rnte lrn snuml travel?
10. To whnt nation iIoch the Island of Gunm be
long? Answers to Yesterday's Questions
1. Dm Id Gnrrlrk, nn KmrIIkIi nrtor.. who was
horn In 1717 mill died In 1770.
2. The ronsnllilntlon of the towns In thn county
with the city took placo In 181! 1.
3. The I'eiilaiii fonnril nn asHoclatlou In New
York In 18fi7 ulth the purpose oif over-
thronlnc Kngllsli clomlnntlon In Ireland.
I. Jeriisulem.
r,. King Alexander nnil Queen Draca of Serliln.
0. Kmplre State, Jersey lllne .State, Illue Hen
State.
7. It
Is n rlter In Colombia, which hits been
considered ns pnrt of u proposed cannl
to connect the Atlantlo nnil 1'ncMe
Oceans.
"I'yrrhlo victory" Is a too costly victory,
8. A
the allusion lielug to tlue ilctory of
I'jrrlum oer the liomnns. In which ills
losses were greutcr thuti hs enemy's.
0. Constantinople.
10, No. Wilson received R,'-'03,O19 witesj Tnft,
3,481,050; ltoosevelt, i,110,307. The
majority of all others combined over
Wilson una 2,l30,!i0i.
Medical Celebrities
Editor of "What Do You Know" Can you
mention five doctors who were medical celebrities
In the world from olden times until the present
century who aia widely known and are the best
appreciated In medical science? Tell also their
nationality. I know only these: BaccclII, Itnllan;
Olsen, Swede; Jacoby, American; Barrere,
French; Hippocrates, Greek. What was the great
est' work of some of tho moderns? P. A. S.
HcrophiluB. Greek; Rhazes, Arabian; Leon!
cenus, Italian; Fuchs, German; Harvey, English;
Hoeiliaave, Dutch. The 10th century was one.
of epoch-making discoveries. Laennec Invented
the btethoscope, and thereby Instituted a com
plete revolution In the methods of physical diag
nosis; Vlrchow founded modern cellular pathol
ogy; Pasteur, by his studies In fermentation and
putrefaction, prepared the way for the germ
theory of disease; Lister gave to surgery the
antiseptic treatment of wounds.
Owen Meredith
Editor of "What Do You Know" "Will you
kindly tell me tli'e name of the poet who wrote
the following lines:
"There Is a pleasure born of every pain,
The grave of all things hath Its violet."
ANON.
The line is, "There is a pleasure that la born ot
pain." It is from Owen Meredith's "The Wan
derer," Book I, Prologue.
Where Cents Are Coined
Editor of "What Po You Know" I noticed re
cently in your column the fctatement that the
Philadelphia Mint is the only ope coining cents
and "nickels," Although the case for many years, x
since 1909 the Denver and San Francisco Mints,
at least, have also coined them. I inclose a
rubbing of a cent from the Denver Mint, showing
the letter D the Denver Mint mark Just below
the date. When the mint mark occurs on the
"Buffalo nickel" It is Just beneath the words
"Five Cents." COLLECTOR.
Cost of Stock Exchange Seats
Editor of "What Da You Know" Will you
kindly Inform me as to the cost of membership
in the Stock Exchanges of Baltimore and Cin
cinnati, the New Orleans Cotton Exchange and
the Philadelphia Stock Exchange? What Is thej
record high price for a seat on tho New York
Stock Exchange? A. E T,
The cost of membership In the Baltimore Ex
change Is about ?360Q; Cincinnati, 12300; In the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, 12000, and In tha
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, $3900. The high
est price paid for a New York Exchange seat
was J95.00Q, in 1905 and 1906,
JJght-ankled Youth
Editor of "What Do You A-nou't Will you
please let me know who wrote the line,
"Where art thou gone, llghtanke4 Youth V
Is it In a poem too lopg for you to publish?
M. M.
It Is the first Una of "Where Youth Goes," ,by
Walter Savaso Landor, Here Is the poem:
Where art thou gone, llght-ankled Youth?
WJth wings on either shoulder,
And smile that pever left thy mouth
Until the hours grew colder,
Then some one seems to whisper near
That thou and I must part;
I doubted It, I felt nu fear,
No weight uppn the heart.
If aught befell t, Love was by
And rolled H P again;
So If thsra ever was a flgh.
'Twas not a sigh ot ralo,
I may not call thea back, but thou
Returneth when fhu hand
Of gentle Sleep waves o'er my brow
His bappy-eresUd wand
Then smiling eyes bsnd ever mini,
rriien Una once pressed Invite;
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