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PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY. APRIL 23. au.
if - - - ,. ,, , , , ,
ZTotc happv.lt ho born or taught,
That serveth not another wilt;
"Wh'osd armor If 7il honest thought,
And simple truth, his utmost skltll
8tr Ilcnrv Wotton.
Bcnshoro problem for tomorrow:
JWrclf?
Parndo or
What If tho Russians did capturo 60,000
Turks, moro or less 7 Now If they had been
Tark-eysl
A magazine crltlo says that tho navy Is
not -lacking In spirit Then tho grapo-Julco
policy "Is a failure.
Von J3crnstorff seems to be anxious to got
therVon Igel papers. He has asked for them
eight times', and has not received them yet.
"Wo1 pave no "desire to break with tho
United States. That," said tho chief of tho
German Admiralty Staff, "would bo Insanity."
Well?
TJho New 'Jf'ork Sun Is still engaged In tho
laudable but futile effort to remove tho popu
lar, impression that witches wero burned In
Salem'. x
Our much criticised National Guardsmen
may turn out to be our "thin red lino of heroes
whon the band begins to play." They'ro on
tttelr toes.
F,or the moment the weather prospects for
tomorrow displace all other Important sub
jects in the thinking of about one-half of tho
population.
It Is nearly a year since tho Lusltanla was
sunk,, and' the' Jfava'l Affairs Committee of tho
House has got its shipbuilding bill In shapo
to be printed!
'International affairs had to wait while tho
JPresidont came to Philadelphia to seo his
Jtewest granddaughter beforo she got out of
reach In the wJIds of New England.
.. .- '
it Washington statesmen arfcfooUib'jqnqugh
to discuss Government secrets rover 'the tele
phone, they should not bo surprised to learn
that' some one has been llsYenfrig. 'J
If a man goes on the bond of the- contractor
Who is building his house, who wlllLrolmburse
htm when the contractor defaults? Perhaps
thV&oyor can answer this pertinent question?
' ,
tfhe die is. cast Brumbaugh and Penrose
will fight It out for tho election of their rival
Beta of presidential delegates. The fight will
Involve many issues every Issue, In fact
except tho Presidency.
The man who held up and "robbed a con
tractor of a gold watch and JC0 must bo1
out of his senses. Ho doesn't know the rules
of the game. Being a contractor Is, so much
simpler.
There Is more than one meaning In Demo
cratic Committeeman Norman n. Slack's In
teresting remark. "I think that either Hughes
or Hoosevelt will be satisfactory to the Demo
crats.' As an opponent? Or for a change?
A Philadelphia millionaire has. paid JfOO.000
for an antique tapestry. Many a aoq pf ra
New Tork millionaire has spent more than
that In the futile occupation of working
erimson embroideries on the curtains of the
night
Wen growl at, tho sight of their wives'
muTlnery And dressmaking bills. But men
grabbed all the front seats at the Phlladel-phla-marTe
fashion show on the MWJon Dollar
Pier to sea whether ,they got their money'B
worth?
t, does not matter whether the Russian
tpeops in France started from Vladlvostock or
Archangel. The Important fact for K.o Ger.
mm ta note is tht they have landed at Mar.
ftUIea ia large numbers, and that more are
to.fcllow,
Ba'okcrs are unanimous in asserting that
this, country would have .money enough and
to spare in the event of war. ,It"was an old
upersUtlon that a silver bullet was an
irrsBtstLblo offensive against all the powers,
evbrt thpso. of darkness. Do the hankers
JjHW. pt. we shall have p.wty "of silver for
akcJ? experiments la lieu of the customary
a!?.
' rjtqfaq'to doubtless right when ho saya that
rny'orild be persuaded to arbitrate the
srtne question proyided tbt arbitration
afcpukt ta- postponed till the end of the war,.
NftajUff would please tJjB Kaiser's Ministers
fcetftr. Anything that wpuifl parmtt them to
cmtino their warfare upon merchant sblp-ping-would
be agreeable tq them. Put that ts
Qt what w kre seeking. Atr, Bryan's efforts
tBersuade .Congress that it atone has the
rgbt to declare, war may produce a different
h41 from that which he intends. It was
Congrats andpot the president which was
xioua to make war upon Spain, and It had
to jW held "baqk for three months until ammu
afi and gunu vovld be bought The Com
a)?, who., is the most noted! f utilitarian of
bU M. ha apparently .feegun another of his
kUie,
TMisre tt faiiKthfag $MidiaHy atrcetoua in
m death elf tar f te fry? n sver-
jjeki f KatMn, takas mt " jan.Mrfne bat as
In many ways, but the drug-flond is mora
than naturally cunning In evading laws. In
some of his methods ho employs tho repute
and the authority of physicians, and it Is
hot surprising to learn that In following a
clue tho special ngonts of tho Government
discovered an enormous number cf. prescrip
tion blanks Issued by licensed physicians In
this city. Every authority, of the Foderat,
State and city government, should spend Its
last energies In the destruction of a trade
so obnoxious to human feelings; It Is pitiable
that not even their supreme efforts can
cradlcato tho original evil, which Is tho
habit itself.
PROPER USE OF WEALTH
Amertcnns, rich hrronil the traditions ot
n m.vtlile Croesus, nre illnnoslnr ot the Tast
wealth In a noble and laudable manner.
There Is rnrrrnt n dominant tendency on
the part ot stewards ot jtreat fortunes to
use their riches for large nntl useful public
sertlce.
SO NUMEROUS and notable have the items,
of American philanthropy been In recent
years that such a gift as that maiio n while
ago by tho General Education Board passes
with a few Inconspicuous -lines In tho news
iKipcrs. Tot It was for a sum efcceodlrig two
and a half millions of dollars. By Its pro
visions tho clinical service at Johns Itopklns,
Yalo and Washington Universities will be re
organized on n full-time basis that Is, tho
members of tho medical and surgical faculties
will devoto nil their time to clinics nnd teach
ing nnd not bo compelled to supplement their
incomes by general practice.
The American public has becomo accus
tomed to tho generosity of thought and to the
mngnltudo of such gifts. Yet less than 100
years ago, when James Smlthson endowed the
Federal Institution that bears his name In tho
sum of $500,000 "for tho Increase nnd diffusion
of knowlcdgo among men," tho world marveled
at tho greatness of tho sum. It was tho pro
cursor of tho tendency of Individuals to devoto
their private resources to public purposes.
Girard followed with his great benefaction.
Homos, colleges, art galleries, parks, orches
tras, hospitals and numberless other enter
prises havo Blnco been reared or cared for by
American philanthropists. Their work may
bo called peculiarly American, since they pro
vldo out of u private purse what Is In older
countiles most often a matter of State sub
vention1. "Where Smlthson wroto In hundreds
of thousands they wrlto In millions, and whero
his devotion was to tho propaganda of wisdom,
theirs Includes interest In health and cheer,
art and science, education nnd mercy in a
word, in progressive humanltirianlsm, which,
after all, Is tho best definition of civilization.
A statistician, with tho data In hand to con
firm his statement In impressive figures, tells
us that during 1915 tho bequests contributed
or distributed for tho advancement of educa
tion, tho pi ogress of religion, tho nourishing
of charity and tho amelioration of tho race In
America alono ran to half a billion dollars.
This docs not include all tho money subscribed
to war relief funds, which would add other
millions if recorded.
Wo may be, as foreign commentators some
times assort, a sordid, money-grabbing, money
grubbing race, sunk In materialism. But nono
of tho critics sot3 fortii a record to outmcasure
that of America, made up of great sums and
Email sums. Tho statistics quoted do not take
Into account bequests of less than $10,000, and
these aro many. Such hostile charges are as
unintelligent as thoy aro unwarranted. They
fall utterly In contrast with tho endowments
associated with tho namos of Crittenton. Mills,
Sago, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Phipps, Carson
and others of the recont past And that theso
are no now manifestation is proved by tho
annals of tho past, luminous with the names
of John Harvard, Stephen Girard, Peabody,
Peter Cooper, Pratt, Isaiah Williamson, James
B. Colgate and others.
Men of immeasurable means have, In our
generation, taken to tho thought that they
are tho stewards of great wealth; that opu
lence Is not theirs to havo and to hold alto
gether for selfish aggrandizement The names
of theso philanthropists will endure, not be
cause, recognizing that landed estates and
treasures of tho earth cannot be transported
across tho bourne, thoy gave grudgingly some
thing of no longer use, but because as fellows
to humanity they regarded as kin other men
and women less fortunate, considered their
needs and gave largely out of a heart of cheer
fulness nnd loving kindness.
Tho modern American millionaire now as
sumes tho roles of an Aesculapius, a Maecenas,
a St Anthony of Padua, a St Francis of
Assisl. By their generous benefactions and
their quickoned spirit education has been dlf.
fused, culture has been broadened, science
lias been sustained for more expensive re
search, knowledge has been moro widely ex
tended nnd the hands of charity have been
more bountifully replenished. Whatever their
faults and however many, whatever their limi
tations of intellect or of spirit and they are
fallible like the rest of humanity tho possess
ore of great wealth have come more and more
to the utilization of their riches for the public
service and general weal. More and more
they aro regarding private fortunes as public
trusts.
TIIERE IS A JAPANESE QUESTION
Tire visit of the Japanese Ambassador to
President Wilson yesterday serves to re
mind those who were in danger of forget
ting it that there is a Japanese question as
well as a Mexican and a German question.
In the immigration bill before Congress the
Japanese are included with the Hindus under
the regulations restricting the entrance of
aliens. This is not pleasing to the Japanese.
They desire to be admitted on equal terms
with the European races, even to the extent
of obtaining citizenship. It will be easy to
change the wording In the bill so as to re
move the objections raised by Viscount
Chlnda. But it will not be so easy to meet
the issue which will be raised In the future
when Japan prepares to denounce the gentle
man's agreement under which the immigra
tion of coolies la forbidden. That was but
a temporary arrangement entered into to
ease the strain growing out of California
land legislation. It leaves the whole question
of the status of the Japanese in the United
States to be settled at some future time.
Japan is the only nation that has demanded
the right of naturalization for its citizens.
The other nations have Insisted, that their
citizens could not forswear their allegiance.
But we- have Insisted to the contrary from
the beginning, because if this vast territory
were to be populated when the country waa
ypung, men and women had to coma here
from other countries. We have fought many
a diplomatic battle over their right to change
their allegiance. We have persuaded; the
British to admit our contention, but some
of the other Powers still Insist that their
nationals cannot absolve themselves rrom
obligations to their native country, jr, -arm
take diplomatic skill of tfco highest Cf4r to
prevent a serious break with Japaa uVhao
she begin in earnest to damaad '""jmiilihi j
ter teg naUwnalf, "5l i
Tom Daly's Column
ovn vizlaqb poet.
Whenever iK a Saturday an' ait mtf work i$
through
I Wee to vmlk on Chestnut tfrtet an' see iehat
new i new;
An' go todav told the bov that sometimes
helps met "Joe,
This desk o' mine had ought to been cleaned
up tome time ago,
It ought to onlu take us 'bout a half an hour
or so
Let's Jump right in an' do it, Joe, an' after
that we'll find
Heat Joy in our half-holldav with rtofftln on
our mind."
Then Joe said: "That'll just be fine an' when
we're through today,
And get the desk cleaned, lefK resolve to keep
)he thing that way,
So when it comes a Saturday we'll have mora
time to play."
It ain't that Joe's unwillm', for I never seen
htm shirk, k
But he's the kind o' fellow that is tidy in his
ibork.
I bet when ho was runntn' round, a teeny little
kid,
lie never jammed his pockets up with junk
the way I did
treli, anyhow we started In to hustle, me and
Joe,
An' didn't wc just stir things up an' make the
dust fly, thought
First thing he picked out all the books an'
stood 'cmPin a row
On top the desk; an' then ho gathered up a
bunch of cuts,
An' slugs o' type, old envelopes, a pipe an'
two old butts,
An' stood right there before my eyes and
chucked the things away
Before I seen what ha was at or had a word
to say I
(I got the pipe back, though. It was a gift
from Dave McKay,
Whoso pastor, Or. J. L. Scott, had bought it
oversea
To give to Dave, but David found its weakness
seemed to bo
To slip an' burn his shirt fronts so ho gave
the thing to me.)
Well, anyhow, Joe -took the letters, notes an'
other stuff
An' made me sort 'cm out for lilm until I
yelled: "Enough!"
"Xow, here," he sez, "In this here pile, please
note an' don't forget,
Is slxty-'lcvcn letters that you haven't an
swered yet,
An' hero is matter from contribs that may be
good or bad,
But here I've piled the stuff that you admit is
pretty sad;
I'll throw all that awayl" "Oh, not" I found
my voice to say,
"Just leave it in that corner there, against a
rainy day."
rnen joc got maa. "LiOok here, he said, "you
make me sick an' sore!
I've worked upon this silly Job for three long
hours an' more
An'
here this dash-dlngcd goldcrn desk's no
bcttcr'n beforet
hcr&s a little plain, straight talk I want
An'
to hand to you:
Hereafter when it's Saturday an' all my tcorfc
is through
I'm gona walk on Chestnut street an' see
what news is newl"
Wo are reminded by J. C. that we neglected
to gl-e the answers to "Bunty's" two anagrams.
Hero they are:
T. It. and O. O. r. at fore. Tou Ven award
Tear Ood and Tnko Your Own Part."
T. R. a stiff? Yes Safety first.
JOE BROWN was just a "no-'count nlggah."
Some months ago nnother dark gentle
man, equipped with a non-Gillette, waltzed
Into Joseph and completely ruined him. A
few days ago his widow applied to a former
mistress for work. Tho lady didn't recog
nize her. "Why, Miss Maria," excaimed the
widow, hurt and surprised, "how como yo
doan know me? I'se Joe Brown's remnants."
With Greetings to Wally Smith
WE HAVE before us a bit of poetic prose
about a wonderful blossom which might
very well become the national flower. This
little "flower of the mind" is too large to fit
Into our Saturday garden; we're sorry, -for
we'd like to oblige Wally Smith, tho author,
who Is himself a crumpled flower, shut In and
cabined, but apparently ob bright and cheery
as any wlldllng of the fields. Which reminds
us: We've been running a good deal to trio
lets lately and It's becoming that we should
mention one, which is the sweetest we know,
though it Isn't perfect In form. It is H. C.
Runner's
A riTCHEIt OF jnaNONETTB
A pitcher of mignonette
In the tenement's highest casement
Queer sort of flower-pot yet
That pitcher of mignonette
Was a garden in Heaven set.
To the little sick child in the basement
A pitcher of mignonette
In the tenement's highest casement
YOU remember what Charles Lamb said
about the Scotch? Tou do? We've for
gotten; but it wasn't complimentary and we
can't subscribe to it. But we do know that
they're keen for an argument Hi-e comes
McTavlsh complaining of our language,
"G'wan with your says he. " 'Dour"
means 'Bulky and 'salr means 'sore. Pm
neither sore nor sulky."
The merriment of a Scot la Intellectual
and has nothing to do with knocking off hats
which seems to be the idea of many from
Dartmouth to Demarara. Where will you
find a merrier one than Andrew Carnegie? or
Harry Lauder T or Balllle Nicoll JarvleT
'Ayel J'tn a weaver. An' hoo do yo like my
shuttle!' That was the BaUlie's reply uHth
a rtd hot poker in Ms hand to the Hlelan
chieftain who twitted him on his homely and
humble occupation as compared with a war.
rtor with phlllabeg and dirk.
SPEAKING of oddities of Chinese literature,
saya E. V. Wentzell, hero'a a business
circular J cherish;
TBI ZTJNO CHANG HONG
Dealer In Rhubarb and Goats Skin.
We beg to notify that we, the above signed,
have the General Establishments in Szechuen
and Northern province, Kan-Su A Shen-81,
and are accustomed to go to tha. interior
barts of such province, in purchasing the
best selected- Bhubard, & Goats akin, and
many others which cannot be found so good
leaving these places.
Sorely as we wish ns to be well-known to
doth Chinese and Foreigners, W8 pay great
attention in executing them exceedingly
perfect If any customer desires to make, a
trial of our goods, we hope that upon ex
amination and comparison, he will he paid
nothing to eomplaln of, and our words stated
adove can be thus believed.
TSI ZTJNO CHANG.
The Indoor Sper
Probably yon didat toottoe this In the
Query Column eeterday
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OUR SHAKESPEARE;
MIRACLE-MYSTERY
Why We Remember the Pride of tho
World 300 Years After His
Death He Knew Life
and Loved It
IT IS a mlraclo all by Itself that tomorrow,
threo hundred years after tho death of n
man who did nothing for the world but assem
ble words Tor actors to recite, a celebration
should tako placo In his honor. Perhaps In tho
trenches nothing will happen, but England and
Germany will pay rospect to the samo poet and
Franco nnd Italy will honor him. He Invented
no system of efficiency and no modern
appliance descends from his work. We should
have trolleys and motors and artificial butter
and patent medicines all tho comforts ol
civilization If William Shakespeare had never
lived. And yet, wo remember him.
Mysterious nro all the ways of genius, but
this puzzlo can be solved. We remember
Shakespeare today because, if we may risk n
paradox, Shakespeare has never forgotten us.
Ho knew about us threo hundred years ago,
and In the strange fantastic empires ho built
out of lmpalpablo poetry, ho gave up a place.
Not the artisans of Rome, but tho-motorman
of the 5 2d street crosstown line and the soda
dispenser of the downtown department drug
store, crowded In tho streets and hnstcned to
tho Lupercal to feeo Antony thrlco present a
kingly crown to Julius Caesar. Not tho
gossips and the townsfolk of London, but tho
tailors and the shopkeepers of South and
West and North nnd East Philadelphia, aro
mentioned by Hubert when ho describes tho
death of young Arthur In King John:
I saw n smith stand with his hammer thus,
The whilst hlB iron did on the anvil cool,
With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news;
Who. with his shears nnd measure in hl3 hand.
Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste
Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet.
Told of a many thousand warlike French
That were embattalled and rank'd In Kent;
Another lean unwash'd artificer
Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.
The smith, tho tailor, the underfed, slovenly
workman were nil tho creatures of Shake
speare's own time. Ho had seen them In'Strat
ford and In the byways of London. Others had
seen and written them down. He, above all,
had taken them first to his heart. Ho knew
that the tailor was inclined to skimp his
cloth, that tho smith drovo a hard bargain,
that, In all probability, tho artificer beat his
wife. Ho cared tremendously about these
things, but he cared more for the people
themselves. He condoned their frailties, be
cause he loved their goodness.
He Loved His Fellow Jlcn
We think of Shakespeare, and there comes
over us a feeling not of awe that comes later
not of wisdom, not of art, but of the over
whejmlng kindness of the man. He loved us,
and his love could extend to the lowest and
the highest of us. Poor tortured Othello and
lago, more black than the man he betrayed,
and bloody Shyiock nnd the road, unhappy
Lear, all could And place in the great Arm
arms of his imagination. We look through the
centuries for another lover of humanity with
a heart so great It was not Balzac, who may
have, seen as clearly, but who did not love
enough. It was not Boccaccio, who laughed
too long; nor Scott, nor Dante, who hated too
bitterly. We think of Cervantes, the blessed
Spaniard who died, it is said, on the same
day as Shakespeare, and we think of Charles
Dickens.
With Dickens we really come to a key to
the mystery of Shakespeare. At first it may
come as a shock, but the truth is that Dickens
always and Shakespeare never pitied human
kind. There la no pity in Shakespeare, be
cause where love is so great there is no room
for lesser emotions. There is no weeping over
Hamlet's dead body, no lamentation when dis
traught Lady Macbeth is no more. Over the
mad foolishness of the world, Its meaningless
tragedies, its wanton cruelties, ho could weep,
But the stuff of men and women was too
precious to him. Ha did not want humanity
to. be anything but what It was. He nevet
inflicted on it the condescending Indignity of
Pity,
He remembered us, our weaknesses and our
ambitions and our glowing possibilities, and
we remember him because he was preoccupied
as we are, with the twin fatalities of life, with
love and death. Emerson has said that tho
passages for which we admire Shakespeare
most were never quoted until the beginning
of the nineteenth century. We know that in
an age given over to trivial and artificial Uvea
Shakespeare waa rewritten and Improved12 for
the stage. But with the French Revolution
and the great eweep of emotions which fol
lowed there arose again a sense of the -hidi-vidual,
of hla importance (if only to him
self), pt bis precloua spirit We recognize a
kinship between our age and that of Eliza
beth, We have tho samt glory and Joy in
.Ufa. we know that ifa' la gWrioua and love
a Joyely this," New world 4 thought are
oiiaiilRg feaforo us aa new warida ot upzut
RESURCrAM
mmmm
uit'
wero thrown open to the mon of Shako
speare'o tlmo. In moments of tho highest ex
citement tlioro aro few things men can think
about, and with Shakespeare, no matter how
many other things crowd In, tho thoughts
ate usually centred on lovo and death.
You mention Shakespeare's plays, and at
once tho great tragedies come to mind:
"Othello," "Macbeth," "Julius Caesar," "Romeo
and Juliet," "Antony nnd Cleopatra," "Hamlot,''
"Tho Merchant of Venice" (which may bo'
called a tragl-comedy), and far behind a few
of tho pure comedies. When Leo Tolstoy ac
cused Shakcspcaro of being bloodthirsty and
violent, he was stating a moral objection not
agnlnst art but against humanity. Wc think,
in this list, not of tho wild deaths, but of tho
noblo lives; only In some of the historical
tragedies Is death tho dominant note. Even
the hot voluptuousness of "Antony and Cleo
patra" dies out In tho cold nobility of the
Queen's dying words:
Glvo mo my robe, put on my crown; I have
Immortal longings In mo; now no moro
Tho Juice of Egypt's grapo shall moist this lip.
Nature's Greatest Gift to Mankind
It wns a poet of a later ngo thut spoko of
lovo "from death's own eyes." WlUi Shake
speare death can bo seen from the eyes of
love. The gront agony of Macbeth's cry when
ho learns that his lady Is dead, "Sho should
have died hereafter," gives place to a vision of
the world, black with tragedy, sorrowful, but
always noble:
Tomorrow, nnd tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps In this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded tlmo.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
Tho way to dusty death. Out, out brief candlo I
Llfo's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no moro; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound nnd fury,
Signifying nothing.
Wo cannot say that Shakcspcaro thought so
of life, bocauso he Is always a dramatist,
making the words of his players appropriate
to them. But wo know that if Macbeth speaks
tho last word on llfo he does not speak the last
word on Shakespeare. If life Is meaningless,
there will always bo the gonitis who will go
below the changing surface of the sea and
show us tho placid depths, who will make its
meaning clear.
He may do It by tho clearness of ills vision,
by tho art with which ho records what he has
seen, by his own thinking on what the mean
ing may be. Poets thero havo been who havo
used one, or all, of theso methods. There is
no myttery about them. Tho mystery and tho
mlraclo of Shakespeare is that with these he
combined a divine lovo so great that wo can
not even understand its beginnings. That is
why he was nature's greatest gift to mankind.
a. v. s.
A REUNITED PARTY HOW TO GET IT
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir Announcement has been made that
Mayor Smith and Senators McNIchol and Vare
held a conference for the purpose of securing
harmony In the party. This "harmony" confer
ence Ib due to the cowardice of both factions.
Each Is afraid tho other side will win. and
rather than either should win both sides are
anxious to quit the fight for the personal and
political benefit of each, neither caring any more
for the public welfare than that "the publio be
damned." Therefore, In the interest of decency
and honor and tha public good, I Buggent a har
mony conference of four delegates from each
side, with Senator Philander C. Knox as the
ninth member and chairman of the conference:
For the Stato organization I suggest Senator
Penrose, John Wanamaker, Alba B, Johnson
and Colonel John C. Gribbel. For the State ad
ministration. Governor Brumbaugh, Mayor
Smith. Senator William J. Burke, of Pittsburgh,
and Colonel Henry AV. Shoemaker, of Altoona.
Whatever result such a conference reached
would command respect and would be confirmed
by the people, JOHN W, FRAZIER.
Philadelphia. April 19.
PREPARATION OP LEATHER
In the preparation ot enameled leather a foun
dation coat of lampblack mixed with Unseed oil
has been laid on the flesh side since the Infancy
of the Industry In Europe. Successive coats of
this mixture are applied, the skin being allowed
to dry and the surface ground down with pumice
stone after each coat Then the skins are black
ened again with a fluid black mixed with tur- '
pentlne and hung up to dry again.' After the
skins have been allowed to settle, being laid In
a pile for about a month's time, or longer If
possible, the leather Is tacked on to a frame
and given a brush coat of vaniUh. A baking
follows In an oven of moderate heat The tem
perature is gradually raised and the baking
continued three days. Exposure to (he sun for
10 hours completes the process.
LIFE LET US CHERISH
Life let us cherish
While yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow'ret
Flock era it close.
Why are we fand of toll and care,
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear.
And heedlessly by the Jlly stray.
Which blossoms on our way?
When cloud obscure the atmosphere,
And forked .gainings rend the air,
The sun resumes bis silver crest
And smiles adorn the west
The genial seasons soon are o'er;
Then 1st us, ere we quit this shore.
Contentment seek; It Is life's seat;
The sunshine of the breast
Away with evry toll and care.
And peaao the rankling thorn to wear.
With manful hearts llfo's conflict meet.
T1U death sounds Ihs retreat "
T. U. TJtrL
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What Do You Know?
Queries -of general interest will bo answered
in this column. Ten questions, the answers
to which every well-Informed person shouldf
know, aro asked dally.
QUIZ
1. Who U tlm VWmint Chimin?
2. IVlirro Is OiilRulliaT
S. Vfliiit Is the No-called "Osier (lend line"?
4. What Is meant liy "sterling allrer"?
5. What Is the composition of pewter?
0. Ksme three of the mast prominent characters
In "The Idylls of the Klnit"?
7. Is the sponge uu nnlmnl or n vegetable?
8. What Is meant lij- guerrilla wnrfnrn?
0. On what ocoslon was tho phrnae "Knirfand
oxpects etery mnn to do his duty" ex
pressed? 10. Whut two colors when mixed mnlce green?
Answers t Ycstcrdny's Quiz
Kx-olUclo menus "liy Irluo of his oilier." The
Governor, for example. Is ex-ufllclo Pres
ident of tho UnUrrnity of I'ennsylvanla
trustees.
Ily a "Purthlnn shot" is mount an njrcresslve
nellon taken us one is ubout to retreat or
nrlcnonlrdxe defeat.
The rose Is tlio nntlonal flower of XJnxlapd.
Nullification: the doctrine thut u Ktnto could
suspend the enforcement of u Fcdernl law,
A repulillc la h .State In which there Is no
hereditary rtilcr, and which Is irorerned
by it part or Jill of tlin people! " demorrnry
la n republic Governed by nil the people.
The ripuniili Arituidu, In 1508,
llrass Is nn alloy ot copper nnd ilnr.
A ftlrco Run which lobs projectiles on a hleh
curie.
Jnno Austen. " '
There Is no local self-rniernment In Wash
ington, 1, V.. The municipal Kotornment'
Is tested In three commissioners appointed
by tho President.
British Railroad Speed
Editor of "HViot X)o 1'ou Know" Is1 It not
truo that railroad trains In this country are
much faster than in England? Can you men-,
tlon any records that would give a basis of
comparison? ELLIS.
British railroad service is quite as speedy as
American. A Great Western train in 1904 made
tho trip from London to Ilristol, 118.5 miles,
In 1 hour and -1 minutes S4.6 mjles an hour.
A Pennsylvania train ran '257:4 miles .in 1S05
in 3 hours and 7 minutes 74. 5 miles an hour,'
A trip was made over the Pennsylvania from
Camden to Atlantic City, in 1895, at the rato of
70.5 miles an hour.
"Warm St.nmcr Sun"
EiWor of "What Do Von TCnoto" Replying to
Inquiry concerning "Shine Kindly Here" in the
EvnNiN'a LErGi:it, on the modest block of mar
bio which designates tho last resting place of
Marl; Twain's wife, In Wpodlawn Cemetery,
Elmlra, N. V., the author ' had inscribed the
following little verso, which many of his ad
mirers consider the most beautiful ot all his
writings:
Warm summer sun. shine kindly here;
Warm southern wind, blow softly here; '
Green sod above, lie light Ho light;
Good-night, dear heart good-night, good-night
SANFORD OMENSETTER. '
Some Automobile Statistics
i'dlfor of "Whet Do You Know" Can you tell
me (1) about what the motorcar production for
1916 Is expected to be, (!) how many motor
vehicles were sold last year. 3) the estimated
value of the exports of corr.ro'.rclal vehicles last
year and (4) the amount ot bitsoltne consumed
annually by automobiles in this oountry?
LEWIS.
(1) It is expected that tho motorcar production
for 1310 will exceed 1,200,000, (2) There were
about 892,018 motor vehicles sold during 1915,
(3J The commercial exports were valued nt about
'$63,000,000, (4) About 980,000,000 gallons of
gasoline are used annually.
Origin of Bedlam
i'dlfor of "What Do You Know" Is the in
sane asylum in England officially known as
"Bedlam." or Is that a corruption of porno other
word? How was the place founded. E. I. P.
"Bedlam" Is tho corruption n popular epeedh
for "Bethlehem," the asylum referred to having
been called the Hospital ot Saint Mary of Beth
lehem and later Bethlehem Hotptial. It Is In ,
Southwark, London. It was originally founded
In Blshopsgato Street Without. In 1240. by
Simon Fits-Mary, one of the Sheriffs of Lop
don, as "a priory of canons wth brethren and
sisters." When the religious houses wero-. sup
pressed by Henry VIH this one fell into the
possession of the corporation of London, which
converted It Into an asylum. H was rebuilt In
16T5 and 1811 and extended In 183S.
Mails to the Far East
Editor of "What Do You Know" Will you'
kindly tell me how long It would take for a,"
letter to reach Shanghai by steamship and about
how far It Is from beret J. S. T.
Postal route toShanghal by way of Vancouver
Is 9920 miles and 25 days, and by way of Lop
don 14,745 miles and 17 days.
The Kaiser's Number
Editor of "What Do You Khow"l read
somewhere recently about the "Kaiser's num
ber" corresponding to that of the beast In llv
elation. Can you tell me how that number waa
worked out? L. M M. (
It was found that by a curious coincidence
tho letters In the word "Kaiser" could be thus
adapted to numbers: There are six letters la
the word. Put this six after the number that
each letter corresponds to ia counting through
the alphabet "K" is the eleventh letter, so
write "11" and tack on the "," waking U,
The "a" Is the first letter, o you get 18 for
that In thla way the numbers U It, 88, 188t
St and Its are obtained. Add them ail together
and you get S6S. Thla ia, the number of the
Least referred to In Revelation, xiii. li "Hera
ia wisdom. Let him that hath understandias
coum ist nujuoor ui mf pcsuji, iur u g (jj
number ot a man, and hla number ia sis hundred ,
wreeaeert aua .--
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