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PHILADELPHIA, THUHSDAY, APRIL 17. 1916.
'" ' "
There's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.
Samuel Butler.
Irish blood for German glory!
Tho King can do no wrongl"
dent can do no right!
Tho Prcst-
Tho Republican party la not hair bo much In
need of a candidate as It Is of a leader.
A business man for President would bo all
right, but Lincoln could not have qualified.
Some of tho belligerent countries oro suffer
ing from tho war almost as much as If they
ware neutrals.
If thoy expect to beat Ford for the Presi
dency they'd bettor do It beforo his tractors
get Into general circulation.
"What do tho State's Interests at Washing
ton matter so long as Senator Penrose can
attend to his own Interests at home?
Filipino Land Owners Oppose Independ
ence. Headline.
3Btfi,i
( Far too Intelligent to be Congressmen.
A correspondent washes to know "what
T. R. stands for." That is -not tho question.
Does the correspondent stand for T. R.?
The Mayor is going to keep tho pollco out
of politics, as any policeman who works
against tho Vares will find out soon enough.
A Vienna paper says that "a breach with
Germany means a breach with Austria," Yes,
breeches never come singly always In pairs.
Mr, Bryan's regarding Villa as presidential
Amber was almost as grlovous an errdr as
hen ho entertained tho same opinion regard
ing himself.
Tho first thing we know Secretary Daniels
will be bragging that our navy Is superior to
Mexico's and he'll havo pins stuck In tho
wall to provo It.
No wonder the foundations of City Hall are
a trifle shaky. There has been more under
ground work done there than was over
dreamed of In the transit program.
A Lansdale manufacturer announces his
intention of paying his employes as much as
they earn. Some will be mightily idlssatlsfled,
never fear, unless he tempers Justice with
generosity.
The regular season of tho Philadelphia Or
chestra closes this week. On tho 1st of May
the "Pops" begifi, and it Is, some Indication of
how well these concerts were taken last year
that the name Is now more closely associated
with music than with glngor ale.
The United States Investigators of our
national resources In case of war are well
advised in not beginning their studies InjsPhll
adelphta. They would never need, nor tot a
chance, to go any further. Even if Itere
fisrely a question of munitions wo could do
orbit
Chester and Kensington both report new
industrial Impulses. The former depends a
Vlttle on a new shipbuilding enterprise. The
Vjtter has appointed a committee to see that
the elevated line is artistically painted and
decorative. Considering the possibilities of
jpe&ce and the obstructionists of transit, both
how an extraordinary faith In the future.
I don't believe that any one for political
purposes would dare impede the progress
f Philadelphia by endangering the loan.
Mayor Smith,
"Wo cannot believe that the Mayor Is as tin
fhlstlcated as he says he is. Perhaps not
fee- "political" purposes, but since when has
tfc progress of Philadelphia been of any ac
tnt to those who had an ax to grind?
The now-or-never" sentiment has overcome
whatever scruples mill and coal workers have
had against striking in a time of unquestioned
prosperity. Already more than 100,000 work
f ar out in the Pittsburgh district and the
customary attempts at rioting have begun.
At the same time the anthracite situation la
The question is exactly the
atflMt as it has been in many years, The
wwkers are making- claims they declare Just;
uparatore assert that nothing in their pres-
m vrasgeota would Justify such increases.
If both rides are of good faith in their claims,
it would teem an easy matter for an Impartial
iwfeatigattoa to determine the truth. Ex
prlrice indicates that when such an invest!
Jftoa has been made tho results are usually
6UW,Uafyln- to both parties.
fe m situation which must be altogether
lutrnvsY for Ireland the most distressing do
"irnnmient te likely to be the movement of
from Belfast to the south. It is an
ef fata that a nation so devoted to Its
stt ,? la Ireland should have actually two
4bt. s4 that one should be set against the
Lfcse in -what sUtt appear irrepressible con-
L atet, JsVt h&r side has ben steadfast in loy-
MD- to MBgHMOf ana tho example or violence.
- .HaMfe Loiiiiuii Chrvalcltt points out, wa before
tpa Wm in uuk Activities at tiia Ulster
Tt wwg a tn uttw, a
v, wm WMfc tMM
Ett frt, tttrttswd i fc jwauyrf HMpraiirt
violence, but it was lawless and aggravated,
it It did not provoke, the present appeal to
force. The English papers aro strong In con
demnatibn of governmental delinquency, for
the rebellion In Dublin was not a surprise, and
only indifference or Inefficiency on the p&tt of
the Cabinet can account for Its momentary
success.
DUMB AS AN OYSTER
If, the nation la to be eared from die
alter In the next fonr yearn, It tnoet nwake
and demand the election ot men of political
end Industrial vlelon to the rrenldeney
and Conre, men who nre big enoimh to
ee the problem ttint mnet bo aolreil and
hare driving force enough to compel action.
TUB country has been damning Congress
for its Inaction for tho last 21 months.
Not a new warship has been laid down, noth
ing has been done to Increase tho army save
to authorize the addition of a paltry 20,000
men to the regular force. No consideration
has been given to meeting the pressing foreign
trade problems that will confront us at tho
conclusion of peace. No adequato provision
has been made for enlarging the merchant
rnarlne In ordo. that we' may be Independent
of tho shipping of other nations. And great
Industrial quostlons at homo havo been ig
nored as though they did not exist.
Yet the whole political and commercial
face of the world has changed since the
heginnlng of August, 1014.
Congress has debated for nearly two years.
Thoro is no agreement on anything. Tho
Administration failed to read the signs of tho
times at the beginning, and it has only bogun
to stumble through the alphnbot and to spell
out two-letter words In tho primer of Indus
trial statecraft and in the first reader of Inter
national politics.
Tho time is approaching when tho nation
must decldo whether it Is to bo content with
this sort of conduct of public business In
"Warhlngton. Tho politicians out of power
are as blind as those in office. They aro en
gaged In a fight for contiol of tho party
organizations in tho various States. What
man shall bo rewarded by a nomination for
office and what man shall bo punished for
his bolting Interests them moro than tho for
mulation of any great policies. Principles aro
Ignored. Programs are forgotten. Personal
advantage Is all that Is sought.
So long as tho business and professional
and working men of the country ore Indiffer
ent tho politicians will continue to play their
petty game, regardless of tho complex Issues
which the nation must confront In the near
futuro.
If there over was a time when men of polit
ical and industrial vision woro noeded It Is
tho present. "What kind of President and
Congress do tho manufacturers and mer
chants, tho lawyers and doctors, tho ministers
.and tho farmers want? It Is within their
power to get them. These peoplo are the
real rulers of the country. If they have any
opinions they can give a mandato which tholr
public servants will disregard at their peril.
As scon as the demands of the nation aro
definitely formulated, tho politicians will fall
over one another In their eagerness to pledge
themsolves to executo them If only trusted
with power.
Tho Government cannot go on for the futuro
in the same lax and indifferent manner that
It has In tho past without courting disaster.
But eo far as the evidence shows, the nation
has been 03 Indifferent as Congress. It has
contented Itself with damning tho Govern
ment, and has proposed no great constructive
policies. There Is more truth than poetry
In the remark of ex-Prcsldont Taft that God
takes care, of fools, children nnd the United
States, for the United States has managed to
cscapo great calamities for other reasons than
the deliberate forethought of Its statesmen.
It cannot expect to enjoy this good fortune
forever. One-half of the prudent Judgment
employed in the management of a great
business undertaking would reform most of
tho abuses In tho conduct of national affairs.
But no greater mistake could be made than to
nominate a mere business man for the Presi
dency. "What we need Is not a politician nor a
business man, but a statesman with vision to
seo and courage to act and driving power to
force his views upon others.
What have the voters been doing for the
post months to crystallize the demand for
this sort of a man in the Presidency and
men of tho same type in the House of Repre
sentatives? There is no evidence that any
thing has been done. We aro drifting and
trusting to luck. Manufacturers and mer
chants, lawyers and doctors and the rest have
been as negligent as Congress.
Something must be done and that right
early. We know whom the St. Louis conven
tion will nominate. We know what to expect
of President Wilson. If conditions are to be
Improved and we are to face the future with
confidence of weathering the unforeseen
storms, a bigger man must be named in Chi
cago. And the politicians who w)ll make the
nomination must be impressed with the duty
of responding to the popular demand for busi
ness as well as military preparedness. But
they will not respond unless the demand Is
uttered in unmistakable terms.
It Is time that the best men In the country
began to make their views known.
SENTENCES FOR CATLING GUNS
IN THIS era of "hot air" it is not surprising
that a subordinate officer of the recog
nized de facto Mexican Government should
enter Into a conference with American army
officers and outline to them the conditions
under which he personally will permit tho
United States to gq about Its business.
Obregon, It (s true, has an army of not less
than 40,000 veteran soldiers under his com
mand, while this great nation, the world's
golden treasury. Is able to put forth only a
considerably smaller force, far flung In a
battle line so tenuous that communications
are threatened at a hundred different points.
It may be that It is the part of wisdom, in
such circumstances, for us to parley, But
what good .will the parleying do? In Wash
ington the House of Representatives believes
that war is waged with spltballs and that
high-sounding phrases will rout, any enemy
of this. Republic There will be no larger
army when the parleying is done. In fact,
there seems to be no chance of getting any
army at all worth while until the thunder of
hobtlle guns rings in our ears.
Our preparedness moves backward, like a
crab. There is plenty of talk, but mighty
little preparation. No wonder that sensible
men are nauseated and sick. When an
organized hand of bandits in Mexico can halt
a Washington program and an Obregon can
dictate tenjw, it is enough to cover patriotic
dtisens with shame. Yet the fact is that
our Mexican policy is half-hearted because
the men behind it are half-hearted. Worse
than that, they are halfhearted because they
know we are not even half prepared. Yet
thoy do nothing but talk.
We art enpilfed in sophistry and for
Caning gum bm esly nentsasw,
Tom Daly's Column
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Ol VCllRA. WAZj.
O Meester Dal', eeU maka me actk,
Vat I no landa for a week I
An' mv Marie, the taya to me,
Soto cornea eet dat no more the see
Her leetla Villain on your page,
For to'at fte theenks ee mo' an agct
An' Pete, dat gal peanut, ionan',
lie's jootta laughln' all he can,
An' tell Marie my stuff ccs turn,
An' no good for your colly-um
O Meester Dat', plcass' show dat wopi
Jooit for tonight, put me on topi
P. Villain.
SIR Tho other day wagon No. 522 of tho
AdamB Express Company passed along
our street and I nottced this legend on Its
side: '
ADAMS EXPRESS COPMANY
But Is It, really, as many as they used to
cop, beforo tho parcels post catno7 G.
Eve?
We witnessed an Interesting conflict twlxt a
giant Bnake and Mrs. Ferdinand Shupp Sunday
afternoon and, of course, as usual, woman ngaln
wns conqueror. Stroudsburg (Pa.) Times.
Thtf Season's On
"My dinner's cold!"
He swore with vlmj
And then bIio mado
It hot for him.
I I t I I I I
' ! i I I J I !
Besides, sho told
Tho silly man:
"You mado It cold,
For you'ro a fan."
A Chinese Melodrama
By Tlngo A. Ling.
THE Chlneso drama has somo gripping
moments. It must not bo supposed that
tho citizens of tho Celestinl Kingdom () aro
too pacific and easy-going to be averse to tho
Idea of tragedy. Not ho. However, It must
bo admitted that a certain restraint Is In
sisted upon, and that tho gory molodrama
dear to Occidental civilization Is acccptablo
only In a modified form to tho theatregoers
In tho Flowery Republic (t) Thus, acts of
violence- required by the drama must bo per
formed off-stage and, In fact, beforo tho rising
of tho curtain, when posslblo. Wo submit
a brief synopsis of a Chlneso tragedy, per
formed with great success in most of tho
moro important theatres of tho Kingdom (t).
We mean Republic,
tl p . Kingdom
ISubstltuto Republic.
Ha! Ha!
A Tragedy.
DR Ait ATI 8 PERSONA!:.
Stlk, a young Prince.
Shay Shoo, a Villain.
LI La Lu, a Princess.
Nail Ong, a Witch, Mother of Li La Lu.
Hang Ong, a Life Insurance Agent.
Act 1, Scene 1.
Stlk, the Prince, has been killed by swallow
ing colored confottl during tho festivities at
a funeral. Enter Hang Ong to collect from
the estate a policy of 5000 jen which became.
duo to the company, which had paid tho
premiums, as soon as Stlk breathed his last.
Since Stlk, the hero, Is dead, he Is repre
sented throughout the performance by a
crayon portrait of him. LI La Lu, tho heroine.
Is discovered putting acid in her mqthar's tea.
Hang Ong"Oo to it, kid. That'll viaka
another policy I cash in on, and, as before, I
split with you."
Li La Lu (blushing prettily) "I havo only
just begun to help you, dar-llng."
Scene 2.
Enter Shay Shoo, villain. Ho seizes ths
cup and flings its contents out of the Win
dow. Strong scene between Shay Shoo and
Hang Ong. Latter bursts into laughter as
he realizes he Is outwitted, slaps Shay on
back and gives him a cigar (unpolsoned).
Shay Shoo "The old witch tohose life you
seek is too good to die. Only the bad die
young." (Strong stuff, Youbetcha.)
Act II.
Noll Ong, the witch, enters, wearily, hav
ing sat up all night nursing the sick baby
Of a poor neighbor. She says her prayers and
goes to bed on a ladder standing vertically in
the middle of the dining room. Sticking her
feet In a rung, sho is soon sleeping soundly.
Enter Li La Lu, carrying a wild white mouse
In an iron cage, which grinds Its teeth and
switches its tall viciously, LI La Lu places
one ot her mother's hands In the cage, tying
It securely. (Page boy sticks up Nail Ongs
portrait alongside Stilt's.) Noll Ong, waking,
is hungry. "Ah, my little LI La Lu Is always
so thoughtful." Eats white mouse. (Page
boy enters, removes Nail Ong's portrait)
Act III.
The portrait of Shay Shoo Is discovered set
up alongside that of Stlk. It appears that
Shay Shoo met with disaster some time be
tween Acts II and III. Enter Ll La Lu and
Hang Ong.
U La Lu"I don't see mother about."
Hang Ong "My precious, I have a treat
for you. Your mother ate the wild mouse,
but I had taken the precaution of filling the
mouse with tacks. (Jiangs portrait of Nail
Ong beside those of Bttk and Bhao Bhay.J
(Curtain.)
Bean Boundaries
I.
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Her may be seen,"". J
Recorded by a queer machine,-..
The outlines ol a human bean
When our dome gets on
.Its new spring Sietson
This knrg, thin chunk
O bony Junk - e
,j Is what it sets-on.,--. ''
WE haven't heard a parrot story for a
monkey-and-a-parrot of a time. We may
be wrong and we fear and tremble some
whatbut we're going to let Shon Rea get by
with this:
While waiting his turn to perform at a church
supper recently a dignitary of our city related
a story which Illustrates what a frenzy may do.
The pastor of a Baptist church one hot sum
met morning exclaimed in his fervor to the
congregation.
"Brethren, what shall we do to be saved?
What shall we do to be saved T" ,
The reply came through the open .windows
from the adjoining parsonage In the sduawklng
tones of a parrot which the parson ha 1 bought
the -Week before from a shipwrecked s; llor;
"Pump! Pump, you sons of perdlUc n!"
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And W- B. M. reports this sign
an uptown bookstore:
front of
15 TOTS
DICKENS WORKS HERB FOR 1.
WEEK
The Wnlcta attttsttoa Is sort of at
avana, -Kt .FlMat ja.j
XI to kfcul of; even odd, la fact,
ilxea aaj
ears!.
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HOW LIFE GOES ON
BEHIND THE LINES
Bread and Water Instead of Cakes
and Ale The Habits and the
Spirit of Life in War-Torn
Europe
WHO will wilto the history of tho Great
Peaco7 Not tho peace which will come
after tho war, although that will call for
all tho great heart and tho great mind of
humanity to record; but trio peaco that ac
tually exists now In Europe. Tho history
of tho war Is complicated enough. It ranges
from tho Kamerun to tho Kattegat:- it Is a
war of men and machinery and principles and
politics. Piobably no man altvo today, pos
sibly no man born In tho next half century,
will be free of tho taint of tho war. And
yet thcio is a peaco in Europe.
Life goes on, not so wanton nor so won
drous as it was, behind the trenches scarring
tho fair faco of nature It is a life of com
monplacos, of dim sadnesses, of bright lights
and of blinding tiagedlcs. Tho war Bonds
its dieadful report Into eory town and ham
let of Europe, but In the fields about tho
towns tho farmers are turning up tho soil,
fitlll smelling with tho eternal richness of
earth, and In tho by-strcots tho shops aro
still busy with women who bargain for the
day's provisioning. Children come from school
and play In the open places and are tucked
Into bed with ancient fairy talcs and lulla
bies. Today, as in the years beforo the war
and as In tho years to come, somo things
remain unchanged
Small Things Change
But there aro differences, and the casual ob
server is mightily struck by them. While
the great things resist, tho small things go
under and new systems of living work them
selves Into tho common life. The navvy In
London finds his favorite "pub" unaccountably
closed at certain hours, a farmor in Bavaria
cannot procure a horse for love or money,
a sempstress In Paris Is rolloved of paying
rent, and heaven knows sho Is thankful for
tho relief. In Manchester a young woman Is
careless about gloves and her hands grow
chapped. Sho sends to tho apothecary for
rosov.ater and glycerine and thero Is none to
be had, for the Government has forbidden Its
use. In Lyons a newspaper appears with
three pages (out of four) perfeot blanks. In
Berlin women helped to dig a subway; In
Franco tho fields are being tilled by women
and children, and Englishwomen have been
taken across the Channel to see their suc
cess. These are passing Items In the great account
which must be made of the upheaval in Eu
rope following after the first declaration of
war. Thero is a whole, history of government
in the ability shown by each country to centre
and control the activities of the civilian popu
lace, while the total energies of the nation
were supposed to be at war. In Germany, a
highly centralized government, we see the
methods of perfection; in France, a democracy
in spite of the fallings ot Its governmental sys
tem, we see perfection almost without method.
In Russia, which has the form of autocracy
and the spirit of democracy, and In England,
which has the reverse at times, we see quali
fied disaster,
Germany Takes Action
Several months before tho war began Prince
von Buelow warned Germany that the moment
England declared against her Germany would
bo compelled to bo self-sustaining. However
Germany may protest now against England's
starve Hon policy, the fact Is that she expected
It and prepared against It. Shortly after the
German armies tramped through Belgium mil
lions of cattle and swine were slaughtered by
Government decree. The purpose was to
insure a supply of meat and, far more impor
tant, to save the corn and other provender
In thls'case somebody blundered, for the price
of meat went up beyond all limits. Since then
an, adjustment has been made. The Govern
ment nasi a monopoly ot wheat and rye and
supervises the distribution of bread, so that
only 2.2 pounds go to a family each weqk.
Potato flour is, officially urged as a substitute
for wheat flour; cheap kitchens haye been
established, and for those who cannot pay at
all there are free kitchens. Distribution
and economy have solved the food problem in
Germany, and her vast supplies are being
augmented by the reclamation of 33,000,000
acres of moorland, by Intensive cultivation
and' by taking up large landed estates and
turning them Into farms. For all the protests,
the fact Is (hat a good dinner at the Hotel
Adlon, in Berlin, Is still cheaper than a cor
responding dinner at the hoatehies around
Broad, and Chestnut.
What; the Government did not do co
operation did. Flows are. lacking, because
the factories are busy with armament, so
thaf farmers now share their implements
with each other or rent them, at a very small
coat, from a holding company. Like the
community spirit of the medieval ages is
the tenipsr of- tha German stay-at-home, who
allows bUj swfnunsnt to dictate the prtca
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i "m v v n fmwjMmvMm&nB,&?h
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of food and co operates with the authorities
to keop the valuo of coin and notes at tho
established figure. Tho Continental, accus
tomed to ringing metal, is now using bills
qutto as freely as his American tourist, and
he bccs that no foreign oxchango forces a
depreciation of tho bill's valuo. Ho haa
adjusted himself to conditions as surely as
tho devotee of tho gay Hfo In Berlin. When
tho all-night llfo disappeared ho consoled
hlmBelf with going to the opora, whero
"Parsifal" ran two weeks In succession.
Individualism in Frnncc
In Franco tho Government trusted much
moro to tho individual. The first great
question in a nation of proprietors was tho
problem of rent. It Is a fact that rents wcro
suspended by Instinct. For a long timo,
boforo action Was taken, no rents woro col
lected by landlords and nono were ofTorcd.
It Just seemed right that, when tho earners
woro away, no charge should be mado for
thoso left bohlnd. It seomed right, too, that
whllo half of Franco fought for tholr lives
and for France's llfo, tho other half should
not drink absinthe, and that was proscribed.
Night llfo died out In Paris,, too, and
although "you wouldn't know that tho war
was on" occurs In many letters thero is a
note of sadness. "It Is ra dark at nights,"
Is a strange cry from thj city of porpetual
light. But tho principal shops nro open,
women go bargain-hunting, even If thoy do
bargain chlofly for bandaging materials for
tho hospitals. Everywhere women have re
placed men, done It cheerfully and capably.
In England Mr. Justice Darling still dis
penses wit and wisdom from tho bench, so all
Is well. But recruiting, unknown on tho
Continent, occupies tho British mind, and tho
"conscientious objectors" wear badges to
show why they aro not in the training camps.
Solid old business men spend half a day in
tho "City" and tho other half at voluntcor,
work In some munition shop near London,
and thoy are conducted to and fro by women
who aro quite as capable of calling the
English equivalents for "Faro, ploaso," and
"Watch your stop" as tholr brothers wers.
The London Times still prints Its "agony
column" of personals, and there Is a good
deal of agony thero on account of wounded
and missing men. But you still find quaint
Httlo notes such as "Bob how could you? J."
and a recurring notice from a "Really lonely
ofllcer In England" who would like cor
respondence. These are all surface indications of some
thing serious that has happened. It will take
more than a war to change the face of tho
earth, and more than many wars to change
the good faces of human beings. But nothing
less than a war could summon nil their
energies, could make them so patient and so
brave under the manifold miseries of a
changed existence. They are living in a
terrified peace, but they are living bravely.
G. V. S.
NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
Obregon has now "clashed" with Carranza
exactly the same number of times the Crown
Prince has been recalled to Berlin In disgrace,
and the contest will therefore go Into extra
Innings New York Evening Post S
The Impression ono gets from the Berlin dls
patches since Sunday la that Germany has no
stomach for war with the United States, and
that the Kaiser could command at once the sup
port of a numerous and Influential minority
If he were to put the exponents -of submarine
rightfulness definitely and permanently out of
business. Springfield Republican.
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A Tacoma Jitney driver proposes to run "free
Jitneys" with contribution boxes attached "on
the same plan that the churches of the city
are conducted." This announcement shows
either an abiding faith in human generosity
too beautiful to shatter or a deep Ignorance of
the financial condition of many of our churches.
Tacoma Tribune.
As the situation develops it becomes more
and more apparent that sooner or later the Gov
ernment will be forced to shoulder Its due re
sponsibility for the safe and continuous opera
tion of the railroads which It has. In the last
quarter of a century, deprived ot much ot the
necessary authority and courage for the proper
management ot the transportation induaU-yv-f-New
York Suit;
THE DAGUERREOTYPE
This, then. Is she,
My mother as she looked at seventeen,
When ahe first met my father. Young Incredi
bly. Younger than Bprlng, without the faintest trace
Of disappointment, weariness, or tear
Upon the childlike earnestness and grace
Of the waiting face.
Those close-wound ropes of pearl.
(Or common beads made precious by their Use)
Seems heavy for ao slight a throat to wear;
But the low bodice leaves the shoulders bare
And half the glad swell of the breast, for news.
That now the woman stira within the glrL
And yet,
Even so, the loops and globes
Of beaten gold '
And Jet
Hung, In the stately way of old.
From the ears' drooping lobes
On festivals and Lord's days of the week,
Show all too matron-sober for the cheek
Which, now I look again, is perfect child,
Or no or no 'tis girlhood's very self.
Molded by some deep, mlschlef-rldden elf
So meek, so maiden mild.
But aturtllns the close gazer with the sense
Of passion forest-shy ana forest-wild.
Anddllcatet delirious merriments.
r-yiuiiru vauenn jacoiiy.
What Do You Know?
Queries of general interest will be answered
in this column. Ten Questions, the answers
to which every well-informed person should
know, are asked dally.
QUIZ
Who U the Irleh Secretary In ths British
Cabinet?
TTti a Juitlce of the United States Supremo
Court over nominated for tho Preeldenoy?
What la the population of Dublin?
In there nn ndmtrnl In the American nnvy?
To what country does tho Iilnnd of Cor-
lca belong?
la Oencrnl Nelson A. Miles n graduate of
West Tolnt?
After what man Is the Foor niohard Club
nnmed?
Is It Illegal for n cnndldato for publlo office
to ntr for himself?
now ninny members tf tho national Hones
of Representatives are elected from Dela
ware? Who nre the Sinn Fclners?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
Thomas Nelson Page.
Dublin Is at the mouth of the Llffey Illver,
near tho centre of the oast coast of
Ireland.
It Is about 15 miles farther In an air line
from Houston to Kl I'aso than from Phila
delphia to Chicago.
Blchard Olney Is a Boston lawyer nnd a
former Secretnry of State. (
The Illiterate In Iowa, 10 years old nnd over,
constitute 1,7 per cent, of tho population.
This Is 0.2 per cent. less than In any
other State.
Owen Winter Is n member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters.
Forty million yards of carpet aro woven In
Philadelphia every year.
The Spanish-American war was In 1808.
Ortllle Wright Is alive. Ills brother Wilbur
died In 1013.
Francis Bacon died on April 0, 1030.
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The Thing Undone (7
Editor of "IVftot Do You Know" I should
llko to find the poem containing these lines:
It Isn't the thing you do, dear, ,
It's tho thing you leavo undone
That gives you a bit of a heartache
At setting of the sun.
And I should like to know who wrote It. Can
you help me? ELIZABETH.
Will some reader pf this column come to the
help of this correspondent?
Wedding Anniversaries
.Editor o "What Do You Know" Is the 50th
wedding anniversary commonly called the dia
mond or tho golden wedding? C. R.
It is tho golden wedding. The common names
for tho different anniversaries appear In the
following table:
First Cotton
Twelfth Silk and line
linen.
Thirteenth Lace.
Fourteenth Ivory.
Fifteenth Crystal.
Twentieth China.
Twenty-fifth Silver.
Thirtieth Pearl.
Fortieth Ruby,
Fiftieth Golden.
Seventy-fifth Diamond.
Second Paper.
Third Leather.
Fourth Fruit and
flowers.
Fifth Wooden.
Sixth Sugar.
Seventh Woqlen.
Eighth India rubber,
'Ninth Willow.
Tenth Tin.
Eleventh Steel.
Mackay's Poem, "Winged Wings"
.Editor of "What Do You Know" Who Is the
author of the lines,
"Tell me, thou mighty deep,
Whose billows round me play"?
Perhaps you will be so kind as to publish the
rest of tho poem. ' G, L. D.'
The poem entitled "Tell Me, Ye Winged
Winds," was written by Charles Mackay, The
four stanzas follow;
Tell me, ye winged winds,
That round my pathway roar,
Do ye not know some spot ,
Where mortals weep no more?
Some lone and pleasant dell,
Some valley In the west.
Where, free from toll and pain,
The weary soul may rest?
The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low,
And sighed for pity aa H answered "No."
Tell me, thou mighty deep.
Whose billows round me play,
Know'st thou some favored spot,
Some (stand far away, ,
Where weary man may find
The bliss for which he sighs
Where sorrow never lives,
And friendship never dies?
The loud waves, rolling In perpetual flow,
B topped for a while, and sighed to answer, "No.
And thou, serenest moon.
That, with such lovely face, s,
Dost look upon the earth.
Asleep In night's embrace;
Tell me, In all thy round ,
Hast thou not seen some spot
Where miserable man '
May find a happier lot?
Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in woe.
And a voice, sweet but sad, responded "No.
Tell me. my secret soul,
O tell me, Hope and Faith,
la there no resting place
From sorrow, sin and death?
la there no happy spot
Where mortals iraay be bleat,
Where grief may find a balm.
And weariness a rest?
Faith, Hope and Love, beat boons to mortals
given,
Waved their bright wings, and whispered "Ya,
in heaven."
Pauline Hall
Editor pf "What Do You Know" ."Paulina
Hall is deadr Pld Tom Daly pass this along to
you as one of his mundane Jokes? "Pauline
Hall" Is living in a Manhattan (New York 'city)
apartment house with her husband, under her
married name. "Pauline Hall" la no more dead
than is Pauline Markbma, or Ada Harland Mat
thews, or Joels Mansfield, or Maggie MlteaeJU or
Lotta. Crabtroe. All of tha old female dramatis
guard ar still here on God's tfreei. earth, and
lass JMT thsjr .thrive! Wt 1 B,
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