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SVeaajfo doth never prosperi what's tna
rctwonf
JWy it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Sir John irorrlnffton.
General Obregon says that Villa la not dead;
but wo knew It before.
It waa easy for Roosevelt to write "Tho
JvVlnning of tho "West," but can he do It?
Shakespeare may havo lived tho llfo of a
tog, but ho wroto the languago of princes.
Ao a philosopher onco remarked, "Thoy,
feught not to kill thoso poor fellows In Ireland;
they, ought to feed 'em."
It things turn out aa thoy should, the war
la Europe will bo ended Just in time for the
expert trench diggers to get Jobs on tho
Broad streot subway.
Some of thoso correspondents In EI Paso are
exhibiting sufficient class to warrant their
boing drafted for big leaguo servlco on tho
European battlefields.
Peoplo who are opposing an increase in the
army because of tho expense havo spent $250,
000 on fool telegraphic messages to Congress
protesting against war.
Sir Roger Casement, who planned to finish
his life as an American citizen when tho war
waa over, is llkeljj'to havo it finished for him
in a less agreeable manner.
A Denver man has devised a scheme for
taking the scent out of gasoline. He would
bo hailed aa a greater hero, however, if he
could take a few cents out of tho price.
If the managers of the Indoor Horse Show
could got the 'presidential dark horses to go
through their paces in public tho Third Regi
ment Armory would bo crowded to the doors.
Ambassador Morgcnthau raised the sinews
of war for the last Democratic campaign. He
is not going back to Turkey, for the time is
approaching when more sinews aro needed at
home.
That taxicab driver who Is planning to run
against Congressman Varo might have better
chances of success If he had gained his politi
cal experience on the front seat of an ashcart
v or a Jitney.
The ICalser summoned Ambassador Gerard
to tho front to discover whether Uncle Sam
means what he says. He could have found
out more easily by telephoning to tho Ameri
can Embassy in Berlin.
General Wood qualified as an epigrammatist
as well as an anti-mllltarlst when he said to
an audience of civilians that the American
soldiers do their best to get themselves out
of the trouble that the American people get
them into.
Governor McCall has vetoed the bill amend
ing the fire laws of Boston so as to permit
the erection of a wooden tabernacle for "Billy"
Sunday. He is evidently indifferent to the
Sunday vote in Trenton, Baltimore, Syracuse,
Philadelphia and elsewhere.
Director Wilson denies that the police are
in politics, but he says that he never believed
that a man holding office should be forbidden
to take an active part, In a. political organiza
tion. Even a man unable to pass a civil service
examination can understand' what this means.
Bets show which way the wind blows much
more accurately than straw votes. In Wash
ington the sporting men are betting even on
Hushes; but they demand odds of three to one
on Koosevelt. eight to one on Burton, ten to one
on Root and Cummins, five hundred to one on
Ford andpne thousand to one on du Pont.
When the Governor of Indiana appointed
Thomas Taggart to the Senate the Democracy
i the State could shift the blame on him.
Kow that the Democracy has formally nom
inated Taggart for election to fill out the term
of the late Senator Shively, it must face the
ignominy that attaches to the indorsement
of one of the worst machine politicians in the
whole country. His name was smirched by
the Terra Haute scandals, and when the Grand
Jury investigated conditions in Indianapolis
he was Indicted for electlpn frauds. The in
dictment was later dismissed for lack of evi
dence; but the action of the court did not
"W5ar the reputation of the former chairman
"of the National Deraocratlo Committee.
"Whether ho"la personally guilty of election
fcauds or not does ndt Affect the situation. He
tanas tor me worst in American politics. If
the Republicans dt Indiana do not embrace
the opportunity presented to nominate a clean
ted upright statesman to run against him, the
decent citizens 0 the State" will have onlythenv
selyes to blame for the humiliation of their
Common wealth.
There has been so much misunderstanding
about what happened in Mexico in the closing
ys of president Taftfs Administration that
Mr. Knox did a public service when be set
wrth the. facts in bis Grant1 birthday speech
rt ipfttstafgh. He reminded hla hearers that
lb rti volt agnlsst Vadero waa followed by his
fwottl resignation on February it, 1913. Ma
data warn succeeded, under tho Mexican con
juKuttou, toy Pedro JUuscuraln, the Minister of
IPsWlgm AKOrfci laenraln. appoint Huerta
Mmitr Wr on the satm As. and then
-ppnttf tin viiMyi ?y, aM Iiuwta. sasc
1BVEHIK0 tiBbaBBHtL'ADBLaPHia:, SAWRDAT, ApRIE 2ff, Iglff,
in accordance with tho rule of sueceselon hid
down In the laws. Huerta waa a constitutional
President. It waa not until three day latr
that Maderd waa killed. The Taft Admltiis
tratlon entered Into correspondence with the
Huorta Government to discover what as
surances It could glvo that it could maintain
Itself and observo tho rulea of international
comity. While the negotiations were in prog
res its term of offlco expired and the Wilson
Administration came into power. Every one
knowa what followed. Mr. Wilson refused to
have anything to do with Huerta and used ail
his Influence to Btnrve him out and to force
his withdrawal. Ho even went bo far aa to
demand that Huerta hold an election to choose
hla successor. Tho outcome has not been sat
isfactory to tho United States, and It la doubt
ful If Mr. Wilson himself Is pleased with tho
result.
GERMANY'S TRIUMPH
Germany hna trlnmphed. In the Held the
declilon la ttlll to come. In forcing her ene
mlea and nentrala to accept her Ideae, een
when tlioie ldeaa were aralnit the nature
of the country, Germany ha won a tlctory.
Bat there are eome thlnia In the German
Ideal which America will nerer neitmllate.
AN
N AMERICAN, returned from a year's
L rnllnf mnrlt In TtaltrlUm. WAS Sneaking Of
tho animosity of neutrals against Germany.
Ho had not met in devastated Belgium auch
rancor and such bitterness. Tho poise and
heroism of tho Belgians ho found wanting In
America, and he attributed what he called our
"snarling" at Germany to nothing but fear.
"Why don't you atop yelping about the Huns
and the barbarians," he aakod, "and confess
that Gormany has beaten not only the Allies,
but you? I don't mean on the field. Heaven
knows, I know little enough about that. But
she has forced her Ideas on hor enemies and
Bho has forced them upon you. That Is why
you hate her." As In the case of many general
statements, thoro Is much In this, but there la
not everything In It. It Is truo that the mallg
nlty of noncombatants la Bharpcr than that of
those actually engaged. Lincoln suffered from
It Intensely In tho Civil War, and tho men In
command now suffer from It. It Is also true
that Gormany has forcod her Ideas upon her
enemies. To such an oxtont Is this trUo that
If victory should come to tho Allies it will be
through and becauso of their thorough appre
ciation of German Ideas of warfare Military
cfflcloncy is not yot so fully developed in
.Franco and England as It Is In Germany, but
It is sufficiently dovolopcd to meet a twomonths'
attack upon Verdun without a break. Trench
varfaro, understood In every dotall by ,the
Germans beforo tho war broko out, was mas
tered by tho Allies In six months. In the mass
ing of artillery flro tho French aro said to
surpass the Germans. In discipline tho Ger
mans aro still wonderfully advanced.
But It Is hardly true that Americans hate
certain things about Germany becauso thoy
fear her. The terror and threat of a Germanlo
Invasion, a physical solzuro of our goods and
lands, Is not so eftectlvo as it was a year ago.
Nor Is proud America likely to fear that Ger
many's efficiency will undo her commercially.
The truth Is that thoro aro featuros of Ger
manic llfo. tho llfo which Is officially imposed
upon tho people, which cannot appeal to Amer
icans. Loosely thoso features are eummod
up in tho word "efficiency," but that efficiency
Is something far different from the industrial
speeding up which is practiced In America.
Apologists for Germany havo not been slow
In pointing out that her enemies accuse her of
barbarism and of Kultur at tho same time.;
To them it is blowing hot and blowing cold
with tho samo breath, a process which may
seem illogical, but la quite within the capa
bilities of, humanity. The essence of German
Kultur Is Its Intenso devotion to an Ideal of
living which Is so merciless that simple-minded
people cannot bear it. The German Ideal of
mental and social and physical efficiency Is
looking at the sun without dark glasses. It
can be done, but, as somo one has said, after
looking at the sun you cannot see that the
grass is green.
That Is why Germany, in which philos
ophers take their cues from politicians and
grand opera Is an affair of State, cannot see
that It Is Inhuman to ask for a man's geneal
ogy before giving him a library card. A
man of science who develops synthetic cam
phor is often forgetful of the fact that little
children do not care for camphorated oil. Yet
the triumph of Gormany has been so com
plete that it Is actually held by Borne people
that the production of synthetic camphor is
a more important activity than the love of
little children. It Is seriously suggested that
Germany 13 so successful because there
the State is everything, and to meet such a
success citizens, the world over, must trans
form themselves into cogs in an enormous
wheel. Of course, the wheel will be bo well
oiled that each cog will slip through lta work
without stress or strain. In a country which
has been the stronghold and the Justification
of the highest type of individual effort pub
licists and politicians apeak unblushlngly of
the socialization of Industry as something in
evitable, and when taxed are willing to ad
mit that the socialization of living may fol
low. As indeed it must. That is the climax
of ' Germany's victory. England fights her,
calls her brutally bureaucratic, riddled with
"officialdom," tyrannical and Inhuman, and
England is compelled, step by step and re
luctantly, to do what Germany did in the
grand manner and with a sense of her des
tiny. To the Krench the German idea that
nn mn systematize life and make It produc
tive and valuable is a heresy. The French idea
Is that if you live well it Is quite enough.
And the tragedy is that in France, too, and
even beforo the war, German Ideals are
conquering.
They are conquering, but they will not con
quer in the end. The war has made some
things clear, and one of the first Is that those
who are struggling against the new domina
tion must at least adopt its methods. You
may fight a wild flro with fire, but if there la
in the city an incendiary who fires now this,
now that section, you must, fight his fires
with all the energy and all the system that he
uses In starting them. We who stand against
the heretical Ideal may safely adopt ita forms.
Then we shall the better understand it and
know better what part of it is really obnox
ious to us. When we have dona that we will
be more sure to win in the end and to keep
what good there Is in the thing we have de
stroyed. The whole) phenomenon is not new. At the
time of the Inquisition Spain was trying to
Impose the Ideal pf a. highly specialized cul
ture on nations which fought against her. Re
publican Rome made the same attempt The
world very properly bates to be made better
and mora efficient, because it loves the flesh
pots of ease, and there remains in mankind a
little of the wiidnesa and the glory of the
forest put of! which it has come. It ia true
that Germany has cleaner streets and better
old-age pensions and superior dye works. What
wa cannot forgive is that they seem to liave
been bought with very precious coins.
mands not Jiimillity, but pride. And. pricU is
ssiawMck
r wwu'-t wiri,
Tom Daly's Column
6VH VILLA&B POBT
Whenever Ifa a Baturdav an' ail mvwork if
Ihrauoh,
I Uka to toolfc on Che$tnut ttreet on' tee what
newt is new
But oftentlvtet, thete days, it teema this
fickle April oeather
Hat plumb stopped up mu nose for news an'
spotted ii altogether.
At any rate it don't smell out no interesting
item
Nor gossip o' the town the wav I altcaus tike
to iorlte 'em;
Seems Wee there's something1 in the air ap
pear fo ort of deaden
The interest in common things an' make 'em
dult an' leaden.
Z can't exactly just explain what's runnin' in
mv mind,
But when I walk on Chestnut street these
Saturdays I find
A kind of unreality in everything I see,
As if the thing was twisted 'round from what
it ought to btf.
For'ioncc, now if I should write that I had
chanced to meet
With "Dr. Jimmy Wister and uwtoreila" on
the street,
Nolody'd care a snap for that; hut nolo if I
could say
"Boo Wister had a flshln' rod on Chestnut
street today"
Our folks'd call that netos indeed an', wc66c,
o would he, I
An' Jimlneel it seems to me that's how it
, ought to be.
An' when in Lupton Broomett's hand I see a
little packet ,
I feel I ought to make it grow an' be a tennis
racket.
When Joe namal's small errand boy emergen
from the store
(Whence Joe himself rushed ballparkward an
hour or two before)
Delivering to some stylish guy a walking
stick and hat,
I'd like to make those articles a fielder's glove
an' bat.
In fact, the news on Chestnut street it surely
seems to me,
These lovely springtime Saturdays ain't what
it ought to be,
An' nearly every article thafs carried there
an' then
Had ought to just be changed around to
something else again.
An' even this I'm using now, this inky foun
tain pen,
It ought to be my driver, brasslc, mashie or
my cleck
For you may very toell believe ifs not the
truth I speak
To say that on a Saturday, when all my work
Is through,
I like to walk on Chestnut street to see what
news is neto.
IN OUR travels this past week, about twenty
miles out of Clovcland, wo noticed upon a
barn and not a very big barn at that Just
this and no more:
LARGEST DEPARTMENT STORE IN OHIO
Domestic Distich
With tomoRRow's setting sun
OysteR's woRklng months R done.
OUR anonymous correspondent insists this
happened in LanBdowne:
"Well," sold Bhe, "It doesn't much matter
what we have for dinner, you wouldn't eat lt?"
"But," complained her dyspeptic husband,
"I did think you might prepnre something
to tempt my appetite."
"The Ideal Why, you've admitted time and
again that you haven't any appetite!"
The Big Guy
All-round athloto out at Penn!
Champ? Well, I should snicker.
Watch him, all ye sportln' men
Bo a Berry-picker!
GLIMPSING Doctor Alexander Hamilton's
"Itlnerarlum" last night, wo came upon
a cholco bit which had escaped us In our first
skimming of tho book. Some may find In It
a peculiar Interest at this tlmo. Writing un
der date of June C, 1744, he says:
We crossed the Crlatln Ferry at 12 o'clock,
and saw Wilmington about a mile to tho left
hand It Is about tho largeness of Annapolis, but
seemingly moro compactly built; the houses all
brlok. We rid seven miles farther to one Foord's,
passing over a toll bridge In bad repair, at a
placs called JBrandywIne. At Foord's we dined
and baited our horses There one Usher, a cler
gyman, Joined our company, a man seemingly of
good natural parts and civil behaviour, but not
overlearned for the cloth. While dinner was get
ting ready a certain Fhlladelphlan merchant
called on Mr, Howard and with him we had a
dish of swearing and loud talking.
After dinner wo fell upon politicks, and the ex
pected French war naturally came in, whenoe
arose a learned dispute In company, which was
about settling the meaning of the two words dec
laration and proclamation, Mr. Smith asserted
that a proclamation of war was an Improper
phrase, and that it ought to be a declaration of
war; and on the other hand a proclamation of
peace. Mr. Morrison affirmed with a bloody
oath that there might be such a thing as a
proclamation of a declaration, and swore heartily
that he knew It to be true both by experience
and hearsay They grew very loud upon it as
they nut about the bowl, and I retired into a
corner of the room to laugh a little, handkerchief
fashion, pretending to be busied In blowing my
nose; so I slurred a laugh with nose-blowing
At last the parson determined all by a learned
definition, to this purpose, that a proclamation
was a publication of anything by authority and a
declaration only a simple declaring of anything
without any authority at all, but the bare as
sertion of a certain fact, as It I should declare
that such a one was drunk at such a time, or
that such a person swore so and bo.
This dispute ended, we took our horses and
rid moderately, It being excesshe hot. I observed
the common style of salutation upon the road
here was Bout d'yet and ifoto is'tt
The people all along the road were making of
hay, which being green and piled up In rucks,
cast a very sweet and agreeable smell. There
are here as fine meadows and pasture grounds
aa any ever I saw In England. The country here
is not hilly, nor are the woods very tall or thick.
The people in general follow farming and have
very neat brick dwelllng-houBes upon their
farms.
v. So Very Cute
She held him In the hollow of her hand,
His admiration of it made him simple,
This "hollow of her hand," you understand.
Was Just a most entrancing little dimple.
Blloxl.
NOT to name any names, the gossips are
saying that this happened in German-,
town. The man said to his wife;
"I don't see why you want to hire a large
hall for your musicals. You've only got about
a score of friends that you're going to invite."
"t know, but I've got several score of
enemies I am not going to Invite, and I want
them to know that I had plenty of room."
The Tempter's Voice
When, a modest young miss has been asked
for a kiss
She should flee right; away from that place,
Though the thought thus expressed may ba
quite of the beat,
Tke vote la cuita fra.th .
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WOLFE TONE LIVES
AGAIN IN CASEMENT
Sir Roger's Irish Drama as It Was
Played More Than a Century
Ago The Rebellion
of 1798
IF Sir Rogor Casemont has any tlmo to think
about history ns ho paces up and down his
cell In tho Towor of London his mind probably
goes back to what ho learned of Ireland's his
tory In tho days of 1798. Perhaps ho looks to
tho future and wondera whether ho will bo
condemned as Theobald Wolfo Tone was con
demned. If ha is not mad, and If ho Is not
a spy, ho ought to think of Wolfo Tono, be
causo tho drama In which Sir Roger Is play
ing was enacted ono hundred and clghteon
years beforo and Wolfo Tone was the "lead."
No ono fancied that Wolfo Tono was mad
and no ono suspected his fldollty to Ireland.
Of Sir Roger tho best thing his friend Sir
Arthur Conan Doylo can say Is thot he is
not "right"; tho worst thing his enemies say Is
that ho has been an English spy since tho
war broko out. But all agrco that tho at
tempted debarkation off tho Irish coast, tho
landing of arms, tho whole wild Bchemo of
striking England while sho was too busy to
strlko back aro the most dramatic Incidents
of tho war. In a century tho stage has been
set fur another performance.
When Wolfe Tono camo on the Irish sceno
ho found It as Sir Roger found it, a natton
blessed wl,th humanity and cursed with mis
fortune, torn by dissensions and held together
by patriotism. Wo think of the history of Ire
land in tho terms o Parnell and Gladstone.
It Is not goncially known even in tho Houso
of Parliament that Ireland baa a separate
law-making body beforo 1782, when tho great
Grattan overcame English prejudlco and had
tho Dublin Parliament restored to existence.
Tho first Parliament In Ireland lived from the
thirteenth contury until 1494, when It was
abolished by the act bearing tho namo of Sir
Edward Poynlngs. Tho second lasted from
1782 to tho "act of Union" In 1801. In that
latter period Wolfe Tone's work was done.
What Ireland Was
Tone wanted Ireland free. Himself a Prot
estant, ho knew that only through co-operation
of Catholic and Protestant could Ireland
shako off tho burden of an English-minded
ruling class, and he was contemptuous of the
rights granted, after G rattan's appeals, to
Ireland. Grattan had used the first power of
the renewed Parliament to admit Catholics to
tho vote for members of the House of Com
mons, but the Irish Parliament was mainly
elected by a number of pocket boroughs, and
rotten boroughs, and constituencies dependent
upon Borne great peer or other territorial mag.
nate. To remedy this Tone founded tho most
effective political organization of Irish history,
the Society of United Irishmen. Its purpose
was to give Catholics freedom In Ireland, and
its leaders, Tone, Thomas Addis Emmet, Lord
Edward Fitzgerald and Hamilton Rowan, were
all Protestants. For a time prospects were
bright, under the vlceregalty of Lord Fltz
wllllam. But because the viceroy was too fond
of Grattan's plans lie was recalled. Then re
bellion broke out.
In 1794 the United Irishmen gave up all
hope of parliamentary success and turned to
a French invasion, Just as the Sinn Felners
of today, with the home rule bill almost ready,
despair of freedom and turn to a German hdst.
The first attempt was abortive, and the only
result was that Tone came here to Philadel
phia to live In 1795. Incidentally he hated the
American pursuit of money and American
snobbishness. In 1796 Tone went to France,
became an adjutant general In the French
army, tried to land a company of a thousand
criminals in England to burn Bristol and
finally, In December, sailed from Brest with
fifty-two sail, carrying fifteen thousand men
and much ammunition for Ireland. Grouchy,
the earns gentleman who ruined Napoleon at
Waterloo with his dilatory tactics, refused to
land the men at Bantry Bay in the absence
of his superior, Hoche, and the expedition
came to nothing.
Tone's Invasion
The Indomitable spirit of Wolfe Tone swept
away his discouragement. Unlike Sir Roger
Casement, jn this venture he himself did not
suffer, and back to France he went, promising
rebellion throughout Ireland if only France
would help. With Lord Edward' Fitzgerald.
Napper Tandy and Oliver Bond, Tone was
the head of hundreds of secret societies in
Ireland. While he was still in France the
others prepared their rebellion, and only the
activities of a spy forestalled their plans. Lord
Edward was taken four days befpre the time
set for the outbreak; but six days later. May
25, 1798, Father John Murphy, at the head
of 14,009 men, assailed Wexford and in five
days captured the tqwn. Before a month
had passed massacre and defeat on the field
of battle had crushed tho gallant attempt.
Atrocities were not limited to one side, and
many Catholics repudiated the movement.
The battle of Vinegar Hill ended the rebel- I
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lion and Wexford was retaken by tho English
under Ooneral Lake.
It was then, with everything at tho blackest,
that Tono returned. From August to October,
1798, Ireland was subject to raids from tho
French fleet. Ono, under Humbert, was tem
porarily successful; another, undor Nappor
Tandy, camo to grief on tho coast of Donegal.
A third, jinder General Bompard, with an army
undor Hardy, waa really led by Wolfo Tono
himself. On tho 12th of October, at Lough
Swllly, tho Invaders mot a British squadron,
and although Tono was given an opportunity
to escape, ho refused and was captured. Ho was
recognized, condemned as a traitor and would
havo been hanged had ho not anticipated tho
law by committing suicide.
"Wolfo Tono," says Lecky, "rises far above
tho dreary level of commonplaco which Irish
conspiracy In general presents. Tho tawdry
and exaggerated rhetoric, tho petty vanity nnd
Jealousies, the weak scntlmontallsm, tho utter
incapacity for proportioning means to ends
and for grasping tho Btcrn realities of things,
which so commonly disfigure the Uvea and con
duct even of tho moro honest members of this
class, wero wholly alien to Jils nature His
Judgmont of men and things was keen, lucid
and masculine, and ho waa altko prompt in
decision and brave In action."
In Casement "Right"?
That makes htm not a llttlo different from
Sir Roger Casement, who has won the hearts
moro than tho heads of tho Sinn Felners. His
speeches of years ago aro not tho utterances of
a hard-headed thinker, but of a great-hearted
emotionalist. It has been said that tho climate
and tho horrors of Putumayo turned Sir Rog
er'a head. It Is whispered that his passage
over to Germany was arranged by tho British
Govornmont, and tho history of the Irish re
bellion contains more than ono case of a man
who had himself repeatedly arrested by the
British In order to give away the most
precious secrets of tho 'cause for which he
was supposed to 16 suffering. Llko Wolfo Tone,
Sir Roger has tho ability to Impress others.
His word on Ireland was presumably taken at
par by Berlin, and, In fact, It Is known that
Germany counted on universal discontent in
Ireland beforo sho put England out of her list
of possible enemies.
One thing remains for the parallel. In con
ception and In faulty execution, tho attempts
of Wolfe Tono and of Sir Roger Casement are
near enough to each other. But England
knows now that to condemn an Irishman la to
malto him a hero. Will Bhe dare to shoot down
one who was for 18 years a servant of the
crown because of his devotion to Ireland, even
though that devotion was made In Germany?
Will sho glveIreland nnother "martyr"? Or
will Sir Roger, still hypnotized by his great
exemplar, outwit tho heavy English court
martial and make a martyr of himself in the
Tower of London?
"TRIED" REPUBLICANS
A '"tried" Republican Is wanted for Prealdent.
Mr. Itoosevelt haa tried a number and found them
wanting. Philadelphia Evenlne Lebrer,
Try "Billy" Lorlmer. SayB he intends to re
enter public life when the Jury Is through with
him. New York Evening Telegram.
"HUMAN FOLK"
The people who live In the hearts of men are
the "human beings" of history the Lincolns, the
Mark Twalns and the Walt Whitmans of life
who lounged through the world In shirt sleeves.
They never took the trouble to put on airs be
cause they knew that If they did they would miss
the whole show. The price of admission to that
human show the greatest show on earth Is to
leave selfishness and pride at home. That done,
you walk in past the doorkeeper without giving
him anything but a wink. Boston Globe.
NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
Champ Clark has sent us a copy of his speech
on "The Making of a Congressman." Cyclone
Davis ought to get out one on the "Unmaking of
a Congressman," and experience has equipped
him to do uomethlng fine along that line. Hous
ton Post.
Whether Von der Goltz Is the real name of
the man whose confession has shown up no
many undertakings of German agencies or not
really makes no difference. This fact at any
rate remains, that he Is a blackguard, a traitor
to his fatherland and his comrades. New York
Herold. ,
Mr, Wilson cannot make war or peace. The
United States cannot make war or peace. We
have no choice, and we shall have none. There
will be war unless Germany abandons her cam
paign of wanton and Illegal killing the killing
of neutrals, of Americans. The greatest service
Mr. Wilson can render the cause of peace Is to
make Germany understand this If he falls now
it la his last chance and our last chance.
New York Tribune.
It must be admitted that the possibility of a
strike on a large scale in the Pennsylvania coal
fields Is to be seriously contemplated if the
loaders of the United Mine Workers believe that
the shortage of manual laborers In the United
States,, due largely to the stoppage of immigra
tion from Europe, has created a condition In
industry highly favorable to a successful en
forcement of their most extreme demand
Springfield Republican.
Stripped or all theories, excuses and surmises,
the pimple fact remains that the Republican
voters of Massachusetts had the plain oppor
tunity yesterday of sending the four Roosevelt
delegates to the Chicago convention, if (hey
wanted to, thereby Indorsing the Roosevelt am
bition. They did not do it, and the Colonel Is
beaten in the first straight-out test of any im
portance that has come before tbf nation. It
may not prove anytbiny, but it suggests good
dtakBoston Post.
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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
1. Who Is the ord( Lieutenant of Ireland?
2. Ilnro the Ilrltlah forces in Mesopotamia!
reached Bacdad?
3. Who la Victor Herbert?
4. Who wrote "The One-IIos Shay"?
5. About when woe the sewing; machine In
Tented? j
0. Was Shakespeare an actor? j
7. Ia 1'etrosrad north or south of Sitka?
8. When la the next congressional election?
0. How old waa the nine of Spain when he)
came Into hla title?
10. Does the United Statea Government own any
cable lines?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Mr. Taft Is n professor In Yale Unlrerslty.
3. Thomas Jefferson waa the first President
lnauirurated In Washington.
3. Vera Crux is the principal eeaport of Mexico,
4. The Children of Iiirael crossed what Is now-
known as the Gulf of Suez.
S. "Anthracite" means hard coal, and It Is not
strictly correct to say "nntlirnclto coal."
0. No dlTorces are sranted In South Carolina.
7. Major General Oeorse Darnett Is commander
of the Marine Corps.
8. Charles C. MeChord la chairman of the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
0. Cervantes la noted for the authorship of
"Don Quixote."
10. Italoh Adams Dlakelock Is an American
artist who painted sreat pictures, bus
went Insane because of want and worry ,
when their merit was not recognised. A
belated fame has been followed recently
by hla removal from n public iiuano
asylum to a private sanatorium.
Schools for Chauffeurs
Editor of "What Do You Know" Please tell'
mo In your paper If there nre any free tradq
schoolB In Philadelphia that teach you how to
run nn automobile. A MOTHER.
Tho department of superintendence of the)
Board of Education, to which your Inquiry wa
referred, knows of no free schools for training
young men in tho operation af automobiles.
How to Mnke a Hektograph
Editor of "What Da You Know" Is it pos
siblo to favor me by printing a formula fo
making a hektograph. I believe It Is composed
of glue nnd gelatine, but do not know the pro
portions and time of boiling. S. J. W.
A practical hektograph may be prepared ao
cording to the following directions: Soak an
ounce of good gelatin over night in enough cold
water to cover It well, taking care that all
the gelatin la softened by the water. Heat six
or seven ounces of pure glycerin to a tem
perature of 200 degrees F. over a salt water
bath formed by dissolving two ounces of conn
mon salt in one pint of water. After the glyi
cerln has reached the required temperature
add the gelatin to the hot glycerin, nrst pour
lng off the water from the gelatin mat nai
not been absorbed, continue tne nesting lor a;
hour, stlrrlmr occasionally, but be careful t
avoid forming bubbles or frofh. Add 20 dropi
of oil of cloves to prevent aeromposmon. rnei
pour the mixture Into a shallow pan design
to hold It while in use. A rectangular cake tl;
serves verv well If you do not wish to have
Man mail, tn nrrlpr. Thn nan must then b
placed In a level position In a cool place)
free from dust and auowea to remain until it
hardens. At least five hours is required. Fall'
uro will be due either to insufficient heating o
the composition or to the use of too much
gelatin, or to both. Less gelatin Is required
In warm than In cold weather,
Alfred Noyes in Philadelphia
Editor of "What Do You Know" Can you teli
mc whether Alfred Noyes, who will speak at thdj
Academy of Muslo on May 12, will speak any
where else In Philadelphia this spring? If soj
when and where? N, p.
Alfred Noyes will read a poem before th4
University of Pennsylvania chapter of the Phi
Iletta Kappa and Sigma XI societies In Houston
Hall on Monday evening, May 1.
Sliver In Nevada
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Editor of "What Do You Know" Kindly pub4
llsh, how, when and by whom ellver was dlw
covered In Nevada. M. Q, S
According to books of reference, silver was1
discovered In Nevada in 18S8. It was the first
pure sliver discovered In the United States, Th
Comstock lodi was discovered on June 11, 185
by Penrod Comstock & Co, Perhaps soma
reader can tell M. G, who made the discovery ii
1858 and how,
Effects of Aiconoi
Editor of 'nvhat Do You Know" Please etatf
the important parts of the body affected by the)
use of alcohol. ANXIOUS.
Alcohol, used to excess, affects Injuriously the
brain, the, stomach, the kidneys and the liver,
"It Might Haye Been"
Editor o "Wnat Do You Knoto" Would yoi
please publish the lines that begin like thUi
"For of all aad words of tongue and pea
The saddest are these"
And please tell me who the author Is? -
THIRTEEN.
The lines appear in "Maud Muller." by John
Oreenleat Whlttler. The poem is too long tu
print here, but we can give the concluding
stanzas:
Alas for the maiden, alas for the Judge,
For rich repine r and household drudgel
God pity them botht and pity -us all
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these; "It might have aaf
Ah. well for us all some sweet hope 1U
Deeply buried from human eyes; ,
And. In the hereafter, angels may
Roll tbt atone from its grave away)
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