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PHILADELPHIA, WEim.SIAY. MAY 3, 19IS.
Sweet day, so cool, so culm, io bright,
The bridal of the earth and ski).
(Icoryc Herbert,
New triple play! Porter to Penrose to Smith.
The remarks on the passing of Harper's
Weekly are belated. It passed several years
ago.
Our Idea of an exciting event Is a straw
vote for candidate conducted by a Dcmociatlc
paper.
Mr. Roosevelt will hao only 230 delegates
atv the Republican convention, say reports
Look what Bryan did when he had only one!
The men who did not buy gasoline and store
It when It wns cheap are damning the Standard
Oil Company for Its foresight. But who Is
to blame Ifor the other fellows' neglect to look
ahead?
Daniels Will Fhone to Warships at Sea.
Headline.
It Is not considered likely that ho will In
corporate In his conversation the remarks of
Bradley FIske.
If It constitutes a hi each of the peace to
make a speech on the City Hall plaza In oppo-sltion-to
the transit loan, what Is the nature
of the olfense when It Is committed In "Dave"
Lane's ofllco?
The editor who advises women to eat regu
larly during the housocleaning season does
not go far enough. They should eat regularly
at all other seasons. If they did the nerve
specialists would have less work to do.
Emperor Francis Joseph has expressed his
opinion of war to a talking machine, the rec
ords of which ore not to be made public until
after his death. General Sherman was not
afraid to any what ho thought of war while
he was alive.
Captain .Russell, commandant at League
Island, has reminded thoso who doubt the
possibility of developing this port that Lon
don, with a foreign commerco unsurpassed by
that of any other port In the world, Is 50 miles
from the sea. But every ono but the pessi
mists knew this already.
Every year wo are confronted by a photo
graph labeled "Atlantic City Easter
Throng." Same old Boardwalk, tame old
throng, same old photograph. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Our Cleveland contemporary evidently did
not see the new full-page picture of the At
lantic City Boardwalk which tho Evening
Ledoeii printed on Easter Monday. If It
wants to know what the great resort looks
like this year It would better hunt up tho
paper and look at tho picture.
Following the report that a Harvard physi
cian had succeeded In isolating tho scarlet
fever bacillus comes the report that some
Russian physicians, working with the army,
have found the bacillus of typhus. The de
tails of neither investigation havo yet been
published, but it is known that a New York
physician clahr.ed about a year and a half
ago that he had found the typhus bacillus.
Tho Russian physicians may have verified his
experiments, but even if they hava not, some
Investigator will Bucceed. and one more dread
plague will lose Its terrors.
Those men who are saying that the wage In
crease granted to the anthracite mlr.e workers
will be followed by a necessary Increase of SO
cents a ton In the price of coal would better
do a little figuring. Mr. Warriner, of the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, says
that the wage Increase will add from $10,000,.
000 to $12,000,000 a year to the cost of mining,
and that at least 10 per cent, of this sum will
have to be paid by the consumer. For con
venience of computation call it 10 per cent, of
$10,000,000, or $1,000,000. Pennsylvania pro
duces 81,000,000 long tons of coal in a year. If
the people have to pay 11,000,000 more for this,
the Increase in the price would amount to not
more than a cent and a half a ton. If the
people have to pay the total wage increase,
the extra cost of coal would be only 12 H cents
a ton. The retailer will have to do a lot of
explaining before he can convince the con
sumer that an Increase of 60 cents a ton In
the price Is fair.
Irony plied on tragedy for Great Britain
with the modest reports from Petrograd that
the '-Russian army has hacked its course over
240 miles half way through the empire
of Turkey-In-Asia, The Russians are making
their -way toward Bagdad and Aleppo In two
separate forces, and- their progress In either
direction Is steady. The satisfying feature of
their advance is that, unlike the fatal British
attack, on Bagdad, it Is being met at every
etep by the Turks, but not halted. The British
swept-forward to within 10 miles of Bagdad
virtually unopposed, and then were thrown
back 100 miles. Whether the release of Turk
fan. forces at Kut-el-Amara will provide men
for a superior resistance now Is questionable,
for there la still a British expedition in Meso
potamia that will engage the Ottoman forces
fop many 'weeks to come. So Russia,, the
dasplsed, under the demoted Grand Duke, be
comes a force when the heroic British fall
back Into dlsgraca.
A year ago today the Lusltania was on
. the h!.;,-h gea Slia sald despite the official
jmrsks jmblli-hftd by tfc German Embassy,.
mi4 o-a r w mut-y Aawtcrnu who wzaftetf
ft nniBg. ttiftpwSitj; mat; thm it
ffVENIfrG
has been held that the one Unforgivable fault
of the Administration was that, on May 1, 1915,
It did not hold the German Embassy to strict
accountability for the Impudent publication
over lis signature, delaying meanwhile the
salting of the Lusltania. That Is easy enough
to say today, after bitter experience has taught
the wot Id that nothing Is too barbarous for
German ftlghtfulness. At the time no
atrocity on the high seas' had occurred for a
darning and the Ottlfllght alono of American
ships had been sunk, Neither Mr. Roosevelt
nor the editors of the New Republic were
quite prescient enough to foresee the seventh
of May from the moderate warning. The
feeling of utter Incredutlty, the thought that a
nasty Joke was being played, dominated those
who sailed and those who watched them go.
A horrible year has passed since then, but
the greatest tragedy of all Is that the world
will never be so confident of humanity again.
The diplomatic Interchanges between Wash
lngton and Berlin may glvo us safeguards,
but they will never restore our faith.
DO NOT BE SOLD OUT!
The factions nre preparing In sell out tlia
Interests of Philadelphia. They nre massing
exctises wherewith to defend themseUes
ngnlnst public Indignation, bill of their pur
pose there enn lie nn doubt.
AN ATTEMPT Is under way to bunco the
" hundreds of thousands of people who con
stitute the city of Philadelphia.
Thrro are mealy-mouthed politicians run
ning about and crying that they cannot sup
port the transit loan because, forsooth. It may
cuuso a higher tax rate. They know that It
will not, but what Is misrepresentation among
friends? The m.iln object Is to fool and
cheat the people, so why not use deception?
There nre men yet living whoso pocketbooks
bulge with the lccelpts from former fran
chise stenls. They see a chance now to
throttle the city a second time, to their own
very great advantage.
They are loud In their warnings, but in
their hearts they have but ono object, nnd
that Is to defeat nt any cost tho purpose of
the people to have the kind of transit they
ought to hnvo.
The factions are lined up. One, through
the Mayor, devises ways and means to goad
tho other Into opposition to the loan. Yes, It
is good strategy for the Mayor, who a few
weeks ago lost his fight to kill transit, to
switch his tactics and accomplish hln pur
poses more subtly by nominally supporting
tho project while at tho same time acting
officially In such a way as to Invite opposi
tion nnd encourage It. It may be good poll
tics from the factional viewpoint, but It is
not good morals and It Is a base betraynl of
the public Interest.
So, too, It may be good politics for tho
other faction, grasping at the opportunity of
fered by the Mayor, to sacrifice the welfare
of the city to the Idol ot factional glory and
pap. But American energy and enterprise
have sunk to a mighty low level If such
activity can find support In this great me
tropolis, and mcntul paralysis has surely
fastened Itself on the community If any con
siderable number of peoplo can be found In
favor of such treason to Philadelphia.
Tho abolition of the intolerable exchange
ticket, tho inauguration of universal trans
fers, tho right to ride from any part of tho
city to any other part of the city for one
five-cent fare, the substitution of express
service for the slow and tedious service now
offered by the surface lines, the right to a
seat instead of tho right to a strap when a
ride Is paid for these are somo of the things
the peoplo have within their grasp If they
will but vote for them.
Tho alternative is the present transit
system.
A vote against the transit loan Is a voto
of satisfaction with present conditions, a vote
in favor of slow traffic, a vote to Indorse the
Juggling tof franchises and the subordination
of the Interests of the city to tho Interests of
the few.
Never has a fairer transit system been of
fered to a people. Never before has a city
had the opportunity to obtain rapid transit
under such favorable conditions, with so
little burden to Itself, and never before under
similar conditions has so splendid an under
taking been in Jeopardy through the mall
clous activity of little politicians. Franchises
have been stolen and cities sold out, but never
by the people themselves.
A vote against the transit loan Is a vote to
sell out Philadelphia.
The little fellow, the man In the street, who
has no limousine at his disposal, who must
ride to and from his work on a public carrier,
he Is the one to whom this transit Issue Is a
vital Issue; In fact, the overpowering Issue.
The comprehensive system is to be his auto
mobile, and all that he has to do to get it 13
to vote right.
It may be that the ward leaders are right
when they boast over bubbling glasses that
the great mass of men will obey their orders
and go willingly to the polls to repudiate
their own Interests. It may be that these
ward leaders are right when they laugh and
say that the people are fools, made to be fooled
and mllkfd by men of trickier brains. It may
be that these ward leaders and little poli
ticians are right when they aver that the
higher tax bogey will be enough to frighten
citizens Into line.
But are they right? We think not. It Is
more likely that on May 16 the politicians
will receive the biggest surprise of their lives.
The public la like a tortoise, slow of move,
ment, butan aroused public la the mightiest
force knqwn In the world of human action
and there is no withstanding it. We be
lieve that before May 18 the public will
understand the outrage which the factions
hope on that day to perpetrate, and we believe
that public Indignation will manifest itself
In giving to these factions the severest rebuke
they have ever encountered.
.Wake, up, you men of Philadelphia.! Wake
UP as ert yourselvta!
fi..;
ijt ife tryta t$ nil you out.
LfeDGfeR.PHILA'DELPHJAt WEPKBBAY,
Tom Daly's Column
ALL FOlt rilU CHILD.
MV folks an tnc are goino Io see
The circus this here iceefc,
AlU Paw he'lt do, an' mv Aunt Plot
An' Maw an' Vucie Zeke.
Mi) Vaio last night allowed he might
Take me to see the show.
"It's on'v Just," scz he; "tec must
Amuse the child, ye know.
Of course, I've got an awful lot
O' work on hand," scz he,
"But 1 suppose I'll fix It so's
'Twon't Interfere 'with me."
Then Maw scs: "Jake, for xioodncss' sakel
Arc iou cxpcclln' mc
To set home while loU take that chile
Whet all thou wild things bet
Whu, I'd fist set an' fret, an' fret,
I.cst somcthln' might go wrong;
So if you go I'll have ye know
( That I'm a-goln' along."
Then Uncle Zeke, who come last week
Along o''my Aunt Vlo
To board with 1'aw an' mc an' Maio,
Allowed that they would go.
"I'm sure," scz he, "that Flo an' me
Would feet .itch loneliness,
Left here alone When you wdrc gone,
We'd best yo, too, I guess."
Xow, ain't my Paw an' dear old MaW
As ktnd ns they kin ha
To plan so much, piavldin' sucJi
A splendid ticat fur met
Life-lines for Orators
WITH a presidential election, commence
ment, Docoiatlon Day and the Fourth of
July all stnilng us In tho face, "now Is the
time," I think, "for nil good men and true to
como to tho aid of" the orator. Let's all got
together and throw out llfc-llnes to the Com
plete Orator. Here's a starter: g
"Wo are living- (pause and frown) In mo
mentous days!" W. L.
VOSTSPIirPT TO IWKllY, U. OV P.
I icad those tines to you, Kerry,
lint still some moic lira dewberry.
Old I'cnn bclicx-cs she has. Berry,
In you her ripest 'inhs-brrry;
And long as you bedeck her, Berry,
Thcie's nothin' goln' to chcekcrbcrry.
SOP1.
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The Golfisherman
(Not1 to proofreiul.T: AW know how It pain ou
to pa3H bnd tllilitt, ami tills Is winner Hleluml nor
I.oliind. but It u.is wrllti-n by n kuoiI friend of oura
ami. besides, tho arntlmrnt'a nil rlKhl su lot It fiu.
How do sou llko the hi ml uu put on It? "The Oolllah
crman." l'rcttj cl!er. ch?)
DU YE remember, Tammle, how It rained the
nlcht o' Oood Friday? Wcel, every worum
big and little came up
So when 1 was plnyln'
for air the Saturday.
Uawf wl Sir.
ye Uln him, a short stocky mon, han'some wl
a Charley Chaplin muntnelc, there was a fine
fat worum an' sometimes a dozen on every
squere fut nv tho links. Now mo han'some
friend was raised on a fnrum and overy Satur
day afternoon he'd gae a-flsliin', so when he saw
.sae muteh halt a-layln' about the auld longlu'
came back tne him. Comln' to the fourteenth
green there was a hole as hae been cut for
a winter green an' 'twas full tae oterllowln' wl'
most han'some worumx, ami mo friend bays 'tis
a frae waste o" fine material, an' I see a dreamy
look een his eye.
An' that cvenln' on me way hame I seo a fig
ure on the wee bridge o'er Culms Crick, a-holdln'
a driver bo the head, wl" the wrappln' unwound
nnd tied tn the grip, an' be the other end a bit
o' pin bint llko a nuke and tho cup full o" woruron
be his side, n-flHhln' fpr mlnnles un longer than
ye thumb nail An" I raid na wunl tao him,
but left him there a'dreamln' o" his byhood.
Tin: a as MLTin:
(Snlmims to A. Tennson.)
make, In cellars of the rich.
My predatory sallies;
I also joost in houses which
Arc built on courts and alleys;
And whether you arc well or sick
I gulp your silver pieces,
My little wheels with case would click
Away the wealth of Croesus.
While somewhat "thick," I'm never "slow,"
I'll get you though you're clever;
Inspectors come, inspectors go,
Hut I click on forever.
T. UXG.
As to the Cistern, Brethren
The following ready-made table may be use
ful to you
1." Circular cistern
5 ft. diameter, holds , .in barrels
tl ft. diameter, holds u.Ol "
T ft. diameter, hold! v.Vi "
2. Squaro cistern
8 ft. by .1 ft., holds fl.p" '
B ft. by (I ft., holds s.5t
T ft. by 7 ft., holds 11.73
From a contemporary.
What is it a circular cistern? We dunno,
unless lt"s shott for a cylindrical one. Has
the depth anything to do with how many
barrels it holds? And'. In passing, Isn't a 5
ft. so. cistein usually 5 ft. by 5 ft., or Is It
sometimes 5 ft. by 5.10? H. H, If.
CEDAR BLUFF ANTHOLOGY
3, The Plain Man,
I am the Plain Man,
The bulwark of the nation,
The ultimate hope of the ages.
Scientists may theorize.
Poets rant and rave, ' '
Philosophers may argue,
And Society waste itself In riotous living;
But I, and my time-honored maxims,
My homely words of wisdom continually re
peated, My instinctive common-sense,
I shall endure to eternity; '
For I am the salt of the earth.
Vox popull, vox Del;
As our Congressman said last November,
WILL LOU.
THE seventh point about that gum is that
the agent who Introduces It always gives
a pretty customer more samples than the
chief clerk gets. p. Villain.
THE DEVIL'S POOL
(On the Upper W(ssahlckon Creek.)
Here thirsty deer once drank their fill,
And squirrels In sylvan shadows played.
With rapid thrust of darting bill
Here once on frogs great herons preyed.
Now derbltd "kid" and high-heeled 'chick"
A-plcnlcklng play round this pool,
While ancient carp midst egg shells thick
Lie dreaming In Jts shadows cooL
Q-
Gent; ,
Do guys vsrite for your Col yum '
Without any emolum ,
entt
Quite,
Wrpht.
Wright
11 -i amm..!
THE REAL "JPINCH-BACK NORFOLK
BUJTB.
Poesa't the, ihove, fron a clothing ad,
sound a W pradoatlcal when Aurriedjy read j
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HUNTING LOST GOLD
ON OCEAN'S FLOOR
Sunken Treasure Must Have the
Gleam of Yellow in It or Men
Won't Seek It A Duke's
Quest for Spanish Coins
SPANISH doubloons, pieces of eight, coins
that have not seen the light of day slnco
men in plumed hats fought over them with
tnpiera ot tossed them down to Innkeepers for
beakers of wine of tho Canaries these are the
spoils of ocean that it will bo the business of
a company that hns been formed In Wall street
capital, $123,000; slut tea, 7 per cent, cumula
tive pteferred, with common Issued as a bonus
to bring to tho surface of wntrn seas and
pay out a.sj dividends to stockholdcts.
. Thete really is lots of gold lying at the
bottom of the ocean tons of it. It is In rot
ting hulks of galleons that Drake and his
friends sent to tho bottom. Not that they
ever tried to sink a gold ship, for Queen Eliza
beth needed eveiy Spanish ploco of money her
authorized pirates could lay their hands on.
But onco In a while a gold ship got sunk by
nccldent or the pi out! Spaniards touched a
match to the magazlno when they saw all
wns lost sdvo honor! And tho gold bars Ho
In HO fathoms of translucent green Caribbean.
Tho 'water ate away tho old Spanish cannon,
pcriHhable ns tho flesh on tho bones of tho
cavaliers that sank gently with the shattered
vessel, and whom tho stary-eyed fish at first
suspiciously nibbled and then devoured. All
peiishcd. cannon, ship and men; but the gold
did not perish. The bars and tho coins are
ns good today as ever they were, and In the
cicvlces of many a rock among tho seaweed
at the bottom of tho Atlantic lie the coun
tenances of Philip II, of Henry VIII, of nil the
Georges, as clear-cut in the gold as the day
tho coins camo from tho mint.
Gold in the Lusitania
Not only tho engiaved likenesses of the flibt
four Georges lie down there. The piescnt
King George, still in his prime and smiling
as he loviews his troops for the movie man,
Is theie In the depths, many times drowned.
For thete was $2,000,000 in gold in tho Lusl
tanla'B cargo. Gold coins that wero minted hero
In Philadelphia not much mors than a year
ago He, futile, In that pitiful hull that sprawls,
huge and tilted at a hideous angle, with bow
buiied in tho sand. Tho gold in tho Lusltania
will bo balvaged by the Wall streot company
If they can get at It. There Is lots of new gold
In tho wreck of tho Titanic, too, but that is
forever beyond men's fingers. The Titanic Is
1700 feet under the surface. But the Lusl
tania Is In only -100 feet of water and her loca
tion Is well known. The Luslta'nla, now that
tho tears and tragedy of her are the better to
be borne for the flight of time, Is really a
tempting morsel. The tragedy of sunken ships
of old was just as much a tragedy for the
mothers of men as was that of the Lusltania.
Only it was so long ago It can be spoken of
lightly now.
Take tho wreck of the treasure ship of the
Armada, which the Dukes of Argyll have
tried to raise from the sands of Tobermory
Bay. When the King of Spain sent 1000
ships to conquer England, the fleet was scat
tered. Only 51 ships ever got back $0 Spain,
by going all the way around the British Isles.
Now one of the hundred ships that attempted
that long trip was the treasure ship, with
some millions in gold aboard. When she
was off the coast of Argyllshire, Scotland,
storms sent her Into Tobermory Bay. The
admiral asked the Scotch for food and water.
One of the Campbell lairds dickered with the
Spaniards, .and while he was on board it
struck him that they were willing to pay
rather high for what they wanted, So it was
that his Scotch nose Bmelled the gold on
boards He claimed the vessel for King James
of Scotland. The Spanish admiral's answer
was a lighted match to the magazine, and
Spaniards, spars, deck, Scottish laird and all
went up into the air, as the powder went off
with a noise that sounded like "bvurnp" to the
astonished natives of Tobermory Bay,
Argyll's Quest for Treasure
Not many years after the lords of Argyll
started to recover the gold. Men were sent
down in diving bells. From time to time
skull? and rusted cannon balls were raised,
but no gold. The sand creeps In so quickly,
It has already put most of the galleons out
of reach, by the way, but it's a mean thing
to say. for It only discourages men, and, who
knows, thee may be Invented some day soon
a plow that will turn u.p the hidden sands
as easily as if they were Kansas loam.
Two centuries passed. In recent years the
Puke of Argyll set to work in earnest to re
cover the goJd. New appliances and processes
were used, and after hU death, two years ago,
bis nephew, the present Duke, kept Rt it and
confidently expects to, recover alL
In tht days of Benjamin Franklin, it was all
the, crj to. hunt for feurjed treasure ajong
MAT 3, 1916.
BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY
the banks of tho Schuylkill River; up which
stream pliatcs used to bring their ships. Men
would bond over gieasy and well-thumbed
charts at tnbles In tho back parlors of coffee
houses and wine shops near Dock Creek and
then go out by moonlight across tho woods
and fields that were on the site of the ptesent
City Hall nnd vicinity to the river, where they
would dig for piiato gold. This practice get
on Franklin's nerves.
Franklin Didn't Like Jt ;
"Fed with a vain hope of suddenly grow
ing tlch, they neglect their business
wander thiough the woods and bushes by day
to discover marks nnd signs; at midnight they
repair to tho hopeful spots with spades. At
length a mighty hole Is dug; but, alas! no keg
or Iron pot Is found. No seaman's chest
crammed with Spanish pistoles or weighty
pieces of eight. But how absurd it is to
neglect n certain ptofit for such a ridiculous
whlmsey." This nnd other foolish things
wrote Franklin about these fine tomantlc peo
pie and ended up with nn unusually trite quo
tation, which in this caso was, "Never dig
more than plow deep."
The men who love gold and hunt It nre
never misers. It Is the beauty nnd romance
of It that lures them. And this Is proved by
tho facts of MO. For there never hns been
more hard work done by nn equal number of
men than was done In California between 1849
and 1S53 If they had given half the amount
of skill, thought, Ingenuity and elbow grease
to work In tho cities of tho East they would
have pioduced more gold than ever they got
in California. And when they got tho gold
they squandered It; they made bullets of It
nnd more than ono died with a golden bullet
in his heart. But mbst of them prpbably
thought It was finer to die with n golden bullet
In his heart In Eldorado with a chance of hav
ing been rich than to live in assured wealth
without any heart at all.
CONGRESS IS BUSY
Should any good Aniqrlcnn -have doubts con
cerning the activity of Congress in his behalf
he .should turn to Vol. 63, No. 106, of the Con
gressional Record, which Is the official designa
tion of tho Record for Saturday, April Tl. It
will be recalled that three days earlier the
President called both houses together and
warned them of the solemn dangers before the
country In relation to tho German crisis. The
response of the Congress was quick.
In the Senate Mr. Smith, of Michigan, pre
sented 11 petition from citizens of SebewalneT
his home State, protesting against the shipment
of arms to any belligerent.
Mr. Weeks, of Massachusetts, presented a pe
tition from sundry citizens of Worcester, Mass.,
praying for an increase In the dental corps of
the army.
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, spoke feelingly
on the sugar repeal.
Senator Smoot, of Utah, also spoke feelingly
on the sugar repeal and Bald that the high cos't
of sugar was' due to conditions brought about
by the world war.
Let us turn to the House.
With tome veiled reference to International
complications, a spirited debate on the ravages
of the Hessian fly was engaged in by several
members.
The Russian thistle and the grasshopper were
discussed by Messrs. Mondell and Hawley.
Mr. Raker said: "You can defend yourself
against a robber; you can defend yourself
against a bear; you can defend yourself against
a 1 oaring lion or a tiger" Mr. Raker is of
the opinion that, you cannot defend yourself
against the bite ot a coyote.
THE NEW YORK IDEA
Philadelphia's subway will be comparatively
short, but it has afforded a full-sized scandal
already. New York Evening Sun.
DAVIS" LAST MANUSCRIPT
An author rushed Into a stenographic bureau
ana said; "Here Is a manuscript which I must
have typed In exactly ten hours. Can you do
It?" The manageress looked it over and s,ald,
"It is a hard Job, but we will do It." Ten hours
latt-r the author called up the bureau on the
telephone from his country house to give In
structions regarding where to send the manu.
bcrlpt. A moment later he died of heart failure.
Thfc author vas Richard Harding Davis. New
York Globe.
NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
New Kngland will go for Hughes with the
exception of several delegates Jn New Hamp
shire and a few In Connecticut Boston Tran
script Mj Roosevelt's Republican convention strength
is a myth, but the mirage he has projected be
fore the eyes ot the American people Is a mar
velous evidence of his genius for publicity .
Cincinnati Times-Star. "
Those who are shocked at the big sums of
money "Billy" Sunday is accumulating should
not forget that the money comes out of the
pockets of those who are entirely willing to
give it Kansas City Journal,
Americans are not thinking of preparedness
in terms of political parties. They are thinking
of it in termp of Americanism. They are not
concerned with the fact that a. national elect it,,
impends. Cleveland plain Dealer. wn
What our shipping needs Is not help, certainlv
bo Government, cjS3rtPtlUoa, but freedom, ir
it cannot have that ther d?s nof Mtm to ba
any reason, why, -under a, Democrats ,,,,.
tratton, it fhovM not bf apart fr0TO fritZ. I
-induliaSsii. N7T v-ucumbj
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What Do You KnowL
.ii
Queries of general interest will (e
6c ansv
tn this column. Teh questions, the aiiij
to which every well-informed person tfd
know, arc asked dally,
QUIZ
1, Are the trrnrhes on the Kuroptsa biH
rrontd uiir in straight lines? wi.11
meiint bj- 11 "rnmrnunlrnllnn trmrh"!il
2. What Is innint by "rloseil shon" and "ijjj
shop" In trade union pnrlnncr? ' aj
. .. .-,...,.. ,. .........,,,,. . ,rl uiiucr nn l
ii niunnry union he Tore the Amuln
jhrwiiuimii-. imi huh ills narrittt
esmpe from ilontli In nrtlnn? lit
i. jin i, nun, hip nunc in iienr arms npd Em
In Marl I nn- without xrrnrtnc a anlfon!
s. n lint nro Hip iiipnnliiRs of the Irlah onli
"lip" unit "SI" In nnme nucli ;
MpSIiph" nml "Knthlrrn XI Ifoollhii";
ii. lint 1h ink ninilp ni?
7. Mlirn the Siiiirpinc Court linn dftlarid ,
nrt mironstltiitloiml, ilors that prertitbl
iTPiiiiPiti from pnntlntilUK to enforctb
8. Whnt In meant by "Conimunlnm"? S
i. ti nat ih iiip riipnurni rommisltlon of batt I
10. Where In Xew Zenlnnil? y?3l
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz '1
1. "flinc-rulo" In Cnnfrrean U to limit iptrk
mnhlnsr Hint leKlslntlon majr' bt'irjt
lilted. -'
S. "DajllRht-Hmlnc" IcrIkIii tlon netki ti
forward the elnplt no that hutlneii r)
Htnrt cnrllrr In the morning. M
3. The principle of perlneipen Is the nliclirn
an iiprIp of 4S ileerecH mirrors at Mn
nil! of 11 tube. M
4. "Ilaxnnr" Is the Oriental word formiiW
nml U the ilhtrlrt In rltles of Ite III
Chen up tn xhopK.
S. The UnUermil llrothrrhnoil of Man.j
0. "Klinkl" Ih the Hindu for "ilnnty" or "ttm
coloreil," unci thus cne n name frt
cloth uneil In mllltnry uniforms.
7. Thl Ii! the llrst linn of Kentn "Knd;ml
H. I.eiiRthrn the pendulum to make the dtitil
more Monly. yl
0. VlrKlnln U the "Old Dominion State." )
10. The maximum weight cnrrleil by parrel i
Ih HO pound uttlilu the first and Imm
zonen, or not farther than 1.10 ralln,"l
30 pounds beyond that.
Nature of the "Blood Orange" 4
Kdltor ot "What Do You Know" Will 1
kindly Inform me what Is the commonly ol
"blood oranco ? Is It naturally crown, or 1
produced by a blend? C. ALLESJ
The "blood orange" Is a blend of the pwj
granate ana the orange.
Measuring Contents of a Balloon
Editor of "What Do You Know" KIdHtM
me how many cubic feet . 25-foot spher tm
tains. I am about to but' a captive bafeB
which Ib to measure IS feet In diameter JI
ANTHONY PBTKBSMI
Tho contents nf a snhere are found by XS
plying the cube nf fhe' diameter by .SSSfL3!
cube of 26 Is 15.62S. and. inultinlvins tint
.B'36, we get 8181.35 cubic feet. fl
What Aliens Need to Know
Editor of "What Do You Know" VUSjm
klr.dly tell me what questions should be tsjB
ar alien In the Naturalization Court won
becomes a citizen of the United States? AJl
There are no set questions which the l&W
askB aliens. They differ In every case.
m
what is necessary that ho should hav is MJ
matlon as to the elementary principle? cv
Government nf the United States and P
knowledge of the Constitution, If h UM
clear knowledge of these things he will ci 1
to face the court without anxiety 4
Career of Olga Petrova
Editor of "What Do You A"oio"t-'WllljrJ
give me BQme tlata as to tne ineaire '"U1
"movie" career of Olga Tetrova? S
J V. NOItTI
Altrti Purrrtvn waa hnrn tn TVllfind. JiCf
career began at the age of 20, and eh pgj
in nnaaespearean rotes in whiuoh, ran, --rj
anrt Petrmrrnt! Her American debut Wal H.l
Folles-Bergeres, New York, under the y?M
ment of Henry B, Harris. She played im
tured dramatic act in -vaudeville and "IJ
"Panthea," under the management ol 1'a
berts. Her movlng-plcture career has ""LTJ
the Metro and she has Btarred In "ThPrB
of a Painted Woman." "The Vampire. sM
Madonna "What Will People Say!" etftijj
Is the wife of Dr. John Stewart, of InaiMHW
Tn IttvA lia-mirvli Tfnlta
w uui iiiiungii ., nrpj
Editor of "What Do You tfnoto" Can yoOW
me now to tore tnrougn a cnoif iI
To bor a hole easily through a hidt
other knot, wet your auger In turpnn
1 i 1
Origin of Ambulances
Editor of "What Do You Know" W"HI
kindly tell me something of the origin ttfil
Dltal ambulances, when and where u!Sil
started? L. H. Owl
At Bellevue Hospital, New York city lftjj
JS?s, tne nrst puoitc amouiance ,
.n,U -da Do,a Wau, Vnrlr and KOvit
Hospitals followed n 1877, St Vincent's MS
and tha Presbyterian a vear later all WJSa
York. Paris, London and a few other M
cities tried the Bystem later, out " f
years ago the ambulance service wm "i
fancy ouulda of this country '
'iVnnvsnm Reneflts Himself
Editor of "What Do You, En0W"-ZpM
lorm me how many times me iuw"- .
tton, "The. fPW wr ctjangetn, yieisuu
-? t4.i ,, j v - -- rWtiJfi
Th passags haj bi. found t&g
once iacii m, -jaorif Q.',aruiur -
Arthur" an "Tn Xismiaa of Mm-