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Iyv1 v'M,'i' Fjruuie in auvance.
1S. iirfSft cr,D''n wl"lnR aouress changed
rk v na wcn " new naaress.
Tria ecrtd 16, jRcbooT. ' Tha most yltal
thiltfc- fcarppalgn weulU bo ono which
Would lend (rj limit the hlimbor of people
doing and making useless thlntrs to a
point near zero, Also to abolish all the
joos wnici. ntupiaiy duplicate tho work
comprised In other Jobs.
WE EfcULT
A itoiIIrIoii victory linn been won.
It In Hot rtnly n (rlnmph In the mate
rial result ncltlered, lint It marks nho
an era In municipal program, nml iov
ernment In the United Stntc.
JEVEHIKG mpQmT?mLAmiJPmA WD2d3SI) AY,' MAY It, 1016rJ
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Tom Daly's Column
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cuLATioN op run rrvnNiN'a Lnracu
t)n AWtllj WAS 117,310.
PhlUdtlpSU, flnfia.r, Mr 17. 1516.
That man' the bat Cotmopotitc
Who lave hit native country betti
Tennyson.
Roosevelt has carried Vermont b'y
maorlty of 2 to 1 In favor of Hughes.
, What tho country would lllo to soo
(tfOlild bo less senatorial courtesy and
i yMoro senatorial brains.
1 'J Tho main objection of Germany to
She British starvation campaign seems to
' 'fc that It is succeeding.
Great Britain seems to havo hart
E" ij l V....1WU.1, ... uvviums WIIUU IU UO Willi
prh
'",? Sir Itogcr Casement's plot would
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rA' '" "-"" juai. ua uvuHonuuia 11 it nau
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w- mc inuiivcu itiuua in uermany.
. Before Ionff wo may expect a bill In
iCWgress "to prevent boys from using
i their fists.' But they'll use them lust thn
same.
Wl
AVo aro told that tho police were
Bdk In politics yesterday. Just what
tfwouid. tho police do' If they worn In
. poMtlcs?
- The AdmlnlstratIon shipping bill
, will probably bo as satisfactory as tho
3 l compromlso army bill. But thoro is n
consolation In tho cap rulo under which
5 vtt,wlll pass.
Tho purchaso of $-100t00O worth of
irround In the Logan section for building
purposes In the last ten days Is not an
indication of tho futility of transit exten-
' w aions.
Democrats hopo to put a Tariff
yuiwmssion oui xnrougii m trnie to take
R - htf wind out of Itopublican sails beforo
JOB conventions. Speed Is possible in Con
gross for political effect.
The Jrish rebels were led by school
masters and others who understood such
"hlglibrow" phrases as "tho Gaelic Renais
sance." But It was an Irish peasant who
upset tho Casement treason and testlilcd
against Sir Roger.
When I took omce tho newspa
pers criticised me: I shall now attempt
to conduct niy Administration bo ns to
Win the Bupport of every newspaper.
Mayor Smith.
Do not get too perfect, Mr. Mayor.
Ton wouldn't look well with wings.
Reoiclng in his triumph In having
prevented any real preparedness, Mr. Hay
eya that It is going to tako five years
to recruit tho army, anyhow, and by that
time it may bo reduced by subsenuont
legislation. If tho army Just had a few
more friends like Mr. Hay, there wouldn't
b any army.
.About tho most sensible thing a
Senate committee has dono in a long
time was In deciding to refer tho whole
question of railway mail pay to tho In
ttrstato Commorco Commission for a re
pijt. This means that the roads may
reasonably expect to got paid according
to'.tho service they perform and not ac
eardlng to the political favor they happon
iwt to enjoy.
I
If tho United States had treated tho
telephone as it is treating ltn aeroplanes
wj(irp woum naye been no event so strlk-ing-
as that of last night, when the ends
, tho country wero connected with Phil
adelphia. In tho connections 10,000 miles
oCwireAwere used, a signal trlbuto to the
energies of pioneers. The telephone la a
commercial necessity and it has been
developed. The aeroplane Is essential to
fafense, is aa much our product as tho
telephone, may becomo tho great arm of
'defense, yet its exploitation has been left
to, Europq and even our army, in timo of
eexlf lacks its blessing. There is a moral
b this, but not a pleasant one,
So fully determined are the Re
ynvllcans In the section known as down
town to put a stop to tho highhanded
&8A illegal tnethnHa uhlh t.n..
jtfwticed there for a long time that tho
, Intention Is Qpenly expressed to pro.
In the Federal Court and
ll&Uonstrtito conclusively tn h nAnH,A
ethe city and State the methods which
fcaye been employed for so many years
(uaiuiaiii a jocui political supremacy.
, statement by Senator Penrose.
Mii. .." to it, Senator! Then If the
igggwiU only go to court wlbp to show
PMihods employed for b many years
jiruao io maintain a ipeal political
B1icy In Pennsylvania, we nv nv.
f Pursr atmosphere after tha wash.
rt ao muoh dirty linen..'
Jt muat not bo thought that tha
WUlbna which tho bankers In the
xerh-whllo thrift campaign pay
His waste annually alt goes Into
er. A lot Of It. Whfl.l nnl nnf
banks, coes into tha hands
wha have foolish thimra tn
ifho ua the money they earn
'-'refit ad end the chUdren to
V, m turn, aiay wasted it $n
- fbU4ts tofcd
. A
fTlHE Ho that Philadelphia Is slow was
nailed yesterday.
Tho wny tho voters waded through tho
muck of misrepresentation, anonymous
obstructionism and sordid abuse was n
revelation n revelation not only to hold
backs but also to the people themselves
of tho prodigious power which Is theirs
when they wish to use It. (
Factionalism rampant was as harm
less as n dove. Tho peoplo caved noth
ing about It. They wanted rapid transit,
and they had at last a chanco to iret It.
They woren't fooled, hnd they couldn't be
cajoled Into a betrayal of their own In
terests. So they marched to the polls by
tho thousands, and stamped their O. K.
so deep on tho project that no politician
will ovor again trlflo with It. They not
only Indorsed tho Taylor plan, but they
gavo nlso a mandato that it bo pushed
to completion, without unduo delay and
without hesitation.
This moans a new Philadelphia. It
means a growth In mero numbers of
population far greater than the city has
known slnco tho Centennial. It means n
grant of superb facilities to citizens, who
will bo able to find In Philadelphia as
modern conveniences as aro to bo found
In any city on tho globe. It means nn
opportunity for broad, Intelligent ex
pansion, for tho nbolltlon of tenements,
for every citizen to havo light and air
about his homo, for working men to havo
a wider mnrkot for their labor. If work
Is not available In ono part of the city,
It will bo no great lnconvcnlcnco to work
in nnothcr part of tho city. It means a
Philadelphia that will havo nothing to
do with lethargy, thnt has on its light
ing armor, that will offer magnificent dis
tribution facilities not only to its own peo
ple, but In Its harbor a system of piers
unexcelled, over which can movo tho
commorco of a continent with dispatch
and llttlo expense. It means that tho
machinery Is oiled and steam is up.
Thi3 newspaper in January lamented
tho loss to the city of tho services of A.
Merrltt Tnylor, but expressed tho hope
that In private life ho would be as vigi
lant a protector of tho public Interests ns
ho had been while In office. Ho has met
our expectations and tho expectations of
tho community. Ho leaped into tho
breach when tho Mayor proposed an
abbreviated system; ho plunged into tho
front lino of battlo when tho factionallsts
boasted that they would smito tho loan bill i
and Inter It beyond hopo of resurrection.
They dreamed that their mercenaries
could blight tho future of Philadelphia,
but they did not dream that a single
leader with a vision, a man of brawn and
mental muscle and nn Iron spine, would
spike their guns and leave no moro of
themselves In evldenco than the echo of
tholr brays.
Men can gather from tho outcome of
this campaign what real leadership
means, .particularly when It is inspired
by devotion to a good cause. In this
light Mr. Taylor has towered llko a
Colossus ovor nunv. inslirninr-nnf ,i
puiTed-up politicians, who, when they
found that opposition was useless.
jumped for the bandwagon with tho
agility pf fleas.
Wo commend tho Mayor for having
seen tho light, and wo hope that it will
continue to guide him,' but that sturdy
citizen whom ho would not havo in his
Cabinet Is tho citizen who, In this crisis,
has borno tho heat and burden of tho day,
and literally dragged success out of do
feat. Let neither the Mayor nor nny
body olso forget that tho two great
triumphs for the people, which havo been
won within the last few months transit
and reduced electric light rates havo
como through two former Directors in
the Blankonburg administration, Taylor
and Cooke. Yet last fall the politicians
and gangsters wore sneeringly asking
what good a reform administration had
dono tho city. By their works shall yo
know them.
Wo anticipate and expect that tho P.
R. T., which has been silent these many
months, will meet tho wishes of the people
of Philadelphia by a prompt and final
adoption of the tentative operating agree
ment entered into two years ago. Wo
believe that the comprehensive high
speed system presages a period of, pros
perity for the company ns well as for the
City, It is, indeed, a system which is cer
tain to help rather than harm the com.
pany, Let It be hoped, therefore, that
tho P, R. T, will meet tho situation in
good 'spirit, and do its part in the final
achievement of rapid transit.
It is important, too, that Councils
thrust factionalism aside. In view of" the
rebuke which has been given it, and move
as quickly as technicalities will permit
to the appropriation of whatever sums
can ba wisely used at this time. The
Frankford L. already well under way
should be rushed to completion at the
earliest possible moment. There is no
reason now for delay, and no yestlge
of excuse for obstruction,
Tho allng of David was again true, and
the peoplo did wake their verdict ring-
ItnbfeeU,
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Songs of Wedlock
XVI
FEnENNIAtj MAY
Jfrtl ivalka tho earth again,
TJil old caYth, and tho satnt
Green spurts of tender flame
Hum now on sod and tree
That burned when first she came,
Dear love, to you and the.
If anu chanpo there Be--
A greater or d less
begrco of lovcHncss
It Is iwt ours to see,
Dear love,
Xot ours to feet or see.
Man thrills our hearts again,
These old hearts, atld the bough
Hums not with blossoms tioto
77idi bloto more splendidly.
For since our ivcddcd Vow
Made one of you and me,
U apy change there be
t greater or a less
Degree of tenderness
U Is not ours to sec,
J car love,
Xat ours to feel or sec.
lou should know Hint each day's
entertainment, during the convention,
will ho concluded with a rnbnrct per
fonunnco, starting nt 11 p. m. and end
ing when everybody wants to go to bod.
HOW on earth will they know when
"everybody wants to go to bed," if
somebody doesn't yawn 7
Tribute (o A. Taylor
Hark! tho strains of Victory's chants
Thread tho city's wide cxpantsl
All our folks are idler glee
Savo ono llttlo ronforlo:
Scania this town wo call our own
Suro Is fll to stand a loan I
Now with money to Iiut.U
We will not bo sorely pressed,
But tho things wo needle bo
Ilullt for our posterity.
&'cic, If this bo foolishness
We nro happy fools, no less,
And wo'ro glad (desplto nbuso)
That wo'vo been A. Taylor's gooic!
Julia O'Orady and tho Captain' tnily
Aro aliitcrs unilor their aklna.
N'ew York Run.
HI last time I encountered the hus
band 'of the last-named lnilv lin wn
colonel by brevet In tho Uiltlsh Army. Is
it proper to Inquire tho reason for tho ap
parently unwarranted demotion of this
gallant ofllcor? BILL.
Bean Boundaries .
X
W. S. VAR13
I can keep my mouth tight,
. shut.
I don't want to spill
Any secrets in this nut .
I am Brother Bill.
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What Do You Know?
Dr. Alexander Hamilton
JUNK 10, 1711.
At Curtls's I mot company going to
Philadelphia, and was pleased nt It, being
myself nn utter stranger tn tho roads. This
company consisted ot thrco men Thomas
Howard, Timothy Smith nnd William Mori
son. I treated them with some lemon punch,
nnd desired the favour of their company.
They readily granted my request, nnd
stayed somo timo for me. till I had eat
breakfast.
Tho chief tonic of conversation nmnnr.
these three Pennsylvania dons upon tho
road was tho Insignificancy of tho neigh
bouring Province of Maryland when com
pared to that of Pennsylvania. They laid
out all tho advantages of the latter which
their bungling Judgment could suggest, nnd
displayed nil the Imperfections and disad
vantages of tho first.
They enlarged upon tha Immorality,
drunkenness, rudeness nnd Immoderate
swearing, so much practised In Maryland,
nnd added that no such vices wero to bo
found In Pennsylvania. I heard this and
contradicted It not, because I knew that
tho first part of tho proposition was pretty
true.
THE READERS' OPEN FORUM .
Real Preparedness Said to Consist of Pride in One's
Country An Interesting Collection of
Counting-out Rhymes
A Tabloid Sermon
Tho man who drinks "to bent the Dutch'
And guzzles wine and stuff,
First thinks enough is not too much
Then calls too much enough.
Proxy.
Phrnzzlcd Phrases
"To tho nth power."
"In tho last analysis."
"Tho Idea Is absolutely preposterous."
spiiiyct por.n
The rote Is red
The violet blue.
Oak's a tree
And so Is yew.
A.u
DALTIMORn contemporary prints
inder a picture of somo United
States troops In Mexico this caption:
"Cavalry of tho expeditionary forces
watering their horses in tho shade of
tho blazing sun."
"And," comments BVR, who discov
ered it, "meanwhile Villa takes his blesta
In the glaro of a spreading palm, I suppose."
Miss
Naughty Girl
There was a young girl named
Horner.
Who flirted upon a street corner;
She lived quite a while
In very great Btyle
Rut now she has rags to adorn her,
', O. G.
The Leprechaun Jimmy Malone
,The nuareut ould crab of a man
iviia .jimmy luiune;
He was built on the twlstedest plan.
Ho was bare skin an' bone.
And he walked whl a rickety limp.
And ho pounded nlong wld his cane
You'd think him the lavln's of some little
wizen'd ould Imp;
'Twas hard to Imagine a crayture more
crabljlt and mane.
-
And, faith, he was quare, very quare. In
his talk.
Was ould Jimmy Malone;
Ay, quarer, I think, than his looks an his
walk, ,-
You'd lave him alone, '
l ever you heard him salutln' a wan that
hn met!
For this was his "top o' the mornln'"
to those that he knew,
The wan salutation a friend and acquaint
ance would get:
"Bad luck to you, how do you do?''
But this little man that Jl$t looked like an
imp and a fairy,
Ould Jimmy Malone,
Had something Inside from the outside! m.
tlrely contrary; HR '
III; mUJ llttla curse was a quare twisted
way of his own
To be wlahin' good luok and 'God bless you' i
av - - ..., u,uo eye
That he willed Jn bis heart to caress you
Though he said but "Bad luck and good
byo."
. , M. ft Poaoyajv" '
To the Ilditor of Evening Ledger:
Sir During this season ot preparedness
fli.mniflslmi there nro mnnv who keen Olllct.
yet feel tho .meaning of It nil. I myself
have often had such a feeling, and now I
will explain what It Is.
What I clnsi as real preparedness Is pa
triotism. Tho lovo of one's country has
often won vlctorlos for America. It waH
In mnny revolutionary battles that Wash
ington's men, full of zeal, yet untrained,
charged the foo with such vigor that Brlt
nln was astounded. Also, In the Civil War,
tho unprepared Northern soldiers fought
day after day. And thus, wero wo now
drawn Into war, It would bo only patriotism
that would save us. Every ono must nc
knowlcdgo It. It Is known that American
otrllAca ! .Titi-lrtM. IliArofnrrt thn nntl-
preparattonlsts becamo nctlve- I consider
this preparedness business nil tomfoolery,
when people know that wo havo ambitious
sailors and soldiers whoso hearts nro filled
with the lust of love for their homo country.
It was tho feeling of patriotism of Na
poleon's soldiers that made him great. Tho
French nro born patriots. Tho Germans
nowadays finely exhibit their lovo for tho
lilfntAiilnnil " rPUn Tliiuulnnu rnrnllctu nrwl
nobility, are filled with anger against tho
foe. But why aro they? It Is because of
their knowledgo of their country's power.
It Is from stories of greatness told to them.
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1C3 Id riUIILU ! i.uuii uci nnia.1 ,
"Bosho zarla chranl!" "Gott echalto Franz
Yosef !" aro henrd all over tho world. Then
why not have It resounded throughout tho
world, "Up with America, down with tho
world"?
Then again, what In patriotism? Is It
hanging out the flag on holidays? Is It
murdering nnarchlsts or rebels? Is It mor
tifying foreigners? Is It taking your hat
oft In front of a foreign convention and
singing "The Star Spangled Banner"?
Nay, It Is trying with all your might to
protect tho Interests of tho Government.
il 13 uunnuwti vi iiiu Ami i tuu iiivacni w,,-
cers of the army aiid navy and tho strength
oi mo nuineruuB luruuuuiiuua ul urn tuuu
try, etc In this manner by degrees you
convince the foreign population of tho
greatness of tho United States and lessen
their zeal for their own country. And
pretty Boon you'll hear tl)em yelling, "Up
with America ; down with the world 1"
CHARLES WEISBEIia.
Philadelphia, May 10.
COUNTING-OUT RHYMES
To tho Vdltor of Evening Ledger:
To tho former Interesting "Counting
Out" and other rhymes published In tho
Evenino LKDOEn permit mo to add tho fol
lowing from my collection.
That given by Mr. Larede, respecting the
toe of the person of African descent, Is in
very wiuu unu. . bci ,i ,ium .uiMi, oumu
and West, wltn variations
A little
Now
but
.T"rftv mnld nut It as "colored man
shyly admitted that "nigger" was the word
used. A South Carolina lad has It "fellow"
and for "hollers" uses "hollows," But there
Is nothing In Webster that Is as expressive
as "hollers." and I think that should be In.
serted,
New York State gives mo the following:
Ana. Mana, Mona, Ml,
Dassalona, bona, Strl,
Haya, waya, fro, wack,
Halliko, balllko, wee, wo, whack.
Kentucky supplies the following variation
from one of Mr. Larede's, the last two lines
being:
If your father chews tobacker,
Out goes you.
Somewhat similar to another of Mr, Le
redo's, also derived from other sources. Is
one I get from Kentucky;
nn aimk rwnjirv ne-trr Ann
Phllllson. phollison, Nicholas, John,
Query, quary, English navy,
.Hickleum, stackleum, buck.
My own recollection of this, in my youth,
'is that tbe two closing lines ran;
Queby, quaby, Irish Mary
Singleum, sangleum, buck,
Kentucky and New Jersey combine In
supplying the two following;
Monkey, monkey, bottle o beer,
How many monkeys are there here?
One, two, three,
Out goes she (or ha). ,
lirler, wire, limber lock,
Three geese In a flock.
One flew east and one flew west.
And one flew over thjs cuckoo's nest
One, two, three, out goes she.
Kentucky, however, Is alone with:
Nigger, plgger, never die.
Black face nnd shiny eye.
TUO second Jtria sometimes, varying wth
Uver llnad jhlay, eye,
,,wU"'.. Ca.rt;!lna l3 nulto liberal In sup
Plying tho following:
William o' Trinity was a good flshorman,
-. uiwii iiens anu put them In pons;
homo lnid eggs and some laid none,
Hccklcty, spccklety, trip nnd begone.
Tho lady who gavo this states that It
fln,r ;.u mother In counting on the
fingers of the llttlo ones and later In
counting out." Somewhat similar Is tho
noxt sho gives:
William tho trumpeter was a good fisher
man, non,V,t,nshe3 nnd nut tnom n dishes,
UL.S u?ht 'lens n"l nut them In pens,
Hecklofoot, specklefoot. trip and begone.
TakY 7nn.8c,3 BOoa for a pnny.
One t.B d SCholnr to count hw many,
une, two, three, out inn .i,. "
nfa,'!' ,tw-za". zlB-zall, zam.
t"' b0b-ta"' lton. tarn.
" -rum, moojnm, mnrum, Franco.
Mv RnnM, r,n.Mii . i
ItoiSW
now exclusively "lather vicinity8 t0 '3 USed
WIthnilf RHAnlnl -.-.i- .
-.,. . : --.. . cum m. x aau several de.
ttJ - ew &sey.
wnat navo been previously published
cB'-ve,
Iblty, blblty, slblty, sab.
Jblty, blblty, kenahe.
pixie, daery, down the ferry.
In nineteen hundred and
Oneery, twoery, dickery, dovon
Crackaboo, marabo, ten or eleven,
Pin, pan, must be dono.
Twiddle, twaddle, twenty-one.
(Sometimes crackabone, narrow bona!
One potato, two potatoes, thr plees.
Five POtatoea sbc potatoeSi savcn pota. I
(The last word may have been "more "l
From the numerous "Ena, mena's" t
give the following: menas I
Ena, mona. tipsa, toney;
Apple Jock and John Sweeney;
Have a peach and a plum
Have a stick of chewing gum.
Ena, mena, tlpda, tena,
Occaprooha, domlnocha,
Om, bom, bus,
Buggley, buggley, boo.
Out goes you..
Several refer to the blue sea in dlf.
VT" bui U8ulIy wt,h care
as to the rhyme than the following;
Red. white and blue.
All out but you;
Right In the middle
Of the dark blue sea.
From Now Jersnv romaa ..,..
the "Ena Mena" veVses in w""ran 0I
Enle, menle, monle, my,
Butter, laddie, boney, stry.
. Throth, neck. '
We, wo, wum, whatk.
J?n,0 the most "striking" ones with
which I have met Is the following;
My mother and your mother
Was hanging out clothes, ,
My mother gave your mother
A punch on the nose.
Did it hurt her?
Say yes or no.
Then spell y-e-a
Spells yes and
Out goes you.
Queries of general Interest will be an
siccrcd in this column. Ten questions, tha
answers to which every well-informed
person should knoiv, arc asked dally.
QUIZ
1. How did the President's Cabinet net Its
name?
2. What Is mennt by netting a nmv?
3. What In lie chief ground for tho theory
flint Miirn Is Inhabited?
4. Where are the nonrren of the Delnwnre
Hirer?
B. How many ilclrgnteit will there lie In tho
Jirpuuucnn .nlloiml Convention?
0. How did the ornug-outnng get ItK mime?
7. The bnndlt Is ealled "Pnnclio Villa." Of
what nnme Is "I'anclio" tho nick
name?
8. Is It easier to seo the hull of n subma
rine from the deck of n vessel or
from an aeroplane?
0. How does the distance between Dnllim,
Tex:, nnd 131 Paso, Tex., compare
with the dtstnnce twita-rcn I'lilluilcl
plila and Charleston, H.,C?
10. What Is "staircase wit"?
, Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Congressmen rnn be compelled to nt
tend sessions when u quorum Is
needed.
3. A bird is not harmed by sitting on a
"live" wire because It does not com
plete nn electric "circuit."
3. Men were smooth-shaven nnd wore their
hair In queues In Washington's timo.
4. Dogs of wnr were used to lick tho
wound of soldiers.
B. Ice Is wrapped In paper because the
latter Is n non-comltictnr of bent.
0. Chestnut and walnut nro deciduous;
spruce nnd pine, evergreen.
.7. Trance owns St. Pierre and Mlqiiclon.
8. A tinker's dam Is the mold of elay lie
builds around a hole to be tilled with
older.
0. Bolon was the lawgiver or Sparta.
10. Noncommissioned oulcers are those be
neath the rank of Junior lieutenant.
Fifty Dollar Gold Pieces
Editor of "What Do You Know" Havo
$50 gold' pieces over been struck by the
umicu niuics itiinw n. g,
Tho first nnd only time $50 gold coins
ever were struck In United States mints
was for the Fanarna-Paclflo International ex.
position. Three thousand In all wore coined
and only half of these wero subscribed for
by tho exposition company; tho remainder
are held In the San Francisco mint, but
under the law cannot be distributed because
they were not called for whllo the exposi
tion was In progress.
This Is sometimes used with the first four
lines only, ur
In the specimen given above, commencing
with "Onery, twoery, dlokery devon' "and
which has remained fresh In my memory
for four-senra veartt. a vara Kult WIMwjr
sometimes use "devil" for the last word
of the line. This was viewed by the smaller
ones as bordering on the profane 8ma"r
I shall have to omit many of 'the varla.
tlons which my collection contains as well
as remarks upcta the possible origin of thesa
ourious rhymes and their widespread us?
or the editor wll look askance at the list
In closing-1 will only refer to the pleas
ing rhyme given by Mr. Eaton respecting
tho "Three Little Mice" that ran uu th?
8,a'.i0.,.'a? M1f" Blpdget say her pray,
era." 0 thU I get a version in which but
one mouse is the actor, and the author of
the first two lines is brought before MU
B. with the Btern command to complete th
verso, which he does with the lines
Here I stand before Miss Blodget
She's going to strike and I'm going to
dodge it -
This is the more forcible, but not noarhr
actorn and all patiently wait for the Amin
..yv . yit wrru 9U(L
Police Bicycle Regulations
Editor of "What Do You Knoui" Will
you kindly publish tho completo police
regulations for the riding of a blcyclo In
the street? p,
A bfcvclo must mrrv n tlni., .
-- - - -. .its.il. .inn, uno
hour after sunset until one hour before
BunriHo. ii musi not pass n trolley car
which has stopped to let off or take on pas-
RnntrArn. Tt l-nuat nn. ,ini.l n. n .
"-"-- - ........ .,wh m,u, Mb ti tsrcuicr
Bpeed than 16 miles an hour within tho city
limits. It must be equipped with a bell
The bell must be loud enough to be heard
at a distance of 30 yards. It Is unlawful
for more than three bicyclists to ride
abreast. Riding crosswise or curving to
and fro on the highway or riding without
having control of the machine, failure to
pass to the right of a vehicle coming In
the opposite direction, or to the left of a
vehicle moylng In the same direction is
forbidden. The general traffic regulatlons
for motors and horse-drawn vehicles apply
In the case of bicycles.
What Japan Got From China
Editor of "What Do You Know" Can
you tell me briefly what Japan obtained as
a result of the ultimatum of May 7, 10157
In South Manchuria and Eastern' Mon
golia the Japanese won the privilege which
no other nation enJoyB of leasing and own.
Ing land, of free travel, residence and com.
merce. the rights of exclusively working
virtually alt valuable mines, of control of an
.w... .-. ...-.. .la.wjuuciii ana all new
railway enterprises and the renewal of d.
Port Arthur lease of the Klrln-Changchun
......-., --. - vm. aiitwimnir. far thA
trouble of capturing Tslngtao. tho Jananasa
received all the German Prerogatives in h
Kluofaow sphere, the pledge'that no ,&?
or Island on this coast would be alienated
from Chinese control, the jht t0 biM an
mportant strateglo railway from Lungkow
to a Junction with the German raiiwnV
China, was obliged to promise in nieissf
the Manyehplng Coal and Iron Company her
greatest manufacturing corwatlon! noac.
tlon tending to confiscate tW comranv n
to convert It into a State ntwrt ?o
fcaue it to borrow or to use wpaii othS
than Jananexa wm,M k. XZ?,iJ?.ine
Pledged h.rif not. to illo'w foreign nations
hLSL Bnytb" approaching" Vulval
r;r9fTerX'rVVhTtPLtl,y
pn 2 ROMJoil
xux vjiUiND WIND
Notion That Modem Amor A.
Matter of Pact I8 T?At
Natural DeatlwSomoXS
That Recall Days of Yore
. tome'd to tho Idea thai fiZ
not thrlvo in the modern field w 7"
that exotic flower drops , li 1
als at our feet wo have t ft
brush them asldo ns If thoy we 0 S b
leaves. Tho moving ta.o KSS
other day was actually discredit?'
many persons, although officially volVj
for, and received otwmi.- . ..' . ut4
of tho newspapers. Josep r unk l
ono of tho Irish rei.nio ' iUnkett M
with Pcarso and court-martlatt
It was ltnown that ho must die. hi. n.!??0 1'fl
Miss Graco Glfford, appeared 2'
mond Bafrncks and tbn . u '
Then, in tho dawn -fapoSSfi'j
of early May, Plunkett whs led 2 1
thn fir nir nnnnrl mi .... u '11 M -4
"" j-iiuiu was a muttry
order, a crash of rifles, nnd ho fell
This Is not really a rnmni,n .... . . "
ntn,lo tt.n.i.l. 1. , ... h . : . M "
mondotls one. Heal romnnn. ....
!;r ,!!. bectu,f!0 f- fc'-l
!"" "i K.iiuness wnich grows h'j
wildly In tho human iirn.- .1,0. .. ..." .
m, ,. ...:."" '.""""m 5
"' "; "' ""oiuo unit urcaaful cru,.
tlna iy niolaii .t.u. t... '
.. ... ., lu nuw, uy averting thM9
horrors at tho last minute, the full extent
ui .in wn uncuruny power. It Is only '
becauso Romance carries tho ltinJL ... :
don In Its breast nocltet timt i. .
put Its heroes in diro peril of the flrw
squad. And tho fact that thero was a
king's pnrdon In Dublin n fow ur., j
ago shows that tho sonso of romance In
London is temporarily atrophied.
Heroics in Gulps
But tho evidence is 1 Ight beforo u ln
nny papor wo pick up. Tako this, copied
qulto at random: "Thoro was a dagger at
tho bottom of tho boat. I could see the .
footprints of thrco men In tho sand. They
led away from tho boat and In the dlres.
tlon of my homo. Nearby a holo htd
been dug In tho beach, and thero I founa
a tin box bound round with cord." What'i
this? A breathless moment from Robert
Louis Stovonson? Not a bit of It. Part
of tho evldenco ln tho trial of Sir Roger
Casement In yesterday'u news dispatcher
So it would seem that tho cssenco of n
manco has been with us all along arfdw,
actually didn't tasto It because wo got
it in sucn Dig gulps.
If a pago of ancient history told 113 of
10,000,000 men fighting all over Europe we
would grow enthusiastic ovor it ns mnr.
stimulating heroics than tho tale of the' '
Spanish Armnua. But thero Is a ten-
ilnnnir tn tnln flirt tnntnm,nt-nii, n.li..llL.
a3 a drab and unplcturcsquo procedure.' '
Wo thrill over tho flashing blades of the 1
Crusaders, but speak of tho "dull routine 5
of tho trenches." Now this Idea la all
wrong. It assumes that a Mauser and a -I2-centlmctor
aro "prosaic mechanisms?
and that arquebuses and battering ramj
wero natural and unmcchnnical weapons.
But they weren't. They were highly
complex nnd bophlstlcated machines.
When it comes to tho nrosnlc. tho nrneeiu
, . . , 1 ..j.
of pounding a hole ln a wnll with a bat."
torlng ram looks stupid when compareijl
with a hostlio flight over tho North Sea, iy
It has been tho chief reproach agalnstpf
our ngo that tt has not seen the poetry-
of its own mechanisms whllo gloaunt
over tho poetry of mechanisms of old.
TVTnilnrn Invnm fenl n Inn, nf thn poMen
glow of romance on n stroll near tie
mnrlni-n nnllnrlllnt lint it nnver nreilrs to '
them that It might havo seemed prosale"-
to a pair oc itoman lovers 10 siron in mg-
clintnii, rtf fVn nnitnnt T?nmnn nntlpillirt.i'jil
Men have talked of tho pyramids of M
Egypt ns it their origin wero as poeuau '
na .Tin liiillrllnir nf nnallpa In Sn.ltn. Bnti
tho building of the pyramids Is a more1
hideous pago in tho history of Industry A
than any an I. W. W. man over wrote
of Pittsburgh blnst furnnco tollers.
Beautifying Mechanisms
It is this error which Is responsible for
such notions as tho ono expressed by an
otherwise clover man: "How absurd to
urgo a 'City Beautiful' and at the same
timo a 'Philadelphia tho Workshop of the
World!' " Tho Idea being that a workshop
cannot bo beautiful, chiefly on account of
smoke. But it is, or should be, a gen
erally known commonplace that the
smoko of Industry is wasto and abso
lutely unnecessary. It cannot only be
swept from the face of our cities with
known nnd well-demonstrated devices,
but also put to work.
Tho fundamental reason for our delW
In making modern mechanisms beautiful
Is that thoy aro too now to have earned
a literature to give them a romantic tra
dition. But that tradition is being built
. ,. ..a rvht. wnr ii
ovory ouy uciuru uui ujf. -
putting the final clincher to it To live
In a constant atmosphere of herolo deeds
Is to raise all the Implements of those
deeds to tha plane of tho heroic, B -
cause that literature 13 in 1110 jiomoiwv.
rather than tn books shoi-Id only add to
"the zest of tho romance. Jt was no ..- ,j
glorious to havo one's head strucK on ,j
. a iA nntt O AOTbH Z1B
a tieaasman oi yore mm. w - - ( ra
modern rifles and die for one's oonvlo-J
modern rifles and die for
tlons
H. Si W.
it Is har4 to Jrff at present who Is tU- g
leading Sick Mnn ot Europe. New Y0K ,
Sun. , y ,
We begin to f eoTthat Mlchlgan'a tadow- y
n.nt nt Tn.iien Huirhes has been dellvereo
to somebody else with whiskers. OraM
Rapids Press.
The Cologne Gazette says that WJlorf
ro-e ectlon (a assureu u-Hf" "'"-ir0,
matlo triumph In the submarine contro.
versy. Perhaps now Fatherland will aup
port him. St. Louis Star.
The Standard Oil Company, of, Nw VpA.
like the other fragmen s of the buW
trust, dm rainy weu w ., r-----.,-"".'.
.J. ,riv double those of tU
year before. Indianapolis News.
.- . . ' '
The average Mexican knows but
kind of law-the law of force. He reapecw
force and ho fears those in autaority J
exeralw It. Therefore, when ourOcJw
ment talks about benevolence, ao1,
ijve betterments, the end of warfare w4
the cstablUbment of paca. theMMlcfO t
only think of these things u utop ?
?eyorl of fore, and vigoroua .utoarigr.
lie noes noy uuwo.. -- - -,h ,.
ment. never having bad experience 1
or chance to learn about il Ho na PJ
kpt In dark Ignoranea. with l W
euapiciMi of avtry governmental af est '
Kausaa '!Hy- Journab