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Beware the fury of a patient
man.Dryden.
Phonetic changes: In 1912, "Ar
mageddon." In 1910, "I rnust get Inl"
Tho Hughc9 boomers now Insist
thai It Is oil over but tho shouting. And
Teddy Beema to be doing tho shouting.
English leather Is said to be In
ferior this year. Too much of tho prime
stock, has gone Into directing the war.
Why object to a cop acting as
chauffeur for tho Mayor's secretary? If
he exceeds the speed limit he can arrest
himself and save trouble.
If tho "predominance of ego" In a
man's mentality Is a sign of insanity, Im
medlatd measures for building more
asylums should be taken.
As .soon as they get a good man In
the Cabinet there begin to be rumors of
his resignation. This talk of Secretary
Lansing leaving mould sound better if
Daniels were in his place.
Wnite seems to think that if he ad
mits enough crimes he will be acquitted
on the ground of Insanity; but only sen
timental mollycoddles believe that ha
bitual criminals are irresponsible.
Professor Taft calls Mr. Roose
velt's candidacy a "violent hypothesis."
Violont Is good, but Air. Roosevelt may
jhavo tho appointment of a Supreme
Court Justice In his power after 1917.
Mr. Blankenburg wishes It to be un
derstood that if there 'is any more fight
ing1 to be done he wll not claim exemp
tion from service on account of a no. He
doubtless remembers that General von
Kluk celebrated his seventieth birthday
& day or two ago.
Apparently despairing of persuad
lner the United States to enter tho war,
Prof. Alfred Noyes has gone back to
finish up the business hlmselr. We
earnestly hope that. Mr. Noyes will make
b. more dignified showing before tho re
cruiting physician than he made before
us.
High legal authority was required
before the United States decided to pro
ceed against the 116 members of the Texas
State militia who refused to enter the
Federal service when the call was made.
The difficulties of Jurisdiction are such
that no opinion can be formed on the
merits of the case, but the circumstances
are interesting. While Texan representa
tives in Washington called for Interven
tion in Mexico, Texan guardsmen refused
to serve. While the Hay-Chamberlain
bill, with Its almost fatuous trust In the
availability of tho Guard under any cir
cumstances, was on Its final passage the
guardsmen of a State directly Involved
refused to protect the country. Their ac
tion is injurious to tho prestlgo of the
Guard, but It is not important' enough
to discredit a great Institution. Its im
portance Is solely as a symptom which
Congress might have taken for eranted.
It means that an adequate arm of defense
cannot be improvised or hocus-pocused
out of a body which is organized for a
different purpose.
At Old Forge, near Scranton, a sig
nificant labor situation is developing.
Union men are being coerced and threat
ened (o quit work an extraordinary re
versal of the usual attitude. The change
Is due to that strange and disquieting
factor, tho Industrial Workers of the
World. To them the union is as much
of a scab as the nonunion man is' to the
unionist. The conflict of the two or.
ganlzatlons wll bring Into high relief cer
tain cardinal points In the relation of
capital to labor. It cannot be stated too
often that fundamentally the American
Federation of Labor believes In the possK
blllty of an, equable arrangement, while
the I. W. W. believes that all arrange
ments play the laborers false and, that the
relation of employer and employe Is
-essentially wrong; The A, F", of L. ad
tieres. to the tenet spoken some, years be.
fore its formation, that the laborer Is
worthy of hi, hire, and seeks to gain his
ftilj hire. Thet 1, W. W. definitely be
Uevea that tho entire principle of hire an5"
.ejremc Is vicious, immoral and doomed to
repudiation, ' -' J
The raising of ?ha ljral on the
waount that may be deposited by a single
jrwn In the postal savins hanks, is a
Irtbuta to the thrift of those -who tust
th Government with their savings! The
old rn allowed the deposit of ndt more
tfoeves S180 in a month, Now there Is na
A fptf m the sfceof iBga deposit wjth-
.- IB Huu amount aiioweu. xae amount
; firyMgW' Sh only half this sum. The
N-alkterf' Aaitcsttars art) nersona of fnrplirn
fc&zffc, who. bve not be&n la the United J
Minle long enough lb learn that Itere
&.re fcrlvatefy manaffod feavlngrf banks
which can bo trusted with their money.
Tho balance dn deposit In tho postal banks
of thd whole country grow from $43,400,
000, bn June 30, 1914, lo $65,600,000 on
Juno So, 1916, although there hnd been
new deposits amounting to $70,000,000
during tho year. Tho withdrawals
amounted to $48,000,000. Postmaster
Thornton says that there, is now more
than $80,000,000 on. deposit throughout tho
country, or a net lncreaso of $16,000,000.
Jo one entertains any doubts about tho
Wisdom of opening tho postofflces to re
celvo the savings of tho thrifty.
WHEnT AM BOSS"
Nation nml tnditatrlt are coverned
liy ollnnrclilfli, rtn In Amotion, not li
rnuftfi tlio pooplo nrr liept from oxproa
Inn tlirlr opinion, bnt hoc ttae ao few of
Itiem hare nn opinion to expreM.
THERE Is a superstition that obsti
nately survives to tho effect that tho
average man has and can hovo no ap
preciable effect on tho cottrso of events
save when his voto Is counted. He writes
something on a slip of paper, in his club,
lit his association or In tho civic balloting
place, drops It Into a box nnd says:
"There I I hftVo had my say, Today, for
once In my year of Insignificant toll, I
register my opinion." As a matter of
fact, If ho only knew it, ho could voto
every day.
There Is another superstition, that tho
world Is full of people clamoring to ox
press concrete Ideas on every question of
Importance and that kings, presidents
nnd employers have to wear car-tabs If
they would listen for a moment to their
own thoughts. Hut the very men wlio
foster the superstition rarely express
their own convictions to nny moro re
sponsible potentate than the nearest bar
tender. ,11 boifs down to this, that "the man of
Ideas" tells you what ho will do when ho
Is boss, but as'lt will bo some tlmo bo
foro ho becomes boss, he sees no reason
why he should mako fils-Ideas adapt
themselves to and clearly determine some
Important nnd Immediate Issue. Nb, no
his schemo Is too good for that. Ho can
do nothing dollnlto until full power has
been reposed In his hands.
Nearly every moMon that Is made In
tho Parliament of Man Is carried by de
fault. It Is carried by the few determined
men with strong opinions. The rest fol
low. It was not Dcsmoullns,. Danton or
Robespierre who made tho French Revo
lution, but Rousseau, with his little pam
phlet, which stated an opinion very
clearly:'. The pamphlet rends rnther
tritely now. - AH tho great things, re
marks George Miredlth, are trite. The
Colonel never quailed before tho charge
that he had discovered "the Ten Com
mandments. Ho felt complimented. Cut
It Is that which makes so many of us
hate to express nn opinion because it
sounds stale, because some great m.m h.is
already expressed It." We prefer to see
what queer notions we are capnb.e of con
ceiving about business or politics to show
our "originality" "Don't take me too
seriously," we add; "I may be wrongi"
And then along como two sturdy, common-sense
and clearly thought-out,
though trite, opposing programs, and ivj
meekly subscribe to one of ttwm. For
the big men never say they may bo
wrong. Before wo are capable of dis
agreeing with a great man we mustlcarn
to be original enough to agree with a
great, man. It Is positively refreshing
sometimes to hear a man with the cour
age to state plain, qld-fashloned axioms
among men whose opinions are formed
by the same motion with which they open
their mouths.
A case In point occurred during a "sui
cide epidemic" of students several years
ago. A professor told tho student body
that It was wrong to commit suicide.
Many thought he had uttered a futile
commonplace. They had Qllkeil of "over
work." "difficult courses," "Insanity," etc.
But the professor hit tho null on the
head. Suicide was not crazy or ugly, but
Just plain wrong. And It Is true that
there are thousands of men worrying
about complicated routes to success In
life without ever having decided the basic
question whether they were firmly re
solved tq hold on to that life even If it
should face disaster.
Opinions nre life-savers. Right opin
ions, even In a wild world, are keeping
that wild world fairly tamo, most of the
time. They can only be built upon defi
nite faith, and they and not cannon are
the. only things that can send wrons
opinions to oblivion. Two oligarchies, one
composed of a feve good men with opin
ions and the other of a few bad men with
opinions, fight to run the scheme of
things. One does not wait to be boss to
have opinions. Whim ono has real opin
ions he is boss.
MILITANT PACIFISTS
ARDENT nnd unconfessed propagan-
Xi dlsts for defense are meeting in
Washington today under the name of the
League to Enforce Peace. Founded In
this city a year ago, the league has dis
tinguished Itself above many others,
pacifist and militarist, by sanity of Judg
ment, by moderation of tone and by the
distinguished men it has called to lead and
direct it. Tonight the President Is to
speak. Yesterday Mr. Taft, president of
the league, restated the principles upon
which the work is to be done.
It is good to have peace spoken of al
ways, and It is better to find men who are
willing to fight for it. Mr, Taft spoke of
the constitutionality of a treaty by which
the United States would be expected to
Join its forces against any nation violat
ing the treaty. The Constitution has
never stood in the way of an honorable
peace. The strange points made by Oscar
8. Straus are moro, disquieting. Mr.
Straus Justly Bays that large armaments
have failed to preserve peace, but his Im
plication that reduced armaments would
b. successful is unwarranted. From the
Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace cam? Prof. John Bates Clark, to
speak on the perplexities of new balances
and new combinations after the war.
There Js probably less of a universal lust
for conquest and territory today than ever
before in the world's history. Ther is
certainly lew than there was a year ago,
Tho League to Enforce Peace needs only
tq enforce the lessons of the war in order
to accomplish Its purpose. iAs things
stand, It is exhilarating: to se. men intent
on peace able to speak of it without sen
tlmentallsm or cowardice. The principle
of the league may be visionary, but ilta
principals certainly are not, '
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Tom Daly's Column
JUST SOME VIEWS OF THE WORLD
1 Otlt VlLLAOK rOKT.
Whenever it's a Baturdav and CJeon-ip
IVcefc I through
1 like to walh on Ohcatnut street to sec
ichat news is new;
Because I know I'm toioid io find some
dead files in the ointment. t"
That is to say, t'm sure to feet a iense of
disappointment .,
At how Mtj elou-ci!lcn had failed io
do their duty
To clean up all the ugliness an' fill the
town with beauty;
An' if there's one thing In this world that
gives me Joy, my brothers, ,
It's fcelin' disappointment at the careless'
ncss of others.
Indeed (if you can understand a phrase
so double-Jointed)
I'd sure be disappointed if I wasn't dts-
oppolnfcrf.
An' 1 am not , the only one so minded
morc's the pltyt
Vor there arc lots of others who would
hate (o see the city .
Grow suddenly so beautiful you'd hardly
recognize her,
Or probably mistake her for a prize burg
of the Kaiser.
It wouldn't be like home at all if Penrose,
let us say,
Should keep his otvn dcrncd sidewalk
clean an' less attention pay
To chuckin' mud an' brickbats at the
Tares across the way.
It wouldn't be like home If these Athletics
or the Phillies
Should clean up every game they played;
why, gosh I we'd have the willies,
An' all my gambling friends would lay
their bets an' make a slaughter
An' gather coin enough to do the decent
thing they oughtcr
Invite me off of Chestnut street to have
cr soda water.
A score or more I have In mind who
ought to do that same,
But just these few, as clean-up men, are
quite enough to name:
C. Clinton, Billy Connor, Frank O'Don-
ncll, Dr. Munyon,
lrv. Cobb, P. Staples, Charlie Beck, B.
George and Damon Jlunyon.
Xor ivouhl thh little burg of ours be quite
the homelike place
If all the warring elements cleaned up
the Transit case,
Agreeing on each single point, for good,
beyond a doubt,
An' leaving not one blessed thing for folks
to talk about.
I'm strong for Moderation and the clean
sers get in Dutch
With me, if in their frenzy they go tdpln'
up too much;
An' so I'm gad on Saturday, when Clean
up Week is through,
To walk on Chestnut street an' find that
not, much news is new.
STRANGE! We worried those lines out
of our system yesterday on the train,
that terrible all-day train, from Erlo to
I'lilladelphla, and when wo got to our
dosk last night we found this In our mall:
I wish that I were bossing clean-up
week in this here town, for If 'twero so
I know a dozen guys or more I'd clean up
good. There's one who on the 'phone says.
1 am looking well, and two or three whb
come and tnke my time when I am busy
nnd whin I'm lonely never conje around.
Ami there's the wop who says' "I seen
yer' Just after you have walked with
Auntie on the street," and tho architect
who asks for sixty alternate proposals,
and tho sick golfer, and the golfer whose
home course is the best In the world and
ho who learns a new way to grip his club
every week-end nnd can smoke only ono J
nranci ot cigarette aim discovers tno ulti
mate cocktail every week, nnd the
"sports" writer who hns ,nn interview
with Connie Mack every day, and the one
who "stages" every old event, but say
I'm not writing your whole column, so
Just add Bryan, Penrose, Rapid Transit,
the Public Iiuiidlngs, tho telephone serv
ice, women's suffrage and multi-colored
shoes, floorwalkers, long grnss on golf
courses, weather reports and yourself nnd
let it go nt that. S. P. Q. II.
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OUR CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Congressman J. Hampton Moore on Barge Routes and Waterways
for Defense A Disagreement With Ellen
Adair Other Topics
We Have Yet to Sec
I.
A man who takes cold baths nnd
doesn't talk about It. F. J. S.
A dining-car waiter who can keep his
eyes off you when you're eating water
melon. D.
W(Z HAD meant yesterday to credit Jim
EInmman with nn assist In that "raisc-i-our-
right hnnd-for Charlie - Hughes"
wheeze In this pilaster of Polyphony, but
the official scorer will please give him nn
error instead. With the innato Ins&uclance
of the born artist, he made all them right
hands lefts.
For some reason the above note, which
was to have gone In Thursday's column,
was lost In the composing room. Mean
time, lots of folks have been guying us.
, NEW VOMK. 5!ay St. Mlus Kathleen Burke.
Hcottlflh n-jrst-. who haa served on several Kuro
pean battlefields has been decorated by three
iountrle tor her services In the war. Krl
Dispatch.
Scottish? Hoot, mon! "Como back to
Erin, Mavourneen, Mavourneen!"
J'EV
on
ER notice tho fellows who stand
any of tho corners of Broad and
Chestnut, who talk together mysteriously
and every bo often look hungrily up at
the windows of a certain office building?
We understand that some of them,
recently, have been telling each other this
story, but they don't mention any names:
"Is the boss In tils office?" asked the
office-seeker, who had Just arrived,
"Yes," snapped the other one, who had
Just been turned down.
"Do you think I could get an audience
with him?"
"Yes. you might, if you put him on
exhibition In a dime museum as a Double
Faced Man."
OXE COUFOItriNGTIIOUailT
As long as bulls ana bears endure.
To deal each other shocks,
give heartfelt thanks If you're too poor
To worry over stocks.
Trouble Ahead
WE DON'T want to particularize, al
though this Is a true story. The
senior partner's name Is John and the
Junior's William. Maybe you know 'em
Anyway this is what happened:
John "The bookkeeper has asked for
a raise."
William "Of course you turned him
down."
John ''N-o-.o-o, not Anally, You see
he says he's going to get married."
William "O! Well all right, give it to
him."
John "That's what J thought of doing.
I'm glad you agree wth me."
WHllam'Sure. It's all' right After
he's good and married we can take It
away from him."
Bnimdnj.
THE BARGE LINE TO NEW YORK
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir Tho now freight barge lino between
Philadelphia and New York, via the Dela
ware and Rarltan Canal, Is a concrete ex
nmplo of the utility of Inland waterways,
which ought to have a wholesome Influence
upon tho commercial world.
What are the facts? Therallroads be
tween Now York and Philadelphia have
been unablo to meet the demand on them.
Manufacturers and business men have re
sorted to every known means of transport
ing .their goods to meet the requirements of
their customers. The Eastern ports have
beei like tho mouths of funnels, through
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t,..in nnurlmr. Naturally, under such cir
cumstances, there Is congestion, with re
sultant embargoes upon freight. Such
transportation auxiliaries as the Delawaro
nnd Raritan Canal and the Chesapeake and
Delawaro Canal musit be resorted to under
these circumstances. Hut this Is only the
commercial side of the question.
Consider the preparedness sfde. The
canal, 33 miles long from the Delaware to
the Rarltan, Is capable of carrying vessels
drawing but seven feet of wntjr. There are
13 locks In this canal, which cut down tho
running time to 14 hours between tho two
cities. While this antiquated transportation
bystcm Is now Invoked for commercial pur
poses, because there Is nowhero else to go,
not even a submarine of the United States
Navy could pass through that canal. The
same condition prevails between tho Dela
ware and Chesapeake bays, except the
Chesapeake and Delawaro Canal has fewer
locks and Is deeper Approximately 1.000,
000 tons of freight Is now forcing Its way
through the Cliesapeako and Delaware
Canal. Advocates of inland waterways have
been urging Congress to open up or recon
struct these canals and mako them free.
They ought to be highways for tho people's
commerce. In the event of war they would,
with their present limitations, bo a posltivo
menace to the nation, since they would
block nny strategy attempted by tho navy
in the movement of ships between the great
ports nnd navy yards.
In this brief statement you have the two
sides of the Inland waterways question. Wo
have agitated It for a number of years,
often to find that many of the people who
need thet Improvements most are fre
quently at the head of the procession cry
ing "Pork."
The opening UP of the new barge line be
tween Philadelphia and New York Is proof
of the contentions of Eastern waterways
men as to their commercial Importance,
We are extending barge lines to the Soutn,
also, and a great business Is being de-
eloped for the port of Philadelphia In
barges on Inland waterways as far ns
North Carolina, but depths and widths are
limited and channels must be maintained
It costs money to do this, but' considering
the trade that Is held up because It Is not
done, and our neglect of the country's de
fenses along the coatt line, the expenditure
for these waterways would be ft mere baga
telle compared with tho 1750,000,000 which
this Congress has already appropriated." or
Is preparing to appropriate, for enterprises
more or less paternalistic
In the area of the 13 original States,
where we have -10 per cent, of the popula
tion, where we ha.ve 53 per cent, of the
wage-earners, and produce 55 per pent, of
the manufactures of the whole country, we
do business on 32 Pr cent, of the rail
road mileage of the United States.
And yet, If we had Improved waterways,
we would do a greater business for the
railroads, us well as for all other lines of
commercial and Industrial activity, and w
would especially benefit the farmer, who has
use for the waterways In getting to market.
J, HAMPTON MOORE.
Washington. P. C. May 25.
UNPUNISHED CRUELTY TO HORSE
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir An affair took place at 5:25 p. nx
Friday on Snyder avenue that needs some
careful studying. I don't have to remind
you how it rained an hour previous, but
Imagine a driver beating a horse with a
club because the dumb animal could not get
the wagon Btarted, which happened to be
a Junk wagon loaded to HI utmost. As the
driver was continually striking the horse,
an tldtrly woman who had Just alighted
from the .Snyder avenue car noticed this
and tried to reason with him. Soon a
crowd gathered, and It could be seen that
If the driver struck that animal again he
would not be handled with gloved hands.
An officer happened to be passing at the
tun. and he was signaled by the driver
to como over. Firt the woman told the
bright (?) officer how tho Ignorant driver
had continually beat "man's friend," nnd
tho policeman took it all In. Tho driver
then explained how he only held the club
to frighten tho horse nnd that ho had not
yet struck It. Shouts from the crowd told
the "cop" that tho truth had not been
spoken, yet It had as much effect on tho
"protective genius" as telling Ford that ho
hasn't a clmnco to become our President.
To tho surprise of all, the "smart pollce
n.an" advised tho woman to be on her way
ai d told the driver to go about his busi
ness. The woman refused to depart unless the
driver was censured so that tho horse would
bo beaten no more, but the "clevor city re
cipient of $3 per day" told her If sho did
not move ho would arrest her. Tho woman
then marched away defeated, but not dis
graced. - ABE MEYERS.
Philadelphia, May 25.
DISAGREES WITH ELLEN ADAIR
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir As a rulo, people can always see
Just what they wish to see or what they
purposely go out to see. People who. can
Impartially treat men and things and con
ditions in a time of war are mighty few.
Sometimes they throw nil evidence to one
side and dcscrlbo things Just as they woutd
wish them to be. This Is what Ellen Adair
has done.
Her articles in the Evening Ledger nre
a gross libel on the Irish people. The fact
Is so evident as to make It almost need
loss to contradict. She would surely win
distinction us a Castle witness. I am Borry
sho omitted to give the name nnd address
of that old woman who was riddled by
Sinn Fein bullets while trying to cross a
street In Dublin. Perhaps she will send
It on later. Tho actions of the chiefs of
tho revolution In Dublin give the lie to
most nil such assertions of indiscriminate
shooting. Ornnge newspapers from Belfast
to hand also contradict such statements.
Only men In tho King's uniform were shot
at. Tho revolutionists had their doctors
nnd nurses on hand, who attended to friend
and too alike. The story about tho Sinn
Fclners who dropped their rifles for garden
rakes while some soldiers were passing Is,
well, something other than the truth. Gar
den rakes are, let me say, not the easiest
thing to pick up around an Irish farm
house. This is Just Imaginative padding,
like the story of the priest nnd bis beads,
the speckled trout and the apple blossoms.
She forgot all about ThjS. cuckoo and tho
corncrake. In times of'trtress the cobbler
should stick to his last.
There Is, however, no need for war cor
respondents to weep for Ireland. It would
be much better If they told the truth about
the country If they tried to discover the
underlying causes of the outbreak and did
Justice to the noble band of Intellectual
men who offered up their lives that the
spirit of Ireland might live, and to prove to
nil mankind that Ireland can never be rec
onciled tp the British Empire.
Ireland does' not need to belong to Eng
land to bo prosperous. Why should ire
land be everlastingly paying tribute to Eng.
land op to any ona else?
PADRAIC LAGAN.
Philadelphia, May 26.
WHO CARES FOR GOLF?
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir Will you please satisfy a gc&d many
of your readers as to why you devote so
much space to the so-called game of golf.
There are possibly two hundred persona In
this city who are Interested or pretend to
be Interested In this so-called game, com
posed mostly of men In their senility or
callow-headed youths qt both sexes. The
objecf of the game seems to be to drive a
small ball about 'the slie of a large marble
as far as possible. Each player has a bag
of sticks with a piece of bone on the end.
and though the sticks are precisely alike
they call each one by a pet name, the
Brassy, the Mashle. the, Stlmmy, the Cleek,
the Foursome and the Bunker and other
little pet names that remnd one of a little
child's tea party. The persons who play this
game formerly indulged In the strenuous
and exciting ssm of croquet and Imagined
they were regular eporta J. a W
1 Philadelphia, May 27.
The EVENJHO Ledoer prints golf news
bcau thousands of Its readers are. Inter
et,ted in it About 50QQ applications have al
ready been made for permission to use the
new public course In Cobb's Creek Park
There are probably 25,000 golf players In
meiriKim -uwtnnu.T-iiw)r tivsN- I lowed, culminating
u.f f.ffilUlBILl r. ,, , II
What Do You Know?
Queries of general Interest will be an
swered In this column. Ten questions, the
answers to which every well-informed
person should know, are asked dally.
1.
QUIZ
States are there In the
How mnny
Union?
2. What is meant by tho word "pour
parlers," which has occurred in dis
patches about the Kuropenn war?
3. What and where Is the largest tree In
the world?
4, What is the reason for bellevlnjr that
the moon Is not Inhabited?
5, About what proportion of the world's
copper Is produced In the United
Stales?
0. Did any mart) who' received the noml
, nation for the Vice Presidency de
1 cllne to run?
7. What Is the referendum?
8. Whnt Is meant by the "brldje" of a
ship?
0. Was "Itoblnson Crusoe" merely n char
acter at fiction, or hnd he an "origi
nal" In life?
10. What stream forms part of the western
boundary of Philadelphia?
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Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Dreyfus was nccused of betraying- mili
tary secrets to Germany.
2. Tho plural of "court-martial" Is "courts-
martial."
3. The lute Is an obsolete stringed In
strument.
4. In Germany behendlng with the nx Is
still ii method of execution.
5. Orlentalou Is the determination of the
points of the compass from the ob
server's standpoint. Originally It
was the nrrnnnlng of a church so
that the chancel faced the east.
0. Itococo architecture; n debnsed style, In
which the ornamentation Is without
principle nnd Is too lnvlsh.
7. Madrid, Home nnd Constantinople are
In about the same latitude us Phila
delphia. 8. "Hobson's choice" Is no choice nt nil)
brine compelled to "choose" when
there Is only one thing to take.
0. Market street was formerly known as
Illch street.
A two-thirds vgte Is required to nomi
nate) In .Democratic conventions! a
majority In Itepubllcan conventions.
Plymouth Rock
BcWor of "What 'Do You fnois" Kindly
tell me If there Is any monument nt Plym
outh Rock, or Is tho spot where the Pilgrims
landed uncared for? q, v. B.
Plymouth Bock Is appropriately cared for.
On the hill nearby rises a fine monument. It
Is said that the statue of Faith which
crowns this monument and which Is -10 feet
high. Is the largest stone figure In. the
world.
A Henry James Story
L. B; M. Henry James Is the author of
the story, 'The Turn of the Screw,"
Facts About Nlliillam
JJdlfor of '"What Do You Knou"- Will
you please trace for me some of the leading
facts In the history of Nihilism in Russia?
T E. S.
The movement began early In the Iflth
century. In 1818 an association was formed
by those who sought greater freedom for
the working classes. In December. 1825 oc
curred the celebrated rising of the Decern
brlsts among officers and soldiers of the
army, which aimed at the emancipation of
the serfs and a constitutional government
The revolt was easily quelled, jn 1849
about 30 men were arrested and Imprisoned
They belonged to an association formed by
Petrashevsky, an official of the Foreign
Office. In 1857 Alexander Hertxen founded
In London his Journal. Kolokol (the Tocsin)
which had enornvnts influence upon the Rusl
slan youth. In Ilussla at this time arose
the literary movement led by Tchernlahev
sky, which sought to arouse the people
Organizations sprang up In the universities'
among the .students, n y,e next Uw ye'
Between 1860 and 1870 true Nihilism devel.
oped. Its fundamental principle was abso
lute Individualism, the negation of duties
Imposed by family, state and rellgloa in
1868 Bakunln started a paper at Geneva
and became the leader of the anarchists,
who got control of the movement In
1873-4 some. 1500 persons were arrested
In 1877 1$S were sent to Siberia. Nearly
4000 were arrested and tried iq the next
two years. Assassination, was taken tup In
1878, when General llezentseff was killed
in Petrograd Other assaulnatlona fol
ia me KUllug of the
Czar Alexander II In 1881,
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WHAT BECAiMm1
She Sailed for New York Fro
Charleston and thQ pate n,
of the Ship Is Still
' a Mystery
"TESS than a fortnight ng, y0Ur , )j
v... ,a uu Juy ana i, - t,,..( r-
boy Is gone-forever dead and gone!"
-" uiun, uuerea in a lett.. i VI
her father. ColnnM a J .mt'-M
Theodosta Alston, wife of the yZ8 rt
ernor of South Carolina, bewailed thYX.
that httd matched nway her only lu
Aaron, a lad of 11 years. From hbtaJ
years' exile, following hi, treason $?
Colonel Burr had but lately landed ii'
Now York, Impatient to see his moth."
less daughter and solo offspring! Learn'
lng that sho had collapsed as a $
of her child's death, Burr sent hi. .,?';
friend. Timothy Oreen, to Charleston!
with a letter, Instructing Mrs. Alston M
w " ,"" ... .,"JW. "r,t: peU4j
o, ,u.,T uiu icuviiib mo mate during hl
tenure, Governor Alston reluctantly conJ
eenteu to tne arrangement. So tho beaoj
uiui Miicuuosia, onco tno belle of Newl
York town, was placed, bag and baggawS
aboard tho pilot boat Patriot. whleSl
passed out over Charleston bar on Decenvl
oor ju, ibiz. Accompanying the melat$
;iiu,j. iuj veiu mi) ureen, nor physician
several servants, Boveral chests filled whh1
costiy lommino iinery nnd some sald-
reccnt portrait of herself, to be presented !
During tho first weok of the r.ew year '
Colonel Burr commenced his ylgll a,t tne,"'
New York harbor rront. Day after .day
tho dapper Uttlo man could bo seen pacing '
tho Battery, pausing now and then to " ;
scan tho lower bay In search for1 the 71
Tafrlnt. TVivn InnirtVinnort ! ..i fiflB
Then, realizing tho hopelessness of hlaJi
vigu, no crieu uui in aespair:
"Sho is dead! Thug Is severed the lasK.'.,
tlo that binds mo to my klndr
Neither the Patriot, nor tho beautiful
Thcodosla, nor any of her fellow passeij'
gers wero over seen or heard of again.'1
Thus befell tho' great tragic climax In the
lifo of America's foremost dramatic figure, ''&
Aaron Burr.
Pirates' Conflicting Confessions -Almost
from tho momerit of the Pa-,
triors aisappearnnco uiuru urosq persist..- ;
ent rumors that sho had been boarded by'
pirates and that Theodosla had been borne
awnv Into cantlvltv. After Colonel Burr's
death two ovll shore pfrates were cap-
tured nnd brought to Norfolk, where,
whllo in irons awnltlng execution, they
confessed that, with other "bankers," tity
had used, falso lights to luro the Patriot,
upon' tho rocks at Nag's Head, North
Carolina and thnt. nfter blindfolding all.'
of tho passengers and crew, they had!"
made them walk tho plank. This evidence ,
was later complicated by the deathbed
confession if a grizzles sailor In Texai '
who stated that he, with other members
of tho Patriot's crow, had mutinied, muiv$
dered tho ship's olncers ana maae all of '
tho passengers walk the plank. Dramatic
Incidents of Mrs. Alstons last moment!
were dilated upon by this shameless rover.
of the sea.
A further complcatl6n of the mystery
was yet to come. Shortly after the fl!
War, Dr. "W. O. Pool, of Elizabeth City,
N. C, while staying at Nag's Head, ws
called to tho hut of a poor woman, who,'
In crntitude for hla treatment, offered him'
his choice of many relics adorning hw..,).,
home. The physician selected nn oil por
trait of a handsome woman, which huni;',
upon the wall, and which seemed strange-',
ly out of keeping Tlth its surroundings.
Pressed for its history, the old woman rt-u;
lated that at about the time ofLthe War'
of 1812, ner nusDanu nau Deen one ui vuu
wreckers to board a pilot boat thai came
ashore nt Nag's Head. To all who saw ltvft
this craft had been a great mystery, for
she had been abandoned and sent adrift
with all of her sail Bet and her rudder jjw
lashed against her stern. Nowhere upon'
hnr wim tn he found blood or other evi
dence of violence or struggle. In thi, ,
cabin tho tnble was all set for a meal,
which was evidently breakfast, for thS'J
beds had not yet been made up. Although
chests nnd other baggage had been brokem ,
open, tho booty had. not been carried
. .,' ,., n .na air-A-crn with
away, lor uie cuum uuui ..., cm
silk dresses, lace shawls and other arti-.
clcs of value. Including the portrait whicn
she had JUBt given the physician. Many
who subsequently viewed this picture pro
nounced It a striking likeness to portraits
nt Thnndosla Burr.
A Body AVnshed Up by the Sea , jM
The mystery or Mrs. Alstons w .,--
rrmrtn -tin rinnner. onlv recently, when h
.. ... i r , -r m9d,. 8"
A. Elliott, a resiaeni oi minium, ,- Ks
a written statement concerning a corpwv.
which early In 1813 had washed up on
the lonely beach of cape unanw. -ji
ui thnt nt n wnmnn. showing eK,e
depecs qt unusual wealth and refinement.
Before the stranger was uuneo. m. i
nearby farm of Mr. Elliott's uncle, three;
fingers were, cut from the wt n-"". -j.
i. . i..i,i hinn thereon might S"
saved, And it Is related that this acW
mutilation so preyed upon me ...-
. cint0 mint as to have a prenaiat
effect upon .her daughter, horn :
months later, with tnese vc - -
missing. ...in'S
.uo nil nt these confeMlonfJ
and statements contain elements oWffl
certain questions remam w ;-'".
... on ,i hids that still strive
solve the riddle of Mrs. Alston's MfP 4
nnce. As that lady was in a P""'""" -..
n v,nndsome ransom, and ss ne.
was a Toman of great physical W
why ahould her captors have "d b
to a death, that could profit them nothtnjfT
laces and such articles aboard th . Prtrtg ,
Why did tWW--, lt
thus hide au ev a n .. r;r
tne Bea uiu , - - . , ,rck M
came pf her? Why did no tellUto HI
age ever wash up on any v Hnr-' !
Is the patriot had been PrtwteeiW
In the war. some profpssea pen- "--
British had sunk her- But. " "" rr.fl
women and children, at least, wouI4. P"l
ably have hen rescued.
Some have suspected that the N
.... i. i,Irvflf that woman0 '
r?Tw "'T s ' .Female Stranger". A
who, at' about the time pf our Wr , A
. -,. r j.-i. imiiaii Ti-niri a u- -
Alexandria. Ya.. there to be kept hiddd
la an Jnrt until her death.
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