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rbiUddphU. Thoridsy, June 1, 191S.
They that govern the most make
the least not tt. John Selden.
A. man named Saorbco Xlsowrddes
ought not to bo an assassin; ho ought to
be an Interpreter.
If Great Britain had even two
Ltoyd-Gcorges oho would notnecd 5,000
000 men under arms.
It is just as cheap to keep clean
as it was before tho war. Tho prlco of
BOap lias not gono up.
"What a pity tho so-called "Ginger
party" in tho British Parliament can't in
ject a littlo of it into tho army.
Bourko Cochran has professed be
lief in many conflicting political doctrines,
but he has remained an Irishman through
all.
Tho American dollar is now said to
he the standard of tho world. As is the
case with most standards, wo fall to
reach It.
Thero may bo a better political re
porter than Bam Blythe, but ho has not
yet been discovered. Mr. BIytho will re
port both of tho great conventions for
tho Evening Tjedqv.ii.
Georgo n L. Meyer pointed a
lrnlng linger at Hughes and said that
tho Republicans could not accept a man
on falUi. Sevoral jther candidates would
have to bo accepted on hope and charity.
Senator Penrose may absent him
self at pleasure from Washington, but it
Is not recorded that ho stays away from
national conventions. "When a man can.
not make tariffs 1iq is interested in making
candidates.
Let's see, wasn't it Theodore Roose-
ivolt who was shouting for tho recall of
Judges four years ago? It was, yet we
notice no great enthusiasm on his part
over tho proposal to recall Justlco Hughes
to the, service of tho party.
In this period of ultimatums It
appears that wo are in receipt of one
from Carranza, or something like an ulti
matum. Tho more we fool with Irre
sponsible, fly-by-nlght bandits, tho more
trouble we got into. The soro has been
poulticed long enough.
When pemaratus was asked whether
he held nls tongue because he was a
fool or for want of words, he replied,
'A, fool cannot hold his tongue." Plu
tarch. Respectfully submitted to the at
tention of those who are clamoring about
tho offlco of a certain Supreme Court
Justice.
The roast heef of old England
raised nowadays chiefly on the American
prairies Is getting so scarce that the
Government is considering the wisdom of
taking possession of all the meat and
dealing it put in rations. It begins to
look; as Jf Hunger would be the harbinger
of peace.
One pt the most important peace
Utterances of recent months is contained
In the statements made by Count Tisza,
the Hungarian Premier, tdCarl W. Ack
rrnan, which appeared in the Evening
Jedgjih yesterday, 'The Count remarked
that when the war began the Allies talked
about dismembering the Central Empires
and dividing their lands, but that the
Central Empires had no idea of dismem
bering other nations. "We are fighting a
defensive war," said he, "It ls-eaay for
mi to make peace at any time," he added.
When the- Allies are ready the Central
Empires are ready, but ho doe not find
the. Allies In anjs jnopd. to face the condl-
without the recognition of which
there can be no permanent peace.
NO BOLTING, COLONEL!
Itooaarelt la lid fore the eonnlry n a
JIPobllcnn, become the l'rogreaolro
1'orlr In now an rmptr nome. . He
maftt Abjure the right lo boll, for a
forced nomination would epfll Repub
lican defeat. ,
p OOSEVEiVr faces the supremo test of
J.V a splendid career. It la not a test
of strength, but a test of honor. It Is not
a tost of his grasrl of tho International
situation, but of his grasp of tho national
situation. It is a test of his loyalty to
the Itopubttcan party and to Republican
principles.
His power to nnmo the candldato lies,
according to tho candid admission of
many of his followers, In his power to
bolt. There was an unselfish excuso for
his bolt of .Tune, 1012, because n well,
defined party hart formed about tho In
surgent leaders well-defined from the
Republican party long before Roosevelt
came back from Africa. Roosevelt slm.
ply took tho Insurgent party and rcchrls
toned It the I'rogrosslvo party. This In
surgent (or Progressive) party was doomed
to oxtlnctlon, because tho Republican
party learned Its lesson and mado its fu
ture tho more uocuro by adopting and as
similating thoso features of tho movement
which wero good. This Is tacitly admitted
by Mr. Roosovelt In his falluro to reassert
with omphasls cither tho good nr bad
features of his 1913 platform. Ho hai
swept clear tho decks for something new.
If ho thought such faulty Idealisms as tho
recall of Judicial decisions wore popular
mandates, ho may liavo been justified In
responding to them. But thcro is no party
now which demands such things, nnd
tli or o Is no longer any significant vcstlgo
of tho La Folletto Insurgency. Tho Re
publican party Is reunited on tho two
great Issues of tho tariff and prepared
noss, and tho rank and fllo who bolted In
1912 aro now so sobered by a realization
of tho importance of theso Issues as to
make bolting seem to them a treachery
that would bo either unpatriotic or utter
madness.
Then what of this cry that "Roosovelt
may bolt"? What Is thoro to bolt from?
What Is thero to bolt to? You cannot
Volt from a Republican party that ac
cepts your vIpws to a Progressive party
that exists only In namo. What is this
Issue between Mr. Roosovelt on tho one
hand and Justlco Hughes, Mr. Burton,
Mr. Weeks, Mr. Root on tho other? 13 it
tho tariff, preparedness, Americanism? Is
Justlco Hughes not a good American?
Is Mr. Burton against a protectlvo tat iff?
Is Mr. Root against ptoparedness? They
aro sound on all theso Issues. Mr. Rooso
volt's ono point of differentiation 13 his
powerful personality. Ho thinks tho
"country Is calling for a groat leader and
ho has tho flno courage to say ho believes
ho Is that leader.
Roosovelt as such a leader simply in
Americanism Is a magnificent exponent
of vlrllo Americanism. But ho Is not tho
composlto American ho Is not American
ism personified. Ho cannot oven bo said
to be the typical American. There Is tho
slow but suro, close-mouthed Now Eng
landcr ho is a fine Amorican, too. Thero
Is tho Southerner and his typo of chival
rous idealism, dlffeient from Roosovelt,
but a great American, too. Thero aro tho
men of Scandinavian extraction In tho
North Central States, tho men of German
extraction In tho Mlddlo West they are
all very different from Roosovelt, but good
Americans all tho same. Roosovelt is a
good American. Hughes Is a good Amer
ican. Tho nation will have a great and,
in a broad sense, a typically American
President if either of them becomes Pres
ident. It is, therefore on solid American
grounds, up to Roosovelt, to let a repre
sentative convention make its own choice
of what It considers tho best "typical"
American without allowing his moro fer
vent followers to hold over that conven
tion tho "fake" club of a possible bolt
of a possible third-party movement. For
It Is a "fako" club. If Roosovelt Is nom
inated by a convention that really wants
him ho may win. If he Is accepted by a
convention daunted by a "fake" threat,
he will go down to defeat In the ruins
-of a party. For tho Amorican peoplo will
not stand for such "fakes."
Roosevelt must bo willing to support
the candldato of the convention, because
he Is before the country as a Republican,
and not as a Progressive. He is against
the hyphen. Let him, then, make it clear
tp the country that he himself Is not
tainted with the hyphen spirit the
hyphen spirit of Progressive-Republicanism
or Ropubllcan.Progresslvlsm. The
Republican party Is the progressive
party. A triangular tight Is obnoxious to
our American character we love a
straight, fair light between two clean,
clear ideas.
Mr. Roosevelt's name cannot come be.
fore the convention as that of the leader
of a sane and responsible group of Re
publicans unless he gives definite assur
ance that he will give unqualified support
to that Republican, whoever he may be,
wham the delegates, acting as the fret
and direct Instruments of the desires of
Republican voters, shall nominate.
Tom Daly's Column
TODAY (meaning yesterday to you,
dear reader) wo wore bragging about
our clever contrlbs.j whereupon our boss,
who as Georgo L. Byron onco said of
another Is the mildest-mannered man
that er evtt lived, remarked:
"All very well, but you'll be Wasting
the tlmo of our household editor next."
Wo foolishly removed the protecting
left from our Jaw and Inquired "How?"
Tho answer came across! "Asking for
a reclpo to take rust off a pen."
So wo determined to wrlto a poem
on tho big question of the day, Aftor
somo thought wo got ns for as the title:
THE SITUATION IN CHICAGO
Then tho paper mall camo in and hero
If Bert Taylor hadn't wrltton for tho Chi-
cago Trlbuno tho very, thing wo had in.
mind:
7
Tcd-dy or not Tcd-dy? Tht-1s the -que,
lion .."
That agitates the o so called, O. P.,
That gives tho Elephant an Indigestion,
And blows tho party leadersout to sea,
Whothertls nobler In tho mind to swallow
A bitter and unsugarconted pill,
With victory almost ns suro to follow
As cock tp crow, or water run downhill-
Or to take arms against 'the sea of faoes
That greets tho Pcoplo's Idol everywhere,
Roaring approval of his commonplaces,
And spilling '"Wo want Toddy I" on tho
air.
To live to win, with ono whoso fond en
deavor Has been to flout tho party's sacred,
laws?
To die to sleep, for years, perhaps for
Gosh I That's what gives tho Grand Old
Party pauso I
JUSTIFIABLE CURIOSITY
The I03gde8lrea and almost sen-
1 MX swarantae oi the, Philadelphia, Qrchea-
tHi'r independence and permanence, an
fligwiuent fund, comes to the prgapUa-
tiim uaaer the most favorable cirqura-
iHftjiW. A.n anonymous inor, offering
: :. pay tho Orchestra's deficits fgr the
kxt fivq yeare, allows ha guarantpra to
k p a permanent ?und. In this, way
af th few objectionable features of
uta m eliminated, for the fund,
th It apad3 pn the, generwity Qf
a. w Actually the contribution of
g4 tlw control ol the Orchestra
i 1jTt tray tanporjled. The. .conditions
w flown are Dullness matters, wfth
exception, and as uhje matters
ip at acc$pt1 rfthoul apy in.
PC me Ufa&eatrcji freedom
idft m utMiring; ft ft wonderful
MlMWMtHw Tlie sei)tlon Itself is bound
t b ithanwt m trt;ni of the Orchtn,
t Kt tii-msuMj that Leaped BtoJtywsW
edwM - -1 iKiuc fnriVm next &v
i ikrthy Whtftt Wt th&alil
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aj Vi. i..-.-. t-w-ar - psiPllwp
I'A
1ARJIANZA wants to knpw why the
J American troops are remaining in
Mexico. They are dojag nothing, he eays,
and he cannot understand why they stay.
Hla jcuripslty 4 .Justifiably. The troops
went there to catch Villa-and his com
pany of pandits. Yilla is still at large
and bandits are still operating. The ex
pedition thus far has been no more suc
cessful than was President Wilson's naval
attack on Vera Cruz to compel HuerUf
to salute thyute The Hag has not been
saluted and the Umerlcan troops occupied
fhemselves as eyreat cleaners pnd scaven
gers while Jn Vera Cruz. The expedition
Jn search of VMla, marched to parral and
has started tp inarch bad; again,
Carranza says 'that the course the
iAjnerJean Government Is now pursuing
leaver room for suspicion as to jts real
Jnejraoiisl W dp not know what an.
swer 1111 be given lo this note, putj we
aro confident that if -the Administration
knew exactly what its real intentions in
tha premises wre it would be nmeb.
Mif to make a satisfactory respoaas
tfcu? tt wiU be la ta prJit chaotic
I Mm nt H yarpe.
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What's Your Sword of Damocles?
Ours is that tho
cigar which Is oven
tually going to bo
named for us will bo
a two for.
Macaroni Ballads
LXIII.
AWAY FROM TOWN
tlon'ta ca.ro ccj all decs town
Turn opstdc-doicn
An' earth-quake com' along som' day
An' oust cct op. I oona. 'way;
I won't be doc I
At las' I oona tuin my face
From cvrathccnp cen deesa place.
I don'ta caret
I don'ta care for town nohow;
I'm farmer noiot
I'ootla house dat atan's alone,
Three lectia rooms but all my own
Wan bed, two chair,
Wan stove, two table an' wan wife.
So for decs toion, you bat my life,
I don'ta caret
I. ' WELL, HERE "WE ARE AGAIN I
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1 ftl M&BKFU&&&1.
i m ffMKk r--t 7mfimmsm Mrjrt&L
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W!i)nWKsnBif.aHBHy I (VWl jBfSSK SaBSiffiSSBtaWKEaBx sciBmvz "
I
(Tbn'ta care for cecty street;
Set smals not stccct.
But now I know how mooch cct's tuorth
To own som' lectia clcana earth,
To own som' air ,
Dot's sweet as wine upon da breath
Here even ccf I starve to death,
I don'ta carol
Regrets
(Letter received by a local "real estater.")
dear sir it Is true I liavo look at the house
ns you rcquc.ist In your agents letter but
there Is not nowheres near enough flow to
tho water In tho splcketts In tho bathroom
nnd besides wo must have for washday
statutory tubs or my Wife will not live In
it. So your water Bupply Is lnaqueduct so
we cannot tako tho house but I am sorry.
11EDUCED.
rat had fought iclth a "tulld Irish" troop,
lie had felt the sting of a spear,
A bullet had torn his left ear
But noio he was scrubbing our stoop.
He told me of slaugter and gore.
Of Jiardshlps he'd had to endure,
"It's hell t" I exclaimed. Pat sald,"Burel
But poverty's heller than war." G. L.
IS MR. PEIRCE, of the city's teaching
corps, In tho audience? Wo havo a
letter which should have gone to you, sir,
but the writer's father Intercepted It.
Here it Is:
NVTtCE!
MR.ftrt-
Yow hht Mitt. qujx hini&
ov. own nNdt. asjatfc
WTNoTJUoxm'.
fl"- Veu Do. jfeflSjS
Crelh-hT &&
SINCE another mere manWho writes
fpr our favorite evening paper has
rushed in to answer the question, "How
long should a girl of IS wear her Bklrta?"
we see no reason why we shouldn't make
a stab at It. Wo say: "Until 10 o'clock,"
for no 18-year-oldess should be up later
than that.
SQMH of the hotels that have passed up5
the extra charge for bread and butter
seem to be hard put to it to startle the
public, On the menu at Dooner's yester
day we noticed among'the desserts:
Cup of Cold Consomme Jelly IB.
If, strolling upon JUdge avenue, you
should see this sign.
PrtOF, ZUKE
Scientific and Sanitary
Bootblack
do pot laugh at it In thise days of tud
din fame none of us can tell when some
body will come Ucklpg our boots, and we
should be considerate of the health of the
common people.
Would it be safe to assume that "The
Casino Technical High School of East
Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania," specializes in
the more difficult or highly technical
branchs of tho well-known terpsichorean
art? E, A. M.
THIS is positively our last word upon
tills subject, but v.e want to get it
r!gh;t apd settled for all time. Jfiret of all,
Strick GUlllan wrpte "Thewjptlqulty of
Microbes: Adam Had 'Era''; hep Robertus
Love of St. Louis, wrote "An Attempt to
Shorten Gillian's Alleged Sfipftest Poem.
I'try"; and the still shortepJpQem, "O! no'
turned into this tjolumn several days ago
by a cpntributPf. was written by oillllan
as a final occis-baok to Mr. Love's futile
mptt, ,
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
A Real Live Congress Demanded to Legislate for the People
Adair's Irish Articles Criticised The Case of Mr.
Brandeis and Other Matters
-Ellen
This rimnnrtvriHl 1a tn nil rendeni tuflfl
tuiah to express their opinions on subjects of
current interest. It is an open forum, ami the
KventAff Ledger assumes no responsibility for
tho vtctas of its correspondents,
CONGRESS ALONE CAN HELP
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir Tho poor people must not allow
themselves to bo misled by the nolso of
Roosovelt or any presidential nominee, for
no promises can feed our stomachs, which
havo been half starvod In tho last 20 years
because of the constantly advancing prices
of food, etc. A presidential nomlnco has
always been a mora blind. Tho President
of the United States can make no laws of
tho land. It Is Congress that docs all tho
lawmaking. Senators and Representatives,
If owned by tho "Interests," ns they aro
In most cases, can "protect" tho Interests
by Ignoring tho proposed laws opposed by
them. This can be proved, because tho
prices of food, coal, otc, havo been going up,
up and up unchecked In 20 years Investi
gations after Investigations havo amounted
to nothing In that time. Eight dollars a
ton for coal, 8 cents a pound for sugur, 25
cents and up a pound for meat, etc., aro
lhe-wlro proofs that n Coal Trust, a Sugar
Trust, n Beef Trust, etc., do exist. The peo
ple must get at the throats of our own
"Mexican" bandits right about us the coal
bandit, tho sugar bandit, the boef bandit,
etc. The peoplo must do something them
selves to check these bandits, growing
bolder and bolder.
No nation can endure with even one
monopoly. One monopoly In BO yoars will
own this republic, body and soul, and
everything thero is In It, exactly like Mex
ico, a greed-cursed country.
We need no real, live President, whether
Democratic or Republican. Any Intelligent
American citizen can make a creditable
President, like Wilson. What we need most
now Is a real, live Congress. Wo must have
live representatives of the government of
the people, forvthe people and by tho peoplo.
The people havo heretofore blindly or Ignor
antly elected the tools of the government of
the Interests, for the Interests and by tho
Interests.
It is high tlmo the people have a real,
live preparedness they must prepare to
learn what Congress means. All Federal
laws are made In Congress not in the
White House.
When one party wins over another, both
parties should work together for tho good
of the whole country. This is true Ameri
can citizenship. The .people, prepare your
selves no more to be fooled by a dummy
presidential nominee. This your live pre
paredness can make any President fight for
us at all costs not for the Interests.
M. P. L.
Philadelphia. May 29.
THE ATTITUDE OF IRELAND
To the Editor of Evening Ledger;
Sir When reading the Intensely antl
Irish description of the conditions In Ireland
as written by your correspondent, "Ellen
Adair," It dawned upon me that possibly
the reason for the prejudice displayed In
her articles may be fojind In the statement
which I havo read In former articles from
her pen that she was born In Scotland and
that one of her brothers lost his life at
dallipoll fighting as a British soldier Under
the circumstances It Is only human that
Miss Adair should be, to say the least,
extremely unsympathetic) toward any
movement which came Into opposition to
British Interests, and in particular toward
a movement which In open battle Involved
the risking of the lives of British soldiers.
Miss Adair describes how an Irish volun
teer clubbed to death a wounded English
soldier, I would not think of questioning
her veracity, but I might suggest the
thought that n July, 13U, three unarmed,
defenseless women were shot to death In the
streets of Dublin by those British "Tom
mies'' whom your special correspondent de
scribes so affectionately. And It seems to
mo thnt Viscount Mldleton disagrees
with Ellen Adalr. Ho said In his testi
mony thnt John Redmond could not carry a
scat In Irclnnd ; that he could not go to
Ireland without endangering his llfo; in
other words, that Ireland was Sinn Fein In
sentiment nnd anti-English and In favor of
Irish Independence whereas your special
correspondent quotes Jarveys and poor old
womfli to provo that Ireland Is against
tho revolution,
Chlof Secretary for Ireland BIrrell In hio
testimony said: "If a Gorman landing with
anna nnd ammunition had been effected, tho
wnoio population might liavo Joined In."
Somebody must bo mistaken. Could It bo
Miss Adalr? FAIR PLAY.
Philadelphia, May 24.
What Do You Know?
FITNESS OF MR. BRANDEIS
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Slrj It certainly 1b a gross disgrace how
unjustly tho legal practitioners nrc knocked
by nil To my mind, tho best thing that
could happen would be for tho Senate to
cast a favorable vote for the appointment
of Mr. Brandeis to fill tho place left vacant
by tho death of Justlco Lamar.
When Brandeis' name was suggested by
President Wilson his honesty and Integrity
wero at first stronuouBly disputed, dt took
flvo months to put down all opposition, and
then followed that much-looked-for favor
ahlo decision from the Senate committee.
Tho committee Bhowed by Its judgment that
that lawyer was not one who would ever
be looking for easy money and that his
worth was rewarded.
Where did you ever Eeo a lawyer who
would not tako money? There Is one, who
bhall soon bear tho title of Associate Jus
tice. Thero are as many others as thero
aro in every line of professional endeavor.
So don't knock the brains of tho country,
the lawyers. ABE MEYERS.
Philadelphia, May 27.
THE TARIFF IS PARTISAN
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir A tariff commission cannot, In my
opinion, over bo made absolutely nonparti
san, because It is going to be Influenced
by the President who appoints it, nnd every
human being with any opinion will always
be one thing or another on the tariff ques
tion; that Is, either a protectionist or not a
protectionist. So as long-as a Republican
President has charge o( a commission we
will have protection or vice versa, tariff
commission or no tariff commission. And
I cannot conceive of either of the two
parties oyer giving up jhelr respective doc
trines on the tariff. It will always be a
fight, ns it was from the beginning. On the
other hand, as to the nonpartisan commis
sion Itself, granting that tt really would be
nonpartisan, that means that there will be
an equal number of the two views on the
board, which would mean that one half
would set a protectlvo figure on goods and
the other half a free trade figure. Then
prithee, all that would be necessary would
be to add the two figures, divide by two,
and lo, we have the average. Now, In my
opinion, that Is not a protective tariff as ad
vocated by the Republican party. This coun
try either needs a protective tariff or It does
not, one or the other; not a compromise a
half-way business. That would suit nobody
and we would have very little protection.
So I can't conceive how the Republican
party could ever countenance a nonpartisan
tariff and live. The only good thing I can
see in tt Is another grist of political Jobs
of the ten or more thousand dollar variety,
besides the other numerous expenses, and
that's N. G. ,
But I'm willing to forgive the Hon, Jus
tice Charles Evans Hughes for his tariff
commission Idea In view of the rest of
his sound conservative principles, which suit
me Immensely as against the ravings of
T. R, epitomized In his platform of 1912
not to say anything of his new babies
called "puisy.foots," t cetera. 1L M. B
Philadelphia, May 30.
KANSAS ON DEFENCE
No American expects that such an army
and such a fleet will be sent against us,
but every real Apierjcan demands that if
the emergency arises it can be met as has
every other crlsl that has ever arisen.
It Is Idle to mention names when calling
the roll of possible enemies and possible
allies of America One speaker referred
to England as "our tacit ally," the Infer
ence being that Germany was. the "tacit
toe." Yet America has fought two wars
with England and when we were lighting
for pur national lite half a century ago
England was equipping the South with
privateers to prey on the commerce of the
North while hundreds ot thousands of
brave Germans were fighting, for the Union
Perhaps a few Englishmen volunteered for
that service perhaps.T-rICansas City Jour
nal ,
SAUCE FOR THB GQQSE-STEP
The German-American organisation that
called the munition trade a stigma pn
American hfetory, ma not admit that
like ma.nur.--CiVsUw Leader,
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
Colpnel Roosevelt says a man rouU be
nominated who can get both the Reoub.
ilcan and the Progressive votes. Wonder
what man he has In mlnd?-Charleston
News and Courier.
Mr. Justice Hughes' conduct since his
name was put in the running by others has
been pnexceptionably correct in every par
ticular. He has not lifted a flager orTtirrS
a fibre of his larynx to attract to hlmseU
the nomination. His demeanor under the
circumstances has been a modelof that
which the Supreme bench should display
when politics la mentioned New York Burl
It is a great mistake to imagine that
With VUIa eliminated by deatlTS caDtura'
the Mexican problem would be to all in
teats, and purpwes solved, so far as thta
country la concerned. For villa Is ai
aU, but a particular type, of the bandit
chief wha are bound to appear till tha
qpvernment ef the sataUwrtJ $
Wts upon something more solid than per
Queries o BCiierol Mtercit will lie answered
In thl, column. Ten auettlen; the asfiorrs to
uhlch evtrv well tiiormed virion thouli .now,
aro asked dally.
QUIZ
1. "The war Is nn Impasse." snrs o news dis
patch. Define "Impasse."
Z. Locate Dartrura's Gorden In Philadelphia.
3. About what are the minimum and maximum
upeeds of battleships?
4. Is the earth a npliere?
0. What will V5000 amount to at 0 per cent.
compound Interest In 100 3 cars?
0. What Is meant br etock dividends?
7. Numo three treat leaders In the Trench
Ilevolutlou.
8. What are the doldrums?
0. What Is Scotland Yard?
n. Which Is farther east, Lake Erie or Lake
Ontario?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Taft Is a professor at Yale.
2. "Ossan atomic." a nickname of John Brown.
3. rettr's Island Is In the Delaware insthe
bend north of Camden.
4. "Dloomers" were named for Amelia J.
Illoomcr, dress reformer,
6. The Ilattle of the Sea ot Japan was fouzht
In 1005. The Japanese defeated the
Husslans,
0. The attempt on Itooserelt's llfo was In 1012.
7. Galllenl Improvised the auto transport
which resulted In the victory of the
Marne.
8. Typewriter key aranzementu are stand-
nrdlxed In frequently recurrlnt combina
tions of letters. ""
0. The home plate Is a pentagon with a
rectilinear side toward the pitcher.
10. The Verdun battle has lasted 100 days.
Mothers' Pensions
Editor of "What Do You, -Know"- Will
you please Inform me where a widow with
small children may go to obtain a mother's
pension In Schuylkill County? To whom
shall she go for udvlce? Has the pension
bill beon passed? INTERESTED.
There Is a mothers' pension act In force
In Pennsylvania, the State co-operating
with county boards of trustees. Write to
Miss Glenn, supervisor, Mothers' Pension
Board, Harrlsburg, Fa., and she will In
form you to whom to apply In your county.
Fahrenheit's Career
i'rifor of "What Do You Know?" Can
you telle me a few facts about the life of
Fahrenheit, who Invented the thermometer?
A. P.
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, born 1686,
died 1736, was the man who first conceived
the'ldea of using mercury Instead of alcohol
In the construction of thermometers. His
"Invention'1 was, therefore, an Improve
ment, for the accuracyof the Instrument,
already In use, was greatly Improved by the
substitution of the registering material. He
first used mercury for this purpose In 1720.
As for his life. It was quite simple. He
was born In Danzig, Germany; gave up a
mercantile life in order to devote himself
to scientlflo research; traveled through
most of Europe and settled In Holland,
Four years after his work with the ther
mometer, he was elected a fellow of the
Roya Society in London and published sev
eral papers through that body, His other
discoveries were that other liquids beside
water had a fixed boiling point and that
tho boiling point varies with a change n
the pressure of the atmosphere. He, of
course, devised the scale of graduating the
thermometers known by his name.
Women Inventors
Editor of "IVnat Do You Knoto" Will
you kindly Jet me know the pame of some
recent women patentee, or any Important
Inventions of American women, particularly
of recent years, ANQN.
Perhaps some of our readers can supply
the Information asked for In the above
letter.
Penny Wedding
yon tell me what the ancient Scottish cus
torn or pepny weauings means? Do they
still take place? nc0
They were wedding banquets In Scotland
to which a number of perseaa were n.
vlted. Each of them paid a small sum of
money, not more than a shilling. When the
expenses of the wedding had bein paid. In.
eluding the wedding feast, what was, left
was handed over to the newjy wedded
couple to aid In furnUhlng their home. The
custom was abolished In 1546. sir Walter
SeoH mentions the custom In "The For.
tunes of Nigel," chapter T
"Not War" ' '
gdltpr e "Waal Do You Knu"Ja ail
account pf the battle of Lops I read rei
cently that It was magnificent,. Wt that it
wasn't war. The phrase spunds familiar
but I would Ilka to know Just when Hwai
said. WMitlntheReyoJuUont W.&E.
JJe. Marshal Canrojbert said, apropos of
the charge of the Light Brigade aTpai,
aklava (the same as that which, furniEe,
the. subject for Ttnnvton-a noun iuTllI
issijraijft LffSv
k
A DISOWNED
SON OF BOYALtY
Why Judge Ord, of Omahn, and
Washington, Believed He Was
Rightfully King Janies III
of England
By JOHN ELFRETII WATltlNS
(Copyright.)
TP TOU had your rights In England,
J. James, you would bo somebody very
great It would mako ydu mUerable to
know more. Ood forgive those who have
wronged you, ladl"
No greater eatlefaotion than this would
James Ord ever give to his nephew and
namesake, tho rjddlo of whoso identity
gnawed at his soul during fourscore years
and moro.
About tho time when our scat ot gov.
ernment was being moved to the banki
of tho Potomac this man nnd boy had.
come from Europe to deck their fortunes
In tho now Federal City. James, the
elder, became a master mechanic at the
Washington Navy Yard, where he was
known as Captain Ord.
Tho boy, James Ord, wao entored at
Georgetown College. A plentiful supply
of money, out of all proportion to his
Undo James' wages and apparont means,
was regularly appropriated for his educa
tion and maintenance. Throughout his
college days tho youth was given to spells
of brooding over tho uncertainty of hit
Identity. Not until ho faced death did
Captain Ord relax his determination to
keep tho secret, but before ho could more
than gasp "James, lad, I've something
important to tell you. Your father was''
tho deathbed rattle prevented further ar
tlculatlon.
"To my beloved nephew", James Ord,"
tho 61d man's property was devised In a '
will still on fllo at Washington. But funds I
far greater than tho posslblo yield of this
mcagro estate continued to support the
lonely boy.
Sudden Prosperity of His Undo
Even beforo leaving college young Ord
determined to dedicate his llfo to a search
for his antecedents. Tho record of Cap
tain Ord was carefully investigated, and
it was discovered that ho had novcr hold
officer's rank. Whllo but a humble sailor
In tho British Navy, ho had been dis
charged In 1779. " Sovcn years later he
had enjoyed a suddon change of fortf.ijo.
Through somo Iftfluenco at tho Biilish
court ho had been given a fat berth at
Balboa as dockyard Inspector, under the.
commission of tho King of Spain. Jamer
further discovered that his own birth had
occurred In England Immediately prior to
his unclo'a departuro for Spain.
That his mysterious patron across the
water continued to fear him was further
evidenced to James during tho War of
1812, when certain persons, later learned
to have been British spies, cntlcod him to
enlist in tho American army. And only
after It was too lato did tho youth realize
that ho had committed technical treason
to the land of his birth, an act that invali
dated any posslblo claim to British title
or estates. ,
After tho War of 1812 James Ord prac
ticed law In Now York and married. Then
came tho call of the land of gold. He
crossed tho continent and fortuno smiled
upon him. Having nmassed great wealth,
ho attained distinction on tho bench. ,
Later ho roturned to Washington and
built for himself a handsomo home on
Pennsylvania avenue. Then he removed
to Omaha, where ho died, at tho age of 87.
During his 80 years of ransacking
through musty records Judge Ord came
upon many bits of evidence. Not until
ho was 48 did he gain possession qf his
uncle's confidential papers. Among these
was a letter from one who revealed him
self as a priest. It camo from Europe,
and asked:
"Is tho child" allvo?"
"Your Father Was Son of a King"
At this time there still lived In Wash
ington Captain Ord's confessor and con
fidant. Father Matthews, of St. Patrick'O
Church, a patriarch of 82 years, A sworn
statement from this prelato quoted the
navy yard master mechanic as having
onco confessed ''that tho child called
James Ord and his nephew was not his
nephew, but of royal parentage, the eon
of one of the royal famlllos of Europe,"
"Your father was one of the sons of
King George III," the aged priest later
confided to Judge Ord, "He admitted to
mejmce that his promotion to the Span
ish service had been obtained by a per.
sonage nono other than the Prince of
Wales himself. And actual negotiations
werp carried on by an uncle of Maria
Anne Smythe Fltzherbert, wife of George
IV."
Judge Ord thereafter firmly believed
that hla parents were George IV and the,
widow whom that prince married in 1785,
before ha became King. His own birth
hafl, occurred within the year following
their secret marriage, and almost Imme
diately afterward had come his abduo
tlpn into Spain. Rumors that a child had
beep born to the morganatic union had
persisted almost from the time news of
the Prince's marriage had leaked put.
The baby was said to have been taken,
to the United States, James Ord wrote
to Mrs. Fltzherbert a letter, which should
have tquched any mother'a heart, and it
was delivered tp her n secret, through
the connivance of Aaron Vail, pur charge
d'affaires at London. She never replied.
Shortly afterward, upon her- deathbed, she
requested that A certain mysterious pack
age pf papers bo consigned to a vault In
m
frMlo' Dnnl. T .1 i ,
"!"?. xou ?noWca rn:rinr"TT"' :r' K
death. Fearing that this secret packet
contained something tha$ would compro
mise hm, George IV made many futile
eflprta p ohtaln it.
Judge Ord died firmly believing that It
contained proof of his royal parentage,
but when opened by order of King Ed
ward n 1905 t was found to cqntala
nothing intimating that the morganatic
wife of George IV had borne him a child.
PREPARE!
.. ,ur Wi jflpJrF u w a Present PPr ,
tlmUra. that minimises the possibility e
a change Jn our fortunes as sudden al
waa that caused, by the outbreak of th
war.-Rochester PosWKxpress.
WIfAT IS SQCIALISTtQI
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