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Philadelphia, FtlJij. Jons 2. 1?16.
Three silence there are: the first of
speech,
The second of desire, the third of
thought. Longfellow,
"Billy" Penn Is not to get a coat
of whltowaeh after all. Thero is not
enough to go around the lower stories at
City Hall as It Is.
Of optimists, Michael Francis Doyle
Is surely the paragon and prlnco. This
Philadelphia lawyer Is confident that he
will win the acquittal of Sir Roger Casement,
'Roosevelt that's all!" cries Per
Itins. "Wilson that's oil!" is tho St.
Louis program. What chanco is there
for a "dry" plank In either of tho platforms?
In. his most recent newspaper In
terview, Mr. Bryan tells what the Dem
ocratic party must do In order to have
"a fighting chance." But It's a wonder he
would want that kind of a chance.
Mary Garden says she lost thirty
pounds by rofuslng to be lazy. Sho
owes It to a public, which cannot avoid
watching 200 pound Juliets sing, to bo
moro specific.
I-v
Thero is to bo an end of Joy riding
In the city's cars, which will henceforth
bo labeled with the namo of tho municipal
department to which they belong. How
about labeling tho city's money?
No one Berlously belloed that Phil
adelphia would fall to welcome tho con
vention of advertising men in proper
style. Living: by advertisement of its In
dustries and Its advantages, the city Jiad
a standard of welcome to uphold and. Is
to do it The $25,000 appropriated is in
Itself an Investment, to bo sure. But It
is given without thought of return. The
pleasure of tho visitors will bo return
enough.
V
It is a pity that motorists of Phila
delphia will havo to bo fined into recogni
tion of tho most ordinary of human rights
The scandalous release of speeders brought
to Justice has relaxed tho sense of re
sponsibility, and motor driving is such ai
common thing now that tho sense of
decency cannot be instilled except by
such drastic methous as fines and Imprisonment.
A Boston reader, in a letter printed
'in another part of this page, asks us to
name a few Americans whose patriotism
can match Mr. Roosevelt's and a few
who ore more silent than he. Wo havo
not space to print tho names of every
other American besides Mr. Roosevelt,
which would be necessary if we were to
give a list of those moro silent. It would
take about the same space to contain a
list of those whose patriotism equals that
of the distinguished statesman of Oyster
Bay, Thero are very few Americans
against whom the charge of lack of pa
triotism will He. Whether the Chicago
convention nominates Hughes, Roosevelt,
Burton, Root, Borah, Cummins, Weeks,
UcCall or any of the rest, it will nom
inate a patriot.
In his address at Pittsburgh last
Bight former Director Taylor pointed out
again that in planning' for rapid transit
In Philadelphia It was recognized from
the beginning that It. was "the obvious
duty of the city to protect the existing
pet income of the P.R. T.agalnst loss re
sultant from its co-operation in the un
dertaking, which would deprive capital
Invested in the existing street railway
system of a reasonable return." The feel"
jnr Is general that the company,, since
Mr. Stotesbury took hold of It, has given
m, service incomparably better than that
formerly furnished, and there la nothing
just now more desired by thoughtful cltl,
na than a complete co-operative agree
ment, under which both city and com-
.will fain advantages from the new
Wno.
NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS
MUST BE NATIONAL
It nonM be fatal mistake to con
centrate on (he Atlantlo seaboard all
the factories for the manufacture of
wnr material. For political as well at
strategic reasons, some of them should
be In the West and the Soulli.
THE Illinois Congressmen who are de
manding as a unit that the proposed
armor-plate factory be built nt the Rock
Islrfnd Arsenal aro not Icbs patriotic than
the Alabama. Congressmen who Insist
that It should be built at Birmingham.
Their Interest In national defense Is as
great as that of the Pennsylvania Con
gressmen who Insist that tho League
Island Navy Yard on the Delaware Is tho
best site for it.
Strong arguments, both political and
strategic, can bo marshaled In support of
cither tho Birmingham or tho Rock
Island site. Each is inland and far
enough from the sea to be safo from at
tnck. Rock Island Is In tho Middle West,
whero tho Interest In the defenso of the
seaboard la not bo ncuto as It is In the
coast States. And Birmingham Is In tho
South, which needs to bo stirred to en
thusiastic support of a greater navy
program.
Of course it Is denied that tho stra
tegic value of either Birmingham or Rock
Island is greater than that of Philadel
phia. And no ono will argue that armor
plato can bo delivered from tho Interior
to battleships that nro to bo built on thi
Atlantic coast so cheaply ns It can bo de
livered from this city.
The armor plant ought to bo built hero,
If it is to bo built at all. But if wc aro to
havo the nation prepnicd for any emer
gencies of tho futuro it Is of the first Im
portance that tho wholo nation bo inter
ested In tho subject. Tho sea Is a long
way from tho northern Mississippi Valley.
Tho nvorngo citizen of a Western State
reads that the sea is salt, but ho doubts
It. When ho comes Bast ho carries back
with him a bottle of sea water to con
vlnco his family and friends that what
the books say Is true. The imagination
which cannot make tho physical facts of
nature with which he is unfamiliar seem
real to him falls also to convince him that
ho can suffer from any attack by a for
eign foe on the Atlantic coast.
If thero should bo a great gun foundry
within tho confines of his State, and If
powder mills should bo located where ho
could hear the detonations from tho ex
plosions that happen wherever powder Is
manufactured In largo quantities, and If
a rlflo factory wero employing his sons
in the manufacture of guns to be used in
the defense of his country, the wholo
question of national defenso would tako
on a different aspect
Thero Is political wisdom In distribut
ing ai widely a3 posslblo tho plants whero
war material Is produced. When Illinois
asks for an armor-plato factory wo
should not denounce her Congressmen, but
should tell them that the Justice of their
demand is admitted and that when
the Government arranges to manufac
ture other war materials the advantages
of that great State will bo considered and
the employment of her sons provided for
In a plant of another kind. Tho claims
of Alabama can bo confessed In tho same
broad-minded way. Then we shall con
vert lukewarm friends of preparedness
Into enthusiasts because wo shall admit
their right to participate In the actual
work of preparation.
When wo tell them that military and
nttval authorities aro agreed that thero
tan bo no adequato preparation until the
country ceases to bo dependent for its
war materials upon the factories within
a hundred miles of tho Atlantic coast wo
have added tho motlvo of patriotism to
that of self-interest.
The Gorman drive through Belgium
into Trance put Into the hands of the
Kaiser's forces tho Belgian and French
Iron and- coal roglon and deprived tho
French of tho great furnaces where their
guns had been made. A foreign foe which
should get possession of our Atlantic
coast would find It easy to seize the steel
mills and munition plants from Maine to
Virginia, and could use them for turning
out weapons with which to fight us on
our bwn soli. The probability of such a
disaster Is remote, but the unexpected
happens in war ns well as in every other
human occupation.
General Wood has been going about the
country for the last few months setting
forth the Importance of preparing for the
unexpected. It is the policy which evtry
military man of any stand!'1' f for
it will provide a second and a third line
of factories for that sort of material
equipment without which no war can be
successfully fought It ls the policy
which every statesman ought to favor,
for It enlists the traits of a fallible and
selfish humanity in the work of defend
ing the institutions under which we live.
Tom Daly's Column
COIUtB
President trill march at head of WHshlniton
Preparedneaa Parade, ...
News Note.
It mau be political bluff
But one thing Is c'cttaln enouph,
IPs THafnpUne- another
roltllcal brother
And running away Ath his stuff.
IT MAY havo been n tiny shooting starf
or an optical illusion, but we fancied
wo saw the season's first firefly last eve
ning. Some ono else saw it or fanited It;
at any rate this fits in iielo:
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Mr. Justice Brandels, by the saving
ijfccu of common eepsa and common de-
BMwy, takes his place on the Supreme
Court bench. The noisy opposition to his
appointment will oon b forgotten, and
$a clfl, clear mind, the sweeping
Tftotao, ihn human; heart he bring? to his
eit wJU b at endless, service to the
eoiuitey, 3But bfore 4he "Brandels case"
If ehwiutbly forgotten as an aberration
it gMAt significance should be noted,
lp ftHKs 0po$a to Mr, Brandel wo
W0: Miwu but they buflt up a vicious
fcwy a America government and par-
ttwtofly at the Buprame, Court. That
mmmti, a not been, dented and re
HWfctel by the Senate yesterday, would
k i4 th Supremo Court not the
Mftutv ftoJoMt, but the, it4el
aiavlitfar, Tbe Senate preserved;
aw fiMpM mt Amtttimm for the guprns
- ttrt S tor !!. t mors eattrfytns
tfealUBM Plw&t thins. ttmatpM
. fcs that Um eoaawaatiop at Mr
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To a Lightning Bug
Twinkle tuHnkle little bug
With your lantern bright
What Is It you seek to find
In the summer night
Is It or a baby bug
Now you arc In quest
Lost or strayed that should be snug
In Its little nest
Or if all your Utile ones
Bafe are tucked In bed
Is It drops of dew you seek
That they may be fed.
Tell me have your little ones "
Shiny lanterns too
And will they light up your homo
To be guiding you.
Twinkle twinkle little bug
With your lantern bright
What Is it you seek to find
In the summer night
AMirm:MiTs
"THE DEAD WHO DIED 1 OR inELAND"
MEETING
Citizens of Philadelphia
Ctc , etc.
THE above announcement appeared in
a local papor of yesterday. Can you
guess the nationality of the compositor
who classified the notice? Only an Irish
man could nntlclpato such fun nt a wako
as to Invito thousands to partako of tho
"Amusement." M. T. M.
"What's Your Sword of Damocles?
Mlno is that my
second wife will not
bo tho delightful com
panion I'm hoping my
first will be.
BACHELOR.
T-rt-vrn o Irtffi
lllJiJH Ak J-M.V ... r
T " THE LANDMARK rss-
Sir This mornlns I saw an Ico wagon at the
corner of liroad and rtlbert. It had painted on
It:
COLD
McCANN'S
ICK
It you poke fun at this. It may rale McCann'a
temperature. It. W.
The Inconspicuous Bridegroom
"She was a bitterly disappointed woman,
having been deserted "by her fiance only
a week before her marriage." Hugh Wal
polo's "Dark Forest."
s.
J. B , plnch-hltting, as it wore, for
another friend, who carelessly lost
tho Mexican business card ho was going
to send us a card announcing its ownor,
among other things, as "restauranteur
and expert tattooer" informs us that he
saw, in the neighborhood of 17th and
Fltzwater streets, thl3 sign painted on a
window:
LAUNDRY AND CRABS.
It Isn't, our business to boost tho Ency
clopedia Britannlca, but It seems to us
each of our contrlbs should be Interested
In Vol 26, at least; It's all about Sub to
Tom.
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Presidential Imp-possibilities
I.
HUGHES and FAIRBANKS
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Chief pianJc
Free earmuffs.
Slogan:
'Want -ny ice. iadyr
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WAGES AND LAZINESS
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THAT part of the Federal Reserve
agents report which calls upo.i labor
to take a far-sighted view of the serious
industrial situation from which It Is draw
ing immediate advantages Is a timely
warnlpg but It Is a warning that Is not
primarily applicable to labor.
It is useless to quarrel with human
nature. If a man now prefers working
only five days a week for greater wagea
than he could formerly obtain for six
days' work to working six days for still
greater wages, he may be called lazy, but
It la not for political economists to call
him lazy. Whoever thinks lazily must
Buffer for his laziness, whether he Is in
labor or capital ranks. The agents
threaten "a deep reorganization of In
dustry at the close of the war." Why
wait until the end of the war? As mat
ters stand now those manufacturers and
those labor organizations which are fun
damentally reorganizing their methods
are the ones which, will be. pest situated
kfter the war. If some wagea must
Inevitably icomq down, the sooner the
Inevitable is courageoijsly provided for
that better.
If price must rise, nullifying the ad
vantage of high wages, it U timely tq
advltw labor that it cannot Uft lUelf by
It owa bootstraps, but it It mare timely
t to mb bars!, stem thmklns mboitt ths
jhNriiiigCyttiittrlKfitlBj s MMqsriM.
Keelhauling the Keeley" Callers
NE of the most useful Inventions was
made by a Phlladelphlan, but the people
see only Its product, and then they see It
in hundreds of thousands, which is some
trliig of a puzzle and a mystery. Well,
anyway, this inventor was asked how
Keeley was able to delude mechanical ex
perts for such a lone time, which was once
another mystery.
"Oh," laughed the (mentor, "that was
easy. Let ma read you this clipping
listen:
The power of attractive vibration of the
aolar forces Is the areat coincident toward
which the terrestrial matnetlo sympathetlo
flow is directed
That's surely scientific, isn't it? Now sup
pose you were an expert (scientist In elec
tricity and mechanlc&-suppose you were
called to examine Keeley'a motor and he
talked for hours in this language. Would
you, as an expert and as a scientist, ac
knowledge you didn't understand sclentlflo
language? First, you'd think of your fee
oh, yeB, you would I Try to get an expert
opinion without a feel" SHON REA.
Still Building Battleships
The gentle dove may pipe her lay
And yet, till war plans cease,
The gentle lay she pipes away
Is not the pipe of peace.
In a gown of pink chiffon, which had a
bodice cut extremely decollete, and a, short
skirt with a marvelous pannier effect, she
looked more like a debutante at her "com-,
Ing-out" tea than the singer whose name
has been a synonym for all the glories of
the human throat for years and years
Morning contemporary's description of Mary
Garden. .
OUR pupils will please note the quotes
around "coming-out," remember that
the bodice was extremely decollete and
resolve not to be that sort of debutante;
also name one or two of "the glories of
the human threat fQr yejara."
Manufactured
That they are really handsome, maid.
Your ruby lips and rosy cheeks
No one denies. Dy nature's aid
That they are really handsome made
I like to think, but fro afrajd
(The truth will our, it, always leaks)
That they are really some hand-made,
Your rubylps and rosy cheeks.
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There's a sign in a window at Darlen and
CaUowhtU streets which reads- "This etore
will move to. ? C-Uowhlll atjtftt on une
1st." We're arranslu. to sive it th& nm-
oer as It more majestically down Callow
hill street Q the Ledojw carura wason
on tXifi Job, to T. 3 t
Here, boyl Take tbjj tip around to th?
ihoto dept Maybft th tbjng haant
IrmM ytk .
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
A Boston Reader Thinks That Roosevelt Is the Most Patriotic
American H. G. Jones Rises to the Defense of
Hughes Other Matters
This Devartmcnt U Irte to all rerutera who
with to ciprem their opinions on subjects pr
current interest. It is an open forum' ana the
Evening Ledger assumes no responsibility for
the vleus of its correspondents.
READ YOUR CITY DIRECTORY
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir I took tho Inclosed from a Springfield
paper and note that It was copied from your
paper (An editorial In which It was said
that "Roosevelt Is not the first American
Ho is not the last American He Is not the
only American There aro other men whoso
patriotism can match his ") You say
there nro other men whose patriotism can
match Mr. RooseeIt's, and thero are
other men more silent, etc , etc. Would
you bo good enough to name a few of these
men. It jou could spare a few moments In
your busy day? G. W. HAVEN.
Boston, May 31.
IN PRAISE OF HUGHES
To tho Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir In reply to Mr. Nixon, who In last
hlght's Evenino LEDann asked for some
Information about Justice Hughes, but
clearly favors Roosevelt, I Would bo pleased
to enlighten him about both men, having
mat them several times and taken a great
Interest In their careers.
Justice Hughes Is a Baptist and has al
ways been a real Progressive Republican.
As Governor of New York State he was tho
first and only one to be absolutely Inde
pendent of all politicians or political ma
chines While Roosevelt, by his record and
own sworn testimony, thought It necessary
to "play ball" with Piatt and Bill Barnes
In order to get results, Hughes accom
plished many more Important reforms by
Ignoring the bosses and In spite of their
strenuous opposition New York's Public
Service Commission, the anti-race track
gambling law and n. big start toward the
direct primary laTCare only a few of his
achievements.
Neither Barnes nor Penrose wants Hughes
for President, as they know they utterly
lack lnduence with htm. T. R. when run
ning for Governor in 1898 made many
boasts as to what he would do to the canal
thieves, but his boasts, as usual, proved to
be empty ones and the "Black Horse Cav
alry" of the New York Legislature got rich
and looted right and left under Teddy's
r.ose. Hughes, on the contrary, put the
skids under a great number of New York
State's most prominent politicians who had
been grafting oft the State for years, some
thing no other Governor ever had the nerve
to do. Political Influence made no lmprea
ulon on him.
Because his political enemies could And
no other flaw In Hughes they often ac
cused him of being an Iceberg, and he was
to the average politician, for he know only
too well the treatment they deserved; but
the writer can testify from personal ex
perience that he Is one of the most genial
of gentlemen, very approachable and demo
cratic. Governor Hughes, In making his ap
pointments didn't inquire what party or
faction a man belonged to or who was
recommending him. He simply asked If
he were capbla and honest He differed
from all other Governors In having the
nerve to veto popular bills, such as the two
cent railroad fare bill which alienated the
commercial travelers and an Insurance bill
which made the volunteer firemen refuse
to oto for him, but 0te3 wero as now the
la&t thing to enter Into his calculations.
"Roosevelt In 1D04 after being elected for
his Becond term announced that, ho would
not run again, yet In 1912 mocd heaven
and earth for sl months to get the Re
publican nomination and up to tho day Taft
got it was willing to accept It from Barnes,
Penrose or any ono else had on tho platform
already adopted, but a day Inter there was
nothing so rotten as the Republican party
and platform and ho spent tho next few
months trying to bury tho party which he
thought ho had killed, although It had
made htm all that lie was Now he Is back
again comlnced that no one else but Teddy
H qualified of all our hundred million people
nnd trying as hard aB over to get the nomi
nation from that snmo rotten old Repub
lican party.
If Hughes Is nominated ho won't adopt
such a cheap trick as T. R. after the
Spanish War of stumping the Stato In a
Rough Rider uniform, thus disgusting sen
sible poople. Nor will he, as Teddy his
many times since done, go out seeking votes
wearing a greasy old slouch hat, baggy old
trousers, a vest that sadly needed cleaning
and a face that needed a shave Hughes
will not get stagy as Roosevelt did once
when I heard a speaker who Introduced
him ask to see him In New York. T R.
swelled up like a toad, pounded hlmsolf
on the chest and In u traglo manner nnd
tone of voice that would hao done Justice
to Edwin Booth, replied; "When I get
back to New York I can't see a lUlng man
I must have rest I must have rest" It
mado mo sick.
I can assure your correspondent Mr,
Nixon that If Hughes becomes our Presi
dent he will be easily the greatest since
Lincoln and ho wilt make Roosevelt's much
vaunted "square deal" look like a map of
Boston. HART G. JONES.
Philadelphia, May 31, 1916.
MUSJC AND MORALS
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir Is there not some philanthropist In
this musical city who will do for poor girls
what Edwin Fleischer has done for boys at
his Symphony Club, namely, made It possi
ble for talented girls to obtain a. musical
education free?
Very many beautiful voices found among
the working girls in stores and factories
are left to go to rack and ruin, simply be
cause the salaries bf the girls are too small
to afford them the luxury of an efficient,
honest teacher to develop and perfect the
vast amount of natural talent.
Aside from this, it would be an act of
humanity, fpr It would remove from the
girls the obsession of going to "movies."
cafes and danoe halls, the most potent pro,
motors of vice today and the ruination of
many young girls, ..
Philadelphia, May 39. '
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir It is a gain for truth when one pos
sessed of the logic of "Shon Rea" concedes
that nanes gain their meaning trom the
character of the possessor, and It for this
very reason one Is forced to differentiate
between the two streams of Irish immigra
tion to America.
JAMIE MacNEIL.
Philadelphia, May 30, 1916.
What Do You Know?
Queries of general Interest will be answered
In this column. Ten Questions, tho answers to
ivhhh cveru it ell Informed person should know,
aro asked aallg.
QUIZ
writ of habeas corpus?
In
1. Vhn Ia n
2. Where did tho old Olrard House stand
rhllndrlphln? .
3. How did Ilryuii ret tho title of Colonel? . .
4. A nea dispatch says a prisoner "pleaded
nolo" to a murder rhurze. lSxpluIn
"nolo."
6. In what nertlon af the United btates ore
the Hlalrs generally of larsrr urea. East
or Het?
0. What Is meant when It Is said that n build
Inc Is a "t unajer"?
7. What nna meant by tho phrase "benefit of
clerev?
8. Glie tho titles of tuo plays by Ilernard
Shaw.
0. About when did Daniel Webster become a
statesman of national prominence?
10. Of what country is the city of Hofla the
capital?
Answers to Ycsterdny's Quiz
1. An "Impasse" Is a Mind alley.
S. llartrom's Harden Is on the Schuylkill be
tneen ft3d nnd fiflth streets.
3. The runco of battleship speeds Is between
about SO and 30 knots an hour.
4. Tho earth Is a spheroid, belne flattened at
the poles.
5. The Accumulation In 100 sears of J.30OO at
G i er rent, compound Interest Is 1,(S90.
025. 6. A stock dividend Is a dhldend paid In
shares of stock.
7. Dnnton, Robespierre and Desmoullns.
H. The doldrums. Hint part of' tho ocean near
the equator In which calms, baffllnc
winds nnd squulls pretall.
0. Scotland lard Is the London detective head-
qunrters,
10, Lake Ontario Is farther east than Lake
1 rle.
GERMAN WEALTH
It Is not the Intrinsic wealth of Germany,
whether materially or mentally, that the
rulers of Germany consider Important; It U
the comparative wealth, in the competition
wlth'orUer clvlIUed countries. For this rea.
son, the destruction of good things abroad
appears to them exactly as desirable as
the creation of good tblnga In Germany, in
most part of the world, the French are re
garded as the most civilized of nations;
their art and thejr literature and their way
of life have an attraction for foreigners
which those of Germany do not have. The
English have developed political liberty,
and the art of maintaining an mp!re with
a minimum of coercion, jn ways for which,
Germany, hitherto, has shown no aptitude,
These are grounds, for envy, and. envy
wishes to destroy what U good in. other
countries, Th aewrfans, quite, rightly,
Judged that what was bast In Frar.qa and
England would probably be destroy! by
a grisat war, een. If France and England
were not In t& tnl defeated In the actual
fighting fcave spen s lift of young Freaeli
n ritem klUed; on the bmfild, probabty
thL ornR aiithofjtffjl bays fttf bi 1
mud hww wflfrtA with ivr that soft
year of such losses will destroy French lit
erature for a generation perhaps, through
loss of tradition, forever Bernard Ru
aall. In the Atlantlo Monthly,
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
One of the penalties of a deraocraoy ia
that Inasmuch as It insists upon guiding
Itself t must proceed without expert guld.
nee. Hartford Times.
President Wilson's "huraanltarlanlsm" In
dealing with the Mexican situation has al.
ready cost us dear The Mexican respects
no law except the law of force. That
country lias never had a, responsible eovrn
meat except when the sword ruled. Hous
ton Post
i
In all history there has been no such ut
ter shipwreck of a worthy causa as that
Which hM overwhelmed paciasm, Good men
have bn lulled by it Into deadly delusion.
Had men have taken advantage of Jt to
destroy their nejghbw, It la the colossal
iallure-of tbf iMfe, and yet Its dupenia tW
country do not hesitate to malum tbosa who
jfcflR taM aoyhif th prtas -n wWd-
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Caligula and Others
Editor of "What Do You Knoto",-Wili
you please give me a short history of (1)
Caligula, (2) tho Medici, (3) Lucrezla Borgia.
C. H. HARRISON.
(1.) Caligula was Emperor of Rome
from A. Di 37 to 41. He was the son of
Germanlcus. and was born In the year 12.
He began his career with senseless prodi
gality, expending in one year the enormous
wealth left by his great-uncle Tiberius, 720,
000,000 sesterces. He banished or mur
dered his relatives, filled Rome with exe
cutions, confiscating the estates of victims,
and amused himself white dining with the
torture and murder of victims. He uttered
tho wish "that all Rome had but one neck,
so that he might decapitate it at one blow,"
He declared himself a god and had temples
built where sacrifices were made to him.
He was assassinated by his guards. (2.)
The mpst celebrated family of the Floren
tine republic. They owed their earliest dis
tinction to success In commerce. They be
came leaders In the 13th century, On Cosmo
do Medici (1389-1464) was bestowed the
title of "Father of his country." From Lo
renzo de Medici was descended a branch of
the family which Jn the 16th century ruled
Tuscany. Lorenzo the Magnificent became
tho virtual head of the republlo In 1469, He
encouraged literature and the arts, but de-r
stroyed democratlo government The
Medfbl were driven out In 1E03, but were
reinstated In 1612. In the next year a
member of the family became Pope, and In
1823 another member. This, with the mar
riage of Catharine de Medici to Henry II
of France and the military power of Cos
mo's descendants, widened the role which
the Medici were to play In Europe. The
family maintained their power until the
lTth century, when they rapidly degenerated
and the dynasty became extinct In 1767,
(3.) Lucrezla Borgia and Cesare Bor
gia were the children of Rodrlgo, who be
came Pope In 1492, The daughter, a wom
an of great beauty, was born In Rome In
1480. She was compelled to marry, at dif.
ferent times, several noblemen to serve the
political purposes of her father and
brother She has been represented as wan
ton and cruel, but recent researches have
shown that she was rather the pliant in
strument of her father,
Battle of the Drandywlne
M, C, M- The battle of 'the Brandywln
was fought on September 11, 1?7T.
Louisiana's Nickname
E. R- The nickname of Louisiana la
th4 Pelican State, the State flower Is the
magnolia.
Th Egyptians Had Glass ,
T..J. K. The manufacture of glas was
known to the Egyptians atta very earlv
date. Tombs of the fourth and fifth
dynasties (4090 B. C.) show BlMblow?ri
6t work, and glazed pottery tn the form of
beads occurs in prehlstorlo times,
The SUe of TJUter
II. M tTKUt'a area Is. Jt square
P-i CP"'S h eountfii of AntrteT
Armagh, Capo, Donegal, jxjwb, jtf
mftEth, Londonderry, Monagbn gm mf.
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WHY VON BUELOW
MAY COME TO US
Tho Extraordinary and Roman.,
tic Career of "Bernhard the ;
Lucky," Once German
Chancellor
4
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?
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SOMB days ago the report was current"
that Bernhard voii Buelow was to
come to America, Thero was mora than a
suspicion that he wan to be a plenipo
tentiary in tho lntcrcsts'of peace, it was
Bald that Johann von
BernstorfC was to be -v
recalled to succeed
Von Jagow as Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs
for the Empire which
is having so much
trouble with foreign
ers. But whatever
the causet tho point
of Interest is, Why
should Von Buelow
b'o the one? On tho
face of it, the answer
seems easy. Von Bue- von buelow.
low Is tho man who kept Italy from de
nouncing tho Triple Alliance for nine
months after tho war broke out, and ho
Is tho man who keeps Italy nnd d
many on friendly, terms oven now. Every
tlmo tho word "Peace" Is spoken In
Wilhelmsstrnsso (and It Is being spoken
moro frequently every day) the nama
of Von Buelow Is mentioned. He !i
tho press agent of peace in Germany, go
if America is to have anything to do
withpence, Von Buelow has to come to
America.
There Is something else. .That Is tho
unique power which mado Bernhard ths
first of a long lino of Von Buolows to
appear In the Almanach de Gotha, al
though the family dates back to Godefroi
de 'Buelow, in the twelfth century. It
tho power which mado It posslblo for
Bernhard to live down a "scandal," and It
is tho power which mado It inevitable that
tub Chancellor should publicly rebuke the
August Emperor hlmsolf. Von Buelow Is
a consummate diplomat. Since the war
began he has swung back into popular
appreciation. Ho has probably done more
than any other man for Germany, oxcopt
Von Bernstoiff himself.
Von Buelow's Romnnce
Ho was born 67 years ago, tho son of
Bismarck's Secretary of Foreign Affairs, a
position ho himself gatnod at the age of
48. Before that tlmo ho had served In the
Franco-Prussian "War, had held diplo
matic posts in Petrogrnd (then St. Peters
burg), Homo, Vienna, Athens and Paris,
and had married. That Is the romance.
His wife was wifo of Count Doenhoff, Von
Buelow's superior at Rome. She was her.
self an Italian Princess of tho family of
Camporcale, and sho shared young Von
Buelow's passion for Wagnerian music.
Tho Count abominated Wagner. Result,
concerts togethei, affinity of interests,,
misundoistood wife, elopement. For
yeais Bernhard von Buelow was In dl '
grace. Then tho Emperor of Germany
and tho Empress of Italy interceded lor
him, and eventually the former marriage Ti
was annulled by the Holy Sec. It wm-
Von Buelow's tact that brought him back
rf
a
S
to favor after an event which seemejl
destined to ruin him. i ,,'j
Once in tho bun Von Buelow made tiF
most of it With his Italian wife Is. s
went to Rome ns Ambassador, and dlL 4
much to cement'tho Triple Alliance by j
giving an inieueciuui tinu burau muiy- -pc
ground to tlio mero political ract .tie re
tui ned as Foreign Minister, and had suc
cesses strewn in his path: tho acquisition
of the Caralinas, tho seizure of Kiao
Chau, the winning of Samoa. Greater
than these wero tho felicitous advances
he made to European Powers, tho rei
newal or commencement of treaties of
commerce, the establishment of cordial
understandings. The famous peace policy
of the Kaiser was several per cent pure
Von Buelow.
A Check Rein on Wilhelm
In 1900 Von Buelow, knighted but not
yet "Prince," undertook the office of
checking Wilhelm. Officially that is
known as beltjg'lmperlal Chancellor, but;
Von Buelow made it tho governmental
whipping post. Like Venlzelos In Greece
lie made the head of the Government
apologize, time after time. Some of the
Instances nre worth-noting, because they
offer ground for speculating on Von Bue
low's future.
While the Boer troubles wero acut
Germany sympathized largely with thf
South Africans, and one fine day a tele
gram signed by the Kaiser was made
public. It expressed sympathy with Oom
Paul Kruger,,to whom it was addressed.
Von Buelow said nothing, but Bhortly
after it was announced that the Em
peror'a telegrams were being counter
signed by Von Buelow. No mention t
the Kaiser was made, but thereafter
there were no Indiscreet telegrams. In
1905 Wilhelm spoke his mind about the
"yellow peril," with certain Ill-chosen re
marks about the Japanese. In September
of that year Von Buelow made a public
statement rectifying the Impression so
created. In 1907 Von Buelow attacked the
Kaser'a pet band of associates and coun
selors, the famous "Court Camarilla,'
Which later came to an lll-odored end. In
the following year the Emperor wrote
letter to Lord. Tweedmouth, a "blazing In
discretion" for which Von Buelow pub
licly "took him down." The same year
marked the downfall of the Emperor's
"infallibility." in an Interview he had.
said that the majority of his people were
hostile to Great Britain. A protest from
England met an equally strong repudla
tlon from Germany, and the Chancellor
appeared before the Reichstag, apologized
for the break, pretended to be responsible
himself, and offered his resignation. The
Emperor dared not accept Instead, he
Invited Von Buelow to Potsdam and ho
ored him.
Such are the achievements or the man
upon whom. Germany la leaning; His flu
ires for peace and hie Interest In ending
the war are by no means treacherous. He'
believes that Germany can win and will
win. But, like others, he realises that the
gain may not be worth the coat He I
far-sighted statesman, a capable man, and
If any ctae cat do 1 Vo4 Buelor will 110
the Kaiser advantageous term when the
time cornea to gather round the greea
table,
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