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A nickel Is worth six cents now.
But what are six cents worth?
Tho averago voter, even If ho has
Democratic Inclinations, will want to seo
ft health certificate for Woodrow Wilson
beforo ho votes a straight ticket.
A week ngo It was noted that tho
price of lco In Philadelphia would not
advance. Yesterday tho milk dealers In
sisted that milk would not go to nlno
conts. Is this midsummer madness?
Thero is an obvious error In tho
report that "William and Edwin Varo
formed a patrol for catching sharks tho
other day. Tho da to Is somewhere in 1915
Aid tho results so far seem to bo good
ie the Vares.
Equal rights to all nations on tho
oceans will be guaranteed by Germany's
Victory in this struggle for our exist
ence. Captain Koenlg.
How about equal rights for all na
tions on the land?
Ono case of Infantile paralysis has
developed In Philadelphia slnco thu epi
demic in New York city began to spread.
This may bo duo to adequate precautions
ftnd may bo a pleco of sheer luck. The
.mount of careless dirt still in tho city
it not reassuring on the point.
Tho now Convention Hall Is to cost
14,000,000. It la said that tho fall of Athens
can bo traced back to tho day when the.
treasury at Dolos was -obbed in order to
jay for beautifying tho Acropolis. So
thoso responsible for the future greatness
ef tho city will bo particularly careful
that tha four million Is honestly procured
and honestly spent.
A highly spectacular and apparent
lx successful raid was made in the Ten
derloin Saturday night. Tho number of
arrests rnado was far too great for a city
Which la supposed not to bo "wldo open."
The raids nro spectacular events, but
ach one of them confesses the inade
quacy of our present methods of handling
the evils which are to be abolished.
Among the many things dono too
lata by tho President is the appointment
o Representative James Hay to a judge
ship in tha Court of Claims. Done n year
sujd mora ago It would havo been a public
ervlae, unappreciated because tho pecu
liar qualities which fit Mr. Hay for being
ut o the House were not known. Now
they are known only too well.
Campaign orators will be telling us
la a few weeka that the Democracy is re
sponsible for the collection of $18,000,000
Income tax In this district this year. As
tho Increase over last year is due largely
to war orders and the Incidental fillip to
general business arising from them, it is
difficult to understand how Mr. "Wilson
&u had anything to do with the matter
unless he insists that it was his party
that brought about the war.
Tho Board of Surveyors and the
builders who have taken the board's ad
vice are equally to be thanked and con
BTfttuUted. Mindful of the popularity of
those streets which have been built
Wound garden spots, the board has urged
constructors pot to crowd their houses
and to keep street space at the minimum
width, and 'recently their urging3 have
teen accepted. The advantage to the
alty Js obvious. That to tho builders will
come financially in the greater deslrabll
ttf of their hquses and In higher rents.
Tljey will also have, If they care for It,
lh consciousness of having done the
etititji
lTaily right thing.
A committee of 1000 members is
.now at work in Pittsburgh and one of
!tji sam size Is being formed In Phlla-
dlphla to seek the election of legislators
fto wui vote Tor jocai opuon. At tne
time there are evidences that the
hMacf men are preparing to go "the
ta counteract these efforts, "tho
it" of course, meaning a slush fund.
ftotn the public disgrace that these
m tif themselves involve, their bad
go far deeper than the average
tl scandal, Far the selection of n
u an Assemblyman primarily on
ground that ts WH suppqrt,oaVjgpei
i tatare&t waountc to tha samcAtdng'
Ux Mlcti0J pf a man who will vup-
rt aey Petal lnturw. A legislator
rjct the democratic principle of
iA wyo I B tJw lrpa that rejects
'itfcev demafatM Jwinciplw. It U not
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favor prohibition, but who havo tho in
stincts of fair play and democracy ami
who deslro tho people of tho counties to
detcrmltto how their counties shall be run.
It has always been the boast of the liquor
men and their supporters that tlioy havo
sporting blood. If tho bribery intt cor
ruption of slush funds nro tho marks of
their sporting blood, it can bo fairly said
that local option Is Inevitable. For tho
truo .sport Is always A.ho man of fundn
mentally democratic cast of mind and tho
fako sport Is essentially a quitter.
'DOING OUR HIT"
IT IS necessary to get down to brass
tacks on this question of providing for
soldiers' families. There has been n, great
deal of theorizing- and sentimentalizing
and passing of tho "buck," but when nil
has been said and dono (that is, left un
done) tho fact remains that a great num
ber of tho families dependent upon our
guardsmen at tho border nro unprovided
for and Jielpless.
Thero nro a number of splendid Ideas
which It Is now too lato to ndx-anco except
for tho enrichment of conversation. It la
Interesting nnd only too truo to say that
Congress should havo had ready a cotiplo
of hundred thousand trained soldiers, who
would naturally havo been young, unmar
ried men sufficiently detached from family
life to bring no hardships to any ono by
enlisting. Equally apt would bo tho re
mark that having left this duty undono
Congress should havo provided for tho
f (million of tho men whom it eventually
had to rely upon to do tho work of tho
might-have-been army. But theso two
piodlglous "ifs" do not pay for bread and
buttor.
Other points, not In tho realm of If,
can bo mado with even moro futility and
with actual harm. It Is being said that
after all thero Is to bo no bloodshed in
Mexico; thnt the order of tho Secretary of
"War directing tho dlsclmrgo of soldiers
having dependents nnd tho generous sup
port given by many employers "who have
agreed to pay their Boldler-employcs whllo
in tho Held" havo relieved anxiety to a
great extent. Now whether thero Is blood
shed In Mexico or not does not affect tho
situation ono whit. Tho salary of a prl
vato remains $lfi a month, whother he Is
doing patrol duty or rushing Into battle,
nnd border patrol duty will perhaps last
longer than actual war would. If all who
technically could havo been mustered out
becauso of having dependent families had
stnyod at home thero would havo been no
National Guard left to speak of. Tho public-spirited
citi7.cn who goes into tho
Guard is precisely tho kind of a man who
would want to have a wlfo nnd children
dependent upon him and who has. If not
married, this kind of citizen has tho man
hood to support mother, sisters or less
closely related kin. It is not far off tho
mark to say that thore is hardly a man
In the Philadelphia brigade who Is "Inde
pendent." Tho typo of mon most desired
for guardsmen Is tho typo most needed at
home.
It is truo that employers who do busi
ness on a large scalo have been most gen
orous; that tho Pennsylvania Railroad has
appropriated $100,000 for dependents upon
its soldier-employes. But all employers
could not afford to be so generous nnd all
guardsmen do not work for the Pennsyl
vania Railroad. Tho fact remains nnd will
not bo urguod or theorized away that tho
majority of tho guardsmen's families aro
In trouble. Applications for assistance
havo como from 317 families to tho Citizen
Soldiers' Aid Commltteo slnco tho troops
left for Mount Oretna, and virtually nil
are deserving cases. Tho total received by
the commlteo has been leas than $10,000,
subscribed by only 42 persons out of a
population of 1.700,000. It Is pstlmated
that $50,000 will bo needed to keep theso
families from being forced to appeal to
charitable organizations.
In a wealthy city like this there must
surely be 30,000 persons who can afford
to glvo a dollar apleco. Thousands of
young mon of military nge havo no moro
dreamed of tho possibility of going to tho
front In khaki than if thoy had been
women. Thoy havo blithely passed tho
matter by with such remark as "thoy
wouldn't take mo because I wear glasses,"
and there is even n cortaln amount of
sneering at tho soldiers by men who pro
fess to envy them tho "lark" they nro
having at the border. This is intolerable.
If ever tho armed forces of tho nation
have had necessary work to do it Is now
that that necessity has arisen, and tho
work la being done. The enormous amount
of discussion devoted to preparedness and
tho adherence to that doctrine by virtu
ally the entire population will all havo to
be rated as "hot air" and lip service If It
Is found that nine men out of ten aro
slackers In such obvious duties as tills.
The load should be lifted from the backs
of these women this week and tho city
spared ono disgrace that it could never
live down. Ono guardsman's wife Is at a
washtub today. She refused to take
money from the aid commltteo. All she
asks is that some ono will give her 16-year-old
son a Job so that he can help
support his mother, sisters and younger
brothers. Tho boy does not want his
family to take charity.
A disgusting development of tho aid
committee's plight and the publicity
growing out of It would bo that slackers
who are letting others do their military
work for them should let a handful of
rich men donate tho fund that 13 needed.
This has been the tendency so far. Fit
teen persons havo given $9150 and 27 per
sons have given $161!
OLD-STYLE WARFARE
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WO of the developments on the west
ern front within the past few days are
calculated to make theorists of the old
school of strategy smile and wonder and
say, "I told you so."
The first of these is the sudden resurg
ence of cavalry charges In France. In
Belgium and elsewhere on the great re
treat cavalry was Invaluable to cover in
fantry movements. With the deadloek
the horse disappeared, and now his emerg
ence la a sign of action over freer ground
and under more favorable conditions.
More Important by far Is the change
of direction on the part of the British.
Not east, but north is the face of General
Haig net, and virtually a flanking move
ment can be discerned. This explains) in
part why the British advance was on so
short a front Driven deep, the troops
and the guns now turn on their enemy's
aide, and the great impossibility of the
war, paarc- prepostsrous than treakln the
it (Ut, m eonuag to pass.
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OVR JAItY'B TALK
Our baby's learning tcord and she
It just as cute as she can be
And if you hear her say "Ko kc"
IVint means ice cream.
You may not use a word so queer
Hut If yon do when she ts near
lie careful for if she should hear
She'd cry for some.
mipht go on and tell a lot
Of funny icords thai she has got
Hut some of them arc simply not
To be described,
ll'lfi pen and ink I can't repeat
tier word for "milkman." Jt's a treat!
She makes a milkman sound so sweet
You'd teant to kiss one.
TED 1IRDUICK, of tho Chicago News,
Is guilty of this campaign slogant
"Thrco shears for Hughes !" Very likely
they may, find that many right In tho
family, If tlioy lncludo tho sclsnors-ln-law.
MAKING out Itineraries for tho travel
ing public is not nltogcther a bed of
roses these days. Tho agent of a local lino
dictating a letter to Intending traveler
said: "We shall bo very glad to havo
you make tho trip under our enro. Our
uniformed messenger will bo pleased to
hand us your reply." Tho letter went out
reading something llko this: "Wo shall
bo very glad to havo you make tho trip
under our car. Our uninformed messen
ger will bo pleasod to hand tin your re
ply." Tho reply has been received, but
It Is not for publication. C. S. K.
W:
B GATHER from tho court record
printed In tho Calcutta Englishman
that Krlato I.all Mulllck Is a dairyman
who served sour goods to Young Kin
Thin and Bnma Churn Chuckorbutty.
Among the witnesses wus Ataboy Socum
Shnw, who might hnvo been bettor cm
ployed at the ball game.
So Like
Ascetic and gourmand nro llko, after all,
For each has tho very same aim;
One's always forgetting tho good things
of life.
Tho other's for getting tho samo.
OLDEST CIRCUS CLOWN
AGED 78 STILL ACTIVE
Head In Wllmtncton paper.
If they'd only hook him up with tho
youngest aged 7S what a team It would
be.
"Say, listen," demanded Adelaide, a pub
lic school pupil of about ton ycara of age,
"when ioii went to school didn't you learn
that 'a, nn and the' were artlcles7"
"yes," replied tho high school graduate.
"Well, In Nicola's private school they
teach him they're adjectives and, Just
think! ho pays for that, too."
TEACHER.
For Fin" Fruit In Season Go to
HAN1TAHY rntJIT MARKKT
Albcrt Shammns & Bro.. I'rops.,
17 Main at.. Mount Pleasant,
where you cot tho beat In Krulta and
Wholesome Confertlons. Alwnrs trcsh anil
clean. Best Iro ('ream used. Also Cigars.
Cigarettes and Tobacco. Fair treatment
to all. Come In when thirsty.
Ad In Mt. Pleasant (Pa.) Journal.
Quite
drink.
a number of substitutes for
More German Stuff
(From tho diary of Samuel Popys.)
NOVEMBER 11, 1(SS3 At noon to the
coffeo houso, where with Doctor Allen
some good discourse about physlrk and
chymlstry. And among other things, I tell
ing him what Drlbblo the German doctor do
offer of an Instrument to sink ships; he tells
me that which Ih moro strange, that nome
thlng made of gold, which they call In
chymlstry Auruin Fulminant, a grain, I
think ho said, of It, put Into a sliver spoon
and fired, will give a blow like a musquett,
and strike a hole through the sliver spoon
downward, without the least force upward.
WOMAN'S TAUTY npnVRKS
ITS "HAT IN IN TIIF. KING"
Will Star There Till Drmoeruti or Republicans
MuKe l'luln tftuteuient on SulTraxe.
Head In Chicago Tribune.
Yo, Charlie! Yo, Woodrow! Look out
for the pins!
THIS was adjudged tho best of B0 ad
vertisements contributed to the Van
dalia (Mo.) High School Annual by "tho
business and professional persons of the
town." Miss Julia Witters will blush pret
tily if you utter loud cries for the author:
FINE FASHIONS FOR FOLKS.
Should Anthony and Claopatrla to earth return
Our classy fabrics they'd surely discern.
In rich laces and silks Cleopatrla would array
And Anthony In a Mchloss liros. suit so grand
ana gay.
Should tha Crusaders another pllcrlmsgs make
We deem It wise fur the Journey to take
A pair of Walk Over shoes. from our line,
Wo know from esperlence they're quite line.
Now Girls and Roys of our Vandalla High.
Hatlafactlon Is sure If our fabrics you buy.
And truly as handsom and superb you'll look
As thoa of fame, written of in school books.
KIMPINSICV-JONHH-UUTTS MERCANTILE
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Vandalla. Mo.
From ratrlek MacOIU's 'Ths Red Horizon."
"The space between the trenches looked
like a beautiful garden; green leaves hid
all shrapnel scars on the shivered trees,
thistles with magnificent blooms rose In
line along the parapet, grasses hung over
the sand bags of the parapet and seemed
to be peering In at us, asking If wo would
allow them to enter. The garden of death
was a riot of color, green, crimson, hello
trope and poppy-red. Even from amidst
the chalk bags a daring little flower could
be seen showing Its face; and a primrose
came to blossom under the eaves of our dug.
out. Nature was hard at work blotting
out tha disfigurement caused by man to
tho face of the country."
OUR OWN QUIZ DEPT.
Why does tbs sneering ragamuffin nhq looks
over th . fence and see you playing tennis
always slap himself on tha wrist and say,
"Forty Iono1'?
Thosseasyt Because it would be a deuce
of a thing to say ''Forty all." p. L.
THAT Deutschland came over here
an oil. Just 25 years ago we re
ported for the Record the first use In
this section of Lima oil as a substitute
for coal in generating steam. It was at
Baldwin's Locomotive Works and the
courteous young man who showed the
thing to ps was Sam M. Vauclain. Now
Mr. Vauclain Is a wealthy captain of In
dustry and we are still writing pieces.
Talk about luck!
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AND THEN HE IS ENERGETIC UNTIL THE EFFECT OF THE -STIMULANT WEARS OFF
THE VOICE OF
A Writer With nn Instinctive Hatred of Everything English Draws
a Lesson From the Political Creed of the
Puritan and the Pilgrim
HYPNOTIZED BY BRITAIN
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir Havo Americans forgotten Bunker
Hill, York town. Valley Forgo nnd New
Orleans? Havo they forgotten Cleorgo Wash
ington, John Adams, Patrick Henry, John
Paul Jones nnd Andrew Jackson? Hnvo
they forgotten tho Revolution nnd the Wnr
of 1812? Havo thoy forgotten the cry of
"54-10 or Fight?" Have they forgotten
the Trent case and Grover Cleveland's ul
timatum? Thoy seem to hnvo dono so In
their Indifference to tho English Intrigues
In this country. They seem to havo for-
gotton that England still looks upon us as
her legitimate prey.
England baa so hypnotized this country
that we talk of Germany, without a pos
session In America, violating tho Monroo
Doctrine, all the whllo Ignoring tho fact
that England owns Cnnnda. that In Canada
there Is every opportunity for "hyphenated
citizens" tn rise ngalnst us, that Monroo
promulgated his doctrine for tho benefit of
tho English and thnt Cloveland protected
It from the encroachments of tho English.
I am an American, with tho Instlnctlvo
American hatred of everything English.
That Instinct, however, Is not blind. It Is
an Instinct developed from facts and not
from mero ldlo misgivings In our alle
giance to tho English cause wo show our
selves woefully Ignorant of American his
tory. The Englishman made America, but
It was not tho same typo of Englishman
which Is today waging with Idealistic
Frenchmen a wnr of greed for tho benefit of
special privilege.
The Englishman who settled this country
"In tho beginning" was as great and as
Intense a hater of the English system which
had driven him from homo. After the Pil
grim and I'uritan, the misfits tn the English
freebootlng system, had cleared the wilder
ness and tamed tho savage, following them,
to reap the harvest of others' work, came
tho swag-hunters; and tho English swag
hunters ever Blnce have been trying to rob
the settled American of his birthright.
Tho Loyalist writers have always belit
tled the Puritan colony at Salem, where
true Americanism had its birth around tho
well pump. Today we think of tho I'uritan
only as a sour-faced gentleman whoso chief
concern In life was to burn witches and to
enact blue laws; but the Puritan was n
"nut" on things other than witches and
kisses. Ho was really a very zealous, hard
working, enthusiastic democrat, who found
himself hedged In by all the monarchist and
ecclesiastical Institutions that had been In
the making slnco mankind first organized
Itself into somo semblance of an economla
machine.
The Puritan Is accused of having been a
tyrant. But what were the ch'ef motives
of Puritanism? The Puritan hatred of
autocracy. He wanted to destroy It. Ho
wanted the right to live his own life, the
SHORTSIGHTEDNESS
From Europe come reports that certain
kinds of manufactured articles Imported
from the United States to supplement the
war-dlmlnlshed supply of domestic products,
are often of an Inferior quality. European
purchasers are saying that somo American
manufacturers, elated tit the opportunity of
making big foreign sales at top prices, aro
overlooking quality in tnelr Ueslre to turn
out goods and fill orders. If this is the
case, If even a small percentage of Ameri
can manufacturers nre following this short
sighted policy of profit for the day, they are
doing a thing which cannot fall to injure
them In tho long run and which will greatly
harm American Industry generally. This
war has given American manufacturers a
great opportunity to establish highly profit
able commercial relations with Europe
relations which they will desire to continue
when the war Is ended. And there Is no
reason why the bulk of the business gained
through the war should not be retained per
manently. America can build up and ex
tend her foreign trade relations providing
she establishes a reputation tor being the
producer of flrst-class goods. Every order
of shoddy and inferior articles which
crosses the Atlantic now will count against
us when we bid for foreign badness after
the war, Permanent trade relations can be
established only by giving full value for
money received. Milwaukee Journal.
PORTO RICO'S PROGRESS
Those who think of our Insular posses
sions as backward would do well to study
the course of legislation in Porto Rico. In
Its system of Juvenile courts for the care
of destitute children, in Its Government as
sistance to laborers wlshinjr farms of their
own. In lta J4.000.000 Government irrigation
jygtem and Government extermination of
.nosQuitoes, in lta probation of a'crovrded
bop-elation aiauut utury. it eeuld oSex
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privilege of being himself. And ho had to
bo a tyrant In order to get liberty for
himself nnd Inevitably for others. In such
nn ngo he would havo been a perfect nss to
simply sit down, twirl his thumbs and sigh,
"I would bo a Christian gentleman." Ho
l,ad to do practical things.
Toleration Is not a onc-sldqd affair, and
there nover will bo a complete toleration
until no man has a lUMro ,o take nd
vnntnge of his neighbor. Had tho I'uritan
been tolerant of the monarchists, who were
tiot tolerant of him, thero would ho today
no nomocracy of tho American brand ; nnd
wo nro losing that brand now slowly for
no other reason than that wo aro tolerat
ing tho modern typo of tho English mon
archist. The Puritan had to put tho screws
on. It was absolutely necessary to do so
If ho wore to cllmlnato tho monarchists
from control of his developing government.
Toleration Is reciprocal. If tho other man
is not seeking something at my cxponso,
of course, I shall tolerato him ; but tho
moment he tries to take advantage of me,
that moment my toleration of him ceases,
Whoever Is not with us Is against us that
Is a Christian law and shows the prac
tlc.ibleness of Christianity, once the mawk
ish sentimentality Is separated. Toward
tho rann who does not tolerato me most
righteously do I become a bigot with a
most natural, and I bollovo a most laud
able, ambition to mnlntnln my own posi
tion. Solf-preservatlon Is tho law of life.
When that is accomplished then all other
tilings may bo added.
For that reason the economic strugglo
will continue until tho strong really are In
control. Meanwhile, the weak wilt do duty
battling against the encroachments of tho
strong. The golden rule of an effective
democracy Is not to do unto others as you
would have others do unto you, but also to
do unto others as they do unto you. Re
turning good for ovll Is a beautiful pastlmo
for thoso who can afford It, but In the
great life struggle, where tho results of
conflict alone determine destiny, proper de
velopment can only be attained when you
are In a ponltlon to keep out the other
fellow who Isn't a Christian and who has
no intentions of ever being one. The man
who would destroy democracy has no right
in the deliberations of a democracy. Tho
monarchist would not tolerate a democrat;
why should tha democrat be fool enough
to tolerato a monarchist?
So nrgued the Puritans; and I don't see
how any one can honestly and practically
assail their position. A house divided
against Itself must fall an America
threatened by tho suffrage of alien foes,
whother German, English pr Irish, must
fall. There can be only one flag, ono
allegiance. I repeat whoever Is not with
us Is against us. And American history
shows that England never has been with
us. CECIL MONTAGUE.
Philadelphia, July 14.
lessons to many States. The advanced
character of San Juan statesmanship Is
again attested by tho legislative session
Just closed. The Government was au
thorized to Issue bonds for an Insular bank
to serve br head of a farm loan system!
A workmen's compensation law was passed,
J2.000.000 was voted to complete the excel
lent road Bystem, and as half our States
and cities might take note all Government
supplies were standardized and their pur
chase vested In a single officer. The Assem
bly even attempted the reform of the gen
era! property tax. which has been as
Iniquitous In Porto Rico as in the United
States. To Governor Yagr and other
American officers a good deal of the credit
for this legislation is due; but It also evinces
a creditable progressiveness on the part of
the native lawmakers. New York Evening
Post.
TRiJE CAUSE FOR SYMPATHY
With all the demands upon our sym
pathies In these crowded days we should
reserve a throb or two for the gentleman
who was nominated for Vice President on
the Bull Moose ticket. Ills campaign suf
fered a puncture before It had a chance to
run out of the convention garage. Provi
dence Journal.
PREPAREDNESS COMPLETE
The Colonel now has a military secretary
and many recruiting officers, and at the first
signal he Is ready' to start for the border
to take charge In Mexico. If war Is not at
once declared for his bensflt, this nation will,
again be humiliated and he will have to find
relief In stumping for Hughes. He la pre
pared to Whip Mexico single-handed, pre
pared to run the Government, prepared to
run the Hushes campaign, prepared to
write, talk or advise. a,nd prepared for any
thing except silence or elfeftajment-
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What Do You Know?
Oucrfea Bf general interest will be answered
in this column. Ten questions, the answers to
uinlcA rveru well-informed rerson should know,
or asked tlailu.
QUIZ
1. Who wns MetrhnlkolT?
2. Is lornl option the equivalent nf prohibition?
3. Are iinr writings of Koerale eitnnt?
I. U'hnt Is the slgntllrunee of the report of
Hip ii of cmnlry In tho fighting In
Trance?
B. Is Crrinanr nt war with Itnly?
0. About wltnt Is the width of tho Delaware
River nt Market strert?
7. Who Is the American Ambassndnr to rrance?
H, Does the Vatican own nnr ships?
0. What Is legerdemain?
10. Whnt Is the proper name for the "pork
hill"?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. Mollere was the greatest of French drnma-
...lists. He lived In the 171li rentury.
2. Mlrnnher appears In Dickens' "IJnvliI Cop-
.perllelil."
3. Illuerher was the Prusulan general nhn
flood .Wellington to defeat Nnpoleon nt
Waterloo.
4. Children ut the nge of 8 nro required by Iho
. emnpiilnory education law to attend school,
o. "Salad ilu.s": nilolesceuce.
0. John Hrssln Clarke: he lins Just been np-
. ..-P0,'.'tcd to the Supreme Court bench.
"To ilrnw the long bow": to esnggernte.
8. l-.n innsse"! In n hotly,
0. "iliiy-rppcs": guide or guiding ropes to
. steady heaT goods being hoisted.
10. One hundred -en make one yen In Japan's
coinage. Tho en Is 40 4-5 cents.
Wilhclmtna's Htlsband
B. n. n. Queen Wllhelmlnn, of the
Netherlands, was married February 7, 1901,
to Prince Honry of Mecklenburg-Schwerln.
Club Rights
A READEn The question you put Is not
a question of Information at all, but of what
Is tho right, or generous, thing to do. You
eay that the rules of tho club prevent a
member withdrawing money without a good
reason. But you do not etato the ronson
why the member you name wants to with
draw her money. It Is for you to decide
whether tho reason Is good, or, perhaps,
whethor the circumstances are such that
they would Justify you In returning the
money. On Insufficient information we can
not even advise. As for deciding, that is
not tho provlnoe of this department.
Asqulth's Sons
R- N. It Is not true that upper-class
Englishmen are all slackers, bo your argu
ment was correct. The casualty lists are
tha proof. As for the specific case, Premier
Asqulth is tsld to have three sons .at the
front. 'a
Bullet in Train
Editor of "What Do You Know" Kindly
decide upon tha following supposition: In
tho last car of a train going at tho rate of
60 miles an hour stands a man who in
tends to take the Ufa of the engineer, whom
he can see through the open doors of the
tratn. Tha Intended assassin draws a re
volver which will Are a bullet at the rate
of 60 miles an hour. He fires through the
train (not outside). Does he hit the engineer
(allowing that his aim is accurate), and, If
so, what is the rate of speed of the bullet
when It strikes him? j. j.
Actual experience, such as throwing a
wad of paper from one seat to another In
a moving train, gives the answer. He would
hit the engineer. The reason Is that the en
gineer, no matter what the rate of speed
of the train, remains a fixed distance from
the man In the last car. If the man ran
through the cars to touch him he would
arrive, going at precisely the rate his legs
took him. He would be, let us say, ten
miles nearer the destination of the train,
but his own rate of speed would be Just
what It was If the train were standing still.
If the bullet could go 60 miles an hour in
definitely it would be going 60 miles an
hour when it hit the engineer that is, 60
miles In relation to the motion of the train
and 120 In relation to tha earth. For ob
viously the bullet, even before It Is fired. Is
60, the shot gives it 60 more, until it lodges.
Singing Sparrows
J. L- Yes. experiments have been made
in teaching sparrows to sing. A sparrow
fledgling was placed in a nest with canaries
after it had acquired the characteristic
chirp of the sparrow. From that time on
the sparrow was noticed making efforts to
reproduco the songs of the canaries and
eventually succeeded In producing runs of
from six to twelve notes In succession. He
went to the higher scale of the canaries and
developed quite a voice. The sparrow was
then returned to his mates and gradually
stopped singing. -Coming back to canaries
h regained all bis sk )1 In a short time. All
this was reported some time ago from London-
It sounds as if -It might be true, but
v have nq knowledge, at first hand to
avf your qury
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FOUNTAINS OF
IMMORTALITY
Elie MetclinikoiT Found in Sour
Milk the Springs of Bimini
Sought by Ponce
dc Leon
TUB death of Ello Metchnlkoft In Paris,
tho other day, was a loss to science as
much as It was a loss to the great hope of
tho world. Tho great liopo Is eternal
youth, nnd so long ns Metchnlkoft lived
thero wcro many who believed that ha
would find n way to those mythical
springs which havo captivated tho
imagination of mankind since tlmo be
gan. In strict accuracy it must bo said
that Motchnlkoff was nt least ninety per
cent, moro modcrnto than his exploiters.
Ho never found a. "euro" for old ago, nor
did ho discover a nostrum for this world's
Ills. But ho was supposed to havo tlono
UiIb, and tho world likes to bollovo that
ho had.
Ono of , tho earliest references to the
waters that heal and mako wholo Is that
In tho story of .tclilltcs who was dipped
in tho Styx, paradoxically tho rivor of
Death, to render him Invulnerable. Alas
for tho world that In ovory spring of
llfo thero ntlll lurks death Unseen, for
Just as Thetis forgot to dip Achilles' heel,
so moderns, wherever thoy bntho or
drink, fall somewhere to guard them
selves. In tho Middle Agc3 nnd after, in
tho Renaissance, tho search for an elixir
of llfo wont ori ns furiously as tho search
for tho philosopher's stone, which wns
not a stono nt nil, but which was sup
posed to dissolve out nil basor elements
and trnnsmuto everything Into gold, So
seriously was tho latter taken, by tho
way, that Roger Bacon, In searching for
It, discovered tho truo elixir of death, gun
powder. In classic days thero was plenty of In
centive for seeking tho fountain of youth,
becnuso there was established preccdont,
Iolaus was restored to youth, and so was
Phaon, beloved of Sappho. In tho caul
dron of Mcdca an old ram was cast nnd
camo forth renewed, and through her
Acson nnd Jason woro young again. It Is
no wonder that with tho return of men's
sympathies to ancient days, tho fountain
of youth was sought ngnln. Tho most
notnblo of all excursions mado In Its bo-
hnlf was that of Ponco do Leon, tho
Spanish explorer, who subjugated Porto
Rico en route. For somo reason tho foun
tain, from which to drink or in which
to bathe was so revitalizing, was placed
In tho Bahamas, on tho Httlo Island of
Blmlni. Thero Ponco do Leon enmo to
his bitter disappointment, but tho spring
which still persists Is visited ns n shrine
by tho sick and Is supposed to possess
healing qualities.
Bon Jonson, in "Tho Alchemist" speaks
of nn elixir thus:
Ho that has onco the Flower of tho Sun.
Tho perfect ruby which wo call elixir.
Can- confer honor, lovo, respect, long llfo,
Glvo safety, valor, yea, and victory.
To whom he will. In clght-ond-twenty
days
I'll mako an old man of fourscore a child.
Which Is, roughly speaking, a largo order
oven for a precious stono.
Tho rubles, potions and concoctions of
tho ancients wcro not so closely linked to
religious beliefs as those of a moro mod
ern tlmo. But In tho last fifty years tho
swing has been back to tho earlier type
of magic, and the work of Motchnlkoff Is
symptomatic of tho return. For his dis
coveries wero purely scientific. It was not
to bo born ngaln, hut to mako tho first
birth moro extensive thnt he offerod. It
must always bo remomborcd that Motch
nlkoff was a bacteriologist.
Motchnlkoff, tho Russian, Joined the
hands of VIrchow, tho German, and Pas
teur, tho Frenchman, In a trlplo alliance
of research. VIrchow had discovered the
whlto corpuscles, Pasteur tho microbes.
Metchnlkoft first found tho relation be
tweon them, that tho whlto corpuscles
wero tho body's defensive agents against
tho microbes. All tho work which mado
him famous outside of his class, that is, a
popular scientist, derives from that dis
covery. Metchnikoff sought to tho end for
such bacteria which might aid the whlto
corpuscles in their losing fight against
tho microbes of death. Ho was Impressed
with tho violence of our resistance to
death, nnd as ho was an atheist, without
definite views or hopes of a future life,
ho felt that our deslro to live on ought
to be gratified. Moreover, his Btudy of
tho human body convinced him that It
was so constructed ns to persist for moro
than three score and ten years, nnd to
persist at a higher tension thnn It now
does. Birds, he noted, retained their
speed and their agility until almost tho
tlmo of their death, Metchnikoff, after a
carefultudy, decided that the operations
of the large intestines In the human body
were at fault, for destructive microbes
could gather there and the agency for
their removal, sugar, could not reach tho
largo Intestines intact. He prophesied
that tho tlmo would come when that or
gan would be removed as simply as tho
appendix now is.
Metchnikoff drew his argument for a
life of more than a century from the fact
that where he was born, Little Russia,
and in Bulgaria, where much sour milk la
drunk, many persons live to be over a
century. The trouble with the argument
Is the trouble with most cures. If
a man is nt absolute rest In tho Swiss
Alps, takes sufflclent exercise, does not
worry, has no opportunity for smoking
or drinking, nnd eats grapes he will prob
ably bo restored to health and eay the
grapes did It. Metchnikoff did go further
because he was a scientist, not an Inn
keeper. He showed how and why the
bacillus found In buttermilk fought and
destroyed the agencies which shortened
human life. He promised nothing exces
sivo and although fellow scientists were
occasionally exasperated by the foolish
publicity given his views, they never
questioned his fundamental soundness.
Professor Metchnikoff was a philos
opher as well as a scientist, and he
thought of life and death more conse
cutively perhaps, than most men who
devote their time to staving off the last
hour. His own feellngiwas that If men
lived as long as they 'should live, were
not cut off Impudently at sixty or so,
they would welcome death as they now
welcome sleep, with quiet satisfaction,
at the end of & very long day.
WEEK-END
It Is a dull day In England when thtr
Is not lounq some new way to wnicn uavia
Lloyd aJrge y save the, Brititn Empire,
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