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CTJ1ATION OP TID EVEN1NO LEDGER
FOU'JUNn WA8 125,803
rMttael-M.. Stlii-as-. Jol- ... lilt.
A man of pleasure it a man of
jon. Young.
The underworld counts Us votes
and laughs.
"Mr, Vnndertllt pays 2Q0 for a
pair of Scissors." To cut coupons, of'
course.
Tho Commoner announces that
"the President Is growing." So are tho
expenses of tho Government, but nobody
la bragging about It
Tha navy'n now anti-aircraft guns
Will shoot 25,000 feet straight up in the
air, It Is said. Tho first thing wo know
we'll bo Bhelllnc Mars.
'Xefa see If .wo can't give Chester
a name," says tho Chester Times. "Let's
call It tho 'Smokestack City."' What's
tho matter with "Chester"?
Scott Near In e says ho did not mean
all tho newspapers when he delivered his
denunciation of Journalism in general.
Never mind, he'll go tho limit after
a while.
Further Improvement of Delaware
Bay has been urged upon Congress by
army engineers. Tho attention of Con
gress Is respectfully called to the report
on last year's shipping from this port.
I Inherited my democracy. But it
wouldn't stay In my blood long It the
red corpuscles didn't have something to
do. President Wilson.
That Is not historic Democratic
doctrine. The Job's the thing, and every
postmaster the President was addressing
had one.
The controllers of traction In Har
risburg' have- met and will again meet
representatives of tho striking car men.
In 'Wilkes-Barro tho strike has gone on
much Idnger and still the want of ordi
nary co-operation blocks efforts for
peace. Is common sense so rare?
Mr. Vance McCormlck will really
havo to taka tho theatrical managers
well In hand. Legitimate shows, accord
ing to the latter, will have little chance
In the West this winter because, lacking
munition plants, the West Is none too
.prosperous and lias no money for any
thing mora expensive than the movies.
If our prosperity Is not only temporary,
but localized In a small section, it is
hardly a good -campaign Issue. Perhaps
certain members of the Cabinet will try
to revive business on the small-time cir
cuit after March 4.
Even If la conference the Senate's
naval bill suffers somewhat. Its passage
by a. tremendous majority yesterday was
of vast importance. It Is certain that,
once the European war Is over, there will
'arise a pacifist hysteria In this country
Which' will make sane measures of self
defense virtually. Impossible. The Sen
ate wisely Insists upon a continuing pro
gram, which -will stand against temporary
fluctuations of opinion. The actual pro
visions of the bill aro far from making
this country a naval rival of Great Brit
ain, but they will do much to Inspire re
spect among others and security In our
awn hearts.
Hysteria has hardly taken New
York )but several surrounding places have
grown quite mad lr their fear of Infan
tile paralysis. Because a family lived In
Brooklyn several weeks ago and because
a child died in that family, although the
death took place after they had moved to
Jersey City and was not due to paralysis,
tha city authorities of Hoboken ejected
that family. Other equally drastic in
stances are cited In the New York papers,
which have been, Incidentally, accused of
exaggerating the epidemic. The situation
Is bad. but losing heads and becoming
heartless will hardly help It. It is to be
noted", and filed for reference, that the
assumed right of New Jersey to forbid
sntrancfl from New, Tofk, except on the
rdlnary grounds, was not upheld by th
New Jersey authorities.
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Thrto weeks of. attack havs now
passed, on th,a western front and the
peratlons may be divided for convenience,
fcut In view of what is to come, or Is In.
tended, the,attack must still ba considered
In Um first phase Thera have been at
Hast threa deifajata movements, with lulls
toe consolidation and for further artillery
preparation. Th work has been pressed
with admlnibl4'pre"ilon and system, but
tha reault hayu a prove kingly (mall
to those who iwcisA that thera would be
m great push arid, that Germany wpuld
t.-e tq th , saltern Una ol France.
itetWaifaC iftslffEfc &M happened, chiefly.
fesaMts fa i$m wea mada to. sihlevq
th& ip'ijnMftl". Tka two lines of ad vanes
tevsje.Jswly -straightened, the direc
tion rHymtlsW sMitsd tha purposes of tha
vomxsimlmm, aiut is resistance and ccun-
tr-tf colbsa" ha-adtly wet, it is lmposat-
V I fcf-tifr $ fffiaa supply of
heavy shells (a bo low as the reports sug
gesl, desfrtte the enormous Amounts used
at Verdun nnuViln the Eut. Certainty
Jerman resistance la by no means ebbing
Inl the Held. That It is (lowly giving out
at home Is, perhaps, the true measure
of the Value which should be attached to
the offensive. It was meant to teach tho
heart of Germany, eventually. That can
be done before a British soldier sets foot
on German soli.
WHAT'IS COMING?
AS THE world approaches the third
" year of ita great war hopo slowly
gives way to a feeling of confidence that
the war has turned the corner, that
Kitchener's pr'edtotlon of a three years'
war was wisely made. It Is not necessary
to rehearse the reasons for this confi
dence, which Is influenced but hot wholly
determined by tho present Entente of
tensive. Tho arguments may be read on
the first page of every Issue of this or
any other newspaper. They may be
premature t at tho worst, fallacious. But
what depends on them Is Just as worthy
of attention.
Tho war ends Its second year and the
purposes of Itjaro still best expressed In
th'Os'o phrasei vhlch were made famous
at Its beginning. The German word Is
stin "a place In tho sun," a defense
against tho Powers which wore bent on
ruining her. The Entente still demands
that the "trampling, drilling foolery In
tho heart of Europo" must bo crushed,
that democratic government shall no
longer bo menaced by militarism, that
thn sword shall not be sheathed until Bel
glum. Is restored, and so on. Granting tho
Impossibility that both are right, the cor
talnfy that largo numbers bellovo each
right, the result Is simply that each nation
seeks a, free field for development. And,
with the calm Ingenuousness of mortals,
the very outlines of that development aro
clouded and Inconsistent. In that sense
It la painfully true that most of tho bel
ligerents do not know what they are fight
In g tor.
CEnTAINLY it Is wanton and wasteful
to speculate on what Is coming unlesi
there Is soma general conception of what
qught to come. Mr. H. G. Wells, who Is by
profession a prophet, puts no interroga
tion point after tho tltlo of his book,
"What is Coming." Ho avers, now and
again, that ho makes no Judgments on tho
desirability of the things in store for Eng
land, but ho has a distinct prejudice. Mr.
Frank Harris has rather sharply called
to mind Mr. Wells' eager enthusiasm for
Germany some years ago, and It Is clear
enough that underlying all his protesta
tions Mr. Wolls" Is In spirit an efficiency
expert. Ho has ridiculed tho typo best
because, ho understands himself. He
hopes for an England with all tho muddlo
gone, with clean streets and apartment
houses with common kitchens and bu
reaus and statistics and co-operation and
Prussia. But no militarism. Mr. Hynd-
man, a great Socialist, declares outright
that England must take on tho garment
of German efficiency and goes In for uni
versal service. But these men are not
England and England is not Europe.
There has been -no phenomenon more
frequent In historical times than tho Im
position of a defeated nation's ideals on a
conqueror, especially when the victor has
had a less elaborately civilized mode of
life. The barbarians conquered Rome, but
In the end Roman law prevailed. The
newly rich conquer-soclety, but succumb
to social forms. In a naive time the
process is. long. In a critical time it may
be very short. So England and France
havo to decide, not by law, not by the
voices of their leaders, but by a plebiscite
which may have no standing In law,
whether they shall hold forever In their
hands the sword of efficiency which they
took up against Germany. The problem
of Germany herself Is as complicated.
Will she abjuie militarism? Will she be
abla to get the good of her system of
monarchical socialism 'without driving In
Its defects? Will there be a social change
almost revolutionary, or will the gradual
intermingling of Ideas restore the world
to Its former haphazard, purposeless,
human condition?
IT IS certain that against the possibility
of a mere settling down the publicists
and politicians will protest Mr. Wells may
derive from Germany an argument against
borough rivalries, and Mr. Cecil Chester
ton see in Germany's crimes a reason for
abolishing old ago pensions. Both, and
the extremists they represent, would deem
It a calamity If tha war should end with
nothing definitely learned, with no new
policies, no change 'In the social fabric of
England. France will ask Itself whether
the dangers of democracy, shown so bit
terly In 1914, must be repeated eternally.
Germany will demand a reckoning for
militarism and may be led to ask whether
there Is not something Inherent In the
worship of efficient men which makes a
nation indifferent to the 'privileges of the
children of men, Russia will have, too.
her time of .accounting.
The lack of a recognizable, acceptable
social (deal before the war was leading
England Into a stats of confusion and
danger. It may bs too much to ask that
such an Ideal, such definition of how men
might live, should grow up In the stress
ful times of war. Tha fact Is that wars
have in tha past sharpened the taste of
peace. They have don9 so for this coun
try, In part. They must do so for the
world, must deliver a clear Impression of
what U wanted, before what is coming
wJ any- aaia,
Tom Daly's Column
the old reporter
I FEEL It in my blood this morning that
this la the day and this the place for me
to tell the story of how the Schuylkill river
got on Are and quite Incidentally how I
got an Increase In my wages.
it was my late night at the Record
office, when along about 10 o'cl-ick the City
Hall man telephoned In lhat earlier In the
evening there had been a setlous fire at
Point Breeze which was still supposed to
be burning, nnd as a result of which sev
eral men had died,
a
In those days Frank Kerr operated a
cab stand outside the old Olrard House.
on 9th street, lust above Chestnut. I wai
crossing the Postomce pavement on my way
to take a cab to Point Breeze (for In those
duys the troleysdld not run down Pass
yunk axenue aa they do now) when I came
Upon old Cap'. Ash," of the North Ameri
can, who was scuttling along as fast as
he could Cap was a hunchback and per
haps wai tho oldest reporter In tho business
at that time. I asked him where he was
going and learned he was out on the same
story. I said: "Why not take a cab?"
"My people won't stand for a cab," said he.
The North American In tho-e days was
n sick newspaper. The McMlchaels wore
allowing It to die on their hands : this was
some years before It passed to the present
owner. "Besides," Cap added quickly, for
ho had his own pride, "I figure that a cab
mouldn t do us any good, for the roaas are
muddy after the spilns rains and by the
time we got to Point Breeze and back my
papr at least would lme gone to press"
While we were talking the Press cab,
quickly followed by the Ledger cab, went
galloping west on chestnut street "wnai
do you propose to do? ' I asked the old
man. "Our best plan," .-aid he, "Is to take
a car to the 17th district police station at
20th and Federal streets, and we may be
able to get enough there to cover the story."
Now, I've never been able to make clear
In my own mind whether It was superior
Intuition or sheer laziness that made me
fall In lns with Cap Ash's suggestion, but,
at any rate, 1 went with him. We got off
the car at Federal street and just aa wo
were climbing- the atepj of tha station house
the patrol wagon draw up to the door and
disgorged Lieutenant Thompson and a
quad of policemen returning from the
soana of the fire This was one of the
luckiest breaks that ever happened to me
In the newspaper business. I pictured tho
Ledger, Press, Times and Inquirer men beat
ing it through the dark down muddy Paps-
yunk road to Point Breeze. I learned after
ward that several of them got back between
2 nnd 3 o'clock In the morning with nothing
for their pains.
a a a
Cap Aah and I followed the lieutenant
Into his room and, sitting there In com
fort, got this story:
Shortly beforo 6 o'clock that evening a
half dozen men employed at tho Atlantic
Refining Company's plant on the east hIcIo
of the Schuylkill rtlver at Point Breeze had
started for their homes on the west bank
of the river. Thero were two rowboats
with three men In each boat, two at the
oars and one In the stern eheets. Both
boats pushed off at the same moment and
the Idle man In the stern of one of them
called bantcrlngly to tho others that there
was a kettle of beer on the other side for
the crew that reached It first Tho others
took up the challenge and the race was
on. The man who had Is-ued the challenge
struck a iriatch and. lighting his pipe, tossed
tho match stick overboard Now there had
been a serious Are at Tolnt Breeze the Sun
day before and considerable damage had
been done to the whanes and the Italian
bark Felix had been burned at her berth
alongside one of them. Tho P.re on that
occasion had been caused by a stream of
oil leaking from a neighboring tank trick
ling under a firebox In the engine room of
the rellning company The oil, still leaking
from the tank, had gradually covered tho
surface of tho i Iver, nnd when the match
was thrown over from the boat It Ignited a
patch of oil and In an Instant the entire
surface of the river was ablaze
Tho men In the two boats rowed on for
dear life, with the oars blazing In their
hands One of the men, possibly the one
who suggested the race, losing his had,
leaped overboard. Of course, when ho came
to the surface again he was between fire
and water. One of his companions In at
tempting to save him was badly burned
The two men were eventuatly recovered
from the river and sent to St. Agnes' Hos
pital, where one, or possibly both, died in
a few hours. The fire reached the bark
Felix, lying half submerged In midstream,
and completely destroyed her upper works.
Wharves on both sides of the river were
considerably damaged.
Briefly, this was the story we got. We
were both back at our desks by 11 o'clock,
and I "wrote the best story of my career, a
column and a quarter of solid nonpareil, by
12 o'clock, each page being taken by the
copy editor and fed to the compositors as
quickly as It was turned out. The next
payday there was a little bit more money In
my pay envelope, and I often felt that It
should have gone to Cap. Ash.
THE LIMIT
A fisherman down in .Veto Guinea
Went angltna for specimens julnea.
But he only brought In
A few Ilea that were thin
As himself and gee whiz! he
skulnea.
Christian Sdsnc -would do Judd Lawla a world
of sood Etary Auiuit he haa hay (aver, and he
auffers mora worrying about It beforehand than
ha does whan ba haa It Aa a man tblnkcth, ao
la ha. or nfarly to Doo nixby In N-braka
State Journal
What lou trylnr to do. you cantankeroua old
whanadoodl", (et ui to InduUa In preparation In
tha way of Chrlatlan Science treatment? Of
courae, it'a Ood'a doln'i that you ain't prttty.
but It la our own fault that sou are not con
alitent. Judd Lawta, In Houston Post,
COME, come, boys! Maybe you'ra both
wrong. We complained ourself about
hay fever the other day and this morn
ing's mall brought this:
J jou with Maud would slay
While she rakes in the hay,
Just take this tip from me
Try osteopathy. . W. P. M.
THnEE or four times we have burled
ourselves In tho musty room where
very old newspaper files are kent Jn an
effort to dig up our storjj of the first golf
game that was ever played In this section
of. the country. AH we can remember is
that it was in the early 90s, and that the
scene of the disturbance was the grounds
of the Philadelphia Country Club at
Bala. Only four or five or, at most,
seven holes were laid out, and those who
participated did it rather shamefacedly.
It was the feeling of all that the game
would never become popular in America.
We recall that we devoted most of our
attention tq the costume of Miss Elsie
Cassatt, who seemed to us to be the -most
Interesting participant. All this Is not
without value to the present-day reader in
view of the fact that Mr. Jerry Travers,
in a recent magazine article, pointed
out that devotees of the gams of golf In
this country are responsible for the ex
penditure of millions for dues and
Incidentals and millions for up
keep, e,tc., In the - thousands of golf
clubs throughout the country, represent
ing an investment of millions of
dollars.
Sportlns d.partmtnt -leate Sit la trusts.
AT BAT
"YacatloH-tlmtft beginning?
Th votary clerks arc shouting;
"And now w hawr our inning
fa get a Uttht ovting.
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THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Temperance on Local
Option Another Citizen Considers It
a Fallacy
T7il Department t free, to all reader
ti'io wish to express their o"(n(o on ut
lects o current interest. It i an open
forum and the Eientna Leaner dJimnM no
responsibility for the ilewa of ts corre
spondents. NO SYMPATHY FOR LIQUOR
To the Editor of the Evening Lcdncr:
Sir Tou have made tho Philadelphia pub
lic your debtor by your clear and satisfac
tory reply In tho Issue of last evening to
Clarence GIbboney's communication "Locnl
Option vs. Purchase " As one of tho
temperance secretaries of tho Presbyterian
Church, I should llko to make a few addi
tional remarks.
Mr. Glbboncy talks of specious reasoning
and fallac(ous arguments, but I fear he In
appealing to Ignorance only. We are not
living In England, but under good old Undo
Sam Mr. Glbboncy Is a lawTer, nnd of all
people In Philadelphia ho ought to know
that the United States Supreme Court has
twelve times declared that there Is no In
herent right In a citizen to cell Intoxicat
ing liquor, while nearly every State Su
preme Court In tho Union has ruled that no
person has an Inherent right to keep a
saloon. Licenses nro Issued for one year
only, and the public has just ns much right
to revoke them ns property owners have to
notify their tenants to vacate the premises.
Booze holsters, to borrow a vernacular
term, deserve no sympathy whatever. War
brides are not In It with the profits of tho
liquor traffic Let Mr. Glbboney go up
Whisky Hill. In Chester, Pa , nnd view the
eplendld residences built by wet-goods men.
Now, should their gamblers' chances go
against such men, surely the public should
worry. It ought to bo pointed out, how
ever, that a large proportion of tho saloon
belongings of the country nre owned by the
breweries, of nhlch thero are, roughly
speaking, about 1200 In all. These are the
concerns on which Mr. Glbboney b tears
should be expended. As a mr.tter of tact,
they are proving themselves quite capable
of meeting changed conditions. In Wheel
ing. W. Va., one of these concerns went Into
the pork packing Industry. Others, rec
ognizing the Inevitable, are preparing for
similar changes, as in St Louis, where
malted milk has been adopted as a side line
Mr. Roosevelt remarks that the friends of
the saloon denounce their opponents for
not treating the saloon business like any
other. "The best answer to this Is that the
business Is not like any other business, and
that the actions of the saloonkeepers them
selves prove this to be the case. It tends to
create criminality In the population at
large, and law-breaking amongst the sa
loonkeepers themselves When the liquor
men are allowed to do as they wish, they
are sure to debauch not only the body social,
but the body politic also."
I am sorry to note that Mr. Glbboney,
lonr the efficient secretary of the Law and
order society, ana whose knowledge of un
derground Philadelphia conditions Is nothing
less than masterly, has jumped the fence
Could a golden Anger have beckoned. Tet
hla letter is an encouraging sign of the
times It Is clear that the liquor Industries
of the country have seen the writing on the
wall, and hope to save at least a few square
Inches of their hide I rejoice to add that
the Presbyterian Church is exerting more
and more of Its Immense power and prestige
for the total abolition of the evil traffic and
that more than a score of sister denomina
tions are falling Into line and establishing
educational agencies.
EDWIN JT. HEINKE.
Associate Secretary, Presbyterian Board of
Temperance.
Philadelphia, July 31.
LOCAL OPTION INSIGNIFICANT
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger;
Sir Without any desire or purpose to
Inject my personality or opinions into a
controversy between D, Clarence Glbboney
and the Eyznino Ledoeb, I believe that
Investigation haa given mo knowledge that,
at least, may serve to edify the public to
CORN COBS IN MISSOURI
I spent a very Interesting hour the'.other
afternoon at the plant of the National Cob
Pipe Works, at Union, Franklin County.
No one who has not Investigated the pipe
Industry has sny conception of Its magni
tude. The plant at Union is one of three
or four faotorles of like character in Frank
lin County, ope or two of which are larger
than Is It The others are located at Wash
ington, the largest town la the county,
although pot the county seat There Is
also a cob pipe factory at Boonyille, Cooper
county. The plant at Union employs some
30 to 40 people and produces 10.000 pipes
per day. The Industry has been enjoying
splendid business in recent months, and
the Union plant Is now four months behind
with Its orders. The oobs from which tha
pipes are, ms.de are purchased direct from '
the farmers, wno cava learned to Shell their
corn, and preserve ths, cobs f$t esls, TJ-j
WATCHFUL WAITING
All Swelter. on tho Rio Grande.
All's Swell on tho Potomac.
Copyright 1010, by John T. McCutcheon,
IT ALL DEPENDS UPON WHERE YOU DO YOUR WAITING
which your paper In a most aluable source
of Information and Instruction.
As a preliminary nnd fundamental prop
osition question the right of SI per cent
of tho electorate to determine the use' of
property, the habits of life of tho other 49
per cent. Local option as a general proposi
tion Is a fallacy, nnd In Its application to
the liquor traffic It Is more than a fallacy;
It Is a crime, If the reasons given for this
particular application aro true.
If the traffic In alcoholic liquors Is In
herently wrong. If It Is a publlo menace. If
It degrades mankind nnd undermines tho
foundation of government, then a majority
ote cannot make it right In such case It
becomes a creat Reneral moral and gov
ernmental question to bo settled by broad
comprehensive application of the principles
and powers of goornment.
To treat It with local option Is puerile:
It Is a wicked comnromlse with Inlnultv.
We cannot, however. In dealing with this
question, dgnoro the fact that the people,
through their Government, natlonat and
State, havo nluays been In nartnershln
with the liquor trade, and In the way of
revenue have received a largo 6hare of the
profits, a larger share, so far as the brewers
and distillers ore concerned, than have
thoso engaged In production. Recognition
In law, division In profltSt these have given
the business a standing which Involves
rights beyond tho power of any Just local
power to abrogate.
These Intere- have paid Into the United
States Treasury more than $2,000,000,000
In the last 10 years, nnd yet the total cap
ital inNested Is only about $800,000,000.
Compensation upon a reasonable valuation
would only require the payment of a small
proportion of the profits paid to the ma
jority beneficiaries, the people of the United
States.
The retail trade, of course, Is on a differ
ent basis, nnd in, practice has been treated
In n manner to Indicate that it was on an
unstable foundation and carried with It risks
tnat might well deter a wine man from
associating himself with It
That the general conduct of the business
has been bad must be conceded, but this
docs not affect fundamental principles of
right, or right based upon any use and en
joyment by consent of the people and ap
proval of government. The landmarks of
law have defined and established rlchts
which ought not In Justice to be annulled
without compensation.
The political activity of the men In the
liquor trade has not been In behalf of new
laws with Increased privileges, but to pro
tect the old landmarks of legislation
They have been the victims of grafting
officeholders and political holdup men to an
extent almost Inconceivable. And while they
have been blackjacked continually, the men
who have bled them hae been made Gov
ernors und United States Senators as well
as crowned with lesser honors by the very
Individuals who are denouncing the whole
liquor traffic. Any corruption of the elec
torate by liquor money has been engineered
by the Organization leaders. This Is espe
cially true In Pennsylvania, as I know; but
these contributions havo never been reported
in the sworn statements of the committees
who have received them.
If this question is ever treated honestly
these official perjurers will take their places
with lesser criminals In the penitentiary.
In the great work of revelation and pun
ishment will the Evenino Ledoer perform
its duty without personal favor or partisan
prejudice?
Not to protect the brewers and their asso
ciates from unjust exactions, but to protect
every Interest demanding Justice In law
from the brigandage of men whom the
people honor with the highest positions In
their power to bestow. How Insignificant Is
local pptlon In the presence of these mighty
Interests that Involve the very existence of
popular government!
GEORGE MULLER.
Darby, Pa., July 20.
factory Is now paying 1 cent each for cobs.
A few years since an abundant supply could
be had at from 30 to 4.0 cents per hundred.
The manufacturing process is a very simple
but Interesting one, demonstrating to what
importance In our Industrial life so Insig
nificant a thing as a corn cob may become.
The plant at Union makes 250 different
varieties of pipes and is ready to add to
the number, providing a customer wants a
sufficient quantity of a special design for his
own use. St. Joseph Gazitte.
VOTING SOLDIERS
It Js grossly unjust thst these citizens,
serving their country under special circum
stances of possible danger and hardship,
should face ths slightest risk of losing their
opportunity to exercise tba right of suffrage
in a national campaign of ths utmost Inter
est and significance. It ought to be settled
far In advance that they can vote wherever
they happen to bs on duty and have their
votes counted with those cast by their fel
low citizens at home. Cleveland Leader,
What Do You Know?
Queries of antral interest will bs anieirJ
in this column. .Ten questions, the answers
which every well-informed person anould know.
art asked dallu.
QUIZ
1. What Is meant by "parboiled"!
3. Where la the nlnck Fore-t?
3. Southern floods hare root many Urea and
untold -uttering nnd property , loss In
the last few dnys. What was the cnu-o
of these Hood?
4. Who la J. Frank Hanly?
6. What Is the munitions reTenne bill?
fl. W'hns I- meant by "owl cnr" and "owl
trains"?
7. Who wroto the opera "Paint"?
B. What was the ducking (tool? .
0. What la the dllTerrnro between Immlcratlon
and emigration?
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What Is carrottnK?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. "White Cool": waterpower.
3. Thnckrrny a Dickens' erritest contem
porary rival n a not el writer.
3. IJImei derived from "dlsme." old Trench
for one-tenth.
4. The Sheriff draws tho lists for Jurors by lot.
5. The chief principle In proposed charter
chance J- crrater direct control by the
people throuch u city ninnaier and small
Council.
6. The "Ilrltlsh blnrkll-t" l n list or mer
chant- domiciled In tho United Stales
with whom Ilrltlsh subjects are forbidden
to trade, ,
7. There wa n plot, called the Conway Cabal,
to oust Washington and make .Gates
romniander-ln-chlet of the .(evolutionary
lorces.
rircumstantlnl evidence: as opposed to direct
evidence tto which there are eye-wlt-nessrs)
Is evidence based on corroborative
incidents.
"Lame diieks"! men defeated for re-election
when other members of their party ure
returned to power.
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ReberE llrld.es, poet laureate. The post la
official and Is not merely complimentary.
Program
O S. K. The only other number on the
Philadelphia Orchestra program which first
brought Paderewskl's symphony in B minor
to Philadelphia was Liszt's symphonic
poem, "Tasso." Tho dates were January 15
and 16, 1916.
Dread winners
R. M. The authorship of "The Breads
winners" is now definitely ascribed to John
Hay. His son, Clarence Leonard Hay, Is
responsible for the ascription.
ministries
The Premiers In the Presidency of Emlte
Loubet, with the dates of accession follow:
February 18, 1899, Charles Dupuy; June
22, 1899, Rene Waldeck-Rousseau : June 7,
1902, Emtio Combes; January 24, 1905,
Maurice Romler. Waldeck-Rousseau'a ten
ancy was the longest up to that time In the
history of the third republic. He waB not
defeated, but resigned after an election
which turned In his favor. He was himself
a believer In the Innocence of Alfred Dt'ey
fus, but his amnesty bill was not favored
by the Dreyfusards because It was designed
Uo crush all criminal actions In progress on
either side of the case. Tha bill passed.
Insurance
T. T. The amount of outstanding In
surance Is about fve times as great as the
assets of the Insuring companies at least
the figures given for .various years since
1843' run to that average. In the United
States at the end of last year the outstand
ing Insurance amounted to $21)589,172,373
and the assets to $4,935,252,793.
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Boy Seoul
R. L. The honorary president of the Boy
Scouts of America Is Woodrow Wilsohv The
honorary vice presidents are William How
ard Tat t and Theodore Roosevelt.
THE RECRUIT'S LAMENT
Her lamps were wet when we went awsy,'
And she said, "You'll be brought home
she only knew what we've been through
She would wish me a girl Instead.
No, she didn't want her; boy to fight ;
She saw battle, death and woes;
She needn't have worried, or been, a bit
flurried i
Over little things like those.
It's trench -and dig, and dig and trench
From morn to end of day ;
It's a sin and a shame I I could do the
same
In little old Broadway;
And here I am doomed to trench and 'dig.
With never a scrap In sight,
While the Pagoes make hay, in an eight
hour day.
Where the sun shines bright at night I
I was kicked by an army mule last night,
And fell out of an army dray
They have made quite a mummy of ma's
little sonny,
Who heroically marched away.
I've got a stone bruise on my heel
And sunburn on my ear.
And I straight was eot to the captain's
tent
For asklU; why we're hers 1
w r-New York HeraW,
BOtfS WHO WERE
SCOUTS IN WAR
Lads Under 18 Years of Aga
Weren't Turned Down by
the Army in the
Sixties ,
EVERYBODY remembers .that thrill
ing story of Kipling's about tho two
little drummer boys who charged an
army It was said to have been taken
from a real incident of British campaigns.
A British regiment had been driven back
by the flro of Indian mutineers. Tho lada
saw their chance to retrieve tho day.
They must convince tho enemy that,
their regiment Was returning to tho nt-
, tack. How to dq this, save by drum
ming tho charge? And 60 thoso young
sters In their early teens advanced, beat
ing the charge, whereat the enemy was
disconcerted, tho British rushed after
the boy heroes, whose bodies, riddled,
wero found with their broken drums
after tho victory1 they had won.
Juat now tho authorities aro highly
tochnlcal about tho nge of enlistment. A
Philadelphia boy who was found t ho
not quite the minimum ago 18 haa
Just been discharged from a regiment at
tho border. All this legality would be
blown to tho winds tho moment real war
was declared, ns was shown In tho time
of the Civil War. More than 600,060 of
tha Federal enlistments then were by
lads not yot 21. Thero wero thousands of
children from 13 to 16 years of age In
tho ranks of the North. Of these there
was none who had a record for daring
llko that of Charles H. Phillips, aged 14,
who for four years was a Fodoral spy.
In Richmond. His father had been sent
to tho city to handle Bomo presses for
the Richmond DlBpatch and had been
caught by tho war. Ho was soon In touch
with Fedoral spies and used tho lad to
carry messages. "Don't ask questions.
Don't answer any." Ho showed his good
BenBO tho first tlmo ho was sent. "Where
did you get this note?" asked a spy. "I
don't know." "Whoro did you leave the
man who gave it to you?" "I don't
know." "You'll dp," said the man. Later
his teachers jjsed anger, wheedling all
sorts of tricks to trip him up but al
ways his "I don't know" was ready, and
nt last they wero satisfied that ho was
reliable
Ho was given newspapers to sell. Ho
soon learned that his bundle of papers
was a passport by which ho entered
prisons nnd crossed pickot lines, a com
modity that made him welcomo In camp
and arsenal, in rlflo pit and department
office. Tho dispatches ho carried wore
written on narrow strips of thin paper
and rolled Into little wads, which Charlie
had sewed In an Inner seam of his trou
sers. Ho got lnvnlunblo Information at
Lynchburg, selling papers In tho arsenal.
"Gee!" said tho lad, "ain't yo got a lot
of cannons here!" A Confedcrato work
man looked up proudly, never dreaming
that the ragged boy was ono end of a
lino of spies that reached to General
Grant's tent. "Ain't them the guns,
though, boy? Won't they Just blow tho
Yanks to hell? Forty of theso here six
lnchers." Tho boy would remember. An
other workman would drop a remark:
so many tons of powder In the town.
More to remember. Ho nnd a pallid skin
and seemed very young apd Innocent
After hla hazardous trips out of Rich
mond ho would havo a good excuse
when ho got back among tho rebel
newsies. "Oh, been sick," he would say,
and his looks did not bello him. He
played sick for four years. Sometimes
his mother would bend over him after
somo unusually perilous errand and mur
mur softly. "Be careful, Charlie; very,
careful."
Once ho fell among "double traitors,"
a captain and woman who were playing
fast nnd loose with the Union. He car
ried their messages, but let his own
'spies copy them on the way. The cap
tain at last caught on. He drew his
revolver. Tho boy was quicker with a
stono nnd laid the captain low. Then the
-lad took his uncensored story to the girl.
"Served him rjght," she said. "I can get
another captain." What her game was
Charlie never knew. She may have been
a "triple traitor," double-crossing the spies
In gray uniforms and intricately loyal
to tho 'Union after all. Years later, when
Phillips was a policeman In New York,
he met her1 and laughed over old times.
She remembered how the ragged news
boy had caused the arrest of herself and
of her wounded captain. Once he hung
In the boughs of a tree to see a spy
hanged. Once he saw a man rifling the
pockets of the dead on a battlefield and
killed him with a rusty musket alined
at the man's head, while the robber was
striking at him with a sabre.
.There was a thrilling trip to see Grant
He nad a message in his trouser seam. He
passed with his passport his newspapers
to the" outermost Confederate picket
lne. "Mister," he said, with hla broadest
Southern drawl, "let me go and sell
pap'ers to the Yanks yonder." "Bring us
back some Yank papers and y' can go,"
they bargained. -But within- the Union
lines something went wrong. He was ar t
rested. He "played baby," whined and
begged, but they would not let him go.
He demanded to be taken to Grant, and
showed such determination that at last
they took him. Charlie stood barefooted,
coatless, before htm, "I'd like to Bee you
alone for a minute. General," said the
boy.. ''Retire, gentlemen," said Grant,
and the officers withdrew, Then the lad
tore open the seam and produced his tat
tered measage.v'Grant read It, Irrjpasslve
ly. "Vhere did you get this?" "How are
you going back?" He stood at the door
of the tent, cigar In mouth, and, looked
down with a paternal smile and""a word
of Rralse.for the small spy. ,(Let "him sell
hid papers; he's doin' no harm.said the
General.
There t? pathos In the story of his next
sight of 'Grant. After four years of spy
ing the youth wanted to see a real battle
something that had been denied hlhi. H
got a horse and rode out to look for the
'figlitlng. He rods near Appomattox; He
saw a tall man In gray lea,v'a the house;
Lee. Then, to his dismay, Grant and his
staff I Charlie rode back to Richmond .with
a Jump In his throat. "Lee's surretndered,M
his father M4 as If he were, telling" news.
"Yes." gloomily said the boy, who had
missed the fighting. "J was there.'
Anyhow, he had been on the job before
any one else In Richmond.
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