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FOR JUNE WAS 183,80s
Sri Ihosa p.pera? And, alnca they passed
between allies, will the world be able to
bellovs In them implicitly when they art
published? Thosn questions can be asked
how that the madness and the futility
of Austria's demands have beon proved;
now that Serbia, dominated by Austria,
Is more Independent than ever now that
Europe Is looking hopefully and con
fidently to the day wherf the rivers of
blood shall be cleansed of their stain. For
tho outcome may not be a defeat for the
Teutonic; Empires, but it can no longer
bea Victory for them, and Austria, tyrant
or tool, has already paid the price for her
folly. The week that Is to come contains
tho most momentous anniversary of mod
ern times. The Serbs, who for centuries
celebrated Kossovo Day, will In time have
reason to celebrate this second and more
disastrous day. It may bo the true day
of liberation.
Tom Daly's Column
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MIDSUMMER RAINBOW
CHASING
ThtUddpUa, Hands. Jul 34. Ml.
7"m best of thine beyond their
mtatnrm cloy.- Pop.
, Sid any one expeot the du Fonts
to favor a Federal tax on explosives?
Tho next best thins; to going Into
the country la to visit Falrmount Park
on Sunday, as tens of thousands of Phila
delphia have discovered.
Asbury Park is going to have the
President as an attraction, and Ocean
Grovo la doing Its best to indues ths next
President to make It a visit
All Swedenborglana are now won
dering what provision John Pltcalrn made
In his will for continuing the work on the
splendid church at Bryn Athyn.
Does poetry pay? "Wey, of all her
citizens Indiana loved James Whltcomb
Riley best, and In' the hour of his death
renders In sorrow the trlbuto that to him
living she did not fall to pay.
Director Datesman says that the
average per capita consumption of water
Is 180 gallons dally. When wo think how
Uttlo water some Phlladelphlans drink,
we wonder at the capacity of tho rest
of us.
Detective "Wlater, new head of the
vice squad, is said to hp an order man,
meaning that ho does idbat ha is told to
do. Is that disposition so "rare" In tho
police department aa to causo comment?
Tho editor of tho American Archl
tact protests against putting all the or
nament on the street front of residences
and neglecting tho rear wall. What Phil
adelphia builder will set the fashion of
making tho rear of his houses architec
turally attractive?
William Sulzer, the effervescent ex
Governor of New York, has at last found
a party which is not too particular. It
Is called tho American party, but If It
expects to poll many votes on jts name it
Will not go far. Tho Issue Is pre-empted.
And the supply limited.
Mayor Smith played Haroun al
Raschld tho other night. All unknown, he
passed through his city. He" was not
recognized. It looked to him, he said,
"as If everything were closed up to
night." Ah. well! Not even the great
Caliph saw all things tho .first time.
A quarter of their million-dollar
campaign fund has already been raised
by tho Prohibitionists. If they can con
vince the Democratic) National Commit
tee that ex-Governor Hanly can draw
200,000 Indiana Republicans to his sup
port, they may be able to wheedle another
quarter of a million from the treasure
ehest of ths donkey.
The garment workers', strike In
KercV Tork Is virtually settled. It lasted
twelve weeks and resulted in a compro
i mlso with whldh neither side Is wholly
satisfied. It has done little to prevent
further friction. It brought untold misery
to the strikers, threatened the manufac
turers with ruin and New York with the
Joss of a great industry. While our eco
nomic system produces such a phenome
non - are hardly entitled to a great de
gree af self-satisfaction.
The desperate and despicable crime
which brought murder to the prepared
Ksa parade In Ban Francisco Saturday
was apparently the work of those who
ara such enthusiasts for freedom that
they are willing to murder others whose
fr4om Is displeasing to them. To pro
test against the slaughter of war, they
conceived and executed a slaughter of
laceful citizens. A sinister phrase.
"itrct action," occurred In the threap
nt to newspapers before the crjme was
eMlttd. and the police, who should
tm fasriftar with the moat, frequent advo-
cafeM of the method ao described, will not
MA a due. In New York socialists and
ajtarcbista both, use4 every propej- means
to fWerdit the parade, and it would seem
ggeltefc, to accuse either organization of
thU crime. But wa shall still wonder what
iSjtMlM were sa weak as to become un
blnsd by arguments against the little
jMparanes entered late by this coun-
Up and what hysterical persuasion mag.
aind It into militarism.
n fm yar ago today Srb!a waa
CMMittetfix tb most outrageous demands
w wmia hr m pUoa upon another.
V?MV?tr waiting" more than threa
waalta,, b4 tinliwd to aveng the
MtpjMUp at the Arenas by a dras.
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TT MAY be true, as Vance McCormlek
has sold, that if President Wilson can
poll tho vote which he received In 1912,
plus 25 per oent of the Progressive voto
of that year, he will be elected. It Is cer
tainly truo that unless he can poll his
1912 voto and 25 per cent of the Pro
gressive voto ho cannot bo olected.
The Progressives cast 4,119,000 votes
four years ago. Mr. Wilson received
8,393,000 votes. A quarter of tho Pro
gressive voto would give him this year a
total of 7,300,000. But no Democratic
candidate for the presidency has ever
received tho support of that number of
electors. The highest Democratic voto
on record was cast for Mr. Bryan In 1896,
and that was 800,000 short of tho total
which Mr. McCormlok In these midsum
mer days professes to bo expecting for
Mr. Wilson. The highest vote which
Grovor Cleveland polled In the three cam
paigns when he was a candtdato was
only 5,556,000. Alton B. Parker received
a little moro than 6,000,000, and tho last
tlmo that Mr. Bryan ran he polled 116,000
moro than Mr. Wilson received in 1912.
One will search the election figures in
vain for ovidenco that there are 7,000,000
voting Democrats In tho country.
Tho Democratla opposition, however,
that Is, tho Republican or the combined
Republican and Progressive vote, has not
been less than 7,000,000 slnco 1892. Mo
Klnley was supported by 7,104,000 voters
in 1896, and four years later he polled
103,000 moro votes. In 1904 Roosevelt
received 7,623,000, and was elected by the
largest popular majority slnco tho be
ginning of the Republic. But Mr. Taft, In
1908, polled 65,000 moro votes than were
cost for Mr. Roosevelt and moro than,
doubled tho voto over Bryan by which
McTClnley defeated the free-silver advo
cate In 1896. Coming down to the last
presidential election, we find that tho com
bined Taft and Roosevelt vote was
7,go,ogo and tho wuson vote was
6,293,000. Here Is an adverse majority
voto of 1,311,000.
Mr. McCormlok assumes that many
Democrats voted for Roosevelt, and he Is
doubtless correal. He must bo aware,
also, that many Republicans voted for
Wilson. The fact that for four suc
cessive campaigns the Republican voto
passed the 7,000,000 mark and that the
combined Taft-Roosevelt voto was about
what the Republicans were entitled to
expect in 1912, while tho Wilson vote was
less than ths Bryan voto at Its lowest,
seems to justify the assumption that ths
Republican vote for Wilson would offset
tho Democratla vote for Roosevelt. The
fair inferonce to draw from the figures
and tho facts Is that Mr. Wilson will poll
the nornjpJ Democratla vote this year, and
that the normal Republican vote will bo
cast for Mr. Hughes. That is, this would
be a fair inference If Mr. Wilson had not
alienated thousands of Democrats by his
course In office and had not made It im
possible for any Republican with respect
for his country to fill the depleted Dem
ocratla ranks by voting for the con
tinuance of an Administration that has
been actuated by economio purposes con
ceived for the benefit of foreigners and
moved by foreign policies that have made
many red-blooded citizens hang their
heads with $hame.
lit LOCKERBIE STREET
Jamta Whltcomb niley.tha poet, died lata Sat-
Srdajr nlaht at hie homo In Lockerbie street, In
lasapolla. "
In the quaint Uttte ttreet, far rom noise
of tho town,
Soft at petals of rotes the Babbatht come
down,
But never before have ihote whispering
trees
Taken Sabbath Uke this front the dattm
risen breetet
Sorrow's telf lavs' a finger to Up when
thev meet,
For there's crape on a dooroelt in Locker
bie street
And the tun that was wont, for this manv
a year,
To peep into a window flung wide to its
cheer,
Finds the casement ciote-shuttered and
blank at the wallt;
And the gold of the momlnc dejectedly
falls
On tho streamer of gloom and of tnortal
defeat,
For there's crape on a doorSel! In
Lockerbie street.
Ahl the dear, tender tplrtt, so gentle and
mild,
That had given but jolt to the heart of
the child, ,
Uere at last wrings the tears from tho
innocent eves:
For each fond little neighbor's awed
glance of surprise
Melts to grief for the friend whom no
more thev shall meet
For there's crape on a doorbell tn
Lockerbie street.
Ahl but Lockerbto street, you are fixed
and secure
And for ages of sunshine vour name
shall endure.
Through yju shall como shining the jay
of the morn,
And musio to oheer generations un
born, For tho song of the singer Death cannot
defeat,
Though there's crape on a doorbell In
Lockerbie street.
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Wo hope tho gentleman In tho Routo
42 car on Saturday who relieved our
journollstlo sister across tho way of her
purse, containing J4.98, twenty-four two
cent stamps, receipt for & rug loft at the
cleaner's and check for a skirt to be
plaited, was benefited by the book of fn.ee
powder papers hg also acquired.
Boyhood Reminiscences
HIS name was Jock Frasar, but they
called hlra "Hlllney" because he was
the tenant of the farm of Hillside. Ha
had gone through the bankruptcy court
three times and came to be a kind of a Joke
among the neighbors. Finally this hnp
pened the fourth tlmo and there were loud
guffaws from near and far, as well as
walls from the too couCdlnr. A neighbor
met him coming along the road one day
after this. Sez he, "Hillvn. Hlllney, I hear
ye'vo gaen broke agin." "Aye, man,"
Hlllney answered, " It's verra true. I'm
sopry to say." "An' how muclilo d'ye think
ye qrm pay this time?" "Weell," sez Hlllney,
"I canna see how I could pay malr than a
shlllln" in the poun' an' keep mysel' safe,"
He was some thrifty man was Maister
Hlllney. McNABB.
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Copyrlrht. 1010. John T. McCutcheon.
WHO IS MARIE CORELLI?
Gossip Says She Is Mary Cody, Daughter of an English Artisan.
Her Biographies Make Count Corelli
Her Father
By JOHN ELPRETH WATKINS
INDIANAFOI.I3. Ind.. July SO. The Pro
creeilv party In convention here today adopted
a platform and nominated a complete State
ticket. Thomas A. Dally vri nominated for
aovernor. Newa Item.
Without butting into politics, of which
we know little, we yet rise to our feet to
say that this gentleman should have his
"1" knocked out.
TUB GOOD OOODT ONE
Boyt know good mothers by tho score.
But more than all they prize
Those mothers who are noted for
The goodness of their pits.
MADAMS X
SPACE IS STILL CHEAP
The Deutschland'a Deck Passengers
If it Isn't too late, Judd Lewis, of the
Houston Post, wishes to contribute the
world's okra crop for the Deutschiand,
which, sez 'e, "ought to help her to give
her enemies, the slip.','
For musio, A. L. T, nominates the
Frankford Accordion Band. Why not
e. staff artist? Well, there's R, F, Out
cault, says J. S. II., and Lex Talionis
suggests A. B, WenzelL
WHAT Philadelphia needs more than
a City Planning Commission is a
commission to carry out some of the ad
mirable plans that have already been
made. Yet If the proposed commission
does its work well now there will be
less for the next generation to undo.
The suggestion that open space be pro
vided about all new houses built in the
outlying wards Is excellent. The pride
of this city. is Its individual homes for mnE new Ledger Building-speed its
families of moderate means; but builders X coming! will be one of the wonders
nave gone a uiue too xar in ineir errorts
to crowd a great numbe? of small house
Eavesdropped on the Border
"I always understood Captain B
had quite a fighting record."
"So he has. He always fights fiercely
against any attempt to have him assigned
to duty In the field."
In a small space In soma sections the
back yards are so little that a good-sized
tablecloth is almost big enough to cover
them. Land Is not so expensive as to
niake such niggardly use of it neces
sary. It la customary In Brooklyn to
cut the land up so as to get sixteen lots,
twenty by one hundred feet, out of an
acre. With land worth only ?1000 an acre.
It would seem as If it were cheap enough
to make it possible to build houses with
alda yards on lots one hundred feet deep
without making tha cost too -great for the
average raecbanlo who buys a small dwell
ing. After tha regulations for light and air
have beeq agreed upon, consideration
can ba given to plans for small parks
and park-like streets, well payed and
lighted. 7ho householder would much
rather pay for these things in his tax
Uli than go without them and be com-
jl ta pay thr or four times a
mum, to tea fleeter when fete family fails
m;Waa;ii'i! at uwfciwiajj' styrreundjEss.
of the world. In the making of it, wa
are reasonably assured, there will be no
egregiouj architectural errors. When
ths present Ledger Building was erected
n 1868 it was tha talk of tha town, and
tha printers employed on uther papers, so
old Dan McKamara used to tell, fell all
pver themselves for a chance: to ''sub"
for a Ledger compositor, merely for the
privilege of enjoying for a night tho
modern conveniences to be found in the
new building. That was CO years ago,
How the world has advanced since) The
room In thlch we are sitting Is probably
Sfj feet long by 20 wide and it has 10 win
dows In it Also, it catches mora beat on
a July day than any other spot we know
of, We never realized when wa first
came into the room what tha elaborate
flre-esgpea outside tho windows were
for, but now wa have some notion. Peer
ing from the -window it does seem to us
that tha alley at the bottom of the fire-
escape s cooler, some day we may go
down ther and tit In a puddle and write
aa imaginative) bit about a inormfn la
tha cool sea waya,
rpHE quaint English town of Stratford-Xon-Avon
has been the home of two
literary enigmas. One of these stilt lives
there today, and of her the British "Who's
Who" states that sho Is "of mingle Ital
ian and Scotch (Highland) parentage and
connections"; that sho was "adopted in
Venice by Charles Mackay, the well
known Bong writer nnd litterateur, and
brought up during childhood in' Eng
land"; that she was "afterwards brought
UP in France and educated in a qon-
vent.
So relates the authorized Biography
of Marie Corelli, author of "A Romance
of Two Worlds," "Vendetta," "Thelma"
and other popular novels. Fuller biog
raphies state that she was the daughter
of Count Corelli. an Italian.
On tho present site of Wallack's Thea
tre, New Tork, there used to stand a
tobacco shop and factory, conducted by
one Henry Cody, Ten years ago, when
this industrious man died, certain news
paper reporters got a clue that he had
possessed a deep secret, In search of
which they are alleged to have ransacked
his rooms and to have purloined his pri
vate correspondence. At any rate, they
obtained evidence Indicating that he was
a brother of ths genius who has long
wielded her facile pen under ths name
Marie Corelli. But that novelist, when
appealed to, dented tho relationship.
However, tho search was continued and
mora recently has led to an English
achoolhouse at Elm Grove, Southsea,
Hants, where has been discovered a mod
est schoolmaster, Sidney Cody, Esq.,
brother of the lata New York tobacconist.
The school of this unobtrusive British
teacher was, found to bear the namo
"Corelli House."
Testimony of ner "Brother"
The New York' tobacconist, Henry
Cody, had a friend, James Brier, whose
intimacy with the Cody family extended
bfcck a generation ago when ho visited
that humble family In England. At ths
tlmo of the tobacconist's death Brier
wrote to the former's brother, the school
master, in England, and received In reply
a letter which ho kept wscret until
tho recent death or the mother of tho
little family an old lady whose alleged
loyalty to the daughter, who, It is claimed,
repudiated her, was such that she Jeal
ously guarded the family secret and will
ingly deprived herself of tha honor of
having given to the world a popular
novelist
According tq James Brier's statement,
he visited the Cody family in London In
1877, bearing two letters of Introduction.
Tha home was that of a modest London
mechanic. He met among others tha
sister of his New York friend, Miss Elinor
Cody, and distinctly remembers his sur
prise at being introduced to a very in.
teresting young woman, whom Mlsa
Cody presented as "Marie Mackay, my
sister." According to his statement,
when a few years later he heard this
name mentioned in connection with tha
authorship of a successful novel, he was
assured by his friend, Henry Cody of
New York, that the novelist was his
sister.
According to tha story as written by
Sidney Cody ten years ago, bis father
land hst of Marie Corelli) was "aa hard
work&st a mart as you could find In &
long day's Journey." But this poor arti
san's family soon outgrow his purse.
"So," related the schoolmaster, "I sup
pose in a time of distress, or crisis, our
sister was adopted by Mrs. Mackay.
Thus her environment changed and sho
lived, as it were. In a literary atmos
phere which fostered and doveloped a
fine intelligence."
Speaking of his mother, he stated:
Mother's Pride In Her Daughter
"Sho dotes on our famous sister. I be
lieve the dear old soul would declare her
self that she was not her daughter If
Marie desired it. So we all long to let It
rest. I foolishly named my house
after her, but I see where she was a
sufferer from 'mauvtse honte, and you
may bo euro she was little pleased at
my natural desire to honor her. But I
have let the name stand, seeing that
Coreltl was an old Italian musician. The
name was good enougli for an educational
establishment. Her nom do plume was,
no doubt, borrowed from the same source,
only poor old Corelli was not an Italian
count or very probably he would not
have been a musician."
Commenting upon tha purloining of his
dead brother's "family secrets," Sidney
Cody added: 'You had better oonslgn
this letter to the flames or some day like
fate may befall It and Marie Corelli may
suffer in consequence."
But Marie Corelli has persistently re
pudiated all of these claims of relation
ship. Snobbishness is very seldom an
accompaniment of literary genius. Her
authorized biographies are all noticeably
vague concerning her origin. They omit
any statement aa to dato or place of her
birth.
What is the truth as to her parentage
and why should she conceal itf
(Copyright.)
PROGRESS
Those who believed Secretary of tho
Navy Daniels Incapable of learning any
thing wlJJ kindly take notice tha?. he ha,s
asked a navy expert for advice and has
published It Six months ago a navy expert
who offered him advice narrowly escaped
a court-martial, had his advice pigeonholed
and would have been driven out of the navy
if the country had stood for it Salt Lake
Herald-Republican.
What Do You Know?
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Ouerlti o central intiml wilt be antwrtd
In Sfll column. Tin cues Horn. Ine aneuere I
which every uelMnormerf certen ihould dM,
cr atktd datlu.
QUIZ
1. Wlmt I' the Ilonrd of Mediation and Con
ciliation? 3. ror how tone nro liquor licensee lsiued In
riillmlrlplim?
8. mint la the Xeiallita Junta?
4. What nro trawler, the Drltlth reetels that
nppenr 10 oflcn in tho newa?
5. What 1 mrnnt by "hackney horees'r
0. What la "Indian Hie"?
7. To what da doea the expression "elided
youth " refer?
s. What la the Iberian penlmnla?
D. What li the.Kohlnoor?
10. What la u ruope?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. "rarbolled" : abbreviation for "partly
boiled."
3. Dlaclc Foreat I In eouthweatem flermany. In
aouhern Unden and western Wnrttemberi.
8, Senllkirn floods wrre ranted by orerAowlns
of etreame swollen by torrential ralna,
4. J. Frank Hanly i Prohibition candidate for
1'resUent.
fl. Mqpltlona rerenoo . bill t Administration
raeaauro to tax the output of munitions
factories.
8. "Owl" cars and train I thooe Tannine be
tween about midnight and 0 a, m.
7. Gounod wrote tho opera "Faust."
8. Ilurklnr stool i a chair on the end of a
beam In which common acolds were ducked
In a pond.
O. Immtrratlnn rfra in mn Immln-.p. ,
Ine a country ne ndoptsi cmff rullon to an
emliramt.'a leavlnx his natlre land.
10. Oarrotlnr i a Hpantih form of execution, a
cord oeUir tied In the neck and twitted
with a atkk till strangulation ensues.
NURSERY REFORM RHYMES
Riddl want to recall whole Atlantic City
oommUtlon. Newspaper headline.
Hey, diddle, diddle, ex.Mayor Riddle,
the voters Jumped over ths moon. The
little town laughed when the talk was
of graft the commish ran away with
the spoon. New York Sun.
BEING HIS MOTHER
Being his motherwhen he goes away
I would not hold him ovsrlong, and so
Sometimes by yielding sight of him grow
oh,
SoauIck of tears, I Joy he did not stay
To catch the faintest rumor of them I
Nay.
Leave always his eyes clear and glad,
although
Mine own. dear Lord, do fill to overflow j
Let his remembered features, as I pray,
Smile ever on roe! Ahl what stress of
love
Wiou giveat ma to guard with The this
wlset
Its fullest speech aver to bs denledl
Mina own being his mother I AH there
of Thou knoweat only, looking from the
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A when not Christ akwe was crucified,
Junta Whltcomb Riley, Copyright by
Bobb-JTsrrUl Corasmy
Denmark's war With Prussia
fldtfor of "TVhat Do You Know" Will
you please give me an account of the war
between Germany and Denmark? When
was It? s. A.
This war occurred In 18i. On the death
of Frederick VII, Christian of Schleswlg.
Holateln-Sonderpurg-Glucksburg ascended
the throne under the title of Christian IX,
in conformity with the act known as
the Treaty of London (1862). by which the
European Powers had settled the succession
to the Danish throne on him and his de
scendants by nis wife, Princess Louise of
Hease-Cassel, nleca of King Christian VIII
of Denmark, With Frederick VII tho di
rect Oldenburg line had expired, and at his
death tho question of the succession to the
duchies acquired an Importance which It
had never before possessed. Schleswlg and
Holsteln declared for Prince Frederick of
Augustenburg. a scion of a branch of ths
Otdonburg line, and appealed to the Qer.
mania Federation for support The Ger
man Diet sent an army into Holsteln. Prus
sia and Austria had in the meantime con
certed with 'each other to take the settle,
mant of the Schleswig.Holsteln affair Into
their own hands. Christian IX. reflecting
upon tho way In which the cause of the
duchies had beer) betrayed by the German
Powers In ths war of 18481891, and relying
upon the support of England, allowed him
self to be dragged Into a war single-handed
with Prussia and Austria, whose forces
advanced Into Schleswlg In February, 1861.
After a brave but utterly futile, attempt
at resistance, ths Danes saw their country
overrun by tho troops of Prussia' and
Austria, and by the treaty of Vienna (Oc-
toner ay, isoi were lorcea to submit to the
terms exacted by their powerful foes, and
resign not .only Holsteln and Lauenburg. but
tha ancient Crown appanage, of Schleswlg
into the hands of the two Powers.
Grant'a Tomb
R. L. M. 'Nsw York city formally took
into its keeping, on April 17, 1887, the
memorial tomb and monument of General
Grant, erected by the subscriptions of 80,
000 persons.
The Age of London
Editor of "What Do You Know" Was
London settled by tha Romans? About how
old Js the city? K. H. T-
There was probably an, ancient llrltlah
town on the site of ths present city when
ths Romans visited England. It appears
to have bean resettled by the Romans about
43 A D. and Ludlnium, or Londlnum. called
also Augusta, was the capital In the last
part of ths Roman occupation. After the
Romans departed, about IllA, p., and In
ths early Saxon period ths history ot Lon
don is obscure, though there weia bishops of
London from ths seventh century. It was
Plun4&4 by the Danti asd rsUHH by Al
Irtd ,ii Athtiatan.
OPTIMIST WHO
NEED OPTICIANS'
Survey of Remarkable Instances
of War Foresight Manifested
by Some Astigmatic
Prophets '
PSYCHOLOGISTS of the future will
have a chapter that does not appear
In contemporary works. They must tell
about the rlotabto outbreak of "optl
mania" that accompanied the Great War.
That will sound vsry much like some
thing to do with the eyes, and won't bs
far wrong at that, for It is the misfor
tune of many of the contemporary super
optimists that they cannot see clearly
what Is In front, of their noses. The optl-
lists referred to are those who spread re
jorts of a prompt end of the war because
of well, a varied assortment of bo
causes. One of these is that the Allies have
ordered from American firms a number of
eteel brldffes to be put over the Rhine to
facilitate the invasion of Germany. This
must be cheerful reading for men In tha
trenches, who know the cost of every ad
vance. The correspondent In his pleasant
room in Paris breezily strides into Ger
many with seven-league boots; but the sol
dier counts his progress by the yard.
Paris Itself, tho disillusioned, has little
time for such optimism, as a recent car
toon In Lo Rlro shows two grimy and
wounded soldiers are lurking In tho black
pit of a deep trench with she'.Is bursting
overhead, cynically grinning over n news
paper which tells of dashing heroism at
tho front
In the same vein of fancy as tho vision
ary bridges over the Rhine la another
story In which thero Is probably mora
truth that the Belgian Cablnot Is busy
nt Havre drawing up plans for the recon
struction and government of Belgium, in
anticipation of thr "speedy wlthdtawal of
the Germans," In view of tho tremendous
task ahead of those who actually havo to
undortake tho dislodging of tho Germans
from Delglum, this "now3" comes as a
grim Joke. It would seem that thero
would bo plenty of time to consider tho
reconstruction of Belgium after there
was some assurance of tho construction
on Belgian soil of a native government.
Equaled only by their faith In tha
starvation of Germany Is tho touching
confidence of the superoptlmlsts In "tha
German revolution." So persistent have
been the predictions of a general rev
olution In the Fatherland to stop tho war
that there nro actually a large number
of rcasonors who take that revolution as
an accomplished fact, rating tho sporadlo
bread riots as tho first events In the
great revolt. Yet If tho lesson of history
teaches anything It is that there Js very
little of the revolutionary spirit in tho
Gorman blood. The only tlmj the Gor
mans roe ngalnst their rulers was In
1848, when revolt was In the air all over
Europe, but tho Teutons' uprising was
feeble. It Is only In military nations like
France that revolutions are bred; the
Germans are not a military people; they
are only a militaristic people.
A Pipe Dream From Greece
, In the way of dreams a la pipe few
equal for fantastic detail the story which
a professional writer conceived In tho
days when the isles of Greece wero Just
beginning to show what the wiles of
Greece could be. Venizelos had been re
turned by tho election, but Constantino
refused to grant him the premlerKjjijv
thereby denying tho democratic character
of the Greek constitution. Regardless of
the animosity which this writer knew to
exist between the Greek Crown Prince
and Venizelos, he told the story of an
Impending revolution, in which tho Crown
Prince was to march upon the Imperial
Palaco, capture and dethrone the King,
make himself King, with Venizelos as '
Premier, and throw the Greek army in
with the Entente. Thero wasn't a reason
In tho world why this shouldn't have hap
pened, except that It couldn't havo hap
pened. But it made one pro-Ally happy
for two days nnd he never prlntod the
story.
In anotner vein was tha story of a
French bombardment of Nuremberg two
days before war m-as actually declared.
Official reports have come, recently, from
German sources, denying that this hap
pened, and a German publicist has mads
public apology to France. That was a
pretty serious dream, because It was
made part of the official reason for tha
war. Less serious Is the notion of a cer
tain widely known Phlladelphian, even
now abroad, who reported emphatically,
several months ago, that the windows on
the Champs Elysees wero already being
sold at a premium for watchers of tha
grand triumphant parade of the Allies
at the end of, the war, Apparently, this
story has been heard in Germany, because
a recent, Issue of' a humorous periodical
showed a renter insisting that even if
the parade didn't coma off, the Germans
might be watched in their entry over
the same ground.
"Well, Hungary was supposed to revolt
against Austria the very moment the war
was declared, and that was taken In all
sobriety as part ot the weakness of the
Central Empires, The corresponding
weakness ot Britain, with Its Irish ques
tion, was a little more realistic. But
we have still to hear of Albert being
crowned King of France and Belgium, a
heroic bit of Imaginative work which
was reported long ago, He was to hava
been King as a sop to Belgium, and to
be without power aa a sop to French
democraoy, It was Ideal, but it hasn't
happened, and there was no billion dollar
paid to Germany for evacuating Belgium,
and the boys weren't out of the trenches
by Christmas.
They were unhatched chickens, these
Ideas, and ever-receding horizons, and
pots of gold at rainbow's end, but some
how they' made life easier. Each eld
had its favorite sport. Each took con
solation from things known to be Im
possible. Anxious for the Germans to
Win, your pelghbor read the wild story,
Which h.e didn't believe, of Italy's ad
herence to the Alliance. Eager for an
Entente victory, you read that Rumania,
was already In the war. You felt a cer
tain gush of feeling for "that great leader
and democrat," Take Jonescu, of whom
you had never heard before, and your
neighbor was suddenly taken with ad
miration, for RadWayoff, s-lthough, he
momentarily forgot who he was. And
neither of you read far enough to Jtara,
ib truth wbea it came. G. S. Y,
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