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Hil remain three or four xreat appro
priation bills to be whipped Into shape
and passed, and several extremely con
troversial measures, Including the ohlp
purchase bill, wilt take up considerable
time, fortunately for the country, the
longer this Congress remains In session
the more certain It becomes that a more
capable Congress will be elected In No
vomber. Tho country has had about
enough of Democratic Inefficiency, and
Is ready for a ohange and a return to
Republican rule, which, with all its faults,
Is directed by men with experience In
government and with a realization of tho
proper functions of tho State.
EVEHlNa LEDGEIPHJXABMJPHIA; TUESDAY, JULY 25, Iflita
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Tom Daly's Column
TUB AVERAGE NfiT PAID DAILT Clrf-
CtTLATION OP TUB EVBNINO LEDQEIl
FOR JUNE WAS 123,808
PMtaJatpUa, TnMlir, Jotr SJ, Hit.
HetHe you not heard it told full oft,
A woman t nay doth ttand for nought?
Marlowe,
War has been declared on all the
little gamblers.
"What does a child labor bill amount
to,, anyway, If tho Southern Senators
don't want It?
Holland has Issued an orange book,
and Belgium remarked somo tlmo ago that
Germany had handed her a lemon.
Tho ordinance appropriating $9,000,
, 00 for completing tho Parkway has been
signed. Now let the Parkway bo com
pleted. '
Loyal Phlladelphlans aro sure that
Mack will get thoro after a whllo, but they
welcome tho chance nevertheless to aeo
.tome basobalLr Tho -Phillies aro back In
'town.
Tho Bremen Is long ovorduo and
tho Deutschlond delays her departure.
Is It possible that these two subs failed
'to get tho Berlin report of tho Jutland
battle?
NIBBLING FOR MOUTHPULS
TT WAS pointed out, boforo tho war
had run a year, that the grave peril
to Germany lay In the adaptability of her
enemies. Every German success of
method becamo a sourco of danger, be
cause tho Pledged Allies were swift to
learn tho trick and managed, before long,
to turn It on their teachers.
Examples of this lronlo truth are not
far to seek. The armies of Franco and
Germany met as exemplars of two dis
tinct theories of open warfare, and In a
measure tho French triumphed. The
open squaro was able to resist tho mass
formation. But boyond that Germany had
thoroughly and Franco had Insufficiently
and England hod not at all developed
trench warfare Yet so rapid was tho ab
sorption of German tactics that before
tho first winter had closed In the Allies
had mastered the rudiments of that stylo,
and by this tlmo aro equal to the Ger
mans: Tho French, at the beginning
of tho war, still hold somo confidence In
the old-stylo fortress, although on tho
great retreat Maubouge was shunned as
the pestilence by tho English. Germany
had placed her faith In tho big gun as an
Instrument of attack. Today Franco holds
out In a fort rebuilt against such guns,
and England drives forward with Frnnco
through tho terrlblo efficacy of monstrous
ordnance. N
HEUE'S orto of those things that no
body can qulte classify. On July 14,
commenting In this column upon F. P.
A.'s remark that "until tho soft drink gets
Itself n monosyllabic namo It never can
llvo In verse," and quoting B. I T.'a re
joinder, hurrahing for "pop," wo Bald!
"Why not invent a drink to fit? Hore's
n hint for somo wideawake bottler.'
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest,
Yo-ho-hot and n bottle of ZEST.
Saturday morning's mall brought a
letter from'Now York, dated July 21, on
closing a number of lithographed labels,
which must liavo been printed or In
process of printing when our paragraph
was penned. Hero It ono of themt
AN OLD WAR BONO
My pretty tittle pink X once did think
That you and I W6uld marry
(mar-ar-rle),
But now I've lost all hopes of you,
I can no longer,tarry (tar-ar-rle).
I'll take my knapsack on my back
My musket on my Bhoulder
And down to Mexico I will go
To be a valiant soldlor. ,
Whore money'grows on white oak trees,
And the rivers flow with branded
The hills are lined with ginger bread
And the girls are sweet as enndcet
From a lettor to the Itlchmond News
Leader.
BLAVATSKY
THE VOICE OP
THE PEOPLE
a in i in ii a
Conditions . in Philadelphia's
Chinatown as Found by a
Stranger Suggestions for
Treatment of "Drunks"
V J
"It Is a rather strango coincidence,"
tho letter concludes, "but I must glvo
you credit, as I bcllove your Idea was
original, as we have not yet marketed
our product, but expect to In four to five
weeks. J. II. H."
TOO MUOIT OF A. GOOD TIIIXO
"I want to le an angel" That
We heard a fat man sav.
"I'm growing wearv of this fat;
I would not Uva all weigh."
The nation Is as unprepared to re
sist the armies led by General What's-Hls-Natno
of somo other country as to
repel the attacks of General Humidity
for tho last two weeks.
And now they are charging In Con
gress that tho National Guard was
mobilized under false pretenses. Well, if
it was mobilized to catch Villa the movo
was futile, whatever else It may have
teen.
San Francisco has offered a reward
ef 15000 for tho capture of tho man who
fired the bomb In the preparedness pa
rade. Ho may give himself up with de
light at tho discovery that ho Is thought
to bo worth so much.
Sweetest girl in Pennsylvania be
trothed. Headline.
It Is not necessary to tell her name,
for she lives Irv every community In the
Commonwealth, and tho man who Is to
marry her know? It very well.
Now that Utah's "original Wilson
man" has declared for Hughes tho cam
paign is well on and the speeches of ac
ceptance will bo merely formulae with
out any effect on tho situation. But where
is tho original Hughes man standing to
ay.r
A gallant deed, fuU of imagination
and courage, comes to light weeks aftor
It was conceived and executed. Equal in
udaclty to tho voyage of the Deutsch
tend was tho alr-crulse of Sub-Lieutenant
A. Marchal, of tho French aviation
corps, who flew from Nancy to within 60
miles of tho Russian front, cast sweet
Impudent nothings over the city of Ber
lin and was captured because of a faulty
aparlc plug. Let It bo noted that, like
tlp Deutschland. this messenger was also
ot peace, not of war.
"THER things tho Entente has learned
'"' from Germany. Tho dotalls of trench
warfare, mining, sanitation wero all
learned from observation of tho enemy's
perfection. These aro Instances which
point the moral of tho lesson now" being
taught to Germany, tho lesson sho taught
slnco February to Franco at Verdun. It
was Joffro who spoke first of "nibbling,"
and tho Fronch and English tried, out that
system, only to provo that It was In
capablo of great results. Tho offensives
of last year, thoso herolo and futile
movements which left the enemy unhurt,
which caused no change of positions and
worked no transformation of strategy,
wero all nibbles. It remained for tho
strategists of tho Meuso to show to what
extent nibbling could bo carried.
In essence the battle at Verdun and tho
offensive in Plcardy are tho same. The
work consists of leveling enemy posi
tions, of simply destroying by shell fire
all that stands In tho way of an Infantry
attack. Ths cost at Verdun Is enormous
to tho attacking force, and reports of
casualties from England Indicate that this
condition prevails In tho struggle for
Bapaume no less. But at Verdun the
strategy of attack, so far fruitless except
for .tho outer lines, lncludod the same
succession of bombardment, infantry at
tack.fconsolldatlon, renewed bombard
ment, -which aro In uso by tho Allies.
Tho nibble Is becoming a bite, the bite a
mouthful. That Is becauso Germany has
shown England and Franco what mag
nificent teeth artillery possesses.
Flo the Food-Flln&cr
OLD GRAY HAIRS, one day last week,
lured us from our customary path to
luncneon to a certain popular-priced
place.
"Tho food Is good and the prices are In
proportion to the purees of you young
Bapllngs," ho said. Entering, tho Old Qcn.
tleman hobbled to a certain table.
"'Lo. Cuteyl 'lo. Sweetheart! 'lo.
Dearie!" It was Flo tho Food-Fllnger who
had approached, deftly balancing three
glasses of water on her forearm. In due
tlmo wo wero served and tho luncheon
progressed to dessert without mishap.
Something among tho dregs of tho now
emptied cofteo cup of Tho Decrepit Ono
caught his attention. With an expression
of much misgiving, he Inserted a spoon Into
the depths of tho cup and camo to the sur
face with n full-grown, man's size cuff link.
Calling Flo, ho said: "Flo, do I get n
rebate for returning this or had I better
keep It?"
'"Afs all right, Cutey," gurgled Flo,
"keep It tomorrow you may get a shirt."
W. S. B.
Tho hot-weather hints of th'o Child
Federation will add to the comfort of
dults as well aa of children, if they are
acted upon. Every ono knows that you
Blight aa well Are a shotgun into the
stomach of a baby as to give it sour milk.
St la known, also, that filthy streets and
alleys are breeders of disease. If the
alleys aro kept clean and all decaying
matter burned or carried away, and If
ths bathtub la used frequently, both
comfort and health will bo improved. If
ribars !? na bathtub tbero certainly la
plenty of water available ton the 'house
holder or lodger even In tho humblest
surroundings. And mosquito, netting is
cheaper than a doctor's bill that must
tea paid U a disease carried by fllea Is
eontracted.
As bad as making political capital
ufc of the difficulties at El Paso Is the
attempt to .shirk aU honest Inquiry by
asrtlng that all the inquiries are no-
TitlcaX" The official reports of General
JSUs are not hymns of praise, bu they
iiiJlcate that conditions are satisfactory.
EetUrs from privates, however, are dl.
Vt4d on tha subject, testimony being
t&eut eo.uaL It would clarify the matter
- it the soldiers who complain would tell
4auUly what hardships they are ready
ta, wr, what difficulties they are wlll
1mm to assume as part of a Job which is
mt Intended, to bo a pleasure Jaunt. The
jf trinity for a quick Investigation re
satjM, and it Is one which ahoula not, bo
ida branny officers alone. Nor by poll-
H Mther peraumtoav,
TW SeiaacrawFCMMreasmen srho
waiUad to git bask homo to fight for re-
. fcuscttea are (tfceou rased at tha prospect
at beviMT t Way h Washington trotll
MMf t They opd to get away by
It. Tfaay muU Uav done It U
hd sUaM f baiinMr,, but they
mufjjy m- -4Ps5FF"fc w w& ppp s"
FTIHE mouthful for which tho Allies are
now reaching is nothing less than tho
retirement of tho Germans to a line far
to tho east of their present front. The
third defenses are now under fire. There
may be a fourth and a fifth. Field forts
may spot the entire terrain back to the
frontier, and this means nothing but
r
shells. If munitions hold out the offen
sive can go on indefinitely until bad
weather sets In. Men, apparently, are
not lacking. If munitions fall, the offen
sive falls, and with it the prestige of Eng
land, tho hope of a definite victory, tho
chance to strike a final blow.
In no sense should that be taken to
mean that If the present offensive suc
ceeds, even beyond Entente expectations,
Germany will be done. Not even If on
three sides her armies were rolled back
Into the Fatherland would she be at the
end of her rope. The sense In which the
blow may be final, more particularly If
tho Russian movements into Austria and
Germany are carried out, is more psy
chological than military. At the end of
the first year Germany's morale was In
tact. At the end of the second, still un
defeated, her spirit is noticeably weaken
ing. Wo do not know what the extent of
Germany's preparations for a defensive
war may be. But the world of human be
ings does not offer a race apart, capable
of a strain surpassing that of all others.
The suffering of internal Germany passes
beyond shortage of food. It la the suffer,
lag of those who wake from dreams to
awful realities. Those who have lived
only In tha belief of an Invincible Ger
many will not be able to bear for long
the spectacle of Germany slowly de
feated, withdrawing upon herself, staving
off the actual Invasion of her soil. For a
year and a half Germany was a united
nation in tha war, She la at last sub
ject to diasensions aa bitter as thoso of
England. Driving those diasensions and
their disillusions home will be more
effective titan driving the soldiers to the
THIS Is reprlntod from "Canzonl" for
Mrs. Carollno Robinson Rudolph, who
loves a good dog:
DA SESTA FRAUD '
A'o kecck mv dogl Hal don'ta dare!
For iua' so quceck ioy do,
You Mecstcr 'itcrlcan, I swear
I brack vour face for jou
Ehf Watt Wal, den, dot's alia right,
But let mv Carlo be.
Cscusa vie for gat excite';
Com' lookt I smlla, sect
I want be frand weeth you, cef dat
You toanta be my frand,
But Carlo cea 6cs frand 1 gat
Een all dees blgga land,
An' lie ccs flrsta 'Mcrlcan
For com' w'en I am blue
An' mak' mc fccla Uka man
tal cet all to you.
"W'en I am com' from Italy,
Jus' landa from da sheep,
Bom' thief he tak' my mon' from me
An' presto he ccs skecp.
An' w'en I find ccs gon', Ol myt
I scream, I pull my hair,
An' justa run aroun' an' cry
Like crazy man an' swear.
Wen com'sa bceg polcecaman,
I ask, I beg dat he
Wcell catcha thicfa cef he can
He Justa laugh at met
I sect een street I am so blue
An' justa hold my head
An' theenk "lo'at am I gona'dot"
An' weesh dat 1 am dead.
Bom' pcopla com' an' look, but dey
Jus' smile an' notta care;
So prctta soon dey gon' away
An' leave me scctttn' dere.
How long I sect I no can al;
I pray, I cry, I curse
I bat you eof 1 go to hal
J no could feel more worset
But while J sect eessom'theeng sof
Dat touch my cheek, an' w'en
I leeft my hand for brush eet off
Ect touch my cheek agen.
I look. Ecs justa leetla cur
Dat wag hees yellow tall I
An' blood ees on hees yellow fur,
An' dere ees old teen pall
Tied on bayhlnd. Poor JeeHa pupt
But steell he leeck my hand.
As eef he say to me: "Ohcer up I
I gona be your frand."
hug heem upt I am ashame"
For lat heem see dat he
Ees justa dog, but alia same
Ees better man dan me.
Bol dees ees Carlo, Zleester Man:
I Introduce to you.
Da true, da ktnda. 'ilerlcan;
Da, first I evva knewt
Hobgoblins That Scared Us
NOBOD5T could ever Induce mo to
go down a sliding board Into a
swimming tank. I had to dig deep Into
the past to locate the reason. In a cor
ner of my brain, almost burled under the
accumulations of years, I found an old
fear. When I was a very small boy I
used to frequent the old "bathy," the
canvas-covered forerunner of the mod
ern public baths, which was anchored un
der Callowhill street bridge in the Schuyl
kill. On one of my early visits to the
place, perhaps my earliest, another
youngster told me a horrible tala of how
a black man had once forced a razor up
through the sliding board and you can
imagine the rest. As a matter of fact,
tho whole thing was of "imagination alt
compact," but I believed it, F,B.
Slory of tho Mystic Who Founded Theo
sophical Society
A cloud of lnccnso smoko rising from
the Syrian desert on a night In 1870
assumed tho shapo of an old man with a
long, white beard. "I am Illero, one of
tho priests of a great temple erected to
tho gods that Btood upon this spot,"
quoth the grim spectre. "This monu
ment was tho altar. Behold I" '
Thereupon so tho story goes "a phan
tasmagoria vision of a glgantlo temple
appeared, 'supported by ponderous col
umns, and a great city was seen covering
tho distant plain, but all soon faded Into
thin air."
Two caravans had met In the desert.
One had contained tho alleged performer
of this miracle, tho first modern woman
to gain world-wldo fame In tho rote of
tho Great Unknown. Llko tho master of
tho mediums, this Bphlt.x boasted of a
childhood reploto with abnormal occur
rences. Sho was born In southern Russia,
amid tho plled-up colling of victims of
tho awful cholera epidemic of 1831, and,
whllo they wero baptizing her In tho
Greek Church, sho snatched a lighted
taper from tho altar and set flro to the
flowing robe3 of tho priest. Early In her
childhood It was claimed that while
asleep sho could glvo correct answers to
questions asked by persons who would
take her hand. Thus would sho reveal
tho hiding places of lost proporty and
'twas said Impart other mcdlumlstlc In
formation. This uncanny child was Helena Po
trovna Ilahn, daughter of General Alexis
Ilahn, a noble German who onco settled
In southern Russia. When sho was 7
her mother died and sho was sent to Itvo
with her grandfather, tho Governor of
Saratow. But aftor sho took up her
abode In his palaco her govorncss dis
covered that sho was possessed of the
dovll. Sho went Into trances, scaring tho
old Governor into gooscflesh.
At tho ngo of 17 Holena married Gen
eral Count Blavatsky, a gouty Russian
of 70, from whom sho separated after a
brief period of domestto unhapplncss.
Next sho attempted to penotrato tho for
bidden 'boundaries of Tibet, but was
turned back by tho fanatical natives.
After wandering In India and elscwhcro In
tho Orient, bIio returned to Russia, where,
at tho gloomy and grucsomo chateau of
a certain prince, sho frightened tho noc
turnal guests with weird demonstrations
of table-tlpptngs, spirit mpplngs, thought
readings, lovltatlon and tho opposite phe
nomenon making light articles heavy.
Returning again to tho Orient, sho
visited Egypt and Syria, and finally camo
to America, where sho was exploited as
a spirit medium undor tho alleged control
of "John King," a dead pirate, and much
as Cagllostro had founded his Egyptian
freo masonry for tho regeneration of man
kind, so Madamo Blavatsky, In 1875, es
tablished tho famous Theosophlcal So
ciety. V
Sho now declared hersolf to be a dis
ciple of a mysterious brotherhood of
mahatmas, whom sho had met In Tibet
and who had tho power of causing appari
tions of themselves to appear where their
bodies wero not. Visitors to her sanctum
wero amazed to receive mysterious letters
dropped beforo them as from the celling,
and to hear alleged communications from
tho Tibetan mahatmas. It was said to bo
a common ocurronco for a visitor to ask
her a questl6n and tho samo day have tho
postman hand him a letter under a for
eign postmark bearing a direct reply to
that question.
Blavatsky died May 8, 1801. Sho was
cremated and her ashes wero divided into
thrco equal parts, buried respectively In
London, New York and Adyar, India.
Shortly afterward Solovyoff, a Russian
Journalist and litterateur, published her
"confession," which ho alleged she made
to him after he had caught her In trick
ery and confronted her at a prlvato
seance. This man declared that she not
only confessed that her phenomena were
fraudulent, but was prevailed upon to
show to him the apparatus with which
she produced It. But her disciples have
always denounced Solovyoff not only as a
liar, but as a coward, Inasmuch as he
dldnot dare publish the "confession" dur
ing the priestess's lifetime.
Copyright.
Thta department fa tree to oil readirt tcha
toin to txprt their opinions en aublrcta of
ctirrenf Interest, it It on oucn Jorum, and th6
Ryenlno Ledger imnmfi no reapanalblllty of
tna vtewt of itt torre$pondentt.
CHINATOWNS COMPARED
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir Like tho Pharisee, "I thank the
Lord" New York Is not llko Philadelphia, at
least In some respects.
For more than a year I have been teach
ing In an East Side annex of a New York
high school and have frequently gone to n
Chinese restaurant at the corner of Pell
street and tho Bowery. Sometimes my wife
meets mo to go there, and my three-year-old
daughter has nlso been thoro with us.
It Is perfectly safe nnd respectable. Tho
Chinese restaurants of New York havo re
cently been found notably clean In a general
Inspection by the Board of Health of all
eating places.
Here for two or three days on business,
I thought I would try a Philadelphia Chi
nese restaurant For better direction, 1
asked a policeman on 8th street what was
tho best ono to go to. Ho told me. "They'll
treat you right there," ho Bald.
Well, I had my chow main, but I want
no more at that place. There were a dozen
or 16 girls nnd half as many men. There
was tudeal of profanity, mostly by tho girls.
Ono sat down at my table nnd offered mo n
match for my clgaretto, which I did not
havo. As I camo back to my hotel I Baw
more girls In tho streets than I havo seen In
New York In somo years.
What's tho matter with Philadelphia?
Brooklyn, July 10. R. C. B.
TREATMENT OF "DRUNKS"
To tho Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir I read Mr. Glbbonoy's letter nnd
your editorial headed "No Purchaso of Lo
cal Option." Between you and him It seems
about a draw, or. In othor words, both aro
right In somo particulars. But tho way I
look at It, the Idea Is to find a way to
prevent pcoplo drinking to excess and still
not hnvo actuat prohibition. This Is purely
a question of moral suasion, Jurjt tho samo
as persuading pcoplo to eschew coffee drink
ing or Bmoklng, by showing them that In
many canes It Bhortcns life and makes for
a wholo lot of misery. To begin with, no
person under tho Influence of IntoxIcantB
should bo treated ns a criminal and locked
up with a thief or a fighter, ns Is usual
nowadays.
I think a long step forward would bo
mado If people arrested for being drunk
and disorderly wero detained only until
thoy wero thoroughly sober, Instead of being
Bent to prison nnd then allowed to go on
the promise to report overy three dnys for
a "once-over," ns we say In slang. I think
It is about tlmo wo practiced n llttlo hu
manity In dealing with such cases, becauso
It Is not tho Individual who sutlers tho
most for his weakness, but all who know
htm, and particularly .those who may bo de
pendent on him or doing business with him.
This rum question Is probably the most
Important In tho world, and because It Is
so wo aro In duty bound to settle It rea
sonably and Justly. Some of us that are
so strong ought to remembor our brothers
that aro weak and not bo so hot to con
demn them. Wo n'll havo a weakness. If It
Is not In ono sense, It mny bo In another.
If It docs not trouble us now, how do wo
know when it may appear cither In our
selves or thoso "near and dear to us"?
JOHN J. FLEMING.
Philadelphia, July 22.
them cut nnd sent, and also sent the fillings
which kept a number of women closely con
fined making them. I still have one whlcn
I treasure.
Dr, J. Leonard Levy, now of Pittsburgh,
was Instrumental In helping me to have
them distributed. I would advocate such a
movement, and If there Is any support I
will gladly aid to" the utmost.
NETTIfi B. ARMHOLD.
Atlantic City, N. J July 22.
THE LAWS OF THE LAND
The field secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce of "the United States, Mr. Ed
ward Tref, has been counting the laws
passed by Congress nnd by tho State Legis
latures in me mat live years. Ho reports
a grand total of 62.2BO. The contrast with
the number of laws pnssed by tho British
Parliament In 10 years, 1B00 In nil, Is
cither painful or magnificent, ns you choose
to view It. To Mr. Trefs It Is painful.
Ho suggests that we, the people, nre "law
crasy." Perhaps ho has not taken Into
account tho fact thnt an American legis
lator measures his statesmanship by -tho
number of bills ho gets passed. "At last
this district tins come Into Its .own," tho
hero tells tho voters. "I havo secured the
passage of the bill permitting the talcing
of Boven-lnch porglcs In Buttermilk Brook
on rainy Tmxadnys In Mny. In splto of
tho opposition of the bosses I havo put on
tne books n statute nllowlng nolBelcss bou
quet holders to be placed on motor cars
costing less thnn $883. Send mo back nnd
I plodgo you thnt I shall not rest until I
have passed a law abolishing sharp corners
on dog biscuit"
What would happen to h. legislator who
went homo nt the end of a session nnd Bald
to his constituents: "I did not mako a new
law, but I voted for tho repeal of C3 Idlotlo
ones, and I hope next year to prevent our
nugUBt body from passing any laws nt nil'?
lie-would be stoned ns n-stand.pnttcr nnd
obliterated as nn obstructionist. Life will
not bo porfect until each citizen has n code
of lawyer-mado law npplylng to himself
mono. New YorK Bun.
OUR WESTERING
LITERARY CENTER
Riley and the Indiana School
Have Broken tho Tradition
of New England Supremacy
riTHERE was a time TOhen Now TCncrtnnrt
reproduced not only'tho shoes and stock
ings, but nlso tho poetry nnd philosophy
of all America.
Long after tha
center of popula
tion moved across
the Atleghenles
nnd Into Indiana,
there still throvo
tho old tradition
that nothing that
was really great
could como from
the pen of men
who did not llvs
within tho liter
nry shadow of
Longfellow,
Emerson, Holmes,
Thoreau, Whtttlor
EjF'laP' Wzfyi
jffm1 1
sssW VIM7 J
M&WIm
THE COMING WRIST WATCH
Now, howover, slnco preparedness has
become tho watchword nnd timepieces havo
become a necessary part of tho equipment
of soldiers, tho wrist watch Is changing.
Tho objectors aro now willing to concedo
the value of' a bracelet watch for general
outdoor life, but havo not quite reached
tho point where, after poking fun at It, they
can consistently adopt It for-all occasions.
New York Times.
DEMOCRATIC STUFF
One evil which tho Republican party's
calamity experts will not fall to fasten on
tho Dcmocratlo Administration Is tho np-
pcaranco of man-eaters In northern wntors.
Whether this Irruption Is duo to tho low
tariff or to tho President's Ineptitude nnd
vnolllatlon or to the general cussedness of
Democracy wo cannot sayj but certainly
It Is something horrifying, and even Wall
Btreet views It with alarm. Now York
World.
What Do You Know?
Queries of enteral ntreal will 6 antwtrti
In liii column. Ten Questions, A aniwm
which every well-informed person thould knots,
art atkti dally.
RED TAPE
It takes some such emergency as the mo
bilization of the mllltla to bring out the
extent to which "red tape" may bind up
men and property. In the early hours of
Tuesday morning, practically two entire
regiments of men with their rifles, blanket
rolls and other equipment were waiting for
the trains in Framlngham. Worn out with
the long day of breaking camp, these boys
were on lawns, porches everywhere. Grace
Congregational Church and the State Arm
ory stand side by side on Union street,
Framlngham. Though built by the Com
monwealth for the mllltla, the custodian
kept the Armory locked up "no authority
to open It ;" while Pastor Forest opened the
church and his home, and won the lasting
gratitude of the weary soldiers. 'Red taps
has no terrors for the man of God. Boston
Transcript
Honorable Mention
May I call your attention to Conductor
903 on Route 13, for all-round polite
ness? Thanks. if.
Dear Tom That fellow who writes to
yoa once In a whila and has so much to
say about "thrift" ought to saunter
along down by the Franklin Library at
Juniper and Locust There he -will see a bed
of it la bloom. What? "Thrift" It looks
fine. Maybe it he talks nice to Jim Douglas,
the superintendent he may get a sprig or
two for his buttonhole. This Is the only
bed I know of nearby. I used to collect It
on the rocky upland of the seashore when
I was a kid. botanizing, between Aberdeen
and Stonehaven. 49 years ago, Tha Latin
rmme s ArmerU vulrris.
Johnny Glbb,
AFTER THE WAR
Whole cities will have to be rebuilt, stores
will have to be stocked, railroads con
structed, agriculture resumed. There will,
of course, be a readjustment of labor con
ditions. Women have entered the industrial
field speedily and successfully In the war
ring countries. But the hope and necessity,
the unquenchable human entemrlse aro all
here. The unlimited resources of Mother
Earth are still with us and will be after the
war. After all, Isn't the aggressively opti
mistic man nearer right than the people
who waste their energy anticipating calam
ity and doing nothing to prevent it? Hard
work always accomplishes more than loud
walling. Tacoma Tribune.
GOOD TIMES IN TEXAS
To the Editor of Evening Ledge:
St Wo arrived here July 6, after five
days and flvo nights of tiresome train riding,
but nevertheless a fine trip. All of opr
boys arrived hale nnd hearty. Just as they
were tho day they left Broad and Washing
ton avenue. The climato down hero Is very
hot, but wo havo a cool breczo nt times.
The nights wo can't complain of, becauso
somo nights are very cold. Some of our
boys have been sick, but not seriously. Wo
havo In our company Frank Daley, a very
fine tenor, who keeps the spirits of tho
boys up. Wo nre going to glvo a minstrel
show under tho direction of "Butch"
Rodgers, who Is well known on tho stage.
Thero will bo boxing and other amusing
feats. Kid Roche, of South Philadelphia,
Is going to entertain the boys, and his part
ner, Young O'Donnell. is going to help. Both
boys are very fast and aro known In tho
tournament class. Frank Ganonln, known
In the boxing rfng ns Pat Riley, who halls
from tho United Stages Navy, Is also going
to be thero strong with the cloves.
Most of theso boys are from 19th nnd
Dudley. John Shonert Is going to play tho
muslo with his accordion, and John Munco
is also going to sing. There Is going to be
a wrestling match between Sergeant Seidell
nnd Fred Krumm, which promises to bo
very exciting, as these are our huskies.
Our company Is proud of Its three ofllcers.
Captain W. Fantom, First Lieutenant Wes
ley Long and Second Lieutenant James Fow
ler. Wo also have a very fine top soldier
In the person of Sergeant William Boyd.
We can speak very highly of all our non
commissioned officers. Manuel Green, the
company's young poet, tried to spring a raw
one and almost got murdered.
We also have a baldheaded squad in our
tent, which consists of Walter Schaeffer,
known as "Baldy from Darby," and also
Joe Long, who Is nlso from Darby; Harry
Buchanan and Joseph McKay, from Sharon
Hill. These boys send their best regards
to their many friends In Darby, Sharon
Hill and vicinity. We all will be glad to
get back once more In P.hllly, especially
Jimmy McDermott, who expects to get mar
rled. We feel sorry for Jim.
HAnRY BUCHANAN.
' JAMES McDERMOTT,
JOSEPH LONG,
JOHN MUNCH,
MANUEL GREEN.
WALTER SCHAEFFER,
JOHN SHONERT,
FRED KRUMM,
JOHN ROACHE.
Company M, 3d Regiment, N, G. P,
El Paso, Tex., July 19.
QUIZ
1. What is the Ornnro IJookT
2. What la the IVnol n'rlth?
3. Name some of tbo States in ths American
"irnln belt."
4. What Is the "Latin Union" In finance?
B. What Is meant br camaraderie?
0. On salllnc veela, what Is the function of
tlie "jrnrdV'?
7. What la meant br the (xln "to ro to
Cnnonaa"?
8. What are Immortelles?
D. What la the Aucabnrc Confeailon?
10. What la meant br "Golden Ate"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Hoard of Mediation nnd Conciliation! n Fed
eral board designed to settle disputes be
tween labor and capital.
2. Liquor llrfn.es aro laaued fo'r one jenr In
Philadelphia.
3. The Lrzallata Jnnta Is an orxanliatton In
101 I'aao orcanlzjnt n new part? In Mex
ico, called the Leiallata partr.
4. Traulrr are flahlnc reaaelai the method of
eatrliliic llih which thrr rmplor la that of
jan intra 10 wiucii milieu anort lines are
attached nt Intervals.
S. Hacklier horse! not tboroatbbred, bat
nearly so.
0. Indian lllei ono br one.
7. "Glided youth": tho rich and fashionable
3'ounc Unmarried men.
8. The Iberian peninsula! Spain and portaral.
0. The Kohlnoon one of the larcest known dia
monds, now ono of the llrltlsli crown
Jenela.
10. Itupee! an East Indian cola north about S3
cents.
SUBMARINED
Our new battleships ought to be modeled
after Mr. Daniels. The projectiles of the
navy never penetrate his armor. Charles,
ton News and Courier.
WASTE -Probably
nothing els so saddens the
practical politician's heart as the thought
of Henry Ford's money lying Idle in tbla
epochal campaign, Ohio State Journal
HELP AT HOME
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir During the Spanish-American War
It was my privilege to have taken a double
course of lectures on first aid, and after
receiving my diploma I was ready to go to
the front, but my family persuaded me ,not
to go. Being eager to do some work, 'the
I thought occurred to me to do convalescent
work In Philadelphia under the Emergency
Aid Committee, of which I was"n organiz
ing member, We opened a convalescent
shelter on 4th street near Callowhill. The
work we did was to take the boys from the
various hospitals after suffering from ty
phoid and otner levers upon tnelr return
and keep them until they were ready to be
furthered to their own homes, and then we
returned them to the hospital whence they
came. Mrs. wary uarr, a nurse, assisted
me in taking charge of the shelter for
three months or more. There were 360
boys cared for. The work was wonderful
and, to my mind, we did better work than
had we gone to the front One benefac
tor among very many others was J. D
Lit, who each day Bent us as many new,
crisp dollar bills as boys were leaving that
day, and Mrs. Barr and myself Invariably
slipped Into the dormitories of the boys
during the night and placed a bill In their
pants pocket. It is needless to say that
they all came in penniless. Dr. Justin
Schwerln and Dr. Slg. Cans also assisted us.
If such a shelter could bo operated In
Atlantic City It would be marvelous, aa
there Is not a spot on earth equal to it
Ground owners, I am sure, would donate
their ground a put up tents, eta Then, in
the full sense, could we do prepared work.
Our energy then would net be misplaced.
Durlag that time the lata J. J. Snellen-
burg donated thousands of housewives, had
More About Ice Cream
.Editor of "What Do You Know" Ona of
your readers recently wanted td know
about the origin of Ice cream, and you pub
lished one correspondent's Btory about
Dolly Madison's (or was It Martha Wash
ington's?) cook leaving cream out In the
cold nnd having It frozen. I should like to
add this to your symposium:
Many persons think thnt Dollv Mnrllann
Invented Ice cream, but Thyrn Samtcr
Wlnslow, writing In the Illustrated World,
declares that Dolly Madison was merely
the first person to servo It in America.
This was at n White House reception dur
ing the administration of President Mnrtl.
son. Tho guests, liked Ice cream so well
that they asked how It was made, and
from this small beginning the Ice cream
business has grown until, according to a
creamery expert who has followed the de
velopment of tho business In America, thS
American people last year consumed 250,
000,000 gallons, which, figured at 80 cents
a gallon, means a business of 1200,000,000.
The first Ice cream was made by a London
confectioner named Gunton, and from him
others learned to make It, and It was Intro,
duced to America by Dolly Madison. But
his methods of freezing were crude and
uncertain. It remained for Nancy Johnson,
the wife of an American naval officer, to
Invent the Ice cream freezer. Today tho
Ice cream business has outgrown the small
freezer. Vast quantities are frozen bv .
clal machinery. The Industry has become
sa great that fortunes have been made out
of it And every year It Increases, During
mo moi icu yeurs wio consumption of ice
cream in the United States doubled. In the
northeastern States there has been a steady
growth for jnany years. Tho southern nnd
western States like Ice cream, especially
In the Bummer, but iri tho northeastern
States it has become a winter as well as a
summer dish, although, of course, much
more Is consumed In the summer. When
ice cream became the national dish the
manufacturers demanded better dairy prod
ucts, and they have done much in the cam
paign for clean milk. The rise of the in
dustry also created a large demand for
flavorings, soda-fountain equipment, etc.,
and It Introduced a new And profitable fea
ture Into the drug business. It is estimated
that the average consumption In the United
States Is 60 dishes a year for each person.
L. J.
July 4
T. K. L. -The reason tha auniinn ..
asked at all Is because there seems to be
a general Impression that the Declaration
of Independence was signed on the th of
July, 1776. The Declaration was promul
gated on that day, but was signed later
that summer.
Municipal Pier
G. J. At the Municipal Pier In Chicago,
recently opened, the orchestra Is paid by
the city. For each danca the officials col
lect 10 cents, and this entitles the dancer
to the two encores which custom allows.
Chevalier d'Eon
C. X. The Chevalier d'Eon was a
famous French spy who assumed woman's
clothes for purposes of disguise and be
cause, paradoxically, be desired to be con
spicuous. He died In 1310 at about 83,
having kept up the elaborate pretense of
being a woman to the end, partly, It is
said, because the King of France ordered
him to do so. Louis had been giving him
a pension of several thousand pounds
yearly, but did not want him back in
France. In England his Intrigues had to
do with the attempted restoration of the
Stuarts.
J. W. 1ULEV
nnd Lowell. As Into aa tho 80a nml nn.
tho average American parlor was not
completo without two beautiful gilt-edged
and exactly similar volumes, Inscribed
wun tho magic words "Longfellow" and
"Tennyson." That summed It up. It waa
orthodox to bollevo that thoso two wero
tho master slngors of Now England and
Old England, nnd Now England meant
tho United States.
Tho Boston school tool: itself very
soriously. It patronized Walt Whitman
and took Bret Harto lightly. How pon
dorously self-Impressed it was with tho
grave responsibility of being tho solo
ropresentatlvo of tho Muses In America Is
illustrated In an anecdote of Mark
Twain's youth. Ho told at a dinner,
whero all tho great men wero assembled,
of throo tramps he had mot In tho Far
West Tho tramps, said Mark, had do
scribed themselves as Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Theso three
worthies, instead of laughing heartily at
this llttlo Joko on themselves, sat in
mournful ollonco and nover cracked a
smllo, whllo tho other guests wero stun,
ncd by Mark's lrrovorenco. But when
thoy wero all dead tho Joko turned on
them all tho moro. Just as Tennyson
ceased to bo read In England, sO( thoy
ceased to bo read by tho pcoplo of Amer
ica; no great school took Its Inspiration
from their work, and tho famo of a lot of
fine, Ignorant, Intelligent fellows from
tho West thickened tho dust upon their
Bholved volumes. Poo (who In England's
opinion shares with Whitman tho Amorl.
can poetic lnurels) resented tho New
England primacy, and used to remark
of contemporary poots that "If ho had
boon born In Now England ho would bo
considered a great poet."
James Whltcomb Riley, whoso passing
brings a real sorrow to all America, was
ono of thoso who broke tho tradition.
Llko Whitman ho had no cultured sur
roundings tho wandering' slgn-palntor
and minstrel had nono of the college
man's viewpoint which was distinctly
of tho Concord atmosphere. But right
horo It is nmuslng to noto that tho poet
of tho soil In his waning years got tha
motion that his fame would rest upon his
"pure English" verso nnd not on his
dialect poetry; so deep-seated Is tho aca
demic superstition. Robert Burns had tho
samo Idea about his solemn English verso.
Riley, In recent years, used to rectto to
his friends with evident prldo his poem
"Moon-Drowned," which ho seemed to bo
llevo waa one of the richest things ho had
done. Hero Is a stanza:
The far away Hit of the waltz rippled to us,
And through us tho exquisite thrill of
the air;
Like the scent of bruised bloom wns her
breath, and Its dew was
Not honoycr-swect than her warm kisses
were.
Wo Btood thero enchanted. And oh, tho de
light of
Tho sight of the stars and tho moon
and tho sea,
And tho Infinite skies of that opulent
night of t
Purple and gold and Ivory I
Of course, no one observed to Mr. Riley
that this sort of thing was far inferior
to his homely verse. In 1013 he Issued a
volume of his "straight English" poems,
frankly copying tho stylo of the Oxford
book of verse. This Is called the "Lockor
blo Book."
There was another strange dlffidencd In
his nature which made him long believe
that tho namo "Riley" was too common
place for a pen name. Of the many pseu
donyms that he adopted beforo his fame
was assured, "Edyrn" was the most ambi
tious and fanciful. There were many
merry meters signed "Jay Whit," and
"John C. Walker" and "Benjamin F. John
son" are other noms de plume. But as a
matter of fact no namo but a common
place one could have gone so well with tha
great poet of the commonplace.
Shadow Over nis Last Years
It was poignant for the friends of the
poet that he who had expressed so keenly
the sharp merriments and bitternesses of
life should have been destined to a lamed
and lingering retirement from therru
Death, whose shadow ho beautified and
softened, did not play fair with him. For
the last seven years of his life he was
gradually losing the use of his right arm
and leg. But he was a most cheerful suf
ferer and kept always his Jovial note of
camaraderie with his friends, who on vis
its to his home in Indianapolis went with
him on long rides in his auto, Riley, who '
never married, was particularly dependent
upon the society of friends, It waa a
source of regret to the poet of child life
that he had no child of his own. A re
markable story he used to tell in connec
tion with the death of one of Bill Nye'tf
children emphasized the pathos of this
lack In his life. One night he could not
sleep and was Impelled, he knew not
why, to get up and write the poem which
contains this stanza: -
Fain would. I be of service say something
Between the tears that would be comfort
ing But ah I so sadder than yourselves am I,
Who have no child to die.
Later he learned that at the very mo
ment when he waa writing the lines Nye
waa writing to him about the death of the
child. '
MINES
The statistics say California baa 658
mining properties, of which 277 are gold.
Iiuo diners an wa aunu wc .customers In
vest In. no doubt Cleveland Plain Dealer