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Colllni. John B. William, Directors.
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CJrsrs II. K. Cdrtih, Chairman.
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fubllahed dally at I'CMIO t.moEn Biilldlnfr,
Independence Square, l'hlladtlphlA.
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SUDSCntPTlOK TERMS
Br mrrler. alx cent per week Br mall,
toatpnll omsldc of Philadelphia, except where
foreign postage I required, one month, twenty
five cental onn rear, three dollars. All mall
aubnerlpttom parablo In advance.
Norton Subscribers wlhlwr nddreaa changed
must sle old aa well a new address.
BELL. 3000 WALMJT
KFYSTONK. MA1V 3000
ICT Arldrrn all rommiinfrnftoii to T:rrnno
Ledger, Independence Square, 1'hlladetplila.
ZKTtntD t ntr rntrAPrtMin rnTorncB is
SECOND-CUBS MAIL IIATTUI
THE AVERAGE NET PAIR- DAILY Cltt.
CULATION OV THE EVENING ljEDOEIl
FOlt JULY WAS 121.009.
rhlliilrlphla, TuMtliy, Auuit IS, 1916,
Fame is the thade of immortality,
And in itself a shadow. Young'
When Bulgaria gets thioufih with
the Allies thoto tton't bo any Mulgaiin
left.
Credit where credit Is due. The
Democrats arc the Rrcntest tax-Imposcrs
In the history of the nation
The August Grand Jury has boon
sworn In, and if it docs Its duty it will
bo sworn nt by men whoso condemnation
la better than their praise.
Who was it who said that the op
proachlng battle between the Admlnlstin
tlon and the vice district would bo char
acterized by "stench warfaro"?
Mr. Hushes ndvocated n protective
tariff nnd sound Americanism Spo
kane dispatch.
Why this pleonasm? They are
Identical.
The people of Philadelphia pay a
tax of 23 per cent every time they pay a
gas bill. This will be increased to 33 1-3
per cent in 1918, unless the present policy
la changed.
The Idea seems to be that to talto
the police out of politics Is merely to take
the police out of political clubs. Such
optimism reflects credit on the lnnocvnco
of the proponents.
Senator Penrose is becoming almost
rabid In his denunciation of absentees.
The zeal of this convert Indicates that ho
expects to remain on the Job all tho rest
-it)t tho session, If necessary.
In complaining because tho Even
ing IiEDanrt Is hostile to the magistrate
system, a gloomy pessimist declares that
tho Municipal Court "ain't no paragon,
neither." Quite so. But its furniture Is
paid for In a regular way.
Tho policemen who obeyed orders
have been reinstated, and are to be tried
by their superior for doing what they
were told to do. And the man higher up
Is still known as Mr. Anon, tho most fre
quently quoted author In every dictionary
of gems of thought.
It may bo taken for granted, we
trust, that the city will not sell any bonds
In tho Immediate future without at least
n part of them being apportioned to
transit. The Mayor announced recently
that additional contracts would bo let In
the immediate future.
Tho Mayor seems to think that ho
can clean up tho city with Director
Wilson aa tho executlvo oillcer in tho
enterprise. By the way, aro those
gambling machines which were returned
to their original owners with the apptoval
of the Director still rusty or running?
"Qhe "long-rango weather predlc
tlonswhlch theEvEMxo I.EDann has
been printing on Monday for some months
foretold tho cool wave of Sunday and
Monday, although tho official predlcters
did not see any signs of It until Satur
day night, Moore and Carothers promise
cool weather for next week, with showers
and very low temperatures for Friday
und Saturday. Their forecast ought to be
verified by the events, for we have had
hot and wet weather enough for one
summer.
The Intervention of tho President
Jn the railroad strike situation Is extra
constitutional, but It la none the less
Wise. Ho speaks for the whole nation
when he says that tho public will not
eanctlon a strike, and that the railroad
managers are equally responsible with
the labor leaders for the continued opera
tion of the trains. The public la not
" particularly interested In the, merits of
the controversy, and it will not attempt
to decide between the disputants, It ia
Intensely Interested, however, In the
preservation of order and In preventing a
stoppage of the trains. The rights of
100,000,000 citizens are greater than the
rights of 400,000, even though the 400,000
, ba railroad employes.
"Tom" Taggart's financial pro
posals ought to make him the Idol of hla
party. 'Ha has discovered a way to avoid
a deficit and at the same time build all
the ships the navy needs. His solution I3
so simple that It Is surprising no one had
thought of It befo.re. It la Blmply to
borrow (he money. Jt tho revenue laws
do not produce enough for the current ex
penses, do not Increase the taxes and
make yourselves unpopular. Just Issue
. bonds and let some ona else pay then
When they all due In the remote future.
Thli Is the way "bfcjf business" does, he
Wis us, and It Is the way the Government
hould do, Capitalize the credit of the
jjatlon and go ahead. With a surprising
maslf aUatioa of subtlety, for no one had
jiWMwtetf the genial Indiana boss of
1 .4.- 1 UlJfa l.; .. ? 1.1. -
P wm ww Fnaw Mf utteKa-
I WW 4 nunA-U(MJ f tM
SS5iSSe5a
extravagance of Congress. He would havo
the Government live on .borrowed money
In tho Interest of economy. Many crimes
havd been done In tho name of retrench
ment and reform, but none which sur
passes 'in Its ramifications through the
morasses of financial ruin nnd repudiation
this one proposed by tho man whoso
latest title to fame rests on tho haste with
which he went to the relief of the politi
cal crooks In Indianapolis when they were
Indicted for election crlmei.
ON THE ROAD TO VICTORY
milEnE Is no such thing as n sex vote.
J-and there never will be. Tho hlstoty
of woman suffrage In tho political organ
Isms whore It has been at work h a rec
ord of soul and heart rend Into legislation,
n history of opportunities for social Im
provements embraced, and nn evidence
of new Inspiration and new put poses In
government. Wo may run the gamut
of social legislation, and wo shall find
everywhere In It the influence of woman's
optimism nnd soman's ideals.
Until cront tmltlrs utc now ticmcmeu
to support of woman suffrage lti ptln
clple. Tho Individual candidates ttlffor
as to the mode of wcfuilng lf
HiiRhes Is for taking O'C bull by the horns
nnd reaching n quick, llnal decision by
menns of n constitutional nnipndtnont. Mr.
Wilson, still Impiegnnted with tlio doc
trine of Stntc 1 tights, holds that that ex
tension of suffrage must bo by action of
tlio Individual Status. But both profess
to bo nrdent advocates of the cause, and
Into lino behind them fall nil that Ics-er
hordo of politicians, the little lenders
who must be clubbed Into progress nnd
driven Into the acceptance of anything
now.
Wo find In Philadelphia, for Instance,
that Mr. Vare thinks that Mr. Hughes Is
altogether right. Tine! Was It not In the
Varo wards that the surtrago amendment
was defeated last November? Pennsyl
vania, outside of South Philadelphia, was
In favor of giving the women a fair deal.
It was In the Vare territory that enough
ballots were dumped Into tho boxes and
enough other ballots thrown out to as
sure the backwardness of Pennsylvania
for another four years. But If tho Vnrcs
now are to follow the leader nnd hew
straight to tho line, there Is no reason to
anticipate anything but nn enormous ma
jority for suffrage In 1019, provided wom
en have not been emancipated before that
time by Federal action.
.May It not be that oven Mr. Penrose
will see tho light and (ling Into tho bal
ance his tremendous Influence with tho
liquor and other people? Wc trust so, for
obviously, with women suffrage n future
certainty, no politician who behoves In
getting votes can afford to antagonize
hundreds of thousands of potential
ballots. There Is not, we believe, any
student of public affairs who Is In any
doubt as to tho ultimate place of woman
In American government. Our Institu
tions and our modes of thought aro a
sufllclent augury of tho outcome.
It Is unfortunate that so many voters
have failed to Inform themselves of the
history of the movement for the political
emancipation of women. They think of It
as an Innovation, an experiment, whereas,
In truth, women havo been taking part in
government, In different parts of the
earth, under nil sorts of conditions, for
many years, with a record for clllclency
that would put to Hhnmo many male elec
torates. When line millions of women
were forced Into the business 'world, It
became sure that they could not bo kept
out of the political world.
A triumph for Mr. Hughes will mean
n distinct hastening of the achievement
for which so many women so ardently
havo worked. Hla declaration In favor
of a constitutional amendment will. In
fact, give a distinct push to the move
ment In the Individual States. AVe take
it that if It was proper to extend the
franchise to the negro race by constitu
tional amendment, it Is entirely tight to
bring women into tho full communion
of citizenship by the same method. Tho
matter Is of too much importance for the
splitting of hairs.
Tho fight for votes for women has
reached the third and final stage.
MORE STRENGTH TO HIS ELBOW
SENATOR UNDEItWOOD is deliver
ing some vigorous blows at those
who oppose the return of the Republicans
to power. He Insists that the tariff law
which he assisted In framing Is so good
that it does not need revising, and he
thinks that Congress should be trusted to
make the tariff laws, anyway, without
Interference from any tariff commission.
If his Republican colleagues are wise
they will bait him on. The more the
Democratic leaders oppose adjusting the
tariff to meet the exigencies of the future,
the more certain It becomes that the task
of tariff legislation will be Intrusted to
men who know something about it.
Mr. Underwood 'may be right In his
assertion that dyestuffs need no protec
tion; but the majority of Americans do
not agree with him. It may be that our
chemists can produce dyes as cheaply as
the German chemivts, but they have not
done it yet, and every large textile mill has
been suffering because of this failure. They
have not even succeeded In making, dyea
to meet the demand at the high prices
which now prevail through the failure
In the German supply. And when peace
comes, Germany will be In better shape
than ever to flood our markets, for the
reason that she has been manufacturing
dye chemicals In much greater quantity
than tn time of peace and is using them
for explosives.
Mr. Underwood should remember that
the country used Mr, "Wilson as a flail to
chastise Republican standpatism, and he
should know that it Is In no mood to
igjfajf Democratic bourbonlim.
EVENING mpger-philabelijeeea, totsdat.- august m
Tom Daly's Column
McAroni Ballads
LXII
O. BOALAnilAItTA, riXANOinil
Ofit?c;);)( Scalabrart'
lie's ootia hnckitcr-corl.
Dal ho ccs push aioun'
lin streets ccn deesa tnxen,
Whcrcvra ilcrc's enough
To huy hecs ftult an' stuff.
Hut nan day ccn hecs cart
J)cci fallow fcalahart'
I'.cx con;, lor a chanoc,
A load dal's vcrra strange.
ltcrr ccs la ten of eel:
Jicre't ladj ccn tenit sticct
)at otic heem sccxljl cent,
An' art so Uhc slid meant
She Mct't'n gona pay;
An' she's von' move atvay,
Vor on da house icun day
ltc sec a sign dal so);
7)('c? Vropcrtv for Sell."
Otuscpitv )ccni) da hell,
An' w'en ihc com he say:
"My set'xty rent; you pay
V.ef mctiic so I find
Som'boily ditl'.ia wlrf
for hug da house fiom yout"
flhe laugh an' "I'vf yon do,"
Hhe say, "an' I can gat
My price four Ihousttn' Mf
pay your heell nn slyht,"
Giuseppe say: "All tight "
Jlet'.H iirj'ft wonm te'en
lie menu da hell agen ;
Da lady cum' an' say:,
"I mini no fruit today."
Hut he say: "Walla, pleass!
Ih'sr fruits no grow on Jieci;
Com', huty, taaka dese!"
Den een hcei cart he aioim
-Void, ir'at you gon' su'pasef-
I'.cn uuilra pile of rags
lies old teen cans an' bant.
An' dere ccs som' of dc"
Dal's full u-eeth ten-cent piece;
An' sum' iveclh need eft, loo.
An' pennies: an' a few
HVefi feefly, twantg-JI',
An' som' got notes so high
As ft", ten-dollar bccll!
lie say: "Xow, ecf you w.cll,
Pica', lady, he so kind
To count all deic, you'll flnd
1'our thousan' dollar hete
A'o, nottn quite, but near
Ton see, 1 hate ltl:c hal
Vor lodn' te'ttl ;oi oicc,
Dot seextg cent, you know,
And so theenk ret wal
For buy ila house mysal'."
YESTERDAY wo took a perfectly good
golllng afternoon nnd used It to sit
Idly In a skyey tower watching eighteen
(not counting plnch-gcntlemen) profes
sional tall players battle earnestly to up
hold the civic honor of Philadelphia and
Now York respectively. Ordinarily our
ovenlng roverlo. our nftcr-dlnncr medita
tion, would havo been full of headache
and regrets nt such willful waste of time,
but yesterday we got a thrill. The nur.i
of overshadowing genius, with nil tho
accompanying lightning flashes, surround
lng tho titanic Mr. Alexander, mndo us
forgot for tho moment that he Is but a
super-hiredman from Nebraska, Ave!
Alec.
A. M. D. begs leave to present Mr.
Harvey H. Long and J. Frank Short,
trading as
LONG & SHORT
Gcnetal Merchandlso
Fcilcralsburg, Md.
In theso days of disappearing king
doms nnd .the total extermination of other
bodies politic, writes Bachelor, the follow
ing sign on Washburn's Theater, Chester,
Pa., is nttractlng patriotic attention:
'The Birth of a Nation"
Postponed.
A Rapspudy on the Spud
The Itlsh potato, dry, mealy and tooth
somo (now crop) Is ngain In our midst.
"Sublime potntocs that from Kerry's shore
To County Antrim
Form the poor man's store."
And yet, dear Tarn, although we call
It tho Irish potato. It did not originate
in Ireland, nor In that there mysterious
country they call Scotch-Ireland. One
legend Is that Sir Walter Raleigh brought
it from Virginia In Queen Elizabeth's
tlmo. which may be true, but It had
leached Frnnce mnny years before then.
Tho flriit gtown In Ireland was about tho
middle of the eighteenth century, around
County Cork way. So Ignorant wcro
tho people then of Its true use that they
brewed the leaves for tea and found
them rank poison. The leaves nnd fruit
of the potato furnish solanum, a viru
lent poison. And that Is why tho potato
tuber, when It begins to sprout In the bin
In late spring, makes It ho unwholesome,
unless all tho sprouts aro cut out. The
potato became finally tho staple crop of
Ireland, nnd that Is why wo call It the
Irish potato. It Is doubtful If even Vir
ginia can claim It. Later Investigations
ttneed It much further south, even as far
ns Chill. So you see. Tarn, there Is some
romance and Interest even In such a
homely thing as the spud. It's American
anyway, and not Irish. McTAVISII,
A NUT OFF ITS TBOI.I.EY
The departing of the nut from the left
axle of Labonte'a Ice wagon on Main street,
near Spring, Tuesday morning, made a lot
of work for the two Ice peddlers. Ties
were hauled, together with pieces of scrap
Iron from the C V right of way, and after
considerable blocking and raising the wheel
was again put on. The wagon let down on
the trolley tracks, and it looked for a time
as though the trolley would have to stop
there.
Stafford Sprlui (Ct.) Prett.
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Taller de Lavado "La Nueva Palma"
that Is to say, "The Laundry List of tho
Nueva Palma," In Habana, Cuba, makes
some weird efforts to translate feminine
finery Into plain English. For Instance:
Corset Cower. .....,.,,, 10c
Cheem Shirts.,, ...20c
Panltoa ................ lOo
THERE was a crowd about the ticket
window, but one woman, who had
been hovering about the outskirts, dashed
In ahead of every one, with this cry to
her companions; "Come on I .We'll buy
our tickets an mebbe we can make It. I
just saw Jack runnln' down the Btreet
with the Board of Health to make out
a Infantile p'ralyels certificate!"
Raymond Belmont May Wed Carolyn Hul
bert Price of Milk Doe Up.
Hadlln In local cobUjub.
One of those newspaper mytarUa that
nobody can ever &mlaln.
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THE MYSTERY
New England Housewife Baffled Scientists With Her Remarkable
Psychic Powers Psychologists Converted by Experi
ments Case of Doctor Hyslop .
By JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
A:
MASKED man entered a modest cot
tage on tho outskirts of Boston.
Ho proceeded to a room whero nn un
conscious woman leaned over a tnble,
her head burled In a pillow, her hand
clutching a pencil whoso point rested
upon a pad of paper. Tho woman's hand
commenced to write messages to tho
masked man communications alleged
to bo from his relations beyond tho grave.
This mysterious visitor returned to tho
New England cottago day after day,
being always announced as "Mr. Smith."
At length, ho became convinced that tho
Information wtltten to him by tho un
conscious woman was such that no liv
ing person but himself could possibly
havo known. Much to tho astonishment
of his brother .snvnnts, ho announced his
belief In tho power of tho living to com
municate with tho dead.
Tho masked man was Dr. James II.
Hyslop, professor of logic nnd ethics at
Columbia University, Now York, and the
mysterious woman who converted him
to the spiritistic hypothesis was a modest
and totlrlng Now England housewife,
Mts. Leanoro Piper, Unllko her prede
cessors, she had assumed her uncanny
rolo unwillingly, had never given public
seances, never demonstrated her powers
before other than scientific Investigators.
Discovered by Prof. William James
This strango woman was tho discovery
of Prof. William James, of Harvatd,
hi other of Henry James, the noted lit
terateur. A quarter century ago, Profes
sor James, delving Into the mysteries of
psychic research, learned that sho suf
fered now and then from peculiar aberra
tions of consciousness, during which It
had been accidentally discovered by her
family that she could teveal certain
truths that could not possibly have come
to her from ' any living person. Pro
fessor James tested her powers, and com
municated results to Dr. Richard Hodg
son, an English psychologist living In
Boston, and In order to subject her to
an acid test, Doctor Hodgson conspired
with Professor Hyslop, whom ho knew
to be a skeptic and a careful scientific
Investigator. Thus It was arranged that
Professor Hyslop should mask himself,
disguise hla voice and proceed to the
Piper homestead unknown and unan
nounced, entering the presence of the al
leged medium only after she had lapsed
Into one of her Bpella of unconscious
ness. In the course of these experiments,
during which the woman of mystery
never saw hla features or heard hla natu
ral voice. Professor Hyslop alleges, the
pencil In her hands wrote a secret pass
word from hla dead father, a word un
known to any one else, and which he
was sure could never have been com
municated to Mrs. Piper by any living
consciousness. Reams of paper, bear
ing alleged messagea written by Mrs.
Piper In Professor Hyslop'a presence,
convinced him that ner demonstrations
were absolutely above fraud, and ho had
her subjected to medical testa proving
that while writing these communications
she was beyond question In a state of
anesthesia, insensible to pain.
Having convinced these men of science
that the dead could communicate with
the living. &lra. Piper received an Invi
tation to visit England, and subject her
self to tests arranged by the famous Lon
don Society for Psychic Research. After
some persuasion she went abroad, stop-
pips' la Liverpool, where, at the reldence
of Sir Oliver lodge, president or th.
Unlyerlty ot Birmingham she 'was tubj.
- SAVED!
! x -
OF MRS. PIPER
Jectcd to a. rigid examination. A cojn-ij
mltteo asked tho alleged medium to com
tnunlcnto to them Just what two per
sons, whom they knew to bo utter strang
ers to her, wcro doing minute by minuto
In London nt that precise time. Mrs.
Piper, entering tho trance state, wroto
a description of theso persons' acts dur
ing tho evening, nnd comparison later
divulged that sho was correct. Proceed
ing to London, sho underwent a long
courso of Investigation nt tho hands of
a committee of tho Society for Psychic
Research and many mora learned savants
capitulated to her. Describing his ex
periences with Mrs, Piper to mo some
tlmo ago. Professor Hyslop said:
Even Skeptics Respect Her
"I woro a black mask covering my face
from my forehead to below my beard
when I began to visit Mrs. Piper. I re
mained masked in this way for a year,
and thus hid my Identity from her imtil
after tho results of those experiments
had been obtained. Sho goes Into a
trance while seated In a chair, her head
testing on pillows piled on a stand before
her. Sho turns her face to tho left so
that sho cannot see tho writing exe
cuted with her right hand, which, holding
a pencil, rests upon a pad on another
table to her tight. Sho talks on various
subjects until suddenly dropping forward
on tho pillows."
An examplo of the testimony alleged
to havo been communicated by Mrs.
Plpor to him was described tono by
Professor Hyslop as follows:
"Once while I was having a sitting
with Mrs. Piper, a 'message' was received
from a man, a stranger to me, who gave
his name and that of his homo town.
Ho also stated that ho had lost a finger.
I made Inquiry In the county and town
mentioned as his home, and found that
the oldest residents of tho same name,
people 75 and 81 years old, had never
heatd of him. Later I found a cousin
of these people's father who had had
tho same name and had died beforo I
was born. Pursuing my Inquiries still
further, I found that this man had lost
a finger In tho war of 1812."
This mysterious woman has succeeded
In retaining the confidence of all' who
havo Investigated her, and because of
her persistent refusals to mako public
demonstrations of her alleged phenom
ena. Bho has retained the respect even
of the sHeptlcs, who refuse to capitulate
to her, She disclaims any theories as
to the source from which her alleged
"messages" are derived.
What la her power? Will any one
ever know? ,
(Copyright.)
UNIQUE
Lord Lansdowne, It Is said, will leave tho
British Cabinet. He may retire cheered by
the thought that ho has wreaked upon hla
native land an amount of harm which no
man of his great name and estate, similarly
handicapped by falling health and Intellec
tual limitations, has ever In the history of
the kingdom surpassed. To have held up
single-handed the home-rule agreement was
an exploit fortunately unique. New York
World.
MR. HUGHES'S STYLE
An Impression is general that men of
judicial temperament and experience are
prone to epl't haira In discursive reasoning
because of tho vague and Involved lan
guage In which courts sometimes clothe
their decrees. But there i none of this
style of dlscau so in the speeches of Mr.
Hushes, either before be was elevated to
" .renTe V7h WnS To "&
trow it. Salt Lakg Herald-epuWlcaa. .
1C
What Do You Know?
Oucrlcj 0 ocncral interest u-lll 6e answered
(n this column. Ten cuestloiu, this answers to
which everu well-tnjormtd ner son should know,
are asked daily.
QUIZ
1. Wlirn nml where hm tho first American
ocenn-BoInic merchant oliln launched?
3. Where li I lip lilchct point of land In the
city llmltt?
3. Ahont lmt l tht annual vnlue ot the
liroiliirt of tho rhltndeliihlu woolen and
orated inllN?
Hwv old wnn filaditone hen ho wan lait
premier of Kncland?
V.'.'.nt laiiBiiauo In mioUen In Mexico?
How far It Tacnmii from Philadelphia?
What In Queen Anne'o lure?
What Is tho caliber or thp larcot Run
on an American lattle.hh?
About how many tons of Milpplnir nre now
In tirorrhH uf construction In American
fchlpyardx?
What Is tho tibia?
10,
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1, Thfl vordi are Interchangeable, but Banl-
tnrlum In sometimes hn to detonate n
health report where the treatment Is
liroih lactic n itWHncuMircl from n san
atorium where tho trratment Is rcinnll.il.
2. Klrh.ird (h implon nns n celebrated manu
facturer of porcelain of ISrtstnl. ljielnucl.
preppntrd i dinner henii.- tn IM
mund IturUp for his defense of the Amer
ican cnlonlrs.
3. The urea of Mexico Is 7K3.881 0.11, ire miles
linil that f I'cnnsjlwinl.i 13, 130 Niiuare
miles.
4, Senator ITndemoad represents Alabama.
B. Hlmon riexner Is director of the labora
tories of the ltocl.cfeller Institute for
Medical Ueseurrh.
0. Dr. S.imuel II. Dixon Is State Commissioner
of Health.
7. The Mrst Amerlran school I100K 11ns written
In Philadelphia In 1D0H by Samuel l'ns.
tortus,
8. The r'ranltlln Institute! Is In Setenth utrett
nouUi of Market,
0, The Saturday i:rnlnir I'ost has n larcer
circulation than any other American
lierloUluii,
10
The btrrnum Is the breast hone.
When Negroes Voted
Editor of "What Do You Know" Will
you plcaso stato In your column (I) Whether
tho negroes wcro disfranchised In Xorth
Carolina after joining tho Union? (5) Also
Is the healthy human Infested at nil times
with tubercular, typhoid and such germs?
D. J. BAItnOWCI.OUGH.
(1) Until after the revolutionary war free
negroes were allowed to vote In every State
except Georgia nnd South Carolina. After
1792 tho right to vote was taken from tho
negroes In eight States, Including North
Carolina. (2) It haB been frequently stated
by bacteriologists that disease-producing
germs of various kinds are present In every
one, but this is a generalization based on
inadequate data, and Is subject to correc
tion when we know more.
The Harvest Moon
i'dUor of "What Do You Ktioto" Kindly
answer the following questions: (l) When
Is tha harvest moon visible? (2) When do
"dog days" occur? (3) Which covers the
greatest area, Trenton or Camden? (1) What
is tho origin of the expression, "Itoland for
your Oliver?" sirs. m.
(1) Tho harvest moon is the moon oc
curring nearest to the autumnal equinox,
that is, nearest to September 22. (3) tjok
days, or the canicular days, were reckoned
by the ancients, according to some au
thorities, as Including 20 days before and
20 days after the day when the dog star
first rose ahead of the sun. The rising of
the dog star was supposed to be the oc
casion of the extreme heat of the season.
Authorities differ as to the exact duratlbri
of tha period. The most generally accepted
dates are from July 3 to August U, (3) The
area of Trentpn a 7.66 square miles and
that of Camden 7.6 square miles (1) To
give" a Itoland for an Oliver means to give
as good a3 you get. Roland and Oliver
were two of the Paladins of Charlemacne
What Roland did Oliver did. At length
the two met In single combat and fouaht
for Ave consecutive days on an island In
the Rhine, but neither gained tha least ad
vantage. Your other questions will be
answered In a day or two.
Ia There a Jewish Nation?
Bclor Of "What Do Vott JSCnoW'l, there
, Jewish or Hebrew nation? j t
The dictionary defines a nation aa a dfs
tlnct race or people having a common
descent, language, history or political in
stuuttons. Tho Hbrews are a distinct race
gT xEiGr taSS5Kd
nation, Without aajr political Utencv
" w "t "i "an a. common Ian.
HUGHES FISHING
THROUGH WASHINGM
PLEASED BY WEI,C0$
Republican Presidential Nord
nine, xuugmeu uy Women''
Meeting, aays State Is Digi i
satisfied With Democratall
WIFE HIS FAITHFUL AIdI
TACOMA, Wash., Aug. lB.Chri il
Hughes Is today finishing up his t?.l
Washington. Delighted nnd InvlmmS ."
tho reception given him nt a wornYnW
'"!r..l.il.!,-o,ki"i.?:!8.,e.'r-lhe.
liruaiueun.il iiuiiiiiiei; mis inornlflff riVl. .
he wni content to leave the Judtm.,!
his candidacy to tho electorate ! JfJ '
equally oc men ana women, which Wi. j4
..titrated its belief that the n.i'M
Administration has fallen far shorts.?'
nation's needs. BnotttlJ(,
The nominee arrived hero after .. 1)
night ride from Spokane After adS,'1
ing a meeting this afternoon ho win 1
for Seattle, leaving Hint city lat- it ?,''
for Port and. Ore . whom t, r "'
::.. ..1 .i..J ..." " "u
tomorrow, and then irnno on to Cain!I
Mrs. Hughes Is shailng tlio honon-wi 1
the candidate. Hero In tn. Im," ,3'
her rooms hnvo been hurled In blonn, , IP.
sho Is the recipient ot tlattcrlnir miLi'l
u UTUIUI cui: huw iurs MtlChAa 1. .
she
goes Mrs Huche, '' T'
cllnlng nil Roclal attentions and ... '
strict nttentlon to hor husband. 8h73
Uoctor Dlttmnn havo constituted tkw'j
eco iu ii iiia 1. uc uui- iiui incnax hlatolaji
rntch cold or otherwise Impair his nhnSH
strength for tho hard work ahcai ,j
Tho candidate b wire hai attended tvtnl
meeting plnco tho party left yet bo mJ
nnd unobstruslve lias siio been that sht ku1
got through tho crowds without troultf
and the audiences have been unaware oU,
presence until sho was pointed out by ioB,
ono who knew hor. ,
As Illustrating the dependence of W
Hughes on his wife, the following Imiw
Is in tho point: 1.
Immediately upon arriving at SpolcinjV
cijiiiiiiiiii:u ui ..uiiiuii uimiiit'u mo train inl
iianvii iiiu 111 1 ucbu ui escorting lfrt
Hughes downtown. ,
"Won't you let mo havo her?" asKal lr.
Ilnr-li.ia. "
"This Is a woman's State," was thk tt
ply, 'Jand the women would Ilka to doionlJj
thing for Mrs. Hughes," A
mo cnnumaie mnncii nnu permllttd I'll
wlfo to bo led away. j
GEORGIAN ASSAILS HUGHES
uviiuiu nuiuinui uuya rresiaenusl1
Candidate "Waves Bloody Shirt", '
WASHINGTON, Aug. l5.-Siito1
Ilnrdwlck, of Georgia, this afternoon IMi
llM iy iiMsuiiuu Lliurius lvuns iiugnes In ill1
Scnato for "trying to rekindle sectloul
hatred" by charging in his Butte tpMci
that Congress Is controlled by Bouthtn1
Domociats.
He charged Mr. Hughes with attempts
to mako votes In tho "West by "wavtajtli
bloody shirt." '
MILK PRICE NOT TO BEf .
RAISED THIS SUM
Added Cost of Bottles and Labor!
May Force Increase in the
Winter
4
There will bo no Increase this
in the prlco of milk In Philadelphia
said toilny. Almost every dairy
Vorlc h.is InrrpHRPil thn nrlnp nt
cent n pint because of the added ccitK
stationary at least until fall. No channli
tho prlco of glassware has gone Into tf-1
icci nero mo price 01 miiK win rtmnj
stationery at least until fall. No chain a
tho prlco per quart was made In New Ynlt
Oniclals of the Sunnleo Alderner Diln
nnd Abbott's Aldernoy Dairies said txiij, j
mat mey wcro unaoie to predict w pnu
of milk for tho winter. They pointed nil
however, that a general increase of if P.
cent In wages granted recently to nil glsii
blowers has necessitated an Increase In III
coat nf ImttloM Thlsi nffoi-ts this cltr U
well ns Now York.. 4M
Tho cost of labor In the milk, Indosnr
has also been Increased ahd the' prlce'ofj
horse feed, too. Is unusually high. Tti
fnrmers with whom the Philadelphia nBt
men nro dealing havo formed a comblai.
tlon. according to olllclals of these dilria
nnd that may be a factor In determine
the retail price of milk this winter, "a
Milkmen urgo housekeepers always;)!
buy milk In quart bottles rather thin'S
two beparato pint receptacles. They f
that a quart bottle costs less, when boojit
from the glass mnmifactuiera, thant.
pint bottles. In New York the dealers kin,
for thnt reason, raised tho price of SIB
only when sold by the pint, the cost of m
In uunrt botles remaining at the forraf
tigurc.
Must Curb Boulevard Speeding,
A warning to motorcyclists who speed Q
the Northeast Boulevard was Issued todifl
by Coroner Knight at the Inquests InWUi
deaths of Frank Blmeclk, of 007 BUM
street, and Adam Curtis, of Fateraon. X
J., two motorcyclists who collided with bJ
mobiles while traveling at a high rat;
speed on tho boulevard Charles BlddtaM
2017 Oxford street, and Charles Hutch.
son, of Trenton, N. J., tho two autoraoW
drivers arrested In conjunction with V
aeatns, were exonerated.
AMUSEMENTS
Cim A TvTT TVV" MAKKET A!ovt 1JTW
OA.tt.rN-LJ.Ui 1 M.13 to jiim
iik w.
nATTTJNR FREDERICK
.. .ntiMitnunu rc rr.vnp PITCH'S 3
jn Aunt irtiM. v. VM,M" liflftf
"THE WOMAN IN THE CASJ
Thur., Vf Sat. "Tha stronger m t-
"DATA rTP 12U MARKET STBEETj
j. iij THUODOIIE KOBES"!
'TUB DItEAM U'"
Ttiura. Frl., Sat. Marie Doro, Common crM-
B. F. KEITH'S THEATER
SOPHIE TUUltiiK m
,,,. Tj-iuna nt.i HVNfVlPATlONa
La Mont' Cowboy; Wood & Wrdti Bjj
rirrui. Other Dig Featurea, . . .....iH
Today at 2. iiSo & 60c. Tonight at .fgjl
ftlnhp Theater MASra
MATTIE CHOATE & CU.
iiirii VSM ivn trim MAMCUA
IU lilt IAV - wxWVfM
"THE GIRLS FROM KOHOM0JJ
A Tnl.lntd Musical Comedy vai
K 1 CHESTNUT Bl" iJ
Arcaum u ii. .;wgiES!
In "SHELI Kif$
Aildd. BU1U Burk. In Gloria's ll0jW&tlP
Thiir... Frl., Bat. 'Ueil-to-Far AWW-K
VTCTORIA"f4S
Addd Keyitone Comtdjr, .'To Surf O
Jaia7EJMfE"BBl3J
WOODSIDE "".ffiiSS
ilKKWOHKB EVERr ""' -jj
SWIMMING
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