hH
i
I
it
Kttettfhrj gggfiglj Heityitf
PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY
I tnrntis it k. cup-tib, rsBioEr.
. Chs.rl It. kMoTnston, Vies rrwMentt John
R Mrtln. Secretary And Treasurer) Philip 8,
Collins, John B. Williams, Directors.
EDITOnTAtT BOARD t
Ctcs It. IC Ccktis, Chairman.
P, It TVltALET .Editor
JOHN 0. MAP.TM. .General Business Manarer
t ! r i , i , , '
rubllshd dally at Fcnito f.tnaxn Hulldlnr.
Independence Square, Philadelphia.
Lbpow CtSTiur,.... Bread and Chestnut Streets
Atm.ntio Ctrl... JVes-tft Hulldlnu
Htit Tot,.. . ......... 200 Metropolitan Tower
BstbOit......... 820 Ford Bulldln
Br. Locts,,,, 400 Ge-Wemoeraf Bulldlnit
Chicago 1202 Tribune Building
NEWS BUItEAUSt
WssmtcoTOif Boxsio Blues Building
Ekw toxk Bccuo ..The Time Bulldtnc
ratiN ncso. ....... 00 Frledrlchstrasse.
aMOOH BoatAO. ,..,,. .Marconi House, strand
fills Dcnuo.. A32 Him toull la Grand
SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
By cnrrler, six cents per week. By mall,
postpaid outside of Philadelphia, except whero
loreirn postage Is required, one month, twenty
flr cents; ono year, three, dollars. All mall
subscriptions payable In advance.
Noticb Subscribers TIshlnir address chanced
must (Its old aa well as no,ir address.
,iell. iooD vALmrr keystone, mai.v koo
S fy Address all eonmunfcaHoiH to Evening
f Lcdotr, ndependeitM Square, Philadelphia.
i miebid at Ttic rmt.iDii.riiu rosTorrtcs is
SSCOMD-OUSS Milt. MATTES.
THE AVERAGE NET PAtD DAILY CIR
CULATION OP THE EVENING LEDGER
FOR JOLT WAS 121.000.
Phll.JfIpt.li. Thnndar. Animt 17. 1916.
Virtue alone outbuild the Pyramid:
tier monument thall latt, when Egypt'
fall Young.
Is the Ponrose ferry so called bo
cause the senior Senator Li so successful
In putting things over?
Teuton enthusiasm for Poland's
Independence becomes more pronounced
the harder the Russians push.
It Is good news, If Justified by the
facts, that the infantile paralysis epidemic
has reached its crest and Is now subsiding.
The progressive faction In the So
ciety for tho Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals Is not supposed to bo protesting
against torturing tho bull moose.
Things are sometimes so old that
everybody thinks they are new. "Wo
' note, for instance, a reforenco to "America
First" in the kow York Columbian of
1816.
Now that tho limit on tho weight
of fourth class mall has been raised to
SO pounds for all zones, It Is posslblo to
end to tho boys in Texas all tho good
things that aro good for them.
When thirsty for a cocktail don't
drink for an hour and then tako water.
Is Judgo McMIchael's advlco to tipplers.
But Bupposo a man can't wait an hour;
may ho not drink water any sooner?
Tho Bureau of Municipal Research
wants to know if Philadelphia Is always
to te the "goat" in tho Parkway matter,
and emphasizes its point with a lino array
of flrures. Tho answer to the question
seems to be yes. There is no answer to
tho flgures.
A silly bank run provided a spec
tacle yestorday and dwindled away when
the business men of tho neighborhood
began an equally Impressive run of de
posits. Tho run is interesting as a phe
nomenon, purely. It Is an indication of
how futile are tho efforts of reason in
tho human carnival whon .something
really important is at stake.
To show their Impartiality, tho
British have begun to blacklist South
American Arms having German connec
tions. Tct it is not a crime for a citizen
of a noutral nation to do business with
Germany. When the time for reckoning
comes, Great Britain is likely to discover
that sho has accumulated a big load of
liabilities which it will not bo easy to
discharge.
The city can tako what land it
needs by tho right of eminent domain,
but when the land is black and broken
up into' small pieces for burning In fur
naces it Is powerless, according to the
City Solicitor. How would you JIke the
, city to go into your cellar and seize your
(coal Jn. order to get enough to run tho
punyis at tho water works? Tho local
government sh6UId surely be as fore
banded as the prudent householders.
Just what is the meaning of the
voluminous reports printed since the be
ginning of the week concerning tho prog
ress of the Entente offensive? Those re
ports could have been held up, In most
cases, at London. Yet they were allowed
to come through virtually uncut, and
their tenor is singularly monotonous.
There is no chance of breaking through,
the offensives have reached the point of
stagnation, there Is no danger to Ger
many. The only" thing left to chance Is
a. grave disaster to Germany on the east
ern front. The similarity of these re
ports, their prejudice in favor of Ger
many, the suddenness with which they
all arrived, are all suspicious. It looks
very much as If the London press bu
reau is preparng to "plant" something.
Perhaps this something is enthusiasm
oyer fresh advances reported today.
An unfortunate concomitant of vice
Inquiries is the spreading of an ex
aggerated sense in 'the community of its
own wickedness, On a per capita basis
there la probably a greater percentage of
persons Mlvlng immoral lives in small
towns than in great cities. The big city
draws the most successful and ambitious
tnen and women from the country dis
tricts into an atmosphere of keen com
petition which the rural community
does not provide. There is neither time
rtor energy, however much opportunity,
at the disposal of the hard-working city
dweller to give to dissipation. The vices
of cities are really the prerogative of a
special class, the failures, where In rural
Ufa It Is too often true that the success
ful people, as well as the failures, suc
cumb to excesses "because there la nothing-
else to do." specially Js this true
of hard drinking, of which there Is a
grat deal mora among the welt-to-do of
towns than of cities. Half a- dozen
j0i.ee arttuj.4 the fifty thousand mark: Jn
rnnysv.Bio jm to have vied with
be kfiewa & "the worst
town In tho State." The very fact that
Vice Inquiries are undertaken In lars
cities so much moro often than in email
ones Is, perhaps, the best proof that
there la n more constant demand for a
keeping up of the moral tone In the more
populous and more active communities.
THE PUBLIC IS THE GOAT
TtlE Immediate danger In a nation
Mo railroad strike Is the paralysis
of trafllc and the resultant menaco to tho
lives nnd business of tho people. There
are some things Inherently so awful that
wo bclio'o they simply cannot happen.
But thoy do happen, ns did the great
catastrophe in Europe. Nevertheless, In
the present crisis thero Is reason for
hoping that tho President, through the
vast powers resident In him, will bo able
to avert tho threatened calamity, al
though It Is doubtful if he will bo able
to do so without shifting to tho shoulders
of tho great muttltudo additional burdens
which thoy ought not to bear.
It Is obvious that tho roads cannot In
crease wngos without correspondingly In
creasing their rates for service That
thought runs through tho ontlro discus
sion In Washington. But tho roads can
not Ineroaso rates without the approval
of tho Interstate Commorco Commission,
which takes months and years to reach
a decision, during which interim tho roads
would bo flirting with bankruptcy.
Granting, howevor, that tho roads
could immediately Increaso their ratos and
so pass tho added cost on to tho general
public, tho settlement of tho Issue by
this means would bo nothing moro than
a rank outrage. Wo do not believe that
tho millions of workers In this country
who are neither capitalists nor members
of unions should forover bo tho goat.
Whenever thero Is any prosperity there
Is an Instant demand from a special group
of workers for increasod wages. Thoy
usually get somo Increase Thoy havo
forced tholr wages up and up until It
Is qulto obvious that thero Is no large
class of employes In America receiving
such fair and generous remuneration ns
the railroad men who nro now demand
ing more. Tho Issue, therefore, is not
simply whether thero shall bo a paralysis
of trafllc or not. It Is tho larger Issue
of whether tho peoplo of tho United States
shall havo n wholly unnecessary tax im
posed on them without their consent. Tq
grant wago increases amounting to $100,
000,000 annually Is Blmply to tax tho
nation that amount of money, In nddltlon
to tho enormous extra taxes which nro
about to bo lovied by tho United States
under duo process of law.
It has boon porfoctly clear for months
and oven years that tho railroads of tho
nation neod encouragement Instead of
discouragement. They havo been legis
lated against until it Is nlmost lmposslblo
to get new capital for dcsirablo railroad
enterprises. If at tho vory moment when
tho roads, after a period of poverty, aro
at last showing profits, thoy aro to bo
held up and thoso profits taken from them
by the arbitrary decision of their em
ployes, tho development of the country
Is in for a setback that will bo absolutely
calamitous.
The men nro entitled, wo believe, to an
eight-hour day, but that does not seem
to bo what they want. Tho extra pay
for extra time Is tho snake In the grass.
We take it that thero would be an awful
howl if tho men wero actually prohibited
from working moro than eight hours a
day. It is Just as bad for tho unions to
charge all tho railroads can bear as it is
for tho railroads to charge all tho trafllc
will bear.
The President is confronted with a
double duty. Ho must, first, prevent a
strike; and ho must, secondly, prevent
tho shifting to tho shoulders of the peoplo
of an annual taxof ?100,000,000, to bo
paid by ordinary workers to a special
class of workers who already are excel
lently remunerated, according to existing
and fair standards.
The public is Just a little tired of
always being the goat.
THE SHIPBUILDING BOOM
THE House of Representatives has not
gone far enough in concurring with
the Senato amendments to the navy bill.
Its indorsement of the building program
was patriotic and not partisan. All but
fifteen of the Republicans voted for the
construction of 167 new vessels. These
ships are needed, Tho plan to build four
battleships and four cruisers within the
next three years commends itself to
thinking men
But when the House was asked to pre
pare for building them it balked. The
Senate bill contained an appropriation of
$8,000,000 for equipping tho navy yards
for building capital ships, and provided
that the yards at Philadelphia, Norfolk,
Boston and in Puget Sound be equipped
at once, The House refused to concur
in this plan.
The private shipyards capable of bully
ing battleships or any other kind of ships
have all the work they can do for the
next two years. It will take them two
years to do work contracted for. It
would be a mistake to delay two years
before laying the keel for a new battle
ship. The Philadelphia yard could be put
in shape within a few months to begin
work on a warship pf the largest size.
The competition of the public yards
Will secure favorable bids from the pri
vate yards without injuring their busi
ness at all, The contracts to be awarded
to 'the shipbuilders will keep them busy
after they have finished the merchant
ships on which they are now engaged,
and will give such an impetus to the In
dustry that the American merchant ma
rine wlU be in a fair way to assume Its
old place oa the sea.
EVENING MDGERPHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17,
Tom Daly's Column
"TOPY" HAMILTON
(Richard P. Hamilton, belter known
"Tody." veteran newspaper man and for many
year press asrent for linrnum & Bailey's Circus,
tho man who originated tho florid stylo .of
rlrcus adrertlslnfc, died at Baltimore August 16,
asctl 70 year )
The show Is out. Tho blp top's down)
And silence come apace.
For him who lavished verb and noun
On ton olcrrf tier, queen and clotcn
We spare this Utile space.
The Old Reporter
I seo tlio N'nvrtl Hookies nro oft for a
little sptcl. Did t ever tell you about the
crulso tho Pennsylvania Naval Reserves
took with Cnp'n Jack Philip?
It wns back In the early 90s. The Naval
Reserve had Just been organized tho year
beforo anil Robert K. Wright was com4
innndcr, with George Urccd, I think, ns vice
commander. The first crulso had been
made on tho San Kranclsco the summer be
fore, but this year tho cruiser New York
wns nanlgncd for practlco duty.
Tho gentlemen of tho press, I remember,
arrived very early In, the morning Just as
the big ship was about to slip down tho
rher. We weren't sure until tho last mlmito
that we were to be allowed to go. Tho
three of ui. ,T Henry Wood, of the 1'unttC
LnDonn : Tom Moore, of tho Inquirer, nnd
I, of tho ltecord, waited, with bngeaco nil
ready, for telegraphic permission from As
sistant Secretary McAdoo. It camo to us at
2 o'clock. Wo secured a deep Bea-golng
hack nnd flew down Broad street under full
anil. When we got to tho League Island
water front we had somo dlftlculty In
finding a waterman who would daro to take
us out to tlie ship, but wo finally got within
hailing distance of the New York, and wero
eventually told to como aboard. Wo each
had a bag of duds, nnd In addition Wood
carried a large bnsket fult of carrier
pigeons. Tho sentry permitted us to Bit on
tho iiuarterdeck, under his wntchful eye,
nnd there we wero when the dawn camo up
tho sky. Presently, Captain Jnck 1'hlllp,
who wns thpn In command of tho N'cw
York, camo up to look us over. Ho Is re
membered now for his kindly gentleness
and consideration for tho suffering of
others, nnd tho Incident most mentioned In
connection with hint Is his ndmonltlon to
his men on tho Teens, during tho Santiago
fight, "Don't cheer, boys, the poor fellows
are dying." But here he was the gruff old
sea-dog Ho demanded to know who wo
were, and when we told him and showed
tho Secretary's telegram, ho wanted to
know what we had In tho basket. "Pigeons,"
said Wood, "And cold bottles?" nBkcd Cap
tain Jnck. "No," said Wood, "they'ro to
carry messages " "What aro you going to
eat?" "Anything you givo us," said 1 rash
ly. "I'm not running a hotel," said ho, and
walked away. "Seo Mr. Chips, the carpen
ter," Bald tho captain to an orderly later;
"maybo he'll havo something In his mess
thoso fellows can eat."
Mr. Chips proved to bo a grand provider,
but tho best breakfast Tom Moore over had
he got at Lewes, nnd subsequently lost.
Wo had gone over thero In a launch to get
mail and other thing-, and for breakfast
wo had cantaloupe, oatmeal, bacon and
eggs, beefsteak nnd onions, hot rolls and
coffee. Returning to the ship, wo found
that the sea had becomo somewhat rough,
and when wo climbed up tho companion-
way Mr. Moore's gills wero green. Captain
Jack Philip particularly noticed Jlooro and
laid a kindly hand upon bis shoulder. "Did
you havo a good breakfast?" ho asked.
Tommy neither denied nor afllrmcd It.
"Don't lose It," Eald Captain Jack, and
proceeded to tell a story that was calcu
lated to make him. Moore dodged through
the superstructure and wc found him a few
moments later with his head s,tuck
through a porthole conversing with tho
llshos. Between whiles ho 'was cooing at
Captain Jack, Later in the dny oh, much
later he camo on deck, nnd glared angrily
at the commander until Captnln Jack. came
and said to him: "You mustn't be angry
with me. You feel better now, don't you?
Well, that's what you neoded."
Admiral Meade, who wns aboard, may
havo been a very nico man. I don't remem
ber him at all; but I never will wlpo out
my picture of kindly Captain Jack.
Makes It "Warm For the Dub
Now that tho Cobb's Creek Park links
nro in full swing, would It bo proper to
refer to tho llttlo waterway that forms a
hazard thero as tho "Golf Stream"?
' F.
Chats With Famous Athletes
Jlr. R. C. James, who thought nothing of
trimming Mr. Oswald Klrkby on the nine
teenth green nt Merlon last fall, sqys:
"Whllo I am for the moment not playing
strictly championship golf, I am still un
beatable at my main accomplishment. I
can drive an automobllo through tho heart
of tho busy city without for a moment paus
ing In tho detailed description of every shot
played In my four-ball match tho day be
fore, and 1 find It entirely unnecessary to
stop talking evenwhllo executing tho most
dellcato and Important putt or mashlo shot,
whllo n few words on tho downward swing
adds materially to tho length of tho drive."
H. II. II.
Pardon, Madame, Come Right in!
Sir Aro thero no fair athletes? Why
not chat with me. If I may bo so bold? I
think I can tell you something worth adding
to the list of Indoor sports. It's a little
game I indulge in with my cook every'
morning. She begins it In this fashion:
Sho approaches the bedroom door nnd
knocks. "Come!" I say. She nllows one
ear and ono eye to show beyond tho Jamb
of the door. "Whatamltodotoday?" sho says.
I look up and catch her one eye with mine,
but cannot hold l(. It disappears, but the
ear pauses momentarily With my voice
I attack that. It vanishes It retreats Into
the halt. My voice, reinforced, follows, and
If I am quick enough my sortlo is success
ful, my last word hitting tho enemy as sho
disappears down the stairs. It's a great
game, and I'm always It. THE MISSUS.
Tou needn't worry about tho hot weather or
Illness Order them from us, und you needn't
worry From a grocer's ad In Ualveston
Tribune.
Our Blackmail Dept. '
What Is It worth
to a lady prominent
In social and char
Itablo circles to sup
press tho story of
how she fussed and
hurried to get her
house ready to en
tertain Lady Eglan
tine at" the sugges
tion o? a rival and
how mad she was
upon discovering
that Lady E. was
a hen?
Sir1 If this Isn't your business won't you
make It yours, for once? Has the S. I'. C. A.
entirely sons out of business or doesn't It cars
what happens to the lons-iurrerlna; horse? The
case of cruelty practiced on borses In this city
are terrible, the iwllce don't seem to want to
Interfere and It fa an lmposslblltr to And an
agent of th Cruelty Society on the Job. The
sufferings of the poor boasts during the hot
spell were beyond description. In most casea
they are driven by mere boss who use the whip
entirely too frequently. The condition of the,
status down town I awful. Can't something;
be done to wake up the a. I'. C. A, T J, K. A.
Dear Sir Tou missed a good one last
week whan the Evening Leooer showed
the pictures pf grangers. Since we lived In
the country they seem to have started rais
ing very masculine bens. Judging from the
Illustration of tho hen the farmer was hold,
tng. Is it possible suffrage has something
to do with this? F. U L.
We havo referred your henqulry to a
gentleman with long, white hugheskers,
who frequents a neighboring desk and
who looks as If he might be able to an
swer your agricultural query if not the
political one.
A milUnry shop at Front and Dauphin
streets advertises:
These comprise dress hats suitable for
youag and middle-aged women, large and
mall shapta.
4fj!
-v
a fsHdsc- A.
i TL " i i" -- rw y5T"
rr -m,"" sz&y
-Ssi - r "
THE EARLIEST COLONIAL DAME
Virginia Dare, First Child of English Parents Born in America,
Holds that Record, But No One Knows Who
Her Descendants Are
By JOHN ELFRETII WATKINS
A BLACK wall of mystery faced tho
Jamestown colonists whon they
landed in Virginia in 1607. Sir Walter
Raleigh had charged them to Beck Vir
ginia Dare, tho first native white Amer
ican, nnd her fellow colonists, upon whom
tho forest prlmovnl had so mysteriously
closed somo 20 years before. But only
tho pines nnd tho hemlocks In tho depths
of that leafy wilderness could toll whither
these lost ones had so strnngcly vanished,
and, until Italelgh's hoad foil upon tho
block of tho executlonor, It was troubled
with wondor as to the fato of his "lost
Boanoko colony."
TIiobo 150 men, women nnd children
ho had,sent to Virginia to found an agri
cultural State In 1D87. In threo ships
thoy had sailed gaily out of Plymouth on
a balmy morning of April, but thoy did
not touch their restless feet to tho sands
of Roanoke Island until tho sun of late
July had scorched It. Their governor,
John Whlto, brought with him his daugh
ter Eleanor and her husband, Ananias
Dare. Tho colonists had hardly hown
their cabins out of tho woods whon thoy
had occasion to celebrate tho birth of a
daughter to Eleanor and Ananias, and
tho Governor christened his llttlo grand
daughter tho first child of English par
ents born In tho new world Virginia
Daro, In honor of tho new Province nnd
of Britain's Virgin Queen.
Having upon his arrival found skele
tons of an English colony that had pro
ceded him, Governor Whlto wisely deter
mined to cultivate tho friendship of tho
Indians. So Chief Manteo, who lived somo
dlstanco away upon Croatan Island, was
given tho tltlo of baron and Lord of
Roanoke, thus receiving the first and last
peerage over created on our soil. At
tho samo time Manteo accepted tho rites
of tho Christian baptism, and both his
friendship and spiritual redemption ap
peared to be assured.
It soon became necessary for the ships
that had brought the colony to return
to England for supplies and Governor
Whlto went along to hasten their return,
He left behind him 89 men, 17 women and
2 children. On his way home he touched
at Ireland, whero ho gave the populace
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION
In Australia and New Zealand legislation
has gone farther than In Canada. Roughly
described, the New Zealand compulsory ar
bitration act creates a number of Industrial
districts. In each of which s a board of
conciliation to which disputes must be re
ferred. If conciliation falls, the dispute
goes to a general arbitration court for the
Islands, the findings of which are final, New
Zealand was prematurely called the "coun
try without strikes"; but strikes and lock
outs are legal there only if tho parties
to them are bound by no award or agree
ment; and there have been about 50 n the
last 20 years. AH unions of employers or
employes are exp-cted to register under the
act In order to obtain its beneuts. The ef
fectiveness of the general measures against
industrial warfare was demonstrated when
In 1912 an attempted syndicated strike on
shipping and railways was blocked by a
Bpoptfrtieous uprising of the people to man
these Industries. In Australia a similar
law was passed a decade ago, and It also
has worked well, though troubles persist
as Is shown by the recent Golden, Hill
strike, endangerlrg the Labor Government
But In neither Australia, nor New Zealand
would these laws work so well were or
ganized labor not so strong and guaran
teed so many benefits under paternal legis
lation. Minimum-wage Jaws, factory acts,
workmen's compensation, have protected
labor Interests and eliminated Industries
pot able to comply with them. The com
pulsory arbitration acts are the capstone
to a complex structure of laws such as
exists nowhere else. New Vorlt Evening
Post.
SAFETY
It remained for a contributor te the New
York Tribune to reveal the total depravity
pf those man-eating ehorka, Tfou wilt
"GOT 1M, B'GOSHl"
i ZhMisJ
1 " i f str ZSX&
soma potatoes, tho first of that kind over
seen In Europe. Ho started back with
two ships laden with tho needed supplies,
but after ho had gotten out Into tho opon
sea his greed for gain caused him to
neglect his Roanoko colony, so sorely In
need of food. Ho diverted his courso to
pursuo somo Spanish ships In search of
plunder, but thoy so badly battered his
llttlo fleet that ho had to return to Eng
land, whero tho Spanish blockade of Brit
ish waters bottled him up for nearly three
years.
Landing upon Roanoko Island upon a
hot day lato in tho summer of 1500, ho was
appalled to find an absoluto desolation.
His heart sank. Tho cntlro colony had
disappeared and ovon their housos had
all been removed. Carved upon a birch
tree, however, ho found tho ono word
"Croatan." Apparently tho Christianized
Manteo, Lord of Roanoko, had taken pity
upon tho starving colonists and brought
them to his Island stronghold, thero to
llvo with his peoplo. Tho Governor pre
pared to visit that homo of his friend,
tho Indian baron, but tho superstitious
crews of his ships, terror-stricken by
the sight of deserted wastes around th?m,
refused to embark in that direction. They
forced him to roturn to England with
them, nnd it was his bitter fate to die In
Ignorance of what had happened to his
daughter and grandchild.
Ono tradition Jias it that Chief Manteo
massacred all of tho colony except four
men, two boys and Virginia Daro, who
became tho brldo of ono of his braves.
According to another story, the entire
colony was taken up tho Cape Fear River,
where tho whites later Intermarried with
tho Indians of central North Carolina.
Captain John Smith, penetrating Into the
mainland, came upon an Indian village,
whero he saw a half-breed boy, with yel
low hair, and ho believed the child to
be that of ono of his colonists intermar
ried with a red man. Certain blue-eyed
Indians found near Cape Hatteras, along
tho Cape Fear River, aro alleged to be
descendants of those lost whites.
The fate of Virginia Dare, our first
Colonial dame, remains a mystery quite
as dark as It was threo centuries ago.
(Copyright)
note," he writes, "that the sharks have In
every csbo attacked men and boys with
bare legs. Their bodies, covered with suits,
also ladles with stockings, have not been
bitten."
Perhaps those males who refuse to wear
socks and trousers In the surf may keep
oft tho Bharks by Btenclling on their bare
calves; "This Is not a leg. but a limb."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
MY DOG
When my dog looks at yer friendly outer
me! tin' pretty eyes.
An" he wags his tall an' tries ter lick yer
hand ;
Then I don't care wot you look like an' I
don't care wot yer beei,
Yer good enough for me yer under
stand? Sometimes a human beta Judges by yer
fancy coat,
An if yer gloves an' shoes Is new an'
whole ;
But a dog. when he looks at yer, doesn't
notice little things;
A dog a dog he judges by yer soul I
When my dog looks at yer friendly like he
wants to see yer1 smile.
An" jumps upon yer, lovln', when yer call
I'd like yer If yer was alone without a home
Jr friend.
A burglar tramp at anything at all I
Sometimes a human beln' likes yer sur
facepolished up
Yer talk or table manners plays their
part;
But a dog, when he looks at yer, goes be
neath the top veneer;
A dog a dog he judges by yer heart I
i Christian Herald,
lftLB.
4CS
'40Z:
What Do You Know?
Ourrlsj, o enteral interest will bs answered
In this column. Ten Questions, the answers to
which everu well-lntormed person should know,
ar ashed dally.
QUIZ
1. mint part of (lie world Is ulsnllled by tho
expression "the Near Hast"?
2. What Is tint I.nmltli1nc?
3. Why Is Tike's Peak so cnllrd?
4. What nro tho Dry Torlucas?
5. What Is meant by "loR-rolllnc"?
0. What Is n "pome comltntui"?
7. Whero In Philadelphia Is Vernon Park?
R. Who Is W. S. hlone?
0. The second nnnlTersnry of perlinps the most
ir
b
Important battle of tho unr IU be relr-
nrnieu ."entrmi
ated Prnteniber 8 and 0. What wns
this battle?
10. What Important eltr are the Itnllnni miTlnc
on as a result of the fall of (iorlzlu?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The fliinn II. Anthony amendment to the
Constitution provide that the rlclit to
vote hhall not he dented or abrhlcrd by
any htntc on nrcount of sex.
2. Nagasaki Is an Important clly nnd seaport
of -laiian on tho nest coant of tho lland
of Kluxhlii.
3. Joseph I. Tumulty Is the secretary to tho
1 resident.
4. Philadelphia produces annually 533.000,000
worth of carpets nnd rues.
0. Mothers' liar. lilrli brr.ime n national
memorial by prnrlamntlnn of the I'resl-
dent In 1014. Is the second Sunday In May,
0. In time of wnr the President may seize the
railroads for military purposes.
7. The cerebrum Is the brain.
8. It Is the duty of tlio Hoard of Mediation
nnd Conciliation to settle by mrdl at on
conciliation and nrbltrntlon control erIe4
orer sun nnd the like nrMnc betueen
Interstate railroads ami thrlr train hniuN.
0. Charles F. Martin Is the chief of tho fiov
crnment Weather lliirrnu. '
10. rrederlrk A. Miihlenuurir. finliislm A. Orow
and hamuel J. IlnndiiU, af l'enni.jlw,t,1i,
l,tepere."eCSf;,i,;;,Sl,e',U'r of le ""
A Tcchnlcnl Distinction
Editor of "What Do You Tfnoto" "An
swers to Yesterdny's Quiz" of August 15
contains a technical Inaccuracy which, I am
confident, you will bo pleased to correct.
No. 9 states:
"The Saturday Evening Post has n larger
circulation than any other American periodi
cal " '
The Inaccuracy lies In the fact that the
term "periodical" Is defined by the postal
laws and regulations as a publication Issued
at Intervals longer than one week, whereas
a publication Issued nt Intervals of ono
week, (or less) Ja held to be a newspaper."
HARRY I. ABRAHAMS.
The distinction between a periodical and
a newspaper Is made by the postal regula
tions for the sole purpose of putting Into
definite categories the various publications
without reference to the generally accepted
meaning of the terms In common uange
ThUB a newspaper which was issued once
every two weeks could properly be called
a newspaper, though the postal authorities
would have to classify it as a "periodical"
to prevent evasions of the law, In Answer
No. 9 the word periodical was used In Its
generally accepted sense, and without refer
ence to postal-rule parlance, which In the
very nature of the case must draw nrbl
trary lines.
Pronunciations
Mrs, M. "La Valllere" Is pronounced as
If it were spelled "lah vallyare," "lingerie"
as If it were spelled "lanjery," "decollete"
"day-col-e-tay"; "chauffeur." "sho-fer," the
"eu" bolng pronounced somewhat as the
"ue" in ''guerdon," but there is no English
vowel or diphthong that Is given the same
sound. -
Promotions in Schools
Editor o "What Do You Know" 1)
How many promotions a year do they have
In the Philadelphia public schools? (2) ia
an examination given at each promotion?
And If only one examination Is given tell
at which promotion It Is given. In Feb
ruary or June. LOUIS SILVERSTEIN.
(1) Promotions are made In February
.and June. (2) Examinations are given
loth In February and June to those pupils
who have not reached that standing in
their daily work which the school au
thorities think Is high enough to justify
promotion without examination. That is
some of the pupils are promoted without
examination, and pthers are not promoted
until they hae passed an examination.
Counting the Stars
JSdltor of "What Do You Know" Can
you tell me if an attempt has ever been
made to count tho number of visible stars
according to any scientific method?
O. V.
Thk i!?i"n. ' The estimate
was 93,000,000 stars brighter than the 17th
magnitude. Mathematicians and astrono
mors have guessed at a possible total of
between one and two thousand million
"light" stars ta aU, and probably aay
m ''dark" stars. f
TAPERING OFF
THE DRINK HABfl
Decrease in Use of
Alcoi
Alarkcd Since 1911 at,-,
OWnnnnnnn.,, "'P0
ijwuu.vuwuaiionsin
One Year
TTNCLH SAM Is tapering off I
U drink hnhlt. v,. , ?,0fr !!
so It you compared the consumm.
1850 with what was drunk in 19 u 3:
per capita consumption of alcohnii' Tr
of all kinds In tho former vZ?"8"
4.08 gallons. This was made udT.
gallons of distilled spirits 27 0, '
of wlno nnd l.BS gallons 'of malt hS
-or 1.10 nscai year ending jUna j.","t
tho total amount drunk, when
Honed among tho total rjnmit..E
19.8 gallons each for every mat, w &
and child. There Is an Increa?.'
moro than 15 gallons per capita, ZS
u... u Vuur . wceK ror each Inhablblr
Every ono knows that there are 1-
' ' "'a Plain brti-t
den variety. Perhaps It would CT
un to dato to sav tlm if ....... ,n!J
como tho damned liars, with st.ti 1 5
uluaiiiK up mo procession. h,., .
Beelzebub, tho Fathor of Lies. lt.X
choso to uso theso figures ho could tJI
to thoso who do not know hod.. !?U
Amorlcans nro drinking moro ihs JSl
beforo. But It would bo easy by Jni
moro figures to show that ho was aUmt
tug to demonstrate' what was ImpoM?
Tho consumption of liquor In tho IW
States did Increnso rapidly n tll. i a
half of tho nineteenth century. i JS
from 4.08 gallons In 1850 to 16.82 ifcS
In 1SB9. Then from 1899 to 1907 It 2f
panded until tho per capita constimptW
Was 22.79 gallons. This was an lnr.
In nine years of moro than the totals
capita consumption in 1SG0. It amou.i.i'
In round numbers to 400,000,000 sHoS
xnoro wua u. mump in tno next Dim
years, but In 1911 tho average uami
drunk roso again to tho level of 190J. 'I
Thu quantity drunk slnco thenhainiJ
tuatod from year to year, but the (j.
aency nas oecn uownwnru. The recorf
of 19.8 gallons for 1915 Is lower thanfcil
any provlous year slnco 1903, when ijl
was 19.07 gallons.
Tho marked decrcaso Is of recent 01
gin. Whon tho total consumption for lit
fivo -years from 1911 to 1915 Is compirtj
with tho consumption for 'lDIB we Li
that tho docrcaso amounts to 731,972 ifl
gallons, or an averago of moro than lllJJ
000.000 callons n year. Tho fluri &
1915 consumption In detail follow: j
237,073,474 gallons less than In ll(
217,925,170 "
112,850,9.15 1J11 '.
153.7C1.C04 " - " 1!11
39.7ES.129 " " " till k
751,972,372 gallons decrease In fire Ten?
Tho whole country drank only 2JJ,MM
000 gallons of all kinds of liquor In 117,
or only about 59,000 gallons more thu
tho decrease of 1915. In 1014 we dnsVi
on nn average .52 of a gallon of rtiX
In 1915 tho amount was only .3loJi
gallon. "We drank 20.54 gallons of Ua
aplcco in 1914 and 2.3 gallons leu thT
next year. Tho falling off In the tut u
spirits was equally marked, for tht jj
crcaso was from 1.43 gallons In 19HJ
1.23 callons In 1915. Spirits are fa
off in popularity, for in 1850 the a8
amount used was 2.24 gallons, wldletln
wo drank only 1.58 gallons of beer per
capita. Roer Is still tho most coma
drink, ns it has beon Blnco 1860. In onlr
two o tho eight yenrs from 1907 to (.lift
Inclusive, did tho averago amount oruay
... 1--, aa .ll.na Thta makes tblT
iau uuiuw -u fcu(iuio. ... r
slump to 18.24 gallons in iaio mo"a
markablo. t4
-.,-.. .. , ,1,-lnlrlnr- wlnfl In SnYtl&f,
(VV UU IlUt it. .... ..- . m
like the quantities wo did a few years y
It took only 32,900.000 gallons of import
und domestic wines to supply the 1KJ,
.-. -.., ko ,nn nnn wera nec&i
ucmanu, wueivua u,iuv,vv . g
In ll14. '
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW jl
1 .i u. MAVUnn nrtnnlrt nrfl U3 CJPSQ'L
of meting out their Incl.gnatlon t lw
union oniclals who sacrifico the P"S
terest by a refusal to arbitrato as to j
norlniia cornoration officials equally P"J
blind. Cincinnati Times-Star.
railroad Btrlko such as lh"
A
would be a
BLUUIWIIK utui, ",, ---1 ,-
, ,., .,n,t, ,,v nn, ui,i'
r.r wrtira enrnfcrs to nnotner. o"'V'.-
tho worklngman harder than they a fL
capitalists. Syracuse journal.
ml.. 1.',k rimlrulq his trOODS thlt, M;
..u. !. nvonta nt tlm last tWO J"i
"the strength nnd will of the enemy Jj
"Qt y.ei.b "" ' "? .hTEstS
tne bumo limit, nun, ,,!.-
Allies. Glad there's something ii
war upon which every one is agreeu. fy
ton Advertiser.
That expresses the country's pplnljiirf
Kay. But. neither the Seventh "U'""S
State of Virginia nor the nation wU W
have a chance to get at him. S
have to face hie constituents In aW9
Tho berQveSent Mr. Wilson has ImI
that by appointing him a Judge otttoOVh
of Claims. Thanks to the rrden;Ji
Congressman has found a harbor of rctm.
nnd is comfortably lnterneu. -td
Providence Journal.
AMUSEMENTS
STANLEY YK!m
VIVIAN MABTIMg
In First Presentation of ,-j
"THE STRONGER LOVE
PAIACEniARIEDOROJ
1(1 - a-W.l.sw -
B F. KEITH'S THEATBJ
AH UUUU rto ,w--tt-
ouriiiw j- vrri
AND HER KINaS, OP SYNCWA"" f(
Eva Taylor-Lawrenco OratUn 4 cS-(.y
EV cowboys: Bac's Circus. . -J
Todsy at 8. " BOc' TonUjht t g
'Plnhp Theater "YiSS 55
MATTIE CHOATB & COJ
! --THE MAYOR AND TUB UCJJj
"THE GIRLS FKOM a-uiw"",
Victoria im
. ?"-"" SSS2 '.".A'-ACRHr'.
7 T" CHESTNUT D;loW Of
jnuwiiuw ,.r" - --- "
ENID JIAIlKE
"MEPTENANT DANNY. V "
AX-nnrC!TTYrn tokb atai&j
FIREWORKS EVERY FRlPATJi
SWIMMING
-.. . ... . . nnrftefrS'Q
AUAMS ,?. "sftSoft.
m ra&r&t&h
iw