IB w-'- ' BSVVr " JL 2 ' 6fi:S53. fete tfVmc LEDGER COMFANV CtauS it. K. CURTIS. r.mm HfcXte.K"sli.,2t W. JRfift n, William. John jf" inS. r' Waeiley, ley, Directors, ---,- JSDtTOIttAt. BOAJtD: w. Lwm"k'Cwti, Chairman. f. . WHALSt , r.Mot MmaA!vnN.. Oenerat nntlnr Manager " ' '-t" - - - - r,?H,i!!!'i,,i"r jpoomo i".rm jjHiMin , Independence douare. Philadelphia. "' ClJfTUlt Ilroaif and r'h.in..i ... ffii,S2?',,CltT rr- Mnfcjti llulMIn "Ms 200 Metropolitan Tow.r e&fx!!'"-'-"'--400 0'M-'Vinw(il HuIIiIIkk a""0" 1202 Tribune Building .,' kewb nunEAusi FilllBtim 32 Hue Louis la Urand flUuscmpTio.v TKtoia I- wti.!' ' red to aubtcrlbera In Philadelphia and aurroundlnr towns at the esrrUn " e'nl" """ "" ,""rb, ,0 th .J1??."'! i'Lpo'nt" oulnlde of Philadelphia. In t United ataira, Canada or United mates tw. SC2.,J,J?,i"1' rt0"r ,or three months 2"' l'4' Wars per year, paynble In ad Tance . fiWmthi ton,cn C0UB''I' one M dollar per ...M?Ti,if,'1li,,Mflbf,r.!f wishing address chanrad sMUt give old a well a new address. BKU, lWO VAtaUT KEYSTONE, MAIN 1W 53" AMrrtt alt communication tn rvnlna ""Iff MdPe"''ce ffauartt, PliUaoVlfiMa. bhteibd it in ritiUDixriiu rmtTorricn a Abcokd-cu Mill, juttis. ttrs AVEnAOSvNKT TAID DAIf,T CHI- XVUktiox or tub evk.vino mjdcjeu von NOVEJiiu:n wah ui.pii rfcllaJttpbla, gilnnlijr, OnrmUr It, Hl. Man ( man' A, D, C. There it nona' that can Read God aright, unleti first ha epellt - man. Quartet, It never snows hut It storms. Pieces or peaco, It Is all tho namo to tho ICnUor. It In n llttlo lata to do your Christ mao shopping early, but do It now. . Ton per cent for tho hungry In ? Xuropo, no matter to what nation thoy btlonul . . Thero Is somo reason to bcllovo tht tho Houso Is In favor of prohibition lnprlnclple, but ngnlnst It In practice. An betweon tho Varo upllftoro nnd tiiB.Pnroso upllftcrs It appears that Pcnn tylvanla will Ijavo to uplift Itself nt tho next election. One of tho finest trnlts In tho char, acter of Mr. Schwab Is his loynlty to BL Francis CoIIcro. Its latost manifestation lias taken tho form of a gift of $2,000,009 for new buildings. ' Tho boosting of Whitman In Now Tork an nn Ideal progressive to lead tho Republican party In 1020 suggests tho thought that n New Yorker as a can dldao Is distinctly out of date.- Considering tho difficulty tho Em pire State experiences In governing crim inals after she gets them In tho peni tentiary, it Is not surprising that oho can not raalco them behavo outside. The stock market falls agnln be causa of "peaco pressure," despite tho re fusals of Allied Government to consider terms. Wall otreot probably has a private r that peaco Is nearer than wo think, however. Consider how accurately In formed It was when It was betting two to pne on Hughes. Thero may be great promise of In crease in Allied reinforcements In tho fact that Italy has put Into tho field only one man for ovory eleven of her popula tion, 'Russia, one out of twenty nnd Eng land ono out of ton, while Franco lirui been enabled (or has been forced) to glvo one out of six. Ilut this fact Is not re ceived, enthusiastically In Franco. Francis Joseph left a fortuno of 123,000.000. Ho divided $7,300,000 between hi:' two daughters, gavo a total of $2,200, OOO y various other legatees, nnd tho re mainder, $12,600,000, or moro than halt of his'' whole estate, goes to tho relief of wounded and invalid soldiers and the fam ilies of thoso killed In battle This Is a, splendid example of broad-minded benevo lence worthy of nn uncrowned American money king. War prosperity has sent tho boys to school, and thero is a scarcity of mos eewrwand office boys. The Walnut Street Duslness Association, which has begun to advertise for girls to take the places Whichthere are not boys enough to fill, apparently thinks that prosperity does not benefit tho sisters' so much as tho bitlthers, There Is a real surplus of girls to Europe, Wo have no such surplus here, fcutahero may be a multitude of girls Vitt'jW.-to run errand;f-ln pleasant iiner. it wore Js, the advertisements I' brine them out. p,r . Tha aatonlshlnr events In Franca ex K H my Attention. I think of them when 1 rise and I think of them when I tfe dpwn. I am afraid the Allies will SMUk peace without prostrating the djrrtwsty of Scourge' nnd Nuisance of Suropa. I shall not be aatUfied until ?apo:eon is ueau and curled, or at least nurea for me in the castle of ISaelburff. Chancellor Kent ta hla smother, March 31. 1814. It aetma that distinguished Amer. JiifoJwera as unable in JS14 ns in 1916 taln a Tieutrallty of thought when with a great war on the other tfrf'tho ocean. Those who would up- PS. Chancellor's words to tho present will pay & compliment to the Which would not be at all dls- to Wm or to his supporters. :ji!le Information oomes from u eo,uvu women are now i WWeh in July. 1914. was dono A few of theso new workers In fceping tho industrial ma operation are from well-to-do jh4 will return to the leisure th dwnand for their services ,mmt majority, however, nra ; fwtk ta the wage earners. mhjto are wiv and sisters stfilwi in battle rttlh pub. JrM4y wondna weather, rBS" turn rifJntM te nee stttpioyaisnt TheV fio"V that unfe tho worrier! continue lo work thero wlA be a laW shortage, but they do not look with complacence upon any necessity which may compel the fu ture mothers of tho race to do tho hard manual work hitherto done only by mon. An women are tnklnit tho placo of men In tho Indiidtrles Of Franco and dcrmany n well ji of KnRlahd, nnd are likely to bo called upon to contlnuo to do no, tho American publicists who have been iay Inif that Europe will bo Industrially ox liauatcd by tho tlmo tho war chd will doubtlcai havo to revlao their opinions when confronted by tho facts. PRIVATION AND PLENTY rrHIKHB Is a, deal of good-natured cynicism about our prosperity. "Wo may ho prosperous, but my pocketbooK doesn't show It," many a man will say. Hut charity workers, newspapermen, po llco ofTlclals, tradesmen alt who como Into close contact with people nnd feel tho pulso of welfaro and trouble In per son ngreo that the prcssuro of poverty Is very slight compared to what It was In "tho winters of 1914 nnd 191B. They can tell better than captains of Industry who talk about prosperity In terms of billions. Having plenty nt home, It Is time to take tho keen sufferings nbroad moro seriously. It Is novcr too late for Christ mas In times like these. To think of living In the novcr-to-bo-forgolten years of tho great war and not doing one's bill What distinction In being pointed out by generations to como who will say, "That man remembers the great war," whllo having to recall that thoy wero terrlhlo times Indeed, "hut I did nothing to help onybody"7 Maimed men, patient women, needy children tho salt of tho earth for all wo know about them are asking noth ing of us because this Is not n question of charity, no more thnn our gifts to tho Irish famlno sufferers wore charity. This war, as long 'as wo are not In It, Is llko a great flood' or earthquake. It will not dislocate our commercial llfo to be r par ing of expcnslvo trivialities nnd send tho money equivalent to tho sufferers. WHAT A PITY! IIUFFAT.O. N. Y.. Dec. 14. Tlio city commission which fins In clinrgo tho obtaining of adequate n.innenKcr and freight termlnnln for lluffulo ncrecd to ilny to the New York Central's proposal to .build a imsaengcr uritl might ter minal on Its present ulto nt nn esti mated cost of $7.000,000. News dis patch. WHAT n pity thero Is not a city com mission, a commlttco of the Chamber of Commerce or somo other c indent body "which has )n chargo tho obtaining of ndequato passenger and frelcht termi nals" for Philadelphia! OUT IN THE OPEN OPPONENTS of constitutional prohibi tion nnd cqunl suffrage will now havo to wngo tholr fight In tho open. Tlio Judiciary Commltteo of tho House of noprdsontntlvqs has reported tho con stitutional amendments with a favorablo recommendation for prohibition and with no suggestion ns to tho treatment of tho equal suffrago plan. An attempt will bo made to bring theso propositions to a voto In order to put the representatives on record. Tho argument in favor of national- prohibition Is that when It Is onco secured by constitutional nmondment It Is permanent ho far as law can make It. States havo voted down tho liquor traltlc and then reconsidered their nctlon. It Is mnlntalncd by somo that Congress could stop the liquor trafllc by law without a constitutional amend ment, but such a law would bo subject to repeal. Tho prohibitionists, however, demand a rust-proof, Ironbound, copper riveted restriction on tho liquor traffic, and wilt not ba content till thoy get It, WILL THE HOUSE CONSENT? NOW that tho Danish pcoplo havo by voto Indorsed the plan to sell tho Danish West Indian Islands, tho Govern ment Is expected to ratify tho treaty without delay, Tho American Sennto has already ratliled It. Tho transaction can not bo completed, however, until the IIouso of Representatives acts. Tho President and the Senate, tho treaty-making powers, havo agreed to pay $25,000,000 for the islands, but they are powerless to carry tho agreement Into effect. Treaties, according to the ancient decision of Supremo Court Justice Mc Lean, nro not tho supreme law of tho land unless the treaty-making power can enforce them. The Houso of Representa tives, ns early as 1795, when asked to make appropriations called for in the Joy treaty, voted tho money, but adopted a resolution declaring that it was its con stitutional right to deliberate on the ex pediency or inexpediency of carrying such treaties into effect and to .act in accord ance with Its best Judgment. They had the fight all over again on the Alaska purchase treaty, It will be necessary to convince the House that the Danish Islands Wo worth $25,000,000. The advocates of the Alaska purchase had great difficulty in getting the needed appropriation. The territory was said to be little more than a mass of ice and barren rock. But the $7,200,000 asked for was finally voted. Tills was $3,200,000 more than wo paid Spain for Florida and a little less than half as much as we gave to France for Louisiana. We bought New Mexico and California from Mexico for $15,000,000 and an agree ment to pay the claims of $3,200,000 which American cltiiens held against the Mexican Government. The only excuse for paying $25,000,000 for tlio Danish islands is that we are buy ing something moro than a little land in the ocean. Wo are supposed to bo making it easier to maintain tho Monroe Doctrine in the trying times- that are coming. We aro oertalnly buying a raee problem. The natives have already let it ba known that they expect to be recognized as American M,.aa4 89 aMSS'aiiadepn- peing 'ByBimsra mmmtmzA2EijV'mA: satbbay, deoembbb m Tom Daly's Golumn TUB rlZ.LA.OB POET IFAenefer it's it Saturday, a "fllvveriA" holiday, Too ttormy lor our llttleit lot to bo out- tide an' ptaif, He eatt up more tehtte paper tVan ever 1 could do tn tceeki of tramping Ohet'nut Street to tee tchat netes U new, tie itarlt tn bright an' early, Before he' out of bed The newt he'd be reporting U humming In hit head, An' tchlta he1 putting on hit clothe hi EXTRA ha been planned, An' toon the flnlthcd paper (If printed all by hand), With alt the very latett newt, complete an' up-to-date, t laid upon the table near hi mother1 brcakfati plate. Along about 10:30, when hi little ieorld, that teem With tudden chlmtlcalltic an' changing hope an' dreamt, Jua felt Ihotc revolution which appear to bring about The nerd to print a VOSTBOlltPTwhy, he promptly get it outl But thortty after lunch the ivarld re- " volvc once more, tn then To print tomo matt important newt he goe to pre again. NIOHT VXTRA thl one might be called or KXTllA SPORTS mayhap, Since that' the ort of new that mott attract tho little chap. ' tt any rate, he's on the jump from early morn till night Evolving new rditlan Jutt a fait a he can write. What' thatt Vou cannot understand what nit thl it about, An' why the little lad should get all those edition outt "Why, man, they're all hi Ohrislma llttt, tho thing ho hope to tee Spread out for him on Ohrlstma morn beneath the fragrant tree. An' if you icrofo a list, then thought of something else, I guess Tou, foo, icoiild icnnc to change your mind an' rush right off to press, , That's why when it's n Saturday, a "fllvvercd" holiday. Too stormy for our littlest boy to go out side an' play, Ha eat up mora white paper than ever I could do In week of (ramping Chestnut Street 1a tee what news is new. A Quick Contest SACHKY hns evolved nn apposlto and sonsonnblo nnaRram. For the first nn- nwor to It wo will give ono volume of tho work of oyr favorlto poet, Hero Is tho anagram: WKI.COMINO PAEAN SO DEAn TO TUB WOULD ItETROBVEOT I know a place whera a railroad ran, A year, a day, and a life ago; Tho strolling stream that it used to span With an airy arch, when timo began, Meander still in tho old-time plan Through the fallen stones below. The rails are gone, and the ordered ties. Many and many a league away; Only the green embankment lies, Straight as the path of a bird that hies Home to her nest, through the ci'cnlng skies, After a Questing day. Fields there are, and a wooded height, And many a dell whera the warm sun shone; Rut she who made them fair to my sight- With her laughing eyes, and her fancies bright, And the heart of her always brave and light Has left me to dream alone. MABEL MclBTAINE. Pelilom. If rvcr. haa Martlntllt hnnn iu parlor command of bin unusual vocal resources In this city. Morn. Con temp. Isn't It appnllliiff how little wo really know? Hero they've been having grand opera for goodness knows how long, but not until Wednesday lastr when tho ubov appeared, did the public lenrn that opera singers ao not carry their voices with them. I knew, of course, that voices lire raunrd. as It were, In Camden, but whoro do they store 'em? ' , McNUTT. POEMS IN PRAISE of tho colyum conductor nro taboo, hut occasionally we'll lot a holpful llttlo thing llko this through; I'm a tough ear And ( don't oara a bans If you Ilka It or not Your column's rotten. A louih auy am I And fearUsa. Wa bava mora "macaroni" and Rob poems now and then. It'a bava a Lreeie of wit and fun Krom a rar.k outaldsr'a pen. Let's bava a bit of kid stuff And a bit of a rummy Joke. And, well. I'm Just a louab cur. 1'ut thla In your pIm nnd smoke. A. TUW UIGII. Woman bava cot to marry a dllfarant sort of men. It Is solas to rsduca tha number of marrlaaa licenses. -Tbs cbotca of a husband should ! from the biological and psycholotlcal standpoint and not on economlo srounds. Youli women should ba tralr.ed In. know what con stllutea a. sate paternity, we nave aDsoiutely failed In tha cholc ot fathers, because we bava no choice. Mrs. C. 1', Ullman to Cblcaso Womtn'a Club. "Where aro you going, my pretty maid?" "To study boyolony, sir," she said. "May I go with you, my pretty maldr "Why, ydu'ro the oIob, sir," she sn,ld. CIIOIICS K.NTKK YILLiOB MAIDENS Unable to obtain men to aid blm In baryestlnr, red ' Harris, a farmer llvlnsr near 1'ukwanis Pr' Harris. .a. farmer llvln near 1 8. O.. anaaxed tha services of four of the nelh borhood alrls. who ehocked all ot bis amall xraln .. . V'aiu (IrUnna Ulalsa crupa. Saw Orliana aiatts Spinster Bereavements AS TO AROHIB Archie had a leaving mane, "iYhen on me he fondly called; Since he worrtcd Mary Jane I know What makes Archibald I PI. llachelor Bereavements TO VABLOTTA ( Oh, pleaso, ta me "ye"l itak glad my fate, Carlott'. My love, too mooch to 'tpress, iVi com' by freight, Carlott'. AUTO eall, mat, wanted In front of, Chestnut . itraat .storel mlddle-ated, preferred I belaht about B feat s Inehea and Welfbl ISO pounds J to at uniform, etc. BUI Yus, who sends this In, asks if It's a suit of armor they wont to fill pr can't the ynlform be duplicated? We think wo know the answer; The regular is sick, pr off the job and a sub is needed quicker than a suit could be built for him. Est how would vou like - - ' i - f i- , . i .. i 1 1 in n r -- -! .i..j..i ... inimi -" "HOW BIG IS YOUR HBAET7" MBit - ffiMP'iiHsHSBfe WmSmWiwm 'iwllli:' if"" j ,''i'f''',, '"' 1 ttrwiwiraill'Wmli It! & ' TtStfeKtSw'iPr fflffi wmk 1 . tBH! THE VOICE OF What Contractor Rule Means for Philadelphia Why Germany Seeks Peace An Embargo to Force Down the Price of Food TM ilriinrlnifiit rcc to nil Trailers who wLih tn rnirtji fhrfr opinions on subJrrM or rurmt lulrrrsl, It Is nil oix-il orw. dim Ilia Kvmtno I.ettaer nsstirnrs no responsibility tor thl ulrtt-s 0 in correspondent. .ellers tin's! he slonnf u-lli lh atn cmil nildress or Ine torllrr. not necessarily lor putiffcalfon, but oa a auarantre of pood Inllli. WAKE UPI To the ItiHtor of the livening l,edger: Sir I linvo been rendlnir with great nmUHcment the different articles npiicnr Inif from tlmo to tlmo In your valuable and fearless newspaper, nntt It necma to me you Imve not quite got to tlio nut In tlio Kernel about why Mr. Vnro nnd his crowd of Jolly HoKerH are trying not only to control tlio city, but now are nfter the Btato. "Hod save tlio Commonwealth I" Do you rcnllio that when Mr. Varo gets the contracts for tho city nt tho lowest hid, liu nlKii. through IiIh organization, linn tha Inspectors appointed who Inspect his work? Of course, tho Inspectors nre all graduates of tho University of Pennsyl vania engineering course, nit. Then, when he gets the prollt from the contracts, ho immediately puts them In City or Philadel phia 4s, thereby malting nil property own ers nnd taxpayers responsible that tho In tercst will bo paid. So he gets us both going and coming. I. for one, shall always work nnd voto thnt no contractor Hhull bo Mayor of this town. Tammany Hall III Its palmy days never had anything on the crowd thut now- controls tho city gov ernment. So let's get awake, nip van Winkle slept but for twenty years, Tho citizens of Philadelphia have been usluep, to my knowledge, since 1884. Wake up! They had their chance In 1311 to elect a good, honest, constructive business mnn for Mayor, George II. Karlo, Jr. Jnu it ic nan not beon for the Vara crowd ho would have been elected. Ilut, by chance, they elected another good, honelit man, Mr. Ulankenburg, a mnn who, to my personal knowledge, Is a big-hearted, honeat busi ness man. who does not have the word graft In his dictionary. Hut. as he was thoroughly honeat and as there was not any chance to get any graft, they would not give him the money to spend. There never Is any money In the treasury when It is needed to give to a soup society to help the poor people that happen to be out of work, as they were In this city In 1313-H, but they can always find 5Q,O09 nt a moment's notice when they have a Junket for the Councllmen to take the Liberty Hell to San Francisco and supply them with wine, Carolina perfeetos. chicken en casserole, eta, although many of them before they went to Councils never know what these things were. But there Is nothing like getting used to It. Now I ask you to keep up the good work for n change In the charter of Philadelphia and to work for a commission of fifteen men, with at least 7B00 a year salary. You cannot get good, honeat men of business experience for less than $7600 a yenr, be cause a good man can earn that In legiti mate business. Now I appeal to tho citi zens of Philadelphia to work together, so that the city flag will be redeemed, and let our slogan be "No contractor shall be elected Mayor of Philadelphia I" Philadelphia, JSecember 15. WHY GERMANY ASKS FOR PEACE To tle Editor of the evening ledger: 6U- But a day ago Morgan, the financier, said tha Allies had won. Now Oermany has asked for peace! What did Morgan mean when he said the mi., hni wont Well, he had asked him self what are those thing Germany did not Wish 10 Happen wnen ana u umusuy oiled the hinges of the rumbling gates on the temple of WerT Knowing these things, we know whether or not the Allies have won. What are those thlngsT Certainly, she did not want Britain awak ened from her sleep, her drugged drowsl ness. Certainly, she did not want Britain organised and "Lloyd Oeorged" with a pro gressively multiplying power In commer cial competltioa Did she want the Oer raan name a synonym of disgrace for hundred yearsT Did she want the Her man spy system exposed all over the global Did Germany want "aermany" to mean lying, deceit, cruelty, barbarism, meanness, vsery alt tba t opposed to slvllUa tfent xm ewy "STfc- Ife & tati .t THE PEOPLE bo over nlert and wntclifuPover Germany's promises. Did alio wish the "United Slates nnd all tho world to know that Cernmn visitors and descendants could descend to Incendiarism, destruction and propaganda Ism? Now Germany wants peaco. She has seen tho prlco of her folly. She han sought peaco for moro than a year. At rlrst she suggested peaco with nn Indemnity from Franco, Belgium and Korhln. Then she suggested mid hinted better terms then on tho "basis, of thewnr maps." Then sho was willing to evacuate Belgium. Then sho was willing to ovacuato France' nnd Belgium and Serbia. Now alio mukcs n greater stir about poace. Why? Becauso she has seen the price sho haa paid. i Will German coaling stations ever be Ocrnian again? Will Germany over re cover that overseas trade held a-throttle for over two years? Will tho Cape-to-Calro railroad routo. once in tho grip of ltrltalu, bo returned to aermany? Will Germany ever get down to the Perslun Gulf, llrm In the grasp of Britain, even with the Kut-el-.nmra disaster? Will Britain uver restore Egypt to Turkey? Will German bankers, with a German depletion of finances, ever havo their over Bra banking system working healthily? Will British bankerB glvo way to German bankers In Italy? Yes, Germany holUs chips for tho cash In but tho Allies, are they going to quit the game the game that Germany was eager to begin, the game that Germany Is now enger to leave? Germany Is tired of her chips, flho holds them with bloody hands. German people are nervous, elated, moody, Joyous, despondent, hopeful and riotous by turns. Kven with "victories"! "", uermany wants peace. Why? Thero Is no German oversea trade. Over sea trade Is the llfcblood of a nation. Certainly, Germany wants peace 1 At every Oerman victory tho German mark goes down, down aa far as the vulture, eaglo of Prussia rises. No Indemnity can come to aermany. A certain Indemnity will come from Germany. Thoso who In delirium smash the windows of tlvlllxa. Hon must pay for tha new glaxlng later! Germany wants peaco I Soi does the thief with hla booty. Peaco I peace! aermany cries for It loudly, She Is strong and lusty yet, but the end Is In view. Were peaco to com this Instant, how can Germany win back what she has lost through her winning of victories? The Allies have won Germany Is the first to ask for peace. Philadelphia, December n. WANTS AN EMBARGO To, the h'dltor of the Evening ttJper: SirPresident Wilson In an address of advice to farmets recently accused the middleman of being responsible far high food prices and suggested thai the farmers produce more crops. But what about the time that must Intervene until, the farmers raise mora crops? Are we to see food prices continue mounting? Perhaps the President Is right In blam Inar the middleman, but as a former academician dees he now Ignore the "theory" that demand as well as supply is a factor In price-fixing? Buropa Is demanding food excitedly de mandlng Jt, hysterically boosting prices' and she is willing to pay for what she deman a with money loaned her through the agency of Morgan bankers who have their Amer ican brufch In New York: The President's frame of mind la such, apparently, that he thinks It would be highly unneutral ot him to take any steps Which would Interfere with the "free move ment" of that demand, stop that ;fre movement" and It places one of the warring Kuropean Bides at a disadvantage. But the President also has said that the European war is no concern of America. How can he reconcile this thouxbt with his "free movement," idea? ThU country is not to blame for the food shortage In Europe, We are not fighting, but we are paying taxes on our food, a pew kind of an export tariff, so that Europe may continue to drink blood In lunatic style. .. ... S&k wprarAgwft 4 - iMr What lib' You Know? I i Ouerles ot oenerol Interest tolll i nnsuteresl In thtu column. Ten questions, the anitwere to teMch vrrv u-e!Miormed yersoit shouttt know, ore atkeit tlallu. QUIZ I. VVha was Cliarleit Carroll of Carrollton? f. What In a Ntnte (range? ' . i. Whs nre Itueebine called MiisroTltes? -I. WMt was the htotorlrnl origin of the New Year's Durnde In rhllailelnhlaT S. What Is the decnlosneT 0. Why are red-haired persons said to have Titian hair? 7. Whut Is the correct nrnnnnclatlon of "ton- seutn." of "Ihentre"? tr. An Austrian dlmniteli as the mark rale Is 40 llnr!n. usnlnut 45'j florin. es- terday." F.tnlaln this. 0. tVhnt were the medicine men? 10. tVhnt la kersey? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The Union offered pence terms before the end of tho Civil War. On lebriiary S, 1803, Lincoln met Confederate officials on n vt-.Mel near Fort .Monroe for the Informal 'll.imnlou Itoude Conference." v 3. Tho nnmo of the planet Uranus la accented on the "II," wfileb Is pronounced "you." 3. Vt'lnllfld Hcolt (tlM-lSOOl had chief com mand of the nrmy In the Mexican war. In IBS, us U'hlr candidate for rresl .lent, he was defeated, lie wan rnnklna I'lilon oMrer nt start or Civil .Mar. but use prevented blm from taking active command. He retired In October, 1S0I -I. A samovar Is u metal urn ued In Itussln In making ten. It Is filled with water, whirl. In heated by charcoal placed In u pipe with chimney attached, which passes through tha urn. S. The term of the Kwtna President Is one year and be Is Ineligible to re-election. 0. A nraicnccr Is u.i animal feeding on carrion. Tlie tern. In sometimes unplled to a person cniploicd to keep streets clean oe to a writer delighting In Immoral subjects, 7. titencll. A design Is cut In a thin sheet of metal cr cardboard and Is reproduced by untitling pulnt or other pigment tu the open pbtees whet, tne sheet has been placed over the object to be decorated. 8, Hulnt Valentine was a Christian martyr of tha third century, lie was beheaded. Of- arums to iraumon, on I'eoruary i, ma day In tlio calendar. 0, The RrsLCounrll of NIcaea was held In 323 liy .no r.Dineror v uusiiiniinr io se.ue mo Arlan controversy, Tlio confession of ' Kniperor Constnntlne to settle tho fstlh lldutiled Is embodied In toe Nleena creed. The second Council of Nlcaeu was held In UU nnd 78T In connection with the use of (mages, 10. The precession ot tho eaulnotca. the earlier occurrence ef the equinoxes In each! sueces.tve sidereal year, duo to the retrograde motion of equinoctial poluts ttlong the elliptic, Government Receipts I. I,. The Government receipts from In ternal revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1DK. amounted to J5ir.723.387. the greatest ever recorded and an Increase' of S37,0t:,:s over the year ending June 30, 1916. Kvery source but one from which n large amount of Internal revenue Is col lected showed decided gains In lt over UI5. Taxes from distilled spirits Increased 13,385,i92.aO; from manufactured tobacco, snurf, cigars, and cigarettes, t74SJ.337.38; from the corporation Income tax, 817,838,. 180.17, and from the Individual Income tax, t?6,B9T,''i33.Gi. The receipts from the tax on fermented liquors showed a decrease of 81,155,3:7. 1 1 ' Mothers' Pensions H. T The chief object of the mothers' pension movf ment was to make It possible for needy mothers to retain control of their own children. relef in that form being re garded as preferable to any that removed children from parental, control. The follow. tng States have enacted laws on the subject: California, ColoraQo, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis souri. Nebraska. New Jersey. New York. North Dakota, Ohio. Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota Washington and Wyoming. Slavery Planks A. D. S. The .Democratic platform of 185C declared that Congress had no right to interfere with slavery In the States where It existed ; that new States had a right "to. regulate their domestto Institution, with or without slavery, as they please," and that "all efforts to Induce Congress to interfere With Questions of slavery ought to be dls. oouutenanced, as they lead to dangerous cquaeu.ue.nces." In I860 there were two Democratic conventions, one at Charleston, which nominated, John c. Breckenridge for President, and the other at Baltimore, Which nominated Stephen A- Douglas Both apnventions reaffirmed the platform of 1858. the Charleston convention declaring that it iwrraiitou slavery in me torritertes. pead . x 'Sf?"08 8-3 owtilutioa, I iSi lZ, , ZzZlZ. 'X1r l,,? I MAULER E4RTII S(WC GIVEN BY ORCHESTRA Fhscinrtting Cycle Reveals tho Gloomy Powera of Composer in Meditative Mood ... 1 CHINESE IN INSPIRATION Lyrics of Orient In Bygono Days Wed. dod to Music by German Dreamer Ouatar Mahler, writer of songs and arm phonies, dreamer and designer, contribute to yesterday's concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra n work of curious preportl,.', and content, far less ambitious than his eighth symphony, nnd far more Interesting It Is a song cycle In six parts, with tnoJj of the music allotted to tenor nnd contralto. The purely orchestral portion Is negligible so It Is not easy to understand why u i, labeled a symphony. Thero Is, moreover practically no recurrence of themee Several ot the single pieces are In the win of lleder. Historical dsla on the composition of tha "Song of the Earth" do not abound, Th sources of the lyrics are Chinese poeta. whose periods ft., as far back ns the eighth century, and farther. Tho verses as In eluded In Mahler's score are taken from Hans Ilcthge's 'Tho Chinese Flute." Ha transcribed them from their Oriental otlg. Innln. Their Jltles are: 'The Drlnklnr Song of Earthly Woe." "Autumn Solitude "Of Youth." "Of Beauty," 'The Drunkard In Sprlngtlmo" nnd "Awaiting a Friend" and "Farewell of a Friend," the two latter coupled. Theso slrnnge verses, mated with musla that nearly always perfectly Interprets their spirit, constltuto a series In which the elab. orations of modern orchestral technique nro subdued to tho unhappy, ancestral memories of n Innd steeped In the past. Homctlmcs words nnd mlodles exult. Ilut It Is tho exultation of the soul's desperate remedies. Of tho clean joys of Oreek he. ' donlam thero Is no trace. When Mahler ns celebrant of tho wlnecup. tells of Its golden glitter, thero Is In his voice the haunting Of the grave that Is to receive him. When ho lifts tho bowl he sees horrid -figures apes and choMs phantoms as un real and ns terrifying as the opium dreams of Coleridge. "Dark Is life, dark Is death," Is his chant nmld the babble nnd revel of hls'vlntnge. He sees In autumn a season of mists, but not of "mellow frultfulness." His heart dies down like the lamp, Sensible of the beauty of It nil, ho discerns In Ha rich fullnens only decay nnd the breath of the Bopulchor. It la tho spirit of cloudy and tiulot rcmorso which breaks out In Keeled nates, nnd sometimes In Omar, the maker of tents. But wllhnl ho can paint and carvo pictures of simple pictorial beauty, wrlen that beauty has youth for Its hero, ngalust ,ix mosaic background. Silk and Jnda nnd tho mirror of the waters are lovely In themselves, .and the Mower gatherers are lovelier still. So ho forget:) the worst nlwayB hovcrlne near, nevertheless and, drunk with the spring nnd the goblet, he makes merry until with "The Farewell" the nurge of his old nrlff overwhelms him and ho passes tho door of life to the throbbing of a weary" nnd faltering tune. But the world Is still In bloom. Heaven is blue. Whnt If man was unhappy? On such foundation-) Mahler built the tonal structure of his cycle. Scoring his themes profusely, but In general with due enre for the slmplo emotionality of his sub ject, he used most of thoso Instruments thought retiulslto In the twentieth century. The rhythms are often subtle; the themes simple. Perhaps the two most easily caught and appreciated of theso nre "Tho Autumn Solitude" and the exquisite "Of Youth." Delicacy of sentiment and refinement of method have produced few finer combina tions thnn In this lntter piece. The mono tones of "Tho Farewell" less happily real lio tho accompnnylng lyric. Hero the fatally German liking for tho postponed climax and tho reiterated mood nearly brings about a stato of boredom absent from the earlier portion of tho "symphony." The artists who Interpreted each three of the numbers wero Johannes Sembach. the German tenor, and Tllllo Koenen, the Dutch contralto. At times they were obviously fearful of losing their places In the wind ings of the1 score, but they came through their tnsk with distinction. It not positive victory. Tho writing for the tenor part Is at tho top of Mahler's creative voice now and then, and on that account It was Im possible to tell Just whnt form Mr. Sem bach was In. Mme. Koenen has a limpid, easily (lowing middle voice, without much nervous or paf-slonnto Impetus. The only other number on tho program was Strauus'a tone poem. "Don Juan." The orchestra played It with the brilliance and vivacity which it demands and which Mr. Stokowskl gives It. B. D. RECORD OF ONE FAMILY Sacrifices for Their Country Willins.jr Made by Heroic Britons The following extracts from a letter from a Scotchwoman In London to a friend ta this city show a Bide of tho war of which little Is written In the newspapers; 'The war growa more terrible every diy and It's hard to convey one-tenth of the sheer tragedy of It. It Is no exaggeration to say that I don't know a single family In London that Isn't In sorrow nor a single person who hasn't been hit by the war- "Our family Is supposed to have got off lightly so far. with only one son killed and a cousin driven Insane by wounds and shell shock In Egypt. This cousin was a staff captain, a boy of twenty-eight, grad uate ot Cambridge University and with a brilliant future beforo him. He was wound ed at .the awful Galllpoll landing, but being very strong and athletic, made a quick re covery, and was later on sent to Egypt and became a wing captain In tho Naval Air Service. A shell burst near him and a week later his mind gave way. He trav eled home to England and was put under the best London doctors, but they fear he will neVer recover. It Is really worse than death, this 'shell shock.' for the patient goes through such agony ot mind, and then come intervals of sanity In which ho realises the hopelessness of the future. He has been In a 'shell shock' mental hospital for officers for nine months nnd Is gradually getting worse, Physically he Is In perfect health, but that only makes things sadder. "My eldest brother, a surgeon lieutenant, I off to Mesopotamia. I am anxiously watching the papers for news of submarin ing, as the Journey Is so dangeroua ?! wears a curious waistcoat that Inflates It self when one hits the water and keeps ene afloat, but this Is cold comfort! My brother, the captain one. Is In Salonlca. "When In Edinburgh recently we had a visit from the chaplain who burled my young brother In Mesopotamia, on the Tigris line. He said we ought to be thank ful he was killed when he was, as he would have died a lingering death from starvation and thirst and fever. After he was killed by the Turks, provisions were cut off and most of his company either died a terrible death or have been Invalided forever out of the army and will never be nt for any thing again. The chaplain told us that the fate of my brother's company was too ghastly to detail. Mesopotamia is a terri ble place, a hotbed of fever and disease, and I hate to think of another brother on his way there, particularly If the Arabs are as vindictive as usual "Another cousin, of mine Is suffering from the mildest form of shell shock, but that necessitates great care. He has fought from the beginning of tha war In a Scottish regiment and his stories are very thrilling, though the doctors forbid his relating any mare. At Loos he started out one day with his company of )090 men and at sunset oaly fOO were left This was after a bay onet charse. 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