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In Philadelphia and aurroundlnr towns at the
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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dldao Is distinctly out of date.-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
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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
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"HOW BIG IS YOUR HBAET7"
MBit - ffiMP'iiHsHSBfe
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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.
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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.
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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
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MAULER E4RTII S(WC
GIVEN BY ORCHESTRA
Fhscinrtting Cycle Reveals tho
Gloomy Powera of Composer
in Meditative Mood
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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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unreal, but tfcey ar ojoV too tone whea
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