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Life, a u) call It, I nothing but
the edg "f tha boundUtn ocean of
exiitenee where it comet on found
ing: O. W. Holme.
Ono mora day left to swear oft.
"Tou'ro another" was never a very
convincing- argument.
lrlce of oil up ten cents Headline.
Guoss what collego Is to got a
New Year's endowment.
Tho man who nald tljat hell was
paved with good Intentions did not in
tend to remind us thnt they, wero of
some uso after all.
Sonator Polndoxtor ovldontly wants
tho President to conduct his dlplomatlu
negotiations with tho uld of a megu
(phone and a cheer leader.
Mexican railroad eoeka a now mora
torium. Headline.
It ought to -ask Carronra how to
get It. IIo Focms to bo nblo to onforco
a moratorium upon Undo Bam at will.
Now they aro urging a government
liquor monopoly In Great Britain in
Imitation of backward Itusila. Porhaps
they mean it as a compllmont to their
oily.
Thoro Is an avcrngo of a llttlo moro
than fourtoen fires oycry day in this
city. The total number for tho year Ib
about 6350. Tho edlclancy of tho fire
men Is so great that It haH been poi
slblo to prcvont great conflagrations. Tho
men nro handlcappod by old fashioned
'apparatus and roften hose nnd havo to
work under most trying conditions. Yet,
In spUO of it all, thoy nro making records
unsurpassed In uny other city.
What's tho use having a censor it
Jio permits n 8onator to make a show of
Governor? Obviously a proper regard
for tho morals of tho young requires
that such hot stuff as has been emitted
in tho last few days should bo prohibited.
Bo v?e shall havo a now consor who can
jtoU -which side of tho political fenco Is
Iho right side nnd ldontlfy morality when
t3iq Bees It pinned to tho bosom of a
pompous statesman. Tho war among the
black kettles approaches, so to say, the
polling point.
Tho mummora' parade la a tro
AQtlon that has been passed down 'to us
ny the really old Philadelphia families,
(who- have always been too proud or too
poor to buy their way into tho Assembly,
tt is a mastorpleco of democrooy that
Rowers in the gorgeous raiment of kings
upon our winter streets with all the
nth and miracle of a Christmas tree.
To shall not ba lost so long as wo keep
pur mummers, Their tinsel and gow
aws aro a Bounder promlsa of continued
realth and energy than all our diamonds
ad pearls.
Whoever is curious to know why
ftho British are not yet ready to talk
jpeaco save on their own terms may find
Information in tho following figures:
ista i
( (Ctoie of the Napoleonic ware)
' Population of the United
Kingdom ........... 20,000,000
National debt ...,..,., ? M75.0Q0.00O
Per capltar debt ....... 233
iota
Population of the United ,
Kingdom 46,000,000
National debt. March 31. $10,000,000,000
Per capita debt ,. iji
isia
per capita Income of tho
IJrltUh population..., $71
1018
Per capita Income of the
British population. ., J280
In terms of population the debt thus
far Incurred In this war Is about the
game as that Incurred in the Napoleonic
Wars. Jn terms of national income the
-bt- is lew than one-third as' great as
that which burdened tho nation when
Ktapoleon was sent to Pt, Helena.
We desire 'to protest against the
ftlppant manner in which tho Cincinnati
emednondents have been writing of tho
preJeted nhangea In men's fashions a4
ottlWnwJ by the president of the National
Aawtetatlon of Clothing Deelgjrs, Nq
snlJct desorxea more sejrioa considera
te . Before tho worjft. -gas civilized
; Ahm wero merely proteaJtbrfffcQra the
4p euaeoeitd of tho weatheff Any oov
t'3, would do. If one wishes to under
F u--t viat giving thought to the style
r iis flaetins ha will have, only to
IW m W R aiwewjly Jftaji
tth4 tmr tft kep warfn. The
fes. ytautit lm Qgjpfertpble wrapped In
f. Wt -tutu, aad a ehsepkln or two
ww l-i l-t M?H to ksep 'Jb bHiu-
W( mm VHf UMM e
xj. wk
efiWI. wttli Its
i'-itiotyt t
Uats and
sy
U'
taMI
velvelaf It is ntcefsary only to project
A purely utilitarian costume ngftinU tho
background of tha aeeeasorleX of modern
civilization to perceive that atylo In
clothing; la Intorwoven with our wholo
eoelal fabric. When Onrb lhli Is Admitted
nil the rest follows. Whether a man's
evening trousers should havo a wldo
or n narrow braid down tho lens or
should be brnldlws tnkot proper rank
alontf with tho Justice of a protective
torlffi nnd whother the cvonlng wnlBt
coat should ba silk or satin, velvet or
linen, deserves as much thought an Is
given to tho color of tho postage stamps.
An International conference ,wns once
called to settlo this Important question.
Wo dtlegato Iho discussion of theso press.
Inp subjects to tho rlnthlng deslRticrs,
Just as wo delegate our Kovornment to
Homo one elso, And wo damn our tailors
nnd our rulers with equal Impartiality.
It Is only In soma great crisis llko that
Involved fn a chango of party control or
In tho styles of our coats nnd trousers
that wo recall thnt party government
and clothes aro both productH of tho
higher forms of -civilization.
GANG MUST BE DESTROYED!
rpiIH wild oplthcts hurled by tho two
factions of tho Itcpubttcnn Organiza
tion nro ko richly deserved by both that
each sldo, to suvo time, might ni well
throw thn mud ot Itself. It In u mutual,
public confession. Tho two Bide-) nro
equally discredited. Tho funclemmitnl
dlsgrwco of this lluht In thnt It Is not
nlncorc. When ono faction forosccn Its
ultlmato defeat It will m.-ilto terms, nnd
harmony will cuinu as HWift oh lightning.
If, following this final confevdon of organ
ization sclllshncaa and failure, tho reg
istered voters should permit a Varo llrum
baugh or n. Ponrono-McNIchol Oovcrniir
to bo ovolvcd by a "reunited party," ovcry
moral standard of this community nnd
ovoryothor community In tho Stnto would
bo loworcd. Such cynical neglect of an
obvious nnd slmplo duty would tnko all
tho moral starch out of ovory sermon
preached from overy pulpit In Pennsyl
vania, out of ovory speech, out of every
educational discourse, out of every, fath
er's advice to his son, out of overy Sun
day school address, out of ovory public
school song of patriotism, out of ovory
prayer for "tho President of tho United
Btntcs and nil others In authority."
Thoro nro other States In which tho
national organization of tho dominant
party hns been consistently utolim by,
Stnto politicians. Tho nnmo old gold
brick has boon sold to tho "farmorB" for
a generation that because you aro for
a protoctlvo tariff and voted for United
States Sonntor Doe, Republican, you
should thorcforo vote for Stnto Senator
Itoo, Republican, who cannot conceiv
ably havo anything to do with tho mak
ing or unmaking of tarlffw, hut who cnlli
hlmsolt a Republican. Thd samo way
with tho Democrats. Cut tho "farmers"
havo turned down thq gold brick In Stnto
after State, until now ono can count on
tho Ilngoro of ono hand tho Common
wealths that fall to split tholr tickets
from tlmo to tlmo, going Domocrutlo
nationally and Republican or Indepen
dent on Stato Issues, or Republican na
tionally and Domocratlo or Independent
on Stato Issues.
On tho liulul thut counts thoso four
or flvo "gold-bricked" States, Pennsylva
nia Is tho soro thumb, l-'orclgncru talk
of Tammany as tho arch-Amoncan gang.
Tammany ItaB boon wrecked. It Is as
dead as Queen Anno. But tho Pennsyl
vania oligarchy lives on and bellovos
not moroly that its power is otornal, but
oven that It can afford a running tight
of ita own, punctuated by brief truces
that ring os falso as Its feuds.
Let It be cried from tho housetops dolly:
"This factional fight la not sincere. Pen
roso and Varo will fall Into each other's
arms, unrighteousness nnd war will kiss
each othor tho moment a determined
band of citizens, truo to the doath, standi
up to wlpo both factions off tho political
map." Good may como of this strlfo, In
a sonso, but no permanent good. Lot us
steal tho thunder of that Roman Sen
ator who closed ovory speech, who an
swered every argument, with his "Car
thago must bo destroyed." It may bo
said, "Tho faction that wins out must
enact tho necessary progressive legis
lative program to keep u foothold." Good,
but tho gang must bo destroyed. "There
oro good men in tho gnus." Yes, but tho
gang must bo destroyed. 'Tho Orgonlza.
tlon may bo teased Into putting up .a
fairly good man for Governor." Aye, but
the gang must bo destroyed.
The man who accepts the support ot
either faction for Governor must bo de
feated. And the place to defeat him Is In
tho Republican primary.
There are about eighteen months be
fore us. Tho superb opportunity la at
hand. Every day that pasaea la bring.
Ing Penrose or Varo nearer to that mo
ment when he (either one, it doesn't mat
ter which) will realize 'ho is facing defeat,
and, in the sneaky darkness, will make
terms. Those terms may bo uncondi
tional surrender and may give tho op
posing faction complete power over the
Organization. So rrjuah the better. So
much the easier will it be to destroy the
survivor.
Let every aahgjl teacher, every min
ister, every parent In tills State, see this
moral -jwue olearly thl enormou moral
issue whJh tills Ul air w breatho anjl
th Sty abjjp lf4
,. What good la there la telling a boy to
do rlgbt ana seek virtue if we, hla elders,
Ijitend to ga) oh year after year until he
ytmeijea majiitood without murine a Uuw
to do thl one peed, right and most
obviouej aM t-aiijf t&Mutf
Tom Daly's Column
McAronl Ballads
TUOIWB AM) TJI1NOB
I, Tonu McAronl, me,
1 icccth t tJ ;cn Italy I
Fdr dere eet Mne rfo worwio un,
But here ce$ place for malt? da mon
Dat'n how cct eo, mv Irani; you ace,
Decs Ufe cot touph an eet can be,
For evrathceno iat nja" vou oltd
Jireeno som'lheeng alo dat mak' vou tad.
Vac roict, too, cat like da rat, q
For ufen you lota ilcm da uct
An' lecft twin con jour hand to mal
Kct'.i uolta thorn dat slccnp Uka hall
Vcf lju Hko munharoomt to cat,
An' vou no huu sow ccn da tlrcct,
You bat look out, or vou 6c scrcfc
Wecth lad hon-ttooU dat kecll vou quceikl
Ba even eet vou taka iclc
For mak' vou happy cm your life,
You find dat douoh her mouth cct ticcct
Drrr's tharpa tonouc ccnaldc of cct.
Bo to'of'ta te, my frandt You tec,
Dcct life cct tough at ret can be,
For evralhccna dat mak' vou plad
lircenp tom'thceng alto dat mak' vou tad.
What Have You Observed?
In Ilarrlo's play, now In Now York, "A
JflsH for Cinderella," with tho peronlnlly
young Maude Adatim ns tho star, a man
unyH to tho pollccmun: "Tnko off your hat,
please. I'vo never seen n pollcomnn with
out his lint!"
Wo had never thought of that, ns Gold
berg Bays And then It occurrod to us
that wo hod nover scon a cook In a
Childfl rcHtnurant window without his
cap, nor a bellboy without bin buttons,
nor n butcher without hti npron.
C. II. T.
Wll.I. AN KASTI.ll f'Altl) APPEASE YOUT
Dear Tom I wroto you tho othor day
tlinnklng you for n. Chrlnttnns card,
nnto find that you did not tend ma a
Chrtttmaa card!
Tho explanation Is thnt tho handwriting
on tho card I received was so darn bad I
thought It must ho yours Slnco I have had
my KlnBHes ropnlred I discovered my error.
Accept my apologies nnd bent wIrIicb for
the now year. T. It. MOOItD.
What "Pop" Gota Out of It
It looks as though It would bIzo up
about llko this:
Aro
Kor
t itlifr
father
One desk, lamp and denk
ma I12T..10
Pair cloven (fur), liuml
lifrchlnfg. etc 17.-0
Candy, hliih lire 11' 09
Ciiiiily. low llf nil
ClRitra 102.00
Hkaloe, uhtl. books,
I ilnts. wheelbarrous.
1 to.. lU, hc 71.(10
noM Dlcrrn in.no
l'aper currency (tlvo one) a no
Trco niul clriorutloiin. . . la.7.1
Mhtcellnneimn Junk np-
proilmately 51.00 ....
Clirlntmiii rards. atnmpi. a. 70 .....
Atlvancd for prencnta fur
unknown frlemla ... . 8 00
O1111 aiMtllifht for autu,
from 1". to I- 7.BO J7 r.n
Ono B-olf ntocklnir 2.00
Tun KOlf Mtocklnss, hnlf-
llnlahcd J.OO
Ono uecktlo (cost it) l.U
Ono necktls (co.st 00c) .01'
Half Interest In assorted
cards received .03
Ocneral wear und tear ho-
forahnml 50.00 .
run fatlirr.cot out of It 1.0H
"un tho kid" net out of It 1.000.000.UO
fun tho wlfo eet out of
It 2."8
Huvlne tho wlfo and kldi lo.ono.onu.w
jno.H.i 111.ouo.0111.nl
I711.S3
llalanre for tho old man 10.DtW.530.00
Hetwcen LHorcatlora
ftermath of tho llatiliwot of tho I.ltoren
ilors of tho lit Ud-roa )
(An
Slmplo Simon baked a Pie,
Hugh Merr Joshing her nearby.
"Mlstri's-j Simon." Hpako Hugh .Met r,
"At baking I'les you nro a Rear."
"Mr. Hugh Merr," Slrnon said,
Eyes askance whllo baking bread,
"Is your compllmont bccatiBO
Doughy bands icsemble claws?"
SHON RCA.
Sign pi a canalboat tied up
at the
Main attest brldgo, In Buffalo:
CAPACITY OV BOAT, 200 TONS.
CAPACITY OP COOK. 2 QUARTS,
The Futc of Ducklngham ,
WAS during ouu of tho concluding
r.
rehearsals of "Richard III" In a Now
York theatre. That groat and vigorous
actor, Lawronco Barrett, In tho role of
tho hunchbacked King, hnd worked hlm
solt up to a pitch of fury, os courlor
after courier camo upon tho a to go with
nowa of dofoctlon or disaster, nnd when
tho last messenger, a puny llttlo man,
entered with t'ho welcomo word's,
My lord, tho Duke of Buckingham Is
ta'enl
tho last Plnntngenot pounced upon him
llko n tlgor, shook him llko a rnt nnd
hurled him back with that Immortal line
of Colloy Cibber.
Off with his head! so much for
Buckingham!
Tho llttlo courier's face expressed such
n mixture of dismay and resentment nt
this rough handling that one of Barrett's
small audience of personal friends, n bril
liant newspaper man, saw- that at this
point of the play something unusual
might well be expected, and, therefore,
with truo Journalistic foresight, he at
tended tho final rehearsal tho following
day.
Again the llttlo messenger entered with
tho unexpected good news; again the
furious Richard flung him back with tho
fateful wotds.
Off with his head! -T-so much for
Buckingham!
and again the maltreated courier glow
erod In his corner with deepening wrath
at the undeserved Indignity.
Moro hopeful still, the expectant Jour
nalist waa well up In fient at the first
public performance, awaiting the critical
moment. It came Richard, baited with
ill tidings, stood to the left, fumjng with
rage. In at tha extreme right come the
little messenger with one palm extended
as if in appeal for truce, trembling but
determined. "My lord," ho said, with a
hurried glance over his left shoulder,
"My lord, the Duke of) Buckingham is
ta'en and I've tut off his head I"
And out he bounsed, A. G.
Where Are Our Diplomats?
Sir When peaoe terms are finally du
ouaaed America should dmand that the
bUUAkl sightseeing privilege In B
siuat aad elaewhtre ba sold to the highest
bidder. Thar oouatltute a prize worth
SglMlDg for, and should not be taoMiy
urndrd by us as a nation of tourtata.
ARTHUK,
fi "Trri '1 -L ..
A "HURRtf UP"
UNDIGESTED
Englishmen Do Not Believe We Mean What Wc Say About Peace,
Because They Think We Do Not Know
What We Mean
. By GILBERT VIVIAN SELDES
Special Correspondence livening Lulorr
LONDON', Dec. 12.
E.
P YOU nro to take tho London nnd pro-
Inclnl ncwFiinperR an a gnlOo to what It
going on In tho United States now you
would lenrn only two thlngi Tho first Ih
that tho United States It growing rich sell
ing things to tho fighting nntlons Tho ri-c-ond
Ih thnt tho United Stntcs Ih spending
nil Its Himro time trying to ninlso pence
Kvcry dny there Is nt leant ono pacifist Item
printed, and usually there It no other nowa,
so the average Briton gets the Impression
that the whole country Is In tho gratp of
"dcrmnn agents" who nro trying to snatch
away tho fruits ot victory from Bngland
Just at present tho fruit Is a little sour, but
no ono believes that tho bad tlmo will last
beyond tho first of thoycar.
But there nro person's who think over tho
ponro reports from tho United States and
again and ngaln they have asked mo how
tho United States can even suggest -n Icnguo
of tuitions A nmn who has held a minor
ollleo In tho United Stntos nnd now holds
11 inoro Important ollleo In ono of the gov
ernment departments put too cpu-tumii ;o
1110 nnd then g.ivo mo bis opinion. As nearly
na I can remember, theso aro his words
"Do tho peoplo of the United States oer
t.iko tho trouble to think about v. hat thoy
nro saying? Some of your finest men
Lowell, Toft. Wilson, Eliot all seem to bo
In favor of having all tho great nations ot
tho world unite to prrsorvo pence, or oven
to nforco It ng.ilnst n nation which chooses
to vlolato tho law. Do they reullie that
that meant ltutsla and Turkoy mixing into
tho affairs of tho United States and Cuba?
And It meant the United States pledging
Itself to send troops Into thn Unlkans In
caso of a war between Austria-Hungary und
Greeen? .,, .
"That Isn't nil," he wont on. "First, you
glo up tho Monroe Poctrlno. absolutely,
bocnuse you can't expect tho other natlonH
ot the world to accept your interest If
nothing moro In their business If you put
a 'koep-ouf sign over your own gardens.
Then you havo to mako yourself acquainted
with all the complicated problems of the
Near UnBt and tho Par Bast, of Africa, Al
bania und Anatolia, and you must bo ready
not only to glvo 11 vote on theso matters,
but nlso to havo tho people of the country
support thnt vote
America's Isolation
"Now, honestly. I don't believe you will
do It I don't believe that the United Stntes
would ho able to keep that kind of an agree
ment, and I hope she won't mako that kind
of agreement I am not alluding to your
course In connection with Belgium, because
I think I understand that your course wus
tho only possible one for you. I nm basing
my conclusion on only one thing that the
United Siatea knows little about the prob
lems of Europe. You never had tho need of
thinking about them Neither did we, as a
matter of fact. What do you think our peo
plo knew or cared about Serbia? Wa did
care about Prance, because it comes natural
to us to think about France as tho other
great liberal country of Europe. And that
goes deeper than the governing classes.
There really la a fellow-feeling between the
two nations. But with what nation have
you In the United States a real community
of Interest? You have a commercial Inter
est In common with South America, but you
are not tho same people You have a spir
itual Interoat In common with us but you
haven't developed that, and, I am sorry to
say, we haven't either. You were telling me
that some people report that the United
States has forfeited the respect of tha
world Never believe It What she has lost
Is the chanee to come Into Intimate connec
tion with the best part of tho world an wo
look at It But I don't say that she ought
to have gone to war for that alone. The
trouble Is that with hse great nations
knitting themselves closer, and closer, the
United States grows moro and more lonely
And she talks like a foolUth child about a
Uegue of nations when she la, perhaps, the
only nation In the world which has never
sxDrleucl the simpUst kind of an alliance
There ou are. It's a bit paaalmUtlc. but I
am afraid tt U the truth "
I do not know whether It ' the truth
or not. but I have quoted this man in
full because h knows Atnertaa batter than
moat ISnglUrtuaen do, and yet hU opinion
does not differ from that of the less In-atrueted-
The League to Hnforoe pase l
taken very seriously Stere-ao much bo yaj
a tlatm lias been put in for Viscount dray
as the sole author and patentee of the idea
UnB before President Wilson spoke of it
It is recognized that there oan be no ef
iaitUe league unless the United States U la
It be.aue the United States alone can
compose the dlrfareocM and settle the trrl
WtUws which are Cantab t Utwtftji
Ute two sets of'balugerwillii! V the lAaited
gtatea (Incjudlns- Sottgt 4Mte$) utoyed
BirotoAT, Dioiami m
AMERICANISM
out, tho rctult would bo another balance
of power, with Mlildlo Europe (as tho Her
mans lllr tn rail It) arrayed against the
fringe or border of tho Inner circle. Sobor
thought In alt thn countr-.es now nt war still
looks'" for tho United Stntet tn act us media
tor. That Is Just why tho peoplo who
havo tho Interests of tho United Stntes nt
heart nro ho hopeless They do not want
tho United States to bo HWept Into a Icnguo
by pure emotion, without careful thinking
of whnt tho Icnguo Involves Tho first step
Ih easy, but they aro looking for tho ardu
ous steps beyond Again t nm nblo to
quoto from a conversation i tho spcakor Is
engaged now In tho work of making Eng
land think about her allies:
Years of Misunderstanding
"The trouble Is that wa havo been on tho
wrong tack all these years. Wo bnvo been
thinking of other nations purely for whnt
wo cnuld get out of them. Tho prlnclplo
Is tho samo an between men. If an em
ployer thinks of his men only ns producers
for him ho Is going to wake up with a strlko
on his hnmls one flno morning. Germany
thought of tho wholo world just In that
way; so did wc, except that we did think
of tho dominions ns nations with destinies
of their own, and wo hardly thought of tho
outsldo world enough And tho result Is
thnt we woko up on thnt lino bright morn
ing of tho 4th ot August, 1914, with a war
on our hands which wo did not want nnd
did not understand Now wo aro trying to
think of tho peoplo of other nations ns
people with purposes of their own, who nro
like us and unlike us. nnd arc entitled to
their own freedom and to their own develop
ment That Is how wo have always thought
of the United States, but I am afraid that
wo havo been very Indifferent about you.
and you havo been Indifferent about us. You
do not know how our Empire has been
built; you think It Is nothing but nggres
slon nnd brutality. Wo don't understand
Germany. None of us understands Jtussln.
Bocauso wo havo always tried to under
stand what was to our Interest. Now If
tho nations' Joined In a Icaguo without a
deeper understanding of each other. It
would work until well, until It was called
upon really to work. Then, as you Ameri
cans put It, 'flood-night ' What wo must do
now Is -to build up rolntlont which are
moro thnn friendly because thoy rest not
on profit but on mutual understanding.
How? Well, that Is a long argument, My
own panacea Is study.
"I don't know Just whnt Incentive you
have for applying yourself to theso ques
tlons, the hardest In the world. Only I
don't Bee how you aro gplng to arrive ut-n
real domocratlo understanding with the
other nations of the world It you don't pre
pare for It and I supposo you're nick of
hearing this but I don't Bee how you, will
avoid trouble In tho future unless you have
the support of the world, or a largo part of
Theaa two. opinions are not only repre
sentative. 1 have not found a European yet,
French, nusslnn, British or Italian, Inter
ested In the States or Indifferent to them,
who was prepared to deny ono word of
them. What Europe 'thinks Just at present
may not bo important. On the other hand.
It may, At present her foreign ministers
accept every kind word from the United
States, and the people are frankly skeptical.
They do not believe that we mean what wa
say, because they do not believe that we
havo thought out what we are saying
PERHAPS IT WAS ACCIDENTAL
inspecting Mr. Vanderllp-s assertion that
the American lioople are economic Illiter
ates, he will at least admit that thoy made
wonderful .use pf their detiolent knowledge
when they established the Federal Reserve
banking and currency system and the
farm loan banks. A country that could
do tliat must liave a Uv inhabitants who
can read and write simple words Ntw
York World
AN OPEN SEASON FOR BAD POETS
The Tlmae lias great sympathy with that
prhumer at the Fedral .Penitentiary who
waited for a Chrlstroaa present "some
humane way to exterminate poets." w
would nt use it o all poets, but only
upon thjae who think u shews uuiu to
be We to grind out rhysdng 110,0a regard
Ices of mUr. tauvwrth Times.
FOND REMEMBRANCE
"ifso business methods in our bouse
keeping," U a, very good adawnltten, et
one cant halo a ilngertue Ukins for the
ouok who makes d&lleloua flapjacks und I
glorious coffee, yet cwUlu't write a recipe
to save br life -rjua'alo Times-
. - " . JS -j
What Do You Know?
Queries of ocneral Interest xoitl he answered
in f if 9 column Ten intentions, the nnsxiera to
ultielt every u ell-informed person should know,
arc uhul tutlly.
QUIZ
1. Umlrr whnt filntn uVnnrtment la the Work',
ini-n's Cumprnsudon llooril?
3. Whnt In SpnnMi leather?
3. thr urn (irrnmn soldiers called
bodies"?
I. Who nrnto "Let ttio ilend past burr
Its
iieair-7
S. Ilo.v iniinv Mutea are there In the Herman
Inililrr?
0. Whnt dors It mean when It la said "Ho
knnns the subject from alpha to omrsu"?
7. What Is a sainnnnh? A baron?
s. VV but nation controls Mnilurnsenr?
I) Whnt Is the illTrrrnce. Iietueen flvo Indies
nt snowfall mill (He Inches ot precipita
tion? 10. Who waa "Josh" Illltlncs?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
The relanlnc family nf Knclnnil, beclnnlnr
ullh Kdnnril VII. Is the House, of Haie
t'oliura uul (lotlui. tho House of Jlunoter
liutlnz tniled with Victoria. It takes Its
nnine Troin the houso ot the I'rlnce Con
sort, rnrmers Jinlcr n
watermelon by examining
.. r " ",. ,. .- t ,,u .t.
IIP unner Slue, ll 11 IV muri.ru mill iiitim
spots about tho alio of n pin head the
siue.
lack
melon is ripe.
The ltuo-Japunee war was broiieht to nn
end hr n peiire conference held In this
cou.itrr-
Tlior. In Hcnmllnavlan mythology, was the
coil t thunder.
The Im-i (late, or dates. U the name siren
to 11 celebrated pass. on the tower Dan
ube, near (lladovu. Just bnoir the point
where the rlier Idles Htincurr.
The mistletoe la n cenus of sraull shrubs,
EruMlns on many kinds of trees, It de
rites Its nourishment from the Juices of
vrlih h It seems to sprli
tlir tree on wnicn it crows aim irum
Tins.
The National Statuary Hall In tho ('anltol
VViishlnaton, has Jocularly, been cu
uiieu
1 In
"Chamber or Horrors."
statues of dlstlniulshcd el
because the
citizens
or tne
(States nro tn some cases baulr done.
H, The (lerman Kmplre has. a Federal nnd
Mate tloTernuient. with somewhat the
mime outwurd form ns the United Ntates,
0. Sheridan's ride ("Willi , Sheridan twenty
miles nwny'') occurred on October 1U.
1H0I. when he rode from. .Winchester to
Cedar Creek and sated his army from
defeat.
JO.-The r.Terghidesi A areot marsh, about UO
miles lung und fifty miles wide, eoierlng
the larger part ot the south cad of Flor
ida. 1
Federal Prisons
C. T. n,-"-Thcre are United States prisons
at Atlanta, Oa. i at Fort Leavenworth, Kan ,
and at SIcNell'B Island, State ot Washing
ton, besides naval prisons at Mare Island,
California. Boston and Portsmouth. United
States prisoners Include only those con
victed of violation of United States laws
and some of these are confined In State pen
itentiaries. On June 30, 1915, the total
number of United States prisoners of tho
pcnltontlnry class was 02l, of whom 3937
were confined in United States penitenti
aries, 6S7 In State penitentiaries, eighty
five In State reformatories and houses ot
correction, eighty in penitentiaries and
workhouses which received prisoners for
terms ot not more than one year; 116 In the
National Training School for Boys at Wash
ington, D. C, and 126 In the Government
Hospital for the Insane at Washington,
D. C.
Oil Land
I. L. As far as Is known the areas of
productive oil land In the United States are
comprised In six districts: On the west
elde ot the Allegheny Mountains, from
southwestern New York to northern Ala.
bama; In northwestern Ohio and eastern
Indiana; In southeastern Illinois; In south
eastern Kansas, northeastern Oklahoma,
northeastern Texas and northwestern Louis
iana; In southeastern Texas and south
western Louisiana and In the southern half
of California. In addition, the.re are small
areas of productive oil land in east-central
Colorado nnd various parts of Wyoming
The Secretary of the Interior estimates that
about three-eighths of all the oil land in the
country are now under development, and
aays- "Assuming that the yield of ol from
the umleteloped area plus that contributed
by the declining wells ot the area already
developed will be proportional to the quan
tity of oil already obtained, a fairly con
servative assumption, then the reBttrves of
petroleum In the United Statu amount at
present to approximately 6.660.000,009 bar
rels. At the present rate of consumption
and export, which U. roughly, 360.000.000
iiarrcda a year, the available supply of petro
leum wunw ho siuiiimsu iq aDout twenty
three years, or about the year 187 prob
ably, however, although the annual produc
tion may increase temporarily through de.
teiopfHeuui in usmuwou, usiMornla and
Wyoming, there will be a marked decline
within a very few years. Thi decline, the
hlaher prices for patroleum and petroleum
nrodueU, more etaeieat utilization &n.4 h.
urea-eat Ion of mueh waste win prolong the
life of OMr oil fiU tor many years."
i 1 1
The Northeast Comer
Itubalyat of a Commuter
JLX.VIT
The. grass no Question makes of Aye. w
But rtrong nnd high with fearfot Wetatjj
A,,aLawrIft W"t8 prpltlB 'er tin I
Ifo nadly mows It all he mowsft. J
Casuals of tho Day'g Work
XVlii
rnUUUB nerer waa an Inreni.. - .
X waa practical. Tour Inyenlor la at h, J
between the prophet, the poet at t". h!
ventor la not m f ,l .i . lm
training. Patent office 'repotu J
prophecies and poems expressed n n,,
of mechanic. "wt
Had Elijah or nilaha been familiar vrltk
a tootflhon our rihl t.i0- '..7"u
been shorter, but the twentieth ctntw?
would have found Itn.lf ti.ev . F! .
before the sixteenth. Had Keati "?, ,
a mechanical turn of mind we would har.
had London lighted by electricity In 1111
The truth of tha matter Ilea Mmewhtri
between mero mechanical Ingenuity an
sheer genius. Galileo and Milton raliM
easily have changed places.
Wo confess yes, profess eren to oar.
selves certain cold-bloodedncts. Tha
stream of life has flowed, we may say ta
variously as to become less hot In touS
than In tho added years. n
hideously trying to put down shudders ta
prose gooaertesht Who could have doni
It best? Poo, perhaps. Be could hart
told tho shudder of an airplane In Urmi
of mere invention. He could have com
passed the permutation of his aplrlt hU
he hnd tho early training.
Trypsin la the critical Instinct, W
crltlclxo with our livers In terms ot ow
head, nnd that Is Why wo Jeer at the man
who falls In mcchantcat Invention who, If
chance hnd favored, might havo Ik, a
another Shelley.
We rearrange names, not nations, and
even then tho rearrangement la not so eir
Yet tho truth la written.
Cities have n eenso of humor. Tatti
Cleveland, for Instance. Her harbor It
up at Ashtabula, some fifty miles away.
Clevelandern think It'a their harbor. Ah
tabulastors know It Isn't. Tet do they ob.
Ject? No. They simply laugh and let
Cleveland go on wondering why Ashtabula
thinks she's funny.
A TWO-PIANO CONCERTO
BruciVs Curious Work Has World ',
Premiere Hero
One can't help admiring Mr. Stokowiltl'l
foresight and "push" In tho matter of
novelties. If Stravinsky writes a new tone
poem, or thoro la n queer nnd Interesting
symphony by Qustav Mahler to be had,
tho leader of tho Philadelphia Orchestra
gets It with little ado and plays It for his
audiences. A groat many people no doubt
wont to the Academy yesterday aftornooa
to look at nnd applaud Mr. Stokonakl, but
probably thero were n number present wha
had boon drawn thither by tho announce
ment of what the program grandly called
tho "first world performance" of a concerto
for two pianos composed by Max Ilruch.
It waa played by two sisters, the Mliact
Hose and Ottilia Sutro, visiting nrtlsts from
Baltimore. Or should ono say that It wai
played by the orchestra, with tho MIMl'
Hutro as accompanists?
It Is a curious composition, far more
melodious than the nvcrage Bruch affair,
far moro meaty, far moro real. It does
not csCapo tho chnrgo ot pomposity. Some
of It Is very heavy and unlit by any gleam
of the Inspiring flamo. At Its best It take!
the glory from the soloists and gives It to
thoso who play tho Instruments. Then It
Is beautiful, lulling and tender the beat
Btrnln of Ocrman sentiment pervading tha
third movement. The concorto Is modeled
on largo nnd Imposing H1109, but tho lines
aro moro deeply engraved than those Herr
ruch usually cuts. Tho sculpture of tha
music la admirable. For the most part so
Is - Its feeling. Sometimes the thought
Is thin, nnd so tho work suffers nt moments
from a lack of something really definitive
to state. In Its somber phases It excels.
But It Is not the sort of thing most pianists
would choose for a display of their mettle.
Their part In It Is submerged often, an4
so It was not easy to tell Just what the
artlstla caliber of the Misses Sutro Is. They
would appear to be finished and accurate,
without a great deal of passionate Intensity
or vigor of phrasing.
Of the rest of tha concert thero Is not
much that can be added. The program
began merrily (and conventionally) with
the "Frelschutx" overturo and ended with
the regal clamor of "Blenzl," another ,'
familiar friend of Trlday afternoons. The
symphony; Beethoven's Fourth, either feOji
In with tne numqr or air. siokowski or u 1
a pet of his. At any rate, he played It,
exceedingly well, touching Its alternate
whimsicalities and gravities with nice ap
preciation. A kind of shy humor Is hlddea
tn It which makes for charm If not for the
grand manner. This the Orchestra appre
elated and produced In Its playing. B. D.
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
Italy Is many thousand miles from Chi-
cago, but Italy punishes criminals for
crimes committed In Chicago. It Is safer
for a Black Hander to murder In Chicago
and stay In Chicago than It la for him
to go back to Italy. Here, In the first place,
he la rarely convicted. If he Is convicted It
is for an Indeterminate sentence, and he
Is out again In a few years on parole.
But It he goes back to Italy he fairly steps
Into the door of a. prison. And once In he
remains in. Chicago Tribune.
PEACE. THE VICTOR
There la no room in all God's unlveta
for hate, ,
No room for war beneath His friendly
Love's Guardian Angel walte,th at Llfe'
gate,
Let down the Iron bars I
Thero Is no room In iall tho world, tot
greed ;
God's golden harvests will all needs sup.
ply
No room 'is there for any outworn creed
That would His saving grace deny.
No time hath life for any bitter tears.
Too long by mothers of the race nave
theso been shed, .
When In tho blossom time of youths fair
years , j
Their cherished hopes lie dead.
.
If history's pages must, bear this crlmsea.
War reaps a harvest only hate tM5
sown.
o iuei u. asiuij nu i.v ..wv. - yi-j
can recompense tne ne -
love's own.
Talk war, and war Is half begun;
5 Breathe peace, you call upon a MV ,
4 name.
Never a battle waged nor triumph won.
But hate's foul breath hath ranneo.
flame I
Thoughts turn to things, they wing thaU"
ceaseless flight, . ...
From heart to heart, cross seas to out
tant shore; ,...
Prince and potentates jn vain deny taeir
Thoughts "rule the world and triumph
everrnore.
Shi ccmea for whom the world hath waited
long, ,,w
Her glorloua wlnga are tipped !
tnajeaty; . . .,,.
She corneal She corneal Triumphant wttn
her song. ,,,,
Columbia, Herald of Peace and Vletorf.
Columbia, divinely fitted for her task.
In Her the healing of the nations too
Of Har to whom o mueh i given we aK--Make
straight the victor' path! W
peace abound. n .
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