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Tho pressuro exerted by tho Allies
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It may squeeze Constantlne out ot the
royal palace unless ho behave:) himself.
Only ono out oC every 2G1 K'cw
Torkers is now said to ho Insane. We
had thousht the percentage ot thoso who
had mado easy money In war bahles was
larger.
Why should any one be surprised
at tho Penrose plan to l;eep lobbyists
out of tho Stato House? Do not the
lobby'sta themselves know that It Is a
wast? ot timo to go there when tho?
can deal with Penrose himself nt hi."
office In this city?
Wage Increases which wero given
employes all over tho country aro being
subtracted energetically by tho trades
men, tho landlords and .the restaurants.
It requires good bookkeeping on the part
fa OI Air. I lllisumcr lo leuril wneitier no
3iSi"'-b.ead or behind tho game.
A woman left her husband becauso
he refused to take her to Palm Beach.
After causing his arrest sho discovered
that ho was doing without his lunch every
day In order to taku her to tho "movies"
and yet they May there Is too much
mathematics In tho public schools!
Two eastern States, one southern
State and seven wests rn States havo abol
ished tho death penalty. In tho remain
ing thirty-eight States 107 persons -were
punished by death last year. In tho
same period there were 7450 homicides.
That Is, about 1.1 per cent ot tho mur
derers are executed. Theso facts aro
commended to the consideration ot those
who are urging the abolition ot tho death
penalty In Pennsylvania.
Two developments of the war havo
significantly como in sequence, the threat
of Increased German naval activity and
attempts to increase England's home sup
ply of food. The sequence is logical, for,
Jf Germany's plan is to begin sinking
without warning, grain ships plying be
tween America and England will bo tho
first victims. This is a point which those
who would have us enter tho war as
England's ally too often forget. If our
entrance into tho war would have aa its
tlrst offc-t tho cutting off of English
food supplies, England would prefer us
to remain neutral.
Dr. Cary T. Grayson, who has been
a medical officer In the navy for about
thirteen years, must be regarded by the
President as a deserving Democrat. Doc
tor Grayson, who is the President's phy
sician, had risen by tho ordinary proc
esses of promotion to tho rank of a lieu
tenant commander with a salary of J3000.
Tha President has Jumped him over the
heads of 137 other officers and landed
hhn In tho ranks of the rear admirals at
a salary of J8000. Ho hi thirty-eight
years old, or twenty-three years younger
than Dewey when he attained that rank.
But what Is tho use of being President
If you can't ba good to your friends?
William II. Smith's health Is likely
to Improve from now on as rapidly as
Governor Brumbaugh's fear develops that
h former Banking Commissioner's case
will serve Penrose's purposes. In a brief
letter to Mr, Smith, explaining his "God-l)les-you
get-out' attitude, tha Governor
used the word "health" four times. It
was only because Sir, Smith wasn't well
enough to work hard, because he had to
be saved Trout himself, that ho was
eUmlnfcted. Now it is Intimated that tha
(jovernor Is only waiting tor Mr, Smith
to recover his well-known health to rein
state him- If that had been really the
rason for his dismissal, Mr. Brumbaugh'
'Madness should hava developed long be
low ne got out ills ax tor others aa well
M Mr. Smith. The former commissioner
fcaS never been In politics. His piany
y-sars of service produced an efficient
otlko system which ma.do It possible for
th wpric to run along smoothly without
r4lrtng exceptional f nergles on his part.
Tha Commonwealth can take his word
tor It that he Is feeling well enough to
worls better than tt can, take the Jov-cj-oor'g,
i
Tha courage and confidence with
Wfcteh New Y'-iris goea ahead with lw
nsi tnms.t development ought to eoa-
vert every pessimist In Philadelphia Jtrom
tho error o( his thinking. Tho latest
extension projected Is an elevated rail
road on tftlca. avcntlo in Brooklyn to
connect with tho Eastorn Parkway sub
way. It Is to cost $5,210.r.nC. Tho bono
Ilts which will accrue to tho district lo bo
opened up me so great that tho property
owners willingly submit to a special
local assessment lo tnlso money to pay
for tho road. Tho Publlo Servlco Com
mission has Issued an assessment map
covering -41,61 1 city lots In n district of
ten and a half squares each sldo of Iho
proposed now rapid transit line. Tho
assessments will vary with tho distance
from tho lino and with tho distance from
the stations. Tho uverago amount to
bo paid by each lot Is $123.22. This is
to bo distributed over a porlod of lert
years, making tho nvorngr- annual pay
ment $12.62. tlvery real estate owner
is confident that tho value of his property
will bo Increased many times tho atnnunt
which ho will havo to pay for tho now
elevated lino, because ho has seen aluos
boom in other districts through similar
Improvement in transit facilities.
JOHNSON OR K00SEVI3LT?
Mil. PERKINS clasping hands with
Colonel Uoosovolt In tho East and
Governor Johnson In tho West Is
hardly wide enough In continental scope
&r historical consistency to form a
permanent link between tho two most
notitblo Progressive figures In tho Heptib
llcan party. Ills sincerity Is not at issue.
Hut do Progressives need this connecting
link nt nil? Republican are Inclined to
ask now, not whether it Is to bo Itoosu
volt and Johnson, but Itoosovelt or
Johnson.
Every movement crystallizes Into n
leadership and assumes tho attributes of
tt personality, especially in tills country.
Tho four or live million Progressives will
doubtless control their party beforo long.
Hut when tho tlnm comes for tho mass
of their opinion lo express itself in polit
ical action their mouthpleco will bo ono
man, and it ho Is tho wrong man they
will continue lo abandon elections to tho
Democrats by default.
Johnson when he Is heard In tho Sen
ate next December will bo ot once tho
most formidable critic of Democratic
ways and means nnd the rallying point
for Progressiva ambition lo dominate tho
Republican party. He Is not tho mnn
to center his criticism upon Mr. Wilson's
foreign policy, tin attitude which hits
wnakencd Colonel Roosevelt's grasp upon
domestic Issues In this pence-loving re
public. Tho Californian takes Mr. Per
kins rather lightly. "With you in your
efforts to make tho Republican parly pro
gressive," ho writes to tho New Yorker;
"go to It and all Progressives will bo with
you." To Colonel Roosevelt tho occasion
Is too solemn for such slang as "Go to
it." Ho tells Mr. Perkins he has dono "a
great service to tho American people,"
as if tho last wortl had been spokon in
a grueling contest, which most pcoplo
know has hardly begun.
Tho difference between Roosevelt . and
Johnson Is that Roosevelt believes In lead
ership down to tho people nnd Johnson
In leadership up from tho people. Get
your leader llrst nnd then your reforms,
says Oyster Bay. Get your reforms and
let them develop your leader, says Cali
fornia. Mr. Roosevelt thinks a hard fight
Is already won. Mr. Johnson hanr't begun
to fight.
the littlest kind
a.merica'xjsm
OF
1ET us Uopo that it will bo a long time
J before such counsels of narrowness
as Frederic C. Howe, Commissioner of
Immigration, uttered in tho Academy
of Muslo aro seriously considered in
Washington. The I'nlted States is en
tering on un era of commercial expan
sion. Its capitalists arc seaiiing invest
ments abroad. Wo aro producing a sur
plus which must find markets in foreign
countries. Wo cannot hold tho markets
unless wo sond our capital along with
our goods. Hut unless tho protection of
tho ilag follows our business men If we
adopt tho Brynnlstio theory that a man
engages in foreign trado or invests his
surplus in a foreign country ot his peril
we might as well abandon all hope of
commercial expansion.
AX EARFUL OF SOUND SENSE
I do not know what the national
debt will bo at the end of the war. but I
will make a prediction: WlmtAer It
Is, what i added in real assets to the
real rnhes of tho nation will ba infi
nitely greater than any debt wo acquire.
Tho resources of tho natipn in every
direction havo been developed and di
rected ; tho nation itself, disciplined,
braced up and quickened, has become a
more alert people. Lloyd George, In his
Guildhall Kpceeh.
THIS assertion may seem preposterous
nt first blush, 'mt whon wo recall that
the wealth of the United States has In
creased by one hundred billion dollars In
sixteen years without the Incentive of
war and through tlto ordinary develop
ment of a great ami growing nation It
becomes easily credible.
Tlio British Premier reminded his hear
ers that millions who had been consumers
have been brought into tho labor market,
that old machinery has been scrapped
and wasteful methods abandoned, hamper
ing trado customs discontinued ami that
the newest nnd best wero taking the place
ot tho old and outgrown. Industrial
England has been reborn through tho
stress of war.
Tills Is encouraging to the British and
to all friends of the Allies, for It means
that the British havo discovered that they
can bear the expense of a war to a finish
without financial disaster. ut It Is
more than u portent of Allied victory.
The president of tho Bethlehem Steel
Corporation perceived its slgnlQcance
when he told the Terrapin Ciub what
has happened In England is happening In
all Europe, while we in the United States
nre dwelling In a fancied security Indif
ferent to the industrial revolution
abroad. His call to the Government and
the people to co-oiierate in a spirit ot
mutual confidence for the protection df
our own industries when peace comas
must be' heeded If disaster Is to he averted.
Hie speech hpuld be read in con
Junction with the annual statement of
the chairman ot the United State teel
Corporation, In which a siraUgr warning
was sounded.
It Is no time for strgeing theories.
We are confronted by hard facts. They
must be faced, and we must adjust our
laws so that American industiy car) hold
its own in tne nerce competition that
looms ahead.
KVENIF0 LEDGl3R-l5HITjABELPniA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20,
THE PARADOX OF
TPIE TRENCHES
They Aro Brilliantly Efficient
lint! Unspeakably Wrong.
Emotions Aroused by ,
the Snipers' Kiro
My GtLRtiUT VIVIAN SHt.UES
Sf-retol Concspdnienet Vvenlna Ledger
LONDON, .Tail. g.
Mr. Tlenry m-.l l, m far, the only
American whr has wlten of Haco with
a fresh InslKlit Yihd with the high quality
of Imagination. To compare his ono llttith
ing phrase with the perorations of Mr. As
nultli i tn repeat the comparison between
Lincoln nnd Mvetett nt dettvsburg. When
Mr. Asqulttl proposed not to BhealluJ tlu
snnrd until Belgium has been restored nnd
thf tights of smnl nations vindicated bo
employed a stale figure and Invoked it
principle which Is by no menus clear after
two years of theorising. Mr. Pord pimply
Mid thnt be woUld Ret the bnys out of
tho trenches by Christmas. Mr. Asqnlth
hni never drawn a sword nnd Mr I-'ord
linn probably nover been In a trench Hut
Mr. pi.rd has Imagination ami ho has
formulated the world'-) desire, whIM'-Mr.
Asi'iultlt wns fofmtiliUlhn a urogram which'
will prolmlily be rarrleu out) nnd a philos
ophy (which will probably be discarded).
As ono of those who flouted his expedi
tion nnd said he was hunting pence no thn
.Smirk was hunted, with forks and with
hope, t mtiko amends to Mr. Pord ami
marvel a Tittle thnt he was vn kein. Mr.
Kurd cecins to prefer the blessing of
peace to the strenuous rndpani'it of free
dom. I In tried t make the grent t'isnster
of the war a little iioie fruitless than It
seemed even to hint, lie certainly believes
thnt the gnl of human endeavor Is peace,
which Is, to say the lenst. questionable.
But he did come with divine precision upon
the curse of tho war the trench. Wo
hegnn this war by ttnyhig thnt there could
ho neither romance nor glory hv it: but
there wa glory, and nt once we built up
tho romance of the trenches. We forgot
thnt trench warfare was tho manifestation
of ilermany's ilnal Initiative, when she
could still Itnposo not necessarily fhe place,
but tho form and lite style of action, after
tho battles of tho Marne. We forgot that
even for Germany, whose temper it ad
mirably suited. It was n Inst resort.
War Is Like Making Motorcars
Some time ngo l spent n dny nnd a
night In one of thoso sectors whero there
Is nothing to report. The Irony of the of
flclal statement Is not In Its falsehood, but
In Its btnstlng accuracy. It sounds like
n vllo slander. It Is a viler truth. The
trendies nre a philosopher's parnillse. olenn
nml well ordered and comfortable ami un
kpenkubly wrong. The groat ideal of living
only In tho present Is nchlexed here,
for (hero is neither time uor space nor
peace nor wnr. There Is only one's bit,
II o the triumph of scletitlfli: inattngeinent.
We told Mr. Ford to stick to his Inst and
reminded him. that making wnr wns not
like mnklng motorcars. We wero wrong.
It Is all too like making motorcars.
. I npologltsc for my emotions to the news
paper editors who begged tno for the love
of Mike not to send over any more trench
stories nnd told mc that America was slek
of the wnr. The greater indiscretion Is
having emotions at nil. It Is u rotten thing
to hate the way millions of men lire living
and ct to believe thnt what they atn doing
Is riKht. Por mo everything scrim," In the
world Is either In the war or will Issue
from the wnr. So I paid bitterly tor my
mean llttlo thrill when I first mounted the
llrcstep by learning thnt, with tin war so
full ot meanings, warfare Itself is so menu
inglessi, f thought 1 knew that before,
but 1 wns wrong. In the trenches tln-re nrq
no truths, only platitudes, unless you have
tho heart to think of the Beatitudes there.
Tito president of the Immortals has not
been sparing of n tragic beautv or, tho
liring Hup We came there on a dark, clear,
starry night, and for hotns ns we splashed
through tlje suggy trenches the flnrea went
up, throwing it dazzling greenish light over
tin. brown earth .In No Man's Land The
stars and thorlights wete stage "props"
no novelist would drenm of Icnvinrt them
out. but they. too. satisHed the sensts. The
bitterness of finding unythlng benutlful
where everything was so desolate was emi
nently right. There was tnyster in tho
quiet night nt least as deep as tho mystery
of the sniper whose flame crtmscd us again
und again.
What a Snipoj Thinks of a Sniper
The sniper Is tolerable, because tven In
tho dark he Is aiming at something. But
the machine gun is aimless one of Mr.
Chesterton's puns como to life. There Is
no tragedy tn the death It brings, only
melodrama, for It Is uccldrntal, hit or miss,
Impersonal, purposeless, everything u gun
should not be. I'nliko the sniper, it breeds
not hale, only a furioim anger against Its
cunning wrongneys Onco 1 hnd Seen the
sniper's Are I gave up neutrality I be
came his enetiiv niid he mine. I understood
how war wus carried on even without war
riors. But tne sniper Ib a detail ; a remnant
of personality In this war; an anathioiiism
giving way to the machine In the trenches
two things are imposMbie the personal
i nnd tho universal, i:cept on patrol. It is
neither necessary nor proper to think about
one's self. And it is never possible to think
about the world.
The trenches are a labyrinth and a
prison, and like most prisons, they nre safe.
They are not unclean, not uncomfortable
and certainly democratic. The implacable
parapet hftrilly admits of one rising above
the other. In th.it confinement I lost first
all sense of difference, then all sense of
likeness to other men. Both solvations
are suiierRulal. The hope of tho world Ij
In tha living denial that a uniform' makes
a thing out of a man, for the reverse Is as
often the case. The Inst and greatest
platitude of ah Is that even ' tho trenches
men are men and that mankind is undis
mayed even in its calamity. The men In the
trenches are neither heroes nor comlo sup
plements. They .ro not notably more
interesting themselves than they would bo
in n London "pub." But to those who find
them interesting in a "pub" tt Is enough
that they aro still men and that tho common
honesties and the common ilecenclc3 and
the common vulgarities of living persist
against tho misery if the war machine.
We havo given the pacifist a monopoly
on tho Inn tors of war and lis has told us
that death in the trenches is terrible. But
the truth is that life In the trenches is
ttriiblu. We havo given the sentimentalist
.in uiu-.it monopoly on tho glories of war,
mid ho hn tolius that death brings its
redumption- And tho truth is that life
briti lis redemption.
THRIFT
Thrift does not mean putting a little
money in tho bank, nor does it mean miser
liness. It means more than these ; it stands
for prudence, foresight, getting value for
What one spends, personal efficiency, looking
out that nothing is wasted, proportioning
expense to income
Thrift has never been ono ot our na
tional characteristics. We are notoriously
extravagant, in both our public and private
expenditures. It Is a sliamo to us that the
saying, "A French family could live on
what an American family throws away,"
should have jiased into a proverb and tliat
we thould actually pique ourselves on our
"free-handedness" as It waste were a vir
tue. Certain of "Poor Richard's" sayings are
seen on the posters Great Britain is using In
its "thrift campaign." "Vou may think a
little tea, or a little punch, or diet a little
more costly anil clothes a little liner can
be no great matter, but remember 'Poor
Richard' : JMany mlckles make a muckle.' "
low many of us know the foolishness of
laying out money In Poor Richard's "pur
chase of repentance"! Other maxims remind
us that "Always taking out and ne?r put
ting in soon comes to the bottom of the
tub"; "A fat kitchen makes a lean will":
"What maintains one vice would bring up
two children." And at this moment there is
especial significance In his jnaxhn: -i-ot
age and want save while you may. n0
morning s-ju lasts the whole day." Detroit
Free Press,
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THE VOICE OF
Another Attack on the Betsy Ross MythThe First Flag Was
Made by Hannah Rore, Great-Grandmother of
President McKinley
HANNAH ROUE VS. BETSY ROSS
To the JJdIJor of tho Kvcninu Ledger?
Sir The article In your paper called "Tho
Great Flag Mj'.h." by John Ulfreth Wot
kltts, of ticccmhnr !. I believe, wii3 cut out
and Bent to me nt'thnt time. I meant to
write this history of tho ling anil suttd it
then, but n severe illness prevented.
The family bus always been indignant
that Uetsy Ross should huve tho credit of
making the ling, which wns made by our
great-grandmother. Hannah Cljapman Rore,
and this article coming out hi Philadelphia
in our paper made me think it was time
to state Just who did make the ling. Wo
havo a society here culled tho "Uetsy Ross,"
which has nuked mo to join, but 1 refused,
ns ltetsy Ross did not mako tho ilag.
If not nsklng too much I would very
much like you to print this article, as I
think true Amerlcon history Is interesting
to nil American renders, ond this history,
which I have very much abbreviated, has
been handed down for every generation
slnuo it occurred, both vWially nnd by
writing. The reason why I wrote this
history was to show that Ilnnnnh Chap
man Rore wu not a common illiterate
woman.
An old lady who Is now nbont eighty
said Hannah Rnre's children were all fine,
large men of great intelligence, noticeablo
among men wheiever they went,
UKtiHGIA I-!. nOUR COOK ALK.
Great-granddaughter of liutinali Chapman
Rore.
Pittsburgh, January 1C.
McKlNLKY'R GRRAT-GRAN'DMOTllRR
MAUI-: THH l'LAG
Andrew Roro Was driven from England
to Holland by religious persecution, then
enme to America and obtained land in
l'ertnsylMinla from the Indians by treaty,
the same us l'enn. This land was got from
the Indians, by what was then known ns
u "walk-around" as much land as a man
could walk nround frum sun to sun, or
sunrise to sunrise again tho Indians re
ceiving so much goods In barter for each
"walk-around." In this way he became
owner of hundreds of ncrt4 of ground,
situated in Uucks County, the county seat,
1 oj lestovui, being situated on the old home
stead. Later Andrew Roro moved nearer Phila
delphia, whero ho had fisheries, ferries,
lumber mills and iron furnaces, all of which
are named in his will, filed tn Doylcstowu.
Almost all tho manufacturing part of Phila
delphia is on Ills ground. Most Important
of all thero wero Ills furnaces. Ho was
tho first iron man in Pennsylvania and
probably the first in America. He was
known as nn "ironmonger." tho term 'In
those days for nn iron manufacturer. All,
or nearly all, tho shot and shells of the
Revolutionary War were manufactured in
the Rore furnaces. In fact, lie was kept so
busy with tills work that he participated
in only a few cf tho battles. Those de
scribed are Monmouth, tho Brandywino and
Chadds Ford. ,
His wifo was an Kngllsh Quaker lady
of a wealthy Philadelphia family. Her
name was Hannah Chapman, relative of
Poctor Chapman, who was considered the
"Father of Medicine" In this country.
Hannah Chapman Roro made tha flag
for our country. I believe at this time
Philadelphia was in a state of siege ; at
any rate, materials were hard to be ob
tained. Nothing daunted, Hannah Roro
said it should be truly an "American flag."
All fabrics at that time were imported from
Knglund except homespun linen and wool?
ens. So she used for the red a red flannel
shirt and for the white a white flannel
petticoat. This history has been handed
down from one generation to another ever
since the Revolutionary War, Unfortu
nately, they failed to say where the blue
of the flag came from. We think Betsy
Ross, being a nagmaker, roust have been
ponfused with Hannah Rore, for Betsy never
made the Hag Thus, erroneously, she has
been glv'en the credit of it. Hannah Rore
was considered a very refined, well-educated,
gentle lly-
After the war was over everything wasj
exceedingly dull a( Philadelphia, so Andrew
Rore and his family emigrated to Center
fount v. where he established more Iron
furnaces, known uitli a lat date as tho-
Rore furnaces, imu our uavernment gave
him land in Mercer County for services rn
deied durlag the Revolutionary War. This
is kuow" in htstoiy as the "donation."
This laud was divided among his sons.
He had a large family, prominent among
which were Jacob Jamna ana Mary, - Thess
AWAITING A CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE
p '. .-sua
THE PEOPLE
three were moro closely connected together
than tho others In a way. Jnmes married
Murtha McKinley. Mary, or Polly Roro, as
sho wns called, married David MoKluloy
nnd was President William MclClnley's
grandmother, Jacob 1elng grandfather of
the writer of this article. Thcso threo fam
ilies kept up a closo intercourse during tholr
lives. David McKinley, William's grand
father, learned his vocation a's nn Iron
manufacturer in tho lforo furnaces.
When the. family went to Mercer County
It wns a wilderness, with Indians, hears,
deer, panthers nnd many snakes. This
family, undaunted, established grammar
schools, singing schools, spoiling schools nnd
tho Presbyterian church, it has furnished
Pennsylvania nnd Ohio, but particularly
Pennsylvania, many prominent men law
yers, Judges. Governors and one President,
William McKinley, nil descendants of Han
nah Chapman Rore, who mndo our flag.
WHAT THE RAIDERS DO
To the Editor ti fiventng Ledger:
Sir In your editorial today on tho latest
German sea raider you say: "A scoro
of ships sunk, most of them small and
none of them n first-class merchantman,
Is not a great hole In tho 10,000 strong the
British merchant marine can muster."
That is quite true, but that Wnot en
tirely tho point, which Is that tho sinking
of every Allied ship keeps at least half
a dozen others In port, and thus rendors
them useless. Tho British navy has sunk
very few German merchant craft, but It
keeps them Interned in neutral ports or
locked up In German, so that tho result
is about tho same ns It they wero now
beneath "tho glad waters of the dark blu
sea."
Ono hundred spch cruisers ns this latest
ono would tie up Allied shipping all over
tho world and starve England,
K. J. COY.
Philadelphia, January 18.
Tom Daly's Poem I
run MAGIO AVPJ.ll
"A thing of leauty U a jog forever,"
Though ycara lecloml tt, iict-cr may they
sever
Its lovely essence utterly from earth;
.Yrt-cr a joy was born hut hath rebirth.
There was a sunset lost, long, long ago,
An ahtumn sunset seen through orchard
houghs,
A hoy's eye hrtghtcntna in the amler
glow ' -v
GttFc to his mliul no more of Ht to
house
For the delight of manhood's pensive
days
Than the hare memory of time and place;
So nigh forgot, it seamed
As something tie had dreamed.
Yet now tha man, before chose boyish
Uen
The gloru melted on the evening
breeze,
Knoivs it lived on, for he hath found
again
Ills long-lost sunset of the orchard
tree 3,
A penny tribute to a swarthy vendor
llath filled for vie this city street with
splendor,
A meaoer applet yet its crushed :ulp
drips
A long-forgotten savor on my lips,
A rare, faint cssmce tasted once before,
But only once; and suddenly I find
The hojieyed gusl hath 'loosed a long
locked door,
And all j the olden splendor floods1 my
mind.
A care-free lad I stand, t
An apple i my handt ,
And uatoh the amtf' glory grow and
wane,
I Ml upon my cheek the Iteming
I Ireeae.
fov lives forever! I have found again
My long-lost sunset of the orchard
trees!.
1917
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What Do You Know?
Qutries of ocneral intzrmt teitl be answered
tn this column. Ten question tho answers to
which every meU-injormed perso-. shouJd know,
aromosked dallv
QUIZ
1. Nntne two or threo places Hint nre below
sea level.
2. Who formed the "ninck Horo Cavalry"?
n, tviiat nro "trnelileMi trnllejH"?
I. What In the Onto City of tlio Sotlth?
fi. What Is tlio City of the Saints?
l. Wlin nro "the American llon.-itmrtu"?
7. Wliitt It tlio Xlcarasimn Cnnal Itoiito con-
lenllon?
8. 14 diiiri-li nrntierty exempt from taxation.
nml. If mi, under iiluit munition?
0. When -iv.t Itenjiimln 1'r.inUlln Imrn nml
ivlien illil lie (lie?
10. lUuit It the name ot the Austrian Kmnreas?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
The rait-tlnn tn machine titptl nn uhlplio.iril
for liiiiullini: Hie itm-lior mill other heavy
UclKlltl.
"lit tu, Unite!" ("And tlinu, ton. IlriitiiM")
are tmilltfoimPy tlio l.iit word of .ItilhiH
I'lienar after llll former friend, Marrim
.Inula-- llrutim. Iiad MnMied hint. The
nurds are iiromitinrctl 'i:tt ten, Itru
lay." Till tailpii-Mitcrc! M'lm n German of clown
Nh ult of the fourteenth century, whoso
i-ross Jot.ts made Mi llfp O'o itatlierhiK
point of popular tales of lnlsrjilef.
The l'aM.in Koet'-t.-i Is nil llnnlUh organiza
tion fur tlio ndwitireinent of socialism.
A (run Is s-ittl to ham; lire when tlio ponder
rharco fal's tt explode promptly upon helm-;
Imtltrd.
Tlio linni-dihord was a Kecd musical Instrp
ineiittsluiped llko n piano und similar tn n
pWuio except Hint the nounil was pro
duced tn pieces irf croir-nillll. or leath
er, which twlttlied tlio hiring Instead of
liummerlni; litem
The Indus Is the -crrat rher which hounds
IiiiU.1 on the west, scimrntlni; It from AN
KliuuNUn nml ll-iliit-lilstaii.
Mexico Cltv Is ilie larcrfit Mexican city
tuearlv inn oon) find liiiudalahira tlio sec
ond city (1110.1100) In sl7e nml Importance.
John T. Ailiiins. of town, tins !,en elected
tlco alialroian or the Kepubllran Na
tional Committee.
Mriiilhiirliw (1011-1737) was tlio most fn
iiious xlolln inulrr ot the Crrmiiiieso
school.
A Papal Prophecy
T. S. The prophecy of St. Malachy set
forth the vision of St. Malachy, an Irish
prelate beforo whoso mind was unfolded
tho long list of pontiffs xvho wero to rulo
tho Church until tho end of time. Their
names were not given, but they wero re
vealed by their natures, and for ench there
was n mystical title, supposed clearly to
represent some dominant trait of tho Pope's
character or porno outstanding event of
bis rein. Tho manuscript remained hidden
in tho nnman archives ror moro than 400
years. It was first discovered In 1550, and
was published later by Arnold da Wyon.
Thero has been much discussion as to
whether St. Malachy was actually tho
author. H Is undoubtedly one of tho most
remarkable prophecies known. For Instance,
Plus IX was the 101st Popa In St. Mai
achy's catalog. His designation would seem
almost something mora than n coincidence.
It was "Crux da Cruce-' "Cross from a
Cross." No ropo In history had had a
reign so filled with trial and tribulation as
Pius IX. Tho present Pope. 101 on St.
Mnlachy's list, has a disquieting title
"relgIo deppptilata," "the faith laid waste."
It might have any one of the ominous
meanings which pessimistic interpreters
place upon It, but as "Intrepid trust" Is the
summing up for the following pontiff, thero
Is evidently prophesied no great catas
trophe at this point.
Van Rurcn'a Presents
W. S. D. During Martin Van Buren's
administration us President there were
presented to him a pair of Arabian horses
and a pint of attar of roses. As Presidents
are not allowed to accept gifts from foreign
Governments, he disposed ot the horses in
some way, and the attar of roses he had
sealed and placed in the Patent Office. The
Jar of attar of roses was for a time on
exhibition In the Patent Office and was
stolen a few years after being placed on
exhibition there. The exact date of its die
appearance Is not now known, 'but it was
probably some time between 1SS0 and 1800
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SAM LOYIVS PUZZLE
CAN you find the- names of seven
towns hidden in the fellow-toff short
letter from a traveler:
"We made a light r-tfyal boat vth a
mainsail. I was the skipper that came
to a bad end."
Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle
TUB Chinaman's prices were two
cents for collars and three cents for
cults.
t
The Northeast Corner
Rubalynt of n Commuter
XL
Would you your Substance riotously ni,i
Then to n Rummage Sale go with mV
I riena ;
r ffiub Sfl'6' r lh Shak6sPear Study
For on theso dolh our Social Life depend.
On Humor in Women
II
TT WAS promised a few days ngo that w.
1 would revrt to the moro ancient Indies
who had whnt they called a sense of
humor. Let us consider, then, tho Princes!
Tamnra. of Immortal legend. Lcrmotuore
has dascribed her bcntily as being enllrelv
resistless. To her castle, which still guardn
the pnns In tho Oeorglan road of th9 Trans!
Caucasus, cuhio lovers In streams.
Thus Lermontorf:
And lovers' hands, sine fc-ln's dys. I .
hfSw wrinkles from a fsira
But tho Princess Tamnra, tiring of her
lovers, nn moro modern women have Jnno
from lima to time, achieved merit by east.
Ing them into tho raging torrent of 'tho
Ihirlel from her eatttlo's tower. Thereby
Rho was amused, and lust herein iho Rhows
how llko her RlstorB ift today nhn wns It
Is recorded that nomo of them have been
mightily pleased In tho throwing down of
their men friends,
Hlr John Mattmlevllte relates, too, n story
of thn daughter of Hippocrates, lord of th
Islo of Cos, who bad tho highly diverting
habit ot turtritig Herself Into a dragon at
will, by tho grnco ot IJInna:
And nlso a young man, that wist not
of tho dragon, went out of a nhlp. and
went through tho Islo till that h
enmo to tho cardie, and camo Into the
cave, and went so long till that ho
found a chamber; nnd thero he saw a
damoscl that combed her bead nml
looked In n. mirror, and sho had much
treasure all abouj. her.
And sho asked him If ho were a
knight, nnd ho snld nny. And he de
parted from thero nnd went to his
fellows to tho ship, and they let make
him a knight, nnd bo came ngnln ,n
tho morrow to kiss tho dnmo.s"I. And
when ho saw her como out of the i avo
In form so hideous and horrible
(that Is to pay sho was a bundled
fathoms In length, ns men say, for I
havo nof seen hort, bo had so great
drend that ho tied again to the ship,
and sho followed him, and whon sho
saw that ho turned not ngnln. sho be
gan to cry, making great dole out ot
measure, ns a thing which bad much
sorrow, nnd then sho turned again Into
her cavo.
And anon the knight died.
Hero only a senso of humor could havo
saved tho knight mado him kiss the
dragon, thereby changing her hack Into tho
princess ot Incredible loveliness. Had sha
suggested this, had her humoroui sens
been highly developed, she would have
been changed.
' CORN AS A PRICE MEASURE
Tho) rclatlx-o values of farm products nn4
farm equipment nro very forcibly Illus
trated In tho following conversation, over
heard nnd reported by a salesman for the
Parlln & Orendorft Company, Canton, 111.,
which took placo between a farmer In his
territory nnd tho local retail dealer. Tha
factn, as stated, should go far toward stay
Ing tho walls of tho most aollx-o calamity
bowler. Tho farmer dro-o up to tho deal
er'n placo of business, nnd tho following
exchange ot greetings took placo:
"flood morning, SI."
"flood morning. III."
" say, SI, what Is tho price ot that
wagon ox'cr yonder?"
"Ninety dollars. HI."
"Ninety dollars! Why, my father bought
tho same xvagon thirty years ago for $60."
"Ves, SI, ho did, and bo b-jught It ot
mo, but. as money wns scarco at that tlm
nnd I wanted soma corn, your father de-Ux-ercd
to mo 300 bushels of corn In pay
ment for tho $00 wagon, and I can usa
moro corn nt this tlmo, and I will make
tho same trado with you today as I did
with your father somo thirty years ago on
tho snmo wagon, and will glvo you from
my stock In addition to this xvagon
at 500 00
1 buggy nt go 00
1 suit of clothes for yourself 20.00
1 dress for ypttr wifo 20.00
1 dress for fno baby MO
1 ct Ib for tho baby r-00
I3ox of cigars for your friends :i 00
S pounds of coffeo 150
2 pounds ot tea 1 oo
20 pounds of sugar - p0
200 gallons of gasollno' I" 00
Lubricating oil - 5
5210 05
tho present purchasing power of 300 bush
els of corn." Auburn (Ind.) Weekly lice.
"MOVIES" AND BOOZE
The number of saloons In St. Louis 13 de
creasing for lack of support. It would be
Interesting to know how much tho p.cture
shows aro responsiblo for this. St. I.ojU
Star.
SIMPLE BE THY CREED
Slmplo bo thy creed ;
A creed that reaches every soul on eirth.
So clear and free from every mental cloud
That every ono may read and rightly know
Just what each word of sucli a creed may
A creed that tells of a true religious life,
Nor veiled In mystery or magic rlto ;
A creed not based on distant, occult screen,
Hut full of life, tho llfo of thn tmlav :
A creed that may bo lived each day we live,
A creed to carry In our hearts always j
A workable nnd active, dally creed
To fill our hours nnd moments as they
And make our lives moro beautiful and
And ilftTur hearts to dally thankfulness
This creed Is love a lovo for all " earth.
This bo thy creed. " "
1-
OUGH!
Attend. Q Musa, the stunt I hava to do,
Nor leave me helpless till tha task Is
through I
And thou, O Pegasus, be with mo now.
Leaving thypasture In some classlo cloughl
Wing thy way hltherward, lest If thou walk
Thou split a hoof, or haply bruise a hough.
These words are puzzling, at the starting
Soma I must grunt, and somo must simply
cough ;
Well, then: Tha daw, -which Shakespeaf
calls tha chough,
Is named by scholars easily enough,
But next there comes, ray simple rhymes to
block, . ,. ...
The woolly dog which Shakespeare calls tne
shough.
That shough would bo acceptable, but
look .
There Is a trench that Scotsmen call a
shough. t
And oh, the sloughs these verses drag rae
through I
Slough means a marsh, and you pronounce
it slough;
The "chestnut bus" spurned by the satyr'a
hoof"
In Yorkshire dialect is sounded "slough.
While, whe-p a serpent casts Its skin, the
lie leaves behind Is always called a slough.
Last, l ray ltksm I found, 4mt now.
"Stough, mafu-UBS ditch. Is always soundea
i 'slough. ' "
A truce to chough and dough and hough
and slough.
Thou canst not aid me, Pegasus 1
through I '
Ted Robinson, In Cleveland, Plain .u-sawi.
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