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Jvotics Subscriber wlehlns addrees changed Bimt slve old as well as new address. i BILL. MOD WALNUT KET9TONE. MAIN 1000 aT Address all communication to Kvnlna Ledger, Independence fiauare, Philadelphia, mm it Tni rnitir.it.riiu roaTorrics is StCONP-CUtS Mtl. UiTIIH THE AVERAGE NET PAID DAII.T CIR CULATION OF THE EVENINO LUDOEIl FOR JANUARY WAS 115,777 Champ Clark Is a grandpa, but he Jk not foxy. Bernatorff Is going where we told IJilm to go to Halifax. Alexander Is too great to sign a contract with the Phillies offhand. It la eminently fitting that he should keep Itho fans In suspense for a number of Idays, and It Is lese majeste to try to hurry Ihlm. The conclusion of the public hear ilngs of the House Rules' Committee leaves 'the net result of the Inx-cstlgatlon as the 'discovery that tho only considerable leak earne from a Boston spoculator and that ,lt was a leak or was It a slop-over? of Irresponsible words. The tailors who are trying to in duce men to wear colored e-enlng clothes ought not to be discouraged. A large number alrendy go about with a yellow ntreak down their backs, still others feel , blue, and altogether too many wake up In the morning with a dark-brown taste In their mouth. With these precedents anything Is possihle. A stakeholder who has been cub todlan of $650,000 In election bets since October 15 has made $16,000 in Interest on the money, having retained the money because "the November election doesn't really take place till February " Now ho has decided to withhold payment until March 4, The horrors of on archaic electoral system! The time is coming when no Phlla. delphlan will have to apologize for condl tlons In and around Independence Hall v nd Independence Square Plans are well under way for tho restoration of the old City Hall at the eastern end of the group of buildings to correspond with Congress Hall at the western end. The approval by Councils of an ordinance creating a com mission to have chatge of the buildings and the historical collections within them very properly differentiates this city prop erty from all other buildings and parks, and lifts them locally Into the position which, outsido of this city, they aro sup posed to occupy her American cities need mote men like the New York alderman who de scribed himself as "for the downllft." He was urging tho transfer to an account where it could bo used of $600,000 that had been appropriated for a needless courthouse. The aldermen who opposed the transfer, he said, "speak for the up lift, while I speak for the downllft." That's what we need men who will be downllfters whenever municipal extrava Banco Is proposed; men who, will lift down from the shoulders of the taxpaers the heavy burdens pressing upon them be cause, the upllfters and the gangsters are so free with money that Is not their own. The release by Germany of the Tarrowdale sailors and the permit to American workers to continue their ac tivities for tho relief of Belgian suffer ers have eased the tension for the rea non thai they Indicate a disposition In Berlin to, show somo respect for the hu manities as well as for American rights. There remains to be explained the np- parently unjustified attempt to coerce the withdrawn American Ambassador Into an agreement for tho reaffirmation of an old treaty and for an extension ' of Its guarantees. That may be forth coming If tho official report to Washing ton, confirms the newspaper dispatches. ' , The Government certainly ought to de mand an apology In case the dispatches v have correctly reported the facts. Tho , eHgnuicance ot vjercnany b action , ui Thursday Is that it indicates that Ger many is not attempting to aaa any new . auses of 'Irritation to our grievances ,y' arising out of the submarine order. Ambassador Fletcher presents his .credentials to President, Carranza toda.y. . They will have something totalk about tight away three Amerlcansslaln In a krtrrder raid. Dut the Mexican situation UuSMlfWW OH t I1CW MM1B 4in IHUIb Ul UUT 'feurlah of arms along the border and. I i. w WNTtnern Mexieo. mereseemoa Duione Csf 'only two things that Pershing's ex yeslitVan could do either become the fore. bjmt of an army or invasion in a war lnMsile iMtadeo te no ood purpose. WttMrawn, and -'?S PhllaaelpWa,SatBroay.Fabroaryj:. HIT. m t Si.., I to prevent repetitions of these murders and upon Mr. Fletcher to convince Gen eral Carronza that ho cannot leave Chi huahua a wilderness nf bandits indefl nltely. Agencies for civilizing that dis trict aro about as nvallablo for Mexico as they vveio for tho United States to piodtice older In California In tho middle of tho Inst centur National inlde im both sides should bo satisfied by this time. These disorders aio out of the tealitt of politics, national or lnteinntlon.il. What Is needed Is administration, and for that money Is leatiired. Nine-tenths of Mex ico Is now organized well enough to hol low and pay back, to equip an army mid restore older. The two OovcrntnenW should be able to vvotk out an adminlx tratlvo plan on a eoopeintlvu basis. A MILLION MORE VOTERS ANOTHER million women hno been . granted suffrage In presidential rlertlnnu In nllr ni'lchbol State of Ohio the Legislature has passed n bill similar to the Illinois statute, and It Is ceitnln that Oovernor Cox will sign It. The Ohio women may not yet vote for State olllcers, but few doubt that com plete suffrage will soon b" n f.ict In both Ohio and Illinois. Thus in 1820, whllo PennslnnUi Is casting about 1,400,000 votes for Presi dent, Ohio, with three fifths of our pop ulation, will be casting about 2,000.000 votes unless Pennsylvania extends Its stirfrago to a tlguro commensurate to its importance, about 2,800,000. It is becoming Imperative that tho States mako uniform their electoral vs terns In national elections Pooplo think of Wilson's victory as having been woti by nearly 600,000 majority, and not by the technical majority of 23. Tlioy think of tho popular vote, not of the electoral vote and It is what people think and hay that counts. There should be no question of n fluke In future elec tions, but piesent Inenualltles such ns those cited above aro opening befoio us that Intolcinblo possibility of a can didate receiving a million votes moie than his rival, and yet being defeated CAN CKIIMANY KEEP WHAT SHE'S GOT? Gl KKMAN peace suggestions were not made until virtualh the whole Balkan region wns In the contiol of the Central Kmplre It has been the dieatii of the Pan-Germnnlsts to open a higliw.-i to" Asia Minor through this illstilct to make easy the commercial absorption of what was once the gicat gianarv of the woilil. In pievlous international ie adjustments the S.injak nf NovlbasMr hail been held foi Ttirkev for the lensnn that it opened a wa fiom Austin Hungarian territory dhectlv tbroiigh Tuikev to the Bosphorus. The l'.alkan wai deprived Turkey of nearly all of Its Euiopean pos sessions, gave the Sanjak to Set bin and closed the door to Herman ambitions Rumania shuts tho German fiom the Black Sea and Serbia shuts it fiojn the Aegean and Asia Minor. This condition was most pleasing to Russia nnd to Gieat Britain, both of which have pioletts for the exploitation of Mesopotamia and both of which aro inteiested in keeping Gei many fiom the Persian Gulf Get man activity in the Balkans since August, 1914, has been ditected to mi doing all that had been accomplished bv the Balkan war Seibln and Montenegio early fell a piey to Geiman arms. Bul garia Is friendly to GeimaiK amtiltious. The entrance of Rumania Into tho win opened the wav to the seinue of that country and to the lemovnl of the menace of Russian influence theie. As the case stands today, peaio made on the basis of the war map in tho Balkans would give to Germany all and more than she has hoped to obtain. Her commercial domination of the Turkish territory In Asia Minor would be as cer tain as fao if peace tieatle.8 should bo signed now She could nffoid to give back AIsae and Lorraine to Prance, to with draw fiom that pait of noithein France which she occupies and restoie Belgium if she could retain hei Balkan position. Gieat Britain, Fiance and Russia, how ever, are determined that she shall not have this kind of a virion. They nie determined that middle Kuiope, fiom the Baltic to the Aegean, ami Asia, fiom the Bosphorus tor the Persian Gulf, shall not bo dominated bv Gcrman.v. Thej have been defeated In the Balkan peninsula. They are hoping for victory in Trance and for such an overwhelming victory as will compel a rcstoiatlon of the stattis quo ante Ip the neighborhood of Constan tinople German's last submarine move was made In a despeiate attempt to serine by victories on ono side of Hurope her right to letaln what sho has won on the other side If she falls theie her dreams of expansion in Asia Minor can not be realized Can sho keep what she has got? TRYING TO KEEP HIS HEAD COI.OXni ItOOSBVKLT is making a desperato effort in theso trjing times to remain calm nnd refiaiu from hasty and lll-consldeted action He has been reading a high-school textbook on nncient history; that Is, tho history of the early Egyptians and Assyrians, tho Sumotians and the Babylonians, and In older to keep his thoughts detached fiom current excitements he has written a, long re view of the book for this week's Out look. The case of the Colonel recalls that of the literary critic of whom, Cruthers tells In one of his delightful essays. Tho critic, in order to correct his Uteiary Judgments, which were getting too severe upon contemporary novelists, spent some weeks reading the Congressional Record. The platitudinous verbosity of our law makers was so much worse than any. thing that came from tho press of tho regular publishers that ho returned to his work with a broader vision and in a kindlier mood. . If the high-school textbook which the Colonel has been reading1 Is not sufficient to enable him to keep his head, he might And a few weeka spent Irt the study of ih differential calculus cooling to hhf BEWARE THE MAN OF ONE BOOK When Tlint Book Is So Varied ns the Bible How the Boers Preserved Their Stand ards Frank Bullcn Uy KOHEUT IIILDKKTH ONCi: upon a time, so It Is enld, n book ngent met his niotih, Ills lout wns sndilrii and complete, leaving nothing to be deslrid. He hail broached the nll tmportniit subject an exchange of his In dlspeiivnble volume for u certain amount of Indispensable cash and was proceeding eloquently with his usual lino of selling tnll when he was Interrupted by tho tri umphant remark "It's no use I've got a book!" So that wns the end of It. Most of us nro Inclined to hold In con tempt 'the man of one boolt." "llewnre of tho mnu of ore bonk'" was the warning of a supposedly wlen man But what fun It Is to take IsxV with a wise man' And the wiser the btter It gives mo crent pleasure, therefore, to set forth even briefly the opinion and belief tint thcro Is some vlt me In tin- one book Idea, after nil When 1 was a youngster, making my wav tlirounh tho fourth, fifth or Mlxth tender I forget vvh ch I dwelt Joyously I on a pafsago tha' I afterward rati ncrot'fl i most plciieuniblv, In "Sesamo nnd l.llles " Among my memories of school das fe are clearer than this recollection of the de light I took In Ituskln's finely phrased ad-vli-i- concerning attention to words to tin meaning and validity of all the wrd '. encounters In his reading In-pi1!'...! i id out of school 1 lead and leu. ail ' ' . trnngely attractive and stimulating ii" ' lion until I had It by hem t But 1 n tlcularly, I rt member the sentciiii' li calls attention tn 'this real fact-tliat mm might rend all the books In the Br tlsli 'in MMim (If you could live long rmmgln "t ' tt-niain an utti-rlv illlti-iate.- iimd' i.iti d person, but that If von lead ten inRi ' a good book, letter bv let-i-r t'mt K t" .. with real accuracv you aro fnrevt rnion In some nifnsure an rducntid per i How far this summons to Intensive i "I lug had practical effect In inv iase 1 am not quite certain but I know the fore- . . it was might d enhanced bv the Infoinii ti.,i ..iiiitnlriod In fL footnote, to wit limt the liimiliei of piloted books occupvlng Die ulielves of the circular le-idlng loom ol tin llrltlsh Museum was estimated at ahiul two million Those stupendous llpures mnl, n piofound impiesslon on mv outlifiil muni and havo nevei been t-ias-ed I lesohid in i lie fnsci nation laid upon me bv Hnkin magic laiiEiiage. that I would read some ' one book thoioughlv toteiiKivelv an nitiing ; to directions Alas' I thiol. I made that lepolutlon on New Yeai's 13aj A Hoy and His Hlble Hut men there havo been who derived much of their edui atloti from n single book, and If I speak of Finnl: T Mullen and ot what he owed to the Bible I urn lllus. Hating tho verv principle which llusMn emphasized though the case is far moie significant than that of a mere questing for scholarship The likeness and tho differ ence appear In the life stoiv of the Bngllsh ellei of tales of the vea In his childhood llullen lived with n pious aunt, who taught him to rend the Illble and led him to love It P.ifoie he vvas-nine eais old she had lead the Bible aloud to the hov. fiom On (sls to Revelation nnd the boy. In bis tmn, had read It nlhud to his uunt Afei his aunt died the hoy slaved for a luiltal guardian, and then to esiape his master's srueltv he became a gamin In the streets of London I"or two vars he never slept hi a bed III all this time of misery be ear ned in the folds of his faded and tattered Mouse, a small Bible that had been given htm bv his aunt This book he lead often At tho age of twelve he went to sea and the Hlble wint with him For tweutj-thiee .vears he loved tho oceans of the woild Fin illy ho settled down ashoio and took his wife and children to London To add to his funds he wmto down some of his sea adventures sending the manuscilpt to Itud vard Kipling and asking him to make a hook of it Kipling sent baik tho manu script with this message. "You have done better than I could I wonder where von got vour fine stvle?" To this pi.ilaf. the sailor, who had never been to school lesponded 'I got mv style fiom the Hlble, it was my only university." The name of Billion's first book Is "Tho Prulse of the Cachalot A survej of hlstoiv shows tint whole groups of people have lived, moved nnd had their being In a single book. They have drawn Intellectual sustenance and moial stability from one literal v source Ross points out, however, the social ob structlveness of a sacred book, especlallv if It Is the product of a single mind lie sas 'Society lusts on Its bearings when It acknowledges the supiemacj of an an cient sacred book partlculaily a book that giaspi the bellevei on all sides of bis life but never Is the mind so sealed up n when tho object of reverence Is a single wilting Hither than a body of llteratuie like the Illble or the Sacred Books of India The latter biiig tho outcome of illveise evperlentes, epochs and points of view, phes some room for Judgment and diolce; whereas the former, being1 offspring of a single mind, cramps" As Brvce savs In bis ' Studies In History and Jurispru dence," "the Koran, being taken ns an unchangeable and unerring rule of life and thought In all depaitments, lias enslaved men s minds ' How the Hocrs Resisted Barbarism fHer against tho undeniable progres-i-re- tardlng effect of such absolute devotion to a single book as Ross nnd Brce describe may be set the service rendered to certain groups hy their ono book An example may be found In the story ot the Boers, and once moie we refer to the Bible, this time regatding It ns a single book It Is a principle enunciated in social psychol ogy that 'whites In contact with aborig ines let down ' 'Certain of the first trans Allegheny settlers " historians tell us, "be came so Indlanlred as to wear a buckskin dress, marry n widow and let the scalp, lock grow." The conservatism of isolated white folk who are enveloped by saviges Is to be explained by tho fear of this let ting down. It Is a measuro of protection; a barrier for defense Olive Schrelner has told the tale of the splendid way in which the South African Boer has stood for two centuries against the danger which besets a race situated as this has been. Miss Schrelner speaks of the place of the Bible In this strange, fierce adherence of the Boer to the things of old "You say ha had only one book and clung to it with a passion that was almost Idolatry? If the Boer had forsaken his Bible, we should havo found him today a savage, lower than the Bantus about him, because decayed.' All these paragraphs, let me add, gentle reader, have not been written with the aim of proving anything In particular, but sim ply to discover, for the mere satisfaction of differing with wlso men, a few exceptions to the one-book rule. Our danger In these days, perhaps, Is not Individually or col lectlvely a one-book danger, but rather the danger of perverted reading habits Induced by that great multiplicity of books vvhlch Solomon foresaw when ho lamented the end. lessness of book publishing In his ,own day. Sometimes, from sheer weariness of books, one could subscribe to this senti ment: If all the seas were or sea, And all the stones were one stone. And all the books were one book .-A,iiint II Via hle.aalnr If somehfwlv would Jlle the sjone to the book and drop. .- tyJwK. J&Xl m ills I rJSmSHBBBBks' !5afciiilSa35SM a "L-J , f V,, (j3 THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE "Facts and Fallacies" Answered. Censorship and the Free Press Poverty and Politics Thin Drt'lrimrnl i Irre In nil irinlrrv io Ufa tn crttrrnl their nrtninm oil suWrcM or mrs-il( Ollrieur II nil oiiril fnnmi. paif the hirntnn l.cther nffiimri u tceonlMlfu rni I Im ilrii of IH'coriesiioiirf'iil f.eflrra iinnf lie hlnilril ly III- inir roifl orWress of lip v rilrr. nnt urrrirtiilu fur inlblttrttlttjl, but at a fimiinilrii of ryod faffli "KACTS AND FALLACIES" ANSWERED To ihr Vihlor nf Ihr V.irmnq .rilnrr- Sli Inclosed find' n lopv of "S l)i Ink" It was wiltten in answer to .ill 1 Facts nod Kallacli s published ill one of 0111 Vllkes-ll.11 re papeiw The three napeis in Wllkis-Bairo refused to print this 111 tide 111 unv pan ot It We would be eiy grate, fill to ou If ou would publish this or Just one paiagraph nf It MUS C H UOYT Dorranceton, Pa, l-'eluuaiy 15. Following is h paragiaph fiom the rply to "Facts nnd Fallacies." niepared fby the Methodist Kplscopal Preachers' Meeting of tin- Wllkes-Baire district Win does the llreweis Association spend hiindieds nf thousands of dollais to employ accomplished writers and rep luahle newspapeis to defend the liquor ti attic befoio the, American public." It was not always so Once they snapped theli llngeis In mens faces andWsald 'What lire jnu going to do about It'" Now- public sentiment has. so rapidly changed against the saloon that the liquor interests ate alarmed at the rising tide of prohibition The verdict Is against it No valid plea can be made for such a tratllc livery argu ment the liquor tratllc has made In de fense of the saloon has fallen befoie the test of time The weakness of Its cause Is apparent. It Is a iesumptlon against the Intelligence of the American people to attempt to hoodwink them Into believing that thn saloon is a nec essary and a beneficent Institution The organized liquor tratllc Is tho gieat American fiaud It pietcnds to be an Innocent, honorable business, fotering tho welfare nnd happiness of the people ISut It is a living lie Its method Is to launch n lie clothed In beautiful and appealing diction repeat It again nnd again, nnd then Insist upon It. hoping thus to convlnco the people that alco hol nlwajs haH been a great benefit to mankind. The Brewers' Association says that tho opponents of the saloon aia-fanatlcs, going to an unreasonable, extent In falsifying against a legitl mate business. Let the FACTS testify and sou will perceive tho FALLACIES which are emplojed to defend an liule fcnslblo trade. THE REDUCTIO AD'ABSURDUM To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir in answer to tho various lunatics who insist that tho entire American press has JudaB Iscarloted itself for British silver, may I ask those Gormanophooles why their German Idol, so profligate of money for propaganda and bombing pur poses In America, did not show Itselt equal in brains, then, to the British and "Yankee idiots" it so despises and get there first? German gold, I tako It, would be Just as delectable as English gold to a parcel of depraved traitors such as these violent Ger manlacs bluntly tell our national press that it Is, Certainly Germany has tho gold, and I can swear sho has not lacked tho nerve to perpetrate more ruthless and diabolical schemes. A HCAD-UH. Philadelphia, Ktbruary 15. SAYS HE CAN ABOLISH POVERTY Xo the Editor of'the Evening Ledger: Sir in your editorial on "Beloved Vaga bonds" you say, "You can't beat the Organ Uatlon until you have beafen poverty," and again "No reforn. body In this city has ever consistently stood for tho unskilled and helpless poor BOth of these state, ments were truey up to April 4, 1915. On that date a party was formed whoso sole reason for existence was Its desire for tho abolishment of poverty, and with a sure, safe and fundamental plan to do It. Its plan contemplates the taking of pub licly created values (land values) for tho use and benefit qf tho public, and would exempt from taxation all of tho products of individual Industry and enterprise. The displacement of Organization leaders or tho Ignominious defeat of fhe entire party Twill not beat poverty unless tliavlctorlous wT TW4tfS( Miww ' ' .-- r jtr .? m" ,irjr - HELPING-UNCLE I 4 ' lathci remote the best thing to do. In order to beat poverty and help the unskilled and helpless, Is to live for. work for, spend for and voto for single tax. olivkr Mcknight Philadelphia, Februaiy S OBJECTS TO CENSORSHIP To the Editor 0 ffir f.'t-cNfur; Lttlqrr s'lr It is said that a diastic piess cen sorship bill has been prepared and soon will be Introduced Into Congress Public criticism is a stimulus and a guide to pub lie ofilclals. Aimy and navy otllceis ate but servants of the people, whv should they be exempt from public scrutiny of their nets? In vent nf the Introduction of this bill I hope that .vour paper will fight it tooth and nail Freedom ot the press, though often inconvenient nnd embarrass ing, is a fundamental safeguard to democ iac.v CnotlC.i: A WALTON lleorgo School, IM , February IB IN PRAISE OF FORD Hats oft to Henry Ford who, when It came to the showdown, was prompt to prove that be placed patriotism above pacifism Ills nffei, in the event of war. to place his factor at the disposal of the Govern ment nnd operate It without profit. Is the proof of an Americanism of which the. country ina well reel pioud Springfield Colon NEXT WEEK'S OPERA Zundonat's "Fiancesca" Grows More Beautiful in Retrospect Coming away from the American pre miere of Hlcaido Znnrtonnl s "Francesca da" Blmlnl" at the Metiopolllan In New York, nearly two months ago I felt that I had listened to a great work Through out the performance the music nnd poetry of the opcia had made a profound Impres sion ; its put e iomantlc beauty and emo tional nppeal had cast a powerful spell as If one were wandering through a medieval fairy tale made human and poignant by the close kinship of poet and composer. But a great stirring ot the emotions Is some times untrustworthy, And so It was that not until the cold, clear air of Broadway had dispelled the charm did the virtues and the fallings of "Francesca" stand out cleaily Then It be came apparent that, despite seveial seri ous handicaps, the music-drama or more correctly the music poem Vvas one of the finest contributions to opera In years. Since that night the beauties of the score havo glow 11 upon me, and the shortcomings' have become more and moie Insignificant "Post-Impressions" give no. reason to chango the sentiment expressed In the Kv'Enino Ledger's review of the opeia that there are two scenes of supreme beauty the betrothal at the end nf the fit st net and the long episode with the ladles-ln-waltlng In the third In each Znndonal uses three ancient Instruments on the stage a lute, a viola pomposp (a glorified viol d'amour) and an oboe (which, despite the fact that the time is the end of the thirteenth century, Is equipped with the modem Boehm system of fingering). In the first net, where Francesca, after having been pledged to Giovanni the Lame, sees Paolo Jhe Beautiful and straightway falls In love with him, Hie three strange Instruments are a background for the won derful tone-poem in tho orchestra This scene, which lasts for several minutes, Is devoid ot sound on the stage and has no action other than the advance of Francesca toward tho gate beyond which stands Paolo. But not one slightest part of the emotions surging within the two young lovers Is left unrecorded by the orchestra. Themes and counter-themes struggle with each other In an ethereal, spiritual conflict that is an enlc tn itself. And back of It all Is the persistent, monotonous, prophetic drone of the lute, viola nnd oboe The first act opens with a curious viola obllgato behind the curtain. Then follows a delightful scene between Francesca's four ladles-ln-waltlng and the Jester. It Is characteristic of the opera that whenever these four ladles appears there is beautiful music. The scene In the third act when, with the aid ot the three obsolete instru ments, they attempt to cheer Francesca, is only less beautiful than the end of A,ct I The second act contains the much-disputed battle scene in which real arrows and real rocks fly back and forth. It Is elaborately staged, but In retrospect one feels even more keenly than at the opera the unfortunate fact that It Is too realis tic to be effective when coupled with so at mospheric and so poetlo a Wprk as d'An nunzlo's poem and Zandonal's music. The third act and the last scene of the fourth act aro wonderful love scenes. Snatches of pure melody are heard occa sionally, but there Is a vagueness In the conception of the music and the so-ordlna-tlon of motifs that is not at' all consistent with the deep, finm, beautiful love of Paolo and Francesca. This Important conaldora tlon acts In Just the opposite manner from tha absence oft action. During the per formance the musical text la sq beautiful as, to minimus jne seriousness or Ize the seriousness of the retrospect tb .inability ttii fau t. but in a' upon, any What Do You Know? Queriet of oeneral interest 11HU ba answered in this column. Ten nitrations, the onmm lo itfilcli eierv well-informed veraon should know, ate asked dally QUIZ I. MI10 l I'nltrd States Minister tn Conn? 1!, How lone Ik the Wall nf China, the Crest Hall? .1. Who was the "Vlnn nf Iron"? t. Hlnit Presidents nf the I'nlted Stntea innr- rleil twice? 1. MhHt time Is "flxht bells" on hoard a aide? 1. How tonic Ik n meter? 5. Mhnl Is railed the "Mirer Jtnte"? S. nme the liilkan State. 0 Hhat U the oriicin of the word "anndwlch"? 10 At hat ! the flmt book In the Illble? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 rreldent VVmlilnctnn. JefTemon. Msdlon. nilmnre, iienjnmln llurrlaon and Wilson married widows. 2. Tuba In the "lulnnd Krpuhllr." 8. The flrat mention of plurnlltr of vtliea In the Illble (King .lames Version) la In Genrala. Ir, 19, where I.nmerh. son nf Metlni.nrl. la mentioned aa havinc two wit fa. 4, The parrel pnat ayatem beitan In the I'nlted Mates .lanu.irv 1, 1013, 5. The llmnnd. were mlarldevona mmpha of lakes anil marshes In nnrlrnt mvtholoxv. 0. The battleahln Mslne waa blown un III Ha vana harbor Felirnarj 1.1, 180S . The rilrferenie In time between Honolulu nnd Philadelphia la five nnd n half hours At noon leiiktrrn time) It la :30 n, m In Hawaii. 8. The amethjat la the Ibninry blrthatone. 0. The peace atrencth of the Cuban nrmy la . 11,000 nient the war atrenith, 4,Ooo. 10. Illinois lead" In production nf crops of all kind, with Iowa second and Tevaa third. Forty-sixth Ward G W X The Forty-sixth Ward Is In the Sixth Congressional District, which is rep le'sented In the House of Representatives by George P. Barrow. Tale of Two Cities I V The two cities In Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" are Londpn nnd Paris, In which the scenes were' laid during the French Revolution. South's Flower D. L K. Inquiry at Richmond, Va., brings the Information that the Confederate States had no national floral emblem, of ficial or unofficial, so far as can be learned. Enlistment Age G. G. R. The minimum age at which a young man may enlist In the United States army vvas fixed at eighteen years by the Hay-Chamberlain army bill, passed by Con gress last year. Before then, as jour expe Hence told ou, the age was twenty-one years White Gloves SUBSCRIBER It Is not "good form" for a man at a wedding to wear white gloves without a dress suit. Madam Rlavatsky Vf. W. Helena Petrovna Hahn-Hahn Blavatsky. the famous theosophlst, was born In Bkaterlnoslav, southern Russia. In 1831. She was an extensive traveler. Inter ested herself In mysticism and In the study of occultism penetrated Tibet at a time when little was known of that country. In 1873 she came to tho United States, and, with II, S. Olcott, she founded the Theosophlcal Society In 1875 as a "nucleus of a universal brotherhood of humanity without distinction of race, creed or color" for the study of Aryan' and other eastern literatures, religions and sciences, and tho "investigation of unexplained laws of nature and the psychical powers latent in man." Many disciples flocked to her. In 1879 she organized a branch of the society In Bombay, India, and thereafter did much to popularize knowledge of Buddhist philosophy, Her splrltuallstlo teachings spread throughout this country, India, Eng. land and France, the society growing to a membership of nearly 100,000 before she died. In 1881. The Society for Psychical Research. In 1884 declared her an Impostor Her chief work, the textbook for her disciples, was "Isls Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology," published Mn 1876 SAM LOYD'S PUZZLE GUES3 the author of each line. I only know she came and went Like troutlets In a pool, ' She was a phantom of delight And I was like a fool, One kiss, dear maid, I said and Blghed Out of those lips un.horn. B18nea She shook her ringlets round her head And laughed In merry scorn. Ananer to Yeaterday'g Puzzle MTATBNT and Talent; Scrape1 and" -j Capers : Master and Stream Bathir T Tom Dalys Column Lt Him Be Impeached! IT WAS bad enough for Woodrow !! son to navo nueu nis "peace win,,l . Inlnev'' from Wnllni. T.I. '"""HlJ ,. , v ....... ijiiunann, ef thai New Republic, or Dom Pedro, of BrailH hut hero comes news To shake the, t0B less towers, no cnonert a still mora'! I II lilt ci I'liKlOO liuill US As long ago ai 1905 vye dashed off . then forgot as la tho habit of uz nm,... ' a bit of deathless verse. In lane u (1 inlliemrl Intn ntii- flpat !..!. t. -al " "w "ur, -anzonl" ' nnd doubtirig Thomases may find It haJL on page 156. We had forgotten all about 1 It, but G, I writes: "Could you notl impeacn v. vv. ror stealing his famous 3i phrase from tho opening lines or your PI second stanza hero?" ,m DA FAM'LT MAN I aln' gon' gatla mad so queeck Like w'at 1 use' to do. I gon' geeve up dees ogly treeck Of speakln' swear words, too. An' now w'en com'sa hada keed For call mft nflo-o!" ..) I aln' gon' do like w'at I deea fta sn mi iicvni Koionnl I If som' one com" for makln' fool , Wtcth me, I show dem how I Jus' can smile an' keepa cool p I gon" bo good man now. I nm ton prnndn, man today For wants, swear an' flht, An' I no care w'at bad keeds.say' For makln' mo excite". So eef som'body com' an" try For makln' fool weeth me, I Justa gon' be dlgnlfl' Like fam'Iy man should he. Las' night da doctors bring my wlfs A baby girl. Dat's how I am so proud, "tou bat my life, I got)' bo good man now! Hey! Boy! boy back Boy! . call thn that boy we sent to page Bert Taylor with a not What'i that? Out of the building, Is he? Ak p ii-uwj . ,ij, a .iiiij luuiicii mm yes- -ti lerdayl Well, here boy, you'll fj do. What? You're not a oy, if nui a sienogrnpner .' nonsense: Your .' a boy nnd a stenographer. Come, be a j sport nnd typewrite this note for me. you seo, I'm ono of tho old, old tiews-'l paper fellows nnd never learned to rtin'-i a machine, Beady? Let 'cr go: Bear liert Vesterday I sent you a A note, wnicn you may get before thl reaches joii In It I begged you to find out what your proorroom knur of this definition In the Webster Inter national: "COPYHOLDEn A proofreader'! nincompoop " One of our own proofreaders hat shown It to me a moment before. Thers it was, plain as day' But this morning Bill Sacrey who Ii one of the cleverest lads around thli place, came to confession "I must tell you something," he sez. "The other day one of our copyholders said to me dis gustedly. 'I'm tired of being called a "copj holder'' all the time" 1 smoothed down bis feathers, but I knew It wouldn't last; so I went Into the com posing room when I found time and got a line set up to match the type In the Webster International, and with Infinite care I stenciled the line In the blank space tinder the first definition of 'copy holder ' Later In the day, as I ex pected, mv copj holder began beeflnf again. 'Well,' I said, 'If yiju don't Ilka to be called that, go get a synonym, from the dictionary ' He looked and fell, and so did all tho rest of the gang I didn't expect to trip you too. I'm sorry " We forgave'hlm. Do thou by us In like manner T, A. D. This same Sacrey comes across wltbl this anagram: German Blockade Note j Come to Break England. Tiff: VILLAGE rOET It iras coming at last! 'Ttilxt a duiltJi an a sun, After years of false hopes an 0 tmlUnn J Sprann a ii'lurf fiom the north that tcfti j laden irifi fun, An' it lanfi with the joy 0' creating, For it knew 011' I knew lclieti its lilorift o done J AH he Wt'crd be splendid for skamih) So pot mv old blades an' my botflsj of nil An' I poliihcd 'cm up for the mornine,M For I meant that no duty, no summoniiJ to 1", i Breaking in on mv sport irIfoo warning, Should deprive me of pleasure too roy!" fo spoil An too rare to be dying a-borninff. Then I thought 'of this Saturday poeW-1 of mine , J Which delights you so much ftrso coulij doubt ur. But I felt, though you'd hate to Ui missing a line J An' you'd really be lonesome without it, j You would rather I went where the " Iiid ii'nj fine Than be fretting here writing about if.; (Later bulletin from rlier-itde.) niorious ice! If it doesn't spur us to 3 the writing ot the promised ode wellJ ilchly deserve decapitation at the anKieav Tho last tlmo we found such a gleaming: flawless surface upon the river was som twenty years ago, when we had imi pleasure of doing tho Dutch roll fros! filrnrd nvenlin bridge to the dam wlub the venerable Mr. Robert K. Wright, tin fatherof Redwood Wright. Ho told vt then that he had been skating on Kpiinvikill whenever there was any il in imrt for slxtv-four years. He nui tin. -a Inereoeeil hnt record befOfO nassed. for he looked to bo good fa nnother decade on this day of which ' .1. Thn flush nf vouth had, co back to his cheek and the fire to hM eyes as wo came to a stop at the eat of th dam. Ills figure, for all xAi-entv venrs. was straight and sleni In Its dignified broadcloth, and the M tile upon His head was sleek ana """ the solar system. He was the emu ment of the perennial Joy of life- Add Famous Triplets Three' Tallota of Tooley Street' ' Itum, Romanism and Rebellion. V. D, Q. Three Weeka ' Three-MUo Limit Llberte, ..Fraternlte, Egallte. Mlu Tteaaln Graham COndUCtS ft. ln knnlr nteamnnahln at the Wll Penn Evening High School. Say 'To show you what my pupils canj a customer In Wanamaker'a oem thn 'Red Boat" and no catalOS l-Bveal ltsi existence. Questioned fit she eald If It wasn't the 'Bed B might be the 'Red Yacht or on like It; and there my tralnea pj tliaoovarod that .It 'WM M ' tetl)enlna: to-hl Uwm MU-UW itHt.swiwtawaaaj party.au iiw uawa sa ". "i"n , in V fa
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