t, SW -- fit ' ,v ', .Eucmh0 Uciigcr PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY rj ' emus it k. cutvtis, rimmtKi . ,"'& Charles TI. Aldington. Vice rresldentt John T Mtfn apMmTi nml Treasurer I l'hllln H. ; j ,, Collins. John H. Williams. John J, Spurgeon, 1". rl ST Whaler, Directors EDrTOIUAL nOAHD: Cues II. K. Cnsns, Chairman. WHALET P. H. Editor JOHN C. itAJltIN...anral Duslness Manager Published dally t rcnuo T.rnam Tlulldlnr. Independence Square, Philadelphia. Zjccoa CsnniL.,.. Broad and Chestnut Streets Atuktio Cm lYtn-Vnion Uulldlnx Naw Yoax..... '..200 Metropolitan Tower DtnoiT 820 l'ord Iiulldlnn Bt. Loci 400 Globs-Democrat HutMIng Cmcsao 1202 Trltiuna UulMIng j NEWS BUREAUS! iW Nsw Vote Dcautr The Ili Winding ti snujir uuiuu w rieancnsiraese London uviud Marconi House, mrana Fiin Ucauv .32 Hue Louis Is Urand BUBaCnUTION TERMS. The Etbni.so Xdraigg la served to subscribers in Philadelphia and aurroundlng towna at tha rata ot twelve (12) centa pes week, payable to the carrier. Br mall to twlnta outside or Philadelphia. In the United States. Canada or United States pos aeeslona. postage free, fifty (50) centa per month. Six ($0) dollars per year, payable In advance. To all foreign countries one (SI) dollar per month. NoTics Subscriber wishing address changed muit (Ire old aa well as new address, BELL, SOOO WALNUT KEYSTONE, MAIN 1MM at" Aidrtsu all communications fo Vrrnina Ledger, independence Sauare, Philadelphia, ITOM AT Till rillLADELrilU IflSTOrrtCII i ICOND-CUeS UllL MiTTCR. ran averaob net taid daily cm. CULATION OP THE EVENINO LEDGER FOR FEBRUARY WAS 0.3J PhiU'JrlphU, M.nJir. March 12, 1917 Every amateur wireless station Is Bow under suspicion. Superstitious folk tvlll bo surprised If hostilities begin this month. The Revo lutionary War, tho Mexican, tho Black Hawk, tho Spanish-American and tho Civil "Wars all began in April. Tho War Study Society, of Copen hagen, estimates tho total loss of belliger ents In dead, wounded and sick at 19,228, 800, and counts about 5,000,000 missing. Each soldier represents on tho avcrago family of flvo persons, bo that tho war has brought personal distress to a popula tion greater than that ot tho United States. And thls hooa not Include tho death and Injury of noncombatnnts them elves. Governor Brumbaugh's approval of the) plan for making tho schoolhouses enters of neighborhood llfo will not bo enough to make- It successful. Thero must be a neighborhood llfo which demands tho use of the schoolhouses before any attempt to get a better return from tho investment will be seriously worth while. The Homo and School League exists for tho purpose of developing closer relations between the school and the home. It is doing good work. If It can persuade tho school authorities under permission of law to stand ready to co-operate with the residents of any neighborhood In pro ducing a more Intimate social life through the use of the schoolhouses as a meeting place H will accomplish something worth while. Philadelphia shoe manufacturers are not among those who believe that this country has nothing to fear from Eu ropean competition when tho war ends. Congressman Krleder has seen to that, for he has told them that not only in the shoe Industry but In many other In dustries abroad production has been speeded up to meet tho, homo demands. When peaco comes tho factories will bo In condition to continue their unprece dented rate of production and the need f finding work for the returning soldiers and a market for their products will Im pel them to seek trade in other countries. This Is tho richest neutral market In. tho world. It can bo protected for tho benefit of our workmen only by adequate tariff laws. Law Is not what Is lacking to keep the streets free from litter. If tho city ordinances are not sufficient thero Is a statute approved by Governor Penny packer' nearly twelve years ago applying to every city, borough and township in the State. It provides for a line of $10 for any person who "Interferes with,, scatters or disturbs" the contents of any receptacle for waste when placed on the sidewalks. , Tet Junkmen disobey this statute with Impunity. The law covers all other ways of Uttering the streets and directs house holders to put their ashes, rubbish and other waste in tight receptacles. Director Wilson Is said to contemplate issuing de tailed Instructions to the police for the enforcement of tho law. Have not the police captains the laws and ordinances In their possession? Do they hao to wait for the man in charge of tho department to give them specific directions to enforco' each specific regulation? It seems that they do wait. And they doubtless will m ii ,. i JKX oontinue to wait until public opinion com- lJ,H pels them to act. London's Joy over the report that ky :'y Bagdad had been token is described as 'Xr- 'th greatest publlo demonstration slnco ,: the German-American break; but the sue iK.mm of the British before the city of fWC'Jttu Arabian Nights Is more important xr ' to Kngiana man wiai u is me greatest trlumDh since the Marne. It serves no- f .'"', tlce on the German peoples that the one 'v "Victory they have been cotintlng on, jtbough every .other campaign failed, s .' ''-' being unatohed away from them. "Mid- '', He Europe" will, never be completely v;,; . recused if. me eastern terminal of its system ot trade, expansion and Pan-Ger jBSJi'domloaUon "Berlin to Bagdad" -is 'Mt"eeC , The Joining of Austria to Ger-e-MfirMJT the$ e-aly .feature of the Mid Bs Stoop Oream that Is' realisable, with , BedsBffe.waYMtarMil the Turks routed, . Wlip WSievt H1U-H .HOW 9em It PLX'IN facts I T IS not often that the high cost of dollars and cents by tho bad governors community treated to tho spectacle of such officials offering the cnormdus expense of their own Inefflcloncy as n reason why authorized publlo Improvements should bo materially contracted In scope, U ot altogether abandoned. Tho now transit system, boasts tho Mayor through his official servant, will cost twenty-soven millions moro than It ought to have cost nnd moro than it would have cost had tho dilatory tactics of politicians nnd the obstructlonary iittltudo of tho administration Jntcr on not served to hold up tho awarding ot contracts until an tinprccedontcdly high level of prices had been reached. It Is admitted by Director Txvlnliig nnd- by other reputable onglncors that had contracts been let when Mr. Taylor was urging jlrompt action not only would tho sums voted have been amply adequato for every purpose, but In nil probability savings under the estimates could have been made, ns they were made In the caso of such contracts as were then let. Who In this city does not remember tho hard time and tho low prices that prevailed two winters ugo? So acute was tlin suffering, so desperate was tho con dition of many families, thnt tho charity of tho city was taxed to tho tittcrmn'it to succor the needy, nnd this newspaper opened Us want columns and' Us employment ngonclcs froo of charge to tho unemployed lit nil effort to relievo the situation. AVlth tho oloquenco of conviction, Director Taylor then pointed out that tho city could not only change hunger Into satisfaction by giving employment to thousands of deserving men, but It could likewise nchiovo Its transit dream nt nn amazingly low cost. Tho rcsponso of Councils, under the fort of leadership that now dominates the administration, was an obdurate refusal to do anything. It required tv6 mass meetings of tho peoplo and the prcssuto of popular indignation to compel any action at nil, nnd such action mm wns tnken was In fact Intended to lie Inlifbltlve. Tho authorization of somo funds, however, was finally secured and almost" immediately Mr. Taylor 'called for bills. Ho got them, and every citizen knows liow advantageous to the community they were. Tho present Director of City Transit, however, was scarcely seated In ofllco heforo ho begnn to talk of bobtail subways. Tho Mayor held his hutids up In horror at tho thought of going under City Hall. Ho spent n half hour or so in the excavation looking nt tho 'foundations and then announced "It can't bo done." "It may bo done," said somebody elso, "but the cost will bo frightful." It Is being done, nnd tho City Hall thnt was about to sink Inlo tho bowels of tho earth Is being securely protected against such a fato and tho subway run under It at tho samo tlmo for a cost that Mr. Twining tells us Is JS00.000. Indeed, tho administra tion ran so quickly to cover on this proposition that finally, last May, nn election was hold and tho people almost unanimously voted money for tho Taylor plans In full. We say without hesitation that had Mr. Taylor then been In ollico some part of tho funds provided would almost Immediately have been put under contract. Mr. Twining waited month beforo ho called for nny bids whatever. Thero bus ben but ono slogan for rapid transit slnco Mr. Twining assumed office, nnd that slogan has been "Delay." It Is Important that tho pubto should understand fully, accepting present esti mates as correct, that tho delay against which Director Tuylor nnd the newspapers In general (o urgently fought represents a cost of millions. Wo nro compelled, nevertheless, to extricate these estimators from the morasses of their own pessimism. Mr. Twining, for Instance, emphasizes tho cost of tho Chestnut street subway. That Is tho city's nco In tho holo, and not to bo built nt onco unless tho new system Is operated Independently. But, says Director Twining, quoting Mr. Taylor, It must bo built anyhow by 1924. Quito so, but only it the amount of traffic Is ho largo that It cannot bo handled by the present Market street subway, In which case receipts from fares would bo so great that financing of tho relief subway would offer only a trivial problem. But tho golden fact Is that tho Increases In the cost of subway building have not paralleled In nny way tho unprecedented flood of wealth that has descended on this community. War has sucked tho resources of Europo fiom Its heroic peoplo and poured them Into America. Prosperity almost emptied her cornucopia when pass ing over I'triinsylvnnln. If steel costs moro, Isn't It Pennsylvania that makes most of the steel and draws tho profit therefrom? If ordinary labor costs more, nro not our own citizens tho ones who will get tho money? For every dollar more tho new system may cost, tens and hundreds and thousands ot dollars have been added to tho wealth of this Stato and of this city, until our very miserliness would shamo us should wo mako protest. No city in America has profited moro than Philadelphia from this period of high prices, and thero Is nono from which a protest nbout them could come with less grace. It Is a fact that the growth In our territory has miraculously outstripped every estimate made. Few decades have shown nn Increase In population equal to that of tho last two years. Tho breath of life has been breathed, for example. Into tho dying shipbuilding In dustry. Only last week tho coming of another plant within tho very city limits, to employ moro than 8000 men, was announced. An era of shipbuilding Is upon us, nnd no man dared two years ago to dream such brilliant dreams ns slnco then havo ripened into fact. Tho allied Industries aro springing up. Ono of tho greatest mnrlno engine, plants In tho world will soon be in operation, Tho prosperity of tho shipbuilding Industry Is cumulative. It flows down through a dozen other Industries and affects tho prosperity of tho entire community. Such great plants as the MIdvalo Stool Works, tho Baldwin Locomotive Works and tho Brill Car Works will havo to meet tho demands Imposed by an enormous deferred mnlntennnco of railroad locomotives nnd equipment, duo at first to unsat isfactory financial conditions and later to abnormally high prices of steel and steel products. Tho expenditure of millions In tho removal of grade crossings In South Phila delphia and tho provision of vast terminal facilities by tho railroads, added to tho millions which tho city Itself Is to spend for new docks and wharves, will bring, ns thoy have already begun to bring, a vast added freight movement by water and rail to and through Philadelphia, with added population and wealth as an inovltable result. Theso things mean an enormous Increase in tho purchasing power of tho com munity, an Increaso which has already been felt; and In the uso of a rapid transit system, ns the receipts and profits of tho present operating company prove. Wo are confronted not by an ordinary, but by an extraordinary situation. Tho Increaso in population has been normally hesitate to estimate what it has been during tho last twenty-four months. Wo do know wo must prepare to accommodato several hundred thousand additional peoplo. which moans that the demand for adequate public facilities, already great, is now , positively insistent. " In tho faco of theso conditions, with prosperity positively hammering at our gates and refusing to go away, with growth overtaking us whether wo will or no, is it not ridiculous that any considerable body of public opinion should bo found supporting the attitude of short-vlsloned men, who shudder at tho thought of spend ing nny money and aro set In their conviction that Philadelphia is a backward town and ought to bo kept a backward town, and that there Is no use trying to realize high ambitions'. Last week the Pennsylvania Railroad announced tho completion of the bridge over Hell Gnto. It cost $27,000,009, and Its purposo is to provide proper railroad servlco to and from Now England. We find no record of any xtockholders having sought to prevent the company from making Its share of the Investment. Yet we find llttlo men strutting about Philadelphia promulgating in loud voices tho theory that if a proper transit service for this city should happen to cost $27,000,000 moro than It would havo cost but for tho delay, tho whole project ought to bo held up or some mysterious contraction of the plans be brought about Wo may say to theso gentlemen that Philadelphia is going to get out of its swaddling clothea whether it costs sixty millions or ninety millions. And o may say to them, too, that tho system is Just as feasible at ninety millions today as it was at sixty millions in 1914. That fast have we grown. But the system Is not going to cost ninety millions. Let citizens get that fact firmly fixed In their minds. Prlcos are at their crest. The urgency of tho proposed system renders-It economical even now to award contracts for tho central parts of ,tho system, which will take longer to build. Mr. Twining, wo nro confident, will renounce his intention ot awaramg otner contracts beforo tho proper tlmo. We advise no delay so far as the completion of tho wholo system is concerned;, but, aB Mr. Taylor has repeatedly pointed out, the outlying lines, which aro dependent on tho delivery loop, need not be begun until long after tho moro difficult sections of the system are under contract. There will bo no delay in putting tho entire system In operation if this suggestion Is followed. Thero Is not going to be a "killing" for contractors. . Tho cost of the system is not tho big Issue. It is Important, but wo are going to have the facility no matter -what It costs, because we have got to havo It or the metropolis cannot survive. The big, all-Important issue is the operating ngrcement It has, we do not doubt, hurt the pride of tho administration that the T. It. T. went to Mr. Taylor to find, out what it could expect to get and what it could not expect to get, instead of going to City Hall. It had been proved to tho company repeatedly, however, that City Hall was not trusted by the people In transit matters and that this private pitlzen, who had conceived the system and fought for It and brought it into tho thresholds of fruition, was trusted; and that the people would follow him In opposing what he conceived to be unfair and in Indorsing what ho conceived; to be fair. Therefore, Item by item, Mr. Taylor, as an unofficial representative of the citizenry, conferred with the representatives of the company, and he fought with them until he got the sort of leaso ho wanted, which he believes la fair and square to the company nnd to the people alike. Wo agree, nevertheless, with Director Twining that in a matter of so great importance not even the opinion' of Mr. Taylor should be considered as conclusive. The proposed agreement should be discussed last detail before the public No man instruction work should be going on. ) The Evenino Ledger Is not yet prepared cither to support or to fight the pro posed 'agreement. It is being subjected to searching analysis, with a view to dls- oovwrlMr K.peopio's rights are adequately' protected. If they are. not, this news- HawHWKWHt EVi31OT& about transit bad government is computed directly, in themselves, 'and even moro seldom is ft from Sj.OOO to 30,000 a year. We fully In all Its phases and argued to the can object .to that Meantime, however. ' i apaoMtioa to .approval ot the asr LEpaER-HItAPELHIA, MOflPArt MARCH 131 7 a r ay-rw THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Denunciation of the Conduct of Senator Stone Varying Views of the Senate Filibuster This Department Ut free to all icailcri who lew to erpresi their opinion on nubjert of rurrent interest. It ft nn open forum. "d fhc Kvenintt Leitaer aaaunus no lespomibiltt for the vietcfi of ft correspondent, f.rtters mint be signed bv the name, and address ot the writer, not necessarilu for publication, but as a auaranteo of good faith. SENATOR STONE AND OTHERS To tho Editor of the Evening l.cilpcr: Sir "Oumshoo 1)111" Stone nnd his "cop perhead" colleagues havo shown the country to what depths "statesmen" can descend nnd how grossly they can betray their trust In a national crisis. Tho Senate of the United States ot Amer ica Is supposed to be ono of the most august and honorable legislative bodies in the world ; twelve of Its members have shown themselves as absolutely unfitted for the trust reposed In them, and Instead of states men appear as the commonest of common politicians. If thero ever was a tlmo when "the power of the press" was needed by the people. It Is now, and tho question Is, Are the newspapers going to let them get away with It? I would suggest that th'elr names bo printed on the front page of every paper, under a suitable caption, for the next thirty days. Don't let the matter "die" until some thing has been done to correct tha mischief these twelve "obstructionists" have done and tho repetition of sgch damnable fili bustering tactics mado impossible. J. T. MOnEHISAD. Philadelphia, March 8. MORE ABOUT MR. STONE To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir "Gum Shoe Bill" has caused the, wak ing up of nil kinds of nations. Cannot' sane and loyal Americans wake up, too? Ameri cans have expected he would do his duty and give Intellectual and moral bread for the common good of American citizens even If he was so narrow-gauged as to care nothlnr for tho common enlightenment as to Inalienable human rights of all humanity, which alone can produce mutual justice, peace and happiness. He did not even give humanity his worn-out rubbers. Tha "secret treaty ot Verona" gang needed them. An American worthy of the namo will give his life even If necessary for the common good, for Inalienable rights secured In the only possible way In which they can be per manently secured, through government of sane people, by sane people and for all peo ple, and not merely for German breweries and hyphenated traitors. If such then are recalled by their own States and denounced by at least two-thirds of the States they should be expelled from Congress. If Con gress can do no Important and essential business whatever on uccount of them, then loyal Senators and Congressmen should leave tho chambers and break the quorum until Americanism can In some way be re deemed and every individual citizen set free from gum-shoe stickiness. AMERICANISM. Pottsvllle, Pa., March 8. HOME RULE IN A NUTSHELL To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Your editorial today puts the Irish situation into a nutshell. AH Ireland wants, and all she has asked for years, Is to be ac corded the same rights that Canada en joys Let England give her these and the Irish problem will have been splved. Simple, is It not? !OLLIE MAQUinii ' Germantown, March 9. PRESIDENTIAL DICTATION To the Editor of the Evening Ledger; Sir "B.," In today's Evenwo LiDOEn, Is absolutely correct. It all depends on whoso ox Is gored. If last week's filibuster had been directed against the Adamson law the President would have gone Into a flt and Wall street and its call-boy editors would have had hysterics. But the affair was noqa filibuster strictly, it was the fearless expression of a dozen men against converting the President ot the United States Into a Westernworld Czar, if tho President had asked merely for au ihorlty to arm merchant ships, there would have been virtually llttlo or no opposition, nut when he asked for the power to use other Instrumentalities,' without a single hint of what those instrumentalities would SI be, simply asked too vmuoh simply i. . m ,k.. h 'lkU7.id laMMJra.liva nt mb si m?' - --wv-rcTr .r ' ..... "-. --v.-.-----':;:?l M ,--' ,iz,r i-.-i1 Sl!Cv i.Jrc.i Jji----,i5:.- . ; ;;.." 'iL.-iQT.v:-tcjr-h v -X , --"r -i- . ONE -MESSAGE HE CAN APPRECIATE tCv .-.-''? .---" .j- V fV Is "up In the air," but the tlmo will come when tlio notions of theso maligned filibus ters tho "traitors." the "Uenetllct Arnolds" ami tho "Judas Iscarlots" of a press will 1m sppii In their true light and appre ciated I" KAIK PLAV. l'n. .March 10. V1THOUT PARALLEL ' ' the Evening Ledger: !- pi'ixon who wrote the letter "A Pci'tu.iiit Parallel'' In today's lssuo Is all uiong. Ills Illustration Is not a parallel. At tin- worst his Illustration could only be a national peril, but in tho recent filibuster the Issue wns an International peril a world crisis for which thero has never been any parallel, and wo hope thero never will he. Ills reasoning Is on a par with those who confound the conduct of tho Allies In tho confiscation anil destruction of prop erty ns on a par with tho wholesale de struction of the lives of noncombatants Tjy Germany. K. S. B. Philadelphia, March 10. COPPERHEADS To the Editor of the Evening Ledger; Sir I not'ee that many newspapers refer to pacifists as ."Copperheads," which is very unfair. The epithet was used during the Civil War as a term of contempt for men In the North who wero southern sympa thizers and who, Instead of going South and assisting tho Confederacy, remained In tho North and bit tho Lincoln Administra tion at tho heel, ns It were, like copper head snakes. Vullandlgham and his fol lowers were so designated. In those dark days there were pacifists and "pacifists," For Instance, Quakers, then as now, wero pacifists, but they wero not Copperheads, for they did not bite tho Administration nt tho heel. Paraphrasing Horaco Greeley's famous statement that "all Democrats aro not horse thieves, but all horse thieves aro Democrats," we can say that all paci fists aro not Copperheads, but nil Copper heads aro pacifists. Some of tho best men In the world are pacifists on principle. Should we havo a war with a foreign Power, ojily those paci fists who would not stand by tho Govern ment would bo Copperheads. The younger people of this generation do not realize what n real Copperhead was when patriots wero Btabblng slavery to death and preserving tho American Union and keeping the flag of this country Beading, Pa., March 8. THE NEW HYPHENATES More Americans, and nmonic thpm .. Chicago women, have been ruthlessly sac- iii;ru ui-i'uuno wiey cxerciseu tne right of neutrals to sail the high Beas. Meanwhile Congress talks, and our menace now Is a new kind of hyphenate the Itepubllcan Amerlcan, tho Democratic-American, the Progressive-American. the Prnhihin.. Amerlcan and the Socialist-American. Chl- t-Uf," J1CI.WU. All Points of the Compass Rubaiyat of a Commuter xevm At night tho Fierce Commuter Car Itomps gayly, asking- whero tho Players are To play at something wnlch ho thinks Is Bridge, I'm glad I don't Commute to where It's Far I Casuals of the Day's Work xxxv WE ABE grieved, In spots, by being called to the necessity. Vlcarlbusly we are, ex cathedra, a crttlo of our super peers Old Mr. Marmlon wasn't more than that when he called Lord Angus by a shorter and uglier name. Desiring, nt tho moment to become critical, we wish to call the at tention of our older friend who runs the Quiz column, somewhere east of us, to the iuui uitii v wo milieu, Bet aown, published etci as follows to wit: "From three-fourths' to three-flfths of the human body is com. posed ot water." Leaving aside, momentarily, the well, known fact that something more than three, fourths of the backbone of certain Senators Is naturally water, wo beg the mercy of the court to depose thus: "To," In and of itself, Is a sort of word which means a movement onward and up ward. If we go to a thing we naturally face It, unless we are cqwards. Therefore "from three-fourths to three-flfths" implies a backing up, or running the other way In which case we are retreating. Thus It appears that we are going from ,760 to .600 a distinct retreat, whether In force of arms or Insulation or effectiveness. Yet, after all, our. friend at the left may pe,nni-'.'' ni'ww. j c y ..-'-'i.",..,vu --i - What Do You Know? Queries of general Interest urtll be answered in this column. Ten auestlons, the answers to uAlch every, well-informed person ahould know, ure asked dafli. QUIZ 1. What nnd nlirre l Chnntiltnw? 2, How do tho (ifrmnns ilfM-rlb "ruthlfsa" aubmarine warfare? S. How many food calories n day does nn adolt require? 4. Ixx-nte TnlMtlne nnd compare Its" nren lth hilt of Tflna. . Who are the "Flrat Hundred Thmmnnd"? 0. Who was the "Waahtnxton of South Amer ica"? 7. Ambassador Gernrd'a homeward-bound ship 1 n r. nnd (. steamship. Kxulaln the abbreviation. H. Who Is the American woman icolf champion? O. Wlmt nre the Hottentots nnd where do they lie? 10. What Honlh American country' Is afflicted Mlth rriolotlon nou? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. A food calorie (also rnlory) Is n thermal unit used In determining the heat-proriurlmc value of foods. It Is the amount of heat necessary to raise one Klloicrum of water one desree centigrade. 2. Grand lule Nicholas, formerly commander- in-chief of the Uusslan armies, commands the Kusslan forces In I'ersla. .1. Uagdad Is the "Arabian Mghts City." 4. President Wilson applied the epithet, "will ful men." to the group of benators Mho defeated the armed shin bill, 5, Dirigible balloons are used almost entirely for obsenution purposes on the western front. C. "Jitney" merchantmen are inexpensive wooden, niotnr-tlrlten shins proposed as submarine blockade runners. . Dr. Cnry T. (irayson Is the President's ploslclan. who has been renominated by the latter as medical director of the nucy, with the runk of rrur admiral. 8. Count Zeppelin planned to make an after tlif-wnr visit to America In one ot his ulrshlps. 0. Bipartisan organization, ns opposed to parti san organization, is effected by two par ties working In co-operation. 10, Neptune was the ltonion name, Poseidon the (ireek name, for the god of the seu. Japanese "Mam" J. T. T. The word "Maru," attached to the name of every Japanese merchant ship and commonly accepted as meaning "ship," has no especial meaning, according to Cap tain TakeBhlma, of tho Japanese steam ehlp Hudson Mart), recently captured and released by a German raider In the South Atlantic. Captain Takeshlma said that the word Is tho survival of a Japanese custom centuries old, He explained the origin as follows: "There are two opinions as to how the custom originated, One of the stories, which I believe is the correct one, is thnt in ancient times the Japanese attached 'maru' to the name of nnythlng precious o'r highly prized, as a sword or a baby. It was first applied to a ship's name about 2000 years ago, when the Empress Jingo sent an expedition to Korea, She added the word to the name of the ship that transported the troops to Korea. Ever slnco then 'maru has been part of the name of every steamship or sailing vessel. It Is never used with the name of a warship." Divorce J. B. A marriage may be annulled In Xew Jersey if either party to the contract was an Idiot at tho time of te marriage Other causes at the time of marriage that cpnstltute grounds for divorce are want of legal age, consanguinity, previous marriage and physical Incapacity. Desertion for two years and cruelty also are grounds for divorce. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Idaho Iowa, Maine and Utah grant divorces for Insanity, and In several other States mar riages may be annulled for Insanity at the time of marriage. A lawyer should be con. suited first ot all. Seating Arrangement L. M. J, Your query was answered on mo TTuumuo ita 3iuruayy SAM LOYD'S PUZZLE itTSTAlYTED in business with ... ., 1 lot of oil andl Ylnegar," said a shrewd . awvwu.wvv.. ...w wvv.,-. nMa cuilinin-.f 1-. six barrels, with contents respectively- -. n -- , ....,.. tniiuuB, ntteen gallons, seventeen gallons, nineteen sal. loris and thirty-one gallons. My first cus tomer bought Hi worth ot each liquid paying twice as much for oil -as for vinegar, and that emptied all but one ot the barrels, which one remained un. tapped. Now see If you oan tell what that remalnlng'barrel ot oil would have brought at the selling price." Arurwer to Saturday! Puzzle HE three-auartors of a pound ..., , iwe-s ( sw -spaesue; one-quart '',, Tom Daly's Cpjumpl ENNTtr MV heart U Hke a tcet 8utiiaV (. . ina house. ' if 11 Maul tirrm nuf 41.- . iorted uAndows at the ' rain n ! An endless, freezing, pitiless Tat. ,. 1 halt Jtnmn. n ."-III TkeJS!Z" that run throu Ji The little tuHsted streets: $ The long, xcide avenues of . .;' thought; ' The dark, crooked alleys tcnereii J ing scarlet secrets I(tC; T, The uAndlng lanes, xchitemti i summer All all are hcavv with the cold tuJ and slush. ', JVo sunshine; not a leaf on any trte '; Xor vet a bud on any waystde Tmi. JV-o idling bird to sing (, ""''. vagabondage; ', .Vo thoughts of stars or dreams ef nUii' iu.uvi or iTOmcjj ;air and rnes ti,, love, them all. t Xomy heart is like a cold, tcet Btnu, in a boarding house. A bully bit of blank verse bv w.i,A Prlchard Eaton climbed to the i0p r, i; j.s coiumn in tne New j-i Tribune on Saturday, although It truV full of "slippery cllum." We mltht pu, over his first gift of nn extra syllabi, J,, "elm," when, singing pontametricalh-,),,? says: , The aummlt elm where T .... . l An endless shadow from the light. MtL It was n. dimming breath ot ameth-it . . upuu tne jmrrur gi ine wina-Swept 104.. If ho didn't repent tho crime further os. On tho other hand or both huidj, u you please let us applaud these lines: ' The world, I thought, had never been u tun, I heard the tinkle of a Mown Ice chip, w The crack of frozen bark within the trte As with the night the day's thaw ttlfTene. -a. SOXO OF THE FLEET A snowball is a pretty thing To celebrate in winter, And so I beg again to sing, A snowball Is a pretty thing t, Jlut ere I'd feel Us icy sting; I'd prove myself a sprinter A snowball is a pretty thing To celebrate in winter. CA8A WAPPJ. 1 Mrs. George Barnctt entertained it'' Jeunc, whose engagemtnt to LteutmaC luncheon at her homo In Washlnrtot', yesterday In honor of Jllss 'Ellle !; James Blair Glennon has recently W' announced. i Eve. Contimj. Sounds like a mixed marriage, W l bridegroom "nice enough to eat," Representative William Murray, of Okla homa, whose namo appears In the officii! Congressional Directory as "Alfalfa Bin," Is one of the lame ducks now In the House of Representatives. Ho was sitting on hut shoulders In one of the big tufted leather settees In the cloakroom recently wtier Representative Michael Phclan, of ilaiav chusctts, came up to him, "Bill," he began, "I want to ask yoa I personal question." "All right. Mike," said "Alfalfa." "tut before you start I want to tell you a atorr. There Is one county In my district that hu always voted unanimously for my election.' The boys all like me down there; but, do jroa know, Mike, that since I havo been defend for re-election not one of those fellows hu asked me what I Intend to do after Mardj 4?" Mike Phelan didn't ask his personal que tlon. t ' Aftermathtcrs She dwelt among untrodden waya And roamed the woods with me, i Till, dazzled by her radiant gaze, I planned a Jubilee. j She did not know and few could know i What that placo charged for tea; J She ate her fill and more, but, oh, ' The difference to me! 5 Ballade of a Backslider (Ted Robinson, In the 'Cleveland Pa Dealer.)' Darling, I am growing old! Yet, before I pass away, ', Shall theBe dimming eyes behold -f Woman hold her equal sway: ' I havo labored for It yea, ! I have racked this bulging dome V T.. nnnfllt. ftlA TTIPn WhO SflV V "Woman's place Is In the Home." Darling, I am going cold Toward the suffrage hlp-hooray; Sliver threads among the gold Seem my fervor to allay. Just as dawns the longed-for aw. 1 1 IB Clear from Jacksonville to jsonw, I am moved to murmur, "NJf; Woman's place IS In the home! I Darling, I am growing bold , ; As my hair Is growing sray! - You may sneer, or you may scold, j But I fear no female fray! ;- When the ladles got too gay i In the days of ancient Rome. Then began Rome's swift decay i Woman's place is In the Home. t t (Princess, privately I pray You'll excuse this little pome: ,i Just In publlo let me bray , "Woman's Place Is In the Homen ' . . ti Plucking an Education In Hanoi i So far the threat of war has, h4 t effect upon the German class. Taw ergy. however, will be used tally JP . struggle with the subjunctive and dlotn expressions oi me iuub". . j,,,1 Class In Algebra are now finish M ir"- tlons. Most of the class are doing fwa work. amm' Th nhvslnlnrv class Is having a WW, ful struggle with skeleton structure, laai Ing the names ot all tne oonee in . Willi mcir luvtiiiuii, ciw. uavtu uutavu nas leu scnout. Marian Tumberlln has entered the, ani . tatvi. rttv M n TodIcs. ! Dear Tom It eeema to me this bunch of e nerheada la strong I Follette SI O'oormen ;-t.t ClRonna .'tm Kenyon VardAman Norrls Htone PEnroae Woftka Klrpy Cummins l.ane and I wonder if there Is anytW" la T superstition apoui -'joi nicnflaVj ii i i ' Valentines like this might be tt&ti to the Vares from various parts of SPniNO CMnDEN STOEETTB HCK I spring uaraen nas in; and scraplags In the I '? lui m Hnos This lis grana avenues dump. -j. All the war from Eighth to Bre Not a cleaner on the lob, M rnua our pockets win may re Take the lucre from our fob. riling acraplpss by the 'rod. So all winter bath It bees. ' if, .jr1 .emnr anwera always aeeni
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