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In Philadelphia end surrounding towna at the
rata of tweNe (II) cente per week, parable
to th esrrlar.
fir matt to points outside of Philadelphia In
tha United Hlatee Canada or United Htatta poa
eoaalons, posttgt free fifty (&0I tenia par
month. Six (19) dollar par year, parable In
advance.
Ta all foreign countries on (II) dollar per
Month.
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Cl'LATlON Or THE KVENBvO LKDOEH
for rniRt'ARi wah ttt i
riillW.lpkli. ir, Marth It, 117
Most iery ono favors capitil pun
ishment for ftles
llflor Muck Adieu Ifeadlln
Our ilreetu don t thow II.
The robin and hlublrd have al
ready commenced thflr a.prM drive.
Gerienl Maudo m rver!n n wHI
known route. It mum now -ad "f$adad
to Berlin.'
We may arm our merchant ihlpa,
but reports Indlcatp that arman plen
5 airmail nilr mpnif u3f
A contention hall for 'iOOO would
b bl(t enouslt to aat li professional
jtolltlctana from rhlhdlphla alone.
"Predicts m of a ?lfth Kmplre,"
Headline.
Slot pople at preaent ar pre
cUctlnsr a fall for thr or four.
Mayb the !atet bunch of flnn
! remitted becau of the vaat lm
proiement In street d'nlnK which th
contractors have ihown. Tlut they havo
not shown It to cltlze-a
We take It for eranted 'hat oqr
dvllliatlon and the white rare ir to b
forever dominant on arth Popl read
history with their ye open and their
brains shut. By the tlm t-t 'hrouh
harkln each other to pfpca w may- din
cover that we hav? nt'rely overlooked
the real peril.
Klfty years In the service of the
State !s the record whlh Hnry Houck
takes with him to hla rav He takes
tvlth Iilm also the affection of tnn of
thousands of Pennsylvania n won by his
genial nature He will doubtle be. a
tradition for many yeari to cm. and
when Uioee who knew him have, followed
him lo rest their children will tell of his
picturesque, career.
Hovernor Edite ysterday Vgred
the bills which will provtdh monv for
ths construction of Mo mllea of lm,
proved highway In New Jersey The
expenditure of funds for this purpos i
real economy meaeur The wildest
ort of extravagance i delay in provldlnK
neceasary facilities for 'he propr con
duct of business. More and better roads,
and no loll on any one of them, would
fc a good program for J'nnylvan.A.
Basdad Is too modn s iy to
Interest the B-ibylonlan tlon it the
University of Pennsylvania Their rec
ords to batk to the uy of Opls which
formerly occupied !, ime vita, izooo
years ago, and they hav a vaa made In
honor of Its captur by a Sumerian Kln
1700 years B. C. The Kln'e name wan
Emflha?-Kuhamna Ht' what he n-tys
on the vase:
He hath destroyed tli rlty of the
King of Opls and the city of the Kin
of Klsh and their Ioty he took away
Hevetal times hi have had "'he
first day of sprln?." a falsi alarm, of
course, but In l few weeks deatlned to be
a reality aa much a reality as the fact
that the dust and dirt evil in still with
us. The tnows and rilns of winter have
prevented the return of diseases directly
tracearjle to dust, but mild weather will
aive Infantile paralysis the chance to
reap a new harvest of death, failure of
the city authorities to take dm tin action
ttyalnst filth will make the fine, dry
aaeatber to com more like a calamity
than a boon.
Correspondents In the belligerent
countries often flatly contradict one an-
t'-. other is lo economlrs conditions which
J prevail titers. The amount of territory
7 I'ijat can possibly csmn under the observa.
ft tlon' of any one correspondent In any of
'' the star zones, or outside of them Is so
u,sry Insignificant in comparison with
ttie whole fields of operations that the
CeMtir safe way lo arrive at an approxlma.
ftetl el toe irvin is in consiruov a com-
aoeate Picture from the mass of word olc
tatree. we aire constantly reclvinr from
fee fronts and more than make a liberal
,eeaVBnn'e for tbe vngaries of the cenaon
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be, first Methodist conference In
t'Ulki ctty 1 yeats ao met imH scenes
4mu atMfeeeMit fromt those whteh (he dele-
1 X0 tM seetHK, ivtinMna! Xoday wf
eV "AM aWHlatlon theaf'WM laaia
ttm ,rnnl M9MBStUi if CavteUr,
AY
The spire of Chrlat'Church dominated the
lower part of the town. Independence
Hall waa one of he most pretentious
architectural structures. There were no
street cars, no electric tras or kerosene
lights. The telephone was undreamed
of. The telegraph was not siiRgested, end
the other modern convenience without
which we think we cannot exist had not
been Invented. But If one could heat
the prayers offered in the first confetence
and reread the sermons preached, would
one find them very different from those
which will be preached and offered this
week? There are some things that do
not change.
ANOTHER FILIBUSTER
""VfUtANIZED labor, through delegates
representing about 3 000,000 workers
and Including the great railroad biother
hoods, voting unanimously, pledges Its
loyal services to the country In th- event
of war.
At the am time th brotherhoods
threaten a strike which would l up
railroads most needed In th'e event of
war
If the lght hours work tn hours pay
law Is not enforced by 6 o'clock Saturday
night It Is understood 'hat th men will
go out. The contest to hav th law n
forced has ben held In fcreanie slnc
November 5, when the railroads Hied
suits to text Its constitutionality.
Decisions of th Suprem Court ar
usually handed down on Mondays It is
virtually certain that th custom will not
bo departed from this wck The flovern
rnent could hale enforced the liw, li-glri
mng January I, but the brotherhoods
tacitly agr! not to demand th nforc
ment until the Supreme Court had acted
the railroads consenting to keep iccount
of the money that would be due the men
If the decision upheld the law
Within a fortnight two grave fallurts
of our governmental svstem have been
demonstrated The same antliuiled pro
cedure which permitted a senate fill
buster to humiliate the Government be
fore foreign nations has been at the root
of the railroad problem I' was ill advised
to pass the so-.d!'ed eight hour law, but
any other law Miat might have, been
passed would havj been written In the
dark, with no assurance that It would
pass the Supreme Court when that body
might chooe to 'onslder it. There was
no way for Congress ard the President
to lenrn whether or not any proposed
legislation wou'd be villd There is no
way to convene he Supreme Court In
extraordinary "csslon to deWde whether
an emergency measure; will stand the
constitutional test. The President re
cently required members of his Cabin' t
lo decide within twent four hours If he
had the legal right to arm ships But
after more than six months and long
after arguments on both sides in an Issue
of almost equal Importance have been
presented 'o the courts the portals are
still closed and the oracle will not speak'
The law being an emergency measure
the court has. by implication Inforrnallv
declared against It. If the workers
strike on Saturday the result will be the
same as If Senators nad filibustered
against this bill aimed to prevent a strike
It would not be so serious If Congress
had pasted the bill to empower the Presl
dent to compel operation of the railroads
In time of war But now, onee more law
and the use of law take second place and
the country has to go begging to h
railroads and their emploe to patrh up
a 'nice until some national organization
of transportation can be legally ac
vr
quireo
The American worker la loyal He has
as much right as a Congressman to
pooh pooh 'ho Idea of the possibility of
war Congress has set him a lamentable
example of how to avoid pieparedness
and how 'o split legal hairs, and h" Is
not lo be slngl'd out for blame If he Ih
no more patr.otlr than hla own 'Jovern
ment. I' Is ell nigh Inconceivable that
a strike will b- allowed to orrur But If
both sldex hold out the alternative sems
to be th-it the Government should en
force the law itie tight hour, wage
Increase law for It Is 'he law of the
land and now In abeyance only through
Informal agreement. One of the first acts
of the new Congress will then be to errf
power the President to operate the rail
roads If necessary, in time of war
AM1KI) IlKASON FOIt SUFFRAGi:
MR HJ-'OHKB'H prediction that as Jong
aa aiiffrnire waa nn iin.Aiifa ..,...
it would divert attention from discussions
Involving matters of national safety
seemed naive as an argument for votea
for women last summer But events have
Justified him In referring the queatfon to
the law of expediency America ap
proarhes Its hour of trial with an added
and vexatious political division.' The He
publican and Democratic parties are not
expected to coalesce and vanlah Into one
new party, and the Women's party has
the same right to continue aa a separate
organization. It will do Its share In
preparedness or In war Just aa the other
minority parties will do theirs, hut with
a handicap that no other party has to
suffer the status of aliens In rcgurd to
the ballot, (
Legislature should follow the example
of Ohio end Illinois and give wpmen the
right to vote for national officers, though
they may still be adverse to letting them
vote In Mate elections In this way they
will give great Impetus to all organiza
tion In which women under modern con
dltlons can help a country jn a elate of
warf The anti-suffrage cause ha not
a leaf to stand on jrf fCnglanrl because the
took argument that women cannot fight
)M4 tope by the board. Modern war Is
JeMftt tn the 'factories, and there Enir-
IS LLOYD GEORGE
OVERPLACED?
British Opinion Divided on the
Success of the New Premier.
Asqulth Watches and
Walts
By GILHERT VIVIAN SELDES
ip'dnl Correijoade Kitting I.t4l"
VONltOS, Feb 20
ADD to the minor mysteries of the war
2. this Item the disappearance of David
Lloyd George
Mr Liojd George entered Into the highest
ortlce of the British Government with a
legend around him like t halo He was
TUB MAN. the papers said so He had
carried Britain through the first days of
the war with his financial rnesrtirea. he
had provided shells when Kitchener broke
down he ha, organized the War Depart,
ment be had nearly 'oh eo nearly 'to
quote l,ord .Vorthcllffej aettled the Ineh
question he had pacified the utrlkers snd
persuaded the labor union , he wa in
plain American the whole how
Mr I.lovd 'Jtorse wen! Into that olfln
and fate played Into his hands btraue the
'erman peace proposals carn a few ilas
later He was choeen to proeecute the war
and to finish It off and Germany rave him
a great chance t, tell her what what
Fate kept on knocking on that door Presi
dent Wlleon s foundings and his address to
the Senate, the submarine menace It, Its
latest form the approach of 'he great of.
fensive the voluntar eervlce stem for
Britain the gret war loan each one was
a chance for I.lovd George Before he waa
Prime Mlnlsltr he was everywhere een
heard admired
nd sinc-i Mi Lloyd Oeoige hecarne
Prime M mster he has made a few ntrrhpr
none ,f 'hetn half so exciting as hi" former
fldiresees, he haa been In Home on olll a
business and he has utterly disappeared
from the public e)e
I am no' atternptine to pupnee 'ne
future The Prime Minister lrtuall an
nourwed 'hat he was eolng tn work on 'he
war and nothing else, he as rnurh as give
warn rig 'hat all the pyrotechnics 'h
Interferes ,. with ither (lepartmente, the
speech's about knockouts and the gcnertl
svslem of ndvernsing were don' with Work
was taking 'he place of publicity
The Moyd Georgu Legend
But for a man if l.lo)il GeurKa temper
and h'Murv 'hie sudden submergence is a
grave tlatiK'r he was made by two tliinxs
eneriry and publieity some people would
ay t was nl energy in publlnty but
the well-informed will tell vou that Mr
Llod Georee 1 really a more capable man
than hts friends seem to think As he iroes
out of 'he publli ry even to do the public
busirees Mr Lloyd George suffers
so vou have in Great Britain today a
widespread opt&lon that the Lloyd George
minlerrv s 'he most -tupendous failure of
the tar 1 do not say that this ts a Hill
versal opinion or a justifiable opinion I
merelv record the fn t that 'hn Judgment
is no' Inn ed o 'he foltoAers of Mr
Vsqulth While Mr I.lovd George himself
remain immune from n'lci-m his sub
ordlna'ee are being bitterly attacked b) the
t-ry press which demanded 'hat Llo)d
George have a fre hand In choosing his
confreres Bit by bit an Itemized aciount
Is being made up against the War ''ablnet
and the ministries connected with It
And hle 'he account 'z b'lng made up
'he legend is suffering Mr Llod Geor,e
was '"hanrellor of the Kxchequer when the
war broke out and gets redlt for the
moratorium for 'he Issue of one-pound and
ten-shllllng notes and so on I recall tin
'one of adoring admiration In the voiie of
a shopkeeper who explained how in two
days 'he whole country was supplied with
the new i-urremy and business bejtan again
Tha' ws Lloyd Georire she said
H happens that tha' was I,ord Iloths-
hlld
It Is quite well known that nearly vcrv
flnsn'lal scheme o' the first weeks of the
war wa ionreved and directed by this
batiaer who slept at the , r asury all the
time And "O on with munitions and with
the Irish settlement, which Is still a Joke In
home-rule circles and with all the other
extravagant claims for Lloyd George The
facte are mti'h more to his credit than the
fancies He sot the rluht men to work
with him and for him. he Is violently honest
abou' the war he understands how to mak
people work and pray for the victory which
he Is sure Is coming But he was never
a superstattsman
One of 'he facta which generally escape
attention In dealing with Ministers and
Government Is that Great Britain Is ruled
bv her permanent officials 'II escapes at
tentlon rlgh' hero In Lngland so It Is no
wonder 'hat forelirners don t often hear of
it ' The permanent officials administer the
law and 'hey see to it that no law Is
passed which annot be adiilnlrtet'd The
ivll service. Is a tretnenious iower here,
but It Is no' advertised there Is a tradi
tion against it And In the ,dr the de
mands on the permanent officials are over
whelming The have to knor everything
and 'o do everything
Change of Ministry Delayed the War
The permanent officials have a hard time
persuading the Ministers to take certain
courses They bad succeeded In planning
out ways and means for 'he next few
months r,f th war aa late as last Novetn
l,er Then 'h Government 'banged and I
am reliably informed the progress of tho
necessary measures was thrown back on
an average of two to three mouths New
Ministers bad lo be persuaded and shown
the ropes, new plans had to be argued out
of existence 1h' total result Is that the
same 'hinge an being done now which
might have been done In December
At 'lie same 'line the. Ministers can't
eem 'o agreo on 'he simplest things One
day e bear that the minimum price of po
tatoes has been fixed The next day an
other Minister quotes 'be same figure for
the maximum price One Minister nays
quite ralmly that the statement of another
Mlhlster has flabbergasted him The Dl
rector of National Service announces thit
ivomen will not be called, and the next day,
after the press yella at him for a day an
iiourues that they will be called Hvery
thing seems at sixes and sevens
-Seems Is right Actually the permanent
officials are getting hold of the jobs again
and the Ministers are falling In with their
methods It Is no' likely that the price of
potatoes will overthrow a Government, Nor
Im It probable that even the flightiest news
paper tan turn on Its trail In less than six
inonltiM By 'hat time the armies In francs
will be hammering away and there will lie
little time for politic.
The dinar, polntrnent with Lloyd George
will continue so long as no spectacular oc
casion arises for him to do something. He
has not taken all advantage of the few
which have arisen so fsr, and he has not
made any opportunities for himself. Some
Say he Is sobered by his office; some say
that he Is hampered by his responsibilities;
tome say that his normal incapacity is
being shown up No one man can tell
the whole truth, but every one can speculate
about the extraordinary turn of fate which
placed Mr Lloyd George so high and left
him there, high and dry, for three months
And then you can begin betting when "the
old man" will come back. Kor Mr. Asqulth
remains In the House, calm and clever and
cool, courteous to the point of wasting his
chances of attacking the man who displaced
him. but missing 110 chance yf letting
Britain know that H. H Asqulth has not
yet been shelved Into the House of Lords.
He Is no belted earl. Ha has other work
to do.
WISDOM
When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things.
And learn that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate;
When I can look life in the eyes.
Grow calm and very coldly wise.
PUT THAT FIRST IN
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THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Tha British Blockade and the
Law of Nations Ireland
and France
Tl it ll'iirlmrit u free to rill trnrtrrt u ho
utth to erpre fie,r optntont on au'dec's of
rurrrnt interest It i fia optn forum, nrul th
rienlFW I "lorr 'laaiiwet no TiaponMihltltl tor
lte t'a of 11 rorrttrfonirntn I rlim mtr
I,- utonril 1u rte same nnd n'Jdrcaa of thf
urKer, sot ecccunrlliy for i ubltentlor). but
runrant" of uool truth
THE HR1TISH BLOCKADE
7o thr I'dUor nj Ihr Firnini l.nlu'r
Sir you sa that " Knglanrt deils with
the merchint ehlps according to law even
though we mav no' agree wllh Hie Justin
of that law Quoting an tentorial In the
New York Kvenlng Mail this Is wlut I
have In mind
e a matter if fact i Is recalled that
Mr LanellK has epeririiallr called the nres
er,i Hrltiah llo' ls'le irjeft-'ilve IINaalanl
Indefensible' II. has said that we could
not Mcfiulee In it without violating that
neutrality which He rhooae to olaerve to
ward the tree nt enemies of Great llrltaln
Me has eald Ihst ne ur healtatlnaly n. Ninth-
ehamplnnlnK of the freedom of the
.. aifslnsl all hn asaall II wllhout
omprnrnlee and at any coat These words
and many more in the same effect are
foun I In Vlr l.analra;a nolee to Great nrlt
aln of Vlarch 10 snl ejrtola-r 21 181S
I should bo Klail lo see an answer to this
Philadelphia Mar'h II M H
III would seem that our original propo
sition Is not affected b the quotation The
liw of two nations never entirely coincide-!,
but that does no' alwas lead to war The
KtKllsh In a grave emergency, changed
then I iw of the sea In a manner we cannot
approve, we prolest and demand that
Cnglind amend her law to restore the
former guarantees to merchant ships But
'hough Lngland has "hanged her law In
a manner whleh we consider unlawful we
must admit that her seizures, etc , proceed
ae rending lo some kind of law For analogy
like the fait that many Democrats have
always held Uiat a protective tariff Is
unconstitutional but they have to admit,
while they bellevo the basic principle of
urotettion l unlawful, that Bepubllcan
Administrations obe every other form of
law In collecting Hie duties They have to
admit 'bat the Constitution and law and
older still stand unchallenged In spite of
what they consider a violation of one aepa
rate phase of the law It la thus In our
dlsrilmlnatlon between llrltlsh and German
violations of law In Hie one case we see
a technical violation harmful to the humane
taw of 'he sea but not subversive of all
law and In the other frank piracy before
which all law would disappear Kdltor of
lh IIvbvino Lrrnrrt J
IRELAND AND FRANCE
To (he Keillor o thr Kvrnlno l.tiUjtr
Sir The letter of Buprecht Schwartie In
jour issue of the 6th Inst was Interesting,
owing to Its half truths He says that Ire.
land always was the friend of France That
Is pretty true Irishmen died for the sake
of France on many a bloody field, but It
would be Interesting to note that on each
eccaslon Bngland was the enemy Ireland
was the friend of France when Kngland was
her enemy, and when, as a consequence of
being Kngland s foe, France was a friend
of Ireland Any country that is Kngland's
foe, by that fact alone becomes Ireland's
friend. Kngland and France are now fight
Inir on the same side, their forces directed
by an allied war council, and when that.
war council meets ireianoa uemanua ror
national Justice with a firing squad, Ireland
has no option but to declare both her enemy.
Your correspondent's suggestion for Ire
land now to help Kngland beat one-halt of
llurope, and then) when this war Is over,
to light England alone. Is Inspiring. ling
land never kept a pledge to Ireland that
she wanted to break, so there Is no use In
wasting Ink on "scraps of paper."
I'ADHAIC LACJAN.I
Philadelphia. March 7.
THE FIGHT AGAINST "DOPE"
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
fjirjust recently I personally made the
acquaintance ot Mr, George I-ong and his
brother, united now" In doing a work that
will tend to reclaim many from the drug
habit, and hl words of regard for your
paper, In Its crussde against the sale and
usage of the drug, have made an Impression
upon me that ,1 know thousands of people
sharef It waa a,t five Academy of, the Pine
Arts, where, among; -many picture. te juve
YOUR ORDER OF BUSINESS, GENTLEMEN
ad i e I was Intr'iduced to him and re
marked H is a noble work you are doing
LIN OLS MBVMIts
Philadelphia, Man b 6
CONFLICT OF AUTOCRATS
fit Ihr l.itilnr of thr .irnlltjl l.rilyrr
Sir -Lngland Is maintaining a professed
ly demociatlr capitalistic order of govern
ment n londltlon whleh autocratically
I' fids to an hi tual autuiraiy Germany ih
maintaining a professedly autocratic soi lal
lettc order of government, n condition which
nutomatli.l tends to an aelual democracy
l.conomlis and not militarism tan thus
bo seen to hej thet embattled ground And
II has been Inter) sting to note how our
various eorta of reactionaries have striven
to hide their intense and nbjeet fear of tbe
Inevitable revolution In the ceotiomlca of
the world that would quickly begin to take
form after any substantial overthrow of
the pienent fiuatioal ejstem of Hnglmd
Thai Is the real IssUe of the hour for
the high ntid inlnhty In out midst who want
to get us Into the war ror a deilslve
triumph to the e redlt of Germany cyin be
logleallv expected to bring nbout at least
a partial fulfillment eif that old Cnglish
nllegoriiil prophecy When the bank of
Kngland falls Kngland will fall, and when
Lngland falls the world will fall ' the
world In sui b n rase being naturally the
predominant existing order of things Hence
the extremely probable prospective advent
of an Immature socialism an event which
rhe writer of this letter firmly believes
lo bo Iridlssolubly linked wllh the second
coming of the great founder of Christianity
CHABLLS C BHODES, JIl
I'hllidelphla, March 1
THE MAYOR USUALLY SAFE
Tn thti Editor o'thr Kirnlng Ledger
Sir Mayor Smith Is most anxious that
the Interned German ships be removed from
Philadelphia As the Mayor Is most of the
time hundieds of miles away from tho city,
his solicitude In this matter is evidently
for the citizens, not for himself
Philadelphia, March 13 FAUL PP.V.
GERARD AND CASEMENT
To thr Editor o thr Evcnino Ledger:
Sir When former Ambassador Gerard
has had a few days' rest at home, would It
be pertinent to ask him to deny or affirm
the charge made In Berlin, that be be.
trayeil Hlr Itoger Casement to the British?
Philadelphia, March 12 INQUlBLfl
THE POTATO
Tho threatened 'boycotting" of the potato
may be regarded as an easy answer on
paper to high prices for the tuber, but Jt Is
not an easy matter to boycott the potato
on the table of the American citizen In his
dally meal It has come to occupy the place
which bread was once supposed to occupy.
It Is the vehicle which carries tho meat
the Indispensable background of the solid
portion of the meal To most Americans
meat is almost Inedible without the potato
Its function reminds one 'of the little bcjy's
definition of salt as 'the thing that makes
things taste bad If you leave It out "
Boston Transcript
All Points of the Compass
Hubaiyat of a Commuter
C
Bock In the Book of Genesis they say
The Kvenlng ami the Morning were One
Day.
To me the Kvenlng. Afternoon, and Night
All help to make a Passing Merry Play,
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But after all there Isn't any Fear;
Kor when, unto my Gateway drawing near,
I know I'll find My Girl with outstretched
arms
To greet me with a happy, "Hello, Dear!"
. .
It was Wank Adams, If we remember
correctly, who told us that the reason why
the midnight train ffotn New York to Phila
delphia was not scheduled to arrive till
7 in the morning, was because It wanted
to stay away a long as it could. Now we
get another twat to the Jest. At midnight,
or thereabouts, we met Frank McHugh, who
saldlie was doing lo Philadelphia, "Why?"
ne asked. "iWvant to do some telephoning,"
he replied. "But why go to Phl!adJphlar
we Insisted, "Because," he sld, "If I
telephone from there to any, place I can at
least Bpd somebody awake." Perceiving
the logic of his argument, Ve decided to
make a paragraph of It.
Writing of symphony orchestra musle. a
aavilnt'ln the Musical Courier sava "Hie
public loveeVolume above elmos. anything
W"VArrlht We've,' iHibHsbt.4 . thxee
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'SJ' -ta.
What Do You Know?
Ou'rlfi of otntitil interest uilt b an$uered
in thin column Tm nutations th nrmwr to
i hich itry v ell informed ptrson thould know,
art ask ft dallu .
QUIZ
About lion many men hate heen recorder!
as killed, HoniiJeil. eat'lured ur mlatlns
alnre the war besan?
It hat la Ihe aulhorlfeel peace and war
slrenslh nt the I nlled Nlates arm?
lhat Is n moaquKo fleet?
Uhere la fbr original home of Ancors rata?
What and where Is q-ieretaro. and how la
the word pronounced?
What la "rrledenaehnatirht." a word new
often recurring In (,erman-r?
In what Mtates are Ihe Ozark Mountain!
How far Is Constantinople from llaidad?
Who Is William J. !?
What are "Hint. lock" method!?
Answers lo Yesterday's Quiz
llnaala'a rrlala la the re. .ill of ehortajre of
cereal., lark of traneimrtallon facilities
for munillona and pro-4,rrman plate.
Mr. f,erard waa a member of the New lork
Supreme t ourt before he waa appointed
Amhaaaador.
Tlata Is ihe llungnrlan Prime Minister.
A hurricane la a violent whirlwind! a gal
a powerful wind, with not as great to
loclly as that of a hurricane,
hut 110.000 ooo.eiOO a fourth of the na
tion's weallh Is, tho estimated total
value of farm lands In the I nlled Slate..
localn la a warning algnali sometimes an
alarm liell.
Ffrrm yimball.l. a Knaatan violinist, la the
hi-ahand of Alma (duck, Ihe noted alngrr,
who waa horn In Kumanla.
"It ." la the ahhreilallan of "rerl.lercd
nurae." aa well aa of "royal naejr."
The karrirn of Kden. according ta arrhe-
nlogl.t., lax In Mesopotamia, between the
rigrla and Kuphratea Itltrra,
flaie-olrt la a small pine, uauallx wooden,
with a, mouthpiece and al or mora hole.
produrlng a shrill sound softer than that
of a piccolo flute.
Senate in Session
a II The Senate, unlike tbe House of
Representatives, Is a continuous body, one
third of Its members being supplanted every
two years by a new one-third For this
reason It Is possible for the Senate, aa at
present, to continue Its meetings, after
the expiration of the Sixty-fourth Congress,
In a special session to confirm appointments
b the President as provided for In the Con
stltutlon. and to dispose of other matters
In which the House has no part 'ro a
certiln extent the Senate and House nre
Independent of one another Under the
provisions of Article II,. Section 3. of the
Constitution, the President "may, on ex.
traordlnary occasions, convene both houses
or either of them "
National Guard
VJUV.Xl) Members of the Notional
Guard enlisted as guardsmen for the regu.
lar period of service aa such, which Is
three years, with three nddltlonal years In
the reserve, They were mustered or trans
ferred Into the Federal service for an In
definite period (possible maximum six
years), and while In the Federal service
received Federal pay The regiments that
have been mustered out of the Federal
service no longer receive Federal pay, but
are paid by the State. Some States, not In
cluding Pennsylvania, paid their guards
men while Ihey were receiving Federal pay.
Easter Eggs
flKNOJ The Information that you wlah
Is of an advertising nature and therefore
is without the scope of this column
Passaic Paper
I. n, V. Newspapers In Passaic, N. J
are the Herald and the News, evening
papers, and the Review and Journal and tbe
Wochenblatt, German weekly papers.
Ukulele
W. It Ac The spelling of the Hawaiian
musical Instrument Is "ukulele."
SAM LOYD'S PUZZLE
JOHNNY paid for three balls and a
top as many pennies as Harry paid
for twelve marbles Peter paid for one
of the balls and eight of the marble
the same amount that Johnny paid for
his top. Then Johnny traded back his
top for lie value n marbles. How many
marbles was the top worth?
Answer to Yesterday'g Puzzle
SUPPOSE A and O are ajsters. The
map In question married A; she dies
leaving him a wUlower. He then mar'
rlee B who survives him and becomes
hie widow, Thug he jnay be said to
. Tom Daly's CrtSr
BpniKa
A. daffodil In a uinduw
A tplath ot vellow oa
And a light in the eve p each " J
-t 1 lumcthtrtu ol j,jy he'd .7..M
A flath of blue through the trtet
A touch of urccn on fh .m '
And I heard your name in , . 3
that came " 1
A It uhttpered of m a
"" nod. il
we saw a bluebird on Cheitnut et
yesterday. We turned arouri(j ,
and an did a tot-nt ..u. ....
tailored suit waa of pale azure sera..
her straw hat -waa of . hue to Jn?''
Kven her shoes were pate blue cJ,i
gentle spring!
I
TO THK JINGOES
Take heed, ye sowers, of the fun',,, !
If we should fall In war's grim tJSLJ
Bemorseful sorrow, ceaaeleas yitnlr. I
The widows, orphans, blind, the ergta,-'
WELLBfH
A Full-Jeweled Face
Buby llpa. J
Teeth of pearl a,
Papphlre eyes f
Amber hslr v
Ivorr """ currnt ti
L BOSTON. March 9 Patrlotlo m- V
fot the na.tern Yacht Club luiSSt
jionaay nisni s meeting lo have Emr.i
William expelled from memb.r.hlp '
with, but It was discovered that lis u
laws provide thst charges agalnu t kL. t
her shall be made In writing and tht -ber
given a hearing. News dlsptich.
Hist' Now Is our chante. Am ,
sincerely trust that President Will,,
reads this column, We would tuttctt
that a strong net. such as eloec.t.i....
use. ha Attached in tV.A .tlt. .. .. .
" " '" iiii5 ejl m
Yacht Club directly over the spot whin'
ine oojeciionaoin memner Is auppofti li
stanch and when the Kaiser annea.. ul
a couple of'Becrct Service men spring tin?
trap ana eaten tne rutniess one,
Pnaterilr 1
4
He came, a wanton, ruthless chlH;
Upon a stack of volumes, piled '
Above my desk he perched and smllel
As though lo gall me (
"I.ook out'" I cried, "you II spin tha Ir4 i
Who nre you, Imp'" He gave a wink.
"Posterity," he grinned ' I think '
Is what you tall me " ,
"Poor boy"' I groaned with deep rrrt: .
' Our waste has charged a momlroui debt t
To your account; why, no one yet
Has dared to weigh It'" '
"Ho, es!" he laughed In sheer delljhtj
"Your debt keeps growing day and. nljbt
But then, ou know, perhaps I might
Befuse to pay It " t
' Behold these noble books " said I. '
Our folk, 'tis true, have pagsed then b?(
But ou on whom Ihelr authors cry.
Are bound to heel them"
'My bards shall sing new songs to ml.
Can tawdry KRllure h puling plea
nevlve these worthless tomes'" scoff 4 hi
"I shall not read them "
'Oh, child" f mourned, 'why get it 3
naught
The maalerworks that Art has xrouibt
The Jewels that our Age has brought
To fill your casket'' '
''They gained their makers fame or palfj i
I'll make some Jewels for myself
r-ach Age must have" remarked the elf. f
"A wide wastebasket"
ARTHUK GUlTEnMAJf.
ADD TRIPLETS
Maid, wife and widow.
Healthy, wealthy and wise.
Fish, flesh and good red herring
Rain, hall and snow ' I
Huu, moon and stars.
The three bears.
T ,A. D.
Deaf, dumb and blind
t ubtic. Evening and Sunday
"First In war, first In peace and firit li
the hearts of his countrymen " E. V.P,
Tin: srniKEiiR
Jn an evergreen tree by the old paries Jj
(toll
The birds had atsrmblrd In rauew
Quite an air of deprcstion hung met I
thrm all j
And the tolce of the chairman im
raucoui
"It U needless, my friends, to explain
why tec meet,"
Said the chairman, a pert little sjurfetc;
"Just tufjlce it to say that ue Mrdt"
fo eat y
m t f-t. .. -J..... ...,a M.nwil .j
Sow, the dame of yon house utci fJ.
spread on the ground 1
A nice breakfast of crumbs evert7,
mornina. &
Put today when vie gathered for trti'
fast tie found 1
All our rations cut on utiioui icarmo 4i
Ho this meeting was called to devise vVy
and means v
Of expressing our sense ol dUpicasr
Anei to urge that our food should cos.
flnue henceforth
'Jo be served in the usual meaiure.
Sow, the best way, I think; to aecos(:
pllsh this end
Is just to appoint a commtuce
" move," cried the redbreast, "our cheir-
man tee scna; m ,i
lie is used tn the ways of the cilv y
-... .. - -. - .i.e.e.a "nht really, V
ijur mo cnmrmuit uu;t-t,,tH, -
for shame I
r think that remark rather shodill-
Is it fair one should bear all the Mastfj
from the damcf
V,, .,! T rt a no 111 a body I
But, ttayl" he resumed, "ft ,'Mj
that's Just pal jfl
The safest to settle the Job in jM
Hena tne reaorcasii una ;, s m
rr-. J.e .., !, iij tired -CI fSeSJ
4c jm m,. -"
robin I"
Hain't No Seeh Animile!
"Heck! ftwaa thus the greybeard spok'H
utien i Din minxin
I would like tcr hear one Joke
'T'aint bin awore on Lincoln.
w'hlch' serves to Introduce h'Ji,h
our mall brlnga us frrfm Washington. '
at. r-t. a i.m. lha PreilO"1!.!
cousin, used to play In the White. H oJ
more than flfty years ago, wnei) - ,
Vtao Lincoln were pais, no -
of how Lincoln waa disturbed by a greaj
outcy near the door of his study. "j
opened It to f,nd Tad yelling -r
out. In exasperation tne itbsiu.-v--
r.-i.J. ....... .-.. ., ,t.e with Tft
ivuuerv wrini. waei uio iii.., ( .a
"He'g Just yelling because he wanw "J
knife," answered Ilobert. " Ja
"Well, give It to him urged J
President . t ?A
"r win nt. .ie" answered
"'ctyase I need It to Wp mysel'
, . "
Tfie only fault we find with thai 4
w.j;awk1si women
ifwrtaaa sua -w mows alstar, A.
MesSiT i" . '"&
whi have given nte (be Trw;
twtntiMr M;jf w w FJ2SLML
' T" rt. ""8 '."MP m wui
ta UeM,IVe't;.jHM((M( J.
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