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MAIV 3000 R1"" Addrei atl communications to Kvmino iatr, Irderendence Sm-art, Philadelphia. imaiD .it tr mitirrtrnn. rosTornca as SCCOXD-CU1IS VitL MATTgX. u , ; i , Dm AVERAGE NET PAID DAILY CIR- tTOLATION OF TMH EVENING LEDOElt rORJMVWS 101.119 PolUdslphli, Monday, Jime 11, 1917 THE WAR, THE LOAN AND THE SLACKERS rrn JU , PH33RBaro men who blind themselves ' "with pettifogging Issues In this prodlg- feus epoch when humanity struggled for a nw birth, ilghtlnp to break tho shack hoof tho pasUand leap into a new nnd prophesied era. They conjuro up visions of ancient Injustice and In the Great fabrio of government find here and there flaw In workmanship. They will not forget It, but close tho gates of their em bittered hearts to tho mighty torrent of good purposo that has tied together In one supreme endeavor almost all tho nations and races of the civilized world. Men with vision no longer discuss whether or not Germany has a construc tive right to use her U-boats for lndls criminate slaughter. They talk no more of Invaded and outraged Belgium, of tho thunderbolts of greed and hate launched egalnst a contented and striving world by a corseted caste of warriors. Those things, In all their awfulnoss, aro recorded facts; they cannot bo undone. But tho ambition that pointed Its Christmas belly toward Paris and Its Easter dream toward another Calvary at London, painted pic tures also of a Thanksgiving In Washing ton. England had been lured to sleep by tho soft words ot Berlin. If America could be held back until ruin and devastation were complete In France and England, if the mists of peace could keep this nation Bleeping until other holy victims had been sacrificed, then would the veteran armies of Prussia, their lust unsatisfied, bestride like a Colossus the Atlantic and drive their heels Into the Western Hemi sphere. Open were tho taunts of Berlin, more and more opon her threats, until no man of understanding, no man with an horizon further than his nose, could doubt that tho day of Judgment was at hand, the final test. Tho lssuo had come at last to this: Wo must help tho Allies to txat back the Kaiser or later stand alone to meet his Imperial Juggernaut. Toe the world to be made safe for democracy was for the United States to ermtrttaln-Tts Integrity and prestige. Lot btrt this Kreat exemplar of democratic practice, topple In final ruin and eons wnttLpas before another experiment of 11m sort could -again be elaborately at tempted. TT HAT Tmcome apparent months ago tbafe there could be no safety for us xoerpt ta battle. To urge that we havo mfbarke6on a qulxotlo enterprise of hu manltarlanlsm Is to becloud tho truth. Kerrer would Mr, Wilson have led the aatlon mto war had he not known that war sooner or later was lnevltablo and that war sooner meant a successful war. While war later might have meant irre trievable disaster. Confronted with such a dilemma, which all thinking men ad mitted, he met the test with tho full courage of Americanism, and, if ho had not met it, Washington and Lincoln and the human race would havo been betrayed and the Institutions they builded and cherished exterminated and wiped from the face of the earth. Why, then, do little men whine and fret and question the righteousness of our being In the war? Why do some of them hold back, not only th'elr lives', but their money, and permit themselves to be ulded by trivial fault-finders in the face of the most mighty upheaval of human beings a recorded era or generation has ever known? We say to men who do not Join heartily in this loan and in thlp fight that they are traitors not only to their country, but also to all the processes of evolution, material and spiritual, through which hundreds of their forebears lived in preparation for this epoch. They talk of universal peace who have it in their bands, if they will but fight for it; for the alliance of nations now grouped against the common enemy constitutes in Itself the surest guarantee of lasting peace the world has ever known. nWWtrbiy patriotic citizens have to go i&J. Jmnk 4t " ;.-v: . ;..' l ! thinking and, brazen Ignoranco which con taminate certain types of people. Tho nation is asking no favors. It has for sale negotiable Instruments worth dollar for dollar what is paid for them. Tho re turns are dodlcated to a holy purpose. Every cent goes for tho defense of Ameri can homes, even though tho battles In such defcnie bo fought on tho red fields of Flanders or in tho sullen waters of tho N'orth Sea. Shall swaggoring disciples of German slaughter swill beer in Indepen dence Squaro and put our women to their scrvlco because wo, forsooth, havo cher ished delusions that wo need no defensp? What will our dollars bo to us If Germans qonflscato them? For what do wo amass wealth if not for tho protection of our homes and firesides? God help tho miser- ablo crcaturo who takes no part in pre venting tho tepctltlon hero of what has happened in Belgium nnd Serbia! God pity tho wretch who hangs back and will not subscribo ovon to a loan! Tho glory and bounty of democracy huvo blinded such creatures. Such rich blessings havo been poured upon them that their brains hnvo becomo ntrophted. They aro hog-fat and hog-active. rpiUS first loan Is going to bo oversub scribed. Men nnd women who tako pnrt In It will hand tho record down with con scious prldo, from generation unto genera tion, a ribbon of honor and a badgo of recognition. To them their children's children will point with pride. So, too, tho tcorn of honest mon in Increasing volumo will empty itself on tho heads of slackers, marplots, misers and copper heads who put a prli-.o on tho nntlon'a head and would barter our institutions for their personal comfort and a bellyful of pap. Not tho least of Colonnl Boose volt's triumphs was his stirring victory over" tho calm of a Philadelphia Sunday. A suro way to avoid becoming a bondsman under Gorman tyranny Is to bo a bond man under American freedom. Wilson's messngo to Russia gives thoso pests who Btlll wonder "why we went to war" but ono rating: They aro pro Germans. Tho dust of Gorman masonry on tho Ypres snllent leaves Httlo doubt of tho "concroto results" ot llalg's terrific mining operation. The happy absence of U-bo.at3 In the Paclflo Ocean Justifies Its name in a way unforeseen by Balboa when ho chrls tened that vast body of water. Germany's misbegotten boastful ncss over her submarines pales Before our righteous prldo in our own mailnes, unsullied by any Ignoble prefix. England's delight in "playing tho game" may possibly account for tho sug gestion of a mammoth football contpst Imparted by her announcement that Hnlg's Belgian advance extended over a width of 18,000 yards. But to a class of patriots In whom the sporting instinct Is less clearly defined tho news of an elevon-mllo sweep Is somehow moro re assuring. Arthur J. Balfour has long been celebrated as a master' of subtlo Irony, as a polished exponent of disillusionment, but hlB declaration that he was moro kindly treated In America "than any man evoi was before" rings clear with all the straightforward enthusiasm of a school boy. America assuredly accepts this grati tude as heartily as Mr. Balfour, onco mis called "reserved,1' bestows It. Tho Bureau of Fisheries' recom mendation of whalo steak as a war diet ought to awaken somo lively gastronomic memories among tho old-timers of New Bedford. Fortunately, they will know how to prepare tho cetacean if tho neces sity arises. For somo of us younger fel lows, without access to their wisdom, the best courso Is perhaps to pay ns much respect to "Moby Dick" nnd "The Cruise of tho Cachalot" as rook books ns we havo long accorded them as literature. The decision of tho Ulster Unionist Council to send delegates to tho forth coming Irish convention is encouraging news. When men from Cork and men from Belfast meet to eettlo tho fato of their "most distressful country" histori cal precedents will certainly bo shattered: but it is just such destruction of political obstacles that will freo tho Emerald Isle. Tho convention, authorized by Lloyd George, will be In a position to blaze an entirely new road to Irish freedom. Bel fast's old obstructionist tactics havo como In for somo hard words many of them deserved. It is evident now that both the North and the South of Ireland, al though still differing on' many points. are at last united by a common bond of patriotism. John Redmond and his constituents havo already welcomed the convention plan with enthusiasm. With both sides thus eager for a solution of tho problem, tho prospect of success can no longer be called visionary. Another Cabinet shake-up In Spain exemplifies tho uneasy condition in a land whose neutrality is constantly re warded by submarine outrages. The mild Prleto ministry, which has now resigned, came Into power when the sharp protests against U-boat piracy ut tered by tho Romanones Government al most threatened war. Prleto, who has been openly accused of pro-Germanism, endeavored to smooth out a critical situ ation, with' notes that elicited fulsome ex pressions of Berlin's "cordiality," followed by ruthless attacks on Spanish commerce. Even Spain, full sick of wars, can hardly be expected to swallow such atrocities much longer. To satisfy tho present Jemper ot the Iberian people the new Premier must assuredly 6e of stronger fiber than his predecessor. King Alfonso is known to entertain sympathy for the Allies, and the most enlightened elements ot the country are In accord with him, flL.4fi nrtlnt ffi thA MrVaLluUtAst A lft2i fcitfwiar lRlh PtW,;; ' ' 1 0t r " v EVEJSING FEATS OF OUR SEA-SOLDIERS Marines Have Seen Wore Real Fighting Than Men in Any Other Service r F THEItn can bo any sjich thing as an aristocracy in this snob-hating country, it Is the marlns corps. For tho only nrlstoc racy in America that doesn't soon get itself laughed at Is made up of the men who do things and keep on doing them. And the American marines havo kept on doing so many things as well as they can be dona that to ba a marine Is to belong to nn order of chivalry. Chivalry suggests horses, nnd horses In connection with service at sea recalls that ancient Jlbo about "horso marines." But it In a fact that ths modern marlns does havo to hnndlo liortca at times, since he Is trained for flotd artillery service, ns well as all tho other equipment of fare on sea nnd land. Ho Is Infantry. , sailor, sharpshooter, engineer, mine-layer, range finder, scout, artilleryman and telegrapher nil rolled Into one. This scrlco Is a lib eral rrturatlon. There Is "something doing" every day In tho year even In peaco times. What a Hoy Scout Is to other boys tho mailno Is to most other soldiers. That it Is tho marines who havo been called upon to do most of tho military taski all tho "lltllo Jobs" Is Indicated by tl fact that this corps has produced tho most dashing soldier In the world, excepting those of tho highest rank whoso names are asso ciated with whnlo nrmles and with wholo phases of a war. Acts of heroism havo put tho names of certain Individuals Into every newspaper In tho world from time to time In this war, yet after a week or two who remembers tho hero'3 name? But in tho score of years that Lieutenant Colonel Smedley Harllngton Butler has tened In the marines ho has ro repeatedlv distin guished himself that tho foreigner, read ing his record, gets tho Impression that tho United Slates has been continuously en gaged in hostilities ever slnre the Spanish War. His Exceptional "Good Luck" Tet his career Is really a typical marine's career What ha? happened to him a score of times happens to every marina onco or twice. Only In his case, as tho marines say, there has been exceptional "good luck." In no other service, American or foreign, could a man havo piled up such a record as this ono of Butler's: In April, 1S0S, ho got tho document which placed him In tho roll of tho marine corps as a Junior commissioned officer. A few months later ho was among tho 600 marines, led by McCalla, who landed at Guantanamo, Cuba, wheie for three days ho received his baptism of flro. At Manzanlllo tho young man, still In his teens, displayed such cour ago In action that as a mark of esteem ho was appointed to serve on board Admiral Sampson's flagship. From the flagship he was dispatched to the punltlvo force which was sent to the Philippines to suppress tho Insurrections on the Island of Luzon. With tho First Marino Battalion ho went through guerrilla war faro against the Filipino?, but in 1900 there camo word of the Boxer uprising In China On tho way to Tientsin Butler earned promotion on the field through a deed of valor which won for him honorable recog nition from the Governments of the United Suites and Great Britain Twice during tho march in China he was shot while In tho thick of engagements with tho Boxer troops. Tho first bullet put him out for only a short tlmo. The second bullet struck him In the left thigh at tho moment that Captain Lemley wa3 struck lp the right leg. There was no ambulance corps nearby, and tho two officers lay near each other In tho field, while a hall ot bullets went over their heads. Butler crawled over to his comrade. With their belts and strips of cloth they tied their wounded legs together, so that tho united left and rlnht formed a crutch for both of them. Thus, hobbling nlong on their Hound legs, they made their way to tho nearest field hospltaly It was In this campaign that Butler went out In front of tho lines and under fire carried back to bafety a wounded (.oldler. For this act ho was promoted to captain and specially mentioned In Congress. The British Government wanted to bestow upon him the Victoria Cross, which few British soldiers receive (It being given only for actual feats ot daring In tho field nnd not for tuccessful strategy), but tho American Government refused to permit him to uo cept It. Served as Spy in Mexico This. It would seem, would havo been enough good luek ecn for an American marine. But Butler's career had only begun. In Nicaragua bo led n column of marines through lcbel forces which had been be sieging the American College for Girls, near Managua, where scores of young women, natlvos of the United States, were quar tered. Repeated defeats administered to tho native Government troops left tho stu dents In a perilous position. Butler and his men battled helr way to tho doors of tho college and effected a gallant rescue. Tho marines were first on the Job at Vera Cruz. Butler volunteered to go out on a most dangerous errand. In the early days of tho operations against Iluerta It was confidently believed by the landing party that war was certain and that the Ameri can forces would march on Mexico City. It was necetsary o explore the country and map out the best route to the capital. Dressed as an Englishman and affecting a drawl, Butler ferreted his way to Mexico City, made maps, charted roads, defenses, etc., and returned in safety. He himself had said that the chances were S to 1 against him. If he had been caught he would have been executed as a spy. Only a couple of weeks ago the Navy De partment announced tho bestowal of honor medals upon Butler and five other officers for bravery in the assault made on Fort Riviere, In Haiti, on November 17, 1915, It was an old French bastion fort with thick walls of brick and Btone. loopholed for rifle fire, The small American force stormed a small breach In the wall. As this breach was the only possible entrance, it was naturally covered by all the defenders on the Inside, The fire of the Insurrectionists was constantly passing through this breach. Butler started to lead the twenty-three Americans through this breach; but Ser geant Ross L. lams and Private Samuel Gross would not have It so. They believed that the first man through would be sure to get killed, and out of devotion to Butler they plunged through the wall ahead of him, There followed a desperate melee inside the fort for ten minutes. This (s not the whole record. Butler will with glory once more. , C'1i LEDaEE-PHILADELPHlA', MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1917 Tom Daly's Column THE MARINE In assorteM shades of green You havo painted Tho Marine, And a deal of yarns about him you've been spinning; Ho ha much to say to you Of his red and white and blue, So he'd llko to havo your car and take his inning: "Dick of Freedom' earUcut attmmer, When the night teas never dimmer, And before the light of hope upon tho mountain top u-as shed. There were men whose steel flashed splendid When the long black night teas ended And the sun looked In upon them 'round tho Nation's trundle bed; And in that clcctrtc air, IVifi the laurel in our hair, 11'e Colonial Marines, of the victor forces drnns, We were there! When the ships of Jones and Barry Rallied anvil forth to harry And to take the proudest vauntcrs of the British navy's might, When that most belov'd commander To the foe's demand "Surrcndcrl" Made his lion-hearted answer, "We have fust begun to flghtl" Who were first and most to dare In the battle lantern's glarcl We, as landsmen or as tars, still the myr mldons of Mars, We were there I In those sailing ships of'uondcr, When, with taffrall seething under. From the gun-decks came the thunder of a broadside dealing woe; And u.-ith Perry, Hull and later With the dashing young Decatur, In the war wherein no waters saio our yielding to the foe, We were not rfcuforZ our share Of the battle joy so rare; For the casing of our spleens, we am phibious Marines, We were there! Out of Iron ships were hollowed In the leaping years that followed, And they've changed the style of fighting, but they haven't changed the men; Shalt we, first of Yankee, yeomen To repel those ancient focmen. Let an ocean stay our vengeance, if it failed to stay it thenT Kay, in France the ever fair When Old Glory takes the air. The ubiquitous Marine, ns becomes the fighting dean, Will be there!" THE OLDEST and the finest specimen of Styrax Japonlca in this neck of tho woods is In lull bloom at this moment in the old Germantown garden where It was planted by tho lato Dr. Daniel II. Brlggs. Tho doctor began the practice of medicine in his native town of Norton, Mass., but his own lack of health put a stop to that and turned him to the gentle nrt of gardening, and to make his bread nnd butter on the sldo he began tho manu facture of lantern slides with collodion wet plates at the same time that Langen helm In this city developed the albumen process. That was In the early fifties. When Doctor Brlggs came to Philadelphia In 1870 he turned his business over to his son nnd went about tho moro important work of laying out a garden. He filled It with strange experiments and almost completely covered it with poultry wlro to keep out tho neighborhood's cats. His wifo waged a steadily losing fight for room to hang up the Monday's wash, and nil tho while sho was compelled to intrench herhelf against his next most virtuous vice. Ho was a book-drunkard, as he himself admitted, and was wont to frequent upon ungardenable days the becond-hand book saloon of ono Rigby, on Arch htiect. Meanwhile, tho strange bulbs nnd seeds and cuttings ho burled in his garden camo forth ns wonderful new orchids und other bits of plant beauty not quito llko anything ever be foro produced in tho neighborhood. But the kindly old man passed away twenty 5 ears ago and tho olden glory of his gar den has faded. But today his Styrax tree is In full dress, the white bell-llko blos soms, millions of them, swing in regular lines under tho branches and are even now beginning to drop upon the ferny plot3 below that ho so loved; and a black cat drowses upon the very window sill over which tho doctor was wont to slip the newly acquired book his wife would have been suro to conflscato If ho had at tempted to carry it boldly through the front door. The boys' choir of St. John's Orphan Asylum sang for the prisoners at tho Eastern Penitentiary a couple of Sundays ago und Inspired B 8266 to send to the Catholic Standard and Times a poem of appreciation, of which those aro tho closing lines: O elad note! and cay note. Aneros a smite oenmu ins icara, There's the bny's heart still In the most of us Persisting through the years. Ths dreams of nur youth ara with us still, The shlntns goal Is Just over the hill, Boms day we'll reach It. It Clod so will. And we be true to the best In us. O Kolden lads' and happy lads. Whate'er the Bwlft years bring. God grant ou never know such shame. As ours to whom you sing: May you ne'er falter In the light. May you ne'er choose aught but toe right, KP our fores to the light, And sing for us again. THE YOUNG WOMAN across the aisle from us was telling her companion about a patriotic luncheon she was going to give on the morrow: "My dear, It may seem in one way ex travagant, In these trying times, to spend so much for a social club luncheon, and Lucy, who Is always saying things Just to be mean and not to really help you know her kind thought we ought to take the money and give It to the Red Cross Instead; but since the luncheon was to be at my house this time I had the say, so I fixed it by promising that all the decorations and everything would be extra patriotic. Don't you think that was a splendid Idea? Yes, and I'm going to mako lemon snow tonight, and I do hope It won't bo like the last time, be cause the red ants got Into it" That wasn't all of it, but it was enough to make us go up into the smoking car, where we composed this little personal: If Young Lady who fears visit of red ants to her lemon snow will ar range to paint every second ant white and., tryery third one blue she will BBIU. mmi'JtM l n-ll-IJ. t... -ft JUiBaamcH, W . '' jw7)MW'iiWS9t'SmL ".'x """"uriina.rn.Twr - ' P?Mm!!twdfiy tre .IfXr'L "Sltftjl?) 'irTWiP)-rf'iit,tl(irft',.liJ"""'!t'llrwwia,. , THE CAUSE OF PRISON RIOTS "Father of the Honor System" Describes Some Jail Ex periences By EDWARD MORRELL ilr. llorrtll is the father of tht "Honor Sy tern" in prllonsj, note n effect in far urttiri States. We t tile "oHolnol" of Jack London's "Star Rover" artd Vpton Sinclair's "Dungeon Han." and Has at one time a yunlor member of a fcand of California train rob&erj. I HAVE been asked by many serious minded persons hero In Philadelphia who are interested In tho prison movement, nnd no doubt anxious workers for better condi tions In our coirertlonal Institutions, espe cially along the line of tho new Idea for State prison farms and the Introduction of tho honor system, to explain or give somo opinion upon the causes underlying tho trouble, riots and prison mutinies itt tho Jollet Penitentiary In Illinois. 1 am very glad of tho opportunity to say something upon this matter, because If there Is one phase of our prison question that 1 am fa miliar with It Is this very vital matter. Beforo touching seriously upon what I consider the troublo at Jollet, let us can didly examine tho points complained of by the warden of that Institution. In all well conducted places of Incarceration ono of tho most carefully guarded and conducted de partments of n prison Is tho matter of the Interchange of correspondence between a convict and his free correspondent or correspondents. Every letter received or sent out of such an Institution Is rigidly lsced and censored, and it Is cmo of tho strictest rules of such nn institution neer to allow an objectionable letter to be either received or sent. Therefore, I ark readers to weigh this point well, nnd If such a lax condition prevailed at the Illinois peniten tiary, then I ask In all fairness where the responsibility for such a cond'ltljn should rest: Upon the convict or the con vict's custodians? Such a bill of accusa tlons or complaints will not and should not be taken seriously for one moment The Mess Hall We read. "For some tlmo there have been reports of lax discipline at the prison, and conditions were tho subject of a recent Investigation by a legislative committee." Note this point: "At 7 o'clock, breakfast time today, dishes were hurled at tho guards, tables overturned and the convicts surged into the grounds shouting and making threats. They grabbed what mis siles and weapons they could, nnd nt 10 o'clock they set fire to the prison build ings." That word "the mess hall" sum marizes the crux of all prison troubles, and I will hazard the assertion that the causes ot the Illinois prison mutinies hinge around that storm center of all prisons, the mess hall. I have In my prison experiences been In volved In at least seven serious prison riots and mutinies, nnd on several occasions I suffered the most Inhuman nnd unmention able tortures that were Inflicted upon me for being Identified with Buch, I, presumably, being given the credit as one of the principal agitators and ringleaders. One such expe rience will suffice: San Quentln prison, Call fornla. Is one of the largest penal Institu tions In America. At tho tlmo I have In mind that place was conducted ns a political adjunct to the party then In power In that State, and the said prison was .used as the dumping ground for the political hench men, hacks and chair-warming bums of that administration. Conditions were atrocious. From the warden down to the lowest ond moat brutal guard Incompetency was tho order of the day. The etralt-Jacket dungeons were full to capacity. SUbblngs and killings were com ,mon symptoms o the internal troubles at ht vast institution. Human and publlo ,s)rl eXlMM protested, ana eownlalnt. Vmmet Metered, with Ota' fteirsrnta of THE FINGER OF SCORN the State, to the end that at last a legisla tive investigation was demanded. At lha time set for this committee to commence Its work everything was In readiness for Its nppoarance at San Quentln. For several davs and nights previous to this Investiga tion the warden and his satellites worked overtime. All day and all Dlght long they interviewed. cajoled and threatened (where expedient) those convicts who were marked ns leaders and agitators. Every method known to old prison-hardened gaol ers was resorted to, to the end that when the legislative committee appeared the prison assumed the dark and sinister air which ono should feel in a beleaguered city inai nan neen starved Into silent submis sion. A Prison Riot Of course the Investigation proved a farce, and after a liberal coat of whitewash had been applied, the public press roundly berated the unfortunate convicts as a lot of churlish, unruly dogs, and It was recom mended that the diet be curtailed, privileges denied and a more harsh method of prison discipline should prevail. In other words, the onus of tho burden of all the State's troublo must rest upon tho State's victims and not upon the Bhoulders of the real re sponsible culprits, who were prostituting, not nlonc their oath of office as servants of tho State, but putting to sharrro the great Commonwealth of California. Immediately the convicts realized that no ledress could be expected for tho terrible conditions under which they were trying to exist riots broke out, the most serious of which centered In the large Juto mill Indus tiy Nearly 900 convicts worked In that place. They took possession of the mill and held the guards and officers as hostages until some satisfactory promises could bo made with the officials of the State. I spoke to the 900 convicts myself,, and pleaded with them to bhow by their action and conduct where H19 real cause of the troublo rested Thcto was State property Involved and In Jeopardy to the amount of more than half a million dollars. Some of tho more Irrespon sible convicts urged the firing of the mills as one of the best means of bringing the whole condition before the public. I pleaded against this Incendiarism, and as a result not even one dollar's worth of property was destroyed The .warden compromised and instantly th mutiny ended. That night, when we were all locked in our cells, the real prison mutiny began, so far as the public could Judge. Hundreds of the so-called ringleaders were singled out for torture. Tho warden called tnr Ktn help, and companies of militia were dls patched to his aid ana the prison was placed under a state of siege. Martial law prevailed in every respect. No one was allowed to enter or leave the cordon or dead line thrown around the institution. All Information and news leaving or given out to .the public was carefully censored. For my in preventing the loss of more than half a million of the State's property I was rewarded by the following treatment. Along with four other unfortunate convicts I was stripped naked and thrust Into a narrow little cell that was supposed to bo even grudgingly small to hold one convict. The cell was bare, and after the door was bolted and locked a largo fire hose was thrust through the wicket or narrow aper turo In the door. The force of the water was strong enough to kill a man if It struck him squarely They flooded the cell dntll we were covered to our very chins. We were left in that condl tlon whllo the water slowly filtered through the small seam at the bottom of the door It was several days before we could dare fall to the floor and rest our cold, shiver. Ing, drenched bodies. We were left In that cell for thirteen days before we were car rled out helpless. All the time the ring leaders were being reprobated before the public by the administration newspapers I have carefully studied so-called prison riots and mutinies in various sutt.cS tho Union. And I want to say that "her ever such have occurred the fault may surely rest with those in charge of such P aces. And I can sum up the Jollet trou. ble 1 In a very few word, by saying that un 1 we completely divorce our Public In! stltutlons. and more Mini,i..t,, :..' . " nrirl".iL.n'v.m. .S.ftrtlS: in charge" ormen Vho" are "MTS morally qualified to hr,M VL .;?'' ?.n.(1 positions, we may look for .uch sporad symptoms to flams forth m aJTinSSKi- What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Uliat ereat literary genius was born oa tbli day? 2. When was the nearest approach fa s "morle" made? Uy whom? 3. What year ot the Japanese era Is this? 4. What was the approximate rolt ot tin Panama Canal? 5. Who ellted and what was the first eollrtl paper? 6. Where did the phrase "Almighty Dollsi" originate? 7. Who was the "red shirt hero"? 8. What rare killed Its male children? D. What Is tho derivation of "Amen"? 10. What Is "a iuensa et thoro"? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. The 400th anniversary of the Reformitiot will bo celebrated October 31. 2. Ciar John (Iran) IV of Russia was csHei "Ivan the Terrible." 3. William Can-- wns an English Orients! scholar who spread the Gospel la tbi i-.ast inuics. The first hatt'n of thn Crimean War u if It ought Sentember 20. 1R.1I on the AMI '1 Kler. half n between Eupatorls su il bebastopol 8. Tho "Stuffed Prophet" was Crover C1T- f 1 fl. The Danube, Rhine, Rhone and To Klten rise In the Alps 7 On December 24, 189!), a clIfT on the slum .1 of the city nt Amnltl, In the prolines sf II Salerno. Italy, slid Into the sea, csmj inK nn nnricnt caineurai, monaitrrr other buildings with It 8. Amalgam Is the union or alloy of anyBtsl with quicksilver. In dentistry a so-csllH "klher" or amalgam filling Is one n hl.l. -.11. .1 ---.. . .m.MuJ nnini nutrt miiu inrrvurj uic ,UUii-fc n. ThA Amnll u,r, mmhrs nf u family tl. Cremona, Itnly, makers of the famooif. Cremona Tlollns. y 10. The Amaton drainage basin has an srtsj or z.sihmxhi square mtti, AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY Austria and Hungary (or as In Inter national relations they are officially called, tho Austro-Hungarlan monarchy) are tw States, the Austrian Empire and the Hun-i garlan Kingdom. Tho relation between th two States In Its present form was fullff regulated by the so-called compromise oil 1867. According to this agreement, tht two States are perfectly Independent of eidi 1 other, possessing each Its own constitution. Its legislative power nnd its exeditive- de partments for most branches of SUti affairs. But there Is, of course, a dos po litical connection between them throuik the Identity of tho sovereign The head of the monarchy Is known M nit emperor 01 Austria unu niwawnv - of Hungary not the Austro-Hungan Emperor, as he Is sometimes Impropwlf, called. The crown Is hereditary to rojlej and (on failure of males) to females. TM monarch must be a member-of the Romu Catholic Church. . . ... 1 c-.l.fl ine arcairs common to tne two oi- ar foreign nffnlra mllltnrv and nlVi' affalra. And flnnnoA rlntlncr to these Blat ters administered In common LegktfiUj ,1 power relating to the whole dual raoauca l exercised by tho Parliaments ot uv oiaies, wnicn. lor purposes ui , ," : agreement, are represented by aeles",t7 which form a sort of super-parliament S members being chosen from the menwrj Shin of tlie Almtrlnn nnri T-Tlincarlan UPPH and lower houses. The delegations 'jf summoned annually by the Emperor-Kwf j alternately at Vienna, the capital 01 avj iria, ana at Budapest, the capital oi --. The Austrian Parliament is called ttj , iieicneratn. The upper nouso Ilelchsrath Is called the Herrenhaui. J ouusb 01 ijoras. in it sit tne nuu -distinguished citizens nominated by the Era; peror and archbishops and bishops, aw lower house is called the Abgeordneteono The members are elected on the W -unlversal, equal and direct suffrage. T Hungarian houses ara similarly constitute and are known as the House of MaTt?l (or Lords) and the House of Jteprwar tatlves. am teiivn vrT SAT.B While we are buying Island. M M purcnase ia uobernadora jn me ocean. 100 miles from the Panama vjj it is nve mnes long, wen watw. ana jor, sale, it n not claimed to 1 W ''p-'ffWW V."'' ,Wf,M'"' - , "lf IBTIss,' , r ! v sMrWTiWy7E( Ao 1 iniw. j. -ji
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