?v t.'. EVENING T.rtJiPHTLADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1917 i Y r. r' W TC I . . 7 . w j- i..V s- PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY emus ii k. cunns, rmipmt Cfarl. K. Lodlnsten. Vic PrMldantl John F. Martin, strrttarr ana Traaaurari rump fl f-amnt. jsan II. wuiiat T. II. Whal.r, Director. imi, John J ffpurivon KOiTontAK uoAnrii Ctidi It. K. Cl'illl, Chairman. r. It. W1IALET . Editor JOHN C. MAltTlM H.n.ral limine Hariat.r IDbllahM aallr at rustic Lamia nulldlnr. Indtptndtnc. Bquara, Itillad.lphla, Z.tDi CarriaL. , tlroad and Ctiaatnut tral Athktio ClTT . .. rrff-Vnlon nulldlnc flaw Tots .. , 20A ltropolltan Towtr IUTaoiT... , . i , .. ...403 Ford IlulMlna Br. Loot...., 100 rullarton Hull llnar CMieiao ........KU2 Tritnuf Building NEWS DUnBAUHl WainDcamK Ticscje Ictrra Tlulldlnr Niw Tosa Ilea tin . . .Th Tlmtt tlulldlnt JlarLljc ntmo . ... . ..HO frladrlchnratia Losiios HcasaD, Harront lloiiaa. 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SOME INSIDE FACTS AIIOUT TRANSIT TN THE mayoralty cnmpalRti of 1B16 a polUlcal agreement was entered Into to the effect that, In the event of the lection of Thomas U Smith, a Director f City Transit acceptable to the I'. 11 T. x-ould bo nppolnted When the time came to carry out the agreement thero u ft division among the officers of the company. One body of opinion faorrd the retention of Director Taylor on the" ground that hla view were well Known and that he wan advocating a fair and square operating agreement Tha ther and dominant body of opinion fa vored Mr. Twining, for reasons reflecting In no way on hla attainments. Integrity or character. We believed at the time 'that the com pany had tricked Itself when It put Its O. K, on Twining, whose general com petency was obviously far greater than that of nny politician and whose profes sional abilities wore pronounced nnd well known Wc felt that the Incorruptible honesty of tho new Director would more than compensate for nny deficiency In his vlsita The Mayor did not know Mr. Twining, but he summoned him to a conference at the Adelphla Hotel At that conference Mr. Twining pointed out that lie una neither a public speaker nor a politician, and he acquiesced In an agreement to the Jffect that as Director he would concern himself solely with engineering piohlems and would leave to the Mayor himself all matters of n financial or political natuie that might arise TJIVBN before Mr. Twining' appoint ment P. R. T englneerH had pre pared a bobtail transit plan of their own They hoped to put It through by Intro ducing a red herring In the form of n hue nnd cry thnt City Hall would col lapse If subways were built tinder it This company plan reached the Mayor. He aummoned Mr. Twining, who was sym pathetic toward It. He changed It In ome particulars before offering it to the public, But tho Important point Is this It did not originate In the Department of City Transit It was labeled a Twining plan, but It was a P. It. T plan At thnt time the Mayor announced his irrevocable decision that no subways should go under City Hall. Public opinion compelled n change of mind. He was driven to cover. The May loan then came along It had been the Intention of one faction to knlfo Jt. but the necessary funds were not forthcoming and there was little organ ized opposition, except In Dave I.nne'a backyard, Uy October nothing had been done. Trices were rising and conditions becom ing more and moro unfavorable, but no bids for new work weie published. The patience of the public was exhausted. Accordingly the Major Instructed Mr Twining to draw up a lease and offer It to the company. That was the Mayor's lease of October, 1916 The administra tion has since admitted that It was u fnke and had no sincerity behind it. It was offered, we are now told, to fool and quiet the people. A few weeks ago, however, the company was about to accept It, whereupon the administration rushed pell mell Into a councilmanlc committee and had It killed. TTF TO November of last year, then, It ' Is plain that every moveifetde by the Mayor waa a move favorable to the P. R. T dictated In two out of three cases by that company. There was nothing dishonest about it, we believe, there being more evidence of stupidity, due to an Utter lack of understanding of the situa tion, a lack of understanding that still exists. TOLIXlWINa the disastrous reception " accorded Its previous moves and re alfting that It could put nothing over on the public while Taylor was on guard, the P It T then opened negotiations with the former Director, In the hope that a lease could be formulated which would meet with hla approval. Conferences wero begun, They ended quickly because syinrafltly irreeenpllapte differences of Mr Teykr had boen ment, when dealing with a virtual bank rupt, than he waa willing to be with n company which had begun to show large earnings. The whole transit situation wns In a stalemate. In these clrcumstamcs, Mr. B. A Van Vnlkenburg, editor of the North American, telephoned one evening to Mi Hallard and to Mr. Taylor, expressed his regret that they were no longer Hi negotia tion and urged that they meet once moro in his office, which km neutrnl territory. They ngreed Mr. Van Vnlkenburg bluntly told Mr Ballard that the prcis and people would Indorse no lease that Mr Taylor did not npprove, wherefore' the company might ns well pocket Its pride nnd satisfy the former Director Mr. Van Vnlkenburg nlso laid down n principle of equity to guide the flnnnrlnl negotiations, quoting ns his authority many decisions of the Interstate Com merce Commission nnd Fttnlo Public Serv ice Commissions Tollowlng thnt rule in many subsequent meetings, Mr Taylor and the compnny were able to come to nn agreement. It was nn ngrecment thnt represented long and p itient labor, pa triotically performed, and also, In many respects, the greatest of nil the triumphs won In tho cause of rapid transit by Mr Taylor. Some feature of it we did not like nnd would not Indorse, but its essen tial merit wus disclosed when Mr Twin ing presented twenty-three objections to It. many of which wero minor nnd e.isy of correction, nnd only ono of which was vital. rrmn Major had known of the ncgntln tlnna going on between the company nnd Mr Taylor He hnd not been antag onistic to them Suddenly, however, from Jthe chrysalis of passivity merged n full- armed glnnt, who announced himself in loud language to bo a rhamplnn of the people, who would smite this fellow Tay lor who had become spokesman of a spe cial Interest in opposition to tho public weal' This attitude was ridiculous to citizens who knew Mr Tajlor nnd stopped to think of tho herculean nnd devoted service ho had given the people Ills lease might be bnd In spots, but It wns not a P H T lease, or a trlrk lense, nnd its text was dear ns ervstnl nut it was obviously to the Interest both of the com pnny nnd of the politicians that Tay lor's Influcnre bo undermined nnd he himself discredited So r campaign with that end In view was launched They even baited the former Dlrcctoi by urging a lot of drastic legislation, knowing thnt Mr Taylor would have to oppose It nnd bo put In a false position, because he hnd given his word of honor that If the eom panv made certnln ltnl concessions he would suppoit tho lcjiKC with nil his power nnd oppose nny measures of a re taliatory nature pioposed The Mayor and his advisers did. Indeed, succeed In temporarily undermining the leal cham pion of trnnslt Thev bid something to shoot at nnd they did not Intend to miss the target All well nnd good, perhaps; but while they were spending their time disci edit ing Mr Tajlor, the transit situation was getting more and more muddled They were succeeding In arousing old preju dices and destroying tho good will tho company hnd built up during several j ears of Improved service under Mr Stotesbury. They were giving out the Impression that a fair and square lease was imposslblo, which was not true, and they were talking of Independent opera tion and a new transit company to com plicate still further the situation and give gang ro'lticH n new lease on llfo In this city They began to have visions of curing the transit crimen of past genera tions, nnd they built up nn imaginary structure of their own which involved the expenditure of millions and millions of dollars more than Is now contemplated or than the clt has any hope of having nvallable Thej got so close to absolute demagogy that If their hair was not singed It waa by the mercy of Providence. "ITrn HAVR no disposition In the present ' ' exigency to harass or embarrass the Mayor nnd his advisors In nny practical scheme they may have for untangling the Intricate knot Into which they have managed t,o tie the transit program. Mr. Taj lor had provided a Chestnut street subway In caso terms with tho company becamo absolutely Impossible. The as sumption that a leaso Is impossible, how ever, U purely gratuitous. Thero Is little probability of nn ngreement, it Is true. If Director Twining and Mr. Lewis write Into the lease they are to get ready many of the visionary proposals which thoy have at different times brought forward. If they are willing to write n David Harum lease, In which the other fellow also gets something, they can quickly bring urder out of chaos. But thej will never help transit development by throw Ing transit funds Into politics and a gen eral jackpot in the expectation that by so doing they will gather a few millions for a pet hobby. What wo are after Is a transit sys tem In operation. What delay does Is to strengthen 'the financial position of the company, permit It to capitalize the mu nicipal growth which was depended on to finance the new lines and' enfeeble the municipality little by little, Mr. Lewis, we understand, advocates Ruing right ahead with the construction program. That la impossible. Nobody but a mad man would j award large contracts at present prices. It would simply mean jHtlng th contractors' pockets. Doubt- Um ) TubUe rviq Commlwioa jvill grant a certificate of publlo convenience. for anything tho Mayor wants, slnco Com missioner Magce has taken It upon him self, ex ofllrlo, to dictate the city's policy, but tho public has ory little confidence In a Public Service Commission that re fused to permit the city to tako advan tage of excellent bills for work In the heart of tho city, although authorizing It at tho same time to build nn elevated line through miles of vacant fields, a pet hobby of the Maj-or's. The Prnnkford lino to Bridge street should be rushrd to completion nnd op eratod Wo have icason to think that there Is no necessity for municipal equip ment of it, but that a sultablo nnd tem porary leaso with the P It T can bo effected, if icqulrcd WIJ DO tint believe that the business lendnrshlp of Philadelphia inn afford to permit the continuance nny longer of the deplorable condition now existing In deed, Director Twilling is on record ns snylng that the only problem is the rnto of fare, that given the equivalent In rev enue of seventeen tlckits for a dollar, he can adjust nil differences almost imme dlalelj, hullTl nnd pay for the cntlro svstem. ns planned, ami show little If nny deficit More, ho would bo nble l reduce the faro within n few J ears Ills real contention Is thnt the rider ought tn pny the full cost of the service, while Mr. Taj lor contends that tho live-cent fare should obtain fiom the beginning, to bo met by ccitnln offsets nnd the stiiplus of Inter j ears This Is tho crux of tho whole situation, nlthough It lins never been so cmiihnslred tn the people Dlrertor Twin ing will bear this nut If nnv citizen Is In quisitive enough to nsk Whv. then. Is It wlso for public servants to Attempt to settle the problem nlong other lines' Whj not be frank nnd say to the public. The service rcndcied by thn new svstem will be vvoith moro than a nickel, do jou wish tn pay a temporary transfer chnrge for n short period of jears or do jou wish to meet tho deficit by offsets nnd repay ment from future surplus' Insteid of a straightforward nnd true statement of thnt sort. Issues thnt are rcaltv red her rings are brought to the front The pro pie nre not Idiots nnd they do not wnnt to bo fooled. w " n nej-. Director Twining and Mr Lewis. composing the board of htintegy. Hint thej abandon some nf tho Impractical si hemes which have been proposed, forget per sonalities nnd tncklo the wholo problem ii new on frank grounds They need not fear putting tho Issue beforo the people in Its proper form Hut tho cniirM they nre nt piesent pursuing will lend nowhere except tn further obfuscntlon nnd rulni tliin Did the people wnnt tho Tajlor method of financing the new sj stein, iih well as his constiuctlon piogruin, or did thej not? If thej did not, let them have an opportunity tn say o and decide in fnvor of tho ttmpornry transfer chnrgo which Director Twining and ntheis think would bu moro fall. To see (icrmanj'H eventual defeat no Lens is necessary, but It ceitnlnly helps "Can tho Kaiser'" cries a New Jer sey slogan hunter. Why not mako It "Crato tho kings!" and complete tho whole Job? If he'd only called it "Man and Vegi table Superman," Bernard Sliavv would have been as great a prophet as he occasional!) thinks he Is. With twentj'-thleo of the StateH "bone drj," beginning jestciduj, the other twcntj'-flve cannot consider paitial pio hlbition an un American Institution. It Is so soon that I am done for I wonilci what I was begun for Kpltaph on a n.iby The Stockholm Socialist conference is over. Tho news that the Crown Prince Is again directing operations ngnlnst Ver dun ought to be tho finest kind of en couragement to tho French counter-attackers. The Ofilcers' Reserve Corps of En gineers has been entirely filled. It Is will to keep little facts like this on tali when the "glooms" begin croaking nbout tsnr time apathy and similar mournful myths Orntnrlcally waving tho American flag "from the pine-clad hills of Maine to the everglades of Plorida" won't do for tho new Fourth of July speeches A ccrtuln staity banner caught a certain welcome breee In a certain 'Trench port" the other day. The ancient formula needs drastic revision and glorious en largement. Not a man was lost There was not even a case of serious Illness. The men landed In splondld morale, with keen, confident and eager spirit The physical appear ance of our men Is truly Inspiring Pershing The phjBlcal appearance of our able bodied civilians at home Is Just as fine, but somehow It Is not so Inspiring. There are about CO.000 places to be filled In the regular army. The precious quality of sincerity was the supremo feature of tho lato Wil liam Winter's play reviews As a critic he felt honestly unahlo to indorse many modern stage developments, and this rigid attitude won hlpi much opposition from a younger generation. As a Judge of good acting, however, no such conser vatism ever marred his vision. He adored the "palmy" da) a of hlstrlonto giants, but his appraisement of the individual per. former of our day was keen and valid to the last. Much ns he hated Ibsen, he felt constrained to laud Richard Mans field's personal Interpretation of Peer Oynt Bad actors feared Mr. Winter Good actors loved him. "phat verdict would be mr honorable epHawSjewT crttifi, 'k, ' Tom Daly's Column TIW MAKU'WLWVi: Bt8Tr,It Thcy'a 'n orphnnt 'iilwrn ncroif our C7Hrr, Am' pot a mnkc-b'Hcie Miter there; .1 dear Utile thinv 'bout four years old, llh Ma blur rjn an' hair Hhe poM An' the sweetcut dimples J cirr did tee When she stands at her iiHndcr an' smiles at mc. Poor, dear Utile thinp ain't pot vo ma IMn I am pot an' no dear pa, Cause she ain't mv reallu sifter 't all. First time I seen her tens 'es Ins' fall Wen uc u us setttn' out front one day, Me an' ma, an' the orphants they Wut out fur their rxrrcUc 'crost the Ufil; lit' last of 'nn all 'at ualkcd in Una Wut 'its little makc-b'llctc slitrt o' mine, Hhc jes' looked oirr at hi an' nnt She ken' on Inokln' open 'n npen, Sorter wondcrln' like o thouph Hhe tin thlnktn' she ouphter know Who wr are, an' aflci a ichile The dear little thlnp hrplnnrd to smile. An' lapped her handi an' erird, "O, lonkl fhrrc's my ma 'at the antcli took. I findrd my ma 'at t thinked iluz Inst! llrlln, my mn'" the hollered nrroif, .In' throned a lh to us setttn' there. An' ma said, "tlootlncsil I do declare I" An' throurd her a Kit nn nodded her head, "ltrllo. Utile darling I" my dear ma AdM, An' throutd more klnes an' nodded some more An' vatehrd her up to the 'lylum door. An' nru iihrn the little thlnp Ment Inside My inn ir ;ei art back an' rrled. ' t night Wen all my prayeri nut said An ma iiuz tuckin' me Into bed She kitted me Ms an' her check u' icct, An' she vihl, "Mil darllnp, ve mustn't forpet At poor little, dear Uitle nrphnnt plrl 'At ain't put no one in all the untl' To lot r an' tn lot r her like ynu an' mc. Jet' think haw thankful ue nunhter be" ,S'o eiery tnoriifn' tttj ma an' me H'r stand nt our winder an' valt till she flett up at her winder arrott the u-ay, A'i' nr ean tell 'at the's tryln' to tay "Hood mornln'. ma!" jes' at plain as day An' my pa tei If tie wuzn't o poor ire1!! take her nut o' the 'tylum sure An' liilnp her oirr tn our noute here. "Jit' valt fin' nf do it yet, my dear," Vy pa he tayt. an' my ma taut, "Dot I'm sine I'm able to taie for tua. In' think f)' the jny 'nt ue all would feel If the make h'lleie uuz only leal." Think of It! U'oiMn'f (I Jet' he finer Vy mnke.h'llete sitter truly mine! Although our eye Is nlwnjs skinned for Jut thnt sort nf thing, for quite n quarter of n ccnturj wo hnd pnssed under the sign, MWE which may be seen upon the wall of the hotel nn Tenth street above Chestnut, nnd hnd never consciously no ticed It The other day an nc qunlntnncc. wish Ing to be helpful, pointed it out to us 119 "funny." Wo cnubln't seo It "U'lmt'H the he demanded At du. mm. deer put in there foi , first wo gave It up, but then we saw n light. "Tint's n stng," wo said, "it's n stng hotel, see'" "Well, well, I alwajs thought It was meant for 'dear,' to let jou know it wasn't cheap" Which, Hfler all, wouldn't have been displeasing to tho worthy founder of the houso Peter Samuel Dooner established his hotel ns a shelter for male animals onlj, and mi, In nil departments excepting tho restau rant, It has always remained, and today It is tho only stag houso of the fhst class in town. Peter Dooner was hard to shako from an Ideal when ho had once given himself to It. CON UUUCIIUIt, now the dean of Philadelphia prlnteis; flajt McKcnlo and some others still nbout town, who worked upon the Age in wnitiinc, could toll jou how the mob siounln,; the of fice of that Democratic organ in tho mid hour of the Civil War found only Peter Dooner, foreman of the pressroom, nnd Jim Breen, a hunchback fly-boy, left to defend tho place, nnd they could toll jou how Petei barricaded tho front door and went 'up to tuo roof, whence ho treated tho crowd to buckets of scald ing water pissed to him by the hunch back "This Is on the house'" jelled Potor to tho mob be'ow, but they went nwaj'. WI2 AH13 coming in for our share of foolhh war talk. Moro and moro fre quently we hear tho suggestion that CJor muntown be rechrlstened Karly In 1915 we heard how tho Oermantown Tool Works had lost some of Ur trade In Australasia because of Its namo, nnd now In that part of the world the firm, for business purposes, Is known ns tho nrlfllth Tool Company. Wu can under stand that, but why should all things Oerman bo put out of tho sight of man becauso some members of the family havo recently gone Insane? roviiTii or july co.vr:sr Come, thouph your methods be. crude and empirical; Come, thouph your mood be sedate or satirical, Come ulth your rhymes and prow Fourth o' Julyrlcal; Maybe-' who knov sf you'll accomplish the miracle That Is to say, capture the 'i 60 bit of gold for eight lines of verse for July 6. The news that Clam-Martlnlc is to bo something or other In Austria struck us first as a bit of Information diverted from a restaurant menu. To class It with the oyster cocktail might be not altogether an Inconcinnlty. Maybe that's a new one for you. With so many of our best jouth already enlisted and with some of qur colleges wondering If there'll be enough students about next year to resume classes, It may be Idle to offer tips to athletic scouts, but here's an Item from the Doylestown Intelligencer that might boar InveatiratlnE'- Howard Drew, nearo swlnter, has run 100 yards seventeen, tIMte In J 4-1 ATTILA OUTDONE BY THE KAISER Comparison of the Methods of the Huns of the Fifth and of the Twentieth Centuries By HENRI BAZIN Stuff Corrrsponiml nf tut Kienma t.rjgtr in Frnnct. PAUIS, June 3. Tiin other day in Nantes I wns shown through tho Public Library M Bellamy, the Major, who escnited me, pointed out an ancient portrait upon the wall of a great book room, and said "That is tho picture of Attlla Tho painter is unknown Tho picture was nilglnally in the Chateau, and is said to Ime been the property of Louis XII, removed from Paris at the request of Anne, Duchess of Brittany, who did not wish to have it present In her palaco In Paris when slio beianie Queen of Prance " Here then was the portrait of the King of the I Inns, tho "Seoul ge nf the Human Itace ' the terrarum omnium metu, ho of whom It was said "that the grass grew no longer after the passing of his horbe." ho who through all the icnturles of thno has been the sjnunjm of evil and ruthless ness, gorllla-llko tjranny and devlMIke flendlshness through all the lenturlea of tlmo, until his place was usurped by Wil liam II of Oennany And with the thought came the idea of brief comparative lecord In proof that Attlla as against tho Clcrman Kaiser was humane generous, a suckling babe or Innocent novice, in that which tho world calls tjranny and horror I knew that German legend, the Nlcbel- ungen, represents Attlla or Hltel as magnifi cent, hospitable and wise, fighting true like an ancient knight, drinking deep as nn ancient burgomaster, the king of rude en counter and frnnk lip, with gambrinesquo face and a paunch like Kalstaff s I knew, too, the spreading of black paint Is an easy thing, that a dog with a bad name Is accused of every theft, that since every ono trembled at Attlla s name, every one pre tended additional reason for trembling, that all the tales as to his cjnlcal Invasions and frightful atrocities are in some measuie due to his being Attlla, and not entirely because ho was Attlla Indeed, all the stories of the seventh, eighth and- ninth cen turies, If true, would not havo left a city standing In all Gaul nor nil Italy. Yet at Attlta'a death Borne and Venice, Belms and St. Quentln still stood And here and there he had shown some compassion amidst his cruelty. So I went over the record, the record of history, ancient history and mod em. , Attila of thts Fifth Century Attlla became King of the Huns In 431, dividing for a ear the kingly power with his brother Bleda, whom he later murdered that he might rule alone Immediately afterward he conquered the Accadlans then the horde! of Asia and the Slavic and Teutonic tribes, creating In 'the north of liurope an empire rivaling that of nome. And then he ravaged Media, Bpsnla, Sla vonla and Thrace. In 414 he reached Ther mopylae and forced Theodoslus II to pay tribute, ne then attacked the Roman's with 600,000 barbarians and, although he had Rome at his mercy, did not occupy it or aim to destroy It And afterward he crossed the Rhine and devastate Treves burned Mats, pillaged Reims, sacked Ijion and Bt Quentln, ws repulsed at I.utece and at Orleans, defeated and forted back In retreat lit batU. wllh the Frankspoft ae CaUlotuan flats. Ami then he waat . to Italv, tiink Aqull i Venice nnd Llgorin, menaced Home ngnln, nnd retired to tho hntflts of the Danube Here ended his con quests nnd his invasions Tn 461 he mai ded Idlco, a princess of Bactria, and upon his wedding night wns stabbed to death bj his bride, who had minted him onlj the Ik tier to carrj out her Intent of avenging two mothers whom her husband had mur dered I have but tout lied upon the malp points In his red hlstorj' There was muih rapine and murder, destruction nnd massacre not hero recorded And nt Trnjes and Home he could havo accomplished more ill had he chosen Tills Is fact bicd upon his. tory, and Indlcites a something nf human ity in his barbarism a ttrango streak of good nlloy In a man of evil All this in eighteen j ears The Twentieth Century ScourRO Now. William II of Germany In less than tluee. from August 1 -J 1 4 . to April. 1017 The Invasion of Belgium and the north of France, the Invasion of Serbia and Monte negro, of Rumania nnd Poland nil under condition of Infamy, monstioslty, pillage, devastation, org), murder Incendiarism, violation and sacrilege, coupled with perfidy bevond tompire Its all too near to require di tnll, jet It is all exemplified in the ancient woids of VclleliiH Pnterculus in his nccusa lliui against tlio Germans Ast till. In Minima ferltato versutlsslml natum men d iclo genus ferocious and perfidious a race born to thu lie And thin the recent horrors in northern Frame in the Smnme and Alsne and Olse country, with, after destruction of every iiviiik aim iimniinaio tning, tno sardonic signs, "Nleht argcrn. nur wundern!" Not nn atom of pltj unj where Not an atom And jet Attlla showed the word was In his dictionary nt Trojon, when in re hponsn to the prajeis of the bishop ho dUl not raze the town, although he look the priest to tho borders of the Rhine, that as the legend tells, "his piesence might bilng good fortune to the aimj " And ho did not devastate Italy as ho might have done, when he avoided the ruthless carry Ing out of ALL tho evil In lila power. ,s urn uengniz-Kiian and Tibe rius And ns did not William II of Germany, ho who nt every occasion invokes "Alter Gott" he who has profaned unmentlonably sacrlleged ind burned 1500 houses of the Almighty God murdered priests and sisters of charity aged men and little children Indeed, ho could not bo compared with Nero, Hellognbvlus, Caligula. Tiberius or Attila without Injustice to these tj rants Indeed And it's high time the mantle of supremo evil in barbarous imputation were takcj from the age-old shoulders of the King of tho Huns nnd placed upon the living shoul ders of William Hmperor of tho Roche who outty ranted all tho tj rants of time BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS! beat' drums' Wow. busies. hln,i Reat ThrouKh the windows through the doors burst Ilka iv ruthless force Into the solemn church and scatter the con. Bregatlon, Into the school where the scholar is study. Ing. ' Leave, not the bridegroom quiet no hap. Plnesa must he have now with his bride, Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, plow. Ing his field or gathering his grain So fierce you whirr nnd pound your drums so shrill you bugles blow. Heat t beat I drums! Blow, bugles, blow! Over the trafflo of cities over the rumble of wheels in the streets; No bargainers' bargains by day no brokers or specuUtqrs would they continue Would the talkers be talking? Would thl singer nttempt to Blng? Would the lawyer rise In the court to stai. his case before the, JudgeT Then rattle quicker, heavier drums vnn bugles wilder blow Wu Heat I beat' drums I Ulow, bugles, blow! Make no parley stop for no expostulation Mind not the tlmid-mlnd not the weener on prayer, r or Mind not the old man beseeching the youn.- man, " Let not the child's voice be heard, nor th. mother's entreaties, ,M Make even thj trestles to shake the dead where they u, awaiting the h'arSfs So slrone you thump of terrlbls drums. ioua you tali bUv, vnims-f0 -Walt YtafCssW What Do You Know? QUIZ I. Tim rrhlnn Premier nnnounrM (hat Mi rountrv win Htm! a mimion to !. J n. ion. uno i trti MAtriminnT j 3. Mlmt fr Urn t.o-riil!ed MoydrsM of t irrnrn iirtoiuiion? r. H NliHt In the t frond lurcfftt flty In Mexico! I. Who In thn llnwnl.nn (tr.ecule In Conrrril 5. Who h tho present Pone? fl. What In the nearest French equivalent to lW fengiiNii "aii rum T i, 7. Who un "..fiaii Urn m me II" and when ilJ he lite? 8. Where l the Maunftir North Pole? l. Hon many re.iuh.lrn are there In Knrow. und ultnt ure they? js in. Wlm urnl .hut "nn lnrlitr la unrth iM" tomorrow fr7 Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. I -en -j U In the Trench Department of Tatl e-t mam. 3. The lika '.f W HllnctonV imme wu Arthur Wellesler. 3 S. Clnnnhar la nn Imoortiint ore of raffeur. It color lanes from hnilit red to urownj 4. Jin.., ri-trhtnn. .h Krotrh trho or. f el hrnttxt fne Ihe rreat inrletr of bis aefOBp I llU.imentt, uuh known n the AdmimftWH rlrhton." ft, ihe hup N cJMnnt from the earth awntj 0 '1,000,000 mile. ? fl. Ihr rt trTurlaii name, or ltiilcnria Ii Ila cnrlju. . (ut 1.. of r.uron. tlrnt wife of Hen ife of Henrr whn Kf'tJ "I food, t but I HI. w it 11 e laJiKlUh f.neen Inn flmiA Piifflnnta UtflA 1 fcimulil he nm to lo It nn harm ' 8. The Ci laden form n croup of Inlands In th Aegean rea oir the roait or i.reeee. 0. Oerurri .Memilor. after whom the wnrld-mM projection U named, wan a relebrttel. Dutch teoerupher Ul date are ifllt 1.101. " 10. Four randldaten were named for Preildrtt of the United Mates in im6o T"y nen Stephen A. Umnl.it. of Ullnnlf. ortberti'l Ilmimrrnii .Inlin I. llrorklnrlrlsTe. tiitk, .Southern Democrat. John HeU u et 01 AliratiUDi Lincoln, of llllnoli, Kfpubllcaaj THE SUEZ CANAL 1 The plan of a water connection bett'l tho Mediterranean and the Red Sea gotlj back to carl j Kgjpttan history Such 1 canal seems to have been constructed In the reigns of Sett I and Itameses II. abouil 1300 H C, extending from the Nils tU Lake Tlmsah and thence to the Red Sea a An International commission of engineer! made a preliminary survey In 1846 to asctrsj tain the practicability of a, level-wstw i anal The Kngllsh engineer on th comj mission, George StephenBon strongly 0W posod a canal and recommended to his GoW ornment a railroad from Cairo to 5iue, M this was constructed by British capital J 1868 In the same year M de Lesstps. : Tenneee. ontUtutlonal Unionist. ftH i Frenchman, succeeded In forming a corny pany with a capital stock of (40,000,000 Ml build the canal 1 But when De Lessens found It ImposslW to enlist the large amount of capital ncl" Barv. he turned to Said Pasha, secursl from him a large loan for prellmlnMji work and promoting, and later a subscril lion lor nearly nan me siock, wnicni--; about (85,000 000 Raid was not able to v his subscrintlon and his warrants had toM I cashed In London The Egyptian Govvsj j ment had agreed to furnish labor si ; nominal price, tho native workers to be ' : treated and their health tn h cared Mi The violation of the latter condition on lb part of the canal company aroused a pro, test In the name of humanity, espscUW from Kngland, which had never looked vrtjj favor on the canal, and suggested ta t Sultan of Turkey that the work be stopf4 Effvnt belne- under thn nuzprnlntv of TUtl key The Sultan decided that the fU,t I gjptlan workmen should not be compc to do tho work. The company complained that this a breach of contract, and the French B peror was asked to arbitrate a difficult I ternatlonaj dispute. The result was tfc Egypt was further mulcted of neJ 120 eaa nan tv, i.'f,iii in i7R annaal to Europe for aid in his financial dlfficiil ties. Ills canal stock was sold to for t20.d00.000 This made En-!" though originally opposed to the pt" the heaviest owner In It nnrl. pnmhined the ceneral financial asalatanr. rendered,! Egypt, gave that Power a direct Interest! Lgyptlan affairs. A very short time sufficed to show t? the canal was of the utmost advanUf'J England as a passageway to her Orlf possessions England Rnd France exercised together tutelage over Later events led the British to assumV responsibility alone The Sues Can th key to this political development'' tiacame. tujiart to the complicated r; in jpe pear Bast. frmrTi' mttitttjtkksi BdliW ... .JKlJAs,. iwmH asabs&!Xt.
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