8 EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1017 I v. i I, J ' iM USTRATj fHienfngj merger PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY crnua n. k. cunnB, rusiriMi Charlea ir. Lminaton. Vtca President! John C. Martin. Secretary and Treasurer! Thlllp a. Colllna. John II. Williams, John J. Bpurewn. r. II. Whalty, Illruclora, editorial no Aim i Ctici H. K. Ct-Tii, Chairman. r. it. mrxi.ET ..... .Editor OHN C. MAIXTIN. -General Business Manager Published dally at Pcnuo T.KNirs nulldlnr. jnaepenaenca square, i-nuaaeipma. Linos Ciitril... Broad and Chestnut Strwta ATURTio Cut...., PrtKfVnUn nullrllng Naw YoiK 200 Metropolitan Tower ditroit ,, 40.1 Peril riulMlnar Bt. Lodii..,i 1001 Fiillerlon liulMlnc Cnicioo 1202 Tribune Uulldlmj NEWS BUREAUS! jrnniTOTon tlcaiic nirri Bulldlnic ft1-.0.?" Beano Tha Timet llullillnc I!taut Hissac so Krledrlehsirassa IjOiDo- lloaaio.. Marconi Home, strand 1'a.us Bcis.u 32 Hue Loula Is Orand BUBSCniPTION TKIIMS . 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July 14, 1917 HUNDREDS OP MILLIONS FOR AIRCRAFT IN TIIHSn days of enormous credits, when millions slip from the pockets of tho taxpayer Into tho Federal treasury and out again over night and tho ma chinery of credit has functioned In such a way ns to break down traditional bank ing theory, enormous appropriations are tho occasion for little, If any, public attention. A credit, however, of $040, 000.000 for aviation Is epoch making, par ticularly as tho proposal goes before tho Hpuse with a unanimous favorablo vote. There was held In Washington recently a meeting of tho Automotlvo nnglncers of America. At their dinner, whore no wine was solved, a modest and somewhat embarrassed Englishman, who had faced death a dozen times In the aerial battle line, told In simple language his view of tho part aviation would play In the Winning of tho war "Give us control of tho air," ho said, "and wo can declare a strip of land 100 miles long, from Switzerland to tho North Sea, forbidden territory, and across that strip no slnglo moving thing, animal or mechanical, can pass. No supplies will reach tho Get man lines In France, no trains will bear their wounded back. Thoy will bo shut oft from their homo basos as completely ns If ton thousand leaguos of sen, Intervened. There will bo but ono hope for them, and that the ability to fight their way back to the Rhino under protection of their anti aircraft guns." Slnco then a daring French av.lator has shown that Essen can bo bombed, and optimism Is not trifling with human hopo when it holds out tho vision of aerial navies extirpating from tho face of tho earth wholo Indus trial units or exterminating submarine and naval bases. To blind tho enemy Is tho task of tho aviator In direct warfare. Cavalry and other scouting in theso days of trench fighting Is of llttlo importance. Whoever commands tho air commands also tho eyes of tho enemy. Ho can conceal his own movements and concentrate his forces for overpowering nttack at a specified point, being suro that the foo can make no counter-move. All prepara tlon on the one Bldo heretofore for a movement of magnitude has been known to tho other side. Strength has been marshaled to meet strength, a maneuver which saved the Allies repeatedly In the early days of tho war, but which now works In favor of tho Teutons. Our men aro Important and our ship1? are Important. In this titanic strugglo every form of power must be exerted toward tho accomplishment of our su premo endeavor. But tho one big thing the Alllos want from us, the ono big thing they are asking of American In dustrial oftlcloncy, tha ono necossary of all necessaries, is an assemblage of air pianos and aviators of overwhelming power. That does not moan enough to assure aerial supremacy only; It means a sufficient supply to make certain abso lute dominance of tho air. Tho -airplane Is the master of the submarine, tho mas ter of armies and the master of nations. On Its wings rest tho hopes of civiliza tion, and thero fly with it tho lives of thousands upon thousands of men, for It and It only can bring the conflict to a quick termination. It Is no secrot that to this great pur pose some of tho shrowdest organizers in the nation havo dedicated themselves, Just as tho Socloty of Automotlvo En gineers has contributed Its keenest per sonnel. Training on a largo scale has already been begun and construction which can best be described as American In Its magnitude Is being planned. Wo shall use our own motor. If experiments now going on In Washington provo It to be superior to any other. In the contrary case, tho best motor now In uso abroad will be selected. Tho proper authorities are going Into the matter with scientific thoroughness. They aro jiot making liasto too fast, but thoy are taking care that what we do do shall bo well done. If tho war continues until next sum mer, airplanes will be the deciding factor, and they will bo American airplanes. That Is how Important America's partici pation In the war will be. INSULTING LADY NICOTINE A WOMAN is truly a woman, but a "good cigar is a crime," is tho dis quieting revision of Kipling's famous Una suggested by heart-sickening rumors aris ing from Mrs, Frank A. Vanderllp's recent visit to Mr. Hoover's Washington headquarters. On behalf of the New York State Woman Suffrage party, Mrs. Ydnderllp wanted to talk over food econ omy with the conservation chieftain. Mr. Hoover was busy, so Dr. R. I. Wilbur, of Stanford University, who presumably sits In the outside offlce, entertained his vis itor by thinking out loud. He thought, plghs the dismal dispatch, It was "highly probable) that before long there wpuld be tofasccojetei days as well as meatless and Uionav' ' wnmr.wjw Nur "Mv&mr his enthusiastic guest, ho perpetrated what W. 8. Ollbert calls "a Joke of doubt ful taste." If lie was sympathizing with a perhaps natural dcslro of feminine housekeepers, forced to rcvlso their domestic systems, to make the men take n, similar step on their own account, ho was exceedingly knightly and chivalrous; but wo must doubt that ho over smoked cither corn silk or a perfecto. Christian Endeavor societies through out the land havo already decided to deny our troops their chief solaces at the front clgarottes and pipes, llut that action Is voluntary. Just at present any official ban on tobacco would be sheer Impertinence. Tho very notion makes us feel llko para phrasing tho old Cornish miner's slogan: "And shall tobacco die? And shall tobacco die 7 Thcro's millions of Amerlcnns must know tho reason why." HASTILE DAY SINCE men of Franco stormed tho Hostile and demolished that citadel of tyranny their country has known king and emperor, and In other nations of the onrth tho autocrat has worked his will and gambled with his people's lives. But no anniversary of that great event In tho history of the strugglo for liberty has passod without reiteration of Its meaning In all parts of tho world, and tho democ racy of which It was tho symbol has ever slnco been stcadfastl at work leavening tho human mind and preparing It for tho great convulsion In which virtually all civilization now participates. Tho excesses of the Frcfnch Revolution, deplorable as they wore, emphasized tho purpose of tho revolt so dramatically as to fasten on the period the Imagination and the hopes of succeeding generations, and the doctrine taught by the great po litical philosophers of that time has rung with never-decreasing eloquence through ovcry era that has slnco passed. Tho great American experiment might havo boon etocd by tho rest of tho world had not Franco Indorsed It In tho blood of tho Revolution. In celebrating Bastllo Day wo celebrate organized acceptance of our program In Europo nnd that rolnvlgora tlon of tho principles of liberty which as sured their perpetuation. IT CAN HE DONE TTAYWOOD, of tho I. W. W., says that - "you can't mine copper with machine guns or dig It with bayonets." But that Is Just what you can do and what ovcry nation does when It has to. Tho Chicago strikers told President Cleveland that ho couldn't run mall trains with bayonets. But ho did. That was In time of peace. How much moro can It bo done in time of war! Every corner mailbox stands In pl,co through the fact of machlno guns nnd bayonets. Some day tho only power that will stand between tho I. W. W. and tho Infuriated mob may bo those same weapons of Federal authority. CITIZEN SOLDIERS VERY personal and Intimate sympathy and good wishes go from the city to Its national guardsmen, who enter the Federal servlco tomorrow. Theso citizen soldiers believed In preparedness years beforo others began to talk about It. In times of profound peace they gavo up much of their tlmo to learn tho art of war, voluntarily and without pay, nnd thereby assumed a moro responsible citi zenship than others. But six days out of seven they were modestly indistin guishable from tho rest of us, going about their work in citizens' clothes, which, they rightly thought, wero the best uniform of all. Tho trouble In militarism has always come from setting aside tho military from tho citizenry, making them beparnte classes In the community. Now hero blnco ancient times has this class distinction been carried so far as In Prussia, where men virtually ceased to be citizens when thoy put on uniform and became some thing more Important than citizens to tho Prussian mind. So It was In Rome's decay, when force ruled. In trying to put down a mutiny one of tho emperors cried, "Soldiers, obey mo or I shall no longer address you ns 'soldiers,' but merely ns 'citizens.'" In this republic It Is tho other way about. Our commander-tn-ohlcf Is a "plain citizen In black." Ideally tho whole nrmy should be made up of national guardsmen; that Is, of men who combine military and civil concep tions In their dally life. In every country In Europo the fear has been expressed about "what tho army will do when It comes home." Even In England thero has been talk of a social revolution Impend ing on tho return of 6,000,000 soldiers to civil life. But no arroganco of arms can bo ex pected from our guardsmen. Keeping fit and drilling never meant for them the abandonment of their votes, their domes tic Ideals, or their life work. Their very name is tho symbol of true military chiv alry "guards." Protectors are not aggressors. Submarine and turnpike tolls seem to be shrinking simultaneously these days. ' If the Crown Prlnco'a character Is anything llko his facial expression, ho will never be Emperor of Germany. The fact that the latest Ecuadorean rebel is named Concho, which means "shell," sheds a suspicious light on tho kind of game he Is playing. ' It Is rumored In phonograph circles that while Uncle Sam's favorite record 1b "Selections from 'The Draft,' a Patri otic Potpourri," the Kaiser Is playing nothing but "Goetterdaemmerung." After the Impressive summary of our food supply, published a few days ago, Washington how reports "a further decrease In the visible supply of wheat." Have the fine writers of Mr. Creel's school even taken to "elaborating" the crop reports? The Danish newspaper PoIItlken hopes that Wilson will be fair in the terms of the embargo. On the other hand, fairness Is all we ask of Denmark. So long as her shipping men are on the lovel there needn't b the least friction with PROHIBITIONISTS PRODUCE CHAOS Attempts to Hold Up War Leg islation Till Their Demands Are Granted Unsettles Everything Bpteial Correspondence Vienina Ledger WASHINGTON, July U. WHEN the Anti-Saloon League Insisted upon Injecting prohibition Into the food conservation bill It prevented an enrly ad journment of Congress nnd Bet the Admin istration back In Its wnr plnns nt least a month. On both sides of the Capitol It was confidently expected that all Admin istration war bills would bo out of the way In time for Congress to ndjourn by the mlddlo of July The prohibition lfsuc tacked on the bill In the House. however, threw Congress and the Administration up In tho air nnd made cry uncertain the paesngo of the two Important bills which President Wilson Is now extremely anxious to havo passed, viz, tho food bill, which will ennblo Jlr. Hoover to exercise his au thority as food dictator, and the war tax bill, which Is absolutely essential to all of tho Administration wnr plnns The Senate Commlttoo on Finance, having completed its war tax report, was prepared to co operate with the Houso Committee on Ways and Means to hasten adjournment, but tlio p'rohlbltlon nmondmont to tho food bill upHtt alt calculations as to revenue and made It practically imposslblo to proceed further with tho revenue bill until the food bill Is disposed of Tho rcvctiuo loss on prohibition as retained In tlio food bill has been variously estimated lit from tioQ. 0OU000 to 1.000,000,000, so that to mako up that deficiency a revision of both Houo nnd Kcnato revenue bills, the one enrrytng 51,800,000,000 and tho other J1,OTO,000,000, would be Inevitable. Tho problem which the prohibitionists thus thrust upon the financiers was so great that new tax motliods will havo to bo resorted to If the Internnl revenue on nlcohollc bcvcraRcs goes out. No satisfactory substitute for theso taxes has been proposed nnd bith houses havo virtually thrown up their hands until action upon tho food bill de finitely determines whether tho liquor revc. nuo shall continue Tho Sen.ito will en deavor to solvo this problem for Itself dur ing tho net ten days. Thrown Into Chaos With nn American nrmy In France, and tho conscription of American citizens for army service directly ahead of us; with the Allies borrowing hundreds of millions de rived from tho Issue of bonds and certifi cates of Indebtedness, and with tho Council of National DefeiiFo preparing enormous contracts, it Is disquieting to recall that not one cent has yet been raised by taxation to meet these vast expenditures Tho President and Secretary McAdoo said they dcslrod $1,800,000,000 from taxes to start with. Tho Houso undertook to ralso that amount by taxation. Tho Houso bill was severely criticized and tho Senato commltteo was applauded for cutting out many of the Houso bill provisions, but all this was in anticipation only. Business men who complained bitterly about tho Houso bill professed to find some relief In tho Senate bill, but few persons who nro going to pay tho taxes will bo thoroughly satisfied with cither bill, Tho big business men havo been too busy, in most Instances, to keep In touch with the labors of Congress In this regard. Nor Is the full effect of tho prohibition amendment yet clearly understood by tax payers In general Tho liquor Interests know what It means to themselves and to tho National Treasury. They charge that their property Is being confiscated, nnd that tho Government will mako no gain by destroying their business. They still hopo for the defeat of the prohibition amendment nt this time, or for Its post ponement until they can adjust their af fnlrs and dispose of their property. Jinny of the big banks are also telegraphing Washington to hold up tho prohibition amendment because of loans mado on liquor values In the ordinary courso of business The President has also taken a hand, hoping to ameliorate tho situation; for nil In ofilclal life Know that prohibition means mora taxes. Tho wholo legislative condition, there fore, may bo described ns chaotic, with no Immediate adjournment of Congress in sight Without the piohlbltlon ninendment Con gress would doubtlef-B havo wound up Its business nnd quit Washington by July IB Now It Is all off. The Kenato has agreed to debate the food bill until July 21, nfter which It must go to conference between tho two houses for furthtr deliberation. Tho tax bill is not likely to be considered again until tho food bill In out of the way, so thnt the peoplo who nro to pay tho taxes will not know for somo tlmo to come Just what their burden will be, nor in what form It will bo Imposed The ono thing certain Is thnt tho Administration is piling up an enormous indebtedness which must be paid by taxes or loans, and the President has declared for both. Delay Is Inevitable N Some evldenco of concern nt the White House manifested Itself this week. It wns sa,ld tho President was becoming slightly sarcastlo with some of his Cabinet officers and other associates In the big business of war, and that he was also Irritated at Con grees. One report obtaining wide currency was that the President was beginning to object to tho manner in which Congress was "thrusting power" upon him In Con gress Itself this report, In view of tho con stant demands from tho Administration for authority authority which somo of tho members have held to be "greater than thnt conferred upon the Kaiser" wag not given full credence; first, becaus-o of the tre mendous power already transferred to the President and through him to his immedi ate war councilors, and second, because of the Administration's pet measure, t,ho food dictatorship bill, which several mem bers of the Sentte, at least, have character ized as the limit xf autocracy Regardless of executive Irritation, how ever. Congress has resigned Itself to Its fate and Is preparing now for a long session. It has begun to deal more philosophically than ever with the problems ahead of it. The House passed the Administration bill to prevent trading with the enemy in desul tory fashion, and arranged to take up the aviation bill, over which it does not expect to dally long. Next week, the burden being upon the Senate, the House will probably begin a series of three-day adjournments to prevent the Introduction of new business. It will thus wait for the Senate to catch up. Some members are beginning to think the food bill and the tax bill will be suffi cient to keep both homes here all summer. J, HAMPTON MOORE. NATIVE AMERICANS A number of Sioux Indians are registered at Fort Yates. N. D., for selective draft. Among them are Shoots Walking, Iove-the-War. Horse-Thief Wounded-Wlth-Many-Ar-rowa and - Taken - All ve-and-Comes-IIome-Allve. BUndtwuBoldltr, Shoots Near anal Tom Daly's Column T1W VILLAGE POET H'ainc Evcrltt sass at herd ay an alum eye were Mas threw, Isle of toast roc launch est nutt tree tansy un(( noose stss gnu; Ore rift tool ate toot ache cast roll, eve trite hoof fillips pace nide cue terse train cheer up shuns vHt char off ten aid dlso race, An doff tit Ism cue fay tool cam, tool eight, time nay sting moicer Oracmc attcr dod Jlngly gal toy land may king lie fob ore. DON'T you llko our lovely poem? Can't mako It out, sez you7 Walt a min ute. Long years ago, when Eugene Field ran his column In tho Chicago Record and did nil the work himself, he Invented a trick poem. Ho took perfectly good dictionary words nnd fitted them to gether In what would at first appear a meaningless hodge podgo, but which, If read qulcklv, would mnko phonetic oonse quite apart from tho Individual mean ing of tho words used In tho mosaic. Yes terday when wo enmo to think of our weekly stroll on Chestnut street we re called Eugene's llttlo novelty and thinks wo to oursolf If ho. who had to fill his column unaided, could find tlmo to do this Eort of thing, It should be as easy and pleasant for us ns tho editing of a dish of chocolate lco cream. Wo wasted our entlro morning fitting tho nbovo six lines together. If you don't bcllcvo it, try it. OR PERHAPS you might caro to guess what counting-out rhvmo tho Kaiser used In disposing of his Ministers. Let's col lect u bunch of our favorites nnd send them to him for future uso. Well, to begin with, thero wub our own; Eeny, mceny, mony, my, Huska, lana, bony, Btry, Huldy, guldy, bool Out goes you! THE OIXXY HEN Wo come on our vacation to The dear old farm again Tho same old dear old things we ricto I.lkn In the pait hut then Thli year there's something strange and new It Is a ainny Hen. The Leg Horn hens cry "Clack cluck clack" The fat white ducks go "Quack quack quack" Hut the Glnny's song The whole day lonti 11 just "Come lack come backl" I do not like the Glnny's song It really only squeals Indeed the bird Itself looks wrong To me from head to heels When on the ground It runs along It seems to be on wheels. I cannot find the eggs It lays It hides Its nest In funny ways When I go near It screams with fear "Coma back come back" It says. OF COURSE, It had to be our very nearest relative that pulled this elmplo similitude: Tho division of the National Guard of Pennsylvania .being u taotlcal organlza tlon similar to llko organisations of tho United Slates army, tho officers of tho Pennsylvania division will be railed Into Federal service with the division. Expiration HARRISni'lia, July II Charles A. Miller, elected Mayor less than two months ago, to till tho expired term of Dr. Ezra S McalB, who died April IS, died at his home early today Columbia Spy. PHIL- FRfENB V3 ilOTUERlXG I knew A wmnan thee Hay know her, too Who seemed to me An inrnlld for life She uas a helpful wife To him uhoic home she graced, And yet III health had placed Its clutch upon her heart. She lived apart, Within herself, and gave To broodlngs grim and grave Too much of time and thought. But when misfortune brought To one she loved most dear The fear That widows know, When death lays good men low, This icoman took the care Of one small orphaned heir, The while, with mother love, The uHdow strove To keep and rear the rest. The widow did her best. Hut, her mate's help dented, Soon drooped and died. And thereupon what did The nvalldf Well, she who had begun lI'Kt mothering but one Of her so needy kin Took all the others In I Noio comes the strangest part: Clear-eyed and stout of heart. Quite done with drugs and pills She has forgot her Ills. I know her well, and she May be not strange to thee. And if we think the same rerhaps thee'll write her name Wtthln the little toreath Thee'll find beneath And mall It to her, so I She'll know we know, And pay the praise we owe. n K 1 J o&t&V 6 JvJwA. For Clele ServUt Jfr) ' ., " 5. "J"? r K ...v-v -J HOW TYRANNY'S CASTLE FELL Capture of the Bastile, July 14, 1789, as Described by Thomas Carlyle THEY Rtlll tell the story In Paris of tho American tourist who spied nn omnibus marked Dastlle, cozliy sat In tho vehicle's "first class" compartment, as good Ameri cans always do, stepped out at tho end of tho louto and was astonished to find, not frowning prison wallH at nil, but a handsome open square. Even tho graceful and lofty pillar that adorned It gave no clue to the most significant history of the spot, for the liberty-capped Column of July commemorates a later revolution than that of July 14. 17S9. If tho bewildered traveler, like so many beforo and after hlni, had not neglected to "see America first." ho could havo beheld In his own land tho sole substantial relic of tho onco terrible Hastlle The grent lren key of that fortress lies In the stately old manor of Mt. Vernon on tho Potomac, a gift from the Marquis do Lafavetto to Pres ident George Washington. The fitness of that present makes It tho perfect link between tho free Republic of France and tho United States. In the spiritual senhe America herself was indeed tho koy to the llastlle. The propriety of her possessing tho phv slcal instrument that unlocked it powerfully appealed to Gallic acutcness of taste It was a beau tiful "gesture," as the French say, this dispatching by I.afajctte of the ancient IlastUe key to him who had been his first teacher of tho immortal gospel of freedom Vers' probably beforo our thoughtless tourist had finished reconstructing his no. tlons of history ho was Informed by oblig ing bystanders that the missing llastlle was destroyed on July 14. 1783. This belief Is fairly common the world over, oven In France. As a matter of fact, however, the sinister stronghold of tyranny was merely captured on that Illustrious day. The raz ing of its walls was conducted In orderly nnd official fashion during a later stage of the French Revolution llut tho actual tak ing was, of course, the significant event marking the end of the old order of op pression and the dawn of tho new era of liberty Belloc, Thiers, Gulzot, Dickens though with fictional trimmings and many others have sought vividly to describe the. so-called "fall" (really the taking of the DaBtlle). Thomas Carlyle's description, how ever, remains the classic His "French Revolution" has been criticized for being so rhapsodic as to be actually unlnforma tlve but as the capture of the Bastile was essentially a rhapsody of emancipation the pen that pictured It as such was Buperbly employed. Starting a Revolution The bare facts are these: Hungry Paris, chafing under tho rule of an Incompetent and blundering King, was already In a state of Insurrection After several days of rioting, the mob-mind became focused on the Bastile, emblem of centuries of re pression and absolutism The insurgents attacked the Hotel des Invalldes, seized all the arms stored thero and then assailed the Bastile. The garrison was small and disheartened, and after some hours of fighting, De Launay, the Governor, sur rendered on promise of quarter. Neverthe less, he and several of his men were slain by the mob. Louis XVI'g control of his capital was gone. Throughout the sunlight hours of that eventful day his Majesty was idling In the pleasant wooda of Meudon. Late at night the Duke de Liancourt gained access to the royal apartments and told his wondrous tate. "Why," said Louis, "that Is a revolt." "Sire." answered Liancourt. "It Is not a revolt it is a revolution." NoW hear extracts from thunderous Carlyle; "All morning, since nine, there has been a cry everywhere: To the Uastlle! Re peated 'deputations df citizens' have been here. paBslonate for arms; whpm De Launay has got dismissed by soft speeches through portholes. Towards noon, Elector Thurlot de la Roslero gains admittance; finds De Launay disposed for 'surrender; nay, die posed for blowing the place up rather. Thurlot mounts with him to the battle ments; heaps of paving-stones, old iron and missiles He piled, cannon all duly levelled; In every embrasure a cannon only drawn back little! But outwards, behold, o. Thurlot, how the multitude flows, on. well l throuah every treet, towla furieuaiv H!V U hMrfttC MM '&! -mnmttmmmum rmomm riMsnii BASTILE DAY 1917 I -4. -t ward wholly ns one man! 'Que voulez vous?' said Do Launay, turning palo at the sight, with an air of reproach, almost of menace. " 'Monsieur,' said Thurlot, rising Into the moral sublime, 'what mean jouf Consider If I could not preclpitato both of us from this height,' say only a hundred feet, exclusive of tho walled ditch! ' "Whereupon De Launay fell silent. Thurlot shows himself from somo pinnacle, to com fort tho multitude becoming suspicious, fremescent, then descends; departs with protest ; with warning addressed to the In valldes on whom, however. It produces but u mixed indistinct impression. "Ever wilder swells the tide of men; their Infinite hum waxing ever louder, Into imprecations, perhnps Into crackle of stray musketry, which, latter, on walls nine feet thick, cannot do execution. Tho Outer Drawbridgo has been lowered for Thurlot; new deputations of citizens (It la the third and noisiest of nil) penetrates that way into tho outer court , soft speeches producing no clearanco of these. De Launay gives fire; pulls up his drawbridge. A slight splutter; which has kindled tho too-combustible chaos; made It a loarlng-flro chaos' Bursts forth Insurrection, at sight of Its own blood (for thero Wero deaths by that splutter of fire) into endless rolling explo sion of muskotry, distraction, execration; and overhead from tho Fortress, let one great gun with its grapeshot go booming, to show what 'we' could do. The Bastile Is besieged A Four-Hour Battle ' "On, then, all Frenchmen, that have hearts In your bodies ' Roar with all your throats, of cartilage and metal, o Sons of Liberty stir spasmodically whatsoever of utmost fuculty Is In you, soul, body or spirit ; for It is tho hour' Down with it, man; down with it. Oicus; let the whole accursed edifice sink thither and Tyranny bo swallowed up for ever' , "Blood flows, the now aliment of madness. The wounded are carried into the houses of tho Ruo Cerisnle ; the dying leave tho Inst mandate not to yield until the accursed Stronghold fall. And yet, alas, how fall' The walls are bo thick' The Firemen are here squirting with their firepumps on the Invalldes cannon, to wet the touchholes they unfortunately cannot squirt so high Gardes Francois have come, real cannon, real cannoneers "How the great Bastile clock ticks (Inaudi ble) in its Inner ocurt there, at Its ease hour after hour as if nothing special, for It or tho world, were passing! It tolled One when tho firing began ; and Is now pointing toward Five and still the firing slakes not. Far down In their vaults, the seven prison ers hear muffled din ns of earthquakes; their Turnkeys answer vaguely. "For four- hours now has the world bedlam rtmred: call It the World-Chlmaera blow ing flrel Tho poor Invalldes have sunk under their battlements or only rise with reversed muskets: they' have mado a white flag of napkins; go beating their vha mades,' or seeming to beat, for one can hear nothing. The very Swiss at the port cullis look weary of firing; disheartened in the fire-deluge; a porthole at the draw bridge is opened, as by one that would speak. He holds a paper through his Dort hole. Terms of surrender; Pardon Im munity to all I Are they accepted?' Fhl d'olllcier (on the word of an offlceV) answers 'Half-Pay' Hulln (or Half-Pay Elle. for men do not agree on It). Thev are I' 8lnks the Drawbridge. Usher Mali lard bolting it when down; rushes in the living deluge: the Bastile Is fallen I 'Vic. toire! La Bastile est prise !" NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW How would you feel If your country dirt "s! Ch)"state.U WOrt" dra"""f J-Columbia Success never comes to the "man who alt. on a dry-goods box and whistles for It Milwaukee News. r " It's the loose nut that rattles the loudest Blnghamton Press. '"uuesi. One- who knows a fow things well la ni.it. willing to admit that he know, l ttu '! nothing about many other things Albany Journal. ""' Miss Jeanette Rankin, member of Con gress from Montana, merits congratulating for the dignified and forceful manner in which she set about to learn at first h.nV? working conditions at the Bureau of pv graving and Printing. That the announce! ment of her activity la simultaneous with the announcement that owtlrae work wqmm yj,T.?TC1 W What Bo You Know? i QUIZ 1. Mho la the present Klnic of Norwul ; 2. Where la Ritplinrl'a famous palatini, "Ts mtiine .uauonna-'T 3. What la a banshee? 4. What nnrt of thf, Ampt-lmn TAnatHiriVa k nomrtlmea railed the "Hill of KliWftT 0. vtlint In the longest rlier In AfrlfiT '& 0. What Illustrious French nntrlot la rtroriM ua a saint by the Catholic Church? 7. What Is a Kim? . In what sense Is the French phnaa "fall utcompu" useu unu wuat ft me werj mean? O. How many prisoners were released iKnthlfe IlilktllA tih.n It tint, fnnfnr.il n Jnlff 1L I -a 17H'J? " 10. What Aiuerlrnn renrrnl was knosra uOtmj, "Hock of t'hlckaruumra"? i,mT Answers to Yesterday's Quii f 1. Nankins: In the temporary capital af flttl muni ciuneae Itepnbllr. , i S, Icnutlus Losolu. a native of 8sls, w rounder of the Society of Jeiot. h dates are 14UI.IB.Vll. I 3. hlr Walter Ncott, who pnblltheil "WaterVi' anonymous!, was called "TtteGrtitf kmmn." 4 4. The Savannah, in 1810. was the Brit ltai nnii io cross the .itiantio ucesn. m used, however. Bulla iu well as paoMI.J 6. The legislative body In the Isle of Vu M ruuru me House or Jteys, t G. "Alias" Is a I.ntln word meanlor "t wise.- it is usea either as a w ineunlnir fin iiHiiiitnAfI num.. Ar II tuliprli In ,11-tln.riil.ltln n r,sl Bl from an nssumed one, ns bsmaal k 7. Santa l"e la bpanlsh for Holy 1'oltb. 4 8. A. T. Stewart, the noted New .1 art 1...... - . lT .,. . .I..1.J k i num. nan uriEiuuiij icir, v, dent Grant as secretary of Slate. Ml mo not take onice. 0. Henry Ilavld Thorean, the New E' writer uml tidtnriiUftt. una born 4Vt 1817. 1$ 10. The town of Canberra has been selerW the future capltul of Australia. LINCOLN IN PHILADELPHIA .jj rnHK most Interesting of Abraham . J-coin's visits to Philadelphia was tint t February 22. 1861. less than a fortoil before ho was Inaugurated as Presto Ho came to raise an American nT 1 ennt nf TmlAn.nenrA lTflll Thfl SDOt tl$ which ho olllclated and spoke Is mill" Washington, who doubtless had often tnJ den the same ground on his way w "j ui.t. tfnn.a tlfr !i, Ntntua vll Dn there when Lincoln came here on TVulj iHter ilntfv H The President-elect, on his way te t national capital, had delivered a nwn" A a.ai,a.. i ...1.1,. v. ii a-ii-incHntfintU Ul OiJCCUICa 111 Y lllOll it IO v.waa-w-- a the danger was evident. There wi P uvuk ui it, a uouni liwu ,u.v. ... - but as he approached Philadelphia M "J came more serious ana resoivea. -. tn M.vn, ll.nm. Vnll nflft eXWtSS the wish. In which I join, that It J. convenient for me to remain ions "-""" tn MnMllf n,- rnlh., Il-tnn In. thOS6 tltW Ings arising within the consecrated "'p", wnicu tne uonsiuuuoii oi mo u""", r j and. I will add. tho Declaration of !: pendence, were originally irarnsu --. adopted. All my political welfare Mt vm In faim, nf Ihn.a finhlnirR MaV HlT i l.nn .. lt .n.nlnr. nnft IttV t0) cleave to the roof of my mouth It J"! prove false to those teachings." Tot day he went to Independence Hall. l It was early on the.wlnter morninx wg he rode down Chestnut street - i-l- ilranrn h. mil- tvhltA horSeS. CSV hv thn Kent I I.otrlnn with the flatT 1' carried to victory In Mexico twelve yi hxrTiro irn had (n take o. train for P rlsburg at 8:30 a. m. The streets ' packed with cheering, crowds. Leavtnj tered Independence Hall uncovered. Wit Declaration of Inderjendence gave 11' in tha mtiininv i,a snnirit nrieiu. nn nlnn In tha nunnlA nf thla COUntiTf hope for the world for all future tto was that which gave promise uv -time the weights should be lifted from shoulders of all men ana mat " have an enual chance. But U country cannot be Baved without principle I was aDout to say rather be assassinated on this spot -. a., i. 1 The next moment he was walking " to face the might throng. lie iw vated and alone on the piat;orra ,1. n.Anl. lllro. a victim Mn Ber&tC-l supreme sacrifice. With his overcoat he grasped the halyards to draWW; flag. A Jong roar went up irorn v street as the strong arms did their (arms whole, strength few w which occasionally .astpundM oomi pita naif rg 'asytwrlsnm t5), V r&ttFT- TB, f l A, -J, .i , T- F m 2 - n -k K). .' -i BBBBBB-JM
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