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S3 Jlua Louts I Urnnd SUBHCIUPTIOV TEnilS The Brasilia Pcatio Lapogii la itrved to ub scrlbers la Philadelphia, and surrounding- town at the rt p twelve (13) cents r week, payable to tho carrier. . Br nail to point outalda of Philadelphia. In tba United Statu. Canada of United steles ro iflllV I"??' '"' fl'V ,so! ctnt w month. Six sa) dollars per rear, payable In adrance. To all foreign countries ou (II) dollar per month. Koticx Subscribers wishing address chanted must vivo old us well as new address. Dttt, MM WALNUT EETSTONT. MAIN IMt) CrXdffreet oil communication to Kvenlno 'iib-tiff Ledger, Independence Smi-rc. rftlladelphfa. titnno it tiii MiMnaLFHU rnst orric as ircovn ctun uair. uatti. rhilsJelpMs, XTedoctdsT, Jsnosry SI. I'l THE JERSEY KATE CASE: A TRAP OR A TRIUMPH? fTUIE 12ve.ino Public Lkpour erred In announcing in ono edition yesterday that the decision of tho Interstate) Com merce Commission In the Jersey rato case was a victory for Philadelphia. Tluvt In terpretation Is a short-vlsloncd Interpre tation and we regret that President Trigg, of the Chamber of Commerce, considers the decision a triumph and feels that the Chamber Is "entitled to credit for having aided Philadelphia In preventing a deci sion which would hate been unjust and dis criminatory to tho Interest)) of her business men." It would havo been much moro to the point If President Trigg had stated that the Chamber in entitled to much credit for having aided New York In tho main tenance of a principle utterly antagonistic to the interests of this port and devised to perpetuate the extraordinary urtlllclal advantage which It has been public policy to grant Manhattan. The Jersey ports petitioned to be put on the same rate basis as Philadelphia. That, obviously, was against this city's Interest, but it was a mcro incident of tho light. What tho Jersey ports wero undertaking to establish in principle was that the high nnd costly service of shipping through New York, Including lighterage, should be re flected In tho New York rate; that tills ex pensive service should not be given for , nothing; that tho Jersey ports, w hero thero was no lighterage service, should not bo on the same basis as New York with Its lighterage charges. They sought, In other words, to establish tho principle that the rate should parallel tho service, that the more costly servlco should pay tho higher rate. Had the Jersey ports succeeded in their plea, it is truo that temporarily they would have been put on tho some vato basis as Philadelphia, but It Is just as true that tho principle under which they would havo got tho decision would have compelled almost Immediately a new dif ferential In favor of Philadelphia over Jersey, the servlco being cheaper, nnd a "doubje" differential over New York. When, however, Philadelphia sustains tho New York plea and rejoices in the fact that tho Interstate Commerce, Commission re fuses to charge New Y'ork for the service It gets, the whole Philadelphia cabo is tossed away. What good Is a general who, in order to win a bklrmlsh, loses tho deci sive battle and ruins his army? A few more such victories and wo should Indeed be lost. What does It advantago us to prevent Jersey ports from being tempo rarily put on a level with us If at tho name time we aid in buttressing tho claim of our chief competitor to vnluablo artificial advantages without corresponding cost? Wo pointed out when tho Jersey rato caso first came up that the truo Interests of Philadelphia rested in a victory for the Jersey ports; that Is, a victory In prin ciple. At the tlmo the Chamber of Com merce was so afraid of tho Jersey ports being put In the Philadelphia rato zone that It seemed utterly to lose sight of the main issue. Wo believe that tho argu ments of Philadelphia, which intervened, were somewhat modified as a result of our protest and that tho city's spokesmen con tented themselves with protesting strongly against putting Jersey ports on an equality with Philadelphia; but we tako it, never, thelcss, that a far-seeing statesmanship would have been quick to grasp tho true significance of the light and would havo been energetic in opposing tho New York claim to service without cost. It is not sufficient for tho Chamber of Commerce to bo sincere. Its sincerity, of course, is taken for granted. But it ap pears to have been fighting with Held mice when a lion was loose in the pasture. Wo bad not thought that the day would como when a great commercial body In this city, at the very moment that a strenuous fight was being made to break the shipping mo nopoly of New York with Its attendant peril to national success in the war, -would dually applaud a decision which Is an vtfloiilstlc to everything (he port authori ties liavq contended for In the lost quarter tf af century, ulid when the president of lite Chamber of Commerce would be Jubl nnt because "tho decision of tho tnter tatc Commerce Commission has the, effect ,nl iwuatsyakiB the existing- differentials on precisely the same basis that they havo been for tho last twonty years." Do wo want them on tho same basis? If so, lot's dig n pit and go to sleep In It. Plausible- ns tho Chamber's attltudo may seem to bo on'nccount of tho sldo victory Involved, the lrrefutablo answer to Its argu ment Is that tho decision Indorses the wholo preferential system of rate-making In favor of New York. It Is n system against which this community has pro tested vigorously for years, nnd tho Issue simply appears In another form In the light now being nmdo to tillllzo other ports besides Now York In moving tho great vol umes of freight destined for Kuropc, but now blocked nnd tied In tho neck of tho bottle. Now York-. If tho Jersey ports arc not entitled to a differential over Now York', Philadelphia Is not entitled to n differential over tho Jersey ports. Wo appear to have been caught In a clever trap. 1'llEEING IRELAND IT IS a long bow drawn by tho London Dally Nows In Imagining thut President Wilson has "asked" the British Govern ment to fccttlo tho Irish question. Tho last thing we should expect to find In the Wil son program would bo active Interference In another nation's domestic affairs. Ho disclaims tho Intention even of Interfering with Gcrmanv's. But It is significant that KiiKlish urg.niK uf opinion aro teiiltlve to our feeling about Ireland. In English campaigns of rectnt years the Conservatives attacked tho fol lowers of Amiulth and Lloyd Ueorge for calling American gold to their aid, mean ing, of courho, tho funds supplied by Amer ican audiences which gave enthusiastic re ception to (siting Homo Bulo speakers,. A number of prominent persons Identified with the Irish cause-, Including T. P. O'Con nor,. have been ruculved at tho White IIouso In the lust few months. But that Is not bui prising. Mr. Wilson would be misrepre senting his countrymen If he did otherwise. In this countiy it would bo hard to ucriipo together a corporal's guard of p'-reons op posed to Home Hulc. HAW PROFITS IN RAW PRODUCTS fTUIK Administration bill to give the -- President sweeping powers to fix the prices of cery product needed for tho conduct of tho war, Including food, of course. Is tho .MMjuel of this passage In his address to Congiess of December -J: Recent experience lias conlncrd me that the Congress must go further In authorizing the Government to tet Units to prices. The law of supply and demand, I am torry to say, has been replaced by the law of un restrained bullishness. While wo havo eliminated profiteering In iievcrnl urnnchen of industry. It still runs Impudently iam pant In others. Tho first cart of thut speech dealt with war on Austria tind all tho belligerency was greeted with salvos of upplausc. It Is a great pity that more drumatic po litical affairs have delayed for seven weeks consideration of tho President's solemn protest against protltcerlng In raw prod ucts. Ihls bill should bo taken up at once. If it Is shelved In favor of debates about tho past conduc of the Administration th'ero will bo few who will talto Mr. Wil son's moro violent critics seriously. It Is tho acid tost of their sincerity that they loso not a day In giving tho Provident power to stamp out profiteering. PARTNERSHIP QUARRELS IF THEBK are two men w ho can get Into a worse Ecrap with each other than two partners wo havo yet to find them. It Is human naluro that tho moro closely nllled your Intel ests aro with thoso of a neighbor tho more bitterly jou will quarrel with hhn. Christians never fought Mohamme dans so hard as they fought Christians. Wo wolcomo this growing spirit of pan nershlp In Washington. It has erroneously been called "partisanship" by some cor respondents, but that was evidently a slip of tho pen, for thero Is no reason to be llcvo that tho ono Socialist In Congress Is hampering tho Itcpubllcan-Democratlc ma jority. Wo need this bitterness of partner ship to keep Mr. Baker on his toes. N'ICHT WAR? THK version of tho untangling of Ger many's political snarl given ty tho Lokal Anzelgcr Is so typically German that It must bo true. Hlndenburg Is to bo al lowed to annex territory In Kranco and Belgium If ho wins on the western front. In exchange for that ho Is to let tho Reichstag patch up somo sort of "no annexatlon" peace with Russia. Of course. If Hlndenburg wins on tho western front he can annex anythlnrj ho wants on any front. So there you are. Quick! Put the "nation" back Into "co ordination I" Sometimes the streets ltfok clean when It snows, but not for long. Things did not wait for Teddy to airlve they broku the day before. Let's have some "pep." A hot light In Washington will do tho nation good. Shut down tho waterpower plants to save coall Well, let's order tho rivers to quit flowing. A nephew of Senator La Kollette has enlisted. When It came, to a cliolco between uncles, he seems to bae preferred Sam. The Weather Man obviously determined ' to chastise Mr. Uarneld. We live in a coun try, however, tnat can smile at tragedy and get a laugh out of It, We do not want any argument as to whether or not we were properly prepared. The evidence is all in on that point and we admiutlie deficiency. What we do want to know Is If we ore getting properly prepared now, with the greatest possible measure of efficiency. The plan to try the Czar for treason and have tho hearing public- seem to be for the purpose of distracting public atten tion from the greater treason of which some at the present llusolan statesmen have been guilty- Only the (plnelessiiess of Russia Is keeping the war golnr. Had that great nation stuck, the IIuu would have been clearly whipped by now and real democracy would have been breathing pure air in Eu- 4 PENNYPACKER'S SPEECH BEFORE 30,000 AT ROOSEVELT CONVENTION "Newspapers, in Their Efforts to Suppress Me, Had Given Me an Undeserved Prominence" A Last Tribute Paid to Quay l'l'.NMI'.UKKrt AUTIIIIKKIRAI'IIV M). .17 (Copvriaht, Ifll. lj PiiUlo l.rdBrf Compavv) ON tho eleventh of Juno I went to Pitts burgh to deliver an address and nccept for tho Stnto the monument to Colonel Alex ander Lo ltoy Hawkins and tho dead of tho Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment, which was the only regiment from tint thirteen orig inal Htates to participate In tho war with Agulnaldo In the Philippines. About this time I mado alt order that no moro Justices of tho peaco would bo ap pointed without a statement In detail of the age, occupation and qualifications of tho applicant, accompanied by certificates from residents of tho neighborhood of his Integrity and ability to perform tho dutle3 of tho office. It was u busy tlmo and events crowded upon each other rapidly. On tho twentieth of Juno I was In Chicago as a delegate to tho National Republican Convention. My rooms wore In tho Auditorium Hotel, whero an agrccablo Impression was made by tho Pompcilan room fitted up enttrely with eastern ornamentation and a. dlsagreeablo Impression was made by seeing tho young men nnd young women, evidently of the cultivated ckwes, coming In to drink high balls nnd cocktails together as though it wcro qulto the thing. Tho newspapers, In their efforts lo suppress mo becnus of the legislation making them responsible for negligence, had succeeded In producing tho opposite result and had given mo an unde served prominence. Governors Odell. of New York; Herrlrk, of Ohio, nnd Murphy, of New Jersey, came to my rooms, and It was reported: "The Governor was tho btrlking flguro in the hotel lobby and was tho object of much attention." Tho Penn sylvania delegation held a caucus and de termined to vote ob n unit. At this caucus I offered tho following resolution: Utiolved, That the Republicans of Pennsylvania, In unison with tho people, rcjolco In the achievements nnd deploro tho death of Matthew .Stanley Quay. A soldier, ho won tho medal of honor for distinguished services on the Held of bat tle; a scholar, he could Impress a thought and turn a phrnso with deft skill; a polit ical kader of capacity unexcelled, ho entered the stronghold of tho fon and achieved n presidential victory under tho most adverse conditions; n Senator, his wise counsel uud keen Intelligence wero tvor sought nnd always potent; n stuten man, he prevented tho passage of the force bill, nnd In tlmo of stress preserved tho prlnciplo of protection to American Industries, to the lasting benefit of the country; an exemplar of bold and stead fast Integrity, his last contest was u suc cessful effort to compel the national Gov ernment to keep faith with the down trodden and helpltss. May he find in the gravo that longed-for peace which lngratltudo denied to him while he was allo! Scene in the Wigwam .Somebody called for a standing ole and every delegate nroso to his feet, although many of them wcro of independent proclivi ties, nnd voted In favor of tho resolution. To Pennsylvania was nccorded tho oppor tunity to mako ono of tho nominating speeches. It is the broadest field In Amer ica upon which u man may nddrebs his fellowmen, and in theso conventions Is de termined who shall guide the destinies of tho nation for a period of four years. Pen roso enmo to mo and, generously nekod me to mnko tho speech. I told him ho Was called upon, ns tho leader of tho party In the State, to do It himself; but ho Insisted, and tho truth Is, I was not disinclined to make tho effort. Tho convention was held In the Wigwam, with an nudlenco of 30,000 peoplo sitting as in an amphitheatre, with tiers rising ono above nnothcr until they reached tho rear and tho top. A board carpeted passageway ran out from the platform toward tho center so as to enable tho speaker to approach as near as possible his hearers. Uncle Joo Cannon presided, and In his western breezy way ho presented thoso who wcro to speak. Ho adopted all kinds of antics to secure attention nnd maintain silence. On ono occasion he luy flat and pounded on tho boards of tho Moor with his heavy gavel. If tho speaker failed to mako himself heard distinctly a buzz started In tho audience, and thereafter ho was utterly lost, a mere flguro with twist ing features and moving arms. Thero were very few who could stand tho test. A man from Californlo, whoso hllme I do not know, with a volco llko tho roaring of a bull, mado tho crowd laugh nnd listen. Kllhu Root nominated Roosevelt. It was a good speech, but ho could not bo heard even by our delegation, whoso location was very near to the stand, and, therefore, at tho time was Ineffective. I was called on the second day from my placo on tho plat form, whero I sat apart from tho delega tion as ono of tho vice presidents of the convention. Pennsylvania's Importance It Is to be hoped that my readers, if I ever havo any, will look with lenity upon the Introduction Into these memoirs of somo of my short speeches. If their eyes bo wldo open they will sou that I am en deavoring to Impress them, ns I ever did my listeners, with tho facts that show tho great importance In American life of our own State. It Is only the simple truth that I have been tho first who, upon every possible occasion, in the face of thoso who havo been taught and would rather think otherwise, has boldly asserted theso facts and rigidly insisted upon their accept ance. All of my writing predecessors have been more or loss explanatory and exculpa tory, and to that extent weak. It Is a satisfaction to know that a result has been accomplished. William L. Henscl, Martin G, Brumbaugh and others havo since adopted the same tone, and It Is to be hoped the time is near when our people will bo Inspired with a proper appreciation of and prldo In their own wonderful In fluence upon broad affairs. On this occa sion and to this vast audience I said: Tho Republican party held its first convention in that city of western Penn sylvania which, in energy, enterprise and wealth, rivals the great mart upon the shores of the Inland lakes, wherein, after tho lapse of nearly half a century, wo meet today. Pennsylvania may well claim tq be tho leader among Republican Htates. The principles which nre em bodied In tho platform of the party, as wo have adopted it, aro the result of the teachings of her scholars and states men. Her majorities for the nominees of that party have been greater and more certain than those, of ajy other tato. Hhe, alone, of nil the States, since tho election of Abraham Lincoln In 1860, ban never given an electoral vote against a candidate of the Republican party for the presidency. She Is unselfish In her devo tion. During the period of the half cen tury that has gone, no sou of hrrs has been either Presldont or Vlctl President. Kho has been satisfied, like the Karl of Warwick, to bo tho maker of kings. She has been content that regard should be given to tho success of the party nnd tho welfare of tho country, rather than to tho personal interests of her citizens. Tho waters of the Ohio, rising Hmld tho mountains of Pennsylvania, roll west ward, bearing fertility to the prnlrlo lands of Indiana. The thought of Penn sylvania Republicans, with kindred movement, turns toward the Stato which has produced Oliver P. Morton, Benjamin Harrison and the bravo Hooslers who fought alongside of Reynolds on tho Oak Rldgo tit Gettysburg. She well remem bers that when her own Senator, ho who did so much for tho Republican party, nnd whoso wise counsels, alas! are miss ing today, bore a commission to Wash ington, ho had no more sincere supporter than the able and distinguished states man who, then, us he does now, repre sented Indiana In tho Tnlted Btates Sen nte. Pennsylvania, with tho approval of her Judgment and with glad anticipation of victory In her heart, following a leader who, like the Chevalier of France, is without fear and without reproach, sei onds the nomination for the vice presl doncy of Charles W. Fairbanks, ..f In dlana. My voice Is peculiar, but there are (ones In it which are penetrating and reach far Members of our delegation told mo that thoy could hear easily, and certain It Is that thero was no whispering In the au dience and that thoy gavo attention to tho nddres. At Its close there came what was tailed an ovation of applause and Fair banks came to my rooms to offer his thanks. Chauncey M. Depew also made a speech In behalf of tho nomination of tho Vice President. Inarrn '?"""11 ''""(" ler (ell about hi. c"c"nec,rt',,r,':,?,,r;r i.t - LITERARY NEW YORK Most of the Poets Who Write, About tho City Were Born Elsewhere fTWIk' literary barrenness of the city of New .York Is notorious. What? You say tho city la full of men and women producing lit erature. Yes, and It Is filled with great flnan tiers and captains of Industry. But New York did not pjoduce them. They have gone there ns to u market placo to soil their waiea. PIcrpont Morgan, the elder: John D. Rocke feller, Frank Vanderllp and Cliarlej Schwab vw'ie all born outsldo of New York. And so wai: William Dean llowolls, Hamlin Oarland, IMItli M. Thomas, Hlchaid Wntson Glider, Hon Mai quia, rranklln p. Adams, Kdmund Clarence Stcdinan, IMwIn Arlington Robinson nnd nearly all of the llting and dead men and women of letters who havo been n-soclatcd with that city in their later year. Tho Putnamir, who have boon publishing books lu New York for several generations, have Just Issued "Tho Book of New York Verse," containing more than 22G poems about tho city written by 123 different poets. But only eleven of tho poets nro nathe New York ers. To mako the book typical of literary New York It should have borno the Imprint of a Philadelphia publishing house ; then we should havo had a olutno of verso about New York by poets native of other places issued fiom tho press of another city ofTered to the public of tho nation. This wider pub lic will doubtless purchase more copies of tlie book than will bo sold in the city with which it deals. But to return to tho nativity of the poets. Theie aio seven selections from tho writings of Sara Teasdale and Clinton Scollard, a greater number than from any other poets. Sara Teabddle was born and lives In St. Louis, unci Clinton Scollaid Is tho son of a country physician of Clinton, N. Y., and still lh-es In tho little vlllago where lie was born. He uiites about the gieat city when ho gets tired of writing abouMho country. Ho Is no moro of a Now Yorker than Is Austin Dobson or Pierre Jean do Bcranger, each of whom is represented by a single poem. New England, whose population Is nbout that of tho city of New York, Is represented by fifteen poets, or four moro than the city Itself. Included among them aro L'duin Ar lington Robinson, John Oreenleaf Whlttler, William Cullen Bryant, T. B. Aldrleh, N. P, Willis, Robert Grant, Edmund Clarenco Sted. man and Fltz-Greene Halleck. There are eight Pennsylvania-born poets from, whoso tributes to tho city selections are made. This Is a large number when ono considers that they havo u great city within their own Stato about which to write. Among them aro Hcnrv van Dvke, born lu Germuntow n : George B. Morris, whom New York usually claims as one of Its onn; Lloyd Mimin. a dis tinguished sonneteer; Florenco Barle Coates, Marian C. Smith, Harvey M. Watts, Margaret Wlddcmer and Robert Bridges, not tho Brit ish laureate, but tho editor of Scrlbner's Magazine. New Yorkers are now claiming Don Mar quis and Franklin I. Adams as tho best poetle interpreters of the spirit of the town, but both Marquis and Adams wero born In Illinois and did not go to New York till they were grown men. Even the late Richard Watson Gilder was not a New Yorker, out first saw the light in Bordentown, N. J., much nearer Philadelphia than New York. He studied law In Philadelphia and dd not go to New York at all until after ho had served his apprenticeship In Journnllsm In Newark Indlani, which began producing l'terature when New York was mora than 2 years old, has produced three poets to write about the metropolis who loom larger In Amerlean llteruture tnan the totul eleven native New Yorkers included In the volume. They are Joaquin Miller, William Vaughn Moody and Meredith Nicholson. Who are the native New Workers? Among them are Bdgar Fawcett, now almost forgot ten; Guv Wetmore Carrvll, remembered by only a few; Emma Lazarus, whoso poetry was a fad for a whllo; Helen Hay Whitney, who amuses herself writing verse, and Joseph Rodman Drake, who Is never classified any where save as a minor poet. He Is remem bered because of h's "Amrlcan Flag," the last stanza of which, the best at the whola poem, was written by Fltz-areeno Halleck, a New Englander, There Is evidently something In the atmos phere of New York which prevents the native from cultivating his literary gifts. If he be born with them. The city has to depend on men born elsewhere to describe and Interpret her. G, W. D. SlORTttAUY WIT T. C. Peck. the. railroad man. counta amon hie admlrera n. President Taft. who dellghti to tell nllrcdotea ahowinir peek's ready wit. Hero's a, mjlei Mr. Peek w cirator. not Ion aio. at tho unvalllns of a monument erected to the mem irr of a certain Walrrucr -hom we'll call John J. Smith. Iweauae that Isn't anythlmr llko hla name. Peek acoulttad hlmeelf with hla ouetom. rv srai-e. tut afterward a. friend said to hlmi "Why didn't you tell the whola truth about Smith?" 'Well." ,llfk1.r,!'f.1"I eam hero not to uureil John J. Hmltn, but nla roo&ument.' JfAUflllTY TOMMV Tommy pujhed tile mother'a daughter In a vat of bolllojr water. When they found (he little girl AU her lialr vn out of curL "YAH, DEY THE PASSING OF BIG TOM McAVOY And a Word About His Memorable Fight With Wee Bobbie Henderson BIG ToM Mc.VVOY, who passed awuj on Saturday at the green old ago of eighty, will be laid at rc.t In Mount Morlah Ceme tery today, and there will be many in the automobiles following the hearse who will recall for discussion tho great light between "Big Tom" nnd "Wee Bobbie" Henderson for th Twenty-sixth Ward fcut In Select Council more than a quarter of a century ago. Tho election of Edwin S. Stuart to tho mayoralty In 1S91 left vacant his chair in the Select Chamber, and Thomas B. McAvoy, brick manufacturer, and towering six-foot-six of good nature nnd pugnacity, Jumped at once Into buttle for the place. But thero was u little plumber on South Broad btrect, n wee wisp of u man whom Tom could have carried off In his overcoit pocket, but who wan full of fight, too. This was Robert V. Henderson. Tho two men wero big figures In the councils of the A. P. A, which had pretty much tho whlphand In that district lu those il.ijs. und the war became at onco internecine, and gen er.ill was spoken of as the "light of Big Tom and Wee Bobble." Tho battle began over tho nomination, and the voto in that convention was "that close a flea couldn't liavo walked between It." The leader of the old MoManes, or gashouse, crowd, was John O'Donnel, who had been Recorder of Deeds und who wns tho head of tho Harmony Legion, the strong-arm men of th Tvventy-blxtli, which then took lu the present Thirty-sixth Ward. Tho distin guishing full dress of theso huskies was the red flannel shiit. adorned with a big ti, and tho white knitted lie affected by tin ;d volunteer firemen. When thoso lads iime swinging down the street on parade It was faiish a ballagh for ever) body else. O'Donnel turned In for McAvoy, and tho fight for chairman of the convention, ns wo havo said, wns eiore. Ono voto decided It. Nobody to this day, pel haps, knows for whom tho voto wan cast, but O'Donnel claimed It nnd, seizing the gavel, called the meeting to order. Hut there was no order. It broke up In a low. McAvoy and Henderson were now both firmly fixed In tho saddle. Mayor Stuart In his campaign had beaten tho regulars, having tho younger fellows and tho substantial citizens with him, but this flKht split the district In all directions. Hugh Black, who was chairman of tho regular Twenty-sixth Ward Republican committee, turned In for Henderson und O'Donnel car ried tho banner for McAvoy. A Paroxysm of Parades The Henderson headquarters vvua at Broad and Ellsworth streets and McAvoy's gonfalon flew lo tho breeze at Broad and Dickinson streets. Between the twe, my, at Federal street, squatted the unimportant Democrats. Parades of tho rival factions broke looso and at onco became nightly oc currences. And for the first time in tho political history at the city women appeared upon horseback. Arabian steeds? Well, they were commandeered from tho coko wagons and brick carts In which they earned their dally oats. Nearly every family In the ward took a part In tho nightly turnout. The newspapers gave columns of spaco to the South Broad street doings. The city at that time was full of political unrest. Honest John Bardeley had Just been exposed as looter of tho City Treasury und councllmanlo Investigations were on. Gov ernor Pattlson had appointed William Red wood Wright to tho olllco of City Treasurer for Bardsley's unexpired term and tho Democruts had nominated him for a con tinuance In that office. They wero prepared to deal with any faction of the Republicans which might help toward his election, and the two belligerents In the Twenty-sixth Ward were no les anxious to get In on such a deal. But Mayor Stuart refused to give his sanction to tiny such arrangement between the Hendersonltes and tho Demo crats and so the alliance of Democrats with the McAvoy faction was brought about. The pact was made at a conference In the rooms of the Democratic city committee at Broad and Chestnut streets, at which were present William V. Harrlty, John R. Read. John J. Curley, Matt Dlttmann and other lesser llEhta. The fight In the Twenty-sixth then waxed more and more furious. South Broad street becamo a maelstrom of parades, and there was so much activity by night that there was mighty little work done by day. Though some bricks were thrown, very few were made In the yards of the McAvoy and other like establishments. There are somo who will tell you that when election day came, resulting In the election of McAvoy and cul minating in u climactic demonstration whn the vote was known, there was nobody eober in the ward. But that's exaggeration. Some thousands wero ho busy absorbing McAvoy joy or drowning Henderson sorrow as to bo afflicted with temporary strabismus, and to these all men wero brothers, or at least, for the moment, kin. It took the ward a long while to settle QUARRELS; BUT ONLY AS TO HOW!" down, and when hcadj were cool enough to bother with statistics tho Interesting fact developed that, although this fight was for a seat In Select Council, to bo occupied only for tho few months of tho previous occu pant's unexpired tcnn, it had proved ono of tho most expensive, and certainly tho moat bitter, tho city had ever known. Tho two factions began nt once to look forward to tho Febiuary election, but they wero tired and they presently got together. They smoked tho pipe of peaco nnd delib erated, und out of tho deliberations grew tho contlnunnco of Big Tom in Select Council and the appointment of Wco Bobblo to a magistracy. Thoee who knew Big Tom very well tleilaro that he was nil of sK feet six inches tall and. tnerefore, one of the biggest i-.eu to sit among our city father?, llov.ever this may be. you would Und not ono In tho Tvvcntj slxth Ward today not even one of his old tlmo enemies to wag an objecting head If you wero to arise In our placo and say: "It was a big. warm, strong heart that was left cold and still lu Mount Morlah this day, God rest him!" T. A. D. ANOTHER BROWNING An encyclopedia that boasts It Is always up to the minute gives not a word of Infor mation nbout John M, Browning, gun in ventor of Ogden, Utah. Ills father was a gun maker and ho has been making guna sinco ho was fourteen years old; ho Is sixty-two. Guns of his Invention bear other nninns when manufactured In this country. The Winchester nnd Colt guns are his, but few people In this country were nvvure of It before the recent Investigation at Wash ington. The encjclopedlas give full Informa tion about Brownings who were poets, but of tbu Browning who studies to make the world safo for the enjojment of roetry theie is no space. FOOLSCAP! Thu fact that tho British Government, on economy bent, has discontinued the us.i of foolscap paper for official correspondence has called forth a mild discussion nn to tho origin of the name. Most authorities nro agreed that It Is duo to the watermuik, a fool's cap, with which this slzo of paper was adorned, but when It comes to the question of who first Introduced It authorities differ. Somo say it camo from Germany, and point to the fact that German paper, bearing a foolscap watermark and dating from H7S), was exhibited In tho Caxton exhibition of 1 877. Others credit tho claims of Sir John Spleltnann, who had paper mills nt Dart ford, toward the closo of tho sixteenth cen tury. And yet ethers lay It nil to nn order mado by the rump Parliament, which enjoined that tho roynl arms In the watermark bo removed from tho official paper of the house, and "u. fool's cap nnd bells substituted." So, after nil, on? takes one's choice. nni.ii liellnda Is ft barber girl. Ileforo tho war It was u "Swine ' Who ueed to rut my only curl. Hut now It la a Ml". Tho time has cornel Tho hour la ripe: There's no ceeapel I must bo brave. Belinda H tho slaehlne typo And I am coins' to have a shave. iletp! ' -From "Our Olrla In Wartime," Ly llumpdon Uordon. What Do You Know? QUIZ Who wero the Dosee? Nome the author of "Wuverlej." Where U Ciernowlti? that play l Wie bnils of Verdl'e opera "La TrnvlaU"T Which l the "Quaker City"? What la tlw family name of UrltUh royalty? Define downier. Name the "three traces." Define an Idiom. Who la the new ehlef or staff of the British force lu Trance? i 1 Answers to Yesterday's Quiz , A soviet I n Ttaeslan reprr-tentallra as sembly. The term U not rratrtrted to the toilet meettnx In I'etrocrad. That la a coUcctloii of various local covleU. , The Untrue I tbe capital of Holland. , TL territory , of the Mle.lssli.pl na arreted by Jbe Oarfleld order, and. In ad dition, all If the Htae of llrnneooU and Louisiana, throutn which the rlicr rune, , Tui "War Cabinet" U the proposed board of three) men provided for In th Chamber lain bill. Tills "Cabinet" would direct tho rondurt of Iho war. Its measures belnr subject to review by liie President, , "Garabed"! A machine to general and use enormous Mores or power, nerordlur to lis Inventor, flurabed T. K. IJIrncosslan, who"! oner to Kim iuw ronniry tne lino of flio lnti,.n ltna been necente.1 ! .. Willi nianuKi mumrni ci IHO irau lllllona In order to advance tho causes of democracy ml lh MitaallzallAn nt n,u..-..i. " rewards of industry In ljiiluml. Magyar magnatesl Hungarian nobles. "O. 0."i Abbreviation for "couiroandlu officer." Classical nam tor the Dardanelles! Tlis Hellespont, "French leooe") DepaiUng without asldne permission. . 10, To the Author of "Beautiful Snow" Dear author of "Beautiful Snow" (Whoever you were, A him or u her. For it's nothing we're given to know i lit t.H .!. i- ..... I!..!- i.i...v M Jl W1U JUUKU Ul yOU, 11VJI1K UCIOVV You were much in our mintl As we fronted tho wind And the feathery downfall this morning, m We thought of your "Beautiful Snow," And wondered betimes If your little rhymes Were really intended to show How much to pure fancy wo owe, Or whether you sang With nn ironic twantr Of the feathery downfall that morning', Has Paradise beautiful snow? Or lingers your soul In regions whero coal Unlimited crackles aglow, However the traffic mny go? Ah! then you'd have got Tho delight we did not At th'e feathery downfall this morning. TOM DALY. AMERICAN PEAT AS FUEL Experiment Has Shown That It Could 1 Bo Utilized to Good Effect By DR. AUSTIN O'MALLEY SINCK the fuel problem has become .so j serious with us It is strange somo ono M has not tried to utlllzo tho enormous deposits of peat we havo In tho lowland regions near' Lake Michigan, l-'or a long time peat lias ' been tho fuel used In Ireland, where there are a about 2.730,000 acres of bogs. There are a iiiaii jjcui lusiricm in iiurmern r.urupe, anu In Bussla about 6700 square miles of peat de- vi posits. 1'eat Is the partly decayed and compacted rpniAinu of itinRuea nnd manih nlantri which have been covered with water. In Prancs flj this fuel In dredged from the bottoms ef M ronds In tho valleys of the Somme and-OIe. -si but commonly the bogs are partly drained, the surface material removed and the peat Is turfs are dried in tho air as a rule. Bedding,! iur iioi-ech its mane irom me upper layers vi the bog moss, which Is especially valuable for Its deodorizing and absorbent qualities. The moss Is used also In paper-making, and It Is useful as a packing for fresh fruit, About 1900 cxnerlmentB mado In Michigan showed It was possible then to get a good peat which could be sold In Michigan for ji from S2 to 12 a ton. As ceat when uncom pressed Is bulky, eight to eighteen times mors 9 than coal. It would not pay to transport It, a but tho compressed product can be trans- 'M ported. M ine neaiing value of a ruel is cietermini by various methods, ono of which Is to put a given quantity or me tuei in a cioiea cjnu- -m der surrounded by a water Jacket, burn the tH fuel In oxygen, and tako the temperature of the water. With us the result Is commoniy expressed by the number of pounds of water raised a. deereo' Vnhrenhelt bv tho combul- rflsa tlon of ono pound of the fuel when the hfmt,8 Is all absorbed by the water. A good PenB Rvlvnntfi nnthennlfA "nni ,1n..!nn &b01lt9 If. 000 heat units tier tiound ; neat, from tW to 10,000 units; but much of tho heat tTomfm peat Is lost virtually through the moisture in it. Wood as a fuel averages from JOOt) to a 000 heat units. The peat from the bottom otim nogs is netter tnan tne upper layers, there Is considerably more Incombustible ah In peat than In wood. The report of the United States Geological Survey for 1801 hai a consideration of tho peat In this country. EDITORIAL EPIGRAMS ;M With Alaska eona ilrv. what will they Ue, In the movie plays Instead of the barroonvj wciiut Oli iua;iJii uaci;kli;. According to General Maurice, of the BtIt.B ish army, Bethlehem, Pa., was In a. tart measure responsible for the capture of EeHJi, lehem. Pal. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "fl Hooverlzlng Is commonly regarded Fomething new, but tho Lawrence JournWMB World has found this In Proverbs XV, " "Better Is a dinner of Herb's." Kansas CltyM Star. Tho T.-nln oriw,t In Tlimsln. rail the COI- tacks the counter-revolutionists. Tho Co Micka might retort by palling tho Leninites tho bargain-counter revolutionists. Work denco Journal. 1 In ..1.....C.,!.. , .-..ll.l.. .n ..till, S id ,Maii.uii lllljjuaaiuio 11 j,,,.. Has twelve-Inch body through u thiee-mcli hol 11 us piiysicniiy iiniioasioia to run ine i est freight traffio of the history of the oouu try even In the history of any country through tho neck of a, bottle. New OrieW Item,' I
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