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June It. 1418 TLAG DAY XXTHEN you hang out the color today ..pszcww . - .u.u..j.. t 4i..ur. il nf "tk'tke nlaces it has been, of the thhws it tm. tMpri Ii Tlle CVCS f an unhappy world arc $Wyuatching your flag with the steadfast Zfyfyjfaith that a lonesome seaman reserves Wiffor his star' n ha 'xft&sithe proud and to th Zeiss', far kin star. It hnn niuen new hove in c poor everywhere in Jv.r 'ii .i.7r7 t So It is the symbol and the ?Al" " '- IVVItl. achievement of the two noblest humati Bffe attributes strength and compassion. It ft'htp&t Jpring8 from the enduring good that is 'tiit the heart of humanity. It stands for tfffiL' ' liberation of all men. i&O. ' And it. rn.il npvpy fail it riu npvpr hr. i& -i.., t ,.' '...:.. ,.:. .,-.. ,.. fy? -wtuicu, vecuuse inai motive lies act' in ifciterw human consciousness, as vcrma- $J, ntnt, as sure, as inevitable as tears or &Xtaughter or hope or faith in God. "Stop beefing !" cries Hoover. Advice tht my be followed profitably In other war .situations besides merely that ot food. HOW TO ESCAPE A VIOLENT DEATH fHE of the Murest ways to escape a vlo- '. lent death Is to commit murder. The ;SV, records of the criminal courts establish this iV.- Tirnnnnlflnn nnrl U'hn .lilAtrr. Rnrfatt col.l I Wll '.!.. 1.1 ..... 1 Tl . . lM0L Vflthout fear of death In the electrical chnir Wfn'hi was merely Interpreting the statistics. jkji ; The verdict of second-degree murder In SWiiW' 1 , .... .. ... (?T case in wnicn tne evidence pointed to flrst degree, that provoked the judge's 'Jvi comment, was typical. There were IIS . ?H-Jurders In this city last year and only one 1..-' conviction which carried the donth nennHv. k ;JThe name rule holds In New York and ba '.fftlapn nihpra tint nnlv rln tliA mitrHoroM J.-'" akicape death, but In many cases escape : tj Wrest. The number of unexplained mur- jkiid All iiie eii'ik uiiic, ia cuiiuuiuusiy jli- rm.. i i 1 i.i t . VvfQSj&Z Aiie uriimiiui cuvciq 1119 iruuns bu i'V,xuccessfuiiy mat tne ponce are unnoie to (;Tpet proof against any one. "rcSMTlie chicken-hearted Juries are partly '. Vl,.'aatninat Kla frit tha VitrrVi miiti-a i'n In .iKthi United States, 'but not wholly. The !AnefficIency of the detective force und the Mlys ot the law aro equally responsible T'4jt'land, where crimes of violence are com- Kparatlvely rare. The criminal Is usually Sjt hanged within a month of his conviction Wnanil he finds It lmnosslble to drair his case v , . . - .. 'Ti&l along for years by appeal from one court '3VP'i another on legal technicalities that do !?DA'.V-.... ... ..... . r.. , boc aiieci. nis kuhl or iiinuceiiuc. so long M' these conditions prevail in America v?i'lnurder will be one of the safest crimes. 1.3;, lf contests may happily mean that all the ..ajT-fWorKmen are getting too good ror uiscrimina- VJii v " . .. "vIssTraY HAS HOUSE-BUILDING STOPPED? "zi?:l5 t... ., . ...... ..... 1 ''l v IIKVV Jiuusca nc.c Licicu ill 1111a i:iiy 'ijsfivery year Hrt ,n the flrst four montns of lul(i' soss Sx'mw houses were erected. ,5;fiIn the first four months of last ear the In the flrst four months of the present Pyiar the total Is about 300. iftiJm'Ani the demand for new houses was h ftf P"ter ln 19n than ln 1916 and Is Sfeater 'mw than It was In 1917. i?Why this lamentable collapse In the sSji&kllng program? SiJt Is said that labor and material are Sk?2.. A . !.. T...1 At.-.. MrfPHaMirA3 (tllU KAUDHC uuk ll.C U1C 11UL iUBTxpenslve and so scarce that they could ..." Jas oe ouiauieu il uieie wuic ia ueiermineu jiMlfiitort on the part of the community to gjiapply the demand for housing for war i" 'workers. U"-- . ,, ., , 11..., , jpnua puiiuiiiK siujipcu utuuuse uie private jllders have been afraid that Government itpetltlon In preparing accommodations Host Island workers would make it im- sible .for them to erect houses at a jjUt? If this be true it is about time Government pushed Its building opera- l with greater speed, that there may be W'toot to cover the workers before cold er sets in. uut no announced uov- nent building program Is extensive eh to meet the normal demand for a, to say nothing of the abnormal de- 'occasioned by war conditions, it is I'ilnia DAmBttnrlir mt Tlilutr S7.A, t It lite euiuciuu; ttui muoj, niji tWlth an aeraso dally beef ration of than three ounces, the vest pocket may ijaatpected to put the tlme-honored lunch- BUt oi Dusinew. iW - & '. wuraj AMPRIPAMS nruT fr AA ,......M, ..Mill Ll reports from France indicate that Lowr soldiers are astonishing the French JJrithsh with their manner of ftght- Jrjfhey go Into battle with an enthu- Aa a determination to win which i the French .officers to exclaim they K Hot do better if they were gods. ,nave carried across ine ocean wttn 'a spirit which will compel victory. '.'.K lighting with the troops of ua- H'Uhat have, been t war for nearly ; yearn with a dogged determination I'wreala victory from impossible odds. alto have that determination. And rAatfeUtMUM' enemy which has been I" ay ); years oi war ana mm lW a,lWrYhava. to. meet VaUHM THE WAR'S HIGH TIDE Etery Permanent Force in the World Is Witfi the Allies Against Germany 'T'HE wnr was never so complicated a problem ns it is today. It is no longer possible to obtain guiding impres sions from the battle actions alone. The silent reactions in Russia, in Japan, in Washington are growing to be a3 impor tant in relation to the war's possible out come as military triumphs or defeats in France. Nothing is cettain except that Ger many will lose. Civilization must ivin or die. Prussianism must win or die. The analysis of recent German strategy by the military authorities at Washing ton, who informed Mr. Gilbert, the cor respondent of this newspaper, yesterday that the Germans now have a definite advantage of the French and British on the southern battlcfront, touches only a momentary phase of the situation. The Germans have had advantages before. Yet they have never won a decisive m Wi ld rj victory in France. Out of the ferment in Europe some things come to the surface now and then as unmistakable evidence of the drift of afTairs beneath. It is apparent, for in stance, that the German attacks on the lines defending Paris have had a queer sort of fuiy a fury of the sort that does not react from a sane impulse or a confi dent state of mind. There are fever and frenzy in the war that Germany is waging now. Her lines have been im pelled forward in narrow areas by a des peration suggestive of madness. The German command has outdone its for mer cruelty to its men. The limit of human endurance has been reached and passed in the German armies and in Germany. Bodies and minds can stand no more. And yet Germany has yet to attain any one of the major objectives which have inspired all this sacrifice. To any one who can think at all it is now plain that the newest offensive had one of two motives behind it. The Ger man strategists may have wished to draw the British armies southward to actually compel them southward in order to leave the way easy for a lunge at the Channel ports. Or, perceiving the logic of this plan as it would appear to the Allies, Hindenburg may have desired to use it as a mask for a sudden, leaping drive at Paris. But Paris itself is not a military ob jective of dominant importance. Its loss would not mean either defeat or confu sion for the French armies. And it is not likely to be lost. In other words, the Germans have not been rewarded by any of the results they expected. So far their drive has been a wasteful failure that will be remembered only because the troops engaged in it were sent to the most revolting slaughter of the war. If German statesmen felt as secure in Austria and in-Russia as they pretend to feel, it is not likely that they would risk so much for a quick advantage in France. It is not likely that they would talk of a sea battle. If the German com manders had any remaining hope of get ting the Channel ports by land they surely would not endanger their fleet in an insane effort to disorganize traffic in the English Channel. The job could be done much more easily from Boulogne and Calais. It seems to have been the conviction in Germany that the French would risk even these poits to defend Paris. In that assumption the Germans proved themselves poor guessers. It is well to remember in these days that there are just seventeen cents in Germany for every dollar that Germany owes. Germany must plunder the world or be bankrupt. One great setback for Hindenburg's armies in France is all that is needed to throiv Germany into a delirium of despair. And if even the faith of Germans in their Government would be shaken by such a defeat, what would happen to opinion in Austria, Russia, Poland, the Ukraine and in the other doubtful terri tories where Germany has already set up an imaginary sphere of influence? Is it too much to suppose that the strength of America, combined, in the last pinch, with that of Japan, is not adequate to hit the German army a body blow necessary to end its red career! Tuenty-flve hundred women will b0oii be dolns police duty ln town, according to report. looking after the other women. A sort ot homeopathic Hahnewomanlsm? IT TAKES MORE THAN A TOGA TO MAKE A SENATOR VyiTHOUT belittling the qualities of Henry Ford, it may be said that there are men In Michigan better fitted to serve In the United States Senate .han he. Con sequently the Indorsement of him for the benatorship by the Democrats at the re quest of President Wilson, "although he Is not within our fold." must be regarded as an attempt to capitalize his personal popularity for the benefit of the party. While Mr. Ford is nominally a Republican If elected to the Senate by an)' chance he would be a Wilson Democrat. This Is proved by his statement consenting to run. Former Governors Osborne and Warier are avowed candidates for the nomination in the Republican primaries and there is talk of asking Trueman H. Newberry, who was Secretary of the Navy under Mr. Roosevelt, to enter the race. Mr. Ford, although he Is a Republican, has no po litical following. As a matter of fact, he has no political experience and Is as inno cent of knowledge of those matters on which a Senator should be Informed as he proved himself to be Ignorant of Interna tional, affairs when he conducted his famous peace mission to Kurope "to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas." It la conceivable that Michigan could ba Induced to elect him to the Senate, but he would be as great a misfit as Vardamin. of .MIsal'sjJppl. would be at the head of the EVENING PUMtC LED6ERPHttAl)lffl?HrAt he I than ho could serve It In making laws or In executing them as President. The nctlon of tho Michigan Democrats Is Interesting and It Is typically American. Uut they would bo more patriotic If they would indorse for the senatorshlp the blg get man In their own party within the State. POISON GAS IN POLITICS II KC In Pennsylvania politics, as well as J ln the 'world war, is Just one sort of" gas after another. Some kinds of gas are successfully ap plied. Others react upon the men who employ them. And others proe futlto and the persons attacked return easily to health and sanity. Judge Uonnlwcll gassed the Democratic party. The Democratic party wan over come anil afflicted with delusion. It lost consciousness. Judge Donnlwell wan wrap ping It up in paper and preparing to carry it lo a place In hlH collection of curios when A. Mitchell Palmer anil the other leaders hurried to this city, sat as a med ical board and reclaimed the victim. The delusion that a wet plank In the State platform would help mako the world safs for democracy Is no longer tolerated by any conspicuous Democrat except Judge Bonnlwell. There will be no wet plank, said Mr. Palmer. Senator Vate's gas li more effective. The Senator used It extensively In his ptace drive and has gassed himself successfully back into the Republican Stute organiza tion. "1 nlwuys was Mr. Sproul's friend." said tho Senator at the latest Sproul rally as ho tucked away the knife. Tho Oiganlzatlon manifested less powers of resistance than Mr. Palmer's Democrats. It rolled Its eyes and surrendered without a murmur. BEEF RATIONS: A TARALLEL ANCK a week," -' the greatest sti said IA Hung Chung, tatesman ln China's re cent history, "I eat on egg." LI lived almost exclusively on vegeta bles. An egg a week represented, ln his careful philosophy, an ndequate quantity of animal food. Bernard Shaw contends that he Is clev erer, happier and wiser than all the rest of the world because he eats no meat at all and but a limited quantity of vegeta bles. Prince Paul Troubetskoy Is a Rus sian of the giant type and one of the greatest of living sculptors. Though about fifty years old, he Is a man of phenomenal physical strength. Now and then he gets Into a fight with a New York policeman. And It Is the policeman who suffers. Yet Troubetzkoy has been a life-long propa gandist of vegetarianism. Mr. Hoover's schedule of beef rations Involves no vital sacrifice. Beef might be withdrawn altogether and we in America would still remain the most fortunate peo ple in the world in the matter of foods. It Is not gracious to think or talk of beef rations as If they represented a war sac rifice. When we begin to give up the things that are really needed tho so-called Indispensable things then we may talk of sacrifice. Protesting concerning It la ISelnr; Hone the lynching of Pra- ger In this country, Germany expresses the hope that no more of her subjects will be killed over here. For once we agree with her. Kurope's the place toe that necessary task. The complaints about Joja of Wart the costliness and re strictions of travel seem to be unfounded. There were never so many free trips to Europe as today. Furthermore, one 18 even paid for going abroad. "I always thought the rin) the Orchestra! Germans had no re spect for the law, but now I know It." "Why do you know It, Mr. Interlocutor?" "Because the papers tell us that the U-boat captain locked the 'copper' in the hold and shamelessly sailed away." Taking it by and large, we'd rather have our June das rare than overdone. There about the have been is comparatively little softness Matz upon which the Germans hurled. There are certain German attacking forces who know perfectly well who put the ' cant" in Cantlgny. "Auto Tires In Man's Room," declares a headline It always did bore a buzz wagon to be penned In that way Now that we are all his flrst cousins, the egetarlan can no longer regard us with the distant air of a superior being. " "Tls a beauteous evening, calm and free " Wordsworth. About the only thing left that is THOSE POLA VICTORIES (With due apologies.) talka mooch about "Y"0 OU Olivra Twisto "Who aska all da time for more and more "Spaghett. rosbif and piu di fritto misto "Well, Eetaly's da Twisto of da war! "Da lottery we call him da 'tombola' "He shifta. Mebbe you don't try again. "But when he cry for more at Porto Pola "Eetalian man he strike what you call Hen'. "Two times he call, 'Dreadnothings, you must geeve me!' "Sta bene!" "And, he'll ask for more and more "You know your Carlo Dickens, then be lieve me "Eetalian man's da Twisto of da war!" GIUSEPPE, The U-Boat's Mother Goose II-OVK neutral vessels. Their arms are so light That If I bombard them They can't wage a fight, I skulk n the ocean With schooners forprey. WbUa "i ) rni THE ELECTRIC CHAIR Have You Ever Been Fired? TTAVE you ever been "fired"? Or, If you prefer the polite phraso custom ary to self-esteem, "resigned from an un congenial posltlon"7 It seems that If you have' never had nn Irish raise you have missed an experience which has helped many men find themselves und has put them on the road to ultimate success. rpHE stiff jolt that comes to a man when - ho is asked to find some other channel for his superlative powers Is painful at first, but it is also tho greatest tonic known In tho business world. You may have been quite unjustly dismissed, or (more likely) you may have been lying down on your Job; but In any case the result is like bumping some psychological funny-bone. If you have any spine at all you will have to mobilize it for Immediate action. "VNE docs not have to study the ways of J this world very long before finding that turning stumbling blocks Into stepping stonrH is the most useful kind of masonry known to man. There Is probably not a successful man or woman living who has not at some time or other had to face what looked like a complete breakdown of his or her outfit of tools. It may come ln the way of broken hcalrti. physical disablement, loss of funds, disloyalty of some ussoclate or some catastrophe of nature. It may even come to mankind ns a whol as this war has come an apparent collapse of the whole fabric of civilization. But human beings have marvelous ways of gathering themselves together to face adversity. Both Mngly and ns n race they have a habit ot "seeing It through," ITrE ONCE found an instance of this truth ' In the life of Thomas A. Edison (It Is related In his biography written by Dyer and Martin), and we have a!ways remem bered It. AT FOURTEEN young Edison was work iiing ns a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway. The train on which ho Kold pa pers ran 1-otueen Port Huion and Detroit. During the run he had a good deal of time to himself, and finding a section of tho baggage car unused, he turned it into nn office and laboratory. He had no ofilclal permission to do so but the good na ture of the train hands, who, pleased by his ingenuity, allowed him to do very much ns he chose. In this baggage car he com posed, edited and printed a newspaper of his own, Tile Weekly Herald, which was complimented by tho London Times as the first Journal In the world to be edited and printed on a train in motion. BUT it wji lnhnrntnr as the baggage car chemical laboratory that got him Into trouble. His shelves became crowded with appara tus, and one day when the train was run ning rapidly over a poorly laid stretch of track a stick ot phosphorus was jarred from Its place, fell on the "floor and burst Into flames. The car took fire and the boy In dismay was trying to quench the blaze when the conductor, a quick-tempered Scotchman, discovered the accident and quenched the blazo with water. Wher tho next station was reached Edison and his entire outfit laboratory, printing plant nnd all were ejected by tho enraged con ductor. He was left on the platform, tear ful and dismayed, among his beloved but ruined possessions. I T WAS in this adventure that Edison ac quired the deafness that has persisted throughout his life. A box on the ears from tho scorched and angry conductor was the direct cause of the trouble. This would be regarded by most of us as a great affliction, but Mr. Edison has always taken It with equanimity. He has said: "This deafness has been of great advan tage to me in various ways. When in a telegraph office I could hear only the In strument directly on the table at which I sat and, unlike other operators, I was not bothered by the other Instruments. Again, in experimenting on the telephone I had to improve the transmitter so I could hear It. This made the telephone commerlcal, as the magneto telephone receiver of Bel! was too weak to be used as a transmitter commer cially. It was the same with the phono graph. The great defect of that Instru ment was the rendering of the overtones in music and the hissing consonants ln speech. I worked more than one year twenty hours a day, Sundays and all, to get the word 'specie' perfectly recorded and reproduced on the phonograph. When this was done I knew that everything else could be done, which was a fact. Again, my nerves have been preserved intact. Broad way is as quiet to me as a country village Is to a person with normal hearing." IF ONLY the Kaiser had been brought up as Mr. Edison was, how much hap pier the world would be today! SOCRATES. Whv shouldn't we take the latest German claims of Allied losses soberly? Because they Quirk ! the Stretcher Hearer flow from a Stein. The report that Metz is massing troops may indicate that America Is doing the same thing In Lorraine, not many miles from the German stronghold. The report that the Alsatians have denounced the "military heel" is only natural. It's the far prettier French variety which haa always pleased them most. "Stop orders cause an abrupt ilse In corn" complains a headline. And yet there are farmers who would delightedly hall that spectacle of growth in their summer fields. Word comes from Russia by way of Stockholm that the Bolshevlkl are politically dead, with no one to bury them. The Kaiser would be glad to act as sexton and suc cessor. Jerome H. Eddy, the veteran press agent, who has Just died In New York at tho age of eighty-three, was not the author of "The Arabian Nights." He would have scorned so meager a fictional output The program played by the Municipal Band in various Philadelphia parks this week contains' not a single German name. None theless, with Rossini, Bizet and Saint Saens represented, as they nre, mublcal art is far from languishing. Fashions ln ratios have changed again. Once upon a time "J 8 to 1" had Its friends; "Jt to 1" lately won a host of enthusiasts, but "1000 to I," established by our troops in a Harna fray in which but one American f UtlfM P i&tfirsi.Kfift iViR ULr, jatS Tfetaatie..- HO W THE QUAKERS ARE FIGHTING FOR HUMANITY fT!HE Friends have never been great hunt---.ers of publicity, and It is characteristic of their quiet and persistent methods that even here in Philadelphia, the headquarters of the Friends' Reconstruction Unit, the public has heard comparatively little of the remarkable work the Quakers are doing in the devastated regions of Europe. The Friends have a habit of letting their work speak for itself. ' And It does. The Quaker conscience has forbidden many of the Friends to take up arms, but the Quaker conscience never for bids a man to do whatever work he can for the good of humanity. The actlvjty of the Friends' Reconstruction Unit Is divided Into four kinds: Medical, houses and re pairs, clothing and furniture and agricul tural. There are 360 workers now In France and twenty more on the way. There are thirty-five in Holland, twelve ln Ser bia, four In Italy. And now that we are all talking of aid for Russia, it Is Interesting to know that the Friends are the only relief workers who have not withdrawn from Russia sjnee the revolution. Twenty nine Quakers are still there, alleviating the distresses ot the population as best they can. a One of the most Important things done by the Friends' unit in France Is the con struction of portable houses for the civilian population who have been driven from their homes. More than 650 such houses have been built by members of the unit, which operates its own sawmill to prepare the lumber. The French people are strongly individualistic; they will not live In bar racks constructed for many families. Each family must have a home of Its own. The plight of civilians ln France, at a time when almost every effort Is necessarily being exerted In behalf of the armies, is very pitiful. The Friends have tried to provide expert medical attendance; they establish civilian hospitals, distribute clothing, thresh grain, repair broken ag ricultural tools, build furniture and sell It to the villagers at a minimum price. They try in every way to avoid pauperizing those they aid. The Friends' unit has recently built a tuberculosis sanatorium, reroofed a civilian hospital at Rhelms, established a nurgical hospital near Sermalze (under Dr. James A. Babbitt, of Haserford College), made plans for the reconstruction of forty vil lages near Verdun nnd equipped an old blacksmith's shop as a repair shop for tools. It has threshed 900 tons of grain in thirty-three villages with twelve threshing machines, distributed clothing, taken care of the teeth of the villagers under Its charge and established maternity hospitals. Could any work of reconstruction be saner or more helpful? As a proof of the sentiments of he French Government toward the unit, It need only be said that the workers have been granted permission to pass freely in the mllltaty zones, al though the French, of course, know that thoy are avowed pacifists The Friends do so on their honor not to discuss questions of war and peace with the troops. Some times, ot course, the workers are asked by the men ln arms why they are not fighting, To this question the Friends always make the 'same reply. "Your religion forbids you to kill women and children," they say, "Our religion forbids us to kill men, women and children," r"i. - SJn VWi mm i'ffx.wim :W5SK. - .V .' ( THE GERMAN DftlVE no public appeals for funds. The support of the unit has been very generous, al though It has not yet reached the remark able record of the English Friends. There are only about 18,000 Friends In England altogether; they have contributed half a million dollars a year to the relief work since the war began. i Dr. Richard C. Cabot, the famous Boston physician, writes from Paris about the work of the Friends' unit: "Wo have hitched up our dispensary with the Quakers, who are working in Paris and outside of it for refugees in a spirit not equaled on the whole by any group I have seen out here. They work with their hands, build houses, help out with the plowing, do plumbing work when plumbers are unobtainable, sleep ln quarters that others find too hard, save money everywhere, and because they know what simple living Is, are the best of case-workers ln city cha'rltles, never pauperizing, never offending. They work In tho true religious spirit, asking no glory and no position, sharing the hardships they alleviate and earning everywhere such gratitude from the French that tho Gov ernment has offered to turn over a whole department to them If they will undertake all the work of reconstruction there. Others working here in France have friends and enemies. But the Friends have only friends, and I hear only praise of their work and can give only praise from what I've seen. "So I was more than delighted to have them move their office and working force bodily Into our dispensary. However dark, crowded or noisy it may get as we go on, I wager the Quakers will never complain." Sympathy for llie Rich The last Federal Income tax put an exemp tion on the incomes paid by Federal and State Government officials like Governors or Judges or sheriffs or what-not. This law was bad because, while the theory of exempting the Government may be all light, the theory of making flBh of the man on private pay and meat of the man on public pay Is indefensible. You could only excuse it on the ground that public officials earn more than they get. which, as a general proposition, bj a long way from being true. The new law should wipe out this exemp tion. Another thing, while it Is a mighty unpopu lar thought, we think It is wrong to tax-confiscate the property of the rich for no other reason than that they are rich, and, having only a minority ballot, are helpless against the extortion. If it is wrong for a man to be rich, then there ought to be a law passed making being rich a criminal offense punishable by Aim ann. lmprlEOnment New London Day, A Shorler Old Age Better food, cleanliness and checks upon the spread of epidemics have reduced th. death rate in early life, but It is rising among those who pass the age of forty. One explanation Is that more weaklings sur. vlve the ills of childhood and early youth, but do not acquire sufficient strength and vitality to carry them through the proverbial 'three Bcore years and ten, Worry Is one ot the dangers of middle age New York doctors say that diabetes rises sharply every time that stocks fall on the New York Stock Exchange Fear, anger, worry and other evil passions, scientists have discovered, upset the nervous system, exhaust the brain and create active poisons In the system which cause diseases of the circulation and blood. Indigestion and diabetes; whlla cheerfulness, joy and sleep produce opposite reaaiis and prolong life. XVXO ' r,-1 ,- t i i i i , AH $Q not, die, ' Kills ,jiB (HU ?n ',-,. -. . iJ.rAl vvm .'.hWVft' '17V; ty-'tji'.i, . i J """v fcihii'-yj &.j fc 'i Nelaon Hardlnr, In tho Brooklyn Eaala. QUESTIONS What shall I do when blows blnd me? How fare on when counsels cross? Where shall I turn when life behind me Seems but a course run at a loss? Through what throes shall I beat to wind ward, Uncontent with a lesser port? Whom shall I trust when heaven of me. Heaven Itself, seems making sport? How shall I answer a knave's rating. Done in a liar's arithmetic? What shall I say to a fool's prating, In destructlveness as quick? How shall I meet a friend's treason When It has scuttled tho good ship Faith? Whose are the stars If wide disaster As its will can do me scath? Answer there Is a brief order "Bear all blows and yet be free, Let no bitterness set a border To your will, no treachery. . Speak If you are the bigger for it, Keep the silence if you are less And If the stars Indeed be godless, Steer by their godliness." Cale Young Realities." Rice, in "Wraiths and Didn't Have Them in Mind ' Lincoln's declaration that it Is Impossible to know how many rivets a tlvelri can rivet, seem to be applicable to Germany, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Beginning Men have a start on the road to th brotherhood of man when they agree on the state of tho weather. Very f'v of hrra gel any further. Toledo Blade. Much Needed If Mr Burhank desires real fame, let him develop a vegetablo that will grow faster than a weed. Harrlsburg Telegraph. Cood Reason a Theie'll be no Prussians in Paris wnile there are Marines on the Marne.t St, Louis Star. The Potsdam Voice The next time that Emperor Charles of Austria makes any tentative remarks on peace he will wait until lift is told what h thinks on the subject, Rochester Post Express. Where Did the Tango? Time certainly files. It seems only yester day that the hula-hula was a nevlty. Bir mingham Age-Herald, What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who originated the war 'Mnnki." 3. What ! th mranln of "nvndlerlie"? .1. Name the author at "Thelmu." 4. What le the capltul of Delaware? 5. Who la Oeneral ion loehu7 6. Who la I'realdeut of FranreT 7. Which Frearh rlt l known at, "Th Cathedral rilr" 8. What la the meanlnc of "forlorn hone," I 0 Who mid. "llettrr a hluih In the fare than a -' jj blot In the heart"? , , fi 10. vt no .ilioriier uenerai VI lit lolled . Htatea? , Antwers lo Yesterday's. Quls I J, lUvfrford f'Mlcfr, at llateifnru, la,, near i I'hlladelphla, ' i ?. I'arl U the runltul of France, Klliun. life" hr "Ik Miirl ' . -'- i. VltlaHa JCmaiiuel Orlando la Fremiti- nf lfBl .r; 5, Kenturlp, from Indian word meaning "dark ' i A Kilanp Pull i Hmlth I lirntn.l .1 iU I'.l. 'i '! teralty of I'rnnaj-lianU. the eflee irorrevX' aliondlns t the lirealae.it of othef roilegea. "J; 7. 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