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All rights of republication of special dis patches herein arc also reserved. Philadelphia, Saturday, Januarr 11, 11 BEFORE THE PEACE COM'EHEXCE T71VEN lit this distance and with nothing -- but tlie carefully restrained dispatches for guidance, it Is apparent Unit President Wilson is being made to feci a growing Isolation In the midst of European olflclul dom as the time approaches for the formal conversations which uie to precede the Peace Conference. The postponements, which seem to have Irritated tho American representatives, may mean much or little. It remains clearly evident that tho statesmen of the Old "World hale not been overeager to inarch under Mr, Wilson's banners. The hope1? 'hat carried tho world through foui and a. half urnolu years vie icfeircd to less frequently now. Tho contrast between the popular support of the American policy and the reticence and hesitation of govern mental representatives abroad suggests how great, are the lines that may yet be drawn at tlie final settlements. There oie times, when It appears that the great days and tho great climaxes of tho war are still ahead. Tlie names of the four British plenipo tentiaries made public yesterday warrant no new prophecies. Lloyd Georgo has pledged himself for the principle of a league of nations. The other three I'.onar Law, Balfour and George Xlcoll Barnes rhay be said to repiesent the conservative and financial mind of Tlritaln rather than the mass oi progressive opinion which holds world peace and a league of nations s the first considerations It: this instance. The vising of the Seine, j ii it-ported from Paris, suggests something for Russia's Bolshevists to envy. A STREET .NAME WITH THRU. I. rpiIB movement started by the business "men of I.ogan to namo tho Northeast Boulevard after Theodore Roosevelt not only warrants indorsement, but it is sug gestive of a policy both stimulating to the civic Imagination and exhllittve of good taste. Street naming in Philadelphia has long been altogether too haphazard. The nu merical thoroughfares aro a prosaic con venience and tho destruction of that sys tem is unthinkable. Hut cro&s-streut ap pellations deserve nn attention which they have only occasionally received, Names like Thompson and Master mean extremely little in city particular! rich in his torical associations. The county svsteni udo'tted in the north ern section and tho gubenatonal one of South Philadelphia are Improvements, but that scheme i.i hampered by rigidity Great names in Philadelphia great names of national significance, could be fitly memorialized In our thoroughfares. The streets of Paris and ether European cities aro pregnant with associations and pt meanings in the names they bear. The Hue de Eivoll proclaims a great Na poleonic vlctorv. Tho Hut Quatru ?ep tembre announces the heroic blrthduy of the Third P.epubh The Itooseielt Iloulevai.J amai ks of in spiring Americanism. Northeast was an iinlmaglnativf makeshift. Tho proposed change should inspire no regrets " 'jn io Herlin' acquires a t.ov meaning In the diegust with which orderlv Muni'li regards 'he rliaoti,- Prussian capital. HONORARH M TOR EV-PHEslDENTa THE fact that Mrs. Theodore Itooscvelt will not really need tho niggardly tlve-thousand-dollar-a-year pension proposed in Congress in no sense excuses tho world's richest nation for its long-continued policy of penurlousness toward Its ex-Presidents. Indeed, tho very- novclt" o' this present rvituatlon s-erves to call attention to a precedent wholly discreditable to tho re public. Mr. Hoosevelt. though not rich according o Fifth avenue standards, happemd to be sulllclently well off to prtvide comfort ably for his widow. Ills financial resources, once he left olllce, were not tho country's concern. But they should have been. ,yo should bo idso tho condltlor of nvery atatesman elevated to tho post of hlef executive. Grant's heroism in compiling his me moirs in agony and in the shadow of death has been greatly lauded, but what of tho neglect of a nation which Imposed eo cruel a necessity on bno of Its alleged Idols'.' The majority of ex-Preshlents have been compelled to work for a living. Some havo returned to the bar. Others, as In the case of John Qulncy Adams in the House of Itepresentatives, havo resumed their political careers on another scale. Borne have accepted professorial chairs or liave employed their pens. These Instances (peak well for the probity of our chief executives in ofllce, but most unflatter Jngly of the substantiality of our regard 'ter, these leaders. 'km. adequate honorarium for the support of cs-Presldents or their widows would bo In no senso a condescension, but their In disputable due. Tho sooner Congress ap plies this remedy tho sooner will tho nntlon bo fortified In self-respect. Tho present indifference gives embarrassing color to tho cynic's alignment of republics with ingratitude. HOW SOMK CONGRESSMEN ARK HELPING BOLSHEVISM Tlio President's Efforts to Neutralize Euro pean Radicalism Blocked by a Snub From the House Rules Committee TN THE brusque, refusal of the House Rules Committee to permit a quick hearing- for the bill appropriating- $100, 000,000 requested by the President for additional relief In central Europe we havo fresh proof of the sullen unwill ingness of routineers in politics to un derstand the scope and nature of the crisis that confronts Mr. Wilson and other forward-lookintr statesmen abroad. Tho wisdom and justice of feeding your enemy may bo questioned. About the wisdom of Retting food quickly to middle Europe there can be no doubt whatever in u rational mind. Millions in Russia, Austria, Germany and southern Europe hnve been inflamed with monstrous falsehoods. Their chal lenge is not directed at governments. It is aimed at the whole modern system of civilization. No one will deny that tho people in the territories now in chaos have been badly treated by those who were in authority over them. Theirs were the only governments they knew. Of Mr. Wilson it must be said thut he has done more than any other statesman alive to reveal to theso despairing mil lions a side of modern civilization here tofore strango to them. He has tried consistently to show that modern gov ernments can be magnanimous, just, charitable and humane, and that mod ern society actually has an active con science and a great purpose. These are qualities whose existence the apostles of lire and i evolution deny. If all of the Senators and Congressmen at Wash ington could get into their minds the fact that Europe now is not dealing with Trotsky or Liebknecht so certainly as it is dealing with tormented, deluded and embittered masses of men and women whose faith and courage have been swept away in the last four years, an understanding of Mr. Wilson's meth ods and purposes might bo fur more general in Washington. But such understanding docs not seem to have penetrated to the Rules Com- , mittee,, which tabled the request to give the appropriation bill tlie privileged status necessary to an immediate hear ing. Tlie chairman, Edward W. Pou, of North Carolina, announced that he and his colleagues virtually killed the meas ure for the present because they "wanted further information." As a consequence no one, certainly, would suspect them of knowing what is going on in Europe. A vast part of the Old World isn't in a mood to think. It is in an emotional melee. The appeal from the President obviously had a purpose beyond the mere supplying of food. Virtually all the peo ple in Europe believe, by their own ex-pt-ience and by their own present con ditio,!, that present civilization has fos tered great evils. Such measures of relief as were suggested by the Piosi dent are palpably intended to show that it also fostered greater good. The mil lions of dispirited and unhappy people who are following after demented lead ers In Russia know nothing of the rest of Europe or of tlie United States but what they are being told by tho men whose purpose it is to mislead them. Many Germans have grown from childhood with the deliberately implanted impression that the outside world was composed of mercenary bandits who sought to plunge them into hunger ami slavery. The great tragedy of tho pres ent situation in Europe is revealed when you realize that all lunatics who would like to smash the existing social ordi'f and drag civilization down into the dust j and begin again at a stagu of reasoning but little advanced beyond that of cave- j men are permitted to appeal to minds made sensitive and unbalanced by suf- j taring and disillusionment. And, until the President was heard in Europe, such men as these had their I audiences to themselves. ; Every statesman who talked of "bleed ing Germany white" with indemnities and ever proposal to send armies into Russia supplied the fanatical leaders of the Bolshevists with propaganda ma terial of the most potent sort. Most Russians cannot read. Half of eastern and southern Europe is illiterate. The people are striking out blindly at an order which, as they see it, brought them only loss, hunger and misery. Tho very first element necessary in any policy adequate to deal with the confusion in Russia and in southern Europe is a realization of the plain fuct that wo are not dealing now with small groups of men or with forms of govern ment definable under ordinary rules of international relationship. We and the rest of civilization arn dealing with elemental human passions and hopes and fears expressed in aimless revolution against society itself. To refuse food in this instance, as the Rules Committee of tho House proposed to do; to surlily ask for "further infor mation" Is to confess yourself almost blind and totally without imagination and wholly unfit to understand the nature of the forces that aro disturbing the social and economic order of half of Europe. It. is still fashionable in Washington ,to rail at the Bolshevik! and to call them names. It would be far better to admit that civilization has yet to justify itself before a largo part of mankind and that it is by acts, not-words, that the masses EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER of Russia will bo nblc to get n fnlr understanding of tho motives of other nations tragically misrcprcscntcU in tho philosophies of their present leaders. Bolshevism cannot be put down by guns unless the world is ready for more years of appalling slaughter. It can bo neutralized and conquered. Food is the first nnd greatest need of tlie hour. And tho knowledge of motives such as wero expressed in Mr. Wilson's appeal to Con gress would have a better effect in Rus sia than all the infantry in the world. Doubtless the problem of feeding Europe will bo met in other ways through the plans which Mr. Hoover is working out, but the nature of the Presi dent's appeal proves that an additional appropriation was regarded as nn es sential detail of tho general scheme of relief. The meaning of Mr. Wilson's message ennnot bo perceived fully until it is understood that it had a moral as well as n practical purpose. Perhaps it is unfortunate that he did not give more definite explanation, but it does net re quire much imagination to aeo that in the President's present position such an explanation in writing mir-H bo awk ward and perhaps defeat its object. If Europe is to be further impover ished by war or if, on tho other hand, insanity, born of hunger nnd unbearable hardship, is to be permitted to gain a further hold upon Europe, it may be fifty years before the economic order of the world shall be restored. The ma terial interests of the United States aie now involved deeply in Europe. What ever happens in the Old World must here after bo of the utmost importance from the viewpoint of America. It is to our everlasting credit that we have met each crisis and every need for sacrifice with it willingness for humane service. For tho sako of mankind the order of gov ernment, the processes of law and uni versal justice must be maintained in the Old World if only that civilization may be enabled to continue its quest for the perfect state by the only methods that long nnd bitter experience justifies. The Rules Committee of Congress, when it did its best to tie Mr. Wilson's hands in this instance, may have had some satisfaction in an opportunity to snub the President. One of these days the members may realize that they also helped the vicious leaders of the Bol sheviki. A ision must naturally prtvedr lewsion In Philadelphia's uowriniH-nl. CLARIFYING THE bKIP-STOP IssLE rpHE skip-stop issue has been needlessly -- befogged. Stripped of superfluities, the eastt is easily reducible to two pertinent questions: Is there specific evidence to prove that the trolley company's system Is dangerous? Can 11 be demonstrated to be a public Inconvenient e? Tho P. 11. T. bus not elucidated the llrst subject, since no evidence of death or casualties was submitted to the committee of thirteen. Tho second Is a matter for consideration by City Councils and tho Public Servico Commission. If the "public generally" is inconvenienced by skip-stopping, there i. court piecedent for consid ering the transit companj 's desires as secondary to the public's rights. Theso two points have been lucidly ad vanced In the I'nited Business Men's As sociation's comment cm the transit com pany's reply to the association's retltion to tho Public Service Commission. Tho fairness of this statement Is unimpeach able. Jt calls attention to tlu fact that no real examination of the question of casual ties lias been made. The arguments of both opponents and supporters of sMp stops aro equally weak null the definite truth is known. Iieasonablcucss i the other guide. Tho law. often greatly to the surprise of public sen ico corporations, takes considerable cognizance of this subject. Iteasonable ness applied to this Inquir may cve.il Niillli'ient Inconvenience resulting from skip-stops to provo their enforcement sub versive of the public's rights to service. Procedure along th"se two lines involves no labytlnthlno complexities and points a much-needed w.'i to Justice. With Joreph I'eiinell II I a violently In n rags (treat 1'ltj about what he calls the worthlessness of i'lunso art objects which tint city proposes to buy and Harrison S. Morris verbally bombing the Academy of the Pine Arts ard its management, we nr newly assured that the art uensr, of Philadelphia is being safely nnd properly looked after. What one cannot help but regret, hovever. Is that art critics do not wrlto or speak of politic?. It upptars now that tlie landing of home- Hope (in! S 'lining troops in Philadelphia nut besin late this month, and those who will nut voto for a good city administration have an opportunity at least to pray that tho .Mayor may have enough of it's wartime patnotlem left to order decent in the. polhe department. dani, said .M. l.uok- nother icsli. a s lentlst of Illusion (time the N'atlonat Itesearch Council, in an address l.no yc-t-ierday. was the first to use cainou- llaiiv. And we aluajs supposed H was Eve! Off In the stilly night so It, Atijnuy wo wonder whether a world enthusiastic about aviation has ever been told that aces wero trumps during every phase of the recent war. Homo of the Germans don't even mem to havo been able to lake Berlin. Even the contracts for snoubjill light munitions seem to havo been canceled. The report that tho "packers sco dearer intai" ominously suggests that ordinary folk won't even get a ook-ln. In forbidding General Ludendorff to enter Berlin, that city at last subscribes to the sentiments of I'arts concerning his presence. - PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, Congressman Moore's Letter Soma Reflections About the Man chester' Ship Canal- John S. Nor ris Protests Against Too Much Agricultural Department Supervision Washington, D. C, Jan, 11. T"ON'T want to "cast up," or anything, -' but that dispatch of ltnymond O. Carroll describing President Wilson's visit to tho cotton rtillls of Manchester, "where 55,000,000 spindles turn' tot tho benefit of our American cotton growers," helps to explain the political differences that some times exist between the cotton manufac turers of New England, who compete with the environment of "Free' Trade Ha,l," where tho President spoke, and tho cotton planters of tho United States, who sell their raw material to tho weavers and spinners of Lancashire. Mr. Carrpll refers to tho "trip along tho ship canal that con nects Manchester with tho estuary of the Mersey, some thlrty-slx miles in length," and pictures tho President "attired in a fur coat and soft traveling cap standing uon tho bridge with officials of the ship canal." And then, tho better to illustrate, ho informs us that "the canal resembles the waterway cut In from Newark flay." Wonder what Jim Itcllly, of the Newark Board of Trade, or Congressman Tom Scully or Governor Walter Edgo would say to that! A canal through New Jersey, to or from Newark Bay, with ocean-going ships on it like those that carry cotton from the southern ports by Liverpool In land thlrty-slx miles to the factories at Manchester! Wonder what Director Webster atrd Ernest Trigg and Alba John son would say If It might turn out in their tlmo that Lloyd George or President Poln caro or somo other foreign dignitary- visit ing the United States and, standing on tho brldgo "attired in a fur coat and soft traveling cap," should be received at Phil adelphia by Governor Sproul aftcusa thirty-three-mile canal sight-seeing trip across tho State of New Jersey? Wouldn't It Jil- them? a TEA JEWELL WILLIAMS, who pulls a laboring oar for tho Philadelphia law llrm wjjilch contributed Francis Shunk Brown to the Attorney General's oIUco and gave Alexander Simpson, Jr., to the Su preme Court, has been consulting the Washington authorities about the Mexican oil situation. As Ira Jewell views It, the Carranza Government, under a so-called "new" constitution- and certain countries are sometimes suspected of shaping con stitutions to override existing legal cou 'lltlons has entered upon a policy of cou 'lscatlon. It Is contended that the com mercial oil development In Mexico, began only In 1900 and that tho original pros pectors purchased from private owners who had held title to their lands for from two to three hundred years, and that the Mexican Government showed no interest in the transaction until the developers had spent foi tunes in making good. Having "struck oil" finally and struck It rich, the Government evinced an Interest In their success and hence the "now constitu tion" asserting the State's rights over the oil lands. Mr. Williams Is concerned" over the attitude of tho Mexican Government: but ho Is not alone England, France nnd the United States are having "conversa tions" with President Carran;:a about it. NO ONE read old! Well, reads the Congressional flee- those who have the habit of saying so may guess again. The pass ing away in Honolulu of Robert W. Breckons, a Pennsylvania public school boy who was United States District Attor ney for Hawaii under Itooscvelt and Tuft, utterly disproves the soft Insinuation. Bob Hrcckons waited for the arrival of tho Itecord after its long Journey across the continent and its 11000-mlIo ride on the Pacific like the soldier boy in Franco waits for tho coveted letter from home. Ho re ferred to It as "his Bible"; found interest In tho debates and kept track of public men and events by carefully perusing its p-iges. It served him so well in public and private life thut, to use his own Illus tration, he "lived In Congress" and shared in its happenings as though ho were sit ting In the gallery. Bob and his brother. Joo Breckons, a popular.Washlngton news paper man who died a year or so ago, and another brother, William, who is in tho Federal servico In Hawaii, kept dose tabs on Pennsylvania politics, especially the politics of tho Schuylkill Valley. Bob and Joe went West many years ago and fig ured in the politics of Wyoming. After serving In tho Wyoming legislature Bob moved on to Hawaii. Joo tied up with Senator Warren and came to Washington us his secretary. THIIOL'GHOUT the war peuod Philadel phia coal operators were in pretty clow touch with what was going on In Washington. Ono of their representatives in the Council of National Defense and in other bodies having to do with the adjust ment of mining and labor problems was Edward B. Chase, for a long time asso ciated with tho Berwlnd-Whlto Coal Min ing Company. Mr. Chase virtually aban doned his Philadelphia, business connec tions to keep up with tho war demands, It is not certain whether ho and James B. Bonner, tho "silent" but effective actuary of tho steel Interests, saw much of each other in Washington, but it is certain that each of them was on the job morning, noon und night. Speaking of Jim Bonner, it is fair that his friends of the Maritime Ex change and tho Union League should know that piobably no man waB more welcome at critical-times In tho offices of tho War and Navy Departments than was he. JOHN S. NO mtlS, president of the Philadelphia Produce Exchange, has let It be known In Washington that too much supervision by the Department of Agri culture Is becoming irksome, Like every other department in Washington, tho De partment of Agriculture has been a fruit ful field for growing bureaus. Its soil is woll fertilized by appropriations. It has a tremendous crop of educators who wrlto essays and tell tho farmers how to run their business, nut the particular educa tional bureau to which the Phlladelphlann call attention is the new bureau of mar kets. It has started on a butter and egg inspection tour which the produce mere ay is of doubtful utility. .. ONE -Crrim&m '.rjsytyi. ..--V-'... .-'r '!'.- - .-J-VV-: in -"3 -;jr er t - iMLllb t.iaH:. '- w:.?-. j'':jr :?;,. i 'K-ns.:t9 .imjmm.'Jrr - -v"?y" sg. sn vv?y3ss yfetajMwEMSa THE CHAFFING DISH Fruit Stands HAVE any poets of the city ever done Justice to the little fruit stands? What n glowing spot of color they show in the gray perspective of the street! By one of the happy compensations of humanity, the meaner and moro dingy tho htreet, tho more fruit stands and barrows you will find, generally presided over by Italian, who are, after all, the greatest lovers of color and beaut. How carefully they pol ish nature's gleaming jeweis, how cunning ly they arrange them in pyramids nnd rows. And on a nipping cold day tho apples and oranges seem to shlte with a more brilliant luster. Tho snow may swirl round tho windy corner where the humble merchant chafes his purple flngCH. but tho bright scarlet and yellow globes on his stand aro a perpetual pledge of sunnier days to come. In summertime tne law makes him cover them over with netting against the files; but now his sweet mer climiillso shines In naked color. Bluo and red and orange and green -all a feast to the eye. Ono need never despair of a world whore beauty lurks on every street corner. Cranking l'p We wonder whether Henrj Fold has really started that newspaper of his yet? Wo havo been asking for It at all the newbstands, but It doesn't seem to have reached Philadelphia. Perhaps It is shlp pul to subscribers in parts and they do tho assembling for themselves. The Kansas City Star suggests that Henry has secured those well-known con tributors. Constant Header, Veritas and Vox Popull, to write editorials for every issue. If that is so, Hcnrv's weekly will certainly bo well cranked up. t Tho milkmen seem have taken the cow by the horns. Hot Towels It is futile to talk about equality of the' sexes. There aro some privileges that the ladles can never, never enjoy. For in stance, tho bliss of the hot towel that tho barber applies to a freshly shaven face. What sensation Is more agreeable? Alas! our fair friends can never know it. We sometimes think that If the institu tion of the hot towel had been more freely employed In Russia there would have been no Bolshevlkl. We learn with singular pleasure that the green balzo table at tho Qual d'Orsay. where the preliminary peace conferences are to bo held, Is shaped like a horseshoe. Surely an omen of good luck! Halt the population of Berlin is shouting "Hoch!" and tho other half Is shouting "Nleder!" And the rest are out Hying to borrow a machine gun. H was unnecessary for lterr Ebert to tell ho citizens of Berlin to 'keep their windows closed, No good German ever opens n window if he can help It. But what "a, humiliation it all Is for Germany, that used to pride Itself on being tiro most orderly, efficient and docile nation on earth 1 Wo met a Belgian wool merchant the other day who had been spending several days In Philadelphia, and he remarked that tho placid tranquillity of our Sabbaths mado him yearn to commit crime. "At home." ho said, plaintively, "I used to sit tn a pavement cafe on Sunday afternoons, listen to tho band, drink' a little t.ecr and .. .'. &vai',..k,., , .- 1910 WAY OF LOOKING AT fe i mixci ntrjr t r- t jirt-tv. tvs..i: , i.'..i" -nr-iiir. ,.r w.T.tiHonmm i -tw w if 9i:,sr-v-i;vsrir-ii'-.WtrfiRM til fl'-SlJlWIH Wn l" J.ira.-v,'!'-Jl'5i?Wt -'$ ' , .. r aLWMtfBrv .'. it.' v i 4u.im.". i' 7'':!jj;.:.f r--pv.i r nrwmm . l. . M.wimate .. vytimMu&MMmmams &pk; 8-CX-'Vr fWsv .- --1 ' Tif (.Sinaar if..' . , i. .:-i :! ': -- .t '." discuss matters of Interest with my friends. But here, there was nothing for a stranger to do but walk and walk until my feet wore afraid of tho ground. I tell you what It Is, my friend you people are afraid to live." Ho told us that the factory of his firm waH in Vervlers, near Liege, and ho be lieves that every piece of machinery In the plant was wrecked or stolen by tho enemy. Ho Is on his way back thcro now, nnd promised to write to us of the condition In which ho finds his factory. And, speaking of Sundays, we wonder how we will ever bo able to describe to our grandchildren what those goslijss Sundays wero HkeV Easily Cured There Is one Habit of a lifetime That tho Kaiser will soon Havo to bo broken of, And that Is The habit of living. It Is a sad thought that evciy time the clock ticks some ono, somewhere. Is say ing to himself, "Well, 1 must get up and go to work." England takes paiticular pleasuie In the knowledge that two of tho four men who returned tho Crown Jewels to the Tower of London wore silk hats, Britain Is her self again! Civilization rests upon delicately bal anced foundations. It is a curious thing that those who enjoy monkeying with tho pillars, firing off machine guns in the streets nnd stopping the supply of milk and' tying up shipping and leaving bombs around, never stop to think that if tho roof comes down they as well as ovcry one elfe will bo crushed by the wreckage. The Hitter Half When a woman says she will divide with you fifty-fifty, sho means that she Is to get half and her mother the other half, TERRIBLE TERRENCE. Lots of our French visitors must have noticed how wo can Improve on their in genious language. For Instance, tho other day we saw in a shop window a chaise longuc advertised as a chaise lounge. Probably that Is Just what tho French meant If they had taken time to think It out. J The Bolshevlkl aro said to have smashed twelve million bottles of wine In tho Czar's cellars in Petrograd and pumped the liquid into tho Neva by means of fire engines. Thereby obtaining, we suppose, tho polit ical support of all the fish. Tho world Is pretty unsettled these days, but you can still depond on thrift stamps. Ask the man who owns one. SOCRATES. Perhaps some of the delay of tho Pcaco Conferenco Is caused by belated tussles of the delegates with tho irregular verbs and idiomatic snarls In the diversity of tongues natlvo to tho members. A too considerable part of tho milking in tha recent strike was undergone try tho public. 'I only know what I read In tha news papers," says Mayor Smith. In that case, his Inaction In the vice situation Is alto gether Inexcusable. , ' ' v ' 4 IT r-fxli The Two World-Wars Voir It la tiof aencrallu Uitnw.i that the AtutrUan .'crolHlloii urn n wm-Ul-var; ttci-cral of ((v lain! battles v err tnuoht (.t Intlia and Mrcml o Hi st it finhtH in r.uroical a.iil South Anirrlran i-ater. csniruillit after the .s'tmill tints, the Hindus and the Dutch cai.ic to our tivsi'ta.i'-c. S?e tho rennsypanla Jlnsrar.lne, 1D1U. AWUHI.IMVAll home. raged; 'twas fought at "Twas fouKht upon the mean foam, Fiom llunkir Hill to liogger Hank. Where'er a foeinan fell or sank 'Neath New York pines, by Hindu suilib And on tlie seas of tropic lands. Tho bright Antilles heard the shoul Of dying French in iiaval rout ; A stream of tliine, O Quaker Stale! "r' The Ilrandywlne, proclaimed tlieu gnat, From Esseriulbo unto Thames, From Ganges beating Orient geiw. To where the ellkcnicti1d.ed.tho Rhine With blmid for tbco. wlili blood for thine, "' Jly glorious land! tlie lire went forth - Ftiim west to east, from south to north, ,, Ne'er levolutlon lieretofote Mad set the veij world at war, , And when tho long eight jears had run iiielr cuised course, a newer sun ltose on the human reign begun. While lowered above his democratic males Tho President of the United Slates. A world-war then, the woild-war no. Again beats on Columbia's brow. ., And farther still and still more far Blazes our standard's every star. The Antlchlist. the nnti-ma-i. Had fixed on llfo his dcathful ban : A hundred peoples felt the chain. A hundred peoples fought amain ' To break tho hideous Prussian spell And fling tho llend-nian back to hell Four cars did rage, that hurricane, -Four years did armies die In vain, , Till, Screaming through Ihe battle-smoke, j our eagle all tho terror prone: And when tlte proudest power on carta, Swelling throughout Its belted girth, Brought fortli with p.tiiBs IIh fteedom- blrtji. It kneeled before the llrst of potentates. The President of tho Unltrd State. "' Ireland, say the Sinn Felners, Is inde pendent. Was Ireland ever otherwise'.' General strike appears to be the most absrohlto dictator Argentina ever bad. ' In moro than ono Senso lit will bo'n liplandlng when the big Red Star llnnr brings back Its cargo of homo bos to Phila delphia. Tlioso Congressmen, It any. who may succeed In untangling tho complexities of our railroad problem will have almost a right to feel sore that they wero not sent to Paris. ! What Do You Know? ' QUIZ 1. In what yrar tllil the Ktislrr revolution In Irrlnml break out? 3. Name thrro rriinkfnrU In Grrinunr, 3. Of wluit country was John Taut Jones n u Ihe'.' -I, Wlmt Is the mennlnc of the American Indian word bnsainore? ,1. VUmt are sabot'.' 6, Who nalntrtl the fnmuu.ii picture. "Hm l.at JiKlKment," now In (bo Utlno ChaDcl. Koine? 7, When nits the importation of hlavra Into the I nltrtl Mules ubollalircl'.' 8. What Is the mranlne of Montreal',' 9. Who tultl the corneratpntt of the nrlalnal bulldlnc of tho Cnpltul nt Wnahlnetun', 10. Name three tni of thermometers? Answers to Yestefslay's Quiz 1. The Unritcrorcetllcli drnastr. rrnrra?ni,l hr liluc Peter I. hint been itcceptrd n head of tlie new- t'oilatltutlonul inonurrhr com--wised of Serbia, Montenegro nnil the Juro. Slav iiriiilnccit of Aiiatrla-llunrury. 2. The Siiiirtnrusaoartr tlerhes Its name from h aerlea of radical article',, ttltnetl Spar, turns,, which were liulillsliril In (iermaiur, 3, An nrj'V Is a larce, ttrultlit-horned African untrlope, 4, (Hints nirnna ut leisure, lair, uuoccmiled functlonleaa, amine no nrarllrnl purpose! fi. the inllh nnnheranrv of the llnttle of New lirlrans. In which the Americans under A u- ilrcu- .larkann tlefrnled the Itrlll.l, ,..l. Mr KtlMurd I'ukriibum, occurred this nnt on Junuiiry 8. 0. The .MensheilM are the more modrrate liberal fitrtton In liuaala. ""rrai 7, laniic JVnlta wrote "How doth the little blur 8. Tb- Krliuea of (ireek nutlinlotr were She "'v1''! iT.'"'r """ H" AK-cfo. Mela'? und T lalphone. srr o. The Mackenzie la the. lurteat rltrr floulnr entirely wltuln the Dominion of Canada 10. The Matur. railed In Iutcli 'I'B draveuhaiit," means, "Ihe C'vunt". tlarden." V. ': V rti 'i iyr- d -fair hi, .v i -i-Ji-i- ft. (C.l i . a T. Hi. .-'- ' miMi i awaas BillllllllllllllllllM
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