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The annual march of the "shooters" does not always emphasize the maximum of artistry, neither is it the most gor geous procession imaginable. But it is pregnant with -local flavor. It is ingen uous, enlivening and sincere. It was out of place during'the war, and the atti tude of the various clubs was therefore respectful and patriotic. In peace, however, the town will wel come the revival of the New Year's foolery. The inevitable blend of satire, nonsenso arid spectacle is an excellent tonic wherewith to signalize a new cal endar. The light touch is fully entitled to recognition in a stressful age. THE MEANEST MAN TF THERE is, in this country, any man - meaner than the one who interrupted Vice President Marshall's address at Atlanta with what looked like a formal announcement of the President's death, he hasn't been found. The incident caused consternation in a great audience and an extraordina.y display of ineptitude by the Vice Presi dent. Mr. Marshall's credulity is hard to understand. Why any one should ac cept such a report out of the thin air and give it the force of a public declara tion before making an effort to verify or disprove it passes comprehension. SUGAR NECESSITIES pRANTING that the sugar shortage '-"' was inevitable, granting that the supply is at present insufficient to go ""around, there is still no logical reason for discrimination against American households. Sugar in the home, especially when children are among its occupants, is an essential. Candy and soft drinks are admittedly luxuries. If restrictions on soda and bonbons are necessary in urder that homes be safeguarded against a sugar famine, it is high time to enforce sensible regulations. Sundae-sipping matinee girls and sweetmeat nibblers should not be considered before babies. There is every disposition in the coun try to be patient during the sugar scarcity. If there is inequality of dis tribution, however, it is indefensible. ARMY AMBIGUITIES pENERAL MARCH'S elaborate plans -for- army reorganization lack perti nence while the international role of this nation is still in doubt. The collapse of the league of nations would compel a view of our military resources wholly different from that which would be logical should the peace compact be sanctioned. An isolated America would have the most important bearing on the whole question of com pulsory military training. Until our position is defined it is not easy to de termine what sort of military prepara tion is best for the country. The issue is one of many, judgment upon which must wait until we have decided whether to favor co-operation or exclusively independent national in itiative. ' MAKING WAY FOR TROLLEYS TN ITS general provisions the traffic regulation ordinance reported to Councils and recommitted because the builders found some objection to it is logical and commendable. Two sources of trouble are aimed at in the effort to eliminate unnecessary delays and blockades of street-car traffic. Ono Is the huddle of taxicabs and other motors tha,t drowse at the curbs on the wrong side of one-way streets, leaving only a narrow lane through which all vehicles crowd slowly and with infinite difficulty. , The other is the drayman, who behaves as if he believed that a load of coal and its guardian have rights superior to those of the common run of mankind. There is 'one paragraph at the end of the ordinance, .'however, that may rc uult in a good 'deal of trouble unless saotor drivers and trolleymen alike are made aware of its meaning, and the real danger of the rule that it would estab lish. This clause provides that trolley cars bhall havo the right of way over all other vehicles at intersecting streets and that motor drivers especially must bo prepared to recognizo this right In ether words, the uutomobile traffic must stop ab all times to make way for a trolley car moving or about to movd on cross street. Now, it is already apparent that the kmdiiio- tin of trollev schedules involves iomo danger. The motormen, under the ' frf?,-'- "mnuniff Tl"l " rT -inc- Tcct to stop at heavily traveled cross ings. What Is more, somo of the trolleys move at the instant when tho doors are closed and cut directly into right-angle traffic at important crossings whore there are no traffic policemen. Lighter ve hicles have to scurry madly for safety. Motormen often do not even take tho trouble to sound a warning bell and appear to take it for granted that they have prior rights under all circum stances. Any plan that will muke easier and swifter trolley operation possible is to be encouraged. At the same time, the men who operate the cars ought to be taught that increased speed requires in creased caution. FIRST STEP TOWARD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Governor Sproul's Commission, Though an Instrument of Delay, Will Make Some Progress THE Governor has named what has! been described as "a goodly company of trusty, and loyal Peniisylvaniuns" to consider the need of revising the con stitution of the state and to suggest such modifications in the constitution as it decides are advisable. It should bo noted, in the first place, that the Commission on Constitutional Amendment and Revision is frankly ad mitted to bo a device for delay. The Governor was understood to favor an early revision when he took office. It is probable that if his personal preferences had prevailed he would have had tho Legislature call a constitutional conven tion and arrange for the election of delegates by popular vote at the earliest convenient date so that the work could be undertaken without unnecessary de lay. Every time, however, that it has been proposed that the constitution, adopted in 1873, forty-six years ago, should be modernized, it has been argued that we should wait until the "wave of radical ism" had subsided, lest provisions should be inserted in it which would be dis pleasing to the conservatives. The ob jectors were not quite so frank as to put" their case so baldly as this, but it amounted to the same thing. Governor Sproul was sought out by the "conservatives'' as soon as he let it bo known that he favored constitutional revision. They presented their argu ments in favor of further postponement. Bolshevist theories were in the air. It was undesirable that any of them should get into "the fundamental law" of the state. Labor, reacting against the re strictions forced by the war, was anxious to secure for itself privileges hitherto denied, iJ let us wait a little longer, in tho hope that when revision is finally made it can be directed and controlled by conservative inlluqnces. The Governor yielded, and the plan for a commission was devised. This newspaper said at the time that it was merely a device to secure delay. This is now admitted on all sides. Indeed, the Governor delayed more than five months in naming the commission after ho had secured authority from the Leg islature to appoint it. The "goodly company of trusty and loyal Pennsylvanians" who constitute the commission will enter upon their task with full knowledge of "what they are expected to do. Radicalism will have about as much chance with them as the proverbial snowball in the nether re gions. And they will doubtless represent the majority sentiment of the state; for Pennsylvania is known for its 'conserv atism, even though Roosevelt carried ifafj in 1012 against both Taft and Wilson. There is no widespread demand for a, radical constitution. The men and women chosen to make the preliminary revision are the representatives of thoaa influences which have hitherto preventecT any kind of a revision. They will go no further than undoubted public sentiment will force them to go. We shall not know, however, whether they will go as far as the state as a 'thol desires until the result of their delib erations is submitted to a constitutional convention made up of delegates elected by the people. Such a convention should be provided for by the Legislature to be elected next November. All shades of opinion should be represented in the convention in order that the issues may be threshed out in debate and settled by a vote of the majority. In no other way can we get a consti tution which embodies the views of the present generation. We have lived for forty-six years under a body of laws framed by men of two generations ago. Much has hap pened in the nearly half century which has passed. Theories which were accepted as sound then have been modi fied by the experience of the years. A whole body of public service corpo ration law1 has grown up in the interval. The theory of home rule for cities was not even formulated in 1873. The city manager had not been heard of. The interstate commerce laws were in their infancy, and the relation of intrastate to interstate transportation lines had not occupied the attention of lawyers. The employe in 1873 assumed all the risks of his employment. We have learned since then that it is not good social pol icy to permit a man to run such risks without provision for compensation when he suffers the consequences of a hazard ous occupation. The exploitation of children went on without let or hin drance, and women had no industrial pro tection against unscrupulous employers. Many more changes might be cited. The Legislature, in its effort to pass modem laws, has been hampered by the limitations of an outgrown constitution. The people of tho state know this. If they are represented in a constitutional convention they will demand that the hands of tho Legislature be untied so that it may pass those laws which an awakened social conscience insists upon. If the commission which the Governor has just named does not propose to en large the powers of the Legislature to deal with these subjects, it is likely that the convention, when and if called, will tr Wtlrti yt I-,-, n-jf tako up the questions from tho begin ning. It is likely to do that on most points anyway. However unsatisfactory the situation may bo, it does not justify pessimism. Constitutional revision is nearer than it has been for years. Its opponents in the past have succeeded in obstructing all efforts toward n change. This year they were able to do no more than to secure postponement until a more convenient season. They had to consent to the cre ation of a commission to study the sub ject. Tills is a long step in advance. It brings tho subject up for public dis cussion with concrete proposals in pros pect. There may be a lingering hope in some quarters that the commission will ask for more time from the next Legislature, but tho chances arc that the people of the state will object to further delay and will insist that their repre sentatives (permit them to make for themselves a modem constitution and to eliminate from the present document its medley of outgrown and archaic provi sions. MEN AND RELIGION QOME extraordinary and enlightening experiments in religious practice and religious appronch to great musses of men were made possible by the war. Most of the innumerable clergymen who went abroad to do their part in their own way learned a great deal by inti mate association with soldiers in times thnt re'duced existence to an elemental struggle with the earth, with the ele ments and with blind and destructive forces that left little time or desire for conventional prejudices and affectations. Something of this newer knowledge is being reduced to plain terms in reports offered at the Y. M. C. A. convention in St. Louis. What the religious workers in France learned is that tho average man may seem to be a skeptic, but that there is in him always a latent and defiant faith that will answer at once to any authentic voice addressed nobly to his spirit. Men as they were revealed' to those who knew them most intimately in and about the trenches do not like their religion "mixed with vaudeville." They seem to havo resented the implied apology for religious activity made apparent in some branches of war service. There appears to be an instinctive desire among men generally to see Christian leaching kept upon a dignified and almost austere plane. The experience of the war must have meant much to those who wonder why men do not go oftener to church. What they really want, it seems, is religious leadership that is lofty, brave and un compromising. It is a thing that the restless and dissatisfied and searching spirit of the timo will surely welcome. The Alumni Register Itlcliis objects to co-educatiou and in the University of Wronjra Pennsylvauia. It-wants a separate school for women to prevent undergraduate life from takinR on a mawkish (feminine) tone. It would appear that the men ure afraid of being uuplcasantly influenced by the women. No fears arc being expressed by the girls that co-education will give them a course (masculine) tone. Isn't it always the In ferior who iB a stickler for his rights? A London bervant girl ftklrts on the has announced her Outskirts of intention of running lYeedom for Parliament. As tho has already been cool:, housemaid, cook-gcnerul, lodging-house keeper, porter in a chemical warehouse and driver of a three-ton lorry, it may easily be that she will be elected. She ought to make a valuable member of the ways and means committee. An ofliciul of the Tarred WKh United States Orain the Sune Stick Corporation blames nvcrzealous salesmen far the rsmors that there is a shortage of flour. It may be that tales of the shortage of ho leather and other commoditieb arise In the same way. Professors in Carnegie A GMsly Heljht Tech, Pittsburgh, havo threatened to strike if their salaries are not increased. Itrnin ia evidently aspiring to the financial heights of brawn. The statement that Fuel Administrator Garfield Is expected to settle the contro versy between operators uud eoal miners is Interesting only as showing a disposition to temporarily switch responsibility from the shoulders of the President, where, of course it may not belong. ' A United States Supreme Court deci sion will shortly upprise federal judges who have rendered decisions for and against wur time prohibition where tbey stand In or get off. How beautifully life adjusts itself to circumstances ! Ity the time 'we have no coal to cook our food we mny have no food to cook. The declaration of leaders of miners that they are Americans and will not fight tho United States has not ns yet been echoed in a sufficient number of underground corridors. A whisky still was found Sunday night in a "dyofog establishment" on Ritner street. All arrangements made, we presume, to dye the town red. Avoid a tired and bored air, warns Di rector Krusen, as you would a pneumonia pestilence. Though tho cry of "Wolf!" be falsely made in many lines, there is evident wisdom in the advice to all 'to save coal. The 20 per cent increase offered by the coal operators to the miners is 10V per cent more than near-beer js getting. Promoters of "La Nave" are hoping that It will have smoother sailing than the author of its blank verse. Not much chance for a Thanksgiving toddy with the stlek banned and the sweet ener in hiding. Victor Berger has not yet been deported, but public opinion still approves the sug gestion of the American Legion. When a blunt answer Is given to a sharp demand cutting words lose their edge. Some of us work con umore and Lome ,.' ui ho c4nl fin the fipn. ORDER ITALY'S FIRST NEED Premier Nlttl Warna His Countrymen Against a Propaganda of Delu sion Praises America Francesco Nitti, premier of Italy, re cently called upon his countrymen to victo sanely, patriotically and without dclu sion the crisis at homo and taitoled devel opments of the international situation. Ilia address, published in full in the influ ential Italian newspaper, "Corrierc delta Hera" (livening Courier), produced a profound impression. The significant ex cerpts from the speech given .below are indicative of the course of liberal senti ment in the nation. TTIOIt others perhaps civil disorder is only a danger, for us it is death. Whoever In Italy raises disorder on whatever excuse, whether on tho excuse of excessive national ism, or fur too lively a rejoicirlg, or to mako it revolt; whoever raises disorder is a pois oner. Italy has need of pence, if only because today internal peace is the condition ofi success. We cannot produce wealth if wo lack internal peace; and since, in order to produce, Italy has med of raw luatc-luls, uud in order to obtain raw materials she 1ms need of credit, and in order to have credit she has need of order. Italy must havo order above ever) thing else, and first of all. "TT13 HAVE ueed in order to live thio '" year or in the immediate future that the foreigner should uccord us at least from eight to ten billions with which to purchase raw materials that nre necessary to us. We can only export In comparison with our mport in the ratio tf one to four or ono to five. Let us leave aside all academic considera tions that arc vain; the truth is that Italy finds herself in these conditions. Our allies during the 'war have helped us, but some of them think that their obligations are ended with the war. Today this is the situ ation; the English are anrious to bring their credits to an end; soon the American credits will cease. It is necessary that I should add and it is well that tho country should kuow it, and that the assembly should understand it, in order that any inad manifestations may bo avoided that the government of the United States considers that credits, even from private sources, can not be accorded to Italy until tho political situation ia cleared up. TpVEN this iu natural, and there is nothing -1-' hostile in it. Tho American federatiou lias fulfilled with a great generosity its account with tie; America has lent us money at 3V4 per cent when we were lending it to ourselves at CVi per cent, and believed we were making a great sacrifice. America has been very generous with us. Hut she has closed her account with the war, and now it is a question of friendly acts toward us, and in order to ask for these friendly acts we rnust bear ourselves in a friendly manner. Wherefore I consider singularly harmful all those acts that disturb our relations of sen timent with the countries besido whom we have fought, with whom we havo poured out our blood, and with whom we have con quered. I understand certain manifestations, but if any of us must sacrifice part of his sentiment the greater will b our grandeur. The country is too set and intent on cer tain visionb. If any one of the national aspirations shall not be fulfilled, some have dared to say that we shall have lost the war. Well, an you conceive anything more revolutionary than this phrase? rpHE propaganda thnt we must make is to emphasize (he knowledge and feeling that we have won the war. And we have won it, because Italy, by the war, has won her position in the world. Italy had never had victory;' for centuries it had never smiled on tin.' Now we have won it, and it is worth more to us than any wealth. Think, gentlemen, Italy has conquered that which few among the peoples who have fought have been able to conquer security. We had need of real frontiers. No nation of Kuropc, not even France, has today the security of frontier that Italy has. Do not let us forget that Italy has reached the confines of the Vetta d'ltalia that secures her, after so many centuries, from the inva sions of the German tribes. And let no one say that we have not won our war because of some episode, of our foreign policy. It is necessary to tell the people these things ; it is necessary to make them understand that Italy was tinder the continuous pressure of an ancient empire, and that this empire might at any time have been the death of us. That empire is fullen ; we have overthrown it. All lite world must kuow that after the" ruin of Caporetto we were alone, that it was our sons of the '09 class that saved the coun try, and that the aid of the Allies, cordial and friendly though it was, arrived when the breasts of our children had already stopped the enemy invasion. Let no one suy.then, that we have not won our victory ; let no one diffuse that poison among the people, and, ubove all, let those that willed war, that most exalted our intervention, stop making a propaganda that is destined to poison the spirit of the populace. GENTLEMKN, nothing has so much sad dened mo as to see in certain parts of the govcrnlng,clnsses after tho war an enor mous irresponsibility. We have need to give proof of austerity of life, and nothing Is more mournful than to sec the cultivated clusses who have patri otic ideas waste their money. The United States of Americt, though it is the creditor of all Europe for hundreds "of billions, has giveri proof of a great discipline. The Pres ident haB forbidden the issuing of passports to every ono except thoso traveling on busi ness, since Iip considers every expenditure at this time to be harmful; and I, too, think nothing so blameworthy as the crowd of Italiar who ask for passports for journeys of pleasure. Well, I will not issue a singlo one of these passports. When I think that in the new provinces that we possess, when I think that on the upper Adige there nro the most glorious beauties of nature, I find it reprehensible that any one should think of traveling abroad for pleasure. Again, we must give to the people an example of calm; v,e must not incite thera with promises, we must not give them a bad example, but we must givo them tho feeling of force. Wo must tell them the truth. We have not told tho people tho whole tmth; we have not told them that Italy is in danger of dying of hunger. TrrE MUST, then, reconstitute finunc. YY we mnst re-establish our credit. Hut I feel sure tha if Italy will but follow a rigid program, before long, In three or four months, perhaps, she will bo among the, first countries of Europe to have a com plete financial asset. Hut it is necessary to reduce expenses as much as possible; it JR necessary' to give the country alth and assurance that credit is secure; it Is neces. sary to assure stability of administration. Therefore, I have said, I place above every thing else public order. All our plans, eco nomlc and financial, will fail If public order is not maintained. Wo must make also u great effort to foster production, but if this fftrt la In III' inado It tu ll.woi.tr, i- ... .a all, ht '"''" " '- ' i - - -fntnlnr-1 "WHAT WITH CLINKERS AND THAT BOY NEXT DOOR! J!!! P THE CHAFFING DISH WD ARE a bit corroded iu our history, but every time we read about Consul Jenkins and the trouble in Mexico we remem ber that England and Spain once got into a broil called ho War of Jenkins's Ear, on account of u gentleman of that name. At any rate, let's wait until peace is signed with Germany. Pleasures rpftEES against an April sky,, Pine trees loaded down by snow, Smell of flowers fresh and good These arc pleasures that I know. SUNSETS blue and rose and gold, First faint flush of early spring, Water running green and cold These are pleasures that I sing. LA,Y hum of drowsy bees, Hot, still calm of a summer day, Shndows lengthening, growing tall These my pleasures, Inst, I pray. PHOEBE FOSTEU. Two dtid Two Make l-uur The latest sufferer from sleeping Sickness carried, when found, u timetable of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Hail road. We have often felt that wuy ourself when traveling on the New Haven. Except, of course, when we huppvued to be in a sleeping car. " Evcrv time wo see one of those pictures o -a ruzor blade as it looks under a microscope w:e thank our htars we area t one o those fellows with a blue-black beard. Wc see that the New York production of "Aphrodite" has been postponed a week "on account of the necessity of scenic prep aration." Our private guess is that the delay is due to the necessity of putting some more steam pipes round the stage so that the ludics won't perish of exposure. Now York theatrical managers arc strong for President Wilson ever since he depre cated "soft concealments." , Does Any One Know It? Dear Socrates Somo years ago the late Hon. E. J. Phelps, of Vermont, one-tiine ambassador to Great Britain, wrote, while waiting there, some lines on "Essex Junc tion." Could you reprint them? W. V. MEAD, Allcntown, Pa. The problems of all human beings ure so similar that wo sometimes think there must bo borne collusion going on among the trus tees of the show. . "The secret of being a good secretary," says Durell Sinister "is to know how to be the goat." Aud all the confidential of great men, from Joe Tumulty even down to Joe Smith, rise up and call him blessed for this ngreo ablo candor. Lives of secretaries remind us, Why should tee the burdens totet Not Depart, and leave behind us Some one else to be the goat. What is politics coming to, anyway? Not for a long time have we heard any one, even Lcpnard Wood, say, "The hands are the bauds of Esau," There is a section of Chestnut Rtrcet, near Ninth, where we cannot smell, see or think of anything but doughnuts. And the thought always .comes to u,s, how is it that a writer with a name line ittng iaraner nas never written a poem about a doughnut? Acid Ejaculation One of the pleasant pipe dreams of tho headline writers seems to tie that all knees are dimpled. MELANCHOLY JAKE. On a recent visit to New York" we were accused of having made off with Newton Booth Tarkinston's overcoat. This, how- l nrmr. vn Id1 o " j f-t1 nf tdp rjt-. vn genial Philadelphia tailor who sews Mr. Tarkington's initials in all the garments' ho makes. High Tide In the Adriatic "Do not utter a word!" sajd the Mayor of Zara to his citizens when D'Annunzio arrived. "Continue to weep with joy I" , Thus deftly putting ono over on any Serbs in the crowd who may have been chuckling with indignation. Gab D'Annunzio keeps on embracing' tho young women of Dalmatia, but inasmuch as the poet is no longer young we doubt whether that will have a lasting political effect. Also these favors lose their value by repe tition. The D. B. D. (Damsels Bussed by D'Annunzio) is not nearly as exclusive an organization as tho D. D. P. (Debutantes Who Danced with the Prince.) The public has a keen sense of fair play. All last Sunday we noticed people standing in front of the window of a fish, poultry and fruit store where a large turkey was displayed, cooped up in a very small crate where it did not even havo room to stand upright. That evening we passed the window again, and saw a delighted group watching. The turkey had managed to push up the boards in the roof of its prison, and was standing triumphantly on top of the crate, stretching its wings and preparing for gaycty of somo kind. Two small cats, pets of tho store, gazed at it apprehensively. And did any one say, "Oh, the wicked and malicious turkey! AVhitt au evil-minded bird to break loose from the nice little crate tho kind store keeper made for it!" No ono did. On tho contrary, the pleased spectators were waiting to see how soon the much -tormented fowl would discover a large pile of apples, bananas and grapes nearby, and enjoy a merry feast. "It's his last chance," said ono damsel; "I hope he'll make tho most of it." The cruellest thing that can bo done to a man is to put him wiso to himself. Lcavo him to his Illusions, and he may stagger along and even be of some use in the .world- Sartor Reaartus Discussing our theory of clothes with the Quizeditor, we endeavored to drive home these two points: The wise man will choose a suit the color of tobacco ashes, on which pipo droppiugs arc indistinguishable. He will also have the brccks made without "cuffs, as these nro only nestling placeB for burned matches, small change, studs, and that curious gray fluff that gets up from under the parlor bofa and finds its way into your trousers, heavens knows how. This is the kind of suit that we call 'a suit for damages, and will emerge even from a night In a sleeper comparatively untarnished. Tho beauty about political executions in Mexico is that the statesman who is going to bo executed can alwajs read about them in the papers some time before they happen. This has a robust moral effect. D'Annunzio is badly needed over here, and when he Is no longer busy in "Holy Zara" perhaps he will 'make his way hither. It looks to us as though ho ought to bo able to write something that has not been written hereabouts for some time, viz: a really humorous musical comedy. If We Might Only Writo Like M. DJer-Chaff T have blended for you, mesdames, at my rolltop atelier in Philadelphia, the lovely, this exquisitely conceived Dish of Chaff, bo full of ;ole de vivre and Us extases de beaute, I have Instructed my t'mporfoffur-j, messieurs les newsboys, to deliver It into your hands wlh all the bloom and bouquet so fragile, unblemished. Beauty, mesdames, is Its own reward. That is th6 motto of tho ono who labors for you unceasing. BOQHATEH THE BEACHER "OKIGHT nnd bare, like scimitars, - When the sun his zenith reaches, Dim and pale beneath the stars Lie the long and lonely benches; Silken some, and somo made sodden By tide-waters, flotsam-laden ; Trofiden some, and some untrodden By tho foot of man or maiden. North and north they wend and wind, South and south tho leagues they follow, West and west a rnnn may find Mile on mile of dune and hollow; Backed by level land or highland, Still lagoon or weedy river, Fronting cornl reef or island, On they glitter, on and ever. Where the surges rise and fall, All too vast to name and number, Round and round our littoral, Noon and night, they wake and slumber; Unto them the Past is Present Time turns o'er his storied pages; Known to every shining crescent Is the Epic of the Ages. Ere-Man learnt to love and sigh, Ero his first thought had existence, Here they lay, as now they lie, Lapped in light and lost in distance-; When the works of Man are riven Aud his sun has had its setting, They shall front the stars of Heaven, Him and his alike forgetting. Thus they wait, serene, bublime, Nothing caring and nought dreeing. Ever young, though old as Time, While Man's Moment has its being; When that moment, ceasing, merges In the Past, and leaves no token, They shall know beside their surges Silence solemn nnd unbroken. -Roderie Quinn in Sydney Bulletin. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who represent Now York in tho Sen ate? i 2. Who wroto "Tho History of Joseph Andrews"? 3. What two great federal victories of the Civil War occurred within a day of v each other? ' 4. Who was Zenobia and when did she live? 5. How many books nro in tho Old Testa ment? 6. What is puBhball? 7. When is a planet in apogee? 81 What is a heresiarch? 0. What member of the Italiau cabinet has just resigned? 10. What kind of a beard is au Imperial, and why. was it so called? Answers to Yesterday's Qulr 1., Henry Cabot Lodge represents Massa chusetts in tho Senate. 2. There were three partitions of the, old kingdom of Poland in 1773, 1793 and 1705. Tho spoils were divided by Austria, Russia and Prussia. 3. The Gadsden purchase involved the ces sion by Mexico of 45,000 square miles of territory, now incorporated In Ari zona and New Mexico. The price paid was $10,000,000. 4. The purchase was made in 1853 and named after James Gadsden, United States minister to Mexico at tho time. B. The treaty of peace" goes Into force for Germany on Monday, December 1. C. The brothers, Hubert and Jan van Eyck, were two noted Flemish painters who lived in the latter part of the four teenth and tho first part of the fif teenth century. 7. New Zealand is entirely in tho south temperate zone, 8. Mercury is the smallest planet of the solar system, 0. Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote the music of "The Lost Chord." 10. The term of a representative in Congress 4(j two year, , ty i X ,, ' .:. j.ttfai.- ., i I wt tMyg
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