2 PEACE POLICY
IS MPROMISE
in Philadelphia President Gives
Idea oi Attitude
HIS SENTIMENTS APPLAUDED
"There Is Such a Thing as a Man
Being Too Proud to Fight," Ht
Tells Auditors—Gives Warning tc
Pro-German Agitators Who Are
Striving to Stir Up Countrymen In
This Country.
Philadelphia, May 11. President
Wilson gave to a gathering of 4,000
naturalized Americans the first inti
mation of the course which the United
States government probably will pur
sue in the situation resulting from
the loss of more than a nundred Amer
ican lives on the British liner Lusi
tania. He spoke by implication, but
his hearers interpreted his remarks
as meaning that while the United
States would remain at peace it would
seek to convince Germany of the in
justice to mankind of the tragedy.
It is pretty generally understood
that the president's advisers do not
want war if the situation can be han
dled in any other way. In any event
President Wilson, it is said, will force
the initiative upon Germany and the
general tenor of his Philadelphia ad
dress is believed to bear out this idea.
To those who had expected some
strong statement of a determination
to adopt aggressive measures for the
maintenance of the rights of the Unit
ed States in the face of Germany's
submarine policy, as it has been ex
emplified in the sinking of the Gulf
light and the Lusitania, or even a
definite indication of the policy we
are to follow, the speech was a dis
tinct disappointment.
Mr. Wilson spoke calmly and as if
his thoughts regarding the Lusitania
incident had been clarified in the
isolation at Washington in which he
has pondered over the crisis facing
this government. There was no sug
gestion of heat or an inclination to
ward aggressive measures, and at the
end, when his remarks regarding
peace had been approved so distinctly
by his audience, he declared that his
spirit as an American had been re
newed by the opportunity which had
been furnished him to sense the
thoughts that are moving in the pub
lic mind, a thing which, he said, it
was exceedingly difficult to do at
Washington because of the propensity
of many people to send him reports
which are inaccurate.
The high note of the president's
speech did not relate directly to the
Lusitania crisis, but to the thinly
veiled warning he gave pro-German
agitators who have sought to stir up
the loyalty of German-Americans to
a pitch where their patriotism as
Americans is endangered. To the
newly naturalized citizens sitting in
front of him he said:
"A man who thinks of himself as
belonging to a particular national
group is not a true American and the
man who goes among you to trade
upon your nationality has no true
place in the land of the Stars and
Stripes.
"The man who seeks to divide you,
group from group, nationality from
nationality, and interest from inter
est, is striking at the very heart of
this nation."
Mr. Wilson paid his respects in
passing to any man who may attempt
to make political capital out of the
existing crisis.
"I am sorry," he said, "for the man
who seeks to make political capital
out of the passions of his fellow
man."
The president spoke after Secretary
of Labor Wilson and Mayor Blanlcen
burg had delivered strong appeals to
the foreign-born citizens of the Unit
ed States that they be above all things
loyal to their oath of allegiance in
whatever crisis may arise between
this country and the land from which
they came. The president warned
these citizens that, although, he would
not counsel them against loving the
land of their birth, they must be
warned against "looking over their
shoulders and regretting too much
what you have left behind."
The president during his stay here
was more carefully guarded perhaps
than has been any president in many
years. His escort consisted of the
Philadelphia city troop, which pre
ceded four secret service men in ad
dition to his regular secret service
bodyguard and a dozen mounted po
lice who closed in behind his car to
shut it off from the crowds who
thronged the streets. On the ride to
and from t invention hall he was con
tinually cheered, thousands of people
having turned out to watch him pass.
Many carried small American flags.
Roosevelt Amazed.
Syracuse, N, Y., May 11.—Ex-Presi
dent Roosevelt was informed of the
main points of President Wilson's
Philadelphia speech. As quotations
irem the speech were read to him he
manifested intense interest. Ho
thought it best not to make any com
ment, but his face was a study in
amazement.
He intimated that he would wait
until tonight at least before express
ing any further opinion as to what
the government's course should be in
regard to seeking satisiactiou lor .n
loss of American lives.
COLOR AND MOISTURE.
There Is a Good Reason Why Vegeta
tion Is Mostly Green.
Doubtless many have wondered why
the vegetation of the earth is m<fctly
green. That is, not what makes it
green, but why it is that color instead
of blue or red or purple.
Moisture, it has been found, will be
collected by the green foliage in proper
quantities while foliage of other colors
will not be properly nourished by the
dews and moisture from earth and at
mosphere.
A rather curious experiment proves
this.
Paint a piece of glass yellow, another
green and one red and one black and
place ail these painted pieces of glass
out in the open air over night during a
summer or autumn night.
When examined early the following
morning it will be found that the yel
low piece will be very wet and the
green piece only fairly moist, while the
red and black pieces will be dry.
This is proof that yellow foliage
would collect too much dampness, and
the red and black would gather none.
Green, which collects the medium
amount of moisture, seems to be tbe
color best adapted to the conditions ex
isting throughout the earth.
Veliow foliage has been known to
damp off and decay under the same
conditions that makes green foliage
thrive. >
A few yellow leaved plants are
grown under considerable difficulty un
der ordinary weather conditions.—New
York American.
A RECORD PRESCRIPTION.
After It Was Bought and Paid For It
Lost Its Charm.
The largest amount ever officially
recorded as the purchase price of a
prescription is f5.000 ($25,000), paid by
the British parliament to a Mrs. Ste
vens to reveal the ingredients of her
cure for "gravel and stone in the blad
der and kidneys." Parliament voted
this amount to satisfy the demands
of the British public; also because Mrs.
Stevens would not take a penny less
for her secret.
The ingredients as revealed by Mrs.
Stevens were as follows: "Eggshells,
snails (shells and all), hips and haws,
ash keys, swine cress and various oth
er vegetables all burned to a cinder,
and the ash mixed with camomile
flowers and fennel and other vege
tables."
Curiously enough, when this high
priced prescription was made public it
immediately lost its potency—and its
popularity. New cases failed to re
spond to its magic, and cases which
had been cured while its mysteries
were still unrevealed promptly de
veloped new symptoms. At the end
of a year it was practically forgotten.
But its price record still stands; also
the record of one instance in which a
British parliament failed to get its
money's worth.—Los Angeles Times.
Snuff Spoons.
All the world is familiar with snuff
boxes, but snuff spoons are pretty little
refinements of which this generation
has hardly heard. Very probably they
came into use about two years after
Sir George Rooke's expedition to Vigo
bay in 1702. when he captured half a
ton of tobacco and snuff from the
Spanish galleons, and snuff thus be
came a common article in England.
One of the characters in a comedy
published at Oxford in 17-M. entitled
"An Act at Ox lord," L>y Thomas Ba
ker, says, "But I carry sweet snuff for
the ladies." to which Arabella replies;
"A spoon too. That's very gallant, for
to see some people run their fat fingers
into a box is as nauseous as eating
without a fork." In the forties and
fifties of the last century snuff spoony
were still in use on the Scottish bor
der. They were of bone and of a size
to go into the snuffbox. People fed
their noses, it was said, as naturally
as they carried soup to their mouths.—
London Mail.
What Could He Do?
"I hate to be contradicted," she saltL
"Then I won't contradict you," he re
turned.
"You don't love me," she asserted,
"1 don't," he admitted.
"You are a hateful thing!" she crietL
"I am," he replied.
"I believe yoif are trying to tease
me," she said: '
"I am." he conceded.
"And you do not love me."
"I don't."
For a moment she was silent.
"Well," she said at last. "I do hate a
man who's weak enough to be led by
a woman."—Houston Post
Optimist and Pessimist.
In a contest in the Woman's Horn*
Companion the first prize for the deft
nition of pessimist went to Miss D. Me-
Kelvey of Colorado, who wrote; "A
pessimist is a man who knows the
price of everything and the value of
nothing." The first prize for the defini
tion of optimist went to Mrs. L. K.
Carter of Pennsylvania. Her defini
tion follows: "An optimist is one who
thinks the high cost of living is worth
the price."
Discussion Suspended.
"What became, of that good roads
movement that seemed to be going so
strong out this way?"
"It sort o' died out. The mud got so
deep that we couldn't do the traveling
necessary to attend the meetings."—
Washington Star.
CUPID MART OPEN
IN SPITE OF WAR
Berlin Finds Little Glisngo In
Matrimonial Ads.
.
1 OFFERS FROM MEN FEWER.
And Women, Now That Their Choice
Is More Restricted, Are Growing Less
Particular and Exacting In Their Re
quirements For Eligible Husbands,
and That Is All.
The Deutsche Tageszeitung has dis
covered that wife hunting by advertis
ing has been little affected by the war.
"The war has changed nothing in
Berlin. It Is 'As you were' for us."
•ays the Tageszeitung, and adds:
"More's the pity. A Sunday excur
sion through the Blessed Fields of a
Sunday newspaper shows us how very
Little certaiu bad customs are affected
by the war. The innocent reader must
note with anxiety the spring boom in
the marriage advertisement market.
"The'*e is no shame about the basi
l-ess. It is open and barefaced and
seems to be taken as a matter of
course that matrimony should be open
ly discussed *• a pure question of mar
ket value."
They Fill a Column.
The ordinary advertisement —and
they fill a column or more of some Ger
man papers—is stereotyped after this
fashion:
Propertied company official, tall, distin
guished in appearar>ce, forty-two years
old, seeks suitable companion for life;
must have large fortune; no anonymous
•ommunications and no agents.
The Hamburger Fremdenblatt pub
lished a column of tnese in a recent is
•ue. In papers where the marriage ad
vertisements do not run to a column
they appear under "Unclassified Ad
▼ertisements."
The war has made a considerable dif
ference In their character, and the
number of girls or women with consid
erable fortunes seeking suitable mates
has greatly increased. The "offer?/
from young men have decreased.
The ladies are getting less particular
in their requirements A girl with
$25,000 would hardly have advertised
before the war for anything less than
an officer of the army or navy or a
civil official. Now she will accept what
is technically described as a "better
gentleman" if his "social and financial
position" is assured.
But the ladies in Germany have now
to devise more striking appeals if they
wish to be distinguished from the ruck.
Here is a sample quoted by the Tages
■eitung:
Seeks Her Soul Mate.
I call you, you who belong to me in
the world. You, too, are seeking in mar
riage a sanctuary. You expect to find in
your wttt, as I in my husband, the best
thing in life. Here I am.
Under this advertisement, in much
•mailer type, follows the important
part of it:
It is true I am forty-two years old, but
presently I shall have a considerable for
tune.
However, this type of advertisement
is not altogether confined to the fair
•ex. Here is an appeal on the same
lines from a man:
I seek you, my friend and my wife! Sim
' pie and sunny nature; you will hate tho
irdinary humbug of life; you will love
nature and all that is natural; all that
X am and desire will give purpose *-o your
existence.
This prodigy only requires a few
thousands with his wife, but the ex
planation follows in the usual small
print:
I cannot say I am without blemish, but
still —
"Shop soiled, in fact, and going at
a great reduction," as the Deutsche
Tageszeitung observes.
Some of the advertisements are su
perbly impudent Here is a fair speci
men:
Wanted.—Noble, Christian young lady
to provide young academician with oppor
tunity to study music; marriage included.
The marriage column is in almost all
cases followed by a shy selection of
private detective advertisements. Herr
So-and-so, lately of the police force,
undertakes to discover if the goods
are up to sample and to detect the
•hop soiled gentleman who has not the
honesty to describe himself as of,
as the Tageszeitung puts it, "to Su
spect the teeth of the young lady."
SEES MYSTIC SIGNS IN SKY.
Abbe Moreux Denies They Have Any*
thing to Do With War.
Abbe Moreux, director of the ob
servatory at Bourges, France, says
that his attention has been called every
few days lately to singular phenomena
in the sky, such as halos, crowns and
luminous crosses. Many devout per
sons see in the letter manifestations,
he says, a mystic sign of approaching
victory.
These crosses. Abbe Moreux says,
are reflections produced by humidity
in the atmo : here and probably are
due to depressions originating over tin
north Atlantic. He asserts that thej
have no connection with the artillery
firing.
Takss a Sip cf Tacks.
While she attempted to take a drinft
from what thought -was a class of
water while in the dark at her home in
Point township. Northumberland coun
ty, Pa.. Miss Alice eighteen
years old. swallowed several hundred
! tacks and pins. She was taken to the
M. I'kwk.cr iio-t-L—i- SuiiwUry.
the patriot
Heads Newly Organized
American Red Gross
Photo by American Press Association.
GENERAL CARROLL A. DEVOL.
KEEP OUT OF WAR, IS ADVICt
Conservative Canadian Paper Says
World Needs United States.
Kingston, out., May it. — rne King
Bton Daily Standard, which is ti.
: oldest newspaper in Canada outside
i the province of Quebec, being now it
its 105 th year, and which is usually
very conservative in its views, ex
presses the hope editorially that the
United States will not enter the pres
nt war as an active participant.
The Standard says that a declara
Uon of war by the United States
j vould tend to demoralize the financial
markets of the world. The Standard
concludes a lengthy editorial as fol
i Lws:
"The best service that country can
do the cause of the allies and the
cause of humanity is to continue tc
supply the allies with arms and am
munition and, going now a little
; further, see to it beyond the shadow
| of a doubt that the German murderers
and their partners in crime shall re
, eeive no supplies or arms of any kind
from the United States."
HUNT FOR VANDERBILT
Learned Millionaire Placed Children
In Lifeboat Before Ship Sunk.
Queenstown, May 11. —Alfred G.
Vanderbilt's secretary, Mr. Ware, has
made a complete but vain search of
| all the morgues. He has seen every
body possible from the head of the ad
miralty to the Cunard officials and is
finally convinced that there is no
longer any hope for Mr. Vanderbilt.
Mr. Ware has told the officials that
he is instructed by the Vanderbilt
family to attempt to recover any and
all bodies still not found. They are
anxious that everything possible shall
be done.
Mrs. Stanley L. B. Lines, a Canadian
survivor, said that she saw Mr. Van
derbilt gathering up all the children
he could find and placing them in
boats just before the ship went dowr
She heard him tell his valet to helf
him in this work. Ronald Denyß
assisted them.
The Popular Craze.
"Sir," said the young man, "I want
to marry your daughter."
"You do, eh? What have you got to
offer?"
"Myself, which includes a fair edu
cation, a good state of health, a rea
sonable amount of ambition, a credita
ble appearance, a modest salary and a
strong desire to come into your office
and get useful."
The older man shook his head.
"Not enough. Times are too hard. 1
can't afford a wedding."
The young man smiled.
"Now for my trump card," he said.
"Everybody is eloping. We will elope
and save the expense."
The old man caught his hand.
"She's yours, son; she's yours!"—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Vegetable Chat.
"I see that some college professor has
been saying that he believes that vege
tables can see and hear while growing
in the garden."
"Is that so?"
"Yes; not only that, but he bellevea
that ages hence they will be able to
converse with one another."
"Oh, that's old!"
"What's old?"
"Vegetables conversing. I've often
heard 'Jack and the Beans-talk!' "
Nearly All.
First Psr.er (trying to break the mo
notony of delay)—Do you believe that
all things come to him who waits?
Second Diner—!':n n that the
ory anyhow. i >*Ve e ego I ordered
a plate of \ I:! . Tin c-s-Dis
patch.
i 13 hi.
"Dor-pel ' r. 1 t one v."
"I'll tell you 1 v i.ru A. If it were
possible- to t - g > cvy time he
parts with a tl *Tr : .1 take ii."-
BirmingL-i: i A -He . Id.
Analogy.
••Papa. what is a politi -al boss?"
"Well, son. all you have to do is to
think of how your mother would run
the whole c-itv."—-Life.
GOT THE TRAIN STOPPED.
Two Attempts Were Dismal Failures,
but the Third Won.
When the late Robert Bonner pur
chased Maud is. he sent her to Charter
Oak park to be trained. One day a
j friend of Mr. Bouner left New York
to visit him at the park, but fouud
; that the train did not stop at that sta-
I tion. The conductor was polite, but
said that he could not go agaiust or
ders.
At New Haven a halt was made and
Mr. Bonner's friend tried to bribe the
engineer with a ten dollar bill, bu
j in vain, ne was then told that Charle
P. Clark, the president of the road
was on the train, and he went to him
and politely requested that the stop
be made.
"Why don't you see the conductor?"
asked Mr. Clark.
"I have, but he will not disobey or
ders."
"Why not then go forward and bribe
the engineer?"
"I tried bribery at New Haven, but
it would not work."
The absence of evasion was the best
policy. Mr. Clark not only gave orders
to have the train stopped at Charter
Oak, but promised some day to see
| MaudS. He hud witnessed the attempt
at bribery, and the frank confession
of the offense seemed to please hlrn.
BIG NAVAL GUNS.
Death at Times Comes From Merely
Serving Them In Battle.
Modern naval engagements demon
■trate that the gunners sometimes die
i after the battle, even when they have
not been wounded or injured in any
way. Death is caused by disturbance
of the circulation due to the strain
placed upon the nervous system by tbe
excitement and the tremendous vibra
tions of modern guns.
Curiously enough, this collapse is
quite as likely to affect the most ro
bust members of the gun crew as the
ones with poorer physiques and bears
no relation to the individual's courage
It is due to a lack of sufficient reserve
power of the heart, which is dependent
upon the quality of the heart muscles
and there is no known means of esti
mating this inherent quality exactly
it is possible, of course, to determim
the force and strength of the heart u
an individual, but only some test, such
as that of actual battle, will determine
the quality of the heart muscles.
Thus the veteran gunner who das
proved his heart quality in actual bni
tie has become a peculiarly valuabh
factor in modern naval warfare.—Lu.
Angeles Times.
They Like Fat Girls In Tunis.
A Tunisian girl has no chance of
marriage unless she tips tbe scale a
i 200 pounds, and to that end she com
mences to fatten when she is fifteen
years old. She takes medicine and
eats a great, deal of sweet stuff and
leads a sedentary life to hasten the
process. Up to fifteen she is very
handsome, but at twenty what an im
mense, unwieldy mass of fat she be
comes! She waddles, or. rather, undu
lates, along tbe street. Her costume Is
very picturesque, especially if she be
of the richer class. She is clothed in
fine silks of resplendent hues of a
bright red, yellow or green and wears
a sort of conical shaped headdress
from which depends a loose white
drapery. Turkish trousers aud dainty
slippers, the heels of which barely
reach the middle of the feet, complete
the costume.
Spanish Surnames.
In addition to three or four Christian
names the Spanish child bears the com
bined family names of his father and
j mother. When the surnames are dou
bled or connected by the y, meaning
"and," the first Is the more important
one and the only one that may be tak
en alone, for it is in the father's name,
while the last is in the name of the
I mother. In Spain they know no "sen
ior" and "junior." Father and son
1 may bear the same Christian name,
but each takes his own mother's name
as a distinction, the father being, for
| Instance. Pedro Diaz y Castillo and the
•on Pedro Diaz y Blanco.
Cause Found at Last.
The teacher was having an interest
-1 Ing half hour with the children, asking
them questions, any one having the
privilege to answer, it was a great
time to show off. The teacher asked
about various things, and one question
was about locusts. Several hands were
raised, and finally one boy was select
ed to speak. "A locust is a bug that
gives people tuberculocusts," was his
answer.—lndianapolis News.
Joy of Obliviousness.
"How did you like my turning off
the gas at 10 while you and that young
fool were in the parlor last night?"
asked her father.
"Did you?*' she responded innocent
ly, and father knew the true meaning
of the word failure. Philadelphia
Ledger.
A Hard Task.
"Miss May certainly has the male
contingent -at her feet But she is
rather a capricious belle, isn't she?"
"Yes; a bell who is going to be very
hard to ring." —Baltimore American.
Try a Big Ad.
"I lay wide awake last night think
ing of my bt -iness."
"Bad plan, o!d chap. Better keep
wide awake daytimes."—Boston Tran
script
God grants liberty only to those who
love it and are always ready to guard
and defend it.--Webster.
frapping Baboons.
Hagenbock in his book says that bab
oons are caught in traps made much
like the huts of savages. Food is pnt
into the huts, and once the baboons go
inside a trapdoor closes behind them.
Outside bnlioons make a great to do
and urge the prisoners to escape.
When the trappers come the captured
baboons are terror stricken and try to
force their heads through the walls
of the huts. One baboon was caught
three times in the same trap, and sev
eral when turned loose got back into
the same trap a second time. When
the baboons are carried away all their
comrades thereabout climb into trees
and scream out to the prisoners, who
answer in sad. mournful voices. On
one occasion some big Arabian baboons
were trapped, when 2.000 or 3.000 bab
oons hurled themselves upon tbe trap
pers. who had hard work to save them
selves with firearms and clubs. As tho
trappers were forced back the victori
ous baboons tore up the trap and turn
ed loose the captured baboons.
Raindrops.
Drops of rain vary in their size per
haps from a twenty-fifth to a quarter
of an inch in diameter. In parting
from the clouds they precipitate their
descent till the increasing resists no®
opposed by the air becomes equal to
their weight, when they continue to
fall with uniform velocity. This ve
locity is therefore in a certain ratio
to the diameter of the drops; bene®
thunder and other showers in which
the drops are large pour down faster
than n drizzling rain. A drop of tho
twenty-fifth part of an inch in falling
through the air would, when it had ar
rived at its uniform velocity, acquire a
celerity of only eleven and a half feet
per second, while one of a quarter of
*n inch would have a velocity of thii*
ty-three and a half feet.
Wily Talleyrand.
Louis XVIII., complimenting Talley
rand one day upon his abilities, asked
him how he had contrived first to over
turn the directory and finally Bona
parte.
The wily diplomat replied, with
charming simplicity; "Really, sire. I
have had nothing to do with this.
There is something Inexplicable about
tie which brings ill luck on the govern
ments that neglect me."
LAND FIGHTING NOT CLEAN,
The Naval Captain Preferred His Bat
tles on the Open Sea.
When Vera Cruz was besieged In the
Mexican war Captain Robert E. Lee,
afterward tbe commander in chief of
the Confederate army, wus ordered to
throw up breastworks to defend a bat
tery manned by the jackles of a man
of-war. Lee put the tars into the
trenches and soon had the dirt flying,
but the sailors did not labor cheerfully.
They resented having to shovel dirt,
and their captain remonstrated openly
with Lee.
"My men." he said, "do not want mud
banks to hide behind; just let them get
out and at the enemy."
But Lee would not listen, and the
tars sweated away at the shoveling.
Presently the Mexicans opened fire at
the very point thus protected, and the
•allors were glad to seek the shelter of
the despised dirt. The ship's captain
felt that he owed Lee an apology anil
made a handsome one.
"Well. Captain Lee," he stammered.
"I reckon you were right I suppose
the dirt did save some of ry boys from
being killed or wounded, but you know
we sailors have no use for dirt beaks
on shipboard. All we want is a clear
deck and an open sea. The fact Is, cap
tain, 1 domt like this land fighting, any
way. It Isn't clean."—Youth's Compan
ion.
PACKING FOR A JOURNEY.
Hera Is a Scheme That May or May
Not Be of Help.
Jerome K. Jerome recalled with rev
erence a habit of his methodical uncle,
who was a great traveler and who, be
fore packing for a journey, always
"made a list" This was the system
which he followed, gathered from his
uncle's own lips:
Take a piece of paper and put down
on It everything you can possibly re
quire. Then go over it and see that It
contains nothing you can possibly do
without
Imagine yourself in bed. What have
you got. on? Very well; put It down,
together with a change. You get up.
What do you do? Wash yourself.
What do you wash yourself with?
Soap. Tut down soap. Go on till you
have finished. Then take your clothes.
Begin at your feet What do you wear
on your feet? Boots, shoes, socks. Put
them down. Work up till you get to
your head. What do you want besides
clothes? Put down everything.
This Is the plan the old gentleman al
ways pursued. The list made, be would
go over it carefully to see that he had
forgotten nothing. Then he would go
over it again and strike out everything
It was possible to dispense with. Then
he would lose the list.
Fulfilled.
Mrs. Gnag-.rs—Before we were mar
ried you used to say you could listen to
my sweet voice all night. Mr. Gnaggs
—Well, at that time I had no Idea I'd
ever have to do it—Judge.
Net a Bout Winner.
Tramp—Once I was well known as a
wrestler, mum. Lady—And do you
wrestle now? Tramp—Only wb3 pov
erty. mum —New Orleans
ytme.