WOMAN S LIBERTY BELL
STARTS OA RECORD TRIP
Huge and enthusiastic crowds greet the historic suffrage symbol at all
towns and cross-roads on tour through State —women seeking the ballot are
jubilant over the bell's reception.
The Woman's Liberty Bell ha. c
started on its Slate-wide tour ol
Pennsylvania. Leaving Sayre, iD
Bradford county, on the morning ol
June 23rd, it has swept through the
northern tier counties at an average
rate of 50 miles a day and is now
swinging southward to reach Pitts
burgh in time for the big suffrage
demonstration there on Independence
Day.
If the big crowds and the enthu
siasm which have greeted the bell all
along its route thus far can be taken
as a true indication of public senti
inent, the suffragists of Pennsylvania
need have no fear of the outcome on
Election Day. For in each of the
scores of towns through which the
bell party has passed, tremendous
crowds have turned out to cheer the
plucky little band of women and
pledge them their affirmative votes
on the suffrage amendment in No
vember.
Moreover, the suffrage enthusiasm
displayed by these crowds has been
as honest, as it has been hearty. The
big bronze replica of the original
Liberty Bell which, with its chained
dapper, mutely symbolizes the plea
for political independence which the
women are making, has struck a re
sponsive chord in the hearts of the
thousands who have turned from
town and country-side to see it. It
made them realize that the women
of Pennsylvania who are asking
for the ballot today are prompted by
the same patriotic impulses and mo
tives that stirred the men of this
State in 1776.
And with this realization has come
a desire to help, so that the new
WHEN A MAN VOTES
What is required, at present, of a
man before he can vote in the United
States?
He must be twenty-one years old.
He must be native born or natural
Ized.
In some States he must be able to
read (in a few Southern States there
are additional educational and prop
erty qualifications affecting the negro
voters only).
THAT IS ALL
He is not asked whether he will
use his vote.
He is not asked if all men want to
vote.
He is not asked if he thinks the
laws need changing.
He is not asked if he will promise
to better the laws.
He is not asked to give statistics
showing whether men have previously
used their votes to better the laws.
HE IS NOT ASKED IF HE IS
SURE HE CAN STILL BL A GOOD
FATHER.
He is not asked to "remain attrac
tive" after he votes. But all such
requirements and more are made of
women when they aspire to vote.
SONG OF THE SUFFRAGIST
Tune —"America.'*
Our Country, 'tis of thee
We ask our liberty,
For thine own sake.
Freedom for all alike
We'll shield thee with our might
We pledge thee what is right
Do not forsake.
Justice we ask of thee.
Justice we'll give to thee —
Justice to all.
No child shall labor then,
We'll help our splendid men
To make this land a gem
For one and all.
Our native Country, thee.
We ask for liberty.
We want it soon!
We love humanity,
Help men humane to be.
And grant us liberty—
Nineteen-fifteen.
—Mrs. H. W. Phillips.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Women's Sphere.
"It is said that woman's place is in
the home Surely it is. But a better
place to vote from has never been
found.
"Frank Crane."
WHERE WOMEN VOTE
"Women suffrage exists in New Zea
land," wrote its Prime Minister, "be
cause it. dawned upon the minds of
thinking men that they were daily
wasting an almost unlimited supply of
mental and moral force."
Liberty Bell may ring forth the same
message of political emancipation to
the women of this State on the night
; of November second, as the old bell
proclaimed for the men nearly a cen
lury and a half ago.
This spirit of help and eager co
operation has been demonstrated day
| after day and in county after county
from the very beginning of the Wo
men's Liberty Bell tour. It has been
I ahown in the friendly faces of the
crowds at every town and cro3s-roads,
in the resounding cheers with which
they speed the bell on its way, in the
pledges of the men to vote "yes" for
suffrage in November —and, last but
not least, in the freely given offerings
to the suffrage campaign funds by
hundreds of those who have seen the
bell and caught some of the spirit
which it typifies.
It is not merely incidents of this
sort, however, that are making the
members of the bell party so optimis
tic of victory on Election Day. It is
rather the indications of the rapidly- 1
increasing sentiment for woman suf
frage that they find in each town and
hamlet.
They find it not only in the big
crowds and the cheers that greet
them and their Liberty Bell, but in
the eagerness with which their speak
ers are listened to and the earnest
ness with which their arguments for
equal suffrage arc received. And so, I
at the conclusion of the bell trip on \
Ihe night of November first, they see
"Victory" looming large and printed
on the election return by the ballots
rf the men of Pennsylvania who be
lieve in fair play for women as well
as for men.
WOMAN'S PLACE
i kept my wife, when first new-wed,
On a quite inferior plane;
I made of her a servant,
And I scorned her heart and brain.
But, oh. alas! it came to pass
She talked of naught but pots and
pans,
Of mops and soaps and pickling cans.
Of tucks and tulles and pins and
thread
And recipes for soups and bread—
Until I vowed no more I'd rule
A combination drudge and fool.
i put her on a pedestal.
To worship at her shrine.
Her head enhaloed and her eyes
Upraised to look divine.
But. still, all, me! 'twas misery.
She talked to me of hymns and spires
Of saints and souls and martyred
sires.
Of sins and sacrifices high.
Of training piously to die—
Until with all her saintly strength,
She got upon my nerves at length!
So now nor high nor low I place
My mate, but by my side
I keep her, share with her my life,
With her the world divide.
And, lo! 1 find this suits my mind.
She talks to rue of business schemes,
Of politics, of arts, of dreams,
Of love and laughter, of the news.
Of books and men and modern views—
Until I swear, by all that's brave,
A comrade beats a saint or slave.
—Oreola W. Haskell, in Judge.
VOTES FOR MOTHERS
"I do not care so much for the vote
for myself or for men as I do for
mothers." says Julia Lathrop, head of
the Federal Children's Bureau. "The
great test is whether it will be use
ful in the hands of 13,000.000 mothers
in their business of rearing our 30.-
000.000 children. I believe it will."
JUST A MINUTE PLEASE !
ISN'T IT TRUE that the State is
merely a home for the People just as
the household is the home for the
family?
ISN'T IT TRUE that in the right
kind of home the man's point of view
and the woman's point of view are
both needed?
ISN'T IT TRUE that voting would
not interfere with a woman's busi
ness, housekeeping, any more than it
does with a man's business, bread
winning?
Women taxpayers in Alexandria
La., have used the vote to get good
roads, which otherwise they might not
have won.
The Columbus Grange, said to be j
the largest in Indiana, has adopted
unanimously a resolution indorsing 1
woman suffrage.
Odd Happenings I
In the Day's News j
"M Ml i H" I'| I I pr~iirtiiiM 11111 H m v
Beer gardens in Munich, the greatest
beer drinking center in Germany, serve
j lemonade because of shortage in beer
Aurora boreulis on rampage inter
rupted telegraph service and stopped
trains in northwest United States and
! Canada
lie didn't hit the frog, but Peter
Banks. colored, must spend thirty days
in jail for shooting at one, because he
had no license to shoot a gun in Ne\t
Jersey.
31 au who must appear in supreme
court in alimony case inspected Lud
low stret jail. New York city headquar
ters of the Alituouy club, and said it
suited him.
Haircut didn't suit Walter Eddy, so
he has sued Colgate fellow students for
so,ooo. charging that they forciblv
| clipped a head of hair it took him four
years to grow.
NO GIRLS ON WARSHIPS
IS NEW BRITISH EDICT.
Order Due to Torpedo Being Fired In
Dock During Visit.
"No more girls on warships," is the
edict of the British admiralty. The
order is the result of a torpedo run
ning amuck at Newport, Isle of Wight
The British destroyers put in at New
port frequently and the officers have
become popular with the inhabitants.
One evening a prominent citizen of
Newport, his niece and another young
woman were aboard a destroyer, and
one of the gunners was explaining the
working of a torpedo tube.
The charge of high explosive had
been removed and placed to one side,
when the gunner was temporarily call
ed away. Meanwhile another gunner
came along and. thinking the explana
tion had been concluded, replaced the
charge and went away.
The first gunner returned and. una
ware that the charge had been replac
ed, proceeded with his demonstration,
saying, "This is how the torpedo is dis
charged." With that he pressed the
button.
There was a rejß>rt. and the amazed
} little party saw the deadly torpedo
leave its tube and travel under water
right across the stretch between the
pier where the destroyer was tied up
and the next pier. It was making
straight for a large Italian steamship.
But for some unexplained reason the
torpedo's course was suddenly deflect
ed. Instead of striking the steamer it
crashed into the wall of tire pier twen
ty feet from the vessel's stern. Tons
of water were thrown into the air.
drenching many persons who happened
to be nearby. The pier suffered con
siderably. There will he no more little
parties.
EDISON'S NEW INVENTION.
3-000,000 Candle Power Searchlight Fed
by Storage Batteries.
Profiting by an experience of firemen
in fighting the $3,000,000 fire at the
Edison works Lu West Orange, N. J,.,
on Dec. f). 11)14, Thomas A. Edison has
perfected another invention, which he
took to his home in Llewellyn Park.
A few minutes after Charles Edison
began operating the device for the edi
fication of his father people living in
Ihe valley east of Llewellyn Park tele
phoned police headquarters and asked.
"What is that terrible light shooting
wnt of the park?"
A policeman found Mr. Edison an* 1
his family enjoying the wonders prv
duced by a new ".<HXUX>o candle power
searchlight capable of throwing a raj
several miles, the most powerful port
able searchlight yet invented. It is
very small, and the power is supplied
oy storage batteries.
In the lire at the Edison plant she
jards were thrown into darknes- when i
the i>ower was shut off. Mr. Edison
conceived the idea of a jsortable search
light, and two days alter the blaze he
'gad designed a working model. Now
he has announced the perfection of bis
idee-
J i was said at the Edison la bora tor.
that the lamp will be very useful ir.
mine rescue work, at fires and op
Wonderful Memories.
"We are told that Pascal never for
got anything he had seen, heard or
thought Avicenna could repeat by
rote the entire Koran when lie was
ten years old, and Francis Suarez had
the whole of St. Augustine in his mem
ory. In three weeks Scaliger, the fa
mous scholar, committed to memory
every line of the "Iliad" and the
"Odyssey." Another scholar, Justus
Lipsius, offered to repeat the "Histo
ries" of Tacitus without a mistake on
forfeit of his life.
OBSERVATION.
It is the close observation of little
things which is the secret of success
in business, in art, in science and
in every pursuit in life. Human
knowledge is but an accumulation
of small facts made by successive
generations of men —the little bib
of knowledge and experience care
fully treasured up by them growing
at length into a mighty pyramid.—
Samuel Smiles.
..The Indiana Macaroni Company..
OUR MACARONI
Can be Iinight at the Following Stores:
The Cunningham Department Store. Steveson V
Myers. Plotzer Meat Market.
They are FRESH. Made in Indiana
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SIR JOHN A. SIMON.
Secretary of State For Home Af
fairs In British Coalition Cabinet.
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ORPHANS IN HOLLAND.
In Some Cities They Are Dressed In
Most Grotesque Fashion.
The Dutch differ from the Chinese ia
announcing to the world the birth of
children only in the article displayed.
The Chinamen hang a piece of ginger
over the main entrance to the house,
while the Hollanders indicate the
event by a piece of lace, combining
with the lace a pink background for a
boy and tinsel for a girl.
The orphans of some of the cities of
Holland are quite conspicuous, and
especially so when seen on the streets
of Amsterdam, dressed in what might
be termed half and half clothing. The
east half of a boy's coat, including the
sleeve, is red, wh.Ue the west half is
black. The dresses of girls are divid
ed in a similar manner, but are topped
off by becoming white caps, which
make the young misses look very neat
and attractive.
This singular style of dress is said
to have been adopted to enable the
railroad officials, as well as the au
thorities, to keep track of them, says
the National Geographical Magazine.
As the orphan asylums of Holland
have the control of children committed
to them until they are of age, the more
mature of the unfortunates (wearing
these odd garments in public) present
a very striking appearance.
INFLATING A TIRE.
A Way to Test It When There Is No
Pressure Gauge Handy.
Time was when every tire manufac
turer warned all and sundry to inflate
their tires to a high degree of pressure,
and more probably than not this was
due to the fact that in those days all
pumping was done by hand and w'it
very inefficient implements.
The correct thing to do nowadays, of
course, is to consult a standard taole
of requisite pressures, according to 1 he
size of tiro and the load to be carried,
and to use this in conjunction with a
reliable gauge.
But there is also a rough and read
method which is by no means indeter
initiate if n< pressure gauge is handy,
ami that is to take the car out on to a
dry road which is in a bad state of re
pair and full o{ holes. Preferably then,
should be no passengers on the rear
seats. If_the driving pumpe
Names Usurped by Women.
Mary is not by any means the oni;.
name that has been borne by men and
women alike, writes a correspondent
of the London Chronicle, who has di]>-
ped into old parish and other registers.
Sir Patience Ward was lord mayor of
London in 16S0. Eve Sliffhton is men
tioned in a will of the sixteenth cen
tury. and Grace Hardwin was an old
landowner in America.
As to male names usurped by the la
dies, instances occur of feminine Phil
ips and Georges, and in one case a
daughter was duly baptized Noah. A
goddaughter of the Duke of Welling
ton was named Arthur in his honor,
and in Effingham church there is a
monument to Timothy, wife of Richard
Mabanke.
Spoke as They Passed.
"I hope you don't associate with that
man 1 saw you speak to in the street •
just now."
"Associate with him? What do you
take me for? That man. sir, is one of
the most rascally, corrupt, sneaking,
underhand, low down, villainous and
depraved scoundrels that ever man
aged to keep out of Jail."
"I know it. Rut why are you on
speaking terms with him at all?"
"Why. 1 m—er —his 'awyer/'—Lon
lon Mail.
' NATIONAL OFFICIAL BOOKS.
They Are Named by Colors and Cover
a Wide Range of Hues.
British government publications art
called "blue books," because they arc
usually bound in blue paper covers and
because blue is the officially recognized
color in parliament and law. in a few
departments, however, "blue" books
are printed in yellow covers to ilistiu
guisli the department Diplomatic cor
respondence with foreign countries and
short acts of parliament are often left
unbound, or "white," because there is
no strict rule for binding any docu
ments less than an inch in thickness.
In addition to the "blue book" there
is the "red book." This contains a list
of persons who hold appointments.
The only other color used by England
is black. A black book contains an ex
posure of some abuse, the name "black
book" originating from the famous
"black book" compiled in the reign of
Henry VIII. to expose the abuses in
monasteries.
In France the chief color for govern
ment publication is yellow. Although
the latest French government report
has been called a "black book," in real
ity it is published in yellow covers. It
forms, in fact one of a long set of
"yellow books" which France has been
issuing annually ever since the year
1861 upon the affairs of the country for
the use of politicians and historians.
The chief color of Russian govern
ment publications is orange. Belgium
uses gray,- Italy green, the United
States blue and red, Spain and Austria
red and Germany and Portugal white
or drab.—New York Press.
Garden of the Near East.
Brusa, situated at the foot of Mount
Olympus, in Asiatic Turkey, is the gul
den city of the near east. Every
mosque and public building and almost
every house stands in its own garden,
under the shadow of sycamore, cypress
or fig trees. The flora of the surround
ing district is so rich and varied that
it has been the happy hunting ground
of botanists for centuries, and some
authorities regard it as the cradle land
of many of our sweetest spring flow
ers—the hyacinth, the tulip, the snow
drop and the jonquil—l,ondon Spec
tator.
BONEY IN GOOD TASTE.
A Woman Who Capitalized Her Sens*
of the Beautiful.
A woman's good taste is a part of her
stock In trade and could lie made mud
more widely remunerative than 1'
now is.
One would naturally suppose that th
success of an auction depended maini
upon the wit and skill of the auction
eer. A prominent auction house in Nov
York city has discovered that a worn
an's good taste in showing up thur_ r
artistically, or in their true relations
or with a suggested use, is quite as va'
nnble an asset as a voluble auctioneer
For example, in a sale of orients:
goods were some handsome old hip"
cages, wonderful creations in tortoh
shell, black lacquer. Ivory and Jade
There were seven cages In all. and so
spirited was the bidding that they
brought prices ranging from $4lO tc
$7OO.
The thing that did it was not any
thing said or done by the auctioneer,
but the fact that In anticipation of th
Rale there had been put in each case a
pair of singing and twittering birds ex
actly suited in color to the cage* in
which they were placed. Capes and
birds made a symphony of color. With
out the Mr.ls in them the capes would
not have broupht half the price. Who
but a woman would have thonpht of if*
The same auction house has found
that a suitable and artistic arrange
ment of poods, ail under the deft hand
of its woman specialist, adds man!
dollar* to tile sales.—Leslie's.
Necessarily Slow.
A California youngster had been per
mitted to visit a boy friend on the
strict condition that he was to leave
there at o o'clock, lie did not arrive
home till 7 o'clock and his mother was
very angry. The youngster insisted,
however, that he had obeyed her or
ders and had not lingered unneces
sarily on the way.
"Do you expec t me to believe," said
his mother, 'that it took you two hours
to walk a quarter of a mile?" She
reached for the whip. "Now, sir, will
you tell me the truth?"
"Ye-es, mamma," sobbed the boy,
"Charlie Wilson gave me a mud turtle
and I was afraid—to carry it —so I led
it home."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Small Anvils.
The anvil that rings to the sturdy
blacksmith's sledge may weigh 200. :k)0
or 400 pounds, but there are anvils
whose weight is counted in ounces.
These are used by Jewelers, silver
smiths and various other workers.
Counting shapes, size*, styles of tiui*h.
and so on. these little anvils are made
in score* of varieties, ranging in weight
from fifteen ounce* up to a number i
pound* each. All the little anvil
of the finest sfe-.j. "t'tiey arc ait riiiil>
finished, often nickel p!at*d. and How
surfaces tbar are brought int . um- y
made as smooth as glass
Damage Done Dardanelles j
Fort by 15-Inch Shell |
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Photo bv American Press Association.
This picture shows the effect of one
of the Queen Elizabeth's fifteen-inch
shells. It was made at the Dardanel
les after the allies* bombardment had
caused some of the forts to fall, it
made a hole in the wall large enough
for a train tn pass through.
TRAPPED A SEAGULL
Queer Contest of Strength Between •
Bird and a Bivalve.
At first thought it is hurd to imagine
how a clam could endanger the life of
a bird. That such a strange circum
stance is not impossible is shown by
the following Incident:
A settler on one of the small islands
near Vancouver was returning to hisi
home byway of a beach of hard sand I
when he beheld an unusually large 1
flock of seagulls gathered in a compact 1
mass and heating with beaks andq
wings upon the sand. Evidently they,!
were attacking some enemy. Over
head dozens of gulls wheeled and
screamed in evident excitement.
The settler was almost ui>on the
fighting birds before they burst apart
and flew, chattering, toward the clouds.
One, however, lay flapping upon the
ground, and the man saw that u mon
ster elam held the gull's beak in u vise
like grip. It was. too heavy for the
j bird to fly away with, and for ail the
gull's frantic struggles it could not
loosen the clam's tenacious grip.
With his hunting knife the man
pried open the shells and freed the cap
j tive. The gull was exhausted from Its
desperate efforts and at first could only
stagger like a drunken sailor toward
the water. Finally, however, it flew
away and soon returned In the van of
a cloud of gulls come to insj>ect the en
etuy that had trapped one of theb
tribe.—St. Andrews Beacon.
Lip Reading Detectives.
In a Vienna school for tlie deaf and
dumb, where lip reading is taught, a
course has been established for the sje
cial purpose of teaching the urt to de
tectives. The possibilities of lip read
ing, says the author of the account in
the Volta Review, have been exagger
ated. But they are sufficient to cause
authorities to think the instruction of
detectives worth while. When a de
tective becomes proficient, he is able
to learn something of tlie conversation
between people who are visible, but out
of earshot. The article says that at
from 7,0 to KM> feet it is possible for an
expert to get tlie general run of a con
versation. Some reading lias been done
with glasses at a distance of 12.7 feet
Instruction and practice In the art
must be very thorough if the detective
is to use it to real advantage in his
work.
Transforming Clothesline Posts.
A suburban resident grew tired of
the wooden clothesline posts in his
back yard. He incased them in chicken
wire netting and planted sprouts of
honeysuckle around the posts. He then
nailed a little bird house to the top of
each, in a short time the honeysuckle
had completely covered the unsightly
posts and a pair of bluebirds built a
nest in one of the houses. Many of
this man's neighbors took up the idea,
and honeysuckle vines and bird nouses
now make the clothesline posts of his
locality a pride to their owners.—House
and Garden.
Her Other Half.
Society Dame—Oh. doctor, I'm so
sorely troubled with ennui. Doctor—
H'm! Why don't you interest your
self in finding out how the other half
lives? Society Dame—Gracious! Why,
I'm not looking for a divorce. —Chicago
News.
Time Something Started.
"Have you noticed the clock?" he
asked at the hour of midnight.
"Yes. I have." she replied, with a
yawn.
"It hasn't been going for three hours."
"Neither bavo you."—Yonkers States
man
A Sure rroof.
The new family who have Just
moved in hare something tn their lives
they want to hide."
"Why do you think so?"
"Beenuse their hired girl is deaf and
dumb."—Baltimore American.