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slREs AND SONS.

L1eutenant William Kennel. q New
York policeman. has completed twenty
years OF service In the mayors oflce.
Sir O'MOOre Creagh. commander of
the defenses OF London. Is a descend
ant Of the famous Rory O'MoOre Of
Queen Elizabeth's time.
General JOffre smokes only on rare
occasions. but he always carries In his
pockets a store OF sweetmeats, which
he munches at frequent intervals
Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, stiIl
able and active. has Just entered on his
seventy-seventh year. he obtained his
Victoria cross during the Indian mu-
tiny. when he was In the Seventeenth
lancers.
Abdul Bahia. at the head OF the Ba-
haist sect. which. II Il asserted. has di-
verted about one-third Of the popula-
tion Of Persia from Mohammedanism.
IL now seventy years OF age. he spent
twenty-four years in prison. being re-
leased when sixty-hve
Major Joseph c. Cartner. who super.
intended the greater part OF the con-
struction work on Angel island and
was the organizer Of the first company
OF Philippine scouts under General
Lawton. has been appointed adjutani
general Of the organized militia In the
District OF Columbia
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HELPS TO PILOT
OUR SHIP OF STATE
The Man Behind the Wheel Is
Counselor Lansing.

The pilot of Americas ship Of state
m the roublous passage through the
stormy sea Of war. strewn with mines
ana oeset with diplomatic submarines,
s Robert Lansing President Wilson
and Secretary Of State Bryan may be
on the bridge wearing the uniforms of
captain and hrst mate. but the man be
mind the wheel Is Counselor Lansing.
II Is his keen eye that detects the
breakers ahead; It is his delicate touch
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English Etchings.

British cavalry swords have blades
thirty-tvo inches In length and. with
their hand guards. weigh two pounds.
AN exasperated business man" ad-
vertises In the London Times for ''an
ONCE boy threatened with incipient In
telligence and who cannot whistle Iif
such existsI."
Though It conducts the whole bank
ing business Of the British government.
the Bank OF England Is not a state de
partment.
One Of the ancient city guilds Of Lon.
don. the Glass Sellers company, OBJ
tained In 1664 the right to smash glass
OF foreign manufacture wherever it
was found The charter has never been
revoked
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SHORT AND SHARP.

Every champion trains once two
often
Don't grieye more than a dollars
worth over a lost dollar.
It's always other peoples wealth
whose power Is to be dreaded.
II marriage Is a failure Solomon's
wisdom didn't count for very much
II II Is necessary to advise the burn
ing OF the letter don't write It at all
There are, too. quite a number Of
Europeans who would like to see Amer
lea first.
Some fellows are 50 lazy they would
be satisfied with any kind Of a Job they
can't get
The submarine doubtless aims 70
strike the super-Dreadnought from the
naval lexicon.
The pessimist complains that he can't
make both ends meet; the optimist
chooses the best end
II doesn't do you much good to bold
the key to the situation after some
other fellow has picked the lock
A Pennsylvania ben has laid an
eight inch egg. She must have heard
about Europe's demand for large shells
Anybody can bet when the war win
end-and they are betting on It In Lon
don-but that Is not what WI end the
war
Only two men fought at Havana, bui
they succeeded IN running the Euro
pean war pretty nearly OF the hrst
paes
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Photos by American Press Association
oAPrArS THIKKFKLDKR AND THE KRoS-
PRNZ WILHELM
News. These were British sailors
from the steamship Tamar. destroyed
March %. and COleby. destroyed March
q last The KronprinZ brought as
thrilling a story as did the Eitel Fried
rich. Her record Of destruction. how
ever. was accomplished with only four
guns. two taken from the German
cruiser Karlsruhe and two captured
later from the British merchant steam
er La Correntina. sunk during last Oc-
tober.
In an interview Chief Surgeon Per-
renon OF the Kronprinz gave an inter
esting account Of the 255 days voyage
upon the high seas
''One Of the most amusing incidents
Of our voyage" he said. occurred
when we captured and sank the Brit
ish steamer Hemisphere. When the
boarding party went aboard the steam
er they found her captain wildly stamp
ing back and forth across the bridge
and excIaiming: Where Is our great
navy7 Where have all our ships got
to?
I'VE captured the Hemisphere in
longitude 80 degrees 10 minutes west
and latitude degrees 81 minutes south
on Dec. IS. Transferring the $50 tons
Of coal from the steamer to the Kron-
prinz was slow work, and It was not
until Jan. 0 that we finished and sent
the steamer to the bottom.
when we took the steamer Indian
Prince on Sept l. our lrst prize. the
captain Of that ship became enraged
when told that the steamer would be
sunk and angriiy told Us. 4 hope II win
be your turn next
@on Jan. IA we overlook the British
steamers wIlfred and Highland Brae.
and so close were the ships together
that for a time we were at a loss to
know which one to capture first We
decided upon the Highland Brae As a
boarding party went on the steamer
the master greeted them with the que
~, Why do you take rs 6rstr We
didn't have dme to explain and soon
also had the wilfred alongside
Some OF the ships tried to escape
after being ordered By rs to stop. and
on several occasions we had to Ere
across their bows to bring them to-
The French passenger steamer was one
Of these and gave rs a little trouble
However. the prize was wen worth Il
and that reminds me the last beer we
rot was from the Guadelupe. There
were twenfy-elghf or thirty key. and
Il was very good We stfll have some
Of It
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PITH AND POINT.

It's a bad thing to be a good thing"
Heated arguments nearly always are
followed by a chill
Those who have nothing to lose are
quite willing to lose II.
Let the buyer use his eyes while the
seller is using his speech.
It takes a pretty good mixer to CON-
bine business and pleasure.
When we kick ourselves we seldom
administer the deserved punishment
It's a good plan to put on TIL tomor-
row the things we shouldn't do at all
Lots OF men would be popular II they
would leave their opinions In cold stor-
age.
An ounce OF trying to be useful Is
worth a pound Of saying. whats the
user
II literature could settle q war the
lighting would have been over long
since
We all try to forgive and forget, at
least where our own faults are con-
cerned-
II Is estimated that the crop Of cas-
tor oil will be about 10000 tons Read
this to the children
A mistaken man may mislead others,
but II Is only rarely that a hypocrite
succeeds in fooling even himself
The Duke Of Orleans, who has been
refused permission to fight In the
armies Of any Of the allies. seems 10 be
another man without a country.
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The Royal Box.

The kaiser's eyes are steeIy gray IN
color.
King George of England Win be hfty
in June.
Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria
Is a considerable real estate owner In
France, with which country be is at
war.
Grand Duchess Victoria. whC has
been awarded the St Georges medal
Tor bravery in personally directing the
removal Of the wounded to hospital
at SOchaczen during the bombardment
OF OsOwiee and other services. Is a
cousin Of the car By marriage. She Is
the wife Of the Grand Duke Cyril
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Dress Hints

The tall woman may lessen her
height with tucks: the shOrl woman
may lengthen hers with piaits-
Before wearing your ubbers rub
them well with vaseline- Let them re-
main few days before wearing them.
Holes in kid gloves can be mended
by first buttOnboling around the hole
and then filing In with buttOnhole
stitch. THIS should be done with thread
matching the glove.
Velvet wrinkles very readily, 50 that
a gown OF this material should be hung
up carefully when not In use. Never
hang any garment so that II touches
another suit or the walls Of the closet
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EnOtO oy american FreSS AsSOciauOh
MISS JANE ADDAMs, HEAD OF AMERICAN
DELEGATION.
lasting peace. Miss Jane Adams heads
an American delegation, and there
are altogether 500 delegates. the ma
jOrity of whom have been sent to The
Hague by organized wOmen's societies
from all Of the warning and some OF
the neutral nations
The congress urges the governments
Of the belligerent nations to define pub
Hcly the terms on which they are will
ing to make peace and for this pur-
pose to call truce Immediately. In
the prospectus sent from Holland the
belief Is expressed that all disputes
should be settled by International ar
biratiOn and the powers are urged to
come to an agreement to unite In bring
ing pressure to bear upon any country
which resorts to arms without having
referred its case to arbitration An
other demand Is that there shall be no
transference OF territory without the
consent Of the men and women In It
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State Lines.

Georgia now has a population of
2.Sos,OoT.
Massachusetts, has the largest Portu-
guese population Of any state. Rhode
Island ranking next
or the total apple crop OF the United
States for 1914. apprOximating s6sSoo.-
900 barrels. the state OF Washington
produced 2.SO0Ooo barrels.
Texas is the largest producer OF cot
ton In the United States. Georgia sec
ond. Alabama third. South Carolina
fourth and Mississippi fifth
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Animal Oddities.

The distance from which vultures
and eagles can spy their prey is almost
Incredible
The giraffe is one OF the only two abb
sOlutely dumb animals In the world:
the kangaroo is the other.
No carnivorous bird or quadruped in
England will eat the desh Of a cat
The rule applies even TO the carriOn
crow. which wiz devour dead dogs
greedily.
The fercest shark viii get out OF the
sea way in very great hurry II the
swimmer. noticing fits approach. sets
up noisy splashing. A shark Is IN
deadly fear Of any sort Of living thing
that splashes In the water.
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THE OLDEST JOURNALIST.

Lately Discovered Statue of Most An
cient Scribe.
Thousands OF years before the art Of
printing news was sent broadcast the
world over by means OF letters, and
there developed a craft Of letter writ
ers whose business It was to prepare
letters for those who had not the time
or the ability to write. So conservative
is the east that numbers Of these letter
writer's are to be found to this day in
Egypt. Mesopotamia. India and Persia.
The oldest Of these writer's, who
may be called the newspaper men Of
their time. has been discovered In
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FIippant filings.

The high ball is being batted all over
the Iot-Detroit Free Press.
General Scott says he never knew an
Indian to break a promise. But the
Indians have not done much running
for ofRce-Cleveland Leader.
Sometimes one just can't help won
dering what those Poles would have
done II there had been no Il" In the
alphabet-New York Herald
william Allen White says that what
IS needed on the farm are more dream
ers. Getting up at a m. certainly
does have a tendency to keep the dream
average edown--Cleveland Leader.
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Pert Personals.

They have been retiring a good many
statesmen In Kansas recently. but It
looks as II the Hon. Jess Willard might
be able to Oil the gap.-Philadelphia
Press.
Think OF the crowded houses and
bushels Of sheEels that viii come to
Nine. Sarah Berahardt when she makes
her farewell tours in this country here
after on account Of her wooden leg
Cleveland Leader
II Is like Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst
to say that this is not the time to talk
peace" The quality OF her militancy
Is never strained Had the lady been
born a man she would be In the
trenches in Flanders.-New York Sun.
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BRIGHT sRIEFs.

You'll not get anywhere unless yOu
szrt
when you are in doubt what to say
don't say It
nowuward the course OF shipping
tskes its way.
Where much can be said on both
sdes It is usually said.
Nobody should ever look anxious, ex-
.spt those who have no anxiety.
Mexico is spared the necessity or
worrying about treasury surplus.
Morbid Imagination explores the IN
ture in search Of cause for worriment
Might as well be a thousand years
SWAY as to be on the eve Of doing
something.
The ypsies Of Europe are peaceful
Their motto is, In time Of war take to
the woods.
A smile may hide a mans thoughts
iust as paint occasionally conceals a
voman's complexion.
II time were money the average man
would have his watch geared to run
forty-eight hours day.
To add to the general confusion the
Russian government announces that
Przemysl's name fell with It
Iife's best joys are found In living
on last months salary instead Of the
one for the month just ahead
The fearful wastage OF horses. said
TO be a million in the war zone ND to
date. indicates the penalty Of being
mans best friend.
A big sun spot has appeared, but
even the most ardent advocates Of the
sun spot doctrine must admit that the
troubles Of the world began months
before the sun spot appeared
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TeIephone caIIs.

Telephones are coming Into use In
TripolL
The ocean to OCEAN telephone line
makes use OF 2.960 tons Of copper.
II took twenty years from the time
the work was started until Il was com
pleted TO install ConstantinOple's tele-
phone system
since the birth OF tbe,teiephone, June
2 1915. 100000 stations IN this conn
rry have been established and "a !O0o.-
900 miles Of wire have been stretched
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WORLD CONGRESS- OF
WOMEN FOR PEACE
VIII Women Find Way TO End
q Man Made War?

VIII the women be able 10 accom-
plish what the men have failed to do
70 bring about peace In u distracted
worldI Men have made the war. can
women heal the wo1nds that the war
has made and through moral suasion.
not force. bring about a settiementP
The international woman's peace con-
vention. called at The Hague by Queen
WIlhelmina Of Holland for April $3.50
inclusive. hopes to effect an early and
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SHAKEsPEARE's ANNIVERSARY

April q Is Always Celebrated a. the
Birthday of the Bard.
April . marks the three hundred
and hfty-frst anniversary Of the birth
Of William Shakespeare Scholars
contend about this date. but at ali
events the 23d is the accepted date, and
always Shakespeare celebrations take
place on this day. England generally
celebrates the day with fitting eere-
monies at Sratford-on-Avon.a and Ger
many has also always celebrated the
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Chips of Wood.

Lodgepole pine. one OF the principal
trees Of the Rocky mountains, makes
good, strong wrapping paper.
Usage orange wood Is a source Of dye
and can be used to supplement the Inn
ported fustic wood as a permanent yel-
low for textiles
News print paper has been made by
the forest service laboratory from
twenty-four different woods, and a
number compare favorably with stand
ard spruce pulp paper.
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Fashion FriHs.

In defense OF the feminine fashions
the injurious charge is made that they
are designed BY men--Chicago News
Women's skirts promise 70 be almost
as wide as the grins OF the satisfied
cloth manufacturers.-Pittsburgh Ca
zette-Times.
Ihis years styles In women's mill
nery-why should II be necessary 70
oistinguishf-are awfully becoming
Chicago News.
When Dame Fashion has the new
dress a little danger Ike pneumonia
Doesn't halt her for an Instant All the
courage is not IN the trenebes.-Phila-
delphia Ledger
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Echoes of the War.

Spell war backward and that Is just
what 1t is.-KalamazOO Gazette.
What has happened TO the alleged
rules Of civilized warfareT Chicago
News.
Live and let live" Is not a popular
maxim on the battlefield.-BOston Tran
script.
Those new war clouds In the Balkans
make things over there look natural
once more.-Philadelphia Press.
The price that staggers humanity has
been paid by those who had least to
gain by the conflict.-Washingto Star.
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Waves of Water.

The ZambezI. in South Africa, Is
1.SO0 miles in length
Slow rivers dow at the rate OF three
to seven miles an hour.
The Hudson river from its mouth TO
the source is $50 miles in length
The North sea, covering an area Of
221. 900 square miles. has its greatest
depth Of 1000 feet near the Skaggerak.
The Severn carries a pound Of mud
In solution In every thousand gallons of
water, the Thames four pounds and
the Ganges twenty-five pounds
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that turns the wheel u hairs breadth
this way or that to avoid dangers, yet
to forge ahead; 1t is his voice that tells
the chief engineer when the ship wants
drift under her own headway. In
short. it Is Counselor Lansing on whose
shoulders falls the responsibility OF
steering clear course for Us through
the diplomatic troubles that surround
US He isn't much on gold lace and
titles. but he Is a safe pilot who Is
feeling his way In uncharted waters
So far We have kept TO a neutral
course In the troubles. This Is not
due TO good fortune; 1t is dre to good
craftsmanship.
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PoRTRATTsrArUEoR MOST ANCIENT SCRIBE
Egypt through the explorations Of the
University museum. Philadelphia. IL
is a statue about two feet high OF one
Amenemhat. who lived certainly 1000
years and probably 500 years ago
An that we know Is that be belonged
to the twelfth Egyptian dynasty, and
scholars are not Jet agreed as to when
that occurred. but Il was probably
somewhere between 3.400 B. c. and
1000 B. O.. the latest authorities In
cliDing strongly to the earlier date
This Amenem at had a portrait
statue made Of himself In life and In
scribed for the benefit Of pOsterity. Lit
tie did be suppose that milIenlums aft
er bis death the statue would repose
on the banks Of the Delaware in a
hemisphere Of which be had never
beard.
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uORACR HOWARD FUMES AND hOhAOA
HOWARD FUREEss. SR
day. for Shakespeare Is very popular
in Germany. The war has lnterfereo
this year with the usual ceremonies
The United States has always taken
note Of the day and in Philadelphia 8
the oldest Shakespeare society In the
world having a continuous existence
Its president Is Horace Howard Fur
ness Jr. who succeeded bis father ID
this once. The elder Furness devoted
bis NE to his great New Vsriorum
Edition OF the Works OF Shakespeare.
a monumental work and the last word
"a Shakespearean notation The wort
Is being continued BY the younger fur
ness II Is this work which forms the
greatest and most lasting Of Americas
celebrations in memory Of the I'M
mortal Bard Of Avon
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Only two men fought at Havana, but
they succeeded IN running the Euro
pean war pretty nearly on the frst
pace
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A mistaken man may mislead others,
but 1t is only rarely that a hypOcrite
succeeds in fooling even himself
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You'll not get anyWhere unless yuu
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The Duke of Orleans. who has been
refused permission to 6ght In the
armies Of any Of the allies. seems TO be
another man without country.
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II Is estimated that the crop Of cas-
tor oil will be about 10000 tons Read
this to the children
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-19

a ghost is a spirit. II has form, but
no substance.
It has a great fund Of Information
received without working for it, and
this IL gives gratuitousIy usually for
some ones ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Macbeth met three ghosts one fOggy
day out on a lonely heath.
To the accompaniment of much
thunder and lightning they told him
what ne wanted 20 hear. And then
they vanished as bubbles on the yeasty
deep.
But they did not tell him enough.
Stay. you imperfect spirits, tell me
morei" cried Macbeth.
That seems 90 be the trouble with
ghosts. They do not complete plans.
They are not organizers. so they are
rot good leaders.
They use q "cOme-On" system. a
little ghost Information demands more
ghosts.
only infOrmeTs.
A teachers business is to induce his
pupils 10 think for themselves; to
work constantly for graduation time,
when the pupils snail have ceased TO
need the teachers tuition.
The ghost is efficient I'm arousing
curiosity with regard 10 personal in
terests-"what is going TO happen TO
me?"
The ghost destroys faith 1t makes
All decisions and paternalizes those
ssho believe in II.
"Canst thou look into the seeds OF
time and say which grains will grow
and which will not % That is what
the followers Of ghosts want TO know.
The ghosts that Macbeth met spur
red him on 10 his ruin.
Even the appearance of BanquO's
GHOST did not reform this over-anxious
king.
Caesars ghost met Brutus on the
plains OF Phtlippi. But il worked no
reform in Brutus' MIND OF heart. IL
trpught him no understanding that
ne had betrayed a friend, and that re-
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Government by Ghosts is Passing
by Ebert Hubbard.

forms cannot be made by dagger
thrusts.
The ghost simply made Brutus des-
pair, so that he fell upon his own
sword and died. Caesars ghost left
no influence upon his time Ii did not
save Rome. II surprised his unwise
friends who loved not Caesar less, but
Rome moreP That was all.
The kings ghost that urged Prince
Hamlet TO avenge his death brought
wholesale slaughter TO the entire fam
lily and ruin 10 a kingdom.
Ghosts have always been uncanny.
They haunted graveyards. Appearing
at times Of deep depression. they have
added gloom TO gloom.
They were harbingers Of the un-
usual omens Of evil.
Intelligent people today do not be-
heve in embodied, unsubstanced
spirits.
No one sees ghosts now.
And yet we are practically ruled by
RhOsts--the ghosts Of the past the
spirit of customs originated by the ex-
ceptiOnally strong man when the race
was young and barbarian.
America was settled by people who
wanted to think for themselves.
They crossed the ocean in order
that they might get away from the
ghosts Of authority.
They demanded freedom from tax
alton without representation in pol
itics and religion.
The republic was founded by those
who claimed that here was a place
where human beings should be at lib
erty to think freely on all subjects.
Anne Hutchinson, economically in
dependent. came 10 America with her
10 children that she might have reli-
gious freedom. She was alive think
ing her own thoughts and living her
own life. She could not believe what
the ghosts had taught
But she was banished through the
influence of the ghosts of those long
dead.
Her friend. Mary Dyer. was hanged
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and the whole world is paying tribute
in blood and tears
Ghosts are not fnanciers. They DO
not count the cost before declaring
war. The cost OF war in men and
money is so great that no one who
now is interested in war dares COM
pute it,
The suffering, the unspeakable
misery and death among women and
children are incompatible.
The loss in hope. aspiration and joy
in living from those who will survive
the war cannot be measured.
The light of life has gone from
many homes
Is the reign Of the ghost passing?
think il is.
Women need no longer be economic
ally dependent. The doors of COM
merce are flung wide. Every business
wants efficient help.
Public schools, state universities are
open TO women and nen alike.
Almost every profession will accept
women.
Any woman, who so desires. may
choose 10 earn so that she need not
fear starvation
Educated. economically independent
women are using their brains. They
think. and when they think they real
lie. as do men. that the living must
not be ruled by the dead. They are
seeing the folly of ghost worship.
The tendency Of our time is 10 say
TO all ghosts that haunt the present:
"Avaunt, and quit my sight, let earth
hide thee,
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood
is cold,
Thou hast no speculation I'm those eyes
Which thou dost glare with"