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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26
Twice Dead

M ORGAN ROBERTSON, writer of sea
1f1 stories. is dead; pathetically dead, for
time had stripped him of his genius and left
him beggared even of hope.
His life had in it much of the tragedy that
is associated historically with literary genius.
For years he served at sea, and as a land
lubber poverty haunted him until, with tub
as a writing place and on the backs of circu-
lars he had been hired to distribute, he
scribbled the first of his inimtable tales
Success was swift and sure Money came
fast and went faster. Then one day he
awoke to find that he had lost his punch"
Perhaps he had exhausted his material, as
his tales were based on personal experience.
At any rate, pathetic in the extreme was
his story of how he walked into an editors
office and offered a manuscript. The editor
refused it. IF you want to write sea stories,"
he said, study the masterpieces of that
man." and he pointed to a picture of Morgan
Robertson hanging on the wall, He and his
work, too, were unrecognized!
Sometimes men live too long, and some,
more fortunate, slip into the rest of death at
the meridian of their power. Poor Robertson!
What a pity that his weak heart did not fail
before genius fed from his skull and left but
the shell of greatness. 1t was his fate to die
twice
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26
A BOON TO VERMONT BOYS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Before the Legislature OF Vermont is a meas
ure which merits the Endorsement of every boy
in the United States. 1t aims to relieve boy
dom of the Green Mountain State of handl-
cap which has long hampered its natural de-
velopment.
The bill in question proposes to reduce the
license tax on clrcuses which enter the State in
the pursuit of business The present tax Is
$1,000 which is declared to be practically pro-
hibitive. In addition, each town where the big
canvass is spread leves its own tax, running
from s25 into the hundreds.
State virtually without circuses from one
years end TO another cannot live a healthful
existence 1t is not surprising that Vermont
threw away her electoral votes three years ago.
nor that the State was visited by an epidemic
OF infant paralysis last year.
What Vermont needs is crcuses The Legis-
lature is on the right tack. And the approach
of spring furnishes a psychoogically happy
background for the consideration of this boon
to the modern Green Mountain boys Reduce
the State circus tax? Abolish It.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26
THE RETURNING

The Wales of Already are fair 70 see - lawn.
So dreamers say with sunny slopJ 49,, elsa.
Forever singing streams and song-piIa' avn
With golden dusk and silver shlh'Ns
Rut never hearts have found the seer tsIr.
So dreamers say. into these meaaoN9 dsv.
rrhev are beyond our common Tesusss osrs
Beyond our narrow life OF toll anu
vat here I saw 20 down this city streel aass
maid whose eyes looked up 20 eye asst
win tenderness, and he with glance = NJ l,st
Looked down 10 hers with happiness
.....a .,,.,,, svyent the din of human 81
,Sts seethlna ebb and dow Of indesl 4sa.
gsiif as / saw Them pass, eyes am ~
ltae,g maj they had been N AIsr a.
Arfhnr Wallaco paaoh. IL pprsA4e-'-
llcan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26
Inc Rights of Motherhood

(foVERNoR WHITMAN of New York has
II not yet decided whether he will sign the
widows pension bill which the Legislature
has sent to him. Pennsylvania has law of
the same kind passed after its value had
been demonstrated in other States, but the
Legislature has been only half-hearted in
supporting it with appropriations.
The sole question involved in legislation OF
this kind is whether dependent children shall
be maintained by the Commonwealth in their
home with their mother or in public institu-
fions The Commonwealth has to maintain
them anyway, for their mothers are unable to
carry the burden. The instituton-reared child
Is robbed Of all the human affections to which
the younG are entitled. He Is sent out into
tha world naimed and dwarfed, morally and
in8sllectnaliy. II not physically. But argu-
1asnf Is not needed 70 prove that the proper
place fer q child Is with Its mother, provided
ms mother Is halfway decent. The mother
saves las chiid to society ard the child saves
- mother from herself
niH = Fortunate day ler The common-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

wealth when the public institutions for chill
dren can be razed to the ground and when
each child may have the care and comfort of
a mother during It's growing years. Who
knows what might have become OF Moses II
Pharaohs daughter had committed him to
the care Of hireling Egyptian? Even though
the State may not think 1t prudent to appro-
pirate all that is needed to support the de-
pendent children motherhood has rights
which It is bound to respect. The mothers
pension system is based on the most hu-
namely intelligent idea that has emerged
from the ruck of philanthropic discussion in
a generation
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

PENNSYLVANIA must worry along for
i some time yet without official State
flower, for the Governor has vetoed Repre-
sentative Gesers bill raising the mountain
laurel to that distinction. The Governor OBJ
jects because the mountain laurel is the Of
fetal flower of Connecticut, because there is
no sentimental association with the blossom
and because the leaves are poisonous.
But the failure of the laurel to receive the
executive approval will not prevent it from
adjoining the thickets in all corners of the
Commonwealth with its beautiful blossoms.
And the other flowers which have been turned
down by successive Governors when pro-
posed for high honors will also continue to
gladden. the eye every season in their turn.
The trailing arbutus makes fragrant the
spring and the wild aster glorfies the fields
in late autumn. In the months between we
have the goldenrod the daisy the blue violet
and the anemone, jaclS-in-th the-pulpit, lilies OF
all varieties, both the lilies of the field and
lilies Of the hothouse; hollyhocks, morning
glories, trumpet flowers wild roses and roses
that have been tanned, and the fragrant and
promising blossoms of all the fruit trees to
say nothing of the flowers of the potato vine,
the cucumber plant and the pumpkin. With
so many to choose from it ought to be pos
sible to find that would commend itself
to a Governor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26
ANGRY LETTERS

This at least should be a rule through the
letter writing world-that no angry letter be
posted till four and twenty hours shall have
elapsed since Il was written. We all know how
absurd Is that other rule OF saying the alphabet
when you are angry. Trashi SIT down and
write your letter; write 1t with all the venom in
your power; spit out your spleen at the fullest;
twill do you good. You think you have been
injured. Say all that you can say With all
your poisoned eloQuence. ana crafty yourself
by reading 1t while your temper Is still hot.
Then put II In your desk, and as matter OF
course, burn Il before breakfast the following
morning. Believe me that you will then have
q double NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Trollope.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26
Reward for Merit?

VINCENT ASTOR has been honored by the
Y award of medal from the New York
Chapter of the American Institute of Archi-
tects for erecting the best slx-story apart
ment house in New York, Possibly the
Legislature OF Pennsylvania would be glad
TO provide rich financial prize of honor for
the gentleman who proves that he manages
and collects rent for the worst tenement
building in Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

ID Metropolitan-"Today and Tomorrow"
(2) Worlds Work-"Porl Barrel Pen
sions."
go New Republic-"The Rota."
(D Leslie's-"The Plain Truth"
(5) Collier's-"We Shall Meet, but We
Shall Miss Them"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

The whole is an artistic creation designed to
match Shakespeare's. What we get from
Mr.. Mantell and Mr.. Sothern is device for
hiding the brick walls of the stage while
still convincing the audience that they are
In theatre. And a very ugly theatre, at
that.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

Admirers Of the man who wrote to the New
York sun last June that he was blessed II
he did not believe that Mr.. Wilson could
stransmute the present order Of things into
original chaos" are now writing 70 the Sun
eoneratulaling him ON the yeriheation Of his
estimate Of the Presidents genius
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

II the Senate committee really insists, Col
onel Roosevelt will doubtless be glad to tell
it exactly what he thinks OF the ship pur-
chase BILL and in language both emphatic
and clearly understandable.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

Representative Boyer, who is a handsome
man himself, ought not TO be eriticising the
Philadelphia Judges for their vanity II is
an amiable ailment that does no one any
harm
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

The jitneys viii be popular in Atlantic City,
provided they do not carry signs showing
how cheap It is to ride in an automobile at
the seaside.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

Whoever is behind that bill providing for
State inspection of upholstering evidently
wants to provide some easy berths for his
friends
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26
WISH AND WILL.

We would have inward peace.
Yet viii not look within;
We would have misery cease.
Yet Will not cease from sin.
~datthpN Arnoia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

The Panama fair is now dedicated; but it
is Just as interesting now as before the Vice
President made his dedicatory speech.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

Perhaps President Wilson is trying to con-
quer the Mexicans by kindness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

The Penrose still remains as the only Of
fetal State flower.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

There is a man in New York who would
give Roland for an oliver, or two Rolands,
for that matter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

Patience ,oil often ,cin ,ohere push rushes one
on to disaster.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-01
Two Women Shot to Death
by France, for Being Spies

ing German lessons. When hostilities
broke out, she returned to Germany.
Being out of work, she became spy
and was sent to France. Her orders
were to visit Nice, Montpelier. Mar
seilles and Lyons to note the import
ance Of new troop formations. the fire.
Quency of railroad transports. their d.
rection, the army sanitary condition,
the number Of wounded and the arriv-
al Of troops at the ports, especially
black soldiers. She was to report al
SO on the populations general state Of
mind.
Four hundred francs (about 500
expense money was given her from
February 3 to IL.
She travelled as directed and return.
ing to Germany and making her re.
port. received forty dollars as an ex.
preston of the authorities' satisfac.
ton.
Later In February, she returned TO
France on a similar mission with 500
expense money. Her arrest at Bourges
followed. Her full confession was
made two days after she was ar.
rested. The council Of war of the
eighth region. condemned her unani.
mousIy for espionage.
Marguerite Schmidt was born at
Thiaucourt, France. She was aged
twenty-five. She was arrested Febru-
airy II at the Nancy railroad station
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-01

as a suspect, as she had travelled via
Switzerland, from Annoux, near Briey,
now occupied by the Germans.
After a long examination. she con-
fessed that the Germans sent her to
obtain information concerning tho
presence OF British troops reported to
be in the Nancy region. She was to
report also concerning various other
regiments encamped between Bar-El-
Due and st. Menehould.
A friend. she said. put her in touch
with the German authorities. They Of
fered her money. She refused it at
first Then she accepted. For return
ing to France. forty dollars was CIV
en- her.
Germans took her by automobile to
the Swiss frontier.
Although sent to France by tho
Germans, she declared she did not
really intend to spy on the French,
but planned to report to the German
authorities, she had been held as a
suspect Her presence at Nancy re-
futed this claim, however. She had In
Eer possession, too, a book or ques.
tions prepared by a German officer
which she was to ask the French.
To all questions she replied simply:
II am sorry"
She was condemned March 20 for
espionage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-01
rBy William Philip Stmms, United
Press Staff Correspondent

[By William Philip simms, United
Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Nov. 1.-France makes no
secret Of the fact that she mas exc
cuted two women spies.
AS stated in my cable Saturday, the
French authorities refuse to be drawn
into a discussion Of the two incidents
from the standpoint Of comparison
with the Edith Cavell affair. They
freely placed before me today, how
ever, the record in both cases, giving
me full authority to publish them.
They bear no similarity to the Ca
veu case, according to the French rec
ords, in which the prisoner was ac-
cused only of helping French and Bel
gians of military age to escape from
German Jurisdiction and not with any
act of espionage.
The women executed by the French
we're found guilty as spies. They were
Ottilie voss and Marguerite Schmidt
Ottilfe Vose was arrested by French
secret service agents at Bourges, F'eo-
ruary 81. She called herself Jeanne
Bouvier at the time. Her papers were
made out in that name. After being
interrogated. she confessed her true
name and admitted that she was born
in the Rhine provinces, German.
She was unmarried, thirty-three years
old. For seven years before the arrest
she lived in the BorSean region, CIV
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-01
What the War Moves Mean
By J. w. T. Mason, Former European Man
aqer of the United Press.

test and fiery orations have been tn,
limits OF their activities.
The lack of more serious obstruc-
ton than street rioting, to the czar's
anti-democratic activities, has coincid-
ed with the halt OF the teutonfc Of
fensives in Russia. The car has un-
questionably taken much credit for
the new military situation in the en-
pire. The Austro-German check has
not been due to positive virtues among
the Russians, but to the requirements
of the Serbian campaign and to the
fact that all the reasonable teutonic
objectives had been won along the
eastern front when the czar made
himself commander in chief OF his
armies.
Nevertheless the car has gained
local prestige because the invaders
have made no further important ad-
vance since his assumption of CON-
mand. Taking advantage OF the
moment, therefore, his majesty ap-
parently has resolved to prepare pre-
cautionary measures against any lat
er outburst Of democracy among his
subjects. NJ. Goremykin, the most re-
dictionary premier Russia has had In
MANY wears, is to have his powers
largely increased and is to marshal
ali the standpat forces to protect the
car from the duma. For the rest of
the war the duma' influence is to be
killed,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-01

1United Press Leased Wire service.l
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. l.
Major General Funston today was en-
route from here to Douglas, Ariz.,
where he personally will direct the
movements of the American forces in
that region, owing to the critical
state OF border conditions. He was
accompanied by Major Hay. chief OF
staff. and a stenoTapher. They were
scheduled to reach Douglas early
Tuesday.
Expect Great Baltic.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Nov. 1.-Bloody
fighting was expected to open the
battle Of Aqua Prieta some time to-
day. With Villas ten thousand at
tacking forces in positions to pour
bullets into Douglas and with 5000
American troops ready to reply with
rifle and artillery fire, the situation
was considered grave.
Villa has Gefed the United States.
His men. desperate for water and sup
plies. defeat at Aqua Prieta would
practically end Villas resistance to
the recognized government OF Mex
leo. 1t was believed.
Aqua Prieta will be mine. Ameri-
cans or no Americans Villa de-
clared. General Gales. commander Of
the Carranza garrison, was reinforced
early today by the arrival of 1000
troops who came across American
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-01
Four Professors in American College Were Put
to Death and Students Were Either
Slain, Exiled or Deported.
GIRLS WERE PLACED IN THE HAREMS
Armenians Who Fell Into Hands of the Turks
When War Broke Out, Were Horribly
Mistreated by the Savages.

thirty.five years. was taken June s
ana sent in exile to Diarbeker. but
on the way he was killed.
Professor Bootekanian, for sixteen
years q teacher, was taken May and
treated in the same manner ~ Pro
fessor Tenekijian. but to add to his
torture his nails were pulled out BY
ptnchers. He was also exiled to DtAr-
beker, but shot on the way.
Professor Oeperian, teaching liter
ature ana history for twenty years
and who only last year, spent q
twelve months vacation in America.
studying most of the time at Trinity
college. Hartford, Conn. Il am told
he was at Trinity said he returned
to Armenia because he felt 1t to be
HIS duty.
professor oeperian arrived here
with. his family and was teaching
once more in the college when the
present war broke out. He was Inn
prisoned in July and was forced to
witness some Turkish officials beat
an Armenian to death. The professor
lost his reason as he knew his turn
was coming next. He was sent, in
sane, with his family to Malatia, all
on foot, but Just before reaching there.
he was killed before the eyes OF his
family
Professor soghigian, head master
of the college for twenty-five years,
was taken prisoner May 1. but hav-
ing become Ill, he escaped torture. He
was sent to Turkish hospital where
he later bribed Turkish officers and
escaped. He Is now believed to be In
hiding.
professor Khatchadoran, nfteen
years a music teacher at the college.
escaped because he was personal
friends Of the Turkish khaimakan
(mayor) Of the city.
professor Lulujran, biology. said
to be a graduate of Cornell and Yale.
was taken June 5. heavily bastinadoed
and the soles OF his feet beaten with
a club shaped like a baseball bat,
several hundred blows on each foot
His feet were so swollen and mashed
that he lost consciousness. The khai-
makan himself swung the club until
he became exhausted. The uncon-
scious professor was taken to hos.
pital. One OF his fingers was broken
during this torture. What has become
of him since I have been unable to
learn"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-01
THE CLOSE
OF DECEMBER
President Wilson and Mrs. Gait Say
Wedding viii Be Held
Then.

rT1nited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Nov. President
Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait will be
married near the close OF December"
It was officially announced this after
noon.
The announcement was made. 1t
was stated, for the purpose OF putting
a stop to the numerous rumors re-
garding the date and place OF the
ceremony. The announcement Issued
today reads as follows:
"In order to quiet speculation, Pres
ident Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait
today authorized the announcement
that their marriage will take place
near the close OF December. Their
plans are for a very simple ceremony.
It will be quietly performed at Mrs.
Galt's residence. No invitations will
be issued and 1t is expected the only
guests will be the members Of the
two families"
The limitation Of the guest list to
members of the two families comes
as disappointment, but no great
surprise to Washington society.
Since it was definitely determined
some time ago that the wedding
would be at the home of the bride.
it was realized the guest list of neces-
sity would have to be small.
The home OF Mrs. Gait would
scarcely accommodate more than
fifty persons. 1t is likely. however.
thet the wedding will be followed by
an elaborate reception at the white
house.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-01

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
NEW YORK, Nov. Another ser
ious blow has been suffered by the
democracy OF Russia, through the
decision of the car to revive the post
OF chancellor of the empire and ap-
point Premier Goremykin to that alb
soutist position.
The chancellorship is an unusual
once in Russia. It has been filled
only twelve times in two hundred
years and has been in abeyance
throughout the past generation. Its
revival Is unquestionably due to the
cars desire to increase the power
and prestige Of M. Goremykin and
mus emphasize the approval of re-
dictionary government. Since the
car dissolved the duma, there have
oeen frequent riots throughout Russia.
Ihe people have felt that the czar
."- been attempting to fx his absolut-
ism more firmly on the country and
national strikes have been but mar
rowly averted.
The czar. however. has been able
70 prevent revolutionary outbreak
and the courage of the autocracy has
seemingly increased.
Inc radicals of the pduma threaten
ea to follow the example OF the lead
ers of the French revolution and sum-
mon an unofficial duma when the leg
stature was prorogued, but their spiri.
mas tailed them. Resolutions Of pro-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-01

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
BOSTON. Mass, Nov. -Four pro-
fessors of tho Euphrates American
college founded by American mission
aries ut Harpoot Armenia, were hor-
ribly tortured by the Turks before
being put to death. according to let
ter made public here today by Rev.
Robert Keating Smith OF Westfield,
Mass. The hair and mustache OF ono
professor were pulled out by the
roots. The nails OF another were pull
ed out with pinchers.
Seven-eighths of the students were
deported, killed or e1iled and the
young girls carried away to harems.
the letter said. The letter was writ
ten by an American connected with
the college, Rev Smith said, and was
addressed to Bishop Casparian OF Bos-
ton. It Ia dated July 10, 1915. but the
name of the writer IL withheld In the
fear that he may be hunted and kill
ed by the Turks.
Fourteen professors we're engaged
in instructing $50 Armenian students,
two-thirds of them girls, in American
ideas, when the war broke out. 1t was
stated. The Turkish authorities took
over seven Of the eight buildings OF
the school.
"seven principal native professors.
educated in America, were taken from
the college," the writer said. -Four
were killed; three are still living.
Professor Teneke1ian who had
taught mathematics for thirty-flve
years and was my personal friend,
was taken prisoner on May I. The
hairs of his head. his mustache and
his beard were pulled out by the roots.
He was held by soldiers and as his
hair was long they were actually
wrenched out by the handful. This
was done in an attempt to force him
to confess that he was involved in
some political plot.
"He was kept without food many
DAYS and was then hanged from a
beam all day, suspended by a rops
tied to one arm. Then the following
night be was suspended by a rope tied
to one leg hanging upside down. He
was then taken down, nearly dead
from strangulation and apopleHy,
beaten and then forced to make his
wav as best he could on foot seventy
FIVE kilometers toward Diarbeker. On
the way he was killed.
professor Nahighian, teacher for