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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
GREECE STILL HAGGLING
WITH ALLIES OVER PRICE
FOR ENTRANCE INTO WAR
LONDON. Sent. 40.

LONDON, Sept 30,
Greece today is reported haEgling with
the Entente over territorial terms before
taking the final action which will bring her
'nto the war against the central Powers.
This Information is contained in n dis
patch from Rome, which quotes the we'll
Informed newspaper Messagero II Is stated
that Greece has asked the Allies II they are
promised for Greece's cooperation at the
time OF the Salonca incident
Greece some time ago announced the an
nexation of northern Epirus, being at that
time in close touch with Germany. This
section. which Is in southern Albania, also
is believed to be desired by Italy. and for
that reason Greece apparently is deter
mined 20 know just where she stands before
committing herself finally
No word has yet been received of the
action taken at the Crown Council at
which the ultimatum to Bulgaria was to be
completed
Meanwhile the revolution is spreading by
leaps and bounds. Not only has the Greek
warship Hydra been seized by the rebels
and brought to Join the Allied fleet in
Salams Bay. but the Kinks. formerly the
United States battleship Idaho, also Is re-
ported to have deserted The Greek Min
istry of Marine denies the Kil<is has de-
serted. but the Minister has expressed the
deepest regret over the detection of the
Hydra.
According to stories told today the Hydra
was virtually stolen by the revolutionists
though with the consent Of her commander
| an enthusiastic Venzelist, At an early hour
| in the morning men put out in a rowboai
| to where the Hydra was anchored under
| the guns of the PIraeus Arsenal, and
| climbing on board, threatened the officer o
| the deck and the watch officer with deatf
| IL they made a sound.
| All the ships officers not in sympathy
with the revolution were put oversize int
| small boats and two tugs which had beer
| ordered to come at a given hour hooked I,
| the big warship and drew her out of tn,
harbor. Arriving in Salamls Bay she wal
| turned over to the Allies
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BRITISH CRUSH BLOWS
OF FOE NEAR THIEPVAL

Continued from Page One
have been taken by the Allies Everywhere
from the Ancre 10 a point near Chaulnes,
the German first, second and third lines
are completely in the hands of the Allies.
PARIS, Sept. 30.-The French gained
ground north of Rancourt last night, but
ralnstorms continued to hinder operations
on the rest of the Somme 'front.' 1T was
effclally announced today.
The text of the statement follows:
on the Somme we made some prog
ress in a hand grenade attack north
Of Rancourt
There was intermittent artillery ac-
tivity on different sectors north and
south of the Somme.
Everywhere else the night was calm.
Bad weather continues.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
BARON BURIAN RESIGNS;
ANDRASSY TO SUCCEED HIM,
GERMAN PAPER REPORTS

The Vosslche Zetung publishes a rumor
that Baron Burian. the AustroHungarian
foreign minister, has resigned The retire
ment of Premier Burian would mean that
the strong political party backing Count
Andrassy has won a stubborn night for
ascendency in the affairs OF the Dual Mon.
archv Andrassy, the probable successor Of
Burian. is an ardent admirer and friend OF
tre Kaiser and advocates the complete sub
ordination OF Austrian policies TO German
direction.
BERLIN. Sept sO.-eThe war will con-
unue throughout 1917 the Crown Prince
OF Bavaria. commanding the German
armies on the Somme, told Tageblatt cor
respondent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
FRENCH AVIATOR SHELLS
BULGARIAN CAPITAL AND
LANDS IN BUCHAREST

PARIS. Sept 20.
Sofia, capital Of Bulgaria. has been
bombed by French aviator In retaliation
Tor etr AT acks ON Bucharest. according TO
a War Ofhce communique today.
The text follows
There was Intermittent cannonading
AZ several parts Of the front
There was no Infantry action.
our aviators threw numerous proiec-
tiles on prilep.
One Of our aviators bombarded Sofia
on September 20 and continued TO
Bucharest, where he landed safely
ATHENS. Sept a0.--The entire Greek
Tying corps has Joined the Allied fleet
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
WINTERS ADVANCE COURIER
Out of the North Comes Chilling
Breeze, but Sun Quickly Modifies
Its Temper

xv,,,sr knocked at the gates OF Philadel-
.,h,s todav and for the first time since
s,,n'mer waxed and waned the cold breath
Of the North was felt
rhe coolest weather which autumn has
broueht SO far sent the temperature down
~ ~" low as 49 degrees during the dim hours
- sarlv morning. This coupled with a
t,s.,ve-mile wind OF very penetrating quail
,t,es made pedestrians shiver and shud-
49, Many overcoats were seen above pairs
of less that twlnlSed hastily along the
AM ne cold snap did not last long The
ann came out blazing autumn sun, and
the weather Bureau promised that no c2ld
~n,ll would frighten baseball fans on the
ttrerhold of the world series.
plain autumn weather. said Forecaster
Bllsa
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
Mans BODY Found in River

The body of an unidentified man was
found floating in the Delaware River off
Pier g. Port Richmond coal piers, this
morning by jeremiah McDevitt, 2727 East
Cambria street foreman on the pier. The
body was that of "A man about IS years
old light hair and mustache. black suit
and black shoes. IT apparently had been in
the water about a month.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30

NEW YORK. Sept S0.-Theodore Roose-
Welt started late yesterday for Battle Creek.
Mich where he viii deliver tonight his sec
ond speech OF the campaign Republicans
and Progressiyes have uhited in making
arrangements for the speech. Colonel
Roosevelt plans TO star on his western trip
in the second week In October and speak
In Chicago. indianapolis, Kansas City. Den
Yer and San Francisco
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
u. S. Senator Hurt by Fall

INDIAN HARBOR, Ind, Sept. 30-Sen-
ator Charles Curtis. of Kansas, although
from bruises received when he
fell down a fight of stairs last night. con-
tinued his Republican speeches today. In
the fall Senator Curtiss legs were wrenched
and he was badly bruised, but he gamey
his speaking engagements.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
CALL TO PASTOR HERE
WIRED FROM HARVARD
DR.. f. w. Powell, Philadelphia
Moderator, Wanted by Cam
bridge Students Church

The Rev. Dr. Elmer william Powell.
moderator OF the Philadelphia Baptist As
sociatlon and for ten years pastor or the
Second Baptist Church, Seventh street be-
low Glrard avenue. received call today
from the First Baptist Church OF Cam
bridge, Mass The call came in the form of
a telegram shortly after midnight
The First Church. the largest Protestant
church in Cambridge. is situated not far
from Harvard University and is attended
by Harvard students.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
Car Famine Causes Gulf Embargo

HOUSTON. Tex. Sept sO.--The South
ern Pacihc system has announced that
freight eastbound or n0rthbound through
Galveston or New Orleans by way Of the
midnight Saturday shipments In transit
will Be- accepted Accumulation Of frslsht
al the two ports and car Shortage arc ssil
70 hass led 10 declafalion Of the embargo. N
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30

french and British forces on the right OF
.ne serbs Indicates that sarrau will play
no minor role in the next thrust at the Bull
ssrians. Thus the Car Ferdinand's troops
VIII be unable to shift their strength 20
ooister up threatened points
no reports have been received OF the
,atest developments In the Dobrudia. In
Iransylvania the Rumanians arc reported
oy Berlin to have been defeated near Her
mannstadt and TO have lost the heights
south of the town.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
Saloonkeeper Attempts Snicide

Gottlieb Halter, sixty-three years old. of
2735 Poplar street, saloonkeeper, at
tempted suicide early today, according TO
the police, by shooting himself lie Is in a
serious condition In the German Hospital.
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this will be the northwest
1t
fifteen the civic
which will make their headquarters there will be the
Charity
Children Cruelty, Chdrens Aid Society Pennsylvania
Sybert Institution the Chdrens the Pennsylvania
for Social Service Ten other altrustc agencies will have their head
quarters the Schaf Building making of the largest
for phianthrOpc and social activity in the country The building will
at Fifteenth and Race streets which houses the Boards Missions
the Board Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church the
Highway Department Survey Department Pennsylvania
State Health Bureau The building will be of brick with Indiana lime
120 by 120
and Spring streets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
Dartmouth Instructor Kills Himself

IANOvFR N. H., Sept s0 Joseph
Noble Stockett. Jr.. OF Baltimore. Nd, a
new instruetor In the economics department
at Dartmouth College. committed suicide
last night In the college park
The mirror., 1916-01-13
Should We All Read Poetry?

Somewhere in poetry, and best in poet
ry because there most concentrated and
most penetrative, lies crystallized expert
ence at hand for all who need it. 1t is not
difficult to find, although no one can find it
for you. 1t is not necessarily exalted, ro-
mantle, passionate; it may be comfortable
homely, gentle, or hearty, vigorous, and
cheerful; it may be anything but common
place, for no true emotion is ever common
place. have known men of one poet;
and yet that poet gave them the satisfac-
ton they required. know others whose
occasional dip into poetry leads to no rap
ture of beauty, no throbbing vision into
eternity; and yet without poetry they
would be less alive, their minds would be
less young. AS children, most of us would
have flushed before the beauty of sun
rise on tropic ocean, felt dimly if pro-
foundly-and forgotten. The poet like
the painter-has caught, has interpreted,
has preserved the experience, so that, like
music, it may be renewed. And he can
perform that miracle for greater things
than sunrises. This, perhaps, IS the best
of all reasons why every one except the
emotionally senile should sometimes read
poetry.-Prof. Henry s. Candy in Har-
per's Magazine for January.
The mirror., 1916-01-13

A newspaper recently invited its
readers to state in few words what
they considered the most beautiful
thing in the world.
The first prize was awarded TO the
sender of the answer, The eyes of
m, mother"
The dream of which we know to
be impossible" suggested an imagi-
native person, and this brought him
second prize.
But the most amusing thing was
that which read:
The most beautiful thing in the
world is to see a man carrying his
mother-in law across dangerous
river without making an attempt to
drop her in.." Tit Bits.
The mirror., 1916-01-13
EXCHANGES
From our Exchanges
Lightning

| Lightning is natural phenomenon 70.
he has little control. 1t is swift and terrible
to look at, like that other great natural
phenomenon, T. Roosevelt, and is fluid
which travels from place to place producing
terrific disturbance. Mr.. Roosevelt, is "a
solid, but otherwise in the resultant busi-
ness lightning has very little on him.
Lightning inhAbits the sky and, like an
aeroplane, is harmless as long as it stays
there. 1t is only when it descends to earth
that it becomes fatal to man. A man who
takes hold of an adult lightning bolt by the
tail may look trihe better afterwards than
the man who tries to fry stick of dynamite,
but he is of no more use to society. The
man who can survive the kick of Jagged
streak of lightning would be hardy enough
to vote the Republican ticket in Mississippi
gain and again.
Lightning is composed of millions of
volts of electricity, complicated with am
peres and ohms. 1t travels IFS, 900 miles
second and yet the longest distance lightn-
ing bolt usually travels is about mile.
Thus it has plenty of time on its way to
travel down chimney, rip up the shingles,
shuttle the fireplace bricks, rearrange the
plumbing, change the lock on the front
door, tie the kitchen poker into a bow knot,
hang a pair of shoes on the chandelier,
SINCE the cat call up central on the tele-
phone, pull dozen teeth out OF the guest
room comb and blondine the cooks hair.
Lightning is very eccentric in ways like
this, principally because it has so much
spare time on its hands.
No one has ever succeeded in training
lightning to do anything useful. Ben
jamin Franklin once caught bottle full
with kite, wire and key, but owing to
the poor canning facilities of the times was
unable to preserve it. Enough electricity
is wasted in an ordinary storm to wipe out
the gas bills of the world for six months,
but until some means of turning it on and
off with button can be invented, it will
continue to be an unconqered resource.
Lightning kills about one person out
of 10000, 900 each year. A good many
people worry a great deal about it on this
account, though lightning does not kill as
many people as bath tubs do. Still, a
great many people are terribly afraid of
bath tubs too. BY George Fitch.
St. Cloud Journal-Press.
The mirror., 1916-01-13
A Well Rewarded Courtesy

A heavy rain was pouring down in New
York. This, combined with the cold, raw
wind that swept along the streets, made get
ting about an extremely unpleasant matter.
A handsomely dressed woman emerged
from hotel. She at once raised her UNI
brella but she had gone only short distance
when gust of wind snatched it from her
hands and before it could be restored by a
polite young man who promptly started
after it she was pretty we'll drenched in the
rain.
She got aboard crowded subway train.
Most of the male passengers buried their
faces deeply in their newspapers and failed
to see the rain soaked young woman. She
had juet taken hold of strap when shah
billy dressed man got up and politely offered
his seat. The girl excepted it with thanks.
She sat down and looked the stranger over.
He was shabby and his unkempt hair and
bristly beard added nothing to the at
tractiveness of his appearance. She noted
that he was wet through but that he ap-
peared in perfect good humor and was
thoroughly contented.
When the train reached her transfer point
she said to the shabby gallant as she passed
him in the doorway on her way out:
"Would you please accept this from
Stranger A piece of paper fell from her
hand and was readily recognized by all in
the vicinity as SIS bill. Four men eagerly
bent to pick it up but the shabby looking
man stopped them. "No thank you," he
said, call I need is time to get haircut
when the barber shop opens. -Ex.
The mirror., 1916-01-13
AT RANDOM
John
From oar Exchanges

John was sturdy, active young man,
to whom small farm had been left by his
father. He worked it with intelligence;
was up early in the morning and went to
rest late in the evening. The soil was
forced to give up its best to him.
| The neighbors, too, found him good
citizen, ready to take part in work helpful
to the community. His mother said that
or tender to her. He made her old age
beautiful and happy by his good humor and
loving care. As member of the church
John was fully responsive to the ordinary
demands of Christian service.
But John himself knew that other men
older than he worked huge farms at enor-
nous profits. His comparatively small
patches of barley and oats and potatoes and
grassland were sometimes contemplate
n his eyes. Other young men, who wen
to school with him, were leaders in the
community, going out of it into the State
Legislature or into large cities. Other
young men had wives and children. Some
of the most respected of them led in church
activities, and did not wait to be promoted
as he seemed forced to do.
Sometimes he wondered, with large
degree of longing, whether he might go
out and grapple with some great work in
the world. But he did not for this lose his
hold of the little work he had to do on the
farm and in town and church; instead he
rose earlier the next morning whistling
cheerfully, and perhaps drove his plow la
ter the next evening.
John was, in seeming, narrow, hunt
drum life.
But one day a strange and wonderful
thing came into it, which no man can un-
derstand. He was suddenly called to leave
the plow in the furrow and come away.
Because he had been so faithful to his poor
title fields and his few homely duties, and
so loyal to his old mother and his neigh
bOrs, greater estate was given to him.
and high rank in an unseen kingdom, to
which he belonged.
He heared the summons while he was in
the field, and went on the instant. When
his neighbors found him, lying on the
grass, and saw the happy, even triumph
ant, expression of his face, they knew that
the King had called him to come up high
er, and the kindly messenger sent to sum-
mon him was Death Companion
The mirror., 1916-01-13
Apes of Gibraltar

The rock of Gibraltar is the home of a
highly priced and carefully protected tribe
of Barbary apes. The chief of this tribe is
one Major
This band of apes number about twenty
They came, mysteriously enough, from
Africa many years ago and claimed citi-
zenship in Europe. They are duly protect
ed by the authorities, and any addition
by birth to their number is carefully
chronicled and announced in the local pa
per.
These apes transfer their abode, from
time to time, according to the state of the
weather, from the highest peaks of the
rock to lower and more sheltered places.
They indulge their sense of humor at
times by throwing stones at the soldiers.
They may not be seen for weeks at a time.
save in the early morning hours.
A few years ago, on account of the di-
minishing numbers of these creatures some
apes were procured from Barbary and
turned loose upon the rock; but the resi-
dent apes killed them all. Although so
fierce to intruders of their own kind, they
never attack human beings, and are great
ly esteemed Washington Star.
The mirror., 1916-01-13
Singular Plurals

Well begin with box, and the plural is
boxes,
But the plural of OK should be oxen, not
oxes;
Then one foul is goose, but two are called
geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be
meese.
You may find lone mouse or whole lot
of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called
pen?
The cow in plural may be cows or kline.
But a bow if repeated is never called blue,
And the plural of vow is vows not vine
And if l speak of foot and you show me
your feet,
And L give you boot would pair be
called beet?
If one is a tooth and the whole set are
teeth,
Why houldn't the plural of booth becall-
ed beeth?
If the singular is this and the plural is these,
Should the plural OF kiss be nick-named
keese?
Then one may be that, and three would be
those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of rat is rats not rose
We speak of brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say
methren.
The masculine pronouns are he, his and
him,
But imagine the feminine, she, shis and
SHIN.
So the English, think, you all will agree,
Is the most wonderful language you ever
did see.
San Francisco Call.
The mirror., 1916-01-13
Capacity

Your Capacity is stored-Lp Power that
you have available for your Everyday Doing
as well as for the various Emergencies of
your Life. Also Capacity is the Valuation
chalked up as your Real Assets which you
and you alone know as your own.
Capacity is Possibility.
The very knowlege that you possess
Capacity is in itself an inspiration most
extraordinary. 1t enables you to tread your
way bravely and under cover of Smiles with
Sunshine streaming into every corner of
your Heart. For yod to know that you
have Capacity to go through piece of
work or to the accomplishment of certain
Purpose or Ideals is to you more then
Wealth.
Capacity is Possibility.
Many man has turned away from his
employ many worker whose Capacity he
took no time to investigate, but which later
had to be reckend with in Competition.
When the late Marshall Field discovered
unusual Capacity in worker, he recognized
it and later joined it to his business in the
shape of Partner.
Capacity is Possibility.
Study yourself as you would a masterful
piece of machinery, for you are the the
most wonderful Handiwork that has ever
been put together. Each day should find
You more familiar with your Abilities and
Capacity than the day before. Your latent
and undiscovered OF unrealized Capacity
may now be holding you in Mediocrity.
Ask yourself if this is true. Find out what
your Capacity suggests and you can be
about what you determine to be.
George Matthew Adams.
The mirror., 1916-01-13

1t is almost always true that Prov
idence smooths before us the path
to any duty from the moment we
enter it. A thicket of doubts and
fears may present itself before us,
but the boughs bend and the briars
part as we face them, and we find a
straight way ready for our feet.
-Aseldama Sparks.
The mirror., 1916-01-13
Guide to Success; Can You
Follow 1t?

A few guide-posts to success were set
up before employees of the Chicago Pub
lie Library in the form of quotations con-
tanned in a rule book issued by Librarian
Henry E. Ledger. Here are some of
them:
Do what you are paid to do-and then
some; its the ''then some" that gets your
salary raised.
Folks that never do any more than they
get paid for never get paid for any more
than they do.
Some men are ground down on the grind
stone of life while others get polished up.
1t depends on their kind of stuff.
Let's be of good cheer, remembering
that the misfortunes hardest to bear were
those that never came.
You will never push yourself toward in
this world by patting yourself on the back.
The man who thinks he can learn, thinks
a great truth.
1t may be more interesting to mind
other peoples business, but it's more prof
liable to mind your own.-Selected.
The mirror., 1916-01-13
NOTICE

Before presenting themselves to the
dentist for the purpose of having
their teeth examined and treated all
inmates shoulc procure tooth
brush and have their teeth as thor
oughly clean as possible.
C.S. REED, Walden.
The mirror., 1916-01-13
Pl c K : U P S
By Uncle John.

Christian Science services were
held in the Auditorium last Sunday.
being well attended.
There art good many people in
this world of ours, who are making
an honest effort to be happy, by trust
ing blind luck and there's where
we all make our mistake.
1t is mighty good thing that the
race is not always to the swift, else
there would be lot of people in
this world that wonld get left,
Last Sundays Chautauqua meet
ing was good one, and the many
visitors present must have enioyed
the meeting, judging by their ap-
plause of every member.
The most bitter pill to swallow to
day by the warning nations. is the
price of war, and no matter which
side wins, they all lose.
Uncle Sam is very watchful. He
may be circumspect, but that does
not make widows and homeless or
phans.
More helpful than all human
wisdom is one draught of simple
human pity that will not forsake us.
-EY
The mirror., 1916-01-13
AT E NTIo n!

Inmates are hereby cautioned not to
use the margins of the Mirror for ad-
dresses of friends or other written
matter. IfIyou wish The Mirror sent
to your friends, you are required to
send in these addresses to the Deputy
Warden's Office thru your officer.
In this way the matter will be attend
ed to.
j. SULLIVAN.
Deputy Warden.
The mirror., 1916-01-13

A man ought to carry himself in
the world as an orange tree would
if it could walk up and down in the
garden, swinging perfumes from
every little censer it holds up to the
Bee cher.