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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
WHAT HUGHES THINKS

He favors the development of a navy OF the
strength and character recommended by the
general board.
He favors doubling the size of the standing
army, the development of a reserve and the COM
plete liberalization of the National Guard.
He believes in uphodng the Monroe Doctrine
unequivocally and in preparing the nation to
defend it at all hazards
He believes that at the outbreak of the Euro.
pean war the nation should have been placed in
a state of preparedness to defend its citizens and
commerce from aggression by the belligerents.
He does not agree with Colonel Roosevelt that
the United States ought to have taken a hand in
the European war over the question of the viola
tlon of Belgian neutrality by Germany.
He believes that the Mexican question should
have been met with firm insisence upon the pro-
lection of Americans and American property
from harm, and the employment of force, II
necessary.
He is opposed to withdrawal from the Philip
pines until the people of the islands are fully pre-
pared for self-government.-Chic Journal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

rate of about $2OO,OOO,OOO worth a year. and
any increase in price and better education
in farming will probably lead to an enor.
mously increased consumption. In this con-
nection 1t is interesting to recall that in 1926
the first shpload of Chill saltpeter which
sent to Europe could find no buyer and
was finally thrown into the sea as useless
material. In view of the later demand it
was like throwing a cargo of gold overheard.
Two American inventors furnished the first
practical answer to the problem propounded
by Crookes Bradley and Lovejoy, at Niagara
Falls created the first industrial apparatus
for converting the nitrogen of the air into
nitric acid by means of the electric arc. They
demonstrated that nitric acid could be pro-
duced from the air in unlimited quantities.
A foolish question suggests itself-and fool
ish questions are the first that should
be asked and answered; the others can wait,
VIII we use up so much Of the nitrogen of
the air as to endanger our breathing supply?
Well, the nitrogen will find its way back to
the atmosphere, but if there were any doubt
of that one wouldn't worry for long time,
for there is enough nitrogen in every square
mile of our atmosphere to satisfy our total
present consumption for moro than half a
century.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
QUIZ

1. who succeeded the late Mayor Gaynor
Mayor of New York city?
2. What Is the meaning of the political slang
term pork?
3. who were the "Copperheads" in American
politics?
4. Who is Franklin ID. Roosevelt?
D. How do the MeXiCans pronounce "NIexico"?
o. Who wrote "Peck's Bad Boy?
Z. what Is "heroin' and what IL the law in
regard TO the sale OF It.?
8. Who the battle of Germantown, the
British or the Americans?
0. Why the name of the capital of Russia
changed to Petrograd?
10. What Is the approximate equivalent in dol
lars and cents of the English crown, forin,
sovereign and guinea?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
COAL MINING IN ALABAMA

The earliest known record of the existence
OF coal in Alabama was made in 1884 but the
first statement of production in the State IL
for 1870 in which the amount mined is given as
964 tons. The mines OF Alabama were probably
worked to a considerable extent during the civil
war, but there no specific records until 1870,
for which the United States census reports
production of IL, 900 tons. The development of
the present great industry really began in 1881
and 1889, when attention was directed to the
large iron deposits near the city of Brming-
ham. BY 1885 the coal production Of the state
had increased TO nearly 2,5OO,OOO tons. In 1914,
according TO the United States Geological sur
vey, the production was l5,593,I22 tons.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. Sir Walter Raleigh IL credited with having
introduced tobacco into England.
2. Charles S. Mellen Is former president of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad.
3. Charcoal and diamonds both composed Of
carbon. In two of the RllOtropic modiflca-
tiOns of the element.
4. Berlin is on the River Spree.
o. The French Academy, the most eminent OF
five academies constituting the Institute
of France. Its 40 members are called the
ImmortnIs.
g. The Cunard Line operated the LusitanIa.
:. Cerrantes.
d. The statue of william Penn was placed ON
City Hall In 1894.
D. Fonseca Bay is on the Pacific coast of Nj
caragua.
TO- The postmaster of Philadelphia is John A.
Thornton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
Tom Daly's Column


SPRING IN LITTLE TTABY
on, Giuseppe da barber ees ordsy NTH
spreenOi
He's no good cen dd day-tintes for doin' a
theenO
But to theenk Of da night, an dd tunes he
toeelJ seen0.
AHa time ,O'en SOM customer 0at cen hees
chair,
He's so sloto ,cccth da share an 'oeeth catti@
dd hair,
Dat hoes boss atn't do nothoeng but grumble
an sieedr.
But Giuseppe no care
For tUan blessd blame theon0
But to pldy mandoHna
Where SOM st0norind
WeeH listen at night to dd loUe song he 8een0.
Com Giuseppe, dd barber. last night1 too late
TO dd house of dd Rosa an stan bg dd gate,
An he secn0 Ike ~ Gdttos dat cry for hees
mate.
Soochu pldynta love-m music sooch cooin', such
siohs,
Soocha sounds from da heart an Sooch lookd
su'prise
wen he ieert hces face up an stare ccnto
mn cycS
Lookin dotcH from dd tUdHi
AM Giuseppe. Uour call
Should be stdrtn more curld
For catchd mn girld,
For tDcn dd spreeng's here 40
tUorIin' at dHi
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
The Little Eohippus

Editor of "WAat Do You Rnolo"-Can you tell
me what an "eohppus" is? Isn't there a verse
in which the word occurs I'm some humorous
connection? BATES
The eohppus was tiny ancestor of the horse
In prehistoric times. You are probably refer.
ring 10 the rhyme
Said the little eOhppus
II am going to be a horse.
And upon my middle finger nails
To run my earthly course"
In the process OF evolution the several "fn.
gers OF the eohippus and his descendants be.
came the single hoof of the horse OF today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

The amazing thing is not so much that the
Eeppslins have inspired terror in England as
that the. Allies have not been able to duplicate
the machines More than one Zeppelin has
been wrecked on enemy soil. 1t may be, OF
course. that skill in navigation OF the huge
airlgihles is more important factor in their
.neeess than their structure. but it is doubt,
IfpI The FolSker recently captured should be
Insazaahle 70 the Allies. It was from a wrecked
carkhaeinian galley that the Romans learned
how 70 construct the fleets which were to play
80 important a part in the ruin OF the African
nation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
A Word Yet To Be Said

To the Editor Of The Tribune:
Sir: I congratulate you. II get a chance
to say good word for the paper 1 will do
So f. A. Wright.
Brooklyn. April 6, 1915.
From N. Y. Tribune.
To +. p. A., Tribune, N. Y:
Don't that note speak a Uolyum9
1t sholcs this Oyer-cautious 0uy
Amt Reuer SG1O your colyum.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
Rhodes Scholarships

Editor Of "What DO You Rnow'-What are
the Rhodes scholarships and why are they so
called? What was their origin? L. L. r.
Cecil Rhodes at his death left a part of his
fortune for the establishment of system of
scholarships at oxford University England to
be awarded TO students i'm the English colonies
the United States and Germany. Each State
is entitled to two of the scholarships at the
university at all times Germany to 8 and the
English colonies TO from one To nine Candi-
dates selected by competitive examination
held at responsible universities in each State
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

Once year we feel obliged to print this:
CFrom "a Shropshire Lad.'D
I1ovelicst of trees the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now of my three score years and ten
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score
IL only leaves me hfty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands l will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
where can one find out something about
Housman?" asks the reader who requested the
reprintIng Of the Shropshire lyric. We pass
Probably there isn't much information on tap
Housman never advertised himself or his
work B. l.. T. in Chicago Tribune
All Of which puts an ugly mark upon Sir
A. 7. Quiller-Couch, who, though the COM
piler of the most admirable oxford Book of
English Verse" excludes Housman entirely
from his oxford Book of Victorian Verse"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

&fA benent for Hughey Dougherty could not
b appropriately held anywhere but at Du.
nents Theatre. II. at the age of 70, the
ancient minstrel wants consolation, he may
relnsnber that no one is quickly forgotten
- the world as those who gave it the most
Measure Even those who give it the most
sorrow are longer remembered
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

Eight motor accidents on Sunday, all with
serious results, is not satisfying showing
BY any means The causes we're divided in
just about the usual proportions. loss OF con-
troll reckless driving and thoughtess walk
ing sharing IN the criminal list The theory
az tralIic still seems 70 he that those who can
o. ne harin the pedestrians. shall do ali
lhe watching while tAe motorist who holds
lie ana death Ia his hands. shall do as
IS pleases. Not that this Is the universal
habit of motoring men and women and
rhII1Izsn 4 remains the general impression
- u the careless rev. fsut even these
.a azast = earbcq
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
What the White House Is Made OF

Editor Of "Whdt DO You Rnotu'--Be kind
enough to tell me of what our White House at
Washington, D. c., is made and what is used
to keep il white EVANS
The White House is constructed Of sandstone
The exterior of the building is usually painted
every second year. The paint used is a mixture
of pure white lead. French zinc. pure Iinseed
oil and turpentine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

~ HAPPY SASSAMAN. whose very name
W is enough to brighten a paragraph, but
who is extra happy because he's one of the
leven little lustrious leathersmiths asks us
If we saw this sign near Wayne Junction:
BREWERS ICE CREAM
BETTER THAN EVER-NEVER VARIES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
Where Coffee Lovers Abound

Editor Of "What Do You Rno1o"-Can YOU
tell me which countries are the greatest con-
sumers of coffee? J.
The United States, Germany France Austria
Hungary Belgium and Holland report the
greatest consumption of coffee in the order
named England. which is far down on the list.
leads in the consumption of tea
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
PATRIOTISM DAY IN ROCHESTER

The Philadelphia EVENING LEDGER says there
is more than ever for Patriotism Day.
Rochester has its Patriots Day in the public
schools and it has proved good thing for the
children, as well as for the general patriotic
sentiment of the city.-ROchester Times,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

4 The talk about all being fair In love and
8war has evidently led some enthusiasts 10
believe that battles an affair of the heart;
Wherefore, If the heart is right that is pre-
3paredness. But there are brains behind guns
as days. There are. in fact. brains before
L are any guns.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
ANOTHER GEORGE

Probably most people have believed that at
this time and i'm the great war there was but
one King George. There is another, And King
George of the Tonga Isles offers a prize of 5000
to the first Tongan soldier who shall win the
Victoria Cross-BOstOn Herald.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
What Do You Know?

queries of general interest ,oill be unstoered
In this column. Ten questions, the dnstUers
to aOhich eUery t0eH-informed person should
knotU, are asked daily.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

there are towns mapmakers never heard of
ich have experienced no trouble in getting
100000 postofices. Philadelphia, however, is
hnpelled TO get along with an out-of-date
|f4ding. The custom house Is even worse.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

fhe strongest pacifist argument that Henry
brd can use is his name written at the bot.
,95om of check. Let him try it on the poll
tieians who are lying in wait for his barrel and
he win discover how easy it is to get the fight
hrs out of the trenches.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

the military services when an officer is
ronted with grave accusations affecting
Inonor he demands and gets court-martial.
he civil service there appears to be diff
Fent code OF honor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

sshe first column set for the FranlSford L
= not flying column by any means, but it
Expected to aid many Frankfordian in
pursuit of a little leisure between work
q bedtime.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

( When the little fellows get more than their
ashare the big fellows must get less than theirs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

As the gentleman remarked after contribut-
4g to the fund to provide Belgian soldiers
4ith tobacco. the enemy may outsmoke them.
ID they cannot smoke them out.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

What the Mayor said was that he was an
idealist. not an ideal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

Does Carranza imagine that because a good
Mexican is a dead Mexican any dead one is
rs good as another?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

At thfrtv, man suspects himself a fool;
RBo,cs it at fortv. and reforms his plan.
--EdlCdrd Young.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
A BUNCH OF NUTS?

Tho national crisis calls for such Phla-
delphia and PennsylvRnia leadership Ms
benefited the nation In Its Infancy. Are the
state leaders or are PhiIRdeIphians n bunch
Of political and patriotic pussyfootlnE
mollycoddtes7
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

troops numbering 5000 will begin practicing
moves at the Panama Canal this week
ranza might note that the step between
and play is very easily taken by 5000
prepared for either.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

We believe 1t is admitted even in England
that the theory that the King can do no wrong
% merely a legal fiction 1t seems to be a
'mayoral boast elsewhere.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

A medal has been given to Clifford Pinchot,
but not for the courage he displayed in con-
nection with the Progressive party.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

Find something that suburban communit!
ought to do and you will find something tina
Merton has already done.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

The price of gasoline inspires no terror In
the man who is preparing to exchange mort
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
THE NEW NEUTRAL

III talk about the lvar no more
Although, for all its chilling blight,
That subject makes my spirit soar.
But lost custom. at the store,
By holding forth, the other night;
III talk about the edr no more.
Ike to read strategic lore.
soIUe lcdr problems tUith delight
That subject makes nly spirit soar.
Butt proved EH0land's day is DER
And lost the trade OF Johnnie Wright
III talk about the ledr 40 more.
praised the French, aud, through the door
Hans schtoindt departed. tuH of fght
IH talk about the t1ar no more
That subject makes my spirit sore.
NJ e. H.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

Pleasure jaunts abroad are "verboten" to
Germans. Because they would not return?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

The fighting about verdun is not called Off
on account of the weather.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

Sir: Why not enter me your prize ana.
gram? I'm just the same coming, going, from
the middle, working both ways and upside
down? H H. n
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

= Just to relieve the anxiety of the country.
why not award the Republican nomination to
the candidate who can first catch Villa?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

s Nobody has ever seen this sign in gilt let
fers on a door: Ware. Smith & Ware. Politics
md Bonds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

The neutrais in this war appear to be "in
Dutch"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

During the past few weeks, a number of
people, touched by the spring, have asked
us to reprint the verses above. why not?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
Anagram Contest

Here are three from genial contributor
who dumps fourteen upon us in one load
"a EXACT MONIES
(2) BOMBS RUIN AT SEA
go AM CRUEL; HURT AT ARMS.
Yesterdays:
T. r. Eats well-WaIl Street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
DOMESTIC DIsTICHS

House-cleaning! Gosh! I've this one hope:
Ill not tread on cake of soap.
T1acIy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

Portland, Ore, on April IT,
Lesley Smith, daughter OF the late A. T. Smith
and Mrs. A, T. Smith, to Charles E. Miller of
New York, son of the late Charles +. Miller and
Mrs. Charles Il. Miller.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

Home life In Portland. Oregon, and even in
New York, NJ Y. seems to have been proper
and conventional so far as peres and meres
Smith and Miller are concerned
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

IT'S so long since Gap" Shaw was known by
his Christian name that to his Dartmouth
College mates he's never anything but Cap"
We don't know his fun name, but, at any
rate. he's visiting his old chum Dr. Peter
II. Lane, of Chestnut Hill, this week. Here's
how Shaw became Cap. In the cane rush
between the sophs and the freshmen-Oh, many
years ago!-shaw "a freshman) was at first
a modest spectator. Some, of his classmates
noticing, and resenting this, pushed him into
the melee Then somebody hit him in the
solar plexus. That made him mad. He sailed
in with his good left arm and cleaned I'D the
whole bunch. Now his left arm was good
for that sort OF thing-because It was NOT
like most arms. Shaw had lost his original
left arm in mill at Lynn, where he worked
as a boy. and the substitute he used In
the fight was Of wood. Nobody knew that
though. until after the fight. Then they
called him Cap"
Sign in a shoe-repair shop at 9Th and Arch
streets:
Have your shoes repaired while they are esslnE
shined. Heels minutes soles 80 minutes.
HEYi KALEIDO. THIS Is YOUR score
In a paint shop on Arch street.
BG1AUTIFY YOUR HoAE WITH WHITE
AND - qQLQRA
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18

T. r. Eats weII-wan street.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-17
Meets. Godfather in Films.

When Nell Shipman was introduced
to the man who was to play the part
Of her father in the Vttagraph Blue
Ribbon feature. Gods Country and
the Woman" she incidentally met for
the second time in her life the man
who is her godfather. Her first meet
ing with Mr. cambridge, the meeting
she doesntremember, was in Victoria,
b. c., on a baptismal occasion when
Miss Shipman acquired the name az
Nell Mr.. cambridge undertook the
responsibility of being her godfather
gssst how seriously he took the re-
sponsibility can be seen by the fact
THAT he has never seen the. baby since
until this recent day. Men are inde-
pendable godlovits.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-17
fine ART EXHIBIT
TO Be SEEN HERE
Cartoons and Photographers
to Be Shown at the
High School.

Preparations are rapidly nearing
completion for an exhibition Of the fur
nous Elson collection Of pictures con
sisting Of carbon photographs, photo
gravures and prints in full color Of the
worlds masterpieces. 1t will be held
BINDER the auspices of the Boise public
schools; the object Of the exhibition IS
to raise funds with which to purchase
pictures to place in the public schools.
Itswill be held in the high school gym
nasium on March 20, 80. 81 and April l..
The pictures which will be exhibited
will not be for sale, but it will be pos
sible through the committee in charge
to purchase exact duplicates and the
money raised through private sales Of
this character will also go toward the
fund for purchasing pictures for the
public schools.
II is now generally recognized among
educational authorities that education
In culture and refinement can easily be
aided through the wholesome influence
Of pictures OF the right sort on the
school walls. The larger the attend
anee at the exhibition the greater the
number of pictures that can be OBJ
tanned for the schools,
This collection consists in a large
l part of carbon photographs, photogra-
sevures and prints in color, comprising
about 200 subjects representing all the
principal schools of art as well as re-
productions Of the worlds greatest
pieces OF sculpture, architecture and
important views from nature. These
pictures arc of interest to all and are
expected to attract and instruct large
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-17
New Garage.
Closed $4,000 Deal.

The case of Maurice H. Lundy versus
Herbert Lemp, executor Of the estate
of John Lemp, is on trial before Judge
Mccarthy in district court. The case
is one in which Lundy is suing the
estate for s1427 because of failure to
deliver to him deed for lot in the
Lemp triangle, for which he rendered
fun payment and had paid a consider
able amount on the purchase price
when further payments by him were
refused because OF litigation over the
property.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-17
myrtle is out. of Doors Girl.

Myrtle stedman, who has climbed
breathlessly to the high ridge of the
Temecula range. in the southern part
Of California, declares emphatieally
that she owes the larger part Of her
prosperity, personal perfection and
popularity to the faithfulness with
which she INDUCES in outdoor exercise.
Athletics do not come unnaturally
to Myrtle, for she WAS at one time or
another a dancer. miner and an
opera prima donna. Outside of the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-17
The Isis.

Jack Barrymore in Nearly a King"
q Famous Players Paramount feature,
furnishes the entertainment at the
Isis the last three days Of this week.
The story is comedy which turns
melodramatic at times. 1t deals with
the troubles of the king Of European
country and his American double. Mr..
Barrymore plays both parts and the
double exposure used in the film is
some of the best seen here for some
time.