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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY

Austria and Hungary Cor, as in inter-
national relations they are officially called
the Austro-Hungarian monarchy are two
States, the Austrian Empire and the Hun
garian Kingdom. The relation between the
two States in its present form was fulV
regulated by the so-called compromise OF
1867. According to this agreement, the two
States are perfectly independent Of eacn
other. possessing each its own constitution
its legislative power and its executive ds'
psrtments for most branches OF sA''
affairs, But there is, Of course, close po-
litical connection between them through
the identity of the sovereign.
The head of the monarchy is known %
the Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King
Of Hungary-not the Austro-HunsailsMn -
Emperor, as he is sometimes imprope,l
called. The crown is hereditary to mas. mae.
and Con failure Of males) TO females. In'
monarch must be a member of the KoinAn
Catholic Church.
The affairs common to the two stats,
are foreign affairs. military and nAl.'
affairs, and finance relating to these MAJ
ters administered in common. LegislauN.
power relating to the whole dual monarch
Is exercised by the Parliaments OF poss
States which, for purposes OF m mulue'
agreement are represented by delegauo.,s.. ~.
which form sort of er-parliament u'
members being chosen from the menlpe.,
ship of the Austrian and Hungarian upp..
and lower houses. The delegations ~
summoned annually by the Emperor hins ~.
alternately at Vienna, the capital OF 2 Aus
tria, and at Budapest, the capital OF hu'
gary.
The Austrian Parliament is called y. y.
Reichsrath. The upper house OF -, :,
Rechsrath is called the Herrenhaus Y
House Of Lords. In II sit the nobles ~,
distinguished citizens nominated by the mn Th.
peror and archbishops and bishops ~
lower house is called the AbgeordnetenhH.al, :,
The members are elected on the pas's ~. Y
universal, equal and direct Suffrage. w
Hungarian houses are similarly consulu... =.
and are known as the House OF Magn-s-
Cor Lords) and the House OF Keprs''-
tatlves.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

THE YOUNG WOMAN across the aisle
from us was telling her companion about
a patriotic luncheon she was going to
give on the morrow:
My dear, it may seem in one way ex-
travagant, in these trying times, to spend
so much for a social club luncheon, and
Lucy, who is always saying things just
to be mean and not to really help-you
know her kind-thought We ought to take
the money and give 1t to the Red Cross
instead but since the luncheon was 10
be at my house this time I had the say,
so / fixed 1t by promising that all the
decorations and everything would be
extra patriotic. Don't you think that was
a splendid idea? Yes, and I'm going to
make lemon snow tonight, and I do
hope It won't be like the last time, be-
cause the red ants got into It,"
That wasn't all Of It, but it was enough
TO make us go up into the smoking car,
where we composed this little personal:
II Young Lady who fears visit of
red ants TO her lemon snow will ar
range TO paint every second ant white
and every third one blue she viii
achleFe her patriotic object and AZ the
same t|me get ria 81 two-thirds OF her
req aal4 LISTENER
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
Served as Spy in Mexico

This, it would seem, would have been
enough good luck even for an American
marine. But Buffers career had only begun
IN Nicaragua he led q column of marines
through rebel forces which had been be-
sieging the American College for Girls, near
Managua where scores Of young women
natives of the United States, were quar-
tered. Repeated defeats administered to
the native Government troops left the stu
dents in a perilous position. Butler and
his men battled their way to the doors of
the college and effected a gallant rescue.
The marines were first on the job at Vera
Cruz. Butler volunteered to go out on a
most dangerous errand. In the early days
of the operations against Huerta it was
confidently believed by the landing party
that war was certain and that the Ameri-
can forces would march on Mexico City. It
was necessary to explore the country and
map out the best route to the capital.
Dressed as an Englishman and affecting a
drawl, Butler ferreted his way to Mexico
City made maps, charted roads, defenses,
etc, and returned in safety. He himself
had said that the chances were to l
would have been executed as a spy.
only a couple OF weeks ago the Navy De-
partment announced the bestowal Of honor
medals upon Butler and five other officers
for bravery in the assault made on Fort
Riviere, in Haiti, on November II, 1915.
II was an old French bastion fort with
thick walls of brick and stone. loopholed for
rife fire. The small American force storrned
a small breach In the wall. AS this breach
was the only possible entrance, II was
naturally covered by all the defenders on
| the inside. The fire of the insurrectionists
was constantly passing through this breach
Butler started TO lead the twenty-three
Americans through this breach; but Ser.
! geant Ross l.. Iams and Private Samuel
| Gross wUuld not have II so. They believed
| that the first man through would be sure
to get killed, and out Of devotion to Butler
| they plunged through the wall ahead Of him
| There followed a desperate melee inside the
/ fort for ten minutes.
This Is not the whole record Butler win
soon be In the trenches Ia Franco Therl
Hthe marines viii doubtless cover lhamsal0..
with glory once more.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

THE OLDEST and the finest specimen
of StyraX japonCa in this neck of the
woods is in fun bloom at this moment in
the old Germantown garden where it was
planted by the late DR.. Daniel II. Briggs.
The doctor began the practice of medicine
in his native town of Norton, Mass, but
his own lack of health put a stop to that
and turned him to the gentle art of
gardening, and to make his bread and
butter on the side he began the manu-
facture of lantern slides with colodion
wet plates at the same time that Langen.
helm in this city developed the albumen
process. That was in the early fifties.
When Doctor Briggs came to Philadelphia
in 1876 he turned his business over to his
son and went about the more important
work of laying out a garden. He filled
It with strange experiments and almost
completely covered it with poultry wire
to keep out the neghborhood's cats His
wife waged a steadily losing fight for
room to hang up the Mondays wash
and all the while she was compelled to
intrench herself against his next most
virtuous vice He was a book-drunkard,
as he himself admitted, and was wont
to frequent upon ungardenable days the
secondhand book saloon of one Rigby,
on Arch street. Meanwhile, the strange
bulbs and seeds and cuttings he buried
in his garden came forth as wonderful
new orchids and other bits of plant
beauty not quite like anything ever be-
fore produced in the neighborhood. But
the kindly old man passed away twenty
years ago and the olden glory of his gar
den has faded. But today his StyraX tree
is in full dress the white bell-like bios
SONS, millions of them, swing in regular
lines under the branches and are even
now beginning to drop upon the ferny
plots below that he so loved; and black
cat drowses upon the very window sill
over which the doctor was wont to slip
the newly acquired book his wife would
have been sure to confiscate if he had at
tempted to carry it boldly through the
front door.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
Tom Days Column
THE MARINE

THE MARINE
In assorted shades Of green
You have painted The Marine,
And a deal OF yarns about him you've
been spinning;
He has much to say to uou
OF his red and white and blue.
SO he'd like to have your ear and take
his inning:
Back Of freedoms earliest glippmer,
when the night tCds neUer DINNER,
And before the light Of hope upon the
mountain top iods shed,
There tcere men l1hoso steel flashed
splendid
When the long black night tods ended
And the sun looked IN upon them round
the Nations trundle bed;
And IN that electric air,
with the laurel IN our hair,
We Colonial Marines, Of the Uictor forces
deans,
We 1oere tbcrei
when the ships Of Jones and Barry
Sailed 9ayly forth to harry
And to take the proudest UaUnterS Of the
british ndvy's might,
when that most beIoU'd commander
To the foes demand "Surrender"
Made his Hon-hearted dns,0er, we have
inst begun to f0ht"
Who 10ere first and most to dare
IN the battle lanterns OIdre2
VIC, as ldndsmen or as tdr8, stH the MR.
nltdons Of Mars,
We acre therei
IN those sailing ships Of rondcr,
when, 7Cith td6roH seething under,
From the 0un-dccks came the thunder Of
broadside dealing 1coe;
And Uith Per1y, Hull-nHd later
win the ddShing youn1 Decatur.
In the Udr tUherein no Daters SdiU our
yielding to the foe,
We tOere not denied our share
OF the battle joy so rare;
For the easing Of our spleens, ne am
phtbtous Marines,
We acre therel
out Of iron ships t0ere hollotOed
In the ledptng years that tolloiced,
And they're changed the Stylc Of fighting,
but they haven't changed the men;
Shall zoe, first Of Yankee yeomen
To repet those ancient toemen,
Let an ocean stay our Uen0eance, II It
failed to StdB 10 them
Ndy, IN France the eUcr fdir
when old GIory takes the air.
The ubiquitous Marine, as becomes the
fighting dean,
WHI be therer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

I. The 4O0th anniversary of the Reformation
will be celebrated October 81.
2, Czar John Uvan) Nv Of Russia was callei
Ivan the Terrible"
3. william Carey was an English Oriental
scholar who spread the Gospel In the
East Indies.
4. The first battle OF the Crmean War was
fought September 90, 1854, on the Alma
River, hall way between EupatOra and
Sebastopol.
8. The STUFFED Prophet" was Grover Clsvs-
land.
@. The Danube, Rhine. Rhone and Po River
rise In the Alps.
!. On December "a, 1892, cliff on the shOI!
Of the city of Amnlf, in the province oi
SalernO. Italy, slid into the sea, carr;
Ing IN ancient cathedral, monastery and
other buildings with IT,
3. Amalgam Is the union or alloy Of any metal
with quicksilver. In dentistry O sO-caned
"sllver" or amalgam filling Is one II
which silver and mercury are comblned
o. The Amatl were members Of a family d
CremOna, Italy. makers Of the famous
CremOna VlOlins.
TO- The Amazon drainage basin has an area
Of 1890 900 Square mixes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

Arthur J. Balfour has long been
celebrated as a master Of subtle irony, as
a polished exponent Of disillusonment, but
his declaration that he was more kindly
treated in America than any man even
was before" rings clear with all the
straightforward enthusiasm Of a school
boy. America assuredly accepts this graft
tude as heartily as Mr. Balfour, once mis-
called reserved" bestows it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
England's delight in "playinl

England's delight in playing the
game" may possibly account for the sug.
gestion of a mammoth football contest
impaired by her announcement that
Haigs Belgian advance extended over a
width of $4,000 yards. But to a class of
patriots in whom the sporting instinct
is less clearly defined the news of an
eleven-mile sweep is somehow more re.
assuring.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
The decision Of the Ulster unloni.

The decision of the Ulster Unonist
Council TO send delegates to the forth
coming Irish convention is encouraging
news. When men from Cork and men
from Belfast meet TO settle the fate Of
their most dstressful country" histori.
cal precedents will certainly be shattered;
but it is just such destruction Of political
obstacles that will free the Emerald Isle.
The convention, authorized by Lloyd
George, will be in a position to blaze an
entirely new road to Irish freedom. Bel
fast's old obstructionist tactics have come
in for some hard words-many Of them
deserved. 1t is evident now that both
the North and the South of Ireland al
though still differing on many points,
are at last united by a common bond
of patriotism. John Redmond and his
constituents have already welcomed the
convention plan with enthusiasm. with
both sides thus eager for a solution Of the
problem, the prospect Of success can no
longer be called visionary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

The Bureau of Fisheries recon.
mendation of whale steak as a war diet
ought to awaken some lively gastronomic
memories among the old.timers of New
Bedford. Fortunately they will know
how TO prepare the cetacean if the neces-
sity arises, For some Of us younger fel.
lows, without access to their wisdom, the
best course is perhaps to pay as much
respect to "NIoby Dick" and THE Cruise
of the Cacbalot" as cook books as we
have long accorded them as literature.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

1. What great literary genius was born on this
day?
2. When was the nearest approach to 4
"movie" made? BY whom?
3. What year of the Japanese era is this?
4. What was the approximate cost OF the
Panama Canal?
3. Who edited and what was the first colese
paperg
8. Where. did the phrase almighty Dollar
originate?
I. Who was the "red shirt hero?
8. What race killed its male children?
o. What is the derivation of amen?
10. What Is "a mensa ct thorO"?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
Another Cabinet shaken

Another CABINET Shake-up in Spain
exemplifes the uneasy condition in a
land whose neutrality Is constantly re-
warded by submarine outrages. The
mild Prieto ministry. which has now
resigned, came into power when the
sharp protests against U-boat piracy ut
tered by the Romanones Government al.
most threatened war. Prieto, who has
been openly accused Of pro-Germanism
endeavored TO smooth out a critical sltu.
alton with notes that elected fulsome ex.
pressions Of Berlin's 'cordlality" followed
by ruthless attacks on Spanish commerce
Even Spain, fun sick Of wars, can hardly
be expected TO swallow such atrocities
much longer. To satisfy the present
temper Of the Iberian people the new
Premier must assuredly be of stronger
fiber than his predecessor. King Alfonso
is known TO entertain sympathy for the
Allies, and the most enlightened elements
81 the country are ~ accord with him.
Al signs point % the exhaustion Of long.
suffering Spanish patience
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

TT HAD become apparent months ago
- that there could be no safety for us
sDospt m battle To urge that we have
smbarkedson a quixotio enterprise Of hu.
nAnitarianrism is TO becloud the truth.
Newer would Mn Wilson have led the
nation into war had he not known that
war sooner or later was inevitable and
Ghat war sooner meant a successful war,
while war later might have meant IRE.
tr4evable disaster. Confronted with such
a dilemma, which all thinking men ad.
mitted. he met the test with the fun
courage of Americanlsm, and, If he had
not met It. Washington and Lincoln
and the human race would have been
betrayed and the institutions they builded
and cherished exterminated and wiped
from the face of the earth.
Why. then. do little men whine and
fret and question the righteousness Of our
being in the WARP Why do some Of them
hold back. not only their lives, but their
money, and permit themselves to be
guided by trivial fault-fnders in the face
Of the most mighty upheaval of human
beings a recorded era or generation has
ever known? We say to men who do not
Join heartily in this loan and in this fight
that they are traitors not only to their
country, but also to all the processes of
evolution, material and spiritual. through
which hundreds of their forebears lived
IN preparation for this epoch. They talk
of universal peace who have it in their
hands. II they will but night for Il; for the
alliance Of nations now grouped against
The common enemy constitutes in itseli
the surest guarantee Of lasting peace th'
world has ever known.
TufAr trniy patriotic citizens have 70 8
o6i and bsf ana badger other elilE8n'
la10 1~sI Is aNlel .fidenee a Y ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
Philadelphia, Monday, June II, 1917
THE WAR, THE LOAN AND
THE SLACKERS

TIHERBsare men who blind themselves
i with pettifogging issues IN this prodig-
ious epoch when humanity struggles for
. nav birth, lighting TO break the shack
lea of the past. and leap into new and
prophesied era They conjure up visions
Of ancient injustice and in the great
fabrio Of government ind here and there
q flaw in workmanship. They will not
forget It, but close the gates Of their en-
bittered hearts to the mighty torrent Of
good purpose that has tied together in
one supreme endeavor almost all the
nations and races Of the civilized world.
Men with vision no longer discuss
whether or not Germany has a construc.
tive right TO use her U.boats for indis-
crlrninate slaughter. They talk no more
Of invaded and outraged Belgium, of the
thunderbolts of greed and hate launched
against a contented and striving world
by a corseted caste Of warriors. Those
things, in all their awfulness, are recorded
facts; they cannot be undone But the
ambition that pointed its Christmas belly
toward Paris and its Easter dream toward
another Calvary at London, painted pic
ton. England had been lured TO sleep by
the soft words of Berlin. If America could
be held back until ruin and devastation
were complete in France and England, il
the mists Of peace could keep this nation
sleeping until other holy victims had
been sacrificed, then would the veteran
armies of Prussia, their lust unsatisfied,
bestride like a Colossus the Atlantic and
drive their heels into the Western Hemi-
sphere. Open were the taunts of Berlin
more and more open her threats, until
no man of understanding, no man with
An horizon further than his nose. could
doubt that tho day of Judgment was at
hand. the final test. The issue had come
as last to this: We must help the Allies
20 beat back the Kaiser or later stand
Rlone to meet his imperial Juggernaut.
Tor the world TO be made safe for
democracy was for the United States to
nnntntatn It's integrity and prestige. Let
but this great exemplar Of democratic
PRACTICE topple in final ruin and cons
would pasS before another experiment of
fl,a aoxA rot1ld again he alaboratal,y o+
tsmpted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

The dust Of German masonry on
the Ypres salient leaves little doubt of
the concrete results" Of Haig's terrific
mining operation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
AN ISLAND For SALE

While we are buying Islands Why IA
purchase La Gobernadora, In the te-.'
Ocean, 100 miles from the Panama Se.'i
II is ave miles long, well watered,
ana for sale. It "a not claimed 70 pc .
the Jurisdiction 81 any GofernmenIt
owned ~ sMnlc T. Ruecke' NallAt'
fafis|ep lady, l.os Angeles Times
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

Germany's misbegotten boastful.
ness over her submarines pales Before
our righteous pride in our own marines,
unsullied by any ignoble prefix.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

The happy absence of U.boats in
the Pacific Ocean justihes its name in a
way Unforeseen by Balboa when he chris.
tened that vast body of water.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

A sure way to avoid becoming n
bondsman under German tyranny Is to
be a bond man under American freedom.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

Wilson's message to Russia gives
those pests who still wonder why we
went TO war" but one rating: They are
pro. Germans.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

Not the least Of Colonel Roosevelts
triumphs was his stirring victory over
the calm Of Philadelphia Sunday
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

thinking and brazen Ignorance which CON
taminate certain types OF people The
nation is asking no favors. II has for
sale negotiable instruments worth dollar
for dollar what is paid for them. The re-
turns are dedicated to a holy purpose.
Every cent goes for the defense Of Ameri.
can homes, even though the battles in
such defense be fought on the red fields
of Flanders or In the sullen waters Of the
North Sea Shall staggering disciples Of
German slaughter swill beer in Indepen-
dence Square and put our women 20 their
service because we. forsooth, have cher
ished deluslons that we need no defense?
What will our dollars be 70 us IL Germans
connscate them? For what do wo amass
wealth IL not for the protection Of our
homes and firesides2 God help the mlser.
able creature who takes no part in pre-.
venting the repetition here Of what has
happened in Belgium and Serbia! God
pity the wretch who hangs back and will
not subscribe even to a loan! The glory
and bounty Of democracy have blinded
such creatures. Such rich blessings have
been poured upon them that their brains
have become atrophied. They are hog,fat
and hog.active.
TNHIs first loan is going to he oversub-
- scribed. Men and women who take part
in It will hand the record down with con.
sclous pride, from generation unto genera.
tion, a ribbon of honor and n badge of
recognition. To them their chlldrens
children will point with pride So, too,
the scorn of honest men in increasing
volume will empty itself on the heads
Of slackers, marpots, misers and copper.
heads who put a price on the nations
head and would barter our institutions
for their personal comfort and a bellyful
of pap.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

The boys choir of st. Johns orphan
Asylum sang for the prisoners at the
Eastern Penitentiary a couple of Sundays
ago and inspired B S266 TO send to the
Catholic Standard and Times a poem Of
appreciation, of which these are the
closing lines
o glad note! and gay note,
There's a smile behind the tears,
There's the boys heart still in the most Of us
Persisting through the years
The dreams of our youth are with us still,
The shining goal is Just over the hill -,
Some day we II reach II, II God so will,
And we be true TO the best in us.
o golden lads! and happy lads.
Whate'er the swift years bring,
God grant you never know such shame
As ours TO whom you sing;
May you neer falter in the night,
May you ne er choose aught but the right
Keep your faces to the light,
And-sing for again.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-19
EDITOR
Scotch the Snake

Echoes Of the Protirrman tales denounced by
ment. which alleged disalfertun as existing among
drafted men of TIN" national army in training quar-
tcrs aud which disseminated with the intent
10 iujure the Liberty Loan Rotation. have Irarhed
Honolulu.
Some plain oIk> whose loyalty would ordinarily
never be suspected returning from the mainland
recently have put up line of conversation having
anything but loyal ring. Their talk Indicates
indeed that while away they must have lHen Srdu
lousy dosed with tn" very kind Of stuff menl toned
by Colonel Lord
Prof. iermaniSm here. vocal in considerable d"
gree in the interim between severance of diplomatic
relations and the declaration OF war by the United
States against Germany rapidly subsidized after the
latter event and any rrpantng of its seeds now
must be regarded as positively trraSonubc. Hawaii
is showing in many ways that it is of the most
loyal spots in the union. and any serpent Of 0ppOs
ton to the national policy. in this awful world
crisis, showing its head must he instantly sroched
Those who evince coldness toward the universal
cause of human liberties. let alone symptoms of
with the enemy. should he given to under
stand by the voice of stern authority. that if they
will not actively assist the government they must
at least keep their mouths shut Any that err
through ignorance must be taught what is requir
ed of them and that so plainly that they will have
no excuse for repeating any transglpssion.