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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1916 10 EDITORIAL COMMENT rtwd at the Pontoffice at Philadelphia. as second-class niatf r. JAMES-! ELVERS ON EDITOR AND FKO.M jSS9 TO 1011 EVERYBODY'S COLUMN A Medium for the Icerchanjre of lefcii Information oaf31atters of Gnekl Interest. First American Production of Mahler's Eighth Symphony MARCH 3, 1916 FRIDAY Rather a mean trick March played on us yesterday, especially in view of the nice welcome and kind "words we handed it the day before. Most persons -will be willing for the Crown Prince to receive all the credit he is likely to get out of that drive on Verdun.

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n33-0O. aud Keystone. Race 10-40. The first production in the United States of Gustav inseparable from a unique event of momentous consequence, Mahler's eighth symphony took place under Mr. Leopold and the assumption is a fair one that there wpuld have been Stokoweki's direction at the Academy of Music last evening a thunderous applause, that there would have been an irre- in the presence of an audience which crowded every part of presaible enthusiasm, without much or little conscious le- the house and to the accompaniment of such enthusiasm as an Sd for the merits and character and message of the music occasion so exceptional waa sure to arouse.

It need hardly be nder interpretation. CORRESPONDENTS should write on one Bide of their paper only, should exclude purely personal subjects and advertising matter from their queries or comments, snd should srlve their names' and addresses (though not for publication unless so desired) under the penalty of being ignored. No answer by mall. eaid that this waa an occurrence of much more than ordinary A NOBLE WORK interest. It was as a matter of fact an pvnfr.

which mav which is encouraging so far as it goes, but has not yet reached proportions which had been hoped nor anything like what is confidently expected in the near future. British representatives complain that our own consular representatives are much more active than their own and that our reports are much more valuable. The fear is expressed that the great trading corporation recently organized in New York is going to cut out British commerce. There is no doubt that Americans are slowly waking up to the possibilities of South American trade, but it is unfortunate that so many of our manufacturers' are fully occupied with domestic trade or that in munitions. Also, the prices of our commodities have risen a good deal in the last eighteen months, but this would be of less importance if they could be promptly delivered in South America.

There seems little use in speculating about what will happen when hostilities cease. Whether Great Britain can or cannot shut out German trade from her borders, depends upon the treaty of peace. It is very certain that German trade among the Allies, even at the very best, is certain to be small for years to come and that a drive will be made at the Three Americas. With our present high wages and high cost of materials, we cannot compete with German trade unless we have every possible protection, all banking facilities and sufficient ships. What we'ean do in South America after the war depends upon a good many unforeseen contingencies, but evidently it is imperative that we make hay while the sun is shining.

Jake all Money Order. Checks. The statement that "gasoline is not a luxury" is perfectly correct in theory but it is mighty difficult to grasp it when it is considered from the practical point of view. I Washington Burean. Waliincton Post Building.

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4 10 Flaliron IJuildinc. Tcle- I ill, one. 3ra mercy i The Weather in February or Drafts payable To tie ruiw flelphta Irouirer Company. wunday Edition. $2.50 per year.

Dailr and Inquirer. per year. The Sundav inquirer bo Fold by Carriers. News Agents and Newsboys at Five Cent per cony throuchout tue ciiy and country. i UsDuscripts will not be returned unless postage is pent for the purpose, but in no cnp vvill The Inquirer be responsible for I The real question is whether this eighth symphony of Mahler's is the masterpiece it has been described, so much of a masterpiece as to justify and adequately compensate the enormous effort and the immense expenditure in money and in brains which its production necessitates; and in answering this question what may, without any invidious intent, bo described a.s the adventitious features of the performance mij.t as far as practicable be minimized or disregarded.

"What then is there to be said of the music itself? There this to be said as the mot succinctly informative and appropriately appreciative commentary, that it almost juatitic without exaggeration be said to possess a certain national importance. Anticipations of it have attracted the attention of musical people all over the country. In a broad general sense it constitutes news and a narrative account of what took place and of the attendant circumstances will therefore be found in another column. All that it is intended to do here and now is to endeavor to communicate something like a commensurate idea of the composition itself, of the manner in which it was interpreted and of the impression which the music made upon the minds of those who heard it. This for various reasons i by no means an msv lask.

As a friend recently expressed it. that gigantic clash at Verdun i.s another instance of the irresistible force meeting the immovable body. Director George S. Bliss, of our local Weather Bureau, issues the following interesting: data concerning the weather in this vicinity during the Advertising Bureau. 115 snd 1164 People's Gas Building European Bureau, 3 Regent at.

London. Paris Bureau. 31 Ma Faubourg Montmartre. Advertisements and subscriptions re past month: ceived Tiielr The da itS when 'the subscription The Inquirer la for sale at ps is on tue address label Leading "ot1.nrkan,';J 7 -oJ a eh paper the eunnee of stands in New iorW by 7 c.oa safe return. expires een the superlatives of iuahlers professional panegyrists 1 1 1 1 1 uu iv 1 a ji uicoojuiiai rant i ism A statistician says that only 3 per ceDt.

of our laughter is due to amusement. Well, when one considers the calibre of most of our amusements the email percentage is readily understood. i-fr 14 It difficult, or rather it is not possible, definitely to ap- nothing merely human could justify them quite-and that it t.i.i. pvery morning delivered i Tie Drnlv is praise ine musical value ot a composition nroierted nn so could not have disappointed any reasonable anticinationa uii'rn icLritM ivji iriiiicinuir. Ho other receipt is scut un' -ss by airier at ix I ents a requested.

The paper is stop- i payable to the Carrier or Agent 1 t.t Hie ii, i By Mail. Twen ty-n va Cents 1 liubfcriDtien if renewal is not i "month, or Three Dollars per vast a scale as Mahler's eighth pymphony, so ambitious in its conception, so unusual in its character and 60 daring in its design, with no opportunities for its study and examination than it has been practicable to furnish or to embrace, and the difficulty of forming an impartial and en- The Crown Prince just at seems to be Germany's most expensive luxurv. received. 1 aliuuui in advance. The Difference Between Wilson and Stone I lightened judgment lias been rather increased than diminish It seems to make a great deal of to the President whether Con Temperature Character Day (Degrees I'ahrenheiti of Flichest Lowest Wn Tar 1 61 42 Cloud 2 41' -K Cloud 3 31 1-2 15 Oar 4 31 Clear 40 17 34 It.

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.23 2 Cloudy 2 32 20 26 (1iar lf 3 2 2 Clea M'ns 24.2 31.3 "The Self-Master" (olonj" gress votes voluntarily on a matter of great importance or whether it does so on his demand. which the preliminary heralding may have aroused. Mahler's piagnum opus is indeed a noble work, absolutely' original in its conception, singularly skilful in its construction, projected upon a scale of unexampled magnitude which yet it fills, employing with a supreme elhciency the manifold instrumentalities which it engages, instrumentalities which aie introduced not for their own but because their co-operation is essential to the achievement of the composer's purpose, and revealing at every point and in every manner the influ f-nce of a highly creative imagination working through a technical equipment of incomparable completeness. Jt must be said that in its Myle and tone and temper the treatment of the hymn which forms the basis of the opening section is disconcerting. It is disconcerting became it is so different, because in its development everything that savors of conventionality is so ruthlessly, so relent Ie.ly eschewed.

It is not reverent, it is not prayerful, it is not devout. Mahler lias in a sense denatured the ancient inr- ed by the nature and volume of the descriptive and supposedly elucidatory- comment of which the symphony has been the text. To many much of the rhapsodizing it has inspired will have seemed like clotted nonsense and will have tended to prejudice them against the work thus extravagant Iv te-praised. Others again may have taken this unrestrained laudation seriously and may thereby have been led to expectations which had no chance of fulfilment. J.pt the effort be to keep an open mind and to steer an even mid-die course between the two opposing poles of prejudice and predilection.

Germany's Opinion of the United States Democratic leaders of Congress have been informed that it is growing difficult for this government to obtain from Germany and Austria even ordinary consideration of its demands; that those countries regard the United States more in the light of a "mass meeting than a closely-welded nation. It is because of this increasing difficulty to secure serious recognition and because the Teutonic Powers have misunderstood the sentiment of the United States that the President has required of Congress that it clear away the underbrush The difference between Senator Stone and President Wilson is this: The. Senator believes in a policy of cowardly expediency and would send international law to the ash heap as Germany made a scrap of paper out of the Belgium treaty. The President believes in American rights, law and justice, and that "justice has nothing to do with expediency." When America sacrifices humanity and justice she "ceases to be America." Things have come to a pretty pass in a Democratic Congress when a Republican leader like Senator Lodge is fcrced to come to the rescue of a Democratic President against his own party. --AVe notice that the "Murderous Jale" wr called attention to some time -ago has evidently been influenced by public sentiment.

At least that is the impression we gathered when we saw the announcement in the window that from now on prices will onlv be "killed in half." TEXTUAL BASIS OF THE SYMPHONY It is not now necespar- to enzage in a prolonged decrip- cation by utterly denuding it of its religiotitv, by entirely 1 L-i -w 1-1Z-T r'l Wl I I i 1 1 1 1 III! Wilt, ii form Kdi'or Inquirer: Will you kindly uu tujjui i me tiv.w.ow.c uat significant e. it anv, i mere in the resolutions warning Americans from taking armed the report tnat jarranza, cornered merchant vessels. 1 hemp in Mexico? ni" turoujtli aiH.vc roIiiTn 1C lmiws or social work of the Self-Maiter' Colony. in vii-mitT FlirJthfh tion of Mahler's magnum opus or to recite in any detail the obliterating and effacing and repudiating its centuries old a- c.rcum stances by hich its gonesLs and parturition were at- sociation. His "Veni Creator is not a supplna tended.

That was done with an approximate finality in the tion; it is a summons, it is a demand, it in well nigh a cha. comprehensive and authoritative article upon the subject lenge. His worshippers ate not meek and humble nd published in these column a few davs ego, and there is noth- abashed, trembling beneath a conviction of their own mi The fact is that the situation in this country has ueen oil alnr.fr ar.fl therp is trood reason for I A Pamon that has been in 1 noil Id he pleased ro know it lias proved rration Also us exavt A' cit.tlon PvorvAvhere was I several vears in Maine, ha i worthiness and scarcely daring to lift their eyes to the hih rpcnnn sihle for the beeinninsr of hostilities. the neriin i Staler certainly are sticklers for bit 1 1 1 1 I nrrtn rcorlnriQl 3 fi Striking at the Roots of Americanism In his address before the Welsh Society Mr. Alba Johnson brought out one phase of the times which is worthy of the sincere thought of every man who believes in our form of government.

He said that not only in Congress, but in the Legislatures of manv of the States, there was a tendency hservation of the letter cf the law. Ult iV --fcv llnO secret services that Russia was on the verge 01 revoiu- '-'e I There i one thing ccitain. and that Wqh nf imnciiHinc rreat strikes: that Its C. B. The Self-Master's Colony i located al)out II unles from Elizabeth on the Morns Pike.

its purpose is to bnnz about permanent improvement in the condition of men who are mental or physical wreck. The cases are numerous and manifold, none being apparently barred that re-from habit-forming. The institution has the reputation of doing much good and is open to public inspection. tion was weak and torn with Socialistic troubles; that Eng- is that Mr. Hryan will never be loved at its land had an Irish question on hand such as would keep ior me enemies he has mane.

to nass laws attackine American self-reliance We notice, too, that John's Buy l'ee," in the neighborhood of Second and from whence cometh their aid. They ue bold and conn-dent, one feels almost tempted to say defiant. Their prtt tions are urged with a clamorous insistance which will not be denied, which exacts a hearing and extorts an answer, and at the last they seem to the very steps of the judgment scat in a climax of overwhelming power and grandeur, it is thrilling, it is stupendous, it is sublime, and kst night it moved the audience most profoundly. SCENE IN THE DESERT A brief interlude in which the emptiness and sohtu.b-ami desolation of the desert are described bv the nn-lifMia in intervals and rhythms and instn-mental coloring win. lecal! the intervals and rhythms and iitrumental employed by Ma.ssenet tinder similar conditions tion ihont the opening scene of "Thais," leads to the second part which represents the apotheosis of the ''eternal p-miirne" through the medium of a scene derived from the ci ond i Producers The Bet Market, turned to lie a drone, i There's "for rent" on the euipn building.

i roots. The effect of these laws is to divide the people into classes and to deny them initiative and of that opportunity to advance which their environment the traditions of the country entitle them to. The work-ingman of this country does not want to be placed upon a level with the workingman of Europe. He does not want to be patronized by the government at the expense of his self-respect, his self-reliance and at the risk of being deprived of those advantages which make her busv at home and render it impossiole ior her to take a hand in warfare. And so Berlin ordered the war only to discover that her information had been all wrong.

Despite her experience in these other countries, she still put faith in her secret reports from the United States. There is a large American citizenship of German extraction in the United States. Berlin was positive that this citizenship would rise as one man in defense of Germany and dominate the United States Gov- Hd.u.r Inauirer: Will tou i.uh'.nh in the corner rhkh of the follow ine mckeD are tb lefit fit nroductrn the veir round, thf Ancona. White USdm ind White Wvondotte'- Your aner will (.. verv much aprrcited.

H. C. II. The trouble with a of onercs-men seems to he that they are niffer-mg from fatty degeneration of the ppine. o.ild vo 1: we ynu that Mr.

Ilavr i a piea- her in llaiidon Every Sunday The Inquirer contains valuable information on poultry and i cognate branches, written by mn of long experience, and to that fu-etion ot the familiar section of Goethe'd "Faust. the employe of today the employer of tomorrow. Although rri r-. cu hfoz-t i -mt hPiTin- ornmcnt I here nrp nrpai manv iiiuu2-iio ji i per iouid kindly draw your at-i cnliiin. 5rr tn o-limnsed bv manv of our own people and called German-American citizens who are German only icni una idea that Jerome K.j 1 hew and which Kepairn Houe W.

A have an lerome's stoiy. lai Norworth is will tiie title it has taken the so-called Americanization movement to the extent of sympathizing with Germany as against to present it in its proper light. Our danger, the dan- England, France and Russia, but are thoroughly Amercer of workingmen especially, is that there has been a ican when American principles are at stake. A few fr.ncitant tendency to Europanize them. This has long have lost their heads completely and unquestionably S.

s. Ill in! in i.eipmg to dramatize iur I. naer tie 1 hem and Me" when Irt fo- rpnait Vlv(P tor repans tenant comedian gets thiough tne wuli ing much that need oe added to v.hat was then 6et lortn. Yet another and a passing glance at the textual basis upon which the Mahler so-called symphony has been constructed may not be No "book" more extraordinary in the audacity of it design or the incongruity of its material can be imagined than the one chosen bv him for musical illustration in the present score. Beginning with the ancient and venerated hymn of "Veni.

reator Spiritus" it closes with a scene from the second part of Faust'' and thus makes bold to span the whole vast distance between the ieligiou3 faith and uncompromising Christianity of the Middle Ages and the sublimated Paganism and philosophic doubt embodied and glorified and exalted by the Geiman poet. Here i.s presented what looks like an iiieduci'ole antinomy, but the expert analyzer of the score and accredited expositor of its significance has undertaken to demonstrate that the seeming incongruity between the first and second sections of the sy mphony text is more apparent than reil. i more superficial than substantial, and that so iar from being in conflict with each other, the harmony between them is consummate and complete. The rcene from the second part of in which Mary Magdalen, Mary of Egypt and the Samaritan -woman are shown interceding with the "Mater tilonosa'' for the soul of liretchen, which has in some unexplained way. the commentator tells us, been "purged of its Cathobc aociation." is represented the complement and fulfilment of the opening invocation, as the ineffably splendid answer to the prayer which the "Veni Sane-tits embodies, and as the incorporation or manifestation ot divinity in the "Eternal Feminine." That is goins pretty far, even for German mysticism; too far, eome will think.

PERFORMANCE PROFOUNDLY IMPRESSIVE Hut the issue which this discussion raises relate merely or ma nlv to questions of taste and "de gustibus non diflon-tandum." Whether the extraordinary juxtaposition of aiin elements -which the book of the Mahler symphony present is justified bv the purine in view and by the extent to which that purpose ha leen accomplis bed whether the incoherences and incongruities to which attention has been directed are sufficiently for and convincingly justi-ried bv the theorizing of the official commentator are questions upon "which opinions will differ according to the individual temperament and the personal point of view. hat most ma--trr if not at all that matters, is the manner in which and the degree of suceees with which Mahler haa reaaj.ed the possibilities which the subject of his selection provides, and the intrinsic value, judged exclusively from artistic standards and eliminating the contributory effectiveness of those extraneous elements which the scheme in its entirety includes, of th music which those possibilities have inspired. Now there can be no doubt whatever that last night ow men von ywrforrnnce re-rcnls a pi perty alter tenant as t.o -atod dur ing hi lease and tinder would prove traitors to tne united stales occasion should give them the opportunity. But they constitute only a small percentage. They disgrace not only the United States, but themselves as well.

They do not represent the vast majority of American citizens with jiviikii It" paid advance rent, the firM -Mane Dicker's suit for half of the is rnt tied to a credit for any profits cf the production would lead one money paid by second tenant for that to the Peiief that i lie Pnnctuied 'f the unexpired term for which the hrjft tenant aid advance. very much so in more German blood in their veins. Berlin's information was Koniance was 1 iran one tense. wrong in this respect. been proclaimed the country of opportunity, and so it is, but how long will it continue to hold that enticing title if the people, by legislation, are divided into classes, and the government is charged with the business of telling every man what he shall do, how he shall do it and how much he is to receive for doing it? We have had abuses in business, but in attempting to cure them we have run the danger of going to the other extreme, and of discouraging all initiative.

Reformers have been running amuck, and the consequence has been that no man, be he innocent or guilty, has been quite safe. Protect all in their rights, but give every man the chance to win fame and fortune. Protection for Assassins Convicted Ilonband Mn p.v applying at office of Jiurcau Domestic He's ion. City Hail, you can acertain whp.t the terms of the conviction. crt.

and nist lo what Citcnt the v. is to be benefited. But it must be conceded that the administration at pniu, Government Washington has itself been responsible for much of wanl, to d-nn waifare." No the misunderstanding. It was weak where it should lt doesn't, cither. From the ti-.

nations have been strong. It consented to months upon months we hae read ot method of t-of mere letter-writing, and if Germany regarded this ing it. the I'nned Suite won't accept correspondence lightly, it was because of the lack of Germany's definition of war. firmness at Washington. As an important part of the I T- significant and less daringly revolutionary than the hist this second part, suffused as it is with a kind of brooding tender-ncs-s.

expressing as it does with a sincerity and eloquence to which tsure-y none can be insensible the sympathetic and exalted emotions, and enriched with melodic cpivde Loth for the chorus and for the single voices, of ti.inend-ent beauty, is not less interesting and not mcpsuuliiy impressive than the other, while to many its appeal 1 emg more obvious must be even more convincing. It is scnd for all the forces which it employes with a really amaitu effectiveness, lt Ls full of poetry and sentiment and chain and it is conducted through a series of progressive develop menus to a perfectly wonderful culmination in which the nstener may well feel that the heavens have been opened and that he is hearing the "music of the spheres. Time and space preclude any extended ieiew of whicri is unfortunate, for if ever singeis and artists deserved an unstinted need of praise and apptecia-tive lecoenition that is true of Mr. Stokowtki and his What last night's production cost them in pioloiig-ed, a-ssiduoiis, unremitting toil only he and they can leahc. and they are certainly to be congratulated upon the guat success by which their labor was rewarded.

The choruses were wing with a fine quality and an ample volume of tone and with splendid spirit. The attack was prompt, the enunciation clear, the lapses from pitch infrequent, and in every respect the performance showed the good results of the diligent rehearsal by which it had been preceded and which alone had made possible its superb were no fewer than eight soloists, each of whom con tiibuted a share to the- eclat and notability of tba 'that admirable artist, Mme. Florence Hinkle. did justi to the important numbci-s which are allotted to "A Penitent, while Adelaide Fischer. Inez Harbour, Margaret Key en and Susanne Dercum well deserved the applause which they received.

The music for the male voice; was acceptably and more than acceptably sung by Imbert Murphy, tenor: Peinald Werrenrath. baritone, and by that distinguished basso, Mr. Clarence Whitehill, whose smoothly sonoious delivery' did no discredit to his reputation. It only remains to add that the extremely significant accompaniment lost nothing of its value or meaning as the orchestra played it. The same programme in all its details will be presented this afternoon and' again tomorrow evening.

administration, William Jennings Bryan allowed the I his s'tate bcraue has proan Austrian Amuassaaor to nenee. ana so to iepcit -j i inipoi tanr0 an.l wealth without. r- I ore loneil Mortrai' I- VV.l I pen the foreclosure of the mortgage and sale-c the propeity by the Sheriff, all judgments and mortgages recorded alter the mortgage lorec'osed upon would be wiped off the lecoid. but mortgages recorded before the foreclosed mortgage would not be affected Senator Gore, referring to the right of merchant ves-J yjcnnaj that this government va? not in earnest; that mg uonnie rinn Tinnj a srrisr sels to go armed for self-defense, says that lt is a j. was only making itself solid with the people by us-j He must, however.

ieorge dear, right that is a survival of piracy." ing occasional forcible language which it had no real Plush for some ot tne noveis it has pro-intention of insisting upon. When this news concern- iced. ing Bryan was printed, his answer was that the Presi dent was aware of what he had said to the Ambassa i Cute litt'f idea that of the Cieirrians in putting pcrmi-opes on mines in order Hnr rd found no fault with it. In anv event, Mr Marriage YV. If you jup living under a "Common liiw Marriage" Mm are iegaliy bound a hutihand and wife.

If you wish you may get married over again here in Philadelphia. There no need to go to i lo have Allied ships ram them. Harte's hrathf-n Chinee didn't have piiv-tiiins: on the (iermar.s in the matter of trick. bic audience was proiounaiy imii- 'iff wi, it nss sted. As mucn as um.

a- w. at 1. altan. onstrated by its attitude ana --i rim 189i I. ii i i i it followed tne urrn-F'r" But is not piracy still with What is the submarine in the hands of Germany but a pirate? If Senator Gore objects to the word pirate he certainly cannot to the word assassin.

A boat that sneaks upon its intended victim, stabs it and runs away is at least an assassin. There are laws designed to protect against an assassin. Anyone attacked is at liberty to defend himself if he can. Is a ship with many human lives on board to be denied that privilege? According to the doctrine of Senator Gore, it is not the vessel that needs protection, but the submarine the assassin. Is it possible that Mr.

Gore and those who act with him do not understand that in gagging the United States Government, in trying to destroy principle, they are virtually according full liberty to German submarines to murder at will? Does humanity mean nothing to them? Our set of Jewish Year Hooks does! no" K. nf the applause by which The women in Chit-ago was over lens this year than l.it. Novelty beginning to wear off? -not go sufiiciently far back to enable us to answer your inquiry; possibly t-orne of our readers mav help us; or you miyht get the information from the editor of The Jewish Exponent, thi? city. inenaous score buu v- from time to time, a occasion and opportunity ffcred, its admiration and gratification were expressed. But here the a careful and unbiassed discrimination.

Given Uinary" the absolutely unprecedented magnitude of tne instrumentalities engaged, the choru, nearly a Bryan continued a member of the Cabinet long after the event. Again, the publication of the notice to Lusitania passengers by authority of the German Ambassador was passed by with only slight comment at the State Department. His address to the country which actually went over the head of the government and was in the nature of an appeal for the German side should have been met by his instant dismissal. It was not. And so the impression was held in Berlin that this government was not sincere and that German conspirators in the United States held the upper hand.

But the most astonishing act of the administration was the argument used to the Entente Powers in January in an effort to induce England to disarm all merchant ships that had been in the habit of carrying de --It i reported that the Kaiser has left Verdun and returned to tiermanv. What he saw at the former place, c.r as near to it a he got, must have been rhtra of over a nunarea; gicu DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW The "Forward" or "Vtrwaris" H. The "Forward" or "Vorwarfs" or Daily Forward" is a Yiddish Tabor paper published in New York since the vear lt97. It looks ns though this might lte a bad year for Mississippi River IN A SOCIAL WAY Prize Verdun as a Revolution in Nicaragua I roni the New York Tres tu Military authorities uin. "Car far: Mntilatinc did savs the Detroit l'rce not make the mistake or piann fensive guns.

The State Department declared that it was inclined to take the German view that no ships should be armed and that if they were they were subject to attack without warning. The publication of Press, "is about the only thing a nickel is gol for these days." How asioHl the unday newspaper? on the ability or any Krc-i out asainst the Germans. Thev MISS JOSEPHINE SHIPPEN FOS-ter, the debutante daughter of Mrs. Thomas C. Foster, will be the guest ot honor at an informal tea which Mis Mice Tavlor Wharton will give to that amazing document was followed by the noticed Kiitor Inntrrer: -Can a PTsnn willfully iPMroy money nf I'.

S. isiu-ii us making fob anil oiner poeket pieces', and not be in any danger of the law? We had dispute oyer same nrd A oaid ynu could make all the pocket pieces you wauted to as ions as tou did not try to pass the same as money, and said you could nol Mr. A. is undoubtedly and unquestionably right, a.s frequently stated in this column. Deeu 1 The There may be, as that physician says, no such thing as a normal woman, but with all her faults we love her still.

still. the terrific iarwur Kremh people .10 oi lose Verdun is to have turn morrow afternoon at 1729 Spruce street. MR. AND MRS. KENNETH RCSH- News that a revolution in Nicaragua is being engineered from New Orleans is interesting, because it comes so soon after the ratification of the treaty between this country and Nicaragua, which is also expected to be ratified by the Congress at Managua this week.

There is little doubt that this is another effort on the part of the Zelaya party to get back into office. For seventeen years Zelaya was a dictator under the guise of President and at last the natives revolted. It was fortunate for the revolutionists that this country took a hand in affairs owing to the murder of two Americans, for which Zelaya has always been held responsible, although his actual guilt has not been these are good days to remember that the President is President of ALL the Cnited States. of Germany that she intended to destroy armed vessels at will. So if the administration has not been able to gain more than paper victories in its diplomatic relations with Germany and Austria, truth compels the statement that it is largely at fault.

As a result of weakness and wobbling, it is face to face with a dangerous situation in which it finds the principles for which it has been contending seriously menaced. It seems to Vill: Real Estate Here and Abroad (C. 11.) lives for a worthless prUe. trnr)ned Information that Russia has bought he Japanese cruiser Tango brings to The Freiien arra," fortress in Verdun or any other fortress. ight further evidence of the imitative- ness of those wily Orientals.

Where a. man resides here, dies leaving a will, and at the time of death owned real estate in Europe and here, the real estate here would be controlled by the law here, and the real estate in Kurope would be controlled by the law of that Personal property would be governed by the law of this State. Concealed Weapon (H. II.) In Pennsylvania no license to carry-concealed weapons is issued. No Such Thing as Superman From the New York Herald There appears to have been In pro- Official taster of banquet dishes that may contain poison is not our tdca of a German circles a oeueL job we would work at with any 'marked most to infatuation that decree of enthusiasm.

force in its masses nh- have got upon a firm footing at last, only to discover that the Democratic majority in Congress is honeycombed with revolutionists. Hence, it pauses in its negotiations with Germany while it quiets the enemies of American principles in its own party following. It is an abnormal situation and one in which the great patriotic heart of the country will throb in unison with that of the President and hold only contempt for the "Little Americans" who are German first and would make a German Reichstag out of the Congress of the United States. reached the pinnacle or proved. The American marines soon reduced the coun- 1 try to order and the Zelaya party was driven from power.

Since then Nicaragua has had comparative quiet, although the "outs" have never been satisfied with the situation. There are at present only one hundred American marines in Nicaragua, but they have been sufficient to maintain order. Of course, the partisans of Zelaya have always held that the United States committed an outrage on justice and on international comity by its acts, but the result has justified the event. Not in many years has the country been so prosperous and" Would that Bry an would make up his xtate of superbumanity nu V.ii Great0 German financier, here had mind to be one of the "privatest private citizens." of jfamoue Bmcricans ctnpkq in the uener mi vn so would American securities so intere woven with the fortunes ot the Entente Come to think 06 it, you never see Mr. If.

Ten Broeck Runk, Mr. Spemer Sergeant Large, Mr. Hanwll Fiench. Mr. Cowain Bain and Mr.

Franklin II. Stafford. MR. RADCLIFFE CHI-T0X, and Mr. Charles S.

Cheston, of Chest nut Hill, will give a dinner-dam tomorrow evening at the White Marsh Valley Hunt Club, in honor of their d-ebutante sister, Miss Charlotte Cheston. MRS. M. HAMPTON TODD, OF 211. Spruce street, will entertain at supper followed by auction tomorrow evening.

MR. AND. MRS. MONCURE BIDDLE, of Stenton avenue and Mermaid lane, Chestnut Hill, will entertain at dinner tomorrow evening in honor of Mi Gladys Williams, whose engagement to Mr. George Gordon Meade was re cently announced.

MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM W. HEP-burn, of Villanova, will entertain at tliriner tonight at the Ritr-Carton, in honor of their daughter. Miss Mane Louisa Hepburn, before the meeting of Mrs.

Wurts' dancing class. MRS. WALTER lANGDON El ST1S and her sister, Miss Mary II. Whelan, will be at home informally tomorrow afternoon, from three until six o'clock, at their residence, 2015 Pine street No cards have been sent out. mm MRS.

SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY AND Miss Agnes Dorothy Shipley will at home tomorrow afternoon, after four o'clock, at their residence, 10o4 Spruce street. No cards have been sent out. MRS. MATTHEW BAIRD, OF 812 Pine street, will be at- home this afternoon after four o'clock.

No cards have been sent out. MRS. JOHN S. MUCKLE WILL GIVE a dinner tomorrow night at her home, 2023 Walnut street. Allies are the Zrrfin the cause Hen Davis apples advertised as such, do you "GOD REIGNS AND THE GOVERN treat line from witaeriuy MENT AT WASHINGTON STILL.

State Police Some one once asked a chief of the ton, of Wynnewoocv, will give a aancc tonight at their home on Lancaster road, in honor of Miss Khzabeth Moore, of East Orange, who is the house guest of Miss Eleanore Margaret Rushton. MRS. BARTON COOKE HIRST WILL chaperone a theatre party which Mrs. J. P.

Crozer Griffith, of 1S10 Spruce street, will give tomorrow evening in honor of Miss Elizabeth du Ptiy Scott, debutante daughter of Mr. and Mis. J. Hutchinson Scott. The guests will later attend the Bellevue-Stratford Supper Club.

The guests will beMiss Emilie Posey Kennedy, Miss Sarah Claypole Neilson, Miss Gertrude Lewis Pancoast, Miss Catherine C. Cassard, Miss Julia Hamp, Miss Elizabeth Dawson Wheeler, Francesco Valdez, Philip Marvl, Edward C. Cassard, Walter Clark. Edward L. Duer, 2d, ill-iam Davis, Thomas G.

H. nd Edward D. Harris. MRS. T.

W1NTHR0P COFFIN Entertained at luncheon yesterday for her niece, Miss Edith H. Runk, who will be married to Mr. J. 'Thomas Liggett tomorrow at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, in Bryn Mawr. by Rev.

George Calvert Carter. Miss Runk will be given in marriage by her brother, Mr. Louis B. Runk. The maid of honor wili be the bride's sister, Miss Evelyn Runk and the bridesmaids will be Mrs H.

B. Runk, Mrs. Robert W. Ligget, Miss Helen Boyd, Miss Ruth B. Wilson, of New York; Miss Marie Louis Russell and Miss Doris Russell, of Chicago.

M'- Robert V. Ligget will attend his brother as best man. The ushers will bt 4r. Howard B. Ligget, L.1VES." James -A.

Garfield after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln Texas Rangers to explain the remarka ble exploits of his men in arresting des created a wave of fury and sorrow in all narts of the country. The belief at perate criminals single-handed. His reply was: "A man that knows he is in the wrong can't stand, up against a man that knows he is in the right and keeps on -coming." Here's a "Reform" for You Some time ago the Postoffice Department promulgated a rule that when an employe should be absent from duty for one hundred and fifty days in one year on account of sickness he should be automatically discharged from the service. Now comes a carrier in Wee-hawken who was taken ill after twenty-six years of faithful service.

He was unable to return to duty within the limit of time fixed by the department, so that unless the rule is rescinded or suspended he will lose his place. the time that it was but part of a gen That is one or the chief merits of all eral conspiracy to overthrow the government helped to add fuel to the flames. State police, whether they-be Texas Ran i apparently so contented save for the disaffected parti-I sans of Zelaya. Not long ago Nicaragua managed to I float a $15,000,000 loan here on terms which were fa-f'vorable, all things considered, and principally because of the American occupation. Most of this sum was 7 used for refunding the national debt and the rest for public improvements.

The new treaty provides for a payment of $3,000,000 to Nicaragua for canal rights, the Corn Islands and other considerations. It is evident that the partisans of Zelaya are anxious I to get a chance at this large sum of money and it is significant that the headquarters of the plot are in New Orleans, from whence William Walker issued just sixty years ago. It is certain that this government will be on the alert to prevent the departure of an I armed expedition or anything resembling it. Nica-I Tagua is a poor country with only 600,000 inhabitants; gers, Aortnwest Aiounteu ronce or tne The people met everywhere to express State ejonstaDuiary or i'ennsyivania. They are trained to "keep on coming." their sorrow over the vwitimely death of Lincoln and their indignation at those In the niue years that the Pennsylvania who were supposed to be responsible for Is it possible to conceive of any decent private em- Constabulary has kept order in that State the number of times its men have had to use their weapons is relatively yery the crime.

The attempt to kill Secretary plover of labor dismissing an employe who had given Stanton served also to strengthen the im small, and tne aeaaiy enectiveness with which they did use them when they had pression that it was a political move him twenty-six years of. faithful service because of unavoidable illness? Only a heartless employer would ment. History, of course, has corrected do that. The hardest part of the instance under con all that, but for the moment the stun ned people were ready to believe any thimr. no matter how extravagant.

Sea, would crumple and fade slirrman once more is human Jiisr. as he before0 Paris, before Riga, before tires- lust as he has been wherever his Pride superiority over -U him to tremeudons efforts, fjo goes glim merinc another illusion: so is otner delusion. Superman, Superman. Everywhere you meet your match: A Democratic View of the "Scuttle" Resolutions From the New York World While these resolutions are pending tne hands of the President are tied. He cannot renew his protests against Germany Bubmarlne methods while the exists that Congress is in th Germany rather than with the Preside nt He cannot carry on negotiations that relate To the rights of neutrals on the hUth seas until he knows definitely wneiner Congress intend, to sustain the American or the German interpretation of interna- tiAi.s1tf7tbe opinion is prevalent in Ger-mmnr that has repudiated the President arid that the Tlrpits theory of neutral rights ata.

war-msklne brsnoh. of the linlted states Government. While that opinion will care mtlwh.t the President or does. It knows that he is helpless if Congress is against him. and that if Congress is in sympathy with Germany's attempt to international law by imperial fist it makes little difference what the President thinks.

Memorial Operating Room Equipped In memory of the late Dr. Emma E. Musson a special operating room for ear, nose and throat cases has been -equmped by araduates and friends of the rniw nf Tnnrvlvania at sideration is that the carrier, after the lapse of sixty perhaps not so many. It has had more political trou- days, was being carried on the roll as "sick, without A. I- i 3 IZ-l- One of the most notable meetings of the time was held in front of the old Custom House building in New York pay." But we are living in an era of Democratic "reform.

Dies tnan almost any country on canii. it, neeus political rest more than anything else, and next, railway construction, which the new loan is aiding. eitv. A ereat crowd had assembled and A Democratic Delusion Britons Fear Our Trade Progress speeches were made by a number of prominent men, the most conspicuous of whom were General Butler and General Garfield. The one oration, if an extemporaneous address can be called an to has made it possible, ior example, for six men to quell a riot of more than a thousand strikers and sympathisers In Pottsville by simply riding slowly nd silently through the streets.

The March World Work. A Woman's Life I would not have it melody alone! Would you, love, when life needs So much to help the spirit to atone For such unlovely deeds? I would not have it anger any time. Yet in it strength to be The Nemesis to every vaunted crime-Blind Justice falls to see! I would not have it roses all the while! Would you. love, when life, cries So often mid the splendor of its smile For courage and dark skies? I would not have it hatred morn or night. Yet in it force to show.

The majesty and meaning of the right Wherein all men must go! Medical men describe certain mental symptoms which sometimes trouble the human brain as The patient, who may be perfectly normal in every other oration, that' will live long was made Representatives of the banking and commercial interests, of the British Empire have had a meeting in London, where many fears were expressed over the advance of our trade in Russia and South "America and over the -n-wnmnsta tvlicn tVio is od Tf. Wfls HfvdHprl te by the man who was destined later on to wav. has delusions on certain subjects. In extreme become xresiaenn nimseu, aiso 10 De as saasinated- General Garfield on that oc casion said: cases a man may think he is somebody else. mat seems to be the whole difficulty in Washington.

Many members of Congress Champ Clark says they are two "Peace, forgiveness and mercy are the Osborne, and has been one of the stoutest advocates of his system. He will speak on the "New Spirit at Sing Sing. Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, Medical Director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, of New York city, will al address this meeting, on the subject of "The Nation and Feeble-Mindedneas." Packing House Strike Settled SIOUX CITY, March 2.

The Strike of 2500 mployes of the Armour and Cudahy packing houses waa settled today. Laborers were granted a wage increase from to 21 cents an hour snd SING SING WARDEN TO SPEAK Kirchwey, Osborne's Successor, Will Give Address Here Announcement was made yesterday by the Public Charities Association of Pennsylvania that George W. Kirchwey. dean of the Law School of Columbia Umver-me-Stratford Hotel on the evening of meeting in the Clover Room of the. Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, on the evening of Thursday.

March 9. Dean Kirchwey is now Acting Warden of Sing Sing Prison, New York, having been appointed to-the post by governor Whitman, following the withdrawal of to one have been resting under the hallucination they were elected to represent districts in Germany instead attributes of this government, but justice and Judgment, with inexorable tread, follow behind, and when they have slain love, when they, have despised- mercy, when thev have refected those who of the United States of America. They imagine that I would not have it laughter every dayl-i vo i'VV t. take strong steps to conserve British trade in those sec-l tions of the world. It was also the sense of the meeting I that the government should back banking institutions in i South America and announce the exclusion of German a from the empire after the war is over.

Tl at this country is making strides in South Amer-i nd Russia is shown by the official trade returns, i latter country munitions of war or those com-i ties iii some way related to the present contest I 1 een most prominent. In South America, on the they are in the Reichstag instead of the American jkMWa hoamtal. Twenty-first and wduld be their best friends, then comes justice with hoodwinked eyes and the sword." And thefc a moment later, af Would you, love, wnen me seems To need little of the danee and play And more of higher, dreams? I would not have it solemn, either, dear. Bat such a Ufa as those That in our dally sunshine and the tear Congress. It is to be hoped that they may overcome this de lusion.

If they do not the American people may be de North College avenue. The operating room will be used only for ear. nose and throat work" and is fitted with all the latest appliances for handling' work of ter picturing the Mistress and darkness of the hour, he added solemnly: will.be given at -work "God reiwu and the kovernment at pended upon to administer a severe but enective rem- Etta Hirchwey. is a warm friend of Mr. every tw o- Hide thorn with Baltimore Sun? tht ciisrscttr.

Tvliiuirwrri Sir lives." there is an. expansion of general trade I edy in November,.