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Tho Poor .Man's Taxi
?"pHERE will hp much interest in the out
1 come nf New York's effort, through tho
Thompson bill, to place jitney transportation
under the Public Service Commission. Gov
ernor Whitman's hearing on tho bill litis de
veloped a very strong tight by franchisee!
transportation interests. On tho other hand,
an equally strong light is being made, in
?which tho jitney is characterized as "the poor
, man's taxi."
The jitney's marvelously rapid growth
. has eaten deep into corporation profits, and
street car companies art really fearing such
a withdrawal of patronage as will embarrass
them in meeting their largo obligations and
maintaining tho equipment and service they
now have.
Let tho tight go on. even as it is going on
in Richmond. In the end, the public will
benefit, for. even if tho jitney bo regulated
or taxed out of its present strength though
not, we hope, out of existence -the estab
lished transportation companies have learned
that the people must and will have the
quickest and most direct service possible.
The Fall of Windhoek
TUCKED away inconspicuously in tho war
news printed yesterday, wholly ob
scured by tho President's note to Germany
and tho groat operations in France and
Flanders, in Galicia and Russian Poland and
on tho shores of tho Dardanelles, was a
modest announcement of the capture of
Windhoek, the capital and principal city of
^German Southwest Africa.
The capture was effected by the forces of
the Union of South Africa, under General
Botha, and marks the linal and complete
collapse of German power on what used to
be called tho Dark Continent.
German Southwest Africa was designed?
so tho events and discoveries of tho war
would seem to indicate?as a base of military
operations against tho British possessions.
The war there has been prosecuted bitterly,
and considerable forces have been employed
?large armies in the sense in which these
words wore employed in the War Pet ween
the States.
One result of tho capture of Windhoek
may bo to permit South Africa to contribute
to the British forces now on the Continent,
! something the I'nion has done so far in a
| relatively negligible tlegret
"I,etV*. *Savif. (In* Kiddies"
ALFRED "G ?V:\NliKKMlL.T. just as thn
Lusitauin was poinp down, sai.i to his
valet: "Cinno mi: let's save the kiddies." and
together they began handing children into
Ihe boats Whether th? story is strictly
true or not makes little <1 ii"t'*-r? me If Van
derhilt said anything like it, he s? ii?i some
thing that moved th?? Itishnp of London to
start the words on a tour 61 the world before
a meetirip of the Waif*' at.d Strays' Society.
Saving the kiddies ;?< an attair of the
dfx- not require waiting
to voi-.-e tin sentiments of
begin the work. There
things from which the
s ? ved if societx does its
1'rom tainted milk, bad water,
surroundings.
pi a y g ro i: iid s.
last moment. It
for a sinking ship
Yanderbilt nor t<
are thousands <>
r r:? t!
eh
>lv,
| kiddies ar<
! ]>lain duty.
J unhygienic
{ rooms, str^p
i dogs, "crazy street
i neglectful father
1 shows and cigaivMe
-NJoaflng. idle mom. v
Ki in bed and shirkinr
!| develop full maid ?
Saving the kiddi.
}(? In and around t! ? ho
! tho neighborhood
5 worth while, but
) have a lot less to .
j caretakers appoi: ?
^ their work at lion
j;!. Waging \\ ai
| qURGEON-gknkka;
||?D spoken at the n
[ '?Public Health A
^ full of hope for
counted his exp< r.< : .
1 the tropics, and >?.,
| cess attained ? ;?
malarial fever, that ( .?
. finest portions of th< ?? ,t,
qf Panama has beer.
the deadliest of coun'rus
healthiest by the er-.p;
methods. There are f<
Jn medical history.
}' What has beet: poss.h:
course, easily possible
State Is exceedingly heal-: >
but it has suffered greati> rr<
?typhoid fever and mala
efforts of the State Hoard ?
has rapidly declined in
pie have learned how t<, ;
Malaria, however, remains ..
?ftnd fall visitation in a larg- \
floater section.
||; The Virginia Tidewater is one of the most
[ijaeautiful regions iu the United a tales. No
shut-in scliool
iirtv alleys, mad
arele.-s mothers.
are improper
lances and st reel
; -! igi;isluiess, lying
liildi-h. du?ies that will
and womanhood.
?s < very inlluence
knvntown and in
I' is distinctly
s a whole would
it the individual
* a t ure would do
on Malaria
GORGAS'S words
?'in,r of t'r.e Virginia
oi t I.exing'on, an
a;' I *r <!orgas rf ?
ght ing dise.<-,e in
' ie w onderi il sue
V in the ea e of
Ir-? .-? ?me of the
K ?'11 ? The !? thmus
.IP of
if tho
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feats
is, of
This
??pects,
lis ases
Thank;- to the
11< i i* h, t ypliold
' >e;trs a? peo
ird against it.
anr ual summer
rt of the Tide
trorn r
one (
'1 i sci
ota lilt
; na ma
glnia.
::ost re;
t wo di
other part of the country is so intersected by
waterways, or more inviting for summer resi
dence. But malaria lias always handicapped
Eastern Virginia. The first English colon
ists died like flies of malarial fever, being
wholly unacclimated. The country is not
deadly now as it was then; it is healthy
i nough away from the rivers, hut along the
water malaria still lingers. We should put
on end to it. Gorgas has proved that the
disease can ho wiped out in a short time by
thorough organization and intelligent effort.
Nothing that could be done for Virginia
would ho more beneficial and more profitable
in a business sense than the conqucst of
malaria in our lovely Tidewater.
Hacked by Ali Americans
HE jingo press?represented jurt now by
1 tho New York Herald and some feeble I
imitators elsewhere?professes disappoint
ment with the tone of the President's note to
Herinany, while the anti-British press thinks,
in the language of one of its representatives,
that the note goes "so far beyond the plainly
and soundly rightful scope of American de
mands as to invite a rebuff." Between these
two extremes stands the great body of
patriotic and intelligent newspaper opinion.
North and South, Hast as well as West, In
dorsing without qualification every ringing
declaration the note contains.
The President's words are all they should
be and nothing they should not be. In them
there is no single trace of either bluster or
recession. They make vocal the heart of
our country, bleeding from an intolerable
wrong, but willing still that Germany shall
"make reparation, so far as reparation is pos
sible. for injuries without measure." They
remind the rulers of Germany's destiny that
ibis government will omit no "act necessary
to the performance of its sacred duty of
maintaining the rights of the United States
and its citizens, and of safeguarding their
free exercise and enjoyment."
In substance and effect, the demands made
on the German government are these:
1. That it will disavow the acts of its sub
marine commanders, tiiat have resulted in
tho destruction of American life.
2. That it will make such reparation as
can he made for those officers' crimes.
That it will abandon a method of war
fare. "the natural and necessary effect of
which is to subject neutral nations and neu
tral persons to new and immeasurable risks."
There is not a line or a word of these de
mands the country would have stricken out,
nor a line or a word that ought to be added.
There is a way out for Germany, hut it would
be disingenuous to contend that way is
either simple or easy. It involves repudia
tion of officers for conduct identical with that
for which they or their brothers in rank
have been decorated with the Iron Cross. It
involves a complete surrender of the one
weapon in the German armory with which it
has been possible in any real sense to carry
the war into Britain. It involves full re
traction of all the high-sounding insinceri
ties with which Germany has sought to jus
tify her course.
If Germany is willing, on our demand and
without (nullification, to make these conces
sions and to give suitable guarantees against
tho repetition of offenses of which she has
been guilty, peace will he preserved. There
will lie no sundering even of diplomatic rela
tions. It will be possible for us to keep our
diplomatic representatives in Germany and
Belgium, where they afford partial protection
to captive soldiers of the allied armies and to
an oppressed civil population. On these con
ditions and in this view of the case the over
whelming majority of Americans would wel
come a peaceful solution.
Decision rests with the Kaiser and his ad
visers. The war will be decided, probably,
before the I'nited States could make a sub
stantial contribution to the result. Fear will
not control the German action. It may he,
however, that a belated consciousness of
iniquity and a belated recognition of the
universal loathing and horror the sinking of
the l.usitania has excited in every neutral
land, will induce abandonment of practices so
dishonorable to an enlightened people.
There ;iro those, as we have said before,
who expect this outcome. We do not. It
seems inconceivable to us that Germany can
meet the demands the President makes.
That, though, is for her to decide. The
issue now is in her hands. We shall abide it.
Where Is ihe .Marble I)?R?
IT is not possible to repress a thrill of sym
pathy with ihe sufferings of Rev. Billy
Sunday, I). 1)., against whom a callous Phila
delphia landlord, in whose mansion Dr. Sun
day and his entourage abode while in the
City of Hrotherly Love, lias filed a claim for
$l,7f?4. This preposterous demand is based
on the alleged destruction Dr. Sunday and his
parly wrought.
It is averred by the landlord in question,
who evidently has never hit the sawdust
trail ?in a tabernacle, at any rate?that
furniture was smashed, walls gouged and
ether damage done to the house itself, while
the following articles are included among the
missing:
A marble dog, the hie toe of a statue
of a triii, a silver-plated sirup Jug, a
quantity of hedt'lothing, " sets of
Hav-laml china, ?? oil paintings, 1> bath
low els, tabic covers, 1 it napkins, 13
pillow cases, 7 sheets, 3S> beer glasses,
I?1 engraved water glasses, .<"> whisky
classes, 10 hock glasses, .*< cordial
classes, creme do inenthe glasses, -1
? liampagne classes. !? fancy steins. 1
wicker armchair, f? embroidered scarfs.
silk curtains, 1 Turkish rus and 5
hooks.
Ma Sunday, speaking for the doctor, has
registered an indignant denial of responsi
bility. The good lady, according to one
chronicler, went so far as to say it was "all
a lie." Hut these charges tire irritating, how
ever unprovoked. Accepting, as wo do and
in ?-ntire good faith, the Sunday repudiation
of blame and passing over rapidly minor de
tails like the disappearance of the beer and
whisky glasses, we cannot ourselves keep
from wondering what could have become of
the marble dog and the big toe of the statue
of a girl.
Marie Dressier has quit, the movies in in
dignation. Without having read the cause,
it's a safe bet some one tried to crowd her
oh the screen and there wasn't room.
The New York Constitutional Convention
<s considering recommending a revenue levy
'jti cigarettes to cure fiends. In other words,
it is proposed to tax the tacks.
In Vonkers society girls arc selling kisses
at 10 cents each, for charity. In Duluth a
i..an was lined ?'Jf> for taking one. Shucks!
We stick to Yonkers.
England is buying sugar by the 150,000,
000-pound lots, if it is traditional sugar, it
ought to put a lot of saud into the soldiery.
SONGS AND. SAWS
ncnl Joy.
There are lots of simple pleasures,
Caught In nature's ebb and flow.
That will multiply life's treasures.
If your heart's attuned to know;
There Is one Joymaker granted
Quito tlie sweetest ever found?
When the green things you have planted
Show their heads above the ground.
There are sunsets, limned with glories
By the Master Artist's brush.
And at morn the soft love stories
Of the mocking bird and thrush.
There arc streams that seem enchanted.
There are beauties all around?
And just now the hopes you've planted
Spring in rapture from the ground.
Tlie Pews I mint Snyst
There is one thing that can be said for the
demagogue: he is quite good enough usually
for the folks who swallow his political nostrums
and purchase his economic gold bricks.
Misconception.
He?I thought you said
you were going to ride this
afternoon?
She?1 did, but you failed
to understand exactly. What
1 meant was that 1 was
going down to the Dolorous
Division of Dissatisfied
Dames and ride my hobby.
Not 11 In Fault.
"See here. Tommy," said the school principal,
sternly, "what do you mean by raising this great
bump on little Willie's head?"
"I didn't raise it," replied the culprit, scorn
fully: "1 did make one pass at the kid. but he
pot the blimp when he tried to stick his head
into the ground."
CorryinE It Too For.
Grubbs?Do you think Barnes really libeled
Keosevolt ?
Stubbs?I don't feel sure about that, but I
think that when he added the Colonel to the
Ananias Club, he did a lot of fairly good
citizens, already members, a tremendous in
justice.
Tnke n Trip Somewhere.
When you find you cannot feel
Others' anguish, others' woe.
And are deaf to eacii appeal
From the hosts that sorrow know;
When you find you haven't time
To hand out a word of cheer,
You should seek another clime.
Somewhat far away from here.
THE TATTLER.
Chats With Virginia Editors
The country is perfectly safe now. The
Halifax Hecord-Advertiser says: "We are back
standing the President. What else can we do?
The old guns we used fifty years ago have
rusted out, and we don't want any new ones."
"About the worst of the situation," says the
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, "is that the press
association seems to think that this country is
interested in what "Gumshoe Bill" Stone and
La Follette think about it." A little fun must
be injected into every situation, no matter how
serious the situation may be.
The thoughtless editor of the Blackstone
Courier will have to keep away from the ereat
peanut metropolis for a long time to come.
That paper says: "A Suffolk pastor says some
church women swear. We presume ho referred
only to those having Suffolk husbands, for
which they should be excusable."
"Tite distinguished Solon who would make
the fourth drink of liquor a capital offense,"
says the Bristol Herald-Courier, "and the other
distinguished Solon who would eradicate the
coca-cola curse, deserve niches in the Hall of
Fame side by side. They arc a pair of noble
brothers who no doubt command the ardent ad
miration of their respective constituencies."
Where is the habitat of those distinguished
Solons?
While admonishing the croakers to keep
quiet, the Sandy Valley News Amis some com
fort in them. It says: "A few croakers, though,
are necessary in every community to measure
the rate of progress at which live men are ad
vancing."
Dear old Williamsburg keeps on having its
troubles. Tho Gazette says: "Booze Joints are
said to he flourishing again in Williamsburg.
We notice a certain alley that has a strong
attraction for those who drink to excess. It
i would be well to watch it for a time. Where
| buzzards collect you may look for the carrion."
Does the stuff they sell in the ancient capital
really smell that had?
Current Editorial Comment
When our plants are turning
Making 0 ,1 rifles a day, which the
Mini itinnu authorities say could be quickly
J- \V increased, to 25.000 or 30.000;
or \\ ar u hen our powder plants are
turning" out ammunition by the
shipload and ste*-l mills are making artillery at
the rato of several batteries a week, there is
110 doubt that the United States could quickly
arm half a million soldiers. The production of '
twelve-inch and sixteen-lnch puns and hupe I
mortars, like thoso used by the Germans and
Austrians, is a slower process, and very few of
the larger caliber are made here. As to the
quality of our product, James A. Nelson tells us
that the German experts tigure that American
shells are to 0F1 per cent efficient, the French
f?0 per cent, the Knglish 10 per cent and the
Russian :<o per cent. Th?* rapid conversion of
steel plants into factories for making rifles,
artillery and ammunition will he of immense
advantage to this country when we do conclude
to increase our armj, and strengthen our navy.
The trade in munitions of war has brought with
it an advantage that is not to he measured by
profits.?Baltimore Sun.
It really seemed impossible that
fprmnnv's the German rulers had left for
ri-Mtoiif' themselves a climax in deeds
ill l fitted to shock the civilized world.
HItinupr aM(j Jo upon them the ab
horrence of all humane people,
hut they had, and they have now attained it.
Solemn treaties made scraps of paper: Belgium
trampled into bloody mire; Lou vain followed by
Rhelms: asphyxiating gases?it seemed hard to
make that atrocious record blacker, but it has
been done. As if the ruthless militarists now
in control of the German government were
desirous of depriving their country, at one
stroke, of every remaining shred of sympathy
in neutral lands, they devised this crime of
slaughtering the innocents so as to outstrip in
hideousness all that had gone before, or that
it entered into the imagination of man to con
ceive. The worst enemy of Germany could not
have inflicted a blow upon her so destructive
to her repute or to her hopes. The torpedo that
sank the Lusltania also sank Germany in the
opinion of mankind. Men will now be tempted
to say of the Kaiser what Coleridge said of
Napoleon, when lie heard that Bonaparte had
declared that the Interests of small states must
always succumb to great ones: "Thank God! he
has sealed his fate: from this moment his fall
is certain."?New York Kvening I'ost.
That a college education does
Collect not necessarily mean preparation
/? 1 ?? '?i' what used to be styled
jf , S the "learned professions" is, of
\ ocntlons course, well understood. It has
been a long time, indeed, since
that was the meaning. Is not the oldest living
graduate of tho present time as likely to be a
retired manufacturer or merchant as a lawyer,
doctor, educator or clergyman? The legend
rather sticks to tho colleges, nevertheless, so
that statistics showing what men go to college
for nowaday* and vocations they pursue are
apt to be surprising as well as Informing. An
examination of this matter. Just made by a.
Yale professor, covering the oocupatlons of
18.000 living graduates, shows that the drift
away from tho old professions has been greatly
accelerated within tho last ten years. Of tho
Increaso In the student body in that period, by
far tho larger percentage has turned its back
on tho co-called professions, and has prepared
for industrial, engineering, commercial and
sclentiflc occupations. Ten years ago, for
example, there were four times as many Yale
lawyers as engineers; but since then the engi
neers have increased 135 per cent; the lawyers
only 24 per cent.?Provldencc Journal.
(From Newspaper Files, May 15. 1S65.)
At a meeting of the Antlslavery Society, held
in New York on the 12th, thp question of the
enfranchisement of the Southern negroes was
under discussion. Wendell Phillips and Theo
dore Tllton were the principal speakers. Tllton,
in closing his address, aaid he differed from
Mr. Phillips when he said "the country is too
strong for vengeance." Ho (Tllton) declared
that the punishment of "treason" was not ven
geance. Hp believed that until traitors were
convicted for the crime of treason?labeling
"treason" with its name and administering pun
ishment due to it?the South will Ray the North
dare not inflict upon them the penalty of their
treason. He said: "Mr. Phillips has cast down,
unwittingly, the first obstacle in the way of
negro suffrage." In Charleston, lie said, he saw
"a procession of nogro children stringing them
selves a mile and a half long and singing. '\V?
will hang Jeff Davis on a sour-apple tree.' They
were touched by a Divine inspiration, because
they foresaw that event, and that it will bloom
into white fair blossoms of the ballot in the
negro's hands." Mr. Phillips. In reply, said:
"Holding to tlie common Southern white man,
reading the newspapers, and the negro, on the
other hand, holding the ballot, and each standing
on his own farm, i am not. afraid of Jeff Davis?
not if ho was multiplied by hundreds and thou
sands. And until you make me afraid of him
and his Influence. I would never hang him. Vir
ginia was afraid to let John Brown live. But
never, with my consent, shall a Southerner have
to say over the grave of Jeff Davis that the
Union dare not let him live. He is not so
strong as he would be in his grave, with friends
saying that he had been too strong in his cause
and adherence to permit the Union to allow
him to live. Therefore. 1 will never assist to
set the gibbet in this land in the name of the
Union."
The trial of the assassination conspirators In
Washington Is proceeding, but reporters for the
press are excluded from the sessions of the
court, and, therefore, little regarding It can be
learned.
The trial of ex-Coneressnian Harris for dis
loynlty to the Union was concluded in Wash
ington day before yesterday, and the proceed
inas and judgment of the court-martial for
warded to the judge advocate-general. The
decision will probably be made public during
next week.
Major-Genera 1 Stedman has arrived in Nash
ville. en route to Washington, where he lias
been summoned by President Johnson to consult
on the reconstruction of the. States of Georgia
and Alabama.
Governor rierpnnt and his State officers are
to leave Alexandria for Richmond to-day, and
on their arrival here will at once take posses
sion of the executive offices and buildings.
It Is not positively known, but it is thought
by the military officers In this city that Mr.
Davis will be sent to Charleston or Savannah
and from there taken by water to Fort Monroe.
Amonc those taken with Mr. Davis are J. H.
Reagan, the Confederate postmaster-general;
Colonel Fred Lubbock, of Texas, member of
Mr. Davis's staff; Colonel Burton N\ Harrison,
of Mississippi, private secretary: Colonel Wil
liam P. Johnson, of Kentucky, aide-de-camp, son
of General Albert Sidney Johnson: Colonel
Morris and Lieutenant-Colonel Hathaway.
Major-Genera 1 Wright, commanding the Sixth
Army Corps, United States Army, is a guest at
the Spotswood Hotel.
The first floor of the old Kxaminer building, on
Governor Street, has heen rented by parties who
say they propose to open another national bank.
The National Bank of Virginia, recently or
ganized and capitalized, will commence business
this morning in the custom-house?entrance oti
Bank Street. The hank is a government deposi
tory, and also the agent of Jay r'ooke & Co.
The officers are S. T. Suit, of Ford. Suit & Co.,
New York, president, and J. B. Morton, of Rich
mond, cashier.
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News
The Voice of the People
Proper Trentment of fiermnny.
To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir.?I am under the Impression that your
suggestion that the I'nited States should sever
diplomatic relations with Germany has met with j
almost unanimous approval, and feel that I
we should do this for our self-respect; but j
whether this would have any effect on the
(itriiiHii mind is another matter. Any nation
that would justify the ruthless invasion and
crushing of Belgium, the burning of houvain.
th?- massacre of hundreds of noncombatants at
Oinaut, tiie bombarding of the cathedral at
Rheims. iho use of asphyxiating Ran and. last
and most unspeakable, the submarine warfare
which culminated in the destruction of the Lusi
t.-inia. could hardly he expected to blush at the
thought of international ostracism.
I believe there is but one way to reach the
German mind?through commercial losses. The
war which Germany precipitated is predicated
on commercial Jealousy, and was inspired by no
other cause This war is so "useless and sense
less," in the words of the German crown prince,
that it will go down in history as the name
jesr. war. Almost every struggle of the past
ran be identified by Its name, but this war
has no name, because it had no cause. It is
commercial hatred run amuck.
If we would have Germany feel the keen
edge of our resentment, let there be inaugu
rated a nation-wide boycott of everything in
the nature of German wares. The words "made
In Germany" ought from this time to he our
cr'terion of what not to buy. I feel sure that
this will touch the nerve of Germany, so
calloused by acts of brutality, as nothing else
will if this war ever comes to an end. Ger
many will stand in need of a market as she
never has before, and America will he prac
tically the only market open to her commerce.
China will lie closed on account of the dominance
of Japan in the Far Rast. and only the two
Americas will he her field of endeavor. By
dosing our purses to anything German we can
inflict an incalculable loss on commercial Ger
many and. incidentally, help our own manu
facturers. The idea of an article being su
perior because?and only because?it is im
ported is an idea that ought to he discouraged.
The sooner we enunciate a new declaration of
independence ? commercial independence ? that
much sooner will the American artisan be freed
from unfair competition and all questions of
tariff and "pauper labor"" be relegated to the
limbo of the past.
If Germany is determined to sell her soul,
she no doubt wants value received for it. For
one. I am not willing that my money shall be
a part of the purchase price. W. C- SMITH.
Danville. Vn.. May 12. 1013.
The Bright Side of Life
Retroactive.
Poctor?You have nervous dyspepsia, same as
Brown bad. Ills was caused by worrying over
bis butcher's bill. 1 directed him to stop worry
ing.
Stranger?Yes. and now he's cured, and I've
got it. I'm his butcher.?Boston Transcript.
HI* Price.
First She?Din your nSw gown cost much?
Second She?Only one good cry.?Philadel
phia Public Ledger.
The Joker.
"Penner says his new novel is selling like
"hot cakes." "
"Yes?In July."?Puck.
nilla, No tea and Check*.
Rob?Why does a fat man always wear a
plaid vest?
llarley?To keep a check on his stomach, I
suppose.?Nebraska Awgwan.
Act 2?Scene 3?'I'otal 4.
Mr. Adam?When I get married again 1 am
going to marry a typist. Then I will have
some one to dictate to. Either that or a tattooed
woman, so that If I get insomnia I can lie over
and look at the pictures.?Penn State Froth.
EXTENDED
One of the Day's Rest Cartoons.
?From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
BRYCE'S VIEW OF PALESTINE
A demand for the complete ncutrall- ]
zation of the Holy [.and. which h;,?
boon growing in strength since Turkey
entered the war, which wo.uld remove
Palestine from iho domination nf the j
f'ttoman, gives interest to th-; oliserva- |
tions r#cent Iv prepared |>v Viscount
,1m" Bryce. formor British umimuM - ,
dor to the United States, for the Na- !
t tonal Geographic Society.
?? r'a|?*tlne." the former ambassador !
says. Is a tiny little country. Thoutrh
oVM \handbooks prepare him ?
Lin" " surprises him by I
.h"lnf smaller than he exp.cted. Ta k'
ng It as the region between the Modi
lor rant an on the west and the Jot dan I
and the Dead Sea on I he enst. from the I
north 1 IMba",nn an" ''""""n "? th*.
north to the desert ..t Beersheh.i on
1'?" ? ? " 1?'V II" miles |onB and
sav l iV '? *!?ty that is to
sav. it is smaller than New Jersev
"hose area is 7.500 square mile.s.
roall'v ill!" l5,rco ^"<1 not
fZ, - I?r. . "" 10 ls,"cl had. in
whlrh V uUOrr ,hr hi" '"""try
which lay between the Jordan oll t(l?
oast and the Maritime Plain on the
?*st. km* David in the davs of his
power looked down front the hill cities
of Benjamin. Just north of Jerusalem
upon Philistine enemies onlv twontv.'
foo'w,?. nff' th" "no '**""? I
looked across the Jordan to Moubite !
enomifs ahont aR fa r off o|)
-Nearly all the events in the historv
? 1st ae I that :,re recorded in the OJ.|
Testament happened wltliin a territory
no bicKor than the State of Connect i'. ,
' .U'h?^ square mile,,
and into hardly any other c ountry has
there been crowded from the da'vs <.f
Abraham till our own tirno so lu.-lt
'k"1 to sf,y< so manv events
hat have been recorded and deserve to
be recorded in the annals of mankind."
Nor is the Palestine of to-day. ac
cord I nr to Lord Bryce. so beautiful or
so rich a country as it was painted bv
'lie Jews just emerging from the bar
ren. comfortless desert. Tt? centuries
of misKovernment and warfare have
assisted nature in crushing our de
velopment. Palestine |s a land of an
cient strife. Lord Bryce explains, and
more than fourteen centuries of ?ad
misrule have had effect upon its phvsi- i
cal appearance.
"Palestine is a country poor in any !
natural resources." he continues.
There are practically no minerals, no!
coal, no iron, no copper, no silver !
though recently some on wells have'
heen discovered in the Jordan Valle-. i
Neither are there any large forests, and :
though the land may have been better I
wooded in the days of Joshua than it is
now. there is little reason to think that
the woods are of trees sufficiently large
t?> constitute a source of wealth. \
comparatively small area is fit for til
lage. 11
Such wealth as the country has
consists in its pastures, and the ex
pression -a land flowing in milk and
honey appropriately describes the best
it has to offer, for sheep and goats
can thrive on the thin herbace that
eoxers the hills, and the numerous!
aromatic plants furnish plenty of ex
cellent food for the bees; but it is i
nearly all thin pasture, for the land is ;
dry and the soil mostly shallow. The
sheep and goats vastly outnumber the !
oxen."
Lord Bryce contrasts the beauty of :
'.reece and Palestine. In both lands,
ho says, the traveler finds charm every
where because of the traditions and
history that hallow them. In practical
reality, however, a groat part of Greece
is painfully dry and bare, and there is
little striking beauty, he says, to bo
found in the Holy Land. The reverence
and piety for spots hallowed by re
ligious associations which the pilgrim
brings to the places through which
he wanders in Palestine, Lord Brvce f
says, cause him to see the land through
a golden haze that makes it appear
lovely.
"But,* he continues, "the scenery of
the Holy I?md, taken as a whole t for
there are exceptions), is inferior, both
in form and color, to that of Northern
and Middle Ttaly. to that of Norway
and Scotland, to that of the coasts of
Asia Minor, to that of many parts of
California and Washington*."
In summing up Lord Bryce says:
"If Palestine is not a land of natural
wealth nor a land of natural beauty,
what is It? What are the impressions
which the traveler who tries to see it
exactly as it is carries away with him0
Roughly summed up. they are those:
stones, caves, tombs, ruins, battle Holds,
sites hallowed by traditions?all bathed
in an atmosphere of legend and marvel
In no other country are there so many
spots held sacred?some sacred to jew?
some to Christians, some to Mussul
mans. Neither has any other country
spots that still draw a multitude of
pilgrims, not oven Belgium and Lom
nardy, each a profusion of battle
fielde.
From the moment that the traveler
steps ashore at Jaffa, where he sees
the fabled rock to which Andromeda
waa chained when rerseus rescued her
irom the sea monster, and the ribs of
the great n?h that disgorged the
prophet Jonah, until he leave, so,^
I alestlne port for home, ho :s In ,
wh'lVh r,fUl. b?*l.w?r,"8 atmosphere
*.ilch l.i steeped In legend and marvel.
[ Reading to Wounded I
The problem of entertaining the
wounded soldier returned to England
for recovery |K discussed In a recent
issue of the London Times by a writer
who gives some curious results of ,.x
Perlrnents In reading. The case was
' of 11 soldier who had never been
a Krcat reader and who when he d,
read was y |Q look (mo ?
far i orv- Tht ordlnarv popu
r? Vi!nazen, !i ,%c,e ^'Ut they were
,Vi .1 ? lvar a,ul 'I*;tion of the ex
iiK to?i,'iP? l? hC ploapl,,P ?r sooth
1? I'J";"' ,n a Mate that no longer
responded t? things of this sort. Then
his former favorite mystery stories
were tried, but their t hai p ' M? prlM .?
v "v 8?t ' l " S'U,P1 ?SO?" *'#"?"*?! him to
think I ,>OU VVha,: ' "Omohow do,,',
d v" i !'i,V' "n? ""'??? Of that lo
if tlie vw Ml " |V u is rcmarked that
it 111. soldier tan stand Scon, let Scott
hive0!* *. many '-"K'-ish vouih
have been advised continually to re.i.i
' 'k In nt tilts ?so,f,'ffr. as a well-bred
rebellious boy WOUI(, havr noj ^
colithnjesr" M,rpr,a"' ^ ?hc writer
wUe ?i..tu?d ia"P Austen ,,Cx'. and the
< nt.i.v cares. more than
i , the r. Wftre like ours, but who
i. the printed p.,Rr showed such a wise
JuBhtlv ?n,f ' them ? this delicate!
lfght|> unfavorable, but yet ultimately
iii'lulcejit observer and chronicler of
eternal conversatIon?proved the Verv
Prrlu'rti "OR,nn,l,R wltl> "Pride and
babblfnc ofV\i'>asJLrr' IO 'Kmma- and the
the u,, /? npn"ot was echoed bv
the chatter of Miss Bates. All that
might* "be "? SO?!b,nR to ,h* as
i . , J1 VV!,lk ? convalescent
jhtough the half-deserted rooms of
Kensington Palace. People of a em
Au.nt!1n-!!,>ir,,lly from Miss
revr. 11 , Met m,,Ch s,?re b-v that
1 _I '* "K chatter. In those days the
I,? .! rc'Rcl" a'iniired her. An odd as
sociation of two names! And now it
whThe ,hiU a1tlr?" soldle'- found just
nh'' h* "anted. We found ourselves
l?dvh-,rM 'Vr U'ish,n& "'at the dear
l.?d\ had written at greater length,
lersuasion proved lamentably short
He soon got over "Mansfield Park '
?is the n? twrU,en "? more." he asked,
as the last page of 'Sense nnd Sensibll
taine. And we had even to search
m,?,La"y SUS""-' "" ?el?tolary35^':
"Meanwhile there was an eaa-er
search for something nearlv as good
something of the same soit; mav we
name it anew. 'Influenza reading
Somebody suggested Trollope. An obi
\ ous sequel. 'The Warden' at once
oifwMth the"#^h<S'ei Towers' followed
J|hc almost too amusing diver
sion of the Slgnoru Vesey Xeroni re
cumbent on her sofa \r..h%*
r,rnntUt- Arcnncaoon
t.rantlev became a hero to the sick
man. Mrs. Proudie he knows it
held? him He nii!" lJr- Thome
"p trends harmlessly The
?F ml n AlUngton.' and knows
\Ve a e swim.?*0' its te?l?tations.
pages of fhe ?? ?pproachi?e the last
pages ot the Uarchester set A horrihi*
anxiety .ve|El,s ??ol, us Tr0Mo? wa"
Victorians n? ?. ^V01"1 lo those mid
onr fo.i wrote immensely with
'What ?""*? ?'?
?'loclt at (he Ijctlsidc?" roi,ntI 1,10 Ilt,lc
t^hlnnS Redeemer.
if r?i'Mfl.w"uk?- Journal.)
thiiuki?{c,v'--n-rn-.-h^
thinking it will be , help
vTncfnc" natl?,,S thaf ?'?" f'o the'con
Mnw ssr.sssT'
months "?? >tt""'*?at.J,''^^ly?r"
S!.,"S'I bX?a: ????" "
Kxpert Criticism.
they say themselves. harsh?t than
Where Everybody c.r<* ? Vbnnce.
.. (Chliago N?ws.)
h. .rtSLdentJal Possibilities being ex
hausted. the mentioning seasoif /?r
\ Ice-President la now open.