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LOSE THEIR APPETITE FOR
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(Concerning Isabel Carnaby.)
It is one of the saddest, if not one
of tne most comforting, things in life
that when people have caught a
glimpse of the best, the second-best
can never again content them. If they
have once—be It only for a moment—
worn the best robe an sat down to
the feast, they will never more really
enjoy the husks of the far country;
even though the citizens of that coun
try prepare the same with their most
delicate arts and serve them up on gold
plate.
Unwise men do not consider this, and
fools do not understand it; so that the
former And out too late that their
souls must be start ed to death for lack
of that better thing which they once
so carelessly threw away; while the
latter enjoy their huskx diet in peace,
unknowing that there is any better
things at all.---Ellen Thorneycroft Fow
ler.
THE REPUBLIC TOTTER8.
New York World.)
We regret to report that our es
teemed contemporaries, the New York
Tribune and the Miuwaukee Free
Press, have seceded' from the union,
although for different reasons.
The Milwaukee Free Press has quit
because Mr. Wilson is only "a president
for our Anglo-maniacs,” and as a
loyal hyphenate it can no longer toler
ate "the arch-disruptionlst." The New
■y ork Tribune's reasons are equally
clear and Important. It appears that
the president ought to have written
his first German note last and his sec
ond eGrman note first, and because he
so dismally failed to observe this se
quence "the Tribune Is not prepared
to support any administration. Re
publican or democratic, in provoking
a wanton and wicked war, wholly un
necessary.”
The Milwaukee Free Press finds that
It lias the support of "at least 60,000,
000 of American citizens" in its hy
phenated revolt. The Tribune, which
is Just as influential a newspaper as
the Milwaukee Free Press, must com
mand the allegiance of 60,000,000 more,
so It is all very, very serious and we
shall be glad when the hot spell Is
over. When the weather has cooled
oft a bit, maybe the Milwaukee Free
Press and the New York Tribune, with
their 120,000,000 followers, will return
to the union, and the republic can
consider itself saved.
THE WIRELESS TELEPHONE.
(New York Times.)
Scientists differ widely on the ulti
mate commercial possibilities of the
wireless clephone. President Theo
dore N. Veil, •>? the American Tele
phone & Telegraph Company, under
whose direction the greatest achieve
ment in .virelesa telephony has been
wrought, snhl last night that the wire
less would never replace the wire tele
phone I'ther scientists, notably Ed
ward J. McNally, vice president and
general manager of the Marconi Wire
less Telegraph Company, thought that
ihe wireless telephone would replace
the wire trunk lines in use today.
“Wireless telephones will never sub
stitute or supplant the wire systems,
but will greatly amplify them and ex
tend their usefulness. It Is humani
tarian rather than commercial,” he
said, “but it is useful In that It makes
conversation possible between places
and moving objects that could not be I
connected by wire.
“My engineers have gone deeply Into
the question of replacing wire lines
with the wireless, and they have de- •
elded that will not be done. In the
first place It Is not conceived that the
wire system of a city could be re- |
placed by wireless, but the theory has .
been advanced that the trunk lines
could be done away with, and that
each city would have a great wireless
station connecting with another great
wireless station in another city. I
do not believe this will be done. In the
second place the wireless telephone
will not prove reliable, as the wire
less telegraph has not always proved
reliable.
"But the wireless telephone will
render service where wires could never
teach. Ships can talk to one another,
places which could never be reached
by wires for physical reasons will be
put within range of easy communica
tion. The wireless telephone adds to
the wire telephone, but does not'take
its place.”
We have a large aaaertment of oards
GREEK GRATITUDE.
(Seattle P.-I.J
That the majority of the people of
Greece are in sympathy with the for
mer prime minister, Venizelos, in the
matter of entering the war on behalf
of the entente, rather than with King
constantine in his pro-German pre
uiiections, shows that the sentiment of
gratitude is by no means dead among
.mm. Greece owes its existence as an
independent nation to the combined
offices of Great Britain, France and
Aussia.
it was the united fleets of Great
Britain, France and Russia which an
nihilated tne Turkish fleet in the bay
o( Navarino in 1827, and thus practical
ly broke the Turkish power and per
mitted the insurgen. Greeks to main
tain the independence for which they
were fighting. The same powers named
otho of Bavaria as king of Greece in
1831, and when a revolution broke out
and Otho was expelled in 1863 the
Greeks appealed to them to name the
new sovereign. First, however, the
' Greeks themselves voted on their
choice for king and selected Prince
Alfred of England, the second son of
Gueen Victoria, later Duke of Edin
burgh and still later Duke of Saxe
Coburg-Gotha. But the three powers
nad agreed among themselves that no
prince of either country should take
.he Grecian throne, so they named,
instead of Prince Alfred, Prince Wil
liam, son of the king of Denmark, who
.ook the throne with the title of King
cieorge.
1 urther than that, the three powers,
England, France and Russia, agreed,
on account of the poverty of Greece,
.o share in the support of the throne
of Greece, and each country from the
date of the accession of George gave
me Greek king an annual allowance
of $20,000. That allowance was paid
during the entire lifetime of King
.leorge. It is not known whether it
continues to hi» successor, the present
,.ing. It is certain, however, that a
considerable share of the great wealth
which the present king inherited from
..is thrlftly father, George, came from
me hoarded money which was paid by
.mgiand, France and Russia.
WOMEN AFTER THE FAIR.
JOhlcago Journal.(
Before the war began, women out
numbered men In almost all the hght
.ng countries, through exact statistics
.ire available for only a few. In the
three principal combatant countries
west of Russia the excess population of
females were as follows:
Jnlted Kingdom.1,297,601
Germany. 845,661
France. 646,211
Total excess of females In
three countries .2,788,273
The war has Increased this disparity
of the sexes to a frightful extent. As
suming that British figures of casual- ■
ties refer to home forces alone, the ,
Jnlted Kingdom has lost about 400,000
men. Prussia owns to the loss of more
than 1,800,000 soldiers, besides those of
,ier naval forces, and there has been a
great deal of heavy fighting since her
iast casualty statement was published.
On this basis the whole German em
pire must have lost close to 3,000,000
men. French losses are not published,
but they are certa'nly not less than
1,200,000 and more probable are fully
1,600,000.
On the face of the returns, therefore,
these three countries have lout from
4,600000 to 5,000,00 men. There are
many duplications In the lists; men
slightly wounded In the early months
of the war have returned to the front
and been wounded again. Men killed
or mortally wounded seldom form more
than one-fourth of the total battle cas
ualties, though the use of high ex
plosives and bayonets tends to increase
this proportion. On the other hand, the
war probably is not nime than half
over, and millions of wounded men and
prisoners have had t.liclr health or
earning Rapacity lowered to the point
which unfits them to become husbands
and fathers.
It is not a wild guess to estimate
that when the struggle is over these
three countries will contain 6,000,000
mere marriageable women than mar
riageable men. Not since the Thirty
years’ war has any European nation
fared such a problem as this.
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