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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, THURSDAY, MORNING. APRIL 2, 1914. the smr MARYLAND MUSINGS Br Thb Bentztowx Baed. Rain Down The. River.

Rain down the river and a mist on the 'deep, But, oh, for the glory that shall wake from the sleep! Rain down the river, But beneath It the song That drifts through the ripples When the waves roll. strong. Rain down the river, but it rains us the light tney change there will be logical ground for another change in rates. Public opinion will normally be in ravor of reducing, not Increasing, the rates and the commission will have all the support it needs in any future action it may take to that end. Meanwhile the need for an immediate and favorable decision on application of the railroads Is The railroads will finish the presentation of their data to the Commission within a few days.

Why need there be any further delay? It is difficult to believe that the Commissioners have not already made up their minds. Why should they not end this uncertainty that is taking the heart out of every business man in the country? Why should they not press the prosperity button now and fix up the details later? Practically the whole nation will applaud them if they go. Why wait a month to do what can tury of struggles, the Home Rule question In Ireland should be settled by copying our American system of local legislatures, we might be excused for feeling a little proud that we had furnished a good working model for the mother country. APT APPEAL TO THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. The Interstate Commerce Commission has it in its power, merely by pressing a to set the wheels of prosperity running.

Already tariffs coveting an, advance of 5 per cent, in freight rates are posted in the offices of the Eastern railroad lines. The preparing and printing of them cost the railroads a million dollars. They had to be prepared and printed before the commission would consider the question of increased rates at all. Everything is ready for the new rates to be put into, operation. If the commission gives the word, it can be done tomorrow.

And that the. grant of the increased rates would stimulate business mightily, would end the present this Thursday. April 2. at 2..10 P.M. Interment lu St.

Mary's Cemetery, Hampden. GARY. On March 30, 1914, EMMA aged 40 years, beloved wife of Judson K. Gary. The relatives and friends of the famllr are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, Lakcwood avenue, lakeland, Baltimore county, this Thursday, at 3 P.

M. GILB1CRT. On March 30. 1914. MAKV widow of Isaac Wilson Gilbert fourth daughter of the )nte Archibald ftf; Margaret Nesbitt McAllister.

Tiie funeral service and interment (private this Thursday, April 2. CRASSER. Suddenly, on March 30 1914, ANDREW, nod years, beloved son of tho late Frank" and Marfan Grasser. Relatives and friends of the familv ai respectfully invited to attend the fn'tiei i' from the residence of his sister, Mrs. A.

Hessler. No. 112 South First strv this (Thursday) morning, April 2. at SAM Requiem High Mass for the repose of bK soul at Sarred Heart Church at 9 A. M.

Interment in Sacred Heart Cemetery. HARRIS. On March 31, 1914. a't 11.30 P. MATTHIAS.

aged So years, beloved husband of Rebecca V. Harris tn Sherwood). IWilmington (Del.) and Kent county (Md.) papers please ci.py.l "Father has fallen asleep." Funeral front his late resilience. No. 2SJ7 Huntingdon avenut thence to th Chapel of the Guardian Anucl.

corner Huntingdon avenu. and Twonty-slth street, on Friday morning. April a' 10.3o o'clock, to which relatives friends are respectfully invited. Interment in Druid Uidse Cemetery. HARRISON.

After a long illness FRANK TUDOR, husband of Chatlott. Taylor and sou of tho late Charles nn Maty Horsey Kidnely Harrison. Funeral from Jtis late residence, conte-Old Frederick road and F.dmondson nvi nue, this Thursday. April 2, at P. Interment private.

HOWELL. On the morning of Mar. "i 31, 1914, at his late residence, Honcies Baltimore county. HENRY, aged Tt years, beloved husband of tho Into Susa Howell. Relatives and friends arc respectful invited to attend the funeral from tli.1 ever seen at Maryland race tracks.

Better look at who and what's behind the public morals and wellfare trust. It will squeeze the people as dry as any other trust, only it will be of their civil and religious liberties. What has'becom of the once-famed Maryland slogan, "Liberty of conscience for all, freedom from religious meddling in politics?" A Newspaper Woman. Chevy Chase, March 31. "An American Woman" Wants To Know Why A Steamship Corporation Should Be Presented Of Tolls Everj- Tear By The Taxpayers Who Built The Panama Canal And Have To Pay For Its Upkeep.

To the Editor of The Sun Sir: To much time in Congress and space in the papers have been taken up with impugning the motives of the Administration in asking for repeal of exemption from tolls for American coastwise ships in the Panama Canal that there has been little opportunity for discussing the merits of the question. One most important, vitally important, phase has, not yet been touched, as seen by the writer: Most disingenuously, or most ignorantly, the annual $20,000,000 of tolls computed for the steamship corporations using the canal has been thrown back upon the ultimate consumer as adding" to the high cost of living. Nothing in this connection has been stated about the present cost to the steamship corporation of present charges for transshipping to the Panama Railroad. The coast tolls will be $1.20 a ton; the railroad rates now existing are $4 a ton a cost saving. to the corporation of $2.80 a ton.

Under these circumstances, where is the chance for the bugaboo of higher prices from exemption of tolls? If the steamship company intends to play fair or is compelled to play fair, there will be $2.80 per ton of reduction In prices. The Government that is, all of us have built and paid for the canal. Why should the coastwise American ships, owned by a corporation whose earnings are not prorated among all of us, be allowed to escape paying the maintenance charges of the canal? The steamship corporations have never been suspected of purely charitable motives in running their cargoes at $4 a ton; they tmld themselves in charges at that rate. What possible obligation rests upon the American people, as a whole, to increase the corporation's profit by $4 a ton going through the canal free and by $20,000,000 adding to the cost of the upkeep of the canal by their exemption? It is an American subsidy question far more than the absurd straw man of British domination. An American woman.

Baltimore, March 31. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Sun receives, bo many letters that it is impossible to publish them all as promptly os it cpuld wish. Short letters will, therefore, be given priority over long ones, and correspondents will have a better chance to secure early publication for their communications by making them brief. Letters must bear the names and addresses of the writers as an evidence of good faith, but the names will not be made public without the consent of the contributors. The Most Important Case To The Greatest Number Of People Before The Inter-State Commerce Commission Is The Petition Of The Railroads For Increase Of Freight Rates, And The Com.

mission May Lose Public Confl-. dence If It Delays Its Decision. To the Editor of The Scn Sir: The most important case to the greatest number of people before the Inter-State Commerce Commission at this time is the petition of the railroads for a 5 per cent, increase in freight rates'. I can 6ee no reason why the commission should allow less important cases to prevent prompt consideration of this petition. The prosperity of the country seems to await and depend to a considerable extent -upon their action.

The railroads and the people are anxiously awaiting the decision, and in the meantime thousands of people are losing employment. When the regulation of rates wa3 Intrusted to this commission it was not intended that the railroads should not be allowed to make a fair profit, but merely that they should not be allowed to impose upon the people and grant special favors to some and not to others. It seems to be the general opinion in this part of the country at least that the railroads are entitled to this increase. If the commission does not promote the taking of such testimony as may be necessary and give such decision as may be indicated thereby promptly, and with good reasons therefor, it will lose the confidence of the public. J.

Albt Henderson. Rockville, March 31. The Difference Between The Methods Of "Terrible Teddy" And Of Woodrow Wilson Is The Difference Between Those Of A Reasoning And Reasonable Leader And Those Of A Vociferous Cattle Driver. To the Editor of The Sun Sir: It seems but a short while ago when the New York World and other papers of the same political opinion went Into the very ecstasy of newspaper frenzy over "centralization" of government at Washington. After yesterday's performance in the House of Representatives, I don't think "Terrible Teddy" has anything on "Willful Woodrow." But where are the screams of yesterday? While I differ from Mr.

Clark's views I heartily recommend to students of the forensic a minute study of the Speaker's brilliant effort. Surely this has never been surpassed in the halls of Congress. But our country -will not go to the bowwows as long as the master's voice can be heard to the tune of 247 to 161! You have to hand it to W. W. he's it.

Govans. Govans, April 1. The Legislature AVagin? AVar On The Women Of Maryland Not Content With Denial Of Suffrage, It Would Fine Or Jail Them, Cries One, Who Wants To Know Whether AVe Live In Timbuctoo Or Dahomey. To the Editor of The Sun Sir: Where is the boasted chivalry of Maryland men? Is the Legislature destitute of this quality It proposes to make a crime of a simple act of business if a woman dares to engage in it, whilea man may do the same thing -without let or hindrance. This seems incredible, but it is true.

House Bill 399, which has passed the House and is now before the Finance Committee of the Senate, provides that "no female person shall within the State of Maryland barter, sell or otherwise dispose of or solicit purchases of or customers for any goods, wares, chattels or merchandise directly or by sample, card or other specimen or by written or printed trade list or catalogue" unless she turns over such sale to be supplied by some local retailer or dealer residing in the State of Maryland. Unless "such female person shall first obtain a license" for which she must pay $50. "The failure of such female person to obtain such license shall be a misdemeanor," to be punished by a fine of $20 for each offense and, of course, if the fine is not paid she must go to jail. A male person is not required to have any license for such acts, and it is no crime for him to do these things. Are we in the Middle Ages and in Timbuctoo or Dahomey? Poor women are prohibited from earning a support for themselves and their children and from getting the benefit of low rates by forming clubs and getting goods from wholesale firms, and why? That the retail merchant may ake this trade by that is, under the protection of the Criminal Code of Maryland.

Why talk about the high cost of living? This bill. might well be called "A bill to increase the high cost of living." Why should male persons be exempt? Is it because the retail merchant and the members of the Legislature are male persons? A of Fair Play. Baltimore, April 1. A Remedy Worse Than The To the Editor of The Sun Sir: I note a recent article in the columns of letters saying that the city needs "jim-crow" cars on account of the prevalence of smallpox. "Jim-crow" cars' might relieve the prevalence of smallpox, but were such cars operated in this city I fear that we would have another difficulty, equally as important, to overcome.

At present, during the hours that individuals are getting to and from their occupations the cars seem to be operated every two minutes. Now, if "jim-crow" cars are operated, more cars than are in use at present" will be necessary to meet the demand and give the same accommodation. But, if a fewer number of cars are used during the intervening hours of the day, patrons will be greatly inconvenienced. Edmondson Avenue. Baltimore, March 25.

A Woman Hopes The President Will Not Let Himself Be Pushed Into AVar AVith Mexico. To the Editor of The Sun Sir: We sincerely hope that the President will continue to withstand thepressure that is brought to bear upon him and will put off intervention of the United States in Mexican affairs as long as possible. It may he that intervention will eventually be imperative, but until that time arrives there is little doubt that the President will let the pressure that the moneyed interests are using count for nothing. The President seems brave enough and wise enough that we who trusted our country to him need fear nothing for that country. Ias he not placed the country in a position where intervention can be accomplished with a moral vindication that it did not have earlier? War, even when unavoidable, is a fearful undertaking, and should never be entered into lightly, but war to women means something from what it does to men.

To men it' means the calling to arms to the strains of martial music; to women it means heartaches and desolated homes. While men go to war. women wait. Mrs. G.

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1012. S7.077 120,773 72,807 1913.8S,33 127,405 78,001 Mav, 1012, Sfi.243 33,745 119.9S8 74.499 May, 1913.SS,10 3JN8S9 127,995 June, .1912. 90.300 3S.191 75.199 Jane, 1913.88,035 39,997 77,831 Julv, 1912. 36,378 73,685 July, 1913.88,009 39.224 127,233 77,592 1912. 86,559 32,928 119,487 73.G99 1913.88,438 38,213 126,051 78,697 1912.

85.090 32.772 117.862 72.996 38,906 127,404 78,276 1912. 87.318 34.267 121,585 73,825 1913.89.132 39.314 128,446 80,264 1912. 88.560 35,308 123,868 74,579 1913.89,531 39.569 129,100 81,615 19f2. 85,782 35,255 121.037 74.850 Dec, 1913.88,621 4Q.249 128,870 81,289 1913. 86,359 35.552 121,911 1914.88,954 4Q.66Q 129,614 79,783 FK 1913.

87.330 36,153 123,483 76.700 1914.89,411 41.429 130,840 80,789 1913. 88,509 37,460 125.969 78.256 Ma 1 914.91,363 43,464 1 34,827 82,794 RAIrTMORE, TTTCTtSDAY, APRIL 2. 1914. FOURTEEN PAGES. THE ARGUMENT.

The Sun has, never questioned the sincerity of many of those who argue that this country has a right to exempt its own shipping from payment of Psnama Canal tolls. It is hardly necessary to say that it believes President Taft sincere, and many others. But it does recognize tho fact that among those who are now opposing the repeal of the exemptions are many men whose motives are questionable indeed, who favor free tolls because they aid a monopoly, because they are a subsidy, because they constitute a special privilege for corporations with which these advocates of free tolls are allied. How shall we tell the sincere from the insincere? A gold way, we fancy, is to note the extent to which they employ the jingo argument and the emphasis they place upon it. Every intelligent man, with qualifications to speak upon this subject, knows that in repealing these exemptions we are not giving up control of the canal to England.

We are not surrendering anything to England. We are not allowing England to say whether we shall or shall not grant subsidies to any American interest. If we repealed the exemption clause today we could grant subsidies to either the coastwise shipping or the foreign shipping tomorrow and England, would not raise her voice in the slightest degree against it. It would be an impertinence on her part if she should. Neither England nor any other country would dare to interfere in what is a matter for us alone to determine, as that would be.

The subsidyists-by-indirection know this. They dare not appeal for a subsidy openly, because they know that the Democratic party is committed by every tradition and pledge and rule of honor to opposition to all such' special privileges. They know that they can never hope to win by open and fair argument and therefore they resort to this appeal to an ancient prejudice. Because George III was a fool in the eighteenth century they ask the American people to make fools of themselves in' the twentieth. There is, of course, neither sincerity nor decency in behavior of this sorti It is demagoguery of the worst sort.

It is, in the Democrats who indulge in it, a kind of treachery which deserves the stinging rebuke it got Tuesday in the House of Representatives and which we hope it will get with equal force in the Senate of the United States. am HOME RULE IX THE BRITISH ISLES. Sir Edward Grey's hint that a solution of the Irish Home Rule troubles may be found in the adoption of a Federal system of government for the British Isles is in line with a suggestion that, has been frequently made both in England and in this country. Exactly how the plan could be applied so as to prevent friction between Ulster and other parts of Ireland is not revealed, but the fact that such a proposition should be presented for discussion in the House of Commons peems to indicate that it is under eerlous consideration. If, after a cen Here is a timely book, a book on a subject which In the next few months will supersede in the minds of tens of thousands of citizens all thought of wars and foreign relations and big domestic problems ot state.

It is a book which may do much harm, by keeping men away from church on Sundays, and which is sure to do much good by keeping them away from worse places on week days. It is, in brief, a book on the' noble art of vegetable gardening. It is Jam-full of practical information and helpful hints. The planning of the garden, the location, the preparation of the soil, the details of planting, are discussed in detail and then each of the vegetables commonly grown is taken up and the amateur is told what is necessary to get, good results with It. He is told just what he wants to know what varieties to choose, how deep and how thick to plant, how to cultivate, what to do after the bearing season is over, and so forth.

A vegetable planning table is included. THE HOME VEGETABLE GARDEN. By Adolph Kruhm. (Cloth, pp. 104.

Illustrated. The Orange Judd Company, Now York.) FASHION'S FOLLIES Cowper, writing oror a century While the world lasts fashion will continue to lead it by the nose. And, after all, what can fashion do for its most obsequious followers? It can ring the changes upon the same thing, and it can do more. Whether our hats be white or black, our caps high or low, whether we wear two watches or one, is of little consequence. There is, indeed, an appearance of variety but the folly and vanify that dictates and adopts the change are invariably the same.

When the fashions of a particular period appear more reasou-able than those of the preceding, it is not because the world is grown more reasonable than it was but because, in a course of perpetual changes, one. of them must sometimes happen to be for the better. Neither do I suppose the preposterous customs that prevail at present a proof of Its greater folly. In a few -years, perhaps next year, the fine gentleman will shut up his umbrella and give it to his sister, filling his hand with a crab-tree cudgi Instead of it, and when he has done so, will he be wiser than now? By no means. The love of change will have betrayed him into a propriety which, in reality, he has no taste for, all his merit ou the occasion amounting to no more than this that, being weary of one plaything, he has taken up another.

APOSTLE. MARK AS GREATEST REPORTER Condensed His Story To 1 Clin liters, AVith Miracle In Each, Dr. Palmer Says. From the Philadelphia Kvcning Bulletin. The greatest journalist the world ever knew lived 1,500 or more'j-pnrs before the invention of type, according to the Rev.

Dr. 'Frank N. Palmer, who addressed the Midwinter Bible Conference, at the Baptist Temple, on the writings of St. Mark, and wondered at the marvels that he might have accomplished if he had lived in the days of printing presses. St.

Matthew put his chronicles in 2S chapters; St. Luke used 24 to tell his story; St. John used 21, but St. Mark covered all the details more vividly iu 16, and, true to the spirit of action that animates his kind, put a miracle in every chapter. St.

Mark, Dr. Palmer said, was the reporter among the apostles. His viewpoint, his language and his ability to give action and climax, clash and color in a sentence should be a glowing example to the newspaper writers of this day. Each of the other apostles speaks of skies that opened. Mark says they were rent asunder.

He is the only one among his brethren who stopped dutifully to describe the color of a given scene. In the writings of his fellows it is told that the people went to the Sermon on the Mount. Mark writes vividly that the people ran. In writing for the Romans he used colorful allusions and the references to wild beasts to touch their intelligence in sympathetic fashion at every stroke. STORIES OF THE DAY No.

Legal AA'ny To Stop Him. From the Philadelphia Times. However brave the policemen are, they are careful about not breaking the las and ordinances. A patrolman was kicking his feet down on one of the docks on the lake front the other morning, when an excited citizen ran up to him and cried: "Say, hurry up! A man has just jumped off the pier!" "With his clothes on?" asked the officer. "Yes fully dressed.

Hurry "What do you want me to do? There ain't no ordinance against a man swim-min' as long as he's properly dresred." Already Informed. From the New York Globe. Two ladies made a formal call on a distant acquaintance. The maid asked them to wait until she ascertained whether the person inquired for was in. Presently she tripped down stairs and announced that "the lady was not at home." One of the ladies, finding that she had forgotten her cards, said to her friend: "Let me write my name on your card?" "Oh, it isn't necessary, Miss," put in the maid, cheerfully.

"I told her who it was!" DIED. AMEND. On March 30, 1914. ANNA, aged 52 years, beloved wife of JohD Amend. Funeral from her late residence.

No. North Luzerne avenue, this Thursday, at 8 A. M. Requiem Mass at St. Katharine's Church at 9 A.

M. Interment in Holy Redeemer Cemetery. ASIIER. On March 30. 1914, WILLIAM aged GO years, beloved husband of Marion W.

Asher. Richmond (Va.) papers please copy. Funeral will take place from his late residence. No. 28( Harlem avenue, this Thursday, at 2 P.

M. BANCROFT. On April l. 1914, CHARLES aged 70 years, beloved son of the late John I), and Margaret Han-croft. Funeral will take place from the residence of his sister, Mrs.

Captain E. T. White, No. 2121 East Lombard street, on Friday, at 3 P. M.

Interment in Green- mount Cemetery. ROSS. On March 30. 1914. GEORGE WILLIAM, aged 49 years, beloved husband of Pauline Boss.

Funeral will take place from his late residence, No. 210tJ East Riddle street, this Thursday, at 2 P. M. Interment in Loudon Park Cemetery. BRADEN.

On April 1, 1914. ANNA ELIZABETH, beloved wife of Gcorpo Braden, at her residence. No. 1209 Groen-mount avenue. Due notice of funeral will bo given.

CAHILL. On March 29, 1914. at Sol- aiers' Jiome, Hampton, TIMOTHY, beloved husband of Mary Cahill (nee Lewis). Funeral from Turner's Funeral Parlors Broadway and Oliver street, this Thursday, at A. M.

Reouiem Mass at St. An drew's Church at 9 A. M. CARR. On April 1.

1914. at the Mary land University Hospital, SUSAN in me toiu year or ner age, widow or the late Dr. R. Wilson Carr. Funeral services will be hold at the' chapel In Loudon Park Cemetery on Fri day, April 3, at 2 P.

M. Interment at sedaiia, Missouri. "1 CARTER. On April 1. 1914.

ANNA beloved wife of Capt. Hill Carter. Funeral from the residence of her mother, Mrs. II. C.

Moon, No. 2031 West Saratoga street, of which due notice will be given. DEMPSEY. On afternoon of March 31, 1914, at his late residence. No.

East Pratt street, JAMES, aged 34 years, beloved husband of Florence Dempsev (nee Jubb). Philadelphia Boston (Mass.) and New York city (N. papers please copy.l Iue notice or runeral will be given. FORSYTHK. On March 30.

1914. MARGARET CHRISTY, beloved wife of the late Samuel Forsyte. Relatives aud friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral from tho residence of her grandson, Lewis F. Batchelor, No. 2078 Woodbcrry avenue, Of the sun after stars in the sweet spring night.

Rain down the river, But beneath it the sheen Of the shores of the days When the grass grows green. Rain down the river with its patter on the tide, But wait till the 6prlng wind blows it aside. Rain down the river, But it rains us the ships Of the grass and the dew And the daffodil lips. Rain down the, river Amen! Amen! For the rain of the spring on the river again. For the boats of the dream That shall come afterwhile With the glow and the gleam Of the spring's sweet smile.

Lifting the latch with her fingers sweet, And swinging the gate life smiles From the top of her head to the soles of her feet, To the bloom of the April miles. More trees along the city street. More trees beneath whose boughs to meet In gratitude for gifts of green, The shade, the cool, the gentle scene Of freshening beauty mid the heart Of roaring town and teeming mart: More trees, more vines, more gardens fine With shrub and flower and tree and vine. The world may change and life may change, And hearts prove constant never; -But hope's bright beams the blue skies range And love goes on forever. Love Be Near.

Love be near when life is bleak, Love be near when thunders roll; Love be near when tempests speak Through the shadows of the soul. Love be near when troubles break, Love be near when losses come; Love be near for life's poor sake In this fever and this hum. Love be near when ends are dark, Love be near when hope is low; Love be near when at the mark We falter and no longer go. Love be near when weary feet Feel the bruises and give up; Love be near with all thy sweet To hold to fevered lips thy cup. Love be pear when all is gone, Love be near when all our own Fail and fade and ere the dawn The loved of life to life have flown.

Love be near in that dark hour, When hope is sinking and we dread The life we nursed to perfect flower Upon the stem of life lies dead. Love be near in grief and woe, Love be near in failure's gloom; Love be near when fancies glow, Love be near when shadows loom. Love be near oh, nearer then Than ever in this mundane strife When luck brings triumph unto men And faith brings victory unto life. Kind Mister Rain, I love you, too, As well as sunbeams on the dew; And, Mister Cloud, you have your day To keep us wrapped In damp and gray; But ever the will that tries its best Can find in all things; something blest. After the storm, the lifted head, glad heart, The singing lips that ring With exultation at the gates that part The shadowy shores of spring.

After the care the sure-returning glee, The risen hope and cheer, And ever the faith that on life's stormy sea The wardering. Pilot's near. Life's lesson's the over and over Of spring coming back, and' the clover, The bird and the flower, the ray Of a warm hope brightening the day: And so never weary to preach it, Oh, dreams, that through love for us teach it. A Country Warbler. Kind cute for country things, Music that the redwing sings, Sight of robin on the lawn Proud as Lucifer at dawn Drift of swallow, swing of bat, Youngster with a magic hat Underneath whose tattered lid Half the dreams of life are hid.

Kind o' keen for music like Springtime sends along the pike When the air is full again Of the ragtime of the wren. And the mockingbird is there Sprinklin' Chopin on the air, And makin' us think Beethoven knew Our old roads of dream and dew. Kind o' pert to pick up joy From old memories of the boy; But there's music yet untold In one memory all of gold That's the warblin' deep and true -In the heart that mothered you When beside the gates of night She sang "The Gates Of Livin' Light." By no man's brand need he be known Who wears Truth's signet for his own; To no man bow who in the light Stands fearlessly for truth and right, Sings merrily because he knows The usage all his golden days Of life's sweet arbiter, the rose. And plucks the thorn from all men's ways, Because a task like that to him Is beauty and not duty grim. What you Miss Springtime, a-holdin' to your lips, That makes the morning merry when you play? It's just a willow whistle, with its little rustic slips, And you can fool the ages of the universe that way? What's the use of braggln', all yoh ancient times and things.

Of Orpheus and Apollo and the lutes of many tones, Where there goes Pan barefooted down the path of dreaming springs With a little wooden whistle and a pail of rattling bones. Blaming the Guide When we do go astray; The road's so wide, The path so rough, we say: Might we with faith more patiently abide, And with more zeal obey SUNBEAMS. YelI, 20 hours was enough. Come to Baltimore to take your first-class steamships for Europe. Brother Anderson continues the most competent of rainbow chasers.

One of the best points in Champ Clark's speech was stolen from Mark Twain, and his fellow-Missourian was too mean to give him credit for it. Let us hope it? is worth while looking to the Senate for sense. The voice was the voice of Beauchamp, but the thought was the thought of the ship subsidy. Even the weather April fooled us. All the latest news of the subsidized shipping combine see the Washington Post! How the Hearst hirelings hate England A Boston dog gets an annuity of $1,200 from the estate of his master, dog-gone it.

Oklahoma believes In making lynching as odious as possible, so it has lynched a woman. Two hundred and forty-seven of 'em kicked, the houn' dawgaroun. It may not take as much sense to be President as to be a Congressman, but it takes more sense of honor. PROVERBS AND PHRASES. There is one road to peace, and that is truth.

Shelley. The more honesty a man has the less he affects the airs of a saint. Lavater. Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle. Burke.

a Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding, we are forced to obey it. Rousseau. be done sooner? ATTEMPTING POLITICAL SUICIDE. One point to be remembered by Democratic members of the Senate in connection with the repeal of the tolls exemption clause is the effect of their attitude upon the efficiency of the Democratic party. Those who are inclined to oppose the President's leadership on this subject must take into consideration the influence their opposition will have in impairing or destroying the only real leadership the party possesses.

They are striking not merely at the President, but far more seriously and surely at the party and all Its possibilities for good.K We have no one who can take Wilson's place in the confidence of the party and the country, so that if they pull him down they are left without a chief whom the party or the people will follow. The Democratic and independent voters of the United States elected Wilson to the office of leader on the strength of his own declaration that he regarded himself commissioned for such leadership by virtue of the popular vote. Democrats in the Senate may try to depose him, and they may succeed in embarrassing his efforts in behalf of the country and in discrediting their own party. But the President is beyond their reach and will survive, no matter what effect their opposition may have on the political organization to which they belong. THE DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTA TIVES ARE PLEDGED TO THE HOME RULE BILL.

The Maryland Democratic platform last year declared emphatically and unreservedly for home rule. It pledged the Democratic members of the General Assembly to the enactment of laws providing it. There was no quali fication in that pledge; there can be no excuse for violating it. In accordance with this promise the House of Delegates at Annapolis has passed a measure taking the first steps to provide home rule for Balti more city and the counties. That bill is now in the Senate.

It is late in the session. The Legislature will adjourn next Monday night. It is of the first importance that this Home Rule bill should be passed before adjournment and the platform pledge fulfilled: What can the Democratic Senators say to their constituents if it is not? an FOR QUADRENNIAL SESSIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE. We do not know whether the Legislature will pass Senator Benson's amendments providing for reduction of membership in the House of Delegates, with increased pay, and quadrennial instead of biennial sessions of the General Assembly, but they seem to be along the right lines, and if they are submitted to the people we believe they will be adopted. The State might not reduce legislative expenditures very much by these changes, but it would be apt to get a better grade cf legislators, and the improvement in quality would mean the saving of a great deal in money and in legislation.

With the heme rule amendment in force, we could get along very well without biennial sessions of the Legislature; and the knowledge that it was legislating for four years on general subjects would tend to make the General Assembly more careful in its work. If any great emergency should arise, an extra session could be called, but we believe that, as a rule, the ship of state would sail along more steadily if legislative interference with the steering gear were less frequent. We hope the Legislature will give the people a chance to pass on these amendments. THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT. The objections to the Hammond Compensation act have been removed by the.

adoption of the amendments permitting other forms of insurance besides that' of the State. But there is danger that in grafting these alien amendments on the body of an act framed with a view to exclusive State insurance, some conflict or incongruity may be introduced that might impair Its effectiveness. Just and adequate legislation for the compensation of workingmen for injuries incident to their occupation has been so long delayed that it "would be if the present law should suffer by any mix-up or oversight. We trust, therefore, that the measure as amended may be subjected to the most careful scrutiny, so' that all its provisions may be in thorough harmony with each other and with the purpose in which it originated. The same warning applies to other important bills to which amendments have been attached in either house.

EDITORIAL JOTTINGS. For the next fortnight East Fife will proudly wear the honors that made Midlothian famous1 in Gladstone's great campaigns. New York World. Of course, Champ's idea, of the relative brainlness of Presidents and Congressmen doesn't necessarily mean that the Balti more Convention didn't have plenty of ma terial to choose from. asliington Post.

Casualties in the Ulster war One field marshal and one adjutant-general badly wounded in the feelings. Hartford Times Tolls exemption is going to die, but tome of the speeches that are being made in Congress will live to bother those who uttered them. Charleston jVeies and Courier. It is claimed that radium will be cheaper after a while, but we woman advise you to Bell "radium short. Washington Herald.

period of threatening disaster, is hardly to be questioned. The business men who know about such things are practically unanimous in their opinion that it would. They cannot all be wrong. And they are also of the opinion that if the decision of the commission is much longer- delayed the result may be very disastrous indeed. Ought the commission to grant the increase? It knows best.

It has the data and for years has been kept fully advised, every month, of the condition of all the railroads. Outsiders have their opinion, but it cannot be as well grounded as is that of the commission. Some things, however, outsiders know, and they seem to be significant. They know, for instance, that roads like the Pennsylvania, which have concededly been managed honestly and conservatively, have for three years been showing decreases in earnings most alarming to those who realize that unless the railroads can command new capital the people must suffer. They know that shippers, who must pay the increased rates and who In ordinary circumstances would protest against them, are largely in.

favor of the increase. They know that the newspapers, which reflect public sentiment and which ten years ago were almost all hotly antagonistic to the railroads, are now almost unanimous In favor of the increase. It is inconceivable that a situation like this could obtain unless there was some overwhelming logic behind the application for increased rates. The outsiders also have heard the arguments against the increase advanced at the open hearings of the commission. There is the argument of Mr.

Brandeis, for instance, that with the present system of interlocking directorates, with officers and directors of steel companies and car companies and supply companies of all sorts sitting on the boards of railroads, there is no telling what exorbitant prices the railroads pay for materials, and until this is demonstrated there is no telling what rates are fair and just. This may all be true, but it may be years before the existing system is changed and the truth or falsity of the charges concerning the evil influence of Interlocking directorates established. Surely the sensible thing to do In a case like this is to grant the rates demanded by the present system, and when that system is changed then make the appropriate changes in rates. There is the argument that the railroads are heavy losers through the special services which they render to large shippers, such as switching, spotting and floating services. Here again a tremendously big question that affects the whole system of rate-making Is opened up.

It is like the question of the long and short haul, the question of making rates to suit what the traffic will bear and such things. They are all parts of the existing system. If you change one thing you will have to make compensating changes in others. If the commission has studied this whole question thoroughly and is ready to announce a matured policy, well and good. The public will accept its decision.

But if it is not ready, then surely the right thing to do is to settle the present question of--increased rates on the basis of the existing system and after that system is changed to make corresponding changes in rates. Then there are the arguments of the Mr. Thorne who represents the railroad commissions of several Western States. He wants the rates kept as they are, for fear that if the increases are granted in the East they will later be demanded by the railroads of the West. That question, of course, should be settled upon its merits.

If the Western railroads deserve higher rates they should get them, irrespective of the settlement in the East. Mr. Thome's assertion that the railroads have juggled their charges for maintenance and equipment so as to create the impression that revenues are declining when In fact they are increasing is, of course, nonsense. Such a proceeding might fool the public; it could not possibly fool the Interstate Commerce Commissioners, who are experts in this matter and who themselves prescribe the forms of bookkeeping. It may be that the delay in the Commissioners' decision is due to the fact that they are taking their action at this time too seriously.

They may be assuming that their decision will be irrevocable, or practically that when they have once granted the in creases they will not be able to lower the rates again. We cannot see it that way. We have mentioned above several factors in the situation which in their nature are temporary. When above residence this (Thursday) afternoon, at 2 o'clock, hence to Ebenezer Met hod i-. Episcopal Church, at Chase, at 2 o'clock.

JAMISON. On March 30. 1914. beloved husband of Mary Wortehe Jamison. Philadelphia papers please copv.

Tho funeral will take place from his' hit homo. No. L'21t Orem avenue, this Thursday, at 2 P. M. Inlerniontprivate.

Plea- omit llowers. On March 30. 1914, MARtiV RET A. niM-d 9n years. The funeral will take place from residence of her son.

Daniel S. No 4 South Sixth street, Brooklyn, Anne An n-del county, this Thursday, at 2 P. M. Interment in Mount Olivet Cenieterv. RT'MM.

On March 31. I A. AUGUSTA MAY KRUMM, daughter of Henry L. and Bet tie Xruinm, aged 19 years 11 months. Oh.

how hard we tried to save her: But. our cares were nil In vain: Ancels anil took her from us -She is with the Saviour, free from n1n. She is gone, but was so youns and She slumbers sweet, but knows no en re; Her heart was true, her life was young: Ytt not our will, but God's done p.Y lii'i: PARFVrs. Funeral from her parent'-' resident. No.

lots North Caroline street, this Thursday. April 2. at' 2.3 p. interment nrl vate. March 3 1911.

A WIT in her "2 1 year, daughter of and tho late M. Onsott. The funeral will take place from her late residence. No. South Uedev avenue, this Thursday, at 2 P.

M. Interment in Mount Cartne Cemetery. McANDIiFW. On the tm March 31, 1014. 1 1 A NOIt beloved wIV of the late Patrick MrAndrew.

Carbon-dale and Seranton (Pa.) papers please popv.l Tho relatives and friends of f'o funillr are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, o. 310." Eat Dillon street, on FrMav. A mil 3 at o'clock, thence to St. Bridget's Church, whore a Requiem Hk'h Mass will be otTorpd for the rnpoKo of her soul at 9 o'clock. Interment in Ronnie Brae Cemetery.

MILLER. Suddenly, on April 1. LILLIAN K. MILLER (nee Ibbrensi. need 2S vears.

beloved wil'P of Grcirnrv .1. Minor. Relatives and friends of the family aj-' respectfully invited to attend the Hinerjil from the residence of her mother in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller. No.

Stirlln? street, of which due notice will bp given. March 31. 1911. at tlic Methodist Home for tho Aired. Fulton avi'-nup nnd Franklin street.

MARY E-, nccf! 72 years, wife of the late B. Mot Ran. Funeral from the Homo this Thursday. April 2. at 3 P.

M. PGACOCK. On the morning of Manh 31. 1914, WILLIAM PKACt CK, in lili 79th year. Harrisbnrg (Pa.) papers please copy.

1 The relatives and friends of the familr are respectfully Invited to attend tin- funeral from the residence of his daughter. Mrs. Joseph W. Tall. No.

23 North l.n-zerne avenue, on Friday morning, at o'clock. PETERS. On March 30. 19H. GF.R-TRUDK aged 1i years, beloved daughter of Florence ami the late Thomas Peter.

Relatives and friends of the family nro respectfully inVited to attend the funeral from her late residence. No. 1329 North Gllinor st root, this (Thursday) niornimr, April 2. at o'clock, lliirh Mass of Requiem at St. Gregory's Church at PUTTS.

On April 1 1911. TI IOMA beloved husband of Clan Barron Putts. The relatives and friends are iip-ifcd bi attend the funeral from his late tv Hence. No. S22 Cator avenue, Waverly.

on Friday April 3. at 2 P. M- Interment (privateMn Groeninount Cemetery. R1EMAN. On March 31.

1 91 at 1 P. AUGUSTA H. I KM AN. aue.l T'J years, widow of the late A. II.

Uionmn. Funeral from her hit" residence. No 410 North Patterson Park avenue. 01 l'n dav, April 3. at 2 P.

M. Interment novate) in Baltimore Cenictory. SAVAGE. On Aoril 1. KM 1.

JOHN I bolovpd husband of Viola II. Savage and son of John and Eliza Savage Funeral from the residence of h- par 'cuts. No. Oil Bartlett avenue, on morning, at S.30 o'clock, theme to sc Ann's Church, where a Requiem Mass ill bo offered for the repose of his soul. In tprment In New Cathedt il Cemetery- SCHEMTNANT.

On March 31. I'M t. WILLIAM, aged 42 years, beloved hm band of the late Frances Seheminant. FunPrnl from the residence of his ter-in-law, Mrs. Charles 11.

Miller. North Central avenue, this Thursday. 2. at A. thence to St.

Chm-Mi. where a Requiem Mass will be offered the repose of his soul at 9 A. M. InijT-mpnt in Ivondon Park Cemetery. SCOGGINS.

Suddenly, April 1-1914, at Mercy Hospital. CHARLES It. aged 39 years, 'beloved husband of Eva Scoggins. Funeral from his late residence 133.1 North Bond street, of which duo im- tico will op given. SOMMERS.

On March 30. 1911. WILLIAM, need 24 years, son of Frank ami the late Sarah E. Sommors. TIip fanoral wi'l take place from in' residence of his lerother-in-law.

W. loiterer. No. 721 South Rose street, tins Thursday, nt 4 P. M.

SOUT1IE1 MER. On March 31. KM 1 at Atlantic City, N. BERNARD a' 73 years, beloved husband of Sont'heiiner. onl ft-lMirls olsrt Nn.

fi I'cnri-T I4i.i..r I avairv. are llivneu from ills late residence. No. 413 Atlanti" avenue Atlantic City, this Thursday. April 2.

nt X.30 o'clock. Interment Adath Jpshuron Cemetery. Philadelphia Pa. Will arrivp at cemetery nt 11. 4.

A.M THOMPSON. On April 1. 1911. in REV. HENRY SCoTT THOMPSON, h-loved husband of Mary Culbrcth Thompson.

Funeral from the residence of his dan liter. Mrs. Lewis M. Price, Smyrna, Del. TUTOR On March 30.

1914, CATHERINE TUTOR, beloved wife of the hi'" Michael Tutor. The relatives and friends are resp" nil invited to attend the funeral sorvn nt her late residence No. 143'. Franklin street, this (Thursday) nfterno. M.

at 2.30 o'clock. Interment (private) (iu loudoii Park Cemetery. WEAVER. On March 31. 1914.

ELIZA-BETH'. In her 73d year of ago, wife of tun late Charles paver. The telatlves and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services at the German Aged Honie. Itlmiirn nnil PnvunA streets, this 1 lllirs- day. at 10 A.

M. Interment (private in Greonmount ceniPtery. WEAVER. On March 31. 1914.

VWL-LTAM IL, njwd 54 years, husband of Lucy Weaver. Funeral from Turner's Funeral Broadway and Oliver street, on rrlday, at 2 P. M. Interment in Oak Lawu Cemetery. IN MEMORIAM.

BRYAN. In loving memory of iy mother and our dear grandma. MAKGA-RET BRYAN, who departed this life six years a so, April 1. 190.x. IiOved in life, in death remembered LULA AND MARGARET.

SMYTn. A Monthly Mind Requiem High Mass will bo celebrated this Thurn day. at 9.30 A. In St. Ann's Church for the repose of the soul of ILLI AM II SMYTH, who died March 3.

1S14. 't FUNERAL DIRECTORS. AFTER ALL The HKST Funerals really Do corn WILLIAM COOK. 1 WILL trive moro fur vnur nwmny limn any ninn iu tlie world. Call Wolfe lilTV.

TURNER, lilO X. Broadway. The Tolls Exemption, Senator Lewis, Scylla And Charybdls In Fact And In Homer. To the Editor of The Sun Sir: Your able and interesting Washington corre spondent in this morning's paper speaks of Senator Lewis' desire to find a compromise on the tolls-exemption question by which the ship of state may be steered between Scylla and Charybdis, so as to prevent the party craft from being damaged by coming in contact "with either promontory." He should get out his old and then read up about that perilous strait of Messina in modern geographical works. Homer's Scylla, on the southwest coast of Italy, is some miles distant from the celebrated whirlpool of Charybdis on the east coast of Sicily.

Homer had no warrant for placing them in close proximity except the poetic license exaggerate the perils of the navigation of the strait itself, with a death trap on each side. Occasional. Baltimore, March 31. CORRECTION Readers are requested to call at tentionto any errors appearing in ther'columns of The Sun. Mistaken Ideas About The Maryland School For The Blind.

To the Editor of The Sun Sir: In a recent issue of your paper there was an account of the action of the School Board in barring Philip Becker, 119 North Front street, from the public schools on account of weak eyes. It was stated that "his parents fear that their boy will be taken from them and placed in the Maryland School for the Blind." The parents are not aware that this cannot be dona, considering their own ability to provide for their son. They fear that the association of the child in the mechanical employments of the 'blind might serve to bring on a threatened blindness. He has heard rumors of a possible term in the Maryland School for the Blind and seems to, dream of the separation from mother and father, etc. One reading this article would be led to believe that coming to our school was about the same as entering a prison for a term of years.

It might be well for those who have such antiquated ideas in reference to the modern methods of educating the blind to pay us a visit and see the beautiful its spacious fields and grounds, the woods and other surroundings, all of which bespeak for the children the greatest possible freedom. One forgets that the children are blind when he sees them skating on the pergolas or coasting down the hill during the winter snowstorms. It would be well for the reporter who wrote the article, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Becker, to visit the school.

It is not necessary to do more than get parents to visit the school to convince them that they could not send their children to a better place. The school is very broad in reference to the children's staying at the school. One or two small boys come and go every day, but a majority of the children remain at the school and go home at the weekend, just as do girls and boys in all boarding schools. What your reporter meant by the mechanical employment of the blind and its possible effect on the boy's partial sight we are at a loss to know. In our school the children are educated very much as they are in the public school, only more so, for, besides the full literary course which pupils get in the public schools, we give a splendid course in music, the mechanical arts, physical culture and do mestic science.

And as for the work of the school causing a child to lose what little sight he has, we can point with pride to a number of children whose sight has been saved by attendance upon the school. As a matter of fact, there is a com pulsory education law for blind in this State, and their parents can be required to send them to school, although it has never been necessary to enforce It. John F. Bledsoe. Superintendent Maryland School for the Blind.

Overlea, March 30. She Gave AVrong Address. To The Editor of The Sun Sir: Please correct the error in The Sun of today that Mary Dawson, alias Gough, accused of forgery, lives at 1143 est Hamburg street She resides at 733 McIIenry street with her mother. Mrs. George Minnick, 1143 West Hamburg street.

Baltimore, April 1. Not Guests At Dr. Turner's Ball. The Sun regrets exceedingly that in an account of a so-called widows' ball given by Dr. John Turner at his home, 1814 North Charles street, Tuesday night the names of a number of persons and the costumes they were alleged to have worn were published, when, as a matter of fact, those persons were not present.

The names and the costumes of these persons were furnished The Sun reporter by Dr. Turner himself and the reporter had no opportunity at that time of verifying the list. A number of protests were received by The Sun yesterday from persons whose names were given, in which they indignantly denied that they had been present. The following persons whose names were given by Dr. Turner himself as attending the dance state that they were not present Mr.

and Mrs. Oscar A. Turner, Dr. J. N.

Idenv 0. S. New York; Annapolis. Misses-Julia Reynolds, Virginia Idon, May Hudgins, Annapolis. Messrs.

Gen. A. E. Booth, Hans Sehuler. Henry W.

King. D. Stewart Rklzely. John C. Distler.

Jr. Mr. La. nib I Denies It. Walter H.

Lambie. one of those spoken of in the Taint and Powder Club article in The Sun yesterday, declared that he had talked with the other two mentioned and that he and they wished to deny absolutely that there was any truth in the report of a disagreement. Lawsoniax March 31. "A Newspaper Woman," AVho Likes Racing, Denounces The Profes-lonal Reformers From Other States AVho Are Meddling AVith Maryland's Civil And Religious Liberties. To the Editor of The Sun Sw-; The posters of the pictorial poppycock series attacking racing in Maryland, published weekly in The Sun, invite comment.

"It Is to laugh," not at the cry, "Maryland must not be made the dumping ground of the 'slush' of other States." Why must she be made the "dumping ground" of the professional reformers of other States? Right back of this movement is the International Moral and Social Commission, its office in Washington. D. C. Its head was "dumped" into Baltimore to tell (for so much per) the evils of horse racing. As a newspaper woman, I have gone to the race tracks of Maryland alone, as I have gone to baseball games, suffrage teas and missionary meetings.

And I have also gone because I like racing. I am proud to say I come from good old Maryland racing stock, am the granddaughter of a man who was master of the hounds in Southern Maryland in the days when Mary-landers did not have to account for their beliefs and actions to other States. Drunkenness, disorder, none of the "horrors" so coarsely depicted by the reformers have I.