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Edward R Bushnelt In Philadelphia
Ledger.
Where and what Is the most Jewish
city in the United States? Chelsea, Mass.,
was stamped with that distinction at the
recent session of the convention of the
Federation of American Zionists. Twenty
five per cent of its population of 40,000
are Jews.
Numerically, New' York has the great
est Jewish population either in the
United States or the world, but the pro
portion of Jews there is slightly below
that of Chelsea. Nearly half of the Jews
In America and 1-12th of all the world
contains, live within the confines of
Greater New York. Nevertheless, their
proportion of New York’s entire popula
tion is only about 16 per cent.
The extent to which the Jewish peo
ple maintain their racial Integrity
though scattered to the four corners of
the earth, still remains the most as
tounding thing in the history of nation
building. From the time of their bond
age In Egypt, their flight through the
wilderness into the promised land, and
their wonderful expansion during the
reigns of David and Solomon, followed by
thelf subjugation at the hands of the
Greeks and Romans, this Integrity never
suffered. And even during the last 2,000
years, as they have gone with civilization
into every corner of the globe, they have
always been a distinct people.
The study of their worldwide distribu
tion forms a subject of gripping interest.
Roughly speaking, there are about 12,
000,000 Jews today. Every country has
its quota.
Palestine, the original homo of the Jews,
numerically does not contain many Jews,
but in proportion to the entire popula
tion of that country it leads the world.
The latest statistics give Palestine a Jew
ish population of 78,000, out of a total pop
ulation of 360,000. This gives the Jewish
race In Palestine a percentage of 22.29 of
the entire population, though Its total of
78,000 Is hardly half the entire Jewish
population of Philadelphia. In certain
parts of Africa and Asia the Jewish
population, although numerically small,
is proportionately high. Tunis, In
Africa, ranks next to Palestine, with
a Jewish population of 108,000 out of a
total of 1,923,217, or 6.62 per cent.
Europe, of course, contains the great
hulk of the world's Jewish population,
there being approximately 10,000,000
scattered throughout that continent of
nearly 600,000,000 people.
Russia Home of Half of Europe’s Jews
Russia furnishes a home for more than
half of Europe’s Jews. There are 5,215,806
of this race living under the czar’s au
thority. Then com2s Austria with 1,113,
GS7, and Hungary with 932,406. Germany
has 615,021. |
Of all thesa European countries, how- ;
ever, Rumania contains the greatest !
percentage of Jews. There are 259,- j
015 there out of a total population of 5,- i
956,690, a percentage of 4.52. The Jewish 1
proportion In Austria-Hungary, which in- |
eludes Bosnia-Herzegovina, is 4.42, that .
of Russia, 4.15.
Portugal probably contains the smallest j
percentage of Jews of any of the civilized •
countries. Out of this country’s total pop- j
ulatlon of 5,423,132 there are to be found 1
only 4S1 Jews, representing but .01 per
cent. In Spain there arc about 4,000 Jews
out of a total population of 19,588,688, or
.02 of 1 per cent.
Jews Flock to Great Cities.
The Jews are not an agricultural peo
ple, a fact which explains why in this
country most of them have found their
homes in the great cities. Outside of New
York, of course, Philadelphia, Chicago
and Boston contain the greatest number.
The Jewish population of Philadelphia Is
estimated at about 150,000, or a little less
than 10 per cent of the entire population.
St. i/ouis, with a total population of 687,
1029, contains 45,000 Jews, with the same
number credited to Cleveland out of a
population of 560,CG3. San Francisco, with
416,912 inhabitants, contains a Jewish pop
ulation of 30,000.
Atlanta, Ga., thrown Into a state of tur
moil over the trial and conviction for
murder of Ueo Frank, has a Jewish pop
ulation of only 4,200 out of a totul popula
tion of 154,839.
The number of Jews in the small towns
of the United States is almost negligible.
An estimate made by the industrial re
moval office shows that 50 of the prlncN
pal cities of the United States, not count
ing New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and
, Boston, contain only 287,100 Jews,
England Is In Disgust
Over Progress of War
—______
From the Kansas Pity Time*.
London, Oct. 2 (By messenger to New
fork).—At no period of tho war has doubts
»nd misgivings prevailed In England to
•uch a lugubrious extent as at the present
moment. Not even the most Incorrigible
British optimist or pro-Brltlsh sympathiz
er could, by any stretch of the Imagina
tion, pretent that the situation in England
nr for England Is either cheerful or en
rotiraglng.
Disgust, rather than downhoartedness,
la tho dominant note. Nothing happens.
Four full months of the Ideal lighting sea
ion—May to September—have gone by and
Germany Is as llrmly Intrenched In
Franco and Belgium as ever. In the Dar
lanolles 12 miles of front at a cost of
11,00# casualties (including 41,000 men lost
h the last 34 days) arc all that Lord
Kitchener was ablo to mention to parlia
ment as the results of tho tcrrltlo Gal
Ipoll campaign against tho German-led
Turks.
Of Russia one speaks only In accents of
itter despondency, which Is little alleviat
ed by Kitchener's amazing declaration
lhat the Germans In the eastern theater
'have nearly shot their bolt."
The Immlneney of Vllna's fall, the con
Inucd menacing of the Petrograd railway
4ne and the serious suggestion* that Illn
\enburg and Mackensen's limitless sweep
Vty oven have Odessa os Its objective,
..h a pounce on Constantinople and co
loration with the Turks at tho Darda
lelles as its purpose, are not evidence to
Ihe British public mind that the kaiser
has "nearly shot his bolt" In Russlu. A
| few days before Kitchener's flat footed
optimism In the house of lords, Mr, Lloyd
George wrote a preface for a compiled edi
tion of hl« "Wake Up, England!" war
speeches. In It he plainly suggested that
Russia, not Germany, had "shot her bolt."
He said:
"Poland Is entirely German. Lithuania
Is rapidly following. Russian fortresses,
deemed Impregnable, are falling like sand
castles before the resistless tide of Teu
tonic Invasion. When will that tide re
cede? When will It bo stemmed?''
If Mr. Lloyd-George's remarks In regard
to Russia mean anything, they mean that
Russia Is badly beaten—for the present at
least—and that her power, to be of the
slightest effective assistance to the allies,
Is lamed for many months to come.
With the minister of war and the minis
ter of munitions so flagrantly at odds as
to whether Russia has "shot her bolt” or
not, It Is not surprising that the distract
ed Briton collectively known as "the man
In the street," does not know what to
think.
How the casualty list has been a con
stant crescendo was shown by this tabu
lation of the foregoing five oftlclal state
ments of losses:
Up to October 31, 67,000.
Up to February 4, 104,000.
Up to April 11, 139,347.
Up to May 31. 268,009.
Up to July 18, 321.889.
As far as the British are constitutionally
capable of revealing their emotions. It
may confidently bo stated that these hid
eously heavy losses have given the nation
a profound shock.
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Speyer Sets Example
For German-Americans
•‘Holland’s’' letter In Minneapolis Journal
New York—Among other reports In
circulation In the financial district pur
porting to tell of the opposition of pro
Germans to the establishment of a loan
or credit in the United States in the name
of England and France, was one that
James Speyer would not be disposed to
participate in the underwriting of the
loan, and that he was conspicuous for
his absence from the first meeting be
tween American bankers and the Anglo
French commission in Mr. Morgan’s li
brary.
If Mr. Speyer heard these reports, they
may have annoyed him, or possibly ;
amused him. He could have said in reply
that he is now furnishing the best evi
dence of the fact that he regards himself
as an American citizen, having cheerfully
assumed all of the responsibilitl which
his citizenship involves.
Financier a Plattsburg Private.
Mr. Speyer is now engaged in military
drill in the camp at Plattsburg. He is a
private soldier, or was at first. He cheer
fully endures the excessive heat and is
making earnest attempts to master the
Vianual of arms and all of the tactics
Taught in ramp. He is bearing his full
lhare in all the work entailed upon those
Who are preparing themselves for active
service, if occasion should arise.
Mr. Speyer’«» reason for undertaking to
become trained in military tactics and
military life is a simple one. He feels that
every American citizen of proper age
should be equalifled to take up arms In
defense of the country, if at any time
that is necessary. lie is in thorough sym
pathy with all the preparations now under
way and with all the agitation now in
progress whereby American men can be
made familiar with the science and art
of war.
Very likely, Mr. Speyer, born as he was
at Frankfort, and maintaining close per
sonal and family and business relations
with Germany, looks with tender consid
eration upon that country at this time.
That, however, with him is a purely sen
timent il feeling. He recognizes no al
legiance that involves any material aid or
any loyalty except to the country that
has adopted him.
Speyer’s Advice to Young German.
Mr. Speyer's friends say that he has
good reason for feeling fully justified in
giving the best that is in him to the
United States, since it was in this country
iha,t his opportunities have come, his con
siderable fortune has been secured, and
the most cordial and sincere of friendships
have been established.
A friend of Mr. Speyer of German birth
and who is now a reservist lieutenant,
but who is and has been for some time in
business in New York, was* married two
l years ago to an American girl whose
forbears were prominent in colonial days.
To this young friend Mr. Speyer said that I
it was not only his privilege, but his duty
to take out hts first naturalization pa
pers. His counsel was substantially in
these words:
^ou are about to marry an American
girl. You have come to the United States
to accept opportunity to make at least a
comfortable fortune; you expect to gain
your livelihood here, you hope to hava
all the privileges so far as business and
opportunity are concerned that any
American possesses. You ought there
fore to become, as I have done, a citizen
of the United States, and when you be- !
come a citizen of this country you should
remember that you owo allegiance to no
other country, and that in the citizenship
conferred upon you you will gain far
more than you will give."
Whatever relation Mr. Speyer's great
banking house may have to tiie negotia
tions now under way. it Is certain that
in view of what Mr. Speyer is now doing
ft yiattsburg. and also of his counsel
to his young German friend, he will in no
way oppose the negotiations and very
likely will aecept his proportionate part
in underwriting the plan.
Fact* and Fact*.
(From the Minneapolis Journal )
The Washington correspondent of the
Journal closes a dispatch with these
words: What the German government
asks to have arbitrated is the set of
facts.
Very good But in the meantime, until
those facts are arbitrated, are the neonlA
, of the United States to accept thePwor<1
! °r a submarine commander every time
| American lives are sacrificed? There
| were the facts about the Lusitania, the
i the Gulflight, the facts about
, the Falaba, the facts about the Arab'c
; the facts about the Hesperian. About
1 what passenger ship shall we next have
| the “facts”?
I There are facts and facts, and the ques
i tlon is. whose set of facts is to he ae
i oepted ? 1 here are no denials of the fact
i that Amer cans. when upon their lawful
and rightful pursuit of legitimate bu*i
: ness, have been drowned by German sub
| marines upon the high seas. Surelv that
iact is not open to arbitration, is it?
In these days it may reasonablv take
| months »nd months before any Hague
! tribunal can hear and determine “facts.”
< uat the American people want to know
I is, does the German govennent propose
; to go on allowing her submarine com
; mainters to torpedo trans-Atlantic liners
every time they appear to he getting
ready to alter their course in such t\ way
as to interfere with the illegal and in
| humane practices of German undersea
warfare? Until we get an answer to this
; question, direct and unequivocal, all other
*■ facts” are not only irrelevant but im
pertinent.
i Not since 1864. with one exception,
has California produced so much gold
cs in 1914, when the output was worth
$20,562,196.
WHEN BOWSER WHISTLES.
BUT IT’S SO WIT
(Copyright, 1915, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
When Mr. Bowser comes home and
finds his wife lying down with her
head tied up. he's real sorry for her,
of course—lust as sorry as any hus
band could be. And, like any other
husband, he stands and surveys her
for a moment and then bluntly says:
''I expected It. Finally got down
fiat, eh?”
"it's nothing,” she faintly replies.
"Oh, It Isn’t! Nothing for a wife
to flop down and upset the whole
house, I suppose? Well, I’ve been look
ing for it the last three months, so I'm
not much surprised. Mrs. Bowser, it’s
a wonder to me that you or any other
woman In the state is not out of your
coffin."
“It's only—only a headache, dear.”
"Yes, only a headache, but what do
headaches lead to? If you are not a
dead woman by Saturday night you
may consider yourself lucky. Didn't I
warn you not to sit In a draught—not
to wear tldn shoes—not to eat too much
In warm weather? Dlttle good it does
to talk to a woman.”
"You can’t help ailing occasionally,"
she replied as she got up to wet the
bandage around her head.
‘‘Mrs. Bowser, look at me,” he said
ns he struck an attitude and held one
hand aloft. “When am I ever ailing?
When do vou hear me complaining?
Never! And whv Is It? Because, Mrs.
H ALL OF THEM.
"Ah! how I suffer!" he groans. “You
may be a widow before the week is
out. I hope you will always be kind
to the cooks. I have tried to be a good
husband, and—and ”
Mrs. Bowser lays her hand on his
forehead and the tears come to his
eyes and he suddenly becomes a great
big booby. She has to hold his hand
to get him to sleep, and when ha
wakes up he wants tea and toast and
jell, and he is as petulant as a sick
baby until finally put to bed. He is a
new man when he awakes in the morn
ing, and when she asks after his throat
he replies:
"Throat! Humph! Mrs. Bowser, for
about five hours yesterday I was hov
ering between life and death. ' Had it
been you, you would have died 1 <>
times over, but grit pulled me through.”
"Grit.”
“Yes. Grit-—sand—pluck — Spartan
courage and fortitude. I let none of
you know how bad I actually was, but
just shut my teeth and determined to
live and here is the result of it. Ah,
Mrs. Bowser, if you only had a hun
dredth part of my courage and will
power you’d be a far different wom
an from what you are now—a far dif
ferent woman."
Mrs. Bowser felt that she owed him
one for that and she said:
"The minute you feel it coming on
you should start for home.”
"Eh, what do you mean?” he asked
as his face grew grave.
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fcKXlgvE. I'M Co)N& ta DIE '. *
tiuwaer—Decause i uon i cram my
stomach with watermelon, buttermilk,
gumdrops, custard pie, sweet cake,
ginger ale and all that. Because I
don’t go around with my feet sopping
wet. Because I know enough to come
in when it rains. Because I exercisfe
a little common sense in taking care
of myself.”
“Tour dinner is ready.”
"And I'in ready for dinner. A healthy,
happy person is always ready for his
meals. You won’t try to get up. I
meals. You won’t try to get up, I sup
pose ?”
“Not now."
“Well, you have only yourself to
blame. You mav learn in time, but I
doubt it. I’d like to find one woman
with about two ounces of horse sense
in her head, before I die, but I don't
expect to do it. Well, it can’t be helped,
I suppose. The Lord made you that
way, and it's no use to argue.”
Mr. Bowser eats his dinner, smokes
his cigar and sings and whistles as
if the slightest notes didn’t go through
her aching head like a bullet. It never
occurs to him to fan her, wet the
bandage or aak if she can’t sip a cup
of tea. It does occur to him, however,
to say about bedtime:
“I'm Borry, of course, but then you
must have more sense. I’ll go up to
bed and you can come when you get
ready. If you are going to kick around
much, you'd better sleep in the spare
room.”
Now and then the tables are turned.
Mr. Bowser comes home to lunch drag
ging his legs after him and looking
pale and very much scared.
“What's the matter?” asks Mrs.
on tiptoe ana even the cat is put out
and the clock stopped. After his throat
has been tied up, his shoes taken off
and a quilt thrown over him. Mr.
Bowser plaintively inquires:
“Don't you think you’d better send
for a doctor?"
“Not just yet, dear. I don't think
it's very serious.”
“Mrs. Bowser. I believe I’m already
struck with death!”
Nonsense! You’ve just got a little
inflammation of the tonsils.”
“I’ve felt for some days as if a great
calamity hung over this household.
Hadn’t we better have two doctors?”
“Just try and go to sleep, Mr. Bow
ser. and I'll warrant you will feel bet
ter by night.”
“The chill.”
"What chill?”
"Mr. Bowser, you were a very sick
man last night, and though you say
you are all right this morning you
may have a relapse.”
"Do—do you think I will?”
"One can't say In such cases. How
ever, at the first sign of a chill, you
start for home. You had best come in
the ambulance.”
“But I don't believe I shall have a
chill.”
Mr. Bowser stood around for five
minutes, and then slowly left the
house, and when outside the gate he
muttered to himself:
"It's the strangest thing in the
world that I can never get the bet
ter of that woman!”
Mrs. Bowser, as the reader well
knows, is not a revengeful person.
However, she got to feeling that she
had let Mr. Bowser off too easy in
this instance, and after giving him
time to reach the office she telephoned
him.
“I just wanted to ask If you got
over without a chill.”
“Did I? Of course I did,” 'he roared
back.
“I'm so glad.”
Then she called In a neighbor to
ask over the wire:
“Aren’t you taking terrible chances,
Bowser?”
“What do you mean?" was asked.
"Why, getting up off a dying bed
to go to the office! Watch your feet
like a hawk. If they begin to get cold
you hump for home at once.”
An hour later she got the wife or
a neighbor to come In and say:
"Oh, Mr. Bowser, I’ve heard of how
near you came to your grave. This is
Mrs. Forbush, you know.”
"Urn!"
"The whole city feels that it had
rather lose the mayor than Bowser,
so do be careful. If you feel one sin
gle shiver—"
Another grunt and Mr. Bowser hung
up. Then Mrs. Bowser came in with:
"Have you got your feet in a dish
of hot water?"
“Not by a darned sight!” he whoop
ed. but I" 11 get you in hot water when
I come home.”
But he didn”t. He was as good as
pie, and without being asked to he
gave her money for two pairs of 75
cent stockings reduced to 45 cents a
pair.
Why the Boers Are Helping England.
In his article. "Germany's Exit From
Africa,” in tile World’s Work, Lewis
K. Freeman tolls of an Interview with
a successful Boer banker, who, speak
ing of their last war with England
and its results, says: “There is still
an ache in some of our hearts for
things the war cost us. But the sense
of justice is highly developed in the
Boer, and we cannot deny that under
the fair, square, helpful regime of the
British we have become better off in
10 years than we would have been in
50 under Paul Kruger. They have left
us our language, self government—
everything, in fact, we had before—
and have brought us progressivenesa
and prosperity. A new national feel
ing—an imperial one, I mean—i3 de
veloping among the Boers, and in tim«
it will be as strong as the old one for
which we poure-1 “‘t so in"<-h blo-aL"
IZ-ZSSZI
" ««4,BOWSt'H, UoK AY ME *
Bowser as soon as he steps into the
house.
"clot a sore throat and I feel fev
erish. I—1 think I'm goirg to bo
sick!"
She doesn't call out that she ex
pected it. and declare that no husband
in the world lias sense enough to look
out for his health. She knows that ho
was out in a draught in his shirt
sleeves, hut she doesn't even mention
it. On the contrary, she remarks:
"Try and eat a little something and
then lie down. You’d better gargle
your throat and then tie it up."
"Do you think it's anything serious?”
he whispers as he grows paler.
“1 hope not. but it’s wiser to be on
the safe side. You are subject to
quinsy, you know, and spinal menin
gitis begins just this way."
"I believe I’m going to die," gasps
Mr. Bowser, and he grows so weak
that she has to take off his coat and
vest and get him on the lounge. Every
thing ubi "• hous* is ordered to go
SET ADRIFT BY ILLUSIONS
Young Mortal Allows Himself to Be
Swayed by Conditions That Sur
round Him.
There is no chance and no anarchy
in the universe. Every god is there
sitting in his sphere. The young mor
tal enters the hall of the firmament;
j there he is alone with them alone;
I they pouring on him benedictions and
gifts, and beckoning him up to their
thrones. On the instant, and inces
santly, fall snowstorms of illusions.
He fancies himself in a vast crowd,
which sways this way and that, and
whose movements and doings he must
obey; he fancies himself poor, or
phaned, insignificant. The mad crowd
drives him hither and thither, now fu
riously commanding this thing to be
done, now that. What is he that he
should resist their will and think on
himself? Every moment new changes
and new showers of deceptions to baf
fle and distract him. And when, by
anb by, for an instant, the air clears
and the cloud lifts a little, there are
the gods still sitting around him on
their thrones—they alone with him
alone.—Emerson.
New Definition.
“The study of etymology," says the
Philadelphia Record, “causes no end
of trouble among that class of school
children whose knowledge of English
is limited to words which figure in the
ordinary street conversation, and
many curious results have followed.
The custom usually observed by the
teachers is to require such a definition
of the word, then its derivation, and
finally a sentence in which the word
is properly used. The word “ligament"
fell to the lot of a rather diffident boy
recently. He defined it properly as "a
band,” but followed up the correct
derivation with this remarkable sen
tence: “I was wakened up last night
by hearing a brass ligament going
down the street.”
Unfortunately Not Accomplished.
Vagrant—Sir, I was captured in in
fancy by the Indians and reared in
ignorance of all civilized usages.
"Well, what of it?"
"Why, I don't know how to lie,
steal, boast, bluff or toady, and I'm
starving to death."—Life.
Trouble Enough for the Present.
Junior Partner—I think Mars is in
habited.
Senior Partner—Until this war is
over, Jake, we will stick to our regular
customers! —Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Getting the Doctor.
Ira Collins calls to our attention the'
difference that forty years has madn
in the old time run for the doctor.
Forty years ago a runaway team in )
jured a man on the Nemaha bottom.'
A neighbor saddled one of those fa
mous race horses bred by the Smiths,'
Mormets and Wittwers and raced hint
to Sabetha, 18 miles away, for old Doc
tor Irwin. When he turned in the1
head of Main street he commenced to
shout, “Oh, doc, oh, doc, d-o-c,’’ and
the doctor was on the spot with his
thoroughbred old Monk and raced
away on the last lap for the life of the
Nebraskan. It took two hours and
thirty minutes to pace that 3G miles.
A short time ago a hay fork jumped
from the roof of a big barn near Whit
ing and stabbed the operator twice in
the chest. The injured man was bun
dled into the farmer's auto and 'a 38
minutes was upon the operating table ^
in Sabetha, 2G miles away.—Leaven
worth Times.
Motor Progress.
“Now our new 191G patent negotia
ble runabout is the latest thing on thri
market,” said tho agent. '
"What’s the advantage?" asked the,
prospective buyer. ' J
“To begin with, it is a dividend- 9
bearing car,” said the agent, "but in* .
addition to that we have arranged;
with national and other banks in all/ '
parts of the world to cash ’em on sight
if the owner ever gets hard up.”
Usually the Case.
“You owe it to yourself."
“In that case, there's no hurry, b
find myself a very lenient creditor."—]
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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depends upon the kind of food. In many cases the
daily dietary lacks certain essential elements for keep
ing brain and body at their best.
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