TOe Parett Poat This is a story of the Piarcel Post The Parcel Post Is the humble Instrument of a beneflcient government of a beneficent government to shower benefits on its common people. (For further particulars see reports and ad dresses of the Honorable PostmasterGeneral.) In a similar way (or Is it to be a similar way?) the gifted representatives of the same government purpose, If the American people will let them, to make the telephone, the telegraph, and the railroads an agenIn March, books were transferred to the rourth-class or parcel post division of the postal service. Heretofore they have paid a rate of 1 cent for 2 ounces, which was uniform for shipments to all parts of the country. Under the parcel post classification the same matter is carried at pound rates, the amount of the rate depending on what one of the eight zones into which the country is divided the point of destination lies in. Note the result! This is an actual case. Two hundred and three pieces of printed matter weighing, when wrapped, 20 ounces each, were to b« sent to various points, embracing practically the entire country. At the old rate, each package would have cost 10 cents: the total bill would have been $20.30. Under the new regulations the cost is $29.67. The increase is practically 60 per The new rates are pound rates. These packages weighed a pound and p quarter each. They were transported by the government at rates for 2 pounds. There is no intermediate rate. Fractions of a pound are regarded as a full pound. The following table shows the results in detail. The number of pieces for each zone, the cost at old rates the cost \at parcel post rates, and the increase in cost, each appears in a separate column. Cost Cost at InNumber at old Parcel creaZone Pieces Plates Rates Cost Canada 6 $ .50 $ .50 Local 22 2.20 1.32(8). 86 First 0 .60 .48(3). 12 Second 22 2.20 2.20 Third 26 2.60 3.12 .62 Fourth 25 2.50 3.60 1.00 Fifth 41 4.10 6.56 2.46 Sixth 24 2.40 4.66 2.16 Seventh 9 .90 1.81 .91 Eighth 23 2.30 6.62 3.22 203 $20.30 $29.57 $9.27 (s) means saving at new rates. Another incident of the Parcel Post A package mailed Monday evening in New York is delivered in Philadelphia Wednesday noon. Truly this is a beneflcient service! A couple of years ago the government "smashed" one of two trusts in order to protect the public from the exorbitant prices, of monopoly'. Prices of the products dealt in by these trusts rose materially. The Parcel Post is said to ha e schedule the public pays more than before and gets inferior' service. Wat'r In Waterbury At a recent Socialist meeting held in the city of Bridgeport. Conn., the statement was made by one of the speakers that the town of Waterbury in the same state, was yarning $225,000 a year in its water department. This remark seemed so far from the fact that an Inquiry was sent to Waterbury . The officials of thvat city have kindthe express companies. But in this ly forwarded a report of Waterbury's financial transactions which disclosed fully the conditions existing in the water department. On page twenty - four of the annual report it is found that the net income is $84,6880 for the year 1913 on ,an investment of nearly $3,000,000. All Waterbury city departments pa* something to the water department for the use of water. This total amounts to within a few dollars of $31,000 a year. Up to date the city is bonded for $1,500,000 for its water investment and has expended about $1,200,000 more. If no further bonds are issued the city expects to pay off all its debt for water purposes by the year 1972. By that time it will havt paid out In bonds and interest a total of $5,773,012, exclusive of other possible issues. Allowing simply for the property valuation of the plani at the investment figure of $2,791,720 it will be found that, with the net Income of $84,680. the city is earning three and one-third per cent on its capital. As for service, it is needless to recall the near approach -o water famine which Waterbury experiences every time there is a slight dry spell For ye^rs there has not been a summer without serious discomfiture in this direction . One thing is certain, there is no such earning- power as our Socialis friend claimed. He probably took the statement of receipts, which is about $213,000, Including as we showed above, payments to the amount of $31,000 by every city department as "the earnings." without considering the expenses.— The Post. Bridgeport, LIFE AND DEATH A minister who guarder his morning study hour very carefully told the new maid that in no circumstances were callers to be admitted— except, of course, he added, in case of life and death. Half an hour later the maid knocked at his door. "A gentleman to see you sir." "Why. I thought I told you" "Yes. I told him," she replied; "but he says it's a question of life and death." So he went downstairs — and fdund an. Insurance agent. Hungary's p sasants are the worst fled— potatoes, cabbages. and, for meat, goat's flosh twice a year. ,

FRATERNAL HOMES At the Masonic Home of Pennsylvania. Last religious service Sunday. Cassia Lodge, No. 273, I<\ and A. M., Arduiore. Rev. Bro. Alfred S. Dingee, pastor of the Cumberland Street M. E. Church, supported in music and song by the choir of the above church and a mnle quartet The Rev. Dingee read from the Scripture the story of Samson and took experience and power of Samson as a text, and delivered a sermon of power and uplift to humanity. The superintendent, on behalf of the management and residen s of the Home, expressed thanks to Lodge, preacher and choir, and announced for next Sunday Oriental Lodge. No. 3S5. F. and A. M. Rev. A. \\ . Barr is pastor of Frankford Avenue Baptist Church, assisted by Oriental Quartet, at 4 P. M. Religious servlte ai the MasonicHome of Pennsylvun a last Smwnay. Fraternal Homes. At the Odd Fellows' Orphanage, Doylestown Lodge, No. 94. Professor J. Harry Hoffman, snpcrinieudeat of schools of Bucks county, spoke on "The Bringing Up of Children,' which was the principal address. Other addresses were made by president of tile llome, Charles Richardson, and Robert 1-oue, of the Education Committee. Music by the eboir of the Third Baptist Church of German. own, the children of the Home and the Home's orchestra. At the Odd Fellows' Home last SunJay, Spring Garden l.oifge, No. 91). Rev. Richard ltndcliffe. pastor St. Maihew's M. E. Church. Smgmg by the Male Quartet of the same ckureh and Miss Mabel Macdonald, Professor C. >V. Carroll, accompanist. In the absence of Thomas Sipps, president of the Home, the vice president, William Bunt, made an address and welcomed the visitors, thanking ah who participated, and announced Ivy iWKlge, No. 29t>, for next Sunday. Rev. A' a Iter B. Greenway, pastor of Gaston Cresbyterian Church. Singing, by the Junior Choir from the same church. At the Rebeknh Home the services were in charge of the Episcopal City Mission, Rev. T. J. Van Bureu. The music was in charge of Miss Kachel Davis. Mrs. Neilman, president of the Home, thanked all taking part in the NEW VICTOR RECORDS Opera Singers Well Represented ir. Company's Monthly Output. Among the most popular of operatic selections, the quartet from "Kigoletto' holds a high place. The new Victor list includes this quartet, and it is beautifully done by Lucrezia Bori, Josephine Jacoby, John McConnuck and Reinald W«n-enrath. Then there is to-be beard .lie beautiful -voice of Lucrezia Bori in the dainty Spanish air, "Malagueua." McCormack sings witli fervor and expression tbe popular "Because," and he with violin obligato by Fritz Kreisler. The admirers of Schmanu-Heink will iicar with the greatest delight her sing.ng of "Good Morning, Sue." Then there .8 Tetrazzini in the brilliant "Guiding Star of Love" from "Linda di Chamou uix." Margurete Ober, of the Metro politan, is finely represented with Schubert's "To the Music." Arditi's spark ling "Love Waltz" souuds entrancing from the throat of the gifted Frieda Hempei, and Alma Gluck siuga witt fine feeling the "Serenade" of Tosti From "La Traviata," I'asquale Amatc has chosen "The Home in Fair Province,'* and Giovanni Mnrtinelli is heartto great advantage in "Strange Har mony" from "La Tosca." "The Hear) Bowed Down" is sung by Clarence VVhitehill. ETan Williams' tenor it heard in "Tbe Cross." Then there art violin solos of worth played by Maud Powell and Maximilian Pilzer, A "Lob ■ngrin" fantasia is played on the 'eel >y Ro8ario Bourdon. In band selectio or dancing and for mere cutertainme. here are is grent variety of the new. ompositions, and then there are umo ntertainers, Raymond Hitchcock, Ha ■y Lauder. Nora Bayes, George Mi 'arlane and Margaret Koiuaine on I ist. Hawaiian folk songs are played he Toots Paka Troupe, and lig peras are culled from to give the Vior and other singers - some novel ai uteres ting offerings. An education eeord gives an idea of the singing • Glacier Park Indians. Indeed, the li aspect Won Medals for Pure Milk. The success of the Supplee Dairy, - this city, in national and internatioi exhibits was continued in the Nation Dairy Show, which has just closed Chicago. Milk and cream from tli dairy won over competitors from parts of the United States and Cana. and were awarded two gold and fo bronze medals. The milk and crea were passed npou by chemists and l«i toiiologists and Government experts the bigliest authorities in the countr The Supplee milk shown rated 97 points and the cream 97 points out < a possible hundred. TO ADOPT WAR ORPHAN Philadelphia Woman Offers to Takr Belgian Girl Into Home. To Mrs. Mary Joyce, No. 2524 Nort* Fifteenth street, goes the credit of be ing the first to think of aiding the war made orphans of Belgium by adoptinthem. Mrs. Joyce has already writtei to Lady Waterlow, of London, who is taking great interest in the welfare of the Belgian sufferers, asking Iter to send a little girl to her home in this city. Mrs. Joyce said she was much affected by reading the accounts of the many homeless families and orphans the war has made in Belgium. "I have already raised a large family," she said, "but I would like to do I my mite toward helping that stricken j ( country by adopting one of these waifs j ot war."

Catherine lower, in "Vvithin the Law" • at the Walnut week of Nov. 9th

Y. M. C. A. SEEKS MEMBERS Central Branch Starts Campaign for 1000 New Men. Mor- than 400 members of the Central Branch Y. M. C. A. began work yesterday on a membership campaign which is expected to increase the enrollment of Central Branch to 0000 men. The present membership is approximately 6000. The canv nign will continue until November 7. While no oilicial figures were given out yesterday as to the first day's results, Richard E. Wilsou, who is directing the work, said that a large number joined. He declared that tbe men have gone ii.io the work with such enthusiasm and vised such novel methods of securing new members that the campaign promises to be highly successful. The results will not be divulged until the end of the first week. These interest J in the movement are •RvidcH/fC- C -gnmo -riia Cj-M -jilt is represented by members who have the physical privileges while the Blue side is composed of men representing the literary activity at the Y. M. C. A. A team composed of men having rooms on the fourth floor of the Centra! Branch have enlisted the young women living on the fourth floor of the Y. W. C. A., Eighteenth and Arch streets, in the movement The girls are distributing literature and doing their best to secure members. One of the favorite methods of getting members is the giving out of cards, which entitle the bearer to free use ot all departments at the Y. M. C. A. foi There are plenty of wedding march es — why doesn't somebody write a divorce march ? The therfemometer ofter rises to 110 In Vera Cruez.

SAY GERMANS GRAB GOLD London Finds Great Shortage of Precious Yellow Metal. London, Nov. '? — In a news item headed "Missing Gold," The Daily Mall today says: "A distinct shrinkage is visible in tbe amount of traceable gold in England. It is suggested that a great deal of missing gold is in the hands of Germans,' or has been smuggled abroad by Germans or neutrals in the employ of Germans. "During the last three months the net receipts of gold from abroad amounted to more than $150, COO ,000 sterling, and treasury notes equivalent to $150,000,000 also have been issued, but the stock of gold in the Bank of England has not increased by more than the amount received from abroad." Inquiries by a correspondent in financial circle failed to confirm such opinopfnion that since the beginuing of the war there has been some hoarding of gold, and that the few Germans returning to their fatherland are taking back small amounts. But it is held ibis is negligible, in view of the heavy gold imports. In certain circles the opinion prevails that England is gathering in gold at too rapid a rate, but on the whole, financiers are far from being alarmed over the situation. No War Prices for City Horses. Rather than grasp at the speculative prices offered for horses by agents of the European countries at war, two l.orse-denlers preferred to have a steady customer, and submitted low bids yesterday to supply horses for the Fire Bureau for 1915. Paul Connelly bid $200 a horse, and Frank Lambert, $195 a horse, of the present quality and tyne ucw in use. The prices are about the same as now paid by the city.

Cecile Dunham with the "Cracker Jack: -t the Trocadei j, W«seki( of November f

A LOOK AT THE EXCHANGES Varied Gleanings From the Columns of Cur Contemporaries. A Great Horse Trade. Tbe fact that French army officers arc here with orders to buy 20X00 horses need disturb nobody. We can spare thai i.any a month for some time to come. In 1913 It was reported that our horses num lored 20.30! ,000. an Increase of 7.000,001) a 13 years, which, considering the popu arlty of the automobile, must be record d as a remarkable growth. As the cen as valne of American horses was plnceo I *2.278.000,000, It is evident that th< reaehmen, who have $2,000.00o In tbeii oikets. are well acquainted with th< arket. for they will not want the fain-v ' reeds. While these customers are In the eouu : v. perhaps some friend of the allies will I ommend to them the virtues of the mule ' 'o military commander of the United tates won!<! take the field without a sat -factory mule equipment. Mules are lister for many war purposes than horses. They can endure more hunger, thirst and 'aligns. They are surer of foot. They sedate and philosophical than horses. Having fewer nerves, they are to be preferred for many of the activities ot a campaign. The horse is mightier and more picturesque In battle, hut for long lulled States was placed at 4.386,000. oust of them In the South and South owners in an esteem that In some cases amounts to affection, especially when A Newspaper de Luxe. i'"rom The London Chronicle. La l'resna. of Buenos Aires, which has news emanating from the German Embassy in Washington, is probably the world. Apart from a number of spacious and luxuriously furnished rooms for the offices comprise a well-equipped' library open to the general public and a suite of cient doctor, who is at the disposal of ( every subscriber, rud whose prescriptions ( arc made up free of charge on the prern- i ises. On the roof of the offices is an ear-piercing steam whistle which sounds ( whenever any special item of news is about to lie exhibited in tbe windows. Historic Castles in Arms. t From Leslie's. Yesterday Stirling and Edinburgh castles ballads and novels. This morning they 1 have changed character— are swarming diiFruoks. KegiihclSTS in kiiHE. nunii s Y and out of the portals through which ( kulglits in armor used to gallop. Long n lines of drnb-unlformed men wriggle up, s snake-like, from the basements of rail- r way stations. Armed giants iu kilts pour e down from the hills, up from the valleys. , Tbe first army to respond appeared and oisnppeared again so quickly that the spec- o tator was led to wonder If the troops bad 1 been stored in castle cellars or in tbe * railway luggage rooms. And when these « were gone, another army, larger than the nrst, began to mobilize from shops and farms and factories, in trains and motor .-ars, on foot and on horseback, they appeared by squads and by regiments. Xou aeard the thud of their heavy shoes and the skirling of pipes as you ate your breakfast; and the rumble of gun carriages and the clatter of hoofs awoke you at night Yesterday yon visited old Holyrood and its ruined chapel, trying to picture to yourself the days when battle was life's chief business, and the castle yards were . you pass there again to discoicr that Je once more is life s chief business, i war has claimed its own. A city military tents covers half of the vuro .ml the castle. A battery dashes acres.-. green, unbmhers Its field pieces, l-is away again. Cavalrymen arc herd the sheep In King's Park this morning eud of the park shepherds. A columu •ufantry swings into the winding roau ,ue foot of Arthur's Seat, and. as you .eat uphill before It, sentries sii- * ctted against the morning fight on the is.de liar your way. When you evade in and maneuver tu the other side of j hill, you see in Uudillngston village, the foot of the slope, another yau),i re extensive even than the city pf ts beside HoiyrgoJ. In Days cf Old, t Is said that cherries gipj raspberries .ere not cultivated in Em.bIu uij ppljl the feury VIII. Doubtless they were raised otlier lands prior to thin timg, but the iu uces are that they ape comparatively .odern additions to the world's regnbir tit supply. The ancient world. Indeed, would seem range to a twentieth ceutury dweller, ot only In the absence of mechanical •vices, but In the nninml and vegetable ? Introduced In Athens In the days of 'erlclcs. and there are Indications that ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON May earn a good, steady income corresponding for newspapers. We suggest subjects. No experience required. Address Press Corresponding Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia.

' " - ~ ^ , On Bloody Cemetery Hill, The Gettysburg of Mexico ' ■■ ■ ' ■ ' ' • •• * t - ' ■ ■ .. " ,'^1

VILLA'S SHARPSHOOTERS IN AN OUTPOST FIGHT - *».•) Cemetery Hill, where the bloodiest fighting- of the Torreon-Saltillo campaign in Villa's war against Huerta took place, is shown here while a hot outpost fight is going on. The site got its name from the number of soldiers ki..od in the various engagements fought here in the Madero-Diaz and the Viila-Huerta revolutions. Cemetery Hill is located just outside of San Pedro. It was here that Villa trained his fine French artillery on the federal forces under Velasco, ending in the capture of Torreon by the Constitutionalists. The loss of life in the fighting around Cemetery Hill was extremely heavy in these ten days of fighting. The illustration is one of the most remarkable war photographs ever taken. It shows one of Villa's outposts "picking up" the federals. In the center foreground is a dying Constitutionalist, his body just falling in the death throe. Around are wounded and dead, and the dreary setting is itself one of death and death's abodes. Exclusive motion pictures of these battles were taken by Mutual camera men who worked under the special sanction, of General Villa, himself a partner of the Mutual Film Corporation in this wonderful war film. It has just been put on at the Lyric Theater, the big Shubert house in New York, in seven reels, under the title, "The Life of Villa."

tic fowl was unknown in the Mediterranean world. The peach, which now survives the winters of New England, was then so tender that it seldom ripened fruit even In the island of Rhodes, with a climate much thnt of Southern California. Horses were of small size and pretty uniform type: tbe huge draft animal and the trim racer liclug alike unknown. Goats anges and lemons were unheard of, and so was sugar, its place being partly taken honey. The status of apples in that lay is uncertain, However inferior the ancients were as breeders of plants and animals, they had one point of superiority in the breeding of men. Olden warfare, waged body to body Wit cold steel, kliletfoff or enslaved the weak and cowardly, and left the brave and strong, to become sires of the next generation. Modern warfare, with longrange guns and sixteeu-lnch shells, butchers a nation's host and bravest, and leaves weaklings to perpetuate tbe race. If Socrates could make a careful study of Europe just now, would he conclude that civilization bad advanced or retrograded since bis day?

VVAR NOT TO STOP CONCERTS Philadelphia Orchestra Will Lack Only Three Members. Though announcements issued by the management of the Philadelphia Orchestra shortly after the war begun indicaled that its ranks would be lessened in no small degree by reason of many of the players having to serve their countries, it develops that only three nn-n will be missing. On Saturdny I aid Rahmig, who plays one of the double bass violins, reported to Conductor Slokowski after having been held a prisoner in Leipzig. I-Ie was incarcerated early in August and was not permitted to communicate with anyone iu this country. "'Tiii. i iTct-irwiio 7pTot-i~jiy""\vii?^(S'Tei(c n-"" ~ tl'is country until after the war is"' settled are Charles le Barhier. first trumpe- , tor; Olio Mncller, first violinist, who was represented on the program at two concerts last year's season, and Hans Himmer, 'cellist. The first named is 'ft clerk in the French War Department, and Mr. Mueller is with the German army near Berlin. He wrote that he has spare moments to devote to compo-

Daily Fashion Talks BY MAY M. ANTON A REAL COMFORT

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COTTON' eiderdown |n a rich dark-blue Is the rjiaterial that makes this robe and is one of the most satisfactory' to be bad. It is warm and light, thoroughly satisand durable as well. The trimming is silk binding. The robe is a perfectly tially masculine style and that in itself recommends it to the small boy. There are b ig patch pocke s which a j)by will fibd 'a real joy. If eiderdown iiglu-weight flannel can be used, for there are beautiful one's made for the purpose, or 'terry cloth can be used, aiid cotton ferry cloth can be- obtained in beautiful, bordered effects that are suitabje for such garments. A|.q, then ' its bath-robe blanjccts that are especially - good.' In addition to all i*3 'o'thej arj: vantages the robe is a very simplg peg to piakp, there hiding poly ti'ip finder-. plain peeves stitched to the generous urmhotttjT Cord a: id tassels seem to make fin appropriate fasten; ing and, at the waist line, the core)

p .1211 by Af,.y Man! on. is slipped under 8425 Child's Bath Robe, 2 to 8 years. ?^PsJhat hold For the 6-year size will be needed 3! 2 yards of material 27 inches wide, 2 >2 yards 36, 2^8 yards 44. with 5 i yard 21 inches wide for the bands. The May Manton pattern No. 8425 is cut in sizes for boys from 2 to 8 years of age. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of ten cents.