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The Evening *World’ DmeyMagazine. ec i 1905. ‘ 00009060090-6-65060000006TD004904-900000200000200000 4006 weer secorerorecsosesoooooiesee | Mian The Rough Rider to the Rescue—By J. Campbell Cory!) Higher Up: . raph) ; ») Sh ad ® | SatundayKAEvenin by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 63 Pack Row, New York, oh Batered st the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clase Mall Matter, ; - \ \ 58068 UME 465. soceseeesee NO, 15,971, THE LITTLE PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE, XITI.—Moderation. (All the philosophies, anclent and modern, seek to inculcate the virtue Moderation. Solon’s rule of life was: “Nothing in excess.” Euripides “Moderation is the noblest gift of Heaven.” And Bishop Hall, writ- Wg 2,000 years later—now 300 years ago—expressed the same thought the fancifulness of his time: “Moderation is the silken string running thrgxigh the pearl chain of all the virtues.” ° * By Martin Green. $67 re responsible for a miscarriage of justice in the Nan Patterson case,” “Ho must have changed his brand,” replied the Man Higher Up. “It there was any miscarriage of Justice, it {6 up to the District-Attorney and his wise young men who engincered the case, The law provides that the question of the guilt or innocence of @ person accused of murder shall be left to a jury of twelve men, a “There were two juries in the Nan > | Patterson case, Both disagreed. Of »|the total of twenty-four men who were given the evidence against Naa SHY,” eafd the Cigar Store Man, “that Distriot-Atioruey, Jerome says the hewspapers 4 SRCSO e ‘As a state of mind moderation implies calmmess, equanimity. As a "tulle of action it forbids whatever Is excessive or violent. In the conduct ' of life it imposes temperance and frugality. In the formation of opinions Or beliefs it guards against extremes, \ a The injunction, “Let your moderation be seen In all things,” fs, how: ) @ver, somewhat easier to give than to take in all cases. Some men are | born moderate, and some cannot have moderation hammered into them even by the heaviest blows of circumstance and experience. D302 OLD COO VS FY BOOHE OGG FGHGVO0F000 995609906096 2H2G99 G99 Perhaps it is better so. Many of the greatest deeds done in the world Bi cidaah agitel the lees ould never have been accomplished by men of moderation, Fancy a %|he District-Attorney didn’t make ) E moderate Luther, Napoleon, Bismarck, Garrison, Phil Sheridan or Paul Sj out his case, It is doubtful ff any ‘ “Wones! The progress of the world seems to require the constant recur-| ® other District-Attorney could have done better, at that. “There is a whole lot of sentiment against the District-Attorney’s office * on the strength of the Nan Patter- $ (so case, and Mr, Jerome knows it. | Probably he has a few epistles from | Indignamt taxpayers on file in asbes- tos envelopes. He promised, through his main squeeze, Mr. Rand, to prove _ a that Nan Patterson killed Caesar Young. And he says he proved it, , Some men can con themselves easier than they can con anybody else “The last Nan Patterson trial wee run like a circus, and the Distriet- Attorney's assistants played the leading parts, Thay catered to the rence of men who are not temperamentally or by training limited in the Wegree of energy, activity, excitement or passion which they can display {when the-oocasion calls. e * But*for the mass of men the middle course—the moderate way—is Woubtiess best. This is the law of nature. The trees do not blossom as one turns on an electric-light. The beautiful and ever-wonderful trans- formation scene now unfolding in all the glory of mid-May in park and field and country is an illustration of Nature's way of doing things. How slow, how patient, yet how certain and perfect is her method of everlast- $ag moderation! *. Sometimes the elemental forces break forth In fury. The soft winds ~ become a tornado; the invisible and mysterious “electricity,” which per- vatles the earth and envelopes the universe, takes on the terrifying form. ODD D2DODOL of lightning, with its “thunder crash; ‘These are variations of Nature, Parallel to the ebullition of man when ordinary affairs of life. ” the peaceful river becomes a de- lve torrent; the softly rhythmical tides of the ocean rise in awful might and sweep away the puny obstructions raised by presumptuous fan. ance of temper—some abnormality of mood. * * The rule of moderation applies most uniformly and helpfully to the uc The man who has learned to be moderate in his eating, his drinking, his’ work and his pleasures has mastered the chief art of right Hving and long lasting. The persons who are “digging their graves with their teeth’ through over-eating probably outnumber those who are courting prema- ‘And they furnish a kind of Titanic he “breaks loose” in some extrava- slushy sentimentality that always surrounds the trial of a woman for murder in this town, New York | feeds on sensations. The people here trict-Attorney’s office had been spe- clally engaged to furnish sensations in the Nan Patterson trial it couldn't | have made a heavier stagger. No- ‘ody knows the appetite of New Yorkers for strong situations better than Mr. Jerome. Hoe dealt them out when he was running for District-At- torney and has been dealing thom out ever since, If he has overplayed his public he ought to be wise as to live at forced draught, If the Dis- © where the blame lies,” “Ot course,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, “it would have been a great boost for Mr. Rand tf he had convicted Nan Patterson.” “Yes,” agreed the Man Higher Up. “There appears to be an impreseion | in eo1re quarters that the city pays fat salaries to young Assistant Dis- trict-Attorneys for boosting their own game.” ture death through over-drinking. “Notting in- excess” ts as wise a rule now as when the Greek philosopher framed it. . s e si If the movement for an “eight-four day” and the rush for “easy * places” are to continue there would not seem to be much need for preach- ing moderation in work. Yet those who join In these movements are In “a”small minority, and they seem to be unaware of the fact that no great "success was ever won In this world by a man who was limited to eight hours’ work in a day, nor by one whose first desire was for an easy job. There is such a thing as too much moderation. + It is still true, in spite of these tendencies, that the men who are "working for themselves—in the professions, in business, in arts or trades— too generally work immoderately, They are in too great a hurry to get rich or famous, They exhaust their capacity for enjoyment before they ere ready to seek it, Of all the Dead Sea fruit in this world that Is the bit- terest which takes the form of a “success” that comes to a physical or nervous-wreck who never practised the ee of moderation, * . % $OOOOO9$-9O90O0080660096-605-60500F 06666606600004-96 HPOLDIDOLEAGDIL DHHS HHODOOSH # The Day’s Doings in the District-Attorney’s Office 2 # HB District-Attorney and his staff met as usual to-day “Rand,” sald the District-attornoy, “don’t take it po hawi, old fellow. for cigarettes and consultation, Deputy Assistant Dis-| We may get hold of an actor next time and what we will de to him will triot-Attorney Charles Chadwick sat quietly in a corner | will uggregate immensely, After ail, Nan Patterson was only a chorus girl. biting himself hoarsely, Suppose we should get hold of Oscar Hammerstein! He took a policeman's Here it was almost 10 A. M, and he hadn't licked | overcoat by mistake from the cloakroom of his theatre, There was a kid & cabman for hours! It was really too bad, don’t you} glove in one of its pockets. Why, we can arrest him for kidnapping, can’t} know! wo? Let's get busy!" Mr, Chadwick had lived in New Jersey so long “I think you might let me have another trial. Nan Patterson was that ¢t wes getting upon his nerves, Trouncing cabmen was the only; only in the Tombs a year, I have u whole lot of things to say about myself, ”, thing thet soothed him, } and, besides, how lovely I was when I was crushing Abe Levy.” “Stick to one thing, spend less than you earn”—was the motto ‘Ten o'clock! It was really too bad! And Charles Chadwick thought “Ah," replied the District-Attorney, ‘but remember what England's ‘which a business man, successful after many vicissitudes, had printed on bitterly of his lost opportunities. He gazed down in the street at a Mounted | Laureate, Alfred Auatin, said about he'd rather have something or other} * acard to give to every office or errand boy who came under his notice, | wcAdoo and for a moment he thought of golug down and pulling him off his| ‘than the crushings of all the Rand!’ ” | x “Resolve to spend no more than half of any increase of yearty In-| high horse, The voice of his chief recalled him. “Nobody remembers anything Alfred Austin sad,” muttered Rand, _pome; invest the rest or put It In a savings bank and leave It there,” was “another plece of advice to young men, which many of them, looking’ back after-many years, will wish they had followed, * @ * 1** tmo-moderate oun ambitions by our abliities; to moderate our desires ‘with sanity; to moderate our work with wisdom; to moderate our opin- fons with charity; to bear adversity with fortitude, and to look out that snecess shall not make us one of “fortune’s fools"—this is the sum of a By Roy L. McCardell. “and anyway he'd no business to talk that way about me,” At this instant there was @ loud detonation that brought all present to their feet. An investigation showed that it was Ohtef Clerk Henneberry's Annual report that he was very apxious for everybody to listen to. A glance at it showed that !t was full of etatistics and all the trials were classified into tables. Giving one look at the gambling tables in the report, the District-Attorney seized an axe from among his stationery and smashed them to pieces, ° ®& “To return, to the Nan Patterson case,” sald the District-Attorney, after the dust died down, “it was toe bad we had to turn her loose, We might have made a continuous performance of trying her, for, as you know, ‘If at. first you don't succeed, why, try, try again!’ We are young, Nan Patter- son js young, and Young was young, and the whaje business was so de- lightgully expensive.” “Personally,” said Mr, Rand, “there was nothing against her but the indictment.” Po |e : ‘As moderation !s another name for temperance, so ft fs for frugality. i {To be moderate in expenditures {s the first determination that a young couple should make, IDOLLOODECDLD4-DO4OOH9D 149400909008 OOS OH IO09O9OO: DEODS 2O9OIYH0OD ‘The ‘‘Open Shop”’ at theRace Track # By T. E. Powers; OOSDDOOS philosophy to live by and die by. Apply to Pension Commissioner, Washington, D. 0. To the EAltor of The Bwening World: My father died in 1867 through slok- nesi contracted while serving with a ‘New Jorsey regiment during the ctvil war. Have never bothered about get- {Ing pension, I would ike to know if I could get it now, and to whom I should apply, c, MN, A Nine-Yenr-Old's Ennay, To the Editor of The Evening World Whe coww'p ts one of the finst spring flowers, Tt Is to be found in the mead- ows. ‘The green leaves ane vory near the ground, The plant has only one @adk, on which, ane sot about four to {mix Ibttie blossoms of different colors, ‘ut mostly fair yellow, In the middie Whey are a Mtile darker, Bach blossom five leaves, The cowslip is bloom- am March tl May, and often the look quite yellow from this NOEMI TOWNSEND, Nine years old. hd 50,889 Sy. M. Ireland 82,583 The People’s Corner. Letters from Evening World Readers POCEIOOE: ways, believing that even under the control of the politicians matters could not be much worse on our “rapid tran- ait” lines than they are now, Last evening I climbed the stairs to tne Forty-second street uptown station of the Seoond avenue “L." I waited twelve minutes by the clock before a train appeared, and then it was only @ three-car train, crowded to the doors, compelling me to stand on the plat- form, At One Hundred and Forty-ninth treet I transferred to a Third avenue train, but before that came along I had DOSOIO to walt six minutes, All this time was between 10 and 11 o'clock, when traffic was quite heavy and when care ahould have been run accordingly, and would | « be so run under proper management, FORDHAM. Hot Weather Suggestions, To the Editor of The Evening World: Now that hot weather te wt hand, have some sugKestions ti the benefit of everybody! Lat thee be open cars this summer on the WAiltor of The Evening World: ‘th has the more square miles, . Ireland? JAMDS M'CAFFREY, “Rapla” Tranait. Sixth and Ninth avenu as we! M1 as on the Third, Let the Fifty-ninth street _orosstown_ troll open cars: "Let Bronx Bask" be Be OS the public every day, “Let ail the beaches arrange for cvening buthing {nd not close ut 7 P.M. just as New beginiit workens are hare, Thee are. bit. aio and ine : ' i ont, "sownebot > | have tried the | got hunk.” ) >| ‘it you have the habit,” > | sata 5 | against her,” > | terson's?"” “We Must Get "We made a big mistake all through the whole case,” said Mr, Chadwick, gloomily, “We should bman. I was fined $200 for lickin, }one, and I want to * “Get a hunk of money and Iick an- other,” satd the District-Attorney, “It, was just as well to release her,” Assistant District-Attorney Townsend, ‘‘we can’t prove anything The Dietriot-Attorney Gelzed an Axe, “We can prove she wan riding In a cab,” said Mr. Chadwick, “and thet always leads to violence, 1 know it does in my case, why not in Nan Pat- “Very true, Mr. Chadwick!” charge of the case the next trial, and as I have a staff of very handeome men, I want you all to have @ tnrn at it, # you oan get your pictures papers, too.” . ‘And don’t forget,” interpoged Mr, Chadwick, “that the tragedy oo cttrred in @ hansom cab, And, in my opinion, the man real ‘Man Higher Upt'" ¥ aarti eeu who drives a hansom. ; ‘ i satd the District-Attorney, ‘You shall have |