The evening world. Newspaper, November 19, 1906, Page 12

Need Cae By J. Campbell Cory. é B Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 82 to 63 Park Row,: New York. Eni ‘ost-Office at New York as Socond-Class Mail Matter. NO, 16,526, VOLUME AT crsesee PAS FOR THANKSGIVING. . gh away for a few things toh happen in the is s far en fulness. Thomas Collier time-to write o tun: ; Senate of t ue State Railr any could. accept the-80-C President R 2 Eederal penitent ney Jerome might If it is ish asking an im; indict one or two big criminal f Dr. Parkhurst might tak =~ know what his remedy is for ee é 2 which he denounce The Coal Trust can ako winter price an sell its coal now, when everybody wants it, a the ame price that it charged in the b—--— early_-summer, s See 7 The Standard Oil Compan‘scan cut the price of kerosene in two. The theatres can stop the speculator graft. ~ The Telephone Company can reduce the price of telephone calls. The Big Three insurance companies—the Equitable, the Mutual a “the New York Lifé— can declare a dividend to the policy-holders of big surpluses which have been withheld for the syndicate graft. The landlords can reduce rent, at least to the extent of leaving the ‘ tenants enough to buy a Thanksgiving turkey. N The School Board can require that all children must learn how to | Fead, write, -spell-and ficure befdre any ‘of their time-and thought is tak: up with fads and frill The public service corporations can pay 20,000,000 back ta ich they owe, BURN THE LUCK | (WISH | HAD GONE INTO. THE SHow BUSINESS ‘S IT BEATS: HAULING to the city treasury the 9, 19063 : TWENTY-FIVE ROMANCES « PROGRESS By Albert Fayron Terhune No. 4-SAMUEL JOHNSON—Crank' and Wictionary Maker N the worst ralnstorm of the season, one day in the middle of the if eighteenth century, a man atood on a s\ ner of Lichfcld, England. Ila was unprotected sfror 3a great coat and walted meekly, recelvir ie fee Biant in sf. and ela nd distorted with. he mutte Johnson Sngtish langu vinihin the eccentricities, AS a iid he had refi ane} 1 for Bis father one rainy day. Now thirty years later It had eccurred to ful. to take this queer y of atoning for his boyish disobedience. ieee t Johnson’ was the son of an oli bookseller. He spent his boyhood. reading ravenously every one of his father tid-lay hands on, He had @ faculty of rem. ninete though miserably poor, he we: dirty tines and phystea}—ode | Then his father lost what ee a hie Hadjhad, | For lack of tunda Saniuel was forced to leave college: without duaticn. We epent tho Next fow: years as schoolmaster, book writer, trunslator end st any. other work he could pick up. But his eccentricity, strange.appearance and overs a great drawback. His, wagging head, factal grimac ® ~¢ clothes. and Mnen and uncouth ways made a bad tm Eccentricity { S!on. If he were asked to a literary reception he was Wrecked: quite likely to create a diversion by snatching off n lady's slipper or clawing, her false hair, or by suddenly shout- Success. ing a Ine from the Lor r. At the few Sore he waa_iny figure y r volutionizer of the - but one of a thousand books hee ‘ung nerves proved dirty sloven! ver it. widow: with cbildzen na and fainted. si At twenty-six, old es himself, Sho was «tup' Johtson adored her. When husband’ was heartbroken. Johnson and his wife,:in company wi a mere boy, went to London in 1737. It was an age when moro nuthors etarved than , prospered, and when the rewards of literature were far less than those), of a longshéreman. Johnson’ hawked his manuscripts about for months, 4 | but could find no purchaser, When a publisher spoke highly of any of Loy his writings Johnson had a habit of knock the offender down. + At length he secured, here and there, odd jobs as a book writer and + _ c translator. . Garrick prodit his tragedy, “Irene,” a dismal failure that : ran only nine nights. He next brought out a twice-a-week paper, “The ,: Pp Rambler,” that attracted attention to hi and ong or two books and ~ essays that met with some degree of All this led to the great® fie achievement of his life and to the work that stamps him as one of the 7 pty immortel_makers-of progress. = i The English tongue and Engilsh lterature were growing. Certain x etymologies and lexicons were In use, but the language had no dictionary. uf worthy of the name. everal booksellers combined and hired Johnson to Es compfie, in two yolumes, a cozplete dictionary of the English language. » y For thia mammoth work he was allowed seven years time and $4,500. Ho jsou was obliged to employ a small ermy of lesser writers to help him, and | i this quickly ate up his profits, He had no rich patron, as had most writ- t ers of the time, for he could not truckle to the great. He wo} don in poverty. His wife dled, leaving him alone in the world. These were the darkest years of Johnson's Ife. His mo’ om hb had supported out ot his lean purse, also dled. and to pay her funeral expenses he wrote hia great philosophical novel “Rasselns.”” Then, in 1755, appeared his great dictionary. It was not only the first: real-English dictlonary ever published. but the clearness, scone and beau=—= tiful language of Its definitions formed a new Hterary era and caused a revolution in Mterature and lexicozraphy Now that he waa successful, the world flocked to do him homage. A! coterie of writers, actors and statesmen fo} about him. He was thelr oracle and (dol, With pempous euperlority he tyrannized over them, Ke bullled them, lectured them, made them listen In respect= COPIA fil silence to his endiess orations. At the Cheshtre Bo cieciedc { Cheese and other places of the kind he wns wont to hold Prosperity. * a species of semi-regal court, with himself ns undis- | Pen pte king and despot Hegre indotent, -shunned—worle == of all sorts and llved on his past record. “In earller years he had railed atthe custom of pension giving, styling It “pay given to a state hireling« to betray his country.” Yet when the new monarch, Georgo III., offered him a pension of $1,500 a year Johnson promptly accepted a young Scotch lawyer, | Heth was a story printed in yesterday's World | after you had chosen Irrevocably to face It at breakfast forthe rest of your 4 3 I ‘tat 3 Sallfornia, who has a | life, you could take out your sharpest penknife and whittle tt Into more approved 2 ed Out of wood. Ho buys | conto ~ perfect wife, the woman mistress of herself, though {deals fall about her th as leaves in Vallombrosa or wine agents at the French ball, wo ‘And when you tired even of that you cotild sell he hickory lady of your soul” to a elgar m: ra sign and try a new mahogany belle or a bindireye mapte bride. Witting ot worten-brides nimost makes me wiwh—myssit-a humorist — Think of the Infinite p g possibilities in the adjective ‘wooden! The wooden wife etme would oF Ww persons have grown righ on putis not half-eo-old or-so-badeit Tuo say tp ould or shouldn't. The wooden wife 9 a great saving of time and tears and temper, Every man should have What about th needed than the wooden wife. me_of these thin extent Thanksgiving should be and women whose hands are cle: above all things, do not seek ta I should ni at be 4 of asf i nd N. fon_or law tinkering et ae By RW. Taylor. (oY wove, T BELIEVE tit Buy Att MY \ciaisTM AS PRESENTS. jNOW: WHILE THEYRE CHEAP AND HIDE. 7 am ONS — cneisTOMS me | : 4 ets . = ow WALT | WHAT D0-YOU WANT SANTA CLAUS “TO BRING YOU, THIS CHRISTMAS) Ae-and perhaya “Artinde T a YEP T WERE CONG =f “][. (wow Lt HIDE 7EM Ft gust TNE] SS 5). aa RAISE fit : HERE—UNDER THE: Lis nsalas 3 ICE OF +1 BEO— UNTIL CHRISTMAS es peas 4 a De 3) Neer ween! Neves A Peddlers’ Licenses: GREAT SCHEME! Huaband Law-Bettered i GREAT CUNS! THAT}. BOY HAS FOUND “THOSE SKATES! NOW TLL HAVE TO BLY HIM, ANOTHER, PRESENT) DESE 15 ME CHRIS'MUS GIFT, KIDS The New 40-Story Singer tut aby ee i a rugs at Bh LM. ianhe Advantages Ola WOOdEN Wile 7 vq DyeNixclaiGrocley Sit ee eer ae ae a oca eure eee oe J says that he finds his Wo Feproaches would greet you, no tears; the calm, even placidity of the| biographies ever writ d be yourn| selves and bullled their benefa wooden husband? He's the only thing I can think of more ar H E J A R R FA MI LY. tion: ‘Much my be done with a Boswell religiously took down all Jobnson’s eptgrams and later published ; his recollections of the great leateographer {n one of the . ost fascinating Johnson filled his house with besrare and. he supported and who or even as he bullled the world. But at-length these mendicants died, as did many of Jonnegns clos- eet friends, Alone in the world, embittered ¢ from na cams btnation of -fatat-mnindies,the—may ed _the English: nereRe and—whe—feared death r-almost_ehilaiike inte 2] unreasonakleners, died on Dec. 13, 1784, leaving an unparalleled record of Tong andssuceesstit pattie ngatnst ctreumstances, and standing out , toreves| ax the oddest, most picturesque figure in the world of letters, ee cotchman {f he be caught young, decayed gentlefol! By Roy L. McCardell. RS,_RANGLE: dropped in. m Lets M Take off your-things, dear,” saldoMrs, Jarr, eftua ‘and I'll have some te: nade."* #ald—Mrs,—Rangie 7) ug high and low + Jarr, with feel ing, “What's ening over them, I'd like to know!) "And to Unnk what T put up with from thkt last gin sighed Rangt t's what makes 2>-made Vhy, she wouldn't permit me to go into my own kltenenp p ked her to cléan the silver time, and {f I-wnanted It dene to do itm! = e's where you made {lie great mistake!” eald Mra, Jarr, “If tt was tho best girl In tho world I wouldn't put up with one ‘mpudent word! If [ was sick abed and 2 girl answered me back Ful throw her out! “Tala leave her go once," sighed Mrs, Rangle, “but she begged so hard to come back, and I adn’t any ona-else, She did wplendit tor the nest tow dave washed and troned the Ince ourtaina without being told and gave the house a good cleaning, but in a week she was ax bad ax she'd been before.” mistake, Never take them da when you. it Ch aes od these ‘days, “by. people ae have no live In xpartments where there tsn't any work for a girl ex- make the bedsand those people, of course, can mftord to pay mors,’™ cated Mrs. Sarr, he sald she hadn't once let them 69: “They are sp sate to harry home=ss a girl better-than LE "on, 1 must feayve right now? and get a Hut, na Las saying, 1m aure no one treat jo, and Edo -te “That's where you | dren —H-{p trie, but my Qishes are washed and that. Now DO iet me “LT couldn't taste ft, nervous wreck, and tea mother and a half-grown ta no use to Ke them to be of #07 sides, take me a minutet” Hi _Leun't-toush tea except at my Yneals, or, maybe, first thing in the morn- | toast," said’ Mrs, Rangle. “Dut do you know I'm so dishearte., 41 think I will hire a Chinaman! t of want so much wages and they | dS would dle If they smoked oplum In the house, and, haat’ doclared Mra. Jarr,. "I look after the chil- t do all the rest of the work. And unless hor dd she can't go out. Iim firm about, le, "and T must really be going! I'm a ily makea me more nervous! Ly I could get a good ausiier, or an emigrant, or something.” a girl! sald Mrs. Jerr, "As soon aa you tratn and to understand a little English they leave you. Bes t girls any more, Now DO have some tea! It won't anyway, there's pone to An thus for two more hours, until Mr. Jarr came home, tn fact, did the two discuss how they hud b wronged by working girls, A tell you what,” said Mrs, Jarr to her husband, when Mrs. Rangle departed, sthdt woman only called thinking 1 Would be out, and I know she has her eye on 4 our Delia, You can't trust any women these days. Your best friend will taka | { Y away frum you! It's easy to get friends, but good girla are mighty scarce! Me Pe ana when Mra, Rangle got homo she explained the lateness of suppor by eny= | ing Mrs, Jarr had talked her into a headache, and never even offered her a cup i of tea, “Although.” Mra, Rangle added, make it! “pd do without a girl forever before Td be in such abject terror.of such ‘worthless, untidy, impudent servant as Mra, Jarre ha ‘And to their wivos both Mr. Jarr and Mr, Rangle spake, etying: ‘What's the-{ matter with you women? I could employ @ hundred people and not have tha 1y trouble you have with one girli” "T suppose she was afraid to ask her girl ta ( 1