The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1907, Page 16

Across the North River, in Jersey City, the captain of theé First] Precinct was put on trial\before-the Police. Commisstoners, charged with failing to suppress policy shops and ‘handbooks. Tt is reported: that | fhuman nature is much'the same in, New Jersey as on Manlyaittan Island, and that gamblingiand:othersimmorality occur occasionally in one place as Captain Kellyfs defensetis»that -he has suppressed policy and~betting | horseraces-and-that-he tias_even driven the handbook’ men away Daily Ma gaz ine, the saloons on Pavonia avenue, In his defense ‘he called*two-walu- ”\ ‘The pawnbroker did not pretend to be conversant withrgambling ‘In ‘the neighborhood, \except so-far asiitaffected his-business. _In that.respect it was a good thing. The more gambling. the more people brought ings to thé .pawnbroker, and the less: gambling, the less there was. for ‘An the police captain's \favor, and, sald that si busy the pawnbrokerttnsiness had-fallen'off, - : CT state of facts, reversed-In his-case. ince-the- captain-had-become ing doing, because I did not have |‘ any bad debts out.’ When- my: cus- tomers don't play have the money to:pay-their grocery} bis 24 — 7 (The butcher, the baker, ‘the dac- . tor and the undertaker would have doubtless testified to. the same effect vas Grocer. Goetzig. The money ; : “which supporis-the-policy-shops atid poolrooms and makes their\ backers rich comes in the end from the ¢hildren of the neighborhood. amen fees, -thelr-attention-is-diverted from—their-employment.to_the_policy.| i@ and the racétrack results. ~ This makes them inefficient “work- tnefiiciency leads to their being laid-off, when they spend their a eons hanging around _pool- : i fooms or saloons with tickers and ig clothing oroker’s. z the ‘same test\as that applied * Pavonia ayenti¢ would work out the same manner on-a much at will the quotations for U, P., S. P. and his other stocks, ~ Mr, can push Inter.-Met. up‘or down, 2s fhe pleases. The insiders, who every big corporation and trust, decide beforehand whether “qliofations shall rise or fall, and to what-extent. : ; | “This ,{s like crooked faro with sanded cands, or a roulette wheel ihr hidden springs and the pockets gulded by the operator's foot, The “only. way_for any one to win at any of these games fs'to sit fi-whensome her lamb is being skinned and copper the skinning process. But. even p2 er-toyic.—Based on thisexperience, the pawnbrokertestified | - He saidi “Iamrsure there was:noth-|"* roces, the butcher and the baker,.and the mothers, the wives and the Fal MARRYING IN A HURRY. By Maurice Ketten, DARN THAT BUTTON! IT SLIPS Ate / THE TIME The Buttons on the Back. Frayinow : LONG WAISTED)” You ARE SYOU-SKIPPED. A BUTTON R. lesa than six emperors ruling it. Only one of this aextet—Constan- } _| Bridge, near Rome, on. Oct. 28, 812 ‘SIXTY HEROES - { WHO MADE HISTORY ) Albert. Payson Terhune. es | No. 9-CONSTANTINE—The Hero Who Made the Cross Hia_ Banner. OOH, in 306 A.D. was in. the rather ridiculous posttion of having na tihe—deserved any special mention: “Within eighteen~years he had crushed his Nye colleagues nd-reigned tione: = Rome was hastening toward itn final downfall. 6ince Augustus'’s tins St had been governed by a series ef such amperors as would have sufficed to wreck a still stronger empire. Tiberius, Caligula and Nero—the firet a scoundrel and the other two madmen—hed undermined Imperial authority} and given sane people a contempt for emperors. Then various generals and politicians had successively seized the throne, often Heposing or murdering their predecessors. Of old Romé had kept ter more distant-colonies in mubjection_by-a wise-f-stern_rile,But_of late theso colonics were waxing Aiscontented and were beginning, more or Jess openly, to defy thelr mas _| ters.: The empiro was so great and 60 rich as to become top-heavy and to threaten to fall apart by reason of its own unwieldy ‘bulk.- No longer did.a singls man hold the reins of power. Tho territory was divided into an — eastern and a western empire, the former embracing Europe, the latten the , Constantine's father mms a nobleman who had been adopted by one’ of these emperors. and had succeeded to the throne: The three western, i ‘emperors—Constanfine, Maximinian and Maxentius—quarrelled. The two. : { latter ‘conspired to overthrow the former. Constantine wasted no time ia . : counterplotss Hé promptly attacked Maximinian, beat him In battle and forced him to commit sutcide, Then be turned his attention to Maxentius, In a sertes of battles he defeated his rival's troops and ended the campaign by killing Maxentius and routing his army in a great battlo at Milvian y De This left him sole emperor of the west. = ‘ A During the campaign against Maxentius, when despairing of coping with his foe's superior numbers, Constantine déclared that he saw in the a-day'siy a flaming Cross and under it the word, n Hoc Signo Vinces" (‘In this emblem you shall con- quer"), He at once ordered the cross and inscription to be elnbroidered on’ h’e royal banner and was hence- vase forth victorious. Whether Constantine really thought fe saw such s vision or if he merely sought to win favor with the evér- increasing nunrber—of-Christisns who -were—beginning-to-make thoelr—in= Nuencé felt throughout Europe, no one-can know. -irf-either-case-the story was belleved-and Christians by the thousand became his-stanch ales. _ Sliticé the days of Nero it had been, to a greater or less extent, the cus ~« tom everywhere to persecute the Christians. They were put to the sword, thrown to the Nons in the arena, burned alfve; thelr property confiscated, and, in short. had been subjected to the most horrible ill-treatment ever known, Yet, in spite of all this, the new, inspired creed-had flourfahed and Brown strobe AHHni—by-Constantine’s time ir was a force to be reckoned _ with. Instead of continuing the persecutions Constantine was wise enough - to win these people's love and trust. He issued a decree in 313 granting to Christians all civil rights and Lemmemeaeemnne Til! | “In Hoc Signo Vinces.”~ privileges and putting an end to their political hardships. Soon ‘afterward, finding. this_step_so-popular,rhe declared Christianity the religion of the “| Binpire-{though-atttlaijowing the oft-ttme-heathen worship to be practised never to forsake the man I This is « hackneyed- prov not true It could never have become hackneyad. | Bo tt 1s worth remembering and profiting dy. Marriagé at} best is the grav ™most serious, most {mportant step {In ali —Ute-You meet a-man..He-dances well, dresses well, talks] entertainingly, and you lke the way his hair curla about} his forehead or the way his eyes Might up when he laughs or some other equally delightful trait. So, after a brief ac- _.quaintance, you become engaged to him, and after a briefer ebgaxemont you marry bial, This happens, 7 you are twenty. He 1s the man you must live ve! “MI in haste, repent at leisure," yourself, If you cannot |and becoming Independent then he runs the chance of the bigger lamb being only'a stall i Z ‘The grocers, batches, tallors amd-miltiners who-supply -Fifth-ave- the’ west side could tell the story of more bad debts through r-than-are-on-Grocer-Goetzig's books.The-agents_of the high- kesup_their-indirect share of bigger’gamblers’: game. If the losses. by. gambling fell only upon the guilty fools it woul! ) them ri ht, but thelr families and the rest of the:community suffer | — ch other or not. ts he a hard worker? I¥ 5 -zense? Kindly, honorable, generous, a good provider, loyal, even-tempered, co siderate,-econonitcal? Thoss are the quallties through the long road of married life, And they are the qualities that are slowest the surface. Why marry him before you have a chance to ascertain whethor he posserses enouch of them to -make-you-happy?— Those are the things that count, Not the surface polish and charm, You are marrying for life, not for a atnglo year. 3 Bo.take your time Don't marry tn haste or you may repent at lefsure, Lover or Mother, Which? Dear Betty: f Me young woman tr of age-and love a young mana Title older than -myseit, andol-know. he dearly loyes mo. to appe Youlare sixty or seventy, whet! ‘man of pi 01 carry & husband and wife safe Dear patty my_mother objects_to_my for. some reason. orother, although she} going. with het. Piease.lat three yeaTn agreeable for both of us that I don't | do, for I love her dearly? really know what to do. I do not want Now, my mother, A BROKEN-HDPARTED GIRL. Youare—old—enough to choose for | young man immediately, you-will have | omecwny-of-enrning -youritving: Prosnpoor parents home-and-the; pport you you must obey them. ‘AM a young man of twenty and mado the Acquaintance of a young girt-oF > eighteen about five months ago, Now the gtr 2a ene claims Iam. too young, | although her parents do not mind me | hasl’ repeatedly said she has nothing {you think I would do rigit by «iving |unq showd I qo to see her, na I lave Against him, ts making things #60 dis-|up the girl, whian I would not like to There Is no-harm in your going with | OWes you an apology. “Do not go to to Go anything that would make things |the-girl. You are, I serene rarest wee her until you lear from her worse at home, and have.also vowed | poriing and have a right to choose your love. companions, You @re too young to marry, but cannot fall to be benefited by the companionship of a@ srvest, whole-souled gif, whom later on you may make your wife. Try in a respect ful way to make your mother see this. | She Fatled to Meet Him. Dear Betty: AM a young man, twenty-four years ot age, and made the acqtalntance lady five yeans any marty the Bo long. as |, Year's. Day I took feel at will) and was himself finally baptized. Having made himself master of the West, Constantine now turned his Ettention-to~the Eastern Empire. Two of the three Eniperors or the East had died, loaying tho third, Licinius, in power. Constantine coon found oc- caston to pick a quarrel with Licirius, and after two campaigns and an intervening peace he utterly overthrew and captured Licintus, making him- self master of the whole Roman world. He promised to spare Licinius’s life, “but found excuse to break the pledge and put hls beaten foe to death: Rome—east and west—was once more, and almost for the last time, un= der one man's rule, It wae the final rally of the old greatness before the e miserable end. Constantine ruled wisely and mercifully, me Bullding of bringing Into tis relgn many of the gentle Precepts of. the religion he had adopted. He turned! from war ConstantInople.> conquest and sought_to_lead_his empire toward ee POSTE ioe . —Asthocity of Rome was no longer the centre of the empire he planned x more central capita), With this end In view he selected the site of the old city of Byzantium, on the ROrgeOus procession, he marked Out the c'ty’s limits. Onward he went il be had tar exceeded the bounds of any other clty. Sma eretes a5 Ono of his courtiers remonstrated with him on the size of the caenst: was outlining. He replied: cmoltali he “I shall advance unt!) God, who moves before me, stop.” Nearly eleven miles {n circumference was the city—fa other of the old world. With unheard-of ninem{floenes ara rete than S| new capital was bullt. This, the first. great Christian cityhas since besa, te through “strange trony of fate the centro and stronghold of Mahometan: . In 337 A. D, Constantine died, at the age of sixty-three, “havin =P Christianity-a recognized \world-power, and galvanizing Into meee t life and grandeur the decaying greatness of the Roman mene momentary shall tell me to —++ enjoyable evening. Since then T havo going with promired to meet me, but did not keep ma know 12} jer. word.-Do.ynu think she did recht. 0 | not gone to sco her since? J... BOR. Bhe tevated you very_rudely and Wrondway and Shakespeare, Thornthg and to get harmless recreacdon Wie Rawor:.ot The Brentne Wartds inthe -evening.-.On .the other. -hand. When Shakespeare pinys.are produced | thery ts another class of whose mode jo or east alde the house | or living the pubMo tn general have Hitle itnowiettge, I< reter—to—the —per- 2 former, sho, possibly out of work tn_ordet to tide him over unt! ho can yet @ permanent engagement. Lae “Damb Stammering.” To the Piltor of The Prening World: A correspondent bowalls hin inability to apeak without suddenly losing con- tro] of his voice and breaking down. o|{He) saya this ogcurs tn reading aloud, Denefit of n certain few, | A. = Ming, ete. He can be helped. ‘ \pogs in New York, p trouble fs that he {s apparently a “dumb stammerer.” It ta not his Me the Filter of The Bresing World: |» I rout that he cannot efeak.” Ie must fem nial wht to/ipeo the bls do ‘ learn to use his breath correctly, A / mcollies, Groat Danos, St, Bernards, set. young lady friend of mine sutterca in ~\Nat are slowly paraded along ¢ne same way—and was cured and ts abjeets for exercise, Such Some | now studying with success, ¥ i ery Ample fact proved by this. ; ean gee what tt 40? - nna ons ative andthe Zeo.. 2p the Paltor Uf The Bening Wortdi 1 of the men- Peed long, tapid autty runs to keep them SLPPUL," $i upalui and turf under their feet. To Theft af M feq them pace slowly along hard clty| * In Restaurants, pavements {is pathetic, Talk “abou PAOr of The Fiventne World: eyuelty to wnimale! A dig dog in New | ® Should be some redress for the York ts ie worst Instance of It. jlos# of anvovercoat in New York res * as DOG }ANCIEIL jeaaren Js not a restaurant, and es- a ‘Sanday Concert Peclally, an incorporated company, tn ‘My the Ealigg of. The Evening Werld: [dts pound and “responsible in pro- ‘The clergy have joined together in an | ecting personal property within it effort <o-euppreas the Sunday night con. | Dvllding, Just as a department store ts Gorta. To think they-are perfectly right |Te#ponaible for its careless driver? dni; resconetrating againat anything of a|H&Ve suffered such w loss in @ restau: “pacrilegiows orler, But I pannot see) tnt which haa always hed my trade, @hything wrong In & clean port of eti- | 274 the company politely tnforms me Take, for tnatanca, |that there ts no Jegal means to compe} Wettig ethkle Working man or woman,| them to “make good,” not even.consid- fwho han deen working hard all week | ring any moral obligation. They say BPA Needs sino) sort of recreation on| they hang up warnings and signs saying TBundsy, There is plenty of time for | ‘'Coutw checked,..and that this te all @hem to attend religious oervited ix the] that the courte demand; « VICTIM, Letters from the People. If YOU Hada Rrra are || HEARY PECKI ANOTHER STUPID EVENING WITH -ASTICK UKE YOu! YOURE.A. FINE PARTNER FOR A WOMAN WITH: BOHEMIAN THSTES. WHO -ENJoYS A LATE Wife Like- This. BOreritANS THEY His “Mother Objects, = 5 [tet Her and made an appotrtment.” She | A MAN in @ brown study has probably heen well, done, In New York a man without a family treo « hasn't a limb to stand on, : oe te A wise man and his matri in: Dakota, -money*are soon partedan. ae e e CF 3 A-woman tells everything—but the truth: eT erWietie i “The: longest way round—the bargain the shortest way home. counter—ts {a forgiving, — follow that a woman who “makes up” Sag my “Doing time” saves the: fine, i-ailence {s.galden and-money talks, then-ailver and bank notes speak? HENRY PE PUTIN THA; NO SIR! You CANT BAMBOOZLE ME WITH YOUR SooTHiInNG SYRUP! You BROUGAT: THAT Fool STEW-PAN INTO THE HOUSE.’ {70 POISON ME/ GET OUT OF MY- SIGHT + IT. MAKES ME SICK TO Look AT Yous jouder than -gold.——— ah one. e e Alsiatl ‘A natural bionds can go turther—with peroxide—and “fair” worse, = sn Orr Oo e orn Since silence gives consent, then women must be always refusing, Cee een | Tho fatted calf is often padded. eo 8 6 } Man {s crusty when his dough {s short. eo ee Those who “do” others will “do” you. The Snow Removal Man. Ss ¢ By Walter A. Sinclaltr, i 7 j . Roms your feet on every atremt {Snow, ahintd to ice, makes walking niga j The snow slides, thick and sitp-| As ‘Jong the street you ambulate, pery, You slip and flop and drop kempopi, |: ‘The Girt-strown slush trrmush will gus! Or stagger with a shamble gait, | || \ Upon all dress and frippery. A heavy rain may fal again. But now's the time and now's the clime th To think and act with charity. With clothing spoiled, why! don't be retled, Or grumble with asperity: ‘The Boow Removal Man, -He does the best he can aor When rain enough falls every day | To wash the ditty snow away, But when just enow flakes fall, Why, it remains—that's alll Just wait Sor rein, thes is the plan