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ning. Worl d’s Fhe Eve Daily Magazine, retary aeeeencstenc ae nupemmepeincients: February 4; 1907. ~ Monday, @yerlishet py the Press Publishing Company, No. & to & Park Row, __ Entered at the Post-OMce at New ‘York as Second: : VOLUME AZ iii ccccess cevococcs covcse cscee: ( CHURCH Now TAKE CARE OF THE BABY, JOHN. 1'M GOING To SIXTY HEROES. WHO MADE HISTORY BY Albert Payson Terhune. 3 No. 10-—KING ARTHUR—The Hero Who Turned Barbarisnat Into Chivalry. The Day of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. ‘ + WATCH THE DINNER) SIR LUM Goiriq 7 | Now, IT's MY 2 Public meetings of protest will not lower rents a pen *}-Gt possible to fix renis by the law regulating then as it does pa interest; None the fess the, Tenants’ Linioiis doing 2 by continuing its series of public meetings on the rent qu: most-of. the-remadies the speakers suggest ate whol | iscussion leads 16 thought-and the j «economic principles, ; | Men are too prone:to blame resulfs instead. of causes. The man} Prust: is: doi 1... While cable, the whose ice bill-is high denounces-the Jee Trust. All the Ice! -—45 to-get-the-highest:price-it-can-for-wi =e" pose IF diminishes the supply and charges more to me mand. : The coal-consumer nafurally-atiacks the Coal-Ty because he-is! “paying for coal four times the cost of: mining it Oo With the indignation | i = y against the Standard Oil Company, on the part of the producers because} Tit pays sontitite-tor, cnide petroleum, and by the consumers because it charges so much for kerosene. “Yet is not every man in his own |” ~pusiness- imitating” exactlyin_ these} respects dhe-great trusts? ‘The baker! [buys his flour as. cheaply as-he can “and he sells :his bread, for as much as he can get. ‘The shopkeeper tries to make the ma betiveen his] 7 ‘cost price-andhis~setting- price-as wide as he can, for therein consists his profit, Every man tries to, get as > thigh wages or_as big a salary as he can and tosbuy with his wages as cheaply as he can. 4 z So does the landlord. He Is no exception to the universal rule of Self interest in business affairs-; Why blame hint for that? The way to get kerosene cheaper is not to abuse Mr. Rockefeller and Mr, Rogers, but to enforce the laws against railfoad discriminations \ GEE wuiz! SOMETHING'S KEEP QUIET THERE ! INVANT To READ now know as England. The {sland of Hiritain had in oldeh days jeen populated by several races of barbarians, skin-clad, savage of nature, heathens in religion. ,Then Jullus d and tried to make the first beat ‘him back, bi “YOUNG man of whom nobody had heard deolared h!mself rightful IA king of Britain, He was Arthur, son of Uthyr Pendragon, one of tho t many tribal chiefs who divided among them the rulership of what ia et by superior generi Britain was etlit held by Rome tor rev ‘blue-eyed, red-balred natives sold as slaves in p he secured a {oot Europe, where thelr strange, uncouth appearance made people look on them as freaks, More—than-onreunder-the-brave-Queen Bh ea-and_other discontented rie noir tribal sovereigns—the Britons tried to throw off the Romi yoke, but always the attempt falied, The northern .part of the island: Was -a tracktess waste Inhabited: py savages known as Picix and Scots.’ ‘Dhese the Romans had never been wholly able to subdue, Their territory was impenctradic ald thelr soldiers stubborn and crafty., Not only did the Plets and Scots resist the invaders, bit-théy also made invasions on thelr own account into the subdued souths ern diptricts. To check these attacks Rome at last built a great wall across, the northern part of Britain and manied dt with’a-garrison whose epie duty: was to keep the Picts and Scots from overrunning ,the’eouth.. © But Rome's power wan tottering to its fall. Ali_avallable troops were neédéd to maintain her own ways and to hold: back the nations, i ever encroaching on her possessions. S fifth-century,-A, B:,-the- Roman~armics “abanitoned DARN IT! SOMETHING 's BURNING Now / || Enenas Prey “f Britain: The petty chieftains immediately began. to Foreigh Foes. struggle for contro! of the kingdom. Alay iinee down swooped: the Piota and Scots on the ‘ute ; . nied [south couniry.. In, despair the Britons, appealed. to, the }imorn-ns Sarons;-to-heip then Over ta-Britain Saxon chiefs Hengist and Horsa. They drove back th flerce battie Jn 449, and then, finding the Ind more to t ;own bleak Teutonic forests, they proe to drive th Lcoulity (at that tlihe a Kingdom) of Kent’: Tey nade themselves masters of-alt] i z i" But-in the mean time a hero was born who for years postpotied t -| quest and made Britain for the {Ime an enlightened, united and p \kingdom. Much of King Arthur's history { |that {t is hard to sepsrate the two, ‘Thi | heroes. One can’ only take the most probable of the accounts concerning isuch mien and weave them Into-u-connected-narrative. —~ \-Uthyr Pendragon had a trusted adviser named Merlin, wlio “was so 7 wise and so advanced in lls fdeas that he was supposed to be a magician, }Uthyr was dying: Arthurf his only son, was at Merlin knew the ‘nobles of the court wonid not accept a child ef for it was a ! when might meant right and when only th to cots in a 5 than their Jritons out of and-monopolles,-to-attack wilh public scom-and-the power ofthe balish _. Wox the derelict prosecuting officials. The result would be that criminal amoney-making woul! become-as-dangerous-to thetrust-magnate; tothe | THAT. DING}— He BUSTED -railroad_president-and to the-Wall-Street_manipulator_as-to burglar“or-pickpocket, — = In like ‘manner avith” the. Jandlord—the - process of -relorming—ihe rent system must begin’ further back. The first people to blame are the tax. assessors; who do-nol- obey the law-in assessing tand-as they should: On Manhattan Island the buildings are worth less than. the iand. Lots with old ouildings, or built up only with what are called “taxpay-|/ ers,"" are assessed at a fraction of the value of highly improved property. The East Side modern tenement-house pays thre¢ or four times more taxes than the old rookeries which Trinity Corporation owns. . Since the Trinity property is more accessible, on wider thoroughfares and more available for improvement, its land assessments shouldbe greatly in- creased a TREO a LAZY D-|Boy- He's HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE. READING ~ THE SUNDAY ‘The child would-doubuless. have been kite bt who-Wwould then have seize? the leadership. Urement,-the-office-of-chief—bein shrewd statesmanship on Marlins part Lodds with each other, An old day arise to blend them all into one ubited kingdom,” Wier? {nineteen (520 A.D.) Merlin presented him to the nobies-att of the old man's reputation as a_magicl. rain. cle “|ericks) persuaded them the youth was th ed cha and to greatness among the nation vo time tn fuliing-t propirecy’. By-conquert- or | diplomacy he dlUW othéF tribes. to his He promoted C + posers and,-temporartily ht the wild realization of prog ~ Britain bandits and wild } I opened up roads and built in the t : ests, He realized that he could win more b: ing to the Imagination than by brute force, so he founded as the Order of the Round Table. This consisted of 150 kniz (under oath to redress all wrongs, help the weak, avenge (ive uprigat Hves. The order was in fact a sort of medine! ‘Its members took pride fn riding about the countr srouting-robbers—tistening—te-tates—ofiistress andr ecttts }commion~ sense would have been inemMicient-Chival lelyilization and for the pecple's good. Fusseeuananerers “The Order st the Round Table.” EOC OEY for- appedil= known who were and to SCRE — ed the aay fair hands. In the children. ‘The “Mstle girl ____Trinity’s tenements are cited as one,of the worst exampl are hundreds of other instances where’ by keeping Property in a run- down, dilapidated condition-and by the-hiting of jr*sious: tax-attomey . the assessments are absurdly tow. If-all-land-assessments-were-madeas the taw-rea roant lamb, stairs. tires dt-would Tot The Jarr Family’s Daily Jars *«* *« *% + + By T was the girl's day out, and Mrs, Jarr had gone down the little girl came wafted down the stairs: to the kitchen to prepare the evening meal with her own All that day she had been fnculcating moral lessons She had told them that when they felt the ;with an amused look on his face. first stirrings of temptation they must cry aloud to her] and ask for euldance and supports upon the little boy's ears the moral motherly admonitions had fallen heard but heeded not. Now, Mrs. Jarr was tn the kitchen carving some cold, Mr. Jarr was in the dining-room thinking he| helped some in etting the table, “Let me carte the ‘meat, Clara, — “After-restoring-order_and~ building—p—proaper { aid aFiving bACK Several {hvastons or Pict Roy L. McCardell onled on got rinelee of-conjnest against the-Seandin: ~~ his nephew, Modred, in charge of his-kingilom, es mi vy; { back was turned. claimed the crown for himself. The Kir BEEN UT ee Ce) wv | 2 aes out the rebellioi and to save hia land from reiay \harbarism whence he had so laboriously lifted it. He met M |West of England late in 542. Arthur was victorious, and w hand slew Modred. But he himself received 2 mortal wound fn the head r centuries it was foretold that he was not really Ing bad things!" came, day return to lift England once more from the disruptl | which his death hat again piunged It. +e The-Grumpy Bachelor and ° the Burden He Bears. “Mamma, oh, mamma!” It sald," . in the face!’ Mrs. Jarr in’ the kitchen heard none of this, but Mr. Jarr paused to Hsten There was a stamping of small feet overhead, and again the yolce of th | Mttle pict: had" Matened with awed Intentions, but] “Mamma, Wille Is trampling on my toes, and I'm (ili volce Just then Mrs, Jarr gave a startled cry, and Mr. Jarr rushed in to find her half fainting with a terrible gash in her hand. H “Oh, dear!" she murmured, “It went clear to the bo: i Jarr brought her a ginas of water. i don't see why you wouldn't carve that meat for me when I ask You. sald faintly and reproachfully. { Some water! Mr. The children were up- wld” Str. Sarr, “100% Fay-anyandiond -te-keen-property mimproved. —tmpraveitient would y Liem f A [= Jerr, “poor swoul, refrained.” from: teninn. Wer anew : = — = be tet a = atest Ora SS “And x nice mess you'd make of St, the way you hack| wanted to, and thereby the Recording Angel gave him * — +-— 0) abita d e ce etitic / existing tenemeni ot . teats 7 { mean mi lke habitations and—more ompetiti on with existing tenement’! and saw,” replica Mrs. Jarr, petulantly. “I never saw such a n. T think you Thon, In the stillness that followed Mr. Jarr’s binding Up the wound, the . + — houses, which necessarily would loiwar rents, should-learh to « though. Mr Tangle carves, and Mrs, Kittingly told me| voce of the Iittle git) was heard: By Nixola’ Greeley-Smith. . “The other way to lower rents is ta increase, nee aie that her frst husband, although he was a GAG ybrilerangoabs her dreads | “Siamnima, elte_me dood “advice “quick, ‘this minute, fer I'm doin’ to pull a = i ‘zi — would throw-open-the whole-of-the-Bron J. nin't L-offering to carve for you now sked Mr. Jarr. And he M scsowan er tatthe:footent: theretalie ars = =r = = tothe the k and lower Westchester County and all the west end of Long 1 homes. “At: would quadruple Wie hab ares-of New-York, sarily in-quadrupling the supply it would lower the price. The way to reduce rents is to b the causes whi. rake -rents-so-high. - . si and fo nd neces anyway, But tf ve tout the-cut-sugar.!” fo-and_oarving= fork. from_her. i you are.only in my road{"! snapped Mrs, Jarr ungraciously, tor fd Mr, Jarr, “but that's how you alw 2 and roast me {f I do, T afd” Mrs. nS put the kettle on to mak rr put on the kettle and retired to the dining-room, w And A KWITE GUTetaT Ww married men over that a Dut why diceriminnte, seainet old right heve these same spl to existe they remain exempt from the penalties t Ton raan ? ce if Mimma-has-cut-her hand-and-t-in-gren ns dear— Dante ld. = ‘The Mttle girl patd-no-attentton ta: him; but whonted so ther Mammn, then you're through with that tome up here!” “An soon an I'methrough with this I'll come up there and cly url ping!” aid Mrs. Jarr. ; e some fresh teal But ahe didn’t. She whipped Wille with her unhurt hand bec: {paused to-tell MAMMA he was: haing tempted batsre- ne twenke nthe volce-of Lose. rheard net. You roast hon crank!" dont teed y Ver saw shortly. 4 vou so wh! Tarr, he hadn* iw ttle atater or becat i fie preferred t yof wine Letters from the People. _ WEARRANGED A BOX PARTY. FOR THE OPERA TO-NIGHT— {ng firemen. downtown, s.r imparilird fierotc-daed” of by a brave fireman. tort tits _omn story. And he te puta of the hundreds who: plur death's Jawa. The home with ones they leave behind them. they start from it not one tn the $s positive of the brave one's! re He dtd not lv \ Snerease in the penaton tn case Let'more be done for t firemen In this great city welfare o: Gn ‘A Whale Proble To the Fat Teas A whale's head’ ts. ten Jone. Vile tail fa ns long as his Mr. and Mrs. Pinch. husband, or because bleyaednoss to the possibilit of happiness divided by two, gS Se By lie ps one a Se (Copyright, 190%, by the Prose Publishing “Carmpany.). soe Ste nowho has gone-through Ite mithe of mari deacrves to be taxed, out recelying a prop’ “ar te-untortunately, not-true-that any woman. <. HARRY CLARA SWELLCLOTHES: BO0-1100}-HOw CAN I o A CANT SEB HOW HAS GOTTEN UP APARTY FOR r HERE, YOU CAM FAKE WE CAN Col=-xVE EXPLAIN IT ?.=CLARA UP_A VIOLENT . a arry nome man. If she neglects hero THE OPERA To-miGHT I= T' ont But-any—weman can marry xo : prmaninvendeillaabe aie ISTO CALL FOR US HEAD-ACHEL A | OO er ctecremeinen_old maid she merits taxacl = hats) LAGE! bachelor, But-the-tax-pald. with money. Is the Jeast of our panil and covery old mald-atready: paysa tax. far greator than an: incomes Would. he—1he tax of wetflahinens and loneliness: that year, and the chloroforming of the impulses of ioya almost any marriage heips men and women to cultivate. ‘On wonien (here 13- tho” tax of childiesaness<the—great-st—any—woman-of=— normal tmpulses could be called upon to pay. On men, the tax of crabbed old Tage without love and” tie amis—ministrations-of care-and_feminine: tenderness. that the grown-up man-chilld craves up to the the inst hits Hfe. No tax the law could levy on bachelors and olt maida would be half so great, ae that Whloh thelr Own Tratures und needa impose. Celibacy-earries: its -punish= ment along with It—that of Jonely and lovoless old age. The old maids should not scek to:add to the grumpy bachelors’ burden. They aro-na much to blame as ho, -1f each Wakefleld aplnster would devcte halt as mueh thought to the comfort of one bachelor as she has given to tho taxation J of all bachelors her problem would soly f. plun buf the lenzth of his bod fis body is as long of his head together, How jong as the whale, 2 tall and his boo FRED CLAMP, The Safety of We To Wie Eattor ot The F W T “understand — that Charles FE, Hughes, ia of laws being enacted f tollers, I, ax a workingm WHY YOU AREN'T NEARLY READY, DEAR! Amerie Kern he should be heartily cu press and public in any ea take to bring: ; are dangors are f Aba Aut care: litle thelr datly lof A Krea\ } cause. WO! Riad Mayo W for-oliers Ww d who may necd \deyice to aid thei in tomn Moy: HE CAN'T EVEN EAT! LNT MAKE AHYBODY HEAR KED RIGHT IN!~ 50 GLAD YOuVE ENTIRELY RECOVERED | CASE VERY SERIOUS 7 LORD CHESTERFIELD ON GOOD BREEDING. FRIDND of yours and mine has very justly defined good breeding to A be “the result of much good acnec, #onie good nature aad!a Little sclfad— denial for'the sake of athers, and with a vicio to obtain the same tn-3 4 dulgence from them." Taking this for granted—-as I think it cannot te dis pited-—it is astonishing tome that anybody iho has soba sense and good na~ juve can cssentiony fail in goo breeding, As to the modes of it, biuteed, they rerp according. to persons, places and circumstances, and are onli to be ace quired by observation antl experiem’, but the substance of iC is evcruirhere and tornally the sane. Good manners are to particular » tics chat gooa norals are to society in general-—their cencut and security! And,as‘laics are enacted to enforce. good morals, or at least to prev the il effects of: baa ones, 60 (hero are egrtain rules of civility, uniccraally implica and recalved, to cxjarce yood manners and punish bad vices, 5 ‘