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] ~ ee we oe ee ee ST a —- 5 : ‘ wal a “Justice Is Blind!” SIXTY HEROES | elie J By Matirice Kettsn, WHO MADE HISTORV re ‘ft the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. { ‘3 [errata —~ Albert Payson Terhune. i _ | lip? No. 40—ROBBRT CLIVE, the Hero Who Conquered India. 47 es, . NO, 16,678 | z bt o bn BE | OBERT CLIVE—big, awkward, lazy, stupid—was potnted out by dertee CONCEALED WEAPONS | tve neighbors as the fool of his family. He had been sent from: | BPARRYING concealed weapons is already a crime whose punishment is provided for by the Penal Code. They unlawful and dangerous weapons are enumerated as “slungshot, billy, sand club, metal khuckles, dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, pistol, revolver or other fire arms,."" school to school in the vain hope of hammering some {(cas of edu ‘fon into his head. But {t was no ase. He remained, at eighteen, an ignom amus, ever running away from his studies to indulge {n some wild, life risking prank. In 1744, when only nineteen, he was sent ont to India as am vntmportant ¢mployee of the British East India Company, with the Idee hat his ignorance and general tncompetency would make less difference tm j tbat semi-ctyilized land than at home, Within twenty years this “family| fool” had founded the Emptre of British India, had amassed a fortune off veral million dollars and made his name famous from one end of thet world to the other. India in those days was practically tn the hands of several nawnde, 44+ governors) and teerere-neminaity tinder the rate of k ETeRt MOE, Dut Teast Y,\|\¥ woverning to sult their own capacity and love of power, Millions of people were ground to earth by constant poverty, injustice and oppression. Many4 ears earlier the Portuguese had formed rich trade stations all over India.) Then came the Dutch, virtually driving out the Portuguese. The French! followed, and then the English. Paying tribute to local rulers, French and ingligh trade (the latter represented by the British Hast In lia Company) | fourishe@ tm India, and for a long time there was no clash. Then Joseph, Dupletx, the French Governor, plained to make India a French empire, and’ a long confilct began, This struggle was imminent when young Clive reached Madras. He‘ arrived during the calm that preceded the strife and found the life of a! |company employee unbearably dull. He enlivened matters for the next two! | years by quarreHing datly with bis fellow-workere and in fighting a duel{ jor two, ‘Then came the break with France, and the bored youth threw over! is desk work for @ Meutenant's commission. His real career had begun, The Viceroy of Deccan (a powerful na state) died. Chunda Sahib, ; & usurper, backed by France and pledged to Fren¢h| ————~ interes’ claimed vacant post. The English o; A Daring i posed is candid nd upheld Mobamed Ali, th CARRYING CONCEALED The possession of the first four of these i WEAPONS, YOUR HONOR a felony, and the manufacture or sale is a misde- meanor. The corrying of a revolver without a license is a misdemeanor. Without resorting to th: felony provision, any person convicted of carryi concealed weapons can be sent to the penitentiary 1 a year and fined not more than $500. Since the minimum pw ment for a misde- e@neatior. is in the discretion of the court, and since Magistrates have been the habit of inflicting small fines instead of imprisonment, there has ‘arisen a feeling among the criminal dj asses which carry concealed ‘weapons that the Tisk they take is very sli A few, sentences ofa year in the penitentiary. will do more to stop the ‘of concealed weapons than ‘appeals to the Legislature. So lon @s-the Court of Special Session Goes not inflict the maxim Sities which the law now Mows femedy is not by increasing t statute penalty, but by greater sever- ity on the part of the trial Jus Commissioner Bingham did well Mm rounding up the three-scor Malians who were carrying sti and revolvers. If each of these any other offenders were promptly sent to the peniter the corrective effect would be greater than 4 change in the law. ‘ POLICE INJUSTICE. NE of the two policemen shot on} ~"s) Sunday last hadbeen on the force eleven years. This was the se Peay, ond-time that he was shot in the course of performing his duty. He was anehonor man wearing the badge of bravery for having saved & woman and her-child from burn- ing to death, Yet he was still pounding the sidewalk. The New York police force has hundreds of sich men—fearless, Ruse of War rightful hetr to Viceregal office. Chunda Sahibj ~~~ G opened operations by besieging Trichinopoly, which an insufficient Engl! ded. To save the place! it was necessary ‘to draw off the sass > Clive, with 600 men and} three cannon, made an unexpected a's great city of Arcot, which he took by surprise and captured, rihtly guessing that euch an act | vould bring Chunda back in haste from Trichinopoly. He was right. Back | ame Chunda with a large army to sweep the audacious young ishman'} , ad his handful of men out of Arcot. Bt ‘ hed his little force n the citadel, and there for fifty days b pelled Chunda, at ngth (after one of the most memorabl 1 history) forcing! the usurper to give up all attempts to t This sensationci feat made Ciive's na ces jary for a year) of petty fines or known all through the Kast. In ngland, too, his praises were sung. F ® Prime Minis hatled him : \3 “a heaven-born general Clive fc 1is advontage by helping tn the subsequent crushing of Chunda 1 forcing the Emperor of Del recognize England's rights in thern Indi But new excitement be almost on the heels of the Arcot campaign The nawabs of the enormous Bengal district had been friendly to nd, and Calcutta had grown to be one of the richest English trade centres. raj-ud-Dow-lah, Nawab of Be; 1, however, swooped down on Calcutta tn 1756, looted the banks and other treasure houses and drove out the foreign population. He vaptured 146 English men, women and children and stuffed them into a dark, unventilated room. So great was { wding and so : tense the heat that by the following morning cnly tw hree were left | / {alive out of the 146. The room in which they were confined § “The Black Hole of Calcutta.” Clive was sent to avenge the atrocity. With‘ 1,900 men and seven cannon he hurried to Calcutta. Just outside the city walls he met the Nawab's army of 34,000 men, forty caunon ald fifty ele phant. Clive put thi upertor force to rout and later rched upon Moor shedabad, the capital of Bengal, with the idea of striking a stil! more deci- " ve blow. He succeeded. For, with-3,200 men and ten cannon, he met th) awab's full army of 68,000 men and fifty-three cannon on the Plains ot, . Plassy, June 28, 1757. Cltve's small force burst the {ll-disciplined native faithful, putting their duty first Gol ranks, captured the enemy's artillery and scattered their army with great | enting slaughter. It was an epoch-marking ¥ictory, As 9 resuli the Newab vie} = Ang ir as they id oars deposed and a man friendly to England was put in bh place. The new! able the flood of crime through z ruler showered Clive with gifts (most of which the victor turned into mj which higher police officials profit. fund for improving England's India army) and granted the able concessions. Clive went to England, where he was mac nglish valu | de a Baron and honored by | They oo, ae sick modes) THE Jarr Family's Daily Jars w vw x + x By Roy L. McCardell ; 5 % y He was only thirty-five and They have no cetalls to do the 467 MAD hard work matching the glodse onthe parlor) purchases, “they cost « dollar twenty-nine each. ae ee Seah wera than 4000.000 ne ure f work of a telephone girl or an I chandelier,” said Mra. Jarr. | “What 414 you get two for? There's only one broken!” The Empire: Rilelliifecrenar tic catia ancoay ana inet toes eee ( a “I don't see why you were 20 parttcular,” replied | “Yes, but if another got broken I wouldn't have to‘run all over town trying estly earned, according to the morals of the time. It [| \e office boy. They have no easy Mr, Jaer, indifferentiy. “Anything would have done on the) to match the set again; I'd bave one in the house, or rather, I have one tn the| } Bullder’s eae Cartainle cmall ooo tur the neresons te eahca Jobs sitting a few hours a day al oame general styie." house," end Mrs. Jers, dered his country. Clive spent his “home leave” in “That may be your way, but {t isn't mi aid Mrs. |. “It's a dead svestment,” said Mr. Jarry. “You wouldn't have to run all over hening England's India policy and jm putting down the abominable n di és courtroom doors. They are not arr. “If T was getting & new globe I wafted one to match! the town now that you know where to match them, and, besides, we might never| Strengthening England's India policy and in putting Company's ‘branches; + q Lf ward men. The gold lace and the rest of the Axtures or none a: | break another one all the rest of our days bs ora' ee a es Pig eM ay eri en back to India he oe 2 OP ‘Oh, very well, have tt your own way,” said Mr. Jerr. | “You mind your own business’ said Mrs. Jarr, shortly. “I know what Mm] &s well as in the Government's own net Peet acces tued ates iin’ ON a ee the gilt shields are not for them. Rica Ge adits doar, Oar fe poe ae ‘and you are #0 awkward you are liable to break the glooes every time you | went, where troubles of various s had again arisen an re\within rt , 5 r A two years he succeeded not only # setting matters to rights, but {nm They are only the rank and file. your way eround this house !t would be a pretty sig ht the gas. You take no interest in it, and (h pipem and tobacco ashes ant books “I'm net tinding fault," sald Mr. Jerr, tesuly, “But, great Scott! can't you| all Southern India virtually a Bricist possession and In laying t understand thet buying things because you may think you may need them, wheq| solid foundations for England's future Indian Empire The way to win high rank and easy work in the police department : é re ed home once mpre to find that every. petty ; ‘ " rf nd to drive a p. The girl is call t need them, isn't economy, On the contrary! Having done this, he returne oh & bry. petty.4 4s not by such performance of their police duty as Patrolmen Selleck patil Roger tarfaripd ig dade abed yh iene you euvpoee you mean thie globe?’ said Mra, Jerr. ‘Well, you need not|office-holéer whose graft he had cut off and every man whose loot and illicit | and Sechler were engaged in when they were shot Faithful perform- pride in your home!” |.worry about the money I waste, If I only knew one-half of what rou waate!/ gains he had exposed had stirred up flerce attack against his honesty. The} hi ‘ance of police duty is the surest way to bar an honest patrolman from | “t Wart to take some comfort firs ‘airs and|man who bad won a mighty empire for England fo te me is comfort. Nice time I'd ha almost Hike’ suspected felon Apger at such ingratitude drove Clive Into a frenzy. C rT ” : too much for him, and on Noy. 22, ow," aald Mr. Jarry, uneasily, “I'm sorry I sald anything ill-health, the strain was No Ss Pe * you always say, after you have hurt my feelings end begn| mitted suicide, adding one more name to the long list of emp $0. CREREAM | most unkind when thera wea no necessity for it," said Mra. Jarr, ‘You thisk| Whose reward was shame and death. said Mr..Jarr, doggedly, “What eppeais|ivg have something worth while to worry over, You mind your own self treated | as tf everything ts to be kept eo prim andj jy) the house Or, If you are not satisfed- suppose you try to run the ‘ever sitting behind the sergeant’s desk. proper chat a man to do anything but sit in a corner and twiddle his | j.onse 1. | thumbe: 1 think what you ‘good hovsewtve men from home by; New York police force is a curious composite, an Intricate sys- thelr cleaning and dusting and finding fault !f @ chalr ts out of place, than the| / tem by-which a few hundred men profit at the expense of their seven | careless sort of women do. ‘There's euch e thing is thousand associat ‘omotions beef made. throug! “And there fa such @ thing as gotng to saloons!” snapped Mra. Jarr. “And) you can go out of your way to wound me deeply, and then say ‘I didn't mean tee, = Pr have too often gh the men who want te go can find fots of excuses. 7 er blame themselves, |{:' and ita al right. A man killed by carelesmess Is jum es dead 8 man . , Secret influences within the department Instead of as rewards of meril.|1 notice. it's their poor wife! Bhe kept the house so paintully creas ther ne | who has been murdered, and a heart wounded carelessly ix jum as wounded”— et y incents ae 4 ‘Wardmen have become sergeants—the sergeant closest to the captain Oriven out of tt, or hie wife is # oven his home ts so untidy he's driver|)ere, in putting her handkerchief to her eyes egain, she let one of the globes) a ef * | out of tt—and he always drives out to « saloon!” | tall and it smashed to pleces, . has. won promotion first; the captains most valuable to the system have "Oh, come now, don't talk fooltwh,"" said Mr. Jarr, and then, to change the; “There, now, you-wee, Mr. Smarty!” euclaimes Mrs, Jarr forgetting her ez & Advice to Lovers. © become inspectors. For saving life, for bravery, for duty faithfully added: “And #0 you got a new globe for the chandelier to take the| woes {n the triumph of her methods, “I sttil & Blobe for the chandelier performed the rewards have been limited to a medal or a commendation of the one that was broken?” “It'e @ great system,” enld Mr Jerr. “Get me the step-ladder to put on the} ‘Yea, I got two,” said Mra\Jarr, unwrapping the parcel and displaying her! other globe before you prove its eMcacy again.” |THE GIVING OF PRESENTS. ‘or a roundsman's chevron. For diligence in graft the reward has’ been | — vee —* scaeil B W J Stelnigans W HILE present eving wey met bo nn RAmiraie. MAUS advancement to the highest offices in the department, ’ j ht ut C2 C2 G2 C2 TE Bae i Conmeage fr lop generally) sroepted ue s eee, re hompson's Night-O cp eaeniees Siam “ — Ay ' 1 HOPR JACK | same girl merely to give her happiness. His object gene 9 | gifte serve as ammunition in bis stese of her heart Witt SEB , a) vite Letters from the Peoole. om " a ‘ek ao 2 oa ma bined with } he com- bullders # of love's Intensity, yes 4 1 Of @ man's deve] ¥ trom-one! sc business. ts on tho} much nition” a2 one of her privileges perquisites | gifts may slacken all toe goon. Aut if ehe hi of those pre lar Une of action would be kno and m leade him on for the « utterly unworthy. Among men «& ugly term of “receiving valuables under (alse pretenses s not apply taythe occasional present whuse giving ty pro ‘ wus to the series Df gifts with the offer of @ man's heart sinuggied in among One Working Woman's Ideas {complainant would furnish me with bib Wo the Réitor of The Bventng World: mame and address 20 that I coukt The only “happy” human betngs, be| gather the proper evidence and procest they men or women, are thoes who have against the pawnbroker to the ené thet 1B definite object in life, who wtart each | he be either fined or his license re with the knowledge thet they have yoke. It te for this purpose that we utles to perform, and whe Der | have an essociation and try te do ear them to the beet of their ability. | utmost to rid ourselves and the oom pinion of Mrs, Tvenetra Vaka! munity of people who are always doing the more right and liberty ® sounerning to besminch the integrity of the lems contented she is T | ene totter classes im the pewnbroking | wh, The “happiness” Of | eines BENUAMIN FOX, wWomen—s happiness that arises No, ™ Eighth avenue, sequestration from the). , pe erage lent of Pawnbrokers Amsociation, @ condition that appeals, °f New Tork. ‘The Motorman and the Frog. ee eee Oe ‘he Batter ot The renter World; how me the poet that wrote “Gentle sppemned to teopinemy 1! aoring” and Tl hh hin ta the neck if She Went With Another. | that pig ing yrs syst) | sometimes @ (# blind and that @ lover may 7 not be able sweetheart HOUT © year ego T met ® YOURS) to die y, and have learned to think very muoh of ber. I had occe sion to be in the neighborhood where she lives, and ww her going out with another young man. 1 found out later that she bad gone to the theatre with | hpy 44 not think this was fair to " in meyer her ao, whereas eno toi A Difference of Religion, Dusiness, 1 have Dear Betty fi rf fi E E ii k you wo about your lov tend's. me it was none of 1 found | not seen her since, and eek you If it ay ‘ perePridhg e ® an ’ y ad wits mowbail I would be proper for me to write, or almort ador ave conce P ib WORRING WOMAN. | cliey ‘tine the other ‘morsion ae call o may henet in Just aching” ° every pe Raty Sheslé Bow Vizet, {conductor and motorman were enjoying 4 oe a ka dike “aad ioaation Bititer of The Kventne World & nice little smoke while about five engegel. you nad = eg opte on c ing each other on the) hundred troge were singing #pring songs right ne © man bow to ® lady Of/ in « marsh beside ne track. The mo tance first or should [he] torman did not like the song, eo. threw him fret? A J. & | bie controller handle st one of the froga. Ee Sites Monee. He 44 not know the water wae about her and tell b Doesn't Lihe Sweetheart, |*° 5 more libera n't ehange it for Dear Betty | stating agreeable AM a young man twenty-four years! ois y sult four feet deep He tried ham to fish f : pe iv enna vould ot eee ” ‘Dreni worn of age, of v or what shoule Gee is rover Cleve. | %t the lost handle, (but st hed sum to Se ease omtany. etn a. vanna| tat gh aspect the" ; many the bottam of the marsh, eo he had to been keeping company with @ young| Let eact p lady for two years, While I lov the} The Bridegroom's Attire. young lady, still | have a gentleman | #ve up the humt, The next car loaned ite bandie to the victim of the frog fe Beton of The Brening Worse: The handles were pamed from one car Dear Betty / friend whom 1 think @ great deal of,| spell ics pa oi. DT. ie @eother until the car berm was bite ye 1 may state, objects to my HAT 40 th one ae i nid rae J Pawobroker for making |reched, Then © now handle was sup cing with this young lady, claiming ewe pater extra care | pied, and ie poor motormen got twelve wedding A DT. + that |days of for losing the handle and trying ae and © ewindle|to kill « frog while on duty, Would efleem it & favor if the « . WILIMAM GC YOO? James citm j she le not in her right senses, I do not) 78 a iouig wear full eveniac areem for one moment believe he would fool] with white gloves, While Ue and & whileg a ond Statens write for vous 64. boutonnlers lala iti inhi” Nias on ow ascii sstitacasceite smstniibiiacaiitisiaintiall iil