The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1907, Page 12

: Evenin ene GiB caer Purksned Torn the Prese Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New mater ‘at the Post-Office at Now York as Becond-Cinss Mail Matter, . NO, 16,718. VOLUME 47 ...cc0eeeees ones TOMBS ARITHMETIC. HOEVER compiled the annual port of the District-Attorney’s office should, explain its discrepancies. The official summary given out by the Chief Clerk says that when Mr.) Jerome took office there’ were 861 indictments pending, and that at the completion of five years of his ad- ministration .there were only 586 undisposed-of indictments. Also that the ayerage population of the Tombs ; : up to 1902 awaiting trial in Gen- eral Sessions was 225.td 250, and that the daily average of the past five years has been only 190. This does not tally with the detailed statement of the work accom- plished during the past year. It says that $,265 indictments were filed, that 2,069 of the indicted defendants pleaded guilty and that 1,024 were tried. The total of the trials and pleas is accordingly 3,093. The total Of the indictments was 5,265. What became of the other 2,172? According to the report only 586 of these remain undisposed of What happened to the other 1,586? Were they dismissed or pigeon- holed or overlooked? How are they accounted for? One of the great evils of former administrations of the District-Attorney’s office was the manipula- tions of the indictments through influence, favor or for other considerations, Except in cases where the publicity was great, criminals who could furnish bail and provide for paying big fees to the proper law- yers were rarely called to face a petit jury. Indict- ments against them were fost. Their bail bonds were allowed to disappear. Their cases were left to drag along until they were forgotten, According to Mr. Jerome's official report, the number of unaccounted indictments was fifty per cent, greater last year than the whole number of cases tried, Less than one in five of the defendants indicted was actually tried. Two-fifths took.advantage of the custom whith has grown up of allowing a plea of guilty to a lesser offense and a mitigation of sentence In order to clear the Tombs. The statistics of prisoners who are confined in the Tombs are also misleading, taking a five-year average instead of the present overcrowded condition. The Tombs has recently held the greatest number of homi- cides ever known at one time in this country. There were 99 indicted last year, of whom only 214 were convicted, andj of these 21 only 3 were found guilty of murder in the first degree. The same policy whicn tolerates the acceptance of a plea of petit larceny instead of a sentence to Sing Sing is followed in taking pleas of tower degrees of homicide instead of a trial for murder in the first degree. Evidently there are other matters in the District-Attorney’s office which require explanation besides its immunity to colossal thieves and it prosecution of men who complain of the crimes of millionaires. Ae eal te Sal ea A BEAR CUB, NE of the three bear cubs born at the Bronx Zoologi cal Park was killed a few days ago by its father Bears are not the-Mnly animals where the male paren kills his offspring. In all forms of liff the mother i not only the means of sustenance to the children but their defender and protector as well. Curiously, too, women are almost the onl female animals who even in the state of insanity de y their young. The evolution of mankind fror ¢ lower orders of life, while adding additional bur and r nsibility on the father, has put a more Te Oe ee 2 ee Si nc heecees wail y Magazine Monday, ‘The Day of Rest. By Mauri AULRIGHT, OUD Boy I'L TARE You DOWN To CONEY. IT'S A FINE PLACE To REST UP. ZE DAY oF REST Me {AF tieo To 2C DEATH, Mow Dieu! OH, No! {LL FEED You SOME HOT DOGS IN A MINUTE — AND THEN WE'LL 00 THE, CHUTE = THE CHUTES 219 MANE ,2€ MAL DF MER To ME VL WANT TO Go’ To THAT DEAR NEW-YORK 1 “ce HE woman who merries a man younger than her. I eelf is beppier chan the woman who marries en oer man. A maa has more respect for a woman older than bimeelf, and reepect is necessary to happiness. A man between thirtytwo and forty-five quite naturally preters to marry @ woman older than himself, It {s only These remarks were among the pre-nuptial utterances of May Irwin, mother of grown sons, who was married yesterday to ® man many years her junior, I think very few women will agree with her. Indeed, I tmagine only those who have taken or who contem- plate taking a similar step will tndorse her pont of view She ts right in saying that a great many men between thirty4wo and forty-five do marry women older than But an a mule these unions are not love matches, tut marriager themselves. of convenience wherein the man thinks he sacrifices the least Mbenty for the tmont oomfort. ‘The large tolerance of mmaculine failings which the middie gentle exactions and ten tyrannies of a young and inexperienced and pretty girl ‘The man who marries a woman much older fan himseif may in some infatuated idiot, but far oftener he fs @ cold-blooded egotist, the Kipling formula of wedded bliss for Tommy Atkins nding strain upon mothers, the woma her baby out of the window to its deat! t duced hi ighter to commit suicide with her, th mo ) ire to nase and burned herself and her childre: ¢, have no cc art 200} ] gardens | eS gala eee en olters | the P Letters from the People. ie on time, arriving in New Yor mur and e quarter late 4 Buz we were only fifty minotes lat but on various other trips T have t courtesy a where three-quarters to ow corded s ary 5 e » Inte mm that should ta's a " a4 | not m me and @ haif houre. Ave Hume 1 1) Did. VERNB, Pougtterepste, NY ox-Beau I { Broadway wae aliowed to re in * ow *. 4 mndrom? shave himeelt and then wae tru p | Ma the Pete on is World ee te chiang ee tab ie | WM te the “upeamned increment” of ieané. Vrey lates y * lapeed franchise? P De Bilow hia word tobe taken then Ngo RSE H would not be taken in court? Bede Then She Rebelled. x ls golng on some LI 4) young mar BOR ding ue propored 1 qe? Y bash, Kansas City Jouve jets 1 «irl * vhonograph. 1 f The Bvening W 4 the waxeh i) tf which he had are 90 many iy tad his love. ‘The «in was ervice the murpriaed and not dieoleaeed tc on the Now pers declaration. but th lpr (a hal di apnea © patrons of or ‘ 9 " wi ar we ge = leay sir a PM. and me |? ; Fork, at midnign wo eof , or , dows eng eh ? Lig @unday 1 came Will the Cen-taur he HORSE-POUND? Old Wives and Young Husbands the old men who have a strong penchant for young ginis.” | cred woman has waually learned interferes leas with his bachelor. treedem than | ce Ketten. Sacre Bueu! “THOSE MACHINE 1S BEWITCH, RESTFUL, ISN'T IT FRENCHY 9 Oui! ze BRawe! 1 BREAW 2E HEAD WHEN I LAND, EH DOC, Those DAY BEFORE 2/5 OVAIRE IT MAKE ; ME SO SEER, Mon DiEU't. By Nixola Greeley-Smith “Now, you must marry, be sure she is old. A troop-sergeant's widow's the nicest, I'm tol, For beauty won't help when your vitties ts cold, An4 love ain't enough for @ soldier!" Now and then, of course, there may be « genuine love match between a young man and a middle-aged woman. And always the woman thinks there is. Tt is usual to regard the young husband of an old wife as having been more or less victimized. But the facts are the other way. For the elderty wife ex- pects the same romantic love and devotion that a young girl would The only | difference is that it takes longer to convince her that she fsn't receiving 0. The wounds of young women, whether physical or sentimental, heal quickly |The woman of forty or #0 recovers more slowly from injuries, whether to the body or the heart. The future does not hold out to her the promise of other interests and perhups of other loves it offers to the young woman whose ef- fections have been unwisely bestowed The middle-aged wife marries for love Her young husband quite often for nome one to send his clothes to the tailors. Of the two, if they meet unhap- 4 piness, it 4s the woman who deserves our sympathy. “Lat ati] the woman take an elder than herself, so wears she to htm," ‘We the best advice ever gtven on the subject of matrimony. The girl of | eighteen ‘= older than the boy of eighteen; the woman of forty far more mature than the man of the aaine age Gho Inoks older. She feels older. And if she . | feels nn inclination for the compantonship of a younger man ehe had far bet- an marry him. By c: ¥. Kahles, 1N GOOD S00TH, | WOULDST NoT G0 TO EITHER OD'S BOD-KINS! the Cen-taur Will HIKE BACK to the E-LYS-IAN FIELDS, I’FAITH. ~ May 27 ee ee ae ee eS ee 1907; _ SIXTY HEROES — WHO MADE HISTORY By Albert Payson Terhune. No, 58—SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, the hero who gave hia for ecience. : A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD English boy, John Franklin by pame,<4 Away one day In 1800 from the school where he was beginning prepat \ Yona for becoming « clergyman, and travelled twelve miles to his Grst glimpse of the sea. Having once beheld the ocean he declared: h would follow no career but that of a sailor. His parents were poor pl and John was the youngest son tn a family gf twelve. The lad's refusal ta | Study for the ministry was a blow to his fathpr, but when John did not outa grow the whim a berth as midshipman was sgcured for him. In this capactt# he fought gallantly under Nelson at Copenhagen, 1801, and at Trafalgar, |, Franklin was a born satlor, He rose to/the rank of Heutenant, gallant service in 1814 at the battle of New Orleans, He also jolned bedition to explore some of the unknown /coasts of Australia, and {aj capacity gained a taste for exploration. The “Northwest Passage” in those days excited Europe as much m }the search for ihe North Pole in these days. Scientists believed that fiir was somewhere a passage for ships from, the Atlantic to the Pacific oveal way of the northernmost coasts of thé American continent, But. no oni thus far been able to find such a passage. Franklin was sent, as second in command, on ah expedition of thi A storm threatened the two ships of-the explorers and they were forced ta bore into the ice-pack for safety. This ac d them that the party had to return. Franklin“wag put in charge of a second expedition in 1818, W ke did not then find the passage he sought he CR, plored and surveyed far more of the north o than had ever before been discovered. after rible hardsbips he came back to Dngland, where as a reward for bia ploits he was knighted. t ig After serving with honor tn the Greek war for independence he was mad Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania in Australia. There he revolutionized oa ditions and did more for the betterment of the colony than had any oth ometal. On bis return to England he recetved command of a third “No west Passage” expedition. This consisted of two ships, the Erebus and th ¥ Terror, with 135 men ana officers. Franklin's wife begged her husband ti rest content with the-honors he haa already won and not to empara on Perilous a venture. But he was seemingly the only man fitted for the oo mand, and he refused to back out of the enterprise. Lady Franklin was at his persistence, and {s said to have refused to bid him good-by. In 1843 the expedition set forth. It was heard from in Greenland later In Baffin’s Bay. Then all news ceased. Sir John Franklin and his followers were as wholly lost as though the earth had swallowed them A relief party set out. Here and there along the route they pioked rumors and traces of the Hrebus and the Terror. A boat was found in frozen north with two skeletons in it. Eskimos told of forty white trying to draw a boat along the ice at King William's Island. From thé and other clues it was gathered that all or part of the expedition had wrecked and had tried to reach some of the Hudson Bay Company's posts by way of Fish River. The relief party could learn no more brought thelr meagre news to Engiand. The Government would not any further sums on the hunt for {ts gallant servant, and, but for wife, the expedition's fate might stiN be one of the countless mysteries of northland. But Lady Franklin expended every penny of her own fortune and additional funds from admirers of her husband. With this money s! out a yacht and sent an expedition on account to seek further tidings. This boa: from Aberdeen in 1857, The search was long — at first fruitiess. Finally a cairn of rocks was dis«! covered at Point Victory, in which was a recor®! of the tragedy. This record (written by officerg’ who lived long enough to reach that spot) told how the two ships had wine! tered in 1845-46 at Beechey Island, having ascended Wellington Channel ta’ latitude 77 degrees. Later ice had prevented thelr reaching the Ametttan coast. For nearly two years both ships had been hemmed in the ice (La! 69 deg. 87m. 428. N., Long. 98 deg. 41m. W,), and on June 11, 1847, Sir Johm’ Franklin had died. The 105 survivors bad attempted by leaving the vessel to seek safety across the ice floes, and soon or late had all perished. Franklin had actually found the “Northwest Passage,” havi: in buf traversed the entire distance between Baffin'’s Bay and Behring’s strafts, But he and his brave men had paid for the discovery by death from ‘cold an@ starvation, a 6 A Woman's Secrifice for Her Husband. ® Six Ways to Make a Man Care for a Woman By Margaret Rohe. : No. 2—Show Him How Others Indulge Your ‘Expensive Tastes. F he happens to be not rich, make @ potnt of spegking the handsome presents, elaborate dinners, electric rides and the ike with which your other men are accustomed to indulge you If you have date with him tn the evening, mention the fact that you have been for « drive noon with “your millionaire,” and he must excuse yuu you seem a trifle tired and distrait. Of course, he wih only too happy to do this, and will be beamingly if you spend the rest of the evening giving the details your “lovely drtve” and glowing persons! acsounts of miliionatre’s” generous qualities, } Dangle bracelets and such like Jewels in hia face, even. you have to appropriate all the family jewels or go out borrow from the neighbors. , Always bave something new to show him tm the Line, and greet him with such airy remarke as, “Isn't this pretty thing Coyne instated on my accepting this afternoon?’ or “You must ose this Nttle brooch that Mr. Banke has sent around Isn't !t just too dear?” This course will teach him that you must be properly adorned and may teed) him to loosen up. If he ts In @ position of trust {t wil be easy enough for him to get the though he should be warned against letting his employer discover his defalcationa” as much @ discovery ts not infrequently attended by distressing consequences, How ».ience Makes Mountaineering Eas N an article on his ascent of Mount McKinley in Harper's, Dr, I Cook, the first man to accomplish thie feat, tells of his novel equipment, eo! which he attributes much of the success of the climb. i Our success was very largely due to the extreme simplicity and Kgntness of) sur climbing outfit and food, Our atm was to make an Independent unit of eac nan, #0 that the party could be made up of two or more men, as the conditions! or our numbers warranted. All men were expected to carry an equal weight tu / thelr packs, and that weight was to be made up as far as possible of the entire, needs for about two weeks, such as food, clothing and bedding. The things) which differed radically from all other Alpine enterprises were a new form of silk tent large enough for three men, weighing but three pounds and requiring no pole; & sleeping-bag which could be converted into « coat or robe, welghing five pounds; and all of the usual climbers’ food was Glscarded for pemmicaty which # made of equal quantities of beef tallow and Gried beef; also orbawurets | tem, sugar and biscuits, These biscutte were baked and dnied before leaving the | inter mone. With our mountain needs thus simplified, I could with one or twat trustworthy companions make rapid progress up diMcuk plopes, over mountatna ous country, which in the usual manner of mountaineering would require @ long train of porters and helpers, with the inevitable halts, accidents and failures.” ’ Pianos Can't Stand Moisture. HDPE i no trade in American-made pianos in Scotland because tt been found that when planos ate mamufmetured tm the dry climate of t United States and brought to Bootlend the wood in the course of « te months ts seriously affected by the dampness, causing Joints to open and free} quently “bucking” the sounding board, One Amerian firm Goes a very business ip that country, tut It hae all ite instruments made in Hansburg, wth the wood ‘ms been seasoned ip @ alimate simMar to that of Scotland. It become & saying in the trade that the onty “Amerioen” pianos sold tn ore ‘made in Germany.” Senha ae remeron Travelling Hills of Sands, N the coasts af Pomerania there are large tracts of sands, heaped up the wind, hundreds of yards in breadth and from @ to 120 feet high, «: these @ills, propelled by the wind, move steadily in an easterly Seen ‘The peed at which these great hills travel ts from # to % feet a year Pini woods, which sometimes come te thelr line of march, cannot stop them aff! a deswoyed, The branches are retted off by the sand and left of the tress but the bare tems, which after « few years witter and aia, a 0 . Why Is There No Pope Peter? « MY hae no Pope ever reigned under the name of Peter? The custom W the Popes to change their Christian names their elevation to pacy began in M4 by Peter di Pores takin, it of w feeling of the name Sergius TL He deemed tt would be presumptuows to have Peter thé Becond. f ‘