The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1907, Page 8

Evening World's Daily Magazine, Augie, the Bookkeeper. By Maurice Ketten. Pudlishea Daily except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, No. & to @ Park Row, New York. IOI Entered at the Pest-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Ma atter. Don'T K KX Sgbecrintion Rates to The Canada, Lait MENTION (> eS 4 “United ‘States One 5 3f eo be 1 ibs / OH! te Know XS 2 No. 26—MME. DE MAINTENON; Saint or Adventnress? : eid ee! wil One THAT'S HEN You NEED % <> BABY was born in a French prison, in 4635, She was destined to » (THANKS ALU RIGHT A RAISE ! rule for thirty years as uncrowned Queen of France, to exert a great, though unintentiqnal, influence on America, an to cause many j changes tn European destinies. She was Francolse d’Aubigne, afterward | known. as the Marquise de Mafntenon. -Historians are divided in bellef as, |to whether she was a saint or’r clever adventuress. | Her father was a political prisoner. Francoise and her parents remained {in captivity uwpttl 1639. Then they were released and went to Martinique, where a few years later the father died, after gambling away his whole ifortune. His widow and Franco{se returned to France, where they Hvyed! In poverty until Muie. d’Aublgny died, leaving ber teh-yearold daughter atone — The girl hada fine educat! rong iiterary talent and 2 racted ‘the notice of anions comle poet red e{ther to send her to-® con+ nay r, whichever she might prefer. She chose to become his ¢ s<ps \sformed and was an invalid, IMving on a government pen~ plied oy Anne of Austria.” For ten years the girl nursed and cared husheud. She made thelr/house the lterary and artistic.centre. ffhe ,:eatest men and women of the realm flocked. thither, cted by their hostess’e charm and. by her cleverness. They nicknamed’ Cle, So IF JEROME WERE FAITHFUL. NEW YORK-had 4 faithful Di Attorney. the ence Of August Belmont's violat of the Penal Code fy-submitied to the:C Jury yesterday at the a possible opportunity, after the testimony .of President Bryan, of the Irderborough Rapid Transit Company, before the Public Utili- ties Commission, : ‘ £ 1 As Mr. Ivins said, the question is. for the District-Attorney, not for att investigating commission. And unfortunately-the District-Attorney is William Travers Jerome, Who has never yet faithfully prosecuted a big criminal-and who is now taking another vacation. ¢ 5 Coming from another State,.Mr. Bryan cannot be expected to be fully familiar with New York’s Penal Code, but he stated the exact truth, except as to the lengih of sentence, when he jocosely replied “About thirty days" to the question, What should be done with a man ‘who charged up his contribution of $500 to the National Civic: Federa- tion to the account of Subway contruction and equipment, which NeW t Ne York Dr when Trancoise was:twenty-fivée, Scatron djed. Louis’ XIV. 1. { _ King of France, was then in the first flush of ee cernetCah iodine Moinoonr py triiutphs that made his reign. the wonder of the i THe Laptte: Inelan 4 world aad-won him the title of “The Grand M | tand Hei, Triumohs’$ arch.’ . Ho saw no reason for continuing Searron’ penrion to his widow, so ordered it Hees. Rot ! to the royal ike to her and avoided her all ha ent. He was gay; she was soberg y had little in common. Yet, fi and infinite tact won the m3, in contrast to the furious temé bea Little by ttle she gained cnpaclis pia; of nursery. / The’ mo: could ever were eaolute; GLAD To » York City must pay? ; Do IT. UCTIO | He was past middle age and foun —_ \ HAVE A CONSTR IN erness' sedate society. On May 3, 1906, the Belmont Subway Company presented to tht SOUVENIR TOBE PAT “Phe Queen so.years later Louls and Francoise (whe Boon or had by this time become ies of Maintenon) were married, Louis, ' Comptroller of New York what purported to be a true statement of the | expendituresfor Subway equipment. ‘ This was its basis for. claim to repayment at the expiration of its lease of the Subway and also as a + basis for computing its rental pay- ments. _ That Statement was false._. It was an attempt to swindle the city. Included in it were August Bel- . mont’s personal contribution to the _ Civic Federation, of which he was _ the unworthy President; a payment of $13,471 for a souvenir book laudatory of August Belmont; a payment of $50,000 to lawyers for : services in connection with the elevated road lease, which had nothing to do with Subway equipment; payments of $525,000 for commissions and discounts to August Belmont’s banking firm, and August Belmont’s salary of $75,000 a year as President of the Interborough. None of these charges should have been included. As well should the taxpayers of New. York be called upon to pay for James Hazen Hyde's viole Andy Hamilton's lobby fund and Missionary McCurdy’s philanthroy [although he did not make 1 x-governess Queen, openly acknowl her as his wife. He believed her not only very wise but nobly disinter Wearled of self-seeking councillors, he hegan to turn ‘to her always advice. When a knotty point in politics came up he was wont to turn her and ask, joking! “Well, what does Solfdity think about it?” or “Let'® consult Mme, Reason eae Consequently, the uncrowned Queen exerted vast influence over elderly husband, and incidentally over all branches of politics. She by no means so disinterested as Louis thought. She favored hei own relae tives, persuaded the King to appoint her friends (many of them in tents) to high offices or to remove her personal enemies from positio they were holding with credit, and to approve of plans she and her cote of clerical politicians wanted put through. The foremost act of political meddling accredited to Mme. de Mai tenon is the revocation of tha Edict of Nantes. - Henry IV., in 1598, framed a law or edict permitting religious and political Mberty to French Protestants. This mat pons as the Bal ee uocsklon of the} of Nantes, and under its provisions the Protestant | Bevecstleniclithe } nadie yeu anumestionsiieeni hy naaWinereasees Edict of Nantes. outs tn 1685 revoked—the aw, ordering the - * churches of the Huguenots destroyed and thein clergy banished. In dread thousands of Protestants fled from France, w half million men and women in all leaving the country. Some settled in Holland, England and Germany; but a large percentage of them emigrated to America, where they helped greatly in settling the colonies and in form- ing the “backbone” of the future nation. Thus Mme, de Maintenon uncon- fously did much for the new Jand beyond the Atlantic. Incidentally, she bbed France of 560,000 vittzens that could I] be spared. Louls grew old. His early triumphs turned to defeat. The men an@ women who had made his reign glorious dropped away. But for thirty : years Lis uncrowned Queen was ever at his side, faithful, gentle and med= dling In the affairs of the country with a persistency quite devoid of any 2 political genius. Her chief accomplishment for good was the founding of + \ e| the famous institute of Saint Cyr. In 1715 Louis died. Mme. de Maine Husba nds and the Réar-Button Habit ot By Nixola Greeley-Smitn) pe rorets four years longer ia retirement, supported by a large State: pension, dying in 1719 at the age of elghty-four. To posterity she has Jeft the much disputed problem: Was she saint or adventuress—or perhaps just a little of each? H PAID TO 5 & SCONE NORTH: 1 Perr ng at the chariot wheels of fashion whereon his triumphant spovre dress, CCORDING to a newspaper story from Cincinnatl, Captive wal Patrick Egan, of that city, fell dead while buttoning tides in stute,and a button-up-tive-oack his wife's dr It fe not stated that he died as a He has crises in business, he ts tn: direct result of th wife ty fluctuations of the stock market nor ed to Ki ning will be {nclined | election night gives the breathless edit the ne last Sutton, hooked t) Some men sa Te you © cleverest woman |up a hand mirror and critically surveys his finished w +-—Ne-wonderthe Cincinaail huaband kesled ove __He probably had a weak heart anyway, and day after day of recurring suspense proved\too much for him, His fate may be an object lesson to unthinking wives who\ knowing the ease wnh which they fasten the gowna of other women when cniled upon to perform that ser fail to apprectate ship the buttoning of a aingle button presenta to. {he most yeraatile 2nd accomplisied man A Society.for Prevention of Cruelty to } nuld he erginized with me ‘ an RUNDPS again!” said Mr. Jarr, petulantly, as he syed the dish in queme bands s. Yorture on | gg defenscless mun! It 1s better that even most elaborate Paris try Buia tio: at ‘ow, you aren't going to comntence again, are you?’ asked Mrse Uxn Ana wher ts no doubt th * 1 n geometry # no such diMculte: uline as the © fastening of hi Pat easton ean © prentice ha becomes ex when started Always he main purpose of preventing wives from infilcting the butt: en obviously up the front than that one husband sbould perish \from the ‘om of rear-buttoning. Jarr. ‘I'm sure prunes are the healthiest kind of food, and I suppose that's why the obildren have to be forced to eat them; and how can I make them eat ther = bottom hook, or Ww work id down. he wilful omission to file a true statement was a misdemeanos. The presentation “to a public officer of” any false or fraudulen i vue its claim, bill, account, writing or voucher ‘is a felony.” ' (Penal Code, Sec- : tion 672.) It is punishable by-imprisonment for not more than sevan R years or by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by both. 4 Reddy the ooter. There are other sections of the Penal Code applicable. uel cu when you sneer at them?’ “J wasn't sneering at GD G2 BY George Hopf} s- siaie aay iirener proton em," ald Mr. Jarr, seeing he was in for trouble if n fact, my dear, I Uke them very much, and when I said ‘Prunes again! I atmply meant to show 1 was pleased.” = “Hunt? #id Mra. Jarr, incredulously. ‘Do you expect me to belleve that® (Here she changed from defiance to self-pity.) I’m sure I do the best I can. ss - TT AON % y I don't have meat, and if I have fi mu Peete 00D) L have fish for supper you ask why n't : meat August Belmont can be prosecuted either on the misdemeanor a OW REODY, TAKE Goon) | ask why I don't have fish, and !f I have a pudding for dessert you ask woy ARE OF MY GRANDCHILD) | on the felony counts or on both. For every law which he has violated TIL ' = 1 i LET ME SEE! don’t have fruit, and if I do have fruit you say ‘Prunes again!” “there-js-o-spe. penaitrs: . i Poe ETON | ner “Don't you remember?’ said Mr.-Jarr, trying to beg the question, “wham — fo Sf ot oe x = - WHO DO DER we borrded on Cranberry street, in Brooklyn, we never had any cranberticay ein A ALU RIGH Tlic, : August Beli guilt is proved by the testimony of his books and S - : HERE YER ARE GIANTS PLAT arouné-tand!adyused-to-bave apple sauce inudetroco suipomited noes ATR y Ra rt 4 very meal 4 at his employees. Why is he not promptly prosecuted? The only way to secure respect-for the law is to enforce the law. If | church wardens, millionaires and epera-box owners are by reason of thei wealth and social standing allowed to go free, the punishment of ordi- } Irgiars and pickpocxets is the rankest injustice, ing Sing, if id Perkins « FES E1T’ BUSY! y 5 “I don’t remember anything about it," sald Mrs. Jarr, Y 7 "Oh, pshaw!" sald Mr. Jarr, feeling that trogble could not be avoided an@ Fekolved to make a brave fight, as fight he mast. ‘“T don't know what's matter with you. I can't say a word but what you go up in the air and fh fuss about it! "ut, if you want to know, I'm tired of prunes! I think méght pay some attention to the meals in this house and give us a change! ner Uhinga dre Just cercheap, J€ 1! comas te that, and here {t's prunes, pras ines! We had them yesterday and wo have them to-day and we had These week he onem we he ry oot ‘nd I ses them «packed In glasa-topped delicacies, The very best people eat prune: | WAN’ SOMFIN™ TE PLAY wir} _If August Belmont Ina Federal pe: cell, attac i ' Harriman were} a cupied the same urts would speedily cease and justice { t} would need no 0 1. : . — - i “And a lot of people are full of prunes, and I'm not going to bel” sald ae ee aS Jirr., “I read in the papers the ‘household hints,’ and I do declare if you ] e t - some of thone recipes {t would be an agreeable change!” ; } 1 [ers rom the Peo ple “Thore women who write those things live in furnished rooms and oy ‘ canned goods, I'm willing to wager,” sald Mre, Jarr. “I know thelr : SAPIT HPV EEN } —— read good, but you go to make them and they don't taste gvod at all, or Unatawernb: t what he Is} GC pst! WHAT ] }/ NOW SPIKE,LAY ON THE half of the things they call for are out of season or you hayen’t them tn [house! You eat what's before you. If it was anywhere else but in your home you'd be grinning and smirking and praising tho prunes!: Tf you want jotHouse grapes or peaches and cream, give mo more maoney to run Liable: ; } “Why do you fly from one extreme to another? asked Mr. Jarr, i +t you tell me these prunes are expensive, and then you say you ha’ money enough to get anything better, I'm not kicking about the prunes tn (leular, but Its the repetition. Why don’t you have some change in the bY fare?\ That's what I kick at! “Yiea, and you'd kick at the change in the Dill-of-fare, too!"* enapped Jarr. \"You'd kick at anything. We had mucaron! and cheese tast night, you wouldn't touch It! : “I don't Mke macaroni and chees growled Mr. Jarr. “You might hard something elae!"* | “What else?" asked Mra, Jarr. ‘Name something, and I'll get it.” “Wall, that Jen't my duty," sald Mr, Jarr, ‘I've got to work hard enougty ito pay for the things we eat. You should aelect them.” ‘telqct what? Whit Js It you want?" asked Mra, Jarr, TIMBER, OL: BOY! WE NEED A MAN TER: DENT THE HOME DISH! GO AFTER A SIGHT! Come WITH & tow! “O10 1T WHEN US ANSWERIN ==LDE PHON. “Well, nee might have liver and bacon,” sald Mr, Jarr, ‘ “We had it (la morning,” replied Mrs. Jarr. et “Oh, Well, stop fussing about ft, then,” ald Mfr, Jarry, tand"— tan G}) "And \ what? asked Mra. Jar, y “And kive me somn more prinos,” maid Mr, Jarr, for during the argument he ii had consymed fhe frit in questi¢n. e | ROSAS ; RADON ‘ake (them all," sald Mrs. Jarr, ‘They are too tnaipla for me. Y never ai WE Port W 5 like them.} - 1 the foretyn the A Fortune In alve veer |, Well. ala your husband give you the ea Pere fc biuliaveline B Minnercta Auditor oMce recently paid na on 4 Simona, carringe he promited you cond sacs 6 people . ' I fullest anit “The amount pal * $9,721.00, and! your birthday An Old Age Record. foerion x Fepltest AUR 4) Hos been paid out on m9, Marshall P. HUMPHREY, ninoty-reven yeara old, of Springfeld, $169 paid, and (lsfern for $132.60 from let me unty Oo, he said I Should have tiem At ATTUS tstmag; but he N clatni® to bs the only man now living who shook hands with Gen, next Hennepin Cou r grown’ wolve®@ pierced {n the moan ¢ hisaie tayetth when that worthy attended the dedication of tho Bunker ayy and §3 for cubs, vtYer Blacttes, \ Monument, | : to etude 3 had my .eare B would ay to | pavement \in the Chicago ReoordsNeraid, f 4 2