The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1907, Page 14

“y ne a { one CGenets ‘ompany Publishl Dally except funday by the Press Publish! Park Row, New York { g0nern retire aye ted Serves J. ANGUA BIAW, See Treen, 20) ett Entered at at New York as Second: Canada : One mont VOLuU PST. AUTOMOBILE GRAFT. O sooner does some new b ne popular this time, when New York City form of, munici ticularly obnoxious. The latest of: these “Is the au- 1 tomobile graft. At the expense of the city there have been purchased automobiles of a value to equal ~ the cost of rejecting the lowest bid for the Ashokan Dam. There are on the city payroll several hundred chauffeurs, although the capacity in which most of them are employed is concealed under some other title. The city pays for more gasoline than the biggest garage. Its repair bills and supplies run into many thousands of dollars. : For what purpose this great expenditure is made, a case before Mafistrate Corrigan in the Night Police Court threw some light. James Thompson, of No. 621 Baltic street, Brooklyn, was charged with driv- ing an automobile at an awful rate of speed. The machine belonged to the Health Department and was nominally a! the Brooklyn Health Department’s physicians. Thompson was its chauffeur. He explained that he was taking the son and daughter of the Health Commissioner to a jewelry store. : - ~— “This 1s nothing unusuat:—Automobites, the-property-of the city-of New York, are seen daily at the-races, in the suburbs, and at the all- night restaurants. They often contain family parties, and they frequently contain women who by their appearance are not family parties. ployment of a double set of chauffeurs, for additional repairs, gasoline and oil, for which the city pays. There may even be concealed in the vouchers for these expenditures for champagne suppers and cigars at Suburban hotels and after-theatre restaurants. These municipal automobiles notoriously violate the ‘A policeman would hesitate before arresting the chauffeur of his superio officer, or of a commissioner of another department, or of a boroug! : president, or of any other of the city’s numerous officials who havc ~ . provided themselves with automobiles at the public’s expense. It is prohibited by law to use public property for private purposes _ Every pleasure or shopping trip of a municipal automobile is a crime. Rak. Instead of fining a municipal chatiffeur $10 for doing what he had for the arrest of the misusers of the Health Department's property and | taken measures for their prosecu- tion. This offense is no different ‘front that forwhich a Commissiontr of Accounts recently resigned, or + for which two prominent officials in-the Borough President’s. office were forced to resign. It is in essence no different from unlaw- fully taking money from the city treasury a Until measures are taken to check this and other forms of notorious graft the city’s expenses will tinue to leave the Tax Receivers window with increasingty~ depleted pocketbooks. Letters from ‘the People. » days before it got Into print I was T would like to say a few words about | Peoypemention fe the drat place , ¥iz.: The reporters, al- i Ways on the lookout took | toa F nt Roosevelt's tasth, a story the story es of B and ridiculous excess.” T always susceptible to cheap me! the tone of indignation from the ma, {ngton avenue Nellic In a Pet Name for Helen. To the Editor of The Even! oD 1 A says Nollie and H e. Ho says they are d Sing with the spirit A.B, OY A Truck-Driverls Plaint. { Editor the past The tia kick about. “IT am.a truck sow ure hounded a Mr The President's ‘Te TATR the Kialto. my neighborhood. 1 had ‘WOWINg when's secondhand fur coata? , O R and profitable! than ‘graft fastens upon’ it. At} has to pay a higher rate of. in- terest than a Savings bank andj wheo the municipal. bonds sell on} a a lower basis than some conserva-} @Q tive railroad bonds, every new pal graft is par- igned to the use of one of Si a a Their use by night for purposes of recreation necessitates the em-| Marrying Him to Reform Him. # # = to do or lose hi§ job, Magistrate Corrigan should have issued warrants| Reddy the Ro continue to increase and the line of small property Owners will con- wonderful tooth taking a general view of the antiques and curios when my attention 1 to a card bearing the words, attached et with the tooth and two dia- monds, As nothing could possibly add |to the value of this tooth, to decorate | It with diamonds seems indeed ‘fooltah tooth, ring and diamonds are offered at the modest price of Sta bargain, indeed. The newspapers, and immed: ‘a ltooth of our President should be wort owl, which. of course, «: wat w ne gems and gold KATHL O'GORMAD 6H Lex- thé} Laas nd Oe High 1 Tam not ashamed of It, but the time an buy| Empress Jokephine ts traced to the ta¢t that, while thelr ‘birthd: day, Evening “vrsa's waily Magazine, Mon | When Wives Get Wages. By F. G. Long. THERE HAY BE A DO- MESTIC STRIKE JF. THE BOSS CUTS THE SALARY. (1§ THAT ALL ~ |f GET? VERY TAS Swett, [LL PUT ts) | You AWAY AND (GET AN AFFIN- TY ToMoRRov. | ! par | ONA SALARY! RELATIVES R-i1se | MAIDEN. THESE BISCUITS ARE GREAT! - Ii GOING 7°. EXTRA FIVE. SHE WORKED FOR.A RAISE. THEY AINT GOIN’ TO FORCE US To STAND IN LINE LIKE {| LABORERS - — No MA ENVELOPES guards’ and seized the Russian throne, where she reigned with more or less utility for many years. But. being childless, she made her nephew, Peter, — Duke of Holstein Gottorp, her heir, and looked about for a suitable wife for: him. Her final choice fell on the fifteen-year-old Sophia Augusta. Tho Saxon girl was brought to St. Petersburg in 1744, her name changed by Greek Church baptism to Catherine, and was married to Peter, who w1 only sixteen. Never was there @ Worse assorted, unhappy couple than this — boy and girl ( Pur —M. ALL THE HOUSEHOLD LINE-UP on SATURDAY WHE WHEN HUBBY PAYS favorite occupations were the {raining of a troop of dogs and the ‘drilling of a little army.of tame rats. Sometimes he would accuee a dog or rat of ‘treason, forgery or somie other absurd crime and have the animal executed by martial Jaw. Catherine, on the other hand, was brilliant, beautiful, am- bitious and a born ruler. Almost.at once she planned out a daring course for herself. She mastered the dlif! self familar with {ts countless strange customs and prejudices, studled its ewlldering network of semi-Oriental Intrig Qe 5, herself faction of clever, aurea slowly made ready for a master stroke of states manship, I captured Throne In 1762 her time came. Elizabeth died and Si) Catherine's husband was crowned Czar wnder the ‘ ttle of Peter IIL The imbe nith played un= consciously Into his waiting wife's hands, for blunders and follies had made him cordially hated by eve lowing Elizabeth's example of bribing the imperial gu clared herself Empress. She hustled poor Peter off to, prison, where, soot after, he was strangled to death—probably by her ordet with her knowledge. Her young son, Paul, was rightful heir to the throne, but she set aside his claims and ruled alone as absolute sovereign. Revolts end up here and there, but she put them’down with cruelty and prompu- tude. HERE'S 5 THAT OUGHT about the task of strengthening the country. tory, made advantageous foreign alliances, encouraged education, founded hospitals’ and colleges, improved the laws and filled the treasury. The owisest-statesinen of Enrepe found this woman too clever for them. She _ found Poland weak and almost defenseless. and lured Prussia and Austria Into combiniug with her in successive “partitions’/of the luckless kingdom. OH, THANK You! \ y | FOR THE third and last, In 1795, Poland had ceased to exist as a nation, and the bulk of {ts lands and riches belonged to Russia. This deed has been variously termed the “foulest political crime in history” and “a necessary piece of Statecraft.” ine as usual profiting in the matter of territory, etc. Winning the Crimea and other vast provinces, and securing for her hitherto landlocked empire the whole north shore of the Black Sea, she next planned to annex Con- stantinople and all Turkey's other European possessions. Turkey again rushed to arms. Catherine built the finest navy Russia had known and again defeated the Sultan. able extent due to the prowess of Paul Jones, the American naval hero. Hig own adopted country failing to find employment for this greatest of our sea- fighters, Jones took service as Admiral under Catherine. His splendid achievements in her wars brought him scant reward, however, for court THE OLD STYLE. | RE women developing @ new tad for marrying con- ae A victs? It looks like it. Miss Clara Leach, one of the < si _Hchestwomen._in Worcester. Mars. has juet an- d her intention 6f°marrying @ man who was par- soned in 186 after rerving part of a four-year sentence q - or embezzlement Out West last week en ex-convict who Gvertised for o wife, frankly stating that he had served \ prison term, recetved over a thousand bids for his hand. I believe Eve married Adam with the {dea that under ver Inspiring influence he might reform. And her daugh- ers have shown an Inherited tendency to follow in moth- t's reforming footsteps ever since. It is a well:known fact that mothers love thetr erty ldren best, «nd women show a similar ness for the older moral cripple. Not that I think all ex convicts are moral cripples. by any means, For tt takes @ far better crook to ay out of jail than to get In Jail. But 1 believe most of Us would rather-umdertake to teform-the woret-man TO By Nixola Greeley-Smith. than to live with the best one and despair of ever attaining his perfection. ls often the best In woman that attempts the betterment of the worst In man. M1 the men reformed as their wives would have then the world would not seem to the reformers a sadly diary pice, oT An ex-convitt gives a woman with @ ‘at I sometimes wonder if the reforming {nstinct’ something to vent ft on. She can elways feel, even if she does nothing more for hin moral welfare than to make excellent discutt, along the route she found prosperous villages filled with a cheerful, feasting that she exerts an uplifting influence It $s a very fine and courageous thing for a woman to marry a man who carries the prison stigma or bears the burden of disgrace of any kind if she needs more than the onitnary cer- tainty of her emotions that a woman feels on the verge of matrimony. For she Ippled| say be called upon fo teat the truth of the saying that the world {swell lost 1f the love ts real and lasting she may never regret facing the social latetavor that attends an ex-convict's wife. e But {f ahe Ia not more than ordinarlly sure of her affection she had better 2 her reforming efforts on a milder case. loves him well enourh ing tender | 7°" oter. RD WELL, WELL PEEK WHOS HERE -B00zeR! CAN THIS G2 7 By George Hopf; (NOW REODY, IF THE MiSSuS Cones IN -REMEM BER! YOU DonT KNOW ——— 1S mR, CED in BE TRUE THEN? WHEN ILL BE BaAcK: RE DONE CdME- ON TIE-UP THE BAT-BAGS: THA GAME 1S ‘OVER! WHIFF ‘IM WELL WELL) HERES REDOY, CAit-A-CAB A’ R - ONCE TT You NEEO'NT ut pues LES MIND RETURNING. dyice to offer as to the cholce of the day. are e unsafe. to Raphael, aa follows Good Days. September... ‘ uu» October 21a fateful Influen and traced the workings of t t bow to th ince, the rupture of the jiess hurmonious, thelr horoscopes wer particularly antagonistic, =. | t g Sse i i . f ~s Twelve Lucky Wedding Days That Are Left in 1907. Then George 1V,, born on Aug. 12, 1762, was not happy with his wife, Caroline of Brunswick, born en May 17, 1768. Astrologically, the. reason was inharmonious horoscopes, a cause to which the astrologers also atiribute the disagreements with his various wives. ‘There have been countless instances of unhappy marri: which the planews are primarily responsible,” said an astrologer to the jPally Mir- ‘“Qu.ton and Nelaon are only two examples. i} “Titled and even royal personages of to-day are fatally inf reutions by the heavens, “On the other hand, we have imstances of happy royal unions—King Alfonso and h# Queen, for example—where the parties have unconsciously obeyed the laws of astrology.” A more interesting part of the subject wa approached Jn the question: ar ‘with any certainty the best day and month for a marriago?’ "The date of marriage has no na who Uilnks of marrying during the remaining months of 1907 ) avoid and days to favor, So say the astrologers, lovers will pay any attention-to them {s a point on which prophecy ea in the past for the good and bad days for marriages, until 1% has run its course, fuenjced |in thetr astrology predic Yes, with certain Hruitations,”” was the replys effect on the parties’ destiny, if their horoscopes are an cases, however, since ne two persons’ horoscopes are exactly! has a good or bad effect” rriage with the were more or ) alike, tha ‘date Empresses. HIS &; the story of one of the most famous of rulers and one of the wickedest of women. She began life as Sophia Augusta, a rather ob- scure Saxon Princess; but to history as Catherine II. of Russia, El{zabeth, youngest daughter of Peter the Great, had bribed the fmperial . , Peter was haif-imbecile. He drank himself dally into a stupor: His ult language of the country, made her- » and diplomacy; won a strong mpress Eliztbeth; attached to nbittpus nobles, and influence over the few months’ y one. Then, , Catherine in av almost certatn Then, as soon as she found herself secure on the throne, Catherine set. She extended Russia's terri= In each partition Rus&iq snatched the licn’s share of the spoils. After the Turkey made war on Russia (1768-1774) and was badly beaten, Cather In this second Turkish war, Russia’s victories at sea were to a considem favorites poisoned the Empress's mind against him @ and at last brought about his unjust disgrace and Face pani ence practical dismissal from the Russian navy. | Once it pleased Catherine to make a royal pik and His Disgrace. § grimage through’8,000 miles of her annexed prove ® inces. These provinces had been turned inta deeor late wilderness by war and starvation, but hy. favorite adviser, Prince Potwmkm, who-tad-toht the: was in a flourishing condition, arranged she should see none of this. “All populace, and saw in the distance the walls and domes of huge, rich eltiess It was all a stage trick. The villages, populace, etc., were nightly transe ported to some spot on the line of march, where the well rehearsed per= formance of enthusiasm and prosperity was enacted for Catherine next day by the same people. The “distant cities” were of paper and cardboard: But the Empress returned to St. Petersburg happy in the thought that sh ruled so fine and loyal a dominion SURE In 1796, Catherine died suddenly of apoplexy, leaving a record for grand: statesmanship and abominable personal wickedness almom unequalled im the story of the nations. Russia had grown greqt under her rule. Publiq and private morality had sunk to an ebb that horrified the whole world. ——— Pointed Paragraphs. 'T best the music teacher's business tn’ scaly. A The price of popularity ia a willligness to bé Bored: Does any one know where the dead of night Is burled? It Is Detter to break up a quarrel than to patch It up. A girl thinks the yeil of the future is pome kind of a wedding vell, Wien a woman pauses to reflect it is usually in front of a mirror. A man seldom stops to count the oost when he ts avending money on him- self. ‘A man ceases to be the whole thing after takimg unto.himselt a better half, aa Men who attempt to buy religton need not be disappointed if they get @ old brick. And a wise man oan even extract sermous from the stones in engugt- ment rings. Pee att-welt-enough-te ask-advica, but occasionally aman makes the mis take of follwing it C ‘A grocer ways that some people who buy on time don't seem to know when tine leaves off and eternity dagins. z [About the best time to serve spring chicken 1s before it has celebrated the minth anniversary of its debut on earth—Chicap) News. —_____++. A Group ef Odd Facts. 4 IGARS are cheap tn India. United States Consul Michael, of Calcutta, “A firm in Madras advertises three of Its best clgurs at 11-2 cents, I C cents and 21-3 cents each, respectively. I suppose these cigars would seid in the United States. at 10 to 16 cents each, or two for a quarter, The men whe ‘grow the tobacco—that 1s, the laborers in the feld“wet 10 to 2 cents a day, an@ the men who make the cigars get from 12 to 20 cents a day—both classes and lodging themselves. Nice-looking stogies are manufactured in Madrag sold at wholesale for 65 cents a thousand.” i ; In parts of Northern Australia the natives ltve chiefly on the rats whic! : swarm everywhere and on @ diminutive epectes of dog hardly bigger than a : “Milliner’’ 1s a corruption for ‘‘Milaner,” from Milan, which city at one gave the fashion to Europe in all. mattere of taste in woman's headgear, It ls eaid there are more men Durted to the square toot alone the tins ot the Panama Canal than in any other part of the world. ‘The Massachusetts Btate Board of Health has placed tetanus, common cadled lockjaw, in the llat of diseases that physictana are required t& report: ‘A Greek soldier, dressed for the march, although he wears a aword by hi ntdo, carries a shovel that = caratuily protected against tbe weather by Joather case. Mrs,.John Young, residing near Overfield, in Barbour County, W.: Va., hag Yearned to read and write at the age of elghty. She whdertook the task becaus® she desired to write B letter to a daughter. | . ’ Science’s Strange Discovery. HE crescent-shaped sand dunes which move in thousands across the Gesert: of Islay, noar La Joya, Peru, have been investigated by Axtronomer 8 hh Bailey, who found the points of w crescent to be 16 feet apart, while thé convex side measured 477 feet and the greatest width waa more than 100 feet. Th estimated areight was 8,000 tons, yet it was carried 1% feet a yoar by the prevails ing south winds, ; A Soap Spring. ae ATURAL soap baths are not an unmixed bleasing, The ourtous soap spring 2 N that forms & wonder of a yillage in Tfmor, Hast’ Indian Islands, atl ; of a small elevated mud cone, from which bubbles up water heayld charged with alkall and radium, the discharge glying the appearance of a min ture volcano. A disadvantage of such a washing place Is that vegetation i ruined tor mdles around, i A ay