The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1907, Page 12

Evening W Park Row, New York. (Gh. ZOREPR PULITZER, Pres, Vent 14 Riswet, AU ANGUS ANAW, Seu-Trens., M1 Went 1170 Mrvet. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Secend-Clase Mall Matter ‘Canad: For England and the Con- Sypecrinteg atet ane | =: fe eamsendeteusceaa : United States. One year....eeeee See eu nin: é One year... eee $3.21 One month. One month. a cats VOLUME 48 Y TAKE AN INTEREST. T Tuesday the primaries will be held. Every qualified voter should attend and vote, and every boy should go to.look on, and learn how. | The primery is a great Insti-) ¢ the primary. was ml al, with a registry list simi- Y of election a there was no real honest primary election. es The district boss appointed his own inspectors and stuffed the bal- lot-boxes in advan: He made the ms anything that he pleased. The only way to get him out was with a club. Naturally, the general Public did not take an interest, for it was useless for them to attend a Drimary which was fixed in advance. The present way is much better. ‘ The primaries are now protected by law, and it is a crime either to vote crookedly or not to count straight. Every boss is thus put in the power of his constituents, and with sworn inspectors ppointed by the city, "jit is too much to expect this year, but with education as to thei power at the primary the people will soon come to be their own boss The present primaries unfortunately are not a fight between the peopi and the bosses, but between different sets of bosses. In Brooklyn Woodruff and Dady are fighting -to-determine whic! of them will be the Republican boss. It is a sorrowful choice. It woul: Seem that the Republicans of Brooklyn are sufficiently intelligent to b: their owi'boss. For the other Brooklyn boss, McCarren is after the job again, He and Woodruff are Brooklyn's wicked political twins. Eac! plays into the other’s hand’and into his own pocket. They are togetne lar to the oné used on election} -— orld’s Daily Magazine, Wednesday, September 18, 19075 The Wireless Hubby. By Maurice Ketten. HERE'S YOUR HAT. PAPA> Taar SA WIRELESS BELL ATTACHMENT, AND WHENEVER TRING THRE! Tints if fou AUST in real estate deals, contracts and patronage. One calls himself a Dem ocrat and the other calls Kimself a Republican. Neither has any rea political conviction except that he should be boss, i In Manhattan and the Bronx there is a renewal of the fight betwee: Odell and Parsons, and between Murphy and McClellan. Parsons is 2 new type of boss. He can wear evening clothes without looking like : floor manager, and he is governed by ambition instead of boodle. How ever, this year Odell's motive is revenge, and as between revenge an. ambition it is a close contest which is the more eamest. It looks as if Murphy will carry the Tammany primaries again. The McClellan managers make a mistake in undertaking to fight Murphy on his own plane. He is handier at practical district politics than they. If McClellan had ap- pealed to the public spirit of New York, if he had .become the public champion, instead of shifting from Murphy to McCarren, and McCar- ren to Featherson, he might. have aroused such enthusiasm among the Democratic rank and file as would have ousted Murphy. But when i comes to playing district politics, Murphy can walk around McCleliar three times to the lap. It is a good sign for public interest to become aroused over the pri _ tmaries.. In some ways the primaries are more important than the elec tion; because if only good men are nominated no bad men, will be elected Letters from the People. Ia Harlem Intellect Neglected #hoot all unmuzzled and untethered To the Baltor of The Evening World: Kdoga-on sight?) Please wake up the ur ~ta-the only-alm ofthe Harlem young | American 8. P. CA and organize women and men to be dreaned “swell? ‘ forathe {seem like it. Walk along Lenox or a & Matter of choice, not of predetern: one night.ec yne saw her oY a bewildering way of wearing her t altogether unworthy of a soul relatio: having a wife already when he met Miss Kuttner. known uyatic a9 Physical Culture Phil. YES, ARE You Marricp? Youray Cait RI, AE MAS ( fo RIDE IN. MY BENZINE BuGay 7 What Affinity Really Means ) my astonishment thin ts whet, Md: That aMnity ts “an artificial relationsht wons of different blood regarded as analogo: suinity, and that under the Jewish. Rom! afMinitles by adoption were regarded as too am ‘Thin idea of aM KEATS TO IMMteate thee the wer Teinteeneite ned destiny. According to th ast xs one mighr © because she had an And surely ally choose jn afi oftener than any one else, or It may be that because of Mr. knowledge that some am, onsidered too nearly related to marry he gave him Similarly all the Mnities,” Gorki and Mme, Andrieyna, Her | Prof, George He-ro1 and .\‘finity Carte Rand. who have fe attegetivn ging dimp: these base motives ar so little concern abor Austin Adams and hir ot He se Science Says NGLAND has surrendered non tay as ered has been mush more rap! The-rarvacex ofthe, 50M such ax Ravensburgh, on fe definit besa nitles wer Treaded hy navigators, was the ndated by a zreat wave In 1099, \{ Cromer during a single gale other well now scught MY DEAR S)R,TO ATTAIN PERFECT | HEALTH YOU MUST WALK BARE = FOOTED! SHOES ARE A MENACE TO HEALTH AND THE CURSE OF CIVIL= — IZATION. THEY RETARD CIRCU> Jy LATION AND CAUSE RHEUMA> TISM, PARALYSIS. AND 2 HOUSEMAIDS KNEE Seventh avenues any of these evenings tration. and see if you don’t come to this con- clusion, If there ts any club jn Harlem for young men and women which js de-| Te the Editor of The Evening W (lie! Yoted to Intellectijal purposes and in| 11 squaring the number of linea which the main topic ts not 'Dress," I inches comprising the earth's olroum would Uke to hear of It Miss S. B. | ference, per M. Bressel'e calculations 5 r [I achteved the following result: 24.753, rite to the Commandant at Yard.) Mad nal | ©83,734,040,140,000. In reading the resul ts the following correct: '*Twenty-fou: quindiions, 793-qu y-Yar |734 pitiions, 940 mi P. J. the Street Preacher. Evening Werht | in the Lord and keep Correct, by American Notation, |) ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Te whom shoulj I write to secure a pass to go In Brooklyn N and Ko apoard the battleships? A Prayer by To the Editor of Americans, trust : your powder dry Fret, not thyself of evildoers, let God ne They Are Within Their Righter | To the Editor of The Fyeninz World Opposite the stre ve ealoon where they play tlie plano ani! we AND BESIDES, BY WALKING BAREFOOTED YOU ABSORB. ELECTRICITY FROM THE EARTH sing until 12 o'clock midnight, 0 tha I can't sleep. At the police station and} at Police Headquarters they tell me they have @ right to do this until that jlate hour. A young policeman told me and freedom be your cry Let our naval forces and ships to the Pcitic for practice go. Offer up a prayer, and of traitors be- ware, God for freedom will show Wis almighty power in the last hour SX 'they had no right tater than ® o'clock til you please tell us the law tn this E. iw | respect? | Write to Civil Service Commi No. 249 Brondway. To the Kalter of The Evening Werts j Kindly let me mow tf there is any | plane in the city of New York where a young lady who has graduates from the public echgo! can become a teacher of one partlndar subject, as, for stance, history, withost haying to «rad- trom either high school or college. 1 be willing to pay, A certain frle tn exhausted vy wip or gun. " will be done," and save the nation. PPDWARD FALCONER, Street Preacher, Iwndred and Fourth Wher man’s power Ro. 24 Eaet One Hi mreet, [umuasied Dogs tn the Bronx, ‘To the Kditor of The Evening World ‘What ls the matter with the worthless en-American Bociety roven et Crueity to Animals? The streets o: the Bronx are overrun with thousands méne who has attended high schoo! of unmussi¢d, dangerous dogs, which | three years would also like to know if Bre & conshnt annoyance end danger there is any euch place for her to go, Mir cennet polteemen be authorised tp \ sa WHICH ISVERY BENEFICIAL To ke from public clamor tn the bond of belated wedlock within the Jast thousand years. the Yorkstire coast alone th; n has been devoured since the Roman Invasioy royal deer park in the reign of Henry VIIT By Nixola Greeley-Smith haye thought ND ati they come, the auinities! Jatnes MoGuire re may A ported to the New York police Monday that emselves too nearly relatdd spiritually for marriage. I suppose there are some wife had run away with her “a 7 41 ‘affinities’ in the wort. The main bood between all the “affinities” I have he two aMnities were found the wife « jet has been the complete absence in both parties of a sense of humor. tered a Lusband to an offinity ayd returacd to M Perfect and lasting love can exist, in my opinton, only between two persons juire. jually endowed with this wonderful faculty of laughter. But if a couple are Which reminds me that when talking some time agat: | Uaranteet by conatitutlon ani tempetcment froin ever Seer the point of any- ‘erdinand Pinney Earle, Bie Chief of the Amnity Tribe | hing funny about themselves or each other they have a good enough excuse for he told me that lie accepted the Century Dicttonary-defin: | rclieving thempelves “aMnities,” and to adding to the gayety of some and the Hon of the word amnity. So I looked It up. And somewha | odignation of others. + Land Is Stolen By Sea. 824 square miles of hi ter ry to t More recently the o¢ . averaging for the ed. Many historte: ) is ave been sub- submersed towns and fy hat of Lon- here is so con- nsecutln’s nya because it was , so. much antit {t was In- need Inland 200 yards are twelve Between Flamborcugh Head and Kiinsea an area ¢ The eroatc nuous that the outline of the coast ts never the same on two ere in an anchorage off Selsey, Sussex, still called to Tho ¢ 4,00. re estate of Farl In June, 1893, the sea a By C. W. Kahles. THAT OUGHT To | No, 37,-BETSY ROSS, ‘‘Mother’’ of the American Flag. OUR men entered the little upholstery shop of the “Widow Ross,” No. Arch street, Philadelphia, one day in June, 1776. They weap sion. They difi nof look like men of the sort who usually patronized there on a secret and (from a British point of view) a treasonetés © humble store, for all were better dressed and of more rmportant bearing fty-o | | 1 I A Dangerous Secret Mission. Mrs. Rosa { than most of the fair widow's customers. The face of each of the quarte® was destined to become familiar to the world at large. They were George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Jefferson and Adams. Their visit was of supreme historical importance, and In consequence of it Mra. Ross won herself q lasting place in the country’s annals. She was the daughter of a Phiiadelphia Quaker, Griscom by name. Hew her was « builder, and had helped in the erecting of Independence Halk } Elizabeth (or “Betsy,” as she was famillarly known) early i tat &S5 an unusually ex t seamstr and designer, In 1 e years old, she married John Ross, a young upholsterer, and for the hext (hree years the couple kept upholstery shop in the Arch streeg house, which still stands. Early {n 1776 Ross was killed in an effort to dew fend the patriots’ military stores at Philadelphia, and his widow continmed: the business alone. The four men who called on her on this June day of the same year ha@ | heen appointed fby the newly organized Congress as a committee to devise a flag for the colonies, which were about to declare themselves a free and united nation. ‘The delegates from the colonies were even now in session an@ were planning the irrevocable act which should de= clare America's independence. The question of a national flag had come up. Jefferson, Franklin and Adams had been chosen to plan one, andiwjth them in the task was associated n. Washington. In seeking some competent person to follow their suggestions they came direat ly to Betsy Ross. ' Washington, after the matter had been explained to her, made a rough | Pencil sketch on a bit of paper, embodying the committee's Ideas of the proposed flag’s design. It wa almost ‘exact copy of Washington's own coat-of-arms, containing thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, with thirteen white stars on a blue field. Washington wished the stars to be six-pointed. but Betsy argued him out of the notion, making stars with five points. She also declared that a bald eagle should be painted on the ban» ner, as typifying freedom. Whcther or not this {dea was actually adopted. for the first flag {s not definitely known, But it {s certain that the eagie was placed on the revenue mariiie flags, and siill remains there. The com= mittee found Betsy no mere workingwoman, willing to accept without ques lon all their orde She was full of suggestions of her own, and many of these were accepted. Nor did she flinch at the peril she must incur by thus enrol as herself with the “rebels” anc thereby endangering her life on reecom. She set to work on the flag and quickly finished {t. ‘The committee, | delighted with her sk!!! and enthuslarm, brought the standard to Indepen- denev Hall, where Congress was sitting. There, on July 4, 1776 (at the cone clusion of the Congressioual chsplain’s impassioned prayer for God's blese ) ing on the patriot cause and the newly formed Declaration of Indepen- dence), Betsy Ross's flag was solemnly.unfurled before the eyes of the nc delegates and Old Glory for first time waved above an asseny | blage of Americans. It was aot, however, formally adopted as the national “until June, 1 ‘ Through gratitude for her services, Congress appointed Betsy the offl- cial Government flagmaker. r fifty-five years she carried on’this remune srallts trade, and her daughter, Mrs. Clarissa Wilson, retained the monopoly until 1857, t In 1790 a terrible yellow fever epidemic swept Philadelphia, lald aside her own work and devoted every of her time for weeks tn ss « Nursing the sick. So brave and efficient. was she § The Deeds of tne } eee enme Olle oil en apa she wou for a = 3 berse! e title of “The Magic. uakeress.” {Magical Quakeress.”$ prior ¢o that time, and while the revolution was wtill young, she had encouraged the patriot troopa as they. marched past her house singing to them an Independence Hymn of her own composition. The strong, graceful woman, with her gray Quaker dress, gold-brown hair and sparkling blue eyes, was cheered by the passing soldiery as though she were o veritable Goddess of Liberty. After some years of widowhood she m and op hia death Lecame the wife of Joan_C). ° great age-of- eighty-four, . ‘ A famous picture of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” represents the Father of His Country In a boat over which floats an American flag. As he crossed the Delaware In December, 1775, and the flag was not adopted x Congress for use ir the army until June, 1777, this detall of the picture 5, of course, absurdly incorrect ——— Our Ignorance of Our Destiny. By Maurice Maeterlinck. Invincible ignorance where we mre our imagination has the our eternal destinies. A fret hypothests is that of absolute Hation. A second hypothesis, ardently caressed by our blind 1s, promises us the preservation, more or leas Integral through nite’ of time, of our consctousness or of our actual eqo. Remains a double hypothesis of a survival with consciousness or with a cons jousness enlarged and transformed, of which that which we possess today. nnot give Us any Wea Wher ter prerentyomtrenyceenretrtng, 40e-OMia— ur imperfect eye’prevents us from conceiving other light than that whidm ass between sub-red and ultra-violet. The hypothesis resolves itself into a } simple question of consctousness, writes Maurice Maaterlinck? in the Chicage | Tribune Man, In order to preserve a sense of proportion, must tell himseif every, minute that, placed In the middle of realities of the universe, he would &» ex actly comparable to an ant-which suddenly would find Hzelf on a straw th the middle of the Atlantic, There is far more chance of unimaginable things thas. by eternally forcing ourselves to take the dreams of this {magination forevee {nto the ditches of logic and actual possibilities y, Let us force ourselves, then, to tear from our eyes the bandage of our terrestrial life every time a new dream presents ftself. Let us tell ourselvea that among all the possibities which the untverse still conceals, one of the easiest to realize, the most probable, the least ambitious and the least @lscon= certing, surely, {s the posalbllity of a way of enjoying fe that Js loftier, larger, more perfect, more lasting and mo: h ln offered by our actual consciousness. This possibility admitted, the problem of our tmmorntatity, in the main {a solved at The Beggars’ Newspaper. “It ls a beggars journtily ” ERE is something interesting,” sald a tourist. 9 published in Paris. The circulation {» very emall. I paid no leww than % for this copy. It's all about beggars, There's nothing in i that is not of Interest and value to a beggar I'l) translate @ thing or two for. he funeral we do mt the Madeline.” fashionable weddings at the Trinite, St. Sulpice and Notre Dame! favanted, for the Riviera, three crippled children.’ ‘Our subscribers are urged to use thetr Influence to prevent the re-election | of M. Floquot, of Finisterre, who is fathering a blll yo prohibit mendicants from standing at church entrances before and after the various services. We need } not point out the loss to the profdswion that the passagé df such a bill would ental.’ ‘Wanted, a blind man who can play the flute’ Of Baron ras, the Monae, [will be hel For sale, or to be Jet on long lease, a splendid corner In a busy and prow | perous district, suitable for old woman with hand organ.’ ”* ) oe Sra ! Statistics of the Odd. VER 34,000 pens are used daily. O ‘The average man can ft 26 pounds, Crabe chaw their food with their legs. | Novels iorm nine-tenths of the book output, { Married men live two years lonker than single ones. Male children jweigh at birth a pound more than females. Tha value of the world’s rf lwayn tn put at $27,775,000,000. For every five murders committed only one is avenged by hanging. There are 1,01 Chinese words that have each ten different meanings, {In Windsor Castle King Edward keeps $13,60,000 worth of gold plxte, About 760,000 barrels of American apples ara exported annually to Engtand. ‘An elephant works from the age of twelve to the age of eighty. He can hau UR fathers used heir oll profusely,’ said the’ barber, “That tel whytt: returned to the'\une of oll, I have noticed a new Ufe in the soalp, a vigor, mh! \tifteen tons, lift half a ton and carry thre@ tonsa on his back. ; eo “O they had tldjes on the chair backn in those days, And our tathese had! good hatr, much better than we have. : freghness, such aa spreads over the fields in the cacty apring. Tt to al! dum tm @ return cf that fine fertilixer—hair ofl—brillian: or whatever. < So align re Satna a : Hair Oil’s Return. “But we are now improving. Already, in 7 per cent. of my patrona, who have. to call (ti 7”