The evening world. Newspaper, October 30, 1907, Page 14

ortd Daily Magazine, Wednesday, October 30, “Oh, Listen to the Band!” Cie Baa — By Maurice Ketten. (uticbed Dolly Bseept Sunday by the: Frees Fublisting Compeny. “Nos. se z Park Now, New, York. = ; =| eS ge 2, ANGUS SAW, SosTreus., 91 Went 118 Owerk. i Entered at the Post-Odles ot Now Tork as Socend-Ciase Mall Matter. Canadas. For Eawland snd the Coo: timent and All saverccevecccces SONS] | in thi So ational One year. Sa ie mee One month............-. | One year ;. Seat} | One month od NO. 16,871. —— y ies | ie i ne Wh No, 4- FRENCH AND INDIAN » AR.—(rict 14 AKE a map of North America, trace along it a narrow thousand-mile strip along the Atlantic coast southward from Maine. Compare this in size with the rest of the continent. That ‘strip’ was held in 1749 by the English settlers, perhaps one million in number, and divided into |thirteey colonies. All the, rest of North Amorica was claimed \by France, ~ | Moreover, the French King, alming to make the whole continent his own, | Planned not only to restrict the further spread of the English calonies but Hlittle by little to push those colonies, eastward until France s! | master of North America. / / In 1749: the English King granted £00,060: acres ot land. on of the Ohio’ River ‘to ‘an ‘association ‘of English and Virgin! 2 known as the “Ohto Company.-“'This grant.was in the heart of the section claimed by France, The. clash’came at once. For the company’s surveyors and traders, as fast-as they entered the eee tlenlt Ny. the new region,” were parti aed ore To. strengthen their hold and to prevent:thé English from moving weat- { ward, the-French bullt-a-chain-of forts and trading posts from the St. Law~ — + rence to the mouth of the’ Mississipp!, completely ‘hemming {n the thirteen oe colonies on the west. .Gov, Dinwiddie, of Virginia, resolved to.send a mes- sage of Brotest to the French commander St. Pierre, who was stationed at -- Erie, Pa. The choice of a man to bear this message was Qne requiring great care. Tor- the trip Involved the traversing of “several hundred miles—of- tracklesa wilderness, full of hostile savaxew, In dead of winter, and called for prudence and diplomacy as well ag Du 7 © widdle selected a big, raw-boned Virginia ‘ina, The Boy Was— barely twenty-one, by trade a surveyor. -The buy. »yGeorge Washington.” { was George Washington, It_was his first appesi- See ance in history. He made the perilous journey, and brought back St. Pierre's insolent refusal to | cease fortifying the disputed land. Then the colonies prepared for war. A party of Virginians started to erect an English fort at the junction of {the -Mononhgahela—ahd—Aneghens—Rtvars,_on—the-presont—st Pittsbury || While they-were at work on {t a body of French attacked and defeatec them, — ‘ook the place and prov ‘complete the fort on thelr own wccount,-to: | Sarrison jt with Frenchmen, and to name {t Du Quesne tn honor of thelr © | commander-in-chief. Smarting at this humilfation, Virginia raised about ‘ }one hundred and fifty men and appotmted Col: Joshua Fry their leader, with .: Washington second fn command., This little force marched forth to recap- 4 ture Fort Du Quesne. A detachment of French opposed their progressiat i fa May 28, 1754, but were beaten and thelr leader, Jumonville, > @. 4 This was-the first blow of the war. The Virginians were continuing ‘ * [thetr march, when Col-Fry died:—Washington,-left-in-command, wonld-bave.- | Preased on, bUt a force of seven hundred Frenchmen forced him to retire. | The British colonies then united for mutual protection, and this alliance dla ; | much to pave the way for that closer and perpetual Union which was to be |_| formed by them twenty years later. — “The British Government now took-an—acttte—hand—tn-the-war. Gua. Edward Braddock, with severnl reginrents of “regulars,” was sent across te . America to take supreme Soman fe -Braddock—was—a—dissipated,obeti spendthrift, who (though he had’proved himself a fairly good if poles -world European Hines) was about as well fitted to command an ripened tion against French foresters and crafty-Indians in the American wilderness | ‘aa a coal barge would be to race against a cup defender. * VOLUME 48.......... Se CROPS. HIS fs the time of the year when the United States Department of Agri- culture, the Census Bureau and the “agricultural, papers make computa- tions of: what-the..fields and farms of-the United States have produced. This year the crops are not as big | as usual. There is ‘considerable! less wheat and, com. ‘The oats\ crop has materially fallen off. The} apple: cropis*a third Jless- than Se eae s ~ was five years‘ago. ~The hay-crop; is less. The potato crop about holds its own. 4 , This-means that food will cost more for the ‘next year... | Although the-crops-are smaller the fatmer will_be-a_great deal: better off. The wheat crop, on which dehends the price of flour and) “bread, is one-sixth-less than last en ut 4 the price per bushel is over 2) dollar, instead of 70 cents, That is,'t prict “increased 50 per cent. while! the quantity has imi ished 16 per cent. so that the farmer is a third | better off. The corn crop is only 5 per cent. less, and the price s 40 per] cent. higher. The oat crop is about a quarter Jess, but\the price is almost! double. The farmers of-the United States i make _more ee this year than ever before. = \e i, . Correspondingly the consumers of the United States win Pay more hil Ts Money for their bread, meat -and-fruit-this-year-than-ever before. —— ~~ Still, figured out in dollars and cents, the individual farmer. receives “yery little. The total farm value of all the crops of the United States, including cotton, is only $6,500,000, _$75 apiece for every = man, woman and child in the United States. : =AONS «But Braddock felt a hearty contempt for the whole affair, He eoulé scarcely be made to take a serious view of the situation. What could a few ~ | bands of savages and a few hundred French emigrants do, he asked, scorn= — jtully, to check the triumpbant merch of His British Majesty's regular troope? | Washington and others tried to point out to him the dangers that lurked in | the forests of Pennsylvania and the difficulty of dislodging the French and ~ Indians from: thelr chain of forts. Bat pemnupted Wee a ee scorned 5 . their advice, and in 1755 set out with a ly_of 1, men to capture Fort he_taxes_of New York City are $40 api Thus the people of | Du Quesne and_sweep the French out of the Ohio Valley. Washington was rk the farmers less than twice as much More as the | his afde, and later became second in command, Besides the regulars, there NOME Pay. y Pay | was'a battallon of Virgitila rillenien.—These, under-Washingtou;-were-to-de— their city government. — a | unexpected services before they returned. Distributed evenly every man, woman and child in the United i Though the forest swarmed with Indians, Braddock used no caution, an@ | ‘States would=recetve-cight-bushels- of- wheat,-which- would- make. more} : SATE CET Come Coes) ae A a) rence enor ae . tempt secrecy, je mi on toward than a pound-of bread a day, enough ‘buckwheat for cakes twice a week ‘4 Sas ea ‘Quesns; teat ne Aue re tee ees ‘oo e near vicinity of the fort. ington during the winter, seventy pounds of cotton, three bushels of potatoes, Sea aay he Rete osia kel grea tepreeautioner Incmiaraastey ‘one-half-bushet-of apples, -which-is-not-as-much-as-everybody should eat; > vance, but eres to listen. Suddeaty, three quarts, of: of onions, which is quite scant, and rai a uate of cran- mallee from their goal, the rocks and trees one! s army_was climb! indeed into a cyclone of rifie shot and whissing arrows. . eich berries. Braddock had-blindered straight into a cleverly arranged French-and Indian Mr. Jarr Tells Mrs. Jarr That Good Husbands Need a Square Deal, There-would be thty-ve bushes of com, ten bushels of oasand] And That the Coddled Kind Have Had Much the Best of It Too Long) trisc™ xo etsedtedrertara vowed to tie sor of ening, were eat "two-thirds of a ton of hay to be fed to the hogs, sheep, steers and cows | down like steep. The—Virginians_sought cover of bush and boulder, aad women’s clube ebe belongs (6, her exataple Is Held ase rare end beautifully, $ | blazed away With deadly precision at-the-atmost thvistbte tos. —-The-reguiass- which furnish the meat, milk a butter. There would be two bushels By Roy_L. McCardell. womanty-sone-of devotion and R [leet TS a eainedtbiatlaet (rice ace > z “Te EoaEe goes Mr, Hickitt,""-rald Mra, Jarr>-lookine i 5 nice man.” ucke!"? J “Why don't the man who ls} r cofuer hard ares jonetioe hi decree yeeines eee Set | among hia men, with drawn sword, driving them out into the open and or ——-It-4s-tikely that farm prices wil continue to incre “TWRAT @ pMy he érinks, “he's = fagmer does. -not_make as much money as the average mechanic. “You wovlan't my some consideration | 2-Does. vs d a? dering them to “stand up like soldiers."’ Instead, they were amowed dowa . Soin ee eet [sed izntesiboey seas the onatdoed a 7 the hundred-—Halt-of-the-entire force was slain. Braddock-saw-one of his grenadiers, named Faucett, ing h and comfort that ean as mus! Peco ney the-loafer_an4_thé nervous, faulthinding, e, Braddock drove his ‘aword into the ekulkers just @ eelfish Incompecn! DOr ai aivononet “You -whoutdn't—talk that ways = “Why shouks— big, stro! men be pampered and potted till they get so concelted there iv no itving- wi them?—They can take care of themselves, It ls a woman's duty to help the | + weakand_erring, You men_are ail brutes. You do not stop—to oonskier_that + yea tave wrength:ot-will-and. strength.of body...Who would take oarg aod 100K } After the woak-willed and irresolute if his. mother or wif Yo “pm not arguing against that!" grumbled Mir, Jarr, “But don't you think the good usband-and-the-go0d_eon-shoulj have a _aquare, dealt “Why should ‘allt the kindness and forbearance go to the worthless? The strong man often needs! wean words ang thoughtful actions, but the no-good fellow gets It!" Y $50) you want to ‘be petted. do. your" asked Mrs.‘ Jar uu dig babyI* | = z “well, * hesitated Mr. Jarr, “a little petting no then ts relished’ y the est of men.’ ‘When you ansone of the best of men you'll get pan ‘ap npt until then,” sald Mra Jerr. “Bo there fe no happy medium for & fellow?” asked Mr. Jarr, to\ be perfect—and,-by the way, what Is your {dea of the ideal and—pert Tor The has got to be worthless and -a—weakling.’ ; “Well, I'd Uke see myself put up with, that awful creature Hickitt, ang| ‘There je no doubt,” he writes, “thal work myself to death by day and worry myself into nervous fits by night, and almost any kind are medicinal, tempo clothe him and dress him and give him spending money to} waste loaf 4) loralista aiid-dootors say, But when thé normal teske drinking, While I hardly had a decent stitch to my back! I guess not id “deeper levels of enerwy on tap, amd IMs -gurr; making -one-ot-there -howtitering changes of position that {a —mo_tny comprehensible to the male kind. unselfish Gard working Manas) irritating weakling, be he |roc ‘ back.—_Faucett's bi about sald Me, Jarr, jemuneration for his toil is more uncertain arid} Tis capital investment 1s several thousatids-of dollars: farmers sell their land. Teplied Mire Jars; "There's be no excuse for you.” “you haven't a weak hea Has he’ eaked Mr. Tarr ij 5 dy-consummata- skill and his Virginians dafely Suaving the shattered remnants of the Britteh ree from the death-trap into which Braddock’s | incompetence had led them. “Is a Spree Ever Good for You? By Prof. William James, of Harvard University. @ « rule, men habitually use only a small part of the powers hl A actually poseeas ani which they might use under appropriate ceaditiens, writes Prof. William James in the American Magazine Teen be gees \to describe the keys witctruntock energies and stir “He's either | keys as love, anger, war, Guty, the temperance “pledge,” ect | tagion, Christian Gclence, conversion, prayer, and_so-om. In the coum of larticle Dr, James makes the following report_on the alleged J some men apress and “thet Mrs, Hickita says If he was to be crossed or if ing unkind were to be said to him, it might be fatal ‘He_nasstn't_even imagine that she's offended “or thinkw unkindly about {t. he's so sensitiver” “Tha good one, I wish I nad his recipe,’’ sald Mr, "You needn't chuckle over the! unfortu: man,’ ssid Mra, Jerr, ‘a to be pitied.” “He je pitied; to's pitied ton much!" eald Mr. Jarr. and given a good call he might straighten up.’? ‘T think Mra, Hiokitt In a very happy woman,” said Mra, Jarr. “Ot course she is!” grunted Mr, Jarr. “She's got a weakling to look after, ‘That's the ideal husband In a woman's eyes. Somebody: to worry her, some o ‘Wivehas to 100k after, some-cne.to watch when he's out and nurss—when_he's tn!" “Would-you have her desert her husband because he ts practtoally Invalid?” asked Mra. Jarr. What do I care what sna -Aoen about. her weakling?” maid Mf. strong, hardworking, constderate-tettow~— r dared to aes a wlase_ot beer she'd leave him!" 7 You shoyldn't criticise ‘people who are not phyaically strong or those who| ‘Just the same, those kind of follows get the best of It,” growled Mr. Jarr, tove-and.care for them," sd Mra darn “7 Mra. Jarr laid her hand upon-hia arm. “When witt-you men ever learn-that. if a god, though he were only tho god Chance, makes st through « poor Mr, Hbokitt is beautiful ait’ touching. Everybody aay 90, she at -ulf the] ths worst’a woman has the tore whe tries to mike tire best OF Te ake eat Sine tyson ufo. a ma Tt a tones thet " Don’t-Go Too Near a-Jai | forming some couregeous act, will launch « manon a higher level ef By F.G. Long) TOA UFFY days ani weeks, will-xive him a new range of power, ‘In the } ahs whiskey bottle which I had brougit home to @et Grunt upon: FLAT! CANT I STAY, HEREE Fit ne was-pitiea less|” Still, the pleasures of farming are not such as can be measured in dollars and cents. There ts the joy of planting and_watching things grow. There ts the independence~of the-man--who-—prodtices—his—own—food: There is freedom from the uncertainties of employment, the strikes and =Aggkouls, Openet O€ deeper ahd deeper Tevets or” energy ts the wit: —'che -aiboutep -ta-te- {t, to make the effort which the word volition implies. But if we de make: ADEE BI Re emg ne nm om paid only what “the farmer 1 gieat.classes -of.the population. on _wauld be It is the middlemen who. grow rich. ” Gen. Fred. D..Grant-Says They.Are So Attractive They Encourage Crime " patient ned beause ons ies “the ground. I felt so happy and uplifted after | I wasn't tempted to touch a drop.’ | Man With An India Rubber Jaw. | MARVEL of surgery has been shown to the French’ Academy of by Dr. Delair. A patient had lost his chin, part of his lower jaw, his Hp, | 4° n portion of his tongue and his nose owing to the explosion of @ gum which {he was firing. An apparatus in four pieces has been made for him oho makes all trace of his loss practically: Invisible. The chin and lower ip, with false beard on them, are ride of eoft India rubber, the nevessary teeth, nase Letters from the People. | Nema 2 hd BS eer ee ee 3 Ss ++ —_____——_ The Pedant is a curious’ Bird. He sits upon a «stool! He Batters Little Minds about And thinks he’s Teaching School! (3 For Winter Health, Included in the Hat? ee pen cre eres on eect abel R EERE RA nA a ek tines me +0 the Faltor of The Bening World there Is nome formula In that. branch of | "2 | I understand that | Bienen KYO | N AN @) | Health can be stored up for winter! algebra known aa ‘cholce’” by which ‘use just now even as money or food] such determination Is possible a 4s stored up. These days are, when Slear, fraught with ozong and health- giving propertles. If every man and woman and child would daily take a} TD the Halter of The Evening World: tong. brisk walk (head erect, shoul-| Women don't care about Wall street, dere back. mouth closed) the beneft’ politics. etc, Just now It's coal smoke Mihexltnrwontd che in le. This | We jire most Interested In, Our homes could be kept up.. W rmitting, | and -hesith gre ‘injured, Many until the first of De the | buildings In) Brooklyn, Williamsburg, tp. }and Long Island City are burning soft coal, It will koon be as bad as P burg, and our homes ard heatih wi THE WOME The Cat Nuisance. rot The Evening World swe fy | hn kick tx mite mbout stray To the Bit compatison with the scanty The Smoke Nu To the Editor of The Aho ke midnight yewi- 4 wreck lloonsed. and. lei Let cats be 49 Nour rea de’ ti by mathematics inany different be words can be Rotten out of a proper Name of shirtesn letters. two of which | j, vandal donoevte identical; RO! proper ames to be for music how bic "comfort better. Two We need no Kraulty our love how e city nuisance | und abroad at | AHL SUH Ag GRAND VIEW! THE-OLORIOUS. - SUNSET! 1 | THIS BEATS AN Ale / SHAFT: “fy i THERES No PLACE INDIVIDUAL PRISONS NEXT. COME Tox “(COME 10 My OAL: = I C Gee AND CO.D WATER: Pry Al aj Light Ko0"15— open || wi \. tL UMBING> | are ~ AS cd Lov tui mi ou SANS WILL SOON LIKE Bsa COMPETE FOR COMFORTS ordinary “The City of Roses.” SPAHAN, Persia, In known as the ‘city of rowes,"’ lut a traveller says thet the oxtreetd (“are only alleys between two high mud walls, without « single window or epening to bo seen—merely here and there a low. narrow doorway, wayn tinpenetrably closed. ‘The ground ia thickly coated with durt, the atreete ‘Aarely straight and nover have they got any name. The sense of ruln is erywhere--hers a wall ix falling down, thore a palace fe {n ruins, a litle rther a deserted mosque is ekirted. Such {s Iepahan, which from having @@ Jone time a population, of 1,000.(00, tk How reduced to bitrely 1000” Inhabitants,”* errs ocr eegasumareet nan | Bits of Curious Information. required to maxy one inch, , ‘A blight of the tea planta caused by the bite of mosquitoes Is causing ich olarm among the tea planters in India, New, York City railways carry moré passengers cach dey than go all of the ier allways in, the United States \ good loc inotlye with travel about 1,009.0C0 milex Before it wears out, With et ty es fim of & soap tudble is so thin that fifty milltons of them would be ow to Ive years ‘Good Wives in Belgium. N Bel girls are expected to give five, weeks out ot egon school year te learning housowork. The xiri te realtired ty Know not only now fo copie’ a, ‘dinner, but to dean vp es care. for a kitchen}: vo marl uae? wash’ and tren. ‘ i: are POSE Reon