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he Evening World Vally Magazine, Wednesday, wecember 18; 1907. Y mints, “| ~~ Somebody's Coming! |S THEWARY By Maurice Kette fear Gi iS day by the Press Publishing Company, N ci | 2 ‘ Park Row, New York. ter | = POBEPT PULITZER, Pree, t Rast Td Btrvet. J. ANGUG STAY, SeacTrose., DO) Welt 11H Street. Published Daily Except fun | VAlport Peysonlerhu i NO. 26—THE SEMINOLE WAR. i | 72 EN. ANDREW JACKSON, by breaking red-tape Jaws, had (durlgy. G the war of 1812) beaten the Creek Indians, and won the Battle -of New Orleans, thus saving the far South from British occupation. “i fw oars later, by breaking such laws once more, he won Sor the Unidh Class Sail Matter. Tatered at the Post-office at New York as Secon Subscription Rates to the \ Canada, , Evening Worid for the United States, One year... 401°. One year. .@ | One month KEE Pp BUSY another State. Here {s the story: % x Y. Vlorida was a Spanish province. The Everglades, which covered+@ CROSS th. from tt 1 part of al, Were inhabitate. by a fierce race of Ind known Sewinoles. Livy among almost inaccessible swamps, it was impossible to penotraté to thelr hiding places. They would issue forth at intervals and raid the nofshboring State of Georgia, pillaging, bjirhing and slaying. ‘Moreover, any slave who could cross the Georgian border into Florida and seck refuge gmong’ them was safe from reedpture) “Altogether, the situa ton was yearly f 2 ee In 1S. Pres eeded Madison, sent Gen. outrages. Jackson studied ne to the conclusion that the Indians’ depredations ed by the-tacit consent of Spain, but by the socre¢ in British subjects Mving in Florida, Our country n; and ho ion {s regarded as an open act though a lawyer by professién, had at times a barriers, Instead of trying to negotiate with t diplomatically until a Seminole war party could be caught a side of the f , he promptly invaded Florida, captured anish fortifications at Pensacola and d packed the panish civil_and uthorities off to Cuba. Then ho courtmartialled and hanged two h subjects whom he accused of stirring qmuin es against our countr; of ylolenee which would have justl- ron us, Jingolsm was once more rife all over the | son was alternately ised and blamed. jife cared for neither abuse nor plaudits, but went on his way, out the Seminole {nsurrection. Diplomacy intervened to solve m into which the impetuous General had plunged us, iged couferences, compromised the matter 1 States for $5,000,000, ‘The treaty was ad Patified two years later, Jackson being appointed first Building and there will soon be ihe largest of fuildiny in this city. , Thirtégn archi- ited to con e Brooklyn Bridge rowing lent Mourt . Who had just sud Jackson with a swall army to put down the the situation and were not o the triangular area between Park Row and Centre street. 4 Under one roof are to bergath- ered the scattered city departments, which now occupy quarters rent- ing for $550,000 a Year, Without additional expense for real estate and y will acquire edinn encouragement of Was at peace with S; sale contempt for 1¢ Spain or to wa he Geo at.onlygfhe cost of the building material and labor, the ci more than 600,000 square feet of offi ad court rooms, Jackson's Daring Invasion of Florida This is what The Evening World has been advocating ever since the city bought the land for the bridge approaches. It would be a waste o} ‘ ight in the heart of t money, space and opportunity for this valuable land 1 Manhattan Island to be used-torno- other purpose th ways and station platforms. ‘It is the best kind of. public policy {o make public improvement when times are dull. ‘This was the way Andrew Carnegie arrived at pre-eminence in the iron and steel : When times are good and price their business. They buy more than th plus at higher pric Manufacturers extend their plants when ma and labor are costly. Camegie's policy was when iron and steei prices we all of his product sold. when prices fell and busir Carnegie had cash on Ee : With this cash he would buy out competitors yo had adopted the _ _ other policy and needed money. He would put in new machinery, tak- ~ ing advantage. of the lower Prices. “He would buy ore and coal lands when the demand, was slight. He would add to his when coke was low. i ‘ Then when prices were high again and business hoomed, he had his yards ed with pig iron, steel rails piled up by the thot r ~ and his storerooms filled at low prices, ready (o take adwants eee high market. , In‘other words, fled Spain and acks, st w outa far second ry Government. to remove the Seminoles from thefr ancestral home in Territory and to give their lands to the whites. The Osceola, their chief, urged them eloquently.to Sa half-ireed, whose father had been an hter of a fugitive slave, was-captured slavery. This completed the . Thompson was sent to Florida to pla appealed, using mingled pleas his wife's return and his people's. restoration to thelr old on had him thrown into chains and imprisoned. When he Osceola vowed von He called his tribe to arms, ith on Dec. 28, 1845, killed Gen. n set upon Major Dade and 110 <1 tie Pelion of nine, whieh the Sominoles and el] but four of his men were killed. @But on b. 24 the indians were terrib| in the k on. The Semino! ttle, but swept down every now and jefended; or mae murderous ex- and Alab where they terrorized the whole dis- In 3827 some of the Seminole chiefs made a treaty with our Gov- ent. Osteoli refused to be bound by 8 treaty and continued his devastating Osccola’s Vain Fight warfare. Gen, Jesup, who was in command i foviprecdomonae of the Unitea St forces, realized thac ihe 2 z TEE struggle could not be ended while this vallant 1a half-breed lived |Christmas Gifts Are a Terrible Nuisance, Said Mrs, Jarr, le CGE Cee a (On orien ac Except When You Get’Hm, and Then They Should Be of the Best ie at peace, Then, in 1835 the diler, more prolonged conflict le, can any especially strong e sympathy plan was 1 rida to igh to keep was dull, Mr. - He His wife Dade on the following d to hide for rs, the war dragy: ricans in 0 town that w bro utter despair, Osceola pined in the promises of his father’s em{noles lost their last chance for some time longer, but the heir final surrender. ants of the once powerful where thelr descendants races now living there, ston. T and died, v own falth d him seized and s prisoner to Fort Moultrie - uu wanted me to say, didn’? you?” usked Mr, Of cuurss foveulie On people. i z hey ; Breton Es Gilitees Wf MWA That is sound: business policy everywhere, and particularly fo _ nicipality. Instead of rushing improvements the past few years, when the price of everything was high, the city would he much better off if it had the money end credit on hand to make needed improvements now when, Izbor is seeking employment And when the prices of, materials are diminishing. “2 ‘ What would happen if every. time. prices went down everybody * Mrs. Jarr. “You should t way an income, } ~ Sho bh to give her a th s y alimony J hin 1 don't ge! * sald Mr. Jar & * snapped Mrs. Jarr, “Christmas comes vt once secenadseesesseesocorcoase uld be kind remember thelr friends?" Nixola * * *. x nc 1 I suppose xo,’ xaid Mr, Jarr, “but all the gift that 1 ask ts that you just 3 ¥ uy a Christmas ve kind. 1 do not want a gift of any kind, It only embarrasses me, So, myc 4 KX G ree ] ey- Ss i tl to me, do anything o nisid Lie Wed tie lear, if you Lave any money, buy something for yourself and that will malo) % stopped buying? If everybody. wore o taps Peper Sica a oe old clothes, the tailors, thrown out y 4 tor tfuiend to get ine anyth chase the products of the farms and” a ay (of deciaring Aiericanieroriact is noUonally, Beautiful as they all tt her to be, she 1s, they declare, lacking in those m which make the women of alluring. e s = to “he American point of view, {es mean Js hat the American woman has factories. Jf nobody vbought new Shoes the shoemakers would be “unable to buy new clothes. If, the shoemakers and tailors stopped Mngimelae, tA: I's only 4 what there cr eloped smoking: .cigays, ihe demand for i nnd Ae fciligetackihetexpenvetociieribralatanal Speirs eer sana cas 20 nit iW Teton ORS admit. ‘The very facy that our young girls can and spondingly cut off. i He ive / al freeton b nartiage whlet “in countries accord only to the married? woman s# an emotional polse unknown to the pantsh or Italian women to be es would become so fulf*or at business would have to be entirely suspended, Forelgners of thelr own countries, knowing that When everybody produces and ¢ prosperous. To discharge ¥, ©. reacts upon production. her LAC, f thought erciiiefs und | ssomen ¢ nok oad now 6. Veudien! ling workmen thereby cuts down consunipti endowed ¥ S i: era plots rican women from the standa ‘ov ba. 5 A | ier ‘om chaperonage and -esplonuge would work disita Ss rFHeH A hunery. moulls + | The More YouStreten {BY FG, Lor cianeipation from chaperonage and : Idle hands m ke hungry me uthis. leads : Su re! We Want ai. MY \ It the Further tt Goer, | J Ong There; and being forced to admit that Its results here cannot Juntlye ces ; ~~ f : yy vethey argue that use Ameri jen do not abuse thetr privi-7 a N FIRED THI Ty) BR 5 jot violate the vrust pluced in them by American men, they are alfée a Cas Cob Naturs otes. | 5 ¢ £ : : Bee LS) s In emotions. Briefly, that as they possess morality, they must ESIDENT MELLEN nas vitlch Ja to own every- SE THE” vold of “ecling. Aairarriat ear stuts thie C ReSaR| (ave ie Feasts on the critic and on the women of his own country, ito and fiattaring, If he were my PLA ver unju Is shows an utter lack pf understanding of the Amertoan ~ ing kind and tactful, he mignt have nam. ELASTIC yolnt of view which every visitor who has been here three days undertakes’ te Wes Interpret and then write a book about. To u normal American woman, man-{s primarily a human delng, a come fon, and only sccondartly 4 potential husband. 1t Js not only possible but alte frequent for an Ami n man and an American woman Wo know eWétt ciher for years, (0 ding or attend! theatres togeth: casionally for the sane period, with no thought beyond the enjoyment of the moment and no vendency to rentiment on elther side. Between a man and woman of any sayo the Saxon race such a relation of simple friendship would ibe Impossible, That it exists are is no proof tha’ American women are without feeilng, DUL Merely TART y do not bostoy. these feolings Indlscriy ly, and that thelr love is a inatter of cholce rather than circumstances ese emotions are simply highly, | developed, fastidious, perhaps slightly critical. BuJ thiy we can never expect the foreign visitor to understand. have had’ the ‘same meaning and at t Cu company ts to own everything the N roud Company cannot ally own. At first tt haps this will make !t clear: The r pany and the nnectt ban do now Ja Canaget! 10 take a Walk, Cos Col-has-s most versatile held In surcty In winter it takes, the overflow (rom Ernest ad turns it ints foo werth 40 centa a hundred 5 5 i © tong. Before Frank Palmer began ‘nek! nearly all the fishermen hereabouts prope White-ash breez Now they all go by «a. road cor st without paying \) ARRGE Roun Sum, + The Other Half’s Christmas. ~« By Jacob A. Riis. NIT you see that {f very family in the iand that has would take by the iiand ope family that has not, in dhe Christmas season, tha Other Hult would be ered tor in full by the half that owes the care? And, what Ja tore, owen having taken tho nelghbor by the hand under the Christmas inspuise, we suali find tt mighty hard to let go) writes Jacob liv in the Woeld’s Work, And 80 Christmas charity which no one needw be of-tt rqfer corrupts because of tho Jove that inspires it—shtull be trane- nthe ditys after into nelghborly helpfulness that goes elongside tho needy Ta Ute fish called tomcods at N *yilluge of Plermont are known ag frosttish around hy, A Sanitarium for Deranged and Distradted Adjec the top floor of the Arama bnulidin The inmates Keep auict most of the for a few hours, during whic of the adjacent lanzuage, e) boring b very Kool fri ts been set up pak \ nfras uted Letters from the People. — aee! fo Commandant of Yard. | friends who would take them tne tie, the weak one, the orring one, With counsel and advice and friondshin, An@ the ¢ The nx World LODE. } 4 ha tty whall be hone pretty scon, Where con I get passes for the Navy | To Increase Weigh ther we ‘ Yard? H.LAPIDES. | Rosen Ss Welene i . * The Byening Wi i ‘ Charity Oreantzation Socicty, 1th ‘ ) , ' BUNPS ON A Terrible Warning. ‘ ATEHRe vena seas Are ts sire to gain fi 3 t AYS’CUSH.” FRENCH peasant to warn nut pickers off hiv place has posted thia notes ‘To the Editor of The Pyening Worl4: a i, | pei i Where can I apply to learn full Dy eehas if ith 3 A “Caution: “All persons entering thls wood do #o at ther own risk. The foulars as to whit authorities—Staje or| AUARY good gymnastum the Instructor | U f | Corylus avellana ubounds hore, as well as other equally venomous snakes,’ city~take charge “of children ean recommend exercives and diet for | i f ‘The Corylus avellana te the haxelnUt mse riem ty mers TV NCTM tT tet, Jett orphans and bave no relatives of}tho increase of weight. : iH 1% ¥ a