The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1908, Page 14

The Evening the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 88 to 6 New York. ANGUS AIAN, Soe Published Dally Except Sunday dy = Park Row, nt TRE Steer rane. 90) Wont 1170 Mtrees SOSEYH PULITZER, Pree. * w York as Second- Bntered at the Post-OMice at jase Mat] Matter. @udecription Rates to The Evening| For England and the Coatinent and ‘orld for the United States All Countries In the Internationa’ and Canada. One Year }One Month...... One Year. $2.50 Qne Month. 3 VOLUME 48..... VALENTINES. P T. VALENTINE was a third century martyr who was canonized after he had been beheaded at the order of the Roman Emperor. What he had to do with the cus- n of sending valentines no his- 008 Soe. torian has been able to find out. The observance in Febnmry of a courtship day antedates the Chris- tian era. Like the habit of birds of mating in the early spring, the his- toric races observed a mating feast men chose their partners. The climate on the Mediterranean being milder than New York and the spring beginning earlier there, this mating fes val, which the Romans called the Lupercalia, was held in February. The use of comic valentines is of later origin. They came when printing from wood cuts had become cheap and popular and when col- ored ink was used on printing presses This year the popularity of the old style comic valentines has ap- parently ceased. At the stationers and book-stores where valentines are on sale the counters are covered with expensive works of art instead of the old-time penny horvit Valentine's Day used to be the small boy’s annual time of ven- geance. If his school teacher had thrashed him some time during the year he would treasure up his grudge and on Feb. 14 arrive at school early and leave on her desk or tacked on the wall a colored caricature, showing a thin, middle-aged woman, with straggly ringlets and aquiline when young men and young wo-| World Daily Magazine, Friday, St Valentine Day. By Maurice Ketten. Febru \F You Love ME AS | LOVE Yau nose, spectacles and no good looks, with a verse of printed doggerel re- ferring to her faults. He would send te the small girl who had not favored | him in the kissing games at her birthday party a lurid woodcut, depicting | a pigtail, a pug nose, a gingham dress and the customary verses as to| what happened to haughty little girls who scorned worthy members of | the other sex. Even the children’s valentines this year are products of the en- graver's and wculd-be poet's art, with the presswork lithographed and the Cost of one of them greater than the children of last generation’s whole Valentine's Day expenditur The valentine customs of to-day are a return to what they were in England and France in the seventeenth century, when the sending of | valentines was fashionable and both young men and young women felt | free to declare their sentiments through a delicate missive. ccording to the dia I-known English gossip of those e of the day: entine’s Day to married women as well as to marri it was not considered good form for a husband to be res 1 because some other man took asion to compliment his w morality was somewhat m¢ in the days of King Charles than g now, and the resentment of a hus- band took the form of activity on = the duelling field instead of in the divorce cou = This being leap who has a diffident sui man who needs an exc come his bashfulness, can find ample fashion, to take this occasion for making their feelings known. Pepys, it was allowable for men to send loving messages on Val-/} ageable women. And im- open vee ‘al authority Letters from the People. | An Eee Probl Eve ing Wor n ska To the Editor of Le Tren ecann ' season is short enough selence, and {1 seems ers think: An 4 Hs set peiracecteentt al the public {s not permitted second tons eggs so that one son & eon gets 30 and the They start out and sell th same price, and & exes, an was spolled, da theatr ‘Mey each come ba what price did y did not se'l agein, but jus Universal State Laws: To the Editor of " s al the wu about ‘At present, each Sta'e tion on mar! divorce ment Federal allows own gives each Stn ing itself eral sys tslation aituation Ww Biate to law RY Wi : Koes fo Board of Health and Depart- ment of Highways the large lake. Our disappuintment can! {hey cell sou wish an oat Qe imagined wnen we lgnmed thet no your is very inonavenient | keep my things, Husbands Who Know How to Borrow Money From Their Wives Should Give Unsophisticated Mr. Jarr a Quiet Pointer or Two. “A dollar Jeasd Mrs. Jarr . 1 say, you ou had & St to you,” said Mr. iway fro: you certainly do spend a lot of money! By Roy L. McCardell, “Cs you let me have a dollar?” asked Mr. Jarr hum- T gave “What do you the next min- for carfare and ‘tedy In this house replied Mrs Atos give me ¢ And I don‘ IT can go d by: e@ other morning, Mrs, Jarr crossed que umblei under a lace b key, opened a bureau drawer, si tea, tragedy @ room like a , not a le money with jer some cors fd Mr. Jarr, “but for goodness covers, chemise other « gave an * z 5 erenschers ies and other Fa es oa sake, let me have ft if you a Cee Lek “I need to ge! ek," said Mrs, Jarr, reflectiyeiy; ‘but pocketbook TEMERon TA aA hab 6 . tn “Didn't you put {t under the mattress?” asked Mr ‘ : rout ¢ “No. . ale But, remember, young man, you've got I did not! I put it in this drawer becau ery short this week ago, because | remember undryman deny hin tae et have (itor bill was 61 cents and I didn’t have the change Aveaies FREI SU) varias meee a GEN EREA Neat rarer TaILGaT dee eoaadealeadnt cee are because I'm late and I haven't a cen “i lava Chane bad look thaldtiee Lior runsakedbareibarn, What dit you do with your other money? You had $4; because I saw It," “What do I lock the drawer for?” repeated Mrs. Jarr, S#id Mrs. Jurr, susmtctously nt it on you To I I bought you a nice dinner downtown last night," sald Mr, Jarr. t do I have to lock up everything I have for? t's why!" y You are afraid of people taking your things when hy shouldn't you? Jarr, quickly asked Mr “Who else should you “T don't see w m keep “And the key right under the bureau cover, just where a burglar would naturally © money on? Huh! you talk as 1f you has done me a great favor! O5) Ras eR Poa Bis aks Ww that's the way you look at it, don't ever ask me again! Oh, I could “T haven't anything to tempt a burglar.” sald Mrs Jarr, ‘but T have ta set plenty of people to buy me dinners #f T was that kind’ keep my things locked up because you and the children are always ransacking Clara. you or are you not going ¢o give me the dollar?” asked Mr. Jasr, thr them! What dll I do with my pocketbook?" despondtr Maybe you put \t under the mattress," ventured Mr, Jarr. ‘No, Im not!" sald Mrs, Jarr, tossing her heal. ‘Not after the way you “T told you once before that T did not!’ said Mrs, Jarr, sharply, “I never have spoken to me, twitting me about buying me a dinner! Here ts the change [put ang under the mattress except my Jewelry, beoause that's the first, the laundryman gave me, and that's plenty for you to be wasting and guzzling.” place a lar looks And Mrs. Jarr counted over 39 cents, mostly in pennies. | “Kind of you to not keep him searching,” satf Mr, Jarr, “But do please, es | ’ w, don't you go hurrying me! exclaimed Mrs. Jarr, ‘Oh, my poor The World’s Largest Flower. head! WHAT did T do with that pocketbook? I had it Just a minute ago! But I do declare I'm so bothered and worried and so upset that my memory TE largest flower of the world 1s a native of Sumatra, Java, and the| totally gone!" I Philippines. The first was found In Sumatra by a botanist named Arnold} “Mayte 4 and js Known as the raft A “Listen t © of these flowers about four feet in diameter, and not having any| rolahcwise lance, using certain packed hoxes to offset the flower. These Just to sh ‘ 1d T wonlt have thought of ked, and w 3 ation found to be twenty-two nte {f you hadn't got me so upset. Why, here it is, where I always put pounds —t weight for a single blossom, This CARE GLY SN CRED such a powerful smell that its presence is known long before {t can How a dollar wil! * sald Mr. Jarr, meekly Wandering Philosophers. # « # ByJ.K. Bryan. Willie?” ary 14, 1908. NO. 49. NEZ-PERCE WAKS—Partl. first Campaisus. tribe of the Sahaptin nation (living in what are now the States of Idaho and Washington), they noted with amusement that dandies of the tribe wore nose-rings of shell. From this trait the trappers nick+ named the savages (“Pierced-Noses") and the title has stuck to them ever since. The Nez-Perces were about 8,000 in number; intelligent, brave, and, for a long time, kindly disposed toward the white men. When the Lewis and Clark expedition passed through their domains, almost at the beginning of the nineteenth century, a treaty was made whi kept for more than fifty missionaries and Woe Canadian trappers, a century or more ago, came upon an Indian ‘Nez-Perces” h the Nez-Perces religiously years. While they gave scant encouragement to to the agricutt sought to interest them in farming, they remained friendly to the Government and took Uncle Sam's part in the Indian disturbances in Oregon. Then, in 1854, another t eaty was made with them, whereby they were asked to turn over thelr ancestral lands to the United States and move to the Lapwai reservation in north western Idaho. Many Nez-Perces would not agree to leave their rich, game filled hunting grounds. When their comrades went to the reservation, these malcontents stayed on at thelr old homes and continued their former mode of life, waging war now and then on hostile Sioux tribes. But the majority of the tribe had gone obediently to the Lapwai country and settled peacefully there. All would have gone well had not a veritable horde of white men, seeking gold, poured into their reservation Many Indian fields and forests were “jumped” by miners, the natives were taught to drink skey, and were cheated right and left by unscrupulous traders, tribe grew sullen and discontented under this ari who oa The Breaking Down of Indian Loyalty. 0 rere The once peaceful, orde nt Then it was that a native gentu He was a wise, wide-awake chief, with grief the inroads made by their demoraii effect on demanded that part of the his appeal Preside ® arose to redress his people's wrongs, Joseph by name. Long he 7 the white men on his tribe's terr the Indi \ habit » and idden to se ne Nez-Perces forced the ho E laws laid down in the treaty of 1854. but two years later the order was revoked and much of the reservation was declared public i. This was the last straw. Joseph's patience and loyalty broke down under the injustice. With hun- dreds of his followers he moved into the Wallowa Valley in Oregon—part of the reservation which had been taken away from his tribe. This was an open defiance which the Government could not afford to ment for n. O. 0. Howard was sent w “debated ground.” ment sought an armed force to oust Jo: Howard at first tried conciliatory measures and by argue to Induce Joseph to go back he re: vation in Idaho. The result of a conferenc held on May 19. is here quoted in the words of How 8 own Official repo He said that Joseph and his subsidiary chiefs had made a “constrained compliance with the orders of the Govern- nd had been allowed thirty days to gather in their people and ph from the 1S7 stock.’ Twenty-seven days later the Nez-Perces, marshalled by Chiefs Joseph, Looking Gidss and White Bird, massed at Cottonwood Creek {n pretended obedience to Howard's commands. Then it was that Howard learned ¢ « from scouts of a series of depredations, mur Chief Joseph's Fight 5 a ta thal bag secretly marked the past In White Bird Canyon. } The Indians were wreaking terrible —_—_—_—_-rr>_ revenge on the white settlers in whose favor they were ordered from the valley. Murder after murder was reported. Then came the news that one of the chiefs—White Bird—had publicly de clared he would not go to the reservation Peaceable diplomacy had failed. The Nez-Perces were on the warpath. Their long friendship with the Government was ended. Two cavalry com- panies were sent against the Indian camp at White Bird Canyon. The troops attacked, but were defeated with a loss of more than one-third of their number. Howard then marched upon the Nez-Perces with a force 400 strong. On July 11 he came upon them in a ravine on the Clearwater, A fierce battle followe@. The Indians defended their position with frantic courage, but after six ¢ ’ resistance were forced to retreat. Their camp and & large part of their food supply fell into Howard's hands. Then began one of the most remarkable running fights in all history. FOO OO! NIXOLA GRIEELEY-SMIT! TOME Writes of The Age Limit in Matrimony. HE emengement of the octopenariin ex-Senator Davie tw a newspaper waman of Washington has been broken by the latter. In 2 sar mt given by the young woman in the case she says tho step tak her was made necessary by Of the agei Sens \tor's d ughters to his seco It is unfortunate that children should so frequently hfbit the same faults that give them so m their parents. The very chiliren compels to elope with th in later life frown res severe parents’ second whom pa n or woman and persistently Their own sufferings have not taught them As a matter of fact children have as much 1 fere with the marriages of their parents as th of dictating the matrimonial choice of their adult children—w right at Between the ages of twenty-one and eighty—or even ninety—marr' purely the concern of the two individuals contracting {t. Others whether parents, children or well-meaning friends, may deplore or advocate it, but their function Is purely advisory, and they must face the common fate of all advices givers, that of seeing thelr counsels disregarded—with a smile, ‘There are ae many children as parents who usurp rights which do not belong to them; pere haps as many sons and daughters who, with homes and Interests of their own, yet attempt to deflect any pale ray of happiness that comes to brighten the Indian summer of a surviving parent's life. Tt 1s right and natural for a widowed man or woman to marry again. And of travellers in Sumatra] it t« cruel for their children to seek to deprive them of whatever happiness second marriage may bring. Parents should, te be sure, be protected from the foolish tmpulses of senility just as ohildren should be saved from the sentimental follles of sixteen, Pere haps there should be an age of consent to make marriage legal in old age ag ui as In extreme youth, But nowhere else is so deplorable a selfishness mante fested as in the constant efforts of parents to frustrate the happiness of thelr children and of children to interfere in the emotional relations of widowed parents. ++ ‘Business Man’s Ten Commandments, IRST—Thou shalt not in anywise boast, brag, bounce or bluster or the wise man will hold thee in low esteem, Second—Thou shalt not permit thy wife to be Mving at the rate of $1,000 a year when thy business Ix not ylelding more than $909; nop thou withbold from her the business information which, as @ helpmeet, she !s entitled to receive. ‘Third—Thou shalt not mock the unsuccessful man, for he may be richer tr |nis poverty than thou art in thy boasted abundance. ‘Thou shalt not carry the counting-house into the domestic ees spoll the children's hour by recapitulating the bankruptcies | ;. HO AieaT shalt not hobnob with {dle persons nor smoke with them, now irae them, nor approve thelr evil life. hou shalt not keep company with an unpunctual man, for he wil load thee to carelessness and ruin, ‘Thou shalt not forget that a servant who can tell lies for thee may, shalt xth- | certainly venth lay tell lies to thee, Hlghth-As to hours of slumber and sleep, remember the good old rulet ! Nature requires five, f Custom gives s®ven; Hl Laziness takes nine, ' And wickedness eleven Ninth—Nelther a borrower nor a lemler be, but give where well bestowed right cheerfully. —_————_-+ Exc'osives for Bal'oons. ‘Tenth—Tte honest in copper, and tn gold thy honesty will be sure.—Philadebe ROF. BARUS, of Brown University, recommends as ¢ motive power for | “Wot did de lady up at de last house say | “Didn't say nowbin’, Weary Waggs—Say, lady, would yez mind lendin’ me a dime fer car- ‘are? I’m de Due de Chillblains in disguise, an’ I'm on me way to keep an @ppolntment with a belzessl Just pointed at de woodpile, an’ I beat it!” phia Inquirer. skyships some form of high explosive, particularly thoss which can be P vorked up into wicks and ribbons, He proposes obtaining @ continuity of cower-values from nitrogen explosives ‘by, using cold storege, - t