The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1908, Page 16

Friday, February 28, 1908. | The Million-Do!lar Kid. By R.W. Taylor. eClarld, Pubtished Dally Except Sunday Publishing Cempany, Nos. 53 to (3 Park Row, New York. JOMEFTE YULITEER, Pron, 1 East 194 free 4. ANGt |] OH! Exsie WANTS SALE ON THEM SEE WHAT | BROUGHT OH, MR DUBB! “Hntered at the Post-OMlce at New York as Second-C A TEDDY BEAR! Tooay, sir! NST WHAT L Bubeer! Ever For i SPs Seartnel Un itedaetattaimael |eecAl Gay ML WUST GET WANTED! How and Canac gos [ONE FoR HER! os sweer! VOLUME 48 ....... FIVE PAY DAYS. s no leap year sure! I HAF GOT A SWELL LINE OF BEARS! yusT voT YOU vANT! HEY! | WANT To LOK AT A PET Bear! Gor any topay ? OH,MR. MONK! SEE WHAT MR, DUBB BROUGHT mE ? 'M CRAZY ABOUT HUH! You wait! | VLL GET You A Teppy BEAR! WE'RE GOING To GET A COLLAR FoR IT, Too! 1s 1900 was a} | 1 but not in the rough 2,000 will | This difference is 1 Julius Caesar in- | be a leap year in both the Unite and Rus because the Russians stick to the old calendar whi vented B. C. 46, while Western Europe and the Uni States keep time eccording to the amendments of the J calendar made by Pope Greg- ory XIII. | The earliest known calendar made the month of the same duration | as the rotation of the moon. The ptians, computing the period of | fhe earth’s revolutions around the from the planets, found that it] did not concur with the lunar revolutions and allowed supplementary } days every year which belonged to no month in order to equalize the earth’s and moon’s revolutions. The ancient Hebrews accomplished the same thing by having an extra month every cycle. The Greeks in the sixth century B. C. undertook to equalize the lunar months by having seven months of twenty-nine days and other months of thirty days. Julius Ceasar made the calen- @ar more even than any of the former methods by calling the length of the year 36534 days, | ding them into twelve months and adding the quarter day every fourth year to the shortest month. | 1" Ct In reality the year instead of being exactly 365 days and 6 hours, is f > iW \ \\\ FINE BIRDS PETS OF ALL KINDS THERE'S A TEDDY BEAR FoR you! LiKE HIM 2? DIAMOND COLLAR Too! OH, You DARLING! How Sweet! DOES HE Bre? 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds This shortage of 14 minutes and 14 sec centuries to ten days, and Pope Gregor making the Sth of October be the 15th, rence of the error in the Julian calendar he prov of three centuries out of four the leap year shou}. This is the history of the leap year, whi twenty-nine days some years and twen > drot —T1L0R At 1e be omitted. how February has 'Ever Been to East Malaria and Attended a Stable Fire There? The One Mrs. Jarr Was At Was Recherche and a Social Success. ° re around to the fire. Some of the firemen were in evening dress, because t | had been @ fireman's ball that night. And oh, !t was a terrible long time bef | the fire engines came.” By Roy L. McCardell, rise 1 h peat teeiyn e matter?’ asked Mr. Jarr, SERTAINLY ain glad to get homel” said Mra, Jerr) (vant at on aber tone there, and wher usiastically, as she kissed the child: telephoned the engine house, the man sa!d he couldn't EN PAE ney the chief's order and the chief was at the firemen's ball t the engine got there?" sald Mr. Jarr the man whose stable was on p the horses Lestat they been good) «\tter a while,” sald Mrs. Jarr. ‘Then they found the hydrant was trozon pper and what had they had 414 arter they got it thawed the hose burst. Finlly they got a stream on the the other things a mother asks when | blaze and then the fire company gave its college cry.” it?" asked Mr. Jarr. the hose and yelled: Deluge! No. Fire! Oh, what fun! Ho! Ho! Ho! And Haw! Haw! Hawt Hero! Hero! Raw! Raw! Raw!" t must have been inspiring, , it was! t has a lov | wouldn't take part in t talk with the chtef, too “What did he asked Mr. Jarr. “He sald the Deluge Fire Company would have a lot of money in the treasury because so many members wouldn't leave the ball when they heard it simply won't stay !n those | was only a stable on . and they could all be fined a quarter apiece.” . dear me, I ha a fright! “Discipline must be maintained," i lings’s, and her husband, who is a but they missed something, Jarr, “because the man whose ascals out, belongs to the fire! stable burned gave the firemen cigars and whiskey and coffee and sandwiches, and they all agreed that even {f It was only a stable, It was a big, fine stable and the loss was not only large, but, as a fire, tt was a big social success and dle and the hay (all had enjoyed tt grea ’ sald Mrs, Jarr, as if that was an extenua- ; her little family for a night. ned to Mr. Jarr and said: “And did you | promise | Mr. Jarr. ‘T not only came home | supper and m to bed. Bu you what, | 1 gO away and leave us again, “ it-a-mother gt" ‘ nave promised Clara Giddings that I would Past Malaria? sald Mrs, Jarr, “so when e and wou "t take ‘no’ for an answer, 1 ( er to East Malaria to spend the night. they have no girl?” In't know she never has a gir! 4 Mrs. Jarr. But “Why, they put dow . Sarr, “but 1 And I had a sala Mrs, Jarr proudly. right near C G 1 naril} eight d day more th: on the same seven leap \ , at fi necalise asked Mr. Jarr, “They ne: y had it ‘ sald Mrs. Jarr, ‘when the chief seized a beautiful asked Mr. Jarr red axe ¥ ribbon on {t and broke tn the windows; that gave the fire n't," said Mrs. Jar had taken his red shirt and! alr, and nothing could stop tt, so the firemen all gave their college yell again and town to be phote ed 1 so he hid upstairs and when the chtef | moved the hose cart because {t was getting scorched." or him Mrs. 5 said he hadn't come home. Then we went Ah, for real enJo: t, who would dwell In town?" sald Mr. Jarr, When Bill Thinkuvit Comes Home at Night. . By F. G. Long. GOING AWRY. 5g © “beca Letters from the Peonls. «Thirty Day” P u ANDY AAND FLOWERS FOR 9) op ee : NG AWAY TODAY, HEN You Come Se NOT ver! te on Dyspepsin. ‘OH, You DEAR MAN-To TREAT ME SO kinoty ! I'm So GLADT DIDN'T Gama AwAy TOORY. J Ee Subway va. Chicken Crates, An Ottlee Boy's Pluint TS Bate propo pacts em orate, Yet i ly a ‘madiings) to-pul-oundreds-cf penne: ia | } Is Lingsin's L Gaz THE WARS OF », 55,—2PANt(SH WAK—Part 141.—The Blockade. DMIRAL SAMPSON on April 22, 1898, had been sent to blockade A Cuban ports. Admiral Cervera on April 29 started for Cuba from | Cape Verde with four armored cruisers and three torpedo-boat | destroyers. Sampson, receiving word of the approach, was on the lookout for the Spanish squadron, hoping to meet and give battle to Cervera the moment the latter should appear. Then followed a series of misadventures. The oncoming Spaniards were as difficult to locate as the proverbial needle in a haystack. 10 Napoleonic days, Lord Nelson had cruised for nearly two years in vain search for the French fleet. That long hunt now threatened to be duplicated, tely small portion The ocean was large, the oncoming fleet covered an inflt of it, the conflicting rumors of the Spaniards’ wherenbouts were innumerable All that was certainly known was that Ce |that he would probably touch at some point in the West Indles. | ity howlers” all over the country even went so far as | appear off New York and bombard the American metropolis With ten vessels of his fleet (ranging from battleship to collier) Sampson sailed eastward along the Cuban coast to intercept Cervera, | With an idea that the Spanish flotilla would make first for San Juan har- bor, Sampson started thither on May 8. Accidents delayed him, and he did |not reach the place until May 12. He found no trace o ceeded to bombard the San Juan forts for three hours the battle waged. .No \side. Eight Spaniards were killed and twenty wou |was killed and four wera wounded. The town of | with fear at the Yankee as | a 4 commander was entreated to sur who we Theleonbaraing | ing to Spanish office ive was bound we the fort Accord- resent, had tle longer the tie place have Not knowing y Without further the bombardment continued of San Juan. forts would have capitulated « oes oes turned over to this, the admiral stea pressing his adv On the preceding the other at Cienfue, two sharp fights had occurred, one at Cardenas, A few U 1 ed States ships blockaded the former town. Three gunboats were in allow harbor. The Amer icans attacke The t srpedo boat Winslow, e: ng three one-pounder guns, led the In she becam he t for erles land gunboats ¢} ¥ nes, boilers and s ing-geer damaged, the Winslow drifted helplessly tow: the shore. Several of her crew were Killed, and her commander, Lieut. Be }eutter Hudson pluckily dashe: stricken torpedo boat ta si The engagement off Cienfuegos was still more spectacular. | launches, under command of Lieut. Winslow, went, under shadow of gray |dawn, from the blockading ships to cut the submarine cables running from a point along shore. The warships, by keeping up a constant fire, tried to pro- tect the launches, while a Spanish force on and near the beach swept the Iit- |tle expedition with a murderous rifle fusillade. For several hours the launch party worked in a heavy sea under these perilous conditions. By that | time t of the three cables were cut. The third was considered useless and left undisturbed. Two men were killed; eleven more, including | Winslow, were wounde: On May 15 Sampson learne Curacao on the 14th bound f | harbor a few da caught the Spanish nardou, badly wounded. in under galling fire and The revenue towed the Four that Cervera’s fleet had been sighted off Juan, Had Sampson reached San Juan on May 12, he would undoubtedly have But learning of San Juan's bombard- ment the Spaniard. cha 1 his course and made straight for the big h. bor of Santiago de Cuba. Cervera was having a hard time. Many delay due to Spanish inefficiency, had hampered his advance. The collers he was to have met off the West Indies did not appear. Short of coal, some jof his ships bodly “fouled” and with strained engines, his seemingly pow- jerful armame as really In pitiably bad condition. It was necessary for him to make port somewhere for rest and repairs. Hence his declaion to run into Santiago, He reached that harbor on the morning of May 19. All of which facts were at the tlme unknown to‘h!s American foes, | Sampson's blockading flotilla, meantime, had been Joined by Commodore Schley's squadron from Hampton Roads. More aimless cruisings, cross- purposes, manoeuvres of investigation, &c—and at length our Government learned definitely the + Whereabouts of Cervera’s fleet. Sampson hurried | to Santiago, and on June 1 arrived off the nar- row mouth of {ts harbor, ready to bombard the shore forts. A blockade was (established. Cervera was safely “bottled” inside the harbor, and must either y there until a United States army could be landed to cut off hie supples (leaving the surrounding seas meanwhile wholly under American |control) or else fight his way out. To prevent his escape (since the presence of submarine mines pre | vented Sampson from entering in pursuit) it was planned to k the dise abled United States collfer Merrimac in the channel leading into the bay, thus choking the outlet, and making the once dreaded Spcnish fleet as useless as so much rusty junk. To Naval Constructor Hobson was as- signed the duty of preparing and executing this move. Hundreds of volun- teers begged to join in the exploit. But Hobson took along only seven picked men. Another official delay recalled him from his first attempt to reach the channel. When, finally, he got under way the tide was so swift Bm Cervera’s Fleet “Bottled” in Harkor. the Spanish batteries) to block the passage of any outgoing warships. There she sank. Hobson and his little crew swam free of the wreck und were made prisoners. The sinking of the Merrimac was a sensational, well-planned feat. | That {t failed to accomplish {ts purpose reflects in no way on Sampson's forethought or on Hobson's skill and undoubted heroism. 100.0000000000000000 0000000 000000000 000000, NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH ~~— Writes About The Marriages of the Old, © LIVELY widower of eighty and a merry widow of A seventy-four applied for @ marriage Heense in Brooke lyn yesterda: Clerks in the License Bureau declared that no happier or sprightlier couple had been yeen around the City Hall sine the opening of the office, Cynics may say that {t ts better to marry too late im Life rather than too early, because one has then less time in which to repent. In my opinion it 18 always wise for old persons to marry provided they choose some one of thelr own gtnoration, simply that they may have some one to take a sympathetio view of their ideas and opinions, Between one generation and the next there 1s a gulf so wide that not even the liveliest love and sympathy can ibridgo 1t. Parents are shocked by their children, Children are apt to view what they |consider the old-fashioned kieas of their parents with tolerant contempt. The | only way In which old men and women can find the appréclatton and consider ation which they demand, increasingly with every year, is by taking tt m ex- change. The man of eighty and the woman of seventy-for establish a perma- nent bond once one has said to the other What are the chiliten of to-day come ing to? Did you ever see such shocking manners, such dis!>speot they settle down at last to the Ingratitude of thelr own ebtldren they have found something to talk about for the rest of their lives—the best guarantees of married happiness that has ever been found. A fad in common provides a married couple with at least one topic of per ennial interest, Now it cannot be denied that the particular fad of elderly per+ cons 1s the discussion of the general mental and moral delinquencies of the next gengration. If an old man margies a young woman, he cannot tell her how the world is going to tihe dogs, for she won't belwove him. She may even be disre- cpectful enough to laugh at his pessimistic point of view. Similarly the youth- ful husband of an elderly bride cannot quite accapt her dismal view of the gem to which he was born, an and a woman of the same age may safely club their loneliness an@ their disillusions together and even grow youthfully joyful in the contemplation of the follies of thelr descendants it i ee grudge—I had almost sald a common grouch—ts as strong a bond as may be welded between two human beings. And this all bellevers in the good) old times—that {s, nearly all persons born in them—possess, eect Fis Charts ‘for Airships. ROM the action just taken by the French Aero Club it seems that airships: as well as the ships that nide on the sea have to ha 4 and maps te polnt out obstacles and show a clear path ahead, 4 ser! eration But an ips are now irafted, says r nies, ‘or ths purpose a vast number of documents have been colle t ‘ . hich of tele iph wires, overhead cables and ail d rons obsta whieh might be strwebt ead cables conve urrents of might m by & dalloon’s guide rope at night. Ma 000 volts or more, and contact with su occupants when landing, PEeY, as to drive the Merritaac too far up the channel (under a brisk fire from ° joan disaster to, balloon end