The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1908, Page 10

Puttisned Dafty Dxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Cempany, Nos. 63 te Park Rew, New York OUST YULETEER, Pree, | Boss 134 Bireet, a SYLAW, Bee-Treae,, 981 West 119%n Strert. 1s ecenherthrteneestn Icom Daven dhcnstatot tie eNOS cs shes Butered at the Post-Office at New York ae Second-Class Mall Matter. Gethocript Evening | For England and the Continent and ons tor the Boned" ‘Btates ‘All Countries in the International ra Canad Postal pnthscsssesccisss VOLUME 48 .......cccceeesesceececseesseceesceeeee NO, 16,098, ONE BILLION DOLLARS. VER one billion dollars in gold is the world, the most that was ever gathered together anywhere. And besides the Treasury gold there is half as much more in banks and in circulation, No other country has so much gold. France, which is next to the United States, has one-third less. Great Britain and Ireland have little Russia has much more than England more than half as much as France. and almost as much as Germany. ; If the wealth, prosperity and power of a country are determined solely by the amount of gold it has, Japan would be one of the most wretched and powerless countries in the world, because it has less gold than Spain and only one-fifteenth as much as Russia. England would be inferior in manufacture, conumerce and prosperity to Russia, German) or France. How illogical to assert that the prosperity of a country depends upon the amount of gold it has instead of upon the efficiency of its banking credit and industrial system. Suppose some old-time alchemist should turn up in Washington and reverse the delusions of the Middle Ages by turning this gold into copper. So long as nobody knew about the change, what difference would it make? This amount of gold is sufficient to give every workingman $50. It is sufficient to meet all the pay rolls of the United States. One gold ingot is worth more than the average man’s life’s savings. Then what is the use of issuing more money? The reason many men are hungry now is not that there is not plenty of gold, but that they cannot get it. If the volume of gold «were quad- tupled, if the paper dollars were multiplied by one hundred, how would that make it easier for any man who is shelterless, hungry and cold now to get money from the Treasury or a bank vault? i Everybody knows the old story how George Washington, when a young man, stood on the banks of the Potomac at Mount Vernon an< threw a silver dollar across. If at the time of the Declaration of Ind. pendence, July 4, 1776, George Washington had begun throwing goi. double eagles from the Treasury vaults at the rate of one to the minute, and had worked twelve hours a day until now, of the 1,500 tons, whic: is the weight of a billion dollars in gold, there would be 500 tons still left The amount of gold in the United States is now ample for ever Purpose except gambling, and no amount of money is enough to mee the gambling demands of Wall Street. There is a limit to what any mar can earn. There is a limit to the amount of food he can eat or suits 9: | clothes he can wear, the cigars he can smoke or the drinks he can take But there is no limit short of the sky to the amount he can bet on a poker hand, the horserace or the rise or fall of stocks. At the end of the civil war 2 troop of Northern cavalry captured the wagons which contained the Confederate treasury. In boxes were millions of dollars of Confed- erate paper money. The soldiers played poker with it that night. On one hand $700,000 was bet. It could have been $7,000,000 as well. Likewise with stock gambling. What the business interests of the United States need is not more gold stored in Treasury and bank vaults, but more confidence and a revival of credit. The way to get these is by more honesty, and the way to get more honesty is to send The Evening World Daily Magazine, now in the United States Treasury. | This is one-sixth of all the gold in! | } | ENTERTAINING B all thieves to jail, beginning with the biggest. Letters from the People. A Puzzle in Verse. Te the EAtor of The Evening World: I forward you the following old rhythmic puzzle for solution dy your readers: sh for the same amount ts, he should credit the account oses and debit the one that en John Jones buys merchandise on “When I to my employer came ! account, Jones gains and merchandise, Her waiting maid to be Jones should be debited and | Bhe was at least without dispute andise credited. When Jones | Beven times as old as me. When I had served for twenty years, fore, cash should be dehited a Months ten, days half a score, credited. ‘This would balance Ito that time did add five ‘3 Jones’ account. In that way the debits And fifteen minutes more. ‘This time being spent, and clear run out, I found myself to be Exactly (whon I came to count) Just half as old as she Now you that are in figures skilled Do you to me explain, What age we are, what age we were When we together came?" 3.3. M Hints on Starting Accounts, "Fo the Editor of The A correspond he should “ope te never to be fs partner and credits will equal to the penny when a trial balance !s gought. If they do not, then there is something wrong. BOOKKEEPER, On the Trail of a Joke. To the Editor of The Evening World: Here ts a curious thing that will in tarast s% students of nonsense ven years ago, In a Bowery theatre, umes during that winter, Our separate ways. 2} day then went iow, the other in a New York paper, behold! the same old joke, word for word, looking as well as over, without the diszuise in which they usually neturn. Credit It the $300 ald back to HN. ang to become an equal the amount in half and credit cach | hain in @urope? Can soleme € Then debit the whole $300 in the habits and curtous ways of @ joie? each ecooumt, But tf HN. 's to get J. 8 MASGHT, » Bila $90 Geck come day he could credit Namen i E nis personal account with $300 and debit | As to other! gaine. | nen cash gains and Jones loses; | I encountered a joke. We met several jwee given to the London Tattler. Now, | partner without investing @ cont, out| ten’t tt means how we pick ‘em up| or Partner in his persona! account for | readers enlighten me aa to the ne plaited skirt and a semi-f asking a few questions to keep peace in the family Monday, M “w we \ 7 ‘ The Day of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. entre, ARE H MEN IN THe APARTMENTS lo Do THE WoRK ON SUNDAY oF REST. MUST BEGIN ON SATURDAY AND FINISH (ON WEDNESDAY, MRS TACK LOANED_OUR FLAT \ To THE JANITRESS DAYoF REST CLUB MRS Tom !9 GIVING A RECEPTION TO {s HE SUFFRAGETTES DAT oF RESTCLUB MZ Z TE IP mestimis MRS JOHN \Z (S HAVING THE /Z MOTHERS’ DAYoF RES CLUB IN MY APARTMENT. THE Cooks DAY OF REST CLUB INOUR FLAT Unless You Are Prepared to Shell Out When Your Wife Says So. must be silk and tgnt-fltting and musi [4s fintshed out with chiffon flounces.”’ only come to the knees, from where it > By Roy Le McCardell, ; aoe Jarr didnt Know wh iffon flounces were, but he simulated a lively nteres “ac OW do you lke wy ew dress?’ asked Mrs sars, | “How about the ‘Princess’ gown?" asked Mr. Jarr, who remembered the name H around on the ball of her foot, which is the} of that spe {t's gone out." turn around on their hi “Indeed 4 d Mrs r hesitatingly looks nice “well, said Mr. Jarr stoutly. He wasn't sure it had, but he t to say to me?” asked Mrs. Jarr| was in where angels ed to keep it up. It isnt often 1 get a new dres ever did go o ne ‘Print : Jarr, looking down at her own ave a good figure you might take a little more notice | are concernel i Mrs 1 wouldn't “How are the hats this "asked Mr. Jarr, the mit with an alr ot one who Was eager to k The picture hat Is st said Mrs. Jarr. ‘In fact, it never really | soes out that the new straws are all high helmet 1 * asked M to tell you,’ sald M Maybe {t will be the em Jarr, stores don't: know ans. I mt of ke best ‘asked Mr. Jarr, r the stvle won't be crushed turba said Mr, Jarr, as if he r ~i turban w “TL think 1 e anyway," said Mrs. Jarr. @ pronounced “Nothin said Mrs. Jurr; ‘no resembiance 4 ex 1elmets won't become me.” Ses dat. dad plaited. But all short skirts a ited, because one co’ ot “You need a fiat tien?” sald Mr, Jarr. sheath skirts, So for ing the proper thing “Of course I need @ hat," said Mrs, Jarr, “That's the big mistake some h reveres and masculine “And the goods, which you are there With?" asked Mr. Jarr. | “It's a sort of Alice blue serze, with an invisible stripe,” said Mrs, Jarr. “That {sn't a sheath skirt then?" said Mr. Jarr. Not that he cared, but just | <omen make with false economy. They think if they a new dress they are 1 right. But {¢ you want to look smart ons should be well hatted, well shod ind well gloved.” “I suppose that means I'm to come across fo Don’t you think you should do that much w the price," sald Mr. Jarr, I've bought a dress out of “How ridicu' sald M Wait till I get a sheath skirt. Hips have! - own money?" asked Mrs. Jarr. gone out, and you can tell yourself when you see it because !: | But I gave you the mon sald Mr. Jarr. fits tight as can be tiN the knees, anit then it flares out; and you can't Wear| “Then give me some more,” sald Mrs, Jarr. “A man who knows so much ‘oats with It!" * said Mr. Jarr in mfld, surprise. | |, you can’t wear more than one petticoat,” sail Mrs, Jarr, ‘and that ‘sout the new spring styles should put his knowledge t well dressed inculcates self-respect and a proper pride.” And what could the poor man do? pra When Bill Thinkuvit Comes Home at Night. .¢ By F. G. Long. Now, JOHN, REMEMBER. T was DELAYED) (10Y LOAFER! COMING HOME Come HOME EARLY TONIGHT: Te SUBWAY! THIS Tite OF NIGHT. You KNOW WE HAVE TICKETS) ON THE SUBWA' DON'T You KNow, FOR THE FF ¢ Na GEE wHiz! 175 EIGHT OWLOCK: T PROMISED TO 8E THEATER. Hore EARLY, HURRY UP AND BUTTON MY DRESS! ) (HURRY? WE | we'll BE LATE FOR 5 ti MUST CATCH; | THE SHow/! ~~ ‘ iN EXPRESS, eR WAIT TILL I FIND MY. COLLAR BUTTON: arch 2, 1908. al use. To be! Paysenlerhun NO. 56—SPANISH WAR—Part 1Y,—The Invasion. ERVPRA'S fleet was “bottled” in Santiago Harbor. The only othen serviceable Spanish squadron was on the cther side of the Atlantic. So {t was safe to eend the United States Army to Cuba. And trans- portaticn work was begun at once, The first landing was made at Guantanamo Bay, thirty-elght miles east of Santiago. Five miles back from the bay were a town and a fort. The bluffs above the watar were aiso strongly defended. On June 10, 1898, Capt. MoCalla, of the Manblehead, bombarded these bluffs. Twenty-four shells were fired and the enemy were driven from their intrenchments. The next er ceter of a fusillade from the warships and a rear attack by Cuban soldiers, 60% Yankee marines were landed at Caimanera, a town on the bay. This was the first American force to set foot on Cuban soil. The marines went Inte camp on a hill and twice repulsed attacks from the Spaniards. With the help of the Cubans on the third day they stormed the Spanish camp. Forty Spaniards and nine Americans were killed or wounded, Under cover of a furious bombardment from our fleet and a demonstra- vion by the Cubans, 6,000 of Gen. Shafter’s troops were safely landed at imiquirl, sev en miles east of Santiago, on June und 6,000 more on Juno 23. A detachment under Gen. Lawton sent inland toward San- tiago. Gen. Young's dismounted cavalry brigade, 964 strong, advanced ahead af the main army to support Lawton. At Las Guasimas (between and Santiago) they met the first note- psition of the ¢ There they tind about fifty Spania: rhed in the for- oe { The Fight at fo Las Guasimas est. Young's command w 1 on, as were the o——————_—~~ Rovgh Riders, who were marching by anothan rovte. Recovering from the wnexpected volleys that ewept their ranks. hot fig! killed the cavalrymen charged their hidden foes. After ing the Spaniards were beaten back with a loss of thirty- and wounded. ‘The American loss in killed and wounded was Between 16.000 and 17 Unitad States troops were by this time landed in Cuba, and lines were thrown out which gradtfilly closed about Santiago, Wore that city taken, Cervera’s ‘bottled” fleet would be ent off from coal or food from shore and must perforce put to sea, where Sampson and Schley a st outside tae ha r. The arrangement was as cleverly and planned as a problem in geonitry. The S paniards, realizing prepared to make thelr most formidable stand on the hills imate, unsattable clothing and bad food caused considerable inere discomfort to the newcomers, and the sick list was un- til! enough we!l men remained to accomplish the work in hand, my of occupation” shipped south ‘by Uncle Sam found a strange nn. Sons of men who had fough® for the Union in the civil war stood shoulder to shoulder with sons of Confederate veterans. Officers who vad served in the Confederacy—~en, “Joe” Wheeler and others—now did cquaily gallant service for the United States Government. No greater proof. could be needed of the entire healing of the breach between tho North and eat Ds n rite ronduct Cy Northern and Southern soldiers in the Cuban f iy le negro cavalrymen, too, « rs Tolsi "i bravest of their white comrades. * UP reste Most picturesque of all the various milltary bodies massed against Spain was the cavalry regiment known as “Roosevelt's Rough Rider. apr, Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt (at that time Assistant Secre- tar the Navy) had recruited this regiment from various incongruous Tt contained Weeern cowboys and ranchmen, as well as colleze es and men-about-town. Tie ouly mutual impulses of {ts members from patriotism, were recklessness and love of adventure. In the ‘ame rank rode New York clubmen and Arizona deputy marshals, football pisses and Pawnee Indians, frontiersmen and millionaires’ sons. Net these varied elements were welded together into a coura effective fighting body, ‘The fact that the men were all “crack” Sits sinounted to little, as their work in Cuba was all done afoot. They proved their bravery In more than one battle and greatly added to the fame of one of their two organizers. Wood was Colonel and Roosevelt Lieutenant- Colonel. There was enough of the spectacular and unusual in the regi- ment’s make up to attract public notice and to make the Rough Riders for the moment the most- talked-of men tn the army. Their actual effec: tiveness, compared with that of other troops, can ener be jowelged by future generations, y June 27 the whole Ame advanced to within about three miles of Santiago. On the rege Jens our army was face to face with the Spanish forces, who occupied the de- | fenses to east and northeast of the city. A council of war was held and {t | Was resolved to begin a general attack at dawn next day. Gen. Lawton’s division wae to storm the hill village of Bl Caney with {te dlockhouse and brick fort. Gens. Wheeler and Kent were detailed to force the Spanish lines, to eastward and near Santiago, along the summit of San Juan Hill, The United States troops actually engaged numbered about 15,000, It te je ted that the Spanish were but 4,750 strong. But the latter fought, to a great extent, under shelter and {n advantageous position. “Roosevelt's Rough Riders.” Oa July 1, 1898, dawned upon the first real battle fought by United States soldiers since 1865, eee COO) IT NIXOLA GREELEY-S Writes About ~~~ XE is an old saying to the effect Honor Among Women. | one g thieves. It seems more great a virtue ext: the world. If {t does, however, there are not a few women in the j world who might go to the thief and learn from him some thing of the ethics of friendship, I had an experience with a woman of this variety the other dey, and as all of us have had or may have similar experiences, I think {t interesting enough to comment upon. I met her at luncheon for the first time. She was, in fact, the guest of two other newspaper writers and myself, The conversation during the luncheon was personal, and of course assumed to be privete. Several days later I met the GAG newcomer again. “Read Blank’s Weekly! she exclaimed joyfully, “tt |nas a tot about you. I sold them a.story about what you sald at lunch the other day!" Hardly a day passes that the new order of woman—the woman who tries to be as square and honest as a gentleman ts expected to be—does not receive a simflar shock from some survivor of the type of old-school woman who was not oxpected to be honorable, but who could ile and cheat, and yet be held by both exes perfectly good, provided she loved no man too much. I do not mean that is order of woman beiongs to the older generation. I know women of fifty xty who are as straight and clear and true as ight. 1 know others of vente who have all the petty vices of a harem favorite that preserves her jscondamey over a hundred other women by Hes and trickery, Men are only beginning to expect a sense of honor that has nothing to do vith aelf-preservation trom women, When they encounter it they are in a senso ldere}, And It must be confessed that generally they don't Mke {tat first, \e wife, for instance, who inststs on appealing to her husband's Intellect tn the ottlement of a domestic diMeculty, who argues and pleads with him rather than atole him with caresses or molt his resistance with tears. travels a stony road there is honor n doubtful tf so 8 among the pettiest criminals of | bullets for a time, Put a woman with the new sense of honor cannot resort to the old methods of uncivilized warfare any more than a soldier to-day can shoot with poisoned She has to lose rather than win the wrong way. The American Accent. By Ella Hepworth Dixon. eam) T last our good American friends have acknowledged that it Is they, | and not ourselves, who have the “accent.” This is a great step toward smproving the American language, for up to now, the New Yorker, the Bostonian, and the San Franctscan were at one in assuring the travel- lng Islander that his speech was spolled by his “English accent," The Islander was too well bred, as a rule, to betray any emotion or astonishment at this accusation, but he thought a lot. Perhaps his thought was communicated to cortain pundits on the other side, for an American Speech Reform Aessociation jas just been started with the laudable intention of teaching young America to speak the languags of England, instead of the weird and complicated tongue which ts the resuit of the salad of races and nationalities thrown hodge-podge on to the American continent. Already the society has issued a pamphlet imploring its compatriots “not to splayh your words one into each other,” “not to talk through the nose with yeur mouth tight shut,” amd “not to use the same phrase a thousand times a day.” Even by employing these simple expedients, the New Yorker might make himself understood by a Londoner without going to the trouble of learning Beperento. As for the astute American girl, she has long seen the expedienay of approximating her epeech to our own.—London Sketek,, " ~ a | |