The evening world. Newspaper, April 29, 1908, Page 12

Magazine, Wednesday, A’pril 29;'1908. The Story of The Presidents By Albert Payson Terhune aily _fhe Evening World D The Published Daily Except | Justice. By Maurice Ketten. day by the Press P Row, New ie OREM PULITZEL, Pree, t BILAW, Rees Trea ‘ Entered at the Pe New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, Gudscription Rates to The Evening ; For Engiand and the Continent an CIGARS oO! ie U All Countries In the International Mirae! (eHaSCanadae ton Postal Union. THERE ARE One Yen $39 | One Year \ PLENTY MORE | C00 AG) ge sone Donen |No. 20—ZACHARY TAYLOR. Part I1.—Hero of the Mexi- w WO ISU METAS retest herrce rat eau unt avare rattan ag aTn NO. 17,058, { ican War. envoy. “There {is nothing left for you but honorable surrender.” Old Zachary Taylor—shabby, muddy, unshaven—glanced up rom the packing box on which he was sitting, and took the corn-cob pipe rom his mouth long enough to grunt, lazily: “At his mercy, hey? Then let him come and take me.” But, brave though Taylor was, his position just then was desperate, | After he had captured Monterey he had planned a brilliant dash into the \duterior of Mexico, which would probably have subdued that entire section [ef the enemy's country, With only a small force he had already wrought wonders against overwhelmingly heavy odds. Now, as final victory seemed | within his grasp, and the very mention of his name spread terror through- | out all Mexico, his success was turned into what looked like utter failure, | | For fussy old Gen. Scott, commander-in-chief of the United States | armies, hurried to the front, and collected all the soldiers he could lay | hands on for a proposed aseault upon Vera Cruz. He stripped Taylor of | nearly all his veteran troops and all his best officers, leaving him barely 5,000 men, of whom all but 500 were raw recruits that had never been in | battle and knew absolutely nothing of warfare. i} So, instead of a conquering invader, Taylor suddenly found himself in not only a seemingly helpless but most perilous condition, For Santa Ana, the Mexican General, heard of his weakness and bore down upon him aa b6 UT, General, you are at Santa Ana’s mercy,” pleaded the Mexican CASH. CIGARS AND HATS FREE. B O the thousands of people who have been knocked off street cars or maimed in collisions or run over at street corners, the testi- mony on the Jerome charges be- fore the Governor's Commis- will be most interesting | It explains why the} s have been so low in m: cases and kow the Metrop< has been enabled to i thousands of people a year w out paying adequately for it. ned three corruption departments. fi fi The Metropolitan maint One was ithe R ! | | with an army of 21,000. The Mexican sent an embassy atic end, succeed | advising Taylor to surrender. “Old Rough and Ready,” Battle of | 35 his soldiers affectionately called him, sent back the Buena Vista. | curt reply recorded at the beginning of this article, Then he massed his litue force in a mountain pass near the farm of Buena Vista and awaited the enemy's approach. On Washing- ton's Birthday, 1847, Santa Ana attacked him. I of that day and all the | next the battle raged. Again and again the Am: ns med on the very | point of annihilation. But Taylor—cool, alert, shrewd, -fought on as !f he had 50,000 men instead of being surrounded by a force more than four times the size of his own “He has been beaten three times to-day,” said one of his officers, “and he doesn’t know it.” At nightfall the Mexicans reeled back, broken, in wild retreat. They had lost about 2,000 men. The American loss was 745. It was the most spectacular victory of the war, and Taylor ret dd home in November to find himself the nation’s hero. Everywhere he wa t wil an enthue asm that quite puzzled the simple old fellow and made the Administrae on furious. For things had not turned out quite as President Polk and his advisers had intended. The Democrats were in power. They had brought on the war, im violent opposition to the Whigs. They also, naturally, hoped to make political capital out of its victories. For this end, it was claimed, Gen. | Scott (a Whig) had not at first been allowed to go to the front, lest he gain popularity that might serve to aid the Whigs—and himself—in the next election. So Taylor had been sent to blaze the way; to take upon his broad shoulders any of the failures or odium that might occur. For he was a comparatively obscure soldier, and was, moreover, a Whig. He had seemed likely to gain no glory and to serve more or less as a dupe and tool for the Administration. Yet here he was returning, the hero of the whole war. A Whig hero at that. The quiet, wise old man had upset a great party's best plans. Even after the Government had sought to check him by sending Scott to Mexico and depriving Taylor of his best troops | “Rough and Ready” had turned that seeming misfortune to glorious account. The Whigs named Taylor for President in 1848. He was disgusted. Grand Jury, me more than rs was paid out for po corruption department v iary were all contributed to the camp: ourt whom he named, and by a si e before whom the Metropolitan's lay litigation pending and undecided. Possibly from thi ution which Paul D. Cr this is the very ju most important fund came the c made to Mr. J paign fund. The third co bureau was charged with looking after juries, court clerks and witnesses in damage suits. How they did this is showr in part by the trunkful of vouchers offered in evidence at the hearing before the Governor's Commi These vouchers came to lig! They had been hid one Bagg who had left the M and might have had not District-Attorney Jerome given him a job as spi the District-Attorney’s office and kept him on the payroll while the Seabury investig Give THEM THE ath, Ryan's lawyer, are —S Ff He and his wife angrily declared the proffered nomination was a wicked HOTAL Thexehy * ae conspiracy to rob them of the pleasant farm-life they had arranged for ca — DELMONICO'S : thelr old age. But Taylor at last accepted, on condition that he should act as his conscience might direct, unbiased by political or party policy. The Democrats nominated Lewis Cass, and the “Free Soil” party Van Buren. Taylor was elected, with Millard Fillmore, of New York, for Vice- President. People who had looked forward to a series of blunders on the part of this warrior President (who had no previous ex- a eT mee 16 Months perience in politics and was blunt and simple to a fault) | quickly realized their mistake. Taylor brought to the Presidency the same honesty, rough wisdom and direct- ness that had marked his miltary life. A Woman’s Only a Woman, but a Good @igar’s a Smoke: | [eine Kipling Said That; Mrs. Jarr Doesn’t Agree with Him. Ste en CATE area eR Od DRIES ies CERT wanted to join the Union and declared itself against slavery. The pro- ; we) igars you buy.’ slavery party objected. Taylor recommended that California be admftted. i | id say not!” sald Mr. Jarr fervently. Though himself a slayeholder, he also suggested that all future States 4 By Roy L. McCardell. shows how foolish T ain, but I'm always that way when I'm buying should enter the Union with or without slavery, as each should decide for Ba functions did r other people,” said Mrs, Jarr. Next Ch pas I won't be so ex- | itself. He, moreover, declared public office a public trust, opposed graft ty preme ( ri t GAT did I do with t . and favoritism, and administered justice unswayed by any party influence 4 ane 3 asked Mr. Jarr as ind next Christmas,” said Mr. Jarr, but Joy In the thought that Had he lived he might have proved himself as great a President as war- clerk or j a. Jarr's buying time for cigars came but once a ear “What I want to know ;{or, But on July 4, 1850, when he had been in office just sixteen months, of s had ¢ now!” replied Mrs. Jarr. “I have enough * are those cigars I brought home the other day. 1 put them on tho he fell ill from over-indulgence in cherries and buttermilk, and died five i the charge for A y own Were cigars In a epiece."” | days later. s -—t charge for and ag? "Yes, and you took them downtown with you the next morning," said Mrs. | “Taylor was an upright man!" once declared Gen. Scott. on Noy. 23, 1900, b to hundreds « Were,” said Mr “Tean't Jurr | “No,” contradicted his wife; “he was a downright man!” 0 is ‘ i 1 do.!? “I did not. I brought them home to smoke at home,” sald Mr. Jarr. thousands of the ton,"* “Well, all I know is that they are gone,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “but there ts one | w at the economy on the ash tray I saved; it Isn't half smoked. You fell asleep on the sofa with } by them 1 I took it out of your hand. Some day you are going to burn the house | ct $y Supreme Couris of th ange and the L Uke a lot of You don't think I'm going to smoke an old butt, do you?" asked Mr. Jarr. | A Se bay fa Tes are all Hie and rank to me," ala Mes, darn “and not me cownoke. tT ~ENGaged Girls Must Trust Lovers. difference.” | * sive had * replied Mr. Jarr, ‘and I'm not going to light an old, stale. By Helen Oldfield. lar ninety n't make T may te poor and have to do a lot of things, but not that.” SIR D/arelscmolengewsdletrieiwtolely and buy some fresh ones then," said Mrs. Jarr ’ Sh CA ISD CIN AEE ES © going out, Get me some perfectos. No, never mind!" sald Mr. Jarr # '» worry, testing the epint then Every time they go out for @ walk with their flances their friends and family expect them to ree i and w Z ; gars are sold for a dol necy-elght alarm, fearing Mrs night make the purchaseand know at last he ot Sent Gane a ar yeelght for a arm, fearing erties mar a ier turn with ca fry got Fentusliva onteern fearing lest a obange » for sever: said Mrs you might say, : you would,” sald Mrs, Jarr. “Do you think I'd be seen going ee om ene . ‘This 1s all wrong. People who have not faith in each ather, who do net be Neve In each other's aesurances of affection without requiring fresh aMdavite thereto morning, noon and night, have no business to be engaged. Of course it ‘4s pleasant for the woman who 1s over head and ears in love when such afidavits Uttle coynese ts both een some ina cig the boxes, but T re- Mr. So I'm glad you don’t buy able yments of loans. Some of the secretaries must have come pretty cheap. One item say “expenses of secretary af judge $1.50." Lunch for court clerks ran from $2 to $5. Judges’ lunches cost more, as high as $10 and $15. the poor plaintiffs, who understand now Mr. : Showemhow Hangs a Pictu ré esses forgot and the juries found verd| HS Ne pe) Jarr was going to say good cigars might be bought in the most respect- rina drug store, but h his peace again.” ive me some money to get a few," he asked pleadingly. all right, then,” sald Mra, Jarr somewhat reluctantly, ‘here's five are spontaneously furnished by her lover, but on her side , ¢ © clive and becoming. get a couple and smoke yourself to death. attrac ; ver mind,’ said Mr, Jarr with a sigh. ‘Where did you say that butt It is not a wise thing for a woman to attempt to monopolize her lover. Ne ; man likes it, however much {t may testify to his aweetheart's devotion. It le wel, to give him plenty of rope—men drive best with a loose rein—only be aure to bring : | him up with a hort pull, now and then, Just for the sake of letting him know @ w By li G. Long Se Tee arate death, through weal and through woe, to one's vows ef love and faithfulness 1s a superbly magnificent achtevement. It, however, is an The strong ones won't break st. "I knew there was some pay a doll eight a box one without ntly you di mS must cons K S against them) - - x ay ar ; achievement which, unfortunately, the majority of sweethearts for themselves . 3 Now AANG IT) [Some PEOPLE MaKe )| Youve Gor CANT You WAIT? TM PREROMSGUESS! THAT'S) make impossthle, Nor 1s this of wilful intent; the failure ts rather due to thee & Soe Se Ny STRAIGHT! 5 | SUCH A FUSS OVER IT UP. —~ On PNG( 19 0 Sc thoughtless rashness in entering into contracta which humanly it is impossible to f ee a Hie neu GAT. HANGING A PIC E! | sive ,) ) TRYING) Te ENOUGH. |) (~ letter. u _ HANGING E!| | SIDE | | 8 St ALL RIGHT! $0 carry out according to the letter. eS ZS IT'S A CINCH! } | DOWN. | eS ‘The woman who {deallzes her lover makes a mistake Probebly he is neither | etters fro m th e Peo le Pr 2 —_— Sarena better nor worse than the average man, and while her love for him, and eapectally 2 0 Ye her belief in him, may go far to making him better than he otherwise would be, ho fo it does not render him pectectian, No end of trouble between lovers, whether engaged or seourely tied in the bonds of matrimony, 1s caused by touchiness, which they prefer to deaignate as vcensitivencss,” @ sensitiveness which implies so great and tender care for their own feelings and prejudices as to preclude all consideration for those of other people, It never shou'd be forgotten that love ts the sweetest and most blessed ict of God to mortals, a treasure which should be kept free from selfishoess vid trom sordid amfitions; for, as hath been well sald, ‘The god of love is a venlous god, and gives to drink of the blessed water of life and happiness only to those who in truth and unselfishness worship humbly at his shrine” such worship cannot be given, ft is far better to render none—Chicago ————_—_++-—____—_ | the beard before applying the shaving sap which should be w. To the Which In the “we Rie pdltcn er s3 women ries’ Is able of hold- business world to- © weak li Bit soe = fe “Mr. Dooley” on the Inevitabl ONLY THES ys | HAND Me | THAT DERN CHEAP,\ Mr. 00 ey on é€ Inévitabie. HATS Kon} H eka ANE WIRESHIOLBEAME?) By Finley P. Dunne. ZG) Mien face ( sHow % XQ \ most per’lous !v human oooypations are usualty th’ lowest 1 U7 7? You! : > \\ 66 paid, An’ why !# this so? Is it because we're not afraid ty — —1 S \\ 1 Geath?. Faith, no, but because we don’t know annything ebews How to Sha { | ft, We don't appreciate it. If our simple minds oud geeap pereiee feels) 5; subjick th’ bravest man in th’ wurruld wud be found wndheb 4 AMA elie lun pea sobbing. It's there but it ian't there, It happens to tvrybody, bes. ite sy can't see It happen to ye'ersilf,” sald Mr. Dooley In the May ANT ; Magazine. “Ye walk briskly up to tt or maybe ye even run. Yo nfver gee W Fi sae iva too late an’ thin ‘tls too late to recognize it. ‘Tle no good runuiy’ away phate i Y frm it, Manny w man dodgin' a throlley car has been run over be aa [ae ane psi fymobill, Ye hide fr'm th’ lightning an’ a mickrake lands ye ‘Ye avoid each ir and permits Rian ratiroad trains an’ boats an’ scratch ye'er thumb with a carpet tack and ‘tie eoap, whic! 4 nex No all over, Ye expect it fr'm wan side tv th’ sthreet an’ it comes frm th’ then soften th Rui e Eventn Ye think that must be it tn th’ block ahead an’ ye make up yéer mind to well foap well Angers f Washington | slow whin ft steps up behini ye, slaps ye on th’ back an’ mys: “Fewe 4 on mere Jather ond shave w the A | wanted at headquarters, Ye'd betther come along peaceable’ To 4 ting!’ atroke, not “scrap! pines uner havin’ no further Inthrest, ye make no reply, "Tis thin fr th’ fret time pecret of casy shaving ': Lect 2 pave an undherstandin' an’ a fear iv death—i ye were alive, But re-are .