The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1908, Page 16

OO MAT eget. 7. ‘ May 6, 1908. e Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, f | Seeding Time By Maurice Ketten. y by the Press Pub < Row, New York. J. ANGUS SHAW, See. T Tk as Second-Class Mail Matter, For Engle Ail Counteie One Year . Month... One NO, 23.—JAMES BUCHANAN. 15th President (1791-1868). Stout. Rugged. Weak mouth, Expression of THE LAW. | ATM HO knows the law? | ee The Supreme Court of Pennsyl- i Ag . vania has unanimously decided that 7 its former Chief Justice, Edwin M. Paxson, did not draw a valid will. As Chief Justice in his life time Judge Paxson decided what laws were valid and what were not, who should inherit and who should not, what trusts were void and what were good. Now that he is dead his will takes the course of hun- dreds of others and the court over ‘which he presided decided that he failed to have the witnesses sign prop- erly and that therefore his will is invalid Samuel J. Tilden was one of the most expert lawyers the United ‘States ever knew. In drawing his will he used his own legal acumen and consulted other expert lawyers. Yet this will was defective and part of its trust provisions were set aside. Many cases might be added of great judges and able lawyers whose own acts were afterwards declared to be illegal. If the judges and the lawyers do not know the law, how can knowl- edge be attributed to the mass of the people? Yet one of the oldest legal maxims is “ignorance of the law ex- uses no one.” It would seemingly appear from this that law and justice are not “synonymous. | About what constitutes justice few consciences differ. difference between justice and injustice, between honesty and theft, be-| tween virtue and vice, is so instinctive that it may accurately be said to} be inherent to the human mind. | ‘The practice of the law is rather an elaborate game conducted under an interminable set of rules than an effort to do justice regardles$ of any, other consideration. |= ; ———— To know the Cora Brown Potter | The ‘‘Fudge”’ Idiotorial. | WRITES THIS an this State there have been some 50,000 laws. Some are repealed, | About the Hands. some amended, come codified, some revised, and all affected in their Ey eee meaning by tens of thousands of court decisions. Nobody knows them| I Bete a a ea | all. Nobody can or ever will know them all. | should be commenced by washing { * fe them in s@mrate water, and is best The best that any man can do is to consult a lawyer, follow either | done in @ gpectal Tonasbania reserved, the lawyer's advice or his own judgment, and then take his chances on the | fF the purpom. The water should ve) decisions of successive courts on the doubtfut pofnts. SR eruLceeruet ia iere aired This inevitable ignorance of the law accounts in great part for (roe Gan Ga io kee cia ch : ee mupwerfatiod: f the; vi perowing lack of respect for the law. The more Inws there sre fe mora | eased, ¢ piece of pam Sthere is to be ignorant of. The more declsions and interpretations there |’ 7d. or find roto of a variety A (will mot mesh ¢ es and especial fare the more ground there is for renude fer toilet pumposes fer phot % anit ii ve isfinc- | BrPhew, tions a i y There aré two many laws, too Thus the law becomes a technical and not an abstract science. The questions passed up by the courts, especially upon appeal, are not what is! right, what is just, but whether the rules of the game were minutely observed. ls There a Laugh FOR YOU In These Jokes? sali with We have discovered ourselves at LAST. We have long known that we had TOO MUCH EGO for our COSMOS, but have been unable to locate the trouble. Hunting through an ancient vol-|_ ume of ‘orgotten lore yesterday |: | for some more words to add to our vocabulary. we found it, | “Ours.” said Dschim Crow, the Parlah, to Flaxius. the Seer, | Where We Are At! would care to) conflled “Is the sole system that teaches the error of excess of wisdom. law and goodness,” | THIS Is US. We despise LAW! then tor uaing}We abhor goodness. Life is a SHIN peternt the wattenews’ end in the ditch. sof the hands an@ arms. | led the youns he always toflet We have no wisdom and "anne. Follow us and you will swear We refer to the LAST Ditch. Meclufiing the hatr and face, & used to say she was the r lawyers, too many judges she the ind ie feo much Ben eee mond vat may Come with us all ye who are contented, comfortable and yo Longin we i EY | end ere always useftil to see eres | doing well, and we will CHANGE your LUCK. In the words of upon her | y while she was eating com justice and not enough justice. If the penal code were reduced ito a few simple sections and those cedion promptly and peremp- dtorily enforced, if the civil code F were simplified to include only the ‘getilement of genuine property dis- ‘ ‘pputes, and then if judges and juries both put speedy justice first, re-| spect for the law would be restored, because it would command respect, | wih the only way 1 et ‘Mr. Showemhow Makes a Peach Melba‘ ".7732""" 3 By F. G (CAREFUL LF THE KING OF COOKS ~ 7 pping and to/the old Tentmaker: ds “Let's you and us conspire to knock the sorry scheme of see prevent j drying, to h soften and whiten the hi Atter drying Che lands) wlth a towell as (whfeh should be harder than the one/things entire. sie Kallo of you as much as Nonsense! Why, our en nnounced. | | usea for the face, but soft in Fal re PAAPAVAPLAAVAAAVUDUEAABLER ES VARA VEGETA GEES ERS TASTES AR E88 M The Number of Catholics. | YORK and New Jer ago, where now ody) we her contained ab York diocese alon: ow, but I not has over 1,2 tury 4 mustache now ~ Letters from the People. Lady Shoula Bow Fir fo the Editor of The Evening World Should a gentlemar hat on meeting on the ntance, or show THEN YOu WHIP. LTHE CREAM =~ 2 How long wouk It the tank with bot time, » bottmn wide PROSLEM 7,580. Win us ss : Bridge, Cardinal, mm World Almanac. To the Editor of The inmabarg Bridge, befor Pope? find a rdindls in t Btates? A Lighty-Cent is longer. Wh Thetr First Qua UT DOES TASTE \ KIND O° FUN [pussy!pussy,! ME NER- If this is oonfiseatfo SUCH QUEER STUFF ref The Evening W | UGH! L. NEVER TASTE ef ME! NE micipallty tax a vacant y other wants to ceme ond MCE ee phe NICE KITTY! tages fsterom on 1 apould be glad 0 ay my eur HAVE SOME make the tax af Ween PEACH ELBA. | ince it incraascs ii ther Hf non ; ba Perhaps 1») 2 Fe . Q TUNG. me unde! tor for : Ss ne (Nor on Your To th es ace - Res Ae a ; 2 fe there pump : wire ~ po yi ea if i t Patent e, Washington, a OLIS, i 4 To the Editor of The World | Wise | | Where can I learn full particulars as = @t the tank * to how and where to pa an inven Which was gs tne tion? WILLIAM. Le ‘ Li ai wa 7 \ all of them ca. | America) was to still more enorni | 30 claimed. nh had no power to force a seceding State to able to do much for the budding € who sat by, Inactive, while the work but four of the Southern ports 5 3) federate officials. denounced the President. W1! His Cabinet quarrelled over se *t think Gus: | "7, merely the singularly solic often she has bought for them. perplexity and indecision. Hiyh, intellectual forehead, straight nose, long, massive chin. Deepset, rather smail eyes. AMES BUCHANAN had the doubtful honor of being for some years one of the most unpopular men in America. Curtis, one of his biographers, writes: “Men said he was a secessionist; he was a traitor; he had given away the authority of the government; he had been weak and vacillating; he had shut his eyes when men about him, the very Ministers of his Cabinet, were plotting the destruction of the Uuion; he was old and timid; he might have crushed an incipient rebellion and he encouraged it, But he bore all this with patience and dignity * * © confident that posterity would acknowledge that he had done his duty.” Here {s his life story. Each reader may judge the case for himself: Buchanan was second of a Pennsylvania farmer's eleven children. His father had emigrated to this country from Donegal, Ireland, as a lad, and prospered suffictently to give James a good school and ¢ » education and enable the lad to take up the study of law anan was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 181 a Fed- eralist and opposed to the W actually broke out he made a flery AED men to enlist, and was among the ve ne roll of volunteers, In 1814 he was sent to the Pen where he served two ternis. Then falling in love with a young and borhood, he decided to give up ties, marry law practice. The young died the > aormenenonna tat Me wsetetOre thelr: is was a t from HisTragle } which Buchanan All he ined single, in 1 lost love He was q Love Affair. § « % ” our only bachelor Pre ‘ The death of » Buchanan back to the e of public lif to Congress at ident ackson, M ter to e in Russian and, @ . BO ‘ople’s m one without prese Refusing 1845 Polk's S| nation for yponents of n party, forth knowr famous sol hief poli voted for Buchanan, These were ( Mlinois and Indiana Buchanan was elected. He set out on his Pr { h the avowed intent of quieting sec atred, and mational good feeli In all resolve. mise as he could devise. so tremendous a situation. ve, he was gth and dec None of these t . Yet he probal i ces. Would probab justed matters with tron ha pr troubles wi {tl aght upon him ra, howev ie Atlantic cable w either North nor South He had not the Tactful se to face th nd. worthy. t Oregon tates, and th 10 (barring latter country from gaint ttled. ration drew toward a close the John Browr As the admin tion grew { Career Ends § Under Cloud € pane © the slaves freedom. him th trengthen the forts and arse sionists could not seize tt Perhaps he had not the legal means t At all events he did not ged leave to » Bo that the the warning. It has been ared that Congress fon. n Lineola had elapsed November, 1860, the Re nau had still four mont than seven South rnment was formed. The In by Con. ole North jon ended under a cloud, turned to Pens y, and died is 1868. apptication ping Worla ON TOPIC’ OF THE DAY The Poorest Woman. day The Bventng World told how Mrs, Hetty moved from a $19 flat in Hoboken to a in one of hotels, ng of Mrs. Green's transfer she y wspaper writers—as she always 1s, indeed— : phrase, tn ft Ute may fit Mrs, ne probably does ss more stocks and bonds than any other American woman, Hut of all that makes a woman really rich Mra, Hetty Green is. prob y devold than the wife of the poorest miner or farmer in America, e nearly all read the story of Dr, Marigold, ven turned everything to gold, including his own peat beloved little dvaghter, But perhaps there was no magic in this transmutation at all, Jt may have been ying effect that the possession of much money Wiwoca GReeLer ow son the human bh Hetty Green Is a very rich woman with a gold heart—a hard, shining aftair very different from the cardiac possession described by novelists as @ heart In the many years that we have all been reading of Mrs, Green's mitiiona o heard of her giving something away only once, $ was when she n umbrella each to two young men reporters who had pleased her, r, Mrs, Green bas broken many more umbrellas on reporters than So that Uils single incident need not be taken as a from her usual policy, once described by ene of ts followers ag othing to nobody." n low h makes Hetty Green, In my opinion, the poorest n the world, Wor nade rich by what they glve in love and by what is wrung, for ther enrich, nt, from the wealth of others, this test the poor East Slde mother who works by the day for Just enough to keep the home over her children ts infinitely richer than this so-called richest woman in the world. ‘A woman's wealth is in the smiles that greet her coming, the tears that | mark her departure, the love and gratitude that she kindles in the hearts of ail | those who come in contact with her, By this standard, how rich is Hetty Green? ‘The least pafd scullery maid at the Plaza has greater wealth. And it 1s a pity that the scullery maid does not feel this to be true as Hetty Green undoubtedly must feel it, og" ts” lee SS re