The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1908, Page 18

ee a Se | ees _g man 4 SClorid, ANGUS SIA, Bee, Toeatss 202 d-Class Mail and the Con tries t VOLUME 48.........oceceescenc settee cescenecesenetet B. R, T., JERSEY AND JEROME JUSTICE. Ta ERSrY JUSTICE | i beth rae her Elizabethans on bet wit tain handbook. Two (0) W the it to the hand- book lect, payment was refused on the gr { that the bet- tors had an accomp! Island track who te the result in time to make their bets before the book of the start. So far the transa times happen in New The subsequent procee ner in which Jerome justi ‘lizabethans, after payment of their bet was refused, went to of the peace an ured warrants for th t This, too, is nothing new. But when the handbook men heard of these war- rants they hired an alderman as their lawyer e bet by check. Then their alderman-lawyer secured the arr on the charge of extortion. The bookmakers went free. - EEL EES = lace. Things like this some- 2 as pointing out the man- Jersey suburb: ok men. A parallel to this in New York is th hast and various other complainants wh) Jerome. Tillinghast told about the \ Metropolitan jur: and how they had bribed him. He went to Blackwell's Island for six months. Scrugham, who pri d before Mr. Je geries of administration ballots in the Ii ® indicted himself. Julian, who insisted on telling what he knew about} the Metropolitan corruption has been several times. Amory, who years ago brought the Metr Mr. Jerome's notice, has been hounded by It this keeps on it will get to be necessary immaculate lives, because if they ever have i evidence of for- Ss, was prompt- to live most ga charge of crime against any one else they may find themselves landed in jail in- stead of the defendant. It is not so long since a petty Wall street broker was sent to for sending around circulars that the B. R. T. would pay no div It has not paid any dividends, but his crime against the B. R. T. siders who were trying to put up the price of the stock was all te greater because he told the truth. In the days when the pre. stitulional guarantees of free sp it was the law that “the greate: the truth the greater the libel.” 1 seems to be a revival of thi was not free, there were no con legal doctrine in Mr. Jerome’s adminis- , sad to suburbs tration of his office, w’ relate, is spreading to si as Elizabeth, Speaking of the B. R. T., its representatives testified on certiorari proceedings recently that $7,690,- 429 is the true value of its taxable property. Now on the Coney Island ten-cent fare hearing they testify Will Mr. Jerome please not tliese conflicting statements entitled “Contr: is the real value. his attention to The Evening World Daily Magazine, Publishing Companys, Nos. 53 to I} ie Penal Code, |! | Get Ready. | The Story of The Presidents By Albert Payson Terhune By Maurice Ketten. AYA EICOTS) JOOOOOO SOUOTOO A SOMITE e: No. 24-ABKAHAM LINCOLN. (Part 1—The Young Fron- J BIG tiersman.) : 1S COMING, Sirteenth President (1809—1865). Six feet } inches tall; lean, raw boned. \ Weight, 180 pounds; face rugged and homely, but strong; gray, kindly eyes, brown chin beard. MURDER trial was tn progress at Boonville, an Indiana county seat, | A in 1825. A Kentuckian of good old fam Breckenridge by name— was counsel for the defense. He spc with @ dazzling flight of old-fashioned “spread eagle’ One of the rustic spectators that thronged the little court-room was @ sixteen-year-old boy. He was already a giant in height, big of hands and feet, lanky and loose-Jointed. He was clad in ill-fitting, shabby homespun. thin six inches e brilllanuly and oratory His red wrists were bare and his trousers did not reach 4 of his shoe tops. It was his first visit to a village. Hithe ad lived in the backwoods, where he had won fame as an “expert tter and as the beat wrestler in the nelghborhood. There, too, he had aroused the | almost entirely by heart every book he could He never NLARGE before had heard a real speech delivered, house, | ENLARG pu chureh or hotel. Yet, learning that Breckenrid . he had THAT ( Bae ed many ingles through the forests to he arried MOVE TH by what seemed to him a perfect mirac ‘y ad sat ENTRANCE FURNITURE mouthed, delightedly drinking in every word of th h Out When court w ids crowded lge with con and hi he im; gratulations. Then the ov rown, gawky y to the lawyer's side. His face alight wit stretched out both hands toward the speaker. Lrec only a ragged specimen of the despised “poor white’ st the boy contemptuous rude act ; He ts : ‘e ey ed by it y he snubbed i (a ham Lincol nd martyr. Insult. ntucky wilderness, red by Indians, ackwoodsman, of brains | | of whiske of Indiana plan neech gave the boy a new idea by himself in the woods. Soon ural commun One old man o speak all hands flock to listen to H « and wood ¢ - he began to ply between bis 1 and dis- with farm products, &c. On one of th boat yen negro thieves, who trief to steal his cargo. board singly Lincol: ocked senseless tant towns along the r rips he was attacked by Vhe first four as the; ee took One these time saw the pprove and Illinois. There, 2 Lincoln 8 ers to volunteer formed in his vicinity took ser coming another oung army Heuten- own, The leutenaat ‘st met ed with h Jefgerson D: Black The ‘‘Dood ’ittle Dirl” of ths Jarr Fam‘ly Surprises Her Dad By Meeting Him at the Subway Station With an Umbrella r, Later he satd fans {t was more osquitoes.”” nuing ton Whig tick An- and Demo h He was defeate rowdy tried Lincoln stepped down from the platform, threw him ten feet across the room; then calmly wer aa $ . ( After the electh Then he took up ~~ sto stop and lot of tandy ani lt we Enforces Oratory ¢ With a Thrashin By Roy L. McCardell. urned Up ain ag scanty living Rox manne I. The dail x Be letters about i inced to he read in debt re they led on, now In 1834 he political led his first papa, and for 1 called “And now foot on the lowent ye—and death, may be obtained on a each article to “The Eve to whimper and Oh geing to whip ly een (ireulation D: —2+e— Dime Novels for Spain. spoll her new o hear Will ntroduced into fa her ure are earned { and Centrat in the Spanish, { Spanish publishers of ot liter: and these are now competing with American publishers : felt so bad in eure ; ates fed and ate : STRICT y successfully i | box! H fashioned d! wel, At all of the newspaper k wied and owl ewied and got an norfal x A Id-fasht ; EE ea ae eae | cried Mrs, Jarr, as Mr, Jarn pa w Move ot (hetiest popular oC (hess fell ba Ap Ae iaiings with one hand ant | th t girl, “I suppose papa. t ie a year or more, ‘The books retail at from 4.1 cents to about 6 American the x eds ENT HaHa Ane conte a copy. ‘The chief sales were In Madrid and Barcelona. ‘The best pronte | hanged between Mr, out of de box first 1s T was such a dood ~ Letters from the People. | How Mue Phe Cannibal and the Subway. Mdviee to St ndersrad hitehener Syn A Wiles Vowan ent been during Reberis was seni te @ conclusion, Kt: mand during the > ‘pent out by tlre this for me : BB Reddy the Rooter. “f- Si} “$- By George Hopf. nt WELL,WELL,THE VERY ONE IM GOING | The ‘““Fudge”’ Idictorial. Boss,! GoTA TICKET p 2 Tn TOLISHALL SEE You THERE REDoOY — I'M SUPERINTENDENT — ————— | FER ME SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC-KIN | TAKE OFF T'DAY?, We feel sometimes as Old Marr Atlas must have felt with the Earth o2 hisshoulders. We are called upon to SETTLE so many things that a LITTLE sense would fix without any help from us. Our latest Trouble comes from The Tailors—worthy people, no ‘doubt, but troublesome. THEY WANT TO KNOW what sort of a costume should be ‘on-tructed for people who flit about tn amuse | Flying Machines. They say They are Stumped. LAR aaa ae " | This Is the easiest one yet. DRESS Them in FEACHERSS Ol FASHION D | ‘Then They will be BIRDS, Indeed. LAMBASTERSL Pee TICKET FER] [LENOME IT-lLLGIT] A SUNDAY SCHooL| |A DAY OFF WiID EE A + Ble NTS att DAT AN’ SEE ‘ ; Flying Machine Costumes. Copymt, 1908 by the Planet Pub. Ayia "YoU Go RIGHT HOME ANO REST,MY BOY. YOURE UNSTRUNGs HERE 1S THE MonEY VERY s », [SICK MY BOT-| Feathers are Ifght, warm and becoming. They make much better Clothes Than FIG LEAVES! We oftsn Wonder why ADAM did not THINK of Feathers, 'To our mind Adam hes always seemed rather Incompetent, Eden was NO PLACE for him. It ts well that he had to get jout and hustle. | Adam was The FIRST TAILOR. He Was only PART of a MAN. A Tailor is The NINTH PART to this day. Come again, LITTLE TAILORS, when You want to LEARN 'SOMETHI\G!