The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1908, Page 12

} i H ae AR RETRORRRME NT a The Evening Wor fen Ctarld, | ; Pwlished Datly Hxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 83 to 6S Park Row, New York JOSEPH PULITEER, Pree,, ¥ Bast 184 Birvet, 2. ANUS APTAW, Ree, Treas, 91 Wee 110th Street | World Daily Magazine By M. De Zayas, | Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Ciass Mall Matter, Bubscription Rates to The Evening World for the Unitea States and Canada. For England and the Continent and Al untries in the International Postal Unton, One Year. One Month, VOLUME 49 DEMOCRACY VS, PLUTOCRACY. . The World is attached to principles and moral ideas, Men ¢ and times change and pares change and platforms change and candiJates change, but true principles and ideas do not change, } We are nearing the end of one stage of Rooseveltism. Its fru before us, In the name of false patriotism they are jingoism, imperi. ism, extravagance, plutocracy, centralization They are violence, usurpa- tlon, panic, cepression. They are con'empt for law, con’empt for couris, contempt for Congress, contempt for the Constitution. All these have been crystallized in the machine-made and corporation-tinanced candidacy! of a personally amiable and excellent Proxy, It is imperative that there shall be Opposition to this sordid an menacing regime. To be effective that Opposition must be powerf: To be powerful it must be grounded in principle. To be grounded Principle appeal must be made not so much in behalf of a man as in behalf of a Cause. That Cause must be not false but True Demoer: If Democratic candidates chance now to be identified with this Cause, as they always should have been, so much the better for them. The World has sharply disagreed with Mr. Bryan and the Demo- cratic purty in the It has upheld them whenever True Dem { Pr their Populism and S defend or excuse. In common with the Demos ed from the Democ ns, it respor One Year. One Month. $3.50 130 , 17,163, | + $ oppos f n of its own responsibility to the pul The World, on one side by Rooseveliism and Roosevelt's Proxy and ot cracy and Mr. Bryan, has no hesitation in saying that, of True Demoeracy, the Democratic ticket is entitled to} within the lir the full Democratic vote. | jate! There are planks in the Demoeratic platform w now as always h we repud There are phases of Mr. Bryan's career and there are ar-| ticles in al creed of which we disapprove now as always, But In the essentials of opposition to Rooseveltism we are in hearty accord] with the Democratic platform. ; In these things party and candidate have come openly to World’ oric pesition, to The World’s well-known principles, to World's cpp nto Republicanism—opposition to Privilege Plutocracy It is because The World is a truly independent j I it can do no less than acknowledge this fact and act accordingly. By coming to The World's position—the true Democratic position—in these matters party and candidate have lost favor with Populists, Socialists and Inde-| pendence Leaguers, It is an impressive fact that most of the extremists, now following the leadership of men like Watson, Debs and Hearst, 08 26 FASY have turned upon a party and a candidate no longer subject to their in- oO ae flue amd ipped of its false and mischief-breeding alliances and no longe % ’ ° 5 istic Populism, or with any other form of crazy radicalism, the Demo- cratic p: ppears to have recovered to a considerable degree from its long infatuation and to be once more In a position to render efficient ser The he and | tavender shirting that she'd bought fon) seen of a snow-shed along the line ot glide, when the hum began, and I was me a chapple minced up to me and the Central Pactfic Rallroad, and They didn't look screeched, “Why, Harry 1 I was thinking of as 1 stood | hey hummed, but thought you were abroad!” And inking at {t and becoming more to, T understood. —— a No, 17 of ‘Monslogues of a Mixologist,”’ ve . a e Republic. Wi q c| ‘ t ALTAPS iy ,) hoo , i ; : vice to the Republic. Without scanning It too closely for imperfections) y Clarence L., Cullen jbeen buying my own dedicca ever en ut_every minute, 1 saw a/ Most of the women that had me hedged we believe that it deserves encouragement and is entitled to Democenttc ie Suaee or sign, set in the midst of one of the|in sald to each other that It was aunned ty ail cupieart Author of “Tales of Ex-Tanks.” Well, I was jogging along, waiting to dritts, that @ald something abo y me men didn’t know ympathy and support. vie get flash at a Ine of antlnolse acd brellaa, but I didn’t seo any par an rhale Cowan DBM ER pe non-explos.ve ghirts (there , and maybe T wondered kind 0’ vaguel ites rors sOllaternYcabe The Demceratic platform and nominee are sound in their oppositie: | me and te jingoism and Roosevelt's war-conjuring spirit, in their demand fo pale our ilns anes Weare Mea ep | + : ° ; | : ; 1 ; cGoauiea ihe er window that looked like La- publicity for campaign contributions and expenditures, in their repuc e 1 Ko tion of centralization through “constructive jurisprudence,” in their hx tity to our wretched, bloody and costly experiment in imperialism in th Philippines, in their insistence upon genuine tariff reform and in their ca’ for retrenchment of reckless and ruinous national expenditures. On a! of these s the Republican platform and candidate are either hop lessly wrong or silent or evasive. If we dislike irresponsible personal government, govern Munciation, Executive usurpation end pepularized war spirit gacy we must have a real and an effective Democratic Opy inded at gaze-guze to waddle scattered I was standi ing whether I'd bet two bits on a hal dence in the pri fons of Democracy vs. Plut Letters {rom the the next time I pound There's such a thing as None Universally Observed, [n FE white disphis a chance to do a back ng for Tote What does "G. 0. Loris Wants to grow tatle ‘The instru @lum can give you a cor thenics tending to Increase the h 230 Broadway, fo the Editor of 7 On what street !s Bootety? e Rvenine \\ AN AY year, Where can these books or ordered? The “Little Yellow Men.” Bo the EMitor of The Evening W T have read {magi jes about what the Japanese nation will do withs fn & year of so from now. They tell of the smartness of the “ll 1 men,” and of the stupidity oft fean deople. Such talk does us peace-loving people, deca ints be: low men, @ountry and sink ou 2 Pevenls to the wiry young@ers the de- feta in our forces, | There are mints at Orleans, Philadelphia, Story of the Race by Tim Tur iip—All “Eyes were on Spuds as he beat Cabbage by a “Head.” Corn fell on his “Ear,” Tomato could describing the and Denver, not “Ketchuo” nor even beat Beet. Bermuda Onion and Italian Garlic finished “Strong.” ~ \ | ; San _Wednesd ay, August 0 D 9) 0 () NO. ?4-LOU/S XIV. AND Mik. T's {s the love story of a girl who was born in jail and who Lived to venturess, ‘he King she married was Louis XIV. of France. most diasipated man of his century, Tirlng of his wild life at the age of fifty, he married Francoise because she seemed so good and 6o unlike the other women of his acquaintance. had tremendous Influence on America’s future, A Governese Who Marrled a King = ——or look upon him as a sort of Divinity. (as had EMzabeth of England) with wise and great men in all walks of Ufe. Grand Monarch.” duct. He looked on her as his good angel and learned to rely upon her ad- vice In every emergency. She took quick advantage of his odd change of nature and soon had acquired a boundless influence over him. time he was wholly under Mme. de Maintenon’s control. wishes of his family he secretly married the ex-governess. thirty years, until Louis's death, the girl who had been born In prison ruled as uncrowned Queen of France. rally wise and disinterested. wos not. She persuaded the King to promote her personal friends to high offices and to remove her enemies from the positions that many of them were holding with credit. ae eee | {MEdict of Nantes.” —© brought about by Mme. de Maintenon and the clergy who prompted her was the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, In 685. inl and political liberty to all French Protestants. When the Edict was revoked and the Protestant churches burned and their ministers banished many thougands of Protestants left France. Large numbers of them came ‘o America, where they helped to build up the colonies here and greatly strengthned the growing power of the New World. Mme. de Maintenon’s bigotry thus not only robbed France of nearly half a million citizens that sould tl be spared, but did mucu toward colonizing America, y| LEITA jonly one that catches her eye. manes most great men ridiculous, has been more triumphant and sensational than Nis; yet he Continued to the Inst to be os simpie-natured and ay ready to listen to the amall talk of the people as though he had spent his life raising chickens on @ bush farm. country. He was fond of old clothes and loose slippers and the soft, grassy carth farn' from the flattertes and intrigues of public life, writes Herbert Casson in \ the New leave his farm and return to public Ife, he squealed like a pig. He slwags preferred his farm to the White House.” Every man vas a man, to Orover Cleveland. The richest Individual had no glamour and the poorest had no smudge in his eyes. One morning, while he was dictating an Interview, a very ragged tramp came up thé path to tho house, Mir, Cleveland opened tho decor, iistened to the man’s,story and sent nim away with half a dollar and a “xood luok to you.” © | ing in the hallway. distance from his home, and he 1s trying to walk Back.” M have been Now Orleans, where a progressive but unlucky sode-water dispenser }found himself one bright and warm Sunday afternoon entirely out of carbo ated water, with no chance to renew his supply. There was a constant demana for his services, and after repeatedly answering the embarrassing question why | he was unnble to produce the drinks, In desperation he hurriedly mixed Ice cream ‘and frult syrups into a frozen concoction which greatly delighted his customers, recipe” that the idea flashed over him that It would be 6 Jood thing to pus @ regularly on his bill of fare. | of transforming “Sunday into 19, 1908, __ Lm 2 2g aoe 1 DOOON OOO: DDDDODODDDDDODDODIDODHHGDOOH Fifty Great Love Stories of History | By Albert Payson Terhune DE MAINTENON, marry the King of France, She was Francoise d’Aubigne; and hie- torlans cannot agree as to whether ahe was a saint or a very wily ade He wae the It was a love story which, oddly enough, Francoise was the daughter of a worthless French noble who with his wife was cast into prison and who later died in Martinique, where he had sambled away his fortune, leaving his family penniless, in poverty and noglect, yet managed to pnocure a good education and to become a brilliant: talker, of a Parisian poet, Scarron, who was old and hideously deformed. Scarron offered either to pay for her admission to a convent cr to mirry her. Sha sleverly chose the latter course. For ten years she was at the head of Scarron’s household, attracting the brightest men and women of France to her salon and reigning as queen of her deformed husband's small literary ea From her Creole origin she was affeotionately nicknamed “The Lit- le Indian." Francoise grew up When she wes fifteen she attracted the interest Then Scarron died, and the Government pension that had supported him was cut off. Francoise, at twenty-five, was once more {n poverty. Louls XIV. was at this time King of France. He it was who refused to continue the pension to Scar- ron's widow. Louls was a vain, pompous, extrava- gant little man, who strutted about in high beels and an enormous wig, and he taught hie courtlers to He wes lucky in surrounding himself These gave to his court a lustre that won him the name of “The Through powerful friends Francolse was appointed governess to some of Louls’s children, The King at firet could not bear the sight of her and kept out of her way. But as time went on he began to notice this grave, beautiful, plous woman, who took such good care of his children and who treated him with euch gratifying deference. to the pay, hot-tempered beauties of the court He made her Marquise de Maintenon. | when the pleasures of youth began to pal! and trembled at thought of a future punishinent for the wild, dissolute life \he had led. He sought to mend his ways and to atone for the past by go- \{ng to the opposite extreme. middle-aged hypocrite. For at heart, as history shows, he remained as much of a blackguand as ever. She was a wondrous contrast Louis began to like her. The King was reaching the age He was abjectly afraid of death Instead of a young profiigate he became e Mme. de Maintenon eagerly encouraged Louls in this new pheee of con- Then csme her reward. When Louts was fifty his wife died. By this Against the For nearly Louls thought she was supernatu- Wise she was. Disinterested she certainly Even as Louis was her obedient slave, so was she the slave of certain of the clergy. At their command ehe induced Louls to make many astart- lng changes {n the Government, By far the most Important of these changes Revocation of This edict had been framed by Henry of Navarre and granted per- As ~e years passed on Louis's early triumphs changed to defeats, His wifo'’s meddling with politics (which she di not understand) helped to un- termine the nation. glory, dled in 1715. Mme. de Maintenon retired, with am enormous state pension, to a convent ehe had founded. the age of eighty-four, leaving to future generations the task of deciding whetuer sue was really an adventuress or a saint. The King, feeble, embittered and shorn of his old-time awere, four years later, she died at Missing numbers of this series will be snppiied upon appication to Circulation Department, Evening World, upon receipt of one- cent stamp. | The Laconics of Lady Aurelia. By Leita Russell. a of men waste time {n sowing wild oats. They say anges wear very few clothes; the iodern fashions ought to make women more like angels, § looks at least. The sheath gown 1s like the nightgown—the next thing to nakedness, A woman can always keep a secret if you don’t tell It to her, Many a man comes home expecting a good dinner and all ne gets is a cold shoulder, Some bachelors are sure that love ls blind and that is why they have never een seen, Many a woman 109 {n a shop window sees nothing of the trifles that are displayed—her own reflection ts the M™ wild things are Indigenous to the soil, yet lots ELL, A woman doesn't mind having a fit, If she gets a becoming gown afterward, we Cleveland---the Commoner. By Herbert N. Casson. pI all the heterogeneous celgorities whom ft has been my business to 1 have never known one as simple and unaffected as er He ‘had absolutely none of that yeneer of vanity witch mest, Cleveland. He was the only Democratic President since 1851, and rb career tn history The oider he grew the more attached he became to the simple life of the Once he told me with great gusto how George Washington fled to nis roadway Magazine. he sak, “when the country demanded that Washington should “In 1797, He had no aristooratic instincts—not one, He was a commoner to the core. ‘Who fe that man, papa?” asked little Dick Cleveland, who had been romp- “That is a poor man out of a job, Dick,” replied the father, “He isa mag a The Origin of Sundae. ANY queries with regard to the origin of the wort “Sundae” have deen made, and a considerable number of theorles about It have been exploited, The most popular one seems rather prosaic, Its locale ts reported to During the following week days he had go many calls for “that Sunday A well-meaning but uneducated clerk, who prepared the menu, did the trea ay (