The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1908, Page 12

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, eepiember 8, 1908. Signs of the Zodiac---No. 6. By M De Zayas. Pebtietied Dany Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 te Q I rk Kow, New York ek J. AXOUA AITAW Are Treas, OL Week 11D Steve Sacudar Bic in for ne Bate _ ZOSEPH PULITZEN, Pre, 1 East 14 Slo ieieseiereseses "Gintered at the Post-omeo at New Tork as Beoond-Clans Mall Matter. 3 7 2 . . Budscrtption Rave phe. Ever ‘ | | B R A Ey J. K. Le Baron . World for t ? (ele e ear erere ere ocejerereresere aieiat ‘and Cana nl One Year, i 5 r aaa SENTING AN 1Re mat td S One Monti si Cia GENIUS AND ITS REWARDS. ee cS = 4 5 bi 4 i : poate : 2 | Text: “How off we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity.’ —Plautue. E J ‘ 17,18 hi BYOEUME if eI : T ts one of the tragedies of life that genius has gone en unre> 3 4 ait warded. Apprec acknowledgment have frequently come too © oN i Ee late to bestow t erved emoluments IDEALS ENDANGERED. It Is something of a question whether It is any satisfaction to un E weal ; : {ter : rut : the Ty ry sad Ket | rewarded genluses to find themselves “fads a hundred years after E « OV. HUGHES at the Troy home week celebration 1 , Riviere dual iand aie me enunciated a doctrine which it is mild criticism to Columbus discovered a new continent; his reward was a dungeon. lie i ¢ f Servetus told truth age when to think was a crime; he was burned fe term heretical. Speaking of the opportunity ks Saal ruth in an age w > i b + ® America offers to the young, he said: Pallssy gave up all the comforts of life for his art and for the good of 3 Some say it is American to be silck. Some think that mankind; he was rewarded by persecution and dled int e i tile, , at object of the American youth fs to be smart and Hudson was a prince’ ers; Ne was cast adrift to starve an f ee the great object of the American youth fs smi nd pertain SOlSRaL CS outwit somebody. Some think that the object of business is to be clever in deception. What mistakes these are! Schuyler was the highest type of a patriot; he was discredited and retioved n ani. { There {s no one that gets any place worth holding and pele ada a : Hh Ee Re malntains the confidence of the people who does not en 36 Mua BAAS eau Lad ‘ demonstrate that he can be trusted, Employes want boys “When a 18 appears in the world you may know him by this sign," te and men that they can trust; people want mem whom they | | says Swift, “tha puces are all in confederacy again’. him, & can trust. i | The world has ever been suapicious of the great, and gentus han , i ; 1 <a | always engendered Jealousy 5 Are not our old ideals In danger when such views i | In thig respect, however, the world is improving: it has outgrown the stme x can be presented to aspiring youth by the Governor \ when persecutions were popular, and when to be a genius was to be a martyr. Mj tc ‘ es | “There {8 no great genius free from some tincture of madness,” says Seneca, , of the greatest and richest Gr Mn States—the ‘A crank 9 an unsuccessful genius; a genius {sa successful crank, This catiray { State of Ryan and Rockefeller and Harriman, the is based upon t n that Separates the two, We should have & Uh ife i J i ¢ se of to-da: lest we insult the genius of = sf home of life insurance finance, of traction rascality, Sey wer foray wean HO Ga Ke of Wall street? | ved a crank by his conten) mane Cron 18 to whom the world was pa {s discovery he was branded as a fanatic, but It | was but a few months de: ils fanatt was acknowledged to be genfus. close Kin tween the crank an@ : “Smartness” not American? It is one of the fundamentals of na-| tlonal greatness. It is the keystone of the arch, Remove it and the ~ country that has beaten all creation in the race for wealth and industrial * power will sink to mediocrity and revert to a place among secondary) ) and Keely's name ts " nations, mee the « } z ; ; Ha , j 7 The promoters of the Great Eastern w 1 e 1 of the Lust- If trustworthiness becomes our ideal, what Incentive will there be main on dit to the ? | It ts all a matter of ¢ fo the young to emulate the careers of our great captains of finance? SAG EANSLUTHA Ma TaN In eniiau red Genow™aducs lonie (ougniaeniualiive every What stimulus will there be to youthful ambition to form holding com- panies and create capital out of water, wind and the other elements? We shall become a nation of mute, inglorious Harrimans. Youth will be circumscribed in its opportunities by the denial to the rising generation © of the openings for budding ambition on which one part of our national | fame most conspicuously rests, | \ Trustworthiness is a desirable but an elementary virtue. It ts given other germ must be cultivated. Ingersoll says colleges are places “where peo- bles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.” Tt tea remarkable fact that most of our geniuses have sp origin and have struggled h he will shine 1 adversity’ privation se Homer begged {¢ | forged his own dest Humboldt was ’ sald of him that “He became one of the g from humble sa diamond Poverty and Kespeare was a strange { the axe an of having to the lowliest to possess it. The faithful house servant {s trustworthy, deen born rich and noble.’ History bears ot luxury The clerk who stays at the same desk for half a century and receives a Peg Conley (er ot he US complimentary dinner as a reward has proved himself trustworthy. But fog) DOS 10 ¢ shall there be no higher rewards for “chairmen of the board” who show D . , ‘ 8 themselves to be “slicker” than the other stockholders? Shall there be 3 Reflections of a Eachelor Girl 3 no yachts and princely estates for those who are smart enough to amass 3 : fortunes by the use of company funds to their own profit, ‘ who out- Bo Se ee 3 wit their competitors by means of railroad and legislative favors? If]. trustworthiness 1s to be the test by which success is tried, from what source will corporation lawyers derive $100,000 fees? Where will builders secure contracts for reproductions of French chateaux and Flor- entine palaces in American cities? Under such cvn- ditions the higher. c6urts would lose half the cases from their dockets. No judge could occupy the cen- tre of the limelight of publicity by imposing a $29,000,000 fine for rebating. Trust laws would be- come a dead letter. Presidents would find their sub- jects for special messages largely curtailed. Party issues ‘would be reduced in number. The muck raker’s occupation would be gone, If we were suddenly to become trustworthy, individually,and as a nation, what work would there be for the receivers of looted railroads? What necessity for policy-holders’ protective associations and stock- Oa woman, tha first ktes {s Just the I chase; to a man It is often the / iF So sensitive ts the soul of man that ong burnt blee ot weak for breakfast ake him fan ma and a cu teel exactly is a wor "" may be the eter RE {sa man?" {e the great ¢ question, but problem. O)deZayas, A perfectly honorable man !s one who never cheats nor les to anybody except his wife. nen ow t with tl an wishes to break off a love affair she art and a palette knife. t a nian fs ha hurry that he just picks up a quarrel and ps it off, ins Mr. Jarr Hasn’t Touched a Drop in a Week but What’s the Good ? UE Rie ae Gus Cal.s Hm a Crank and liars. Jarr Gays Hoe Cross as a Bear fr a, eee ie Ons I get quick, but in Germany Future punishment hae no terrors for the man who has just moved tnto @ amed of the! new apartment and finds himself sleeping in dis wife's pink silk kimono with « 3 Just ag bad in this country,’ said Mr. Jarr, “iU8 folded portierre for a pillow and a@ prospect of tea and graham crackers for e plain water.’ breakfast. * gald Gus. ‘Besides, I don't get no profit B1V!"8 Matrimony is the mother of contention. uu don’t think coming in my store and drinking th germs will pay my rent and my license, whal ness wers want the By Roy L. Mcvardzil. ee ice a ginger ale," said Mr. Jarr Gus looked at him pityingly. “I guess you don't know w u i > he a r—_ > holders! committees ? How could the promoters of ae cane Gaal tne damon Le ceboptin GHD Ga ald Mr, Jarr, > wildcat enterprises earn a living? Who could make that's enough for me,” said Mr, Jarr. u've taken away my thirst aa Cos Cob Na! ure Notes millions cornering wheat or cotton? If stocks and bonds "It don't, don’t it?” sald Gus. “My 2 tor the good beer like tn Germany. sa! Bench ri what plays in the band with a clarin uld because I'm afrald of something 6 3 carried a guarantee of trustworthiness the grass would grow in Wall street and characteristic American activities would cease. my brights. lhe the brewers dle o/—only they drink wine. nean Bright's disease,” sald Mr. Jarr, ‘ bad beer full of chemicans made tn brights is gone what use are by @ dotting house what made that sof me that what them ginger ales Is fla alcohol, and that !s what poisons you “Well, gimme a sarsapariiia,” sald Mr, Jarr. RESIDENT W. H. TRUESDALE, who 1s, as we have remarked before, one of the eminent ornaments of our commuuity, has become fat. Cel- e@brated for his verse, Mr. Truesdale's later strivings do not seem to come up to the old standard when he was thinner. For example, his this country In- ou, hey?" It is essential that the plain people who make up the bulk of “The sarsapartila Is worse; not only is the flavor osed Just that way; sald Mr aa ae Ti taker very latest songlet goes this way fre vood alcohol, but it cok mit chemicans,” sa ers heart, I supy ty a nation’s population should exemplify trustworthiness, Their fidelity a i ed UHL ea theabaxTaTUcEInEtT? Mine Phoabe's there Don't you know where? and I take a cigar every round and and honesty give the whole social structure stability. But to exact| : Fi “What?” asked Mr. Jarr Why, Water Gap on the Delaware. . . icity “Chemicans, stuff what the doctors make," sald Gus, “and anything what then, a xt them back !n the box, Weil, you going?” Good sport in aight - this homely virtue of all is to hamper and restrict the very talents which, | the doctore makes ain't god tor noboty to have.” : idea : Mr. Jari, “you are about as cheerful as a Both day amt night e of “American finance” f American millionaires) “1' take some plain seltzer then,” sald Mr. Jerr he Go by the Road of Anthracite’ have made the fame of “Am i and of s m gut ae Pp a ain't a crank when you are on the water wagon?” sald Gus The Intent !s good, but the feet are faulty—as {f the rmise had been walking ,. world wide, No one could then “occupy a higher sphere” than his fel) ct ate chust as bad,” he sald, “My brother Mezer te Sado aber GRTeHIRe Next to a man what takes too much that ain't | on the rallioad ties. low men, If “smartness’’ is ta be put under the ban the race of Ryan) tt too, that !t !s made mit water and marble dust and » good for a what don't take {t now but what used to take it, !s the OG COED gi ior Eeer otra leaves are falling trom Ps tact ry Pre] tol, ea al? Mr, Jar vorst.’? 2 t le: ja the last to come in and Rockefeller will become extinct and a heavy penalty ~will be imposed) jy rleh Pa Metre’ tall Mir ate and vou can give come ye teayov catq Mra date when Mr garr eame tn, "T-sce you Are back at your| springtime and the first to go in.tall. The wild grape vines hear more frult thie on national prestige, to your friends and !t kills them old H : year 9) 1 Cy within reeeny memory and the nut crop ts heavy. These are eee ft quad vould IKOt0 see me dat off the walet We , siiaeied i t touched a drop {n a week!" sald Mr Sarr. “T suppose you wore | rare frult thattglow along the rocks and walls. Thick of skin and fragrant with ‘Mr dare. han sat of the window and saw nie come out of Gus's” a wild tang, they bring a rich reward to the grape gatherer. The hees cannot “What I care?” sa!d Gus "Don't do as I say, do as I tell you dnd not the first tima either,’ said Mrs, Jarr. break through the !ntegument nor can the birds carry them away. They drop 3 6 ers rom e cop 6. Pe Masel a aie carts. einer HERE TR Sede tenet y TRU TiaraiiabcanteiiaalOl Aegan peeyenly i off the vine at the touch and roll Into hiding places. So does nature protect the 3 | ‘They put {t out In , a nt of them an omfort do I get.” said Mrs. Jarr {na sudden outburst, “to see a man seed for future growths. , - fs ag eae coe that when he stope tt for a day or 80 he's as cross as @ The katydids are very loud and insistent this fall. They make as much nolse ; ieee 2 ¢ pay at night as the Horseneck Drum Corps and have silenced ‘he gramophones. + ©. 8. Civil Service Commisston, room u Woes seilee Ny ees be ie | Dolph Ford has been getting ricn catch’ng lobsters. Many pecple believe you + Custom-House, New York City. =) 5 G H f have to go to Pemaquid, Me., and other outlandish points to get tne crustaceans, A wo the Bat Evening Wor ie dd , t i R t ‘ 4 rg 0 whereas they abound plentifully along our coast, Some of Dclph's catches are 3 Kind entre aeats e . e ooter. un By eorve pt. big ones. He landed a ten-pounder last week. The lobster !s caught in 3 eer formatio Téa e and {t is considered low down to “pull” a lobsterman's pots when he isn a ee 8 the seat oe 7a Y GOSH.WE MUST SEE ng. A lobster pot isn't a pot at ail, but a box made of lath into which Mr. Le ie = NWANT CHASERS a Btates Gi aan ee ee len lat COOGAN'S BLUFF | THOSE GAMES. COME ma ty Bie Gere come at tral tn van hot qaables the bal He can't ® ¥en, if You Have Complied with ee tyurR art H Al AY A Dou T RE ick) ile Ritch B18) 00) oth a Permanent and Temporary Selectman if pres ¢ ie ie he re after such use, as $% fine, a l A 00UBLE HEAO|| |GET READY, QUICK. ent Permanent Selectman, &c., James F, Walah goes to Congress. Sie Ix precy HAO MES A) prison, or bota, may be the siick and a fine promiser Ever 4 therefor.” ! ‘ . pe erry at eeeatlona have: haar LINE AN’ GEE DYE ; : pal iabesithay: Wilileoayoanema ‘ ( R OER ( MEAN 17? Agreed With the Lecturer, ; laiandcthen the pUslia , ie a as URING a lecture at one of the leading colleges on the subject of “'Ventllae 5 tte e able to travel | r tion and Architecture” the temperature of the room rose to a very high xa y papers a AN pitch. if bie ltovvole att Pre Apply at Cooper Untoa, “And now we will turn to Greece,” sald the lecturer. election, or it sha a (a wall UAIIl ro gg aac mG eects Sty ‘80 we will.” said one of the audience, wiping his brow, “unless you open » dune, 1:1 W. MOIR HE apa A some of the windows.” Firm of Michael Dady, Brooklyn. Must be between No » aa eee eae ona THE DAY’S GOOD STORIES. Havana, Cube, and el caeer aire raaes 2 How He Lost. Gee ee oe eae qeusd? hi Se Sak ce f not what age ca = == i er VaUREINGL stan For Bronx Travellers in the Sab- = WANT You To SHOPPING ‘ A'S just hoa first ou For he was on announcer of traing ‘i aie ’ x IWITH ME, Wo PuT THE BLU ment w’ at tha Union depot. — Cleveland the Bittor of The Bvenine World : f some the e (amare ma nr, | f “What was It? | Leader. ohana A Ga: aby ° 2. 8. LLOYD, Jr | Weapaliiiiwes : 70 1T.,OL' KIO “Pa advocated leaving the more up) aad mie et aad A Ly | opel AN lve IT aM A une ete An Explanatton. ‘ Brende, 1 1 tke t ‘ Where Charles Wendt Is , J “Ma hag made arrangements for pa [66TJOW long has this restaurant * t sth ‘3 t ealne to begin taking It down next Monday.” been open?’ asked the would pa : ak @ evening —Detrott Free Press. be diner. T. Compa ‘ to pander ema ’ endt, of k “Two years,” sald the proprietor. ~ to the wis { its pa s, will read! N s* s at John "I am eorry 1 4i4 not know it,” sala BE saopi D 50, Goon Cree Too True, the guest. “T should be better off if f « No, 1—As a ¢ tne t A R G4RTO one understands me!” he’ hed come here then.” trave " t Weite the Commandant of the groaned; ‘no one on sarth.” “Yea?” smiled the proprietor, very slesy \ Brooklyn Navy Yard It is the old story wrung | much pleased. “How Is that?’ four or : i many a tortured, youthful heart. "I should probably have been served aides a Brea - The sufferer {s generally mistaken, but’ by this time if I had,” said the guest, ‘ eut fu ‘. sia VAD theme @vidently wuch seedcd rest. A reuring f ao, woere cap J get cue? LG the pain «8 no less poignant. Yet im and the entente cordiale | thie inptance the manie ccmmplaien wee | Warper'e Weekia, - aici