The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1908, Page 16

~ The Evening : ) Thursday, September 10, 1908. (@ebttsned Datly Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. >, F Park Row, New York PULITZER, Prea., 1 Rast 124 Street, J, ANGUS BHAW, Bro. ‘Troas., 1 Weak 111th Street Entered at the Post-Oflca at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, ; oy England and the Continent ani banat Ary OUT UCaLE Coie Porn Countries in the International Postal Union, $3.50 | Ome Yeates ‘30 | One Month: World for the Unitea States and Canada. Qne Year. ‘One Month, NOLUME 49....... «. (ea = ‘ | THE CASE OF MR. CANNON. Although the people of but one Congressional district, the Elghteenth | (MUnols, may vote for or against Jozeph G, Cannon, Democrats and Repub! | loans in many parts of the country are making thelr fight this year directly ‘upon the Speaker of the House. They are wise Democrats and wiser (Republicans, They shoot at random no more. They are aimiks &: the | imark, and if Cannon js not a mark there never was one, It has been noticed that no matter how excellent a Republican's char- jecter and record might be, his election to Congress was likely to destroy | jhis capacity for public service, At home every drop of blood in his body | obbed with aympathy for the people, At Washington he merely counted jone in that mysterious majority in whose name Cannon rules. The new | \plan, then, is to hold to @ strict responsibility for Cannon and Cannon's (performances the men who have made Cannon possible. | ‘Whe Republicans have bean electing all sorta of men to Congress for | lyeare past, but the net result has been Cannon, It is always Cannon, (Cannon reigna, Cannon legislates, Cannon blocks legislation, What Can- says “goes.” Cannon can find forty ways to thwart the public will, (Cannon can find forty ways to permit privilege and plutocracy to ride’ through Congress unchecked. Cannon’s big oaths, Cannon's weird stories, (Cannon's homespun clothing and Cannon’s rough ways have been of Ymmense value to every selfish interest in the land, To some people these, iehings have meant diversion, To monopoly and greed they have meant Pusiness, To defeat Cannon in his own district would be only to raise up another {Cannon elsewhere. ‘To keep at home the men on whom he has chiefly relied (ip-establishing bis legislative despotism is to remove his most powerful sup- porters, and perhaps to make it impossible for Congress to put him or any- ody like him in the Speaker's chair, So Cannon properly enough is running for Congress this year not only (io bis own district but in many other districts, No matter what the name of the real Republican candidate may be, everywhere it is Cannon who {3s {the object of Democratic and Independent Republican attack, The Con- who have created Cannon and who have since shown their help- eas in his presence are now to be judged for his political offenses as + fwell as their own, It is a good idea; It is a logical idea, and it is bearing fruit, Some of Cannon's most devoted servitors have been retired at toe primaries already. Other upholders of the system which he has estab- Qished are likely to diseppear at the ballot boxes in November, The ways of demagogy and monopoly are shrewd, but they are not past | finding out Cannon has deceived more people all of the time and for a longer time than any other American in recent years. | pe MURDER AS A SOCIAL ERROR. ‘ Murder is a word which is not only losing its meaning, but it is Ukely | @oon to pass out of use, Murder formerly suggested hate, jealousy and lereed as well as sudden and frightful death, Murder seemed to sum up !n two syllables nearly everything that was detestable and fearful. Now the term, in many places, indicates nothing more serious than a social error, Men have quarrelied about women and money, and, prompted by avarice ‘and revenge, have killed their enemies stealthily or openly since the world } Brery base passion bos prompted murder. For many centuries it *}was enough to abow that an assassin had a motive and he was promptly banged. Of late the murderous impulses of men are overlooked and oaly excuses are seriously considered, | Thus we have the atrocities of the unwritics ..s, (a6 preposterous ‘double suicide” compacts, !n which, as a rule, but one person meets death, the mysteries in high life which are forever concealed by “gentlemen's lIgreements” and other contrivances by which justice is bewildered and the most heinous of crimes go unpunished. In this fashion murder, which once prorrified whole communities, becomes hardly more than an episode in the lex affairs of human life, In the main it is treated as a matter which foncerns only an individual or a family, and the public is too much dis- posed to accept this view of ft, and, after slight wonderment, to turn Its khoughts to other subjects. s Yet most of the true murders, the murders of deliberation, calculation and unquestioned motive, that are now committed are of this sort. We dc mot hear much of murders for money, or for titles, or for inheritances, and iit is rare indeed that burglars or highwaymen kill their victims, Most o: four murders involve women, and thus exhibit on the very face of them (Qe primitive passions of savages. Instead of presenting mental and psy ighological problems of great delicacy they generally reveal nothing bu. | eslousy and greed, now as alwaya the evil handmaids of those who ki) qwith a definite object in view, It we are to legalize murder tn this fashion under certain pleas we may be sure that all assassinations hereafter will be cleverly brough within the favored pale. Jealousy and greed on the part of vengeful men do not apply to women alone, ‘When they lead to murder for any cause tle oue inevitable excuse, whethe: They are found in ail the relations of .ife. \true or false, 1 likely to be a woman's love or folly, for tis: excuse la now held to be sufficient, There will be no adequate peuilies for murder so accept the apologies of murderers and treat their crimes as ‘what regrettable episodes of the social season. ‘i Letters from the People. Superintendent Maxwell, Board of Then the P. S. ( ve Education, Wo the Editor of The I have attende School in this | $12 city for two years, but would t take a course in kindergar Would you tell apply for particulars? ETHYL Home for Veterans’ nz World. ‘g ie thing VALIQUETT C Widows. Home for Veterans and Wives. To the EAltor of There ts a Home war veterans. Apr sion sho ye mada ment of Pub Twenty-sixth « P Phe Roads and the Co ‘4 To the Eitior of It certainly ‘s the railroad com; s powerful Public Service Commission |tenient of fe P. 8 Board expresses any! en's Relief Cory stitch t© fercrable to them nango County, World Daity Magazine, A Well-Plucked Bird. ) By Maurice Ketten. ( \\h ie : BOTA an ¢ AUTO RRA CY ui RE CR SSS Jarr and Rargle Go to a Ball Game While Their Wives Wait Dinner; To Make Their Infamy Deeper They Shoulder the Blame on the Wives. | “I can get off early; let us go up to the ball game.) “Let's take an Eighth avenue car; here's one al- = | That will give us time to be home for dinner, and for} most empty," suggested Mr, Jarr, By Roy L. McCardell, all the women know we will have come uptown to-| “We'll beat most of them downtown at that,” sald SLLE je Sether,” suggested Rangle. Mr, It's better than waiting in that jam ser creas eal enn “You're on,” said Mr. Jerr, closing down bis desk | on the ‘L' station.” your house to dinner to- nd reaching for his hat and coat. So they rode downtown as It grew dark. They took the Sixth avenue “L' to the bell park) ‘sey, do you know what time It 1s?” asked Rangle, night?” sald Rangle, coming (nto Mr, Jarra vilice in the af. and got them seats In the grand stand, near where, 417, Jarr looked at his watch. “I know we are too ierncon Emslte, the, baseball umpire, kept bis weather te for that family dinner at our house,” he sald. A A un first until such time ag there were men on “ sheep as & lamb,’ jee eee seh Me, They were choice seats our friends had—at every NETRA Saalat something “Search me!’ ‘sald Mr, Ran- °l08e decision when they roared “Robber!” Mr. Ems-' | on tr) Tea cone 4 ‘ . Ne could hear the word. Close decisions, in this case, 2 gle. {t must be understood, were only greeted by the em-| This they aid, and while dining In high good humor “Oh, yes, come to think of It,” sald Mr. Jarr, “I belleve I did hear Mrs, Jarr say, ‘Those peo- ple gave ua a dinner before we went to the country, and If we didn’t give them one in return I suppose that woman would be going around telling everybody about it!” “Yes, and now I remember my wife sald, ‘It’s about time Clara Jarr remembered!’ ” “Ah, old fellow, there's nothing I!ke t fashioned, hearty, hospitable, nelghbo is there?” sald Mr, Jarr with mock sentime ( “At that, I believe those women are fond of each other," said Mr. Rangle, “Sure,” said Mr. Jarr; “they wouldn't be handing the little digs to each other they do. W they are so snippy at times with each other that a lot of people think they are sfaters.” together and recounting the features of the game again Mr, Jarr was seized with an Inspiration. “Tl tell you what we'll do!” he sald. “We'll go to your house and stay there for an hour or two and then telephone and pretend we both thought that the family dinner together was to be there!’ phatle epithet when the close decisions affected ad- versely a runner of the home team, “Now @ square deal, Bmsile, you big rum!" would be the admonitory words of the twain when the New Yorks went in to bat. They crled aloud to Donlin to “line her out; your wite if looking!” They stamped uproarlously and) This Infamy was carried out to the letter. shouted "Good boy, Matty!” when Mathewson, the ‘You stupid things!" sald Mrs, Jarr in answer over Imperturhable, struck out a man at @ critical mo-| the ‘phone. “How could you have made such a mis- ment. And the game went to nine innings and ten|take? Both Mrs. Rangle and I sald It was at our innings and then eleven innings, while their prayer! ‘house! Now you've spolled our dinner and haven't "wags that {t was yet light enough for New York to| had anything to eat yourselves!” hit the ball, but too dark for the opposing team to| But both men insisted they had waited so long that field It ‘thay had gotten over their hunger, and they came Finally, the only and winning run was pinched out| over to the Jarr flat in such ood humor at their by the home team, and Mr. Jarr and Mr. Rangle, mistake that the ladies simply sald, Well, you men with 15,000 other fans, arose, cheered and rushed pell are the big sillles! It 1s a good thing you have some mell for the cars, | one with sense to look after youl’ CARDELL Reddy the Rooter. Re) eo) AR DINKUS SEND DIS, PRIZE PUP! By George Hopf. IM GOING To NOW WELL JES MAKE LUNCH, REDDY, Q YER LOOK MAD wio O15 ; SOAP SupDs} (BEAUTIFUL. LETS SEE, WOT CAN BE DID —— (a [Guess Me DATS IT MATTY.OL' may | MINOS ToT- | € \CUT THE CORNERS oF |THE DISK-YER GoT DEM & |TROWIN’ DEY’re (AG CUUGELS Away!) ——$$____ aa f TWELVE PET LIES Ol’ HUSBANDS TO WIVES. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. IDS OOS! Oo! No, VI.—I’m Always ‘Thinking of You.” LL day he has pondered as to whether or not be cam A wring from hig office the increase in salary he feels to be only his due, On his way to the car he loitera before haberdashers’ and tallors’ windows, debating whether his new fall suit shall be olue or brown and whether his neckwear shall be green or purple. Reaching the corner, he buys a paper and during the trip uptown concentrates all the powers of his mind on the basevall news. Not until the rustling of a skirt along the hallway o€ his apartment responds to the turning of his latchkey In the door does he remember that he left belind him that morning a two-by-four plece of femininity that he calls his wife, Nevertheless, when the forgotten divinity curls soft arms about his neck and Inquires if Precious has thought | about his Baby all day he rises nobly to the occasion, 'm always thinking of you, dear," he replies, with Just the right quaver of sentiment In his voice. And so saying, No. VI. in our series ¢f conjugal confidence games has been played again, | “I don't believe you," the goddess ts to pay for the creation. | '!sps. And then she begins to tell tne even had time for lincheon, sad tale of her loneliness whilo he was she meets a girl who griduated with away, AS a matter of fact, she Mad her and they betake themselves to 4 | dressed and gone gayly forth to shop tearoom to talk over everything that | Almest as soon as the subway engulfed |has happened to everybody since they him on his way down.own, And no left school, her husband has no more j thought of elther home or husband had than a walk-on part in her consclous- | marred the mad ecstacy of her excur- | ness then. sion Into the fairy land of clothes. Lost In fact, she doesn’t think of him sert+ in rapture before a $300 lingerle frock— | ously till she begins to hurry home, needless to say frem Paris—she had | fearful he will arrive there before she arried away the whole scheme and de- | does, and, oh, so thankful that she finds ‘sign to be reproduced by her own $% @ vacant flat and a tew moments of day dressmaker at a total cost of #2 solitude in which to assume her role of The Uttle head, thronged with notes of welcoming wife, She hasn't So when nsertion here and sunburst tucks there, And then tho Iittle comedy begins nas for the moment ny room for any Agilt Once more each telis the tthe thought of the husband downtown who “I'm always thinking of you," Keliections of a Lacheior Giri 8 conversation #0 soothing that if she suddenly stops talking he will Wake up with @ start trom his reverie, When a man insists on introducing his masculine friends to his wife, 1t may be a compliment to her virtue but it te 4 slur on her vanity, Saving a girl's life may be nothing but pure chivairy, out wearing rubbers to please ber is a sign of pure love fn any man When two unhappily married people are divorced it Ip not a time for condolence but for congratulations. You wouldn't sympathize with a man who had come successfully ‘hrough an appendicitis operation, would you? When @ woman begins to fade she rushes to the beauty specialist, but it never occurs to a man that a Little thing t or @ bald head could mar his fatal fascination, Don't ask your sweetheart if he has ever Kissed another woman, because Whether he has or hasn't he will feel equally embarrassed—and the answer wild be the same. FELENR°WLAND, like embonp A man’s reason for marrying @ woman ts not so much In order to As to keep anybody else from getting her, to Cos Cob Nature Notes. OBODY around here heard tho alleged shet fred at Neighbor Thee dore Roosevelt at Oysier Bay the other day, thougo the distance 's only avout ten miles as the crow lies, Anything fired at Teddy sally be heard around the world. Not long ago about @ pint tot fell on the tin root uf our plazaa, but we never felt that , there was anything personal about It, which turned out to he the fact, as it was merely Dad Holley popping away at the sparrows, | George Kalb caught stateen pounce of |now in charge of the dressy goods d | hasn't forgotten how get ber aa aber Day : George ts Artment in a big Ni York store, but he to snap si 6. The pper is a seed bluetish and ts |much superior in every way to those batayettes New York has been going jcrazy over, The lafayette is nothing but a sand porgie, anyway, and has pe |future like a Snapper has when it becomes a biuefish and reams the ocean free. Our cysters are pretty govd this year and have got their health certificate | from Dr, Darlington. Lots of the oysters seld In New York with fancy name@ ate plain natives uf Connecticut raked up from the bottom by Frank Lockwood and the Pahners over at Sound Beavh. Oysters are now raised on farms on bottom uf Long Island Sound, with @ticks In the corners to show whero you can't dredge vut stealing. Starfish are very fond of oysters and often ettle down on their beds. The oysterinen run a he beds # Prof, Powers, of Norwalk, who has been fellowing up the pedigree of Mr. | Mellen's passenger car No, §S%, which was formerly the sloop Peavine, of Noank, has arrived at a critical point in his investigation; viz, how did the | sloop ever become a railroad car? He ts convinced that 889 is the product ‘of a merger made by some early Mellen, like the trolleys and the Fall River line, but he cannot get at the exact facts, Like Mellen, this adroit predecessor jevidently fixed his right hand so his left wouldn't know what it was up to. The Mianus Ladder and Hose Company, No. 1, is going to get a gasoline fire engine, #0 it can squirt In places where there are no hydrants. Permanent Selectman R. Jay Walsh's water company charges the town $3 @ year rent for , hydranta, although the town almost never squirts from them. | no a3 34 € The Joy of Life. By Cora M. W. Greenleaf, IVE Joyously! And let no bitter- Live lovingly | L Not thine to criticise ness Thy brother's errors, nor thy nelgh- Settle In memory's cup, to mar bor's sinning; the sweet, | Hard words won't ease thelr pain, nor Rich flavor of the draught Life holds make them wise, for thee— Nor brace their courage for a fresh Holds every day our eager lips to} beginning. meet. }Not every ones abandoned who goes Let no defeat nor disappointment | wrong; CraieH Live lovingly, and thank God you are Live joyously and gladly every hour. strong. Live busily! With quiet diligence Live trustingly! Nor let suspicton's Add dally to thy wealth of work well dart, done; Pojsoned with jealousy and bitter With things worth while, tho’ small) gall, or great they seem, Sink its foul shaft to rankle in thy Fill every passing hour from sun to heart, sun, And wreck thy dear soul's gladness No time to waste on blame or vain past :ecall, regret; Think thou no evil, smile, and fear no sive busily the best, all else for- ll, get. Live trustingly! Naught harms thee ‘gainst thy will pe Sree Ge Wall Street in 1795. By Frederick Trevor Hill, FSA] HE volume of business transacted by the brokers during the Eightesnth ! | Century was not very great, and the dealings were still jimited to @ | | few stocks, but certain memoranda contained in the note-book of one ' of the snrall group who continued to assemble under the buttonwood tree In 17% show that some phases of the brokerage business were much the samme in the eighteenth century as they are in the twentieth, says F. ‘T. Hill, in Harper's Magazine. For Instance, In the note-book above men- tloned, under date of February 13, 17%, this entry has survived: “I bet G. Mo- vers 10 Dollars to 5 Dollara that there would not be 3000 votes taken at the ‘on for Governor in the City and County of New York." And, gain: "3 bet Robert Cocks, Sr, a pair of satin breeches that ay would be wernor by a majority of 600 or more.” The writer of ese engagements was evidently doing a brisk business in the winter of 179, hut Jay wk the last Federalist upon whose success at the polla it would n safe to count for a pair of silk breeches or any other advantage, for Burr's political star was !n the ascendant, and Tarmmany was preparing to sup- |ply him with what Hamilton termed his “myrmidong,” and Theodosia Baw called “reevuite fer the Tenth Legion” ensuing ele