The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1908, Page 12

Park Row, New Yark. Me ‘Wet (11a Sire 184 Bir J ANTES SHAN, Bete thead, 1 eet skininomrowevengned Lie sebheiilisca ye Entered at the Poat-Offlce at New York as Second-Claas Mall Matter, Wudreription Rates to The fvening | For England ang the Continent snd ‘orid for the Unitea States an Santee In the Daternational and Canada. Postal Unton, One Year. Ong Year One Month, H 1 QOMKPH PULITZER, Pree, — 30 7 One Month... VOLUME 49 . THE FORTUNES AT STAKE. The controversy between Mr, Bryan and Mr, @annen over the value of their worldly possessions serves enly to emphasize the almost incurable ten- dency of political discussion of late to aeck a lew level. Mr. Bryan was Mot the original offender in this instance, and yet eflencé on his pact, sven un- der provocation, would have been highly becoming. It ls not the lands, chattels and moneys of a few aspirants for office that Some of our publle men prosper amazingly on com- @re at issue this year, ' | paratively small incomes, but In the absence of cireumstantial accusation of wrong-doing their holdings cannot profitably be made a subject of campalgn argument. If Mr. Cannon's money {s 98 free from taint as Mr, Bryan's is he need fear no serious criticism. Of much more importance and interest at this time are the fortunes, the | happiness and the good name of the American people, All these are pro- foundly involved in the contest now in progress, and {t {9 of the utmost im- portance that they shall not be lost sight of in any merely personal con- | troversies on the part of political leaders. Shall the people rule this country in their own interest or shall they be | Mr. Bryan has a good text, and all the Let him stick to 1t and make the freest use of them. | ruled by plutocracy and privilege? resources of the Democratic scriptures are at his service. A WORD FOR WIDOWERS. ' In looking around for worthy causes to espouse, our social reformers might do worse than to take up the miseries of the homeless old widowers aa hare Ramee tne i IE i A ERE 4 | aily Magazine, Monday, A Bunch of Admiration By M. de Zayas. o—. ! My "yas | « Heise political sa hedanes whose grown children wil! not permit them to make new matrimonial en- Gagements, Widows are not often interfered with in these matters, but an aged wid- ower who has property frequently tinds that when he begins to talk about | marrying and getting or keeping a home for himself other people near of kin promptly suggest conservators and lunatic asylums. These things ought | not to be. Excepting only infants, there is no human belng more helpless than an| old man. If he has had a good home and a devoted wife most of his life he | 1s doubly wretched when in his declining days he loses both. There are many domestic establishments in which widows and maiden aunts fit !n ad- | mirably, but an old man {s a care and he {s likely also to be in the way, Having the means with which to provide themselves with wives and | homes, and being disposed to maintain their independence and to minister to thelr own comfort to the last, why should our aged widowers be sub- Jected to the bullying of thelr too eager heirs? i MR. HEARST’S EPITHETS. Although Mr, Hearst has twice supported Mr. Bryan for the Presidency, he appears to have done so with certain mental reservations. In his speech in Georgia the other evening he referred to the Democratic candidate as a! trickster, a trimmer, a traitor, a ragpicker of politics, a political shoplifter, | a prestidigitator, a showman, a ventriloquist, a con. .onist, a juggler, a human ostrich, a loose-skin man and a horse trader. A great tropical storm on the Carolina coast interfered to some extent with the working of the) wires, and so it is possible that a few of the Independence Leaguer's choice | epithets got away, | One thing is to be said in favor of Mr. Bryan which will not be seriously disputed. He is usually courteous in his treatment of opponents. It is to ve remembered, however, that on one occasion he called Grover Cleveland a bunco steerer and that at another time he likened Roger Sullivan and other eminent Democratic statesmen of Illinols to train robbers and porch climb- ers, Is it entirely safe for Mr. Hearst to take too many liberties with the language in dealing with such a man? | SNS Sn GUARANTEEING COLOR. alively easy to understand what our Australian brethren arrival of the American battleships, refi meant when, on the to “the white arm stretched across the sea.” Our ships are white and more than 85 per cent. of our people are white. But what are we to infer from the conclusion now expressed by most of the important newspapers of the antipodes that the visit of our fleet “guarantees a white Australia?” Soon the ships will be on their way to the north of champagne at Tokyo, and a disposition to open It, we shall presently be guaranteeing a yellow Japan no doubt. Letters {rom the People, Ur-te-Date Fairy Tales = -.- To Become a Citizen, | T would not exchange places with this tof The F World Mra, Godfrey. She claims babies are be very grateful to you {f you. a nuisance and that they are always could Inform me if coming to the, sick he habies of such United States at e age of fourteer a mot and livin, years entities | pohiPe one to ers: 2, LIONEL DOUGHERTY You must take out first papers and 7?! ee oNs lin the P which takee Marriage in Jersey. place after the Vanderbilt cup race? ‘To the Editor Eventne World (hi4 to be mare] Address J. Demont Thompson, No. 24 go to Jer- West Twenty-seventh street, New York | They Borrow Pins and Tacks. ts ft that plasterers and kale. ave them on Funny isn’t {t? father's. Academy of Music, MLE To the Editor of The Evening aa Pato ot Th ve ne World Whisk hag talareer seailag capacity ee oe a arents ! the Grand Opera-House or the Acader papers, if About 108 Babies Versus Dogs. To the BAltor of The Evening Word an sia ? T have seen a statement by a wealth {AS DIXSON ‘woman regard babies The Buoreta of Vital Statistics. declares she prefers Woman and the mother of Gren, some in heay ang some write with me still and J am a woman that ou fer not one dollar in the world but . ¢ The Evening World se me as to whom I mus @ a marriage a a oe. New York WiGLAAM P, JACOBUS. \ tease A egard rred lately As there fs plenty 3° September When a Man Stops Drink'ng His Trienis Gt Exsited Over It; Virtue’s Reward S. Small It Is Not Worth By Roy L. McCardell, |" a4 OY I've ki Mr, Jarr T gue etty valua Mr. Jar We Who said I wanted any "asked T}LL on : ‘ : « HS the water” i i aid Gu sigon ? au n asked Jenking, the i m sald Mr, angle, quietly ; > He I didn't HAVE to, eithe ula M wart as t I did, and th nan It yos a good asl groaned Mr wird is so smal! {! care to cli While to Claim It imine e's ndgnant n't, and I'm not going worse things “At least 1 the badeered man, ve that Virtue {s {ts own Why!" replied the Sarr, es 1 AINT BIN AOU O' SQUASH Y¥ILL » HAD A MECE IN NEW YORK- Bur - i ip 1 ONCE UPONATIME, A RORAT GENTLEMAN, HAVING ACCUMU- A TO EY NA UNCLE, FO NIECE, WOK CAPED QUITE A WAD, DECID TAKE A LITTLE. TRIP TO THE CITY —— AND INVITED HIM TO ri IES THIS BEATS HM-M I SPENT DBEY/ & (CiER ALL HOLLER NIGH #20- WONDER 4 fl =a hee 7 wHERE My NIECE 1S. \\\ | By C. H. Wellington i Amy UNCLE WELL IF ITAINT HYRAM? \ 7) NPV Ze TOWN" THE FIRST PERSON S,WHO WAS OST Ea DINN - into treaso: exia{ rea | Had to start 8 no wonder so few 14, 1908. DODHDHOOHOPADHOOHHOHDOGOOQOHGHHDADOOOO Fifty Great Love Storics of History By Albert Payson Terhune 85m BENEDICT AKNOLD AND PEGGY SHIPPEN, | B@GY SHIPPDN has been termed by Ianier Dunn “the Cleopatra of P the American Revolutien.” As the wily Egyptian Queen of old lured | & great general, Mark Antony, to throw away the world for love, 60 | Was Benedict Arnold, 8 brave and gifted hero of the Revolution, turned by |love of @ Woman Into a traitor, That Miss Shippen realized the enormity, | of the ¢rime toward which Arneld was being drawn {s not proven. Never .| thelegs, til] be met her few men deserved better of their country than dig The. Soon after he fell undex the girl’s influence he began to plot the tee son that has made his name accursed. People are apt to remember Benedict Arnold only as the traitor who | tried to sell bis country. His crime has blackened the memory of his ear | lier and heroic deeds, If he, in an evil moment, ylelded to temptation to harm the cause of freedym, let {t be also recalled that he had previously done more than almost any man except Washington to win his country’s freedom, and that no other patriot had suffered such gross injustice and persecution at the hands of Congress. This article is not designed to | whitewash” Arnold nor to excuse black treachery, for which there {s no j excuse. But {t may explain how a hero happened suddenly to turn villain, Arnold, from the moment the Revolution began, was in the thick of the fight. While he was away on the Canadian campaign his first wife died. Left with no home ties, he gave himself wholly wees A wiark for to ‘the cause of liberty. Fearless !n battle, brille Injustice. fant in etrategy, he rose fast in the army. H and George Washington were dear friends, This friendship, strangely enough, was one of Arnold's worst misfortunes, for Washingtons secret enemies in Congress and in other high places vented their dislike for the Father of His Cot by slighting and injuring the latter's friead, Arnold would win a victory; snother man would get the credit, Lesser men and inferior officers were pro- moted over bis head. Wholesale injustice was heaped upon him. All this {he hore with a calm bravery that commanded public tespect. He spent his own small fortune on supplies, &c., for the army and ran deep into debt to provide hin troops with necessayles. His greatest service to the colonies was rendered when Burgoyne, with }a large British army, swept down from the north { that | threatened to wveck the patriot cause. Arnold, by repe ‘ened Burgoyne’s army aud at last met and destroyed it at the battle of | Saratoga. At this battle Gen. Gates was supposed to be in command; but | Gates proved incompetent and the fight was going against the Americans. | Arnold, in gpite df bis former record, had received no place of command on the field that day, Nevertheless, he dashed into the thick of the carnage {in a series of desperate charges, The soldiers joved him and followed eagerly whee he led. He won the battle and saved the colonies, for this victory induced France to become Ametica’s ally. Arnold's leg was snat- tered during the last », crippling him for the time and making further paigni le, Even after this act of heroism Congress | active campai gs y | was slow to do hin, tice; but Washington secured for him the military governorship of Philadelphia. | This was a coyplete and pleasant change from the rough life of a sol- ‘ater. Arnold lived jn luxury, was looked up to by all and was a welcome | guest at the best houses: He became friendly with several Tory families, people who disapproved of the revolution ind were loyal to Eugiand. Oue of these Tories was Edward Shippen, whose beautiful daughter Margaret (or “Peggy,” as she was fapiliarly known) was the belle of Philadelphia. Arnold promptly fell in love with Peggy His handsome face, magneto manner and fame as a hero quickiy won the girl's heart. They became en- a stauch Tory. So were ‘her family and her ed. Miss Shipper was fen Ss. Intluences were brought to bear upon Arnold to shake his loyalty }to the ¢ of freedom, The woman he loved did not approve ot the he was an honored guest hated it whose homes The men at w homes He was told bow to oppose to Arnolds faith Monk sold the Commonwealth of England to revolution and had glib arguments Gen, " Charles II, and was thereafter regarded a8 a hero; a neress how the Duke of Marlborough betrayed Englaad tov | Temptat dt Willlam of Orange and was made a peer of the | . realm. Other cases of the sort were cited to show Arnol4 that betrayal of his couytry was not treason, but for the countr: ‘8 ultimate good, since the revolution at that time seemed doomed to fallure. He und Pegey * soon afterward inarried and the wife's Influence over her adoring husvand was almost unbounded, She was heart and soul with the Tories. Even then nies trumped wp absurd t oubtful $f Arnold would have yielded had not his ene- eae sharges of official misconduct against him. These but Congress continued its persecutions and or ‘Arnold a public reprimand, That was the last m, already undermined by Peggy and er tienda e away a gust of f at this crowning injustice, He enter Hi EE abS Gains nee with the British, Ihe rest 1s known: How dof West Point und tried to sell that stronghold to Andre, the go-between, the straw. Arnold's patriot rinnd commant i and’ how through the capt.re of Major ylot wee discovered er ; Arnold fled to the Britis, fou against his | England to live. Peggy lovally joined ain in ne did all in her power to comfort the outcast in his la I Instigated bis treason, he also shared its bit ¢ thie series will be supplied apon .pplica Evening World, upon recelpt of ones e ght against his country and later went to exile and disgrace, and years, If she had r fruit, Missing numbers o| to Cirealation Department, |ceat stamp. origin of the Moving By John R Meader. Picture. yes are of dee moi n In the year 150 B. C, ned that the human eye ect, for some time after ad vanidied froin Its racium. Tor s by practical dem 1a colur line on a section of a piece of glass, or glazed s th he was able to show that, by revolving the glare with great rapidity, e it appear that the comparatively short color line extended com- sthauion, after whi he could etely around It : Cee [pretty ie the importance of this discovery Is now recognized, tt was the middle of the clgntecnth century Lefore further Investizations ware made slong these Hines, and practically the end of the ninetecnth ¢ was reacied bafore the 5 orought any very tangible results, Meader tf the its prought any very Meader a1 the nemian Magazine. It Is true that, duiing the period, sev der * were devised to provide parior tests of Lc ssion upon the eye, but It was not until 1877 th ebrated phota 1 actually taking a moving picture. This was a in whic nw of a running horse were consecutively shown no camera that could be this purpose, Muybridge fs side oy wide at the edge of a racing track, parallel Each camera was provided with a rapid enap-shot these belng kept oper by means of a thin silk thread which crossed the track and wi ‘astened to. the opposite ae when the horse cane down the “stret oke the threads successively, en ts he snapped the shutters In gapid succession the effect was that of @ con tinuous picture. Revolutionary as this experiment was from a sc practicable cosults were anything but satisfactory, plate had not then been invented, the photographs lacked tha {x so yecessary to successful en dry plate appeared, much of this difMculty ceased to be the dream of theorists. secret titty ; Little Items of Big Interest On March Ml the Japanese post office! mony is tha burning of the discarded avings bank had $44,400,00 on deposit, toys of the bride. | in Increass of $722,000 In one year. | eee Cuban street car Mnes are now using Consul-General Miller, of Yokohama, sight-seeing cars, | ports that 49 Japanese banks with a é otal capital of $18,000,000 suspended last, The output of sugar from Java in rear, 1907 was Heo oer ation of objective seri2s of As placed twenty-four ¢ainera with a wall facing the sun. slivtier, operated by electricity, fentifie point of v As the highly seni sharp @ that Jargement, or reproduction, but when, in I8@ ghe was obviated and motion vhotograyhy oe | m4 Of an annual output of manufactures The treasures of the Louvre are "9* alued at $16,000,000,000 we export only | guarded by watohdogs. 01 ve per cent MAE Some bate found in India measure six cee ‘The awan Is the longest lived of birds, | feet across thelr outspread wings. eee oe In Ashantee is a tree which furnishes; Ratlroad transportation tn the United sitar. States was substantially 16 years ald 1 A ee in 1901, The Havana Y. M. C. A. has over! eee e 1,000 members. A “Burial Association” tn Parle has eee | automobiles arranged for the trapaper- | Part eof the Japanese wedding care tation of coffing,