The evening world. Newspaper, October 21, 1908, Page 14

NeSa ee enfant | | | } The + Pubtehed Datty Mxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 83 to 68 Park Row, New York 1 JOKPH PULITTER, Pree, + Bast 184 Aros Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Sec Bubecription Rates to The Evening | For Eneland and All Countries J ANGUS SITAW, Bee. Troms, $01 Weat 117th Btreet -Class Mall Matter, forld for the United Stat and C ‘anada, ; One Year One Month... ¢ Year, Shs wont VOLUME 49.. [rnliasaliatenaanntannee ene = PRESIDENT OR PROXY? ™ Of the many questions asked during this campaign which have received no answers perhaps the most important is that propounded by The World to Mr. Taft—Are you to be a President or a Proxy? When the candidate reached Washington the other day he was advised to keep away from the White House, just as, earlier in the campaign, he was urged to keep away from Oyster Bay, but could not be restrained. “Am ¢ not running for the Presidency on the Roosevelt policies?” he asked. “Is not this well understood by this time? Mr. Roosevelt has been my friend. He was my friend before my nomina- tion and after it, and I shall spend the day with him if he wants to . have me.” In the course of another conversation he likened Mr. Roosevelt to a brother. Asked what had passed between him and the President, he replied: “What would two brothers who had not met in a long time naturally talk about?” William H. Taft is big enough mentally and physically, politi- cally and socially, to have a policy of his own, and if elected to have an administration of his own. His obligations at present are to the Republican party. If he becomes President his obligations will be to the people. Is he quite sure that friendship or sentiment or even gratitude will justify him in remaining a Proxy to the end? ns HARDSHIPS OF’ JURORS. One long step toward an improved administration of justice would Be accomplished if service as jurors were made less abhorrent than it now is. Under the existing system the juror is the butt of bench and bar. Nobody cares for him. Instead of making his work as easy as possible it is made hard and thankless. He is persecuted in his business, in his home and in his personal comfort. When no other indignity can be put upon him he is locked up at night and trailed around ‘in the day time like a member of a chain gang. These almost interminable trials and these onerous rules furnish both amuse- .ment and profit to the lawyers, but they are death and destruction to the jurors. “A more expeditious administration of justice would prove of great “Walue to all litigants, particularly to the poor, and it would instantly Yesult in an important improvement in the character of jurors. The people have this reform in their own hands and can bring it about whenever they address themselves to the subject. $n —______ JAPAN'S TEN THOUSANDS. = ‘Americans do not need to be told of the industry, thoroughness | and skill of the Japancse, but they cannot fail to be staggered by one incident of Tokio’s reception to Admiral Sperry and his fleet. It is one thing to parade troops and warships, to decorate the town and to he Evening Wor id eae — AwI COME ON WITH THE COIN ~ BRYAN (tS GETTING TAFT'S GOAT Daily Magazine, Wednesday, October 21, 1908; The Dark Scene. By Maurice Ketten LZ SWO DTZ NN | WON'T REEC Mee AFTER ELECTION, THEN ~MAY BE ‘provide a bountiful hospitality. It is something altogether different ‘to drill 10,000 school children in the singing in English of the Ameri- can national hymn and to instil] into them the spirit to make the per- | formance not only highly impressive but wonderfully accurate and Gus, the Saloon Man, Doesn’t Trust Human Nature Very Much, . Lends Him $2 Besides DOOCOOOOOUDO0UUK DOGO WOIODOAOOANANOOOGION Fifty American Soldiers of Fortune 3 By Albert Payson Terhune MERICA owes ity discovery and most of its explorations, conqueste A and development to a series of hardy adventurers—Soldiers of For- tune. These men were pathfinders; not always patriots nor moved by lofty impulses. With sword and brain they wrested deathless fame from a new world and blazed the way for less hardy souls. Their story is the story of our country. To their heroism and to the perils they encoun- tered we owe our greatness among the nations., Not all America’s Soldiers of Fortune were Americans; nor did they all confine their exploits to the United States. Their fleld of action t.as the whole Western Hemisphere; their adventures laid the foundation for the Hemisaphere's progress; their life stories are romances of action, danger, sublime achievement. No. 1—CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. 'N Itallan mariner, late in the fifteenth century, had an Idea, which he A peddled from court to court through urope, seeking in vain for a buyer. a heretic. The man was Christopher Columbus. His Idea was that the earth was round—not flat, like a pancake, as every one else believed—and that he could therefore reach the east by sailing west. In other words, that if he sailed far enough westward he would reach India. Columbus tried in vain | to interest monarchs and capitalists in the scheme, to the extent of per- | Suading them to fit out an expedition for him on speculation, At last he | brought his Idea to Isabella, Queen of Castile. The plan which wise men | had laughed at appealed to her feminine imagination. As often before and | since, a foolish woman's intuition was better than a wise man's logic. Isa- | bella's fancy was dazzled at prospect of the boundless wealth Columbus ,hoped to find in India. She was what would nowadays be called a | “plunger.” There ts no proof that she was moved by pity for Columbus or by love of progress, She merely invested in a wildly risky scheme that might or might not result in Doundless wealth ® At a cost of $60,000, which Isabella secured for him, Co- lumbus equipped two Httle ships. A rich Spaniard, Don Pinzon, supplied him with a third. Few reputable sailors cared to start on such a visionary trip, and the direction of a man who was thought crazy. So Columbus co'lected a! crew—120 men tn all—from the felons, the disreputable out- casts and the riff-raff of the Spanish ports. On Aug. 3, 1492, he set sail. An un- lucky enterprise, {t was called. And, to the superstitious, the fact that Aug. 3 fell on Friday added to the risk. Superstitious people of to-day may be Interested to know that Columbus not only sailed on Friday, but that Oc. 12, 1492 (the day | America was discovered) was also Friday Everywhere he was laughed at as a crank or stormed at as Parr 2 A “Fanatic’s” Wild Cruise. | Qut into the Unknown sailed the three awkward, weak Ittle caravels, with heir crews of beggars and criminals and their “crazy” commander—salled on @ Wild goose chase made possible by an {gnorant woman's gambitng instincts. For six weeks the caravels beat their slow way westward over an unknown sea. | Hope sank low, sun falled how land across the miles of Fatlure seemed to rise ke a wall to block of the sea rose a Wonderland. The Bahama Islands, out- posts of the mainland beyond, were discovered, The tired, excited adventurers rushed as| was a remote coast of India, S$ were bristling with gold and jewels, ow withtn his very grasp. The copper- © welcome the strangers looked some- dread. So he called them “Indiana, colored no t lke the people of Ind! and the 1 of w me “stuck” as nortal to the First Discoverer’s ; | foolish mistake. (As a matter of fs no better o> other reason than. | that for calling America’s savages “Indians.” [hey might as sensibly be termed 5 Turks" or “Kabyloi Homeward sailed ( with news of his discovery. All Spain went wila with Joy. Columbus, the visionary they had laughed at, was now the Man of 9 the Hour, Not because he had p: the ea be round; not because he he@ ° discovered a new world; but t 1 apparently opened a shorter way to the fabled treasures of India nd again he returned to America, diee ? covering more and move sof ¢ future no one then had the © old mo: ad “Ind to find there the counted weait the py ns, the caves of Jewels, the un- ed for. Nor did he show how to wh already existed. So reac s of In Disgrace the joy died down. bus's star = | $ and Poverty. waning. , Who had been his friend, was dead. The 12 sk by the discov- 1 to malietous Hes told ibuS Was arreste; during one as useless, from ‘age, and sent to s dismissed but tie ‘‘Hangs Up’’ Mr. jarr and Gayly A | fincere, ee have a x and Well, maybe so,” said Mr. Jarr, “but it's an un- | ybbed of rank and honors, the King’s service \ a és : hited est 5 F : ; Alp av fant frame of mind to be in, to think all men have | van wi disec ein the bitterness of his heart \ While the Japanese are held by those who are unfriendly to them By Roy L. McCardel!, he : # because you find tnat you are correct | *!y, nd often have no money to pay for my susten- 2 | as lacking in candor, and while our jingoes will abate none of their ELL, 1 see our fteet | NE ny Instances ance tl aa it Renta galctnnleitentniths 3 i? 46 Farr ry Fa A t the Jolly Good vere you've got the best of it,” said Gus. You) | ya. wy J in poverty and obscurity, } suspicions, it mus! said in simple truth that one nation never gave pein ee ans ania lig me up or burrow money is no good and you find out for sure they | i, iio) aticatentouvaatacuentiinal another a more remarkable compliment than this. People who con- ess that will hold those peo. | {TOM me this tir rome time.”* t ne 500d, ign pauline 0 right and you fea. He had sought iabulous gold an@ f + eae aa anes eleverecies | “You do not nything, ain't lost anything sy them and you ain't got no), ad blazed the way for the world’s greatest nation. He template war do not train their children in the songs and in the lan- saa ecayy a up thy Tibet youd Paani disappointments. a tter failure ‘ guage of their enemies. Sa aan _|rosely. “It's t way to get alo Ro one and you trust no one?‘ eras ba | + is Deonlt EIR: sald) vnything, and then you are all right.” jasia Mr, Jarr a © ANARCHY UNDER A DIA: Ne B Aer gf Dear io) “And you dc eieve anybody at all?” asked Mr.| “1 have to trust some of them, but I aon't itke to | z ni yet. you them 2 n 7 . F ao 1 1 Gus. “A customer never quits you wher f M S ] DEM. ssi loo mgt an, Et uied to) ga 1 aot coo | Sete ON, a cman neres anlierenen | (CaN ings) 0: rs. Solomon. Some New Yorkers are exercised over the coming of Princess Ss emselfs right, Mr, Japan- imes to do {t any more. then's the time Le quits coming into your place.” | SH 7 = S } ; if K Tate Rusher dc inis aiiloeenkical a z ih 4 fs] t the same we'd like nt to ive ff I didn't have faith in “I wasn't speaking of trust in the sense of credit, (Eeing the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wile.) uropotkin, who, like her husband, is a philosophical anarchist. There WO he iik ig Kuns said Mr. Jarr, sentiment sald Mr. Jarr, “but p s If some of the people | 9 Translated by are laws against the admission of anarchists to this country, but he yingsto sald Gu You don't be» who owe you would come in and pay you your beltef Helen Rowiand, Fuial wel , ¢ can fel- gin to lve till ye in the goodness of human nature would be restored.’ a 2 would be a rash official who would apply them to a real princess. | ters! We could show e we did them Russians. | toy talk lke a | prator describing the o “Sure it would,” sald Gus, “ain't that just what OOO CO OOOO OOS POCOIOOE ‘When the Prince was in America a few years ago he was royally er Pa Ran ee yingisaeetison Jair; “ut he, at least, pre- I've been saying to you? But s ain't going to throw SHOLD, my Daughter, how oft a June wedding ts fole r te ‘ ‘ ats Gus ven't you a kindly idea for y has high ideals and away 1 d feelings for nothing till they do pay owed by uary divorce, evel champagne 'tertained by some of our first families, the members of which were) anything or ans ? Mr. Jarry ou sure Aecriag rear | owe p) STERN ATY A NeT eR aha ae © SHEDR much more interested in him as a man of rank than they were “\ fe ah nes ged to. Aah eae fae would a plnbeb nee were He ke yeu For Jyne and love are as a cocktail, but January and peace 3 é \ 5 yelieve every man is a thie! ang me up irday and algo lend me two in his ideas on the subject of revolution. No doubt the Princess y man with that Ky dollars till that time?” inquired Mr. Jar. mn nme re aa don center te conlett the head and i imi . 4 ‘ hat come: i Gus. “But it ain't my f are not,” said Mr. Jarr,| “I would think just what I think,” sald Gus, “that peduceih {he tempera lie Shs fA8 SHIgh at receive a similar welcome. Anarchy that comes to us under a diade ies ie n I knew you was going to ask me something like that And many a man proposeth to a girl on a moonlight ds not taken seriously, although it is probable that it should be. | store c Y “2 t's the good part. When you. when you was saying how grand ft was to trust night from whom he would flee in horror on a rainy + oN y eve 1 arr, “Why, n't no good and you find out rybody, but just the same,” added Gus, as he} morning © of good then you have a happiness and dollars out of the cash register and hand- | But a confirmed bachelor watcheth ht 5 being STRAIGHT DEMOCRACY than to belief a man is aed it tu Mr. Jarr, “If I wun't think you was all right | led to the a tar with giec in his heart, immune i . sa skin?" | L wouldn't be @ slob .o give it to you.” goeth among the stricken. He biddeth them “brace up" tn Thomas M. Osborne, of Auburn, sets down a great truth when age sein a the tones of an undertaker; he acteth ax best man with the } 3 7 0 ™ . wale air of a funeral director, he signeth the cerilficate ag one | ays that Public Service Commissions are Democratic, They hav Ww wWw We By Rea Irvin | Fe TT A eee OL Ania chine j ‘been found necessary instruments of the p pular y in t —~ a | ehuckleth at his escape. : : im ; fen he raiieth at matrimony, look thou about warily and dtscover franchise-holding corporations. ‘They are in ¢ jets aR REINER) my OE confirmed bachelor treateth tion with public grants as cour in | the subject iightiy, and only when bis deat hath sounded and he knowatn If the people do not rule and regulate that he ie caus no: akome Dinter, VatiLy Ria FAVRE SREP BA HD ARAN P iS wall of the wolf, the last protest of the stricken hawk create, the corporations in their sp! cerats will not b propositions, sitate long in making a cl ++ PARADES AT CHURCH. The Massachusetts clergyman who turr church because the fashionables of his scriptions of their “parades” ay accomplished the same end more effect if h gomething to tone down the parades. Jy but it is @ fact that there is \ @uty than a church in which the only exhibit i some kind. to de ht have said or glit not to be 8o, perhaps, nted by reporters on genuine religion of Letters From the Peonle. : 1895—1807, We he HAttor of The Pvevine Works | nor since When aid Mayor Strong's adr ion begin and end? A Wants Star Expla We Me Etitor of The Evening A star we saw in thu feoenthy, 41 8.90.4. M., wae a big bright » Just end brighter the teat of nd could be even w faye knw afier tho © er star went out Yot pity him not, for he will sink as comfortably Into harness as a cat Inte a feather be Yea, the man who hath rung the change on love before mare Hage is least likely to pine for a change afterward. He will take to @ pipe ag | tabe to a bottle and grow bald comfortably with his wife's pleture on his desk. He will eat out of her hand and come when she whistles, and He low when she frowns and stand on his hind legs and beg. For a man that hath fought hard against matrimony and ‘ost, hath no more fight left in him Verily he 18 easy! Selah e The “Fudge’’ Idiotorial, The NOISE we made in our last Sunday's Issue RAN OUT, In other words, and as usual, we promised MORE than we could FULFIL. What happened last Sunday wil! HAPPEN NEXT | Sunday. It always does, You would THINK, perhaps, after all our EXPERIENCE, we could PROMISE and PERFORM In ONE ACT, but we cannot. We can only TALK BIG and then SING SMALL! | A Whale cannot LIVE In a TUB, but a Tadpole can, The | Tadpole is a pitiful little object that hopes in Time to became a frog. A FROG can make a BIG NOISE, while the Tadpole ts dumb, We are not a Tadpole! We do not LIVE in a Tubl We are not dumb! Incidentally we make NOISE to sell, NOT to give ‘away. We only SAY we will give it away. ' Keep to your Tubs, LITTLE TADPOLES! The Tadpole in Our Tub. Copyrot, 1908, The Planet Pub. Co,