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eve ERA aatono. @ubrmea Dally Kxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to 6 Park Row, New York 1 JOBKPM PULITERN, Pres, # Rast 104 Biro J ANGUS SITAW, Ree. Trena., $01 Weet 115th Strand, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second Wabeoription Rates to The forld for the United Sto jase Mall Ma One ¥ One Month One Yenr. ‘One Month VOLUME 49 ; PRESIDENT OR PROXY? 5 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 he 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- o. 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 i 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? } —————EEE————— 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 ‘ ‘value to all litigants, particularly to the poor, and it would instantly i Yesult in an important improvement in the character of jurors. The people have this reform in their own hands and can bring it about i *whenever they address themselves to the subject. i ———_—_ i JAPAN’S TEN THOUSANDS. = Americans do not need to be told of the industry, thoroughnes he and skill of the Japanese, 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 wai ‘provide a bountiful hospitality. ships, to decorate the town and to gether different It is something alt can national hymn and to instil] into them the spirit to make the per- | formance not only highly impressive but wonderfully accurate and | While the Japanese are held by those who are unfriendly to them és lacking in candor, and while our jingoes will abate none of their suspicions, it must be said in simple truth that one nation never gave another a more remarkable compliment than this. People who con- template war do not train their children in the songs and in the lan- guage of their enemi = nr a Al —_—_—_— +> —____—_—__ ANARCHY UNDER A DIADEM. Some New Yorkers are exercised over the coming of Princess Kuropotkin, who, like her husband, i are laws against the admission of anarchists to this country, but he would be a rash official who would apply them to a real princess. ‘When the Prince was in America a few years ago, he was royally en tertained by some of our first families, the members of which were much more interested in him as a man of rank thi a philosophical anarchist. There the Were in his ideas on the subject of revolution. No doubt the Princess wil receive a similar welcome. Anarchy that comes to us under a diadem § is not taken seriously, although it is probable that it should be. A STRAIGHT DEMOCRACY. | Thomas M. Osborne, of Auburn, sets down a great truth wher i ‘says that Public Service Commissi are Democratic, They have been found necessary instruments of the popular wil franchise-holding corporations. ‘They are as indispensable in conner tion with public grants as courts are in connection with the If the people do not rule and regulate the create, the corporations in th sphere will rule them ocrats will not hesitate long: in making a choice between propositions. PARADES AT CHURCH, j The Massachusetts clergyman who turned several reporters church because the fashionab! scriptions of their “parades” a accomplished the same end more omething to tone down the parades. Jt but it is a fact that there is no p @uty than a church in which the or some kind. of his congreg yearing in the ght not to be so, perhaps \ juented by reporters on genuine religion of Letters From the Peonle 1895—1 S07. f steht 4 Be the Haitur of The Pvening Wort {nor since. We i When did Mayor Strong's administr | thom bewin and end? ne " We Star Explained, We the Etivor of The ‘A star we vow in th fpecentiy, at 800 AM, wae a big hit ter, jun mp. a above tie 5 and brighter est of o ) and eoul’ faye kone afer tho “What Prospe ea readers let me know # mun of ° # or ov 4 in- 7 sont 4 eres +1 think er mar went out NEAR WEBSTERNER. Aw | COME ON WITH THE COIN ~ BRYAN {S GETTING TAFT'S GOAT The Evening Worid Daily Magazine, Wednesday, October 21 > REP. HEADQUAAITC By Roy L. McCardel!, ELL, 1 see 46 / ts a ald but He ‘‘Hangs Up’’ Mr. jarr and Gayly Lends Him $2 Besides os 2 fora t the ere fellers have a good tim feller wi ess that will hold those peo- ) were getting up ciamenrodia don't know, wa flat I wot my fello 2 Ame} 1 them gin to live till you de You talk like a p position party nds to } are £ ome what can't ne anywhe can't ha | Jarr, re jis saying tol 1 right, m ou mit the ure not," said Gus. ns t t to live sald Gu Ach Even So th ow said Gus, place el; to make out the hen they slap 1m ut the Jolly ( g me up or burrow 1 thing, then?” ef anything,” sald Gus, 7 but I got the he's s more.” th any times to do ft a if I didn't bh t believe In any man fellows.’ has high ide: used to do it, but I believe every man is a thief The Dark Scene. By Maurice Ketten | WON'T TELL Tite AFTER ELECTION, THEN-MAY BE ‘to drill 10,000 school children in the singing in English of the Ameri- Gus, the Saloon Man, Doesn’t Trust Human Nature Very Much, nd a Well, maybe so," said Mr. Jarr, “but it's an un- can't | pleasant frame of mind to be fn, to think all men have sinister designs be » in your surmise in many instances.” 1| “There you've got the best of it," said Gus. “You bellef they 1s no good and you find out for sure they ‘t no good, then you see you was right and you ain't lost anything vy them and you ain't got nc disappointments." od ysely. “It's the only way to get along. Don't belief| “So you belleve in no one and you trust no one? nything, and the are all right.” | said Mr. Jarr “And you don’t believe anybody at all?" asked Mr.| “1 have to trust some of them, but I aon't like to do said Gus. “A customer never quits you wher are with you, but when he's bung you up time Le quits coming into your place,” t speaking of trust in the sense of credit . Jarr, “but pert if some of the people we you would come in and pay you your beltet © goodness of human nature would be restored.’ would,” sa Gus, * nt that just what aying to u? But. atn't going to throw my geod feelings for nothing till they do pay ve faith in I was You don't be- {bing the op t, pres sand at le What would you think of me if I were to ask you to hang me up till Saturday and also lend me two rs till that time?” inquired Mr. Jarr. Ww Ww By Rea Irvin se you find thar you are correct | | PDOOOCCOOOO! JOO OC OOOOGGDU0G0 Fifty American “3 ani: Soldiers of Fortune By Albert Payson Terhune A MERICA owes its discovery and most of its explorations, conquests and development to a series of hardy adventurers—Soldiers of Fore 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 ia 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 pleld of action t.a8 the whole Western Hemisphere; their adventures laid the foundation for the Hemtaphere's progress; thetr life stories are romances of action, danger, sublime achievement. No, 1—CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. Italian 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. Everywhere he was laughed at as a crank or stormed at as a heretic. | The man was Christopher Columbus. His Idea was that the earth was |Tound—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 jhoped to find in India. She was what would nowadays be called a “plung 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 boundless wealth ° At a cost of $60,000, which Isabella secured for him, Co- lumbus equipped two little ships. A rich Spaniard, Don Pinzon, supplied him with a third. Few reputable sailors cared to start on such a visionary trip, and under the direction of a man who was thought crazy. So Columbus co'lected a! crew men {n all—from the felons, the disreputable out- casts and the rift-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. 8 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. | Pare A “Fanatic's” Wild Cruise. Qut into the Unknown sailed the three awkward, weak ttle caravels, with eir crews of beggars and criminals and their "crazy" commander—salled on @ goose chase Je by an {gnorant woman's gambling instincts. For six weeks the carav slow way westward over an unknown sea. | Hope sank low, as morning's sun failed to show land across the miles of | dreary water. Muti reatened. Fatlure seemed to rise like a wall to block |the way. Then—out of the sea rose a Wonde The Bahama Islands, out- posts of the mainland beyond, red. The tired, excited adventurers rushed ashore, This Jeved, was a remote coast of India, | He had heard rumors were bristling with gold and jewels. He thought this hoar ow within his very grasp. The copper colored natives who ca welcome the strangers looked somes t like the people of ad. So he called them “Indiana, possi of treasure lay the ni “stuck mortal to the First Discoverer's ; | foolish mistake. (As a ere is no better o> other reason than | that for calling America’s ans.” nt as sensibly be termed | “Turks" or “Habylonians.”* { Homeward sailed Columbus with news of his discovery. All Spain went wil with Joy, Columbus, the vi the Hour. Not because + ered a new world; but because he had apparently op the ghed at, was now the Man ef } ; not because he ha@ © ned a shorter way te . irned to America, die ? no one then had the > brains to | But he f d to find there the go: counted weaith reach the pai he caves of Jewels, the un- Nor did he show how to trade already existed. So n. Columbus's star was waning. Isabella, who had been bis friend, was dead. The King of Spain listened to maliefous Hes told by the discov- erer Columbus was arrested, during one r vas cismissed, as useless, from ‘obbe’ of rank and honors, the the bitterness of his heart ten have no money to pay for my susten- In Disgrace | | $ and Poverty. | voyage, and sent to | the King’s service | man wi o discc 3 sus died In poverty and obscurity, er struggle against fate. He had sought India. America. He had sought iabulous gold an@ 1 the way for the world's greatest nation, He er failure. 1508. at fe had been a long. he had discove! he liad bla had scored an Sayings of Mrs. Solomon. (Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wife.) Translated by » ) @) @) @ @) @ @) @ Helen Rowiand, g TOLD, my Daughter, how oft a June wedding ts fol- lowed by a January divorce, even as a champagne supper by a next snorning headache For June and Jove are as a cocktail, but January and matrimony are as ice water, which cooleth the head and atime of the emotions. are not,” said Mr. Jarr. I would think just what [ think,” sald Gus, “that Feduceth the te ‘ I knew you was going to ask me something like that And many a man proposeth to a gir! on a moonlight Us the good part. When you when you was saying how grand it was to trust hight from whom he would flee in horror on a rainy in't no good and you find out) everybody, but just the same," added Gus, es he! morning. some is »piness and | fished two dollars out of the cash register and hana-| But a confirmed bachelor watcheth his fclends being hat better than to belief a man is a|ed it tu Mr. Jarr, “If I wuin’t think you was all right led to the a'tar with giec in his heart, even as the immune One feller and find « 6a skin?” | { wouldn't be @ slob co give it to you. goeth among the stricken, Ie biddeth them “brace up” tn the tones of an ui tetl as best man with the ; a of a tuners sneth the ceriffieate ay one Minas Re ri m “A And all the while he | ehuckleth at his escape Yet when he raileth at mat ny, look t about warily and discover what girl hath him on the string, Wor irmed bachelor treateth the subject lightly, and only when his death-knell hath sounded and he knoweth that he is caught doth he become bitter. Verily his revitings are ax the deathe wail of the wolf, the last protest of the stricken hawk Yet pity him not, for he will sink as comfortably into harness as a cat Into a feather bed, Yea, the man who hath rung the changes on love before mar. riage i@ least likely to pine for a change afterward, He will take to # pipe as fa babe to @ bottle and grow bald comfortably with his wife's picture 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 1s easy! Selah _— 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 Tub! We are not dumb! Incidentally we make NOISE to sell, NOT to give jaway. 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,