The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1909, Page 14

wore Si apap ae EE eaperigemeenonerencnmncnanrnanentenaan tryna ete The Evening Park Row, New York. JOSEPH PULITZER, Pres., 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SITAW, 842. - — — seen Entered at the Post-Offlce at New York Treas., 63 Park Row, Recond-Claas Mail Matter, Bubsoription Rates to The Evening ) For ‘ontinent and Werld for the United States All ntries in the International id Canada, Postal Union, One Year. One Month, $3.60 eo) vusenNO, 17,814, OUT OF EVERYBODY'S POCKET. ORTY-EIGHT men were at work removing the snow from the City! Hall plaza yesterday morning, 4 job which a team, a scraper and two men could have done more Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos 63 to a a quickly and more thoroughly. | This one little job cost the city | treasury about twelve times as much as it could have been done for. It is an illustration of how, this city pays 60 much to do s0 little well. To say that these men were “at work” is a grossly flattering de- what they were doing. At one time eleven of the forty-! eight were really scraping or shovelling snow. During a quarter of an hour's observation the lowest number doing any physical exertion ut one time wae seven, and the highest was not a dozen. Three or four men worked along steadily either because they were new hands in the efty’s employ and unaccustomed to municipal loafing methods or be- cause it was cold and steady exercise tended to keep them warm, | The other men:acted as if they were subject to heart disease and had been advised by their doctors that any violent or continued ex- ; ertion might prove fatal. ) If the City Hall plaza were part of the Pennsylvania Railroad station property, belonged to a factory or was in the hands of any) private owner whose business the snowfall interfered with, the work) would have been done before the crowds began to pass. | As it was a city job, done by city employees, the less work done the bigger the payroll and the more emergency aprronriation to be asked. If the Pennsylvania Railroad was handling the Catskill water job would its engineers have a bill of $4,000 a month horse and automobile hire? Would it employ ninety $50 a day commissioners to acquire real estate? Would it pay for 800 feet of borings when the drill did not go down 300 feet? Would it put several meters in one public building? The tax rate jumps this year. Next year it will jump again. Year after year the taxes will rise higher and higher. ‘hat means that rents will be higher; that the grocer will have to charge smore for food, that the butcher must raise the price of meat; that fewer buildings will be erected and that the purchasing power of the wages of everybody not on the city’s pay roll will be correspondingly diminished, How many object lessons like ‘that in City Hall Park yesterday will be required before the mass of the people of New York realize hat every dollar which bad gov- ernment costs eomes out of their poe ts? ' 18), Letters From the People s ‘her little sto Just before he was going out after sup- | per, ‘Good-by, darling; I'm go!ng bowl- Zz World eee Daily: What Next! By Maurice Ketten. JUMPING TEST SS @ A Bone, a Bald Spot, a Hank of Vanity which may be read please. third venture successtul, to her be all the glory. It her A hurd; mad save fall wom: that of bedridden an woman, from whose bridegroom of twenty just re deserted her, ta 4 she had inherl nd. The fact its of humor entered | n only made her condit The Maine's Explosion, able to supply the demands, I wag! 1% till 9 o'clock.’ And Mo the Editor of The Evening World |then asked to give reference for the | boner: What destroyed the United States | past year—190 bu I tnformed vateamer Maine and who did !t? ent at that & ALFRED WESTELL, Public School No, 32 The Maine was destroyed by a mina fm Havana Harbor. A board of tnquiry Tb failed to fix the blame upon Spain or to & Jearn definitely who was responsible for the tragedy. Height of Brooklyn Bridge, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World “4 What {s the height of the Brooklyn Ployed ar Fridge towers? T.L. 4 lawyer, as The extreme helght of the bric towers above high water Hne is feet for my father. aud acted as = with @ crook. but gave me ory Legal Ald Soctety, To the FAitor © engage to apply f 8. 8. Honesty on “1. legal advice 8 Praim To the © I vated has a very Alfred Aastin, To the Edtttor of The Evening World 2 Who {s the present Post Laureate of hone England? A. GROSS, Corona, N.Y. | Bes A very }lost articles, One recen Marriage Queries, in the “L” weat | To the Editor of ‘The Evening Wortd: 1 Is tt compulsory for a non-rest to obtain a license to be married tn the City of New York? % What Js the proper finger on which @ yy should wear an engagement it custe ene tent , DRE containing s . very valuable the next recetved an ng. The 8 young 2. The third finger of the,’ ra To Gain Weight ble With References. I ga n some good & na Lt Gotid fs ee Then I had Weaht end strength dent of &| 1,276 Fee He demanded | To the Eattor at The By find no work for ® year fan interview with a supert a (GOIN’ To — EAT EAH ME, NO!’ A Fo.oInG) BED- 7 (CAWN WES twenty younger than her- that certain Over and over again “And Jullut It GOING Wa ss Is the Husband Tabbed as No. 3 ees ee NY woman who take: A band deserves him. sh third hue- a sentiment any way you If her be fall, upon head be the reaponelbility, Pleasing third and may be je from al- most any matertal only that plt- of the elderly an—the man years most pitiful spectacle I have ever deheld was old German with him rom her first ele- o the situa: more pitla- @ told me sald to me 1 sald, ‘Tes, Be sure you are back at 9 ERTAINLY NOT! | maw! I JES RAN IN 70 FEED DOWN HERE FER, THE SQUIRKELS) ME HEALTH- VAT THE A OVAR Ut ] J 1S THAT @ — (eae aa ae Uji ¢ TAX-ABY) SPEEDING TEST Nea naman eclock to rub me for my rheumatism.’ | “Old fool!” says the common-sense Jullue was always eo kind. Fle would |commentator, ‘That did she expect?” rub the liniment on my poer old beck |But she has been expecting her Julius for me.” ever since, and the fact of her foolish- \¢ Y friend Miss Jones, whose Mothers’ Column” forms so popular a feature in that widely read magazine, Home, Hearth and Henyard, sald |] to me yesterday: "My dearest Vittoria, why do you not write & | tathers'“Bage for the periodical which you represent? Now that the | suffragettes parades eo hamper Mother in ker domestic duties, Father mist be prepared to assume many of those household cares which pertained formerly to her own province.” Above all else Father should remember that Baby js not @ machine, but @ dald, vocalized, nocturnal, rubicund, omnivorous mammal indigenous to flats, but found elsewhe-o in considerable quantities, | A Binghamton Father writes: “I have a sweet little toddler who cries himself red tn the face whenever we endeavor to correct him. I am afrald that he will | ork himsel? into a fit. What shall I dot” Paint Baby's face with stripes of delicate green, This will relieve the glare, which Is often Infurtous to Father's eyes. If signs of a fit appear, rip Baby up the back lightly with @ pair of aclssors. “Tam very much worrled about Wille,” writes Father of Four. ‘1 a that one of his legs is growing faster than the other. What shall I do?" Take Willie to some place where horses are exercised in tests of competitive speed and they will both be lengthened equally. And in this connection It te of great importance to remember to train Baby in the way he should go as soon as he begins to creep,—Harper’s Weekly, ‘ h J How to Take Care of Baby. By Victoria Regina. i) Do You 00 THAT FoR A wae! lve Gor — APPENDICITIS. eh ) Says Nixola Greele Magazine, Friday, January 15, 1909. y-Smith ness doesn’t make her the less un- happy. youth, there {s nothing In the line foreign fortune hunter. j without interfering with his mate. Bo few youthful t!lustons remain her ragged dreams upon husband js chosen for his looks, ing qualities. shall say her nay? ture, the third time, [Have You Met JOHNNY QUIZ? w w& ByF.G.Long PARMAR RRA Barring the adoption of a mercenary third husbands to avold excepting the Almost any man, by the time he has Teaohed the status of thin husband- hood, 1s sufficiently chastened and un-| seltish-souled to trot in doible harness & woman when she marries the third jtime that sho ja glad of any bone and bald spot and hank of vanity to drape The first the second, as we have seen, for his wear- The third doesn't have to last so long, and, therefore, If the widow in search of « third mate wants to Indulge a lingering fancy far saucor: eyes and little curly mustaches, and has the money to pay for them, who On thing, however, she must bear In @ must not look anywhere for sympathy. She Is not entitled to any. | “gympathy” is her prerogative as a is as one that gorth to a pink twa for dissipation, widow or freshly blighted divorcee, but| an appalling sameness, even as the green hats on Bruadway or the love. bane forfeits all right to it when she | goes down in the soa of matrimony for POHDOODIDOHOHOHDOIOGHTOTOHS. © Fifty American 3 Soldiers of Fortune} By Albert Payson Terhune NO, 38—COL, JAMES BOWIE, T™ men stood facing each other with levelled pistols on a Misslespp! p Geos: River sandbar, near Natchea, one early morning in August, 1837, The duellists were Samuel Wells and Dr, Maddox, a couple of local celebrities who had quarrelled and who had chosen single combat as a Iasi resort. The quarrel had not been confined to the two duellista alone, It had spread throughout the whole community, The hot-tempered ploneers had taken sides with one disputant or the other until each had a throng of partisans, A number of these friends and supporters had come to the sandbar to witness the duel, Barely out of pistol range they atood, a group of them behind each of tho fighters. Maddox and Wells awalted the word to fire. When {t came both pistols spoke. Yet when the smoke cleared each man was till standing. Nelther had recetyed the slightest hurt. Their seconds conferred {n whispers. Then, | Spurred on by the angry growls of the spectators, they agreed that tws | more shots should be fired. | Again, at the word of command, the combatants pulled trigger, Again nelthet j Was hit. It was decided that honor was satisfied and @ reconctllation wat attempted. But this by no means suited the warlike backwoodsmen and ptoneers who had gathered to watoh | the duel. ‘They broke into the discussion. One furtout \t word led to another, Knives and plstols were drawn, In | frome an Instant both factions were fighting for thelr lives, | The bravest man and most renowed soldler present was James Bowie, of |Georgia, Bowle as a Ind had moved to Loulslana and was gradually drifting westward as a leader in the great movement that was one day to carry progress and civilization clear across the trackless continent. Bowle was Poor, but full of resource. Having some time earlier lost his hunting knife and having ne ; money to buy @ new one, he had laboriously ground down the end of an old Alt to a sharp point, sharpened one of ite edges and fitted a rude handle on ft, Thig to-day, was his only weapon, | As the two factions attacked each other Bowle was wounded by a pistol shot | But the wound did not check his onward rush. He drove his home-made knif¢ | to the hilt Into the body of his assa!lant—Major Norris Wright—slaying the Majot ata single blow, then charging afresh Into the confilct. In that mpromptu battle six men were killed and fifjeen wounded. A goodly shars of the “casualties” See First Blow of the “Bowle Knife.” Ware due to Bowle's strange knife. The weapon and its owner suddentggound themselves famous, Exact models of the knife were made by a Philadelphia hard Ware man, who at once found so many customers for them that he made a fortune Thus the celebrated “bowie knife’ came into use, Tha backwoods soldier of | fortune who had fashloned {t from a file declared: “In @ strong man's hande It {s better than any pistol.” Westward Bowlo wandered, settling at last in Texas, The future “Lone Stal | State" was then Mexican territory, But %a rich miles of pasture land wert already quite thickly populated by Americans. Between these American ploneert and the Mexicans there were constant clashes. Bowle and his friends wanted to free Texas from Mexico's grip. Mexico, on the ether hand, did everything t cramp the American Bow!o was a born leader and many a mighty blow did he strike for Texat freedom. In the battles of San Saba, Nacogdoches and Concepcion he did such vallant work aa to win the rank of colonel. He was in command at the celebrated "Geass Fight" in 18%. The prowess that had enabled him to fashion @ deadly weapon from a useless old fle helped him now {n shaping raw frontiersmen inte nt goldters and to modelling the h-hewn destinies of Texas. Early in 18% @ band of 40 Americans entrenched themselves at a Texas mis sion fort called the “Alamo.” There they were attacked by the Mexican general, Santa Ana, with 4,090 troops. The place was surrounded and there was no possible chance of escape. Yet the Americans fought on, {nfilcting terrific damage upon thela A Heroic i Bulcide, ) atronger foe, laughing at the summons to surrender, Leone on wanere!: J Bowle, with "Davy" Crockett and thirty-seven other | Americans, learning of his comrades’ hopeless plight, cut his way through the | Mexican host and burst Into the fort to die with his fellow Americans. Bowie | knew well that he and his followers were throwing away their Itves; that {t was seemingly useless suicide they were committing by entering that death trap, yet | none turned back, They all died, loyal to America and to their brothers-at-arma And the tale of their herole action did more than perhaps anything else to rou | Texas against Santa Ana‘s tyranny and to pave the way for the future State's | freedom from Its Mexican masters, | Bowle, wounded in the leg as the Mexicans forced thelr way into the fort, braced himself against a wall and fired Into the ranks of advancing foes until hit ammunition was exhausted, Then, gripping his famous knife, he crawled forward on all fours, and flung himself at the nearest Mexican, Stabbing and slashing, he fought on, beedless 0” his own wounds, as long as breath remained. | His body, riddled with bullets, ts said to have been found after the battle, ly! {n the centre of a ring of Lhirteen dead Mexicans, all killed by the fearful strokes of the original ‘‘bowle knify” “ -_-—_—— "9 mM 1b ff thi be obtained by ceending ¢ for each number to Circulation Department, Evening World, (00.0 0000000000 0000000000000000000000000000 00000000 Sayings of Mrs. Solomon Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wife. Translated By Helen Rowland, 10, © COCOOSDODOOOS Vue verily, my deuyhter, there iy a time for of to all things! A time to flirt and a time to regret it, A time to love and a time to yet over it. A time to marry and a time to divorce, A time to cajole a man and a time to put thy foot Lupon his neck. A time to be happy with a husband--but MORE time to be happy jmind: whatever the fate of her ven-| WITHOUT him. For she that marryeth for companionship and weddeth for excitement Yea, her days shall be of making of two men, And it ghall come to pass that she shall buy herself a bulldog, that she may have SOMETHING to talk to. Yet mock her rot, for a bulldog LOOK: ry | ETH INTERESTED when she addresscth him: verily, he APPEARE1'H to | hear when she speaketh and seemeth CONSCIOUS that she ig in the room, Yet unto a husband her foolish chatter is as the buzzing of the gas jet, and | even a plumber shall not turn on the flow of his conversation after many | months. Moreover a bulldog accepteth his meals without question nor growleth thereat. He cometh and goeth at regular times and at night thou knowest just WHERE he is. Yet, unto thy DOG his home is something more thana rest cure and a meal ticket, and THOU are not merely a part of the dining room furniture. Therefore, feed him on pate-de-fols-gras and cream and cover his pats with perfume; adorn him with all-silk ribbons and give him his favorite pillow. vor he knoweth not blondes from brunettes and unto him thou art the ONLY woman. Vertly, verily he is a LUXURY—but a HUSBAND tsa NECESSITY. Selah! ++-——_—_— The Day’s Good Stories # |’ A Sly Hit, & | % The Prudent Piper. NDREW CARNEGIE ts fond of ENRY JAMES, she American A the Scots’ national ins uments FAY novellst, lives at Rye, one of the the bagpipe, and when he ts at ¢ Cinque Ports, but recently he deft home at Skibo Castle usually has his| Ryo for a time and tok @ house in the pet piper to play for him at dinner. | country near the estate of a mililonaire Particularly {9 the mustefan in attend-| jam manufacturor, retired, This ma ance when the great philanthropist has) having married an earl's daughter, was guests | ashamed of the trade whereby he had On one oceaaion a big company of men| piled up his fortune sat dowh to table, and the piper pranced| The Jam manufacturer one day wrote up and down the room as he played. Mr, James an tmpudent letter, The whole thing was new ton French| that tt was outrageous the y Htely asked the| Jamos servants were trespa: weet ha, Bie right, Why. does: Newall ts up and down when he does this thing? le It 44d to the volume of the sound, or a Bot ing on his grounds, Mr, James wrote back: “Dear Sir: I am very sorry to hear servents have been poaching BN Pd