The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1909, Page 14

i nt Map hie He oH Wlarld, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 5 Park Row, New JOSOPH PULITZER, Pres., & Park Row, Ja 2 to 63 HAW, Seo, -Tr#as.. €8 Park Row. nt By Maurice Ketten. Entered at the Post-Office at New Yo RN ee a poweon Bubscription Rates to The Fvening | 1 World for the United States Second-Class Mail Matter, All Countr and Canad n ay ury One Yenr.... . : One Year (W < $975 { BECAUSE ih) x One Month.... 80 One Month... seeee So “He \§ Too ] lA VOLUME 40. THE SAFEST OF CRIMES fm) | all Of the 10,000 annual murderers in the United States hardly one per cent, are punished by exec TERRIBLY . HANODSONE murder is the sa rim tion and Jess than ten per cent. by imprisonment. If the Killings were included the percentage of punishment would be almost nothing, ‘The railroads of Greater New York alone killed last year 414 persons, _| besides breaking skulls and causing the amputation of 62 limba. The killings from railroad, fac- tory and other accidents were greater in the past four years than the deaths from gunshot wounds in the four years of the civil war on both the Union and Confederate sides. Included in the murder class are only those killings where there was an intention to kill and the use of a deadly weapon or poison for that purpose. Juries will convict a pickpocket or burglar with little hesitation. Even a criminal of high finance is likely to be convicted if his case is once honestly presented to a jury. The failure to conviet the big in- aurance and traction criminals of New York has not been because juries acquitted them but because juries have had no opportunity to convict them. The Brooklyn Jenkins case is one of the rare excep- tions where a district-attorney has faithfully prosecuted a man who caused a bank failure and the jury did not bring in a verdict of guilty, “1 WANT ANOTHER DIVORCE FROM AY DiyoRCED HUSBAND BECAUSE BECAUSE HEIs NoT LU ees AFFINITY . BECAUSE In France and Germany combined there are only twelve per cent. &s many murders as in the United States. But there are more convictions In Germany nine murderers out of ten are convicted. In France * two out of three, In England more than half, and even in Italy, which has the highest murder record in Murope, 3,606, the convictions were 2,805, To what is the safety of murder duc? There is talk of the “unwritten law.” In the judicial seuse there can be no law that is not found in printed words on the s to take me to?” asked Mr. Jarr. By Roy L. McCardell. | But carking care sat upon every brow. | atute books “It's our new ¢ e Concordance Men and women gloomed at each other ok tae eee Da per . . me JW you have got to ¢: sald cal Ethics.’ Miss Bindel, of as {f all the world were but a place of If ‘aw is an abstract vroposition insteau of a concrete thing the moral “N Seaadariih venenecee wine agrasttanll untana nevenatune asiaralialene | law should at least take prece- ty go anywhere with me." less she be of assured social position 8 “When's the Np 5 oh “Well, you never asked to Join, Mrs, Stryver, who Is > am I to be handed "asked Mr. | cence of the “unwritten law. want to go any- Crazy to get Into soctety that she'd Jarr, The commandment “‘lhou shalt whers with me,” dhovel a ton of coal from the sidewalk" ssegno warned Mes. dart, to the cellar If she read of anybody In the 4 doing it for a lark—Mrs. Stryver fs giving her parlors and will serve even chi hampagne, game ne exquisite—than she said Mr, Jarr, “L never want to go to your horrid old Gus's saloon, or your old bowl not kill” makes no distinction in degrees of murder or punish- ment. It has no loophgle. Its ducattonal and uplifting, Miss Binder her paper on ‘Why Women Wed Miss Binder, a and bespectacled young thing of td i Tay read in part as follows: H clearness permits no hypothetica | ing clubs, with fat k gave a reading on | 9 : f : i e HS ! men in their clan's Advocacy of the Sim- by BY) w ait! no wed, oh, modern question. sleeves smoking ~jon't you remember the night meet i 1 ie alse no man a r horribl pellin beautifully come Into your life who can comm So far as the Hains and the lgareivandlvehaly as acaetithoak ect and confidence as well as Thaw cases are concerned, they i bY dollars for the and Dr. Smerk ate all the} gras? Well, what have I ng with you for? just and noise and petting for the drinks and vulgar stand In the) , prior claims? ambition stands between are only two out of thousands. It is not the purpose of this pres- Lo lng with laughter at entation of facts to single out any case but simply to call attention @d"— ee Nor LH CARDILD cack> stories to go high- ed Mr. Jarr, you and mak ; . “Hold on there!” darr, “who ¢ Are you rejec to the shameful condition of things in the United States when the | told you bowling was like that?’ women's husbands 0, may mean privation and care? safest of all crimes is to kill a human being.. > 1 Mrs. Jarr, “but can't you to go, and be- “Has no man sufficiently arene 1 guess bowled with ladies o! you to make you fae wae —Jatternoon and 1 know what a bowling) “Oh, (Nl go, I'll go!’ sald Mr. Jarr, | career, pe alley {s like, and I know how men act and he ei y to prepare for ary amb! and what they say when they get to- impressed personality t happier Letters From the People Jaris arrive ene It When the Was sure ‘Well, what's this tea fight you want The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, January 20, 1909. Why Divorce? Because! . erreeneeereeerres BECAUSE HIS Because “HE IIS9 ES. | HAVE To FASTEN HER GOWN Mr. Jarr Consents to Go High-Browing With Mrs. Jarr; ‘ And Listens to a Paper on ‘‘Why Women Will NOT Wed.” |" "*"" of your Ilfetime tn his society? "Or Is it, my sisters, that you do ni marry because some duty seems par: mount thinking, uncaring ever? Here Mrs. Jarr nudged Mr. Jarr man {Indicate that this last was what she had done. “Will the Woman Who Will Not Wed find that she has chosen wisely, and and brighten her hours of loneliness !f she should this conviction sustain have hours of lonelin “And are some of my hearers rejec ing matrimony because they have o cupations thta render them care fr and {ndependent? “What? I pause for a reply. shall the answer be?" Wh A patter of gloves and murmurs “How true!” “What an Intellectu treat!’ “Ah, her Interpretation Is ex tremely conclusive! But what is the answer?” asked M Jarr in a whisper. tions herself.” , pshaw!? said Mrs, Jarr. marry 18 because nobody asks them. But if Mr. Jarr had said that! Apply to Yeur Congressman. To the Editor of The Evening World Not a man rose to give him a seat, v though all could see he was unfit to 1 wish to enter the United States. stand. While I'm not greatly interests Naval Academy at Annapolis. Where jy ail this talk about tie: should I apply to find out the require- women thelr seats, yet 1 admit I was ments? R.R.| surpeiea and disgusted to see a lot of Apply to your Congressman or to well men sit still and let that Buperintendent of Naval Academy, heh giving | From Boston toNature -- -:- y ed cripple stand up. That is not Annapolis. For information about the 4 question of old-fasiiloned chivalry, but Academy see World Almanac d com) decency, Are New Yor I wish other reac ng ideas on this qu Hope for Bad Boys. {To the Exitor of Tne Evening I have read severai t bad boys, but tha ers heart! as well as rude? rs would thelr state ne HAR average bad boy usually turns out to The Former Is Correct, be a good man. I would cali them inls- 7,156 gaitor of The Bvenine World ehievous rather than bad, because the] When you have put a picture on the affairs, EM MAN, usual bad boy ts only strenuous and 4s) wall, which is the correct expression (@ rule grows strong and he from} "T hung {t on the wall,” or “I hange this strenuosity. The weakling usually |{t on the wall?” L5G. emokes cigaret' which is the be, i Beautifal Snow(t) the Editor of The Evening World: Snow, snow, beautiful snow, Shiny and sticky and soft as dough! “| Clogging your feet wherever you go; | Making walks slippery, laying you low; | ning of demoralization, four obildren—giris. 1 certainly ha often wisiied that fvo of them boys, though my wages ate on week. Nae My wife has Up-to-Date Children, To the Bultor of The Evening World: Children's manners daily grow worse. | Dirty and murky, black as @ crow, | When {t's lain for one day on our town below, When I was a youngster (forty-five | Causing wet feet and pneumo- Nears ago and more) children were|ia and gripe and a world of woe! treated sternly and were kept too qulet|{ don't care how soon you pick up| and too much repressed. Now the pen-| and go, u dulum has ewting too far the other way, | You slushy, slithery, beautiful snow; | Parents, remembering thelr own stralt- NEAR-POBT. laced childhood, want their children to : have a better time. So they go too far fo the other extreme, with the result | that the average child of to-day ts ar {psufferably ill-mannered, undisciplined drat. What wise parent can suggest a gentle cure? = A GRANDMOTHER. SNot Chivalry but Hamanity. To ths In one day I walked fifty-three and Jone-third miles over Greater New York roads in twelve hours and fifty-one minutes, starting at 6 A. M. and finish. jing at 6.51 P. M., without stopping. It FE an average of over four miles an Nurse—Come, Master Emerson, it's bedtime, Emerson E, Emerson—Really, my esteemed nurse, should I retire with | wid one of de pertesh out here in de wilds! this abstruse thirteenth problem of Euclid unsolved I fear a sleepless vigil VICTOR DURUSSEL, | Would await me! ; ae \ Til ine Editor of The Evening Worl hour. I am twenty-two and would like t night @ badly crippled man shut- to hear if other readers aboard ap uplown subway express. walk. n equal this wn re en fa enee Sign Painter (to Dauber, A. N, A.)—Hello, bo! moesy a By J. K. Bryans eerie, achiiteditiint nial Fifty American : Soldiers of Fortune? By Albert Payson Terhune a NO. 40,—STEPHEN DECA1UK. | TEPHEN DECATUR was an officer in the United States Navy. Yet S his daring and the exploits he performed outside the sine of strlet official duty entitle him to a place among Amerleas 's fortune. Decatur was the son sad namesake G a Commodore why tought gale lantiy in the \merican revolution. From childhood Stephen joved the sea While cruisin: with his father he icirned everything avout the salling ard corsiruction of a ship, He could fin’ no employment in tue navy at 60 early an age. So he did the next best ( .ng by studying the art of ships ; building, When he was only seventeen he helped vuild the Y, 3. frigate United States, which he was one day to command. in 1798, when he was nineteen, he succeeded in obtaining a .aidshipman’s commission on the sduae vessel, His naval career ha. begun, The United States was at wer with Fiance. It was a petty war, but it gayo Decatur bis first chance, He aidec in the capture of several French privateers in the West Indies; once by quick preserce of mind saving the crew of © captured and sinking ship from death, He also Jumped overboard in mid-oeeaa to rescue a lad who hud been swept from the ceck into the watt These and other feats endeared young Decatur to his fellow officers und made his name known at headquarters, At twenty Decatur Was a .eutenant, When 19 1801 all the navy, except six ships, was disbanded, and 76 per cent. of the officers dismissed, Decatur was kept in the sezvice, And he found speeuy use for the naval lore he liad acquired, Wor centuries Barbary States (Tr.poll, Alglers, fers of BP rare renee Rescues Foes From Drowning. ee ee Tunts, &e.) aad supporied themselves by piracy, Moxt nations (including the United States) paid them shameful tribute to win protection trom the pirate ships, In M 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the United States, and began to seize American vessels that Were cruising in the Mediterranean, Four Yankees sent to Tripoll. Uecatur went along as trst leutenant. During the war the U, man-of-war Philadel, tia went ground on a reef in Tripoll harbor, and w>s captured by the Pasha, Decatur, who had already fought valiantly in several sea batties, volunteered to go by night into the harbor and | destroy the Philadelphia, He seized a ‘Tripolitan vessel, .enamed her Intrepid, and with a picked crew of about seventy young americans, sailed boldly into the harbor on a moon night (Feb, 16, 1804). He steered straight for the Philadelphia, leaped aboard the captive frigate, at the head of his men, and swept the Tripolitan crew over the rail into the sea. He then set fire to che Philadelphia and, under the murderous fire of 141 cannon from the Tripoll forts, escaped in the Intrepid. In reward Decatur was promoted to a captain, No less a naval hero ‘han the Brities Admiral, Nelson, said of his explott: “It was the most daring act of the age!” In August of the same “ear the United States squadron made a general attack on Tripoll. Decatur led e@ division of the little fleet, In a small gunboat he safied against one of the large of the enemy's frigates, sprang aboard, slew the Tripolitan commander in single fight, and captured the frigate. hh. assailed and took a secon the Pasha's Warships the same day, Decatur, coming home ta 1805, received a national welcome that would have turned the head of a lesser man. When war was deciared belween England a is he had become @ commodore. In comman: of the United States (where he had once served midshipman) he fought and captured the British frigate Macedonia. Two years later, while commanding the frigate Pre: warships, He put one ot thes out of a until one-fourth of his crew were gone Then, to save the test of his men, he 12 at an pr been mole! and Jent, Was attacked by four British tion and fought against hopeless odds and his docks were awash with blood. onde wi Decatur was sent against the sting our merchant ships. Decatur cap- a brig of war, Algiers sued for peace, to the unselfish devotion you golng to begin, Would give to make some perhaps un- happy for- | arose on all sides “She simply askec "The y sne and other old maids don’ Decatur next humbled his old enemy Tripoli, and did similar service at Tunts, having forever stamped out the hor ustom of p {n the Barbary States, He recelved the thanks of Kurope and was appointed Unite St.tes Naval Com- ssioner. Some tine earlier Decatur had been member of —_—rnnr—a court-martial that suspended Commodore Barron Throws Away Life from the navy, Barron tcought weca‘ tr's Influence in a Duel. was still against hin, A quarrel followed, and Bar- O) 3 ron challenged Decatur to 4 duel. They met on the -nous —1adensourg dueilag ground March 2, Realizing this tact, Barron said us they took thelr p~ces Both were crack shots, pistol In han hop y be bet “L have never been y | shoot you throug? Both fired. Both tell dangerous but nc: mortal wound, we er frienus In a better world.” replied Decatur, calmly adding: ‘Now, — pullet had plerced Barron’ ‘on had shut Decatur sht. The whol hip, tnacting @ nroug the abdomen, ry mourned him, Missing numbers of this series mny be ebtained by sending one eat for euch number vo Cireulation Department, Evening World | + $¢e—_____- DOCOD0000 ot a. CODIIIO. Sayings of Mrs. Solomon Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wife. Translated By Helen Rowland. DODOOTOOOHADOOOONDANAGOHAG to | . /RILY, my Daughter, 4f the greatest study of ee p mankind be MAN, is this not also the most profitable study of woman? For she that a seeketh to charm a man by the wrong method is as one , that taketh an east-bound train for San Francisco or A MWTAND* naileth a car on the wrong corner, Be not deceived by a forbidding mien, nor treat a dignified man with leference and gravity. Rather rumple up his hair and tickle his chin with t feather; call him funny nicknames and feed him pink bonhons from the nd of a hatpin, For he that taketh himself seriously, taketh a tcoman as a relazation, nd he adoreth the “cute thing” who appeureth kittenish. He preferreth cing coared to being respected, and being “babicd" to being admired. She hat approacheth him with awe and reverence and intellectual topics shalt g| lore him; but she that approacheth him with cunning nonsense and baby. shall marry him | Yet treat not an insignificant man lightly, nor with condescension, but {| ddress him always as “Mr.” and consult his opinions as though they really “| mattered, lest thou wound his vanity; but a great man thou canst jolly and oke with and rail at his follies, for he knoweth hig own SIZE and thow | unst not belittle him, ‘ Then be not surprised at what they marry, or that the wise show no visdom, nor the clever any wit, nor the sane any common sense, when they hoose a wife, Fora man knoweth that a potato is useful, but he preferreth + rose that shall adorn his buttonhole. He knoweth the sort of woman he canteth, but he getteth the woman who wanteth him. He showeth no judg- nent when he weddeth, for by that time all judgment hath fled—else tohy should he marry at all? Selah! r i “® The Day’s Good Stories # i ee eel Oh, Thank You! | been trying to catch that hen for three days to cook {t for dinner, and I never ECENTLY an automobllist ran|could so much as lay a hand on the R down and killed a hen. He was! pesky thing, Thank you, sir, thank a consclentious automobilist. In- | you.” Its great to meet up | view. stead of racing along, unmindful of the | grief of the owners of that hen, he Im- | mediately stopped, got out, tenderly | picked up the unfortunate fowl, and rang the doorbell of the tarmhouse | trom the vicinity of which it had | emerged. | A woman opened the door. “IT am very sorry to Inform you," re- marked the automobilist, “that I ha unintentionally killed this hen of yours.” He held the fowl up to her “Now, I am quite willing to pay whatever the value’— But she checked him with this joy- ous exclamation: “Oh. I'm 90 much obliged to you! Tv A Slight Misunderstanding, HERB {s a new rie in force on alt the Brooklyn street car lines which requires the conductor, in recelving from a passenger a coin in ex+ cess of the amount of his fare, to call out the amount due to the company, A German, unfamillar with the rule, ree cently boarded a car on the system handed the conductor @ quarter, announced the master of the car. ‘Nels! AMIR Ii baptesvee the German, loudly. “Nicht fivel” “Ah, whatcha talkin’ about? growled the monarch in uniform. "Do you Coed y family t= ‘ t ve ‘re the whole bioomin’ jarper's Weekly ¢ ! wb ates Ne