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} f f k Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 68 Park Row, New York, JOSHPH PULITZER, Pres., @ Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAN, Sec.-Treas., 03 Park Row ke as Second-Cla or England and the © All Countries in the Tnieria Postal Union. $3.50 ne Year. . .80 | One Mont Entered at the Post-Ontice at Bubscription Rates to The Evening World for te United States de. . NO, 17 VOLUME 49. ————___ a SIX MURDERERS FLEAD GUILTY, IN murderers have actually convicted in this county, Six men who killed other men or women or children are really going to be | punished for it. The full fa ment less rer jake this state ble than if it were put without qualification, Eve guilty. Not one of them will be electrocuted. Pleas to minor| degrees of murder were accepted for a number of reasons. One of these reasons inay have been the doubt of conviction if these defendants were regularly tried. It is quite likely that the only American-born defendant on this| list could have escaped beforea jury and would not have pleaded guilty had he not been an ex-convict. This man, Fred Rice, alias Paul Wyckoff, shot another man in a quarrel over a woman. If he had had the money to employ talented lawyers what an excellent opportunity | to escape on the plea of the “unwritten law” and of the provocation | of a woman being involved. | The other cases were not complicated. Pasquale di Monaco stabbed Luigi Manna in a quarrel as to which of them could sing the better. Francesco Vonella killed Frank Green when he was shooting at somebody else. one of these men pleaded Wi ® Agusto Bianchi shot John Parella because he thought that | Parella had swindled him. Stephen Mackovcak cut Angelo Grullino’s spinal cord with a knit because Grullino said something to a girl with whom Mackoveak had | ‘been dancing. Enrique de Lara killed Arturo Ascencio in Central Park. ; All the sentences except De Lara’s were for less than twenty ‘years. For at least thirteen years Bianchi will kill nobody for revenge. | ‘Vonella will shoot nobody. Mackoveak will cut nobody's spinal cord. Monaco will stab nobody and Fred Rice will be a convict again. | Whatever may be said about the inefficacy of the Jaw of murder! to punish men of wealth, influence and family connections who kill other men under the influence of “brain storms” which do not affect their pistol aim, or emotional in- sanity which does not prevent deliberate and accurate shooting, there are certain classes of mur- derers who can be punished pro- vided they are poor and ignorant enough to be induced to plead guilty. In the United States last year there were 10,000 murders, This is more than the population of Nyack or ‘Tottenville, ‘There were six times as many kill! i ngs by acc t and mor glect than accident. Compared with these tens of thow the sentencing of six nen te finitesimal. nds of des > the penitentiary scems almost in Neverthole: to call attention to this fact derers who cannot afford to | warn embryo n Letters From the People | The Nom} Mo the BAltor of In answer The Evening World Datly Masazine. Wednesday, January 27 Fe Pardee amet HN ©.00000000 000000000000 00000} y a O an (Oe Q. || ai | Fifty American By Maurice Ketten. Soldiers of Fortune : By Albert Payson Terhune NO. 43—PETER DE SME !. A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD youth, {n 1821, eluded the Belgian police and | $ escaped from his native.land, It was for no crime that he became | 4 fugitive, nor {n coward filght that he made his way to Amsterdam. | 8nd thence to America, On the contrary | brittiant career and going forth voluntar’ j and endless labor. | The youth was Peter John de Smet, a Belgian theological student, He |had heard of the vast tracts of land in America where the Gospel had not |yet been carried to the Indians, and a zeal for converting these savages filled his heart. He eought leave to go as missionary to the western | United States. ‘Permission was refused and the police were ordered to prevent his departure. By stealth he elipped away and embarked for tho New World. Here, first at Philadelphia, then at Florissant, the young missionary completed the studies admitting him to the Jesuit priesthood, going thence Qa to help establiah the University of St. Louis and to accept @ A Strange Professorship in the new institution. But he had not come { Journey. to the Western Hemisphere to be a mere teacher. In 1838 he MH | struck out into the wilderness of Sugar Creek, built « leg 4 chapel and schoolhouse and began his life work among the Indians. The Pottawatomie tribe, in whose territory he had settled, heard his teachings eagerty, Goon most of them were converted. Then {t was that De Smet realised he was one of the all-too-tew white men whom Indjans instinctively trust and who can sway the savages to his will. He he was turning his back on 4 y to a life of self-denial, peril pioneers had given up as hopelessly hostile. He was regarded as sacred from attack and ae the living spirit of truth. It would have been easy for De Smet to rest from his labors or to work quietly among the peaceful Pottawatomies, But. as econ as his Sugar Creek mission was firmly established he sought out newer, rougher flelds of duty. He went to the Flathead Indians among the Rocky Mountains. The Flatheads had heard of the French missionaries of early days and they crowded curtously about the newcomer, De Smet quickly learned their language and translated part | of the Scriptures tnto dt. Having stanfed his mission there, he hurried back to St. Louis for funds to carry on the work. The intervening country wes swarming with Blackfeet Indians who were on the warpath. The missionary was warned that his life would not be worth @ moment's purchase should he attempt to cross | tis hostile territory. But, unafraid, he set forth, Again and again during the Journey he and his few followera found themselves surrounded by bands of | hideously painted Indian warriors, But at sight of De Smet's black robes and shining crucifix these savages drew reverently aside and allowed him to pass. From place to place through the trackless West De Smet carried the Gospel. Sometimes returning to Europe for money and assistants, he kept up his wonder- tul work, until his name was known to nearly every tribe from the Mississippi to the Pacific His Journeys, he calculated, measured in all a distance greater than five times around the earth. Nor was his fast growing Influence used for the promoting of religion alone, hen the various tribes of the West threatened to rise In aris against the set- . jz tere the Government often appealed to De Smet for ald, 7, Again and again the missionary’s Influence put down such ‘acs Undlagl Sir sueresiionsiwearstermadtcsrceiwoilelhevarealleaMiatendea Wars. 1 the bloody Sioux war in Oregon by the eloquence of his plead- i} * Ing and by his knowledge of Indian nature, and put down equally flerce hostilities elsewhere. Thus he enabled the settling of the West te | so on far more quickly and safely than it could otherwise have done and played 1, | brilliant part in our cou territortal growth, But, visiting Europe once more In behalf of his missions, De Smet, now am ld man, met with an accident, breaking several of his ribs and forever wrecking his health. He came back to St, Louis, where, after gradually growing weaker for @ long time, he died on May 23, 1873 Missing numbers of this series may be obtained by sending one cent for each number to Circulation Department, Evening World, | 4 FIO00000000000L.000000000000000000000000000000000000, i Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. By Helen Rowland. CODHDDODOOGOOGOTHCOIDOOGOEGECODGSVDOE GOS és [ OVE will always find a way'’—but it’s finding The Cook Goes Away With the Key of the Jarrs’ Home, And the House Is Made Burglar Proof in Consequence | shortly, “Is this any time for play act-| declares {t wasn't for her money or| So Mr. Jarr fastened the catch anc By Roy L. M’Cardell. Jing the way out that bothers most of us. |fowels, but tt was one of her brutes of |to s Mrs, Jarr, put the back of « FeNOP Aree “Let's see what time {t {s,"° said Mr. |husbands trying to compromise her so| tilted chair ur the knob and put the | Woman is learning how to do things for $6 claimed Jerr and getting up he turned on the|as to stop payitg alimony. But Mrs.|dishpan and some other tins on thi | herself in this world—and Man seems to be perfectly Mrs, Jarr, |!eht. It was 2A, M Kittingly says her life !s above reproach | chair. | RHETT a ttt) WYP call IMD Rap ato Gatch ce apricht| (“We might have all been murdered and, besides, !f she has any letters or | STONE ACELE EER LO TTT NH Witting bolt upright te bed TORE ati |{n our beds!" cried Mrs. Ja things she dogsn't want certain people | said Mr. Jars, Ont | “By Gertrude?” asked Mr Jarr. “Had)to get hold of she keeps them in a safe} he crawled back to bed. But Mrs. J “Well, whom do | she homicidal mania, together with De- | deposit box. didn’t answer him. She was fast asleey nwe, and how |mentia Kitchenanla, of i allt rics food, breaking good dishes and Yemand- sound sleep for to tell me the story of|and then had dropped off to fron Mr jar te 7 Ing a week's wages for a day's badly Mrs. Kittingly's fair young Ife for?" | sleep when he was awakened by fis isn frst Toni done work?” asked Mr, Jarr indignantly, Jarr pushing him tn the ribs, w ( ' “Tf you are not satisfled with the girls; ‘Recause I do not want to be robbed | unearthly ¥ » filled the hi akened him ‘ f i taal i and he heard the|that I get, you get them yourself! |and murdered,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “Oh,/ “Run out and take the mi elephant couldn't get In now.” | RELENReWLAND + 2 | A love affair without a letter in it ts as flat ca iipsy pudding” without the sauce. re, the golden age, marri-age, cold storage, the iron aye and —dotage. It takes a man just two minutes to drink a cocktatl—and just two houre serplain to his teife how he happened to do it. fs A honeymoon crowded with kisses is as tiring to th average man asa snapped Mrs, Jarr. ‘But that I why didn't [ think to make that girl dumb waiter!’ sald Mrs f a er Tie girly that WOK@ up Just now and reme RinatlelvarthalRavibackitorne Maiihas been whiatiing like madiforiave |tcatcovere d with pictures is to the eye; it takes a little space to give things Se Ayr NCAR awf iil Gertrude!" the awful creature you mention went “Well, I can put a chalr tilted back minutes. We have no girl, and if y ‘heir proper value, away with the door key, the only key under the knob on the Inside,” said Mr. don’t get It qulek he'll go away and | There is a lot of advice written to the girl who thinks of marrying, but we had to that patent lock we put on Jarr. “It's a sure way to fasten a door will be taken. eae : i 3 "satd Mr. Jarry | after Kugel's flat was broken in, and when the key’s gone.” Mr. Jarr bounced out, crashed {nto tt rst CATCH your husband.” The rest is easy. isn't coming back. just day before yesterday Mrs Vell, L don't belleve much in ft, but clair, & somersault and |; Flirtation is the froth on life's glass, love the elixir, and marriage- twenty: |1y' apartments were rat try it," said Mrs. Jarr. “And put some Coe Tea ee Rao ameckedll ie larags No; Clara, | ehe was automobl! pans on the chalr, so if a burglar si Hareatnnnadlinnedrauiwandweetuenedl| re 0 + not ev k friend, although he push against the door the pans w with pencil’ and paper. and wrote She who steals a married man's heart steals trash 1 dalioteanninia Rai rorainenny , Welcome! and pinned It or pore I took kn yes any more TN ih \nd Mrs. Jarr was afrald to gay a word ae oe -|'The New Evangelist, Gypsy Smith. ool codecs Lae ene By Gypsy Smith. ‘ WwW h Hi Roll! . Looie, the Bowlet ic. a wengert’ © (oust Like DOT! | | ei) 3 Gypsy Smith sald and an audience HY ERX Y greatest victory was won through father love,” “Lwas 4 led to speak In Northampton, Engtane of fifteen thousand gathered to hear me, attracted more by curiosity than by religious interest. Northampton !s most difficult ground from an evangelistic view. The atmosphere {s infidel; it Is a hotbed of \theism, My reception was anything but inspiring, but I had a mission there | ana Twas {n to win, It took me forty minutes to cover ground ordinarily gotten five. When I menttoned the namo of Jesus, they shouted and raved like The committee of clergymen managing the revival urged me to give | no; here were men who needed the word of the Master, so I started to a hymn and my choir followed, After fo minutes there was a‘siight lull, nd I stopped my song and shouted, ‘God loves you in spite of yourselves!’ and hat was my text. I singled out an old man in the front row, and sald, ‘Are you funer, sir? He said he was, and Lasked him how many children he had. ‘A two sons,’ he answered. ‘L have, also, [ sald, And here was @ mpathy already—we were both fathers, ‘And are your sons good?’ T and he bung his head and was silent, ‘Are they good?’ I repeated; and ised hig head and sald falteringly, ‘No; one ts a drunkard and a thief, and broken my heart.’ ‘You do not love your son?’ I accused him. He looked nto my eyes and sald slowly, ‘Yes; In spite of it, I love ‘him.’ ‘And God | inves you in spite of yourself,’ I answered, Through a parent's love I snatched Vletory. from defeat, and led a most enthusiastie revival In Northampton,"== “E/AAKEKIM raight Leslle's Weekly, 8, Ik \ Wi orty s : . nnn thousandtis. Y x ds 4 id Ss i fiadite | x@ The Day’s Good Stories “ch Mad eee ; a Ach oes Good “Unruly Son” Advice | A Correction. A Different Brand, Lag eit. t \M | AQIX-YEAR-OLD Marjorie and four- LLE. GENEE, the famous dancer, have this to say e ss | ear-old Josephine were mation | [VI at a ladies’ luncheon In her writer about i ru Up-to-Date Cuties | i Ne AS hongt aad ot aah B1kG 1D Oe gel x hom Maw York to San Francitco—and, {that American women are not using heme and try a Vy ronrae, encountered new marvels at|powder In the ridiculous manner that 3t you car Fs |rimost every mile of the trip. But the| prevails abroad. Over there the powder the gems he | \ : : \orescendo of thelr ecstatle outpourings |{s, really, lald on quite too thick, tim) and NNER: | ae reached when they saw thelr firat| ‘They say a London man remarked Ble sik cepa U p ltndian families-braves, squaws and|the other day to a friend interests him obo 1 * t | | “But ff It was pitch dark and she Get him to Join a Will meet hoaltt Rim out yourse!t Pat ts wholes: Mc. Read tw dim «Spend 4 Httle money now and they row up. neo etme we d ae esq sighed Josephine, gazing |* 14 nothing, how can you be sure that | wide-eyed at the moccasined, gaudily | You kianed your wife's cousin by mis blanketed squaws, “ain't those squashes take “f F 4 Just splendid, though!” ‘It waa,’ the other answered, ‘a dit. “They ain't squashes, Josephine; | ferent brand of powder.’ "Philadelphia BOWLERS WHO CAN TELL ABOUT “LOO/% SHOTS” WILL BE WELCOMED BY CARTOONIST LONG they're squats.” Ledger. OOT7ED LINE SHOWS COURSE TAKEN By LOOJES BALL became the beloved friend and ecclesiastical father of redskins whom other, ng good “Well, what do you wake me out ofa! He lay awake till the cats came hor There are just seven ages of masculine love: the tender age, the pupyy ,