The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1909, Page 13

i ——EE fhe Evening World Daily Magazino, Monday, February 15, 1909. The aks saiorio’ od Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York, JOSNPH PULITZER, Pres,, 61 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Sec.-Treaa,, 63 Park Row, Entared at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clasa Mail Matter. Bubserimiion Rates to The Evening ) For Vngland and the Continent and World for the United States All Countries tn the International Postal Unton Publi $240 | One Year... 6 30 | One Month.... One Year... One Mouth VOLUME AT LET EVERYBODY FLY, England the Aeronautical —So- ciety in Mareh is going to present a gold medal to two Americans, the Wright In France, a despatch says, five hundred persons are learning to thy Two Americans, the Wright broth- are teaching them, Whatis more the the French are using TLL LEAVE You | WITH CUPID. THe TEA engines in aeroplanes and 1 dirigibles are mostly the work of American en- gineers. In Germany Zeppelin, Gross and Parseve| ave making (strides in the navigation of the air with the Cr In ft the poss hitivies of we and financial backing. rment’s ass y Major Moris is demonstrating to the Etalian Governiment balloons, and Rome is more familiar with the 1 New York. sight of airships t | DIDN'T. In Russia the Government and private individuals are experi OnE HERE menting with both dirigibles and aeroplanes. (OBE INSULTED In Japan the report is that the Government is preparing a whole fleet of airships for war purposes. For the pioneers of air navigation in England and on the Conti- 4,000 in addition to the nent there are now available in prizes valuable prizes already won by the Wrig ‘ Yet here in the United States, the home of the Wrights, of Bald- win, of Knabenshue, of Herring, of Beechy, of Langley, of Maxim, of scores of others whose names will go down in airship history, there haa been strange apathy toward air navigation. The World’s offer of a $10,000 prize to the person who duplicates in the air in a me- chanically pr o- pelled airship the trip of Robert Fulton's first steamboat from New York to Al- bany is the first incentive of im- portance offered to encourage 6 American aero: ‘VE something to tell you that if re le “Toy \ nauts. “ may eae Rit | you have no more pride than to be go: |° H, too good-hearted for her own wel-| ‘To work for Mrs. | Miesing nambers of this serice may be obtained by sending one! as Kittingly,” Said. Mr. Jarr, “The |!MB Into barrooms in a neighborhood fare; & good-hearted little woman, who| Mrs. Jarr quie cent for each number to Circulation Department, Eveniug World, 4 With govern- little blonde di-| Where you Ilve and where you are rals-|has had a great deal of sorrow in her| Who * axked Mr. Jarr. ye ® vorced lady up.|!& your family you can at least spare |life. She ts the only person that [ know ald Mrs. Jarre. "It is] a wee : ments everywhere sata” "P| me the gossip of such places" — |who ever Is generotis with me If | Of trick a ,lerwittur, twoctaced | CODVOWOGOIDOOOOGEOOSEOVOOTPGHADIOSOIOITOIOOGAODIHOOOOG’ : . (oat - | meet her d ntow she always buys Cin that stp y—0 else contracting “Now you just “But,” Interrupted Mr. Jarr. Hee Hae Hogn orn i always ay 7 hat insipid and very- hi ’ ; en Gon stop where you) “Oh, don't interrupt me!” sald Mrs. th faut nee, an 1, know i eRe i eaten ee nit ayin S 0 rs 0 omon or airships, Con- if SEP ise ees aay - he matinee, and, as you kno’ do. But she's like all the rest o: ry } are!” sald Mrs.|Jarr. “I was going to say that you and | eee te ee and because | your friends!" gress here has re- fused to allow a $500,000 a ppro- priation for aerial experimentation, The given is that of economy, vet is it wise economy? [f $500,000 is too moram pe wel reason much, why not $300,000 or $200,000% ‘The air age is at hand, This ner detriment exe country cannot afford to fall behind in aerial progress. jfrom a mi z Poteet til bere oe rie ah a | “Two men," s The World's prize offer for the Fulton flight has already done | “wel, two mer .| Jarre, “Ihave no much to stimulate private interest. Aero shows in St. Louis and New \ bad aa another at York are talked of, Several aeroplane prizes of $1,000 and less have | enough to fr been announced, but unless the United States are to be left still far. | 282, 54! 1 ther behind France in conquering the air, Government aid, more back-| “Well, I'm , Jynow nothing a ing and more mon I ary, \gare, “L only h noes prea a Se aayey es Sram now’—— e AAI) | Letters From the People | e 9 fand ten di T can fig’ r ticket A To the Editor of The Evening World Please place this problem bef many renders and see if any ‘Travel Pr-Llem, . which amounts to $2, If e right, He then asked the | what he thought he had! given him and was told “two quarters | man can solve it: “A man travels a vert and ten dimes.” I gave him five lstance. After he has gone 4 miles ‘limes back,” saya “Honest.” You're tn he increases his rate 2 miles p our, ®@ half dollar. Has that come to you If he had travelled the whole distance |YOU? Perhaps if you're real good some one will slip you a medal | “ANSWER.” Damaaens Is the Older City. at the increased rate he would have arrived 40 minutes sooner. If gone the whole distance at the p: rate he would have been Te the Eat ‘ening World later. What was the distance and what | [i says mivalem is older than was his previous rate?” Damascus. Is he right? Lan | M.A. Raliway, N. J. | Damascus ix older than Jerusaiem, | and te believed by elty In the world. Here's a Hot Family Row! | rot fhe F y to be the oldes Canal Measurement. To the Editor of The Evening World What is the width and navigable Panama and Suez Ca R.& M the Panama enine World ker sex who ting woman suffrage ever stopped for a moment to consider that If tt Htieal equality they at then will be the of the end of all the little re agita- bettom width of Canal will vary from 2 feet at Culebra Cut to an Indefinite width in the lakes The minimum depth will be 41 feet. The Suez Canal 13 31 feet deep and 108 feet wide. and chivalry that our better Ives expect from mere . My ¢ ; None Univer: He om mere man? My own 4s better five-fourths Is @ Suffragotte That's one of the reasons i here such a thing as a national ‘A Tam Against Vega) holtday m the United States? ft. She says women are slaves’ Can bf i ; . you !magine one's wife saying such a ‘ LOUIS L thing, while I (at the very tlme she js) saying It), lord and master, am| boiling the ame for deat slavey's break- Ts the Editor of The Ewening World Falls to Score, her _ fast, while she—oh, what's the use? Wha Honest" trying to do, any- *™ .. E FARR * Pat himaelf on the back or run @ The “Inatde” Wheel: m ” Wheels. * pusale department? He says he Kave AS (Ld Bits RT a We | _ the man at the ticket window In the Subway @ one dollar bill; that the ticket men ia retura gave him four quarters Which wheels (inside or of automobile leave the ing @ curve? side) of an ground while turn REF, | JOHN, SONNY 19 50 NAUGHTY CAN'T LET HIN PLAY CuPiD WON'T You TAKE HIS PLACE (WHILE IMA Mrs. Jarr Hates Gossip. She Scorns to Listen to It! But Is It in Human Nature Not to Keep One Ear Open? By Roy L. pehaved and A Flight of Fancy We, DODDOOQOGHOHODDOOHDGOGHOSGIDGHDDIAHHDAGHDG The Day of Rest. Fifty American By fa Ketter: ‘soldiers of Fortune a WODDOOOIGDHS: I DQTSCE BOOSIE By Albert Payson Terhune NO, 48—JOHN BROWN. OME historlang call John Brown a crusader, a martyr, a saint, Other S denounce him as a dangerous fanatic, a rufflan, a murderer. In etther event he is decidedly worthy the title of Soldier of Fortune, Here ts» | his exelting story, Let each reader form his own {dea of the man. In 1814, when Brown was only fourteen, he saw a negro slave boy cru-"* elly beaten with a fire shovel, John was so horrified by the sight that (as, he later wrote) he straightway took a solemn resolve “to ewear eternal war with slavery.” And thenceforth he devoted his life to that purpose, * i | He grew to manhood, working alternately as a farmer, a wool dealer, a sur- , veyor, a shepherd and a tanner, He succeeded at nothing and earned a | name for shiftlessness. Yet ever he was secretly busy in hie lifee ambition’? | BOOD90OT- 80993 IT WON'T TAKE CONG ~ Just HAND EACH LADY, \ A VALENTINE | THEN You CAN Gu 1 Coletne our OF YOUR HEN | PARTY. ‘oT my DAY oF REST (AY VALENTINE PARTY ~ !—tho freeing of the slaves. He was miserably poor, and the fact that he” ‘had twenty children forced tim to tot] at uncongenial tasks in order to.; | keep his enormous family from starving. Meantime he won a reputatigns |among the Abolitionists (the huge faction which wished to abolish slavely) ; | and soon came to be regarded as one of their chiefa, log | He persuaded Gerrit Smith, a philanthropist, to give a large tract of land nm” | the Adirondacks to be cut up into farms for fugitive slaves, This land {s stil” Query Known as “Brown's Tract.” ‘The idea of transporting Geor- , _— A Dream of kia negroes Into the tcy north and of expecting them to take, TST He THEY MAKE Pie farina in a region where winter 1s six months long did not A DEAR A HIT reedom. $ som to atrike Brown as ridictilous, and the scheme’s failure, Gimme way a severe blow to him, He next turned his attention to,, Kansas, And there the excitement of his career set In. Kansas in the (0's was a battle ground between the Free State and the Slavery, Parties. Bloodshed was of almost daily occurrence, The slaveholders slew Free,; State men, and the Free State men retaliated. ‘The whole State was seething with, | @ little civil war of its own, Five of Brown's sons went to Kansas {n 1&4, They were Free State men and were made to suffer cruolly for their anti-slavery belleta, ¢ The next year John Brown himself went there. It was an odd move for him ta. make, for he had always had a horror of warfare and had yearly pald @ fine, (which he could {Il afford) to avold serving {n the milltla, But now Brown. cast. aside all personal feelings and plunged eagerly Into the hostilities, Settling near., Ossawotamie, he almost at once found himself a leader of the flercest Free State faction, He and his sons were among the foremost of Kansas's defenders against the swarms of border rufflans that swept across the State Une from Missourt, and elsewhere. , Five Free State men were murdered by these ruffians, Brown and his ade. herents promptly caught five well known pro-slavery agitators at Pottawotamie, and on May 25, 18i4, assassinated them. When he was questioned as to why | tarriggd out so bloody a revenge, brown replied: hs *T have no cholce. It has been ordained from eternity by Almighty God that. |, T should make an example of those men.’ At Black Jack the same year he fought gallantly against a band of pro- | slavery raiders and won national renown by his heroic defense of Ossawotamie” (where one of his sons was shot dead) against a far larger force of these raiders, OH PirFl ) Joun WE ARE RUINED! You Gave Waar's Tae | | THEM Sonny's Hioeous, PATTER Wi) | INSTEAD oF THe Pagty?( oY Lovey ee \ ones From that time until his death he was known as "Old Ossawotamle Brown.” \/ You'le CALC ME FAT witt His deeds helped to awaken the country to the evils of slavery and to the lawe: leas condition of Kansas, Hut his greatest, maddest work was still to come, Little Ly little (after reading eve allable book that dealt with revolutions,” Brown formed a scheme of his own for freeing the slaves, He rlanned to ene," camp, with as many brave followers as he could muster, somewhere In the” mountain fastnesses of Northern Virginia, thence to descend upon towns and! plantations, llberate the slaves and carry them off to safety, He hoped in this fashion to make life so unpleasant and dangerous for all slaveholders that they” would soon or late give up their negroes. His project's success depended on the aprising of the slaves themselves. This uprising did not occur, The negroes as @ whole did not come to his ald. Hence what m been a terrible and murderous race war narrowed down to one stirring conflict—the fight at Harper's Ferry. > On the rainy night of Oct. 16, 189, Brown and twenty-two men (six negroes: among them) marched upon the town of Harper's Ferry, Va., easily captured it; ‘OUR HUSBANDS’ WILL TEND /VULLET You KNOW 1’) 4 LADY he 4nd selzed the United States arsenal there, A eoldier, when” The Last the attack began, asked why the Invaders nad come to Hare per's Ferry and on what au ty. Brown replied: “Weg \ Battle. have come to free the slaves, and by the authority of oa Almigh Just what Brown hoped to gain by laying | lent hands on Government property and by remaining all the next day at Harper’ Ferry, instead of escaping to the mountains, will never be known. It was all haps part of a crazed brain's eccentricity, Col, Robert E. Lee (late of Confed ate fame) rushed to the spot with a company of U. 8. marines. Brown and af surviving men barricaded themse ne house and fought Ike wildeat ‘ Two of Brown's sons were killed, b wotamie” would not yield. Witl ‘) Tone hand he felt the pulse of his dying 1 with the other held his rifle, A last, his comrades killed and he h ing from bullet and sword wounds, Brown was ca He and found guilty. On Dec. 2, 189, hea hanged, One of the volunteer guard at the foot of his scaffold was the actora John Wilkes Booth, who a few years later was to assassinate Abraham Eincoln, ARPA PLACA LAS OOS Whatever may be posterity’s opinion of John Brown's acts, those acts greatly hastened the outhreax of the | war and inefdentally the object that “Old us to! Ossawotamie” had so blunderingly sought to attain—the downfall of slavery, est | es ina Old Os on mself bl tured was trie r{wrong with Mrs, Kittingly [ would beys il-heart- e morning she left “The place {s worthy of the story, ave no doubt!" said Mrs, Jarr, “rf |the first to notice She {s goo McCardell. | 4 Jarr, interrupting. | Sour friends that go to such places may : she !s kind to me “If you have noth-| discuss people who are helpless to pre- has been a good | My friends!” exclaimed the surprised friend to me you wish to tell me some: | 4, Being the Confessions of the Seven é ing better to oc-| vent their names being bandied in such y a J ne | Me. Jarr . cupy yourself than| places, but, say what you please, and oe wet eee yeas Ae nets ‘Yes, your friends!’ replied the irate Hundredth Wife. with the affairs of Mrs. Kittingly may be as bad as they Hy eer aie ) lady. “Your Guses and your Elmers mranssted ‘ other people youymake them, at least SHE doesn't fre. | fends and your Rangles! I told you all along | or wasn't going to talk about her,” | that woman was no good said Mrs. edn't try te inter- | quent corner barrooms!" it what else a them! SARroa don't care to| coulg b nacted " s eat me in them! I) who sald she did?” sald Mr. Jarr. jeale ete yaaa lon't care to cou fs exprsted Atle woman who has have alw } Gee whiz, if T come home and keep! "yr. DANE cIRE TO ERGY a Bee oer Mrs silent you roast me, and ff I try to tell, MTS: Jarr. who was dyin a | Why," said Mr, Jarr, “I thought It ERILY, my Daughter, many men shall come unto Y thee, saying, “Behold, what a funny thing is, Woman, Lo, she 18 a joke! See how she useth; all things—even a razor to sharpen a pencil, and a but! 1 know nothing to! you something I hear which I think ept che freed herself | | will fnterest you you roast me more }than ever!" "T do not!” sald Mrs. Jar. \the time, was silent a minute and then| said, “Well, what ts 1t? | | “Oh, it’s nothing of any conse Mertet| |the only importance T can see it has 1s s a good joke on her getting Ger- trude."" “It's no joke taking one's girl trom | one!" said Mrs. Jarr. "If it was a But there oe ented Mirela a world of difference between a aul. {he TOW you are raising. but Elmer. the stranger one wouldn't mind, but, a8 | tonhook to pick a lock, and a stocking for a pocketbook, nd 4 courage len silence and a flood of gossip picked Tae tages wh ar In Gus's | said, [ always knew she was no and a hustand as a decoration or an errand boy. Yet, rgd 1 ry ce, told me’—— | good!” 7 if when sie found Up In saloons. Gentlemen would not Pas elertry Std EI -aitytyl act Met ted a SECRET she regardeth as the only thing worth TELLING. Then, WHY: take, who am I) mention ladies’ names In such placeg!| ‘Please don \ A tS OB “Who, Gertrude?” asked Mr. Jarr, =) s >EASON!" yl er? “But If you'll let me explain you')| knows him or speaks to him! sald Mrs./ q¥o, that bleached blonde, Mrs, Kit- | woman? For she hath no REASON! jemr her, {see there was no harm In it," said Mr, |S@T. tingly!” said Mrs. Jarr. Hearken unto him silently and repress thy smile: yet forsake not thy ut he: said Mr. | Jarr. | “t wasn't," replied arr, ‘hut he| And she meant what she sald, tor} foolish ways, for they are a joy unto his soul even as the workings of @ toy eard in Gus's just) “Of course, there was no harm {n ft!" | kno Gertninle, t! t girl we|amionx women the enticins away of a | steam engine and the mysteries of wireless telegraph. t Jarr. “If there was anything! thought we had. Do you know where! servant ts the unforgivable aln, | “Uw ew Y & ‘sald Mr Go to, foolish damsel, dost thou not knoie that to sharpen a pencil it 1a necessary to dirty thy thumb and endanger thy digits by pointing the thing. TOWARD thee, instead of AWAY from thee? Yea, hast thou not heard that. in order to clean a gun thou must FIRST look down the barrel—and AFa TERWARD call thy doctor? For these are the ways of a man, and he tg REASONABLE. 3 Then marvel not that he regardeth a sofa pillow as an ideal footstool, and a hairbrush as a hammer, and the parlor floor as an ash tray, and a 10,4 | as a doormat. Neither smile when a Mason rideth the goat and adorneth himself like unto a small boy playing “Indians,” nor laugh when a dignified, patriarch jumpeth up and down upon the baseball bleachers and waveth hig arms and yelleth like a Hottentot at a wedding. For there is nothing HU; MOROUS about a MAN ? And for whatever he doeth “there's a reason;” for he dorth it first—and inventeth the REASON afterward, and thou shalt never find him lacking | fora GOOD EXCUSE, . | Then let not thy vanity be ruffled when he calleth thee “a Uttle Joa for THAT is why he LOVETH thee, Verily, verily, it is better for a wo: | to be “cute” than a genius; and a POPLUAR woman maketh herself a TOY ' forever! Selah! ” The Day’s Good Stories # Concerning Rats. J urged the dame. CAPTAIN of an ocean liner tel! No, ma'am,” wound up the captain: a) By F.G. Long : i ‘ i i Why, you must be superstitious? the following atory: Coming from | tm not, but the rats ure, J A the old country was a very ner: patted The Preacher's Advice. Wi /' vous old lady who complained that she was sure there was a rat in her sta room. ‘M friends,” sald an Itineran Keep it there, madam,” said the cap- preacher, “the Sertptural’ rate tain, | for giving was one-tenth of But do you like rate?” asked she. | What @ man posse If you feet you | opye got a nest in my cabin,” re jecan't afford ao much, sust give ® mm. When they leave tho abip ym, and take up the collection,’= Lippincott’s.