The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1909, Page 14

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publis!ing Company, Nos, 68 to 63 Park Row, New York. JOSHPH PULITZER, Pres,, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Seo.-Treas,, 63 Park Row, | Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. Bubscription Rates to The Evening | For England and the Continent and World for the United State: and Canada AVE a ee WHAT'S THE MY HEART. | WANT By Albert Payson Terhune One Months... 931 One Mona aut HANTS BIW 15 BROKEN, To DARN — (ANT GSTS DARLING. STOCKINGS NO. 49—PORFIRIO DIAZ, VOLUME 49. Ap Tootsie ? IHAVE NO HOLES : HUSKIER FIREMEN. HE EVENING WORLD?’S de- mand for huskier quirements have been increased by adding an inch to the height and five pounds to the weight. After this | a man must be at| least 5 ft. 8 in.| tall and weigh at least 140 pounds This change was | necessary if the | pension list was | not to be swamped by weak men ph sically breaking down under the strain of a fireman’s life. The height and weight might be increased a little more. One hundred and fifty pounds is none too light for a man who must be physically capable of doing his share to hold a high pressure hose nozzle. When the Civil Service examinations attached more importance to book knowledge and less to physical huskiness the fire department pension roll became unduly increased. Instead of the retirements be- ing after twenty years of service and on half pay, there were scores of | young men who had served only a few months or years and who broke down through physical disability because of weak lungs, bad digestion | Wednesday, February 17, The Latest in Husbands. By Maurice Ketten. IN MY STOCKINGS) BROWN, HAVE You ANY HOLES IN YOUR STOCKINGS 9_ YES. BRING THEM UP HERE, QUICK DON'T WORRY DARLING! SRR MY BROWN wiTH LOTS \LOF STOCKINGS To SC ee > == AND WITH THIS LITTLE PRESENT MAY You BE HAPPY FOREVER “YEER UP DARLING TE THAT AND MARRY 5 me rf T= was an undertone of excitement throughout Vera Oruz, Mex!co, Fifty American Soldiers of Fortune: one day in 1876, when @ little steamer from New Orleans puffed {nto the harbor. The docks were fairly bristling with sples and por licemen, Every passenger that landed from the steamer was closely scrus y, For a rumor had reached the Mexican Government that a certain firebrand named Porfirio Diaz had left the United States and was on his way to Vera Cruz, The Mexican President, Lerdo, trembled at the news and cast wide his police nets to capture the dangerous rebel, It would firemen has been ‘coved by. the be a case of quick trial, a blank wall and a firing equad were Diaz captured. Se eae ve Coie Through the throng of sples and passengers swarming about the docks State Civil’ Service lurened a grimy, ragged, half-naked stoker from the newly anchored ship. Commission, The Already half-drunk, he shoved his way rudely through the crowd, evidently Civil Service re- in haste to get to the nearest saloon and begin the squandering of his wages, People recotled from his blackened, oily hands and from the filth of his few coalsmeared garments, Police and sples shouldered him aside in their eagerness to catch a glimpse of the outlaw they sought. The stoker ene tored the elty unmolested and quickly found a safe hiding place where he could change his rags for @ cleaner costume, #o that his friends might recognize him aa thelr champion, Porfirlo Diaz, ‘This was but one of Diaz's dl arrreneee ip countless hairbreadth escapes from death. » An Escape Diaz was born in 18%) of old Mexican stock, strengthened | In Disguise. by a strain of Indian blood. He studied for the priesthood, } mrerrnee g then for the law. But at seventeen he cast aside both pro- fessions in order to join a militla regiment for the defense of Mexico In the war with the United States. He hated the Mexican General, Santa Anna, and when the latter was proclaimed Dictator young Diaz left t army in dlegust, But when, In 185, he had nelped stir up @ revolt against t Government, he commanded a battalion In the brief civil war which drove Santa Anna from power. For his daring services in battle Diaz was then made political and military commander of an important district. Though ony twenty-five, he ruled his district with an jron hand and not only bullt up {ts prosperity but so juickly crushed insurrections and other disturbances that the eyes of the whole country were drawn to him, The next #!x years were spent In flerce warfare, during the varlous political uphe: that conyulsed Mexico. ‘Then came the French invasion that made Archduke Maximilian of Austria | the temporary Emperor of Mexico. Diaz, at the head of a desperate, {lI-fed, badly equipped army, fought the French unceasingly, Twice he was captured, and both times, by some brilliant ruse, he escaped, Once, with 0 men, he completely routed a force 2,000 strong, Then the French troops were withdrawn and Dias | was among the first of the loyal Mexicans to begin the task of wresting his land | free from Maxtmillan's grip. He besieged the City of Mexico, and on June 2 7 forced {ts surrender. Maximilian was at last shot and Empire’ forever overthrown. ‘Then {t was that Diaz looked for reward, Mexico was a republic, v | He wanted to be Its president. The election was {n October, 1897, and he was dee feated for the presidency by Gen. Juarez, From that moment Diaz began to cone | | spire against the Government. | Revolt after revolt he ralsed, In the local Congress and through tho press he | sought to undermine Juarez. His nsurrections fatied. Once he was forced to tly | for safety dreased aga priest, ‘The tale of his adventures and escapes during this | time would read like a dime novel. He found himself at last obliged to | | leo. He fled to the United States. In July, 1872, Pre ftent Juarez died. His cessor, Lerdo, offered pardon to political offenders, and Diaz came back, Quickly Z | the “human firebrand” stirred up a@ new insurrection, Af pard-fougn® or faulty frames. | | patie in Tcamole he was again forced to flee to the United for a year Few men can safely be taken from indoor employment and put at ys so he constructed “at long range” another revolution, When he thought the : v ae for his return was ripe he left New Orleans for Vera Cruz, On the way, a fireman’s job. The exposure to the weather which a longshoreman, a truckman, a lineman, a freight handler or a hod carrier would not mind has ruined the health of many clerks, bookkeepers and high | school graduates who took high rank in the civil service list because | finding that his coming was expected by the Governme © water with the tdea of swimming ashore at some | picked up by @ boat, carried back to the slip, guised as a stoker, Raising an army of 7,000 men he hurled himself upon Le: first two battles Diaz's gene he threw himself into uarded point. He was at Vera Cruz, landed dise In the led o's troops, Diaz es 0) 4 of their book knowledge. third battle In person (at T 4 Superior physique is the more necessary since the high pressure A Dash { Hoh Come, tain win upon fc ar i ' "1 a . ' for Power, NALCO te rons ceerel system has been put in use, The force from the stationary pumps is be f ) Mexican Supreme Court, declared himself Pr is 2 Crain) Fea ( | republic by right of succession. Diaz made short work of higher than from any fire engine, It takes three or four strong rhen ieledintarenaning ia trcopalecalilelnroenestalli Nee a to hold a hose election as President, He hed reached the goal of his am | 1 5, | he M ey td “ 4 \ nozzle with the “ . =A lorena Lo ere See r pumping stations . “ ” ; © | Ing Gonzales's term and later Diaz had the Cons > «llow. te eeraiale Aunt Prue Fixes Her “Busybody” to the Jarr Window | 2 Intense number of terms 5 a Pesan 8 H Presidency again and h held it ever since For one of these A d S ity ; : Revolts have been started from time to time, but Divz } n ees Exciting Pictures ot Street Happenings |» Ha RE 4 tters has enabled him to put th men to weaken on ; 5 ie é t» | Diaz has dispersed them. The nation rey : f NN) { ef © anc his job imperils and hear what {s going on In the street |tures in the “busybody.” The scene | sicged the drug stove and flattened thetr Feces Sriisegicul urea une, erlang | By R L. M’Cardell i is the long series of wars, Diaz has |ifted HM to a higher emi th every one near by, y Koy L. APAEN. | outside. NcoUA THe JanllGEN aking htsalirelll| nonea) amalnala hasvlateleleaal qindowal ccenun cepapeecs tavavexiectinhavarahiconspivatos Rea nrevern ineslesaattioed auhien MeN aT STA URC Eridencel | Nir uarracculaynaverputntercuriosity,| fiom) the) ISterscart eh and, after read-|The ambulance came and carried the | ruler, eat > NM Ek La Ls) and high pressure S. OARR'S Aunt Prudencer|machine in operation, but Mrs, Jarr|ing the post cards and holding the let-| victim away. Following this flat- i | hose which gets te tin antl cry ine Gad _ | feared he might drop it into the street ters up to the light to see if they con-| house thief was chased down the street \ ; t jo c seh eee and felgn tt an accident, So Mra, tained money, stuck them In his|and atter this excitement dled down Missing numbers of thie series may be obtained ty aending one Grey fam tho street with | @ |Jarr called tn the service of the Janitor | Jumper pocket and then atrolled down | some rubbiah took fire in a cellar across vena {er each) Sumber te Circelstion Uebariiment) Hreaiag Worte: control of the noz- ugh the aia [2nd secretly tipped him a quarter for|to Gus's eeloon on the corner, iiekwavianalthelcrerensineslfliealthe “the { A j oe tor ehe {8 trouble, because Aunt Prudence wae “In Philadelphia that mail man would | s:root lemen threshes SA ers and didn’t believe tn tipping, be Feported:"” sald Aunt Prudence acrid: | won't you come to breakfast, Aunt around like a piece a cite. ciille ever thanked about ene nies sols Hine yne people's | Prue?” asked Mrs, Jarr. ‘ h t rad f Bea eg! and, tna (o @ man whoae breath smelled 80) “Breakfast?” shrilled the relative! @ a 1n S 0 rs 0 0 d of a broken fly ey ee inent Jat , didn’t have to. It's only | of Bea eeitarranaithare: haa ibese ‘trom Philadelphia, "I never get time . N x wheel or belt. to eat when I'm in this town! Bring me mirrors that adorn so many robberies of letter boxes that x pa ai Hed eat ny A a cup of tea and some toast, and, oh, | i ; < 0 The spirit of second-story Bit Fiithout money and wit ma have (ald hleaitoltske the!malli@lex:|eacavss py pasture taut ctacrsee Being the Confessions of the Seven % ly ; a dows of most Phil- | iP ord en plained Mrs. . (ive uy P civil service is arnt ae erfed Aunt I plained) Strsi Jace the like i Hundredth Wife. ® B phia rest There Why {an't the servant girl out wash:| what is it now?” asked Mre, Jarr, | 8 good, Every man eae ene behind a del Br marble steps x thestms the) “sWhat fs {t now?" replied the y itor. | Translated 8 ; iladelphia | ¢ there was ilttie Willie | mall man comes f the way Wel why, the ashman has ups ft should have the ca | fieaeen , ey GEL TE Imanhhesiupeet) aicanice By Helen Rowl: ® 4 j i otal ld have been half way |to in Pht said Aunt Pru-|ashes all over a well dressed man, and y 2 and, 0) job which he is t 1B on to the back of a they are having a terrible fight! A POTDOGDODODPDODOCOITGOGOCOHDDSIGODAOIDIGS best qualified to fill, It is all the more necessary that the civil service rules should be intelligently constructed and CJ mm Aor a C} room upsta These mirror arrangements are known in the Quaker City as They may occasionally be seen also tn the quiet re. unseen themselves, an hat goes on in the stree ladelphia this {sn't much. Mrs. girl, Jarr remarked that she had no and If she had a girl the girl! wouldn't scrub door steps. The Janitor | was paid to do that and didn't. And now two Itallan cual peddlers of y | and look rhood brought @ sharp busl- | geify s rivalry to a crisis by @ rough and neer’s wagon, while his ter, screaming at the top o! lungs. The next moment Mrs, Jarr had run jdown the stairs, and, the wagon com- ing to a stop a few doors below, dragged young hopeful from tt, gavi “Busybodies. Jence sections of Brooklyn. drunken man is being ejected from that | place on the corner, and I never saw | so many people with nothing better to do than to hang out of the window and \etare at every little thing! in the “Aunt Prudence,’ sald Mrs not like unto a Lavra Jean Libbey novel in the matter of excitement, but rather like unto @ Sunday-school book which teacheth a lesson or a Wage nerian concert which is dull but improving, Boers of matrimony, oh my Daughter, for it ie Just come | *busybody” for your- | Jarr, “If properly applied that the principle of civil service may not be brought] py their eld the Indy of the house can him @ resounding slap and. sent him Je fight, and after it was over Oli [FORE EN to CuUtO RHA Teh chat And she that seeketh to make it a melodrama shall to discredit. know everybody's business, so far as/and his Ittle sister on thelr way to policeman appeared and drove the! please don't ask mo to look in it. I'd| find tta farce. Fora man weddeth not for excitement, but for a rest. the street si ws It, school again, d away. Following this a man was| pout displaying have nervous prostration. Verily, a wife's emotions may amuse, but they shall not confuse a huse Were the civil service machinery pure and perfect in its workings ‘ 1 , N {ahi h . * L ’ : t TKINES | the frank an ile Mrs. Jarr returned breathless to find knocked down at the corner by an auto- Nonsens sa jer aunt sharply. 5 4 WERT c 4 * ; | “philadelphia Is the only place for that : . ) there could be no pull and no favoritism in any of the classified of-| ¥* k people evince when they Aunt Prudence in a glow of Indigna- le and was carried into a drug) you got nervous peDRrACIeN there wait: band tioned plateer LUnCLOr Nish hecs iL Roce RMRcoueclen ce, DUE Rn CCAIED ¢ | fices, Merit and competency would decide who should be appointed in the first place and who should be promoted afterward. 6 Letters From the People | ry 1p a window and hang out of ft to see tion at the next eerles of moving pic- The Million Dollar Kid # YES ,I'M THE BIGGEST TAX: NOW I CAN GO OUT The population !mmediately be-| ing for something to happen!’ By R. W. Taylor | Yea, daily scenes upon the parlor carpet and tantrums over the coffee urn \ become unto him, in time, but a part of the household regime, even as thé rattle of the china in the kitchen or the Monday dinner of scraps, For a man's ideal wife ia not a tragedy queen, but a china doll with a face that never changeth expression and a patent amile and a mechanicab | 1S | heart and hair and a temper that never getteth out of curl. ¥ Take no heed for thy raiment at breakfast, for thy husband shall noe i aaa RLS { glance at thee, yet when thou goest forth to a dinner party adorn thyself Cat and Mice Problem, Jbut “Eagles, "Stars," “Beehtves,” | JPAYER IN TOWN AND I WANT IN MY NEW Suit with much care and many puffe and pull in thy corsets, for he will compare CaEDTA AD mine St aay ie. peas Wee that @ party adver-, [MY STREET WASHED Down NITHOUT GETTING thee critically with every woman in the room. He eee ent Ee reea ati Toll SaEeATTTGRrae err ATT sohatREOTT GTaT (oll hue ONCE We (Lew PAY: YOUNTHE ALL Muppy ! Seek not to keep thy husband deneath thy feet; neither sit at HIG thr three mice In three for thelr own political bondage, is the ZA, \ feet nor tread upon his corns; for a ttle politences is better than much y cats. will re- {deal form ! | gush; and to hold any man thou must hold him at a distance. KE RS | M STONEBRIDGE, | of Pratne. 1M minutes? CA Legal Ald Soctety, No. 239 Broad- way, To the Editor How to have mi Origin of “Marathon.” Verily, I say unto thee that to be happy in marriage a wife shouldst | possess the guile of a serpent, the skin of a rhinoceros, the self-control cf | the Sphinz, the heart of a jelly-flah, the consctence of a Munchausen, anid clothes as good as any other woman on the block. Salah! || % The Day’s Good Stories ¥ i Ps ————E——— To the Piitor of T ne Wor i} ia ema . HAWKINS. i ' der wha c GEE’ NEXT TIM are colors, value one dollar, Paint ma | ‘ u ( YUL HAVE THE E | Art Comes High. @ picture with these colors on this can- oe 2 A E | WOMAN, standing on the Ham-| vas, and I will pay you $1.75." What twent) STREET DRY- A burg-American line's pier with will the painter say? He will say, kent » A CLEANED | | four trunkfuls of French gowns, | "Madame, those are no terms for an Hal " ; 5) \ meres tea \told a reporter a story about the late] artist.” I say more, I if you i ersia :: | 1. Paquin. think my terms too Day me noth { Later | nq New York lady," she sala, “once|Ing and keep the robe,” Art does n f Weaariiater | ventured. to remonstrate with Paquin | descend to the Iittleness of haggling. | name > IGF because he had charged her $700 for a| 4 4 ymin tio TRAIT ball dress. | Thrown His Way. To the Balto of The Bvestig World \ “The material,’ she sald, ‘could be! ; S q Many Ueland o : \bought for #10, and surely the work (467 DON'T Enow why I should tect nrgent need for nomina «H | would be well pald with $60 more.’ am chap ties ANI cll. Yet oon ne Mae |W isfadamet sald Paquin, with hia| ©, cou neve, Crew Anything may, Wega, (ny use int Ei at |grandest alr, ‘go to your American, tte: aan ited the oth MPP LOHTRL Whe. banadt be bought are 4 | painter, Sargent, In his little Tita street HT eee Fee eee district leaders, and that the people are and man, @Ull too ignorant to vove ter anything Haven ‘ i “I atruck a man with my autos studio, and say to him; “Here !8 @ mo) in front of your house the othes, | yard of canvas, value # cents; and here Lday."—xonkers Sclemas, ’ t . , r