The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1909, Page 14

a ANAL STEELS NC TS TE I TON en Me . \ The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wedvesday, February 24, .1909. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. B3 to 63 | His Day NS) of R est. PRUE NT SE is @ Fant Ar | By Maurice Ketten. JOSHPH PULITZER, Pres., 63 Park Row, mg Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter, yer! Rates to The Evening ) For England and the Continent and | Bae iarter the United States All Countries tn the International a Historical Mysteries | By Albert Payson Terhune Postal Union. $2.50 | One Year....ss 30! One Month, t = $9.78 One Year, One Month.. NO, 2—KASPAR HAUSER, the Boy Who Mystified All Europll A GAPING crowd gathered around the gates of the German clty Nurenr “PRIVATE INTOXICATION.” | HOULD men “slightly intoxicated in the evening” be allowed to go | home or be taken to the station | house? | This is a question which the State Prison Commission de- cides in favor of the home and against the station house, The Commission says “no public pol- icy requires that they should be arrested. Some policemen do not hesitate to stretch their juris- diction and make arresta for pri- vate intoxication.” One policeman “stretched his jurisdiction” eo far as to go in a private house and arrest the woman who was in bed intoxicated. He compelled her to put on her clothes and go to the station house. The number of arrests last year for intoxication in its various, forms was 39,750. This accounts for a large proportion of the arrests in New York City, where an arrest for intoxication counts one the same as an arrest for murder, for burglary or arson, Although, ac- cording to the State Prison Commission, there are 800 homicides a year in New York City, with only seven per cent. convictions, and many of those on pleas minor to the first degree, the police make a big showing by arresting intoxicated men. Also for such other serious offenses as burglary, arson and grand larceny the percentage of convictions is very low. berg early on the morning of May 26, 1828, They were watching a strangely dressed youth of about eighteen years, who leaned help 4 lessly against a wall, his hands pressed to his eyes to keep out the light, Police officers questioned him, The boy could not speak. He was tol ss) to move on. At the first step he tottered and fell. He did not know how ty | walk. He was taken to prison as a vagrant, There closer examinatio: | showed that though in age he was apparently eighteen, he was in every other! » respect an infant, The soles of his feet were rounded like those of a baby,: 4 showing that he had never walked. His hands were little better developed, He had not been taught to speak. His eyes could not bear the light of day. Beef and beer were set before him. At sight of them he went into convule sions. But when he was offered bread and water he ate and drank greedily, Some one showed him a collection of toys, He cried out with fear at thelr | Strange shape, till he chanced to see among them a wooden horse. This he seized with joy, kissing it and clasping it in his arms. Pen and paper were on @ table at which he was seated, To every one's surprise he wrote {n @ crude but legible hand A Full Grown } the name “KASPAR HAUSER.” He could write nothing “Infant.” else, nor even speak the name he had written. Yet he had ——rrr"_ the Dearing and appearance of a German aristocrat. A . local scientist, Dr, Daumer, became Interested In Kaspar and adopted him. The boy quickly learned to talk, read and write, He had evidently been brought up {n silence as well as in ignorance, for every sound exe cited him. The ringing of a bell made him weep, Hearing the music of a passing milltary band for the first time, he fainted. Little by little, too, he remembered bits of his past. He told of being brought up in a dim-lit cell, where bread and water were his only food, and a wooden horae his one plaything. He had been fed, washed and dressed by a man whose face he had never been allowed to see. This man, it seemed, had never talked to him, but had taught him to write the name, “Kaspar ‘| Hauser.” It had taken Kaspar a year to learn to write it. Then the man had | blindfolded him, carried him @ long distance, removed the bandage from his eyes and left him leaning against the city wall of Nuremberg. This story attracted great interest and many people flocked to Daumer’s | house to see the strange youth, On Oct. 17, 1828, having been left alone in a room for s few minutes, Kaspar shrieked for help, Daumer, rushing into the | room, found him lying on the floor bleeding from a wound In the forehead. Tha boy sald that a man whose face was blackened had secretly entered the room, | stabbed him and escaped. No trace of the would-be assassin was ever found, This attempted murder revived public curlosity about Kaspar, His wound | healed and he was removed to the nearest magistrate’s house, where two polices #y men were detalled to guard him, In spite of this a pistol shot one night awakened | the household, and Kaspar was again found lying wounded on the floor, He coula?* give no,clear account of the shooting. * By this time {t was evident to Daumer that some great mystery surround), jthe lad. Powerful persons had undoubtedly been responsible for his long in | prisonment, and those same persons were now anxlous, for some reason, to have | | } « 4 f | him killed. What the motive might be for 8o remarkable a conspiracy none could | fj) |’ p | ‘ | | imagine. Lord Stanhope, a rich Englishman, became Interested in Kaspar and had him | sent to Anspach to be educated, planning to take him later to England, Stanhope | thought If the youth were removed from Nuremberg the attempts at assassination would cease, For mare than two years Kaspar studied In Anapach, under the famous Prof, Fuhrmann. Then came the time arranged for the departure of | Stanhope and himself for England, | On the eve of thelr Journey, Dec. 14, 1833, Kaspar went for a last stroll in the | palace grounds of Anspach. Soon afterward he staggered Into Stanhope's houge, | mortally wounded by a knife-thrust in the side, He gasped the words: “Palacé- | Uzen—monument—purse!" and died. Stanhope went to the palace gardens to Investigate. There, on the base of the Uzen Monument, lay a violet-silk purse. Inside the purse was a slip of paper | with the following hastily scrawled words “Kaspar Hauser, born April 90, 1812. Murdered Dec. 14, 1833, Know by this that I come from the Bavarian frontler, A Murder and ff bh | a Message. on the river, These are the initials of my name L. 0." Fes Ae ce | Aes That was all, Stanhope offered a 5,(00-florin reward for — oa : i | the murderer's arrest. The police of all ‘ope sought to ' ; f 2 aaie | vIn the money and to gain fame by clearing up so notable a mystery. But nothing Tt is easy to make a high percentage record by arresting men for iu was ever discovered that could throw Ilght on the case. It was rumored being drunk and disorderly. Some men show it when they have three hat some one high in royal authority must be shielding the a sassin, But thie F proven, or four drinks. Many men burst out in song while they are still | Extra ! Poor Mrs. Ja ET Is G oin g to Leave Her Husba nd! Diaisetuntapeyiveristeadli tslendices(niaseateriaenviuetttnatrir tie signs of able to walk. They may not walk straight, but would get home in ’ *, ; | some black mystery whose keeping was considered worth twenty-two years of Te PRUE ee ta ie Really, She Is. At Least—There! She’s Forgiven Him!) |: sari mr ston keine wn As a matter of law private intoxication is not an offense. Any one has the legal right to drink any quantity of alcoholic Not the drinking but the making of ing numbers of this series may be obtained by sending one cent ° JIt you have no respect for me youyused to be. In fact, I was talking with | would look very prett By Roy L. McCardell. | | for each namber required, to Cireulation Department, Eve; | might have for your children, for {f/ a woman, anda very fine and cultivate’ | ‘The candy?” asked Mr. Jarr. |] AM not angry \ began Mrs, Jarr, | they were to wake up they'd hear you!’ | woman she was, too, who clerks In a! “No, the humble room where I would “But I wasn't swearing,” said Mr. | candy store, and she told me that she ee the children to, for I wouldn't £0 | ~ ar cae and when a woma such disturbance as to interfere angry you may Jarr, “I was only saying that {f men|had, to leave her husband because he | home. It would please my mother too 4, 2 : : . ‘ were punished in the Hereafter for such | drank and didn't rt her." | much." lf s with the public peace is the minor sald Mr. Jarr, "I little things there wouldn't be any place} “But I support you,” interposed Mr, | "You'd break vp our happy home for My “Cycle of Readings 7 offense for which tens of thous- haven't been out | big enough to hold them." Sarr, “and 1 don't drink. That ts," he |a Job In a candy store you haven't fal ' ds of t f lvarad so very long, and} "I want you to stop making those re-| corrected, “not to speak of.” tained as yet?” asked Mr, Jarr, smiling | By Count Tolstoy. ; ands of arrests are annually made, this {9 the first |marka about retigion, too!" sald Mrs.| «on, you drink plenty to epeak of, 1|'0 himself. 4 “Well, I could be a nurse," eald Mrs. | Jarr; ‘that pays better, Nurses get at |least twenty dollars a week, and they Jalways look so neat and cor ng in It would be better if the po- lice promptly arrested every man who committed murder or bur- glary or arson or grand larceny, and if those arrests were followed by the same percentage of convic- —— Translated by Herman Bernstein, —= (Copyrighted by the Presa Publishing Company, the New York World, 1908.) (Copyrighted by Herman Bernstein.) Hy Ll time tn weeks that | Jarr. "You'll be sorry for being euch | could speak of it, My mother speaks of | out or |an {nfidel when It's too late. When my 4t yty Aunt Prue from Philadelphia yed | mother is here that's the way you talk spoke of it. I feel eure the neighbors a little late.” | just to hurt her and try to weaken her! are speaking of It, And T won't stand |) oy et unttorms, ‘That white and t'a just tt" | fatth In the comfory of her bellef. You jt any more, yours out night irs. Jarr, |seem to take a delight tn grieving her ight! “Ae I said not angry, blue stripe uniform dress the nu nt chsh after nigh! z * St, Luke's wear {8 very fetching, and | by saying you don’t believe in Eades.” 1.4 Pye made up m at If you) " M i i 1 bad he caps make them look real pretty T A t e Form of Truth. The italicized paragraphs are (Count Tolstoy's original commerts on the subject. do not do better we must pi “T take {t all back,” sald Mr, Jarr, OR Liial linecievapateains orev ea RISES ¢ ‘ | | | had | "there ts a Hades. It's right where calms And to show ho\ she was cana’ ain ry ' : 7 ” c RE ind fixed it on her hair as if it were a ~} 4) tions as in police court drunk and your mother happens to be Mrs. Jarr checked a tear with her hand- | , ; bokeatatineraeltiinitive EOPLE in most cases do not acknowledge the 1 disorderly cases. The community Ed nag eee By ne 1 | Kerchtet ena; then Ulew he picture was a pleasing one. | truth because they are offended by the form in FEB in ma J | wouldn't be h ae : ea ; aa { ‘Oh, don't be cross smiled at her reflection and said which the truth is presented to them, le at large would not complain if the r, Jarr pleas. {sald Mrs. Jarr. “But I have stood this} pe gensible!"’ es, that’s what I'm going to do if you | ng worse | thing for the last time. If you are m | You he sensible, y ra, Jarr, “and show you are sensible acting sensible, Oh, I could get ; ' . leg, | ant do tbe ve better, 1 bigger offenses were punished and the ordinary jag left to go home! jy lo not behave better; 1 either in joy or tears, according to his temperament. an! the corner |fond of the saloon than you are of your ‘ou need | home, you go live in a saloon and Til} m just {n time, th: a breaks through a dam—as soon as {t breaks through be a Ue QUARREL, once engendered, 1s like a stream which 24, | | ve got a terrible headache, & a If It's a sin take the children and support them.” | siong, nnd besides the black dress and| “walt till I get you one of thore| it can no longer be stemmed.—The Talmud. j ‘ ne of pinochie or bow “Don't be foollsh,” sald Mr. Jarry! white apron that y wore in the headache wafers," sald Mrs. Jarr, going Ga Ne OE agar eee ae our friends where will they | “how could you support them? |eandy store was oming to her. |to the bureau, “Or will you try my 8 soon as wo begin to feel angry In argument we are no longer arguing for h | m enough to stow away the| “I could! I could! Well, I don't care! and, even if it so much, I/menthol? Was Mr, Rangle there to- A the sake of the truth, but for ourselves.—Carlyle, Letters rom t e eop e ned?" what I would do," sald Mrs, Jarr, “out| could bring the ren home candy nt? Mrs. Rangle makes such a fuss ~eomworeerrrrrrr : | ws you stop that” sald Ara, Jarr| { could get @ position tn « store, Women |every night to our little room, and If ft) tf he's ont, when really the man la not | CAN never convince another man In any way except by hie own thoughts, — aaa shorply, "I don't Ike to hear you swear. are not dependent on men ike they|was flaed up with 2 curtains it |a bad sort.” ‘| Consequently I must suppose that he has a good and accurate judgment; A “Shabby” Sidewalls, young gentlemen who mix with good) — ‘ IRE RD otherwise It would bp useless to hope that I could win him over to my side World society? These I beg to cal! attention to t.a shabby of good families, anc = appearance of the siiewalk surround: Jarately are gentlemen. I am|)} {ng the Bushwick Branch of the Brook- only a olgirl and have nev lyn Public Library. It seems to me in @|tertatned betora, Am I to expect t worse condition than some of the side-|treatment at every soctal I give or walks of the oldest ramshackle tene-|I to excuse tt as Brooklyn high # are refined, me To the Faltor of The Er when visi @ | by my arguments. Even so, I cannot act upon the moral feeling of another man In any way except through his own feelings, Consequently I must suppose that | Stent oe \ ‘ tch i 1e possesses a certain kindness of heart; otherwise he would never feel an ayer Fooie, the Bowler (nese wengcaie Byford Gs Wong |e em cia ltt niece gna! | and my praise of virtue—Kant, nO é . ated - _ os THING helps the triumph of reason so much as the calmness of thos , 0 , it is possible that |hashtuiness his || (ipa YOU CANT NOW, lion Lt 3 of those pe Paar Tey CaSTAALER DEEL ena | [0 ae we 106 wy) Ag | BE UIGGEREO. who serve it. The truth often suffers more from the zeal of its defenders Mid wil) halattendel tol'eacn, Buti It posse: ee. Tuar!, than from the attacks of {ts opponents. —Payne, and will be sae cic cn the tipary | 70.the Editor of The Evening Wor 2S) 7 y eee cp gerers certal OKs out Of place, the tibrary | watch ie tne terete nie area ana | [ea7/ ‘ ] | having been open and apparently com- | popuiat inn ham worlaeLendentias VEN if the speaker be a fool, listener, be toise. A mild answer turne | | pleted a few months ago, and Peas Ses New York? APM, (eh away wrath; offensive words rouse it, posite a large new public schoo e | What Percentaget | eee h to the; | |4F a man deserves praise try not to withhold !t from him. Else you risk not / ] only to turn him aside from the proper path by depriving him of the support (i and approval which he needs, but you are also losing the greatest of priv- arison does not reflect credit of the library's appearance To the Falitor of The Evening Wor! A In Right, obvious avis auiar de asarevasine wionss per cent. fleges—that of rewarding a man according to his deserts.—Ruskin. i | A says John D. Rockefeller, the elder, | °ht Ua pave Desa iaueht (od . has a wife living. B says he has not thetezle pore eg Aa ee | F you possess the truth, or even if you think you possess {t, expreas 48 in. , Which {3 right? ADR Heya tellfshentekagirn (heveniancertrs the simplest of forms, but, above all, do not assail the opinions o} \y \ Py Rechte F j selling price, and further claim that others, S| : 1894, fall? That was my birthday haveltavakow (meteveiiiitaeas a - - POT . | nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmnnannnsnanin fy | ONC ic eteae griams ev recta [please DIAGRAM SHOWING Love's GREAT — |b Sp ES fianseee [AGT ‘1! The Day’s G +f | A rasa a a Grievance. Horse: ineuxemecay tanh QUARTER SPLIT. 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They wouldn't join | To the Editcr of The Evening W To LOO/E .| prpprters \thmes for bothering him with useless | doctor he found the good HY br the others {n dancing or In games. They Can a sd inae questions. ¢ of great apprehension, ‘ ‘ I pa, what"—— | "T've got all the symptoms of the dise your mother!” | Military Academy ng at) not, what is sor In making | !s required to f 3--- e— ~~~ pe —- — ~~ 1 V7 K |i i ings of ing W “Honest, pa, this Isn't a silly one this surd 1 have caught {t from you" % ‘ room. Needless to say, every one isa! The Go i seth ida Oe ce MAIL right, this once. What ie itr’ | aaked the patient. ortable. Readers, kind- | malary durin ty tell me are these the actions of all | See World Why, man,” replied the doctor, “ft “Well, if the end of the world was to} don't think I can cure {i Harper’ od Weekir, . come, and the earth was destroy’ ’