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

The — sue motte EVENINGALEDITION ZT ch qs Che Pager Wold, Published Dully Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 88 to 63 Fark Row, New ¥ J. ANGUS SI bee ' Junior, Seety, Entered at t-Office at New York as & Matter, Bubscrintion 1 The nent and i World for tie d States All ¢ und . One Year. $3.60 | One Year One Mont! . +80 | One Mont VOLUME 49. ...6 veeeveseees eenhereeteress SO IRE CHIE! Gen. Wood, of Governor's Island, ks honora lischarged sol- diers to apply for jobs in the Fire Department. Chief Croker feels that what the Fire Department needs is men of good physique, accustomed to discipline and fearless, The Police Department has ‘ { the same need. << oo The Civil Service system as at present administered does not bring to the Police and Fire Depart- ments the kind of men best suited to their requirements. No Civil Service examination can test a man’s habit of obedience or his di cipline or his self-control or his courage. t} Any man who can stand the rigid army physical examination should be able to pass a municipal physical examination. If he has served out his term in the army and has a good conduct discharge, | | that of itself is proof that he obeys orders, that he goes where he is told and does what he is told. No great employer of labor selects his men by such a eystem as the Civil Service of this city employs. He is more interested in the epecial than the general knowledge of his employees, in their ability | to do the specific work required of them, not their general fitness for all sorts of things. Every big employer puts a high value on previous experience and training. That is one of the best assets of an honorably discharged soldier. The United States has gone to the trouble and expense of | breaking him in, weeding the worst men out and branding the quitters ‘as deserters. IMUNIC) \ Pay ROA The cost to the city of the present system is two-fold. It enor- mously adds to the pension roll. It costs again in bad service, Just as a good sailor makes the best kind of iron worker on hig! ) buildings, so a good soldier would make a good policeman or a good fireman. Where the Civil Service makes Its mistake is in assuming that the nbility to answer certain questions implics knowledge, and that the kind of examination which a tmart high school graduate can , pass is the best mental test of fit- ness for municipal employment. Common senge is more valuable than a knowledge of the names of the rivers which flow into the Mediterranean. — Self-control worth more than a parrot-like list of the capitals of the various States, Such a knowledge of the duties of a fireman or a policeman as can be taught in a Civil Service school has less practical use than a few years’ experience at driving a truck or an enlistment honorably served in the United States Army. e % CROWKER, through Evening World Daily Maga | | % zine, Wednesday, Mar aa ~ “A St. Patrick of To- By Maurice Ketten, ay. of fa! in ye ca! sa or { i »? m! ch Letters From the People A Farmer's to the Ex The E T have read how some peop lo exist on an ou) Groceries, meat Adults, I cannot see live on a farm of f Iniles from New York xpensen. per cent., {t would yield an annual in- of one nd twenty lower t For the tax ning Wor would force the v improve or s 0 tax at 2 building trade n short 0: u Doth sides of the s will pay i expenses TO ‘ . will be a little \ s I an , ir) and wou! The Mathematienl Child, pry ‘ . high 1 probiemn i ttore ie é as Tha i Woes t t teld Up" Va. “Held Down,” 1p," sw 4 t Wo the Fi mites ‘ Right. move out of jed t ents i araiees nto the t f w here Vrs } te mile . ts? ; nents. ¢ und. It f 1 remer ‘ value(s alent beer ed at three} A. U., Paterson, N night and as yet have not given y evening He Goes to Sleep Wherever He Happens to Fall tell you all, I was out Logstory, the prominent young press/ never had the advan with Harold| for a simple hardworking man, who ge of a college y D. Sullivan.” van?" repeated Mr. By Roy L. McCardell. | 4 see Be DeDera amen Mr! agent, who likes to see everybody's training in drinking,” sald Mr. Jarr. “Senator Sullivan doesn't wear t, "that a preacher out In Cale name tn print his own, that s| "Picked ft all up himself, too, Studied trogans:”* cago advised his \ but he gives away irs when he ng, never has everybody who par's “I'm sure I do r hard, practiced at od care who you were | should have be: ‘e tho: riends t 3 every fifteenth of January wor! with nor where you went," said Mrs. had even the assistance of @ corres- 4 Mrs, Jarr, “and they are all R Jarr, Mst a 7 pondence schoo! course {n elbow bens ing vith his initials which stay till Hee eatin ie He took me to see his show. They | and nose painting by the internal pro- ar out, only nobody knows It ae n had ay to sult) cess, and now loo! : cases ke our janitor, who! h New York don't care to look at him," # and falls head first : I i a Detust | sranvarr mane I did, all I need to} alt way down the steps to the base- tera that need jan- ES AtOn COM C1 |do would be to ut of the i His wife never wants him to go ise eves been hard up Indeed! yindow. T + down the | “own to the Bowery to get the shoes, Ahaperonaticaald | eemeie naked yOuNs salah MrsiSarr | steneu ead nent, head | but he says he might as well save §2, 90 | Sin a with) SOU didn’t think of your wite, I no-| gown and ng up over the |He goes down there every election and | seme a Use ans t to see a play Mf tt) Davement. His favorite position, 1 saw | Votes all day for Mr. 8 n. So he wasn't for M ¥ upstairs belng | pin," | takes his month's wages and goes down so kind-he |e egtow did you know it was he?” 1 efter the free brogans. He always comes “That rer vith the brogans but none of his Jarr. |Mr. Jarr. “We have other worthy d n Mrs,| ards on this block, who drink | asked and sleep wherever they ed man,| “Because he always fails scapped | basement steps and leaves | sticking up the sidewalk, Mrs, Jarr. "I can tell It's fo because 1 was Out a little late last| ‘I wonder wha 1 Kittingly would | “She doesn't w may be s Jar ages. ment Just as you see him now, and a I Then he falls down the base- | n | a the | sight he is!” "Yea," said Mr. Jarr, dren to 1 up be hart you ‘Not very pretty 1 go down and no his feet | replied | for ch m by the } see, replied Mr. s before a notary of tizens, all right.” d them her-| big Initials 'T, D. 8." stamped In the! from school ey are only in the yy of no Interest to :ne How'd she | hollow of his brogans.” kt garten and I do not cere to have sald Mrs. Jarr, c like the Janitor I wonder?” “But those are not Alfred's Inttlals, get their initial experience with “Ugh! That awful jan ‘said Mrs, said Mr. Jarr, "Alfred's last neme|scme of the letters of the alphabet | Ja Any minister who w Im as that way.” sox | ‘ng that you do nog care and 4 ch nis welcome Bricourserthes f fate he went down and hauled |have no curlosity,” sald Mr. Jarr, “lll {8 one gr ze fighter | interrupted Mrs. Jar: testis chaperon for a distiller, fee sia ——— —— = sues Bas coer 3 | 1 h B ] 4, Watch Him Roll! | ooie, the Bow fy Wate Him Roll @ie By Ferd G. Lon mn ’ i] . | \) er 1 He's a Wonder! @1% OS g “1 ww : —e Ne Loow AT DOT, \ | Youve Gor: TO ) BABY SPLIT’) | MARE IT, LOVIE, ~ OR WE LOSE. { Yust a ANOTHER LOOIE _MINUTE, Samael | 6 it DIAGRAM SHOWING LOolE'S SUSPENDER BABY SPLIT {RECO GNI/Z WE 00, Yous WONDER FUL (SA/LL- MASAARAAIKLALLLKRAARS The pretty oficial Reader, at such tin int cessfully urge upon was suspicious, succeeding where wise state duced himself as the fair } tal Vinee pered, ¢ major! mystery has nev venting World, Ae deliverance from the evil of the existing order And I declare that any ene, 19098 9s Fifty Historical Mysteries ~~ By Albert Payson Terhune 10} (9) (@) @ @ @) @) 10} @ (0) @ @ © NO. XL-THE MYSTERIOUS CHEVALIER D'LON, PRETTY, red-cheeked girl sat at the fect of the Empress Elizabeth of Russia, reading aloud to Her Majes' At times the reading would cease, and the two women would drift into conversation. , would 1 ge to guide the talk nt very tactfully the great advantage to political channels and to an alllance between France had long sought for nt diplomatist who could suc mpress this alliance, But Elizabeth her conf Her new Reader was 1 failed. For Elizabeth had taken a r political arguments and soon was ince, This was in 1765, The next ara dashing young Frene ndsome and muscular, though short, me to Elizabeth's court at Moscow on a diplomatte mission, He intro brother, and his relationship to tbe a few an ney to the girl, listened eager duced to consent to the man, | ader's lented girl won him an !mme: As a matter of fact, the Reader and her rother” were one and the me person, ‘And that person's name was as doubtful as his (or her) claims to being a man woman. The Meader and “brother was Charles Genevieve Louise Augustus (two masculine and two feminine names) LD’ Kon, rles eve, &c, ig known to history as The Chevallier Lr Queer Case of Dual Identity. Throughout the public never knew whether he Was man or woman, He was sometimes @& beautiful, gracious court daine and sometimes a hot-cem= with absolutely nothing effeminate about him. The D'Kon to have peen a man, Others thak the rlans now b been whol ed up. D'Eon was of a “petty nobility ence of King Louls NV, of France. 1 venturer as diploma familly in 1738, and early won the con- $ used the brilliant, ungerupulous fairs, The King had a way t and ther biatn private documents and stale Louis, ‘These papers c oftlces. on che gallant As aman, D'Eon h distiaction as an utter fearlessness ad Count Guerehy want to leave to polson him, ve to come back Falls from Royal Favor. vouts or in a me fully recovered, and in 1810 he dled, age of ne The Chevali Madame est personages of we y the age the advertisement ' land wid h the enveloping cloak of mystery afforded, s) , : The Jarrs’ Janitor Would Never Suit for a Chaperon; Pyopneee Missing numbers of this series may be obtained by acnding a one- cent stamp, for each number required, to Circulation Department, e 2 My “Cycle of Readings,” By Count Tolstoy. —— Translated by Herman Bernstein. —— (Copyrighted by the Preas Publtshing Company, the New York World, 1608.) (Copyrighted by Kerman Bernstein.) zed paragraphs are Count Tolstoy's original comments on the sudject. The its Be nner The Existing Order. MAR. 17. of things lies solely in spreading religious con- sciousness among people. DO not know of a single tmportant triumph of the human mind, of a single significant step made by mankind, whose roots were not hidden in profound religious faith, branch of learning which does t take Into consideration this supreme need of faith in the solution of the our kids come home grernal problem about the origin and fate of mankind always was and always | be powerless to establish a new toclal order. It may, perhaps, succeed te creating beautiful forms, but these forms will always lack that spark which Pre metheus stole from heaven.—Mazzinl, OOOO ned CIETY cannot exist without a common faith and a common purpose; polite Alfred | yO! advising him to get a position as S feal activity should consist in carrying out the princtple established by tee Mgion —Mazzint. : eS HE best society is that in which the realization of great truths (9 ! possible, PoUper Treen eeS F you are suffering from the evil of the eristing order of the toorld or you revolt ayainst, know that there is only one way of struggling against this order—by means o} strengthening in people their religious nsciousness. It is self-understood that this reinforcement of religious consciousness must first of all take place within yourself, And this reinforcement of ré- ligious consciousness within yourself is the mightiest remedy reinforcing in others. eet SSSR LEAS HAAS SSS Ht Ot tt tt * Erin’s Emblem. By Nunan Casey. NE morning long ago a blue-eyed malden, wh hannon River flows 80 deep and wide), Her fair white hand with fragrant blossoms taden, Wanderod alone the rapld flood > = As pensively she gazed Into the water, And saw her lovely form reflected there, © took a red rose in her dainty fingers And twined it In the tresses of her halr. CHORUS. Sing hey! the Rose, the red Rose and the Thistle! But Roses fade and Thistles too, I ween, SPR KKK KEL LL SS rss When stormy breezes blow and wild winds wiMstle, Sing ho! the faithful Shamrock, evergreen. Glancing again into the shining mirror, td “\ fairer emblem shall be mine,” she sal & Then dropred the red Rose tn the winding river * And placed a wreath of Shamrock on her head. ‘6 While waters to the sea roll on forever, ‘* Their course assigned by God's right hand, serene, % Will Erin, with a love that cannot sever, ® Cling to her chosen triple-leaf of green. w Chorus—Sing ney: &e. f : * Po |