The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1909, Page 20

Ni Che Pheer Published Da!ly Except Sunday by the Pre: Park Row, New York. Pres, and Treas, JOSEPH PULITZER G Pa Corl, hing Company, 2, ANGUS 6H. Junior, Beo'y, 63 . 01 tal! Matter, Continent and nal Entered at the Post-Office at Bubscription Rates to The Evening | World for the United States | ; $3.50 )' One M wv For E All One Year.. eevee $9.76 nth One Year. One Month. +-NO, 17,384. VOLUME 49d. WHO WAS THE ‘SUAVE GENTLEMAN?” OLICE COMMITS- SIONER BING- HAM says that before he had been in office two months somebody “A suave gentle- Hh man offered me iit $50,000 a month AM Y to comply with 1 Hi certain tl AWA Ml i y condl- tions.” Gen, Bingham Me- Hanabout it, but nobody else told Mayor seems to have been aware of this at- tempted until the Board of bribery \\ i t ‘I fh Hiei } aN propriation and Gen. Bingham made remarks ermen refused the $100,000 Sorvice The crime of bribery has sever to it. To offer a bribe is punishable by im} and a fine not exceeding $5,000. | To consummate the crime of bribery it is not necessary to pay! anything. The mere offer is criminal. Either party is a competent | witness against the other, and on so testifying is made immune to punishment. If any uniformed member of the police force, knowing that a felony had been committed and being himself a witness to the offense, failed to arrest the offender, he would not only be liable to dismissal trom t} It upon t pages of the Penal Code devoted isonment for ten years | force but to criminal prosecution. charitably to be assuined that Gen. Bingham either relied Mayor as his superior oflicer to take the proper steps or that | he thought that if he himself laid the information before a police magistrate or the Grand Jury it would be a question of veracity be- tween himself and “a suave gentleman.” Possibly Gen, Bingham’s itary training led } im to believe that he had discharged his full duty in reporting the matter to the| The Po- Comm however, is a oe ayor. lice er, on- civil and not a 1 officer. is duty was early to arrest he would-be brib- er at once, to have him arraigned in the police court and to let a jury pass upon the facts. The Evening World’s opinion is that the jury would have be- lieved Gen. Bing- ham and convicted the offender. A broader question is sug- gested by Gen. Bingham’s statement that “the city coulc putting up this job every year and bidder.” At present the city spends some $15,000,000 a year for a police Murder, arson, assau ulitary uctioning it off to the highest force. vented nor in the majority gambling, liquor selling on Sun tuary offense ract with the mori 1 prevent or Dlr | other crimes and on the city’s part the treasury would } ved of the pport of the 7 ef , would things then be } Pwor wy |_Letters From tie People | é Or Men or Woment monds r to M yi s er fils Kine for Boy, Pink for Gleb, “OM Maldar Where Are Theyt Smuggling Made Easy airebip eat ficlency, What {s to pryvent a man trom buying diamonds cheap tn London, ‘ary they. Who @arrying them by eea to Canada, then pearance? \ tried to bribe him. | | ap: . a ” H, dear me! 4@ Jenkins!" ; @s she clutched at Mr, Jarr's ° 80) yen | tlon was distinction whatever, and Mrs, J 1 derive a large income by|!s tiresome to me, and she's j fu itt to ary and larceny are neither pre-|ture trames, school auppli The same is true of |shoe* and other moral and sump-|_ a «| Have You Met JOHNNY QUIZ? w ByF. G.Long| ~ . The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, March 26, 1909. What’s His Name? By Maurice Ketten. Mr. and Mrs. Jarr Go Shopping and Meet a Dear Friend-— } No, an Enemy—At Least—Well, What Does It Matter? By Roy L. McCardell. ‘There's that awful Were y orted Mrs, Jarr arm and drew him ™&fked tn the out of the swarm hoppera to the counter, w @ snowy draperies formed a shelter! ing dower, dad, sald Jarr; “rather aj nice little woman.” | “How can you} ui | not may \ Mra, | has positively no style, There's mething about those suburban wom- that marks them. They hav sive, and I know she doesn’t mean ” the wa | seeing anybody—at least not ser Then, seeing that the lady tn quer: | jina of people It isa p Now, if it was 8c fe-| there! What's the 1 kely to pass them on her way floor-— h, { the t hats, harness, to. NAW / SHAKIN’ DICE. FOR FEEDIN’ THE CHICKENS ? A YARD OF BRUSSELS Ss 2 PIN THIS THE vid ~ SHE MV. speaking?” es kissed ea 1g s stou' to th V arc & n are all al & ach dot him d, not} She had just bought, while Mrs the | Was palpably nee to say sh G A led on at the s saying, while speechless with a Ve were $s ashamed to wear ar because tl en but becau: eam not of rec tea and whleh be (6), (0); 35}, t to them, t ways, FU, GLADYS, TAKIN’ THE 00 TUMBo0bYs> TLE PET? OEE ing the least heed to what the ist golng up to a stripe time, ne the day Ou ever see such a wo: Mr, Jarr hung Tere satire we again to VT oitves. 1 Sher, t ate to me and let her pass us inste: g out on her she 1 wish ten 1 old cress, not 1 get Sig Meu Gl have changed so| Was keep you dragged narked pattern, | r ms £0} I was afrald she fb 7 Gh 1 told t ear's gown bo earthing atin 1 be added Walt Whit » reading: of the goods cause he's just that kind of | When his aeedialtlegiaeere v j that kind | When b fi ' ‘alin Ut isles areior Havento varaten aaa Heal the bed on the floor, H sted by actresses and women who sv even Hel cl Huabantlaktnarell ener leggings and girdled the belt around his walsty See eda SEEST SERIE TRAaRERS Where your husband does, But she's | Call'd for vermilion paint HALLE LD SHO Eis rk eat 0 GTA CHEE ® woman I se, and I have no use| Painted half his face and neck, his wrists and back-har new hats nk are lo Pal ra ecea nuance ener . ee ofully In his belt, ‘Then lying down, resting a moment, seat a this Leauge ehe had a hat | for tat sneak of @ husband of hers, | Put the sca arefl his K «| either!” “What did you tnvite her and see us “My good ent ¥ 6 desultory 3 ordered to be refused| "I have to be p y came to the| never come, She knows I ¢ after the most! tt.” SSS ‘No, THANK YE! Nor BEFORE BREAKFAST- D BESIDES g Bow-wow: wow/ WHOSE LITTLE 00G ART 700: Lir7le TOMMY FUCKERS. Dee: Bow- wor -VWov” @ . a Historical Mysteries we | By Albert Payson Terhune NO. 15—THER “MEYERIING TRAGEDY.” | T the royal castle nt Moyorllng, twelve miles from Vienna, on tha f A morning of Jan, 80, 1889, there was dire confusion, Court officals) came and went, with an alr of horror and mystery, Orders were given {n whispers and cipher telograms despatchod, In an upper room of tho castle lay the dead body of Rudolf, Crowa Prince of Austria, sole helr to tho rulership of the mighty Austrian | Empire, And, according to the official tidings, he had died during the night from an attack of apoplexy. Now, Rudolf was but thirty years old, and of megnificent physique, Such men are not usually attacked by, apoplexy. People doubted the story given out. So the official announces ment was afterward changed to a statement that the Prince had committed sulctdo, Then, at first by ruinora, but avon authoritativoly, 1t was learned | that the beautiful-young Baroness Marle Vetsera (who had beon a member of the jolly house party at Meyerling) was also dead. That she had either killed herself or had been murdered. The foregoing facts are all thet {# absolutely known about the Moyerling Tragedy, which robbed the aged Austrian Emperor of his eee Ponty son, Here are a few of tho more or loss “authentio® The Secret veretons of the affair that have from time to time bees of a Castle, published According to one statement, (Stephante, a Rudolf and his wife khter of Leopold LL, the present King of Belgium) were wretchedly unhapp 1) thelr married fe. Btephanto was sulky, of temper and jealous, Rudolf was ope ted and fickle, He fell in love with Marte Vetsera, Its wife had long wanted a divoroe, So had he, Rudolf wished Stephanio to secure the divorce and thus enable him to wed Marie. His father, the Emperor of Austria, sternly forbade such: an act, Whereat Rudolf asked leave to resign his rights to the throne and to settle down to private life as Marte’s husband, Agatn the Emperor refused: Ol eee the fatlure of thelr hope & a note that be Sooner th ht Rudolf sofa n Itve without him Marte killed herself, © follow her into eternity, The Prince, g her body, laid tt a little reception room, covered {t from ad to foot with a pall of fragrant flowers; then, throwing himself on the floor he couch, blew out his own brains with an army revolver. This story er been proved, what Dut diftereas ither hus the following 6 tells of a id not ma {de pact’ agreed on between the lovers whem back, between the | that h the bullet “where himself. A third tale told how Marie aged were Rudolf's guests at dinner t Marle and was bratned by a chalr wielded rn, was cut to pieces by Rudolf's servants, farle shot Rudolf and then took po!son, Other reports were that the Prince was shot, while hunting, by a forester he bad eated cruelly and that M killed herself through grief, These are but @ few of the scores of plau “his! of the Meyerling Tragedy. Perhape a bare half dozen people 1 the world ever know the real truth, And the Ips of these were probab! ed by the Austrian Government or by loyaky te | the Emperor, A few years ago e Crown P ev” Other papers hinted that the whole st and the es sof f, ina fit of drun vengeful nobleman, wh rth rumor asserted th ries” New York newspaper published an article headed: “Tp America Under an Assumed y of the sutetde was a hoax, if had been secretly sent to is to state merely that he was three men in the United States es the Crown Prince. But in each case And the manner of Rudolf's fate ts as ncocted to hide a royal this country. One er believed” to have have been pe the claim was appare far as ever from Sc The House of Hapsburg re disproved ria—has for centuries been ines have piled upom s become almost a ten years after apress Elizabeth of y rehist, The aged , with no direct helr to whom ess than as closely in 1889, him without a son t fateful January mor enveloped ta tery to-day as on t Miasing numbers of this series may be obtained by sending cent atamp, for each number required, to Circulation Dep: Lvenlog World, —_—_—_+++ Bo Notes of a Southern Journey—No. I, ® | 19 au ning South. The fitter: on the lowest ) roost os of razor-hack hogs ne tantalizing the engineers ido} it, are taking Saltpetre hams are A mistake, alas, ace; fat degene corre 1 pigs. Iscape, ott th The hen and the hoe continue te harleston make tle we The grave trie Jan. swa oles, who died at Fort Moute 1 kept and marked on the green as carved nobly on the of Oceola, 8 le pris Patriot alf sitting, smiled, gave in silence his extended hand to each and ally y low to th. floor (tight! sping the tomahawk handle), look on wife and little ehil the last k of his name and death.) Rose agal: Sank falr Pix'd (And here a line in memory nt Much of the ploughing down South is done by a sulky plough, drawn by & driven by a sulky negro sulky mul ch called and does not masqu {latter imitation ang better tasting to alate. | ‘The peach are in blossom in the Carolinas and the yellow Jasmine ts by the wayside flinging out Its fine perfume sa vegetable at all meals In Charleston and eaten with salt rankee habit of putting It into pudding dishes {s regarded as @ ling soup. Calvest head soup 8 90 ok turtle, It fs higher flavored than the and but “ 1B] mistake. een atry in which the polls are both powerful and a numere USSIA being a co R aie body, it !s hardly surprising to learn *hat great pains are spent in trains ing them for thelr duties ; ‘mero Is Indeed, according to an Englishman who has lived « long time in that country, a veritable policeman’s college in St, Petersburg. Here the Russian pollceman ts made famillar with the tools used by criminals, jand acquires an extensive knowledge of the tricks of law-breakers, political and otherwise, The Russian passport system 1s also a subject of study, This 1s such an elaborate and complicated business that {t forms a spectal branch of the policeman's education. ‘The students often take as much interest in their sudies ag though they were preparing for the army or navy, The candidates are numerous, for the police force has many attractions for the young and ambitious Russian, leading, as It | may do, to very high positions under government. nt at ’ ° | s@ The Day’s Good Stories [nig | Real Diamonds. The Danger. ER MOTHER (sobbing) — Dear, RS. McBRIDE—"It was awfully, H dear! It's 7 o'clock, and Ethel M thoughtful of Uncle George to hasn't ein yet give me what ho did for a wed- Her Father—Well, there's nothing| ding present.” strange about that, ia there? She often doesn't get In from her teas and junk- etings until 7. | Her Mother-I know, I know. Dut | she's very stout, and this morning's | paper said a girl might better commit sulclde than have hips.—Harper's Basan ‘ Girl Friend—"Why, what did he give you?” “Haven't you heard? Why, you see, the other guests sent plated ware and ; paste jewelry mostly, but Uncle George gave me real diamonds—just think of it Arcola, ton, of Lahigh ovat te | Virginia the turkeys are begine 4 fidence !s returning In the _