The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1910, Page 22

' | | not fitted to be either the leader of his party or Speaker of the House. j Published Daily Except Sunda; SHAW, Pres. a ancus SHAY i the Peers Publishing Company; Noa 83 to a mB Youre PULITZER, Juntor, Sec'y. Fi Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Cless Matter. fat fon Rates jo The Evening| For Engiand and the Continent and ‘orld for ted States the tional , ‘ine, and She Moni: VOLUME All Countries fh tho Internat ‘ostel Union, $3.50 20 A SPECIALTY ‘IN TRUCKING. at CCORDING to Commissioner Edwards: “Removing snow is a specialty in trucking, and no contractor unskilled in the job can undertake it suecessfully.” Phat is a part of the explanation or pallia- tion offered for the failure of the contractors | to get t snow off t stree and sidewalks promptly, instead of leaving it to be trampled first into slush or ice, and afterward into grime and muck Had there never before been a snowfall in New York, or ne ill and the lack he. justly pleaded in excuse of all shortcomings. snow every winter. Something more than mere unskil] in the job has been at fault in this case and a resolute search for the real cause of delny may dis- cover also a means of preventing its recurrence, | before a contractor or a track, u of experience conld But there has been oo DEMOCRACY AND THE TARIFF. EPO S from Washington are that Champ Clark is opposed to any tariff legislation at this session “because the Democrats would not have the credit for it.” If Mr. Clark takes any such shortsighted view of his duty as a Representative in Congress, he is The old saying, “He serves his party best that serves his country best,” is not a mere epigram nor an empty sentimental phrase. It is the expression of @ political truth that has been demonstrated many times in our history, and more than once since Mr. Olark has been in polities. The demand for a reduction of tariff taxes pn food and clothing was not a mere campaign cry to catch votes. It ‘was the demand of a real need on the part of the people. It is the duty of every Repre- sentative in Congress to vote for tariff reductions at once. To post- pone action for a year will be a poor way of gaining credit for the Democratic party or for the leaders of the party. eS THE ABUSED MIDDLEMAN. ECRETARY WILSON has joined the crowd that de- nounces the middleman as the cause of the high cost of living. He gives an array of figures show- ing that the consumer has to pay from 50 to 100 per cent. more for farm produce than the farmer gets for it. The Secretary estimates that the cost @ 'ving could be reduced very nearly that much if only the con- sumer could be brought to deal directly with the producer. If there were nothing in the problem except that of money, the vagement of the Secretary would be valid. But there are other things to be considered. There are questions of convenience of time and of place in making purchases; of variety to choose from and of quan- tities in which to buy. 2 The middleman renders an important service to the producer and to the consumer in providing a market where each can sell or buy at his convenience. Some day that work may be done by co-operation. But the issue now is to have the tariff duties removed from foodstuffs: tafree the middleman from the trusts. oH AMERICAN GOLD IN BRITAIN. EP) EPLYING to a despatch from Mr, Balfour wishing him success in his contest for a seat in Parlia- ment, Waldorf Astor replied: “Unionists in Plym- outh unanimously deplore the demoralizing effects of foreign gold in the hands of the Dollar Dictator.” Coming from an Astor, that sounds funny. Still, the statement was doubtless quite true. That a Unionist should call every American dollar contributed to the Redmond campaign fund a demoralizing force, and every American contribution to the Unionist | side an edifying force, is quite natural. ities the world over. The interesting point is that the open use of American money on | #ther side appears to have had no great effect on the voters. The | ery against the “Dollar Dictator” didn’t hurt the Liberals, nor did | the retort against the American source of ducal fortunes hurt the ‘Tories. | The British public, in fact, seems to believe that American gold is never tainted. ‘They are willing to take it with both hands, ‘That is human nature and pol- “are Becoming Womanisht” ‘ou-please style" Let us have ‘To the Biitor of The Hvenine Word tition een icant Are men becoming womanteh? If an vier pe gene TUR ould be the best for the publ inside peep into the corset tndustry can ; decides: be taken as a criterion I naturally pre- | sume ft #0. For very many fashionable ro 1) men are wearing thore femtnine Wha ac} Al expe ne whete cessortes, corsets, with try an employee t Fg, |etlary that ts due him at he time of ii ee ey nt y? Of, in. other ‘ ni Aid In full dn prete Drug Clerks’ Leng Hours. ence to othe ante? 'Phis whould ‘To the RAitor of The Bveniug Wor seer ana ites, AP a Iutewent of em ees CW. er eee a van. Mowia pot In the World Almanac, from 7 A. M. to 41 P, M., Sundays, holle | T° the Mlitor of The Lxening World daya and every other day, would you?) Wire can] find 4 chart that will tell ‘Then pity some of us poor drug clerks, | 2° the ti day | \ foreign cities for that's what we are doing to-day, | WO" HW 12 P.M. in New York City? ‘Tae public {# our unton. ae | ANXIOUS For way Competition. | ‘ines, fo the Kaitor of the Krening World ' of Tie Kreuing World Regarding the new tunnels or sub-, W Oo readers think of this \dea? way service of New York: If the pres-) Would ic not decrease crime if It were ent service ts any criterion the mauage- | known that for the following twelve nent apparently cannot run adequately | months every one CONVICTED of what lines they now have, let alone! crimes were to moprisoned with no sending any new concessions or new| alternative of ne?’ ‘There is no routes, This morning—forty minutes | doudt as to tie lacie of seaport felt for from One Hundred and Tenth street to laws ire oy mary people of all clamses, Bleecker street, Whyi Seemingly « NE \ Ul Yes, JOHN, THOSE ARE REALLY LOveLy SUSPENDERS BY JOVE THOSE ARE Guoves 2 VERY PRETTY ) I queen in order to pick up a “two-spot!” Even a confirmed bachelor girl considers that unfair exchange is no robbery when she gete a chance to ez- change a nickel-plated latohkey for a solid gold wed- ding ring. A man gentus can usually be detected by his weird fits of temper; a woman genius by the weird fit of her clothes. Don't fancy that a man is in love sotth you just because he runs after you; wait until he gets 80 panic-stricken that he tries to run away from you, You may reach a man's heart through hia stomach or his vanity, but Let George Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. By Helen Rowland Can You Beat It? By Maurice Ketten. CAN You Beat it? the game of love a man often throws down ay just adout now it takes warlike nerve and flendish ingenuity to get at his pocketbook. By a man's opinion of women shall ye khuow him; or black or yellow, according to the color of his soul. Tt may ve perfectly safe to leave vour purse and your arqund where there are a lot of women, but it ts best to keep an eye on your cook and your husband. A man mizes hie flirtations just as @ woman mires custard, and then! wonders why they always have a tendency to leave him with that sick feeling, When qa man marries his grouches begin, Covyright, 1010, by The Press Publishing Co. THERES NO‘, A BIT OF HEAT On ty THIS FLAT? 1m NEARLY FROZE TO OEATH: f™ Goin’ Cown AND GIVE THAT JANITOR APIECE OF MY minD: Ny (The New Yor World). December tt it is always white silverware | ‘1910. a? ier Changed istory Hi Albert Payson Terhune ‘Copyright, 1010, be Tho Pram Publishing Co. (The New York Wer, No, 9—A Careless Signature That Cost a Kingdom, = were all the time leaving England and emigrating to America, Not only the poor and the adventure seekers, but sob emn men of substance who were disgusted with the Kingdom’s rotten rule. The English King grew tired of this sort of thing. in 1638, he heard that a ship laden with farmers and well-to-do mer chants was about to 1 for Massachusetts. In a fit of cross temper | Majesty scrawled his signature to an order forbidding the vessel to It was an idle, careless bit of tyranny. The King probably forgot whole matter within a few hours, He certainly did not realize that had signed away his kingdom and his own life. 4 Thirty-nine years earlier a sour-faced sturdy boy had been born at Huntington, England. His mother took pride in declaring that she was eighth cousin to the King. His father was a respectable Justice of the Peace and had an income of $1,800 a year. The boy (according to stories of the time) was dragged out of his cradle in babyhood by a huge ape, whioh cartied lim to the roof of a house and wiich was caught barely in ime | for the child to be saved from death. A few years later the boy was rescued | from drowning by an athletic clergyman, who, In after years, declared himself bitterly sorry for his ect of heroisin. At school the lad was 80 disobedient and stupid that he was flogged nearly every day. At college his wild pranks and his sprees were the scandal of the pious. But at twenty-one he married, and at the same time reformed to such An amazing extent that he even hunted up gamblers and paid them back the money he had won from them at cards and dice. ‘He settled down as a farmer, and seemed likely to have no greater career, | But he and some of his friends became so angry at the way the Government was run that in 1633 they decided to emigrate, Had the farmer been allowed to follow out his plan he might in time have founded a Boston family and might even have served as a captain in the Colonists’ Indian wars. He assuredly would lave made no mark in the world’s history. And the name “Oliver Cromwell” would to-day be unknown. The boy who had escaped death at the gpe's ‘hairy hands and by drowning had by this time grown into a stout, slovenly man of thirty-nine, red and swollen of face, dirty of linen, loud-mouthed and arrogant. Yet in him worked the germs of genius, ax the stirring events of the times were soon to prov For Oliver Cromwell, the farmer, was about to measure strength with Charles |1., the King; the same monarch who had forbidden him to sail to America, Among others who were to have gone to Boston on the “held up" vessel were Pym, Hampden Hazelrig, and more that were also about to be enrolled among Charles's bitterest foes. Charles I. was a bellever in the “divine right of kings” to do as they chose, without regard to’ the peoplo's wishes or the sacredness of a promise, The | time was past when England would endure such tyranny. Parlirment opposed the King. Charles dismissed Parliament. ‘The Parllamentary party rose in re- bellion. Cromwell was one of the most active rebels. ‘Though he had no mill; tary experience, yet he showed himself a born general, (The Parliament troops, from their close-cropped pates, were nicknamed “Roundheads be King’s long-haired followers were called "Cavaliers.") For years England Avas torn dy civil war. Cromwell was the chief figure in the Parliamentary army. At length the Cavaliers were beaten, the monarchy was [eee andf ‘destroyed and the King was @ prisoner in the grasp of Adventures. | TA Boy's oad t ; the Roundheads, “Roundhead.” Charles's supporters were thrown out of Parttament ‘© and the remaining members of that body condemned the | ing to death. (Cromwell's name appears third on the death warrant.) In Janu- | ney. 1649, Charles was beheaded, His followers in Ireland, Scotland and Walcs revolted against so violent a deed. Cromwell, as Parliamentary General, put down all three rebellions. In Ireland. especially, where he was Lord Lieutenant, he behaved with undellevable cruelty, massacring at Drogheda the whole | rtson 6f 3,000 and committing similar acts at other cities. | And now he felt himself strong enough to defy Parliament. He disbanded it |and formed a second Parliament micde up of his own partisans, Thus he was | enabled to seize the reins of government and to make himself sole ruler of Pr land, under the title of “Lord Protector." For the rest of his) life he sw: | the nation’s destinies. By signing his name to an unimportant ordér Charles I. had signed his own death warrant, had caused a fearful civil war, had overthrown the ancient mon- arohy of England and pad given a would-be emigrant farmer a chance to be- come world-famous. - The Jarr Family oe aa hey Are All at Home Ages: “~ * Inclading the Old Grouch | | | t you came in without washing a dish! Copsright, 1910, by the Preys Publishing Co, (The' New York World.) If anybody tells me to do my Christ- mas shopping «rly because the poor By Roy L. McCardell. | ELL, it's good to be home,| work people have to be at their tasks [S6\Y7 isn't it?” purred Mr. Jarr as|elzhteen hours a day for two dollars « looked fondly upon the| week, I'll Say I'm glad of it! And that’s Jares and penates| just how I feel!" Unstalment plan! And Mrs. Jarr commenced to ery. furniture) of the! “Where are the children?” asked Mr. flat Jarr. “lm glad you} “I bad to whip them and put them to/ think #0!" sniffed | ed," said Mrs. Jarr. ‘They've just” \ Mrs, Jarry. But} been running wild on the streets white if you could see| We were away and they turned up their the condition of | noses because T drought them clothes things! The dust, | and they wanted money to go out to t! the rubbdsh, the| moving picture shows; and I found ou dishes put hat, just to get rid of them, mothe: whhout washing,| 4nd Gertrude let them go there every the new kitchen | day. Oh, T wish T hadn't gone abroad! things bought) It sounds grand, but to coms home and away burned and| find things as I find them takes all my pleasure away! “Heard anytiing from your friends?” asked Mr. Jarr. “L haven't a jends,”” sniffed Mrs. Jarr. Nobod ‘es for me. Cora Hickett called me up over the telephone 1 | and said, ‘Glad you're back, I suppose you brought me something nic “Did you tell her about the pretty chain you got for her in Venice? asked Mr, Jarr. ‘ EaNRia oilkad ca real “T'd like to see myself give tt to her!" sx "| was the reply. "If people only think of ne for what they can get out of me * won't get anythi T'h use that | chat for my muff. It's very pretty.” wishin | before’ we went ruined!" “Where's your mother?” Jarr, to change the subject. “She's gone back to Brooklyn, and | just because T said a few words ebout | the condition I found the place tn. suppose she'll never sptak to me again! | She might at least have made Gertrude | keep things cl “Where's ‘He knew he terest. | too! Waiked right] I il the dust was so mantelpieces I could write asked Mr, ude?" ventured Mr, out thick on the . | “But you got several for yourself, and my name in it, Well, that saves Me) 4.0" were go cheap dn Venice,” sada Mr one Christmas present, thank good- | sare And girls are #0 these days you |" "Cr. 41 11 give tt to some one who is to give them diamond rings and dings," I'm sorry you are upset,” said M Jarr, “But, anyway, you had a good | cood to me, and nobody has been good jto me," wes the reply. "| «Mrs, Rangle was over. Rangte phoned me she would be,” said Mr. Jarr. “Did you give her the Trish Ince?” ‘Why should I?" asked Mre. Jerr. “T can use it myself. She kept hinting but I was looking again at that lace when I unpacked the It's too pretty to give to any will be thrown up to! me ys, I suppose!’ was the reply. “You can go down to your office where they made a ig fuss over you ! die rap and are glad to see you hack, and tr ans have to get to work scrubbing and dust- | . ing and cleaning to make this flat fit| wand the mosate breastpin for Clara {to lve in! You men thave It easy!" | Mudridge?’ asked Mr, Jarr, “They didn’t make any fuss over me)” swat till Clara Mudridge gtves ME at the office,” remarked Mr. Jarr, something!" snapped Mrs, Jars, “It's ly. “Phe boss was rather cold and sald |he admired my nerve staying away s | long, and intimeted that the Indispen- | sable Man was not numerous, And the wuneh at the oftce sald, ‘On, you're, | near Christmas anyway; I'l! watt until I gee what I get. I suppose you took down the novelty cigar Mghter and other things t “Yes, I did “But I'm bagk, are vou? Some people have it| walting for a welcome before T come | pretty soft!’ Tell you the truvh across, You're always knocking Gus, haven't figured out whether I'm still) put at least HE was glad to aee me on the payroll or not." “Well, if it waen't for my children I'm | misses a friend” — sure I'd rather dive abroad,” said Mrs.| “Especially 4f it’s his best custamer!” Jarre, “I thought I was patriotic, but | sniffed Mrs. Jarr. what's the use to love your country! “Well, I'm golng to give each of the When you can't get a soul In it to give | bunch in his place an Irish ‘backthe you a hand with your housework? I've stick,” said Mr, Jarr, “I guess THEY ‘had a woman In the janitor got me—|won't be mad because I ‘had a trip |two dollars a day, mind you, two are | eae sald Mrs, | jack, A man may keep @ safe, but he tars a dag! And ane never got out of| “Don't be too sure of it,” "Poa dclecheneand walked oft juat before | Jerr, sctiys