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the Pross Publishing Company, Nos. 83 to 63 ‘ark Row, New York. J. ANGUS SHAW, Pres. and Treas, JOSEPH PULITZER Junior, Seo'y. 63 Park’ Row 63 Park Ro —Fnterad at the Pos{-Office at Now York as Second-Clase Matter. Sul Fen Tstes | Evening | For. Pnaiand and the Continent and Word tor the volved States ‘All Countries in the International and Canada Postal Union. 0] One Year 0 | One Month 8e8 Sst VOLUME 51. co ccem soceecenueeeee weers coos WHAT MR. TAFT SAYS. RESIDENT TAFT, in his reciprocity me Congress, NO. 18,057, ge to} sayst “We have reached a stage in our| development that calls for a statesmanlike and | broad view of our future economic atatus and its | requirements.” ‘The saying is wise, but the Presi- dent’s breadth of on did not reach beyond Canada. The President cays: “The guiding motive in seeking adjustment of trade relations hetween two countries eo situated geographically should be to give play to productive forces so far as practicable re- gardless of “political boundaries.” Why have a different “guiding motive” in dealing with any country? The President says: “No yardstick can measure the benefits to | the two peoples of this free commercial intercourse.” That state- ment would be true of commercial freedom between any two people The President says: “Canada has cost us nothing in the way | of preparations for defense against her possible assault.” Neither) has France, Germany, Russia, China, nor any other country. No na-| tion has ever attacked us, No nation ever will. The President says: “If we can enlarge our supply of natural | resources, especially of food products and the necessities of life, with- | out injury to any of our producing and manufacturing classes, we should take steps to do 60 now.” Amen! ot THE LADY AND THE HAT PIN, ’ the hearing by the Board of Aldermen upon the ordinance prohibiting the use of dangerous hat pins in public places, upward of a hundred persons were present, and one of them, a lady, said: “This whole ‘thing can be settled in five minutes. All women want this law.” The saying was perhaps too sweeping in terms, yet it fs essen- tially true. Such women as do not wish the ordinance are too care- Jess of their own safety as well as that of others to be worth counting in the matter. Virtually the whole community approves the measure. The curious point in the issue is that a law should be required to force a personal reform that everybody wishes. The evil is like the old one of wearing hats at the theatre. That custom discom- moded women more than it did men, for a man could often see over a hat that completely barred the view of a woman. Yet the ladies held to the habit until compelled to abandon it. It appears that in all matters of reform no one wishes to begin. Laws are required to make them start even. +4 ¥ ——— NEW FEATS IN AEROPLANES. LEN CURTISS, in a machine that combines the hydroplane with the aeroplane, rose into the air from the water of San Diego*Bay, made a circle at the height of a hundred feet, settled upon the water, rose again and flew to his hangar on the Fa beach. On the same day, in. France, Roger Som- mer took up six passengers in a large biplane and made a long cross country flight and back again in safety. These feats clearly forecast the coming of a flight across the ocean. A machine powerful enough to carry seven people can carry food and fuel for a long voyage for two or three men. A ma chine that can rest on the water and rise again at will frees the sea voyage from many a danger that now imperils even so short a flight as that across the British Channel. The first man that flew over the Alps perished. Better luck may attend him who first ventures the Atlantic. — + +o ———___——— PORCINE BRAIN FOODS. N Agricultural Experiment Station at Woostér, 0., has been testing the effect of “brain foods” on hogs. The report is that pigs fed in that way and properly cared for not only develop larger brains at matur'ty and become more intelligent and more polite, but yield better pork, This is interesting even if not strictly true. The mere fact that such experiments have been originated, thought out, planned and tried, is in itself an evidence of the utility of experiment stations and the uplift of hog culture in the Middle West. It is probable that a fuller report on the subject will give the ingredients of the brain foods and state the standards by which the experimenters measured the adyance in politeness of hogs and the improvement in pork. Until those facts are known final judgment on the matter must be withheld, In the meantime there should be further experiments with the food. Let it be tried on a football team, Coprright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), By Roy L. McCardell. “ HY did you bring flowers me?” asked Mra. Jarr. know we for “You can't afford such luxuries.e Really, now, these gar- denias must have cost you more than I'd care spend for them. But for all that she was quite pleased and gave him an extra ki “on, said only too forgetful about such fhings. Pov LM tara A fellow will buy flowers and candy for @ girl he's simply friends with, but after he's married he forgets his wife might appreciate such little attentions,” “I don't like to find fault with a pleasing little gift such as this ts,"" sald Mrs, Jarr, busied with putting them in ® small, fat ornamental vase with water; ‘but when everything ts so dear and so many useful and lasting things are needed, why, really” — She left her statement unfinished, but her smile showed she was more com- viimented with the bunch of flowers than if the tribute had been of the useful and lasting order, ‘A girl came into the office selling them in bunches for some charitable punpose,” sald Mr, Jarr, ‘She was a too," & pity some of those kinds of girl haven't anything better todo than that," sald Mrs, Jarr, coldly, “If they want to be charitable why don't they get out and do me work for the poor?” “Isn't that work for the poor?” asked Mr. Jarr, ‘She sald they were of a large lot and had been sent to decorate a house for a weddin but came too Letters From the People “Do I Gain or Loset” He can, by suggestions, tell you what To the BAitor of The Bveving World: {8 good; can serve it promptly and hot; I buy 20 bushels of grain in dry mea n anticipate your wants before you ure at 90 cents a quart, and sell dt after-| know them yourself, Isn't this different ward ¢o @ produce dealer in lquid|than having the food served cold and measure at 90 cents @ pint. Do I gain| thrown at you by a rummy waiter? I'll cor lone on the ealo, readers, and how! admit the tipping ts sometimes over. much? B, B. KR. |done; but that is the fault of the public. | 1897, Van Wyck, A. W,, Boston, Mass, | To the HAltor of Tho Evening World: What Shalt He Dot In what year did Henry George dle] To tho Editor of The Evening World while running for Mayor? And who! Will some kind reader please advise a Was elected at that time? HENRY M, | boy seventeen years of age as to the Watter Ve Clerks | best kind of a position he should week? Do the BAitor of The Evening World: ‘The readers who are discussing the Upping system lose sight of the degree of worvice When they awk why @ walter! not want to get @ position at this till whould bo tipped when a clerk is not.) 1 get some advice from experienced You buy a necktlo or shirt from a@ clerk | stenographe! I worked in an tmport- and watk out, The transaction lasts | ing house and I was laid off, I would only & fow minutos, You sit at @ table | uke to know if a ¢rade ts any good, and, in @ restaurant and order @ meal, | if no, what trade. If not, what kind of At present I am getting @ very low aal- ary and I have no chance of advance- ment, I can write shorthand, but I do 4 “| e@@ you can go around the world In thirty-seven day: Joy that meal or not de- | ofMlce should 1 try to get into? ‘n Copree On the Walton ARC < 8 roe ener aE EET dh “Let'o walt until it’ iiare.” The Latest. By Maurice Ketten. Mr. Jarr Brings Home Floral Peace Offerings, And Finds a Green-Eyed Monster Among Them. late, and some had been sent to the hospitals, and it had been deckled that a girl's club, of which the bride had been a member, shoudl sell the rest and devote the proceeds to the deserv- ing pogr."” “But I think ft was a very bold thing for her to do! Furthermore, it is my belief that the girl was an impostor. ‘The idea of going around business places peddling flowers! As for the de- serving poor, they alr talk very conde- “Oh, You got very confidential, T dare | scendingly, don't they? I'm not an ob- said Mrs. Jarr, tossing her hgad. | ject of charity. The Browe Brothers Hiram and Loerum By Irvin S. Cobb. 11, by The Press Publishing Co, Copyright, (The New York World), OBSERV began Hham, in the tone of voice which Chief Justice Taney probably used in handing down the Dred Scott decision, observe that = very high standard of honesty is expected to prevail at the present | session of our General Assembly. I regard this as one of the most promising signs of the times.” “Well,” A Loerum, “I'm glad you feel that way about it. But as a close student of natural his and kindred toptes I've been giving State legislators my careful attention extending over a term of years, and T am prepared to state that taking them by and large—spelling the ‘by’ either with the ‘u’ or without ft-one bunch averages up about like another, “L rather tmagine that when you come to skin, clean and dress ‘em and remove the scales and fins you'd find this year’s Tun of legislators like this year’s run of shad or last rs run-the same as for any other year. There'll be the same proportion of men who are incurably honest and can't be prevailed on to take something for it. Next along you'll discover about the averaze number of Nberal-minded patiiots who can bé bought; but, having taken the money, will stay bought, On the principle that no true gentleman will sell out twice on the same proposition, And then there'll be the cuto: y bunch of gimlet-eyed statesmen who are the regular Old Sleuths at running down a@ little easy money, When ft comes to tracking the fugitive dough the ferocious bloodhound of the Sunny South with his keen, relentless nose and his Inverness ears has nothing on them. “T guess if Dic es wanted to take a chance on losing his lamp and having his towm swiped he could go up to Albany this winter and find just as many gentlemen suffering from the financial malady vulgarly known as itching tn the palm as he would any other winter, But conditions are different this, season, This is what you might call an off year,” “How so?! inquired Hiram, with the tmp: van crossing a covered bridge. “Well,” said Loerum, “some men are born honest, some men achieve it with the ald of a Federal ‘and Jury or something of that nature, and some have honesty driven into them with a maul, And up at Albany just at present are ‘al famished gents who have just accomplished reform by that painful but ual process, You see, in the good old days of the Black Horse Cavalry it was easy for a man to fall, providing he was just a mite tottery on his legs to start with, ‘There was alw: a folendly hand to give him a push, I have n told that there were sessions when many a $2,000-a-year statesman looked with scorn on anything Jess than a yello fifty and went to the vintage wines and the imported eel sive roll in his voice of a furniture cigars that have the gilt sureingles on them with all the avidity of a man who was raised on well water and shagbark hickory nuts, “But afier sunshine comes the storm and the funenal follows the joy ride. They took to organizing these legislative Investigating committees composed of inquisitive persons who Went around asking embarrassing questions and accusing people of bribery (and actually proving it, which is worse), If they snatched @ member up on the witness stand and asked him how he got It, and If he seemed to hesitate in his answers, the press and public would be mean ene ute it to other causes besides stage fright, “Albany has learned the great lesson there who want it but not nearly so m wh to attribs I take it that there are just as many ny Willing to take a chance, 1 understand that if you want to bribe a legislator up there now you must take him by the hand, lead him into the heart of the ancient woods, tle him hand and foot, chloroform him and hide the cush in his whiskers. “The burnt child dreads the fire," said Hiram, sapfently “And there are quite a number of the burnt children tow in our midst,” edded Losrum, aid dis 2 ¥ “hs “Who said you were?" asked Mr. Jarr. | “There was an older lady with her, and) they appeared to be nice people and| rather difdent.” 1 “Oh, I suppose so!” retorted Mrs. Jarr, “They always go in pairs, those sorts of people, and put on those sanctimonious airs! ‘The things are faded, anyway. And I suppose you paid whatever they asked for them." ¢ And she turned away as though she didn't care to look at the flowers, “Gee whiz! |That's what @ man gets for trying to be nice!” orted the exas- perated Mr. Jarr, “I don't think {t 1s very nice to flirt with a girl going around asking ridicu- lous prices for wilted flowers, swindling under the name of charity,” sald Mrs, | Jarr. “And especially it isn't nice to bring them home to your wife. to throw them out,” “Go ahead and throw them out!" cried Mr. Jarr. “I don't care, I only thought it would: Interest you to tell you how I| got them. A man’s @ fool to teil any- thing at home.” “Eepectally anything he should be} ashamed of,” averred Mrs. Jarr. “Yet, | to think T didn’t suspect a thing when | YOU brought ME flowers, You've never | done such a thing in years, that's cer- tain!” Now be reasonable," man. “I'd often bring Youcflowers, there are no flowei“stdres on my line of march to the office and back again, and you alwaya say you do not care for flowers from the peddiers on the | street because their hands are dirty and | you've heard the flowers are bunched fn tenement cellars in unhealthy and unclean surroundings" — “Oh, don't try to excuse yourself!” cried Mra, Jarr, “It wasn't to please me you bought the flowers, It was to please that sort of a gir! “What sort of a girl?’ "Oh, 4 know what sort!” said Mrs, Jarr, “How would you like it if I went around smirking at men in thelr offices and telling what a noble work I was en- gaged in? Oh, little does a wife know what's going on!” “1 know one wife who will get less information after this," said Mr, Jarr. “Dog gone, if I ever again talk about anything but the weather! If you are going to kick about the flowers so, let us-give them to the janitor, “If you are so fond of the janitor why didn’t you give them to him first?” asked Mrs, Jarr, “Vi never do anything for crippled orphans again, I'll bet you that!" mut- tered the disheartened Mr, Jarr, “Crippled orphans!” exclaimed Mrs Jarr, Was it a tall girl wearing a crescendo costume, ab ash blond girl with natural black fox furs, and did the old jady with her wear a long genuine sealskin? That's Jack Silver's mother and aister, They are interested in the Crippled Orphans’ Home, and are the dearest things! Why didn't you ask them why they don't come to see I ought | | courses with a lot of useless bunk; but | plan of teaching children how to play “Ww HATS the matter kids that are growing nowadays? inquired the head lisher. “Experts in ohild welfare work ap- pear to agree that the conditions sur- rounding our youth are on the ‘bum. Here comes Professor Mc. Keever, who eases philosop! into the students at Kansas State Col- MARTIN GREEN lego with @ prop- osition to extend State Jurisdiction over the home Hfe of the child, and said Proposition ts greeted with loud cheers by the highbrows assembled. “Yawps about the sad existence of the modern child,” said the laundry man, “proceed largely ¢rom,the childiess and the professional agitators. Parents have never treated their children better than they do now. ‘They have never been in position to dress them so well, to feed them eo well, to guard their health so weil. “This applies to the poor as well as to the moderately comfortable folk. Did you ever see @ more contented looking lot of kids anywhere than those who swarm to our schools every morning? ‘Theorists have loaded up the school there is enough work of value to keep the child interested. “Of late years we have adopted the sclentifically. ‘This has given jobs to @ number of persons who agitated the project until they got the jobs. You will find that every movement looking to taking the care and development of the child away from the parents and giving them to the municipality or the State is backed by self interest. “Each new plan makes necessary the employment of women and men. As these women and men have framed up the plans themselves nobody else knows anything about them. Consequently when the jobs are to be handed out they pass to the framers-up. “I look for a proclamation ere long from some spinster or bachelor that mothers and fathers are reckless and irresponsible in the handling of baby carriages. The next move will be to procure legislation prohibiting fathers and mothers from wheeling thelr babies abroad and placing the alring of infants in perambulators in the hands of per- sons paid by the city and holding cer- tifcates from the Civil Service Board. However, I anticipate that such a movement would meet with riotous re- sistance in Brooklyn, where wheeling the family baby carriage !s the only open air relaxation many heads of families know, I i 2 i if 1208 i lt in matrimony, If the red—which he probably ts n what authorities he consulted sentenced himself to wedlock!" : the investigation Into elections out in Danville, Til, where Uncle Joe Cannon lives," remarked the head polisher, “convinces me that the Rubes in that section wouldn't go to the polls unless they were slipped something.” “Danville isn’t much different from any other rural community,” said the laundry man. “The up-State districts in New York would disclose putrid elec- tion conditions if a fair investigation could be held. “ OOKING over the accounts of “The country legisiator is foolish lke a fox. He fills the alr with clamor about corrupt elections In the dig cities. He howls and froths about the methods of the great municipal political ma- chines. By this tempestuous behavior he draws attention awe - from the mire of his own community. And inasmuch as the country lawmakers outnumber the city lawmakers all restrictive elec- tion laws have been made to apply to the cities. “Much has been sald about up-State, Republican voters remaining away from the polls Jast election because they were isfled with the Republican ticket. ‘tate Republican voter is never + dissatisfied with the ticket. They @il look alike to him. But the Republicans had no money last fall and they were unable to follow the time-honored cus- tom of paying the Rubes for the hire of their teams and the time of their hired men on election day.” 66] SPE." said the head polisher, I “that John D. jr. told his Bfbie class at their annual dollar din- ner that the man who ‘works the most is the man that gets the most.” “Well,” replied the laundry man, lke to see him try to convince William F, Shechat : ye —:By Herself:— Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), Oe (Copyright, 1910, by Doubleday-Page Co.) The Jit, unlucky love a Ke Attan sok’ she makes. gn pived to tet Chapter V. (Continued.) ' was a fine, sunshiny, wintry day, but for all that he wae heavily wrapped up. We bowed again, and then, with a whim- sical smile that oddly lifted one corner of his mouth higher than the other, he said: “You must let me thank you for com- Ing to my assistance the other day, It | seems that there is nu one to Introduce | us, You are Miss Whitney, aren't you? You see I have taken the liberty of asking @out you. My name is Lloyd Wiam Lioyd.” It would have been foolish not to have acknowledged the introduction, Bi sides, as soon as he mentioned hi name, I was interested, I had heard of him before, for I had known his sister in school at Shelbyville, They were a Louisville family, the Lloyds, and Will was the black sheep, I knew of him vaguely as gambler, wastrel and sensa- tlonal adventurer in many out of the way corners of the earth during the ten years since he had been expelled from college. I know you through your sister,” I sald, an? he asked. And he made a gri- mace. “Well, then, if jbu know me through my family you don't know much good of me. I gathered that, although he was with. in a dozen streets of them, his people did not even know as yet that he had| returned to Louisville, What he had sald about not having heard any good of him from hia sister was Mterally true, At that age when girls tell everything to each other she had told me all about Will with an odd mixture of pride and shame. He had at that time been re- turned from participating in some South American revolution Just long enaugh to get into a scrape which ft had cost his father more money than the family could afford to get him out of. “What war in what dark corner of what continent are you back from,” I asked him, challengingly, “and waere 1s the bullet this time?” He laughed eusily, his mobile, trrogu- lar features Mghting up in a way that made his scarred and vather pale face quite a different thing. fothing so interesting as that," he said. simply managed to pick up cheumatiam, or some fool thing Ike that, right here in America, One day I'm up and one day I'm down, It hag a way of darting a feeler over toward my me as they promised? Anyway, it was real sweet of you! And Mrs. Jarr put one of the gare denias in her hair and kissed Mr, Jarr bateomated @ cerned bbe : | heart now and then-Just to see if it's atill there, 1 reckon—and that wan what had just happened when sou came to my ceacue the other Gay, My ieorge, 1 thought I was a goner for 4 minute be fore you stepped in.” Mh nF GeV The Story of a jilt] think, 14 I, banteringly, “that you might have played Othello and spun me a good yarn, anyhow, I'm ‘bored to death with this plac “And yet—Deelemona’— he began, mockingly, and then bit his lip on the word and stopped. “Out.with it!" I demanded. We were really’ getting acquainted with moat unconventional rapidity. And yet I didn’t check him, I had told the truth when I said that I was bored, “Oh, nothing,” he eaid, when I pressed him, “But you must!" I erfed. “But you won't like it,” the said, 1 insisted. “Well, then," he laughed, with a touch of gay malice, “I was going to say that with that big, brown-eyed young doctor, or high priest, or whatever he isthe Adonis in the white clothes, you know ready and walting to be made the captive of your bow and spear, I don't eee how you coukl possibly be dull.” ‘Nils was getting along rather too fast, even for me. I wondered if he hedn't heard as much of me as I had of fim. So I answered, rather coldly: “What makes you think that Dr. Ray is particularly {nteresting to me “I see you recognize the portrait,” he mocked, “and I told you you wouldn't eit." All of which was in rather question- able taste. He had as much as said that he knew me for @ flirt and ask: me if I had tried to flirt with the young physician yet. But Will Lioya was notealways in quite the best teste. He had a way of making you forget that, though—or forgtve it—with some audacious compliment a moment later, And people usually ended by forgiving him his rather unusual moral code, also. 3 set the example by forgiving him- self. I didn't find him very communicative about his various warlike episodes, The next day I heard that he was worse, and was confined to hla room. It was only natural that I should go to eee him, and I did ¢o. Dr, Ray was leaving as I entered, and the manner in which We greeted each other must have dhown something more than casual ecquatnt- ance, We rather overdid st, both of us, T saw @ great deal of Mr. Lioyd during the next few weeks. As he hed said, he ‘was “up and down." One day he would be out, end the next two or three twisted with pain in his room. One day, ae I left his room, I came face to face with Dr, Ray, He etanced at the door trom which I had just come; it was still open and Me, Lioyd wae in plain view. ‘May I speak with you?” Dr, Ray asked, and there wes 4 touch of etem- nese in his voice. “Certainly,” I answered coldly and walked down the corridor beside him, When we were out of Mr. hearing, Dr, Ray halted: “You once asked me to help you,” he begem. J bowed Lee hoad -} assent, “Then let me give you a piece of ad- vice, Don't go to Mr, Lioyd's room,’ “Why not?” I esked angrily, “Because he te not nt to be in your presence, I know all about him,’