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The Bord. Pabliahed Palty Fxcey munany, by nd be} Upbiiehios Company, Nos. 88 to 63 & ANGUS SHAW. i Preass JOSEPH PULITZER, Juntor, See's. os ‘ o Continent Ty ternational nion. Buta t ‘orid for the United States and Canada. All Countrie Postal VOLUME 51... NO, 18,073, YORK. SELF-GOVERNMENT IN NEW T the Saturday luncheon of the Yiican Club or Owen of Oklahoma made a plea for the popular election of Senators and the initiative, referendum and reca) Tn t ree of it he said: “You haven't got self-governn in New York. . a * There is not a man of you that doesn’t realize that when he records his vote it doesn’t matter much for whom it has been cast. The great and splendid city of w York is bound hand and foot and is unable to govern itself as it wants.” The statement accords well with the outward show of things, but it is not true to the vital principle of our municipal life. defect of New York is not a lack of popular Ii} of popular n¢ power under the organic law, but ¢ and resolute pul lie sentiment. It matters much with what steadfastness we hold our represent to the $ At this very moment popular protest I led the subway to Bred and the scheme for electing Sheehan the United States Benate. In the end these struggles will result in victories for the ‘people; in a new proof that where public spirit is vigilant and vieorous | fepresentative government will never fail to reflect it. | a On WAR IN THE CARIBBEAN SEA. VELSOD : A, MILES, in an after-dinner ad- dress to the Economic Club, said: “The next war will be in the Caribbean Sea. We will invite dis- aster if we do not fortify the Panama Canal.” e¢ next war should occur in the} Caribbean Sea instead of the Mediterranean, or} the Baltic, or the Yellow Sea, or the Persian Gulf, is not apparent; does it matter much. The pertinent point is the conclusion that, war being proximate, we must fortify the canal to avoid What nations having power to fight in that sea would attack the canal? ~The Caribbean is a big sea, There are lots of nations on or Bear its waters. Hayti and San Domingo and Venezuela are there, Great Britain and France and Denmark have islands in the vicin- Which of them are going to fight the next war? Which will to wreck a canal that the United tos guarantees ? Which will “invite disaster?” | +o— INNOCUOUS INSIGNIFICANCE. ENATOR ROOT, in opposing the proposed election of United States Senators by popular vote, made light of the Legislative scandals recently arising from Senatorial contests and said: “If bad men are sent to the Senate, as some claim they are, they find their level here—they find it in innocuous insignificance.” The phrase is unfortunate. Evil is never innocuous, and in so a body as the United States Senate it can never be insignificant. iniquities of the tariff bill, ranging from insolent extortions of | pei to jokers and tricks of words and figures so subtle that only experts can understand them, were not put there by harmless / mobodies. praising the dogs and the ladies, and also in that of finding with the arrangements and ridiculing the de Altogether the show will be a happy feature of the w and | another argument for saving the Garden from being sacrificed to | trade, What would the town do without it? | fault | sion of the judges, The “itehing Palm” To the Paitor of ‘The Ryening W Mr. Brown's letter, “The Again, Itehing Palm," scoring tt sys-| 3 coal tem, !s a masterpioce, and ink it}! 9 and they ae Phould express the sentiment every y we ely see these fo certainly degrading for the man| ‘VA"y Cases of « 8 and smaller Wagons It 1 perfectly dreadful to see avi and degrading for the — eee ie ene gee why | 8 Poor anknals kicked end beate rere J (sometimes with thick clubs, as I saw theve should be any argument about the ‘tipping habit. We ail know It is wro: “Aay one who cannot make a living with- erday), It each keeper would put, say, one can of ashes along on the hill while it is slippery, think of what WM Gqpending on alms ie a subject for | | i inanese it would be. And J am sure charity. A writer says @he would be |, dumb friends woulé thank us in Aghamed had sie not given tips to those tht mute wa eserving them and that the "Anest rerings. people in tho land give tips." Nobody “Stenography 08 a “tip” for a duty he ts paid to geverv: P bi To the Exlitor of The Evening Worl Perform. And the “finest people in the Jand” pay well for what they get and| Will some wise business men among @o not have to pay bribes. |Your readers please advise @ young WILLIAM LANDON, |man of nineteen years as to which tn ‘ the better trade to learn: stenography fay sus itias os Poe tveine Wars, ar elegraphy? Hoth require @ good deal of study and practice, and I \ Zwieh to plead for the most ebused | gould lke to know which offers more the | opportunity for advancement and the average hours and salaries of each, HARRY, bhe Evening World Daily Magazin NOW DON'T STAND LIke A Foou INTHE MIDDLE OF THE CIRCULATE AMONG YOUR GUESTS The Day of Rest By Maurice Ketten. MY Guests! ARE WE GOING * To Have Guest: SO EARLY iy WE MORNING 2, NEVER MIND WHAT IT's ABOUT. Don'T Be Siu! Bow ano SHAKE HANDS With 1% BILL DO WHAT I TELL You! STAND_HERE ano GREET YouR Guests But There's 15 MRS NOBODY HERE BuT. You ano JOHN, Now You ESCORT MRS BILL TOTHE DINING Room) Floor! AND , | ENTERTAIN THEM WELL} IF You MUST IKNOW, 1AM REHEARSING For A VALENTINE PARTY. SAY WiFeY, DEAR. WHAT'S ALL THIS FOOLISHNESS ABOUT 2 IWwANT To REST / THE oF Hi im. EEN ARTS — MR BILL! \WHERE 15 SHE ‘DON'T SEE HER 2 Je) ( MR. Mac MRS \ VAC say Bit STILL HERE 2 Now, JOHN LET'S HAVE A GRAND DRESS REHEARSAL | GOT ALL THESE PEOPLE TO \ REPRESENT THE QUESTS a G Haunts the Jarr Flat. “Who told you— I mean, say anything of the kind!’ cried Mrs, deen a gentleman to! Jarr, flaring up. “And if he did, I'm you," said Mrs. Jarr.jeure it is a natural miwtake, I look Ie'll be here again after'every bit as young as Clara Mudridge supper, |does! Yes, or Cora Hickett. And they're “I don't know) not married any xentleman,”| “What has being married got to do erumbled Mr./ with a woman's age Jarr, who had had “It's got everything to do with it,” he didn’t the reply. “A married woman can grow old gracefully, but a single wo- man dare not grow old in any style, “I suppose so,” growled Mr. Jarr. “I wished you had told that fellow who was to see me tliat 1 was in Albany breaking the Senatorial deadlock by (in deference to the (nsistance of numer- ous friends) permitting my name to be offered as a compromise candidate. I'll McCardell. The serious judgment of the country is opposed to the proposed @ bad day down- —- fla ete slash of the Constitution with respect to the election of Senators, Teac ewa veer |e " it does not make light of Legislative scandals nor of the election chance, then,” G da T k @f bad men. The Senate of the United States is a legislative body Lose ieeaiete ad Ive an a e of great power. No man in it is of “innocuous insignificance.” | a tell but whith B y E t h e 1 yn H uston iN wholly ‘Uifferent from f ti aad Ly DOGS AT THE GARDEN tat Emeane’ growied) Resting” Is an Art. Why Not Learn It? iS mee ig » city this week, {oF ® subpoena server—'tisn't anybody | (6(F HDRE is music in a rest If) tangible, that which the silence gave 0G are the guests of honor of the city this week. coming to see me for MY ‘benefit. one but knew it," said) to us; but, as little children, groping tn Madison Square Garden is theirs; and theirs also} “1m sure you are mistaken,” sald Carlyle. the dark, feel the soft fingers of a r F jl i . “He had the nicest man- And the Great Man | mother hand, #0 we felt the assurance will be the devotion and the adulation of women, (Mra Jérr ra ill Abn plan ’ ners, he was nicely dressed, and w touched the key-note of|of a Meaning—a Plan—we knew that “Going to the dogs” is always an alluring pace, and jas 1 said, a perfect gentleman.” the world’s confusion, We have for-|Some One hold the winds in His hand. +c RP : “Oh, he's @ PORFRCT gentleman | gotten how to pause. We do not know oy . this week it will be fashionable as well. ‘Ob, 8, 6 Ww to pa e The grave-eyal man in the white ' r now, js he?" asked Mr. Jarr, who was|how to be still. We are deaf to the |surplice ki when “there was music Our proverbs and our epigrams alike bear witness | getting crosser every minute, ‘“Huh!| harmonies pulsing through ellence, in a pause.” He knew when to let the tothe warmth of human fondness for canine companionship. “Love | knew how he got you. “When youl “mere is a naval station on the Pactfc | silence wpeak for him.” ‘The tempest x vee |came to the door he said to you, ‘Miss, | coast called Hequimault. In a Mttle|had gripped us with Its foar—and then me, love my dog,” says the sentimentalist. “The more IT see of men, |1s your father In? ngiish church there, hangs a‘Mife-pre-|he left the filckering sunbeams, the the better I like dc ys the cynic. So the two will go to the |= as = SS hey bai pales a br ar memorial Sass. | biases the leaves, the silence to say to - : ? ; ho life-preserver floated up on the! us what no words of his could have show, and while despising one another will share in the pleasure of] } Jn the Tall case {ust cabin th cramer cia eaip eda, sign that ever came back of ship, of-| And go the man on the far western Timbers | cere and men who went down some-| coast remembered what we forget. | where in the Pactfie seven years ago. | Moderation seems to be beyond us and And one Sunday the rector described! to ‘pause’ impossiWe. Life, social, @ storm at sea—the deafening, engulf- jnancial, artistic, professional, domes ing fury of wind and wave at war—the! tio where you willis set at a pace [seething cauldron of maddened waters, | that knows Ilttle of dignity and nothing jtortured and lnshed dy the furles of of rest, We “plunge” through the days the air—the piteous tragedy of a crip-|as the espeoulator “plunges” on Wall ped, sinking ship and doomed men street, ami we barter liberty and peace And suddenly he stopped with arm of mind ag does the gambler in stocks, outstretched, And we heard the little And the goal is a goal that is never whispering of a summer breeze through | reached 4 the church win-| lows sweet piping of binds that #lipped like Hvin Jewels through the branches—the stillness that drifted like a spirit over and pathway and to the crooned and laughed and crept in and out among the rocks--the @eepy hum of a bee through the noon-day warmth, And the outetretohed hand pointed to the leaves rippling softly against the eaded windows After all, {t !s the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that beckons. There is never content In the eyes of those foremost in the race, ‘The man after wealth and the woman after fashion allke chase a phantom. ‘There {s noth- ing in acquisition but renewed desire. The goal 1s always just a little farther on—suecess always just a little greater to satisty—and the straining fingers etill cluteh for the rainbow as the feet stumble over the low mound of earth he low swand on down where waters “Yet it is the same wind,” he saf4 that checks the race at last. HODGE HUFF,OUR POPULAR || °t!s elt And ‘the musle in the pause” ts if And we who listened? od—-th th, 1 STATION AGENT IS PUTTING We iad soon with him the tempest, |timeecite Mus, MINE She philosonhier hears who steps from the race to rest A NEW PORCH ON HIS And our throats had ached ae Welty the roadside-that the artist, hears, HOUSE BETWEEN TRAINS. || turned to the mute witness on the wall. | who slips away to the woods—that the and the t rand the pity of tt had) musician hears, who turns from the Jutched our Mearts—hoplessness and ,,, of fame to the voices thet deapair came to vs trom the storm: | com m the silences—that the lover And then—the word-palnting paused nears, who pauses to gather to his and the hand pointed to the swaying) neart his heart's beloved and teach her leaves. the Gypsy's wisdom | And in the silence of that pause! something came to our hearts that was) different from and beyond ail speech and all sermon —eomething that’ Ex: wlained and Comforted, it was nos Enough to think that truth can be came sit we where the roses glow, Indeed he knows not how to know who Ienowe not also how te unkmow.” A Mysterious but Distinguished Stranger What Can It Mean? jbet he's got something to sell me. he isn't a book agent, he's got a Florida land scheme. Well, you can tell him 1 don't come home of night: I'd be telling him what 4s the truth nine-tenths of the time,” said Mrs, Jarr. “But I've only this to say: that when @ gentleman calls and, in a gentlemanly way—and he had such aristocratic look- ing hands and his nails were so well- ‘eared for—what wae I saying? Oh, yes, when a gentleman calls and asks bet it's some guy trying to sell me something, or asking some favor. No- ‘body comes to see me for anything "sald Mr. Jarr, “Since you've been so sure of 1t, Mr. Smarty, and old Crosg Patch!" eald Mrs, Jarr, ‘I'll tell you that ft isn't a bill collector, or an agent of any kind or a ‘guy’ either! It's a Uterary gentle- man and, instead of coming here to ask & favor of you, he 1s coming to do one for yout!” “T'M bet you he fsn’t! snapped Mr. Re ‘And I will wager the ts!” “AM right," said Mr. Jarr. “We'll make @ bet on ft. If I win you are to let me go out to Gus's and play pinochle for two nights every week." Two nights?" faltered Mrs, Jarr. No, I'll let you go OND, tf you win, d that's enou As tt wi more than he expected or hoped to gain, Mr. Sarr hurriedly ac- cepted this compromise, “All right, then, that's settlea! on! ‘Tell me what he wanted! as far as you know! be quicl Mr. Jar snapped his fingers and other- Wise did everything to excite Mra, Jarr and get her mind upon the explanation a Go ‘That 4: Hurry up, now, lof the callers purpose, so far as she knew It. For, if you will note, Mrs. Jarr had made a bet in which Mr. Jarr had ever: tht n if he won—a night of lib for a while, and Mrs. Jarr was ris! ing all this against nothing, Aren't men the wretches? ‘This ts the Kind of bet they are always insisting on, If they win they get what they want, {f thetr wives win the wives get what they've always had—which ts nothing, Ladies, look out for this! “Well,” sald Mrs, Jarr, clapping her hands, “the young man fs a Iiterary leman and he {8 gathering materials ‘for a very fine book to be called ‘Prom: |inent Men of Harlem,’ and he wants to \get the story of your Ife and a photo- graph of yourself to Mlustrate it. I’ been thinking we could get a family group taken—-my new black and white dress would photograph nicely—and, |then, we havent had a picture of the children taken In a year and they'd look fo sweet in the book! 80 you see I win the bet and you c: 9 out to play pinochlet”* Wait!” said Mr, Jarr. ‘The young man comes, I hear hostile footsteps!” At this moment the door bell,rangand this story will be continued in our next. If | e. Monday, February 13, 1911 j) That Changed History | f i By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1911, by The Prew Publishiug Co, (The New York World), No, 34—A Fog That Altered Europe’s Map, WO little ships (carrying on their decks a handful of passengers and the whole future of Europe) butted their way through a bank of sea-fog one autumn night in 1799. The sudden arrival of the fog and the fact that it clung to the two emall vessels until they had moved past a certain danger-point fs | part of a dramatic historical “if.” The time was one when history was busy lin the making. The next few years were to show a state of affairs never | before dreamed of, and were to change Europe's map. But for the timely | appearance of the fog that night in 1799 there would have been another j and far less stirring tale to tell. France, rising out of the Reign of Terror, had found itself at war with most of {ts neighbors. The government was in the hands of a corrupt, in- competent group of politicians known as “the Directory.” Out of the gen- |eral confusion sprang into sudden fame a young Corsican officer, Napoleon | Bonaparte. He led a ragged, ill-equipped horde of soldiers Into Italy, trans- formed them tnto a mighty fighting machine, conquered (and looted) the Ttallan Provinces, thrashed the armies of Austria and returned to France a popular hero. Napoleon saw in his country’s confusion a chance for es one great man to strike a blow that would make him (“Tre badd master of all France. He prepared to strike that blow Not Ripe.’ But he soon found the hour for it had not come, The Di- EE ed him. and its menbers feared and was not yet secure recto His hol y was still too strong, people and on the Aisin enowsh. | “T have tested the situatto I must dazzle the crowd awhile longer.” | By way of “dazzling” his fellow-countrymen he planned the conquest of Egypt. He sailed for the Nile May 19, 1198. Stopping on the way he captured Malta, then invaded Egypt, winning one brilliant victory after another until Be had conquered the whole Nile Valley. Napoleon's dreams of greatness were inflamed by these triumphs. He tn tended to aetze the entire East, overthrow Mohammedanism, found @ new religion on his own account and turn the Orlent (from Constantinople to India) into ope | Vast empire, with himself as its possible ruler, But his golden visions were | soon shattered. He invaded Syria and met one disaster after another. The British under Nelson wiped out his fleet. He was forced to fall back into | Exypt. He lost fully a third of his army. Altogether the Eastern triumph was quickly turning Into a fizzle. | ‘Then tt was that Napoleon read in an English newspaper that had failen |tnto his hands of a change in French politics. The Directory was tottering to |a collapse; the people were dissatisfied with the government. Foretgn nations | were again threatening France. Napoleon saw at a glance that “the pear was |ripe."" The moment had arrived. France was ready for the right man to seize | the reins of power, And that “right man" was thousands of miles away, cooped | up in Egypt! | Napoleon decided to desert his army and to return with all haste to France. He had no more right to do this than has a locomotive engineer to desert his ensine between two stations. But Right never stood in Napoleon's way. Turning over his army to Gen. Kleber, he set sail for France with @ few followers In two small ships. The English fleet, watchful, formidable, lay right | in his path, waiting for some such move. So tight a blockade did the British maintain that ft was considered an act of madness to try to “run tt, But on the army he sald toa friend, “The pear !s not yet ripe. Napoleon ever had a way of doing what others condemned as impossfble, and of succeeding. This time was no exception. Had the English captured him he would have been held as prisoner of war. France's crisia would have shaped itself in some different way. And another man or group of men would have forced thelr way to the head of the wovernment. It 4s very doubtful If Napoleon would have found @ later chance so favorable for making himself master of Franc: As his two little ships—the Mulron and the Carrere—neared the tockading fleet, @ fog rolled over the water, blotting everything from sight. Slowly the fu- gitives made their way through the enemy's flotilla, passing s0 close to some of the English warships as to be able to hear distinctly the British officers’ conversation, A single false move, a sound, she lifting of the fog, would have betrayed the refirgees’ presence. Fate hung in the balance. But luck once more stood by Napoleon. He passed the blockade, landed at Frejus on Oct. 9, 179, hurried to Paris and flung himself into the whirlpool of French politics. A few months later he emerged virtual ruler of France. 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