The evening world. Newspaper, November 20, 1911, Page 16

The Evenin PSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, (Published Daily Except Bund by the Prees Publ ‘KK Row, New Yorks RALPH PULITZ: J, ANGUB BHA JOSEPH PULITZER, y Post-Offige at New York ag Second-Claws Matter. Waecriplen Rates to The Hvening| ror Bngland and the Continent and ) | Werid for the United States ‘All Countries in the International end Canada. Postal Union, easuret, , Secretary, Park Row. 0} One Year.... :80|One Month.. TO-MORROW FOR THE CITIES. HE “Masquo of the Cities,” presented here last week, carried I @ reminder that the history of civilization is chiefly a ci history, that the recorded loyalties of men have been mainly wity loyalties, and that the things which tempt them to travel are chiefly city things. Those two words of derogation, “pagan” and “heathen,” declare the classic disparagement of everything remote from the forum—that “great white way” of antiquity. There are no city-states nowadays, and men’s loyalty is to a larger unit. Politically, the city has been slighted and has suffered for it in welfare and public repute. It is a fact of significance that the cities are aghin coming into their own as objects of men’s in- terest and devotion. Their elections are no longer treated as “the first gun in the next Presidential election.” New York will be ppared the folly of another Tracy campaign on a “gold standard” platform. The alignments of the national political parties aro no longer strictly observed. Fusion movements, citizens’ tickets and independent voting have become common. Home rule for cities, a complete fact nowhere, is nevertheless making ground everywhere, By and by “ripper legislation” will become morally impossible and there will be general recognition that the city has a right within its ww@ ephere to govern itself. .~ By and by there may be a Masque of tho Cities that can be rep- teagntative and yet not a Bake’s Progress. People will be almost as prond of their well-ordered hives of population as Athenian or Spar- tar? was, and will give to their administration and betterment a devotion but little less. This city is developing a character of its own and will have a civic spirit in its likeness. Frederic Harrison says in his “Reisebilder ~—Old and New” that the tendency is for all communities large and amall to assimilate to “a common type, 8 commonplace type.” But | New York, at least, is set apart. It has distinctive features in a colanial and revolutionary background and a brief career as the na- tional capital; in a maritime location, with engirdling waters and beaghes; in a world commerce; in a threshold service to the old-world inuiiigrant, symbolized in the Statue of Liberty; in immense bridges, ‘titanic architecture, environing parks. The citizen who measures up to the history, the significances the opportunities of this town should be a size larger than other men. 0 - { THE RULE OF THE STRONG. ‘HAT was a pertinent question asked by the State’s Attorney of a witness who had testified that in his youth Spencer, “the' gentleman burglar,” had “pounded smaller boys,” the implicetion being that he was mentally unsound. “Did you see him qpound any larger boys?” was the question, and when the witness auswered “No,” the attorney said significantly, “That's all.” ~ It is no sign of insanity for a boy to pound smaller boys. It might be if he assaulted larger boys. Big boys pound little boye— auch is the way of childhood, and little boys are not supposed to com- plain to their parents. Boyhood repeats the harsh life of the sav- age. Howells doubts whether “small boys understand friendship,” thinks they have “no conception of generosity” and concludes that “their instinct is to get and not to give.” The finer impulses have yet to flower. “A dead horse will draw a crowd of small boys, who will dwell without shrinking upon the details of his putrefaction, when they would pass by a rose tree in bloom with indifference.” These quotations are from that remarkable hook, “A Boy’s Town,” and here is the sum of the whole matier: “They (the boys in a typical American village) were grave, like Indians, for the most part, and they were noisy without being gay. They seldom laughed, exeept at the pain or shame of some one. I think they had no other conception of a joke, though they told what they thought were funny stories, mostly about some Irishman just come across the ea, but without expecting any one to laugh. In fact, life was a ery serious affair with them. They lived in a state of outlawry in the midst of invisible terrors, and they knew no rule but that of might.” There was profound and poignant truth in The Evening World ¢artoons entitled “Them Was the Happy Days.” They were not, tH THE HIKING AGE, AYBE the rising generation has flat feet, but it makes better M use of them than its predecessor did. The city man of yes- terday used a car for any distance beyond four blocks, The farmer of yesterday hitched up his horse for journeys of more than a half mile, reasoning, doubtless, that otherwise he would be getting less than a full return for his investment in livestock, Every country lad calling on his sweetheart Sunday afternoon drove to her house, scorn- ing walking as the hobo’s hallmark. That this is changing newspaper columns attest daily, Walking elibs abound in the schools and at least one church in this town sends its lads out on Sunday jaunts. Hikes of artillerymen from New York to Peekskill or Albany, and of students from home to college, are so multiplying as to diminish their news value, A thin ,atrgam of transcontinental walkers keeps the dust rising on the roads between here and Los Angeles, and most of them bear letters from Mayor Gaynor. Other pedestrians have made the circuit of the city and even of the country. People are tramping on wagers, or so they allege. They are trundling wheelbarrows, or walking beside ox teams that haul their womenfolk. They live by charity, by “lectures,” by _ welling postcards, by giving concerts, by vending nostrums, A craze, maybe, but a rational one. To subsist cheaply, to win and hold perfect health and to see people and things—is this not tolive? Pleasure has been defined as “a sensation of gentle motion.” Yon get it on the roads. — oe -: JUST THE THIN: A MEATY QUESTION. “The doctor asked me if J ate much Meat. I sidestepped that question,” “fou ought to tell the Boctor ebout ine ne Jose texte, So Gnd out winter," Journal. ishing Company, Nos, 53 to “nee there's to be a food show this! | head of the etaire, where, losing his | Dalanoe, he ¢ell down three flights and sandwich and see if I can't take m blue isended at the bottom, fortunately with- . out any injury, Becanse he hit en hie “Gee whisz! ¥ believe I'l) entePe ham Excuse Me! DION T KNOW ANYBODY was in HERE | | WHERE mTHe Dickens! DO You ExPEcT ME To REST." Son in EVERY ROOM INTHIS FLAT Drege Publishing Co. Cova. Ite Now dork World). ELL, doggone the luck!" sald the landlord of the Eagle \ House in East Malaria, he found himself locked out of ht hotel by a wanton gust of wind having slammed the door shut and snapping the spring lock. Qir. and Mrs. Jarr, the only etay-all- Might guests that had ever honored the establishment with their patronage, shivered with him in the winter mid- night winds. “I tell you what we can do, ia the landlord, finally, “You can jown to Joe's lunch wagon (he was speaking to Mr. Jarr) and get some of the boys to come up with @ key to the firehouse next door and get a ladder, I'd go my- self, but I ain't got no shoes on,” and he lifted up one bare foot as he epoke and warmed it in his large red hands. Mrs. Jarr demurred at the proposi- tion, and Mr. Jarr investigated and found the door of the firehouse open. After much exertion he and the land- lord got @ large blue up window of the Eagle House, and ndlord, climbing up, got in and irs and opened the door | st the 1a |came down ai | for them, ‘They were no sooner in deep but troubled rest when the hoarse scream of }a steam whistle from the lumber yard near by, the ringing of the fire bell and the rumble of the hose cart and hook and ladder truck being pulled out of the edifice next door woke them in alarm, “Where's the blue ladder?” yelled hoarse voice, as the hardy firemen least six of them) paused in thelr mad career in front of the Eagle House. “Yah tahs ahw wannah,” sald @ votce, a priate. wren ath i She unlocked a Goor, And there, be- Ai I nets oe That's the hareliped brother -In= 444 them, was a room filled with gilt: V3 - pi made with” front law," muttered Mr. Jarr; “he says the form ahem Woe & t E made with sh ladder 1s at our window." heapen ' i afore are” under: The firemen yanked down the ladder World Daily The Day of Rest. eBopy | (SUMMER ACQUAINTANCE S: ee “| ty clothes, but always wore a waist and sleeves and skirt and a gingham apron. body portion in one, And because of this every one thought ) in true sapanese she was a witch. And many People Leek he ne would sit up at night, long after the y 4 Savors, ee ne Sandman had eprinkled sand in their Z V j Cah ied eyes, and tell of how strangely she sith slightly longer used her money. , Sleeves gathered The Jarra were just asleep again when | bow a} they were awakened by the landlord | when she walks," down tho stains, It appeared , Sle thought that the flowers on her RIA Li i pM fe BONSAI MES aca Md EN Magazine, Monday, ’ November 20, 1911, By Maurice Ketten. Excuse ME! DIDNT HNO ANY! OOY WAS Copyrigttt, 1011, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), No. 22.—Pirate Fighting—Then the “Era of Good Feeling.” RIBUTE to Pirates, from 1795 to 1815, $1,360,000!” ‘Thus ran a big item of expense in Uncle Sam's ledger; an {tem that did not include the loss of hundreds of Iives and of many thousand dollars at the sea-rovere’ hands. It was merely the ct} <4 EXCUSE mes OION'T _RNOW THis ROOM WAS OCCUPIED United NoT my FauLT IF ALL OUR CAME To sims Roseecereecccesca cceccesoccoscccecensseccsoeoeese:. Mrs. Jarr Revels in the Joys of Revenge! 99S999S9SSSIISITSS 99999TG9S9999S99s FSIISSISSSISIIGOS hammering and kicking at the door ¥ head. The door slammed behind him sum paid to buy off the pirates from doing further damage. This seems hard to believe; but in the first part of the nineteenth cen- tury several great European powers as well as ourselves paid such blackmail for immunity from piratical attacks. The little African coast principalities, Algiers, Tripoll, Tunis and others, had made heavy revenue for hundreds of years by their pirate ships that sailed the Mediterranean, seizing and plun- dering merchant vessels, killing or “impressing” their crews and elther selling the passengers into slavery or holding them for ransom. In 1795 our country pald $800,000 ransom for captured citizens, gave the | Dey of Algiers a $100,000 warship and agreed to pay $23,000 a year in | tribute on condition that our ships be spared. But the war of 1812 had awakened among Americans a mighty demand | for real tndependence. They would no longer meekly pay money to secure fair | treatment on the seas. Commodore Decatur was sent in May, 1816, with @ equad- ron of warships to teach Algters the same lesson that we had been trying for three years to teach England. Decatur, With: Pi ‘he June 17, ran across an Algerine pirate fleet that was searching the s¢ for foreign prizes. Decatur attacked the irates, drov m before him like chaff, and captured their flagship and one of their best frigates. Then he sailed poldly to Algiers and forced upon the frightened Dey @ treaty that forever emashed Algerine Piracy as far as the United States was concerned. Decatur wrung from the Dey the pardon of all American captives in Algiers, a release from all future tribute demands and indemnity for every dollar's worth of American property that had | Deen selzed by the pirates, . | He followed this triumph by swooping down upon Tripoll and Tunis ané@ forcing their rulers to make similar concessions. In a single dashing cruise he had sounded the death knell of piracy and had achieved wh nations had despaired of accomplishing. He had Pies in the folly of interfering with the rights and the citizens of the tates. | And now, after years of warfare and stress and hard times, came @ peaceful, | Prosperous interval, known to history as “The Era of Good Feeling.” Our nation ‘had made the world at large acknowledge our power. We were at peace and able to turn our attention to our long-neglected industries. Political strife was for the moment stilled. The country waxed rich. There was much work to do en@ food pay for doing it. New Western land was opened up and developed. New States were admitted to the Union, Manufacture and agriculture boomed as never before. In 1817 James Monroe became President. Ji Madison ana he had been political disciples of Jefferson's and were nicknamed “James I." and ‘James Ii.” In 1819 we bought Florida from Spain, paying $8,000,000 for its 66,900 square miles of territory. Eastern emigrants were constantly pouring into the West, changing {ts hostile stretches of wilderness into fertile farms and cities. Burope also ae corded us a far higher respect than ever before. The crowning feature of this “Era of Good Feeling” was reached when the famous “Monroe Doctrine” was launched. This “Doctrine” declared in betef:. That the United States should never again allow amy The “Monroe European government to start a colony in North or South America or to claim the right to interf Doctrine.” o ight to interfere with the affaires “ and Scr South American country. In short, the NS “Doctrine” said: “Hands off!" to all the w ineured the whole Western Hemisphere against foreign control. peal: This flat has been criticised from time to time by various European stetes- men, but its power has never been seriously contested. Chief oredit for the Monroe Doctrine rests less with President Monroe than with his Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, who was its prime mo The “Era of Good Feeling” has been called “a calm between twe etorme,”” And so it proved. The war-weary country was but gathering the needed wrens to face a new and infinitely greater problem. — a | 9, [The Days Good Stories, } Peshagicot pi egg oy woyama Objected, ESON, the actor, | [CRANK a champion divers into oblivion. day succeeded in breaking through | “Do you know what's burning?” said i "said Edeson, “was once | remarka edge of and he clattered down the street, only | futilely some ten minutes (and swearing| Mr. Jarr, grimly. | ‘a stevedore on the docks at Memphis] Field Marshal ‘Oyama. The interview = ew to return again and kick the door and|in @ manner that astounded Mr, Jarr| Had Mrs. Jarr been speaking to him | Jp untowd @ cargo from the steamer Anna |¢xiremcly courteous, and the jubilant eorrerpamdens shout: that a man living tn the suburbs could] she would probably have sald that 3 eee i oe a gg | thio course of it Frere, ‘ia air? or Mie igen, Te “Lemme in; I'll be fined @ dollar any-| be #o up to date in his profanity),| looked like gas, but it smelled like a oS pre « \ Ld ‘ expression: ““Masahal great was his strength that he carriSd one under each arm, “In crossing the narrow gangplank with an an- vil under each arm the negro slipped and fell into the water. “He eame up paffing aud blowing. ‘Frow down er rope,” he yelled, “The men on board laughed at him in derision, ‘Frow down er rope,’ pleaded the negro, ding water vigorous! jetting nothing but yer, the negro cried ex. citedly | "Fer de Jan's sake, man, frow down er rope | m: or I'll drop one er dese anvila,” oung’s Maga- zine, Oyama is a brick! ihe letter was duly passed along to the elticial! translator, and presently Capt, Kanaka of the mame ereual siall valid upon the “Marshal Oyama presents bis compliments,” tho captain suarely, " "od ambled off to the fire to warm himself. The gasiight burned dismally and blue, and ever and anon would quiver and shake with a coughing sound as the air in the seldom-wsed pipes came up to the surface and tried to blow the gas out. rubber comb, “It's the owl lunch wagon!" Mr. Jarr excitedly. “Ha, ha!” eaid Mrs. Jarr. REVENGE!" But just how she was r&Venged Mr. Jarr could not figure out. & By Eleanor Schorer how, because ‘I'm late Mr. Jarr groaned and arose, Mrs. Jarry seized him by the arm with a @rip of iron. . “Let him freezo to death,” sho hissed. It was the first word she had apoken in three hours, The landlord, after added “Revenge! , what's wrong with it?" orled the emeseg serie it, Ranaka explained with pottt archal” Osama,” be sald, “objects ta hart great American public regent Alm ‘as Vor that fs what the extremely 1 ‘trandta! had made of * ‘ereland Plan Deaien ws The May Manton Fashions S IMPLE kimonos SY Written and 3 Illustrated MAGIC MONEY. N old woman lived all alone on a "ge farm not very far from Here, Stories of how very rich she was were circulated far and wide, Yet she never bought herself any pret- made with the into bands, and it can be cut off to sacque length, with the result that it is One day when Bessie end Jessie Passed her house she was standing in the garden path. “Good morning!’ said the children, aed g Scepter | to Red ‘ needs, most num- They were very much afraid of her \ niin Almost nut and thought that to be friendly to her | are used for Kime | was best. She smiled and answered: 4 rn \ nos in these days, “Good morning! Won't you come in } t but nothing is pret- | for @ few minutes? I have something nese cotton crepe |nice to give you.” 2 ! jilustrated, It 1s At first Bessto and Jessie were afraid <p saat aad TP ls to accept her invitation, but she looked U aot epee eae eitrabe at them so kindly that they DID go Ly asi na tive us well as prace into her house, anyway. Nextt Tht a + teal, Among pretty After sho had shown the children is sini bees jissal a! Roantioned extreme- around the quaint old house with its Hn HT ate Jy Might welaht Mane spinning-wheel and big porcelain stove sare att OE Ey te nel woven ia how. she led them up a rickety fight of WiVanes: lak HDR APD genuine kimono stairs to the attic, 7 he silks, but’ simpler | ‘You are the very sweetest children Casimere, crepe jthat I ever knew and I shall try to \ t 2 and the like, are in make you happy,” she sald every way appro- “This is magic money," sald the old arm, shoulder and €nd in so doing shattered the whole Yoman, “and It can only be spent for POGK: SORTA, one minnae Ges ware Gee tae Ahh: & good purpose, You may each take pend that Anisee Jarr arose and natied his over-,W!th you as much as you can carry.” we edges 1g rolled over over the broken window by the| You may be sure the kiddies fled 4 (| to, form, the cotlar, happy aid of seounng nails from the: thelt aprons to the very brim, and af- ey mabe inthe Gatvens picture moulding of the room, He not ter hastily thanking the generous old . cel | gize will be required only secured the nails but the picture Woman they went home as fast as their . ot fs Ey ks bY ral ‘ \ enue’ ‘as well, and although e put Ittle legs would take them. On the - PAE Kimono for Misses ond Sena Women—Pattern . : some dozens of holes in his new over- Way they thought of how to spend the| Tabby a big, big bow," said Bessie, very BEST purpose, did she not?| 1% yards of cons » 7209, coat, what is an overcoat for if it isn't money. The shopkesper measured the yards, Now," continued mamma, “we shall go tasting material; for the short kimono wil be needed 8 yards 87, 1% yards 96 to keep you from freezing to death? “My Tabby cat shall have a new blue | but when Besse wanted to pay for it| together and buy @ dress for poor little | °" patiern No, 7200 is c s roa terial will tinkle is cut in sizes for miases of 14, 16 and 18 years of age, Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON F, BURPAT, Donald Building, Gresley Square, corner Sixth avenue; bell th: sald Bessie, & gold the money refused to come out of the pocketbook, Nhe more she tried to get ft out the tighter tt clung to the sides Nellie Jones, She needs it and Tabby does NOT need ‘a new bow.” They bought clothes and food for all And Jes- faded. Yee, she MU purse, lthe ponr ditle Kiddies that knew and Thirtyeaacond street, New York, o; new flowers} With many Dditter tears Besste told! of and all were extremely happy, MANTON PATTERN CO,, at the shore saarees Goel tk pi | And #0 on and on the kiddies babbied | her mamma what had happened, That night they did not sit up and in coin or.stampa for each pattern ordered, @ thousand plans of how to spend the| #Now, stop crying, my dear," aid| wonder why the old woman did no} IMPORTANT—Write your address piainiy ené elwe: gold coins, njamma, “The good old woman told you | pretty clothes, but when the ise wented, Add two cents for letter postage (f in a jadi “ZT want enougs Live rivvon to makelvbat the money wee only ¢o be apent for! came ‘round they all fell fast basta)