The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1911, Page 18

The Evenin 0 ae ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. , Patished Dally Except Gupaay. by the Press Row, New P RALPH ITZER, President, 68 Park Row, J, ANG! ANY, urer, 63 Park Row,“ JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row, Entered at the -Post-Office at New York as @econd-Class ption Rates to The EveningpFor England and the All Countries in the International Pi One Year One Mont! VOLUME 52......csssescscecseccsessscevessoee NO, 18,360 a jatter. ‘World for the United States Canada, and FARCICAL CITY DOCUMENTS. assume the opposition because no such report is or has been. The reports hy heads of city departments would be a joke if it! were not that good money is spent in printing them. Some are eev- | When was the last report made by the Department of Bridges? The reports of the Department of | Charities are curiositiese—Jong columns of undigested and trivial fig- ures printed on heavy glazed paper, a grab-bag of big and little things set down without any attempt to emphasize the one or subordinate | the other, and without the general view. The reports of the De- eral years old before issued. partment of Parks are mere photograph albums interspersed with routine records, Other departments make a worse showing. What these documents might be appears in the reports of the Federal Cabinet chiefs. These are compréhensiye, interesting, terse. They give the reader a picture of government in the working. Secre- tary Wilson’s reports from the Department of Agriculture are as fascinating as a story-book. By reading all the Cabined Treports the citizen masters in best and briefest form the significant history of his country from year to year. City reports can be made moro interesting than federal ones because they deal more directly with things mote vital. Documents that gave intelligent accounts of the charities, the docks, the policing, the fire fighting, the tenoment-housing and the schooling of this town would be eagerly read, and would make for good citizenship, The annual budget-shows disclose the possibilities of such graphic ytesentation, and their eubject matter might well be digested and issued in book form at a moderate price, It would command a wide sale. Mayor Gaynor, who lectures the layman with a holy zeal to call his chiefs im council and lecture them on an pot using bis own letters as « pattern. ee SELF-SLAUGHTER. Stein are more frequent at this time\and in this country than in other periods and in most other countries, There are tome things that persons meditating self-slaughter ought to ponder, and a few. ne Meee are given below: 1, Murder ts the highest crime known te. law. Most civilized nations rightly piace selfmurder on the same criminal pi: Other murders. Lite"should aot be ended with a crime, eer) mc be wae given for pome good purpose, which should not be frus. trated. 3, Suicide ts @ solution of no problem or trouble, act colves nothing; it ends mothing, unless death ig nantattiee” sincera 4. Individuals bave no right to’ ‘ng grief and discredit and kindred. So to do is the extrem sorm of selfishnens, 6. Self-slaughter is giving the widest posaihie Publicity to fami) fortunes. The closet skeleton, black sheep or fag Plaine cep OF dublpus lite should not be 6. To look on the bright side ts to look Men were not sent into this world to kill self to make themselves miserable generally. * 1, Men owe to parents, wives and children the duty of them, To desert thetd im distress is cowardly, 8. The trials of existence are courageously Lincolns, the Franklina, the Jacksons and but dare and surmount all barriera, 9. Nearly a score of great men haye been assassina( worldgreat mao bas assassinated himself, unless we ended bis own life to escape being tortured to death b; may have died by his own hand to escape the tae at Taree unjust Imprisonment. 10. Buddha and Confuctus, the world's first historic reach of influence, taught the sacredness of human Ute. “ 4. The schools and colleges should Tale the relative viclousness and baseness of or:mes, vo that public opinion may proclaim that mob murders end selfinurders are the most cowardly and least defensible of all heinous 12, The destroyera of their own lives are dont three great branches of the Christian religion. 1% Before taking the most serious step in a man's whole existence, he should scek counsel and sympathy. In cases of desperation, where denial of wid means death, the average man, though a stranger, will afford succor to prevent a death by violence, upon family on the right olde of ite, or others or to be killed, or S"pporting Grappled with by the the Edisons; they nover despair ted, but not one except Hannibal, who men, measured by ed church burial by Fontinent and HE Mayor does not want a daily report on things municipal in @ newspaper published by officials, and is well advised. But} why is he, and why have all his predecessors been, opposed to having an adequato yearly report on things municipal? We must g¢ World Fubpeniog ‘Company, Nos. 68 to Tis MO TRAIN FROM KALAMAZ00 ~ IF we TRA IS LaTe , wait WAKE UP ovo man t THs 15 ia i SLEEPING CAR, IT'S A WAITING Room b, Co ht, 1011, he Press Mublishing Ce PITEMN, abe Naw Pork Worlds are going over to Brooklyn with dear @aked Mra, Jaret, Master Willie Jarr aid not reply, for &s his mother wa speaking to him she ‘Was adjusting the big bow necktie un-| Ger his wide turnover collar, As shy | had drawn it tightly, Master Jarr was | hard put to {t for breath, He threw! Up hia hands to his neck and tugged | 4t his collar, In so doing he left Ber- Ullion-system finger-prints on the ex- panse of snowy linen, “Now look what you've done!" cried ee N° aren't you glad that you kind grandmat’ 34. If men, women and boys will rescue a drowning man personal risk to themselves, #0 much the more will they save all personal peril. I at great fe at no ————_——_++. REFLECTIONS ON THE DOG TAX, T was to be expected that tho Appellate Division would uphold, as it has, the right of the State to collect @ Meense foe of $2 on every dog, and turn over the money to the Society for the Pro- vention of Cruelty to Animals, which is the State’s agent in disposing ; of unlicensed and homeless canines. The trend of public action must be toward more rigid reguacon, not laxer, where dogs are concerned. The responsibility of dog owners forthe acts of their “pets” must more sharply be insisted upon, In the country responsibility has been shifted upon the public, the farm- er’s compensation for sheep killed by dogs coming from State, not from owners. How often in the city does the owner of a dog pay a cent to the parents of children it has bitten? If dogs are as precious to their owners a: should at least foot their bills, " In the World Alm ‘Zo the Editor of The Evening World ‘Where can I find the laws of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Gonnecticut in regard to people getting ‘Married in any of those states? 3% Mt Capital Pantahment, ~ ac) any “ha be honesty called o capital pun.shment* How much fuatice, in your opinion, readers, oan be estal Ushed by Jogmatically holding onto law which in @ oral sense te no im United States especially ita citizens t’ right to ln ae justified than the crime for whitch It ts meant to be a remedy? And since the Mrs. Jarr. “Didn't I tell you to wash your hands?” (Smack! Smack! on \hands), “And now I'll have to put {other collar on you! Oh, dear!"* | Master Jarr, the boy stoic, went away |to wash his hands. But in the excite- |ment he had mot twen called ypon to voice his Joy at the prospective visit to | | Btandma. Jon, You MusT Go Tf The STATION To MEET My FoLKs, THEY ARE Due RNING ON THE SIX O'CLOCK Daily Magazine, The Day of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. Masi ext Jarr was e truthful doy, Is Little Miss Jarr sat erect, happy even though she was going to Brooklyn. For she hag on het nice new dress, and her nice new hat, carried her nice new parasol—though it was sullen November |she inetead on this—and had on her patent leather shoes with the white kid topa and pearl buttons, The shoes were held out atraight in frofit of her as she sat on the sofa and admired and worshipped them with all her heart and soul. For sho was a little a! fine clothes, to this sex (juvenile, ma- INEVER 010 See way You MarRieo Him eae Abseseseeesooooes sseeseeBeese<eses cence seeeee: S008 The Two Jarr Children Are Off For Darkest Brooklyn. Look Out! $999S999999999993 3999S 00895990000S 99490000000000089 ® great peace ma‘s church?’ asked Mrs. Jarr when Master Willie returned with near- cleaned hands, and was installed into another clean collar. “Tse diad!” paid the little girl, as she and tossed her glance of her new bonnet and now sh time in the parlor pier g! Memoirs of a Commuter By Barton Wood Currie Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), FTER my diagonally A neighbor, Ro! | It was just as well, Master Jarr hav- |ing Consclentious scruples against pre- | {vartcation except where stern-faced | truth tmpinged upon securing second | rt, artistic disorder in abdlutions or apparel the moving pictur Th all else it may safely bd. “Gentle Sport. mouthed and mumbled his thanks and pologies, but never mentioned making depredations, I decided Good any of hii it was up to me to “The only way feo laying ‘round, We ought to be time,” With this gental helped myself one aloft on the Jinks of company. It hi my icebox, so T qualms More mobile, He wae a aa he had mad joan me a fe: terest to list my desired to mt hed Jinks, from time to time, to treat your neighbor os a dear friend and just help yourself to anything that you keop your Icebox out on the back poroh, for that will help a lot. @ large, cold turkey that was reclining day evening, and the Jinkees had a tot such occasions that Jinks had dug into bout snatching that turkey. . I peedea tt The biggest appetite in my family had happened over 10 Hogwood Terrace in his autos thousand without ine him all the best of it tn the way of a Sunday evening gepast. opposite Win Jinks, had con- for a fight at his club (which the poor ani- mal one ear and sezment of tall borrowed my rot, Jean Valj to entertain the Jinks twin while they Measies (and turned the bind featheriess), and after he had had the re- ‘orce him ty LEN jo be neighbor; uu T am gied to good chums in no advice in mind, I autumn evening to icebox, It was Sun- ad always been on felt absolutely no Wealthy cousin, and & generous offer to hIS appetite, He frankly acknowledged that his chief pleasure in life was eat- ing. He could eat early and often and much. There wasn't anything in the house but a ham bone when he arrived, #0 that my good frau was on the verge of hysterics. She didn't feel much better when I brought in the turkey told her how I had won it, ‘Nothing good ever comes of that sort of thing, Wilbeyforce,” ghe sighed. Nothing good DID come of it. That isn't to say that the turkey didn't make a hit witn Cousin Belcher when Geraldine came Mmmm! Mmmmmmi" his chops again, “You bet ‘arve it, Corsir Belcher, I sald, “ky sprained my wrist yesterday shaking the furnace. The knife gave off @ sharp, metallic ae xd, but failed to penetrate any- where, Cousin Belcher laid more weight on the carver and it gave of an ear-splitting squeak, Cousin Betcher isd ¢own his tools and looked at me. There was no humor in his glance o, anything that bore a shadowy resemblance to mirth. “You're a funny joker, Wilberforce Riddle, I don’t think.” With that savage ejaculation he de- parted, taking with him my hopes of that third mortgage. A few Rollin Jinks called me to telephone. Ria old chap,” he said, “when you through with that tur- key witl you bring it back? We want to use {t in the little amateur show We are rehearsing to-night, Isn't it a won- dertul imitation?” I made no reply, but sent Geraldine to vistt grandma tn Brooklyn and go to, hear the temperance lecture at grand- | Moloch of Brooklyn. boy. “Indeed they will not!" cried thelr dma shrilly, as that dear old lady bustied in to bear them off to the “Indeed there will not Be any moving pictures! This tem- Derance course by Lionel Greene and Prot. Blurk, the Moral Anarchists, they advertise themselves, ts for t! ance in the young in the matter of such worldly amusements oving pletures: as well as strong drink. ‘I don’t tare,” minced little Miss Jarr. “I dot a nicer dwess dan any little dir! dat dere, an’ I dot my bive Parasol I dot my new hat, an’ I dot my new shoes wiz" But ag no one but hersclf was tnter- ested In the Joys of her fine raiment her Paean to the white kid tops and the Pearl buttons on her shoes was lost in the discussion between Mrs. Jarr and her mother as to the possibility of Mrs, Jarr’s mother getting both children clear through from Harlem to Brooklyn without paying fare, “Wille 1s large for his age,” sald Mra. Jare's mother, that youbg gentleman with “And des he has a nasty habit of blurt ing right out how old he ts when they ask, Dear me! What good does it do to go to all the trouble of taking ren where they will receive {mpr moral instruction, when they behave lke that?" ‘Grandma wants me to stoop down and sit low in the trolley cars, so they't! think I'm under five, " said Master Jarr. “I want to kneel on the seat and look out the winders.” “Little Emma is an angel to take out,” sald Mrs. Jarr’s mother, “she the conductors with such inno- the little dear, when they ask fan’t over five," buy tandy wif my fi' cents sald the lttle angel, “only I aint doin’ to eat tandy when I dot my nice new fings on and det ‘em sticky.” “Bless the child! erted + Rive ig her @ pecking kiss. “Well, is young ‘pcape-gallows ready?” Young ‘scape-gallowe hed with an alert eye her foot that had the bunion on it. Young scape-gallows also wagereg with himself that he would get at least halt a dozen opportunities to step on that foot before they réached Brooklyn, “Well, let us start,” sald the old lady, “Tm sure theso children will never the comfort, Qh, my poor foot! Oh, you little villaiat You did it on pur- pose!” over with the turkey. She found ali third mortgage, | + Cousin Belcher was justly famed for the Jinkses rollmg over and ever on the floor, screaming. (To Be Continued) ~~ And ibe wisvaton to Brookiya began with dear grandma Mmping down the ataire sre driving Maste. Jart fread, XY; her with resounding gyhacks ly umbralia, y Monday, November distinct purpose of offsetting intemper- | appreciate what is being done for them, | They should be thankful to be taken, 1a |for the under-wleeves, 2-8 yard for the 1s SAREE oe eee UNG SO RE EERO TPIT, 27, 1911. The Story { Of Our Country i] L By Albert Payson Terhune | Copyright, 1011, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). No. a5.—Texas and the Beginnings of War. he fatl, his would be the disgrace, ee A Boomer ef Populari GRIZZLED 64 man—Zachary Taylor—who had been farmes, It was a clever pion. But {t had just one flaw—the politicians enced an Indian fighter to walk blindly into a trap. And the scheme pi last resulted In its framers’ own loss of political power and the election | We had annexed Texas; Mexico had protested and had threatened to jhold the disputed territory by force; President Polk sent Zachary Taylor to ¢laimed the boundary line was as far north as the Nueces River and that Texas had no claim to the land lying between the two stréama | the opposition element objected because Texas was a slave State, They toon 4 the war was merely a clever diplomatic move. on the part of the Administratio ispute. The two political parties in those days were the Whigs and the Democrats. The Democrats were strongest visers did not want to force an improper war upon the on. Nor, on the other | hand, did they wish to lose any party glory that might arise from a war. Henoe, |The orders given him were somewhag sindefiniie, Thus, should he encroach on | Mexican soll and should the move be unpopular, the Administration could @la by such a trick. Ho halted, his little army and forced the Administration's hand by refusing to move forward until he should receive defini:e public instructions. 4 c him, ‘Then, Taylor's army having deen reinforced to 4,000 men, Polk ordered | in January, 1846 to push on to the Rio Grande fteelf. Taylor did so and halted them. lor retaliated by thrashing the Mexicans on his own side of the Fiver, then orvssing |: and captuting Matamoros. “py act of Mexico,” The Whigs were furious and declared that war had been ‘brought on by deliberate aggression upon the part of our army, backed by the c “Polk te heless, South, where it was most popular, was nicknamed “Polk's war.” Novert nivel 1s voted $10,00,00efor tt and called for 60,000 volunteers. Two hundred Tne war found much more favor with the nation at large than had been expected, and the Administration's straight {nto the very heart of Mexico; routing every army the Mexicans sent against him; storming and selzing every stronghold and for- Mexican forces .hat opposed him wero much larger than his own. And always he was victorious. Taylor was fast becoming a national hero, The fame of To check this tide of popularity and to turn public apriause back to where Polk thought it belonged, the Government hit upon a plan whi announcement | The Day’s Good Stories j anna. ” “Put It in tae Sermon. A Strong Attachment, who had just di "t ae one, PMocmiee ot the Fifth Avenue backwoodsman, soldier, Indian fighter and pfoneer, was selected by Washington politicians in 1845 as a catspaw in tho war: picked out the wrong man for the job. The almple old fellow they chose had more shrewd sense than all of them put together. He was too expert jthe grizzled “catspaw” to the Presidency of the United States. Here is |the story: | Texas to uphold our power there, and sent a fleet to the Mexican coast, Texas claimed the Rio Grande as its boundary line with Mexico, But Mexteo oul 3 ‘ow, the United States had been divided in opinion as to admitting Texas ase ; ‘on Was right. But the majority of and that it was to be waged chiefly in siavery’s interests. ‘The pro-siavery and anti-slavery factions were at ferov wee A Trap That Was Avoided.§ 41 the slave States just then; and the Whigs In the North er President Polk was a Democrat. He and bis political ad+ | according to most historians, Taylor (who was a Whig) was sent to Texas with | the idea of letting him shoulder any unpleasant reeponalbiiity for his own acts | @atm it. Taylor, however, for all his exterior “roushness, was too clevor to be caught Polk was thus committed to ordering Taylor to advance beyond the Neuces River into the “dodbiful territory” between the Neuces and the Rig Grande. on the opposite side of the strean: trom Matamoros. The Mexican garrison there attacked a party of American cavairy, killing or wounding sixteen of | Polk announced to the nation that Mexteo had invaded the United States | ana had “shed American blood upon Amertcan soll." Also that war now e Government's orders. Abraham Lincoln was one of those who denounced the whole affair, He called tt “an impudent absurdity.” The confilet, even in the thousand men responded’ to the call. In New England only (the cradle of | Amertoan liberty) Was there a lack of ready enlistment. hope of profiting by it seemed about to de fulfilled, Meantime, Zachary Taylor was ploughing his way tiflea elty that lay fn his path. At each account of his victories that reached the United States the populace went wild with delight. Almost always the Taylor, the Whig general, was overshadowing that of Polk, the Democrat Presi+ dent, which was exactly what the Adminis:ration did not want. spread amazement and indignation throughout the land; and which seemed to mauy people to risk the loss of all we had thus far gained in the Mexican war. 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