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emptied trom time to time to make fe! hetore any denomt \ e — ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Peed Vatty Except Sunday dy the Press Pubtishing Company, Nos, 58 to y Meow BeNiey LY ilow. New Tore i | RALPH oy Wiare ree 63 Park Row. . J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park FR tered at the Post-Ofce at New rom an Becond-Ciaes Matter. jon Rates to The Evening) For land ond the Continent and 14 for the United States All Countries In the International and Canada. Postal Union, Tar . Month. : t NO. 18,364 A HIGHWAY TO KNOWLEDGE. CAPITAL story of the year tells of a native American who A had come to the end of his resources and who “began life over again” by discovering America as the immigrant does ané availing himself of the aids to advancement which the immi- grant uses. He drew books from the free libraries, frequented the college settlements, attended the free lectures given under the aus ploes of the schools, and accepted the opportunities for free technical training. So he climbed upward as the self-reliant immigrant does, with the public boosting as the public is willing to do. The depend- ent clerk became the independent contractor. ‘The story is recalled by the report of the Supervisor of Lectures _ tm the public schools. Between Ootober, 1910, and May, 1911, more than 955,000 persons attended lectures given by 716 lecturers on 1,887 topics before 5,411 audiences, an average audience of 176 persons. The lecturers comprised graduates from the leading Ameri- can and English universities, with some claim to rank as specialists. Their topics included literature, modern science, health and sanita- tion, travel, the science of government and municipal administration. Anybody with a thirst for knowledge may take deep draughts at our free lecture system. Contrast it with the lyceum courses offered in emaller communities where admission is charged. The latter cover only a few dates in the winter and these are filled by men with far less warrant to speak authoritatively than those in our own lecture system—by men whose disposition to scatter fite and ecintillete rather than illumine is betrayed in such titles as “Gems of Gold,” “Nuggets for Thinkers,” “The Age We Live In,” seta, etc. The typical New York public school lecture has a genuine ‘stadent behind it, not # mere entertainer, and his product is in| Thousands of young women of foreign birth in domestic service | ‘here are making good use of the public facilities for the spread of | ‘knowledge. They draw books from the libraries, they go to night echool, they attend these lectures. Some of their employers might well follow their example. The newspapers and shop windows an- | nounce the lectures in advance. It is possible for people zealous for | study to occupy every free evening in listening to well presented | lectures, to make each lecture bear upon the last, and to supplement it all by the reading prescribed at the circulating libraries. Here is real “university extension” for old and young. eS SHIFTED BOUNDARIES. HERE does the East cnd and the West begin? ‘The West-| erp Governors who are coming East by special train to ad-| vertise their own section have made four answers to the | question. These place the dividing line at Pittsburgh, at Chicago, at Kansas City, at Denvor. It is neither possible nor profitable thus to delimit East from West. It might be otherwise if the Fast had not itself settled the West within the compass of a century, if there were no transconti- nental railroads, if each section did not have ocean frontage, and if the Mississippi River system did not serve both. To call a man an Easterner or s Westerner no longer photographs him. If he is an Eesterner is he an Ohio business man, a Pennsylvania coal operator, a New York broker, a Massachusetts textile manufacturer or a Maine potato farmer? If ho is a Westerner is he a Hoosier poet, a Chi- ‘cago beef packer, a Kaneas prairie farmer, a Rocky Mountain miner .or sheep raiser, or a Pacific Slopo fruit grower? A man’s altitude and rainfall are more to the point than his meridian. Is he of the shore, the plains, or the hills? ‘Thus may all Americans be classified. Of the first has’Plato said, “The sea is pleasant enough as a daily companion, but has also a bitter and brackish quality, filling the streets with merchants and shoppers and begetting in the souls of men uncertain and unfaithful wavs.” Of the others it was said long ago that the besetting sin of the plains- man is silliness and of the mountaineer stupidity. ——-+-——__—___ THE LAST LINE FROM RILEY? A T fifty-eight James Whitcomb Riley says he is done. His right hand is palsied and he cannot dictate verse. “One must have his pen in hand to get the proper rhythm in such work.” Not so did Milton in his blindness. It is nearly thirty yeirs since Riley won an audience with “The Old Swimmin’ Hole.” His famo rests secure in “That Old Sweet- heart of Miné,” “When the Frost Is On the Punkin” and a dozen other lyrics, Yet his years are not long and may yet reach an In- dian summer of song that/shall delight like his springtime. Letters from the Peop'e No. Bo the Bitter of The Evening World: Is the President of the United States tombidden to leave the country at any time during his term, whether for the @ffaire of the country or on personal which would not woman, ¥v en be appropriate for a If men would adhere to the fiona laid out for tham it would le the opposite eex to adhere ty theirs, thus lessening the neceseity for jthe man: con e matters? Or, in othor words, 1s there |on this wabjes Sia Raatnicrs ras, @ lew prohibiting him from leaving epee Se country? Pig eps Another Dow Grievance. . an, To the Waltor uf The Evening World apes Readers, does {t not come under the to time noticed the| bead of “Cruelty to Animals” to shut ding the ubility of /UP # Uttle mite of a pet dog, of the And from my ‘own | “coy” variety, In a cold, empty barn, dark and dirty, with windows broken out to wind and weather, and leave tt | there for (wenty-four houre at @ time |in bitter cold weather without food or drink? Cannot something be done ab !t? Will not some lover of dumb ani suggest something? MRS. G. C., Tarrytown, N, The Dollar Sign, T) the Editor of The Evening World: oe I can pafely say that the majority of business women. if given the chance, would prove themselves far more capable than men, The trouble fg that even though they may hold the game position a man would hold they ‘ere not by any means given the same aévermages in regard to the monoy| question. Women in most casos are fur more conscientious than men and in the , Came where money is handled are far| s Evening NO Turkey For ME. 1AM Sic of iT! LET'S Go OuT To ONE World Daily Magazine Frid Can You Beat It? Bi By Maurice Ketten. Wikey, INEveR Dip EAT shy THING (LIKE AS MUCH Ae Au Jour APRES” ITS PERFECTL Deucious! me tell you the story of John Armatrong, wheslwright,”” began Dr. Greese, when Prof. Slurk had ceased hia operations on the organ. “How many of the little folks here to-night know what @ wheel- wright 19?" Masiyr Wille Jarr, his sister and thotr grandmother» did not know, Neither did the others present at the Brooklyn temperance lecture. “Ah!” groaned Prof, Slurk @t the organ, ‘And where is the eawyere’ trade to-day” his head, while old and uneasily at each other. ng, Wheelwright,” con- ving all present with the disappe of wheelwrights and sawyers on th consclence as a personal charge, “neglected his trade in the rewceful New England village whore he dwelt, He spant his time tn @ man trap! A man trap!" repeated Dr. Greose, while Prof. Slurk groaned and emackyd his Nps again, “Those man traps are around ua even now," #ald the speaker, sinking hts voice to the gruesome whisper, ‘The children stirred uneasily, and one rl who wag up far beyond her began to ery. family ate live cried the asker, musing his voice to down the whimper of the Httle girl. “WHY did they eat Hyer?’ he asked Aad he ho young looked “John Arm: tnwal Dr. ¢ boy, thinking @ reply was was lward to say that the in wheelwright’s family ate iver because they Liked it, ‘This encouraged Master to pipe out shrilly “Because it had no bones tn ft!" order, Willie Jarr little Miss Jarr was swinging her feet to and fro, that the electric Mght over her might reflect dazzlingly from the mirrored surface of the patent lewther, She was not interested in liver, She only knew that, so far as she couki note, no other little #irl present had patent leather shoes with white kid tops and pearl buttons. No other ttle girl carried @ blue silk panagol, elthe:, She had only borne hers to the lecture in triumph after @ passage at arms with her grandmother. In ¢hie she had triumphed by the sinple expedient of A roader asks the origin of the dollar To sign ($). It was originally @ monogram hard to see women|of "U. 8," which was formerly placed . Atvevivan it means now, abe Jems Mable to temptations than men, ay the least, it Place for men, espectully when there| money, and meant, as a0 09 many things « mab could do United States currency, throwing herself on the floor and screaming when her grandmother had tried to prevent her taking out the parasol at might, Prof, Slurk scowled, but the meeting had gotten away from his confrere 2 tac RN MU ae all —— T” DINDON 4 LA RICHELIEU ‘The elder Brooklynites were disci 1M S0 GLA0 Yo. lo MORI AT HOME ~ 1 CAN Dor”, 4 nen’ peTAL np 1, MAY | SUGGEST DINDON 4 LA RICHELIEU AUTOUR APRES’? ay + \'0 OIE BEFORE DEAT THAT SUITS AE, SOHN - (DON'T KNOW WHAT IT 15 THOUGH, | IT'S PLAIN TuRIKeyY HASH WITH A HIGH SOUNDING FRENCH NAME ANO LOTS of PEPPER Ke [Pasa ly sing over the backs of the seats the reson why the wheelwright’s family ate liver. One old lady who ran a cattery was dectaning plercingly that liver was the tyet thing for the health. She fed it to her cats every day, she said, A stoop-shouldered Brooklyn man, who had eleven children with him, was loud in his opinion that it would have been better for the wheelwright's family if they had maintained a diet of cereals and nuts. “Tam bringing up my ‘on proteins!” he declared, “How did those folks keep iver in summer?" asked a stout, worryd 1ok- ing woman, “I find Hyer spvtls if you look at #. The only wast to get any good out of liver Is to get It right out ‘of the butcher's ice box and take It home and cook {t. It spoils in summer in a tamMly refrigerator, in no time!" Dr. Greese was aghast. It was the first eppearamce of the Moral Anarachists east of the Oho River. And he real- Jaed that he had raised an acute point in Brooklyn economy, and had arousea question among experts on liver, Prof, Slurk, however, saved the day family purely D | PEEOEEREESDORESES SEREEEESESEOE ESSE FELESEESESS EAE SOR The Jarr Chiidren Undergo A Most Improving Evening EREOSEASASSOSESES SES OEESESESESESSS SAAEESESESESESLES ,, if by extorting the strident harmony of “Pui For The Shore, Sailor!" from the organ, and when he ceased the clamor was emoticred, “They ate liver bee: Dr. Greese went on hurriedly. Armstrong, the wheelwright, spent too much of his mong in the man trap. ‘Then one day that village was aroused by the announcement that Dr, Greese and Prof. Slurk, the Moral Anarchists, would lecture on temperance in the town hall, John Armstrong, the wheel- wright, had been ejected from the man trap because ty) had no more money.” “I beg pardon!” said a fussy old lady in the front row; “I am a vegetarian, Am I to understand that this man Arm- strong had wasted all his money polson- ing his familys on lver—an animal food?” “He had polsoned himself on alcohol in the man trap,” explaingd Dr, Greese. “Ah, true, he wasted his substance in riotous living!” echoed Prof. Slurk from the organ. “He went to our meeting barrassed lecturer continued, sneer! ‘the em- incainennncdeniagpenenpinnninnmnenanmmanmninnnanin '} WB Ophelia’s Slate Prof. Slurk rolled his eyes vhs “Went to and ate | smacked “Listen to th “He went went on. Memories of better family did not ha cheaper foods" as though to sa: | to “But he remained to Msten. sneer,’ the lecturer days whem his to eat—er—er—the the speaker skated hur- riedy around the dangerous word “liver.” “And he was convinced. When I asked, "Who will fight for the cause? John Armstrong, wheelwright, stood up and gladly paid fifty cents for his ‘blue ribbon badge.” “I thought you sald he had spent all his money on liver and Hquid?” inter- rupted the stoop-shouldered man. “Ah, but we trusted him; we trust all drunkards! said Dr. Greese quickly, Profs Slurk emacked his Ups again. | This was a telling point. When the time camp to sell the badges, who would make the drunkard's plea? ————“——. Striped Rivers. his article on his recent explorations of the great rivers uth America, Caspar Whitney describes an inter- esting characteristic of these rivers, saya the Chicago Journal. | “One of the phenomena of this land of waters,” he says, “Ix the retention by each of its own color without diffu. sion to the very pint of actual contact, even where the rivers differ vastly in volume, Black waters flow into white | ones, and white ones empty into black ones, retaining their individuality up to the y edge, a visible ine of demarey tlon—on one side white, on the other side black—unmingled and unexplained, Thus the puny black Atabapo joins the tegrity; the black Negro River receives almost at right angles the odious white Casiquatre without contamination, and | itself empties into the Amazon, not #0 much as tinging the mud-colored waters | of that mighty river, Humboldt reports on the lower Casiquatre, which I did not visit, @ black and white stream, both coming from the east, while of the rivers flowing in from the west, some are of white and some of black water, Of the number of small streams coming tnto the upper Cassiquiare from the east, those I noted were olive, ‘These colors, which among white waters range from the really white Branco through many yellowish mud shades, and of black waters from the greenish and blutsh and deep brownish to the really deep, _{almost black of the Negro, high up-— @re explained, the sctentists maintain, by the character of the soll whence they take their source and through which they flow. Those rising among the de- caying roots, leaves, and vegetable mat- ‘ter of the forests are the black, and the white those that have thelr source and course in the alluvial and clayey eoils, Yet the Orinoco has tts source in the heart of the mountain forest, and flows under their very shadow on the north until it sends off the pest-laden Casiquiere to the south.” 4 December | W The Story Of Our Country By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). No. 27. Our Conquest of Mexico. HILE Taylor was battling with Santa Ana in the Buena Vista cam: paign other United States forces had been giving splendid ac counts of themselves elsewhere in Mexico. Gen. Stephen Kearney had marched across 900 miles of plains and mountains from Fort Leavenworth and invaded New Mexico, which was then a Mexican pos session. Thence he turned toward the far richer Mexican province of California. But already California had been conquered by the United States. John C. Fremont, “The Pathfinder,” had gone thither with a band of aixty frontiersmen and the local American settlers had flocked to his standard. Commodores Stockton, Montgomery and Sloat had seized the coast. The land and naval forces swept all resistance aside. On Feb. 8, 1847, Califor nia proclaimed a part of the United States territory. All Northern Mexico was now {n our hands, Gen. Scott, with an army of 13,000, landed at Vera Cruz and marched straight toward the City of Mextoo, the invaded country’s capital. He beat every Mexican army that sought to bar his way, and reduced one stronghold after another to submission, At the heights of Cherubusco, for example, he defeated with 10,000 men a Mexican force 30,000 strong. Santa Ana asked for @ truce preparatory to arranging terms peace. But when Scott found Santa Ana was using the time granted by the ‘migtice in an effort to strengthen the caplig!'s defenses he declared the truce @t an end and advanced on the city. After hot fighting the Americans entered the City of Mexico in telumph on Sept. 13, 1847, The war with Mexico was practically over. Everywhere we Red been victorious. On Feb, 2, 188, a peace treaty wae @on- cluded. By this treaty's terms we were to pay $16,000,000 for Calt- fornia and New Mexico and were to assume responstbility for debts to the amount of $3,500,000, due to some of our citizens from the Mexican Government. So ended one of the oddest Wars in history. A war in which we lost not one important battle and in which we almost Invariably fought against heavy numerical odds. A war that won for us Callfornia and New Mexico, and for the moment stilled the ever-increasing volume of the slavery dispute's clamor. It was a war, too, which gave ive military training to certain young officers who were later to achieve woyld-wide fame. Among these officers may be men- tioned Ulysses 8. Grant, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davi Now that the Mexican conflict was over, the slavery question once more sprang into flerce prominence. There were at that time about an equal number of slave and anti-slave States, But most of the territory from which future States would be carved lay to the north of the Slave State ne arranged by the “Missourl Compromise.” When California sought admission to the Union a: declared herself against slavery the pro-siave party bitterly opposed her @a mittance. Then {t was that President Zachary Taylor showed he ‘had perhaps as great talents for statesmanship as for war. His opponents and the politicians of hte The Last Battle. own party thought the simple old man would be easy to fool in matters of statecraft. But ever his rough honesty brushed aside the weds the politiclane spun for his undoing. In the present crisis tt was hoped that as a Southerner and a slaveholéer he would support the pro-slavery faction. Instead he recommended that Califernia be admitted on her own terms (which was accordingly done) and that all future States should decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery within their borders, Taylor's calm wisdom in this and other matters, combined with his steady refusal to countenance graft or favoritism, gave promise of Presidential greatness which his sudden death rendered void. All along the border, now, between the pro-siave and ant!- slave States, a lawless warfare raged. Atrocities that dis- graced the name of civilization were committed, Murders, pitched battles, burn- ing and pillage were of common occurrence. Kaneas suffered most. It was tho foremost of the border States in which slavery and abolition struggled for mes- tery. The Southern element wished to make Kansas a slave State. The Aboli- tion!sts there combined under the title of “Free Soilers.” Between the clashes of the two factions the State recelved—and well merited—its sinister nickname of “Bleeding Kansas." And now, out of the turmoil of border warfare, out of the conflict of elave> surging white Orinoco to no less of in>. holder and free sotler, arose a stran, has been alternately hailed as a hero-martyr and cursed and epoch-making figure—a man who ‘@ fanatical murderer. Too Much for Her. ALLING one day to see an old friend who visiting her married eon, I inquired of the colored maid who anawered the bell, “Is Mrs, Smith at homet"® the home," the girl replied, showing \elination to invite me in, ‘Bhe bere all right, but she got a misery in de head." ‘Sirs, Smith Senior?” [ asked with com “Seen me!” she exclaimed suspiciously. “"Cose she fe Huccome she ain’ see me wien she hire "night huh own self?'—and se dignantly shut the door without further parley. ——<—>———_ A Persistent Mot.r Lippincott R, CUTLER was making his rounds in bie had the bad luck to bump into and upset a pedestrian, The doctor looked behind, and, seeing the man still supine on the road, he turned his runabout and came beck, intending to stop beside the poor fellow and help him, Six Gored Skirt for Misses and Small Women—Pat- tern’ No. 718) 8, 24 yards 4 oF 52 inches wide for tho skirt and 1 yard of any wath for the = ge ig? yards When plaits are Lids + the pansion Ee 187 is cut tn sizes for misses of 14, 16 and 18 years of age. the lower ed at the lower edge, and Thirty-second stre MANTON PATTERN CO. 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