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rea RT RRL UE eo ee ~-Swellers, have spent about $7,000,000 in the last six years in buying | $16.70 in Minoie and $13.96 in Iowa. " experts.” This, means that two out of three are more likely to hit of euch untrained militia as Ohio and Indiana turned out to stop the longer they will be exposed to disease in the field, P preventive of conscription. The example of Switzerland proves this. Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Comp: oemt Burk Row, New York. ; RALPH PULITZER, Presiden: |, ANGUS BHAW ream 3 Pas PULITZER Jr, Seoretary, 63 Park Row. the Post-OMice at New York ag Second-Cinn piion Rates to The Rvening por Bnwland ard the for the United States Canada. ‘ontinent and All Countries tn the International Postal Union ha) VOLUME 58... .. ccc ccc c cece cere eens seer senses NO, 18,868 WHY NOT A RETURN CALL? HIS State will welcome the Governors and other officials of T ten Western States who are working their way East in a “Governor's special” train loaded with the products of their States and preaching another “Go West, young man,” crusade. It will not repeat the discourtesy of a Congressman who said of one! tf these States, “There are more cows in Wyoming and less milk, more rivers and less water, and you can look further and eee less Yhan in any State in the country.” New York is polite, and gets under way slowly. When it is quite ready to make a return call it will doubtless send Gov. Dix tnd Mayor Gaynor West on a special train londed with farm products tnd other data relating thereto. Mr. Gaynor can inform the Gov- | srnor of Wyoming that although thie city is not exactly a farming Gommunity the value of its farms is nearly half that of all the farms in Wyoming. Mr. Dix can inform the Western Governors generally that the Empire State leads all others in vegetables, dairy products, hay, nursery products, potatoes, apples, beans, hops, buck- wheat, farm forest products, small fruits and onions. These Governors follow a good precedent in coming Past. Tho farmers of their States have started East ahead of them, not to ad- vertise Western agriculture, but to take part in Eastern agriculture, Aecording to our State Department of Agriculture, farmers from the West and’ from Canada, together with immigrants and city Gp New York farms. The return wave from tho West has started fa, and will not be small. ' Why should New Yorkers go West? Why should not Western- ere come East? When the Empire State Farmers’ Special gets itarted it will carry the answer. New York is spending $108,000,000 | on @ great barge canal, which will help its farmers to dispose ot | their crops. It is spending $50,000,000 in building the best roads | tm the country, and every dollar epent will add several dollars to | of New York farms. In the metropolis and the other s of the East, New York offers its farmers the most ac- le markets in the country. For advantage in shipping their Mlucts to the seaboard they have freight rates not half as high as from the West. Something else is too high in the West—land prices. ‘That is @hy American farmers are selling out there and entering Canada. he avernge acre value of farm land in this State, according to the census of 1910, was $53.47. In Illinois the average acre value was $108.18, in Towa about $82. Yet the average acre value of the five staple crops during the last ten years was $19.12 in New York, The Western Governors ‘would do well to pick up a little good farming land here cheap and temove to {t when their terms are up. ——\_-4-—______ STRAIGHT-SHOOTING GUARDSMEN. T is well that the National Guardsmen of this State can shoot straight. Figures show that out of 15,500 officers and men 10,372 have qualified as marksmen and 381 as “distinguished r) than miss « man-size object within range, and that each company Nias at least two sharpshooters whose aim is deadly. A force of such efficiency should be more than match for twice its number | the raider Morgan, or such raw levies as were widely used in the war of 1812. Any development of “in)l\luris: it swells the size of arma- | ‘ments and the burden of taxation is to be deplored, even though ita necessity is allowed. But anything that makes for the efficiency | of the soldier is to be welcomed. Wars will be shorter, more deci- sive and more merciful in the toll of taxation and of Hives in pro- portion as soldiers are able to shoot. It is sickness, not bullets, thet swells the mortality lists, and the more incapable the rank and file, the larger the number of fighting men must be used and Superior marksmanship is really a cure for militarism and a There the State gives every man a gun and requires him to serve | under the colors only if his annual target-scores are below grade. | The Swiss shoot straight, and therefore have never had very much shooting to do. Letters from the People And what are the separate weights of the stones? ADOLPH FISHBR. The World Almanac, of The Evening World T find what kind of an edu- cation one must have to go to West Point? Also how old one must be, ete? MALL tog World Now that everybody seems to be agi- tating the question of the high cost of living, why should we be obliged to pay A whole cent for every half-cent due on Our purchases? Why should we not have half-cent or five-mill pieces 90 th may pay half a cent for half a ce worth? Why cannot the Government Insue such pieces of money, which would Materially reduce the cost of foodstutts | {9 poor people forced to buy tn small Wora To the Fiitor of The Here 4a an tn ers to work over, Ballding, ning World ne puzale for read. What ts the largest iiiling Yor instance, 12 we aie 2 relish word that oan b Witter wt 42 cents in quarter-pound lot, |tnem only mace ey ig letters, ue! @np quarter-pound is ten and a halt |) ")0,°\)¥ once each? Bo a. cents, or (a8 now) eleven cents, At|* % % Pit Ss tw that rate, we really pay 4 cents a pound for butter, two cents more than the shopkeeper is entitled to. Two cents on several articles would soon amount to gnough for two loaves of bread, and a Dig Gifference when every counts. Five-mill pieoes could made as were the old three-cent MRS. W, I. TURCK. A Weight Problem, To the Bitor of The Evening World: A business man has no weights in his gtore, but instead hes four stones of dif- ferent denominations, al) of which fean Cousin? vening World was being acted at Ford's ngton when Wilkes t President Lincoin? w. ne's Company was playing American Cousin," ty, 200 Broadway, of The brewing World et with an accident about three ago and was a cripple for fit- months before I could ke with out the aid of a crutch, I received a Laura Ke there tn “O) i ‘Weigh forty pounds. Now, if customers | damage verdict about two yoars ago, want to buy articles weighing| but somehow or other my law BEAUTIFUL 301 (Copyright, 29124 iy RS, MUDRIDGE-SMITH adjusted the six largest of her diamond M rings where they were hurting her fingers from the pressure of her kid loves and sighed: ‘Oh, dear! I am wo tired of every- thing.” “Oh, that's a new ring, that big ban- quet setting in the shape of a peacock, fen't it? asked Mra, Jarr eagerly, Mrs, Mudridge-Smith nodded her head in asvent, but with no great show of in- terost. “But* what pleasure does one get out of them? asked the young woman married to the lob old man, “My hus- | band is always buying me the things and I've got to wear them to please him, And when one has a lot of rini put one’s gloves on till it takes all one's pleasure away And she sighed and shook her head again, to indicate that Mrs. Jarr should have no thought but pity for the burdens the rich endu “Great Scott! you give me a pain!" cried Mra, Jarr im- patiently, “You WOULD marry your rich old man and now you are finding fait because he 1s Kenerous to you! ~ Snow Checks Needed. “Why ‘do you suppose we didn" ee to forty pounds, how would he/he can’t collect the damages. them correctly without|can I apply ea (2108 niet moped, for information and ad- have our first real snow till yest lay?” “It was probabil ly postponed on a gount of the " Wal Tose ieee te D rs Clara Mudridge-Smith, | How would you like it if he were atingy? Rich old husbands often are.’ “I must pay the penalty, I suppose.” "The penalty for what?” asked Mra. Jarr, “You were always looking for a rich husband, young or old, and now you've got one, you're not satisfied. ‘What ts it you do want?" “Oh, I have met the dearest and most charming set of people recently!” gushed Mire, Mudridge-Smith. ‘They live in Beautiful Snow! By Maurice Ketten. - 1911 “The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, December 5 BeAuTIeuL SNOw ? AHBSKABKLAHNSBHABAA BABS BS SRA SS HAH SH MB Mrs. Jarr at Last Meets “A Perfectly Happy Woman” HH CK KKK KCK KLE KK KKK Ke Cee Kee Ee the dearest furnished rooms and studios cloth, and you ever saw, and have bottles of milk | they can't eat anything else, which out on the widow ills and they wash | just as well because the rest of the din- thelr own handkerchiefs and other small | ner isn’t fit to eat. But it's just grand, articles, and ‘:'s ‘ust uke being @ real| when you consider {t only costs forty rerybody eats spaghetti till to nnn Great Moments BRIN WAR B _ Told by Living Generals By Philip R. Dilion Copyright. 1911, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York World), @ Gen. Cyrus Bussey’s Ride to Keokuk. REVET MAJOR-GEN, CYRUS BUSSEY, now fving in Washington, D. C., was born In Ohto In 183%, moved to Towa in 186, and ee an Iowan served with distinction throughout the civil war. He was especially prominent as Grant's chief of cavalry in the siege of Vick#jurg and in command of Sherman's advance guard at Jackson, Miss. He was brevetted Major-General in 1886. After the war he became a commission merchant in St. Louis and New Or- leans, and later, !n 1881, a lawyer, He was Assistant Secretary of the Interior during the four years of the Harrison administration, from 1899 to 198. He ie now commander of the District of Columbia Commandery of the Loyal Legion. A spare, medium-sized man physically, showing few marks of his long life of great activity, he {s mentally keen and keeps the dry humor of an Iowa pioneer. “1 remember best,’ said he last week, talking of early days. “the events which occurred in Iowa at the beginning of the war. Because I was a Democratic member of the Iowa State Senate and supported the measure to appropriare $900,000 to raise troops in Iowa for the preservation of the Union, Gov, Kirkwoo8 named me afde-de-camp on his staff, with the rank of LicutenamCotonel et cavalry, That was in May, 186L I was twenty-eight years old, with no military education or training. ‘I lived at Bloomfeld, twelve miles from the Missouri border. My messenger reported to me that the Confederate Gen. Martin Green was organizing « brigade on the border to invade lowa. I applied to Gov. Kirkwood for arma, but he had none. The dattle of Bull Run had given the Southerners big encouragement and there was great enlistment in Northern Missourt for the Confederate Army. “I went to Gen. Fremont at St. Louls and asked for arms. He hed none. I said, ‘Give me 100,000 rounds of ammunition.’ “What will you do with ammunition without guns? “I replied, ‘I don’t know, but I'll feel better with ammunition.’ | “He gave me 50,000 rounds, and right away tt was loaded on a steamboat and sent up the Missiselppi River to Keokuk, Ia. “The next night, about midnight, my messenger came to my house in Bloom- field and reported that Gen. Green was shoeing his horses and would start the invasion of Iowa within thirty-six hours wtth 1,600 cavalry, “I went at once to @ livery stable and asked for a horse and buggy. At 4 o'clock in the morning they brought to my house @ rig—a two-waeeled sulky— 4nd in the shafts was a mustang and three men were holding hin, for he was really @ wild horse just taken from the herd. It was the only horse they could give me. “I got up in the seat, took the reins, the men let go and the mustang plunge’ off, Away I went behind that wild horse toward Keokuk, forty miles to the east- ward. For fourtesn miles he tore over the road, over hills, up and down ald | through streams with never @ let up; a hundred escapes from imminent wreck we had. “We approached the home of Mr. Bloom, a friend of mine. Here the road led down to @ ravine and Mr. Bloom's cattle filled the road, lying down. Straight |@own the road galloped the horse, mraight at the herd of cattle. One wheel struck a cow. The shock took the horse clean off his feet, threw him into the ,@ir and down he landed on hia back in @ ditch with the sulky on top of him. I | wae flung twenty feet. “But good fortune was with me. The sulky was not broken, tho horse was still full of Ife and his legs uninjured. Swittly Mr, Bloom and his hired man helped me hitch up again, and away we went, the horee wilder than ever. At the Pittsburg ford he plunged through the Des Moines River, half a mtle wide, and a mile and a half further came to the wwn of | Keosauqua, | Here I tried to stop him, but he would not stop. I eulded him j around the @uare tn the centre of the town. Round and round he raced, three | times, and then a crowd of the town's people stopped him and I got out. I left him there for good. I took the train for Keokuk, ten miles away, and reached that place. “I notified the authorities of Keokuk to barricade thelr coming of Martin Green, One of the raflroad officials came so ros. ten a eta lading showing 1,00 guns in transit, shipped by the War Department to Col. {Grenville M. Dodso at Council Bhiffs for the regiment he was raising there, and jthese guns had just arrived in Keokuk and were about to go out on the west: |dound train, I felt that Providence was with me, I selzed the gune and the ) train, | “I found the ammunttion which Gen. Fremont had sent, and by more wonder- | fu food fortune the cartridges were exactly right for the calibre of the guns: “Immediately I gave 10) guns to Gen. Belknap, afterward Secretary of War, and 100 to H. J, Sample. I got on the train with 800 guns. At Athens, Mo., ©ol. David Moore was tn camp with 900 loyal Missourians armed with a few shot. guns, I gave him 20 rifles, Four miles further up, at Farmington, I left 100 guns with Capt. 0. H. P. Scott, At Keosauqua I left 200 guns. The other 30 guns I took to Ottumwa, hired wagons and hauled them to Bloomfield, my home, where three compantes were promptly raised, and I immediately started back to Keokuk. “On the way I received a message from Col, Moore, telling that Green's forces were advancing on him and a battle was momentarily expected. A special train brought a detachment to his aid. “Moore had barricaded the streets and better etill, f Athens. Green attacked him but the re- sistance was so strong that Green ret For two days my Home Guards con- | tinued to arrive at Athens. ‘Then Col. Moore, in command, followed the rebels into Missourl, They never came baci to Iowa, “Having seized ‘the guns without warrant—ordinartly a great offense—I started to get my action legalized. Gen, Fremont said to me: ‘You have rendered u very Important service. You have shown fitness for command.’ Next day he appointed me Colonel and authorized me to raise a regiment of cavalry, In ten daye 1 had 1,100 men {n camp, mustered in as the Third Iowa Cavalry a Bohemian!" cents, with wine, You'd just love it.” ‘It must be grand,” said Mra. Jare| “Oh, no doubt of that.” sald Mrs, sarcastically. Jarr coldly, “Oh, it is!’ orted the visitor. “And) “Ana I want you to come with me they dine at the cutest table d'hotes|¢tnis afternoon and meet my new where they never have a clean table | friend, Mrs. Jarr's visitor went on. Memoirs of a Commuter By Barton Wood Currie Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). OOKING back through the dolor- ous pages of my suburban dia- ries, I find that I set down tho Curious Neighbor as second on the Mst of pestiferous products that as- sault the atten- tion of the ex-ur- banite who has sought that vale commuting bel My Curious Neigh: or Mved across the way from my Borrowing Nelgh- bor, Jinks. He fastened upon me about the same time Jinks began to Temove everything from my villa save the mortga) His name was Pierce— Joralemon Pierce, He was named after 4 street in Brooklyn he at one time in- fosted, When I aay J. Plerce fastened on me [ mean tt, He nailed me as a lamproy ot tears within the! ing; with differential calculus in an ef fort to figure out how he was going to keep his income tn the running with the interest on his third mortgage would have taken warning from Joral- “They are all writers and artists and they borrow money from each other in the most delightful manner. I'm real- ly one of them because they have let me Into thelr set and will borrow from me any time I am with them,” “That must be grand!” said Mrs. Jarr. “Oh, tt Ist was the reply. “And I want you especially to come with me right away and meet Glorla Gushford.” “Gloria Gushford?” echoed Mrs, Jarr, vhy, yes. You must have heard of her," sald Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, erybody knows the famous Gloria Gush- ford, who conducts the ‘How Girls Can Make Pin Money’ department tm The not landed on his back in Cor yrtaht The Pampered Child, NCE upon a time there was a fond mother; which !s the usual way with mothers. But sometimes fond mothers have O emon Plerce's vast fund of anecdotes and facts. T never paused to dedu that he must have pried the informa- tion loose from some original source, | He made himself so mighty entertain: ing in the ‘beginning that I was com- pletely disarmed and went. the full route under his third degree like a man in a trance. a He vegan with my wife's matden name and the date of our marriage, the salary I married on and the value of our wedding presents, Did I purchase | my plano outright or on the instalment plan? I told him, How much of my furniture had T bought and how much had been given te me? I gave him an inventory, Did I pay my bilis by the week or the month? I didn't run any. How interesting! Possibly I couldn't get credit, I didn’t answer that, but he put ft down that T couldn't, ee) nails its victim, with the single pur- pose of pumping me dry of |of information In my system, and ne had got well along into the crimes of my ancestors before T was fully awale to what he was doing, He disarmed me at first by his tne senuousness, winning my sympathy by tearing into the servant girl problem and ying it up brown. He knew the general housework tragedy in every home tn Dogwood Terrace, He knew that Jinks had given his Hibernian Paragon a chattel mortgage on his plano for back wages, and he knew how my neighbor Anthony Brittle had wot a black eye for accusing his cook of Invading his wine cellar. He knew how Mrs, Feeble had bor- roved her upstairs girl's hat to go to @ reception in, and he knew that Wal- ter Hawkins brought oysters home from Fulton Market in # hat box cov- od with steamship and hotel labels, Anybody but a harassed new com- wha wee etttins up Dickie _ — every drop | enatenatitin.c6 MR Sagan te ull esr ce ALE TEE LIE TOT IL IER. LE OOOO EE ETE ET He wouldn't ask many questions at a time, but he never repeated, He had been bullding up a lst for years ani had worked up a catechism longer than | the hypothetical question tn the Thaw Joase, He even got the dates and num- |bers of my mortgages and would re- mind me with a gay laugh of when the |Interest was due, ; He learned how many dog biscuits |my purp, Wille John (oh, yes, he got | the do name the number of tho | Meense!) consumed in a week, and that we took cream on Wednesdays and He looked up the obltuartes | Sundays And wills of all my deceased relatives and asked what I had done with the $500 legacy left by a great aunt, Thinking back I cannot recall any personal query that man Pie! fatied |to put across, But there came a time when I pulled him up short and cut him off from his source of supply #0 far concerned, {To Be the Wilberforce Riddles were] woman in the United Stat Perfect Lady's Magazine.” “Oh, yes," suid Mrs, Jarr, “she's the one who tells you how to make home- made Christmas present Mrs. Mudridge-Smith's eyes beamed. ‘That's the one! ‘That's her!" she sald excitedly. “And she's the happiest creature on earth. She is to be mar- {ried to a gentleman connected with the larts—he is a picture framer. And the [owners of The Perfect Ladies Maga- | aine thought this pretty romance, con- nected with the favorite contributing [writer on Its staff, would Increase cir- jeulation if it were noted in the period- jteal, So all the women era. who are interested in how to make pin money through Gloria Gushford's ad- vice have written they are going to j Send her presents, and I want you to come along with me and meet Gloria Gushford that you may see there is at least one happy woman tn the world!” Mrs. Jarr hurriedly donned her street and accompanied her friend to ir Bohemia. er-fair Bohemia in this case was a shabby and rickety old business build- Ing on the west side of New York In the middle twenties. ‘They climbed seven fights of dirty warehouse steps and arrived at the top lofts, which had been converted Into studios, Here they found the top landing littered with parcels and a very tear- ful woman of forty with her halr in kid curlers and Kimono arguing men through @ door, “Oh, my dear Miss Gushford, what ts the matter?” asked Mrs, Mudridge- Smith. “Matter! woman's page attire with bur three express- slightly opened sobbed the editress unfortunate “every fool 1s sending thom how to me the trash I've taught - wearing a solled red| one propens! coddling, ‘This mother had @ daughter whose name was Elste. She wanted to ed- ucate her, as all fond mothers do. There are two Kinds of educa- tion. The kind you achieve and the kind you have thrust upon you —for no one was PHIE TRENE SOT OEe ver born with It, ‘The child had tt thrust upon her, Just HAD to take plano lessons. Therefore, when a thing 1s thrust up- ‘on one, one assumes the air of martyr- dom. Of course Elsie had to practice She Most of the practice period she was tired and grumpy andear me—just couldn't even take care of her own room, Certainly, Mother excused her be- cause the dear child was ‘Just so spirit- | ual.” &e, She hated to sew, Mother attended to all those things. 1s 1s not a long story. je grew weary of the eternal scales ‘actioIng, practicing, practicing. » thought she had a voice, A six- an-hour vocal teacher sald so, artistic propensities began to And she began to vocallae, neighbors proceeded to move. je's father was a worthy member church. Elsie began to sing in the choir, Atl beginnings have an end According to Histe the good church people didn't “APPRECIATE classical music.”* One glorious Sunday morning Eiste reached for a high C and struck A snag which resulted In the G, B, \ Then Mosher thousbs that Elule Boston “But I have never ceased to wonder what would have happened If that wild @ soft ditch and thus saved his legs ts Fables of Everyday Folks By Sophie Irene Loeb 1011, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Worl), should be “finished” abroad. Everyboay else thought 80, too. After talking It over with Father who Was not so fond, ana making him seo with the fond mother’s eyes how with @ Uttle skimping and saving—well! No need to go Into tha: Elsle was taken by the Iily-white hand and led across the water on a=per- sonally conducted tour,” This 1s not @ long story, She came ‘ack with @ trunk-full of notions and a line of talk of the same goods, We will pass by the trunk, but the line of talk was something ike this (after she had been home a few days); Dear me! ‘What a boresome Ufe one “is over here! We are such a plebedan people—no caste whatever. We have absolutely no art or literature, And one's people does not understand one, Would you belteve it, the other day just ag I was in the midet of some wonderful Greek mythology, Father in- terrupted me by asking me if I had sewed that rip in my coat. Fancy breaking into one's thoughts like that in the development of one’s better self.” But one day Father did more than break in on the thoughts of one’s bet- ter self. He acted. Just about twilight Father entered her oriental den and just as she was Usping poetry to the Evening Star he spoke this-wise: “I reckon you've had about enough education. Just take off that new-fan- sled priest-like robe with the snakes all over {t and march right down stairs and help your mother wash those dish- es! I reckon @ little lese dreaming and @ Uttle more doing will just about fit your case." MORAL: ‘TIS A WISE PARENT THAT KNOWETH A PAMPERED CHILD, ——_—_——. MEANT WELL, they like me; it was only because I can sing, She—Oh, I'm sure you're mistaken Trenecrig : 8